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The Idea

"What are you looking for?" Shippo asked, watching Kagome completely unpack her bag and scrounge every inch of it. They had settled for the night, and she was using the light of the nearby campfire to rifle though her things.

"Rrrr! I can't find one of my text books!" she complained, glancing at the five she still had stacked to one side before giving up and plopping down on her rump in defeat. Her eyes surrendered to the fire, which licked the wood and glimmered merrily at her with winking flames. It was very annoying at the moment, a good thing to glower at...

"It might have fallen out when we turned around again for the well earlier today…" Shippo suggested, recalling his near death experience. Well, at least as near death as he wanted to get.

"Great, knowing my luck some demon already ran off with it… And I can't go back after we just spent all day going for Naraku's castle again! With them tagging along no less…" Kagome grumbled, looking behind her.

Well out of reach of the firelight, Reiki was busy trying to console a frantically sobbing Hikari. Her catch had gotten away. "At least he had to transform to escape! That says something, right?" Reiki asked, and Hikari nodded, commenting on needing more practice.

"I don't trust them…" Inu-Yasha scoffed over the blazing fire, Tetsusaiga now sheathed and in hand 24/7. The fur of his ears was still bent askew from his being molested earlier, and he wasn't going to be caught off guard again.

"Well, they are pretty otherworldly," Kagome agreed, still staring at them. "Even for being from my world they're odd, and that's saying something if they're staying here, in this time." She stared at them suspiciously, more vague thoughts coming to mind. The more she saw them, the more she saw flashbacks at school with them there. It made sense that they hailed from the same school, since their uniforms were the same, but to have the thought of having seen them watching her as they ate, or seeing the green hem of a skirt dart back around the corner as she turned around while walking home... It was all so... weird. And now, they were here, and that was worse than weird. It was foreboding.

They had changed their clothes since they first arrived. Once upon a time they looked like students, now they looked... peculiar. Hikari, the most peculiar, was dressed all in black, as in black tee-shirt under a black partially zipped hooded sweater... The only things that weren't really black were some silver chains on her black denim pants, which seemed to serve no particular purpose other than to tug at her pants and threaten announcement to the world what kind of underwear she wore. One thing that stayed the same was that she still had her boots, which suited the outfit perfectly. Reiki on the other hand was wearing tan cargo capri's (pockets EVERYWHERE) which shaped nicely to her yet retained their looseness, and a light blue t-shirt which looked a size too big. She also wore a cute black backpack now, which held their change of clothes. "Were they just getting out of school when they came here?" Kagome wondered to herself before addressing Inu-Yasha yet again. "They're human nonetheless, so don't hurt them."

He scoffed and walked away to leap into a dead tree.

"He's like a coconut…"

Everyone looked around to see Reiki approach and take a seat at the fire, shivering with outstretched hands.

"Who?" Sango asked.

"What's a co-co-nut?" Miroku followed up.

"I'm talking about Inu-Yasha. And a coconut's a tropical… nut I think? … Maybe it's a fruit? … Anyway, it's ugly and course on the outside, but when you finally crack the sucker open, you see that there's some tenderness… Hehehe, then you usually eat it, but that's another story."

"Oh, nice," Hikari giggled, wiggling her eyebrows. "Now that you put it that way, coconut sounds good! Anyway, I have to make a new plan for Sexy-Sessy-kun! I was thinking of finding and then tackling him, but since I already tried that I decided to come here for inspiration!"

Everyone was silent…

"… Hmm... Not what I was hoping for... ... Reiki! Any ideas?" Hikari nearly pleaded, receiving a shivering shrug. "You SUCK!" the shorter one accused, and with a humph she plopped down and stared crossly into the fire, and to everyone's amazement the flames looked to shiver and shy away under her glare.

After about a minute of extreme concentration, Hikari's eyes widened and she turned a crazed stare at Inu-Yasha.

Said half-demon flinched when he saw Hikari stare at him with those misty-green eyes of a half-starved and rabid fan-girl. The inhuman gaze freaked him out so much that he fell out of the tree and quickly sat (hid) behind Kagome before he did something in front of the rest of the group that he would later regret; such as flee.

"I'VE GOT IT!!!" Hikari suddenly yelled and leaped over to Kagome.

Inu-Yasha, seeing this, booked it over to Miroku and peered over his shoulder sheepishly; just to keep a protective eye on Kagome, of course…

"You are truly pathetic…" Miroku sighed while closing his eyes and nonchalantly moving his left hand towards Sango. He made contact with her rump and sighed as he began to rub it.

