Author's Note: It's been so long since I last updated. I apologize. My life has been so crazy the last few weeks; it's been hard to find time to write. What with school, swim practice, swim meets, laziness and not to mention all the homework! So here is a chapter to save my butt from the wrath of angry fans.

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Kagome crossed her arms. The re-crossed them. She bit her nails. She dropped her arms and started to pace. She stopped to look at the door.

"Will you chill out Kagome?" the small Kitsune paused from nibbling on a Pockey Stick he had stolen from his friend's pack. "I'm sure Kaede will know what to do."

The school girl went back to pacing. They had made to the old priestess's hut without running into anyone else. She greeted them at the door along with Kirara. The old priestess had taken one look at Sango and InuYasha and said, "Ye must have fun into Naraku, did ye not?" Kaede ushered them inside, but blocked Kagome when she tried to enter. "Ye stay here." And with that she had shut the flap.

That had been hours ago, and now Kagome was more worried than ever.

"WATCH WHERE YOU POKE THAT THING WITCH!!" The hanyou's squeaky voice jolted the girl from her flash back. 'At least I know InuYasha's doing alright.'

Shippō shook his little head and sighed as he watched his older friend begin to pace again. She had already worn a path in front of the old woman's hut from walking back and forth. And he was pretty sure her nails couldn't possibly get any shorter. Trying to comfort her, he had tried everything to get her mind off InuYasha and Sango.

He had done impressions of Miroku, Sango and Kikyo (She hadn't seemed to like that one too much). The kitsune did a silly dance to her 'walking man'. Shippō had even given her the last of his Strawberry Pokey Sticks that he loved so much. That had cheered her up a little bit, but she kept glancing at the door of the hut.

Kagome finally gave up. Frustrated, she plunked down beside the fox demon and tore her eyes from the flap. The girl started picking at invisible lint on her green sailor skirt. 'This is pathetic.' she thought. She was acting like one of those women on one of her mom's stories.

Kikyo's reincarnation envisioned her self pacing the waiting room of a modern day hospital. Pulling her hair out, desperately waiting for the news of her fiancée. Kaede would walk in wearing a doctor's coat followed by Miroku sporting a white female nurse's dress and cap. She would gasp as Dr. Kaede would dramatically tear off her glasses and say InuYasha was not InuYasha but in fact Sesshy in disguise and that he was not a great dog demon like every one thought but a sissy kitty-cat. And the fur thing around his shoulder he told every one was his tail? WRONG! That was a feathered boa, a salute to his dream of becoming show girl.

Kagome laughed out loud. Just the though of something so ridiculous made her laugh.

"What are you laughing at?"

The fifteen-year-old looked up to see who had spoken. InuYasha stood before her with his arms folded. His sleeves were a good inch longer than they were later that afternoon.

"Hehe…Nothing." She shook her head in reassurance.

"Tch….Whatever." He pulled the girl to her feet. "Come on. Kaede says it's ok to come in now."

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"After hearing about this afternoon's events from Sango, I have come to one conclusion…"

The Inu-gumi leaned in close with anticipation as the old priestess took a long drag of her tea.

"This be Naraku's doing."

The group fell down in disappointment. InuYasha was the first to recover.

"You mean after all this time, that's all you have to say?! DAMN IT! I say we find the bastard, make him turn us back," he flexed his claws, "and then beat him to a pulp!"

As the hanyou raved Kagome sweat-dropped and sighed. "InuYasha….sit boy."

The magical beads around his neck glowed and magnetically pulled him to the floor boards. "What he means to say is…Is there anything you can do to reverse the spell?"

Lady Kaede cleared her throat. "As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted," she threw a glance at InuYasha who was pulling himself out of the hole in the ground, "This be Naraku's doing. His aura is all around ye. Surely Sir Monk has felt this?"

Miroku nodded his head. "Indeed I have." InuYasha let out a snort, Kagome giggled.

"What?" the monk asked. His friends looked at each other, trying not to laugh.

"Oh dear. It's worse than I thought." The one eyed hag placed a hand on her cheek.

"What? What's so funny?"

Shippō and Sango fell to the floor laughing hard. Their were legs kicking wildly. Miroku looked to Kagome for help because she seemed to be the one laughing the least.

Kagome thought her flirtatious friends had suffered enough. "Miroku, you sound like you're on helium."

'Was that a little too blunt?"

"I sound like what?"

"In other words," Shippō popped his head in front of Miroku's face, "You sound like this." He made his already squeaky voice higher. "Oh fair Sango! Will you bear my children?"

"Shippō!" Sango blushed a new shade of red.

"Well it's true!"

"Which one? His voice of what you said?" asked an amused InuYasha.

"Both I think." Shippō snickered.

Kagome turned her attention back to the eldest in human years in the room. "Please continue before we get anymore distractions." She looked down at Shippō who had settled down and made himself comfortable in her lap. The hand automatically started stroking his tail.

She waited until every one was quiet and InuYasha had pulled himself out of another hole before she began again. "Fortunately from what I have seen, this is only a temporary curse." Kaede paused to pour herself some more tea.

"But what I don't get is why we are aging differently." Sango asked.

"I think I can answer that," Miroku said, "Because you are the weakest of us all you changed the fastest." The demon slayer gave him a look. "I-I mean to say you have no special abilities. No spiritual powers. So there was no real resistance."

Sango nodded her head understandingly and rubbed her eyes. She looked down at Shippō already fast asleep, curled up in Kagome's lap. Following suit she laid her head back into Kirara's warm belly. Kirara wrapped her white tails abound the little girl and purred softly.

"What about me?" InuYasha pointed to himself.

"Demons age differently from humans, right? And in the case of Shippō, the curse won't hurt him that much because he's still young."

"And me?" Kagome was afraid of the answer.

"You? It doesn't look like you have changed. Probably because you have immense spiritual powers you were able to deflect it."

Kagome breathed a sigh of relief. 'I wouldn't be able to go back to school as a five year old.'

"As for me…," the monk looked down at his cursed hand, "I may be able to put it off for another day or so, but I will change."

There was a long silence after Miroku's lesson as each individual mulled over what had been said.

InuYasha believed him. But it was hard as hell to take him seriously with that voice.

Kagome broke the silence by asking, "So what do we do until the curse breaks. The two little ones were sleeping soundly so she was whispering.

"I advise ye to seek shelter in you world for the time being."

"That's a good idea. But there's just one problem….only me and Kagome can make it through the well." InuYasha sarcastically pointed out

"I've been thinking about that. If Kagome, Miroku and I focus our spiritual energy on ye, we might be able to transport ye to the other side."

The monk tapped his chin with his index finger. "It seems plausible…." He trailed off in thought.

"So it's decided." InuYasha said a little too loudly.

"Shhhh!"

He lowered his voice. "So it's decided. Tomorrow we go through the well."

The foursome nodded their heads in agreement, and then settled down for sleep. Each wondering what tomorrow would bring.