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Inuyasha: shut up already, we get it!

Luffy: Yesh…

DJP: Huh? Luffy! You're not supposed to be here!

Luffy: Uh… I'm not?

DJP: No!

Inuyasha: Uh… don't you have something to be writing?

DJP: Oh yeah…

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Scroll Nine: Calm Night, Hidden Dangers

"Welcome brothers and sisters! Tonight we feast because the tree of love has sent us warriors to protect us against the demons while it is weakened." Kabaji lifted his cup in a toast and looked over everyone there, Inuyasha's group, the Axe-heads and all of the people who lived in the mansion.

"Uh… actually… We were sent here by…"

"Shush Dev, they were just getting through congratulating us." Dusty whispered to Devon and nodded for Kabaji to continue.

"As I was saying, the great tree of love has protected us during all of our troubles and now it is our job to protect it now that it has become ill. That is the true essence of love, to care for something selflessly as it cares for you in return."

"But you're just caring for it so it can…"

"Be quiet Inuyasha, he's not done yet." Kagome whispered.

Kabaji looked annoyed at having been interrupted twice now. "As I was saying… Aww screw it, let's just eat."

"YEEEAH! MEAT!" Axe shouted and began tearing into the food excitedly.

"Geez, they treat that tree like it's a god or something." Inuyasha grumbled and began eating as well. "You'd think they'd take the time to figure out what it really was." He said with his mouth full.

"Well, they can believe what they want I suppose." Niri surmised.

"Just a buncha humans worshiping a demon." The half-demon continued.

"Wouldn't be the first time." Sango interjected. "Remember the Water God?"

"And the Lake Spirit?" Kagome added.

"Sounds like this kind of stuff happens to you guys a lot." Kirsty laughed softly.

"Indeed it does." Miroku nodded and scooted closer to the section of the floor where the girls were sitting.

"Uh… yeah…" Herman stared at the advancing monk. "I'm going to go see if they need any help in the kitchen…" he stood up and walked into the other room.

As Miroku got a little too close, Dusty put hand on her scythes, causing him to back up quickly. "Uh… wait up Herman!" he quickly stood up and followed the merman out.

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"I don't see why we can't just attack now…" Kagura sighed impatiently.

"Because we need to wait until their senses are dulled enough so that they cannot sense our presence." Hakudoshi replied, looking over a cliff and onto the wooded town.

"What does Naraku want with this stupid village anyway?" The wind witch raised an eyebrow to Naraku's other incarnation.

"Now, I don't think he would want you knowing that. I can sense the thoughts of betrayal in your mind even at this moment." Hakudoshi chuckled.

"You're a really annoying kid, you know that?" Kagura growled.

"All we have to do now is wait till the party is over and they're all asleep." Hakudoshi continued watching the town as if Kagura hadn't said anything.

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"They remind you of someone?" Chizuru asked as everyone finished their meal and watched Devon and DJ fighting over one of the last pieces of fish.

"It's mine! Baka!" Devon shouted.

"No, it's mine! Bak-ka!"

"Baak-kaa!"

"BAAKK-KKAA!"

"BAAAKKK-KKKAAA!"

"What do you mean?" Kagome asked and looked over to Inuyasha and Koga, having the exact same fight.

"Stupid!"

"Stuuupid!"

"Stuuuuuupid!"

"Stuuuuuuuuuupid!"

"Stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupid!"

"Oh…" The girls laughed softly.

"Didn't we already have this argument?" Ginta commented.

"Yeah, we agreed they're all dumber than a sack of hammers." Shippo sighed and shook his head.

"What did you say?!" the four turned their heads and shouted in unison.

"Alright guys! Get it while it's good!" Herman and Miroku shouted as the merman carried in a new tray.

"Time for dessert?" Dusty's eyes lit up.

"Not quite little one." Herman chuckled and held out some rimmed clay cups.

"What is this stuff?" DJ blinked and looked at the drink.

Kagome looked at it for a second and drank. "Sake…"

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"I can see it! The swirls of demonic energy, where the two waves collide… that's the Wind Scar!" The swordsman held his weapon high. "Wind Scar!" He swung it down and gave a surprised look. "Nothing –hic- happened…" DJ mumbled.

"Of course nothing happened you idiot! That's not the Tessaiga and you're not a demon!" Inuyasha shouted, one of the only sober ones remaining. The half-demon looked over to Axe and Devon, also sober. "Are they always like this when they're drunk?"

