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Chapter Twenty Three

A few days later they were all surprised to see Sango's village. They hadn't expected to reach it so soon but they had all been in a hurry. Apparently the thrill of being able to visit the future had made everybody excited to the point they barely wanted to stop for a break.

"Wow, it's beautiful, Sango-chan." Kagome said looking amazed.

Sango smiled a little and noticed how the two children were staring silently. She knew that Hana couldn't see the village but what she didn't know was Hana could see something else. "NO! KA-KA! I DON'T WANNA GO! I DON'T WANNA GO!" Hana screamed suddenly, throwing herself to the ground and kicking the ground.

Kagome's face turned red in embarassment and she picked her screaming cousin up. "Hana, shush now. Nothing's going to hurt you or anybody else."

"I DON'T WANNA!"

Looking frustrated, Kagome sat Hana down on the ground and made the screaming girl look at her. "What is the matter?" Kagome questioned only receiving screams as an answer. "I can't understand you when you're screaming like that. When you're ready to calm down and tell us what's wrong, then we'll be listening. If you don't stop screaming like that, we're not going to listen and we'll let you scream until you lose your voice."

Hana glared at her cousin before forcing herself to stop screaming. "I don't like the way this place feels! It's like a battlefield in the Makai. I can smell blood and death and everything else that comes with a battle! It hurts my nose, Ka-ka. Remember, uncle Hiei says he's never met anybody with such a sensitive nose? Ka-ka, I wanna go home! I don't like the way this place smells!"

Kagome offered Sango an apologetic look before sighing, "If we covered your nose, would that help?" Kagome questioned.

"I dunno."

"Well, I don't either. Remember, I have a human's hearing and smell. I don't have the same sense of smell and hearing as those with demon blood do. Only way I get those is if I'm in demon form and it takes too much energy just to keep a youkai form."

"Then get strong."

"I am strong. But my miko abilities interfere with the youkai abilities to the point that if I stay in a youkai form too long, then I'll have to sleep for about three days to regain that lost energy and in those three days I'll be extremely vulnerable."

"You went youkai to save me."

Kagome sighed and knew exactly what her cousin was doing. She was trying to procrastinate going inside the abandoned village. "Look, sweetie, when we go home we'll see if uncle Jin will take you for a ride on the winds, doesn't that sound fun? You'll get to fly with the birds."

"In the Makai."

"Maybe Koenma-sama will allow Jin to come to ningenkai for a visit so your nose doesn't get hurt."
Hana got a thoughtful look on her face before nodding a little. "But my nose is covered!" Hana shouted putting her hands over her nose.

"Okay." Kagome laughed with a smile. "Alright, guys, we can go now."

They walked into the village and while the adults were putting flowers on the graves, Shippo and Hana were busy exploring the village. "What's that?" Shippo asked looking confused when he saw something glittering.

"What's what? Shippo, eyes please."

"There's something stuck in one of the huts. It's glittering." Shippo answered trying to inspect the glittering hut.

Hana followed Shippo's energy trail and ran her hand over the side, one of her fingers managing to find the hole that glittered. "Right there!" Shippo said excitedly.

A thoughtful look crossed the blind girl's face as she thought patiently, going through energy texture her fingers have ever come across. "Ice?" She questioned looking confused. "Warm ice?"

"Hana! Shippo! Where are you two?!" Kagome's voice shouted sounding worried.

"We should go back to mama. She might get worried."

"You can. I wanna figure out why this ice is warm."

"Mama says I'm not supposed to leave you alone in a place we've never been to before."

"Ka-ka worries too much. She's afraid that some demon is going to come along and think I'm a free meal and that I'm gonna kill it."

"You will, we both know that."
"I know."

Shippo watched his "sister" with curious eyes and nearly screamed when somebody grabbed him. "Found them!" Miroku shouted before turning his attention to the two children. "What are you two doing?"

"There's warm ice here."

"Warm ice?"

"yeah. Feel!" Hana said pulling her finger away from the small hole.

"You're bleeding." Miroku said suddenly when he saw blood on Hana's finger.

Not at all seeming to be bothered by the fact she was bleeding, Hana stuck her finger in her mouth and sucked on the wound until it had stopped bleeding. Her blood she could stand smelling, having gotten used to it while under Naraku's "care" before being saved by her cousin. It was everybody else's blood that bothered her poor nose.

Kagome, Sango, Inuyasha, and Kirara managed to locate the three and they even looked confused when Shippo and Hana told them about the "warm ice" that was embedded in the wood. "They said that it was right here." Miroku said pointing to the spot where they found blood coming out.

Sango took a small knife and stuck the blade into the side before moving it around a little. When she pulled the blade out, she was shocked to see a jewel shard. "You two found a shard from the Shikon no Tama!" Kagome said looking shocked. "I thought I sensed one somewhere around here but…"

Being praised for good work was something Shippo was apparently used to, but with Hana it was a different story. She was used to never being acknowledged unless she had done something wrong. "Good job, you two." Kagome said with a pleasant smile.

"But… we wandered away from you guys and didn't answer when you called. Aren't we going to be punished?" Hana asked looking confused.

"Oh Gods… you're a strange little girl, you know that? If you and Shippo hadn't wandered away you two wouldn't have found the jewel sahrd. If you hadn't answered, then we wouldn't have come looking for you both."

"But if we had answered…"

"We would have shouted for you to get back to us, pup." Inuyasha said feeling the need to help Kagome explain it. "So you two helped."

Hana looked doubtful for a minute as if trying to decide if there was any form of mind playing in their words. Finding none, she nodded and grinned at them in a way that said she understood. "Okay, we've done what we needed, should we head to the Well and go to Kagome and Hana's era?" Sango questioned.

Nodding, they waited until Kagome put the Jewel shard in the glass vile with the other shards and they began walking unaware of what would soon reach their ears.

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