Shippo's Wish.
Of Pink Blankets and Hearts Desires.
Prelude.
The long awaited morning dawned bright and calm with the sharp edge of the coming of fall. Neither human nor demon was quite sure were this day would end. For the battles were over, their greatest enemy dead and dead again, the wounds left from the long battle had healed. The only thing left unfinished was the fate of the jewel of four souls. The thing they all had fought so hard for, lay at the center of the group looking like nothing more than a petty bauble.
All of them had been in a dark mood for several days now. Inuyasha had descended into a broody silence, unsure what it is he wanted to wish for after all that had happened. Kagome was a buddle of nerves, since that the jewel was whole there was no need for a shard detector. Miroku and Sango both worried for the friends but had no words to comfort them, not even Shippo was left out of the dark mood he had been unusually gloomy as the days dragged on not even playing his normal pranks.
"Oh I cannot take this anymore, for the sake of the Gods, Chose!" Sango finally snapped, she snatched up the jewel, and flung the jewel of four souls at inuyasha's startled face. Leaving a red circle on Inuyasha's brow as it bounced off and fell to the ground at his feet.
"Im gonna! Don't rush me" an irritated Inuyasha snapped back as he bent to retrieve the jewel. a strangled 'no' tore its way out of shippo as the small demon shot forward, taking the jewel with him as he bounced up into a tree. Clutching the jewel to his chest his whole body shook, ignoring the calls of his adopted family. Inuyasha having had enough of this yanked the smaller demon out of the tree by his tail. But before Shippo could be made to drop the jewel of four souls Shippo shouted out his one wish.
"I wish I was little again with mommy and daddy and no demon could ever hurt them again!" his small voice echoed in the sudden silence, the others to stunned to react. Suddenly the jewel pulsed as if it were a beating heart and began to glow a brilliant white and brighter still until all were blinded by the light. And then it was over and no one was left in the small clearing and the jewel of four souls was no more.
'Well that was…unexpected.' Lord Sesshomaru thought to himself as he slid his sword back into its sheath. Now that is vision had returned after the jewel of four souls had finished with its display. He saw there was none left in the clearing he had been watching his brother and his odd pack of humans sitting for most of the morning. Not even that priestess girl of his brother had remained after fox demons wish. He supposed there would be no need to kill his brother on this day either, mayhap the jewel had purified the half breed.
Lord Sesshomaru turned his back on the empty scene in the clearing; he made his way back to where his pack had settled to wait. The human child was making flower chain) while the toad rambled on some bout of nonsense, stepping on the toad to silence it for the moment. He called the child to him,
and told them to make ready for a return home.
"Lord Sesshomaru, Lord Sesshomaru what of the half breed? Does it still live?" asked the toad as soon as sesshomaru lifted his foot up. With an irritated sigh lord Sesshomaru gave the toad a dry look and admitted something he was not quite happy about "this, I Sesshomaru, do not know."
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Chapter one.
"death isn't so bad…" the thought bubbled up from the fog in inuyasha's mind. He was warm, comfortable and the scent of flowers lay heavy in the air. It was really rather pleasant this being dead. Inuyasha had no wish to move or even bother with opening his eyes. Certainly not opening his eyes, not after the jewel of four souls and blinded him into oblivion, he thought angrily. With the thoughts of the jewel of four souls and shippo now forefront on his mind, and with a fearsome growl. inuyasha intended to leap to his feet, hunt down a certain small fox-like demon and do said demon some much deserved damage.
But as he'd propped himself up onto his elbows, his 'blanket' had made a small moan of protest and moved. Now since as far as inuyasha new blankets didn't move on their own and definitely didn't moan even in the afterlife. Lowering his gaze to the warm weight on top of his torso, inuyasha glance downward half in fear and half in an emotion he was refusing to acknowledge. His eyes locked on to a mess of wavy raven locks spread a crossed his bare chest. Giving a sniff of the raven dark hair, inuyasha inhaled fresh lavender and as he feared, confirmed his suspicion. Kagome was lying on his naked chest and from what he could feel her chest was as equally bare.
It was then that kagomes consciousness chose to re-insert its self. Kagome whimpered again against the intrusion of her sleep, and snuggled deeper into her bed, it was then that she heard the low bass tone. ba-bump ba-bump ba.. she growled darkly thinking her brother's stupid music was the cause of the sound intruding on her sleep, her wonderful, lovely sleep in her own soft and oh so warm bed for once. And not that of her sleeping bag on cold, and rocky ground with icky creepy crawlys.
At least that was until the deep male laughter bubbled up from underneath her. Inuyasha couldn't help it, he had been so still hardly breathing hoping she would go back to sleep and he could wiggle his way out of this mess. And then she had growled, kagome had growled, his completely human, miss manners kagome had G-R-O-W-L-E-D. inuyasha had lost it, he laughed. At first it was a just small chuckle but it quickly became a full blown hyena fit of laughter. Kagome could sit him a hundred times and he doubted even that would put end to his laughter.
It wasn't until kagome sat upright that he choked on his laughter and the sight of her staring at him like that. Her cheeks were flushed a lovely shade of pink, which brought out the green sparks in the ocean of her blue eyes. Soft raven hair a-mess, half concealing full round and perky breast that just begged to fill his hand, a narrow waist that he knew, from all the times he had carried, flared out into smooth hips and long shapely legs, that were hidden form sight underneath the pink bed spread. 'She looked so pretty when she was mad' the thought came unbidden to inuyasha's mind, which he quickly shushed the idea.
Kagome wasn't sure what to think, she was in her room, in her bed, normal. But so was inuyasha, which was not. he in her bed, in her pink twin bed, were only a moment ago she had been asleep, with him. Siting up, she thought might help, until it brought attention to another detail. Inuyasha's state of dress, while she had seen him without his shirt many times before, he had never been in her bed at any of those times. and it was quite different to see him without a shirt now. His long sliver hair was strewn a crossed her pink pillows, she could still see feel his warm skin on her where she had been sleeping atop him, his skin held a golden hue of a light natural tan, was stretched taunt over his hard muscels, broad shoulders slowly angling down to narrow hips half covered by a pink bed sheet. And his eyes were the color of warm honey flecked with fire, she had always admired them second only to the velvety dog like ears atop his head.
It was as she was sitting studying the oddity of inuyasha and pink sheets that she noted something else. She was naked. Completely naked, one hundred and ten percent naked, nothing but the pink comforter pooled around her hips and the suddenly chill air on. She did the only reasonable thing any girl would do when naked infront of a guy, she screamed.
Inuyasha panicked when kagome let lose a scream, reacting quickly he tackled her in a attempted to cover her mouth, cutting of her mid scream as they both fell off the bed and on to the bed room floor with a thud and a pile of oh so pink blankets. And as they fell to the floor their came another bright flash of light as they were once more rendered senseless amongst the bedding.
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Contest: FRIST ONE TO REPLY
Gets to decide: whether kagome is pregnant with shippo, or if baby shippo just poofs into bedroom. : )
I may be indecisive, but I have lots of ideals for both and truly want to start working on the nest chapter right away. Okay so reply for next chapter and I'll type supper fast!