A/N: Wow this story has come a long way. I really don't have that much to say so here's the chapter.

Chapter 23: Boredom

"Will it ever stop raining?" Daisuke sighed laying down on the porch.

"Stop complaining." Rokuro groaned.

"Daisuke I have to change you bandages." Kagome stated walking past him.

"Alright." He sighed heavily sitting up.

"Now Dai." Kagome ordered.

"I'm coming." He got up and walked into the room.

Hikari and Hiroshi were practicing out in the pouring rain. Hikari was tossed across the ground.

"Get up." Hiro ordered.

She didn't get up. He walked over to her.

"I said get up."

She stabbed her sword upward. It just barely missed his face. He back flipped out of the way.

"You missed." He smirked throwing a kunai at her.

She rolled out of the way and sprang to her feet. Then charged at him. He jumped over her and grabbed the kunai that he threw at her earlier.

"Damn." She muttered skidding to a stop.

He threw it at her again. This time she deflected it. She snagged it out of the air and threw it back at her brother. As he dodged the kunai he grabbed it as it passed.

"Don't take me lightly." Hiro laughed spinning the kunai.

She lunged at him and he dodged again. She spun and tried again but no contact.

"I think I felt a breeze on that one."

"I'm not interested in your sarcasm." She swung again.

"Come on you have to have better aim then that." He sighed knocking her sword out of her hand. He held a kunai up to her throat. "Check and mate."

"Hikari, Hiroshi come inside before you catch a cold." Kagome shouted from the porch.

Hiro stuck his kunai back in his pouch and picked up Hikari's sword.

"Thanks." She sighed in disappointment putting it away.

"Hey don't worry about it you'll get better." He placed a hand on her drenched head.

"But what if I can't save him Hiro? What if the time comes for me to fight and I lose?"

"Don't worry about it. That's too much stress to place on yourself. When the time comes you'll know what to do. Now come on before she gets mad that we're still standing out here." He patted her head and walked off.

~Later that night~

"Hey you all right?" Rokuro asked sitting down next to Hikari who was watching Daisuke practice his magic.

"Yea I'm fine." She sighed.

"Is it Zen again?" He questioned.

"I just don't know if I can beat him." She muttered.

"Don't stress over it Hikari."

"Hiro told me the same thing."

"What did I say?" Hiroshi asked leaning against the nearest post.

"For me not to stress over if I can beat him." She replied not looking up at her brother.

"That's true though. If you stress over it you'll never be confident enough in yourself to beat him." Hiro stated.

"We can help you know. You don't have to do it alone." Rokuro stated.

"Rokuro's right. We're all here with you." Hiro said looking down at her.

"I got him into the mess so I'm going to help get him out of it." Daisuke sighed walking over to them. He was back in his normal because the practice used up too much of his magic.

"Daisuke you don't have to help. None of you have to." Hikari mumbled into her legs.

"We know we don't have to help but we want to." Rokuro said.

Daisuke flicked his wrist and a midnight blue rose appeared in his hand. "This is a promise that we'll help." Daisuke stated lifting her head and handing her the rose.

"Daisuke did you really have to give her a rose? You couldn't have given her something else?" Hiroshi sighed.

"I wasn't asking your opinion on what type of flower I gave her now was I Hiro?" Daisuke muttered.

"I'm guessing that they still are not on even terms with each other." Rokuro laughed.

"I'm just asking if you really had to give her a rose. You could have given her a lilly, or forget me not."

"HIKARI!" Someone jumped on her tackling her to the ground.

"Mizuki?! What are you doing here?" She said dumbfounded.

"Hikari you were crying. Who made you cry? Did you three make her cry?" She started out concerned then turned towards the boys and yelled at them.

Hiro and Daisuke paid no attention to her and kept fighting.

"Stop the annoying bickering. Why is it that every time you two are together you manage to fight?" Sesshomaru sighed in frustration.

"Oh dear don't be so harsh on them. They're boys after all." Rin said sweetly.

They stopped immediately. Kagome and Inuyasha came from the back yard. Kagome's face brightened up and she ran over to Rin and hugged her.

"I haven't seen you in ages how have you been?" Kagome asked excitedly.

Inuyasha and Sesshomaru didn't look at each other.

"Kagome who's here?" Sango asked coming out of the house. "Oh lord Sesshomaru and Lady Rin hello." Sango greeted with a bow.

"How did you fine me?" Hikari asked shocked.

"I wanted to see you but daddy wouldn't let me go alone. He tracked your sent it was kind of hard for him to do because of the rain but here we are." She replied hugging her cousin again.

She looked up at Hiroshi and smiled sweetly. It sent a shiver down his spine. Before he could get away she jumped up and tackled him with a hug. Daisuke started laughing

"Hello Mizuki." He sighed blushing.

"I haven't seen you in forever. Why don't you come over more?" She huffed not letting him go.

"I usually don't have time to just go and visit people." He tried to push her off.

Daisuke kept laughing.

"Shut up." Hiro ordered.

"I'm not letting go until you hug me back." Mizuki insisted.

Hiroshi sighed in defeat and hugged her.

She let go of Hiroshi and Ran over to Inuyasha and started talking with him. Kagome struck up a conversation with Sesshomaru and Rin. Mizuki walked back to Hikari.

"What do you want to do?" She questioned.

"Why don't we play a game?" Hikari offered.

"Why game?" She said excited.

"How about tag?"

"What's tag?" Rokuro, Hiro, Daisuke, and Mizuki asked in unison.

"Well one person is it and they have to run around and try to tag another person then that person is it." She explained.

"How do you tag someone?" Mizuki pondered.

"Like this your it." Hikari said tapping Mizuki then running away.

The three boys scattered. "Hey that's not fair get back here." Mizuki shouted running after them. They ran after each other for hours. They collapsed laughing at the top of the hill. The night sky sparkled with millions of starts. Hikari pointed out some of the star consolations. Sesshomaru called for Mizuki. She said her good byes and ran to her father and mother. Jiro and Yuri ran up the hill to get them for supper. After dinner the boys went to Rokuro's room and Kagome made Hikari take a bath. She joined them after she was done.

"Considering that this day started out really boring and slow it actually turned out to be a pretty good day." Daisuke stated. "You know what I noticed?"

"What?" Hikari said.

"That there was no moon out tonight." Dai replied.

"It's not possible the new moon isn't for another half a month." Rokuro said.

"It's a lunar eclipse." Hikari stated.

A light spun around Hiroshi and he change back into his part demon self.

"It, it wore off." Hiro whispered looking at his hands watching his nails grow back.

"I guess that a lunar eclipse counts for the darkest of night." Daisuke stated.

Hikari and Rokuro fell asleep.

"You were right Daisuke to has been a good day." Hiro agreed looking out the door at the night sky one last time.

…to be continued…

A/N: This chapter didn't seem every long to me. But I did sit there for a few hours typing it. Probably because I was playing my PSP as I was typing it. Anyways I hope you liked the chapter. Reviews are always appreciated. See you next chapter.

-DTW-