WOW!! COOL!! I finally passed the 100 reviews mark!!! Sorry for the
excessive enthusiasm, but, hey, it's a first for me!!
Anyways, I got one question from a reviewer :
"What's Kouga talking about? Kagome's mom said Shippou could sleep in Souta's room, not Kagome's."
Sorry bout that!! I guess I confused you!! But I'm glad to see that most people were able to figure out what I was trying to say!! Lol!!
Here's the part from the story that explains it:
"...And Shippou can sleep in Souta's room." A delighted noise came from the boy, a giddy look coming over his features. "Or in your room, (talking to Kagome here) since he knows you better, and might be more comfortable around you."
Kagome mouthed "Thank you" to her mother (see?), knowing that she had just saved Shippou from a sleepless night full of video games, questions, and sugar.
Lol. Guess I didn't make myself clear enough!! Sorry bout that!!
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Ch. 10 Demons clean house!
Kagome sighed, rolling over in her bed and clutching her pillow closer to her. She had had an odd dream. It had started great, she had been able to go back into the past, and saw Shippou and Kouga all grown up, and met Kouga's son, and Miroku and Sango's great-grandkids... But then she had gone home, and they had come with her. She didn't mind that much; it was just that she felt kind of odd having three feudal-age demons sitting at her house while she was supposed to be going to school...
SCHOOL!!!! This thought caused her to sit straight up in bed, her eyes wide as she began to yelp about how she was going to be late. She threw her blanket aside, and swung her legs down to the floor. Funny, she thought as she paused, wiggling her toes. The floor feels really weird, like I'm standing on... someone's....
"Um, Kagome? I know you're not that heavy or anything, but, I do need to get up, and I can't so long as you keep standing on my back." At Shippou's muffled request, she looked down to see a sprawled-out kitsune, his head turned slightly so as to be able to try and see her. With another yelp, she leapt off of him and kneeled beside him, apologizing repeatedly.
"I am SOO sorry, Shippou!! I didn't know you were so close to the bed!! Hell, I thought..." When the realization that it HADN'T been a dream kicked in, she hugged him tightly, startling the poor fox-demon.
Even with his face still pressed against her floor, he couldn't help but smile at her hug. But he was curious as to what she had been about to say. "What did you think, Kagome??" He wondered what time it was, only to be distracted by Kagome's soft murmur of "it was all a dream."
At this, his smile grew. "No, Kagome, it wasn't a dream. We're still here. Although I don't think you're supposed to be. Don't you have school in a few minutes?" She had told him the night before that she was going to bed early because she had to be out of the house by a certain time. And, according to her little "clock" she had showed him, she had about 15 minutes until then.
She shot up for the second time that morning, apologizing to Shippou as she raced around her room, grabbing her clothes and homework. She ended up locking herself in the bathroom to change, since Shippou had decided to fall back to sleep. On her bed. He couldn't help it. He hadn't gotten to sleep next to her in so long, and now he got a chance to sleep in her bed, surrounded by her scent. The temptation was just too much.
He was fully awake, though, the moment she kissed his forehead, whispering a "See you later, sleepy-head" to him before flying down the stairs and out the door. Then back in the door for her forgotten lunch, much to the surprise of two tired wolf-demons who had been awoken by her cries of "I'm gonna be late!"
A goofy smile crossed his face as he relaxed in the Kagome-smelling sheets. He would have fallen back to sleep, too, if a certain wolf prince hadn't come to get him for breakfast, telling him that Kouga said to hurry before it was gone.
And so, like the hanyou before him, Shippou raced the other youkai down the stairs in the search for modern-day, or for them "futuristic", food.
~~*~~
He stared at the odd metal contraption. Kagome's mother had said it had the same purpose as a broom, and yet, a broom could not be used. Growling softly in annoyance, Koshu tried to remember how to "turn the vacuum on." The human woman had simply pressed her finger against this piece here, and pushed it down...
When the vacuum began to whir and suck up dirt and small things from the carpet, Koshu, like any canine, covered his ears and whimpered. He considered running from it, but he was a prince. His father was the powerful pack leader Kouga, and he could not be, and would not be, scared of a simple piece of metal.
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Kouga, on the other hand, was busy trying to figure out how to work the "dishwasher". At first, he had refused to clean up after the humans, but a glare from the mother of Kagome told him that he would clean, or he would find himself sleeping somewhere else. Like outside, pinned to the same tree that Inuyasha had spent 50 years of his life to.