"Nah, sometimes they do stupid things." The pirate captain laughed and looked around to everyone else. Miroku was hitting on some of the female attendants, that was nothing new. Dusty was dancing as Kagome and Shippo, who was also transformed into Kagome's form with his fox tail sticking out, sang a drunken tune. Koga and his friends were kicking at the air, fighting imaginary demons. Chizuru and Herman were trying to support each other to stand up, nevertheless walk. Niri and Kirsty were both passed out, leaning against each other for support. Sango was wobbling over to Inuyasha, rubbing against him like a cat, earning a very freaked out look from the half-demon.

"Uh…. Sango? Please get the hell off me." Inuyasha backed and tried to hide behind Axe.

"Whoa! Don't get me involved! I don't want that monk pissed at me when he sobers up!" Axe backed up and hid behind Inuyasha.

"Awww, forget that hentai monk… come on…" Sango slurred and crawled over to Inuyasha, nuzzling him.

"Please sober up soon Sango…" Inuyasha pleaded and then discovered that the demon slayer had fallen asleep in his lap. "Oh great…"

"Oh my head…" Kirsty stirred and stood up, letting Niri fall backwards onto the floor with a groan.

"Maybe you should go take a bath? That's always good for a headache." Miroku suggested, surprisingly coherently.

"Huh? Miroku? I thought you were drunk too?" Devon looked at the monk questioningly.

"Of course not! I am a monk and cannot partake in such things, I must remain holy!" Miroku protested.

Inuyasha and Axe gave each other a 'yeah right' look before noticing that Sango was also stirring. "Yeah, a bath does sound good." Sango moaned and rubbed her aching head.

"How much of that do you think she remembers?" Axe asked.

"If we're lucky, nothing…" Inuyasha whispered back.

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Sango and Kirsty headed down the hall and into the private bathhouse, towels wrapped around them. "So how did you end up with Axe and all of them?" The demon slayer asked.

The blonde-haired doctor sighed. "Well, I've wanted to be a doctor since I was little, and I was one in my hometown for a long time. But then when Axe, Devon, Austin, Dusty and all showed up, everyone there thought it was my time to move on and become part of a pirate crew, which I had also wanted to do. What about you? How'd you get mixed up with Inuyasha, Miroku and all of them?"

Sango got a sad look in her eyes suddenly as she opened the door to the bathhouse. "A little while ago, Naraku plotted to destroy the demon slayer's village and obtain the sacred jewel shards it had there. In order to do that, he had to get all of the best demon slayers out of the village, including me, my father and my brother Kohaku. He sent us on a fake mission and then took control of Kohaku, killing all of the other demon slayers and injuring me. After he found I had survived and Kohaku had died, he sent me after Inuyasha and the others. They told me what kind of person Naraku really was and I joined their quest to destroy him."

"Wow… that's horrible, this Naraku person must have no heart at all." Kirsty's eyes narrowed as she looked down.

"We all have our sob stories I suppose." Sang sighed and slid herself into the water.

As she did so, Kirsty caught a glimpse of a fair sized scar on her back. "Oh my God…" She covered her mouth and watched.

"Still there huh?" Sango blinked and looked over her shoulder.

"Oh.. I'm sorry for staring… did a demon do that?"

"No…" The demon slayer's eyes closed slowly. "That's the scar from the night Kohaku was taken over by Naraku…"

"I see…" Kirsty took off her towel and stepped into the water as well, careful to try and not show the large scar on her own back.

Sango's keen eyes still caught it before the doctor had a chance to completely immerse herself. "I see you have a similar problem, mind if I ask how that happened?"

"Let's just say it has to do with a night that changed my life too, and we're not so different." Kirsty looked down.

Sensing that she didn't want to talk about it, Sango quickly changed the subject. "What's it like in your world?"

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Miroku chuckled lecherously as he searched for the bathhouse. "Gotta be around here somewhere…"

"Don't even try it monk, I won't have any disreputable behavior against the ladies here." DJ smirked, leaning against one of the walls.

"Whatever do you mean? I was searching for the bathroom." Miroku looked around nervously.

"You were looking to peep is what you're doing, why else would you be here?" The speedy swordsman growled.

"I was just… wait, what're you doing here?"

"I was here first to protect the ladies from someone like you." DJ narrowed his eyes.

"Uh-huh…" Miroku sighed rolled his eyes.

"Don't you dare insinuate that I would ever try to unwillingly mar such beautiful creatures with my mortal eyes!" The musician shouted a little too loudly.

"Shush, you wanna get us caught?" Miroku waved downwards for him to lower his voice.

"Hey Miroku, why is it that you do those things? Niri-san told me about you grabbing her and Kirsty-chan mentioned how perverted you can be, why do that if all you get is slapped?"

