Kim: Yay! Another chapter! I only have THREE MORE PAGES LEFT! YAY! I only have three hand written pages, but do not worry! The end of the three pages leaves the story at the beginning of the biggest part of the story, so this will be fun. I can not wait! Erg, must post more chapters!!
Amber: -.-;
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Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha
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Last time…
"Hey! Kagome! InuYasha!" Shippo called, running up to them. They both turned to see that he looked slightly pained.
"What's wrong?" InuYasha asked, habitually placing a hand on the hilt of his sword.
"Naraku has been killed, you know what that means, right?"
InuYasha and Kagome exchanged glances for a split second before Kagome took off running for the Sacred Tree. Kagome dove on top of Hikari just as a large demon dropped from the tree. (A/N: Really stupid, but that's what I wrote so I must have a reason…)
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Chapter 22: Wicked Witch of the West
"Kagome! Hikari!" InuYasha screamed. He pulled out the Tetsusaiga and brought it across the demons back. Once it was dead, Kagome sat up and inspected Hikari. "You guys okay?" He asked anxiously as he kneeled down next to Kagome.
Hikari was shaking like a leaf and clung to Kagome's shirt. "Yeah, she's just scared."
Hikari stopped shaking and pulled back to glare at Kagome. "I was not scared, Mommy. I knowed daddy would save us!"
"What made you say that," Shippo asked with a smirk, crossing his arms.
"He did it in his book, the one mommy made me!" She exclaimed.
"Anyways, that's what I came to warn you about. Now that Naraku is gone, every demon knows about the jewel." (A/N: Do not ask me why neither InuYasha nor Kagome smelled/sensed that demon in the tree or whatever. I have no clue. I wrote this stuff nearly a year ago.)
"Yeah," Kagome turned and glared at InuYasha. "Every demon but this one." She crossed her arms. Hikari giggled.
"Now daddy looks scared!"
"Yeah, he does," Shippo laughed. InuYasha knocked him in the head and sighed.
"After Naraku completed the jewel, I used the Shinsaiga and it vanished. The Miroku used his wind tunnel."
"What about the Saimyosho?"
"He sucked in a lot of them, but Kikyou purified the poison," Shippo added what InuYasha wanted to leave out.
Hikari's eyes lit at the familiar name, but they quickly went to a flat black for a few seconds and her smile dropped.
"Look," InuYasha muttered, looking at her. Kagome shook Hikari's shoulders.
"Hikari? Hikari?" The smile reappeared and he eyes lit back up.
"Daddy went to see Kikyou lady!" She exclaimed with a clap. Kagome glanced at InuYasha.
"How can she do that?" Shippo muttered to himself, amazed. "It took me years to learn to read peoples' hearts!"
"Do what?"
"Read peoples' hearts. You can only do it to someone who has demon blood in them. There are two sections, kind of like 'right' and 'wrong', but not completely. The sections are 'pride' and 'regret'. Things you've done that you're proud of, and things you've done that you regret doing.
"She must be reading from the proud ones because I don't sense anything like that from 'regret…"
"Kagome…don't…" InuYasha started backing up.
"SIT!" She picked up Hikari.
"What was that for?!" InuYasha picked himself up off the ground.
"Why'd you go see Kikyou?" She asked calmly.
'To tell her that I'd chosen you…' He had hoped she was reading is mind.
"Oh." Kagome looked at Hikari who was studying InuYasha, and then abruptly turned to Kagome.
"Mommy, what did you do to daddy?" She asked without a smile.
"That damn word better not work for her too…" InuYasha growled lowly.
"We should try," Kagome said to him. "What did mommy say?"
"Sit." InuYasha stopped wincing as soon as he was sure it wasn't going to work.
"If that had worked that would have been bad. Hikari—"She was cut off by a small scream from Hikari. "Shoot, sorry peanut. I've been meaning to take that off you.
Kagome placed Hikari on the ground and unzipped her jacket, revealing a necklace similar to InuYasha's. She removed the beads.
"You put enchanted beads on her?" InuYasha was surprised.
"Yeah! It was me, my mom, and my little brother. Of course, there was gramps, but he didn't do anything, mom had to work, and Souta had school! So, yes, I did!"
"Was I bad?" Hikari asked.
"No, I didn't mean to say 'bad Hikari'. But the necklace doesn't work right anymore, so I took it off." Hikari smiled deviously.
"Hikari be bad…" She whispered and smirked evilly.
"If Hikari be bad, Mommy will take away Hikari's book!" She smiled.
"No! I'll be good," she said quickly, zipping up her jacket.
"You don't mean that picture book we made before you left, do you?" Shippo chuckled, shaking his head. Hikari started asking Shippo about the book and Kagome sniffed the air.
"What is it?" InuYasha questioned, catching the other two's attention. He sniffed the air and turned around. "Oh no…"
"So the rumors were true," said a familiar voice.
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Kim: Ugh. School time. At least it 70 degrees! MINI SKIRT!
Amber: And knee socks… -.- weirdo…
