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Sorry that it took soo long for me to write, I was reading myself and you know I needed a break but I didn't mean for it to be this long. So much for it being done around new years.

Sorry...

But if you have free time like I did I say read

For the love of my friends – by foxie-sama.

It's a Naruto fanfic. I love that story! About a week to catch up but it was a great idea to start it! I say read it and review. Maybe then foxie-sama will finish it for me…

Well don't forget about my story, although I kind of did…,

ON WITH THE STORY!

Last time:

When Shippo saw no light in her room he pulled up the light blanket kagome had left for him, up around his shoulders and turned his head, slightly, to blow out his candle. When he looked once more at the man sleeping across from himself. He liked him for kagome. Shippo closed his eyes, just for a minute, when he opened them he was kind of startled. "Suichii…?" Shippo rubbed his eyes with the backs of his tiny hands just to see what he saw the first time. Dark green eyes staring at him. Suichii sat up and motioned for Shippo to come. When he didn't suichii's eyes turned a little gold which possessed Shippo to go over to him. He pressed his forehead to shippo's and a light green aura flowed from Shippo to Suichii. 'Don't worry kid…I just need a little bit of your energy. That well almost would have killed me if I didn't have two souls.' After he got an amount that would get him walking around again but not hurt Shippo in anyway. He stood up and put Shippo back across from the mat bed he was on and leaned him against the wall then pulled the blanket around him, like Shippo had it before. He smiled back at him when he heard Shippo murmur something and a dumb dog. He walked back over to the bed and laid back down himself, closed his eyes, but didn't fall asleep. He just waited for the sun rise to come…

CHAPTER 9

Rin sat on the edged of the river, slashing water around with her feet, sitting next to her lords two headed dragon, ah-ou. Sesshoumaru left her with Jaken once again, but she didn't mind much.

Jaken was looking for something for her and she was looking at the blue, green, and red blurs moving though the water. Ah-ou trying to grab one of the fish that jumped out of the water. Rin looked up fast, across the river into the woods. When she saw blur of white running left. "…Lord… Sesshoumaru?" Rin stood up, putting a hand on ah-ou's shoulder. "Come on, I think I just saw lord Sesshoumaru!" She walked to a long rock that would make a great bridge. "Wait were are you going?!" Jaken yelled running behind her.

Youko

'I can finally go and give kagome this shard-' He was knocked out of his thoughts and stopped dead in his tracks when he felt his own power close by. 'How can this be?' Youko turned right, running toward a hut, Rin, ah-ou, and Jaken almost right behind him.

He was almost there, just a few more steps when he stopped. He found what he was looking for… 'A human…? No that's no human…'. Looking at the demon, Youko realized that it was himself… in a weird older way. He was using a human soul, something must have happed. Youko had just learned how to that in the time of need, only.

"Hey," Suichii said to Youko. "Didn't think I'd see you around kind of didn't want to. I haven't seen those clothes in 500 years…I think kagome's coming back, I can smell her."

"I know who you are; this is great so I live for 500 more years. And still get her. Oh hey can you give her this?" Youko said Suichii. He handed him a small purple shard, Suichii nodded and put it in his back pocket on his pants. "I was going to give it to her but you can,"

"She doesn't not know it yet; so don't tell her." Suichii turns around and starts to walk then stops.

"Oh and if she gives you something, always take it. No matter what it is. Believe me, it will be worth it." He continued to walk but to the village were kagome and her friends where going to be.

"Good to know." He said to himself, and jumps into the air and disappeared once more. Not knowing that someone was listening to the whole thing…

Rin & Jaken

"Well I guess we lost him… What you doing over there master Jaken?"

"Huh, oh, ah, nothing. You silly girl making me run like that! Now likes go back to the riverbank. I'm still hungry!"

"I'm sorry; I just thought that was lord Sesshoumaru."

"Well now you know it wasn't"

Kagome

"Well I guess something else got to the demon first." Kagome said as they walked back to the village.

"And took the shard, I smelled Sesshoumaru all over the area and your new friend." Inuyasha said more toward kagome than the others but Sango asked "Who? Youko?"

"Yes, Youko. Who else would I be talking about?" 'Youko was I wrong about you. I mean I know you wanted the jewel to but…' Kagome was pulled out of her thoughts because they saw Shippo walking back to the village with a pale, filled with water, as big as him. From the looks of it he was taking a break. "Hey Shippo let me hold that for you." Kagome picked up the pale and Shippo thanked her, they continued to walk. "Did you find it?" Shippo asked, yawning.

"No, someone else got the shard first." Inuyasha said.

Changing the subject, "Shippo when did you get up? You still look so tried." Miroku said walking beside him.

