TRI: Hello! I would've updated yesterday, but Easter is always a pretty busy day for me. And even after that, I listened to some CD's that my Nanny had found. She brought me over a PS2 game, some PC games, and 6 CD's. She managed to find Bon Jovi, Keith Urban, and Alan Jackson.

Anyway, this week is TAKS week, and in remembrance of what I've gone through and in support of the people going through it now, I will be updating one or two more stories this week. (It's better than the videos my high school did for TAKS, and still do. From what I've heard, this time they used "I've Had the Time of My Life".)

Demon-Half: Shut up about the videos! He's complained about them for years.

TRI: It's not my fault! Their video's stink, sometimes they're slightly funny, but for the most part they suck. When I saw them back when I took TAKS, I swear I felt my brain cells dying.

Demon-Half: I even thought of forcing him to watch those videos for a couple hours. With him dumber I might have been able to take over.

TRI: Over my dead body! Hahaha, it's funny because if I die, he dies.

Anyways, on with the story.

Disclaimer: Do I have to spell it out for you? I d-o n-o-t o-w-n I-n-u-y-a-s-h-a.

Inuyasha was woken up in the middle of the night by a loud shout. Thinking that it was a youkai attacking, he jumped out of bed and leapt out the door. But it wasn't a youkai of any type, but something some would say was much worse: drunken villagers!

He had to get out of there! With the smell of so much sake in the air, he would eventually become drunk, never mind that he was a hanyou. He supposed that it was lucky that he woke up when he did. If he had woken up in the morning, with all the sake around him, he would've woken up drunk.

Deciding quickly, he bounded for the Goshinboku, which was apparently a holy tree in additition to being a perfect place to escape from the sake and the horror of having to deal with drunken humans. He's seen youkai drink before, but at least they could keep their wits and not make fools out of themselves.

When he got to the Goshinboku, he saw Kagome dozing under its branches. 'Well, at least she has some sense,' he thought before jumping onto one of its highest branches and going back to sleep.

The next day

Inuyasha woke up pretty late the next morning, which was a surprise since he had gotten into the habit of waking up early to scout for danger.

After stretching for a few minutes, he decided to walk back into town. He needed to find Kagome, since she wasn't sleeping under the Goshinboku when he woke up. As he walked back into, he saw that almost nobody had a hangover.

Near the center of town was the reason: Kagome was giving the villagers some kind of drink. After observing the process for a few minutes, Kagome glanced up and saw him standing there.

She got up, told the remaining people to go to Kaede, and walked over to him.

"So, you don't want to get drunk?"

"Hell no, it would take much more than that to get me drunk. I suppose you don't want to get drunk either?"

"I have duties to take care of."

"So that's why you were sleeping under the Goshinboku." As he said that, he started heading towards Kaede's so he could get his stuff. "Well, that makes it easier for me. It would be a pain taking care of you if you were hung over."

"I can't believe you saw that! Don't tell anyone about that, the villagers would find me, and I don't deal well with drunks."

"Even though you deal well with hung over people."

Anything that Kagome might have said was cut off when they arrived at Kaede's hut. Since quite a few people were still getting their hangover medicine, they waited outside. When there were only three people left, they were ambushed by Shippo.

"Hey guys, you leaving?"

"We're about to. In fact…" The last villager left then, so they walked into the hut and started gathering the things that they would need for their trip.

While they were gathering their things, Shippo jumped on Inuyasha head, and announced that he was coming with them.

"Are you sure Shippo?"

"Yes, completely. You two and your mom are the only family I have left, it wouldn't feel right letting you leave. Besides, I'm not completely useless, I have my tricks and I have my "Fox Fire".

After a few moments, Inuyasha decided that he could come along. Or rather, Kagome did and Inuyasha just stood there.

"Of course you can come, Shippo, now let's go."

"Let's just get this over with. The sooner we're done, the sooner I can be come back to mom."

And with that, the trio left the village and started their journey.

TRI: What do you think? It's a little shorter than my other stories, huh? Well, I plan on updating "Simon's Travel Log" tomorrow. If not tomorrow, then on Wednesday.

R&R (Seriously, guys, review.)