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The Impossible Mission	By : Vavalicious Category: InuYasha AU/AR > Het - Male/Female Views: 1931 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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I do not own Inuyasha or the characters performing in this fanfiction. All rights belong to the brilliant and wonderful Rumiko Takahashi

Chapter 13: The Mischievous Little Boy

On the way to the mall—

Miroku and Sango were walking side by side making their way to the mall. Miroku kept taking quick glances at Sango and she sensed that. She was beginning to get annoyed. "I can't believe this; why did I even decide to do this anyway?" Sango wondered. She glanced at Miroku who was grinning. Sango frowned and wondered why he was smirking like that, and then his eyes met hers. Sango quickly turned her head the other way hiding a slight blush that had suddenly erupted. "This is stupid. Why am I being shy all of a sudden?"

Miroku smiled widely again and began to start a conversation. "So, what are you dressing up for Halloween?"

Sango snorted and replied, "You're just going to have to find out later."

Miroku rolled his eyes. "Gees... Not much of a talker are you?"

"That's not it; I just don't waste my time talking with perverts like you."

Miroku then gave a cocky grin. "Then why did you even bother agreeing to accompany me, if you were going to be like that?" he asked. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say you're starting to have a liking to me."

Sango flushed again facing in front of her and coughed. "W-well, you don't know any better. How can you even think something like that?" she stuttered.

"Heh. I'm Miroku." He responded, patting her shoulder. Sango's face heated up. She turned her face toward him ready to say something nice for once until something or someone interrupted her.

"Miroku-kun!" a very familiar female voice called out.

"Y-Yukino-san," Miroku gulped.

Yukino is girl who has fallen in love with Miroku the first time they met. She is in the 9th grade. She often has two pigtails falling down on each side of her ears and they were always tied up with frilly coloured ribbons. Today it was the colour red which was matching her red top and black short skirt. Her breasts were a little smaller than Sango's, but she had a nice hour glass shaped body. Yukino was not someone afraid to speak her mind and she never leaves Miroku alone. She's always chasing after him. This was a surprise to him, because usually he would love the attention coming off from an attractive girl, but there was just too much of her. He was mostly used to women running away from him; so he wasn't prepared for this kind of load. Miroku tries all in vain to escape from her.

Yukino ran up to him and clung on to his right arm. "How are you Miroku-kun?" she giggled.

"I was fine before you showed up," he thought, chuckling awkwardly. "Um, okay I guess." As he scratched his cheek.

Sango frowned, turned around and continued down the street. "I'll leave you two alone; I have better things to do." Yukino and Miroku watched Sango walk away. Yukino was even happier and held on tighter to Miroku.

"Wait, Sango! Don't leave me!" he pleaded, trying to break free.

"No, no, it's alright, take your time. I'll just tell the others you got sidetracked," she replied, not bothering to even stop.

Yukino giggled some more rubbing her cheek into his chest. "So where were you headed?" she asked.

Miroku looked down at her and cringed. "I was going shopping before you showed up."

Yukino gasped. "Oh! Can I come with you, please?"

"No. Not today, now please let me go. I have to leave," he replied finally escaping her strong grip. He turned to her and smiled kindly even though he knew he shouldn't have. "See you around okay?"

Yukino pouted, putting her hands on her hips. "You always leave like that. I start thinking you don't like me."

Miroku winced. "It's not that. It just looks like you catch me when I'm busy; why don't you call me sometime." Then he ran down the street, before she could even answer.

Yukino crossed her arms and watched him escape down the road, leaving her on the street alone. "That Miroku; saying that, he never even give me his phone number," she sighed and walked away.

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It wasn't long once everyone met up at the mall in front of entrance 3. "Sango-chan!" Kagome waved, running over to her and Miroku. "We were running late and we still managed to beat you to it," she giggled.

Sango looked over at Inuyasha and his motorcycle. "Oh! I see you took another joy ride with Inuyasha eh?" Sango smiled.

Kagome blushed. "Uh, yeah..."

Sango giggled at her friend and walked over to Inuyasha. "Hey, this is so not like you, coming shopping I mean, you were bored as hell the last time we did this. What made you come?"

"Well its Halloween, ain't it? I just decided to look around for costumes and thought we could look around together. Is there a problem with that?" he snorted.

"No, no, just wanted to know," she replied, then walked back to Miroku. Inuyasha watched as everyone began to enter the mall.

Kagome noticed someone missing and looked back. "Come on Inuyasha," she smiled.

