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Brother's Keeper

 

Chapter 2

“Food for Fight”

 

The sun began to set on the day. Kagome was able to find some water, so she took the opportunity to wash herself and her clothes. Inuyasha and Miroku went to try to find something to eat, and Shippo took a nap on top of Kagome's backpack. After about 10 minutes, Miroku and Inuyasha came back to camp, but they were empty-handed. Kagome came out of her bath, put on another set of clothes, and hung her wet and clean clothes over the fire that was set up. She heard Inuyasha and Miroku talking, though “talking” would be an understatement. Quite frankly, it was an argument. They fought over whose fault it was that they came back with no food.

 

“Look here, you damn monk! We had plenty of opportunities to get some food, but you just had to be so picky about it!” Inuyasha howled at Miroku with a somewhat sarcastic tone at the end.

“Come on! You knew that we were not going to be able to eat an entire pack of wolves, you moron!” said the angered monk.

“Both of you, stop it now!” Kagome authoritatively intervened. “Besides, I have some food we can have that I brought from home.”

“Geez, Kagome! You think you could have told us sooner?” Inuyasha barked.

“Yeah! That news came to us just when we needed to hear it!” Miroku added with a heavily sarcastic ring to his voice.

“Knock it off! You two had already left before I had a chance to tell you,” Kagome replied, “This means, however, that I'm going to have to go right back home first thing on the morning so I can restock on some things.”

“Why didn't you stock up the first time you had the chance?” Inuyasha pointed out. All this yelling finally woke up Shippo from his very long nap.

 

Everyone was treated to instant ramen, rice balls, and water bottles to wash it all down with. Inuyasha, not surprisingly, nearly ate all the ramen that Kagome had. Everyone was fed, but no one else could have seconds. After spending the next couple of hours talking about the search for the shards, everyone agreed it was time to get some sleep. Inuyasha found a high tree branch nearby, Kagome rolled out her sleeping bag, and got out two more blankets for Miroku and Shippo. When the sun began to rise, so did Kagome. She was the only one up yet, so she had to be very careful not to make any loud noises. She packed up her sleeping bag, left behind some more rice balls for breakfast, and got herself prepared to leave. She took one last look at Inuyasha, and then, simply put, she started walking.

 

About an hour after Kagome left, everyone else woke up. They were all surprised to see Kagome gone already. Shippo noticed a note left right beside the rice balls. He handed it to Miroku, who then read it aloud:

 

“I'm sorry I couldn't say goodbye before I left, but I had to leave as soon as I could so I could come back as soon as I could. I shouldn't be too long. Hopefully I'll see you in time for lunch. Yours truly, Kagome.”

 

Everyone ate a rice ball or two before trying to decide what the group should do until Kagome returns. Inuyasha was campaigning for the group to move on. “We need to get as many shards as we can! Besides, Kagome will catch up. She'll probably bring the two-wheel whatchamacallit.”

“Give me a break, Inuyasha,” Miroku replied. “You can't find the shards unless Kagome tells you where they are. I agree that we must find the shards, but we must have the full group together. Speaking of which, does anyone know where Sango is? We haven't seen her in three days.”

“Why? So you can grope her and get your ass handed to you?” Inuyasha ccommented.

 

All of a sudden, both Inuyasha and Miroku got hit in the face with a rice ball, both coming from Shippo. “Serves ya right, you idiots,” Shippo said. “You should stop fighting over meaningless things and…”

 

POW!!!

 

Inuyasha punched Shippo right on top of his head, causing a massive lump the size of a cantaloupe to swell on him, and knock the little kitsune unconscious. Inuyasha commented, “Funny. It sounded hollow.”

 

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