Summer Nights
Kagome rolled over in her sleeping bag, feeling the presence of Inuyasha next to her body. The dead tree above them didn't offer the hanyou proper support. He was forced to stay on the ground with the rest of the ground. Sango and Miroku slumbered on the other side of the sleeping fire pit. Kirara mewed quietly at her mistress' feet. Shippou snorted next to the fire cat, his small hands reaching out for something invisible yet far beyond his reach. He dreamed.
Kagome felt too warm. Inuyasha was too warm, sitting right next to her. The warmth of his fire rat cloak, which always seemed to capture minute amounts of heat through the course of the day, seemed to be a raging bundle of flames right next to her head. She felt a bead of sweat roll down her cheek.
Grumbling she rolled away from him and unzipped her sleeping bag.
"What are you doing?" Inuyasha muttered, a golden eye opening and staring at the schoolgirl skeptically as if she'd done him great harm. Inuyasha rarely slept, but Kagome could hear the sleepiness laced in his voice and the hint of betrayal at seeing her roll away from his body.
"You're too warm," Kagome said stubbornly, kicking her sleeping bag away from her and letting her soak up the warm summer night, trying to cool off. She sighed, frustrated, when she failed to relieve her warmth.
Inuyasha snorted and turned his face away, staring off into the darkness. Kagome fell asleep.
Kagome woke up hours later, shivering. She zipped up her sleeping bag and didn't feel any satisfaction or retrieval of her long departed warmth. Her body shivered.
Irritated at her inability to sufficiently choose a proper temperature, Kagome rolled back over towards the hanyou's still body.
"Back?" Inuyasha grumbled, his deep golden eyes hidden behind heavy lids. The heady scent of forests and sweat greeted Kagome's nose as she settled closer to Inuyasha.
"I got cold," Kagome explained apologetically, staring up at him with impossibly blue eyes.
Inuyasha grunted again but didn't protest as Kagome snuggled up next to him, her back lying against the tree trunk and her head lolling against his shoulder. He grumbled something about indecisive humans but said nothing more as he titled his head towards the sky, watching a stray falling star crashing towards earth.
Kagome smiled and fell asleep.
Author's notes: I have a writer's block; this is my attempt to not have one.