Repressing a shudder, the "Powerful Pack Leader" tried to remember how much of this powdery substance he had been told to use again. Finally, he gave up and simply sliced the odd box with his claws, letting all of the powder falling into the open mouth of the odd metal contraption. He closed it like the woman had showed him, and pressed the button that she had been sure to ingrain into his skull. When an odd noise began to sound from the odd monster that he had been assured was not going to attack anyone, he decided to find his son and the kitsune.
He walked in on the other wolf demon holding one hand over his sensitive ears, and the other on the futuristic broom, which sent out a sound that made Kouga himself cover his ears in pain and annoyance. He wondered where the fox was, since they were each assigned "chores", which was a condensed version of the statement: "You stay here and clean and do other manual labor while I go and make sure there's food for your bellies tonight."
He had never heard of such a thing, but he had been told it was that or he go back down the well, headfirst. Without Kagome's help to send him back to his time. That or to be locked in a room with the crazy old man who thought himself a master at warding off demons. Kagome's family had finally sent him to stay with one of their friends, in order to keep him from attacking the three youkai.
Wandering throughout the house, he stopped when he smelled the kitsune's scent emanating from behind a closed door. He threw open the door to see what Shippou had been assigned. The demon held an article of clothing that looked exactly like what Kagome had worn when she arrived home last night and changed out of her kimono. Growling at the fox youkai for handling his wo- Kagome's clothes, he watched as the kitsune turned to look at Kouga, his face dark red in embarrassment as he pointed towards a pile of clothing.
~~*~~
Why did I have to be the one to wash the clothes?!?! I don't really wash them, though. I just put a bunch of them in a big white box, and pour some kind of liquid in there. Kagome never showed me this stuff. But when the first box stops making noises, I take the wet clothes and put them in the second box, and push the button. When it stops, I take out the clothes and fold them.
Sighing, Shippou looked away from the piece of paper he had written his instructions on. He could tell from the odd sounds in the other rooms that the father-son duo was doing what they had been instructed to. After they were finished, they had been told to sweep the front steps. After that, they were free to sleep or hunt in the nearby woods. But they were NOT to go near anyplace that was mostly metal, or where there was a lot of humans.
Shippou shook his head as he began to pull the now-dry and warm clothes from the second box. Lifting each article of clothing, the kitsune tried desperately not to think where each piece went. Some he could tell were Souta's, some an older man's, probably her grandfather, and some were for an older woman, most likely her mother. But others... He couldn't help the blush creeping up his face as he tried not to look at the things he was folding.
It was while he was holding one of Kagome's "t-shirts" (even though he STILL couldn't figure out how it got that name), when Kouga walked in and began to growl. He knew immediately why he was growling. Even after 72 years, the sight of Kagome probably brought out the old defensive tendencies. And so, to keep from getting attacked by the wolf who could almost be called a friend, he turned and pointed towards the stack of already-folded laundry.
Kouga glanced over and must have figured out his "chore", because he stopped snarling at the surprised fox-demon, and began to laugh, his hands on his hips. Shippou rolled his eyes, a habit learned from Kagome so long ago, and shook his head. Yeah, I'd say the Kouga of the old days is back. But I don't think he'd try to make a claim on Kagome again. From what I've heard, he's pretty loyal to his mate. Good, one less worry for me. Now Koshu, on the other hand...
~~*~~
Kagome raced home from school, almost scared to see what her youkai guests had done to her home. Dropping her bag by the door, she was shocked to be welcomed by the sight of three unconscious demons, all sleeping in the living room, and a clean house.
Smiling at the cute picture they made, she tiptoed up the stairs to her room and grabbed her camera. She wanted to hurry and get this picture before one of them smelled or heard her and woke up. She quickly raced down the stairs as quietly as possible, and snapped the photo only seconds before they awoke. Maybe it was the flash that woke them up, she mused.
She grinned as she hid, climbing silently up the stairs (or at least, silently to her), to her room. When she tossed her camera on the bed, though, she noticed her now-clean clothes all folded for her.
Wow! I thought Mom said she had a lot of errands to run today. But, then... she couldn't have washed my clothes, could she?? But if she didn't, WHO DID?!?!
If the waking youkai had intended on getting anymore sleep, especially the wolves who had decided to do the hunting (since Shippou argued that Kagome would miss her cat), and let Shippou make the fire outside and cook (since they couldn't figure out the oven, stove, or microwave); they were sorely mistaken. Kagome's scream of fury and embarrassment was enough to rouse even the most sated and exhausted of demons.
For fear of his life.
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Well!! Sorry this is getting put up so late!! It's 1 AM here! Ouch, huh? Oh well, happy to have gotten this out!! *grins* And you have to admit, it's be funny to see that. Just wait till next chapter, when the *ahem* PROUDLY inform Kagome what their chores were. I wonder who she'll strangle first, Shippou or her mom? Go ahead and review! You know you want to!!
