Chapter 9
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It was currently night time and the group was sitting around a
campfire. When Kaede had returned from collecting herbs, she was
rather surprised and extremely glad to see Kagome. By time the
brief introduction of everyone was finished night had snuck up on
everybody.
Since the hut was to small for the whole group to sleep in
they decided it was only fair that everyone slept outside. After
a rather quiet dinner of ramen Kagome had packed, everyone was
currently sitting in this position.
Hiei was in a tree with his eyes closed. Kuwabara was at the
base of the tree petting Kirara. Sango was on the other side of
the campfire and was polishing her boomerang. Since the incident
with Hiei she had become much more 'aware' of her surroundings.
Miroku was at base of another tree with his head bowed and his
eyes closed. Since Sango was unusually aware of her surroundings
Miroku couldn't get in as close as he would like.
Kurama had gone in the hut a while ago to help Kaede with last
minute cares to Shippo before they turned in for the night. He
seemed rather interested in helping out with caring for Shippo.
Kagome was glad for that since it seemed knowing another kitsune
was around made Shippo very happy.
Yusuke was sulking in a corner about only God knows what and
there was an eerie silence that was driving Kagome MAD!!!!!
'I can't take this any longer! What's wrong with everyone!' Kagome
thought as she went to sit next to Sango.
"Sango so exactly what are we going to do about the situation
at hand?" Kagome asked.
Sango seemed to relax a little when Kagome spoke to her.
"Actually Kagome, I've been giving that a lot of thought.." Sango
sighed "....I figured all we have to do is continue going around
collecting the jewel fragments like before. Since we already have
a decent amount of the jewel Inuyasha will come to us. As for
the situation with Naraka----."
"---We'll end up facing him anyway."
Sango and Kagome both turned to see Miroku. He had somehow moved
only two feet away from Sango. Miroku had overheard there
conversation and in his opinion, was glad Kagome brought it up.
Sango nodded. "Hentai-sama is right. We will end up fighting Naraku
in the no matter how many different ways you look at the
situation." Sango looked over at Yu Yu Hakusho team. They didn't
look like it but all of them had been intently listening in on
the conversation.
Sango smiled. "I also can assume in the end we'll need all the
help we can get."
"Is this Naraku guy that powerful?" Kuwabara asked.
The Yu Yu team looked over at the three feudal travelers. Kurama
had come just on time to hear Kuwabara's question.
Miroku began. "Fighting against Naraku himself is really the least
of our problems. The real problem is getting to him. Naraku has
thousands of lower class demons at his disposal. He has created
many powerful incarnations that we have fought and are still
trying to defeat."
Kagome continues. "Another problem is we have weaknesses. And those
weaknesses are in his possession." Kagome trailed looked toward
Sango and Miroku in a silent question. They nodded so she
continued.
"Miroku is a from a long line of perverts. Because of this he
has a curse implanted on his left hand. The curse is a wind
tunnel that can suck anything or anybody into it. The wind tunnel
is past down generation to generation. The wind tunnel will
eventually suck him into it unless Naraku is dies."
"What kind of sick minded bastard would do that?" Yusuke asked
himself.
Kagome seeing how depressing the mood was getting and how late
into the night it was decided it was time to turn in.
"Well it's getting late and we do need to get an early start
tomorrow." Kagome began looking around in her monster sized back
pack. Unfortunately she didn't notice her ass sticking up in the
giving Miroku a rather fine view.
But unfortunately for Miroku two people noticed this. Sango smacked
him upside his head.
"What's wrong Sango-chan?" Miroku said giving her his 'I wasn't
doing nothin' look.
"Miroku don't act innocent I saw you." Sango said standing up and
stretching.
"Well Sango-chan if you prefer I will only look at you from now
on." Miroku said wiggling his eyebrows.
Both Sango and Hiei growled. Hiei's growl being unnoticed by
everyone except Kurama.
Smack
Bam..
Crash.
"Found them!!!" Kagome said dramatically as she pulled out some
extra blankets.
"Sango can you help me give out some blankets?" Kagome said not
even waiting for an answer before dumping half the bundle in
Sango's arms. Kagome walked up to Kurama first and handed him a
blanket.
"Thank you Lady Kagome." Kurama said bowing to be polite.
"Kurama you can just call me Kagome. Also I wanted to thank you
for helping out with Shippo. I know you just met him but it
means a lot to him your hear, since his parents died he hasn't
been around any Kitsune's and I think you hanging around him makes
him feel more comfortable."
"No problem Kagome. I like being around the little guy." Kurama
said
"Goodnight." Kagome said smiling as she walked away.
. . .
Yusuke was furious at the monk guy. He was checking out HIS
girlfriend. Only he got to do that.
Wait a second. Stop. Rewind. Replay.
Whose girlfriend? Yusuke shook his head. All he knew was that he
was very protective of Kagome.
'That doesn't mean I like her.' Yusuke thought. Right. RIGHT.
"Here Yusuke." A soft voice brought Yusuke out of his thoughts.
