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Chapter 2 – Bratty Human Children, a Screaming Baby and an Adorable Half Demon

Part 1 - Discovery

Kagome would never admit it, because she knew how unsafe and stupid it was, but she had fallen asleep in the hot spring. It wasn't until she hear Kirara's soft growl, that she even realized that she had fallen asleep.

"What's wrong Kirara?" Kagome asked the sleep still heavy in her voice. Kirara only response was to growl again, than to morph into her larger form. Kagome quickly scrambled out of the spring, and into her cloths. Jumping onto Kirara after the demon motioned, for her to; they took off flying towards where they had set up camp.

000

"What is he?" The young girl asked the boy next to her. She had awoken in a strange place, in strange clothing much too large for her. The first thing she had done upon awaking was scream, a lot.

That had awoke the others she hadn't realized where around her. The strange boy in the red komo had awoke first looking at her with large scared eyes before jumping into the trees. She could still see him up there, but he hadn't said a thing, and even when she had called out to him, he would not come down. The next to awake was the baby-something, that they were now leaning over looking at, it was still screaming at the top of his lungs.

The boy had awoke last.

"What?" He asked looking around confused.

"Who are you?" He asked talking over the screaming baby.

"Who are you!" Sango asked back defensively, the boy stood up realizing his clothing were too large, he quickly started fixing the large material so it would fit him. Sango decided to do the same thing. As she did it she noticed that her mother's hiraikotsu on the ground next to her.

"Mother!" She screamed out into the wood ignoring the boy for how, no one touched the hiraikotsu but her mother, so she must be around.

"Mother!" She screamed out again, when she got no reply she sat down frustrated.

"Do you know where we are?" The boy asked sitting down next to her, they both ignored the baby who was still screaming.

"No, do you?" She looked at him, he seemed nice enough, but she knew enough not to trust strangers.

"No… some form of magic must be at work…" The boy told her trying to sound grown up. He thought he was doing a good job too.

"There is no such thing as magic!" The girl informed him, she couldn't stand know-it-all, which she of course was not.

"There is too!" The boy shot back.

"No way!" She shot back, forgetting she was scared.

"Fine how did we get here!" The boy glared at her.

"I don't know… maybe demons did it. I'm a demon hunter you know." She informed him.

"You look a little small for a demon hunter." The boy pouted at her, "And just so you know I'm a monk!"

"A monk? Monks are old and bald." She pointed out, than quickly added,

"Well I am a demon hunter, and my name is Sango." She held her hand out for him.

"Well I am too a monk, and my name is Miroku." He shook her hand, not sure if that was what one was suppose to do with girls, his Father always kissed girls he met. But Miroku wasn't about to kiss a girl, that was gross.

"Who is that?" Miroku asked motioning up at the boy in the tree.

"I don't know, he just jumped up there when he woke up, he had strange ears."

"Strange ears?" Miroku asked.

"Yea… kinda like dog ears." Sango didn't know how else to explain them.

"Not human than, maybe you should demon hunt him." He smirked at her.

She just growled at him, the looked up at the tree,

"Boy or demon or whatever, come down."

The boy, demon or whatever, did not say anything to them, just looked away.

"Oh, don't be a baby! Come down!" Miroku shouted. That seemed to just scare the demon more, who jumped higher into the trees.

"I think you scared him." Sango accused.

"No, I think your face hurt him." Miroku mocked.

"That doesn't make sense stupid!" Sango glared at him, then looked towards the screaming baby.

"He is a raccoon demon." Sango informed Miroku.

"No, he isn't." Miroku told her.

"Yes he is I would know I'm a demon hunter!" Sango shouted making the baby scream even louder.

"No, he is a fox demon, I have seen raccoon demons before stupid!" Miroku shouted back.

000

Kagome wasn't ready for what she found at the campsite, two children arguing and a screaming baby, her friends no where in site.

"What is going on?" She asked the shouting kids catching them off guard they had been too busy arguing. They stopped suddenly and turned looked at her with large eyes, scared of the newcomer, but than Sango noticed an old friend.

"Kirara!" The girl jumped forgetting her argument running to the demon hugging her around the neck, the demon looked confused, but allowed the girl to hug her, turning into her smaller self.

"I thought you were a demon hunter!" The boy asked sarcastically. She glared at him,

"Kirara isn't a demon stupid! She is a demon hunter, just like me!" Sango shot back.

"Is too a demon! Look she had two tails!" Miroku pointed.

"So!" Sango shouted getting angry again.

Kagome finally had enough,

"Will someone tell me what is going on!" She shouted at the children.

Part 2 – What to do

It took a while for Kagome to realize that the children where Sango and Miroku and the crying baby demon that she now held in her hands was Shippo. It didn't help that Sango and Miroku would not stop arguing about every little thing, or that Shippo kept screaming.

Because of all this it took a while to realize someone was missing.

"Where is Inu-Yasha?" She asked Sango and Miroku interrupting them in the middle of an argument over wither or not the hiraikotsu would come back if you threw it. Sango was picking up the hiraikotsu getting ready to throw it.

"Sango! What are you doing put that down!" Kagome scolded her taking away the weapon, though she doubted the girl could have thrown it she could barley pick it up. But she knew that children were not supposed to play with weapons, at least she hadn't decided to play with her sword. Kagome also noted that Tetsusaiga was lying discarded on the ground, Inu-Yasha never went anywhere with out it.

