Without the well
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I'm not in the bests of moods so please no jokes. Gato made a two-on-one fight with a pair of pit-bulls or something like that and is currently down with a major leg injury there's a possibility that his leg won't heal correctly. As for the drug consuming cat part it was only a joke but it won't be popped. There'll be quite a few mistakes in this chapter but I don't think that I'll be in any mood to write for the next week or so and you probably don't want to wait that long so here it is a bit shorter as I wanted but I'll ad that next time. Don't worry the story won't be dropped!
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Chapter 10: Clothes/Trouble
"Ahh this feels great!" declared Kagome slipping deeper into the water of the hot spring.
"Yeah nothing's better than a hot soak!" agreed Éclair. "How about you Sakura?"
"There's only one..." started the younger sister.
"...thing wrong, Sesshoumaru is not here? Right?" finished Éclair. The younger sibling didn't answer Éclair couldn't help but chuckle. "So before you fall back into la-la land I want to know what was wrong with you that past few days."
"What do you mean?" responded Sakura.
"Come on you know what I mean. Far away looks sighs, mumbling a certain name in your sleep." chirped Éclair.
"I did not!" snapped Sakura with a beat red face.
"Oh really? There are five witnesses who can prove that!"
The interrogation would have continued, but a movement in the bushes alarmed everyone to a presence. Éclair was so far gone into the argument that she completely forgot about the surroundings. Then her face went horrid.
"Our clothes!" she yelled desperately jumping up and starting to run towards the bushes where their clothing was hidden. All three saw a shadow disappear somewhere in the distance but they were unable to follow it. After this the other two also jumped up and rushed to the bushes. Three gasps could be heard as the leaves of the hiding place were pushed to the side. Everything except for Kagome's red scarf was missing.
"This is not good!" declared Sakura.
"And the thief is already out of here!" added her sister. "I've never seen a kitsune run this fast before."
"Who cares about that now?" asked Kagome. "What'll we wear?"
Sakura and Éclair looked at each other with shocked eyes. "We only have two towels!" they yelled and started to run to the left over garments. Kagome was right behind them, but she lost the race and by the time she arrived the other two already had the treasures and there where no other towels left. Considering that the small parts of clothing were barely hiding their intimate parts there was no way to shared them. For short she was screwed.
The miko looked at her friends with pleading eyes, but she knew that it's useless. "Guys what do we have left?" she asked meekly.
"Umm... will a napkin do?" asked Sakura in her most innocent voice.
The twins normally would have broken down laughing at this, if it wouldn't had been for the... well... interesting situation. But they still chuckled.
Then the bushes started to move. Éclair knew that there wasn't any danger, but we couldn't say the same about Kagome and Sakura. The younger twin wrapped herself deeper into her towel while Kagome did the best she could at hiding her body. Soon both she and Sakura started to scream as their lungs let them thinking the worst. Or to put in another word that the one in the bushes was a male. Those screams immediately ended when they saw Rin stick out her head.
However by then Inuyasha was in full alert. "What is it?" he yelled charging across the shrub with his sword drawn.
Kagome resumed her screaming and jumped back into the hot spring trying to cover her entire body as best she could. "Inuyasha get out of here before you get hurt!" screamed Kagome, but it was once again too late and the hanyou entered the clearing.
Then he noticed that lack of clothing on the girls. He completely froze. "Would you stop staring already!" yelled the young miko starting to get pissed. The hanyou didn't respond in fact he didn't even twitch. Inuyasha's eyes were completely fixed on Kagome's form when she noticed these three feelings surfaced. Embarrassment, wonder, and shock. This was accompanied by a furious blush on her cheeks.
Of course the hanyou's strange behaviour also triggered other things and soon she decided to use her ultimate weapon. "Inuyasha! Sit!"
That did its job!
Inuyasha's muffled curses could be heard but nobody cared knowing well that it's anything but decent talk. "What happened?" asked Shippo also entering the clearing.
"Let's just say we have a minor fashion problem." informed Sakura.
"May I also add that all our money was with our clothes." remarked Éclair.
"In other words we're in a big jam." concluded Kagome.
A Few minutes later in the camp
Kagome smiled and thanked Inuyasha for the umpteenth time that he let her borrow his haori. Meanwhile the twins were busy getting everything they had together. Things weren't looking good at all. "This is all we have?" asked Kagome looking at the stuff they had.
A golden coin from Inuyasha two silver ones from Shippo along with several acorns and nuts, Rin and Kagome were flat broke. In the miko's case this went so far that even the clothes on her back were borrowed. Sakura and Éclair at least still had two towels, two blankets and a pair of umbrellas for rainy days.