"Well I just woke up really, Kaede needed water for tea so I said I would get it, Suichii came with me but he saw something and said he would be back."

"So he's up?" Kagome said thinking about the buckle she took off his neck. 'Maybe he was looking for it.' "Yup he's up. You know I had the weirdest dream last night…"

"What was it about?" Their all listening now, Shippo never talked about he's dreams.

"I don't know, I can't really remember it too much. All I know is that maybe I stayed up too late."

When they got to the hut Suichii was laying on the grass in front of it. He's arms out and legs stretched out. He had on his shoes and he still didn't have on his neck buckle. 'Wait I sense a jewel shard!!' Kagome pushed the bucket into Inuyasha hands and ran into the hut.

"Kaede!" Kagome pushed the inside door open and saw Kaede holding the jewel shard she had sensed. "Ah kagome, just who I wanted to see, here" Kaede placed the shard into kagome's hands. Inuyasha, Miroku, and Sango running in, saw this happening.

"If you had it to begin with why didn't you tell us?!" Inuyasha yell, Putting the pale on the floor.

"Because I didn't, Inuyasha, Suichii found it and gave it to me. I think he's in the front…" Kaede trailed off, but Inuyasha heard what she said. He was already outside. Suichii was still sleeping in the grass, but this time Shippo was next to him; curled up in a little knot. "Wake up!" Inuyasha kicked at Suichii. All he did was open he's eyes and turn his head to look at him. Shippo didn't hear a thing. "Where did you get that jewel shard from?"

"What shard?"

"The purple shard!" Inuyasha yelled, causing everyone to come back out.

"When I was walking with Shippo earlier I saw it and went to get it. Was it yours?" Suichii sat up and look at Inuyasha with a questioning look. "No, not really… but you want me to believe you just found it?"

"Inuyasha…"

"Kagome, you don't believe him do you?"

"Kagome, he is right. All the demons we had to fight to found shards and luck would let him just find one on the floor? I don't think so." Sango said low just for her to hear.

"I do believe him, why would he lie. He didn't even know what it was." Kagome went back inside went threw her bag and pulled out suichii's buckle. When she came back out Suichii was standing up now and Inuyasha was still yelling at him right in his face. Sango and Miroku shacking their heads, Shippo still asleep on the grass.

"Alright! Inuyasha just be happy we found the damn shard! Come on Suichii lets go back." Kagome walked back into the hut and grabbed her bag and stormed out with Suichii beside her, toward the well.

"Kagome were are you going?!" Inuyasha yelled running after them. "I'm going home!" She yelled back.

When she got to the well she just jumped right in, not thinking that the well was the very reason that Suichii was hurt. But since he didn't have the buckle on, going into the blindly bright lighted well didn't hurt. When they got to their time kagome claimed out on a ladder that her mother had left in the well. Suichii right behind her.

"I'm sorry about that, he just so weird sometimes." Kagome looked to her left, right were he stood. He was looking back into the well. Maybe it had something to do with not believing that they were really in the past. Kagome couldn't blame him. If someone took me into a well house and said it could go into the past she would have laughed in their face and thought they were insane. But the only difference was that she didn't just tell him. She took him there. But what came out of his mouth was something that she wouldn't have thought…

"I think I left something there, could you go back and get it for me? although I don't remember taking it off…" he reached up to his neck, feeling it. "Oh, you mean this. We had to take it off, sorry I know how much it means to you." She placed her bag down and started to open it, pulled out the buckle and handed it to him. Although he didn't take it. Just pick his hair up and pulled it to the side.

'I guess he wants me to put it back on.' She said to herself and walked closer, going on her tip-e-toes to fasten the front of it. When she was done he opened he's closed eyes and let go of his hair, holding the buckle as if the buckle was a life line and he would die without it. Seeing this kagome repeated her apology.

"It's okay, don't worry about it."

Walking out of the shrine, Kurama noticed that the sun was getting a little low 'I wonder what time it' as if she could read his thoughts kagome said the same thing, but she had the answer. Looking at her phone for the time. "I hope you don't get in trouble by your boss. It has been two days." Kagome opened her front door and let him inside, he went in and looked around just like she did. It was after three so her mother was at work but where the hell was souta and her grandpa? Then kagome thought about the demon Inuyasha was talking about and that plus her family didn't work so she ran into the kitchen and grabbed the house phone, her phone was dead, and called her mother's job, no answer.

Her mother's cell, no answer.

Souta's cell, the same thing.

Grandpa didn't even have a phone!

What was she going to do here she is in the house with her future lover and some demon has her family. That freak will not get away with this!

"What's wrong?" Suichii asked sensing her fear.