Anyways, I got one question from a reviewer :
"What's Kouga talking about? Kagome's mom said Shippou could sleep in Souta's room, not Kagome's."
Sorry bout that!! I guess I confused you!! But I'm glad to see that most people were able to figure out what I was trying to say!! Lol!!
Here's the part from the story that explains it:
"...And Shippou can sleep in Souta's room." A delighted noise came from the boy, a giddy look coming over his features. "Or in your room, (talking to Kagome here) since he knows you better, and might be more comfortable around you."
Kagome mouthed "Thank you" to her mother (see?), knowing that she had just saved Shippou from a sleepless night full of video games, questions, and sugar.
Lol. Guess I didn't make myself clear enough!! Sorry bout that!!
~~~~~
Ch. 10 Demons clean house!
Kagome sighed, rolling over in her bed and clutching her pillow closer to her. She had had an odd dream. It had started great, she had been able to go back into the past, and saw Shippou and Kouga all grown up, and met Kouga's son, and Miroku and Sango's great-grandkids... But then she had gone home, and they had come with her. She didn't mind that much; it was just that she felt kind of odd having three feudal-age demons sitting at her house while she was supposed to be going to school...
SCHOOL!!!! This thought caused her to sit straight up in bed, her eyes wide as she began to yelp about how she was going to be late. She threw her blanket aside, and swung her legs down to the floor. Funny, she thought as she paused, wiggling her toes. The floor feels really weird, like I'm standing on... someone's....
"Um, Kagome? I know you're not that heavy or anything, but, I do need to get up, and I can't so long as you keep standing on my back." At Shippou's muffled request, she looked down to see a sprawled-out kitsune, his head turned slightly so as to be able to try and see her. With another yelp, she leapt off of him and kneeled beside him, apologizing repeatedly.
"I am SOO sorry, Shippou!! I didn't know you were so close to the bed!! Hell, I thought..." When the realization that it HADN'T been a dream kicked in, she hugged him tightly, startling the poor fox-demon.
Even with his face still pressed against her floor, he couldn't help but smile at her hug. But he was curious as to what she had been about to say. "What did you think, Kagome??" He wondered what time it was, only to be distracted by Kagome's soft murmur of "it was all a dream."
At this, his smile grew. "No, Kagome, it wasn't a dream. We're still here. Although I don't think you're supposed to be. Don't you have school in a few minutes?" She had told him the night before that she was going to bed early because she had to be out of the house by a certain time. And, according to her little "clock" she had showed him, she had about 15 minutes until then.
She shot up for the second time that morning, apologizing to Shippou as she raced around her room, grabbing her clothes and homework. She ended up locking herself in the bathroom to change, since Shippou had decided to fall back to sleep. On her bed. He couldn't help it. He hadn't gotten to sleep next to her in so long, and now he got a chance to sleep in her bed, surrounded by her scent. The temptation was just too much.
He was fully awake, though, the moment she kissed his forehead, whispering a "See you later, sleepy-head" to him before flying down the stairs and out the door. Then back in the door for her forgotten lunch, much to the surprise of two tired wolf-demons who had been awoken by her cries of "I'm gonna be late!"
A goofy smile crossed his face as he relaxed in the Kagome-smelling sheets. He would have fallen back to sleep, too, if a certain wolf prince hadn't come to get him for breakfast, telling him that Kouga said to hurry before it was gone.
And so, like the hanyou before him, Shippou raced the other youkai down the stairs in the search for modern-day, or for them "futuristic", food.
~~*~~
He stared at the odd metal contraption. Kagome's mother had said it had the same purpose as a broom, and yet, a broom could not be used. Growling softly in annoyance, Koshu tried to remember how to "turn the vacuum on." The human woman had simply pressed her finger against this piece here, and pushed it down...
When the vacuum began to whir and suck up dirt and small things from the carpet, Koshu, like any canine, covered his ears and whimpered. He considered running from it, but he was a prince. His father was the powerful pack leader Kouga, and he could not be, and would not be, scared of a simple piece of metal.
~~*~~
Kouga, on the other hand, was busy trying to figure out how to work the "dishwasher". At first, he had refused to clean up after the humans, but a glare from the mother of Kagome told him that he would clean, or he would find himself sleeping somewhere else. Like outside, pinned to the same tree that Inuyasha had spent 50 years of his life to.
Repressing a shudder, the "Powerful Pack Leader" tried to remember how much of this powdery substance he had been told to use again. Finally, he gave up and simply sliced the odd box with his claws, letting all of the powder falling into the open mouth of the odd metal contraption. He closed it like the woman had showed him, and pressed the button that she had been sure to ingrain into his skull. When an odd noise began to sound from the odd monster that he had been assured was not going to attack anyone, he decided to find his son and the kitsune.
