Every Dog Has His Day

Chapter 2

Big Dog on Campus

Revised 4/18 AN: Okay so I'm stalling on finishing chapter 11 and I'm going back through the old chapters and fixing them up and here I come across problem that no one told me! It was night in the last chapter and day in this one…that wasn't on purpose!!! They were suppose to be in the same time frame oops!

II

"Inuyasha will you at least tell me where we are going you jerk!" He just shifted her on his shoulder and continued to stock off with her into the dark woods, with her playing the role of a sack of grain.

He was acting so strange. Sure the necklace was broken…big deal. Well yeah it was a slightly big kind of deal. Like she couldn't subdue anymore; that might make going home really tricky.

When he was acting like an ass she couldn't sit him. When he was picking on Shippou she couldn't sit him. When he made rude comments she couldn't do anything, but that was in the acting like an ass category. When he went all arrr…and full demon she couldn't subdue him.

Crap.

This was a bigger problem then she had originally thought. She liked being able to subdue him. It put them on equal footing.

And what about their friendship? Was he only friends with her because she could detect the shards and because he couldn't best her, because she could always sit him? Wasn't that how she got him to agree to help her gather all the shards with her in the very beginning? After a moment she dismissed the idea. They were friends, necklace or no. She just wasn't sure how fair a friendship they were going to have now that she wouldn't be able to get one up on him. Inuyasha wasn't saying anything about what he thought about this so far. She wished that the stupid necklace hadn't broke, then she wouldn't even have to think about this stuff.

Suddenly without warning he picked up a run. The slightly uncomfortable feeling of his shoulder being lodged in her stomach was now replaced with the very uncomfortable feeling her stomach being pounded over his bony shoulder.

"Inuayshaa!!"

He didn't even seem to acknowledge the very pissed off girl on his shoulder and instead leapt into the trees and continued running.

Now up in the canopy Kagome's throat had actually tightened up to the point that sound wasn't coming out. Her hands were clenched in his silver hair and her eyes were huge.

They were high, really really high and going very fast….and she was seeing it all backwards.

Backwards didn't work for her. The ground was going the wrong way and it all looked like one dark blur. Why seeing everything move by this fast backwards bothered her so much, she had no idea, but it did. Her now slightly flailing legs latched around the only solid thing they could, his chest.

She still felt vulnerable with her upper half hanging over his shoulder like that. She needed something better to hang onto. It was when he took a leap from a higher branch to a lower one that she made the split second decision to latch onto his head with all her might. It wasn't a decision so much, as a panic fueled reaction. Inuaysha must have tried talking to her but at that point all she heard was muffled noises, and she found her voice again and began screaming.

Why backwards!?

Suddenly the tree limbs were gone, and Kagome's scream reached a new pitch as they fell down towards that inky black below. Inuyasha's hand grabbed hold of one of her arms involved in the death grip around his head, and yanked it away from his eyes. With his vision clear he spotted a solid looking branch hopping onto to that and then the rest of the way to the ground.

The sudden impact of the ground caused Kagome to almost fall out of his arms but he swung her up bridal style. The screaming abruptly stopped. There was an absolute silence that followed. Inuyasha's gold eyes were focused on the bundle in his arms in a look of horror and disbelief. His eyebrow was arched up to his hairline. Taking a small breath he spoke.

"Kagome…were you trying to get us killed?"

His voice was strangely serious with only a hint of unbelieving.

Finally bringing her shaken brown eyes up to his face she felt her stomach crawl back out of her throat and down where it belonged. Her nerve crept out of its hiding place and went back to where it belonged.

"No, but what the hell do you think you were doing! You can't just cart me off Inuyasha and you really can't have me seeing it all backwards!!" She took a small breath to calm her frazzled nerved then tried to fix him with a glare. It might have been more effective if she wasn't still trembling from their ordeal. "Just because the necklace is gone, does not mean that you can make me do whatever you want."

"Yeah well it does now. Every time you go home Naraku gets closer and closer to finding all the jewel shards before us. We're going to finish this Kagome. And you're not calling the shots anymore."

Kagome was aghast. When had she actually called the shots? Really, when?! Did she miss that part?

His arms dropped out from underneath her, and Kagome barely caught herself and stood. He kept a hand on her arm to steady her, despite his attitude.

"Well I am going back to the well."

Kagome had a suspicion that Inuyasha wasn't exactly going to just let that statement go, but she turned on her heel and started stomping off in the direction she thought the well was.

Strangely enough he didn't say anything. Instead he began walking casually a few paces behind her, his head slightly lowered and his arms crossed. She cast him an annoyed glance backwards and she noticed a strange little grin plastered at the corner of his mouth. What was he all happy about? Kagome continued stomping away until she stepped out the woods all together. Unfortunately it was not the well in front of was the village. She could hear Inuyasha let out a snort of laughter, and wanted nothing more than yank on one of those dog ears.

"I wanted to visit Kaede anyway…hmph." She didn't want to let him get to her so she preceded with her stomping all the way to Kaede's hut. It wasn't too late, and Kagome would still probably be awake. Inuyasha lagged behind staying at the edge of the village, and as she went to the door of the hut, she heard what sounded like insane laughter.

Kagome sighed in annoyance and entered the hut.

