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Chapter 6- Meeting Miroku and Sango
Kikyo smiled as well but she still had the bad feeling that her sister was doing something that she wasn't telling her. Kikyo made up her mind to follow her sister when she set off that morning.
Kagome woke up bright and early to the whale's songs in the distance she stretched and then glanced over at her sister. Good she was still sleeping.
Kagome packed her bag of clothes and personal items that may or may not be needed for her first proper day on land. Inuyasha was going to take her to meet his friends, Miroku and Sango.
She had made friendship necklaces for then all created from shells and small left over gems that Kagome found in the bottom of her trunk. There was each of their names carved onto the backs of them as she really wanted them all to get along.
Kikyo watched her with one eye open then when Kagome left she followed close to the sand.
Kagome swam closer and closer to the surface of the ocean and when she saw the land she laughed in joy. Diving back under she concentrated her powers and shot out of the water like a rocket.
Kikyo watched in amazement, she had never thought that her sister had learnt to control her powers that well so quickly. She had been a fully awakened mermaid for about a month and a half there was no way in the gods given sea that her sister could have become so advanced on her own.
Kagome while still in the air used more magic to dry herself of sea water while in the air and she gained her human shape landing delicately on her pointed toes.
Kagome smiled and shook her hair before calmly pulling out a pretty dress she had with her and put it on replacing Inuyasha's borrowed shorts with a pair of small silk sorts similar to panties and then added the little heals that had been thrown overboard by a spoilt brat on a cruise.
She pulled out a small mirror and looked at herself after tying her hair back loosely. She smiled and put it in the bag before running to the house just beyond the sand.
Kikyo couldn't believe what she was seeing! Her own little sister on human legs! Running towards a human house! Wearing human clothes!
Where was her mermaid pride?
Kikyo felt the sea boiling around her as her anger peeked. She was half going to shout at her and drag her back home then tie her to the ocean floor but then she did something that hurt and shocked and angered her most of all!
"Inuyasha!" Kagome shouted waving madly at a figure sitting on the grass with a guitar.
Kikyo saw a young man with long flowing silver hair and eyes like molten gold, there was no doubt that he was human. He got up smiling, his whole being shining with the joy of seeing Kagome.
"Kagome!" He shouted and ran towards her as well. She threw herself into the humans arms and he swung her around while holding her tightly. "I missed you" the human said blushing slightly, he put a hand to her head and took out her hair tie so he could run his fingers through the wavy locks.
Kagome blushed as well. "Am I on time?"
There was a noise that Kikyo didn't recognise sounded like a shriek from hell, AKA doorbell, and Inuyasha laughed and said "Just on time, as usual" he pulled her inside and she held his hand back and followed willingly with the happiest expression Kikyo had ever seen on her younger sisters face.
Kikyo sank in horror. She hit the ocean floor staring blankly at nothing. Kagome… How could you?
Kikyo buried her head in her arms and let the sad-angry sobs be heard. Her sea glass tears were both red and green-blue for her mixed emotions.
Kagome and Inuyasha were both unaware of Kikyo and hadn't realised their secret had been discovered by more than one pair of eyes…
Inuyasha opened the door. "Hey Miroku, Sango. How's the shop?"
Miroku grinned widely and walked inside, his brown hair covered in sawdust. A girl around Kagome s age followed, her hair was lushes long brown that was tied up in a high ponytail with pink ribbons tied into it. Her eyes spotted Kagome before Miroku did.
"The shops still standing. Hey, Inuyasha, who's this?"
Kagome felt very shy of the new people. She raised a hand hesitantly and gave a little wave.
Inuyasha laughed. "This is Kagome, she's a friend from out of the country. She came here about a month ago. I've told her so much about you" He put a hand on her shoulder and she looked up at him wondering what she should do.
Miroku whistled. "My my. What an attractive young lady we have here" he reached for her hand and kissed it making Kagome blush a little. "A pleasure to meet you Kagome, I m Miroku"
"Hi" she said back quietly.
Miroku opened his mouth to make a lectures remark but Sango elbowed him out of the way. "Miroku! You pervert, you'll scare her away" Sango squeezed Kagome's hand warmly in hers. "I m Sango, nice to meet you, I hope Inuyasha hasn't been telling you bad stuff about us" she eyed him playfully.
Inuyasha laughed "Don't worry, its all bad and all true" Sango flashed a smiled at him.
"By the way, don't let Miroku get too close to you. He's a real-" she broke off. Miroku was right behind her touching a place that he got hit a lot for. "HENTAI!" Sango shouted and turned and slapped him.
Kagome was shocked, girls weren't supposed to hit!
Miroku seemed used to it and sighed "Must you do that Sango?"
Sango was trembling in rage. "Don t you DARE touch my butt again!"
Kagome stifled a giggle with her hand then hugged her stomach as her laughter escaped her mouth. Inuyasha smiled and laughed as well. Sango and Miroku stared at the new girl in surprise then looked at Inuyasha, he had never let a girl really affect him or get close to him the way this girl was right now. Sango and Miroku looked at each other in surprise but then smiled and laughed with them as well.
Inuyasha shook his head and then said "Lets go, the town won't wait and Kagome really wants to see the sites"
Sango grabbed Kagome's hand and led her to her car. Sango and Kagome chatted all the way to the small town. Inuyasha and Miroku were in the back and had been arguing about the first thing to show Kagome. The bar, the fountains, the garden or the fair.
"What s a fair?" Kagome asked turning around in her seat, she didn't know what half the things they were talking about but she listened with interest and imagined what they would be like. Humans are the funniest things she thought with a small smirk.
Miroku laughed "It's a celebration with food and dance and lights and song, there are lots of fun things to do… Have you never been to a fair before?"
