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Note: I have no clue where Shippou is in this... I keep forgetting to put him in. XD Uh... I'll just say he left everyone else to go and avenge his father... or something...

"So," Seiko said, adjusting her grip on the young InuYasha who was asleep in her arms, "what you're telling me, is that these three are all actually adults who got turned into kids?"

Miroku nodded, straightening Kagome on Kirara's back as she started to fall off again. "Yeah... well, Kagome was sixteen, anyway, close enough to an adult. I think it might have been Naraku that did this. He got the Shikon Jewel, but I could be wrong..."

Several hours had passed since Seiko had joined up with the monk. It was dark now, and after the kids had gone through their low-blood-sugar stage immediately following their sugar-high, they had fallen asleep.

Seiko yawned. "Why don't we just stop here for the night?" she said as she set InuYasha down on the ground.

Miroku agreed and pulled Kagome and Sango off of Kirara's back and set them on the ground as well. Kirara immediately curled up next to the kids and fell asleep.

After Miroku and Seiko had a small fire going and had been sitting next to it for a while, there was a rustling in the bushes. Out of them came a small, frog-like creature.

"Well, well," it said, "if it isn't Seiko the Psycho..."

"Jaken," she said, standing up. "What a... pleasant surprise. What do you want now? Another message to give me from your lord?"

Jaken scratched the back of his head sheepishly. "Well, not exactly, no..." he noticed the sleeping children. "...There's, ah, something you should see..."

Jaken led Seiko and Miroku a short distance away to where a young youkai was asleep against the tree.

"He's so... cute!" Seiko said, running over to get a closer look. "I want to keep him as a pet..."

Miroku stared at the little boy for a moment. "Is that...?"

"Yes," Jaken sighed, "that would be m'lord Sesshoumaru..."