Last time: Inuyasha and Vitanie had a talk, kinda of. Kagome talked Vitanie into talking to Miroku again.
Back in Kaede's hut:
"Will you still stop ye moaning, it is quite annoying," Kaede replied calmly to the complaining monk.
"You're not the one with your back out on the floor. Besides it's a complement that I asked her to bare my children," he boasted.
"It is never a compliment to make a women feel like a broad mare, hentaisha," Vitanie remarked as she walked back into the hut with a baleful glare. Sango followed in after her with another glare, which would have made the monk wither on the floor if he could have moved.
"Most you call me a pervert, is it really necessary," he asked trying not to feel afraid of the two.
Vitanie sat across from Kaede before answering, "It's either hentaisha or buta."
Sango sat next to Vitanie and asked causally, "Would you teach me that flip, I feel it might come in handy?" Still glaring at the monk.
"I would love to teach it to you. We'll try to find sometime later on to work on it," Vitanie answered with a small smile as the monk groaned in despair. With that done and some satisfaction at having the upper hand over the perverted monk she knew she had to get the information she was after.
It was then that Kagome, Inuyasha, Yuki, and Hiroshi came in now that they could feel the tension in the hut had lowered. No one had wanted to be in there after both Vitanie and Sango had gone in to face the monk. Now with Miroku thoroughly frightened he wouldn't try anything any time soon, which was good news for everyone.
"Alright buta" (A/N: pig in Japanese) "tell me everything you know about the elemental star stone, before I lose my temper again," she finished cracking her knuckles.
Miroku shivered in fear causing him to gasp in pain before answering.
"The elemental star stone gives the barer of it to control the five basic elements. Wind, Earth, Water, Fire, and Spirit," he began.
"I know that already," Vitanie snapped. "I already have the first four all I need is the Spirit Stone," she declared pulling the first four out from under her shirt collar.
"What? The first four?" he asked thoroughly confused. "I should have been told right away if they have already resurfaced," he whispered to himself.
"What are you mumbling about, why should anyone tell you if they have resurfaced - - wait - - resurfaced what do you mean by that?" Vitanie asked completely confused.
Miroku sighed and then grimaced as he propped himself up against the wall. "Before my family was cursed by Naraku we were in charge of protecting the wind stone from demons who wanted it. But when Naraku cursed my family with the wind tunnel my Grandfather sealed the wind stone in the . . ."
"Kaze Shrine," Hiroshi interrupted, his fingers posed over the strings of his lyre.
"Yes, how did you know?" the monk asked.
"That is where we meet the bull demon that had control of the wind stone and devastated my pack," Yuki replied from where he leaned against the wall.
"It is also where you joined out little group if I remember correctly," Vitanie said with a smirk. There was a barely audible, "stubborn, hardheaded, baka neko" from Yuki and a soft chuckle from the others in the room, because Yuki didn't look the least bit upset while he said the insult.
"So you know about four of the five stones, but you don't have the fifth yet," Miroku said getting everyone back on track.
"Correct," Vitanie stated firmly with a nod.
"Not many know that the Spirit stone is also know as the Stone of Self. It is rumored that it's power is gained from the strength of will from the possessor of the stone, not from any of it's own power."
"So the stone has no power of it's own, just what it gets from who has it," Hiroshi restated once again absently plucking at the strings of his instrument. He had a habit of doing that while thinking things over.
"Maybe that's why I can't sense it. If no one has found it yet, then there is no power to sense," Vitanie suggested. "Do you know where the stone was sealed, Miroku?" she asked completely forget that she had been upset with him.
With a small smile he answered, "Yes it was at the Shrine of Kakusareta Chishiki or the Shrine of Hidden Knowledge. It is also said that the shrine it's self cannot be found by mortals, it is thought to be on a holy mount that none may enter but those pure of heart and spirit. Mount Fujimoto."
"What Fujimoto? Isn't that right behind the Sunrise Temple at Fujigawa?" Vitanie proclaimed in surprise casting Hiroshi a glance as his hands stilled over the strings of the lyre before gently putting the instrument down and focusing fully on the conversation now.
"Yes you must go through a demon forest before you reach the base of the mountain, then you must climb to the top to get to the shrine. It is protected by a barrier put up by the priestess Akiasa at the Sunrise Temple," Miroku concluded.
"No wonder we never found it, we didn't think it would be right under our noises the whole time," Hiroshi moaned.
"And with neither one of us wanting to go back to Fujigawa there was no way we were going to be able to find the stone without help," Vitanie whispered.
Inuyasha now thoroughly tired of remaining quiet pounced on that statement having heard it perfectly well with his superb hearing. "Why wouldn't you want to go to Fujigawa? Did you do something to the villagers there?" he asked itching for a fight.
"No, it's nothing like that," Vitanie started. With a quick glance at Hiroshi she got the nod and told them the one thing they needed to know. "The reason we didn't want to go back to Fujigawa is because - - it's our hometown."
That's all for now. I would like to thank inuyashaswife12 for being the only would who has reviewed my story. I posted this next chapter for you. I would also like to thank who ever took me off of their favorite list, I know exactly who it is that did that, but I will be nice and not name you. Would you all please review, even flames would be appreciated right now. I'm putting this up to get feed back so that I could improve my writing style. So please review.
Vitanie: Yeah be nice to the poor girl, she doesn't have to post this you know!(cracking knuckles)
Vee or Tora-chan: Vitanie please don't hurt anyone.
Vitanie: But Tora-chan they've hurt your feelings they deserve what coming to them!
Yuki: Tora-chan, hurry and end the chapter. I'll hold Vitanie back for as long as I can.
Tora-chan: Thank you Yuki. Please review. Bye.