InuYasha Fan Fiction / Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ Unexpected Ally ❯ Aftermath ( Chapter 9 )

Unexpected Ally

Disclaimer: YYH belongs to Yoshihiro Tagashi; IY belongs to Rumiko Takahashi; Unfortunately, I am neither one of them. Pity me!

Chapter 9: Aftermath

Yuusuke was just about to fire his Rei Gun again, when he saw a wall of bright pink energy flash out towards him and Kuwabara, sending them flying back. As he was thrown behind Kagome and Inuyasha, he watched Inuyasha’s Kaze no Kizu completely obliterate the youkai and the portal in the barrier. His eyes went wide as he watched, and he planned on running up to the two people he’d just met and demanding answers as to their powers and what their plans were, but was too engrossed in watching them to remember to break his fall. He landed hard and his head cracked on a large branch of driftwood that lay on the shore, knocking him out. Kuwabara was subject to the same consequences, landing beside Yuusuke.

Kurama and Hiei had been thrown in the opposite direction from Yuusuke and Kuwabara, and had landed just inside the line of trees that began the woods. They had been instantly knocked out by the reiki, even before they hit the ground, however. Kagome had been able to control it just enough so that it wouldn’t purify them, but it had still gotten close enough to affect them and they had lost consciousness.

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There hadn’t been room in her castle-like cave to gather all of the youkai for the attack, so the forest had been the only other option for privacy’s sake. She had long ago heard the tales that were told about her forest and had laughed at how accurate they were, even after all this time; only changing a bit and losing details in the passage of the story through time. She had been able to reinforce the superstitions of the story over the years, strengthening the general fear of her forest and guaranteeing that it would always be a private place for herself and her servants.

As the Kaze no Kizu ripped into the portal, our villain watched from the safety of her lair in Makai. A slight look of concern came into her facial features as she watched the reflection of the boy she called her son be blown back from the force of the attack on his portal. She actually let herself slip and called out, “Nar-kun!” before regaining her composure and sending a couple minions to get him from where he’d opened the portal in the forest. When they returned, she had them take him to his room immediately to be cleaned up and have his wounds dressed. He would need time to heal now before they could move on to Plan B.

Plan B had to run smoothly; it was their last option. And her “Nar-kun” was needed in perfect condition to pull it off. She hadn’t expected her loss on the beach to be so utterly devastating; she had expected to at least come away with a captive Kagome. Sighing in frustration, the villain hurried down the halls to his room, determined to do her best to help him heal quickly. She patted the obi of her kimono before entering his room. Within it, beside her other most coveted item, was the exact thing the boy needed right now. It was a piece of the prize they sought; a few shards of the Legendary Shikon no Tama.

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“Itai,” Kurama pushed himself up onto his knees with one hand, the other hand holding his aching head. He had landed face first next to the path in the woods, and had hit his head on a smooth rock, earning a bump but nothing worse.

‘What the hell was that?’

He looked to his left to see Hiei sitting up as well.

‘That… was reiki, but I’ve never seen it used like that before.’ Kurama answered his friend.

‘How could that onna no ningen have such power?! Enough to even knock Kurama and me unconscious?’ Hiei thought to himself. ‘Where’s the girl? He said, speaking into Kurama’s mind once again.



Kurama and Hiei scanned the beach looking for her, but all they saw was the blood and remains of the hundreds of youkai that had been swarming the beach; and Yuusuke and Kuwabara as the two boys also started waking back up.

‘Did she do this as well? Who is this onna?’ Hiei wondered to himself, narrowing his red eyes and furrowing his brow. ‘More importantly, where’s the portal, and what happened to all those youkai?’ he added, speaking into Kurama’s mind again.

Kurama seemed not to hear him as he listened intently to something else. The sirens in the distance were getting closer and all four boys looked at each other from across the sand as they realized they had better get out of there before they could be asked any questions.

‘Damn, she’s gone. We’d better get going. Maybe we can still track her down.’ Kurama thought.

(I told you finding her was important, Kurama.) Youko couldn’t resist putting his ‘I told you so’ remark in.

‘What are you rambling about, fox?’

