AN: hehe…What can I say? I'm the queen of procrastination XP

Disclaimer: Yea, I'm familiar with the disclaimer…So what of it? .

Japanese Terms:

Matte: Wait

Tousan/Otousan: Father

(O)Niisan/(O)Neesan: Older brother/older sister

Daijoubu Ka: Are you alright?

Imouto: Little siter

Torrii: The red shrine entrance

Etou…: Umm…

Iie: no

Hai: yes

Doushite: Why?

Ikuzo: Let's Go

Houshi-sama: Monk

Baka: Stupid

…I think that's it…I hope?

Part 4 – Up The Mountains

"Matte..."

She looked to her right, then her left, and back.

Kagome narrowed her eyes as she gripped her ice cream cone tighter. it melted slowly until she felt it hitting her hand. She glared at it and dropped it on the ground.

Naraku and Kikyou turned to their sister with one of their eyebrow raised. Kagome...The sweet-tooth, ice-cream loving little girl just threw away a perfectly good ice cream.

"Guys..." She said, her eyes suspiciously averted to the right, "Someone's watching us," she said.

Naraku rolled his eyes. "Well...I'm not really surprised..."

"We're in the middle of a train station..." Kikyou drawled out.

Kagome pouted and shook her head.

"I mean...," Kagome muttered.

The sound of the train whistling, signaling a complete stop distracted their attention to the train in front of them. Otousan turned the page to his newspaper and nudged his head towards the train. "Ikuzo," he said simply as they followed after him.

"Matte," Kagome whined.

Her otousan turned to Kagome with a raised eyebrow. "Daijoubu ka Kagome-chan?" He asked the small eight year old.

"I have a bad feeling about this," she said raising her eyes to meet his. Her blue innocent eyes met with warm, yet knowing green eyes.

Naraku and Kikyou rolled their eyes, knowing where this was going as they both just stepped into the subway.

Her otousan sighed. "What is it Kagome-chan? Is it the boogeyman? Or is it Count Dracula?" He asked, emphasizing the mythical creatures name.

The five year old shook her head rapidly. "Neither," she whispered, slouching as if the word was taboo to say.

Onigumo leaned towards Kagome and placed his ear close to her mouth.

She whispered, "Dinosaurs..."

Onigumo, Naraku and Kikyou(who obviously heard) almost tripped in exasperation.

Onigumo sighed and stared at his youngest child with amusement and a bit overwhelmed. He knew this child was "special" to begin with. Starting with how she instantly trusted him the moment she saw him at the beach. Shaking his head, he picked Kagome up and stepped through the automatic doors of the subway just as everyone else went in. As the train started to depart, he took a seat next to Kikyou and Naraku. He stared at them darkly.

He turned to his youngest who was eyeing everyone warily. Onigumo shook his head. "Have you been watching the American movie Jurassic Park?" He asked her knowingly.

The little girl tensed. "Etou...iie..." She said slowly, averting her eyes away.

"Remember. The shadow people take little liars away from their bed..." He said

"I mean hai!" She exclaimed suddenly.

She then wailed so loudly that everyone on the bullet train turned to Onigumo accusingly. "I didn't mean to! Naraku-niisan and Kikyou-neesan said it was a funny movie! A-And I d-didn't wa-want to be left out!"

Onigumo turned his eyes towards Naraku and Kikyou who looked as if they were trying to appear as if they didn't know anything about this.

For a long time now, Onigumo understood that Naraku and Kikyou were both mentally older than Kagome, in more ways than one. In a sense...he turned to Kagome in a blunt, yet annoyance written all over his face...she lacked common sense. He knew he would have to come across people like these...but his child? His innocent, little Kagome?

With his other hand that was unoccupied, he grabbed Naraku around the neck and leaned towards his only son with a dangerously, gentle smile. "What's this about son?" He asked in annoyance.

"I-I don't know what you're talking about tousan," he hastily blurted.

Onigumo turned to Kikyou in a suspicious stare. She averted her eyes, beads of sweat dripping down her forehead. They both knew they were in deep shit...

Onigumo smoothed out Kagome's hair and tried soothing her a little bit. She was still a baby of the three. He sighed. Although she was advancing farther ahead in her martial arts, the child needed to learn how to mentally be tougher.

"G-Gomen ne tousan," she said wiping her eyes dry. She game him a toothy grin as he smiled back.

"Daijoubu Kagome-chan," he said as he placed next to him, "Just don't worry about dinosaurs boarding a bullet train okay?"

"Doushite?" She asked, blinking in confusion.

he winked at her and placed a finger against his mouth as if what he was about to tell her was a secret. "They're allergic to trains," he said, congratulating himself on his fib.

Kagome automatically brightened up and her composure straightened into one of happiness. "Then we're safe!" She exclaimed.