He felt his cheeks warming up. Just by her smile she was able to make him blush?

Kagome raised her eyebrow and stopped making her friends pass her. She ran back over to him and asked, "What's wrong? We're not going to treat you like a dog and leave you standing out here. Come," she chuckled, and tugged him by his hand in doors. He looked down at her soft hand and smiled. He closed his hand around hers and she felt a zap through her body. "He's holding my hand," she blushed. They entered the building still holding hands. Kagome stopped and faced him. "Inuyasha?"

Once Kagome's eyes reached his, his mind crossed. "Don't fall in love with Kagome," His mind warned. Suddenly he remembered what happened this morning with Kikyo and quickly let go with a cough.

Kagome pulled her hand to her chest and rubbed it. "What's going on?" she wondered.

"Kagome-chan, did something happen between you and Inuyasha outside?" Sango whispered.

Kagome blinked and looked away to Sango. "No." The two of them walked away from him and made a low argument about what happened outside.

Miroku peered over at his partner`s side making him growl in annoyance. "What?"

Miroku smirked. "I saw that. Did you two just hook up?"

Inuyasha snorted. "Yeah, right. Why would I do a thing like that with her?"

Miroku shrugged. "Well she's cute right?"

He grunted and glanced at Kagome and she glanced at the same time. They both blushed and turned away quickly. "Keh."

Everything went quiet and Inuyasha frowned. "Well aren't we going costume shopping?" he asked.

"Yeah," Sango nodded.

"Then let's go already." Kagome finished, with the same ticked off tone and stomped away.

"O-okay," they responded shakily.

"Now, why is she so pissed?" Inuyasha wondered as they followed after her.

"You got me. Maybe it's something you did," Miroku shrugged.

"Something I did?" he repeated angrily. "What on earth did I do?" he growled.

"I don't know but it's best not to talk to her when she's like that," Sango hushed.

Kagome had her fists clenched. "Stupid Inuyasha, he's such a jerk. If he has a problem with me, why does he even bother sticking by me all the time?" she thought. "Oh well, whatever let's put those thoughts aside and pay attention to more important things." She stopped when she found the costume store. "Here it is! Let's go in you guys," she pointed. Inuyasha raised an eyebrow.

"Well she sure turns her tune pretty quick," Miroku commented.

"That's Kaggie for you. Angry one moment, happy the next," Sango nodded.

Everyone separated to search for materials or ideas for their costume.

Sango wandered around the store looking for the right design. "Hm...Since I'm dressing up as a vampire slayer, I should try the vampire section." She passed through an aisle then went down another and paused. "Oh well, I guess I found it. That was pretty quick."

"This store is huge," Miroku remarked. He stopped when he saw Sango down the same aisle and decided to sneak up on her.

Sango had quickly turned and poked Miroku's chest with a stake. "I sensed you weren't too far away. Try to grope me again weren't you? I've done some of Kenpo, just so you know." Sango playfully circled around his chest where his heart would be.

"I see... Probably that's why you're so busty," he mumbled.

"What?" she responded, not completely catching that.

"Uh, nothing really. If I say that she really will slay me," he defended.

She smirked and withdrew. "Pretty impressive anyway huh?"

Miroku chuckled awkwardly while scratching his head. "Yeah I guess, never expected a thing," he replied. "It's true though, practicing martial arts, I should have sensed that myself."

Sango held the stake in her hands. "I'm dressing up as a vampire slayer or in your case a pervert slayer."

Miroku ignored the last part and grinned. "Oh like Buffy?"

Sango nodded. "Yeah, that's one of my favourite shows; it's really awesome." She continued to look for more stuff and Miroku watched her. She was really cute and quite different from the other girls, she just had this glow about her. "What are you staring at? You pervert," she snapped.

Miroku turned away scratching the back of his head again. "She's definitely not like the other girls I've met," he thought.

In the next aisle...

"I have no clue what I'm going to dress up as," Kagome spoke aloud. "No witches, monsters, fairies there's simply nothing that's catching my eye." She walked over to the next aisle but hid when she spotted the "jerk" looking at costumes.

"Hmpf!"

She heard him grunt. Kagome took a deep breath and passed the alley quickly and went to the next one. She exhaled and sighed. "This is stupid why am I hiding for? I haven't done anything," she pondered. (Inuyasha smirked when he sensed her pass by. She wasn't very good at hiding, especially once her scent blew right down to him. He chuckled lightly.)

"Damn!"

She heard someone curse. "Huh?"

