Chapter 2
"So what do you think Keade?" Kagome asked the old woman as she inspected her back.
"I think I have seen this before," Keade said. "do you have the dart that struck you?"
"Yes." Inuyasha said, "we found it on the ground where she was sleeping." The old woman looked at this closely. She though she had finally found out why Inuyasha hadn't returned to his hanyou form after the New Moon was gone.
"I've got it." She announced "this is a poison that turns humans into demons." She said.
"Then why am I Still human!!!" Inuyasha roared.
"Because you were human when it struck you, and this potion slowly turns the victims blood into demon blood, it's very slow at first, but after the first two weeks it works much more quickly" she said trying to explain the predicament to Inuyasha, "Your blood was human that night, so it affects you as a human."
"Shit, I'm human for two weeks?" Inuyasha screamed and hit the table with his hand, it normally would have broken with a hit like that but in his human form it only left a little dent, and hurt his hand now. He grabbed his bruised hand and then he realized.. " Were, gonna turn full demon?" Inuyasha said not knowing exactly how he felt about that. He normally would have jumped at the idea, but now, in this form, he knew that he would never see Kagome again if he turned full demon, he had thought about that a lot with the jewel fragments. But wait, she would turn demon too. What would that be like?
As these thoughts rushed through his head, Keade stopped him. "Yes Inuyasha, without treatment you two will turn full demon," she said, but then continued with a warning voice, "but you will be slaves to whoever did this to you."
"What!" Kagome said, "first were gonna turn demon, then were gonna be slaves!" She cried, eyes wide.
"Yes," Keade said, "but their is a cure."
"OK, so where's the cure!" Kagome squeaked.
"I have everything for it except one herb." Keade said "The Harabi root."
"Well then lets get it!" Inuyasha exclaimed, "I'm not gonna be ANYBODIES slave!"
"It grows far away from here, two weeks journey, and it may not be their at all." Keade said. "And you two only have three weeks to be treated, after that, you will be full demon and beyond help."
"Then what are we gonna do!" Inuyasha yelled. He would never be anyone's slave!
"I think I've heard of that," Kagome announced. "We could go to my time and buy it at a specialty herb store!" She said brightening considerably.
"Good, good." Keade said "I'll get the rest of the cure started, it takes a week to finish this, by then you'll be one fifth demon."
"OK so we have a plan, lets go Inuyasha!" Kagome said pulling at his arm, "I don't want to take any chances of getting stuck as a demon. Shoppo, you stay here and help Keade" The kitsune nodded
"You know she may have tended your wound, but she hasn't done mine yet!" Inuyasha said angrily,
"Oh, ya," Kagome noted his open shirt and the dart mark that was turning purple, and blue. "Well then lets go right after that then." She said hoping that her mark didn't look so bad.
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"What are you doing here!" Kagome cried to a young man who was in her kitchen "Ohh, Jason it's soooo good to se you!" she ran up to him and gave him a bone-splitting hug.
Inuyasha didn't like that at all and at once asked "Who's he?"
"Oh, sorry Inuyasha, this is Jason," she said releasing him, "Jason, this is Inuyasha, Inuyasha this is Jason, he's our punk cousin from America." She said smiling
"Sup Inuyasha?" Jason said. Inuyasha eyed him, he was wearing even weirder clothes than Kagome wore. He had red and black plad pants on and a black shirt that read "Good Charlotte" on the front. But what Inuyasha did like was the spiked leather cuffs he had on his wrists and neck, he thought they looked decisively manly. His hair was spiked and blue, Inuyasha wondered how it was blue, only demons have hair that color. And why was his ear, tongue, lip, eyebrow, nose, and chin pierced? Piercing had always seemed painful, and stupid to Inuyasha, he couldn't understand why anyone would want to do that.
"Sup?" Inuyasha asked
"He means what's up, what's going on." Kagome translated.
"Oh, well we need to fine the harabi root and return to Keade." Inuyasha said.
"OK, sure. I'll just let you do that." Jason answered thinking Inuyasha was crazy.
"That's actually what were here for Jason." Kagome said to Jason, then turned to Inuyasha, "OK, I'll go and find where to get some on the internet, you go, umm, and watch some TV, would you go get him settled for me Jason, his shouldn't take me long." She said to her cousin, with puppy- dog eyes that he couldn't resist.
"OK, Ok, fine I'll do it, just stop making that face!" he said, he couldn't refuse her when she made that face. "C'mon, Inuyasha, over here." As he headed down the hall.
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"OK, here's the deal, Inuyasha," Kagome said as she entered the living room and sat down next to him on the couch, "The harabi root is at a store in a mall four hours away from here. Now Jason's already agreed to driving us there and lending you some of his clothes to wear in public, so we'll leave in half an hour. We can get there by five, and get back here by around ten. Unless we have any problem finding it, if it look's like we won't get home by midnight, then we'll find a cheap hotel by ourselves, Jason has to be back home, in America by tomorrow night, he's only here for winter vacation." She said, "Is all that good with you?"
