AN: It always takes me soooooo long to get these chapters out. I haven't
spell checked this yet so if there are mistakes either point them out or
just ignore them. I hope you enjoy, I really wasn't quite sure what to
write.
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Kagome couldn't seem to pull herself away from Inu Yasha's slightly dazed and confused eyes. They stared back at her with the same affect as a golden eyed puppy dog (huh...puppy). He wanted to know what she had been talking about because somewhere inside he was hoping it had something to do with him. Maybe it was the fact that he was still half-asleep or that he had watched too many Disney movies, but he wanted the word "marriage" to be referring to him.
A couple things went through Kagome's mind at that moment: should she tell Inu Yasha that her family intended them to marry? Should she skip rejection and humiliation and go straight to killing her family? Did she get around to eating breakfast yet?
However, her grandfather decided to rush this thought process.
"Inu Yasha! We were just talking about yo-" here Kagome made up her mind to answer yes on question number two and quickly cut off her grandfather.
"- abouthowtheythinkIshouldmarryHojo.Whatdoyouthink?Ithinkit'sabadidea!!"
All around blink.
Obviously, her brain hadn't quite recovered from the shock of her mother's proclamation and was currently malfunctioning. So, for any of you who do not speak gibberish, that was: "-about how they think I should marry Hojo. What do you think? I think it's a bad idea." I hope that has cleared some things up. However, our poor hanyo did not have a handy translation and was only able to catch something about Hojo. He immediately tensed up.
"...Hojo..." he mumbled under his breath in disgust. Kagome knew at this moment that he had gotten then wrong idea but was she about to tell him? Course not! Fortunately, her hard of hearing family had not caught the disdain drip from Inu Yasha's lips so they figured they'd just go with Kagome's story and let her tell the hanyou the truth in time.
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Sango awoke to an aching pain in the back of her head. She didn't open her eyes, but simply lay on the damp ground for a few moments and groaned. She remembered darkness...then lights...then....Sango shook her head. Giant moles could not be right. She figured something must have been damaged when she hurt her head. She began to slowly open her eyes, which were met with a brownish ceiling. It appeared to be made of soil so she assumed that she was underground. She sat up. In addition to being below surface level, she was in a cell of some kind with Shippo and Miroku who were still out like lights. Upon observing the outside of her cell she was given the shock of her life. You see, for a moment there she had thought that they had all been caught by Sesshomaru or Naruku in some evil plan to lure Inu Yasha and Kagome. But no, logic did not seem to be on her side that day because what paced back and forth outside her cell was...yes, you guessed it, a giant mole person. Funny how you're mind doesn't always play a trick on you, even when you think it has.
While Sango was still staring at this overgrow varmint, she vaguely heard Miroku groan and stir behind her. She felt his breath along her neck, meaning he had sat up and moved over toward her shoulder and had not yet noticed what she had, because he spoke to her normally.
"What the heck happened? Who kidnapped u...s..." This is where he chose to look up and was met with two little (well, actually, pretty large) black beady eyes staring intently back at him. The mole guard kept his gaze fixed with Miroku's for about a minute and then ran off out of the sight of the prisoners. Miroku pointed in the direction it had scurried and stuttered, "Wh-wh-wh-what was th-th-th-th-that!?!?!?!?!?!?"
In oddly calm and quite voice, Sango responded, "A giant mole demon."
Miroku nodded. "Oh...ok then."
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Well, during the odd silence that took place, Sorta had gotten really bored and snuck back into the house. He did want to watch the constant nervous stare of Kagome matched with Inu Yasha's confused but angry one. Sadly, Sorta was not able to get a break because when he got back into the house, someone knocked on the door. The boy sighed and went to answer it and upon opening the door, he mumbled, "Well, speak of the devil."
Outside, people vaguely heard, "Oh, hi HOJO! Sure, come on in!" Kagome could feel Inu Yasha's rage build. She couldn't take just looking at him anymore so decided to take the cowardly way out. She inched slowly from his fixed glare and ran to meet Hojo, leaving Inu Yasha staring ahead of him in to space.
Hojo immediately lit up when she came into the room and stood up from where Sorta had just seated him.
"Kagome! You look well. I hope that you're over mano*." Kagome blinked. Mano?
(*a disease that seems to be going around my school currently. It makes you anemic and last anywhere from a week to a couple months.)
"Um...yeah, I'm over it." Hojo smiled.