Kagome shook her head "It sounds fun"
Sango smiled "It is, and if you haven't been to a fair before… then it's high time you started going" she said taking a wild U turn in the middle of the road.
"Hey! I thought I was meant to be the wild driver!" Inuyasha said straitening up in the back with Miroku rubbing his head from bumping it against the window.
Sango laughed "Are you kidding, surf-boy?" she turned and partly glared over her shoulder at him "You're looking at the girl who has just gotten her licence back after six points and a suspended drivers issue"
The boys looked at each other in shock "Well I suddenly feel afraid" Miroku said snapping in his seat belt. Inuyasha copied the action. Kagome was gripping the door handle still very shaken over the wild driving that Sango had performed and she had no idea what a licence was or points but she got the idea that Sango had been in trouble for driving like that before.
Inuyasha reached over and squeezed her shoulder in comfort. He could not imagine how scared and confused she was right now, out of her comfort zone and clearly out of her depth with all the human topics and even though she trusted these humans with her life she also felt like an alien on another planet.
Her wide eyes eyed up everything in sight with wonder. From the shops and awesome buildings to the shiny dustbins. She was overwhelmed with the amount of people as well. There were so many people.
The streets were lined with orange and yellow and red flags and banners. There were streamers and small fireworks with other bight and colourful decorations and lights even though it wasn't dark yet.
Sango saw her new friends nose almost plastered against the window as she tried to take in the scenery. She smiled and remembered her own reaction to her first theme park.
When Sango had parked. Inuyasha got out and opened her door for her, she struggled with the simple pulling motion, and Miroku and Sango thought that she was a little childish.
"So Kagome, where are you from?" Miroku asked out of polite interest.
"Atlantica" Kagome answered without thinking.
"Never heard of it" Miroku said scratching his head as if wracking his brains for the answer.
Kagome smiled and added "It's a small place surrounded by the sea, you wouldn't really know it" she sighed in relief when he didn't question her further.
"Have you got any family here?" Sango said walking beside her.
Kagome shook her head "No, I have a half sister at home… and about" she closed her eyes and counted on her fingers "Eighteen half brothers scattered around Jamaica and Florida" she glanced at Sango who had her mouth hanging open.
"Whoa, so your one of twenty? And I thought Miroku had it bad!" The brunette shook her head and said "I have a younger brother who has just started high school, my parents are in the main city a few miles towards the mainland"
Kagome listened with interest.
Miroku pulled on Inuyasha's arm "That's one interesting girl you have there" he commented. "I wonder how she got under your skin so deeply"
Inuyasha pulled away "Well she's one in a million that's for sure. Don't question her too much, life is very different where she comes from"
Miroku nodded and then slinked his arm around Sango and pointed dramatically at a small beach house looking building. "Ah! The place where we spend most of our waking hours, eh, Sango dearest?"
Sango gave him the 'I'm not buying it' look and pinched his hand so he would let her go. "I know Miroku, no need to point it out- Kagome!"
Sango reached forwards and yanked her back from the edge of the road, a huge van wised past a second later.
"What?" Kagome asked, frightened by the loud fast van and Sango's reaction.
Sango sighed in relief "You were about to walk out onto the road" she said breathing heavily with a hand to her heart "You could have gotten hit!"
Inuyasha bit his lip and remembered that he hadn't told her about all the dangers of his world. He put a hand on her shoulder and said "If you get hit by one of those things it can kill you" He wrapped her arm around his and after checking for other cars pulled her to the other side. "You have to keep by us"
Kagome nodded with wide eyes "Your world is so confusing, and dangerous. Where I come from we all get to where we want to by ourselves. We don't ride those cars that can hit someone" she gestured to the road again and shivered when another one came by.
Inuyasha rubbed her arm and pulled her inside the shop just behind Sango and Miroku. Miroku had another slap mark on his face from touching Sango's hips a little too intimately. Kagome's eyes widened again and she squealed excitedly.
"This is just like my mothers old work place" she said and skipped forwards to touch the pretty trinkets that hung from pegs on the walls. "What's this place called?" she asked, turning around to see the three humans smiling at her like she was a child excited over a Christmas present.
"Its called 'Lost Treasures'" Miroku said and leaned on the till. "Worked in it from about three years old, I would have chosen a better name"
"I like it" Kagome said the childish grin appearing again. She trailed her fingers over the carved fish and dolphins that had been done that morning. She held the hammer in her hand and looked at a tempting piece of metal and then at a bit of sea glass that was to her left.
She wasn't as into forging as her sister but she did have a desire to make things sometimes and then she had the overwhelming desire to do so.
Sango and Inuyasha jumped when a loud crash was heard, Miroku banged his head on the underside of the table, he had gone down to get out an old crate of old festival stuff to get the shop looking festive.
They looked over at the noise in surprise to see Kagome viciously hitting a bit of scrap metal brutally over and over with a hammer.
Kagome picked up a screw driver and used it to bend something into shape. She sighed and straitened up and said in a relieved and sighing sort of voice. "Now that that's out of my system…"
"Hey girl, what you up to?" Sango said coming over with a coke can. Kagome held up a small trinket, it was a jelly fish with sea glass body and shiny scrap metal legs hanging from a spare bit of chain that she saw on the floor.
"Sorry, I couldn't help myself"
"Wow, that's amazing" Sango said taking it from her gently. "This is really cool. Hey Miroku! We have an expert forger over here, looks like we're out of a job"
Miroku yelled back something huffily and Inuyasha bumped him on the head with a frown.
I copied that end part from Inuyasha episode one- ya know, with the dog ears? lol, so sweet!
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