"Ya, I guess, but I wanna keep my clothes." He said stubbornly.
"Well you can't, so get over it, you have to try and blend in." she said.
"OK, fine I just wanna get this over with as soon as possible, were losing jewel finding time doing this."
"Well soooooory!" she said, "I don't like this any more than you do!" She turned and left the room angry with him.
" Why do we always end up fighting?" he asked himself out loud.
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"Hey Jason get off at the next exit, and find a gas station." Kagome instructed.
"OK, fine, it couldn't hurt to stretch our legs." He replied.
"What's a gas station?" Inuyasha chimed in, he had a hard time trusting the car, and was asking what everything else was.
Kagome had told Jason about the shards, the darts and Inuyasha's normal form. He had taken it surprisingly well, except for the fact that his baby cousin was traveling around with a strange man he didn't know.
"It's a place to get more fuel to make the car run." Jason answered.
Inuyasha expected that, he guessed, but didn't cars roll, and not run? Oh well, he was just glad to get out of the small car after two hours.
They stopped at a small middle-of-nowhere gas station, and Jason and Inuyasha went to go buy some snacks while Kagome found the bathroom.
"Hey, what's a 'lotto ticket' Jason?" Inuyasha asked
"Here I'll get you one, it's a ticket you buy and you have the chance to win a lot of money, depending on the numbers they pick." He said while buying a small Scratch-and-Win** Ticket, a drink and a few candy bars, "Or you can buy a little one like this, that you scratch off the outer layer and see if you win by the numbers underneath."
Kagome had returned for the ladies room and they were about to leave when Inuyasha scratched his Scratch-and-Win ticket, and noticed a bunch of $5,000* marks on it. He showed it to Jason who the proceeded to jump and shout, "We won $5,000, Kagome we won!"
* I know this should be in yen, but I'm in to much of a writing mood to stop and check. ** I'm pretty sure they don't have Scratch-and-Win in Japan, but the writing mood thing.
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After they had collected their $5,000 they had resumed their long car ride, but considerably happier than before. They arrived at the Midtown Mall at 5:30 and searched for the herb shop. They found it at 5:45 and asked about he harabi root.
Unfortunately it was out of stock and their wouldn't be a new shipment for four more days. So with their new money Kagome and Inuyasha found a hotel to stay the night while Jason went back home. They figured that after all they had been through that they deserved a vacation, and now that they had all that money they should take advantage of their luck.
"Hey, Inuyasha, wanna watch a movie?" Kagome asked him.
"Umm, what's a movie?" he asked a little embarrassed of him having to ask what everything was.
"Umm, it's umm, hard to explain, it's a story that plays it self on the TV, it usually takes two hours."
"Uhh, I guess so." Inuyasha wondered what he was getting himself into.
"OK, I'll call the front office and order one, what type do you like?" she asked.
"I'll go with whatever you like." He said hoping in her having good judgment.
"OK I'll try to find something we'll both like." She said.
Once they got popcorn made and Kagome picked a movie with lots of action for Inuyasha, and a bit of a love story for herself to watch, they settled down on the couch. It was a pretty small couch Kagome thought, she normally wouldn't have liked the close quarters, but now that Inuyasha was acting a little nicer she didn't mind much.
Inuyasha quite enjoyed the closeness, the more time he spent human the more he thought that liking Kagome in that way was a wonderful idea. The movie was about half way over when Inuyasha had the sudden urge to put his arm around Kagome's shoulders. He had an internal battle for several minutes before deciding against it.
Kagome noticed something change in Inuyasha for a few minutes and wondered what it was. She was getting tired and settled her head on Inuyasha's shoulder. It seemed a natural thing to do, nothing major or extravagant, it was just a mild showof friendly affection. She felt safe with her head on his shoulder.
Inuyasha on the other hand perceived this up as something huge. He had just been debating on doing something just like this, did she feel . that way about him.. or was it just her being tired and setting her head on the nearest thing?
He didn't really care about it after a few minutes. He knew Kagome had fallen asleep and it sounded like an attractive idea. He soon fell asleep, his head falling oh top of hers, he had a wonderful dream, he didn't quite know what it was about, but Kagome was there and their was a feeling of happiness and that all was right with the world. Kagome's presence alone had a soothing affect on him.
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I'll probably have the next chapter up tomorrow if I don't have any computer trouble, but I need to know, would the people reading this like more mushy stuff, or some more action? I'm trying to decide on this, so if you have anything to say please let me know. Oh, and I know I'm shooting out these chapters really fast, and they will be for about the next week, until I have to go back to school, then they will come much more slowly, so enjoy the speed while you can. (
As always more to come.
