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Unfortunate Triangle
I Hate You, You Hate Me
"Kagome."
"Where? Where are you?" Kagome thought. "Your voice is so distant. Are you behind something? Are you trapped? Are you hurt? Where are you?"
"Kagome."
"Mm," Kagome murmured.
"Are you okay? Where are you? Where are you?"
"Kagome, I can't breathe."
She opened her eyes to peer into the cool, dark night. Someone needed her help, but she couldn't see him. How could she help him if she didn't know where he was?
At that moment she realized something was squirming against her chest.
"Shippou!" Kagome cried, plucking the poor fox demon from her embrace thus allowing him to breathe again. "I'm so sorry! I fell asleep."
Nodding, Shippou told her it wasn't a big deal, which made her feel slightly better about nearly suffocating her dear friend.
"I guess we should hurry to bed then," Kagome decided. "I don't want to fall asleep on you again."
"Uh-huh!" Shippou chirped, though his eyes were struggling to stay open.
Noting how tired he was, Kagome scooped him into her arms, careful not to hold him too tightly, and started back to the room they had been allowed to sleep in. As she quietly slid the door open, she saw that everyone was asleep: Miroku against the wall, Sango nearest the wall farthest from him, Inu-Yasha to the left of the door, and Kikyou beside him, her head resting against his legs. His hand was placed comfortably beneath several layers of her long, black hair.
"Not exactly what one wants to see before one goes to bed," Kagome grumbled to herself, her eyebrows briefly knotting in anger before they mournfully sloped across her eyes.
Despite her exhaustion from the day's searching, Kagome took a moment to just stand and hold Shippou in her arms as she thought. "I'm so tired of this jealous feeling. I hate feeling this way. Why can't it all just be easier? I don't want to be like this for the rest of the time I'm here, so- " She cut herself off and stared at the wall. Afraid of what she was about to say even though it wasn't physically spoken, one look at the happy couple beside her was all she needed to continue.
"I won't like Inu-Yasha anymore."
*****
No one wanted to stay in the village for very long, even Kikyou, who had been so excited by the quaint, little place where she and Inu-Yasha had first laid eyes on one another. Early in the morning, the group started north because that was the direction that sounded good at that time.
Covering her mouth with a sluggish hand, Kagome tried to suppress a large yawn threatening to burst from her lips.
"When did you come to bed last night, Kagome?" Sango, who was walking beside her and could hear every deep inhale, asked.
"I don't know," Kagome admitted. "Shippou and I were talking, and I fell asleep at some point, but then I went to bed."
"Kagome fell asleep on me!" Shippou cried from the said girl's backpack. He was sitting on the top of the massive thing, lying back against her dark hair and playing with the soft strands. "I couldn't breathe, so I had to wake her up."
Kagome tried to smile, but she still felt rather guilty about the incident. Unbeknownst to the chuckling Sango, a particular monk was making his way to her, his hand low to the devil and palm up to the heavens.
"By the way," Kagome said as Sango was walloping Miroku for a lecherous acted that had just taken place a small distance behind her and the fox demon, "your tail makes a nice pillow, Shippou."
She looked over her shoulder to see that he was twiddling his thumbs with his head lowered.
"R-really?" he asked meekly.
"Really," Kagome confirmed. If she had seen his cheeks turning pink from the compliment, she would have laughed, but she had turned her head forward again and was looking into the face of Inu-Yasha.
She stopped walking and looked at him. He was maybe a foot away from her. Raising her eyebrows, she asked, "What is it?" What was the deal with him being so close?
"Feh. It's nothing," he said and turned away.
"Hey!" Kagome cried, running in front of him to face him, causing Shippou to fall off her backpack. "What's the deal with getting up in my face and then calling it nothing?"
"It's nothing," Inu-Yasha repeated, slightly annoyed.
"This is nothing?" she asked, stepping closer to him. "Explain it to me, please, because I don't understand you."
"It's nothing," he snapped.
"Tell me now!"
"It's nothing! Your face is nothing!" he shouted.
During the small argument, Kagome's hands had balled up, but at his words, they lowered every so slightly in defeat before she cried, "Sit!"
She hadn't sat him in the longest time. Looking down at his spread- eagle body, she couldn't remember why she hadn't. It felt pretty good to see him eat his words since they were usually dirt. Being the cause of his mid-morning snack was even better.
