What A Tangled Web We Weave

By: earthqueen11492 AND AngelnoDarkness

"One, two, one, two, one, two," Kagome looked over at her mom. "Mom! Could you quit it with the chanting?" she sighed. Her mother was trying to sew as many blankets in the shortest amount of time possible. They were weavers and since Ms. Hiragashi was the "woman" of the household, she was "required" to do most of the work. Like now, for example, she was sewing furiously to finish the blankets. "I'm sorry Kagome, but I'm working right now." Figures. She thought to herself. Sighing, since she knew she would never finishing copying down the scrolls here, she wandered outside.

Now then… she slowly walked into the forest. Where is it?? She thought furiously. Flipping her head from left, to right she desperately searched for the secret entrance. Spotting it between a tree and a large boulder, she proceeded towards it. Brushing aside the overhanging vines, she began cautiously walking down the sloped hillside.

Stopping in front of a hundred-year-old oak, she shifted the scrolls onto her back, and went to climb it. Hoisting herself from one branch to another, she eventually made it about halfway up. Lifting the pack onto the thick branch, Kagome leaned against it, closing her eyes to listen to the sounds of the forest. "Oi! wench!" A voice broke through her silence.

Looking up, into the branches, she managed to find a spot of red mixed with the green. Cocking her head to one side she called back, ignoring the "wench" comment. "Who's there?" The red dot moved. A few branches above Kagome, the face of a young man appeared. She could easily tell, from the furry, dog ears on top of his head (that practically screamed "TOUCH ME") that he was a hanyou. (A/N: EARTH: OMG! I LOVE INUYASHA'S EARS!!! THEY'RE SO KAWAII!!!!!!!!!! Angel: ONG! I KNOW! Um…can I have Inuyasha now? EARTH: Sorry, gurl. He's Rumiko Takahashi's. Poor us…)

Reaching for the bow and arrows in her pack, she positioned herself in a fighting stance. Making sure an arrow was ready, she tried to stand up, failing to notice that the branch beneath her was staring to break. "What do you want half-" she didn't even get to finish her sentence before the branch finally broke from the stress. Pummeling to the ground, she squeezed her eyes shut and tried to block out the sound of the wind around her. Before she knew what had happened, she felt a pair of arms around her waist and all movement stopped.

"YO! Bitch! You better not black out on me!" She slowly opened her eyes to see a pair of gold ones starring back at her. Surprised, she instinctively reached her hand back to bring it forward, slapping the man. She opened her eyes again only after she realized that the person wasn't trying to kill her. If only, if only. The same gold eyes were now furious. "BITCH! WHAT THEY HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!? I SAVE YOUR ASS AND YOU SLAP ME??? YOU'RE THE ONE WALKING ON MY PROPERTY!!! WHY DON'T YOU JUS-" he was cut off by her shill shriek. Somehow, when he was yelling at her, his hand had ended up slipping from her back to her butt, which he now realized he was holding on to quite tightly.

"YOU PERVERT!!" she screamed and slapped him again causing him to drop her. Kagome landed hard on her butt. "Owwww…" she moaned softly, daring to look back up at the angered hanyou. His left eye was twitching and he looked ready to kill right about now. She gave an "Epp" and scurried away. "WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING YOU BITCH?!?" Wait… Kagome thought, a small fire sparking in her eyes, I'm a miko. Why should I be running away from a demon? And a hanyou no doubt. She found new confidence burning inside her.

She then realized that the person had been yelling at her the past few minutes. "…AND FUTHER MORE, WHY THE HELL ARE YOU ON MY LAND?!?" he concluded, turning to glare at her. She stopped and starred at him. Damn he's hot… the fire left her eyes. She smacked herself mentally. No Kagome! Bad! He's not hot! 'Well maybe a little' NO! BAD EVIL BEING!!! 'Who's hot" NO!!!!!!!! She went with that but was still transfixed by his gaze. "Well?" he noticed her starring at him. She tried to get out an answer "I uh…well…wait, what do you men YOUR land? My family has owned these woods for generations!" She felt the anger returning to her. He opened his mouth to speak, but was interrupted by a high pitched squeal.

"ONA-SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!" She perked up. "SHIPPO!" she turned her back to the strange man. "SHIPPO! I'M BY THE GOD-TREE!" A ball of fur began running towards her and quickly rapped around her waist. "ONA-SAN I WAS SCARED! I WOKE UP AND YOU WERE GONE AND-" as the young, uh…creature continued to ramble, she was trying to get it off her before she suffocated from its death hug. "Ok, ok Shippo. I'm here. It's ok." She tried to calm it down before she fainted from lack of air. "-AND SOUTA SAID THAT YOU DIDN'T LOVE ME AND HE SAID THAT YOU WERE GONNA LEAVE BECAUSE I WAS TOO MUCH OF A KNEW-E-SINCE." He tried to sound out the word "New-a-sice, new-a-sin, near-in-sia-" he stopped and finally let go of Kagome, much to her relief, and seemed to finally notice the demon standing by them. "Who's that Mommy?" He looked back up at her with innocent eyes.

Now that he wasn't screeching, it was easy to see that he was a kitsune. His tail, which seemed to be only made of fluff, was almost as large as his body. He stood about a foot tall and had large, innocent looking green eyes.

Shippo looked over him then back to Kagome. He did this several times. Kagome, him. Kagome, him. Kagome, him. Finally, he turned to the hanyou, who was still trying to figure out how this lovable little kitsune, could possibly be related to the annoying bitch in front of him. Shippo eyed the bow and arrow at Kagome's feet. "So…" he shifted from one foot to the other and turned his eyes to Kagome. "Are you gonna kill him or what?"

Short chappie. Get over it. OK! We love you all, but we G2G! K? JA NE! AND REVIEW!REVEIW!REVEIW!

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