AUTHOR'S NOTE: Wowie! Thanks for all the reviews! I feel the love.I really
do! And I wasn't going to do a sequel, but somebody (::cough, cough::
ssipan ::cough, cough::) gave me an idea..Beware, this actually contains
some plot---and a bit of fluff! I am as shocked and appalled as you are!
But you know we love it. ;) It's also a tad silly. Sorry, but when Fluffy
gets in the mix, how can it not be stupidly hilarious? Well, enjoy!
Kagome had a time getting the thing up the well, but it was worth it.
She had also had a time trying to convince her family to buy it. Sure, they had seen the picture, but bicycles "don't just fall off of trees, you know." But after much nagging she got her mother to cough up the cash.
Now she wasn't so sure that had been the hard part.
After much struggling she got the bicycle up the well. Carefully she pulled herself out and straightened it up. It really was nice. It was bigger than hers-well, Inuyasha was big, wasn't he? That didn't sound right, somehow. It was red, much more manly than her girlish pink. And the new-metal shine hadn't worn off, so the bike gleamed in the sunlight of Sengoku Jidai. The tires had fantastic tread and were full of air. His bike was just so perfect and spiffy she was almost jealous.
Then again.this was Inuyasha she was talking about. She could see it now: "Wench, take it back, there is no way I am going to ride a bike in front of you people!" And all her hard work would go down the drain.
Not if she could help it.
"Kagome!"
Right on schedule, Shippo came leaping up from the village. He caught sight of the new bike and stopped running. Then he rolled over on the ground, laughing his head off. "Wah-hah-hah! Is that a carriage? For Inuyasha! He'll kill you! Ha-ha-ha-ha!"
Kagome sighed. This was about the reaction she'd expected. "If worst come to worst Miroku can use it. And Inuyasha can just sit and sulk because he knows he wants to ride it. We both know that, right, Shippo?"
This sent the kitsune into giggles again, and even Kagome couldn't help but laugh. She had put one of the photos in a frame for her desk (how often did she get to see Inuyasha smiling, anyway?) and put another one up in her locker at school. She wished she had more pictures like that.
"Eh, bitch! You've come back, eh? Think it's safe?" Inuyasha came storming up the hill, looking pissed as usual. But when he caught sight of the other bike he stopped running towards her and huffily folded his arms. "Keh. What the hell is that?"
"It's a bike." Kagome put up its kickstand and rolled it over towards him. "Brand new, in fantastic condition, and it's really pretty. I convinced my mama to buy it for you."
"There is no way I am going to ride that."
Was she psychic or not? "Why not?"
"Because it's not pink!" laughed Shippo.
Inuyasha growled and bopped the kitsune so hard on the head the boy cried out in excruciating pain. Kagome sighed and rolled her eyes. "Come on, Inuyasha. We all know now that you like to ride my bike. I figured this could be something for fun. Hey, it may even come in handy someday, eh?"
"I am not going to ride it!"
"Inuyasha!" she screamed suddenly. After all that work! And he was just going to let his pride get in the way? "Oswari!"
The boy flipped forward and slammed into the ground, spitting up a cloud of dust and dirt. "Gak!"
"I go through hell and high water to get you this bike and you won't ride it because you're a hanyou and everyone knows that demons don't ride bikes, is that it? Come on! You just deny yourself something that makes you happy because of your stubborn pride!"
"Demons don't ride bicycles!" he protested.
"Inuyasha! Ride the thing!"
Pouting, Inuyasha took the bike roughly from her and swung a leg over it. Instantly he noticed that it was bigger than hers, and much more comfortable to him. Trying very hard not to grin, he steadied himself and pushed off with his left foot. And he pedaled away.
Shippo burst out laughing again. "Ha! Look at him! Some demon, eh, Kagome?"
The girl had gone to get her own bike, left for cleaning in Kaeda's village.
Shippo frowned. "Kagome? Kagome?"
There was a sound. An awful sound----a sound of rubber against the ground, the whir of metallic pedals, and the evil chuckling low in a hanyou's throat.
Shippo's eyes teared up. "Kagome?" he whispered, his throat so tight he couldn't breathe.
The sound was getting closer. The rustling of the grasses in the wind was soon overshadowed by this metallic whistling. Shippo slowly turned and looked over his shoulder.
The bike was upon him.
"WAH!" Shippo turned and bounded off, running on all fours like a typical fox demon.
"You little kitsune!" screamed Inuyasha, pedaling faster. "I'll show you! Yarou!"
**********
"I thought Kagome had returned?" said Kaeda.
"She did." Miroku sipped at the warm soup the old woman had prepared. "She is missing a marvelous meal."