(That was the girl; our girl. Now there is no excuse for not looking for her; she is the answer to your assignment.) Youko smirked.

‘You’re still intending to pursue her? You do know she could purify you out of existence?’

(Even better. What fun is the chase without a little danger? Besides, she could have purified us the whole time we were fighting, but when she did that blast, she obviously focused on not harming us.) Youko proclaimed.

Hiei rolled his eyes at the silver kitsune.

“Anybody seen Kagome?” Yuusuke asked as he and Kuwabara approached Kurama and Hiei. They looked up at him questioningly. “Oh, that’s right; you didn’t get to meet her. Well, she was that girl using the reiki. We were at the beach party with her and her friends. One of her friends was that silver-haired guy, Inuyasha. You two see either of them?”

Hiei was startled by the familiar name. “Did you say ‘Inuyasha’?”

“Yeah, that was his name alright. He’s the one that used that giant sword to kill the youkai and close the portal.” Yuusuke answered

The two youkai looked confused, and explained that they hadn’t seen what happened when the reiki knocked them out. Yuusuke told them what he and Kuwabara had seen of the Kaze no Kizu, though he wasn’t sure if that was what the silver-haired boy had actually screamed when he did the attack.

“The other day, in the woods, the girls that were chasing me met another girl who was talking about being here with someone named Inuyasha.” All three boys looked at the hybrid at this revelation. Surprisingly, he continued, “Now that I think about it, she had that same inu smell from that night on the cliff. Kurama said he noticed her the other day, also, before he and Kuwabara went after the youkai that was loose.”

“Is that true, Kurama?” Kuwabara asked.

“Hai, Kuwabara-kun, she was who I was looking for when I left our table the first time. Something about her drew me to follow her… and now Youko has a fascination with her.” The last part was said low so that only Hiei actually heard the confession. The Jaganshi snickered into his friend’s mind, a growl of annoyance sounding back into Hiei’s own thoughts from both the redhead and the silver-haired fox.

“Okay, so we all have at least seen the girl that we’ve been looking for all this time, and Kuwabara and I spent most of the night near her, yet none of us realized she had all that reiki? Plus, Inuyasha obviously has some sort of powers, considering how he was fighting and the power of his sword; but no one sensed anything from him, either. How does that work? I mean, my Spirit Awareness sucks, but the rest of you are supposed to be really good about sensing those things!”

“I didn’t sense anything from her until she used her reiki, Yuusuke.” Kuwabara answered.

“Yes, I didn’t sense anything from her in the woods the other day, or as we approached her on the beach tonight. Only when she actually used her power did I sense anything.”

“Hai, same here.” Kurama agreed. “Also, I noticed that her reiki seems to work as an automatic self-defense. I don’t even think she was aware of the branches I sent after her, but her reiki instantly kept them from touching her.”

“What about Inuyasha, though? Did anyone sense anything from him? Reiki; youki; anything?” Yuusuke demanded. Everyone looked contemplative as they shook their heads ‘no’.

“Uh, guys, this is all real important and all, but I think we’d better go before the cops actually get on the beach, y’know?” Kuwabara interrupted the discussion.

“He’s right. Let’s go.” Hiei agreed, leaping up and disappearing in the direction of their hotel. The others followed, making it to the front of the hotel just as the beach was swarmed with every kind of emergency worker you could possibly think of. Briefly, the thought of what their reaction would be to the carnage on the beach crossed the minds of all four boys.

“We’ll need to inform Botan and Koenma of this so their memories can be modified.” Kurama answered everyone’s thoughts.

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“Wow, Kagome-chan was who you were looking for all this time?” Keiko exclaimed after hearing what had happened after she left the beach.

“Yeah, weird, ne?” Yuusuke answered, “Anyway, we need to find her again, ’cause she ran off while we were knocked out. Do you know where she’s staying?”

“Iie… Maybe her friends do, but I lost them in the crowd that was filling up the lobby.”

“She must be staying in those cabins in the woods, since I saw her coming from that direction when she was on the path the other day.” Hiei thought aloud.

