Kagome's Backpack
By Valeska
"Goddamit! I'm bored!" Inuyasha groused. Kagome was at a nearby hot spring taking a bath with Sango. "What's the deal with her and baths!" He sat with his back to a tree at the edge of their campsite, keeping a close eye on Miroku. Kagome would find a way to blame him if Miroku was caught peeping on them.
"Shit…" he sighed. He looked around the small campsite, and spied Kagome's ever present backpack. "Wonder what the hell she carries in that thing," he thought out loud, as he got up to walk over to it.
Miroku looked up from the piece of twig he had been carving into little bits, curiosity shining in his eyes.
Shippo, who had been trying to stand on his head, crumpled into a heap, and sat up watching Inuyasha. "You know she'll be pissed if you go through her stuff." He remarked matter-of-factly.
"Shut up, runt!" Inuyasha growled, as he grabbed the pack and started emptying its contents on the ground. As he started to sort through them he noticed that Miroku and Shippo had come over for a closer look. He ignored them as he threw her clothes and books to the side, lingering for a moment over a lacy loincloth. Blushing deeply he threw them with the other clothes.
"Wow! Look at all of that food!" Shippo cried happily, as he grabbed a box of something Kagome called cookies.
Inuyasha just grunted, and kept digging through her stuff looking for something interesting.
"What's this?" Miroku held up a short cylindrical item that was wrapped in paper. It had pink markings on it, and an arrow that pointed to how to open it. Inuyasha grabbed it from him and ripped it open. Now it looked even stranger, it appeared to be two tubes, one just a little smaller and resting part way inside of the other. The bigger had some sort of tightly packed white material stuffed inside. Coming out of the end of the smaller tube was a string. Inuyasha pulled on the string but it was attached to something on the inside. Then he pushed on the smaller tube and the tightly packed material came out and flopped on the ground, with the string trailing behind.
"Maybe it's for bloody noses?" Shippo piped in cheerfully, as he stuffed another cookie into his mouth.
"Hmmm, dunno…. Let's find out." Inuyasha said as he balled up his fist and punched Miroku in the face.
"OWWW, SHIT, INUYASHA WHAT'D YA DO THAT FOR YOU censored." Miroku exclaimed, as blood trickled down his face, "GODDAMIT THAT HURT!"
"Here," Inuyasha offered the item to Miroku, with a smirk on his face.
Miroku glared at Inuyasha as he grabbed the item. He then set about gingerly stuffing it into his nose.
"Hmmm, that's not too bad." Miroku said, slightly surprised.
"WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK YOU ARE DOING?!" Kagome roared at seeing all her stuff scattered around the campsite.
All the guys jumped up and turned to look at the newly returned girls with innocent expressions.
"Miroku, what have you… got in… your…" was all that she managed get out before she was overcome with a fit of laughter.
"What?" was all the bewildered boys could manage.