Chapter Nine: Staring With New Friends.

Hope slowly opened her eyes, the sun light up the room. Ashten lay behind her and Shippo just across from her Ivan, and Aaron was already out of there room and outside as Lilly shock Shippo trying to get him up. Hope yawned and sat up. Lilly turned and looked at her rolled her eyes and stood up leaving the hut Hope noticed her dripping hair and laughed. Aaron, Ivan and Lilly was use to getting up early. And Shippo use to his own time. It would be a while before Ashten and Hope could teach the selves to get up that early. The two was also getting use to matted beds and sleeping almost on the ground, apart from their beds they had to make due with what they had. Hope pushed Ashten to wake him up, it was after three pushes when he opened his eyes and looked up at her. Hope smiled and motioned for him to get up as she stood and walked to the door and pulled it back walking out. Kagome turned and smiled at her daughter pointing at her backpack.

"There is some clothes in there for you and your brother." Kagome explained.

Hope smiled at her mother and looked down at her tattered and torn clothing. The paints now had bad grass steins on them and the bottom of her shirt was torn around the bottom and cover in dirt. Sango turned to Hope and smiled throwing her a large white cloth kind like a towel.

"There is a stream just beyond that part of the forest over there." Sango said pointing over to left side of Hope.

Ashten came out behind Hope almost running into her, he looked at Sango just as she throw a towel at him to. He smiled and the thought of a bath. Lilly was sitting next to Inuyasha holding her hair in a towel drying it off. Hope picked the backpack up next to her and grabbed her brothers hand tugging up down the hill to the stream, about half way into the forest Hope and Ashten ran into Aaron and Ivan coming up with their towels slung over their shoulders, They both ware only the bottom of there Kimono's Ivan was in black, his bottoms only bellowed out at the bottom and kinda looked like bell bottom jeans. Aaron's was bellowed all over made him look a bit bigger.

"You two going down to the stream?" Ivan asked looking at Hope.
"Yes we are." Hope smiled blushing a bit as she looked away from him.

Ivan smiled and started to walk back to the hut again. Ashten smiled as Ivan walked past him then he walked a bit faster to catch up to his sister who had let go of his hand when she saw the two walking up.

"Oh, you like him don't you Hope!" Ashten laughed looking at her.
"No why would you say that?" She asked turned around from looking at Ivan.
"Oh come on Hope, don't try and hide it from me I can tell I know you!" Ashten laughed.
"What ever." Hope looked up to see the stream.

A small water fall ran down at the top and down into a big pond that lay before them the clear water would have shown the bottom if it wasn't so deep, but near the edge you could see the bottom covered in sand colored mood.. Ashten smiled and ran over throwing his towel onto a large bolder that lay about four feet away from the waters edge. and ran into the water jumping into the deep end. Hope laughed and shook her head walking over to the bolder and laid her backpack down and ran in after him.

Ashten came back up a few ways out but Hope still stood on the shallower end it was up to her chest and she was standing on her sip toes the slipperier ougie covered rock under her feet felt weird on her sore feet they had not had put their shoe's on yet that morning and the walk into the woods made them tender. Ashten swam over to Hope and splashed her Hope still not use to the cold water moved her face back to keep from getting hit but did anyway. She laughed and splashed him back.

"So, are we really going to do this?" Ashten asked looking at his sister as he tried despotically to stay above the water.
"WE sure as hell ARE!" Hope laughed