“Okay, we’ll go look around the beach and the cabins. Maybe Kurama can pick up Inuyasha or Kagome’s scent from the beach and track them that way. Keiko: you, Botan and Shizuru look for those other girls in the lobby. We’ll meet you back here in two hours if we don’t find her before then.”

As the girls exited the room, Botan said to Keiko, “Wow, I guess you’re actually the one that found her, huh? If it wasn’t for you, we’d never have met her, and Yuusuke and Kuwabara-kun wouldn’t have even been on the beach tonight.”

Keiko laughed shyly, “Hai, I guess so. It’s so cool that she has all that power. No wonder she’s a shrine maiden.”

“Shrine maiden?” the ferry-girl questioned.

“She told me she lives at a shrine with her Grandfather.”

The wheels in Botan’s head began spinning a bit faster as she formed a theory, but she said nothing. She would check out her suspicions as soon as she got back to Reikai.

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“You still haven’t picked anything up, Kurama?” Yuusuke asked the kitsune-boy.

“I’m sorry, Yuusuke, the inu scent was faint to begin with. Trying to find it an hour after its owner disappeared is a bit difficult, even if I hadn’t been thrown off by all the blood on the beach.”

Yuusuke grumbled; the other two boys merely followed Kurama quietly. They had contacted Koenma before leaving their hotel room, and the scene of the night’s battle was currently being cleaned up by Reikai workers, while others (those that looked relatively human) were keeping the area secure from humans and modifying the memories of those that had seen anything that had happened. Kurama had first tried to pick up Kagome or Inuyasha’s scent from the area, but had merely gotten a head rush from the heavy scent of blood still thick in the air. So they had moved their search immediately to the woods as soon as Kurama got a grip back on his senses.

‘Why is there no youki to follow? That Inuyasha was obviously a youkai. He was fighting with claws and his jumping abilities were in no way human. Then there’s that sword Yuusuke and Kuwabara saw him use.’

‘Youko can’t even answer that question for me, Hiei. I expect we won’t get any real answers until we find Kagome.’

(Yes, once we find our Kagome, she will be answering many questions for us.)

‘Fox, will you focus already? I think you’re distracting yourself too much and that’s why you haven’t found the scent yet.’

(We are paying perfect attention to our duties, hybrid.)

‘You know, Youko, maybe he’s… wait!’

(Ah, there, finally!) Youko exclaimed.

Kurama paused in his stride to get a better sniff. It was very faint, but it was there nonetheless.

Yuusuke noticed his friend’s actions. “You find it?”

Kurama nodded and took off after the scent trail. It led them straight down the main path to the cabins, then taking turns here and there around other cabins and tents until finally becoming the most concentrated around one of the biggest cabins at the back of the woods. In the darkness of the forest, a sliver of moonlight made it through a break in the canopy, illuminating a silver van parked near the cabin. Hiei immediately recognized the van.

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“…so, Souta, make sure no one tells them where we live, okay? I don’t want to chance you, Mama or Jii-chan being in danger while I’m gone. Just act like you don’t know us at all.”

“Hai, okay, nee-chan. You told Juri-san, too, right?”

“Hai, hai.”

“Okay, I’ll keep the secret for you and Inu-no-nii-chan.”

“Arigatou, Souta.”

The two siblings said goodbye and hung up the phone. Kagome repacked her trusty yellow backpack, and said goodbye to her mother and grandfather, before hopping down the well with Inuyasha.

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“So, she told you, too?” Juri asked as Souta hung the phone up.

“Hai, she wants us to make sure her friends from school don’t tell them, either.”

“Do you know what the deal is with these guys that are going to come looking for her?”

“Iie, Juri-san, Kagome-nee-chan didn’t say; she just said to make sure they don’t find out we know her, or where we live.” The boy lied. Well, he couldn’t exactly tell her the truth: that his sister was a time-leaping miko, Inuyasha was a youkai from the Sengoku Jidai, and they were running from two youkai and two ningen with strong reiki that had seen them use their powers.

“I worry about the kind of trouble your sister has started getting into since I haven’t been able to be around lately.”

“Nani?”