Lifting his head from the ground, Inu-Yasha glared up at her and yelled, "What in all hells was that for?!"
Kagome looked down at him for a moment, and then said, "It's nothing."
After opening and closing his mouth a few times, he climbed to his feet and stalked after the group, which had continued their trek without waiting for him. Sango and Miroku were still smiling as they replayed the half-demon's plummet to the ground face first in their minds. Shippou wasn't just smiling he was in hysterics. Kagome seemed considerably more awake than she had been before. Kikyou looked angry, and not just angry; she looked like she was about to grab the stick closest to her and whack whatever crap was in him out of him and then whack that once his body was flat and crumpled.
Scowling at all of them, Inu-Yasha jumped into the trees beside the path and travelled ahead.
*****
When the group had settled down for lunch, Miroku and Sango apologized for laughing, but Kikyou was still mad. If anything, she was angrier than she had been before. Throughout their rest, she stared at him without blinking, which made him realize that it was worse than he thought. Finally, he decided that he should confront her before whatever that was wrong between them got worse. "At least," he reminded himself, "she can't 'sit' me." However, this reminder made him recall, from his viewpoint, Kagome's unreasonable action earlier that day, so he was mad again. Later he would realize that it is never good to confront a woman about her anger when he himself is upset about something else.
Her eyes never strayed from his face even as he stalked over to her.
"Let's talk," he grumbled, grabbing her hand and pulling her to her feet.
"I can walk on my own," she snapped, but she didn't pull her hand from his firm grasp.
He wasn't exactly sure why, but Inu-Yasha didn't want the others to hear whatever was going to be said, so he led her to a river where the sound of the rushing water would drown out their words.
"Why are you mad at me?" he asked, whirling around to face her.
"As if you don't know!" Kikyou said.
"I don't, so tell me why!"
"You ran to her!" she blurted, wrenching her hand from his.
"To Kagome? I didn't run to her!" Inu-Yasha defended, balling his empty hands into fists since he wasn't holding her palm anymore. "Why would you think I did?"
"You did. You ran to her," she bit out.
"Why would I run to her?"
"For no reason! You ran to her for no reason at all!" Kikyou shouted. Hearing her own words sparked tears to drain from her eyes, and they fell silently down her cheeks.
Inu-Yasha was speechless. He hadn't run to Kagome without a reason. He hadn't run to her in the first place.
"I hate it that you ignore my feelings when she's around! You never care what's happening to me!" she blubbered. Still facing him, she was too proud to turn away despite her tears.
"Do you want me to never talk to her again?" Inu-Yasha asked, staring at her.
Kikyou closed her mouth and searched his face for any emotion, any hint to what he was feeling, but she found nothing. "Yes," she said.
Inu-Yasha closed his eyes and turned to leave. "I can't do that, Kikyou. I won't do that."
Shocked and hurt by his proclamation, Kikyou clenched her robes in her hands. "Why not?" she spat.
"Kagome's still my friend."
"I hate her."
"She'll always be my friend."
"I want you to forget about her."
"I want to be friends with her."
"I want her to die!"
Inu-Yasha couldn't believe she had said that. Kikyou was a priestess, a lover of the people. Kagome even had a part of her soul.
He wanted to slap her even as he wrapped his arms around her in a consoling embrace.
"Damn you, Inu-Yasha. Even when we're together, you still cause me so much pain," Kikyou choked out against his warm chest.
"Forget your hate for Kagome," he said, his breath rushing past her ear. She buried herself deeper into his clothes.
"I can't. I can't," she said. He could feel his shirt dampen from her tears.
"You can," he assured her. "You can."
They stayed in each other's arms a while longer before they returned to the camp where Kagome was her usual bright self and Kikyou was quiet and melancholy again.
Parody One
"Kagome."
"Where? Where are you?" Kagome thought. "Your voice is so distant. Are you behind something? Are you trapped? Are you hurt? Where are you?"
"Kagome."
Kagome's eyes fluttered open to see Shippou floating in front of her.
"Shippou!" she exclaimed, wiping the sleep from her eyes. "You look a little pale. Are you okay?"
"No," Shippou said. "I'm not." He pointed a small finger to the body that was lying in Kagome's lap.