He walked in on the other wolf demon holding one hand over his sensitive ears, and the other on the futuristic broom, which sent out a sound that made Kouga himself cover his ears in pain and annoyance. He wondered where the fox was, since they were each assigned "chores", which was a condensed version of the statement: "You stay here and clean and do other manual labor while I go and make sure there's food for your bellies tonight."
He had never heard of such a thing, but he had been told it was that or he go back down the well, headfirst. Without Kagome's help to send him back to his time. That or to be locked in a room with the crazy old man who thought himself a master at warding off demons. Kagome's family had finally sent him to stay with one of their friends, in order to keep him from attacking the three youkai.
Wandering throughout the house, he stopped when he smelled the kitsune's scent emanating from behind a closed door. He threw open the door to see what Shippou had been assigned. The demon held an article of clothing that looked exactly like what Kagome had worn when she arrived home last night and changed out of her kimono. Growling at the fox youkai for handling his wo- Kagome's clothes, he watched as the kitsune turned to look at Kouga, his face dark red in embarrassment as he pointed towards a pile of clothing.
~~*~~
Why did I have to be the one to wash the clothes?!?! I don't really wash them, though. I just put a bunch of them in a big white box, and pour some kind of liquid in there. Kagome never showed me this stuff. But when the first box stops making noises, I take the wet clothes and put them in the second box, and push the button. When it stops, I take out the clothes and fold them.
Sighing, Shippou looked away from the piece of paper he had written his instructions on. He could tell from the odd sounds in the other rooms that the father-son duo was doing what they had been instructed to. After they were finished, they had been told to sweep the front steps. After that, they were free to sleep or hunt in the nearby woods. But they were NOT to go near anyplace that was mostly metal, or where there was a lot of humans.
Shippou shook his head as he began to pull the now-dry and warm clothes from the second box. Lifting each article of clothing, the kitsune tried desperately not to think where each piece went. Some he could tell were Souta's, some an older man's, probably her grandfather, and some were for an older woman, most likely her mother. But others... He couldn't help the blush creeping up his face as he tried not to look at the things he was folding.
It was while he was holding one of Kagome's "t-shirts" (even though he STILL couldn't figure out how it got that name), when Kouga walked in and began to growl. He knew immediately why he was growling. Even after 72 years, the sight of Kagome probably brought out the old defensive tendencies. And so, to keep from getting attacked by the wolf who could almost be called a friend, he turned and pointed towards the stack of already-folded laundry.
Kouga glanced over and must have figured out his "chore", because he stopped snarling at the surprised fox-demon, and began to laugh, his hands on his hips. Shippou rolled his eyes, a habit learned from Kagome so long ago, and shook his head. Yeah, I'd say the Kouga of the old days is back. But I don't think he'd try to make a claim on Kagome again. From what I've heard, he's pretty loyal to his mate. Good, one less worry for me. Now Koshu, on the other hand...
~~*~~
Kagome raced home from school, almost scared to see what her youkai guests had done to her home. Dropping her bag by the door, she was shocked to be welcomed by the sight of three unconscious demons, all sleeping in the living room, and a clean house.
Smiling at the cute picture they made, she tiptoed up the stairs to her room and grabbed her camera. She wanted to hurry and get this picture before one of them smelled or heard her and woke up. She quickly raced down the stairs as quietly as possible, and snapped the photo only seconds before they awoke. Maybe it was the flash that woke them up, she mused.
She grinned as she hid, climbing silently up the stairs (or at least, silently to her), to her room. When she tossed her camera on the bed, though, she noticed her now-clean clothes all folded for her.
Wow! I thought Mom said she had a lot of errands to run today. But, then... she couldn't have washed my clothes, could she?? But if she didn't, WHO DID?!?!
If the waking youkai had intended on getting anymore sleep, especially the wolves who had decided to do the hunting (since Shippou argued that Kagome would miss her cat), and let Shippou make the fire outside and cook (since they couldn't figure out the oven, stove, or microwave); they were sorely mistaken. Kagome's scream of fury and embarrassment was enough to rouse even the most sated and exhausted of demons.
For fear of his life.
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Well!! Sorry this is getting put up so late!! It's 1 AM here! Ouch, huh? Oh well, happy to have gotten this out!! *grins* And you have to admit, it's be funny to see that. Just wait till next chapter, when the *ahem* PROUDLY inform Kagome what their chores were. I wonder who she'll strangle first, Shippou or her mom? Go ahead and review! You know you want to!!