Victoria.
"So what do you think Keade?" Kagome asked the old woman as she inspected her back.
"I think I have seen this before," Keade said. "do you have the dart that struck you?"
"Yes." Inuyasha said, "we found it on the ground where she was sleeping." The old woman looked at this closely. She though she had finally found out why Inuyasha hadn't returned to his hanyou form after the New Moon was gone.
"I've got it." She announced "this is a poison that turns humans into demons." She said.
"Then why am I Still human!!!" Inuyasha roared.
"Because you were human when it struck you, and this potion slowly turns the victims blood into demon blood, it's very slow at first, but after the first two weeks it works much more quickly" she said trying to explain the predicament to Inuyasha, "Your blood was human that night, so it affects you as a human."
"Shit, I'm human for two weeks?" Inuyasha screamed and hit the table with his hand, it normally would have broken with a hit like that but in his human form it only left a little dent, and hurt his hand now. He grabbed his bruised hand and then he realized.. " Were, gonna turn full demon?" Inuyasha said not knowing exactly how he felt about that. He normally would have jumped at the idea, but now, in this form, he knew that he would never see Kagome again if he turned full demon, he had thought about that a lot with the jewel fragments. But wait, she would turn demon too. What would that be like?
As these thoughts rushed through his head, Keade stopped him. "Yes Inuyasha, without treatment you two will turn full demon," she said, but then continued with a warning voice, "but you will be slaves to whoever did this to you."
"What!" Kagome said, "first were gonna turn demon, then were gonna be slaves!" She cried, eyes wide.
"Yes," Keade said, "but their is a cure."
"OK, so where's the cure!" Kagome squeaked.
"I have everything for it except one herb." Keade said "The Harabi root."
"Well then lets get it!" Inuyasha exclaimed, "I'm not gonna be ANYBODIES slave!"
"It grows far away from here, two weeks journey, and it may not be their at all." Keade said. "And you two only have three weeks to be treated, after that, you will be full demon and beyond help."
"Then what are we gonna do!" Inuyasha yelled. He would never be anyone's slave!
"I think I've heard of that," Kagome announced. "We could go to my time and buy it at a specialty herb store!" She said brightening considerably.
"Good, good." Keade said "I'll get the rest of the cure started, it takes a week to finish this, by then you'll be one fifth demon."
"OK so we have a plan, lets go Inuyasha!" Kagome said pulling at his arm, "I don't want to take any chances of getting stuck as a demon. Shoppo, you stay here and help Keade" The kitsune nodded
"You know she may have tended your wound, but she hasn't done mine yet!" Inuyasha said angrily,
"Oh, ya," Kagome noted his open shirt and the dart mark that was turning purple, and blue. "Well then lets go right after that then." She said hoping that her mark didn't look so bad.
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"What are you doing here!" Kagome cried to a young man who was in her kitchen "Ohh, Jason it's soooo good to se you!" she ran up to him and gave him a bone-splitting hug.
Inuyasha didn't like that at all and at once asked "Who's he?"
"Oh, sorry Inuyasha, this is Jason," she said releasing him, "Jason, this is Inuyasha, Inuyasha this is Jason, he's our punk cousin from America." She said smiling
"Sup Inuyasha?" Jason said. Inuyasha eyed him, he was wearing even weirder clothes than Kagome wore. He had red and black plad pants on and a black shirt that read "Good Charlotte" on the front. But what Inuyasha did like was the spiked leather cuffs he had on his wrists and neck, he thought they looked decisively manly. His hair was spiked and blue, Inuyasha wondered how it was blue, only demons have hair that color. And why was his ear, tongue, lip, eyebrow, nose, and chin pierced? Piercing had always seemed painful, and stupid to Inuyasha, he couldn't understand why anyone would want to do that.
"Sup?" Inuyasha asked
"He means what's up, what's going on." Kagome translated.
"Oh, well we need to fine the harabi root and return to Keade." Inuyasha said.
"OK, sure. I'll just let you do that." Jason answered thinking Inuyasha was crazy.
"That's actually what were here for Jason." Kagome said to Jason, then turned to Inuyasha, "OK, I'll go and find where to get some on the internet, you go, umm, and watch some TV, would you go get him settled for me Jason, his shouldn't take me long." She said to her cousin, with puppy- dog eyes that he couldn't resist.
"OK, Ok, fine I'll do it, just stop making that face!" he said, he couldn't refuse her when she made that face. "C'mon, Inuyasha, over here." As he headed down the hall.
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"OK, here's the deal, Inuyasha," Kagome said as she entered the living room and sat down next to him on the couch, "The harabi root is at a store in a mall four hours away from here. Now Jason's already agreed to driving us there and lending you some of his clothes to wear in public, so we'll leave in half an hour. We can get there by five, and get back here by around ten. Unless we have any problem finding it, if it look's like we won't get home by midnight, then we'll find a cheap hotel by ourselves, Jason has to be back home, in America by tomorrow night, he's only here for winter vacation." She said, "Is all that good with you?"
