Figure tied to chair--Um duh, hyperchica! Maybe now you'll stop forcing me to listen to karaoke!
Hyperchica- Oh! I almost forgot. I have a new one-and-only-love-of-my-life- for-ever-and-ever-at-least-for-a-week!!! Suzaku wasn't any fun. So I brought back Kouga!!!
Kouga- mutteringjust when you think you're safe she comes running into your pack like a commando/spy and shoots a-hell-of-a-lot of tranquilizer darts at you and your pack and then picks you up potato sack style when you're unconscious and throws you in the back of her "hot pink with periwinkle flowers" PT Cruiser and drives back to the future!
Hyperchica- As you can see he's happy to be back!!!
Kouga- still muttering Dang she's dumb.
Hyperchica- I AM NOT DUMB!!! And how would you know what I did after you were unconscious! Wait.you weren't.you didn't! Were you not unconscious?
Kouga- shocked that she heard him Um.of course, I was wrong you're very smart! Did I mention how much I love this story?
Hyperchica- STOP AVOIDING THE QUESTION!!!! If looks could kill Kouga would be dead
Kouga-- um...nowforthedisclaimer:shedoesn'towninuyashaormeforthatmatternandwithoutfu rtheradohereisthefic!
Hyperchica- Why don't you just admit it, you lik-- Kouga squirms and interrupts
Kouga- LOOK! THE CHAPTER TITLE!!! YOU GOTTA START WRITING AND LEAVE ME ALONE! 'Thank you gods!'
Chapter 3
Besame (Kiss Me)
Kagome, Inuyasha, and Sesshomaru moved about the forest, searching for the pair of lost kids. Kagome was riding on Inuyasha's back, incessantly yelling for Shippo. Inuyasha was trying to cover his ears, which were being blasted by Kagome's foghorn-loud voice, but failing, because he couldn't cover his ears without dropping Kagome.
He, like Kagome, was also calling for Shippo, but he wouldn't let her know it for the world. He using tones that only a being with demon blood could hear.
Sesshomaru, having demon blood and all, noticed him calling, and laughed inwardly at his half-brother's antics.
'Who does he think he's fooling! No sane demon would fall for that!' He reminded himself, however, that his half-brother's mate was not a demon, merely a human.
Sesshomaru decided to ignore the half-demon's feeble attempts to help locate his little fox demon pup and went back to worrying about his problem.
"Rin! Come out now!" he ordered, his gruff voice hiding a worried interior.
They searched for hours on end, unaware that they had already passed the place where Rin and Shippo were located.
"This is all your fault you know," Inuyasha accused his brother. The extensive and exhausting search had made Inuyasha bitter, and he needed to blame all this on someone.
"And how is that, mutt?" Sesshomaru growled, also tired and cranky because of his lack of sleep.
'Oh great, here we go again.' thought Kagome. She subconsciously sighed and rolled her eyes, anticipating the petty, pointless fight about to occur.
"If you didn't drag that stupid girl everywhere, she wouldn't have been in danger, and Shippo wouldn't have had to save her, and we wouldn't be in this mess!" yelled Inuyasha.
"Well, if you had trained that tiny fox demon like a father is supposed to train a pup, he would have know not to use his full force to tackle her to get her out of the way, and then they wouldn't have rolled off so far!" was the angry reply from Sesshomaru.
"He's not my pup, stupid! And if you didn't want to fight for the Tetsusaiga, he wouldn't have had to save her at all!"
"If you'd just give me it, we wouldn't have to fight!"
"SHUT UP!!!!" an outside voice interjected into the two brothers' argument.
Sesshomaru and Inuyasha looked at Kagome, who was the source of the angry command.
"I'm thoroughly tired with you two immature, self-absorbed, overconfident DOGS fighting! Now, we're here to find Shippo and Rin! So, for the purposes of this mission, we are allies. WE ALL LOVE EACHOTHER!!!! DO YOU UNDERSTAND, YOU WORTHLESS MAGGOTS!!!" The two dog-demons nodded silently, their wide eyes betraying how shocked they were by the power that was radiating from the young woman.