Kagome looked to the limp fox demon in her lap and tried to shake him awake.
"Oh, my gosh, Shippou!" Kagome gasped. "You aren't breathing."
"I never will again," Shippou said.
"Then, that means-" Kagome murmured.
"That I'm dead," Shippou finished.
"That I see dead people!" Kagome cried. "Wow! Do you think they'll make a movie about me, Shippou? I've always wanted to be in a creepy movie like that. I better start back to Tokyo right away, so I can share my secret and become famous!"
Kagome leapt to her feet and joyously skipped back to the well, waving Shippou's body around as she went.
"Hey, wait!" Shippou cried. "Don't I get a funeral? Don't I get some flowers? Don't I get a prayer?! This sucks!"
Parody Two
As she quietly slid the door open, she saw that everyone was asleep: Miroku against the wall, Sango nearest the wall farthest from him, Inu-Yasha to the left of the door, and Kikyou beside him, her head resting against his legs. His hand was placed comfortably beneath several layers of her long, black hair.
Kagome kicked Kikyou in the eye.
Parody Three
"Do you want me to never talk to her again?" Inu-Yasha asked, staring at her.
Kikyou closed her mouth and searched his face for any emotion, any hint to what he was feeling, but she found nothing. "Yes," she said.
Inu-Yasha closed his eyes and turned to leave. "I can't do that, Kikyou. I won't do that. I'm in love with Kagome! I think she smells like posies and rosies and cinnamon sticks, and I love the way she prods and pops the ticks. The way she walks o' the way she talks. Her smile! Her laugh! I love her so much, I want to have a magic staff!"
Kikyou was quiet, and then she said, "Um, I don't want to date a guy that rhymes that badly, so let's break up."
"YES!" someone shouted, triumphantly pumping her fists into the air thus causing her to lose her balance on the tree limb.
Kagome fell out of the tree with much squealing and ouching. She landed with a large 'WUMPH!' and looked up at Inu-Yasha and Kikyou.
"Woah," she said. "This is so what I would call awkward."
Parody Four
"Why not?" she spat.
"Kagome's still my friend."
"I hate her."
"She'll always be my friend."
"I want you to forget about her."
"I want to be friends with her."
"I want her to die!"
"Kikyou," Inu-Yasha said, his voice wavering, "that is the most romantic thing I have ever heard you say."
"I thought you liked my 'take me now, you sexy half beast' line best?" Kikyou queried.
"Both are deep and romantic, so either will do."
"What about both?"
"OOooOOoo."
Author's Note: I actually didn't have homework tonight, so I typed this chapter up for all of you who bother to read this! ^.^ Thank you SO much to those of you who review! I love reading what you guys have to say, and you make it all worth it! This is an especially fun fanfic because I improvise from the moment I sit down at the computer to type it. lol This is probably one of my favorite things to write since I can just type whatever comes to mind. It's a vent for all my ideas that didn't really fit with anything else. Oh, really quick before I finish this up, I'm going to stick in a little promoting me stuff. I was disappointed by the amount of reviews I got for one of my other stories called Past and Present Intertwine. After I updated, I received less than eight reviews. Believe me, I'm really grateful for those who reviews, but it's a big drop from the average fifteen reviews a chapter. It will probably turn out to be my best Inu- Yasha fanfic since it's a great Inu-Yasha/Kagome romance dealing with when they are kids and when they are teenagers. It switches back and forth, and it all fits together (I think so anyway). My other Inu-Yasha fanfic at this point in time is Careless Love. That story will have a great ending. I can't wait to get the next chapter up!!! I have the romantic scene all planned out, and it should prove to be interesting. ^.^'' It's about Kagome feeling that Inu-Yasha doesn't care about how she feels and stuff, and then he has to prove her wrong and all. I have some hilarious Miroku/Sango stuff in that fanfic, too. Anyway, that's enough about all of that. I'm sure very few of you bothered to read it, but to those of you who did, could you give them a chance in your free free time? I'd appreciate it SOOO much. ^.^ Woo, this was one selfish Author's Note. I better stop before I'm mangled with an orange potato that grew in the spring of 1916 and was frozen in a cooler in someone's basement for 1702.66 years then was sent back in a time machine just to mangle me for my rudeness! Peep!