"This is bad!" declared Kagome.
"A kimono and a half is all that we'll get from this at best. Remarked Éclair not so enthusiastically.
"How many days till we get to the old hag's village?" asked Inuyasha.
"Forget it!" yelled all three girls. "We won't run around like this for three days!"
"Then we have to get our clothes back!" declared Kagome.
"Nice dream!" remarked Inuyasha. "We have a bigger chance to find a needle in the haystack! The thief was fast he's probably already out of the mountains by now.
"Yep it's no use to chase the thief." agreed Éclair.
"But I promise you sooner or later we'll run across him and then he's in for a hell of a beating!" added Sakura.
"So what'll we do?" asked Kagome.
"One of us goes to the nearest village and we'll see what she can get." declared Éclair.
"But you don't have any clothes to wear!" interrupted Rin.
I wouldn't be that sure about that problem little sis!" remarked Sakura eyeing Inuyasha's remaining clothing.
"The hanyou immediately knew what the idea was. "Oh no you don't, don't even think about it he warned.
"And what do you suggest?" asked Éclair. If you go in you won't be able to get anything. Maybe we could send in Kagome, at lest she still has a haori."
"No way!" snapped the girl.
Inuyasha growled "Don't you dare send him there in such clothing!"
"Well then?" asked the older sibling once again.
"Feh!"
"Inuyasha just give your clothes to the girls they won't keep them." advised Shippo. For this he was rewarded with a lump on the head. The little fox of course immediately started to fake that he's crying.
The usual thing followed. Namely. "Inuyasha! SIT!"
While the hanyou continued grumbling the girls told Rin a Shippo to move out of the clearing for a short time. The two kids moved out like asked while the girls calmly waited for Inuyasha to get on his feet. The hanyou barely managed to get up when those begun their advance. The look in the female's eyes said it all. Resistance was futile.
Meanwhile the two kids were having fun and were laughing and giggling. Then a third much less happy voice interrupted.
"Hey let me go you Bitches!"
"Hold him still little sis!"
"On it big sis!"
"I've got his trousers!" yelled Kagome.
"Give that back!" the hanyou protested.
"Later right now we need more than you do!" responded Éclair.
Next morning it was time for Sakura to move into the village in Inuyasha's clothes. There was only one minor problem the hanyou's robe was already baggy on its owner... Well in her case we can say the she almost disappeared under the clothing. The only thing sticking out was her head.
"We're counting on you!" Kagome said holding Sakura's hand.
"Don't worry I won't goof it." Reassured the girl.
"You better don't snapped a certain hanyou, who currently wasn't visible simply because at the moment he had nothing to wear and the only thing he could use as clothing was practically his underpants and some bushes.
"Ok guys I'm going I'll be back in an hour or so." informed Sakura and moved in.
The village they came across was heavily fortified and apparently made a living from making weapons for the local warlord. This was further proved by the small rice field that surrounded the place. There was no way that it would generate enough rice for the village.
In the middle of the settlement there was a huge house, that looked like if it would rule above the smaller ones. The smoke coming out of it made it certain that that house was the main work place. Sakura calmly walked closer to the village on one of the rice field's dam.
At the same time Eclair was busy checking the villagers' thoughts and found out something disturbing. "This isn't good she remarked aloud."
"What is it?" asked Kagome.
"Well it looks like the village is preparing for an upcoming attack."
"What!" yelled Kagome desperately.
"Sakura HURRY UP! We gotta get out of the area!" hollered Éclair mentally to her sister. "Guys! Be on the look out for any samurai or anything the like. I'm not in the mood to knock out an entire army.
The younger twin did as told and sped up to accomplish her mission as son as possible. However at the gate of the village she was held up, by two men holding a strange metal tube. "What do you want?" asked one of them.
"I only want to buy some clothes. Some thief stole mine." Answered Sakura "I was lucky that a friend of mine lent me his for the time I get some new ones." She continued in her sweetest voice.
The two men eyed her carefully. For some time. "Sorry but we can't help you young lady." answered one of them.
"Only the people of our village may enter at this time." added the other.
"But..."
"We can't help now get lost!"
"But this is really an emergency please let me pass." pleaded Sakura.
"If the problem is really that big then I'd gladly help you to become a villager." remarked one of the guards.
"Yeah we're both in the need of a good wife." remarked the other, after this both started to laugh.
In The Shrubs"My little sis is a goner." remarked Éclair. "She'll break the guards' noses for that."
"I want my clothes!" demanded Inuyasha.