"Well, where is she?"
"She is with Inuyasha, I believe. Off 'biking'."
"It's dangerous." Shippo poked his nose out of the safety of the covers on Kaeda's bed. "He tried to run me over!"
"You pick on him. Not that he doesn't deserve it." Miroku finished off the soup. "More?"
"I find it strange a hanyou like Inuyasha would allow himself a simple human pleasure." Kaeda ladled up more soup for the monk. "Are you sure...?"
"Yes, Kaeda. They're off 'biking'."
Kaeda turned a worried eye to the doorway of her hut. There lay a sheath, with a handle sticking out of one end. (Yes, foreshadowing. Pay attention) "Inuyasha is taking an awful risk.."
**********
"Eh, Inuyasha! I'm faster than you!" Kagome pedaled harder, speeding easily across the field.
"You've had more practice! Slow down, bitch!"
"First one to the other side of the river wins!" As she approached the riverbank Kagome pulled on the hand brake on her bike (something Inuyasha had never mastered). The bike skidded to a stop and she jumped off. Without a further thought she plunged into the cold water, dragging her bicycle along with her.
"Ha! That'll slow you down!" Inuyasha jumped off his bike----well, he still didn't know about the brake----and hoisted it on his shoulder. Then he nimbly jumped across the river.
"Hey, that's not far!"
"Yeah, well, you have had more practice." Inuyasha jumped on his bike and pedaled up the steep hill, leaving Kagome struggling to get up on hers.
When he reached the top-ah, where else was there to go but down? He found he did not need to pedal, so he lifted his legs up and coasted. The wind was marvelous! This was so much fun! How could he have ever resisted, anyway?
And because of his blissful elation, he did not realize something quite important until it was too late.
"Dear brother of mine. What are you doing?"
Inuyasha stopped. Or, he would have stopped, if he knew anything about brakes. He tried to turn around, too, which caused the bike to flip over on its side, toppling over Inuyasha. The hanyou recovered quickly and pulled himself out from under the bike.
'Sesshoumaru and his crummy toady Jaken! Shit! How did I miss their smell?' "Here for the Tetsusaiga, eh, Sesshoumaru? Well, you'll get it, but not in the way you think!" He reached for his sword and pulled the majestic blade from his sheath-
Or not.
In dismay Inuyasha looked at his empty hands.
Also in dismay Sesshoumaru looked at the same.
'Where is it?' Inuyasha thought frantically. 'My Tetsusaiga-where is it?'
His thoughts raced back across the plains into the village up to Kaeda's hut and to the doorway where the scabbard and rustic katana lay.
And a scream rang out through the land.
**********
Kagome had finally gotten herself up on her bike and was struggling to get up the steep hill. 'Was that a scream? Sure sounded like it. I wonder where it came from.and I also wonder how he got up this hill so fast! It's so very steep!'
She struggled for a little longer and then finally reached the top. Then she coasted down like Inuyasha had done, right down into the forest like Inuyasha had done, and right upon Sesshoumaru and Jaken, just like Inuyasha had done.
"Eek!" she cried upon seeing the hanyou's dastardly (gods, I love that word) half-brother. "Inuyasha! There's Sesshoumaru!"
Inuyasha sweat-dropped. "I know."
"And Jaken!"
"Yes, I know that."
She gasped. "You left your Tetsusaiga!"
"Yeah, I know that too!"
Kagome frowned. "Are we going to lose?"
Sesshoumaru smirked. "If there is no prize, you're not worth the time. But what is this interesting human toy you're playing with?" He pointed to the bikes, having noted that the human girl had come riding up on something similar to his metal contraption.
"It's not a toy!" Inuyasha grumbled, cheeks burning. He wasn't sure which was more embarrassing-having forgotten his sword, or having the bike. Both were high up there on the embarrassment meter.
"Even this doesn't suit you, half-breed," said Sesshoumaru with a disdainful smirk. "It's a bad enough disgrace to have human blood in your body, but to actually participate in strange human activities! Really!"
"It's not strange!" protested Kagome. "It's just bike riding! And it's exercising!"
Sesshoumaru grabbed the bike and pulled it towards him. "Interesting toy."
"Hey!" yelled Inuyasha. "Yarou, that's mine! Give it back!"
"I don't think so, brother."
"Sankon Tetsusou!" screamed Inuyasha, slicing wildly at his half-brother. But Sesshoumaru easily stepped out of the way, avoiding all the blows. (Let's face it, the Tetsusaiga makes the hanyou. End of story.)