"Argh! Damn, if I were a little taller I could reach it." The little boy tapped his head. "Of course, I can transform into something taller." He reached into his pocket searching for the object. He stopped when he sensed someone above him.

"Here you go, you wanted this right?" Kagome smiled.

The boy nodded and took the wanted object. "Thank you lady," The boy smiled in return, but it soon turned into a cringe. "Oh no, I can't hold it much longer." The boy hid his face and turned away. "Thanks again, bye." Then he broke off into a run. "Please don't turn around, please don't turn around," he begged in his thought, hoping that the kind lady didn't.

Kagome turned around and watched him run off. "What a strange little boy." She suddenly saw a pile of boxes moving around, by the wind he created, and realised it was going to fall on the poor boy. "Oh no, watch out!" she shouted, running to him and pulling him out of the way in the nick of time. The boxes she predicted fell over just missing them. Kagome sighed and looked down at the boy in her arms. "Are you okay?"

Abruptly, a puff of smoke surrounded her and the boy. When the smoke cleared away Kagome felt the boy`s shape was smaller. She was able to hold him in her arms completely and he now had orange hair instead of red, and large fluffy tail.

The boy tried to crawl out of her grasp. "Oh my, what did I just do?" she gasped.

"This is bad, real bad; now she knows, and she was such a kind lady too," The boy thought freaking out.

Kagome noticed Inuyasha running down the aisle toward her. She looked back down at the boy and quickly hid him behind her.

"Kagome, are you alright?" he asked, realising a pillar of boxes surrounding her.

"Yeah of course I am; I just had a little clumsy moment that's all," she giggled nervously. "Of course he had to show up."

The boy pressed himself against her back hoping the other person didn't notice him. "Why is this lady going through so much trouble to hide me?" he wondered.

"Why are you still sitting on the floor?" Inuyasha asked.

"Oh yeah, silly me." Kagome slowly stood up keeping her hands behind her back. "Better? See? I'm fine, no bruises."

He narrowed his eyebrows when he noticed that she was hiding something. "What are you hiding?"

Kagome frowned. "Why do you want to know, it's not any of your business." He looked at her with more suspicion. Kagome sighed. "Gees, you're so nosey. It's just my Halloween costume; I don't want anyone to see what I'm wearing until the night," she lied.

"Feh, fine." Inuyasha's nose detected something. "What? That scent it can't be. Sorry Kagome I'll catch you later. Don't leave the store by yourself." And with that he ran off leaving her.

"Well duh, Sango and Miroku are still here. Why is always so hostile?"

She pulled the kid out and held him in her palms. "Did I do something wrong?" she wondered staring into his green eyes.

"No. This is my true form," he stated sadly.

"What or who are you?" she asked.

"My name's Shippo, I'm a kitsune or other words a fox demon. I use fox magic to help disguise my identity," the kid, Shippo, explained. "You can scream at me now," he bowed waiting for it, but instead heard a loud squeak.

"Aww! You're so adorable!" she commented, rubbing his cheek with hers.

"Huh?" He pushed her face away and asked, "Wait, you still like me?"

Kagome nodded sweetly. "I've only heard about them in textbooks and novels, and they sound all ugly and mean but you're so adorable, I can hardly believe it anymore."

Shippo looked up at the happy girl and smiled. "What's your name?"

She opened her eyes and answered, "My name is Kagome."

Shippo nodded and pulled himself into a hug. "You're the first person to have said that to me. Can I stay with you?" he asked politely.

"Huh? Stay with me?" she blinked.

"Just for today."

Kagome's expression changed into a calmer one. "You mean you're alone?"

He shook his automatically. "No, I go to school and have friends, but I'd like to hang with someone who adores me for who I am today,"

Kagome didn't know how to answer. "I have friends with me right now. I did a lot to hide you from Inuyasha."

Shippo frowned. "Inuyasha? You mean that nosey guy that came here before?"

She nodded. "Yeah, so I don't know what to do."

"It's alright," he sighed as he leaped out of her hands. "I'll be off now, thanks for helping me." He was about to leave when Kagome called for him.

"Wait, Shippo, how are you going to leave suddenly looking like that?"

Shippo turned to face her and smiled. "The same way I came in of course." He fished out a small green leaf and placed it on his head. "Transform!" He commanded.

Another puff of smoke surrounded him and out came the same boy Kagome first laid eyes on. "See? Easy; bye Kagome." Shippo smiled and disappeared.