“I’ve heard all about how much school she’s been missing, and how she always has one illness or another as her excuse. She looks perfectly healthy to me, though. Her grades at school have been slipping since last school year, she’s got that bleached, long-haired Inuyasha guy as a boyfriend, and now she’s running away during her summer break to hide from some guys they met on the beach? Your sister must be getting herself in deep trouble lately.”

Souta twiddled his fingers nervously. Juri could ruin everything if she got anymore suspicious now. He tried to think of something to say quickly, before she saw his nervousness and hesitation. “Oh, but she has been very sick, Juri-san. This is the best she’s been in awhile. That’s why Mama wanted to make especially sure that she got to have a real vacation this summer since she’s been feeling so awful.” He mentally patted himself on the back for that.

Juri looked at the boy suspiciously a few more moments, but turned away with a sigh when she decided it was no use trying to get anymore information out of Souta. “Okay, Souta-kun. Well, why don’t you go tell the other boys about the gag order while I call Kagome-chan’s friends and inform them of the situation?”

“Okay, Juri-san!” The boy agreed, and scurried off to find his friends, who were playing a trading card game in the living room.

Juri made the phone call to Eri, who relayed the message to her three other companions without question. Just as Juri hung up the phone, there was a knock at the door.

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“That’s it? Just ‘don’t tell them where Kagome-chan lives’? She was awfully friendly with them before. Why all the secretiveness now?” Yuka demanded to know.

“I have no idea, Yuka, but that’s Kagome-chan’s request. It seemed very important, especially since Juri-san called to tell us, so I think we should follow it.”

“Fine, but I still don’t like this. She just ran off with that possessive guy in the middle of her date with Houjou-kun! She didn’t even bother staying with us when all that weird stuff started going on down the beach.”

“Yeah, that was kinda weird, you have to admit.” Ayumi agreed.

“Okay, you’re right about that, but I still think we should respect Kagome-chan’s wishes. We don’t know those people well enough to give out information on our friend, anyway.” Eri reasoned.

Yuka nodded, “Yeah, you’re right. I just wish I knew what was going on with Kagome-chan lately. She seems to grow more and more distant and doesn’t seem to be thinking about her future. I mean, honestly, she barely comes to school and when she does it barely makes a difference; in fact I heard some rumors going around, while I had office duty at school, concerning her poor attendance and grade point average. Plus, not wanting to date Houjou-kun and choosing to pine after that two-timing Inuyasha; she can’t be in her right mind!”

The three girls’ faces were filled with concern as they continued to discuss their wayward friend. They would need to have a serious discussion with her as soon as they saw her back at school.

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Hiei frowned at his friends as they walked up to the door of the cabin. Yuusuke saw him hanging back and called to him over his shoulder, “C’mon, Hiei, it’s not exactly like we can just bust in, weapons bared, demanding the girl.”

“Sure it is. She’s the whole reason for this assignment and has no choice about coming with us. She may even be connected to the Makai breakouts; she didn’t seem surprised at all by the attack on the beach, you know. There is no other option for her besides coming with us for questioning.”

“True, Hiei, we do need the information from her,” Kurama agreed, “and she really has no choice, but we can still make it seem like she does. It may be easier to get her to cooperate if she believes she’s making her own decision.”

“Exactly, Kurama.” Yuusuke nodded in agreement.

“That’s awfully dishonest,” Kuwabara remarked, shaking his head.

“Okay, Kuwabara,” Yuusuke challenged, “What would you suggest then? We have to get her to come with us no matter what. You don’t think it’d be easier to get answers from her if she believes she’s in control of her own situation?”

“Fine, I guess you’re right, Urameshi.” The orange-haired boy conceded, adding under his breath, “That doesn’t mean I hafta like it, though.”

Finally, discussion done, all four boys stepped onto the covered porch and knocked on the door of the cabin Kurama had led them to. The cabin with the same silver van Hiei had seen from the cliff a few days before.

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‘That was fast.’ Juri thought to herself as she opened the door to four teenage boys; two with dark hair, two with red hair. ‘Kagome-chan called us just in time, it seems.’

“Can I help you?” she asked them, a bit of annoyance in her voice.