"I'm glad." Then there was an awkward silence. Well, it was mostly Kagome twiddling her figures and avoiding Inu Yasha. Eep!! Inu Yasha! Kagome ran back outside, startled the hanyou a bit, and dragged in by the wrist into her grandfather's room. Inu Yasha was flung onto the bed while Kagome paced back and forth in front of the door. Inu Yasha was confused.
"Umm...Kagome?" Kagome really didn't hear him.
"Hojo can't see you! You're a demon! He'll go completely nuts!" Inu Yasha growled and folded his arms over his chest.
"What? He's never seen a demon before?"
"NO!!!!!" Inu Yasha blinked and Kagome sighed. She sat down next to him on the bed. "Demon's don't exist in this time. They were probably all killed off."
Inu Yasha covered up his surprise with a slight shrug of his shoulders and a "whatever!" Kagome stating to become really annoyed by his attitude. She stood up and searched through her grandfather's old clothes (he kept everything!). After a few minutes and about two discovered mothballs, she pulled out an old pair of pants and a large flannel shirt. She reached up and grabbed a baseball cap off of the top shelf of his closet and handed them to Inu Yasha. He stared back at her with a raised eyebrow.
"These cloths are almost as old as I am. I'm not going to wear them!" A vein pulsed on Kagome's head as she pushed the disgruntle hanyou into her grandfather's bathroom and shut the door behind her. Inu Yasha tried to push in back open but Kagome was leaning against it with all her weight and since he had no intention of hurting her in the process of escaping, he gave up.
When Kagome no longer felt Inu Yasha pushing back against the door and he had gone sort of quiet, she returned to the living room where everyone else was waiting for her. She entered to four curious stares, which made her sweat, so she quickly invented a cover story.
"A friend of mine slept over here last night. He's just getting ready now." Kagome sat down on the couch next to Hojo, quite exhausted from the morning's events. Hojo smiled.
"That's nice. What's his name?" Without even thinking, Kagome responded.
"Inu Yasha," then she wanted to eat her words. Hojo's brow furrowed a little.
"That's an odd name." Kagome's mother jumped in this time.
"He's Dutch." Hojo nodded and smiled.
"Oh, I see." Hojo was so incredibly dense.
"Kagome," began her mother," Hojo was nice enough to stop by your cousin's house and bring 'The Little Mermaid' back. Wasn't that nice of him?" Apparently, Hojo lived down the block from Kagome's cousins. Go figure.
"Um...thanks.
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Sango shook the bars of the cell while Miroku was trying to explain their kidnappers to Shippo.
"But, why would giant moles want to kidnap us?"
"How would I know! I just know that's we've been captured by huge underground mole people!"
Sango hushed the two of them quickly.
"Shh! One's coming!" All three scurried to the back of their cell and sat up against the wall. One of these large brown moles came up to their bars, stared at them, and then sat down in front of the door to this jail. The three friends looked back and forth and then back to the mole guard. It was the same one the had been with them before...at least, it looked like it was. It was wearing a green tunic that looked far too small and a pain of light brown pants. It held a long spear in its hand, which was currently resting across its lap. Sango slowly crawled toward this creature. She wasn't sure if it could speak but it was worth a try.
"Umm.excuse me?" She asked when she had reached the bars at its right side. It was startled and jumped up. It pointed the spear in Sango's direction. She stared down the shaft and then back up to the mole guard.
"Um...yeah, we were wondering...who exactly are you people and why have you captured us?" Miroku was a little surprised at how blunt Sango was but luckily for her, moles were not very bright.
The mole's voice was deep and raspy. "We are of the Molus clan," here he thumped his fist against his chest and then brought it back down to his side, "and we have lived underground for fifty years, when we were driven under by a fire in this area. After using up our supply of plants underground, we resorted to cannibalism. Many died, and our numbers were brought down to twenty. We decided it is bad to eat each other, so we would kidnap people from the outside and eat them. This is why you have been brought here." The mole sat back down in his former position, as if nothing had happened.
The three companions stared at the mole for a moment, then Sango returned to the back of the cell.
"Well," said Miroku "he was very straightforward."
"Yeah," commented Shippo, "you think if they were going to eat us, they wouldn't tell us."
Miroku chuckled. "Hee hee, they killed themselves off." Both boys nearly burst out laughing. Sango slapped the both of them upside the head.
"Quiet! They're obviously a very...proud race, you might offend them."
"They're obviously a very stupid race." Sango hit Miroku in the arm.
"Quit it you two. Now we have to find a way out of here."
"We could always dig our way out," said Shippo motioning to the walls. The three stared at the soil prison. The moles were not very bright creatures.