"Good. Now.behave yourselves.or else!" Kagome said sternly, her eyes shooting daggers at the boys.
Despite the fact that she was only a young human girl, during that moment, she seemed scarier than Naraku himself, and they remained silent and motionless, fearing her and what she might do.
"What are you waiting here for? Let's get searching!" yelled Kagome.
The brothers quickly hopped back to work, and began calling for the kids again. Even Inuyasha made his cries audible to humans now, more afraid of what she might DO if she didn't hear him calling than what she might think of him if he did call out. The search continued for quite some time, uneventfully.
Back at the small area where Shippo had just passed out, Rin was frantic. As soon as she had seen him faint, she jumped up and started shaking him.
"Is Shippo OK?" whispered Rin, thinking that if he had a headache, she would make it worse by yelling. She was very worried. She did not want to lose her new friends less than hours after meeting him.
Shippo blinked, his vision blurry and fading in and out like someone kept covering the sun with a sheer material. He saw a face above him, a face with black hair.
"Mama? Is that you, Kagome?" Shippo murmured, mistaking the girl for his adopted Mommy.
"No, I'm Rin, silly!" giggled Rin, relieved that he was okay.
"Rin wants to know: what exactly Shippo doing before Shippo go sleep?" Rin asked. She did not have the incredible hearing that Shippo did, and thus, did not hear the voices, nor did she smell how overpowering the scent from the delicate flowers was to Shippo.
Shippo tried to remember exactly what he was doing before he blacked out. He racked his brain for some clue, any clue at all. But there was none. Try as he might, his slight head injury from when he collapsed had made him forget the voices he had heard.
"I.I don't know," said Shippo, embarrassed at his lapse of memory.
"That ok! Rin don't know either!" Rin reassured her befuddled friend with a giggle.
Silence fell over the two like a heavy flannel blanket. Shippo wondered why he didn't remember the events prior to his fall, and Rin scrutinized his every move, wondering what he was thinking.
The hushed atmosphere around them made Rin feel sleepy.
"Rin tired. Go to sleep," stated Rin.
The second Rin mentioned how tired she was, Shippo realized that he was close to collapsing from drowsiness. He nodded his head, then curled up on the carpet of flowers. Rin cuddled up next to him, since she was used to cuddling up to fluffy demons. Shippo was shocked at first, but then relaxed and closed his eyes. It wasn't long until sleep overtook Rin, and her soft breathing blew through the fur on Shippo, making it wave ever so slightly.
Just before Shippo was about to fall into a deep slumber, he looked down at Rin. A slight smile graced her facial features and a strand of hair fell over her cheek.
Shippo remembered what Inuyasha would do to Kagome when he thought everyone else was sleeping. He decided to try it.
He gently pushed back the stray strand of hair behind her ear, and gazed at her.
Mimicking the style of Inuyasha, Shippo kissed her forehead gently, and then whispered in her ear.
"Goodnight, Rin."
And with that he closed his eyes and went back to sleep, wondering just what Inuyasha found so wonderful about his little nighttime ritual.
AW!!! How sweet! :) Sorry this chapter is so short. :( I needed a good stopping point, and this one seemed the best. I've got the next chapter planned out, and I can even give you the title.ok maybe I can't. but oh well!! Kouga- why do you do the titles in Spanish? Why not Japanese?
Hyperchica- I don't know Japanese, that's why. But, while we're asking questions, why is your hair so long?
Kouga- Cuz I don't like to cut it. sees hyperchica getting a mischeivious look on her face Ohhhh no. You are not getting near my ponytail.
Hyperchica- but it needs to be cut! It's longer than mine! pulls scissors out of her pocket It won't hurt! I promise!
Kouga- AAAAAAAHH!!! runs away
Hyperchica- But you'd look even cuter with short hair! And it'd grow back eventually!Runs after him, then stops and turns and talks to readers BTW, Marillawen, you are so wonderful! Thank u for your glittering review! Oh yeah, and the rest of you, don't forget to read and review! Thanx!!!
