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Chapter 10

Kagome skidded her bike to a stop in front of a gourmet restaurant. She could never afford those back home, and Inuyasha would have made a pig demon of himself anyway. But this was affordable, and Inuyasha had been fetched by a ninja for a task five minutes ago.

"Hey Shippo." Kagome said to the little demon in the bike's basket, "If I take you in here, will you promise to behave?"

"YES!"

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"Impossible, a Giant rat demon? Here?" Inuyasha yelled.

"From your reaction I can assume that I was right. It is from your land." Tsunade calmly responded, "I can't say I know how it got here, but it's heading for the village. I need you and Cell 7 to take it down!"

"Why do I need those runts to help me!?" Inuyasha retorted, he could easily handle the demon.

"Because I'll need them to observe and file report afterwards."

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Kagome sat down next to Miroku, whom she had spotted with his nose buried in some book.

"Researching their culture?" She inquired. Miroku didn't answer. Kagome spotted a shopping bag at his feet and looked at the contents. It was two books labeled "Icha Icha Violence" and "Icha Icha Tactics". She opened the latter, and read an excerpt, immediately enraged.

"Can I see that?" Shippo asked.

"NO!" Kagome shouted, stuffing the book back in the bag. She would tell Sango about this later. Slapping the perverted monk was her job.

"Your friend got snared by those dumb books too, I see." Said a pony-tailed teenager at the table next to them, sitting with an obese boy and blond girl (obviously Cell 10), "Kakashi sensei reads them, too, poor bastard."

That silver-haired ninja reads this trash!? "Who are you?"

"Shikamaru, and this is Chouji and Ino. We saw you earlier after you attacked a good buddy of ours."

After Kagome figured out what he meant, "Oh. Sorry, you see…"

"No need," said Ino, "Hokage-sama explained. It was better than what we thought. We thought you were Akatsuki.:"

"What""

"I'll explain…"

Meanwhile, North of Konoha…

"What is THAT!" Sakura screamed.

It was a gigantic red rodent, 25 feet tall with sharp fangs and 4 eyes.

"A common rat Demon from my land. It just doesn't add up, though. They aren't very good swimmers, and it couldn't stow away on the boat, how did it get here?" Inuyasha called back, unsheathing his tetsaiga, "Stand back, WINDSCAR!"

The demon was gon in an instant, not even leaving a carcass. But Inuyasha saw something that made his insides squirm.

"No…"

He saw a poison Insect flying away.

DUN DUN DUN! What now? What will Narraku do now that Inuyasha is onto him? What will Sango do when she finds out what Miroku is reading? Is anybody reading this? Review! R&R Review review review!