"The way I see it, life is too short to worry about such trivial things. You should do what you want while you can, tell people how you really feel, have children, continue your bloodline. Don't worry about the consequences of your actions because you may never get another chance, you may not wake up tomorrow. Life can only be appreciated by those who don't have much of it left…"

"Don't have much of it left? What do you mean Miroku? Are you dying?" The speedy swordsman looked the monk over, looking concerned.

"In a way, yes." He looked at his hand covered in beads and cloth. "This wind tunnel in my hand will expand and one day suck me in and everyone around me if I don't destroy Naraku someday soon."

"So that's why you're with Inuyasha and the others to go after Naraku?" DJ blinked.

"Exactly, they're the best chance I have of destroying Naraku, and they are also some of my closest friends, not to mention Sango is my fiancee."

"Fiancee!?" DJ shouted, a little too loudly again.

This noise caused Kirsty and Sango to emerge from a room down the hall, towels draped around them. "Hey guys… what're you doing?" The doctor asked.

"ACK! Run for your life!" Miroku shouted, both taking off down the hall at super speed.

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The rest of the group was beginning to sober up as well. "Ow… feels like someone dropped me on my head." Niri rubbed her forehead slowly as she stood up.

"I have got to stop getting wasted…" Dusty groaned as she wobbled around as well.

The hangovers of the group were not helped by the sound of slamming doors, followed by the sounds of the two men shouting and protesting as Sango dragged Miroku into the room by his collar, and Kirsty did DJ by his. "Caught these two peeping…" Sango muttered to the group.

"I was not peeping! I was stopping the perverted monk from peeping!" DJ objected and raised one finger in the air, pointing it at Miroku.

"What!? A heck of a time you picked to turn on me!" Miroku shouted looking to the other.

"Just throw em in the corner." Axe chuckled as he watched the two argue. Hey, where'd Dev go?" he looked around.

"Don't know, don't care." Inuyasha crossed his arms and legs, closing his eyes.

"Hey, listen Miroku-sama." DJ whispered after being tossed into the corner roughly by Kirsty and Sango. "Could you teach me your philosophy? It sounds good to me and I want to live life to the fullest too."

The monk seemed confused by the change in titles. "Sure, my young pupil, grab a scroll and some ink." He chuckled softly.

"Hai Miroku-sensei!" The speedy swordsman did as he was told within milliseconds.

"What do you suppose those two are talking about?" Dusty asked Kagome, both still trying to get their bearings around the room.

"Nothing good I can tell you that." Kagome sighed and blinked as Miroku pointed over to them and DJ stood up and began walking in their direction.

"I have something very important to ask you." DJ took Dusty's hands in his.

"Uh… okay?" The fox girl blinked and looked a little weirded out.

"Dusty-chan… will you bear my children?" This statement caused everyone in the room to fall over except for DJ, who probably had no idea what he was saying, and Miroku, who gave him a big thumbs-up.

Standing up and sweatdropping, Dusty stood up and calmly walked over to Sango and her giant boomerang. "Sango, mind if I borrow this? Thanks." She calmly walked back over to DJ and hit him over the head with the large weapon, then turning on Miroku and doing the same. "Bakas…"

"What did I do?" Miroku groaned and fell over, a large lump on his head.

"What does that phrase even mean, monk?" DJ rubbed a similar bruise on his head in frustration. "You told me that would work! Last time I trust you…"

"He's like a little kid…" Kagome blinked.

"I take that as an insult." Shippo huffed, being another one of the few sober people in the group.

"And you live with these guys?" Sango whispered over to Niri.

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Devon sighed as he walked through the forest town, just needing to get away from everyone and every thing. Naraku still had Austin and he had no idea what to do, he didn't want to betray Inuyasha and the others, but what choice did he have?

A strong wind blew as Kagura descended from the sky. "Yo…"

"What do you want?" Devon snarled, unsheathing his swords.

"I'm just a messenger… Naraku sent me to tell you to get the jewel shard from Kagome or we'll get it ourselves." Kagura pointed to the moonlit sky, countless demons silhouetted in the night sky.

Devon's eyes widened as he watched the numerous monsters get closer and closer to the village. "Kuso…" he growled

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Kagura: Go! Destroy the village, leave none alive and take the jewel shards!

Devon: Damn! I don't have time for this! Where's Axe and the others?

Hakudoshi: None will survive… Naraku is on his way, the plan is almost complete…

Inuyasha: Heh, so you've finally come out of hiding, Wind Scar!

Kagome: Next time! Destruction of the Forest of love! See ya soon!

Naraku: Foolish Inuyasha, you will not have to suffer in this world much longer…