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Kagome was having a bad day. It wasn't one of those 'I forgot my lunch on the way to school' days'. No, it was much worse. It was more like a day where by the end; you simply wanted to strangle anyone and everyone who came near you.
She had gotten up extremely late because yesterday, she had thrown her alarm clock into the wall in hopes that if the alarm stopped, so would school for the day. So, finding you had less then ten minutes to get to school, on a Monday no less, was not the most fun experience.
She then took the worlds fastest shower, grabbed her nearest uniform (which she would later on in the day, find out was on backwards), trip down the stairs, and rush out the door. She didn't have time to look for her bike, so she did the next best thing. Run like hell and pray to get to school on time.
Kagome had arrived at school with only a minute or so to get to class. She sprinted to her locker, practically ripped the locker door off its hinges, threw her backpack and unneeded materials in, slammed it shut, and sprinted once again in a mad rush to get to class. Kagome made it to class…….seconds after the bell rang.
The rest of the school day was just as fun. Kagome tripped over, ran into, and knocked over more things in that one school day then she ever had before. She had come out of school that day glaring at anything that moved or thought of moving, as she stormed home.
As Kagome trudged up the large amount of steps at her shrine, she planned what she would do when she finally got inside. A nice long bath followed by the unusually large amount of homework she had been assigned, then finally, a wonderful nap. Yes, Kagome planned to turn her horrible day around. So when she reached the top of the shrine steps, her annoyance and anger doubled when she saw InuYasha sitting, arms crossed and glaring in front of her door. This resulted in a huge yelling match, and after a large number of 'sits', InuYasha picked Kagome up, kicking and screaming, and jumped into the well.
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After a fruitless day of shard hunting, and the sky beginning to darken, Kagome asked InuYasha to stop for the day. This brings us to present time, and the beginning of an argument.
The shard hunting group was tired and being forced on by a determined half-demon. Kagome glared at InuYasha from her spot on Kirara.
'I'm tired of this.' Kagome thought angrily.
"InuYasha!" She shouted "We need to stop for the day."
"Feh, were not stopping. The longer we rest, the more jewel shards Naraku will get."
"You can't walk us on forever. Not everyone has demon strength."
Miroku sighed. "Here we go again." He looked slyly over at Sango.
"Hey Sango." Sango looked over at him warily.
"How about we make a little wager?"
Sango raised an eyebrow. "What kind of wager?"
"Well, if we don't stop in the next hour, I get to rub your butt once, slap free."
"What if we do stop in the next hour?"
"I'll polish Hirokutsu for you."
Sango appeared to consider this carefully. She would look from the arguing couple to the monk next to her and back again. She finally sighed and said "I don't know why I'm saying this, but you've got a deal."
Sango and Miroku looked back at the other members of the group. InuYasha and Kagome were still bickering and were showing no signs of stopping any time soon. Something seemed to be missing though.
"Hey guys." A child's voice said from behind Sango.
Sango and Miroku whipped their heads back to find themselves staring into the cute face of Shippo.
"You scared us Shippo!" Sango breathed, holding a hand over her heaving chest. She had forgotten that Shippo had been asleep behind her.
"Sorry." Shippo said bashfully, rubbing the back of his head. He then grinned up at the two adults. "I heard about your bet," He said crossing his arms and shaking his head. "and I am disappointed in the two of you. You made a bet without asking me if I wanted a part in it."
Sango and Miroku looked down at Shippo with blank faces before Miroku broke out in a grin. Sango saw it and looked at him disapprovingly.
"Well you should have said so sooner! What's your wager?" Miroku said gleefully.
"I bet that the fight will end in the next twenty-five seconds. If I'm right, I get to sit on both of your heads for thirty minutes."
Miroku shook his paw and said "you've got a deal!"
So the three started to watch the fight between Kagome and InuYasha again, with Shippo counting the seconds out loud.
"One…Two…Three…" Kagome had grabbed InuYasha by the ear. "Nine…Ten…Eleven…" There was a long volley of curses coming from InuYasha, most of which were "wench and bitch." "Eighteen…nineteen…twenty…" Kagome had let go of InuYasha to reach inside of her bag. "Twenty-two…twenty-three…twenty-four…" Kagome was holding up a bag of Ramen threatening never to cook it again if they didn't stop for camp. "Twenty-five."
"Oi!" InuYasha called to the three. "We're setting camp up here." He then sat next to Kagome and watched her prepare the Ramen.
"Wow!" Miroku breathed while looking at Shippo with open admiration. "How did you get that right?"
Shippos' chest puffed up with pride. "It was easy. I just watched all the other fights between the two of them and now, I can tell when a fight is going to end."
Sango rubbed the top of Shippos' head. "As much as I don't like to see someone as young as you gamble, you did really well. You are very smart for your age."
Shippo smiled and jumped onto Sangos' head. "Now I get to sit on both of your heads! Miroku, you get to go next so don't try to get away from me." Sango and Miroku rolled their eyes at Shippo.
"You should go get some firewood." Sango told Miroku, while eyeing the hand that was creeping closer to her butt. Miroku sighed but did as he was told.
Sango got up and walked over to Kagome. She could feel Shippo shifting around with each step she took. As soon as she reached Kagome, Kagome burst out in laughter.
Sango glared at her. "What's so funny?" She asked.
"Ahhh Sango, you really know how to make me feel better."
"What!" Sango asked again.
"I've never seen Shippo sit on your head before. It's really funny!"
Shippo smiled and jumped off of Sangos' head and into Kagomes' arms. He looked up at Sango and said "Don't' tell Miroku I'm letting you off early. He still has to have his whole thirty minutes."
Kagome looked at Sango and Shippo questioningly. "What are you two talking about?"
Sango and Shippo shared quick glances and smiled at Kagome. "Nothing!" They both said.
"Alright." Kagome said, not believing them in the least. "I'm going to take a bath. Don't tell Miroku okay."
"Okay!" They both said as Shippo jumped back onto Sangos' head.
'I wonder what they're up to.' Kagome thought as she walked to the hot spring.