Onigumo nodded as he patted her head gently.

Naraku and Kikyou looked at one another for a second, then burst out giggling.

Onigumo's eyes turned to the two siblings with a sharp gaze instantly making them tense.

As soon as his gaze went back to Kagome, he smiled gently.

Turning to the window where the scenery flashed by, he felt a bit excited. They were heading towards the mountains of Osaka...

"Mitte! Mitte! I can see everything on this hill!" Kagome exclaimed as she stood on the hilltop of a meadow.

Naraku turned to his imouto with a raised eyebrow. He turned around and stared dully at the field of flowers she was looking at. "It's just a bunch of annoying flowers. That's not everything," he said turning around.

Naraku noticed that they were anywhere but a metropolitan area. His father had led them through the outskirts of a small town of Osaka. At first, they were traveling along a dirt trail with nothing but the farm view. Of course...there was a lot of mini stops where Kagome keep wanting to ride the cattle...She's a weird-ling, he concluded.

After an hour of walking through the dirt trail with only farm scenery and old barns here and there, his father had stopped in the middle of three paths. One path had more dirt trail, a second path was a forest, a third path was another dirt trail that falls forward as a downward slope. Of course...his father chose the forest. Naraku predicted as much.

Yet, walking in the middle of nowhere was putting its toll on the small Naraku.

He was hungry, tired, and full of annoyance for Kagome.

"But it's so pretty!" Kagome exclaimed as she turned around with Naraku.

He stared at her with a look of boredom. "Kagome...you think EVERYTHING is pretty."

"No, I don't," she replied.

As they continued walking, Naraku pointed to the mushroom to their left. "Is that pretty Kagome-imouto?" He asked her.

Kagome turned to the blue mushroom with red spots. Her eyes widen in excitement as she displayed a toothy grin. "Hai! It is!" She exclaimed as she ran over to it. "It looks yummy too," she inputted as she picked it off the ground.

Naraku's eyes widen as she neared the mushroom towards her mouth.

He quickly ran, grabbed the mushroom, and thrust towards the hill filled with pink lilies.

"Oi! What was that for?" Kagome asked, angrily.

"Now I can't eat it!"

"Baka," he said in a monotone voice before tagging along his otousan.

Again, they continued to walk.

One more hour into the forest...

"Old McDonalds had a farm! And on that farm, he had a-"

"Urusai Kagome!" Naraku and Kikyou exclaimed.

Two hours later...

"Mitte! It's so-"

"Urusai Kagome!"

Another hour...

"Niisan! Neesan! Look what I go-"

"Urusai Kagome!"

Another hour...

"My feet hurts..."

Kikyou and Naraku nodded in unison, for once agreeing with their imouto.

Suddenly, their otousan stops creating a domino effect between the siblings. Kikyou bumped her head against her otousan's leg, which in effect causes Naraku who was behind her bump into her backpack, then Kagome bump into Naraku's back.

They all fell on the ground rubbing their sore arse.

"Ittai," Kikyou said as he looked up at her tousan with a quizzical and tired look.

Their otousan turned to them with a suspicious smile. "We're here kids," he said calmly.

Kikyou turned to the direction that their otousan pointed to. They stopped in front of a long stone stair case...It was leading up to someplace higher above the dark clouds and deep within the mountains. They've been traveling through the afternoon, so the moon had already replaced the sun in the sky.

"Onegai... tell me this place have an elevator," she heard Naraku whining.

Otousan tilted his head to Naraku with that suspiciously fake smile. "Nope, we're climbing ALL... the way to the top," he said.

"Nani?" Naraku, Kagome, and Kikyou asked simultaneously.

An hour later...

Kagome panted as she stopped for a break. "How far is this place?" She asked, looking up at her otousan.

Onigumo turned to his youngest child with not as much as a glance. "Not much longer," he replied.

Two hours later...

"Y-You...guys go..." Kagome started as she placed her small hands on the wall beside her. "Go without me..." She finished as she plopped her butt down on the stairs. "I-I can't continue this...It's too long..."

Naraku and Kikyou turned to one another and then their eyes averted to their otousan. They attempted to give him the puppy-dog look.

is usually warm green eyes became steel.

Naraku and Kikyou had no choice but to resign and trudge forward.

Onigumo turned to his youngest with a feral smile. "Sweetie..."

"Hai?" She asked looking towards him with exhaustion. Only she doesn't understand the intensity and implication of his placating smile.

"If I leave you out here in the dark, won't you be afraid of the dinosaurs?" He asked.

Her eyes widened while her small frame stiffened. She was turning pale as a ghost. "Di-Dinosaurs?"

He didn't really want to exploit her weakness, but they had to get up there if they were ever going to get anything to eat. He hadn't really brought any food along this journey. Onigumo was pestered earlier why they were making this trip by his son, but he didn't want to mention it just yet.

