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Last Time…
That's exactly what Hikari did. She stared intently at InuYasha and sent the image to Kagome, who proceeded to ram her fist into the side of InuYasha's head.
"What the hell was that for?!" he screamed.
"You think I can't tell when you're in pain?" she asked calmly. "Ignore the fact I read minds, but I can smell the blood of the re-opened wound!"
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Chapter 32: Another Daughter
Kagome sighed for the thousandth time that night, eagerly awaiting the rise of the sun.
"Please be patient, Kagome," Sango advised.
"I can't," she muttered. "The sooner the sun rises the sooner I can find her and reverse what she did to me! I swear I'm going to kick that little girls ass! She'll regret the day she ever messed with me!" She hadn't realized it, but by the end of Kagome's little tirade she was screaming. Shippo, not having changed very much, coward behind Miroku, who sighed and gently pushed the grown fox demon away.
"She's more and more like InuYasha than she'll ever know," Miroku muttered, sipping his tea.
Kagome blinked in confusion when his body shuddered as if he'd been hit. Miroku's hand flashed to the back of his head and he looked directly above him.
"What? I was merely stating fact! No need to get defensive!"
Keep your opinions to yourself! InuYasha 'humph'ed, the words passing through his mind as he said them.
When did InuYasha get back? Kagome thought to herself. I thought he was out at the sacred tree for the night…
Kagome felt warmth brush her right arm and she flinched away.
What's wrong? The familiar voice of InuYasha's mind entered her own. She sighed in relief when she realized that it was InuYasha sitting next to her.
Who else would it be? She asked herself. She felt a soothing hand on the small of her back and she looked down at her daughter's sleeping form, which seemed to float in the air, when in reality, she was just sleeping in InuYasha's lap.
He really did love her. Kagome smiled to herself. Things were starting to look up for them. Kikyou was gone, and so was Naraku. But then her mind flashed to the shadows the light had inevitably created.
The Shikon jewel was missing, her eyesight was impaired, InuYasha was injured, and her yet-to-exist daughter wanted her dead. Lovely.
Kagome blushed at the idea of having had a second daughter. That meant that in the future they would…She shook her head quickly, dispelling the dirty thoughts and not-so-recent memories from her head.
She soon found herself drifting, dreaming. She dreamt that InuYasha was there, she could see him. She could hear him say he loved her—in his own voice, not the dull mutter of what a mind sounds like.
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When the first rays of dawn splayed onto the floor of the hut, Kagome woke up, which, inevitable made InuYasha's mind restless.
After a few minutes of being awake, nearly everyone had woken, even if no one had made a sound. It was as if they were all in tune with each other.
"How are we going to find her?" Kagome asked after minutes of silence.
"Do you feel that, Miroku?" Sango murmured, staring at the door.
"Demonic aura," he replied with a nod.
"Yeah, yeah. Anyways," A girl who looked like a complete copy of Hitana stepped into the hut and immediately sat down. She looked like an older version, though. She had on a black tank top, dark jeans with many holes, and a plain dark red bandana covered the top of her head. But her hair cascaded out from underneath it in the back and two chucks of hair that didn't fit into the bandana framed her baby-doll face. "I know how to find Hitana and take her down."
"Who are you?" Shippo asked flatly, ready to pull out some beastly Fox Fire.
The girl just smiled and held out her hand toward Hikari.
"What up?" Hikari asked as she immediately slapped the girls outstretched hand with her own.
'What up'? Nearly everyone was thinking the same thing.
"It's slang from my time," Kagome muttered, sounding apologetic.
"Hikari, who is this?" Miroku asked her.
"Not a clue!" She responded happily.
"Guys…you don't think she's…" Sango's eyes shifted between the four year old and the mysterious girl.
"Is your name Hikari, perchance?" Miroku asked slowly. The girl sighed.
"You know, you guys can never just accept help without prying, can you?" She asked, removing the bandanna to reveal a pair of jet-black ears similar to InuYasha's. "Yeah, it's me. I've come to retrieve the little twit. I've heard she came back here. Please tell me she hasn't killed Daddy yet."
"What? Can't you see him? He's sitting right there," Shippo pointed to the red-clad half demon.
"Nope. I can't see him either. The twit learned that trick from me and used it on me. Though I've got a lot more people than Mom that I can't see. I can't see Daddy…and many people who aren't even in existence!" She finished with happiness.
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What'd you think? It was a "here, let's just press these shiny keys and see what comes out in two hours."
