Hello! Okay this is where I'm going to start to take a drift from the actual script. I'm going to change some things and keep some things the same. But to my first reviewer Bee1313 HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Sorry it's a shorter chapter but I wanted to get it out for your birthday. ;) and Thank you to my other reviewer Nesha too. :) And thank you to those who have added this to their alerts. :P (And my other story which I am working on fixing... the story just progressed too fast and stuff.. And I am working on another story but I won't publish that one til I am finished with it. :) Oh and yes I did have a baby. A beautiful baby girl we named Grace... Who is currently going through terrible twos... :( oh well I'll live hahaha) On With the story!
"Hello Kagome." Hojo greeted as her walked up to her.
"Good morning Hojo.." Hojo grabbed the book out of Kagome's hands, "Hojo, May I have my book, please?"
"How can you read this? There are NO pictures!"
"Well, some people use their imaginations." Kagome rolled her eyes.
"Kagome, it's about time you got your head out of those books," He tossed the book behind him; it landing
in the mud, "and paid more attention to more important things…. Like me! The whole town is talking about it."
The bimbettes, who are looking on, sigh at Hojo's words. Kagome, on the other hand, went and picked up her
book; trying to clean the mud off of it.
"It's not right for a woman to read—soon she starts getting ideas….. and thinking."
"Hojo, you are positively primeval." Kagome shakes her head lightly.
Hojo put his hand around her shoulders, "Why thank you, Kagome. Hey, whaddya say you and me take
a walk over to the tavern and have a look at my hunting trophies.."
"Maybe some other time."
The bimbettes look at Kagome as if she were insane.
"What's wrong with her?" Ayumi asked the other girls.
"She's crazy!" Yuka replied.
"He's gorgeous!" Eri exclaimed.
Kagome wiggled herself out of Hojo's arm, "Please, Hojo. I can't. I have to get home to help my Jii-chan."
"Hahaha," Hojo laughed, "That crazy old loon, he'll need all the help he can get!"
Hojo and Umao laughed whole heartily and Kagome snipped out, "Don't you talk about my Jii-chan that way!"
"Yeah, don't talk about her Jii-chan that way!" Hojo conked Umao on the head.
"My Jii-chan is not crazy! He's a Priest!" Shouting is heard out at the Shrine and you can see some type of commotions
happening. Kagome made sure she had everything she needed and hurried back to the Shrine. Ascending up the stairs
to the Shrine she sees her mother and Souta. Quickly her mother grabs the bags and points Kagome to the back of the Shrine.
"Small demon attack, Jii-chan is getting a little too crazy with it." Souta quickly said to his sister as he handed her bow and quiver to her.
"Thank you Souta!" Kagome grabbed her stuff and ran to her grandfather, "Jii-chan?"
The dust was settling down; you could now actually see where her Jii-chan was, "How on Earth did that happen? Dog-gonnit!"
He started picking up his Ufuda's; Kagome kept a wary eye out as she helped him, "Are you alright, Jii-chan?"
"I'm about to give up on these things!" He kicked a couple of the ufda's that was still on the ground.
"You always say that, Jii-chan."
"I mean it, this time. I'll never get this things to work correctly!"
"Yes, you will. And you will continue to be the best at purifying places with them."
"…" Her grandfather made a hmph noise at her.
"… And become the best priest out there!"
"You really believe that, Kagome?" He sincerely asked.
"I always have." She smiled at him.
"Well what are we waiting for!" He grabbed the rest of the ufuda's, "Hand me those Ufuda's
you have there…" Kagome did as she was told, "So did you have a good time in town today."
They began to walk back to the part of the house where there house was, "I got a new book! Jii-chan…. Do you think I'm odd?"
"My granddaughter? Odd?" He gave her a weird look, "Where would you get an idea like that?"
"Oh, I don't know Jii-chan.. It's just that I'm not sure I fit in here. There is no one that I can really talk to."
"What about Hojo-san? He's a handsome boy."
A scowl appeared on Kagome's face as they joined the rest of the family inside, "He's handsome all right, and rude,
and conceited and… Oh Jii-chan, He's not for me.."
Kagome's mother nodded her head in agreement to her daughter as her father-in-law started talking, "Well don't you
worry, cause this trip tomorrow is going to be the start of a new life for us," He fiddles with an ufuda when he sat
at the table, "I think I've done it. Now let's give it a try."
He concentrated his priest powers to the center of the Ufuda and it starts to glow a light blue color.
"You did it!" Everyone exclaims.
"I did? I did!" He smiled.
"You did it! I knew you could, Father." Ai smiled to the man.
"Souta, Hitch up, Shikako. I'm off to the fair!" he got excited and fell off the chair; hitting his head and passing out.
Later that day everyone met at the stable, "Bye Jii-chan! Good luck!"
"Good-bye guys! Take care while I am gone." With that he was off to the fair.
After the fair was over and he had cleansed homes and souls, along with other things, they were heading
home, "We should've been close to home by now. Maybe we missed a turn. I guess I should have taken a…. wait a minute."
He lifted his lantern to illuminate an old sign giving directions to Osaka and Nagoya, "Let's go this way!"
Shikako looks right, at the dark, overgrown path, then to the left towards a more inviting route, than begins
to go left. However he has different plans and pulls at her reins.
"Come on, Shikako! It's a shortcut. We'll be home in no time!"
They continue down the dark path until he realized that he should've taken the other path, "This can't be right.. Where have
you taken us, Shikako?" Both of them are nervous, "We'd better turn around….. and.." Slowly Shikako backs up, trying to turn
them around. Suddenly she back into a small tree and immediately gets spooked; she rears up on her hind legs, hearing, " Whoa… Whoa
girl.. Whoa Shikako." She takes off once bats fly out of the tree. "Oh, Oh! Look out!" She heard her master say. Shikako runs through
the forest, avoiding everything until she almost runs over the edge of a cliff.
"Back up! Back up! Back up! Good girl, Good girl." Shikako backs away from the edge, "That's good, that's-" Suddenly
wolves emerge at the edge of the cliff, where they once were, "Back up!" Panic was evident in his voice, "Steady. Steady!" Shikako
was panicking; bucking a bit, "Hey now. Steady!"
Finally Shikako bucks him off, "Shikako!" She then runs away leaving him on the edge of the cliff, "Shikako? Oh no!" He looks up
and sees the wolves growling at him. Quickly standing up he runs away; wolves chasing after him. He stumbles; falling down a hill
and lands at the huge gate of a castle. He grabs at the lock; shaking it to get it open.
"Help! Is someone there?" He shouts; the gat then opens, making him stumble in. Slamming the gate in the faces of the
wolves; he pants for air. Rain began to fall upon him, he runs to the castle doors, leaving his prayer beads behind him. He bangs
on the castle doors; they creak open and he enters cautiously.
Well there you go! This is where I start changing some stuff.
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