InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Of Treasure and Firends ❯ Most Mysteries Solved, But Some New Ones Too! ( Chapter 6 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]
**WARNING** There may be a talking animal if the next few chapters. Not the purple-dinousuar-who-must-not-be-named kind, a different one.

On with the story!

*********IN THE TUNNEL*********

Kagome, Suzume and Shippo walked down, and down, and down, and down, and down, and down a never ending hole. They kept walking until they came to the silver door. It was left open as the other had been. Walking through, they stared at the rooms.

Kagome looked confused. "Someone can live in this heat?!" She was sweating bucketloads. Her usual school uniform she always wore to the Fuedual Age was soaked.

Suzume perched on the nearest bookshelf. "This is where the Guardian of the treature we seek studies. She sleeps in that room over there." He pointed a feather at a large tampestry with a wintery scene stiched on it.

Walking over, the miko pulled the over-sized rug aside to reveal a huge, recently polished steel door. She turned the handle and pulled back, hard. Inside, it was like a winter wonderland. The breeze was so cooled, it froze her sweat right where it was.

Shivering, she closed the door as quickly as posible. She then turned to the embarassed bird. "Oopys...Wrong one..." Kagome went into B.P.H.O. (Biting People's Heads Off) mode at that cament. Diving at her unforturnet fowl, only succeeding to knocking a bookcase over.

"What about the treature and Inuyasha?" Shippo piped in right before Kagome could go even more crazy with anger.

The female teen stoped midjump and blinked. "Oh, yeah..." Changing moods quickly, "Suzume, where is the treasure?"

Theservent looked releaved at her sudden mood swing. "Behind that door over there I think."He nodded to the door Inuyasha and company had gone through.

Kagome raised an earbrow at him. "You think?" She stepped toward him slightly.

The bird backed away as best her could. "One can never be sure of these things." Holding his wings up in front of him to pretect himself, he backed into a wall.

She walked over to the indicated door still steeming. Opening it cautiosly, she peeked in. Gasping, she through the door open wide to reveal Inuyasha, Miroku, and Sango playing in the treasure. She stared at them with her hand over her mouth in surprise of what they were playing in.

While all this was going on, the shadowy figure had been watching. Now he stepped into the light.

*********What Had Happened When Inuyasha and Co. First Walked Into the Treasure Room*********

Miroku, Sango, and Inuyasha stared at the...(Finally revealing what the treature is...)[Quew Drum Rool] mountains of candy before them in awe. Choclate, sugar, lolipops, all the sweet things ever created in all of history were there. And, surprisingly, there were no ants or mice!

"It's amazing!" sango exclaimed, wided eyed as the rest of them. She then felt something brush against her buttox. Turning her head, she saw Miroku reaching for a choclate in a nearby pile, convenyently closer to her butt. Glaring at him, she hit him on the head with her fist. She didn't want him ruining any candy, mind you. ^.~ All the while he was screaming about only wanting choclate and not meaning anything by it.

The Guardian laughed slightly at the two. Inuyasha tapped her on the should. "Can we...uh..." He looked embarassed about something.

She seemed to know what he wanted. Smiling she replied, "Of course, Inuyasha-san. Have fun!" She winked at him and closed the open wooden door. Turning to Miroku and Sango, "You may join Inuyasha-san if ou wish."

They looked at her questioningly. She sighed and pointed to a 7 foot tall latter. There eyes followed her raised hand. Inuyasha stood on the diving borded attached to the latter in nothing but the kitty & smily face boxers Kagome had gotten him for 'Kurisumasu.' He dived. When he surfaced from the candy pool, he noticed his friends holding signs with numbers on them. Miroku's 9; Sango's 9; and the Guardian's 10. Sweetdropping, he waded over to them.

"Thanks, I guess," he said as he jioned them.

"The Guardian of the treasure we seek, we can really do that?!" Miroku seemed confused.

She blinked. "Of course you can. And please, intruders, call me Eri. It is much simpler. Eat all you like as well. It never runs out." She smiled at them.

After a few more 'misinterpritations' between Miroku and Sango, getting Eri to jion them, and some other things that I do not wish to put, it turned into what Kagome opened the door to.

*********After the Shadowy Figure Came Into the Light**********

"Master!" Suzume cried, souring swiftly over to him and landing at his....er...feet. "What are you doing here?!"

"You didn't return in the set amount of time, so I can here myself. It seems someone carelessly left the gate open." He turned to the other people there. They were looking at him wide eyed. All except for Eri. She was smiling and bowing slightly to look into his eyes. "What?"

Everyone was staring at him. Indeed, they had a right. For there in front of them was a powerful ant demon talking to a talking crow. (Hey, Myouga's a talking demon flea, so why not an ant?)

"Ari-sama, I think they are surprised to see a demon ant with crows for servents. Do not mind them." She reached into the folds of her clothes and produced the key Shippo had stolen. "Here is what you have come for. Please leave now. I have other things to do."

The insect bowed his head in acknoledgement. "As you wish, Eri-sama. As you wish." Climbing onto Suzume's back, he indicated for his servent to go. The crow circled his friends once, dropped something into Kagome's outstreached hand and left.

Opening the bottle where she kept the Shikon Jewel fragments and put in the one he had dropped into her hand.

Eri bowed her head, letting her copper bangs cover her eyes. "You must leave now, my guests." Before they could ask how, antoher door by the wooden one opened. "This elevator will take you close to your village. It can only fit 4 people at a time, so one of you has to wait."

Miroku raised his hand to volinteer but was bonked on the head by a boomerang for it. Everyone but Eri was surprised when Inuyasha stepped forward.

Everyone, but Inuyasha of course, crowded into there exit, talking about what had happened.

When they were gone, Eri handed him a fresh outfit. She left to give him some privesy

After he was done changing, she came back holding a bottle of something. She just smiled and handed it to him. "Sesshomaru-sama said that you might need this to get the shine back in your hair. It always works on him." She tugged at his outfit to make sure it fit snuggly. Smiling, she gave him a bag full of food. "You know I get lonely down here. Thank you for letting me meet your friends. You did very good acting. Just like your Grandfather. Miss Kagome seems to be a fine match for you. The same goes for that monk and demon hunter."

Inuyasha blushed slightly. "Uh..Thanks. I know your a good judge. You DID set up most of my ansecters." He smiled, (yes, smiled. The GREAT INUYASHA SMILED! The world must be coming to an end!) at her.

As the elevator came back down, "It's great having you for a Gardian." He hopped into the same enclosure and was gone.

But he heard her murmered reply. "It's never boring watching over your family, that's for sure."

Owari.