Unfortunate Triangle
I Hate You, You Hate Me
"Kagome."
"Where? Where are you?" Kagome thought. "Your voice is so distant. Are you behind something? Are you trapped? Are you hurt? Where are you?"
"Kagome."
"Mm," Kagome murmured.
"Are you okay? Where are you? Where are you?"
"Kagome, I can't breathe."
She opened her eyes to peer into the cool, dark night. Someone needed her help, but she couldn't see him. How could she help him if she didn't know where he was?
At that moment she realized something was squirming against her chest.
"Shippou!" Kagome cried, plucking the poor fox demon from her embrace thus allowing him to breathe again. "I'm so sorry! I fell asleep."
Nodding, Shippou told her it wasn't a big deal, which made her feel slightly better about nearly suffocating her dear friend.
"I guess we should hurry to bed then," Kagome decided. "I don't want to fall asleep on you again."
"Uh-huh!" Shippou chirped, though his eyes were struggling to stay open.
Noting how tired he was, Kagome scooped him into her arms, careful not to hold him too tightly, and started back to the room they had been allowed to sleep in. As she quietly slid the door open, she saw that everyone was asleep: Miroku against the wall, Sango nearest the wall farthest from him, Inu-Yasha to the left of the door, and Kikyou beside him, her head resting against his legs. His hand was placed comfortably beneath several layers of her long, black hair.
"Not exactly what one wants to see before one goes to bed," Kagome grumbled to herself, her eyebrows briefly knotting in anger before they mournfully sloped across her eyes.
Despite her exhaustion from the day's searching, Kagome took a moment to just stand and hold Shippou in her arms as she thought. "I'm so tired of this jealous feeling. I hate feeling this way. Why can't it all just be easier? I don't want to be like this for the rest of the time I'm here, so- " She cut herself off and stared at the wall. Afraid of what she was about to say even though it wasn't physically spoken, one look at the happy couple beside her was all she needed to continue.
"I won't like Inu-Yasha anymore."
*****
No one wanted to stay in the village for very long, even Kikyou, who had been so excited by the quaint, little place where she and Inu-Yasha had first laid eyes on one another. Early in the morning, the group started north because that was the direction that sounded good at that time.
Covering her mouth with a sluggish hand, Kagome tried to suppress a large yawn threatening to burst from her lips.
"When did you come to bed last night, Kagome?" Sango, who was walking beside her and could hear every deep inhale, asked.
"I don't know," Kagome admitted. "Shippou and I were talking, and I fell asleep at some point, but then I went to bed."
"Kagome fell asleep on me!" Shippou cried from the said girl's backpack. He was sitting on the top of the massive thing, lying back against her dark hair and playing with the soft strands. "I couldn't breathe, so I had to wake her up."
Kagome tried to smile, but she still felt rather guilty about the incident. Unbeknownst to the chuckling Sango, a particular monk was making his way to her, his hand low to the devil and palm up to the heavens.
"By the way," Kagome said as Sango was walloping Miroku for a lecherous acted that had just taken place a small distance behind her and the fox demon, "your tail makes a nice pillow, Shippou."
She looked over her shoulder to see that he was twiddling his thumbs with his head lowered.
"R-really?" he asked meekly.
"Really," Kagome confirmed. If she had seen his cheeks turning pink from the compliment, she would have laughed, but she had turned her head forward again and was looking into the face of Inu-Yasha.
She stopped walking and looked at him. He was maybe a foot away from her. Raising her eyebrows, she asked, "What is it?" What was the deal with him being so close?
"Feh. It's nothing," he said and turned away.
"Hey!" Kagome cried, running in front of him to face him, causing Shippou to fall off her backpack. "What's the deal with getting up in my face and then calling it nothing?"
"It's nothing," Inu-Yasha repeated, slightly annoyed.
"This is nothing?" she asked, stepping closer to him. "Explain it to me, please, because I don't understand you."
"It's nothing," he snapped.
"Tell me now!"
"It's nothing! Your face is nothing!" he shouted.
During the small argument, Kagome's hands had balled up, but at his words, they lowered every so slightly in defeat before she cried, "Sit!"
She hadn't sat him in the longest time. Looking down at his spread- eagle body, she couldn't remember why she hadn't. It felt pretty good to see him eat his words since they were usually dirt. Being the cause of his mid-morning snack was even better.