Kagome stood there and slowly began to smile. "What a funny little boy. I hope all goes well for you," she prayed. "Now then, let's continue searching," she suggested to herself.

Inuyasha walked around the whole store looking for that scent he caught earlier. He passed Miroku and then Sango, but no one that caused the scent. "I swore I just picked up the scent of a demon. I only know a few who live around here, but it belongs to neither of them. Other dangerous demons we've already taken care of. So, who was that?" he pondered for a moment, then shrugged it off. (Lol it was Shippo he was detecting, silly Inuyasha)

Later, everyone got their things and headed out the store, especially Sango who was carrying many bags.

"Gees, Sango aren't you prepared for the occasion," Miroku commented.

"I guess." She looked over at her other friends, mainly her best friend. "So Kagome-chan, I see you did buy something; not very much though." Sango pointed out.

"Yeah, I sure did but the rest of my costume is at home," she replied. Kagome had decided what she was gonna do, and remembered something she could use at home.

"What are you dressing up as anyway?" she asked.

"You'll just have to discover it at the dance," Kagome smirked.

"Oh, pretty secretive aren't you?" Sango snickered. "I wonder if you're going to be something mysterious."

Kagome shrugged. "Maybe,"

"Alright, alright; enough with this costume talk let's go eat." Inuyasha interrupted a little annoyed.

Kagome realised he didn't get anything. "What about you? Aren't you dressing up for the dance?"

He raised an eyebrow. "Dance?" he repeated.

"Yeah, you know it's being held in the Great Hall downtown. Our school booked it for us," Sango replied.

"Oh I thought you all planned to go trick-or-treating like little brats," he responded.

"Even though it wasn't that; why did you bother inviting Sango and I shopping if you weren't going to dress up yourself?" Kagome questioned and he froze.

"Well I... Just thought it would be great spending time together," and he hacked. "Anyway, why does it matter that I came? Am I bothering you?" Kagome shook her head. "Okay then." He paused then added. "Besides, I already have a costume planned out."

Kagome cocked her head. "Are you coming or not?"

He folded his arms. "Well, I'm not really into dances and stuff like that."

Miroku smacked his own head. "This guy has no clue what he`s saying; he's making this so confusing"

"Oh my God!" Kagome started angrily, making the others jump back in shock. "You're the most confusing guy I have ever met in my entire life; it's either you're going or you're not!" She shouted.

"I'll think about it. Now let's go eat; I'm starving." And he walked away.

Kagome shook her head and moved over to Sango. "Men. You can never get a straight answer. It's always "I'll think about it. Maybe. I don't know." It's very annoying," she sighed ceasing her anger.

"Yeah, true," she agreed.

"So...Tell me why it was so hard to give a straight answer?" Miroku spoke. "You know you're dying to go with Kagome anyway,"

Inuyasha snapped at him. "Shut up! I just don't want her thinking we're following her all over the place."

Miroku shrugged. "What's wrong with that? Kagome doesn't seem to mind." Then he left his side once they reached the food court.

Inuyasha glanced over to Kagome the snorted, "What are you all hungry for?"

They all scanned the restaurants in the food court. There were American fast food restaurants like Mcdonald's, A&W, Burger King and they also had a Subway. Also there were exotic ones, and their usual Japanese, and other Asian restaurants.

"Oh, I'm going for some A&W`s." Kagome declared.

"I'm having Subway, it's safer," Sango motioned.

"I'm not feeling for American food. I'll go get some Okonomiyaki (Japanese pizza)," Miroku responded.

"And I'm going for some Chinese," Inuyasha stated lastly.

"Okay, so we split up and meet at this table?" Kagome suggested.

"Yeah, that sounds reasonable," Miroku agreed.

"Alright then, we'll come back here," Sango marked. They looked at it sadly.

"Yeah, but by the time we come back for it, it might be taken by then," Kagome sighed.

"I guess I'll have to wait till one of you comes back," Inuyasha shrugged. Everyone eyed him in surprise.

"Really Inuyasha? You're sure about that?" Kagome asked. She knew that he was not a patient person, and suddenly he's ready to wait till one of them got back.

"Yeah, I'll sit out for now," he replied with a nod.

"I got a better idea," a voice spoke. They all looked up to find a red-headed boy sitting on their table. "I'll watch your spot for you."

Kagome smiled. "Shippo-chan!"

"Huh? Shippo?" The rest repeated.

"Kagome-chan, who is this little boy, you know him?" Sango wondered.

"Yeah, we just met a little while ago in the costume store," she nodded.

