Chapter 5: The Search Begins. Maybe

By Leoncia

Kagome had returned home only to find she was explaining more things to her family, including Shippou. Shippou was wary of the spear until, to Kagome's shock, Sanosuke's voice echoed from the spear and through the room.

"I'm not going to hurt her, kit. I've been waiting for almost a century now for someone that resonated with me enough for me to show myself. Do you think I'd really hurt the one person that I've been dying to meet?" Sanosuke said with a stern tone to his voice. "Figuratively at least."

Shippou shook his head, "No…it's just strange, and that's all."

Kagome pointed out they were short on time and the house was set into movement. Kagome and her mother packing things into a backpack for her and one for Shippou Kagome had purchased while she was out. The backpacks resembled each other in style, with Kagome's black and Shippou's green. They had a raindrop shape to them, with only a single strap that lay across their chest at an angle.

Kagome's grandfather had left the house—not without trying to sutra Shippou's face—as he mumbled about needing to get something from the storage shed. Souta had already gone to bed, tired from the day's events and trying to keep his friends out of his house. He said good-bye to the two before he went groggily up the stairs, disappearing into his room.

When her grandfather returned Kagome had just finished explaining the backpack to Shippou and was adjusting the strap to fit around his torso better.

"Kagome, I have something for you." He said as he tapped the girl on the shoulder and shoved a wrapped package into her hands.

Dumbfounded, Kagome was slightly wondering if it was another weird, yet fake, artifact. As if she was expecting something to jump out of her, she gingerly wrapped whatever it was. Her eyes grew big as she turned to look at her grandfather.

"Is… is this what I think it is?" She asked.

Her grandfather nodded and looked pointedly at Shippou while speaking to Kagome. "This was made for Kitsune demons. I don't know how it works but it's supposedly supposed to enhance their magic."

Kagome nodded slowly, "All right… but where did you get it?" She turned the item over and over in her hands. It was an amulet, and she could tell it had a great deal of care put into it as it was made. Gold in coloring, the amulet was shaped into a traditional style of a Kitsune. With sapphires for eyes, Kagome could tell it couldn't have been cheap in price.

"Give it to the boy, Kagome." The woman did as her grandfather asked and slipped the amulet over Shippou's head, patting it as it came to rest on his chest.

"I found that while you were out shopping today. A new shop opened up and I wanted to see what things I could find, once I learned what exactly the shop sold."

Kagome's memory flashed back to the shop she acquired Sanosuke from. "Did the woman that sold it to you, happen to be named Chizuru?"

Giving her an odd look, her grandfather nodded.

"She's the one who gave me Sanosuke."

The room went quiet with understanding. Kagome's mind was reeling and was only calmed with she heard Sanosuke's voice filter through. "What are the chances this was pure coincidence, Kagome?"

Kagome struggled out an "I don't know", before her mother snapped her out of her daze by clapping her hands.

"All right, Kagome and Shippou need to leave. They don't have time to be wasting over this at the moment."

Everything came flooding back to Kagome and she gasped, quickly moving to gather her things. With Shippou to her side, and Sanosuke in her hand, she turned to her family and gave them a bright smile.

"I'll be back once we find InuYasha and the others!"

Her mother smiled gently to her, nodding. "While you're gone we'll try to find out more about this shop, so you won't need to worry about it."

"Okay…thanks, mom…I appreciate it. See you later!"

"Bye!" Shippou called out over his shoulder as he and Kagome made their way through the courtyard and to the well house. They quickly walked, Shippou clinging to Kagome and stuffing his face in her hair. The doors to the well house were opened by Shippou as he quickly darted inside and disappeared. Kagome was greeted with the familiar blue light shortly after, causing her to giggle.

"This is it, huh?"

"Yup, this is it." Kagome replied while patting the spear with her free hand. Gripping Sanosuke tighter to her body, she jumped into the well and hoped the spear would make it through with her.