Lifting his head from the ground, Inu-Yasha glared up at her and yelled, "What in all hells was that for?!"
Kagome looked down at him for a moment, and then said, "It's nothing."
After opening and closing his mouth a few times, he climbed to his feet and stalked after the group, which had continued their trek without waiting for him. Sango and Miroku were still smiling as they replayed the half-demon's plummet to the ground face first in their minds. Shippou wasn't just smiling he was in hysterics. Kagome seemed considerably more awake than she had been before. Kikyou looked angry, and not just angry; she looked like she was about to grab the stick closest to her and whack whatever crap was in him out of him and then whack that once his body was flat and crumpled.
Scowling at all of them, Inu-Yasha jumped into the trees beside the path and travelled ahead.
*****
When the group had settled down for lunch, Miroku and Sango apologized for laughing, but Kikyou was still mad. If anything, she was angrier than she had been before. Throughout their rest, she stared at him without blinking, which made him realize that it was worse than he thought. Finally, he decided that he should confront her before whatever that was wrong between them got worse. "At least," he reminded himself, "she can't 'sit' me." However, this reminder made him recall, from his viewpoint, Kagome's unreasonable action earlier that day, so he was mad again. Later he would realize that it is never good to confront a woman about her anger when he himself is upset about something else.
Her eyes never strayed from his face even as he stalked over to her.
"Let's talk," he grumbled, grabbing her hand and pulling her to her feet.
"I can walk on my own," she snapped, but she didn't pull her hand from his firm grasp.
He wasn't exactly sure why, but Inu-Yasha didn't want the others to hear whatever was going to be said, so he led her to a river where the sound of the rushing water would drown out their words.
"Why are you mad at me?" he asked, whirling around to face her.
"As if you don't know!" Kikyou said.
"I don't, so tell me why!"
"You ran to her!" she blurted, wrenching her hand from his.
"To Kagome? I didn't run to her!" Inu-Yasha defended, balling his empty hands into fists since he wasn't holding her palm anymore. "Why would you think I did?"
"You did. You ran to her," she bit out.
"Why would I run to her?"
"For no reason! You ran to her for no reason at all!" Kikyou shouted. Hearing her own words sparked tears to drain from her eyes, and they fell silently down her cheeks.
Inu-Yasha was speechless. He hadn't run to Kagome without a reason. He hadn't run to her in the first place.
"I hate it that you ignore my feelings when she's around! You never care what's happening to me!" she blubbered. Still facing him, she was too proud to turn away despite her tears.
"Do you want me to never talk to her again?" Inu-Yasha asked, staring at her.
Kikyou closed her mouth and searched his face for any emotion, any hint to what he was feeling, but she found nothing. "Yes," she said.
Inu-Yasha closed his eyes and turned to leave. "I can't do that, Kikyou. I won't do that."
Shocked and hurt by his proclamation, Kikyou clenched her robes in her hands. "Why not?" she spat.
"Kagome's still my friend."
"I hate her."
"She'll always be my friend."
"I want you to forget about her."
"I want to be friends with her."
"I want her to die!"
Inu-Yasha couldn't believe she had said that. Kikyou was a priestess, a lover of the people. Kagome even had a part of her soul.
He wanted to slap her even as he wrapped his arms around her in a consoling embrace.
"Damn you, Inu-Yasha. Even when we're together, you still cause me so much pain," Kikyou choked out against his warm chest.
"Forget your hate for Kagome," he said, his breath rushing past her ear. She buried herself deeper into his clothes.
"I can't. I can't," she said. He could feel his shirt dampen from her tears.
"You can," he assured her. "You can."
They stayed in each other's arms a while longer before they returned to the camp where Kagome was her usual bright self and Kikyou was quiet and melancholy again.
Parody One
"Kagome."
"Where? Where are you?" Kagome thought. "Your voice is so distant. Are you behind something? Are you trapped? Are you hurt? Where are you?"
"Kagome."
Kagome's eyes fluttered open to see Shippou floating in front of her.
"Shippou!" she exclaimed, wiping the sleep from her eyes. "You look a little pale. Are you okay?"
"No," Shippou said. "I'm not." He pointed a small finger to the body that was lying in Kagome's lap.
