Disclaimer: I do not own Inu Yasha or any of it's characters or anything like that :O Damn it! Give me my foolish hope back!
Pairing: Eventual Sesshoumaru/Kagome
Words: 1,246
Chapter one; Spring
Spring.. The first season of the year. The season of new beginnings. The season of love.. or so they say.
To be honest, I didn't quite believe it, since in none of the springs -or any other spring, if you didn't count that time in kindergarten a boy gave me a flower he had plucked on the spot, because there wasn't really anything romantic about that..- I traveled to and fro the Feudal Era, I was confessed to.
Not by any of the young men from Kaede-baachan's village -or any other village for that matter-.
Not by Miroku-sama -not that I'd want him to, the dirty minded monk, since he already has Sango... sort of. Oh well, I could always try to get them together and blame Spring if it works, for even though I don't believe in it's 'power', maybe they do-
Not by Houjo-kun, but that wasn't really his fault, because if he wanted to do it, I didn't give him the chance, since I rarely see him, and when I see him, I'll always make up some excuse to get away.
Not by Inu Yasha -though he probably wouldn't do it anyway, no matter what season-. Besides, I doubt he even know what Valentine's day is!
This would deny Spring's powers the most, since, when you're in love, you want to get confessed to and get loved by the one you love, right? And ifSpring's 'power' were real, it should happen during the months of Spring, right?
It was then that Kagome decided to temporarily stop her philosophical -and slightly depressing- thoughts. She had enough to worry about without her strange ramblings anyway.
Like when or where we'll find another jewel shard, or when I'll make my long neglected, enormous pile of homework, or howI'm going to get an acceptable score for that upcoming math test when I barely even understand the title of the chapter! Or whether or not, and if so, when, I'll confess to Inu Yasha that the 'snacks' I gave him were actually cat treats, since the dog treats I've secretly been giving him were miraculously sold out. At this, Kagome gave a mental snicker. He always thought they just normal cookies!
"Kagome-chan, are you alright? You've been... spacing out for the past five minutes." Sango said, slightly struggling with the phrase the time-traveling miko had taught her, startling said miko out of her thoughts, who had unknowingly started drifting off topic.. again.
"I'm fine, I'm fine," Kagome replied lazily, "just.. thinking, I guess." she added after a while.
Or if I'd buy the dog-shaped keychain -to please Inu Yasha-, or the cat-shaped one -for Buyo-. Not wanting to give the one the feeling thatshe favored the other, she was in quite the dilemma. Of course, I could always just buy the fox-shaped one that looked almost exactly like Shippou-chan, and act like the canine and feline had nothing to do with it.
"By the way, Sango, why don't I hear Inu Yasha telling us to get up -yet-?" Kagome interrupted her thoughts yet again, not really knowing whether she had said 'yet' or not. "You know," she glanced up at the sky, "it's already..." another look, she really needed to refine her 'check-the-time-by-looking-into-the-sky' skills! "It's 8 o'clock, at the least!"
"Err.. that is.. well.." Sango stuttered, "Kikyou is close by, so he's off to ..visit her" she then admitted.
''Mm, I got it.." Kagome absently answered, all the while thinking if Kikyou's clay body would become all soft and muddy if she'd dump a bucket of water on her, and if so, whether she'd flatten her nose or her ears -or both, if possible-, just to make the perfect clay pot less perfect.
Now I only have to choose between the cat-shaped one and the fox-shaped one, since there's no way in hell -or any other place for that matter- that I'm going to buy the dog-shaped one..
As you may see, our favorite miko has drifted back to her previous stream of thoughts, so we'll just wait for a while.
"Hentai!!" is suddenly screamed by none other than our also favorite taijiya, and a loud slap follows the scream, sounding through the whole village and maybe even further, and when Kagome half-opens her eyes, which she had closed while thinking on her current problem, the first thing she sees is a in purple-clad monk, lying one the ground, with a red hand-shaped print on his cheek, which will most definitely sting later that day, who was mumbling only partly coherent things. She listens closely and giggles when she hears one particular sentence.
"That was so worth it.." the monk whispers before he passes out
Kagome climbed out of the well. She's been given a week to make some 'very important tests' that may have been there, but maybe not -at this thought, Kagome gave a mental grin-.
It was now the 17th of March, a few days after White Day.
Three.. two.. one.. and up! Kagome thought while jumping the last bit out of the well.
Hn? Inu Yahsa's not here yet, so I guess I'm a bit early.. Well better for ,me! Now I can eat my chocolate in peace! The chocolate I.. bought myself.. .
Kagome sighed at the memory of Valentine's day and the reason for her lack of given chocolate. Houjo-kun had given her some creme for her feet, for it seemed that she had an illness in her feet that'll spread untill her whole body would be covered in warts if it wasn't treated in an early stage -Jii-chan, what were you thinking?!-.Her mother and Jii-chan had given her a little box, but Souta had given her the biggest puppy-eyes ever seen -on a human face, anyway-, so she herself had picked two pieces out of the boz and had given the rest to her now beaming brother. She had merely smiled softly at him and had walked out of the house to buy a chocolate box herself, completely missing the devious smirk that had replaced her brothers' previously happy, almost -almost- innocent expression.
But the reason I'm not sharing this box has nothing to do with that, though. Nope, not at all.. Well, maybe a little. But! My main reason is that.. okay, maybe I just want a box for myself, you know, some quality time alone? Don't misunderstand, I love my friends, but some Kagome-only time is appreciated as well! And because of this, Kagome was eating it here, on the rim of the well, alone.
..That is, until something happens, as it always does, since the time-travelling miko wasn't allowed some nice, quiet moment for herself, like, ever. This 'something' was a gust of wind. Normally this woudn't be strange, but it was accompanied by the disappearance of a single chocolate -Damn! I was looking forward to eating that one!-
This left Kagome contemplating about what happened, until she -finally- noticed something. She smiled softly while walking over to the edges of Inu Yasha's forest. Once she was near one particular tree, she sat down. Giving a polite grin to the companion sitting across from her, she asked.
"Care for another one, Sesshoumaru-sama?"
A/N: wow. It's finally done! Because it's summer vacation now, I might write chapter two, but it might take a while, depends on whether or not this story gets reviewed.. I didn't really know anything better then the 'finally noticing' thing, because I didn't want to do something like 'she sensed a familiar aura/youki/whatever you want', because that would kinda give it away.. though you already know the pairing at the beginning-.-' PS;
This'll be a four-shot, but not per se linked to each other, but I'll figure that out later ;) Please, please R&R!