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AN: Little Mermaid next time, I promise! Sigh.I'm currently in writer's block, it's not good.
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Kagome couldn't seem to pull herself away from Inu Yasha's slightly dazed and confused eyes. They stared back at her with the same affect as a golden eyed puppy dog (huh...puppy). He wanted to know what she had been talking about because somewhere inside he was hoping it had something to do with him. Maybe it was the fact that he was still half-asleep or that he had watched too many Disney movies, but he wanted the word "marriage" to be referring to him.
A couple things went through Kagome's mind at that moment: should she tell Inu Yasha that her family intended them to marry? Should she skip rejection and humiliation and go straight to killing her family? Did she get around to eating breakfast yet?
However, her grandfather decided to rush this thought process.
"Inu Yasha! We were just talking about yo-" here Kagome made up her mind to answer yes on question number two and quickly cut off her grandfather.
"- abouthowtheythinkIshouldmarryHojo.Whatdoyouthink?Ithinkit'sabadidea!!"
All around blink.
Obviously, her brain hadn't quite recovered from the shock of her mother's proclamation and was currently malfunctioning. So, for any of you who do not speak gibberish, that was: "-about how they think I should marry Hojo. What do you think? I think it's a bad idea." I hope that has cleared some things up. However, our poor hanyo did not have a handy translation and was only able to catch something about Hojo. He immediately tensed up.
"...Hojo..." he mumbled under his breath in disgust. Kagome knew at this moment that he had gotten then wrong idea but was she about to tell him? Course not! Fortunately, her hard of hearing family had not caught the disdain drip from Inu Yasha's lips so they figured they'd just go with Kagome's story and let her tell the hanyou the truth in time.
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Sango awoke to an aching pain in the back of her head. She didn't open her eyes, but simply lay on the damp ground for a few moments and groaned. She remembered darkness...then lights...then....Sango shook her head. Giant moles could not be right. She figured something must have been damaged when she hurt her head. She began to slowly open her eyes, which were met with a brownish ceiling. It appeared to be made of soil so she assumed that she was underground. She sat up. In addition to being below surface level, she was in a cell of some kind with Shippo and Miroku who were still out like lights. Upon observing the outside of her cell she was given the shock of her life. You see, for a moment there she had thought that they had all been caught by Sesshomaru or Naruku in some evil plan to lure Inu Yasha and Kagome. But no, logic did not seem to be on her side that day because what paced back and forth outside her cell was...yes, you guessed it, a giant mole person. Funny how you're mind doesn't always play a trick on you, even when you think it has.
While Sango was still staring at this overgrow varmint, she vaguely heard Miroku groan and stir behind her. She felt his breath along her neck, meaning he had sat up and moved over toward her shoulder and had not yet noticed what she had, because he spoke to her normally.
"What the heck happened? Who kidnapped u...s..." This is where he chose to look up and was met with two little (well, actually, pretty large) black beady eyes staring intently back at him. The mole guard kept his gaze fixed with Miroku's for about a minute and then ran off out of the sight of the prisoners. Miroku pointed in the direction it had scurried and stuttered, "Wh-wh-wh-what was th-th-th-th-that!?!?!?!?!?!?"
In oddly calm and quite voice, Sango responded, "A giant mole demon."
Miroku nodded. "Oh...ok then."
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Well, during the odd silence that took place, Sorta had gotten really bored and snuck back into the house. He did want to watch the constant nervous stare of Kagome matched with Inu Yasha's confused but angry one. Sadly, Sorta was not able to get a break because when he got back into the house, someone knocked on the door. The boy sighed and went to answer it and upon opening the door, he mumbled, "Well, speak of the devil."
Outside, people vaguely heard, "Oh, hi HOJO! Sure, come on in!" Kagome could feel Inu Yasha's rage build. She couldn't take just looking at him anymore so decided to take the cowardly way out. She inched slowly from his fixed glare and ran to meet Hojo, leaving Inu Yasha staring ahead of him in to space.
Hojo immediately lit up when she came into the room and stood up from where Sorta had just seated him.
"Kagome! You look well. I hope that you're over mano*." Kagome blinked. Mano?
(*a disease that seems to be going around my school currently. It makes you anemic and last anywhere from a week to a couple months.)
"Um...yeah, I'm over it." Hojo smiled.
"I'm glad." Then there was an awkward silence. Well, it was mostly Kagome twiddling her figures and avoiding Inu Yasha. Eep!! Inu Yasha! Kagome ran back outside, startled the hanyou a bit, and dragged in by the wrist into her grandfather's room. Inu Yasha was flung onto the bed while Kagome paced back and forth in front of the door. Inu Yasha was confused.