Kagome looked to the limp fox demon in her lap and tried to shake him awake.
"Oh, my gosh, Shippou!" Kagome gasped. "You aren't breathing."
"I never will again," Shippou said.
"Then, that means-" Kagome murmured.
"That I'm dead," Shippou finished.
"That I see dead people!" Kagome cried. "Wow! Do you think they'll make a movie about me, Shippou? I've always wanted to be in a creepy movie like that. I better start back to Tokyo right away, so I can share my secret and become famous!"
Kagome leapt to her feet and joyously skipped back to the well, waving Shippou's body around as she went.
"Hey, wait!" Shippou cried. "Don't I get a funeral? Don't I get some flowers? Don't I get a prayer?! This sucks!"
Parody Two
As she quietly slid the door open, she saw that everyone was asleep: Miroku against the wall, Sango nearest the wall farthest from him, Inu-Yasha to the left of the door, and Kikyou beside him, her head resting against his legs. His hand was placed comfortably beneath several layers of her long, black hair.
Kagome kicked Kikyou in the eye.
Parody Three
"Do you want me to never talk to her again?" Inu-Yasha asked, staring at her.
Kikyou closed her mouth and searched his face for any emotion, any hint to what he was feeling, but she found nothing. "Yes," she said.
Inu-Yasha closed his eyes and turned to leave. "I can't do that, Kikyou. I won't do that. I'm in love with Kagome! I think she smells like posies and rosies and cinnamon sticks, and I love the way she prods and pops the ticks. The way she walks o' the way she talks. Her smile! Her laugh! I love her so much, I want to have a magic staff!"
Kikyou was quiet, and then she said, "Um, I don't want to date a guy that rhymes that badly, so let's break up."
"YES!" someone shouted, triumphantly pumping her fists into the air thus causing her to lose her balance on the tree limb.
Kagome fell out of the tree with much squealing and ouching. She landed with a large 'WUMPH!' and looked up at Inu-Yasha and Kikyou.
"Woah," she said. "This is so what I would call awkward."
Parody Four
"Why not?" she spat.
"Kagome's still my friend."
"I hate her."
"She'll always be my friend."
"I want you to forget about her."
"I want to be friends with her."
"I want her to die!"
"Kikyou," Inu-Yasha said, his voice wavering, "that is the most romantic thing I have ever heard you say."
"I thought you liked my 'take me now, you sexy half beast' line best?" Kikyou queried.
"Both are deep and romantic, so either will do."
"What about both?"
"OOooOOoo."
Author's Note: I actually didn't have homework tonight, so I typed this chapter up for all of you who bother to read this! ^.^ Thank you SO much to those of you who review! I love reading what you guys have to say, and you make it all worth it! This is an especially fun fanfic because I improvise from the moment I sit down at the computer to type it. lol This is probably one of my favorite things to write since I can just type whatever comes to mind. It's a vent for all my ideas that didn't really fit with anything else. Oh, really quick before I finish this up, I'm going to stick in a little promoting me stuff. I was disappointed by the amount of reviews I got for one of my other stories called Past and Present Intertwine. After I updated, I received less than eight reviews. Believe me, I'm really grateful for those who reviews, but it's a big drop from the average fifteen reviews a chapter. It will probably turn out to be my best Inu- Yasha fanfic since it's a great Inu-Yasha/Kagome romance dealing with when they are kids and when they are teenagers. It switches back and forth, and it all fits together (I think so anyway). My other Inu-Yasha fanfic at this point in time is Careless Love. That story will have a great ending. I can't wait to get the next chapter up!!! I have the romantic scene all planned out, and it should prove to be interesting. ^.^'' It's about Kagome feeling that Inu-Yasha doesn't care about how she feels and stuff, and then he has to prove her wrong and all. I have some hilarious Miroku/Sango stuff in that fanfic, too. Anyway, that's enough about all of that. I'm sure very few of you bothered to read it, but to those of you who did, could you give them a chance in your free free time? I'd appreciate it SOOO much. ^.^ Woo, this was one selfish Author's Note. I better stop before I'm mangled with an orange potato that grew in the spring of 1916 and was frozen in a cooler in someone's basement for 1702.66 years then was sent back in a time machine just to mangle me for my rudeness! Peep!