Kouga- walking out with short spiked hair It's been two long, loooong weeks. Who could have known she would keep a one-and-only-love-of-her-life- for-ever-and-ever-at-least-for-a-week that long?
Hyperchica- Ya notice the "at least" part in there. That's my escape clause!
Kouga- Hmpf.
Hyperchica- You KNOW you like it! You just don't want to admit it More grumbling from Kouga Anyways, without further ado, ON WITH THE FIC!!!
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Chapter 4
Prohibido (Forbidden)
"You're wrong, Sesshomaru! Bear demons are so much more powerful!"
"I beg to differ-scorpion demons are obviously superior."
Inuyasha, Sesshomaru and Kagome had been searching for Shippo and Rin for quite some time now, and it was getting to them. Sesshomaru and Inuyasha began arguing about petty things. At the moment, they were arguing about which type of demon was stronger: bear or scorpion.
"The only reason you like scorpions is because they've got poison. Admit it."
"It is their poison that makes them the better of the two."
Inuyasha and Sesshomaru's thunderous arguing was only a mumble in the background to Kagome, no louder than a slight whisper of the breeze.
She had given up yelling Shippo's name hours before. Now, Kagome just silently scanned the forest floor, hoping that, just behind that tree up ahead, would be Shippo, safe and sound.
She smiled slightly, thinking of how their reunion would be. 'He'll say, "Kagome, I'm hungry and tired," and then jump into my arms, happy to see me again.' Kagome realized that she felt much like the Shippo in her thoughts did, although she was much more tired than hungry.
'Well it can't hurt if I just close my eyes for a second.just a quick wink." Kagome's eyelids began to droop. However, just as they were about to close, she saw a flash of orange-ish red, uncharacteristic of what she had seen of the rest of the forest.
"STOP!" she screamed at the bickering half-brothers. They came to a halt immediately, remembering the scary person they had witnessed Kagome turn into before.
"Go back a bit," she commanded. Obediently, Inuyasha backtracked slowly, taking in all of his surroundings as he went.
"There."
She pointed down at a small break in the heavy forest and Inuyasha darted over, Sesshomaru following as quickly as he could with out betraying too much emotion.
"Stupid Shippo! Here we are, searching for you for hours, and you are here, cuddled up with a HUMAN girl, and friggin' SLEEPING!" Inuyasha shouted as loud as he could. He practically dropped Kagome and lunged at Shippo.
"Inuyasha, sit," Kagome stated, and Inuyasha slammed into the ground.
Sesshomaru cracked an amused smile.
"Sesshomaru?" said Kagome.
"What, wench?" replied Sesshomaru.
"Lie down."
Sesshomaru, much to everyone's surprise went down the same way Inuyasha did. The three were shocked.
"It..it.it worked?" asked Kagome incredulously.
"How the hell did you do that?" demanded Sesshomaru.
"Um.I.don't.know?" offered Kagome.
Inuyasha muttered to himself. "Keh. I wish she'd tell me to lie down."
Sesshomaru regained some of his composure, but you could hear the tension in his voice as he clenched his teeth and said, "Human, even if you do not know how you subdued me, I am curious. Pray tell, for what important reason did you risk my wrath by subduing me?"
"Yeah, and what did I do wrong this time?" Inuyasha complained.
Kagome shook her head, trying to remember why she subdued both of them in the first place.
"Oh yes, I remember now! I subdued you, Inuyasha, because you need to let the little one's sleep. And you, Sesshomaru, I subdued because I absolutely detest it when you look smug like that.
Sesshomaru let out something that sounded suspiciously like a growl.
"Shh! Let them sleep," commanded Kagome, overcoming the initial shock of having the power to subdue both brothers, and she was now having (maybe) too much fun with the knowledge of the newfound "respect" Sesshomaru had for her.
"Fine," Inuyasha and Sesshomaru said at the same time, then glared at each other.
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Shippo was dreaming of crayons and lollipops when he heard some rather faint background noises. He, thinking it was the purple crayon, scolded it in dream.
Shippo's Dream
Shippo- "Be quiet, you!"
Purple Crayon- "I didn't say anything!"
Shippo- "Then who did?"