"Pipe down!" commanded Eclair.
"Dream on Bitch!" yelled the hanyou.
Not even a second later he jumped into a thick tree trunk breaking it down after dodging an imaginary attack.
"You'll pay for this he grumbled."
"Just shut up both of you!" interrupted Kagome stopping the fight before it could begin the last thing they needed right now was Éclair and Inuyasha starting a battle and blowing their cover.
Back to Sakura"I certainly hope that you two were only joking!" warned Sakura.
"Why would we? We didn't have and good fun for years." a set of laughs followed this.
"Nay those poor saps rest in peace!" stated Éclair.
Sakura was already mad, and this made her blood practically boil, she slowly lifted her fist. "Why do I always run into perverts like you?" she asked aloud.
The guards didn't have time to respond. Instead they were both sailing across the air. The village went into an uproar. People were running around getting more and more of those strange looking iron tubes. Sakura would have walked on but she also noticed that everything was just like when someone stirred an anthill and didn't move further in.
Éclair however used her abilities one more time to look into the villagers' skulls and her good mood was history. "Little sis! RUN FOR IT!" she hollered not caring that someone might find out the situation of her hiding spot.
Sakura turned around and looked at the edge of the forest not understanding why her older sister became suddenly so scared. Then a piece of lead whistled away only a mere inch from her head. This made her understand. Whatever it was it was faster than any arrow she ever saw before. "Ok I think big sis has a point!" she declared when she saw that the villagers and pulling out a second much larger version of those metal tubes. In other words a cannon.
"Don't just stand there looking stupid! RUN FOR IT!" hollered Eclair.
Sakura didn't need to hear that command another time when she saw what kind of bullet was placed into the cannon. She took off with full speed, but soon she heard several explosions. Not even a second later the shots were whizzing passed her she made a few zigzag movements and successfully avoided the bullets.
Then she heard an enormous explosion that was followed by a loud whistling sound. She immediately knew what's going on Sakura turned around and saw the huge metal ball flying towards her. Of course Sakura didn't back down. It took only a punch and along with a huge bang the cannonball blew into several little pieces. After this she continued to run.
A few hours later"So much for plan A!" declared Sakura.
"Than let's try plan B!" declared Éclair.
"Do we have one?" asked Kagome eyeing the older twin carefully knowing what kind of ideas that usually brings up.
"Now we have one!" announce the blonde girl. "We'll disguise ourselves as geishas!"
"Vetoed!" came the response from both Sakura and Kagome at the same time.
"I want my fucking clothes back you fucking bitches!" came Inuyasha's voice from the bushes.
"You'll get them back!" answered Sakura.
"I want them NOW bitch!"
"Call my sister bitch one more time and you'll regret it!" warned Éclair.
"Feh! Bitches!" KABOOOM The hanyou never saw the little black ball coming and now he was in the middle of a huge crater. And quite naked.
"You know he's got a really good ass, you sure don't want to marry him?" asked Éclair from Kagome.
"How many times do I have to tell you. We're only friends." Snapped the miko.
"So any bright ideas besides fighting?" asked Sakura.
"What about this? We disguise ourselves as circus..."
"No!" yelled the other two immediately.
"Can you bitches make your mind up already?"
"SIT!" WHAM
"Let's just wait for the evening and steal some clothes." suggested Sakura.
"Forget it!" interrupted Éclair "One more night only wearing a blanket and I'll be down with a cold for sure!"
"And what do you suggest we disguise ourselves with?" asked Kagome with her voice filled with sarcasm.
"She's right little sis. Besides to get inside we would have to flirt with the guards anyway. The only person I'd do that with is Sesshoumaru! And it's the same for Kagome only that she's going after Inuyasha."
"We are only friends!" snapped Kagome.
"So it is settled!" continued Sakura not even noticing that Kagome was busy denying things.
"I don't agree with stealing!" remarked Éclair.
"We don't agree with dressing up as whores without anything to put on!" countered Sakura and Kagome.
"I want my clothes back!"
Some distance away a monk was making a hasty getaway with a cart loaded with the most different kind of things of valuables. He slowed down for a few seconds and looked back at the village from which he just came from. "I'm sorry but you can't come along with me Kimiko. A monk's life is filled with danger. It's better for you to stay with your parents and away from the things I face every day."
For short he had a good day.
A huge roar coming from the village informed him that the owner of the house that he just "humbly" cleared from demons returned to his dwelling. The monk urged his newly aquired pair of horses and was off. "But still that man hasn't followed my instructions!" he remarked aloud. "There are still five minutes left till sundown."