Love of Friends
Chapter 2: Sango's say "what?"
BC: As of 9/30/2006, this has been another re-done chapter! Aren't I just so great?
QJP: See, I told you that monkey would make her write more.
BC: WE DO NOT SPEAK OF ZEE MONKEY!
PLP: Yep. It may annoy her, but the monkey is also helping getting more reviews. So it can't be all bad.
BC: You know… I'm starting to get the feeling they aren't paying attention to me…
QJP: Let's find the monkey and give it a banana!
PLP: And we can tell it about what we don't like in BC's fics!
QJP: Let's go!
PLP/QJP: (Leave room)
BC: --;; Traitors… I hate that stupid monkey. It casts some sort of spell on everyone, I swear. Well, I don't own Inuyasha and company… but my plans for world domination are going well! If only people I know would stop asking for their own freaking countries… at least they promise to pay royalties. R&R Please and thank you!
Sango shakes her head, unsure of what she had heard, "You think he's what?"
"I think he's... stolen my heart?"
"Kagome, I think you're supposed to know if you feel that way about another."
Kagome sighs and with her head sitting in her hands, stares into the water once again, "I know... but, at least I'm not the only one unsure about my own feelings."
"What do you... I have no idea what you're talking about."
Kagome gets a mischievous grin on her face, "Yes you do."
Sango turns away with her arms crossed, "Nope… sorry."
"Come on Sango, I shared… and now it's your turn. That's how friendship works, and we are friends, right?"
"But! I... oh." Sango sighs, "Fine!" She moves up some to sit right next to Kagome looking displeased with herself, "Maybe... the lech isn't, so bad. Nothing more then that."
"Ah-hah! I knew it! Sango and Miroku sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"
"Kagome… I think that's more likely to happen to you. I mean, it is Inuyasha that spends most of his time in trees. Not Miroku."
Kagome starts to blush, "No, no, no Sango, It's just a song from my time. What would even make you think that I would try to kiss Inuyasha? I mean, half the time my heart jumps to my throat and my knees turn to jelly when he is just nearby… God! I'm being driven crazy!"
"Well, at least your heart isn't usually broken when he's near..." says Sango somewhat wistfully.
Their girl talk continues for another hour or so and when they finally rise to leave, the night, was at it's darkest.
"Kagome, maybe we should start heading back. Who knows what Inuyasha might do if he wakes up and you're missing."
"Oh... yeah, he might explode if his precious "shard detector" isn't in bed. He'll probably think I went back home." She gets up and starts to stretch, "I don't know how I'm gonna tell him tomorrow, that I have to leave."
Sango follows suit in standing, and starts dusting herself off. "You have to? It wouldn't be to go to school, would it?"
"Yeah. It's only for a few hours, but I have to say good-bye to my friends. Maybe I can tell Inuyasha that I'll stay for most of the three months of summer here..."
"Maybe. Though, I'd suggest making it last minute so he has no way to stop you... isn't it my turn to cook next week?"
"I think so, why?"
Sango starts to walk on the path back towards camp with Kagome following close beside her. "Just thinking... I really don't like cooking while on a journey. You may have to leave at any time, it's harder to find good food, not paying attention could easily burn parts of it... It is just a hassle I could do without. Not to mention that rain can easily put out the fire. It was easier cooking in a hut for my... family and myself.
Kagome, sensing Sango's thoughts had turned to her brother and father, decided to lighten the situation some. "Huh... that's not going to happen till you and Miroku get married, so looks like you won't have to wait too long."
"Kagome? How could you say that..."
"I'm just kidding Sango. But you did give me an idea. If I offer to cook for your week, will you back me up in getting to my own time?"
"Did you really need to ask?"
"Nope, you'd do it even if I didn't suggest cooking for you."
"Yes, but now I have something to gain other then your happiness."
"Thanks. Now then, I think we were on the subject of a certain perverted monk..."
"No, I think we left off talking about you and, what did you call him the other day...? Oh! 'Mister Fluffy Ear-boy', instead..."
As the two get farther away and continue to poke fun to embarrass one another, a small shadowy figure pokes, what could be a head, up from the bushes along the path. In a flash, the figure is standing on the path, though still encased in shadows. Soon after it is by the edge of the water and able to be seen as Shippo.
The small fox demon sits to be able to think over all he had seen, however little it was. "Those two were sure in a good mood. Why couldn't I have paid more attention to them and not to that moth? Maybe Inuyasha's right on me being just a runt… though him getting anything right would surprise me. If I wasn't so much younger then everyone else, maybe I'd understand why they all act so... goofy."
He sits there, continuing to wade through his problems, by tallying causes of them on his fingers. "Sango stares at Miroku. Kagome stares at Inuyasha. Miroku going off and meditating by himself almost constantly... though he stopped when I told him Sango had started getting worried and was going to ask if his hand was bothering him. Even Inuyasha's been distracted, pouting or just trying to 'go into the forest and think'! AND NO ONE'S TELLING ME WHY!" He folds his arms managing to look like a small, pouting Inuyasha. "I mean, they're all acting like those stories my mom and dad used to tell me about when they had...first...MET! That's it!" He hops up with his find. "THEY'RE ACTING LIKE WHAT MOM AND DAD DID WHEN THEY FELL IN LOVE!"
