Back with a new chapter for you guys there is a poll on my profile that will decide the fate of this story please vote because it will change how the story turns out After the next chapter i will be taking a short break of about 3 weeks as the bane of all author's existence is fast approaching... exams i will continue writing during the exams but i will be unable to post during those 3 weeks
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WARNING: InuYasha will be an ass in this chapter and so will be sat among other things such as fire
After Kouga made himself scarce the group continued on towards Edo when Kagome asked "Guys what were you up to while i was home last week?" "You'd know if you were actually here wench!" InuYasha yelled at her. "Sit boy!" Kagome shouted with tears in her eyes " I went home for one week InuYasha! One week! SIT! I saw my family for one week after traveling for 2 months straight! SIT! So next time you are going to yell at me for going home or call me wench SIT down and think about what you're going to say first! Kagome turned on her heel and sat down against a tree to cry. InuYasha was sprawled on the ground in an 8ft InuYasha shaped crater. If you were spiritually aware such as Miroku was, you would see InuYasha's soul exiting his body via his mouth. So Miroku , seeing this and being the good monk and friend he was did the only thing he could and brought his staff down on InuYasha's head forcing his soul back into his body and leaving a rather large lump on his head. the rest of the group was giving InuYasha glares of varying degrees of scariness. Shippo was giving him a death glare that would make a normal man flinch, Sango was giving him a glare that would make Sesshomaru flinch and lastly Hiei was giving him a glare so very scary that NARAKU would flinch. He glared so hard he set InuYasha's hair accidentally on purpose on fire.
The fire had the desired effect and soon InuYasha was running towards the hot spring screaming bloody murder while the whole group except Hiei burst out laughing. But even the untrusting stoic Hiei gave a little fang smirk 'Success' he thought as he looked at Kagome who had forsaken her tears and was holding her side from laughing so hard. Shippo , while trying to contain his laughter, said to Hiei "That was priceless Inubaka screaming bloody murdere running like Sesshomaru was after him!". "Hn was the only reply Shippo got as Hiei turned away from the laughing kit. 'why do I care if the onna cries or not?' Hiei scowled 'I'm getting soft surrounded by these weaklings'. While Hiei was being moody, Kagome repeated her earlier question "What were you all doing for the past week ?"."Well I went back to my village to pay my respects and see could i find anything useful, I found a few unbroken arrows that i kept for you Kagome but that was it" Sango listened intently to their conversation as his curiosity grew. Kagome may have told him her story but it was heavily edited and she never told him how she met any of the others only that she met them and they joined her group. The only reason he found out they attacked her was through Shippo and he thought the onna was a bit too trusting and just the slightest bit naive.
"What were you up to Shippo?" Kagome asked her kit. Shippo immediately put on an innocent face. Too innocent. " You know the usual drawing, helping Kaede and Miroku, playing pranking InuYasha" He said the last part quietly and quickly but Kagome still heard it. "Shippo!" she scolded playfully " you know your not allowed prank InuYasha unless it is to stop him from coming down the well!". Hiei's curiosity got the better of him and he asked "Why would he go down a well?". Kagome suddenly slapped her forehead and sighed "Well I guess the cat's out of the bag I really didn't want to have to explain this so soon but try to keep an open mind okay?" "Hn" was Hiei's reply. Kagome took this as a sign to get on with it and retold her tale in full. She told him of falling down the well and meeting InuYasha, she told him of the shattering of the jewel and meeting Shippo, she told him of Miroku and his Wind Tunnel , of the extermination of the demon slayer village of meeting Sango and Kohaku, of being kidnapped by Kouga and Kikyo's revival by the time she was finished it was dark and InuYasha had returned from sulking about halfway through. Once she was fininshed she looked at Hiei to gauge his reaction ( which is incredibly hard to do). On the outside Hiei had a mask of indifference but on the inside his head was reeling.
This clumsy bubbly girl in front of him was the guardian of the Shikon no Tama,could make a half-demon plummet to the ground with a necklace and a word, came from the future through a well, didn't kill demons on sight, befriended several, adopted one who tried to steal form her, traveled with people who attacked her, was missing half her SOUL AND SURVIVED, met Sesshomaru lord of the Western lands and not only lived without getting hurt but had an ALLIANCE with the human hating inu youkai!?
The miko was right she was no ordinary miko 'she is one extraordinary miko' Hiei thought. His respect and friendship for the miko tripled itself that night.