"Hai..." He said slowly.

Kagome frowned. "Otousan. Why ARE we making this trip anyways?" She asked innocently.

Onigumo turned his head to the other two that was walking along the stairs. No. It wouldn't be fair to them if he only told Kagome.

"Well...It's a secret."

She looked at him skeptically. "Is it because we have no more electricity at our house and you have no more money to pay the bills?" She asked innocently.

Onigumo shook his head furiously, placing his finger against his mouth trying to signal for Kagome to no be so loud...

Too late... The other two heard.

Naraku and Kikyou miraculously came behind him, very close to his personal space, leaning forward suspiciously. Their gaze was becoming suspiciously dark.

"Yea otousan...Why ARE we making this trip, as I've asked so many times before?" Naraku pestered again with a twitch of his lips. He knew his son. It was a sign of irritation.

"Or is it the fact that the landlord threatened to kick us out of our house for not paying rent?" Urged Kikyou.

Oh...fuck...They're getting warmer.

Kagome gasped.

"Oh! Was it because of those men in black that ca-"

Onigumo quickly grabbed Kagome up and clamped her mouth shut with his hand. "Alright kiddies...If you want anything to eat and a place to sleep, I think we should continue up!" He exclaimed, hastily making his way towards the mountain.

Naraku and Kikyou turned from their otousan to stare at each other.

"Loan sharks...?" Naraku asked, well...more like stated.

"Loan sharks..." Kikyou sighed, affirming Kagome's question and Naraku's statement.

Once they reached the top, Kagome plopped on her rear on the ground, a blissful smile appearing on her child lips. Happy tears sprang in her eyes. Kikyou and Naraku obviously felt the same way for they openly expressed it by dropping to the ground and just laying there.

"Finally!" The three siblings exclaimed.

Kagome stared at the place they have finally arrived. It was a shrine. If the torii wasn't any indication, it was the monk that had greeted them that made it clear. The monk was bald and had a fluffy white mustache above his lips. He clearly wore a dark green robe with another layer of dark yellow as he slightly slouched in his upright position.

There was a red tinge across his nose as he spoke with slurs. "Onigumo-sama, I thought those eyes were familiar..." The old monk said as he chuckled.

Their father smiled in return. "Aa... It's been awhile now hasn't it Houshi-sama?" He asked, laughing slightly.

Kagome's eyes widen. The priest knew their father! He addressed him formally too. Kikyou and Naraku was also put in stupor as they watch Naraku and the old priest's exchange words.

Finally, the monk known as Mushin now, found their existence. He smiled at them gently. "And you brought company!" He exclaimed.

The old monk smiled at the three children.

"Hello children..."

Authors note…Um…my babbling, don't have to read, just skip to the story update?

So….I just remembered that I used to be addicted to since sixth grade to my junior year of highschool…And…as I recalled, I have written quite a few unfinished fanfictions that seem to have quite a lot of readers. Hmm… I must have disappointed everyone for seemingly quitting I guess. I apologize for my negligence… So, everyone have probably grew out of fanfiction or have better things to do now, but I for one, finally found my spark back after reading Different, Yet So Alike (every single detail, took me two weeks to finish…so much…grammatical error that I wanted to revise the whole thing…Hmm maybe I should..-.- we'll see)…I had no idea I can write like that…until well, today? So sorry (bows in apology) to the fans that were looking forward to me continuing this prequel.

In all honesty, I almost completely forgot how to log into my fanfiction account until I found some hints on my emails. Lol…Surprised I figured out the password for those old emails too..

STORY UPDATE! Well, sorry for my babbling up there. I just had to do it xD

Now the update of what will take place in the future for this story..

I have decided to continue it. Hopefully, once I understand what style of writing I was good at and what kind of plot this story had, I'll continue it. Though, I have been brainstorming and it looks like this story is going to be angsty and dramatic…so prepare yourselves. BUT! Since I'm a huge fan of comedy, comedy will definitely be a genre in this story. Still, I don't think I can create anything like Different, Yet So Alike just yet. Probably a different story staring Kagome and Sesshoumaru…but I don't know if my writing can be so imaginative like what I have done with Different, Yet So Alike. So, I'm sorry if nothing else is up to par with that story.

Different, Yet So Alike was meant to be all-out comedy and a little fluff. It was never meant to be dramatic, mind you. So, for thefuture of that story, I'm probably going to edit my horrible grammatical mistake, but as a sequel…I'm not too sure. A one-shot perhaps…

Next Chapter preview

"What do you mean…our house is going to get demolished?" Naraku asked, glaring daggers at Onigumo.

Onigumo laughed nervously and rubbed the back of his head in a gesture all too familiar to Naraku….