The awful nightmare faded out..only to be replaced by....rubbing? "Oh god, my ears!" he screamed, pushing the girl away. "Nooooo!" she squealed. "Your ears are too fuzzy!" And with that, the girl kept rubbing. InuYasha, in this dream, had an odd phobia of squirrels. So when the girl brought out a cage, with his mortal enemy, he had to run for it..

InuYasha rolled over, this time yelping of fear, and almost fell off the branch. Kagome frowned disapprovingly. Couldn't he learn to sit still?

He awoke to...no wait. He wasn't awake! But WHAT was that face? "Eeeeek!" he screamed, backing away as the tiny fanged teeth smiled at him. "Hi! I'm Shippo!" it said, bobbing its head up and down. InuYasha backed up some more. What the heck was this thing? Cripes, he had some odd dreams..

He sat up, breathing heavily. Kagome frowned some more. "What is wrong with you? Its like you saw a ghost or something. Weird kid.." Inu glared at her. "Well you-......." He screamed and fell off the branch. There was an extremely small version of that thing he saw in his dream, standing right behind her! "Ohhh....uhhm..." stuttered Kagome, directing her gaze to the creature. "Hi?" Her eyes lowered to the kitsune's tail, and dropped off the branch. Unluckily, she landed on a certain half demon recovering from his fall.

Inu yelped again, crushed by the girl. He knocked her off, just about ready to dig his claws into her throat. Noticing the murderous look her kidnapper was giving, Kagome ran for it. But then she was tackled to the ground. InuYasha stuck his claws to her neck, grinning evilly, when all of a sudden..

"Oohhhh, lovers!" sung Shippo, looking down at them with big kitsune eyes. "What's next, kisses and hugs? See how much he wants you to stay?" With an angry roar, more like a lion's than a dog's, InuYasha charged up the tree and slammed into him. Shippo took in a silvery white flash, before in a moment, he was lying on his back on the ground. "Eeee!" squeaked the kitsune, dodging as InuYasha was about to rip him to bits.

"I-DO-NOT-LOVE-THAT-UGLY-FREAK!" InuYasha whacked Shippo with a branch every space between words. Kagome watched in a kind of amused horror. Shippo whimpered and covered himself with tiny hands and feet as he took in the beatings. "Leave him alone!" yelled Kagome, red in the face. InuYasha stopped to give her an annoyed look, before returning to torturing Shippo. "OH, THAT'S IT MISTER!" growled Kagome, and stomped up. She pushed InuYasha away (who now looked absolutely terrified) and cuddled the little fox. "I wuv you, miss!" squeaked Shippo, smiling in a smug way at InuYasha.

Kagome turned around, for the first time realizing InuYasha lying on the ground. Inu looked hopefully up at her, at least for a bit of comfort. That wasn't the case.

"HOW DARE YOU PICK ON SOMEONE WHO ISN'T CLOSE TO YOUR OWN SIZE!" she roared. "HOW WOULD YOU LIKE IT, HUH? IS IT SUPPOSED TO MAKE YOU PROUD? YOU DOG EARED JERK! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WOULD DO SUCH A THING! Then again, you are a kidnapper.." she paused thoughtfully. Then started hissing at him again. InuYasha cowered even more each insult Kagome threw at him, until she decided Doggy had enough punishment. Shippo stuck his tongue out. Inu was itching to get his claws around that bratty, whining fox.

Kikyo, on the other hand, heard the yelling and trundled over. "T-there you are!" she gasped, out of breath. "I-i.." The girl took one look at InuYasha and Shippo, started screaming, and whipped out a bow and arrow faster then it took for her to react. Inu crossed his eyes at the arrow pointing at his nose. "They'll hurt you, Kagome! Don't worry, I'll protect you!"

Shippo smiled contentedly, knowing Kagome wouldn't let HIM get hurt. But that stupid dog..well, let's say he deserved it. Twitching his tail, he leapt to Kagome's shoulder and started (to InuYasha's disgust) purring like a kitten! Kagome paused to stroke him on the head with a smile, then turned to Kikyo. "Don't hurt this lil guy..he's too cute. But.." she added, looking directly at Inu. "I think someone has been a very bad doggy, kidnapping girls!" Kagome and Kikyo shared a knowing look suddenly, both of them grinning a little evilly and watching him closely. "Mind if I...take care of him?" asked Kagome, twirling her stick with an evil glint in her eyes.

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Kagome's scary, isn't she? Poor Inu...now he's going to get it!