I'm such a bad girl! I copied off of some of Misao CG-sama's stuff without realizing it! So I'm advertising her stories right now, and I'll be more careful about accidental plagiarism. Sorry Misao-sama! ^^ I give you permission to flame me and cuss me out if you want!



Chapter 4: The Care and Keeping of Your Seeing Eye Dog



Kagome sat brushing Mike's sparkling golden fur. His tongue hung out and he panted in happiness. Shippou went over and started petting the dog's head. Mike licked Shippou's face.

The kitsune laughed, "He's a lot nicer then Inu Yasha, I'll give him that!"

BONK!

"Hey!" Shippou rubbed at the lump on his head and glared at the dog demon.

Inu Yasha glared back and said, "How can you like someone who licks "himself?""

"You mean you don't?" Shippou asked, which earned him another lump on the head.

"No! I don't!" Inu Yasha shouted.

Miroku sat over by Sango. "Is something troubling Inu Yasha?" he asked.

"He's jealous of Mike." She said casually.

"I ain't jealous!" Inu Yasha shouted. A vein popped on his forehead.

"Inu Yasha, if you wanted Kagome to scratch your belly and brush your hair, all you have to do is ask her." Miroku said.

BONK!

Inu Yasha scowled at Mike. Mike looked up at him and tilted his head to the side. He made a whining noise as if to say, 'Have you thought about what I said?'

(FB: I'm only here to serve her, do you want to take my place?)

Inu Yasha looked upward with his scowl. He actually had thought of it, but it sounded like Mike was just asking Inu Yasha if he wanted him to quit. It sounded WAY too easy.

Mike rested his head on Kagome's leg. She patted his head and said, "I'm thinking of asking Mama if we can keep him!"

Inu Yasha looked up surprised, "What?"

"Sure! I mean, even though he's a rental, maybe we could buy him for good! What do you say, Mike?"

Mike barked and wagged his tail happily.

"Good boy!" Kagome said.

Inu Yasha watched as she pulled a plastic bag out of her backpack that smelled like food. "What's that?" he asked.

"Oh, they're just-" then she got an idea. "-cookies!" she held the bag out to Inu Yasha. "Wanna try one?"

Inu Yasha looked at the bag suspiciously then reached his hand in. Kagome's smile grew. He pulled out a brown bone shaped "cookie." He sniffed it for inspection, then when it seemed okay, he bit it in half.

Kagome struggled to hold back her laughter. Then all of a sudden his eyes grew. She wondered if he was about to get mad at her for feeding him....

"Wow!" Inu Yasha said in awe. He looked at the half bone in his hand. "This is good! It must be really popular in your time!"

A giggle escaped from her mouth and she said, "You could say that."

He ate the other half of the bone and said, "What's so funny?"

"Nothing!" she said in a shaky voice as she tried to hold back the hysterics.

He rolled his eyes at her and went over to check the fire. Shippou went over to her. "Kagome, can I have a cookie?"

"Shippou, I don't think you want one of these cookies." She said. She pulled a dogbone out of the bag and held it out to Mike. He bit the end of it and started to chew it up. He looked over at Inu Yasha and made a dog noise as if to say, 'What a moron!'





"Do you think you can still sense shikon shards?" Inu Yasha asked Kagome.

"Actually, I think I can sense them a lot better when I'm blind!" she said. "I could sense the shikon shards in my room all the way from the optometrist's office."

"Really?" he said. "Do you sense anything now?"

She paused then said. "Yeah! There's one not far from here!"

"Alright!" he said. He ought to make her blind more often! But then that would give Mike more reason to be around. Speaking of Mike, the dog was leading her as they went.

They didn't really walk far to get the shikon shard. And it wasn't them who found the shikon shard, it was the shikon shard that found them. A weasel demon jumped out with two on its forhead. It fired a kind of energy blast out of its mouth and caught them off guard. Inu Yasha jumped forward and sliced it in half with one swing. Pretty easy, huh?

He looked over at the crater and saw that Kagome was knocked down from the blast. He went over to her. "You okay?" he asked.

"Yeah, just a little bump." She rubbed her back and sat up. Then she gasped, "Where's Mike??!" She looked around even though she had a patch over her eyes.

Then she heard Mike whimper to her left. "MIKE!?"

Mike came over with a limp and his left front leg in the air.

"I think he's hurt!" Sango said.

"Oh no!" Kagome said. She wondered how bad it was.

They rolled out a blanket and Sango and Miroku looked at it. "I think he just sprained his leg." Sango said.

"Oh, that's good." Kagome said. "But what am I going to do now? I need my seeing eye dog!" she stroked Mike's fur.

Mike looked up at Inu Yasha, 'Hrrr rerror hr!'

"What do you mean now's my chance?" Inu Yasha said.

Sango leaned near Miroku, "Is he talking to the dog?"

"I think so." Miroku said and reached behind Sango.

She flinched and slapped him.

Inu Yasha sighed and said, "I guess I could help you."

Kagome looked up at the source of his voice, "I couldn't see, where you talking to me?"

"Yeah!" he said.

Kagome looked down though she could only see the darkness of her blindfold. "Sure, I guess. Why not?"

Inu Yasha picked Mike up and slung him over his shoulder. "Let's go!"

They started to walk off but Kagome just stood there. Inu Yasha realized this and turned to look at her, Mike looked too. "What? Aren't you coming?"

"I'd like to, but I can't see you!" she said. "You need to lead me somehow." She held out her hand.

He just looked at it like it had a big spider in it.

"Well? Hold my hand!" she said.

"What?!" Inu Yasha blushed.

"You need to lead me!" she said.

He looked at it again then hesitantly took it. A freaky feeling shot from his fingertips and crawled up his arm. It didn't hurt, it was just tingly. He started to walk while holding her hand. Mike, whom was still laying over his shoulder, looked at the light blush that had crept up on the hanyo's face. He made a sound that could only be described as a dog's laughter.

"Shut up!" Inu Yasha grumbled to him.

"What?" Kagome said.

"Nothing." Was Inu Yasha's reply.

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