Purple Crayon- "Inuyasha"
Shippo- "WHAT!?!?! HOW'D HE GET IN MY DREAM?"
Purple Crayon- "He didn't. He's standing next to you. I'm guessing you need to wake up."
Shippo- "But I don't want to!"
Purple Crayon- "Kagome's there too. She wants you to wake up. You should wake, if only for her sake."
Shippo took a last, long, sad look at his dream, and then gloomily agreed.
End Dream
Shippo's eyes fluttered open. Before him he saw Inuyasha and Sesshomaru in fighting stances, glowering at each other, each looking ready to rip out the other's throat. They were holding back, for some reason that Shippo could not understand.
He finally spotted Kagome, and was very befuddled by the smug look on her face. It was very unlike her to smirk like that. Shippo pondered it for about 5 seconds and then decided he didn't care.
He diverted his attention from the older, confusing people and looked down at Rin. He shook her lightly.
"Rin, wake up," whispered Shippo.
"But Sesshy, Rin is tired," she whined quietly.
"Rin, Sesshy is back. With Kagome and Inuyasha," said Shippo.
"What!?!" Rin jumped up. Seeing Sesshomaru, she ran over to him. "Sesshy! Rin missed you! Don't leave Rin again!"
"Humph," grunted Sesshomaru, his face belying no emotion. Everyone knew he was happy to see her again though.
"Sesshy, this Shippo. Rin's new friend," Rin said excitedly, dragging the huge Demon Lord over to the still sitting Shippo.
"Humph," was Sesshomaru's terse reply. "We must leave now. Say good bye to your friend, Rin." He practically spat out the word "friend" like it was something horrible and grotesque beyond imagination..
"Bye Bye Shippo!" shouted Rin over Sesshomaru's shoulder as she was picked up and whisked away.
"Good riddance," spat Inuyasha.
"BYE BYE RIN!" yelled Shippo with equal, if not greater, volume.
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The three companions stood there for a while, not quite sure of what to do now that they'd found Shippo.
"We should get back to the others. They'll be worried," suggested Kagome.
"I was going to say that," Inuyasha claimed. "You just stole my idea!"
"Ugh! Sit!" Kagome groaned at Inuyasha's impertinence.
"Hey! I'm your only way out of here. You break my back, and you'll never find your way back to the other clearing."
Shippo was still sitting there meditatively. He stared off into the direction where Rin had disappeared off to.
"Are you happy with all the trouble you've caused us?" Inuyasha harassed Shippo.
Shippo had fallen asleep again, but with his eyes open.
"What the heck?!?!" yelled Inuyasha. "You are the friggin' laziest demon I've even seen!"
"Leave him alone!" ordered Kagome, as she went to pick Shippo up. "He must be so tired, Shippo. Now, let's go home," she said, addressing the sleeping kitsune.
She began to walk back the way she thought the clearing was.
"Stupid girl, you'll take too long that way."
Inuyasha was a blur as he ran over to Kagome with his demonic speed and swept her up into his arms, bridal style. Kagome felt a wave of redness come over her cheeks, and she quickly turned her face to an angle where he could no longer see it.
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After a short while, she got over the fact that she was flying over the treetops in the arms of an incredibly handsome man (well demon, technically). With Shippo still curled up in a ball on her stomach, she leaned against Inuyasha chiseled chest.
She could hear his slow, steady heart beat through the red fire-rat shirt he always wore.
'He smells good." she thought, and unconsciously snuggled in closer.
Inuyasha looked down at Kagome to see her snuggled up close to him, eyes closed and a dreamy smile on her face. He knew he was going to blush, and promptly looked back up again, hoping she hadn't seen him looking at her.
As his luck would have it, she didn't see him. But, she did notice that his slow, steady heartbeat had turned into a fast and irregular one.
Kagome looked up at him, her eyes glued to the face framed by silvery hair.
'He definitely doesn't look that bad either," the voice in her head told her.
"Mmm-hmmm," Kagome agreed with the voice in her head, accidentally saying it out loud.
Inuyasha tried to sneak a glance at Kagome, but when he glanced down, he saw two doe-like brown eyes looking at him.
You know that feeling, where you want to look away from something but you can't? Well, that's how this was.
