"Alright everyone!" Sango said, "The next Village is just up here!". Relieved that we were close we all started running to our next stop, hoping that we would be able to get a place to stay for the night. We came to a stop. In front of us lay tons of corpses, pools of blood and no sign of life anywhere to be seen. Izayoi gasped and grabbed her husband's arm, as she stared in horror at the mess in front of her. I jumped off of Kirara, and went up of one of the dead bodies. 'Inuyasha's scent!'.
"Shippo, what it is it? Is it Naraku's scent?" Kagome asked.
"Uh," I wasn't sure what to say, "N.. No.".
"What seems to be troubling you, Fox pup." Inuyasha's dad said. Even more reason for me to be scared.
"This," I began "This is…" I couldn't bring myself to finish it.
"Shippo? Miroku said, looking concerned. I couldn't take it.
"This is Inuyasha's scent! No doubt about it!" I said with teary eyes.
"Inuyasha," His mother began, "He wouldn't do such a thing, would he?" She said, so deeply saddened. A voice spoke up.
"I'm sure the mutt could'a found a reason.". We all seemed to think the same thing at that same moment. 'Koga.' Kagome spun around,
"Now, isn't the time Koga!" She said with anger and despair.
"Wait," He said, "You're actually upset?" He looked surprised, "I mean I know you and Inuyasha went through some stuff recently." Koga said. Koga looked at Inuyasha's Father. He walked over to him, and sniffed him. "You look and smell just like that damn mutt." Koga said with disgust. Taisho glared daggers at Koga, He had went from calm and harmless, to giving the most frightening glare I had ever seen. I seemed to startle Koga at least a little.
"You have guts to call my son 'Mutt'." He said with a deep voice. Koga, seemed to swallow a knot, and he took a step back, pausing a second before turning around. He went over to Kagome, and grabbed her hand.
"We will meet again my love!" And with that Koga dashed off, as quick as his legs would let him. Without the jewel shards in his legs, he wasn't too speedy after all.
"Yea, he'd better run away. I'll dare him to say it again." The Inu no Taisho muttered. Izayoi gave his sleeve a tug.
"Now now, Honey." She said. He took a breath before looking to Kagome, with a stern look.
"I had believed you to be dating my son." He said with a questionable tone. Kagome looked surprised at his tone, of course though if a Father thought a girl was cheating on his son, this was the proper reaction.
"That's Koga." Sango began, "He has the hots for Kagome. Inuyasha and Him have been fighting over her since they first met. They would have gone at it by now if Kagome hadn't been there to stop them countless times." She said. Kagome sighed,
"Yea, thats right. But I don't love him." Kagome said. Miroku, Looked around.
"Perhaps Koga's rude interruption, has distracted us from the situation at hand." He said. Everyone seemed to non-verbally thank Miroku for bringing us back on track, in their own ways. But everyone focused now. "Shippo, are you sure it's Inuyasha's scent?" Miroku said.
"No doubts." I said.
Watching them was entertaining. My Father put up quite the show with Koga, I really had to give that much at least to him. I looked down on them, How useless they seemed. Unable to figure it out. Even the simplest things. I grew bored of watching my mother refuse to believe it all. I jumped from my branch, causing the slightest movement in the tree, If anyone had noticed it, they thought it was a light wind. I jumped from tree to tree, going faster and faster, until in what seemed like a slight second, I jumped from the branch I had landed on, to the group in the clearing were my new 'Brothers and somewhat sister' sat. They seemed surprised to see me jump down from what to them looked like no where .
"Back so soon, Akikotsu." Bankotsu asked. I looked at him for a second.
"Yea," I said, "I just needed to look at something, and I think we should start moving if we want to avoid my former group.
"Where are they?" Renkotsu asked. I took a seat where I had been before I left, Jakotsu had moved while I was gone. He was now sitting next to Bankotsu, but moved to next to me almost as soon as my butt touched the log. I wasn't going to attempt to make him move.
"At the village my and Suikotsu were assigned to." I said looking as calm as ever.
"Damn, that's close." Bankotsu muttered.
"Why is it such a problem anyway, Bankotsu." Mukotsu said looking suspicious. "Half of the time you wouldn't care less if we didn't want to do something, Why is our new brother so much different." He asked. I raised an eyebrow, waiting for a response. Bankotsu seemed at loss for words. I smirked, and Let it show,
"I guess he just wants me to feel welcome, or something like that." I said, teasing him. Bankotsu gave me a look, but nodded, accepting the cover-up. Even so I think Mukotsu's comment, had been a Wake up call, for the rest.