"Umm...Kagome?" Kagome really didn't hear him.
"Hojo can't see you! You're a demon! He'll go completely nuts!" Inu Yasha growled and folded his arms over his chest.
"What? He's never seen a demon before?"
"NO!!!!!" Inu Yasha blinked and Kagome sighed. She sat down next to him on the bed. "Demon's don't exist in this time. They were probably all killed off."
Inu Yasha covered up his surprise with a slight shrug of his shoulders and a "whatever!" Kagome stating to become really annoyed by his attitude. She stood up and searched through her grandfather's old clothes (he kept everything!). After a few minutes and about two discovered mothballs, she pulled out an old pair of pants and a large flannel shirt. She reached up and grabbed a baseball cap off of the top shelf of his closet and handed them to Inu Yasha. He stared back at her with a raised eyebrow.
"These cloths are almost as old as I am. I'm not going to wear them!" A vein pulsed on Kagome's head as she pushed the disgruntle hanyou into her grandfather's bathroom and shut the door behind her. Inu Yasha tried to push in back open but Kagome was leaning against it with all her weight and since he had no intention of hurting her in the process of escaping, he gave up.
When Kagome no longer felt Inu Yasha pushing back against the door and he had gone sort of quiet, she returned to the living room where everyone else was waiting for her. She entered to four curious stares, which made her sweat, so she quickly invented a cover story.
"A friend of mine slept over here last night. He's just getting ready now." Kagome sat down on the couch next to Hojo, quite exhausted from the morning's events. Hojo smiled.
"That's nice. What's his name?" Without even thinking, Kagome responded.
"Inu Yasha," then she wanted to eat her words. Hojo's brow furrowed a little.
"That's an odd name." Kagome's mother jumped in this time.
"He's Dutch." Hojo nodded and smiled.
"Oh, I see." Hojo was so incredibly dense.
"Kagome," began her mother," Hojo was nice enough to stop by your cousin's house and bring 'The Little Mermaid' back. Wasn't that nice of him?" Apparently, Hojo lived down the block from Kagome's cousins. Go figure.
"Um...thanks.
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Sango shook the bars of the cell while Miroku was trying to explain their kidnappers to Shippo.
"But, why would giant moles want to kidnap us?"
"How would I know! I just know that's we've been captured by huge underground mole people!"
Sango hushed the two of them quickly.
"Shh! One's coming!" All three scurried to the back of their cell and sat up against the wall. One of these large brown moles came up to their bars, stared at them, and then sat down in front of the door to this jail. The three friends looked back and forth and then back to the mole guard. It was the same one the had been with them before...at least, it looked like it was. It was wearing a green tunic that looked far too small and a pain of light brown pants. It held a long spear in its hand, which was currently resting across its lap. Sango slowly crawled toward this creature. She wasn't sure if it could speak but it was worth a try.
"Umm.excuse me?" She asked when she had reached the bars at its right side. It was startled and jumped up. It pointed the spear in Sango's direction. She stared down the shaft and then back up to the mole guard.
"Um...yeah, we were wondering...who exactly are you people and why have you captured us?" Miroku was a little surprised at how blunt Sango was but luckily for her, moles were not very bright.
The mole's voice was deep and raspy. "We are of the Molus clan," here he thumped his fist against his chest and then brought it back down to his side, "and we have lived underground for fifty years, when we were driven under by a fire in this area. After using up our supply of plants underground, we resorted to cannibalism. Many died, and our numbers were brought down to twenty. We decided it is bad to eat each other, so we would kidnap people from the outside and eat them. This is why you have been brought here." The mole sat back down in his former position, as if nothing had happened.
The three companions stared at the mole for a moment, then Sango returned to the back of the cell.
"Well," said Miroku "he was very straightforward."
"Yeah," commented Shippo, "you think if they were going to eat us, they wouldn't tell us."
Miroku chuckled. "Hee hee, they killed themselves off." Both boys nearly burst out laughing. Sango slapped the both of them upside the head.
"Quiet! They're obviously a very...proud race, you might offend them."
"They're obviously a very stupid race." Sango hit Miroku in the arm.
"Quit it you two. Now we have to find a way out of here."
"We could always dig our way out," said Shippo motioning to the walls. The three stared at the soil prison. The moles were not very bright creatures.
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AN: Little Mermaid next time, I promise! Sigh.I'm currently in writer's block, it's not good.
