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Chapter 5- Return to Shard hunting.

"Kagome-chan! I've missed you so much!" it yelled. It flew into my chest and I wrapped up arms around it so it wouldn't fall. It took the breath out of me for a moment before I looked down at the demon that was clearly a girl.

"I'm sorry, have we met? You look like Kirara," I said taking a closer look at her.

"Mistress, don't you remember me? I'm your neko- chan Aqua!" it exclaimed cuddling into me. I smiled down at her and scratched her ears as she started to purr contently.

"Of course I remember you Aqua, how could I forget you?" I questioned walking out into the yard. Of course I didn't really remember her but for sake of an argument I lied, yeah you heard me.

"I heard you playing the piano and I knew it was you Kag-chan, only you can play the song so perfectly!" she purred jumping onto my shoulder.

"Thanks Aqua," I laughed as Shippo ran up to me.

"Mommy, who's the neko," he questioned jumping onto my other shoulder. The two seemed to be having a glaring contest but I couldn't really tell what was going on.

"My old friend Aqua," I stated as out of nowhere Rin came flying into me causing me to loose my balance and I fell over. I couldn't help but laugh because now I had three people on me and they were all also laughing at what just occurred. Rin got off me as did Shippo and I stood up.

"I see you met Aqua," Spike laughed walking up to me.

"That I did Spike-sama," I said.

"Please, just Spike," he said with a smile.

"Alright then, Spike," I said.

"I see you are wearing your original clothes again, does this mean you plan on leaving?" he questioned, disappointment sounded in his voice and I looked at the ground as Sesshomaru walked.

"I kind of have to leave. You see, I left my group without saying a word to anyone so they must be worried about me, well Miroku and Sango anyway," I stated looking up.

"I see, so you won't be coming back," he said sadly. I placed my hand under his chin and forced him to look at me. I placed my lips by his ear and whispered something so Sesshomaru wouldn't hear.

"I'll come back, brother, I have duties to attend to first," I stated kissing his cheek.

"Fine, if you must be that way," he laughed.

"Spike, you're weird," I stated as Aqua snuggled into me more.

"I'm going with you," she stated and I picked her up and placed her on the ground.

"No your not, your staying here with him," I stated pointing to Spike, "he might need your help." She looked up at me giving me the puppy dog eyes and I closed my eyes.

"Please?" she questioned.

"I'm not listening and you're a neko, you can't pull off the puppy dog pout" I said turning around to walk away. She jumped in front of me and went to my ear.

"Can you hear me now? Please?" she questioned again and I made the mistake of looking her in the eyes.

"Oh man was I wrong, don't give me those eyes, come on, it's hard enough saying no to you as it is, stop playing cute!" I whined and she smiled.

"Ha, I knew that would get you," she laughed. I just rolled my eyes and I sent Shippo up to get my bag as he and Aqua ran inside. I turned and looked at the two demon lords with a smile on my face.

"I will take my leave once they are back Spike- sama," I said. I added the 'sama' at the end because Sesshomaru was there and I didn't want to appear rude in anyway.

"Be safe," he said turning on his heel walking away from me. I shook my head and I felt someone holding onto my leg as I looked down to see Rin there looking up at me. I placed my hand on her head and smiled down. She released my leg and ran over to Sesshomaru who just looked at me oddly. I didn't need to say bye to him because most likely he would be out and about attempting to kill me or Inu Yasha over that stupid sword he wanted. I bowed politely as did he as Shippo ran out with my bag and Aqua soon followed.

"Until we meet again Sesshomaru-sama, Rin, it was nice to see you again," I stated walking out the front gate of the castle.

We walked for awhile before we decided to stop and rest since we had been walking aimlessly around for like three hours now. I knew where camp was but the thing was I didn't want to go straight there because I wasn't in the mood to see a certain half demon at the current moment in time. My mind was wondering onto different things as we started to walk once again, more like me walk and them, being lazy bums decide to ride on my shoulder. Damn them for being so small and able to do that, I wish I could! I feet were still hurting but I figured my friends were worried enough about me and it was getting late. I saw the God tree and noticed two figures in it, already knowing who they belonged to and I just ignored them as I finished walking to Keade's Hut that was not to far away from there. I was greeted with a hug from Sango and I gladly hugged back but I was greeted with a pat on the butt from Miroku and he was greeted with a rather sore face with a hand mark on each side, one from Sango and one from me.

As the night approached I realized that Inu Yasha and Kikyo would most likely NOT come back that night so I quickly got into my sleeping bag and snuggled in. I had my pillow up against a tree and Shippo and Aqua leaned against it by my head keeping each other warm. Nobody questioned me about Aqua and I was glad they didn't because I wasn't in the mood to explain things to them at the current moment. I smiled as I slowly drifted into a dreamless sleep only to be awakened up the next morning with a very pissed off Inu Yasha that decided it was necessary to scream at me until I woke up. I was very displeased with him so I did the only thing I thought was right for the situation at hand.

"Inu Yasha, SIT!!" I yelled

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