lostmoonchild: Okay, here's chapter twenty. I don't own anything unless I say otherwise.

CHAPTER TWENTY

---Hana's POV---

This is it, I can feel it.

I hold onto the wall and pull myself up, pausing for a minute to adjust to standing. My spirit energy was showing me the room and where everybody was, but nobody paid any attention having gotten used to my energy being this high. Ka-ka had always been used to my energy being this high, but she was always surprised when I came close to my energy being as high as hers when she wasn't even trying. Looking around once again, I took a step forward and deliberately fell onto the floor, successfully attracting everybody's attention.

"Hana, you okay?" Ka-ka questioned looking concerned.

Not answering, I picked myself up and made the most determined look I could manage. Putting my arms out to help balance, I pretended that I was walking on a small bridge over boiling lava with uncle Hiei shouting at me to hurry up. Taking a deep breath, I stepped forward and nearly stumbled but caught my balance. Cautiously, I took another step and another before falling into uncle Miroku's lap, immediately wishing I hadn't.

He had a strange scent on his clothes that made my nose twitch. Wanting to get away from the strange smell I got up and walked over to auntie Sango only to find that she had the same scent. Did all the adults have the strange smell on them? Now I was getting curious and allowed myself to fall onto the floor before crawling over to grandma Kaede. "Grandma!" I signed eagerly before grabbing her hair.

I heard Kagome smother a laugh, knowing that she was finding it funny that I called Kaede "grandma" when we had no relation to the woman. "She called you "grandma" again, Kaede." Kagome said explaining why she was laughing.

I honestly didn't understand what the big deal was. I know that Kaede isn't really my grandmother, but that didn't stop me from calling her grandma. Smiling innocently, I let my spirit energy drop so all I saw was darkness.

Kagome hated it when I let my spirit energy drop to the point I only saw the darkness my energy had confined me to as a young child. I didn't really understand why, it was comfort for me to see nothing but darkness instead of the chaos that the world held. Maybe Kagome wanted me to see the world, to know how it was changing.

Mentally shrugging, I looked around the room carefully feeling everybody's spirit energy. It took a second to realize someone was missing so I opened my mouth and with a weak voice, spoke. "Where… Inuyasha?"

----END POV----

Everybody looked at the ten year old girl with surprise and could see the shock in their eyes. "Where Inuyasha?" Hana repeated looking helpless.

"Hana! You're talking!" Kagome said hugging her younger cousin tightly.

"Ka…go…me… where Inuyasha?" Hana asked accepting the hug.

"He's at the God Tree, I'll bet." Kagome said with a smile.

Hana silently pulled away and leaned against the wall as she struggled to stand. "Where are you going?" Miroku questioned.

"God Tree… want show Inuyasha." Hana answered shaking a little as she took a step.

They got up and followed me outside, making sure that Hana didn't accidentally hurt herself. Shippo sat on the ten year old girl's shoulder, telling her everything he could see. "There's Inuyasha." Shippo said with a grin.

"Inuyasha!" Hana shouted waving.

Inuyasha looked surprised when he saw the small girl trying to run towards him, shouting his name with a proud look. "She's walking and talking?" Inuyasha questioned looking surprised.

"Yeah. Just started." Kagome said watching as Hana walked slowly to the God Tree and tried to climb up. "Hana, don't even try. Wait a while."

Hana sat down and looked up at Inuyasha, pretending she could see him. "See, Inuyasha, I strong." Hana said proudly. "I strong."

Inuyasha smiled at look at Kagome, silently asking for the one thing he wanted her to give him in time. Smiling softly, Kagome nodded her agreement before picking Hana and Shippo up. "Come on, my loves, bath time." Kagome said with a gentle smiling.

Laughing, Shippo and Hana pretended to try to get away as Kagome took them away to get a bath. Half hour later, there were two very hyper from being clean which resulted in the farmers having plenty of help for the rest of the day.

lostmoonchild: Okay, that chapter is done and I intend on there being some form of Hell coming from Hana walking and talking again. What that hell is, I canna say just yet. Anyway, read and review, flames are accpeted.