...that was a rather disturbing last chapter...heh heh...anyways, we're onto the next chapter.

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Needless to say, Miroku can run VERY fast when he has to. He eventually got caught, beaten, and left to die on the side of the road. When they returned, InuYasha was freaking out over the fact that Kagome couldn't find any ramen. SesshoMaru was smirking on the inside.

"I know there was Ramen in my backpack last night!" Kagome exclaimed in desperation.

"I wonder where and why my ramen keeps disappearing," InuYasha said, glaring at the wall. SesshoMaru was barely keeping himself from laughing. Who knew such an enigma could have such an emotionally alive mind?

Flashback

SesshoMaru snuck into Kagome's backpack carefully. Something inside made a slightly louder than wanted noise. On edge, SesshoMaru turned to look at InuYasha, who was disturbing the peace by snoring loudly on the floor. SesshoMaru turned back to the bag, and quickly removed any and all traces of InuYasha's most prized material item from the future, ramen. He put the back pack back to it's original place, knowing that the two lovebirds wouldn't have paid any attention to the smaller details of how the backpack had landed when Kagome took it off. He left the room, and headed down the hallway. Stopping at a closet, he opened the door, inside the closet, the only thing keeping the already accumulated ramen from avalanching was a fishing net had had bought off a few fishermen for a handsome price. He added the new ramen to it, and quickly closed and locked the door. He headed back to his room, which he (of course) shared with Sheeba.

InuYasha screwed up his face, "I swear, your backpack must have been a lot bigger last night," He recalled.

"I know," Kagome answered. And thus, it went unknown that SesshoMaru was taking out his revenge for all those lost battles by depriving InuYasha of his beloved ramen. For the time being, they were left baffled.

In what seemed like a lifetime, InuYasha finally gave up, and went into ramen withdrawal. He sat in a corner day by day, emitting the purple-black aura that clearly stated: "I NEED MY RAMEN!"

For the rest of the world, the month went by quickly. For InuYasha, on the other hand, it seemed like an eternity. "Will I ever see my ramen again?" He asked himself constantly.

One the actual day that they were to leave for Naraku's castle, Which they knew the location of because one of the children had spotted it, InuYasha dragged himself to his feet. "I can't let my lack of ninja food distract me from my goal! Naraku will go to hell for stealing my ramen!" We all have to wonder where he came up with the conclusion that Naraku was the ramen thief. SesshoMaru breathed a sigh of relief. He took the time to disappear from everyone's sight, inevitably ending up on the roof with all the ramen he had taken from InuYasha in the past. The fishing net used to restrain the ninja food in the closet also made for a great way to bundle all the ramen together. When everyone went outside to see where he was, SesshoMaru waited until the right moment (when InuYasha came outside), and then threw the bundle at InuYasha's head. It hit InuYasha, and knocked him out. Everyone turned to the hanyou. He was now sucking on a box of the ramen that had fallen out of the bundle, and he was unconscious. Kagome went over and tried to get the ramen away from him. He wouldn't let go of it. SesshoMaru appeared from behind the house.

"Hmm...It seems that someone up there wanted InuYasha to have ramen. I think they went a little over board though," He said, picking up the bundle, and putting it in the house. "He can retrieve it after we're done, we can't carry that much." SesshoMaru picked up InuYasha, and put him on the two-headed dragon thing. He tied hi down using rope, and started leading the dragon in the direction they were going. Stunned, it took everyone but Sheeba a few minutes to realize what he'd done. Once that realization hit them, they hurried to catch up to him.

When they did catch up to him, he was chatting (Can you imagine him doing that?) peacefully with Sheeba. Not long afterwards, Sakura joined them. She took one look at InuYasha and laughed. "So, you finally gave him back his ramen?" She asked quietly so only SesshoMaru and Sheeba could hear, she elbowed SesshoMaru in the ribs.

"No, it was Naraku who took his ramen, not me," He answered with a mischievous smile. "Or at least, that's what he thinks." Sesshoumaru looked at a large sheathe strapped to Sakura's back. "Is that Sounga?"

"Well, yes, I made a few changes to it though," Sakura smirked with arrogance. "It knows to obey me exclusively now, and no human can touch it with out being shocked to a charred ash."

"Well, that's a good way to prevent world destruction," Sheeba observed. "But wouldn't it be less of a death toll of you were to just change the nature of that vile thing?"

"Well, yes, but...er...well...I have to make sure no humans get their paws on it anyways, no telling what could happen if that happened," Sakura replied.

"I supposed so," Sheeba agreed.

"Besides, she can only add a few spells, and change the shape of the gods-accursed thing," Sesshoumaru added, receiving a death glare that would have worked on a human.

"Be that as it may, it's still less of a danger now," Sakura said indignantly. Sesshoumaru looked about ready to say some other smart-ass comment. Sakura drew her sword and held him with the tip at his throat. "Don't Even Think About It," She said in a commanding tone. Noticing the looks she received from their companions, she sheathed her sword. "What?" She said, addressing the others. "My family is, by nature, a violent family," She explained when no one said anything. By now, the group had stopped walking. She crossed her arms, and started walking briskly down the path.

"Well, now we know where InuYasha gets his violent streak!" Shippo commented cutely. Considering none of them had ever seen Sesshoumaru be violent towards anyone but InuYasha, they figured it was Sakura who he took after in that respect. If only they knew how many times Jakken had been held under water with that staff, or had rocks thrown at him. Then there's the fact that Jakken would rather have rocks thrown at him then have SesshoMaru smile at him, it makes you wonder how many times Jakken has been brutally murdered?

Ahem! Now, the group continued on their way, due to Sheeba's human state, they figured they'd need a week to get to, and scope out, the castle.

Hours later, InuYasha woke up from his unconscious state, and looked around. "Ig smegle rmn!" He exclaimed. No one understood him, as he still had the box the ramen came packaged in, in his mouth.

"InuYasha, you've ramen in your mouth you idiot!" Kagome scolded. InuYasha looked down. His eyes lit up with boyish glee (note to self: never write the words InuYasha and boyish glee in the same sentence ever again, this is a very scary occurrence), and he tried to separate the ramen from his mouth. It was stuck. Apparently his fangs had been embedded in the cup of ramen. He was now sitting on the two-headed dragon (I know the things name, just not how to spell it!) and was trying to remove the ramen from his own mouth. This was very humorous, as it took him hours to finally remove the shrimp flavored ramen. Thusly it was at sunset that he did manage to remove it, and also when he noticed the flavor. He went green. "Why did the gods give me shrimp ramen?" He asked the sky in a "woe is me," sort of way.

The group made camp, SesshoMaru setting himself up in a tree out of habit. InuYasha was in a bad mood, so everyone had to suffer with this. Except Sesshoumaru, who was in an aforementioned tree, and Sakura, who was holding her sword in a menacing fashion.

Well I'm gonna end this chapter here, wonder what'll happen next. I hope you wonder as well, please ask any and all questions in your reviews, please and thank you.

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