InuYasha sneezed, startling him out of his doze and into a sitting position from his point sitting on Kaede's roof.
'Hmm?' He looked around, sniffing as one does after a spectacular sneeze, then stretching slightly.
He turned his nose to the air, not really noticing anything and particular that could have agitated said nose so thoroughly, and shrugged slightly distastefully. Someone just must be talking about me.
As his thoughts turned to the who and why, he lay back down on the hard timbers, crossing his hands behind his head, taking a slight note of the sun that was halfway through setting.
Five days, he thought, his eyes on the clouds that could still be seen in the orange light. Five days is too long! We should be moving, tracking, or just, he floundered slightly, doing something!
He suddenly noticed the incredibly foreboding feeling that had settled in his gut, that something potentially very painful was coming his way, not unlike the the look that Kagome always gave him right before she would sit him.
But, considering the girl in question was neither there or had any particular reason to do so, as well as any other potentially painful people were well out of throwing reach, he just rolled onto his side, ignoring it.
He was, in fact, alone at that moment, the hut beneath him empty, as Kaede was off helping an ill person, and Sango and Miroku were off elsewhere doing things that InuYasha held no interest in nor cared about.
Shippou was gone as well, something that InuYasha found himself breathing a sigh of relief over.
That kitsun was way to inquisitive, and had far too much of a track record of a big mouth to be anything but a nuisance to InuYasha.
He found himself reddening in irritation as he thought about the fox demon's questions, although mainly about the last time he had had a minute with Kagome on the way back, and the annoyance had walked in on it.
InuYasha had felt like he'd been scared out of a few years of his life when Shippou had loudly proclaimed his entrance, his thoughts and eyes clearly elsewhere, but the damage to the moment had been done, and InuYasha felt cheated upon missing out.
Kagome had seemed a little disappointed as well, his sole redeeming thought, but he agreed with himself once again, it was indeed annoying; travelling with the runt and his unnerving habit to pop up unexpectedly.
He would have to somehow convince Kagome into leaving the fox tyke behind at a village somewhere, he had spent more than enough time leeching off of them anyway.
That is coming, right? He thought, his mind turning to the future. I mean, Shippou won't be there when, InuYasha found himself reddening, Kagome and I, live together? Of course, the first thing I'm going to do when that happens is ban the runt from setting foot in, he found his mind wandering, and his face darkening as he considered an abode that he and the girl would share.
Basically, you just want Kagome all to yourself. A little voice said, and he rolled to his other side uncomfortably, making an equally as uncomfortable noise.
Well, obviously. He frowned, still embarrassed, shutting his eyes. I don't exactly plan on sharing her. Even if it's that annoying runt.
The breeze picked up a familiar scent, and that feeling of dread in his stomach twisted slightly.
He sat up. 'I thought you said five days, Kagome.' InuYasha called down to the girl in question in a surprised tone as she appeared around a corner in the last hints of daylight. 'You're early.'
'Well, not really,' She said, laughing nervously and putting her hands together. 'Could you come down? I have a favour to ask.'
With a single bound, he leapt off of the roof, and landed neatly in front of her, looking serious. 'What's the problem?'
'Well,' she started, 'um,'
He raised an eyebrow at her.
'Will you, please, uh, as a favour to me,' she scuffed her feet in the dust a little, looking anywhere but at him, 'go to a wedding with me?'
His concerned look seemed to freeze on his face.
'You see, my cousin's getting married,' she elaborated, 'and she came back to Japan especially for the wedding, but one of the groomsmen broke his foot, so I sort of offered for you to take his place, so you could come with me?'
He still seemed to be frozen.
'All you'd have to do is wear a tux, and not make a mess at the reception? Please?'
The statue that had momentairly replaced the hanyou blinked at her.
'Please, please, please? For me?' She laced her fingers under her chin pleadingly. 'I'll do anything to pay you back.'
'A, wedding?' He finally managed out.
'Yes.' She nodded.
'Why?'
'Because it's my cousin, InuYasha. She means a lot to me.'
'Not right now,' he decided.
'No, not right now, in a week's time, actually.'
'But-'
'Please?'
'And if I don't?'
'Then I'll be horribly disappointed.' She looked away, but glanced slyly back at him. 'And you would be too.'
'Why on earth would I be?' He said confusedly, raising his hands defensively.
'I've got a beautiful dress picked out already. I'm a bridesmaid, by the way. And if you don't,' she sighed, 'then I'll just have to get someone like the Houjou from my time to take me instead.'
'What!?' He exclaimed, already raising his hands against the threat.
'I just thought, considering you don't find the idea of weddings as repulsive as anyone would have first thought,' she pressed suggestively, raising her eyebrows at him, 'that you would rather take me than let someone else.'
InuYasha looked for a long moment like he was going to explode, as he turned a blotchety red, but then hung his head in defeat. 'Fine.' He said.
Kagome threw her arms around him, burying her face in his neck. 'Thank you!'
'Questions, though.'
'Anything.' She said, peeking up at him.
'What the hell are "groomsmen"? And a "reception"? And a "bridesmaid"? And a "tux"?'
She, however, seized his hand and started pulling him back towards the well. 'I'll show you. It's a western style wedding, so you could learn a thing or two.'
'Western?'
'A long, long way from here, to the west.'
'What, like, the continent?'
She paused, and looked at him, then smiled. 'Watch out, InuYasha, your world is about to get a whole lot bigger.'
'What do you mean?' InuYasha was looking totally lost as he was pulled along at a strapping pace once again.
Yep, I continue to love InuYasha's reaction, but even more so the foreboding feeling he gets like a rock in his stomach.
I hope everyone had a good valentines day, I will be the valentine of anyone who wants it :3 .
Thanks to nycorrall, and I have to agree with you. You'll have to find out what he looks like wearing it! :P
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