Looking up he saw Kagome handing him a blanket. She was smiling
at him. The smile he had grown so use to in such a short time.
Kagome frowned. "Are you okay? You look a little flushed." Kagome
put her backhand on Yusuke's forehead. The contact sent shivers
through bought there bodies. Kagome quickly pulled her hand away.
"Ummm....Yeah..goodnight." Kagome said blushing furiously.
"Take this DEMON!!!" Sango said emphasizing the demon part as she
threw the blanket into the tree towards Hiei not caring if he
caught it our not.
The blanket smacked Hiei dead in his face. "Hey human!! I don't
need these ridiculous resources like your weak species." Hiei said
throwing the blanket back at Sango.
Sango was furious as she caught the blanket. 'I'll show him
weak.' Sango thought reaching to towards Hiraikotsu. Kagome noticed
this.
"Sango calm down." Kagome said hoping to avoid confrontation. She
was unrolling her sleeping bag.
"Alright Kagome, just this once. Next time the DEMON won't be so
lucky." Sango said handing the blanket denied by Hiei towards
Kuwabara. He barely noticed anything going around him besides
Kirara who he was currently grooming.
"Here you go Kuwabara." Sango said handing him the blanket. Since
Kirara seemed to like Kuwabara, Sango assumed he was a trustworthy
person.
"Thanks Sango! Hey I really like your cat! It reminds me a lot of
mine back home." Kuwabara said petting Kirara's tails. Sango
laughed.
"Unfortunately Kuwabara, Kirara has to come to bed now." As soon
as Sango said this Kirara jumped on her shoulder. Kuwabara sighed.
"Awe. Well goodnight." Kuwabara said turning in.
Everyone seemed to be going to sleep so Miroku put out the fire
before falling asleep himself.
It was silent and getting deeper into the night. And everyone was
silently sleeping. Well almost everyone. (A.N. Sorry to interrupt but
I just realized that abandoning poor Kuwabara and Shippo from
the story. T_T )
Yusuke was staring up at the sky. It was so in this time than
back home. Right know though, he had a lot on his mind. Mainly
the raven-haired girl only a couple of feet away from him.
When he had met Kagome she had helped him through a tuff time
in his life. She sworn to help him get back the one he loved.
But at this moment Yusuke wasn't sure who he loved.
Another thing was that Inuyasha guy and all her friends in this
time. What happened after the jewel was complete. Did she still
love him? Would she stay and live in this time? For some reason
that thought made his heart lurch.
What about Naraku? Was he really that powerful? Could they even
defeat him?
'All these questions are making my head hurt.' Yusuke thought as
he turned over.
'One thing I do know is that tomorrow morning I have to try
and make contact with Botan.' Yusuke thought as sleep finally
overtook him.
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Kagome was currently making breakfast. Kuwabara and Yusuke were
still snoring very loudly. Hiei was still in the tree but Kagome
could sense he was awake. Kurama was picking herbs with Kaede
while Shippo continued to rest. Miroku was just well..sitting
there. Sango had went to gather more fire wood earlier.
Kagome looked up at the sky. Judging from the sun's position it
was about 8:00.
"Here you go Kagome." Sango said adding wood to the fire.
"So the human is useful for something after all." Hiei snickered
from in the tree. Sango ignored him.
Breakfast was done and Kagome began serving it out. Yusuke was
wide awake by the time food was finished.
Kagome ate very quickly and disposed of her plate. Sango noticed
this.
"Kagome-chan what's wrong?" Sango asked as Kagome began digging
into her bag. She pulled out her bathing supplies.
"I want to take an early bathe so I won't hold back the team."
Kagome said standing up.
Sango finished her breakfast. "I might as well join you, I could
use a nice bathe." Sango said stretching.
Miroku quickly got up and stretched beside Sango. "Yeah me too!" he
said all to excitedly.
Wham
Miroku was lying unconscious on the floor after meeting up with
his old friend Hiraikotsu. Kagome walked and sat next to Yusuke
who looked pretty confused.
"Yusuke do you remember me telling you about Miroku being a
pervert?" he nodded "...Well you see every time we try to take a
bathe Miroku tries to sneak away from camp and spy on us."
Yusuke growled. "...Yeah that's what we think to. So we usually
have someone keep an eye on him. In this case that is were your
job comes in. You are to keep Miroku HERE in camp until WE
come back.." Yusuke nodded. "....don't underestimate Miroku. He is
very sneaky for a monk. Many times he has tricked Shippo. So
don't let him leave okay." After another nod from Yusuke Kagome
walked to the base of the tree Hiei was sitting in.
"Hey Hiei!.." He didn't look at her but Kagome knew he was
listening. "Can you PLEASE help Yusuke?" Kagome asked.
"Hn."
Taking that as a yes Kagome smiled as she and Sango left toward
the hot spring.
When they were out of site Yusuke looked up toward Hiei and
Smirked.
"How conniving could he be?" Yusuke said looking toward the slowly
awakening monk.