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Chapter 9: Kikyo

InuYasha was pacing and shredding a few bushes that just happened to piss him off for some strange reason. Miroku and Sango followed his progress with their eyes as they sat next to each other with the occasional slap to Miroku's face courtesy of Sango. Over the time that Kaira and Shippo were gone, Sango and Miroku had scooted a good five feet. Sango from trying to get away from Miroku's wandering hands, and Miroku from wanting to feel Sango up. After about the tenth slap, InuYasha snapped. "Where the hell are they?!" he growled.

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Kaira had gotten used to having Shippo carry her at such a high speed. 'It's like a mild roller coaster.' she thought. Oh yeah? Then why are you clinging to Shippo like a lifeline? 'Um . . . safety reasons?' Your knuckles are white. It was true. She had gone white knuckled from holding onto Shippo's shirt so hard. 'So I never really liked roller coasters . . .' she thought bitterly. Shippo, meanwhile was talking about Kagome's and InuYasha's past, mostly because Kaira asked him to, and didn't even notice the poor girl's discomfort. Kaira, for her part, had mostly tuned out Shippo. When she tuned back in to Shippo, he was talking about someone named Kikyo.

"Um Shippo-kun? Who's Kikyo?"

Shippo looked down at Kaira and quickly had to stop to avoid running into a tree. Kaira clung on to him tighter as he skidded to a stop. "'Who's Kikyo?'" he repeated her question, looking down at her incredulously.

"Um . . . yeah?" Kaira confirmed slightly timidly.

Shippo sighed. "Well . . ." He looked up trying to find a way to explain Kikyo to Kaira and saw soul collectors. "Oh no . . ." he muttered.

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InuYasha's nose picked up the scent of death and earth. 'Kikyo.' He growled and dashed out of the hut.

Sango and Miroku stared after him. "What do you think caused him to do that?" Miroku asked.

"I don't . . ." she trailed off as she felt Miroku's hand rubbing her ass. "HENTAI!!" Another slap resounded throughout the village.

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InuYasha was running towards the smell and picked up Kaira's and Shippo's scents as well. 'What's Kikyo planning?' he thought, and hoped that it was just a coincidence that all their scents were so close, but deep down, he knew that it probably wasn't. He sped up.

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"What's wrong Shippo?" Kaira asked, completely confused. She looked up and saw a worm/dragon/thing flying in the sky and . . . they scared her. "What are those?" she asked. Why don't you try to remember some things from that book and your dreams? Hm? 'Well . . . um . . . uh . . . Shippo's gonna think I'm weird if I know what things are . . . and I don't really want to explain things.' Since when did you care what other people thought? 'Since I woke up in a strange place!' Wow . . . touchy . . .

Shippo put Kaira down gently before grabbing her wrist and running off, pulling the girl behind him. "Those are soul collectors. We need to get back to the others."

"Sh-Shippo! Why are we running?!" Kaira asked, getting panicked.

Shippo continued to run. He had picked up InuYasha's scent and headed towards it. "It's dangerous. Especially for you." he answered her.

Kaira was going to ask what he was talking about when she suddenly felt like there was someone watching her. She whipped her head around and thought she saw a person with a red and white outfit and black hair hide behind a tree. 'What . . .?' Grr . . . 'What's wrong with you?' Kaira asked her other self. Can't you smell it? Kaira smelled the air and gagged, covering her nose with her free hand. 'What's that DISGUSTING smell?! It's like . . . dirt . . . and . . .' Death . . . 'Death? ' . . . Kikyo?' Kaira looked back again but there was no sign of the dead priestess.