Flinching with a fierce blush, the demon slayer allowed her anger to overrule yet again and swung her boomerang for the back of Miroku's head. He and Inu-Yasha were sufficiently planted in no time flat like a couple of ostriches.

"It was worth it," Miroku muttered, barely audible with his head in the dirt.

"Kagome!" Hikari suddenly cried, coming to a screeching kneel in front of the startled teenager. "You have to tell me where you got Inu-Yasha's subjugation collar!"

"IT'S NOT A COLLAR!" Inu-Yasha yelled through the earth, working himself out.

"It would be cute with a name tag though…" Reiki mentioned in the background, "An address too now that I think about it… Ooh, a homing collar!" This got the half-breed bitching, once his head popped out that is, but that's just to be expected.

"Umm… Why would you like to know?" Kagome asked, completely ignoring Inu-Yasha's outburst.

Hikari smirked evilly. "You'll find out soon enough…"

(Some few hundred miles off, Sesshomaru suddenly became paralyzed with fear and stayed like that for two minutes.)

"It's to catch her Sexy-Sessy-kun," Reiki said dispassionately, absentmindedly handing Shippo a huge bag of candy from her backpack as she rummaged deeper. She gave up and looked at Miroku. "You fishing for worms or something there monkie-boy?"

Everyone stared at Hikari as if she were crazy for having ever come up with such a desire.

"I got it from Kaede, she put it on," Kagome responded, completely oblivious to the fact that everyone was telling her 'no' silently with shakes of the head and waves of the hand.

"THANK YOU! I OWE YOU ONE!" And without further ado, she took off running for Edo to go find Kaede and demand for one of those really awesome dog collars.

"She could have saved herself some time if she didn't start a few books into the series..." Reiki sighed, watching the bushes settle where her friend made her eager exit. Everyone ignored her. Or at least tried to. It was rather hard to not guess what she meant by the 'series'. "I wonder what color she'll pick… And what her command would be. Maybe something like-"

Kagome, getting the gist of their personalities, cupped the sides of her head and screamed, "Virgin ears, VIRGIN EARS !" Her plan to change the subject not only worked, but rather backfired.

"Hah!" Inu-Yasha scoffed, jumping in front of the fire so she was on the other side, almost as though he were subconsciously using it as a shield, "if you're a Virgin then I'm a Saint!!"

This, for good or bad, captured the attentions of everyone, and even allowing Miroku to finally yank his head from it's earthly prison.

(Reiki: "Obvious difference in definitions there…"

Hikari: "... Oh, like a holy virgin? ... THIS ought to be good.")

"Inu-Yasha…!" Kagome growled, the fire's flames reflecting in her eyes.

"Kagome," Miroku began in a therapeutic/sympathetic voice, standing behind her (way behind her), "please find it within your heart to see Inu-Yasha's predicament before you go and…"

Kagome just went on to say, "Sit sit sit sit sit sit SIT BOY!!!"

Now, the lovely half-gone moon over the woods illuminated the tree tops, making it perfect to see them shake with the power of the command, and Inu-Yasha's shriek from having a face-plant (fifth one of that day) into the fiery coals just topped it off beautifully.

(End of short chapter!)

Reiki: "..."

Hikari: "..."

Reiki: "..."

Hikari looks at Reiki expectantly

Reiki: "..."

Hikari: "A-hem?"

Reiki: "Hm?"

Hikari: "Say something!"

Reiki: "... Why?"

Hikari: "Just do it. There's got to be more to this ending,"

Reiki: "Oh... Really?"

Hikari: "Yes."

Reiki: "How do you know?"

Hikari points at you. ... Yes, you, the one reading. "See that? They're waiting for more!"

Reiki looks at you. "..."

Hikari: "..."

Reiki: "A-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!!"

Hikari quirks eyebrow.

Reiki: "I can't believe they're still reading this!"

Hikari rolls eyes. "Give me that laptop."

Reiki: "No."

Hikari: "... yes?"

Reiki: "No."

Hikari: "NOW!"

Reiki opens mouth.

Hikari hits Reiki for expected stupidity.

Reiki: "OUCH! That hurts! You're so mean, no wonder no one likes you in the fic!"

Hikari knocks Reiki out cold with her laptop before Reiki could say it was a joke, and continues writing this.

Hikari: "Stupid Reiki, she has no idea what she's saying! … You all like my character in this, right? … Well, I don't care! I'm staying and stealing Sesshy away from all of you fans! WAHAHAHAHAHA!!! … … Reiki, wake up, I dunno how to continue this…"

Hikari looks at you, and frowns. "... You're still reading this?"