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Pwale: What a day!

Jenny: What a terror!

Pwale: What a song!

Jenny: What a pain!

Mr. X: Er…why are they singing?

Al: Who knows?

Sesshomaru: I think it has something to do with the suddenly lack of items on the floor.

Inuyasha: Yeah, why did they clean?

Lia: We're having a party!

Inuyasha: Why?

Kagome: To celebrate that Pwale doesn't own us.

Everyone: Ahh.

The Stamp of Gold

Come Together III

By Pwalefriend

Important Note: I am going to be on a trip for the next eight days, I'm sorry about the long delay and the short chapter but I've been sort of distracted lately, namely my school gave me even more work to finish before the 30th. I wasn't planning even on updating, but I figured that I better do something before certain individual ripped my head off. Sorry!

When Kagome awoke it was late afternoon and the sun was giving the world its last red blessings. Her head was pounding and she could taste bile in her throat. Her eyes opened slowly and then widened when she saw her mother's face.

"…Mama?" Kagome asked. Mrs. Higurashi smiled kindly and smoothed Kagome's bangs.

"Hello Kagome." Mrs. Higurashi said kindly. "We thought that we'd come to visit."

"We?" Kagome was confused. "Are Grandpa and Sota here too?"

"Yes, they're here." Mrs. Higurashi said. "Now get some rest Kagome. We want you to get better. Mrs. Kagura and Sango told me all about what happened to you, so sleep."

"…Okay…" Kagome whispered before she drifted off again.

Mrs. Higurashi sighed and continued to sit with her daughter well into the night.

Grandpa Higurashi glared at the hanyou lord who stood before him, trying to look as imposing as he could from a wheelchair.

Inuyasha glared back.

So, this was the man who had been stupid enough to get sick and make Kagome cry (Inuyasha never really thought things through, he was a very emotional boy).

"What have you done with my granddaughter?" Grandpa Higurashi snapped harshly.

He was also the man who had been guided by, most unfortunately, Miroku to Inuyasha's rooms, and had been the one to stumble across Inuyasha with Kagome in his lap. Awkward moments and much blushing had ensued, and Mrs. Higurashi and Sango had rescued Kagome from the tug-of-war game that Inuyasha and Grandpa Higurashi had been playing with her unconscious body.

"What do you mean, what have I done with her?" Inuyasha snapped back. "I haven't done anything with her!"

"Then why is she working for you if you haven't done anything with her?" Grandpa Higurashi demanded triumphantly. Inuyasha started to respond, but then stopped when he realized that he didn't have any idea what the old geezer had just said.

'Isn't he supposed to be dying?' Inuyasha wondered. He knew it was cruel, but this old man was just so…lively!

"Demon be gone!" Grandpa Higurashi shouted, and threw a handful of the white 'holy' powder he had been hiding up his sleeve. It landed on Inuyasha and his red haori was peppered with white.

Inuyasha began to slowly back away from the crazy old man.

"…Why did you just throw parmesan cheese at me?" Inuyasha asked slowly, almost afraid of the answer. This explained so much about Kagome.

"It isn't parmesan cheese!" Grandpa Higurashi protested angrily. "It's holy powder! Passed down for generations in my family!"

Inuyasha bent his head and licked at some of the white substance, tasting it.

"Nope." He said. "This is definitely parmesan cheese."

"Why you-"

"Don't 'why you' me, old man!"

At that moment Sesshomaru and Miroku arrived and interfered before the two could kill each other.

"Hey Shippo!" Kohaku called, racing down the hallway to where the younger boy was playing by himself. "Shippo!"

Shippo looked up in surprise. Since when did Kohaku run around, let alone raise his voice? Shippo then noticed, with no lack of curiosity, the new boy who was walking at a slower pace behind Kohaku. This new arrival bore a strange resemblance to Kagome, and Shippo took an immediate liking to him.

"Shippo, this is Sota. Sota, this is Shippo!" Kohaku said, gesturing and wildly exited. "Sota's Kagome's brother!"

"Really!" Shippo's interest peaked. He jumped to his feet and looked avidly at the older boy.

"Uh…yeah…" Sota said, a little unnerved by the attention.

"Is she really a girl?" Shippo asked. "Because I don't think she is, but Rin and Satsuki say that she is! But I say that it doesn't count! Because girls are icky and she isn't!"

"Shippo, Kagome's a real girl-" Kohaku started to say.

"Shippo, Kagome is in no way a real girl-" Sota started to say at the same time. Kohaku turned to Sota.

"How can you say that?" Kohaku asked, horrified. "She's your sister!"

"That's why she isn't a real girl!" Sota said.

"But-"

"Kohaku." Shippo said wisely. "Is Sango a real girl?"

Kohaku, thinking about that for a moment, paled as all the blood ran screaming from the awful thoughts in his head.

"Ewww." Kohaku said. "That's gross!"

Both Sota and Shippo nodded.

"That's why girls are icky." Shippo said. Kohaku shuddered.

"I never want to imagine Sango acting like a girl and giggling and gossiping and having cooties…" Kohaku swore fervently. "Ever again!"

"What do cooties look like anyway?"

And so began another conversation, one which Rin and Satsuki, when they stumbled on the boys shortly afterwards, joined in on.

Well, as I'm sure you can imagine, from the point on the fun just didn't end.

Yes, I'm sorry about it being so short. I really am. But I had to update with something before I went away!

Well, enjoy the rest of your summer vacations people! Since I'm finally getting to go on a real vacation, I'll only write if I feel like it. NO WORK! NO WORK!

(Pwale looks guiltily at the horrid pile of homework that she's had the past two months to complete)

Er…I mean…No…(looks around nervously)…No…Oh, screw this. NO WORK! NO WORK!

Roar?

No. You have to work.

Roar.

.You wouldn't dare.

Rorowll!

Okay! Okay!

Roar.

The Review Lion is going on vacation too, she-what?

Roar.

Okay, she's going to the…Are you serious?

Roar!

She's going to Atlantis, which has, if this brochure she just handed me can be any sign, been converted into a relaxing and spa-filled resort for those characters who are subjected to fanfiction. And apparently since non-humanoid OC's are so rare these days they get a 75 discount…Sw33t.

Roar.

So yeah, that's where she'll be. If you need to contact her, leave a message with one of her Flying Ninja Monkey Assistants, they'll be standing by at the front desk of my castle in Wales.

But please, she doesn't want to be under a lot of stress with a huge pile of work waiting when she comes back so have a little compassion and review?

Please. Think of the children.

Sincerely

Pwalefriend