“Konbanwa, we were wondering if a Higurashi Kagome is staying here.” The long-haired redhead asked.

‘I was right, it’s them!’ she exclaimed silently to herself.

“Ano… Higurashi Kagome? Iie.” She replied coolly.

“Are you sure, ma’am? We were certain this was the cabin she was in.” he asked again.

“Hai, I’m positive. We’ve been here five days. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to get my brothers to bed.” She replied swiftly, slamming the door shut and locking it.

She quickly busied herself with putting the boys to bed, and soon she was back in her room, studying in the peace of the night. Tomorrow would be a busy day since Kagome wouldn’t be there to help pack things up.

‘Oh well,’ she thought, ‘those boys better be ready to get their asses in gear tomorrow. I am not doing this shit on my own.’

She went to sleep less than an hour later, around midnight. Normally, she would’ve been up until at least two, if not later, but tonight sleep was definitely needed.

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“Do you agree with my methods now?” The Jaganshi asked his companions as they walked away from the cabin. “She was obviously lying. I didn’t even need the Jagan to see that!”

“We still aren’t breaking in, Hiei. These are humans, and we’re in Ningenkai, we can’t go exposing ourselves like that.” Yuusuke replied.

“Hn.” Hiei scowled and ran off on his own.

“Hiei!” Yuusuke called after him, worried about what he may do.

(Ha!) Youko snickered, (Our fiery little friend is still upset that our Kagome got the better of him, Kurama.)

‘You do remember we were affected by her reiki as well, ne Youko?’

(I believe you already know my position on the subject, kit.)

‘This is not the time, Youko.’ Kurama gritted out, knowing full well where the kitsune was headed on the subject if he let him continue. He didn’t particularly feel now to be the best time for his head to be filled with pornographic images.

(Oh, you are no fun, Kurama.) Youko complained in an affected whine, crossing his arms within their combined consciousness to keep up the act. He said no more, however.

“Don’t worry,” Kurama said aloud calmly, addressing Yuusuke, “He won’t go back there. He just needs some space and he’ll come back on his own.”

Yuusuke didn’t need to reply; both boys knew it was true.

Kuwabara didn’t hear the conversation. It simply fluttered in the air a bit before floating past him, unnoticed, as he lost himself in his own thoughts. He had definitely felt residual reiki coming from that cabin, but he had also been able to sense that the owner of it was not there and hadn’t been for awhile. The other girl staying there had known to cover for Kagome, however, so she had most likely called the cabin from elsewhere in order to warn the other girl. That meant that she would probably not be returning at all. The people that could tell them where she was, and how to find her, were unwilling to cooperate. They were running out of options.

Suddenly, Kuwabara interrupted whatever Yuusuke and Kurama were talking about to exclaim, “We need to talk to Koenma!”

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The three boys returned to their hotel room to find it already occupied by four other people. Botan, Shizuru and Keiko had returned to the room to wait for them, and Hiei had already come back as well.

“Sorry Yuusuke,” Botan said right away, “We couldn’t find those girls.”

“Eh, it’s okay, Botan. They probably wouldn’t have told us anything anyway.” Yuusuke replied moodily.

“Why not?” Keiko asked.

“We found the place she was staying, but they wouldn’t tell us anything. In fact, they completely denied that she was staying there, even though Kurama sniffed ‘em out.”

Botan turned her gaze in the direction of the window where Hiei was sitting, “Oh, is that what happened? Hiei wouldn’t tell us anything. No wonder, he must be brooding.”

The spiky-haired youkai cast his scowl on the blue-haired girl before closing himself in his room.

Botan paid no mind to the fire apparition as she spoke again, “Well, I guess I’d better go give Koenma-sama an update.”

“Hold it, Botan; I have a few questions for Koenma. I want to go with you.”

“Nani? You have questions for Koenma-sama, Kuwa-chan?”

“Yeah, Botan. A few things don’t make sense to me and I wanna see if the shrimp can explain some stuff to me.”

“What things?”

“Well, for one, how someone with that much reiki could be able to hide it when it’s not in use? How could a person like that exist without Reikai having constant tabs on them? Especially when they seem to fight youkai the same as we do, even though Inuyasha is probably a youkai as well.”