"It's very nice to meet all of Kagome's friends," Shippo smiled.

"Yeah, but since you two just met, why do you wish to help us guard our seats?" Miroku asked.

"Well Kagome was so kind to me so I wanted to return the favour."

The friends looked up at her. "What did you do, that he's so generous, Kagome?"

Kagome waved her hands in front of her. "This is something we can discuss later, let's go eat," she giggled awkwardly, and marched away with Sango following trying to get some answers out, knowing her friend, she was hiding something.

The only ones that were left were the men. "Well aren`t you guys going too?" Shippo wondered.

"Gee, I just don't think I can trust a squirt like you," Inuyasha snorted.

"Why not? And I'm not going to sit here and take that insult from you," Shippo glared.

"Oh what do you plan to do you little runt?" he smirked.

"Hey Inuyasha, why don't we leave the kid and just get our lunch?" Miroku spoke.

"No, no, hold on; I want to know what this kid can do," he replied.

Miroku shrugged. "Whatever man, you're on your own for this one." Then he left.

Shippo glared up at him and Inuyasha glared down. "I know you're not human," the dog-demon whispered.

"Same for you," Shippo answered, with the same tone.

"Tell me, why were you so quick to help out Kagome huh?"

Shippo folded his arms. "I just wanted to help a friend that's all."

Inuyasha sneered. "Oh... I get it, you like Kagome don't you?"

Shippo's nose turned light pink and he jumped into his face. "Shut up!"

"Ah-ha, I was right. Stupid, how can you expect Kagome to fall for a little shrimp like you?" he snickered slamming him down on the table.

Shippo peeled his face from the table and pointed in his face. "Well she certainly doesn't like you."

He flinched. "Why does that matter it's not like I have feelings for her."

Shippo jumped up. "Yeah right! That's why you came rushing out of nowhere as soon as the boxes fell, I bet you like her but she likes someone else."

Inuyasha held his head lowering his face to his and pinched his cheeks. "How's it that you know so much of this?"

Shippo wriggled out of his grip and laughed. "Ah-ha, I got you back didn't I?"

The annoyed agent knocked him on the head.

"Ouch!" he yelped holding his head. "That hurt!" Inuyasha snorted. "You're always calling me the runt, but the real runt here is you. You're a half-demon aren't you? I can smell the human in you," Shippo smirked. The hanyou raised his fist ready to strike him again. Shippo opened his mouth wide and started to cry loudly causing a crowd to stare.

"Oh my goodness! That man's beating on that child! What a jerk. Abuser of children!" The young woman shouted throwing a paper cup at him.

Inuyasha jumped back dodging it. "You brat, you set me up!"

Shippo grinned. "Now watch me everyone!" He alerted. "Fox magic!" A puff of smoke appeared and the kid disappeared.

"Oh my, where did he go?" the woman asked.

"He's a little magician and at his age too." Another parent clapped.

"Dammit! Where did that brat get to now?" The dog-demon growled. "Huh?" He noticed a cup on the table which wasn't there before. "He's a shape shifter." He noted to himself, and cracked his knuckles, then swiped his hand at the cup. The cup dodged his hand and the crowd's eyes widened. The cup transformed back to Shippo's false form.

"What? That was so cool?" A kid commented with a cheer.

"It was very good of you to figure out my disguises, hehehe."

Inuyasha snorted. "You don't know who you're dealing with, kid."

Shippo smirked. "Let's play!"

Kagome and the others arrived with their lunches and paused when they saw Inuyasha grabbing Shippo and bonking him on the head repeatedly. "Learn your place, shrimp!" Shippo held his head cushioning each hit.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome shouted. The two looked at her. "What do you think you're doing with Shippo? He's a boy for crying out loud!" The hanyou dropped the kit and Shippo moved to her.

"Yeah he was being mean to me and never wanted to get his lunch. He stayed here to pick on me," he whined.

"Why you little-" he growled.

"Enough! Instead of getting food like everyone else, you decided that it would be best to beat the kid to death? Gosh you're such a jerk!" she glared, setting her tray down. Shippo stuck out his tongue when she looked away.

He grimaced. "Well do you guys have any idea what this brat really is?"

"Yes, yes I do actually," Kagome responded, and went quiet. "Wait a minute, does Inuyasha know about Shippo's true form?" The agent had about the same thought about her did she find out what Shippo really was? He relaxed and sat down.

"Well aren't you getting any food?" Miroku wondered.