Neither of them dared to break eye contact, and so they stayed that way, gazing deep into each other's eyes, the windows to their souls.
"Inuyasha?" Kagome said quietly.
"Kagome?" Inuyasha replied in an uncharacteristically timid way.
Inuyasha leaned down towards Kagome and closed she closed her eyes. He did likewise.
Their lips were only an inch away from each other's. Then the inevitable happened.
"EWWIE!!!!"
They were jolted out of their own little world by a shrill cry.
"Yuck! Yuck! Yuck!!" squealed a newly-awoken Shippo. Waking up to scene he had witnessed, he was at a loss for words.
"ICKY!!! DISGUS-"
Inuyasha was very, very, VERY mad at the little kid.
'Stupid kid!!,' thought Inuyasha furiously. 'Ruined the moment, and now there won't be any tension or anything between me and Kagome.wait.maybe I should thank the brat.NOPE!'
He lashed out at Shippo, covering his mouth so as to stop the barrage of "ewwwws" and "ickys" coming from it. Inuyasha then deposited Kagome on the top branch of a extremely high tree, forgetting about her fear of heights.
" 'Scuse us, Kagome, we need to go have a demon-to-demon talk here. We'll be right back," Inuyasha said through gritted teeth as he grabbed Shippo by the scruff of his neck and jumped down the lower branches.
"WAIT!! Don't leave me here!" screamed Kagome, panicked. "I'm afraid of.heights." She grabbed onto the tree and held on with all her might, squeezing her eyes shut just as hard as she was squeezing the tree branch.
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When they reached the forest floor, Inuyasha addressed a petrified Shippo.
"I should have left you back in the forest. It's not too late though. What is your mind running on? Stupid juice? Well it sure seems like it! You could have just pretended you were still asleep of something! Would that have been so hard, stupid-juice boy?"
"Hm.you like Kagome don't you?" Shippo said smoothly.
Inuyasha was taken aback.
"Wha.Nnn...How..why. OF COURSE NOT!!!" Inuyasha regained his composure at the end of his babble-fest.
"Uh-huh. Sure then," said Shippo, egging Inuyasha on.
Inuyasha, for once, decided not to take the bait.
"You believe it or you get left here. Anyways, what was with hanging with that Rin girl? Are you insane?"
"No," said Shippo, confused, " I saved her, and then we became friends."
"Friends?!?" said Inuyasha. "Keh! Anyone who hangs out with my brother is incapable of being a 'friend'."
"Not Rin." murmured Shippo.
"YES RIN! I want you to stay away from her, you hear me! If I so much as hear a rumor you glanced at her, even if it was for a split second at a half-mile distance, I will take you out as far as I can into this forest and leave you. Maybe I'll even do worse. Get the idea?" growled Inuyasha menacingly.
"Yes," Shippo whisper, defeated. He'd never see Rin again.never.
Or at least that's what he thought.
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Hyperchica- snifflewipes a tear My gosh, I'm crying! That was so sad! Why'd the author have to be so mean?
Kouga- you ARE the author.
Hyperchica- oh that's right isn't it. proceeds to beat self up
Kouga- No, you idiot! intervenes in the self-fight You are waaay too stupid.
Hyperchica- NO! I am the SMARTditz.
Kouga- Uh huh. Then why were you so stupid as to beat yourself up.
Hyperchica- cuz I'm the smartDITZ
Kouga- is it just me, or did that make no sense?
Hyperchica- It's me-logic, it's not supposed to make sense!
Kouga- Aiiii..my head.
Hyperchica- Anyways, dearest readers, thank you for reading. Since that's normally what readers do. Anyways, I'm so proud of myself, this chapter took so long for me to write, and if I do say so myself, it's rather long! :) YA FOR HYPERCHICA! And I ended with a semi-cliffy. heehee now I know why other writers do cliffies. They are soooooo fun to write-
Kouga- You're rambling.
Hyperchica- SHUSH!! Anyways, before I was so rudely interrupted, I was gonna tell you that I won't be getting these out daily, and most likely almost never on weekends. :) The only days you will most likely see updates from me are Tuesdays thru Saturdays. By the way, thank you so much for reviewing!
Asher Tye- I took your advice about separting stuff. That's why the heart lines are there now. :)
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