"Come on, Jaken," instructed Sesshoumaru, putting the bike up on his good shoulder (I assume the one without the arm is a bad shoulder, neh?). "There is nothing here but a fool and his toys."
"Right away, my master!" agreed the toady. And the two made off into the forest.
"Hey! Bastard! Come back with my bike!" Inuyasha would have charged after him, too, except for a single word..
"Oswari."
Slam. "Hey! What did you do that for?" grumbled Inuyasha with a mouth full of mud.
"What can you do without the Tetsusaiga?" she asked, shrugging. "I mean, against your brother, you really need your father's fang. Why, he'd cut you to bits! And it shouldn't all be over a bike."
"Earlier you were complaining because I didn't want it, now you don't want me to have it! What is up with you?"
"Well, nothing." She dragged a toe through the dirt. "It's just..I dunno. I know I had a hard time getting that bike and stuff, but it's not worth you getting killed. You know?"
It was touching that she cared for him, and he did realize that, but---- "You don't know for sure he'd kill me!" yelled the dog demon, a scowl upon his face.
"True. But why chance it?" She gave him a bright smile. "Come on----you can ride my bike back to the village."
"And what will you do?"
"Ride with you."
Skeptical, Inuyasha mounted her bike and steadied himself like a professional. Then without warning Kagome leapt on the back of it, wrapping her arms around his neck and her legs around his waist. The bike wobbled with the extra weight, but he corrected it and took off pedaling.
**********
"Aye, Master Sesshoumaru, what do you suppose this thing is?" asked Jaken, warily jabbing at a tire with his Staff of Heads.
"Some sort of metal carriage, it seems." Sesshoumaru inspected it closely.
"Wonder how it works. Well, it doesn't matter. It's obviously a foolish human contraption, and great youkai such as yourself, lord Sesshoumaru, shouldn't bother with it, aye?"
But Sesshoumaru put a leg over the metal frame and sat back on the triangular plush pad. And he put his feet up on the flat black platforms that were obviously meant for feet. And then he fell over.
"HOW THE HELL DOES THIS THING WORK?"
**********
As the two rode across the grasses towards the village (don't ask how they got across that river, okay? It was the magic of the paper), they heard a frustrated scream ring out: "HOW THE HELL DOES THIS THING WORK?"
Both blinked. Inuyasha looked over his shoulder at the girl and said, "Kagome?"
Just as bewildered, she replied, "Yes, Inuyasha?"
"Let us never speak of this whole bike thing again."
"Yeah, okay."
THE END! For real this time, people. But I got another idea.so keep your eyes peeled.if I'm not busy writing episode summaries I'll get it done! Ja ne!
Kagome had a time getting the thing up the well, but it was worth it.
She had also had a time trying to convince her family to buy it. Sure, they had seen the picture, but bicycles "don't just fall off of trees, you know." But after much nagging she got her mother to cough up the cash.
Now she wasn't so sure that had been the hard part.
After much struggling she got the bicycle up the well. Carefully she pulled herself out and straightened it up. It really was nice. It was bigger than hers-well, Inuyasha was big, wasn't he? That didn't sound right, somehow. It was red, much more manly than her girlish pink. And the new-metal shine hadn't worn off, so the bike gleamed in the sunlight of Sengoku Jidai. The tires had fantastic tread and were full of air. His bike was just so perfect and spiffy she was almost jealous.
Then again.this was Inuyasha she was talking about. She could see it now: "Wench, take it back, there is no way I am going to ride a bike in front of you people!" And all her hard work would go down the drain.
Not if she could help it.
"Kagome!"
Right on schedule, Shippo came leaping up from the village. He caught sight of the new bike and stopped running. Then he rolled over on the ground, laughing his head off. "Wah-hah-hah! Is that a carriage? For Inuyasha! He'll kill you! Ha-ha-ha-ha!"
Kagome sighed. This was about the reaction she'd expected. "If worst come to worst Miroku can use it. And Inuyasha can just sit and sulk because he knows he wants to ride it. We both know that, right, Shippo?"
This sent the kitsune into giggles again, and even Kagome couldn't help but laugh. She had put one of the photos in a frame for her desk (how often did she get to see Inuyasha smiling, anyway?) and put another one up in her locker at school. She wished she had more pictures like that.
"Eh, bitch! You've come back, eh? Think it's safe?" Inuyasha came storming up the hill, looking pissed as usual. But when he caught sight of the other bike he stopped running towards her and huffily folded his arms. "Keh. What the hell is that?"
"It's a bike." Kagome put up its kickstand and rolled it over towards him. "Brand new, in fantastic condition, and it's really pretty. I convinced my mama to buy it for you."
"There is no way I am going to ride that."