"No, I suddenly lost my appetite." He answered, with a snort and watched Kagome hand some of her food to Shippo. "I hate that little runt," he thought.

They finished eating and said their goodbyes to Shippo and left the mall. Sango glanced at Kagome then to Inuyasha and smirked; she felt like teasing the two for a bit. "So Kagome," She started, moving closer to her.

"Yeah?" she replied.

"Have you found a date to the dance?"

"Huh?" Kagome felt her face getting warmer she glanced quickly at Inuyasha and begun. "Well...I..." Inuyasha heard the conversation and took quick glances at Kagome waiting for her to answer. "Well beside from Kouga, who's been asking my over and over. I don't think I have a..." She kicked a pebble in front of her then frowned. "Why are you asking me that? Do you have a date?"

Sango coughed. "Yeah right."

Miroku grinned. "I wouldn't mind going with you."

Sango blushed by his sudden proposition. "Uh- I don't do the that sort of thing, I find it too typical."

"Aww come on Sango, he asked you nicely. Why don't you go with him?" Kagome encouraged.

"Yeah, this is coming from the same person who refuses just to ask Inuyasha. If you think I'm gonna go with that pervert, you've got another thing coming!" she blurted.

Kagome and Inuyasha looked at each other and blushed. Kagome turned away and whispered. "Uh... S-Sango, y-you don't know what you're talking about; besides, he may not even come," She said even more softly, hoping he couldn't hear her, but he did.

"Well..." Inuyasha initiated. "If it's for someone who can't find a date. I guess I can help with-"

Kagome cut him off and shouted, "Hey I can so find a date!"

He snickered. "Yeah, this is coming from the person who can't even ask a 'certain' guy for a date, even if it`s just for a dance."

Kagome frowned. "He's toying with me, fine. I can find a date and I'll prove it."

Miroku stepped in and patted her shoulder. "Kagome-san, this is the way Inuyasha's asking."

The distraught hanyou glared at him and growled. "Shut the fuck up already! I have no intention on being Kagome's date, not ever!"

Kagome shrunk feeling a sudden weight crushing her heart and Miroku smacked his head. Inuyasha sensed an uneasiness from their entire group, especially from Kagome. He realised what he yelled out and turned his attention toward her. He could tell he hurt her feelings. "Kagome I...uh...I didn't mean-" he stuttered.

"It's okay, I wasn't expecting you to. If you remember I had made a bet to find my own date and I figured it wasn't going to be you," she giggled lightly, and walked passed him.

"Kagome-chan..." Sango wanted to comfort her but she turned and smiled.

"Let's go." Even though she smiled they were able to see she was either angry or lonely. They agreed and followed.

It was a much quieter voyage back and someone had to break it. Kagome was still ahead of them and didn't even dare to take a glance back.

"Do you think she's mad?" Inuyasha whispered.

"What do you think? you just blew her off," Sango answered in anger. "You're an idiot when it comes to women aren't you?" He cringed.

"Heh, you're realising this now? Inuyasha's such a big shy puppy dog and doesn't know what to do or say. Oh and just for the record, he really does intend on going to the dance. So all that mumble, jumble you heard earlier was just a load of crap," Miroku explained.

Inuyasha struck him on the head. "Shut up!"

Sango wanted to burst out laughing, but held it back. "That's so cute; who would have thought the big and tough Inuyasha would fear dating women?"

He blushed. "Y-you don't know what you all are talking about." He turned away and noticed Kagome still ahead of them, head slumped. He felt a lump in his throat and swallowed. What could he do to cheer her up? He hated seeing her like this.

Kagome sighed once more. "Uh! What's the matter with me? Now I'm ruining our outing because of my emotions. I have to change this awkwardness back to its normal state," She thought.

"Kago-" Inuyasha began, but Kagome lapped over his voice, spun around and spoke.

"Hey, guys, I'm sorry for doing this to you," She smiled, widely as possible. "Come on let's do something. I'm fine." They all blinked in unison.

"Are you sure, Kagome?" Sango spoke.

She nodded. "Of ocurse, I'm totally fine. Let's go get some ice cream," she suggested.

The others looked at each other then back to her, she was grinning even bigger. "Uh...Yes we definitely should take her offer," Miroku mentioned nervously. His partner nodded.

