Sorry that I took a while to upload, I was studying for finals and then taking them. Ugh, it was so horrid, but at least it's now summer break for me! :-)

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha. If I did, well... there would be certain changes.

Thank you boneheart, for being my first review for this story. It along with the follows and made me write this one. Enjoy!

EDIT: If you do not like this, and aren't interested to know how this story or couple will play out, then DON'T READ.

"I can't believe it." Miroku heard the familiar one say, as if it was surprised, but it's voice was little gentler than what Miroku was used to. "Is that really him?"

"It's possible, but it could also be a demon in disguised." Another voice said, in a deep and calm tone that made Miroku feel that there was something almost familiar about that voice as well.

Finally Miroku couldn't take anymore and open his eyes.

The moment he opened his eyes, Miroku met the confused yet full of suspicion stares of two demons. One of them he recognized right away. "Inuyasha?" Miroku asked, still a little dazed from his sleep. "Oh, are you done playing with Shippo already?"

Inuyasha, as Miroku recognized him, gave the monk the puzzled look before he exchanged glances with the stranger next to him. "What?... What are you talking about?" Sounding unsure at what the monk was talking about.

"You know, punishing Shippo for what he did to your face while you slept." Miroku said, yawning as he got up and stretched. "I hope that you have realized that you were also at fault, my friend." Not noticing the peeved look that the stranger gave him. "Well what do have to say for yourself?" Miroku said, in his usual causal stern voice.

Actually Inuyasha didn't know what to say for himself. Instead he just gave the monk a bewildered look and asked, "Who are you?" Causing Miroku to halt in his actions, as he turned his attention back to his hanyou friend.

"Hey, are you alright?" Miroku asked, walking closer to the half demon. "You're acting strange right now, Inuyasha." He finished as he closely observed the half demon, before blinking in surprise and realization.

"Huh? Is that you Inuyasha?" Miroku asked, watching his friend slowly nod in response. "You look somehow different from usual, but I can't tell what it is." Coming a bit too close to the now uncomfortable half demon. "How strange…"

Before Miroku could identify what was different about this Inuyasha, the stranger from earlier came right in between them, completely blocking his view of Inuyasha. "What do you want demon? Although you smell too genuine to be fake, there's no way you can be him." The stranger said, glaring at the monk with teal eyes that seemed strangely familiar.

Slightly surprised at the sudden appearance of the stranger, Miroku blinked a few times before, realizing the stranger's question. "What do you mean by that? Who are you talking about?...Wait, did you just call me a demon?"

"Playing dumb will get you nowhere, demon." The stranger said, showing his impatience with the monk by putting his hand on the sheathed sword that was by his side. "My patience with you is wearing thin."

Startled by this, Miroku hastily tried to clear up the misunderstanding that he finally understood. "W-Wait a second my good man, I think that there's a misunderstanding here. I'm not a demon, I'm just a traveling monk on a journey with my friends. Isn't that right, Inuyasha?" Miroku asked, trying to look at his friend, who the stranger was standing in front of, for clarification.

However the stranger was taken back by this and looked at the hanyou demon behind him, who shared the same confused look that he had. "What do you make of this?" Miroku heard the stranger say. "He's sounds like the real one, but it's just impossible for it to be him."

At this, Miroku was puzzled, "Forgive me for intruding, but why is it impossible for me to be him?" Catching the attention of both demons. "Is the 'him' that you're referring to, me?" Miroku watched as the demons gave a hesitant nod to his question. "Maybe then?"

Staring intensely at the monk, Inuyasha stood beside the stranger. "But if you truly are Miroku, then tell me, why are you here."

"Why am I here?" Miroku asked, surprised that his friend would even ask such a question. "Inuyasha, what kind of question is that? Don't we travel together and have the same goal of defeating Naraku? Did something happen while I was taking a nap besides the whole Shippo incident?"

"Besides this whole Shippo incident that you keep mentioning…" Inuyasha said. "Did you just say, Naraku?" Sounding as if that name itself was foreign to him.

"Yes I did, but tell me that you haven't forgot about him as well, Inuyasha." Miroku said, now the one staring intensely at the half-demon. "It hasn't even been a few weeks since we last fought him."

Shaking his head, Inuyasha told the monk. "No I haven't forgotten Naraku, but the last time we fought Naraku wasn't a few weeks ago. It was over 200 years ago."

"2-200 years ago?" Miroku asked in shock, shaking his head in disagreement as he began walking closer to the half-demon. "Now I know that something must be wrong with you, Inuyasha. For surely maybe Kagome sat you too hard for hurting Shippo earlier. Yes that makes explains things." Not seeing the baffled look that the stranger gave him, Miroku quickly placed both of his hands on the half-demon's shoulders and began shaking him.

"You must snap out of it my friend, for it's now obvious to me that you must have surely lost it!"Miroku said in a loud voice, wanting his words to get through the half-demon's head, as he continued to shake him. "Snap out of it, I say!"

However, before Miroku could shake anymore 'sense' into the half-demon, the stranger suddenly pushed the monk away. "I don't know what you are and how you know the things you know, but it seems to me that you must have a death wish." The stranger said, glaring on the monk on the ground for just a moment, as he turned his attention to the half- demon by his side.

"Are you alright, Inuyasha?" The stranger asked the half demon besides him. "He didn't shake you too hard, did he?"