"Ya, I guess, but I wanna keep my clothes." He said stubbornly.
"Well you can't, so get over it, you have to try and blend in." she said.
"OK, fine I just wanna get this over with as soon as possible, were losing jewel finding time doing this."
"Well soooooory!" she said, "I don't like this any more than you do!" She turned and left the room angry with him.
" Why do we always end up fighting?" he asked himself out loud.
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"Hey Jason get off at the next exit, and find a gas station." Kagome instructed.
"OK, fine, it couldn't hurt to stretch our legs." He replied.
"What's a gas station?" Inuyasha chimed in, he had a hard time trusting the car, and was asking what everything else was.
Kagome had told Jason about the shards, the darts and Inuyasha's normal form. He had taken it surprisingly well, except for the fact that his baby cousin was traveling around with a strange man he didn't know.
"It's a place to get more fuel to make the car run." Jason answered.
Inuyasha expected that, he guessed, but didn't cars roll, and not run? Oh well, he was just glad to get out of the small car after two hours.
They stopped at a small middle-of-nowhere gas station, and Jason and Inuyasha went to go buy some snacks while Kagome found the bathroom.
"Hey, what's a 'lotto ticket' Jason?" Inuyasha asked
"Here I'll get you one, it's a ticket you buy and you have the chance to win a lot of money, depending on the numbers they pick." He said while buying a small Scratch-and-Win** Ticket, a drink and a few candy bars, "Or you can buy a little one like this, that you scratch off the outer layer and see if you win by the numbers underneath."
Kagome had returned for the ladies room and they were about to leave when Inuyasha scratched his Scratch-and-Win ticket, and noticed a bunch of $5,000* marks on it. He showed it to Jason who the proceeded to jump and shout, "We won $5,000, Kagome we won!"
* I know this should be in yen, but I'm in to much of a writing mood to stop and check. ** I'm pretty sure they don't have Scratch-and-Win in Japan, but the writing mood thing.
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After they had collected their $5,000 they had resumed their long car ride, but considerably happier than before. They arrived at the Midtown Mall at 5:30 and searched for the herb shop. They found it at 5:45 and asked about he harabi root.
Unfortunately it was out of stock and their wouldn't be a new shipment for four more days. So with their new money Kagome and Inuyasha found a hotel to stay the night while Jason went back home. They figured that after all they had been through that they deserved a vacation, and now that they had all that money they should take advantage of their luck.
"Hey, Inuyasha, wanna watch a movie?" Kagome asked him.
"Umm, what's a movie?" he asked a little embarrassed of him having to ask what everything was.
"Umm, it's umm, hard to explain, it's a story that plays it self on the TV, it usually takes two hours."
"Uhh, I guess so." Inuyasha wondered what he was getting himself into.
"OK, I'll call the front office and order one, what type do you like?" she asked.
"I'll go with whatever you like." He said hoping in her having good judgment.
"OK I'll try to find something we'll both like." She said.
Once they got popcorn made and Kagome picked a movie with lots of action for Inuyasha, and a bit of a love story for herself to watch, they settled down on the couch. It was a pretty small couch Kagome thought, she normally wouldn't have liked the close quarters, but now that Inuyasha was acting a little nicer she didn't mind much.
Inuyasha quite enjoyed the closeness, the more time he spent human the more he thought that liking Kagome in that way was a wonderful idea. The movie was about half way over when Inuyasha had the sudden urge to put his arm around Kagome's shoulders. He had an internal battle for several minutes before deciding against it.
Kagome noticed something change in Inuyasha for a few minutes and wondered what it was. She was getting tired and settled her head on Inuyasha's shoulder. It seemed a natural thing to do, nothing major or extravagant, it was just a mild showof friendly affection. She felt safe with her head on his shoulder.
Inuyasha on the other hand perceived this up as something huge. He had just been debating on doing something just like this, did she feel . that way about him.. or was it just her being tired and setting her head on the nearest thing?
He didn't really care about it after a few minutes. He knew Kagome had fallen asleep and it sounded like an attractive idea. He soon fell asleep, his head falling oh top of hers, he had a wonderful dream, he didn't quite know what it was about, but Kagome was there and their was a feeling of happiness and that all was right with the world. Kagome's presence alone had a soothing affect on him.
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I'll probably have the next chapter up tomorrow if I don't have any computer trouble, but I need to know, would the people reading this like more mushy stuff, or some more action? I'm trying to decide on this, so if you have anything to say please let me know. Oh, and I know I'm shooting out these chapters really fast, and they will be for about the next week, until I have to go back to school, then they will come much more slowly, so enjoy the speed while you can. (
As always more to come.
Victoria.