"I don't now where they are… No one. Inuyasha was telling me about a demon but I didn't think it would know to come after my family." She said more to herself then to him. But he heard what she said. And trying to seem as humanly as he could he asked, "Demon? I thought you were just looking for 'shards'"

Kagome picked up her head at this. I thought he saw that Inuyasha was a demon…now I have to tell him everything.'

"This is going to be a long story so can I just find my family first?" as she said this, the phone ringed. She answered it and looked relieved, so he guessed it must be her mother or brother. He looked away, out the window. Up at the semi-blue sky. 'it looks like it's going to rain…that should be good for mother's flowers.' Laughing at himself he turned back to kagome when he heard her hang up.

"So what happened?" he asked, slipping his hands into his pants pocket. "That was my mother. She said Souta's at his friends house and grandpa's with her." She told him happily, putting the tips of her fingers together, close to her face. "So what about that story, gonna tell me about it?"

Kagome told him to sit down and she would make some tea, while she told him her story. She needed to keep her hands busy. She started just like how it started. On her 16th birthday she fell down the well, how she found Inuyasha on the tree, Kikiyo and herself (how much they look alike and why) how the jewel got broken and Sango and her brother's problem, Miroku's wind tunnel dilemma and of course Naraku. The root of all these troubles. Kagome swore she saw a hint of anger when she said Naraku's name, but maybe she just saw it because of all the things she said he did? Could be right?

'Naraku…' Suichii was deep in thought now; Naraku was the reason he had to go into a human body to begin with. That bustard! He was only able to beat him because kagome put this collar on him, and it made him weaker, he had to listen to most of her commands. That's how he saw it at first; I mean he always liked her. But now he had to stay away from her. The buckle wasn't Naraku's idea though, he had to remember that. It was Inuyasha's. He the one that suggested she put one on himself. Then why did he let her put it back on? Because he needed it to hide he's demon power from her. He wanted her to find out by him. Not on her own. He just needed to wait until the time came. Hopefully sooner then later…

The sound of the tea kettle, the water inside it was the right temperature of heat to make the tea. Kagome turned around and continued her story of the demon that was in they're time. Suichii was only have listening, there was nothing to worry about. He was the demon. He enjoyed the fact that he sacred Inuyasha enough to want her to go back with him, even though the past had a lot more demons there. On the outside Suichii looked like he was listening to every word, inside he was still laughing at the half breed.

"Did you want sugar?" Kagome asked, putting some in her own. "No, black is fine. But thanks" she walked over to the table and placed the cups on the table. Suichii took a sip and decided to wait till it cooled. Kagome doing the same thing. "So this Naraku… was that his name?" He got a nod confirming it. "He's behind it all. And your friends want to kill him?" She nodded again, adding a 'me to' in a low mummer. "Kagome I don't think it's a good idea for you to keep going into the past. What if you change the past? What if it gets so bad that your not even born?"

"I never thought of that…" She answered truthfully. 'What if he's right and I make a bigger mess then Naraku could have done. But what about my promise to everyone? To fix the jewel I broke to begin with. I promised that I would do it…'

Before she could say how she felt about that he started to laugh, "But I just you'll never know. Right? You just have to do what you feel is right. That's why I want to help you as much as I can." He picked up his cup and though it was still just a little to hot, he really drank it down. "What, but, the last time I brought you there you got all sick and every thing." Kagome tried to protest on letting him go with her the next time but he wouldn't take no for an answer.

He started to say that maybe he could be the brain or maybe also fight. Kagome wouldn't have any of it. Then he's answer to that was 'if I can't fight then you can't'. He really made it sound like he could fight so she said fine.

"Wait, what about you job?" kagome asked, pushing her unfinished tea to the side.

"What about it?" Suichii reached over and took her cup and was sipping hers to. "Ah, I love green tea. Helps my head. Though you put way to much sugar." He got up and poured out the rest of her 'too sweat' tea. Before kagome could say anything suichii's phone started to ring.

"See, they need you…Wait, what the hell do you do anyways?"

"Computer things. Hold on." He could see that she was going to ask 'what computer things?'

"Hello?" All kagome could hear was a man on the other end yelling his lungs out. Suichii didn't even have the phone to his ear. He said something back but she guessed it wasn't important because he just hung up.

"I'll just take off for a while…"

Hope you guys like!

I know it's not as long as I wish it would it because it's 2 in the morning and I'm getting sleepy.

But to answer some question:

-Yes Naraku will be coming in soon

-yes kagome is going to find out (later/ or whenever I want v Mwhahaha!)

-yes I'm trying to bring the yu yu gang back into the story/ don't know how yet but working on it!

-yes you'll find out how was in the bushes in the begining of the story

-and yes I'm going to bed

Oyasuminasai!

Aley-oxen