A/N: The idea popped into my head for this ficlet series. The manga and anime both ignore all the little details Inu and Kagome would have had to work out before traveling peacefully (or at least as peacefully as those two can).

All chapters take place before they met anyone: no Shippou, Miroku, Sesshomaru or Sango.

By the way, the title is a play on words as both 'travel' and 'travail' sound alike. I thought it was cute. (Travail, for anyone who doesn't know, has several meanings. One of these definitions is: tribulation, agony and other such things. As this is pretty much what Inu and Kagome are going through, I thought it apt.) Sorry. English Major wannbe humor.

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Oh, I don't any of these characters! Ms. Takahashi does.

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Thumper or why Disney killed survival instincts:

Kagome barely restrained herself from collapsing onto the ground. We've been walking for hours, she groaned to herself. How much longer? She noticed with disgust that Inuyasha was doing perfectly well. Then again he is a half-demon, Kagome reminded herself. Her blisters burned as a reminder of how much her dainty feet disliked walking.

Sniffing miserably, Kagome was too busy wallowing in self pity to notice that the easily irritated Inuyasha had stopped. I want to be a hanyou! Kagome wailed mentally.

"Bitch, why are you doing that?" Inuyasha shouted, eyebrows furrowing in annoyance. "We've only been walking for a few hours and you're whining and complaining!"

"I have not complained!" Kagome said angrily, stamping her foot. "I haven't said a word!"

"You're whining in your head and you're muttering to yourself!" Inuyasha shot back. Stomping off the road, he dumped her overly large bag into a clear area. Kicking away a few branches and leaves, he gestured at a boulder.

"Sit here and rest," he commanded with a weary sigh. Kagome squealed happily and dropped next the rock, resting her back and tired legs with a grateful sound.

"This much exercise cannot be healthy," she groaned.

Inuyasha rolled his eyes dramatically. "God, you are the weakest person I know," he said in disgust. "Just sit here and don't get into trouble while I'm getting supper."

With that he leapt away into the forest and Kagome gladly went to take care of her business in the bushes. That done, she fell into a light sleep, too exhausted to even care about the bugs, dirt or possible demons. It was too soon for the exhausted girl when her traveling companion returned.

"Bitch!" Inuyasha shoved dirt onto Kagome's leg. "Wake up!"

Kagome groggily scrubbed sleep from her eyes only to be confronted with the single most grisly thing she had ever beheld.

"Oh my god!" she screamed, scuttling backward as quickly as she could. "What is that?"

Inuyasha looked at the dead rabbit in his hand. "It's supper," he said, wondering if all females were this stupid or if he was just unlucky.

"No, that can't be supper!" Kagome cried. "It's, that's…that's Thumper!"

Inuyasha blinked. "No, this is a rabbit."

"Thumper!" moaned Kagome, staring at the rabbit with its nearly decapitated head with its floppy ears, glassy eyes and bloody gray fur.

Inuyasha stared down at the frantic mortal. "You are messed up in the head," Inuyasha pronounced as he dropped dinner next to Kagome.

She shrieked and scrambled away.

Inuyasha glared and pointed at the bloody meat. "I caught it so you prepare and cook it."

Kagome's blue-grey eyes widened in horror. "What?"

"Prepare it and cook it," Inuyasha enunciated. "You know, skin, debone the damn thing, chop it up and throw it onto the fire and then we'll ea…Why did your skin turn green?"

Kagome, poor modern Kagome, rushed off to the side of their campsite to vomit, images of the famous cartoon rabbit in her head.

"Shit- are you throwing up?" Inuyasha shouted, backing away.

Gagging as the atrocious smell of her last meal mixed with acidic stomach bile filled his too sensitive nose, Inuyasha backed away. It was causing his gorge to rise and, leaping to the opposite side of the fire, Inuyasha choked and vomited helplessly.

"Stop that now!" demanded Inuyasha weakly between heaves.

"Thumper! Poor Thumper!" mumbled Kagome as she bent over again, mental pictures of Bambi's best friends mangled body turning her stomach.

"Damn it all, I said stop!" roared Inuyasha. "urk…!" The frenzied hanyou covered his mouth but it was no use. "DAMN BITCH!"

From that day on, Inuyasha never brought dinner back before it was simply meat, unrecognizable and anonymous. On her part, Kagome never forgot the Ramen again.

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A/N: Hope you enjoyed! If you have suggestions or comments, let me know. Thanks for reading!