"That smile always freaks me out," She smiled awkwardly in return. Kagome turned away and lead the way. Everyone relaxed and followed her. (Does anyone recognize that scene from the anime? )

Once they got to the ice cream store they all chose their favourite flavours and left the café. Sango had strawberry, Miroku had caramel, Inyasha had vanilla and Kagome had chocolate. They reached a bench near a water fountain and sat down. The pervert, the toughie, the flimsy, and the jerk, in that order. It was still quiet besides the sounds of the water sprinkling and licking.

Kagome lavishly licked her scoop deep in thought. "Oh boy, this day is certainly going well. Inuyasha must think I'm a complete fool."

Inuyasha bent over and watched her. "She's still thinking about what I said? She certainly knows how to hold a silent grudge."

Sango noted this awkward situation and coughed. "Um, well Kagome-chan; you're taking in that ice cream pretty well."

Kagome woke up and registered what she said, she looked around at everyone, blushed, stopped licking and looked down shyly. "Sorry for being rude." She heard a snort from beside her.

"Why are you apologising all day for?" The jerk wondered.

Kagome looked up at him. "Well Sorry," she apologised, for apologising all the time.

He growled. "Enough with that!"

Kagome placed a hand to her mouth. "Oops, so-"

He grasped her hand stopping her from say the word again. "Kagome, you don't have to apologise. If what I said hurt your feelings today, I'm sorry." She held her breath. Everyone else backed away after hearing that. He frowned. "What?"

Miroku swallowed. "You just apologized, you rarely apologize." He mentioned.

"Yeah, I don't know you as long as the pervert, but I know apologising is a hard task for you." Sango added. "Wow Kagome has power to bring out your soft side."

"Hey!" Inuyasha coughed licking his cone.

Kagome blushed once more forgetting her ice cream and it began to drip over her fingers. "Yuck!" She flicked her hand and held the cone away from her.

"Here," the hanyou insisted, offering a napkin.

"Oh! Thank you," she smiled and wiped herself clean then continue licking.

Miroku snickered softly but his buddy heard. "Miroku shut your trap!"

He raised his hands innocently. "I didn't say anything."

Sango began talking to Kagome about the little boy. "So... Kagome how did you and that little boy meet? I told you I never forget." The boys turned their attention to the new subject and joined in.

"Oh um... I saw him struggling to reach something, so I went over and got it for him," she answered simply.

"That's all?" she nodded.

"Yup."

Sango became suspicious. "There must be more than that." Sango was going to ask another question, but something zoomed passed them and bounced off Inuyasha's head making him plant his face into his ice cream and it sat in Kagome's lap and *poof.* A puff smoke was created. "Eek!"

Everyone coughed and Inuyasha turned to her still with cream all over his face. "Kagome are you- Huh?" He watched as the little red-headed boy hugged her. "You..." Shippo grinned at him.

"Hi Shippo," Kagome greeted. "You pop out from anywhere," she giggled. "Literally," She whispered.

"Yes, you do seem to show up when it's convenient," the hanyou sneered. "Are you following us?"

Shippo cringed. "Uh..."

"Are you ever going to stop teasing him?" Kagome wondered.

"Yeah, you should worry more what's on your face than me," Shippo added.

"Huh?" The others snickered as Inuyasha wiped his face clean. "Keh," he snorted, eating what was rest of his cone.

"How old are you, Shippo?" Sango asked.

Shippo turned to her. "I'm 7."

Sango raised an eyebrow. "7? And you roam around the city by yourself? Don`t you have parents that would worry about you?"

Shippo looked down sadly and quickly snapped out of it. "Of course I do! They're just-- Far away right now."

"Far away; they're travelling?"

He nodded. "Yeah, for a while."

"Then who are you staying with now?" Miroku cut in.

"Uh-oops now what do I say?" Shippo pondered. "My aunt." He quickly replied.

"Oh! It's just strange that she lets you come downtown by yourself," Sango mentioned.

"Sango, many kids nowadays venture around the city with or without parental consent," Miroku noted. "Why, we have many cases of children being-"

Inuyasha threw his ice-cream cone at his head. Miroku winced and looked back to him. Asking with his eyes "What did I do?" His partner answered with eyes at him and he nodded finally realizing. The two girls gaped at Miroku confusingly and he heated up. "Uh... I just watch a lot of news about children roaming around Tokyo and getting attacked by criminals, thanks to irresponsible parents," he coughed.

"Yeah, Miroku has quite an obsession with the news, sometimes it gets a little annoying," Inuyasha included. Miroku chuckled, scratching his head.

Sango raised an eyebrow at him. "There's something fishy going on between these two and I'm going to find out," she promised, and looked away.