Suddenly, Kurama spoke up, “Botan, I seem to recall you saying before that you thought Koenma knew more than he was letting on. What causes your suspicions?”

Botan grew a little nervous. ‘Should I tell them?’ she wondered. ‘They will most likely find out eventually, so I might as well tell them, right?’

Making her decision, she finally spoke, “Well, I’m not sure, but it just seemed like Koenma-sama wasn’t telling me everything when he informed me of the reiki situation. I felt like he knew something that he wasn’t telling me. And after something Keiko-chan told me today, I think I may have an idea of what that may be, though I still don’t know all the details even if my assumptions are correct.”

“Something I told you, Botan-san? What’s that?” Keiko asked.

“Remember how you told me that Kagome-chan said she lived in a shrine?” Botan asked her. The girl nodded, and Botan continued, “Well, when the reiki was first picked up in Ningenkai, it was detected in the area of a Shinto Shrine in Tokyo. Koenma-sama sent investigators out to check out the priest of the shrine, but he was found to have extremely low levels of reiki, so we figured the shrine’s own reiki was interfering with pinpointing the other reiki. Now I wonder if Kagome-chan might be from that same shrine, and that’s the actual reason we couldn’t pinpoint it. If that’s the case, there should be some record of her powers somewhere in Reikai, yet we were completely caught off guard when she showed up on the monitors. It makes me wonder how much Koenma-sama might be keeping from us.”

Kurama waited to make sure she was done speaking before he responded, “This information, alone, gives me cause for the same suspicions. Please take us to Koenma so we can get some answers.”

A soft click and creak of a door opening was all that alerted them to Hiei’s renewed presence before he spoke. “Yes, onna, take us to him.” He was leaning against the frame of the open door, arms crossed, and a glare fixed to his face that threatened bodily harm if she should refuse.

Yuusuke and Kuwabara were staring at the girl expectantly now as well.

Botan started sweating bullets under the pressure that seemed to suddenly surround her. She looked to her fellow females for support, but found, instead, twin looks of pure curiosity. Shizuru and Keiko would insist on information being made available, as well. There was no use trying to get out of it, now. It would only delay the inevitable.

“Fine.” She agreed finally, “Let’s go talk to Koenma-sama.” Quickly, she transported all four boys to the Reikai offices.

End Chapter 9
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Words First Appearing in Chapter Nine:
itai: ow, ouch, etc.
iie: no
Jii-chan: Grandpa
Kagome-nee-chan: sister Kagome
nani: what
ano: um, uh, well, etc; used in speech to slow down a conversation so you can think
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A/N: Gomen nasai! It’s been sooo long, I know!!! Well, both I and one of my betas had some more computer problems(and the other one just wasn’t on for awhile), plus a friend of mine took his own life a couple weeks ago and I just didn’t feel like writing. I’m sure you can understand. So, anyway, here’s an update finally. Enjoy!

MM . org review replies:

Ryukotsusei: Glad you liked the last chapter so much. Hope I didn’t disappoint! Thanks again for being a loyal reviewer!

tbiris: LOL, yeah, definitely not a vacation ^____^ Thanks for the review.

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Kagome-reincarnation: Erm… sorry! Gotta end somewhere, though. : P Afterall, twas already 35 pages long! LOL Glad you liked the “not a vacation” part, and thanks for reviewing. ^___^

montrith: Damn… where to even begin…?! First off, I just hafta say that I LOVE your reviews.. I swear they get longer everytime and I looooove that! And I totally agree with your views on the Inu/Kags friendship thing; even if you have an alternate pairing, it should not start off with Inuyasha trying to kill Kags! She really is his first real friend, and he wouldn’t forget that so easily. Also, I’m glad you seemed to like that everyone got their part in the fight scene. I love fics where Kagome can kick some ass. ^____^

AnimeMoonlightGoddess: Heheheh.. I think you’re the third reviewer that mentioned the “not a vacation” part. Good, I hoped you guys would like that. The whole “No Vacation” title for the last three chapters was originally planned because I wanted to use that line. Thanks for reviewing, hope you keep coming back!

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