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WHEW! Close Shave!
Chapter 2: Solutions, Solutions!
Author's Note:
Thanks for all the reviews! I really liked them! Sorry for all the late update… It's just that school and after school stuff is really keeping me away from my precious computer! I'm saving up for a lap top, but I'm still really poor (I only saved up about 45% of what I need) and right now I can't get a job. *Sob* Anyway, here's the next chapter to the story. Please review when you are done reading!
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Back at Kaede's hut, Kagome explained the deal to the old lady.
"I see, child, but are you sure ye wants to do this? 'Tis not the first time Naraku has tried to deceive ye," Kaede said after the explanation.
"I'm sure, Kaede, but now that you say it that way, I'm not too sure," Kagome said, shaking her head. She looked up at Inu Yasha, who was glancing out the window. "What do you think, Inu Yasha?" she asked.
"Half his shards… half of them!" Inu Yasha muttered to himself. "We'll have most of the shards, then!"
Kagome sighed. "There's nothing that'll get through him now. He's off in his own little world, you know, the one where he's a full demon and Kikyo is with him."
Shippo laughed. "No, watch this! Inu Yasha, Ramen… Ramen is going away forever!"
Inu Yasha jumped up, hand resting on the Tetsusaiga. "Where? Where?!"
Kagome giggled. "Inu Yasha, there will be Ramen as long as you let me go home now and then."
Inu Yasha blushed. "Feh. I knew that!"
Shippo, Miroku, and Sango rolled their eyes.
"Yeah right!" Sango whispered.
Inu Yasha's sensitive ears picked up the comment. "Shut up."
Miroku smirked. "He's just mad because he feels stupid." He nudged Sango's arm.
Inu Yasha growled. "FEH!"
Kagome, knowing that this wasn't a good time to start an argument, quickly said, "Inu Yasha, if we want to help Naraku and get the shards, we'll need to think of how! A razor wouldn't work, maybe waxing?"
"Wax?" Sango asked, looking obviously confused.
"Oh, in the future, there's this stuff called wax, and you spread it over your legs and them peel it off. The wax sticks to the hair and pulls it out," Kagome explained.
Sango winced. "But doesn't that… hurt?"
Kagome nodded. "A lot."
Miroku, Inu Yasha, and Shippo looked at each other.
"Do you have any idea what they're talking about?" Shippo asked quietly.
"Not a clue!" Miroku whispered back.
"Do you get any of it?" Inu Yasha asked.
"Nope."
Sango suddenly yelled. "I know! We should use wax! I mean, after all the pain he has caused us, he deserves something nice and painful!"
The others nod and murmur in agreement.
"Okay! We'll wax him!" Inu Yasha called. "After all, he didn't say anything about us hurting him in he process!"
Kagome's face fell. "Inu Yasha, I don't have any wax with me! I'll need to go back home and buy some!"
"Well, how do you keep your legs shiny and smooth here?" Inu Yasha asked.
"There's a thing called a razor." Kagome looked like she was talking o the very, very stupid.
"Oh. Feh! I knew that!"
"So can I go home?" Kagome asked again.
"Er…" Inu Yasha looked thoughtful. "Oh, alright! But only because we need to shave Naraku!"
"YAY!" Kagome jumped up and cheered.
Shippo, however, was doubtful. "But what if it doesn't work? I mean, if you pull out hair, it grows back!"
Miroku covered his mouth. "Quiet! No one heard that!"
Too bad Inu Yasha had! His expression was one of a crestfallen man, depressed and dead looking.
Kagome ran over to comfort him. "Shippo, you know how sensitive these guys are! Stop torturing him with doubts!"
"Sorry Kagome!"
"It's okay, Inu Yasha! If this method doesn't work, something else will! We'll get those shards for you, okay?"
Inu Yasha sniffed, but when he raised his head, his eyes held true determination. "You're right! If you don't succeed, try again! We'll get those shard from Naraku if it's the last thing I do!"
"That's the spirit!" Sango yelled.
"Okay, Inu Yasha! I'm going to go now!
"WAIT!" Inu Yasha inturrupted.
"What?"
"Bring me some miso flavored Ramen!"
"Okay, Inu Yasha! I would've anyway, but hey, I don't care!" Kagome said happily.
The next day, Inu Yasha, Miroku, Sango, and Shippo saw Kagome off.
"Bring me chocolate, Kagome!" Shippo called from Miroku's shoulder.
"Okay, Shippo-chan! I will!" Kagome said. Kagome jumped into the well.
Instantly, she was home. Climbing out of the well in going into the house, she went into the hallway.
"Mama, I'm home!" she called cheerfully.
"Hmm? Kagome? You're home already?" a muffled voice called from the kitchen.
"Yeah, but I have to go back soon, too. I need more money for supplies! Mama, please? Just around $20?" Kagome begged.
"Sure! Come into the kitchen, first, though! I need to show you something from the newspaper!"
Kagome went into the kitchen, where her mother was leaning on the counter reading the newspaper.
"Come here, look!" Her mom pointed to an ad.
It was an ad of Nair. It said, 'Today's Nair smells great, smoothes hair away in as quick as 4 minutes, moisturizes, and leaves legs totally touchable days longer than shaving.'
Kagome fell to the floor laughing. "Yeah right! 'Smells great'… HAHAHAHA! That's a joke! That's a real joke!"
Her mom also started cracking up.
A light bulb in Kagome's head went off. 'If wax doesn't work…Nair might! We can try that next!'
She quickly stopped laughing. "Mom, I need to buy the stuff or Inu Yasha will get mad at me again! Please?"
Her mom pulled out her purse and gave her a crisp $20 bill.
"Arigato Mom, you're the best!" Kagome said, grinning.
"You're welcome, but be back soon! I'm making oden!"
"YAY!" Kagome said as she rushed outside.
Walking quickly, she soon arrived at a local grocery store. She walked in and headed straight for the 'Beauty' section.
She found wax, Nair, and, for herself, some new Venus razor-heads.
'Good. Now I can go back to Sengoku jidai tomorrow morning!' she thought happily.
Kagome paid for the items and walked home, humming joyfully.
The next day, Kagome grabbed her needed supplies and said goodbye to her family. She jumped into the well an arrived in Inu Yasha's forest, where she found Inu Yasha sitting there, cross-legged, already waiting for her.
"Feh. Where were you, wench? We were expecting you yesterday!" Inu Yasha gruffly said.
Kagome glared at him. "I thought you were going to call me by my name! I stayed because my mother wanted me to! Besides, you wouldn't miss me for a day!"
"Humph!" was her reply.
"Oh well! Inu Yasha, lets go! I have all the things we need to 'help' Naraku!"
Inu Yasha's mood instantly lightened. "Okay!" He grinned like a happy child. (A/N: KAWAII!)
Kagome smiled with him and they walked to find Sango, Miroku, and Shippo.
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So… It's finally done! Chapter 2 of 'WHEW! Close Shave!'. I didn't get as many reviews as I hoped (only 8!). It's like… a half of what I got for the first chapter of 'Ready, Set, SHAVE!' I'm sad now! Please, everyone! More reviews for the writer's soul! Please, please, PLEASE!
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