"So, did you eat Shippo-chan?" Kagome asked.

Shippo looked back up at her. "Yeah I did," he nodded, holding his tummy. "Okay, good," she smiled.

Inuyasha simply watched the mischievous brat in wonder. "Staying with his aunt huh? Demons may have other family members, but they usually don't accept other demons into their home unless one of his parent's is human, but he's a full demon cub I can smell it; not only that, but I don't smell any other kitsune in this city. So how can he be staying with his aunt?" He continued to watch the kit talk around with everyone and he was simply beaming with joy, but the hanyou titled his head. There was something strange about the kit he seemed a little too joyful, like he was missing a part of him before.

"Inuyasha?" a voice spoke. He turned to Kagome. "Are you okay? You seem out of it," she contemplated.

"Oh! Yeah, nothing, nothing I'm fine," he coughed and turned away from them.

"Okay." They responded.

Shippo blinked at him in wonder. "wonder what got into him?"

Later...

"Bye Shippo!" They all waved except for Inuyasha who only gave a snort.

"See you around and please be careful alright?" Kagome cautioned.

"Oh please, I can take care of myself," he grinned and waved back.

Inuyasha narrowed his eyes when he detected something from Shippo. He noticed his grin was missing something yet again. There was certainly something wrong with the little kit. He seemed lonely? Was that it?

"So now what?" Miroku started.

"Well its 2:45, we still have a full day," Kagome noted.

"It's going to be hard with all the bags we're carrying," Sango added holding the couple of bags she got from the store.

"You're right; the smart thing we could do is go home, put away our stuff and do something later," she suggested.

"We can but where should we meet?" Sango responded.

"We could just call each other later and see if we're not too busy." She replied.

"Okay then; is that all right with you two?" Sango asked.

The agents looked to each other and nodded. "Yeah, sure."

Kagome smiled. "Great, so I'll be going now."

"Me too, see you guys later." Sango waved.

Kagome began to walk away until Inuyasha, of course, stopped her. "Wait, Kagome; it'll be easier if I give you a lift?" he motioned.

"But Sango, I feel so bad. I always get the easy way out, and she and Miroku have to walk. She has more bags than I do," she replied.

Sango laughed. "Oh, Kagome, it's so like you to worry, but I'll be fine, really. I'm not alone I have Miroku with me, right?" she reassured, looking over to Miroku.

"That`s right," he nodded. Sango lightened up a bit but turned away. Kagome then understood. "Ohhhhh, okay, I see," she sniggered.

"What?" Sango reacted.

"Nothing, I'll call you later then," she answered, and walked away with Inuyasha. Miroku looked at Sango. "Shall we go?"

"Yeah, but don't get the wrong idea, okay?" she huffed, and walked passed him. Miroku smirked and followed.

Inuyasha and Kagome made it to his motorcycle and he pulled out a helmet for her. She was ready to put it on, but held it to her chest. "Inuyasha?" she started.

"Wha?" he responded setting his motorcycle.

"Are you worried about what happened earlier today?" she asked.

He stopped what he was doing and looked at her. "Huh?"

Kagome rested her bottom against his bike and looked down at the helmet. "You know, what happened when you met up with me."

His face hardened. "She's talking about when she was attacked. Of course I'm worried about that," he replied. "You have no idea how important that was."

Kagome raised an eyebrow. "Important; what is he talking about?- So is that why you always drive or walk me home? You're worried about my safety, aren't you?"

He realised where she was getting at. "Is she figuring out who I am? Darn right I`m worried about your safety, you have no idea."

Kagome looked back at him. "But why? How does it affect you?" she questioned.

He sighed and looked away from her. "You're just a person that attracts danger and it's hard to ignore it. You're someone I don't want to get hurt," he admitted. It was true not only because he was assigned to, but he couldn't endure if something happened to her. She's more important than he thought. Kagome reddened. "So tell me Kagome, do you know who that guy was?" he asked.

Kagome bit her lip and looked from side to side warily. "Well I...I don't know him but..." she paused.

"But what?"

Kagome looked straight into his eyes and held her hands together. She learned she could trust him; she needed to talk to someone about this 'person' and she finally found the person. "Inuyasha, there's something I need to tell you, and I trust only you, you're the only person in the world I'm revealing this to. I haven't even told Sango this."

The agent was all ears, he felt glad that she trusted him like this. It was too bad that it made him feel guilty about keeping something away from her. "Tell me Kagome, tell me everything you know," he insisted holding her clasped hands. Kagome nodded.

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