Was she psychic or not? "Why not?"
"Because it's not pink!" laughed Shippo.
Inuyasha growled and bopped the kitsune so hard on the head the boy cried out in excruciating pain. Kagome sighed and rolled her eyes. "Come on, Inuyasha. We all know now that you like to ride my bike. I figured this could be something for fun. Hey, it may even come in handy someday, eh?"
"I am not going to ride it!"
"Inuyasha!" she screamed suddenly. After all that work! And he was just going to let his pride get in the way? "Oswari!"
The boy flipped forward and slammed into the ground, spitting up a cloud of dust and dirt. "Gak!"
"I go through hell and high water to get you this bike and you won't ride it because you're a hanyou and everyone knows that demons don't ride bikes, is that it? Come on! You just deny yourself something that makes you happy because of your stubborn pride!"
"Demons don't ride bicycles!" he protested.
"Inuyasha! Ride the thing!"
Pouting, Inuyasha took the bike roughly from her and swung a leg over it. Instantly he noticed that it was bigger than hers, and much more comfortable to him. Trying very hard not to grin, he steadied himself and pushed off with his left foot. And he pedaled away.
Shippo burst out laughing again. "Ha! Look at him! Some demon, eh, Kagome?"
The girl had gone to get her own bike, left for cleaning in Kaeda's village.
Shippo frowned. "Kagome? Kagome?"
There was a sound. An awful sound----a sound of rubber against the ground, the whir of metallic pedals, and the evil chuckling low in a hanyou's throat.
Shippo's eyes teared up. "Kagome?" he whispered, his throat so tight he couldn't breathe.
The sound was getting closer. The rustling of the grasses in the wind was soon overshadowed by this metallic whistling. Shippo slowly turned and looked over his shoulder.
The bike was upon him.
"WAH!" Shippo turned and bounded off, running on all fours like a typical fox demon.
"You little kitsune!" screamed Inuyasha, pedaling faster. "I'll show you! Yarou!"
**********
"I thought Kagome had returned?" said Kaeda.
"She did." Miroku sipped at the warm soup the old woman had prepared. "She is missing a marvelous meal."
"Well, where is she?"
"She is with Inuyasha, I believe. Off 'biking'."
"It's dangerous." Shippo poked his nose out of the safety of the covers on Kaeda's bed. "He tried to run me over!"
"You pick on him. Not that he doesn't deserve it." Miroku finished off the soup. "More?"
"I find it strange a hanyou like Inuyasha would allow himself a simple human pleasure." Kaeda ladled up more soup for the monk. "Are you sure...?"
"Yes, Kaeda. They're off 'biking'."
Kaeda turned a worried eye to the doorway of her hut. There lay a sheath, with a handle sticking out of one end. (Yes, foreshadowing. Pay attention) "Inuyasha is taking an awful risk.."
**********
"Eh, Inuyasha! I'm faster than you!" Kagome pedaled harder, speeding easily across the field.
"You've had more practice! Slow down, bitch!"
"First one to the other side of the river wins!" As she approached the riverbank Kagome pulled on the hand brake on her bike (something Inuyasha had never mastered). The bike skidded to a stop and she jumped off. Without a further thought she plunged into the cold water, dragging her bicycle along with her.
"Ha! That'll slow you down!" Inuyasha jumped off his bike----well, he still didn't know about the brake----and hoisted it on his shoulder. Then he nimbly jumped across the river.
"Hey, that's not far!"
"Yeah, well, you have had more practice." Inuyasha jumped on his bike and pedaled up the steep hill, leaving Kagome struggling to get up on hers.
When he reached the top-ah, where else was there to go but down? He found he did not need to pedal, so he lifted his legs up and coasted. The wind was marvelous! This was so much fun! How could he have ever resisted, anyway?
And because of his blissful elation, he did not realize something quite important until it was too late.
"Dear brother of mine. What are you doing?"
Inuyasha stopped. Or, he would have stopped, if he knew anything about brakes. He tried to turn around, too, which caused the bike to flip over on its side, toppling over Inuyasha. The hanyou recovered quickly and pulled himself out from under the bike.
'Sesshoumaru and his crummy toady Jaken! Shit! How did I miss their smell?' "Here for the Tetsusaiga, eh, Sesshoumaru? Well, you'll get it, but not in the way you think!" He reached for his sword and pulled the majestic blade from his sheath-
Or not.
In dismay Inuyasha looked at his empty hands.
Also in dismay Sesshoumaru looked at the same.
'Where is it?' Inuyasha thought frantically. 'My Tetsusaiga-where is it?'
His thoughts raced back across the plains into the village up to Kaeda's hut and to the doorway where the scabbard and rustic katana lay.