Shippo stops his excited bouncing to stick out his tongue and make a face, "Ewwwww they like each other... gross... So much for me being the stupid runt, none of them even have a clue! This… is gonna be good. I'm going to have a lot of fun!" He takes the time to look up to the moon, while being filled with glee. Soon though, he felt like kicking himself when he saw just where the moon was in the sky. "I'll be dead before I get back if I don't hurry… I just hope Kagome saw my note!" He then rushes off down the path and towards camp.
With Kagome sound asleep and Shippo quietly trying to make it through dense vegetation, Inuyasha was clueless to everything but the girl under his branch. The one he was planing to sleep on. He had no worries of the missing fox demon though. Inuyasha just figured that Shippo was somewhere off by Sango so he could sleep near Kilala. And, in fact, was quite happy for it. 'Without that runt right here, there's no one to point out me watching over Kagome… and everyone else.'
Luckily, Shippo had enough sense to go about carefully, just to make sure that he wouldn't be seen. As Inuyasha moves like a cat to lie on the branch, without disturbing even a single leaf, he also manages to position himself right above Kagome.
'I am one lucky dog, as Kagome says, though I'm not a dog so I'll stick with I'm one lucky fox. Inuyasha'd have my tail if he caught me spying on him!'
After some minutes the dog-eared hanyou lets out a small sigh and starts to get back in a sleeping position. As luck would have it, one missed step leads him right to a branch that lets out a tremendous snap, that instantly wakes the sleeping girl beneath.
"What the..." Kagome looks above, but with it being so dark, misses the hanyou that was just feet away. The fire was long gone. She walks over groggily to the trunk of the tree, "Inuyasha? Was that you? Just what are you doing...!"
"I'm sorry Kagome, I did that by accident..."
Kagome turns around to see the small fox demon scuffing his feet in shame. "Shippo? What do you mean?"
"I was trying to sneak around so you wouldn't wake up and be worried."
"Where have you been off to anyway?"
Shippo looks to her in confusion, "Didn't you get my note?"
Kagome looks to him tiredly before finally muddling through what the young demon in front of her had said and holds up a scrap piece of paper, that undoubtedly had once come from her bag, with a tree drawn on it. "You mean this thing?"
"Yeah… is something wrong with it?" He then starts to give her a sad look, "I thought it was a good drawing... I didn't have a lot of time, but I tried my best…"
"No, no, no. It's a great drawing. But… what's it supposed to mean?"
"That I had to go and relieve myself."
She pauses for a moment. "Really?"
"Yes!" He starts to act huffy about the whole thing, "What? How else should I tell you then, hmm?"
She starts to shake her head and laugh, "Shippo, maybe tomorrow I'll teach you to write 'Bathroom' or something... but right now, I'm too tired to. So lets just get to bed." Kagome then walks off to her sleeping bag, waving for the young Kitsune to follow.
"I'll be ready to sleep soon. I just want to stay up a bit longer..."
"All right Shippo… but just a few minutes, ok?" She climbs in her bag, soon drifting off to sleep as Shippo looks up to the sky.
Inuyasha, once again able to move with no worries of the girl he was protecting spotting him, moves to a comfortable position so he can wait out Shippo. 'Unbelievable, the brat managed to save my hide by accident... who'd… have thought it?'
All of Inuyasha's thoughts slowly come to a halt as he takes a closer look to the "brat" that had a very wide smile on his face. This same "brat" was looking up and straight into his very own eyes, a look of pure mischief scrawled across his face. And for once in his life, he was just a little scared of the small fox before him. Thankfully for Inuyasha's mental health, the young demon had gotten bored with terrorizing him with stares that told of much embarrassment in the future, and had begun trotting over to Kagome to fall asleep close by her. As Inuyasha watched him snuggle up close he couldn't help but think one thought, 'Oh xxxx! He knew I was awake...'
BC: So. I'm left all alone now…
Baka-chan: (Enters) Hello!
BC: (Yelps and falls off chair) What the heck are you doing here?
Baka-chan: I had nothing better to do… besides, QJP and PLP are around here somewhere. And I want a word with them. (Holds up sign that says "Please eat me!") Luckily I found this before I went too far into Bear's Woods. I almost fell into a pit of honey.
BC: Umm… right. (Points out door to next room) They went that way looking for a monkey.
Baka-chan: Embrace the monkey… be the monkey. See you later BC! (Runs off to find QJP and PLP)
BC: I don't want to hug that monkey... uh, and in hindsight, maybe I shouldn't have told QJP and PLP about that property I bought for another FF lair in Bear's Woods. Or my trap 'The portable honey pit'. One of these days, infomercials are gonna get me in trouble.
BC, over and out!