"Kaede, hey just thought I'd stop by for a visit." Kagome tried her best to look at little like her usually self, but the old woman looked up from her stew and knew something was wrong with the teenager.

"Well child you look as though a friend has died. Now what is wrong dear?" Kaede moved away from the steaming pot, her old bones clicking slightly as she went.

"Well you don't by any chance have a spare subduing necklace do you?"

Kaede for a moment looked confused and then the wrinkles on her brow deepened as she realized the problem.

"Now how exactly did the first one get broken Kagome, surely Inuyasha didn't manage it by himself did he?"

Kagome blushed pink, embarrassed by her own mistake. "Well you see I accidentally…broke it."

Kaede seemed to take a moment to think and then said very carefully. "Well child I know sometimes in the throes of passion things can get out of hand…"

Kagomes pink face went beet red. "What! No no no no, me and Inuyasha, no way, no it was, and I was, the well and it just…it broke."

Apparently Kaede had some strange assumptions about her relationship with Inuyasha, or maybe she had heard about what happened at the well earlier this week. That Miroku, what a gossip.

"Oh I'm sorry child, I had just assumed, with the way you act when he's goes off to see my sister Kikyo among other signs…Well I had assumed that the two of you had progressed with your relationship." The woman had now turned back to her stew. The good smelling contents were doing nothing to ease Kagome's frazzled nerves.

"Well…it's not like that at all...Kaede. It's…" Kagome stopped and kind of wandered off in her mind for a moment searching for whatever the right answer drew a blank.

"Well regardless of how it was broken, I do not have a replacement for you, I'm afraid. That was the only necklace I had, it had been a gift from a traveling miko to our village years ago."

Kaede was now sipping the stew and adding a few seasonings as she saw fit. She didn't seem at all unnerved by the fact that Inuyasha was no longer...subdoable.

"But I don't know what I'm going to do." Kagome said, her voice very unsure. She had kind of been counting on being able to put things back the way they used to be.

Kaede raised the eyebrow above her good eye. "Do you think that Inuyasha would harm you child, now that you no longer can subdue him?" She asked in sort of voice that sounded like a teacher waiting for the pupil to catch up.

"Well no...but"

Kaede cut Kagome off. "Then do you not believe that you can continue on your journey not having power over him?"

Feeling frustrated and a little lectured Kagome said her final piece. "But he won't let me go home, and I might not be able to physically stop him anymore, but he can stop me."

The old woman quirked the side of her mouth. "Well then I suppose you do need it then. Alright you will need to go to the north. The village between the mountains I believe. That is where the traveling miko had come from. There might be another necklace there."

A glimmer of hope sparked to life inside Kagome. She could put everything back the way it was. "Oh thank you Kaede, thank you so much. Now all I have to do is come up with a lie that will convince Inuyasha to go to the north."

She gave the old miko a quick hug and ran for the door.

"But then you could always talk to the boy, tell him how you feel about him barring your way home, he just might understand if you…" But Kagome was already making her way to the edge of the village. Kaede rolled her good eye.

Outside Kagome hurried past the huts. Some of the villagers still would cast her leering glances. It didn't really bother her anymore. None of them would approach her without the fear of having Kaede come after them if they did.

After hanging around in the village one day she was told a story about Kaede in her younger years that involved a man that was getting too forward with some of the farmers daughters, apparently Kaede cursed him, and the curse somehow involved seepage…

A flash of red caught her eye. Skidding to stop she turned and glared at the lounging Inuyasha. He was casually lying out on the roof of one of the villager's homes, which they surely appreciated.

"Were you listening to what me and Kaede were talking about?"

Kagome seriously hoped not. It could ruin everything.

"No why the hell would I listen to whatever you had to say to the hag." He jumped down and walked towards her purposefully.

Relief washed over her momentarily, until she realized he just might be approaching her with the intention of making her a human sack of grain again.

"Hey hey, Inuaysha don't you dare throw me over your shoulder again." He paused at her panicky reaction.

"Well fine, but no more bitching while we head to the campsite." He moved suddenly crouching before her with his back to her.

For a moment she considered that he was at the perfect height for her yank on one of his ears, but she dismissed the thought.

"Get on Kagome, or your going over my shoulder." He sounded so smug saying it. Well she was going to get that other necklace and then his spine was hers. He would eat so much dirt that his teeth would be permanently would …

"Over the shoulder it is..." Just as he was beginning to stand Kagome leapt foreword and got on his back.

"Jerk." She whispered.

"Bitch." He responded.

"You know Inuyasha I think I sense a jewel shard to the north."

If Inuyasha was able to see her face as she said this, he may have reconsidered having her on his back. Her normally pretty features were stuck in a strange sort of mix of mirth and reprisal.

"Well good. We'll get the others and head out tomorrow. And we won't stop to rest either. I'm sick and tired of how long it takes to get from one place to another with you humans in tow."

Kagome ignored the insult and instead laid her head slightly on his shoulder and thought of what the new day would bring.

If Inuyasha thought her lack of rebuttal was weird he didn't say anything, just continued towards the campsite. As he leapt into the canopy he tightened his grip a little on her thighs, perhaps giving her some security, after her recent panic filled episode or perhaps to prevent her from crawling all over his body and causing them to plummet two stories again.