And a scream rang out through the land.
**********
Kagome had finally gotten herself up on her bike and was struggling to get up the steep hill. 'Was that a scream? Sure sounded like it. I wonder where it came from.and I also wonder how he got up this hill so fast! It's so very steep!'
She struggled for a little longer and then finally reached the top. Then she coasted down like Inuyasha had done, right down into the forest like Inuyasha had done, and right upon Sesshoumaru and Jaken, just like Inuyasha had done.
"Eek!" she cried upon seeing the hanyou's dastardly (gods, I love that word) half-brother. "Inuyasha! There's Sesshoumaru!"
Inuyasha sweat-dropped. "I know."
"And Jaken!"
"Yes, I know that."
She gasped. "You left your Tetsusaiga!"
"Yeah, I know that too!"
Kagome frowned. "Are we going to lose?"
Sesshoumaru smirked. "If there is no prize, you're not worth the time. But what is this interesting human toy you're playing with?" He pointed to the bikes, having noted that the human girl had come riding up on something similar to his metal contraption.
"It's not a toy!" Inuyasha grumbled, cheeks burning. He wasn't sure which was more embarrassing-having forgotten his sword, or having the bike. Both were high up there on the embarrassment meter.
"Even this doesn't suit you, half-breed," said Sesshoumaru with a disdainful smirk. "It's a bad enough disgrace to have human blood in your body, but to actually participate in strange human activities! Really!"
"It's not strange!" protested Kagome. "It's just bike riding! And it's exercising!"
Sesshoumaru grabbed the bike and pulled it towards him. "Interesting toy."
"Hey!" yelled Inuyasha. "Yarou, that's mine! Give it back!"
"I don't think so, brother."
"Sankon Tetsusou!" screamed Inuyasha, slicing wildly at his half-brother. But Sesshoumaru easily stepped out of the way, avoiding all the blows. (Let's face it, the Tetsusaiga makes the hanyou. End of story.)
"Come on, Jaken," instructed Sesshoumaru, putting the bike up on his good shoulder (I assume the one without the arm is a bad shoulder, neh?). "There is nothing here but a fool and his toys."
"Right away, my master!" agreed the toady. And the two made off into the forest.
"Hey! Bastard! Come back with my bike!" Inuyasha would have charged after him, too, except for a single word..
"Oswari."
Slam. "Hey! What did you do that for?" grumbled Inuyasha with a mouth full of mud.
"What can you do without the Tetsusaiga?" she asked, shrugging. "I mean, against your brother, you really need your father's fang. Why, he'd cut you to bits! And it shouldn't all be over a bike."
"Earlier you were complaining because I didn't want it, now you don't want me to have it! What is up with you?"
"Well, nothing." She dragged a toe through the dirt. "It's just..I dunno. I know I had a hard time getting that bike and stuff, but it's not worth you getting killed. You know?"
It was touching that she cared for him, and he did realize that, but---- "You don't know for sure he'd kill me!" yelled the dog demon, a scowl upon his face.
"True. But why chance it?" She gave him a bright smile. "Come on----you can ride my bike back to the village."
"And what will you do?"
"Ride with you."
Skeptical, Inuyasha mounted her bike and steadied himself like a professional. Then without warning Kagome leapt on the back of it, wrapping her arms around his neck and her legs around his waist. The bike wobbled with the extra weight, but he corrected it and took off pedaling.
**********
"Aye, Master Sesshoumaru, what do you suppose this thing is?" asked Jaken, warily jabbing at a tire with his Staff of Heads.
"Some sort of metal carriage, it seems." Sesshoumaru inspected it closely.
"Wonder how it works. Well, it doesn't matter. It's obviously a foolish human contraption, and great youkai such as yourself, lord Sesshoumaru, shouldn't bother with it, aye?"
But Sesshoumaru put a leg over the metal frame and sat back on the triangular plush pad. And he put his feet up on the flat black platforms that were obviously meant for feet. And then he fell over.
"HOW THE HELL DOES THIS THING WORK?"
**********
As the two rode across the grasses towards the village (don't ask how they got across that river, okay? It was the magic of the paper), they heard a frustrated scream ring out: "HOW THE HELL DOES THIS THING WORK?"
Both blinked. Inuyasha looked over his shoulder at the girl and said, "Kagome?"
Just as bewildered, she replied, "Yes, Inuyasha?"
"Let us never speak of this whole bike thing again."
"Yeah, okay."
THE END! For real this time, people. But I got another idea.so keep your eyes peeled.if I'm not busy writing episode summaries I'll get it done! Ja ne!