"Give it back!" Sango demanded reaching for the weapon, "Only Mother is allowed to touch the hiraikotsu!"

"Well that means you aren't allowed to touch it either doesn't it?" Kagome asked as more of a question than a statement but it shut Sango up.

"He is in the tree." Miroku answered her question, pointing up at the red blurred figure. He than stuck his tongue out at Sango, figuring he had won the argument, because she never proved that the hiraikotsu could come back. Kagome ignored them both.

"Inu-Yasha come down." She called up to the trees. She got no response, the boy only jumped higher.

"Inu-Yasha! Come down right his minute!" Kagome tried again, the boy who could no longer jump any higher just ignored her. Kagome was tempted to scream 'sit boy' but kept her mouth shut, Inu-Yasha was high up and was just a little boy, she didn't want to hurt him. Kagome decided another approach.

000

Twenty minutes later she had Miroku and Sango quiet eating ramen, and Shippo calmed down hand feeding him noodles. Shippo was a cute baby when he wasn't screaming, and was talking baby talk at her as she feed him.

The food had also brought Inu-Yasha down; he was now right above them. He had slowly moved down the tree to the smell of food, when he was close enough, Kagome bribed him,

"Inu-Yasha, if you come to the ground you can have your share of ramen noodles." She knew how much he loved ramen, the boy however did not move.

"Come on Inu-Yasha I know your hungry." Kagome tried again, waving the noodles just out of his grasp. The boy went to grab them, but she quickly pulled them out of his grasp,

"You have to come to the ground if you want to eat." Kagome told him, the boy finally gave in dropping to the ground, but he looked like he was going to jump up again at any moment.

"Now stay on the ground ok?" Kagome asked before handing him the bowl. Inu-Yasha looked like he was going to bolt at any moment, but he nodded his head. He really wanted the food.

"Good." Kagome handed him the bowl, which he quickly started to eat. As he ate she looked him over. He was a cute kid, but she couldn't figure out why he was acting so timid, the Inu-Yasha she knew was never this shy, or scared. She wondered why he was in fact so scared, Sango and Miroku where in the same situation as him, and they weren't scared at all, it was weird to her.

Than of course there was the problem of what to do, something must have happened to change her friends into children, but she didn't have the slightest idea of what had happened or what to do. And it wasn't like she could go around and find a solution with 4 kids in tow.

Her only solution was to go back to Kaede's village and hope Kaede knew what to do. The village, however, was a 2 day journey, probably 3 with the kids. She was going to have a migraine by the time she got there…

Part 3 – The Journey Starts… Badly

Starting the journey turned out much harder than Kagome had expected. First she had to convince Miroku and Sango that it was ok to move. They both wanted to stay and wait for their parents, she had to lie to them and tell them their parents would know to look for them at Kaede's village.

Than she had to figure out what to do with all their weapons, the Tetsusaiga she ended up strapping to Inu-Yasha's back, after she made him promise not to draw it. Or at least he had nodded when she told him to promise, he hadn't spoke a word yet, and seemed terrified when Kagome approached with the sword. Kagome just couldn't figure out what was wrong with him. But at least he hadn't jumped into the trees again.

Sango's sword she strapped to her own back, she didn't trust the girl with it, she seemed to think weapons where play toys. Than of course the hiraikotsu and Miroku's staff she had to carry, because they were too large for the children, and she had to carry Shippo, who was either pulling on her hair rambling baby talk, or screaming his lungs off. She was rather laid down on the journey.

000

So needless to say 4 hours into their walk, she was rather cranky, it hadn't helped that Sango and Miroku were constantly fighting about everything, and she had even had to break up a physical fight once. When they weren't fighting, they were picking on Inu-Yasha, they didn't seem to like the half demon, who had given them no reason to hate him.

"So what is he? A demon or a deformed human?" Sango whispered loudly to Miroku, Inu-Yasha sank back away from the two closer to Kagome. He liked the girl; she was nice and gave him food. She had even called him by his name, which no one had done since his mother had died several years ago. But he was still scared, human's were never nice to him, and they could be meaner than demons, he was worried she might be trying to trick him or something.

"I think he is a half demon." Miroku told her eyeing the demon.

"A half demon!" Sango had never seen a half demon, "Those demons are even worse!" At least that is what she had heard.

"Yea I know, but Kagome likes him… so he can't be that bad?" Miroku asked, he like Kagome she was nice, but he did not like demons or half demons. His father was always away dealing with them, and he hated them for taking up so much of his father's time.

"He is a demon so he is bad, lets kill him." Sango whispered, she had never killed a demon before, but she figured she had to start somewhere, and this half demon looked like an easy enough target.

Inu-Yasha just looked at them both with wide eyes his sensitive ears picking up their whole conversation that was enough for him, he took off running though the high grass that they were walking though, he was not going to stay around people who wanted to kill him, he wasn't stupid.

Kagome who hadn't been paying attention to the kids chatter, was surprised with Inu-Yasha took of running, but she couldn't allow him to take off, and was too tired to chase him, so she did the only thing she could think to do, she screamed

"SIT BOY!"