"Yeah Shippo, I'm ok." Inuyasha said, slightly feeling a lightheaded from all the shaking that the monk gave him. "But I think that's the real Miroku." Watching as the stranger, now known as Shippo, observed the monk as he contemplated this.

"Is it because he mentioned Kagome's name and my name a few times?" Shippo said, tearing his eyes from the monk, back to the half-demon.

"That and the fact that he shook me." Inuyasha said, as he remembered the monk's actions in the past. "Miroku was the only one who's ever done those kind of things to me, and was able to get away with it a few times."

"I see…" Shippo said, immediately giving Inuyasha a devious smirk as an idea came to his mind. "But if I were to do those things to you, I wonder, would I be able to get away with it as much as he did or maybe even more?" He teased, his smirk growing wider as he observed the hanyou's reaction.

"Of course not." Inuyasha huffed, not surprised that the fox demon would ask such a question at a time like this. "And don't you even try it, Shippo. I mean it." Knowing that his words fell on deaf ears, as his own ears were soon filled with the fox demon's soft husky chuckles.

However Miroku on the other hand, didn't hear a word of the conversation between the fox and dog demon. He was too busy mentally replaying the name that he heard his friend call the stranger, 'Shippo?!'

"Wait, you're Shippo!" Miroku exclaimed, watching as the fox demon tore his eyes away from Inuyasha to look at him. "There's no way it can be… I mean it's just not possible!"

The little fox demon's appearance was completely different from what Miroku knew and was used to. Yet, despite the disturbing fact that the fox demon was a few inches taller than the monk, he looked almost like entirely different person. Those wide childlike teal eyes that once held innocence in them, was replaced by smaller and narrower eyes that showed strength, maturity with a bit of mischievousness in them. His short copper orange hair that he kept in a blue ribbon, was now a long high ponytail held together with a tiny blue material.

Even his clothes was different from how it used to be. The turquois top with light blue leaves imprinted on it, was replaced with a normal top of a slightly darker color but with no leaves. The fox fur-like vest was there, but unlike before, there was a fox pelt that hung from his shoulders to his bottom, covering the entire back from where it hung. Although his hakama was still the same, but just bigger in length, the sword that he tried to use on Miroku earlier, sure wasn't. It fact, its presence there just made Miroku wonder if this was really the same fox demon that he once knew.

"I-I don't understand how…" Miroku stammered, as he tried to overcome his shock "…H-how is this even possible…How did you get so big, so fast…W-Wait, is this a trick? This must be a trick."

"No it's not, I obviously grew up Miroku." Shippo said, slightly annoyed with how the monk was acting and his actions from earlier. "A lot can change when 200 years have passed, you know."

"2-200 years?!" Miroku exclaimed, before shaking his head in disagreement once again. "I'm sorry but, no matter how grown up you look Shippo, there is no way that 200 years have passed. It's just not possible. So whatever game or joke that you guys are playing, you need to stop it right now. " He finished in his stern tone.

"You keep saying that, even though I just said that it wasn't." Shippo said, irritated with the monk before him. "I wonder, if I were slice you with my sword right now, would you still think that we're playing a joke." Shippo finished, putting a hand on his sheathed weapon, to prove his point.

At this, Miroku was shocked, but he didn't know if it was because of how serious the fox demon sounded or if it was the fact that the fox demon actually threatened him with a sword. They were both so equally shocking that Miroku just didn't know what to say. However, what really got him, was what happened next.

"That enough Shippo." Inuyasha intervened, putting a hand on the fox demon's shoulder to stop him. "He's just confused." Speaking in such a calm tone, that in made Miroku take a second look at the half demon to see if it was really him or not. The fox demon, on the other hand, glanced at the hanyou, before compiling as he removed his hand from his sword.

Baffled by this, Miroku began to wonder if the scene before him was real or not. "Excuse me but, if this is not a joke and 200 years have really passed, how am did I get here and how am I even alive right now?"

"That's what I'm trying to figure out right now." Shippo said, bringing his attention back the monk. "How is it that you're still alive, when I saw you die with my own eyes?"

"What?" Miroku asked, completely thrown off by this. When did he ever die? What was the fox demon talking about? "Y-You saw me die?! What when did I-"

"Miroku." Inuyasha interrupted, "Take out your hand. Your wind tunnel hand. If you do, then you'll see that we're telling the truth or not." Staring at the monk with such a grim expression, Miroku was almost afraid to do what he asked to do. Almost.

"Alright, I'll do it…" Miroku said, as he hesitantly took out his hand. "But I don't see the point of doing this, Inuyasha." Even though he already had an idea why. Before Miroku began to remove the covering on his wind tunnel hand, he glanced to the demons in front of him. "You should probably stand back guys, I don't want to accidentally suck you guys up."

"Don't worry about us, Miroku." Inuyasha said, while the fox demon besides him nodded in agreement. "Just take out your wind tunnel, we'll be fine."

"Al…Alright." Miroku said, slightly stunned by how coolheaded his friends was being about his hand. As Miroku began to unravel it, he noticed that the feeling that usually accompanied the unwrapping, wasn't there. Neither did he feel the strong suction force that he usually felt.

With trembling and clammy hands that he didn't even know that he had, Miroku's fingers brushed against the thin fabric that covered the deadly wind trap, and removed it.

Sorry for stopping there guys, just feeling tired to think the rest right now. Please review ! :-)