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Rising With the Sweetness
Chapter 2: Knocking on Hearts
The building of the shop was going so rapidly, it made their eyes whirl. It was either that they were so tired they were hallucinating, or they were just going blissfully fast with their hanyou's macho strength. In Kagome's eyes, he was like their own personal superman.
"Inuyasha, any coffee before we head on for the shop?"
Kagome called out from the kitchen as she packed things into the mini cooler. Inuyasha came lumbering down the stairs, still wearing his sweat pants and walking around with a bare chest rubbing his hair with a crisp, white towel. She gave him a funny look as he sleepily made his way to the fridge.
"You haven't even CHANGED yet?"
He looked up from his milk carton. He never really bothered to use a cup. Kagome just wish she had known a little earlier that he'd been doing likewise since he GOT here...and she'd been pouring milk into her coffee every morning since then...
"Mmmmmm?"
She sighed, looking him over from head to toe with skeptical eyes. She finally shook her head and grabbed hold of his hand, dragging him back up the stairs along with his milk carton.
"Mmmmf?!"
He stumbled up the stairs and fell over on his bed as she sorted through his wardrobe. She worked so hard just to get cash for everyone's new outfits...
In the end she chose a black t-shirt, specially hand embroidered with her own hands the big kanji character for 'Inu' (dog) in red thread. He never admitted it, but he seemed to be very fond of its special look. She tossed him a pair of jeans and shut the closet door.
"That should do it. Don't forget your socks, ok?"
Inuyasha examined his picked out outfit, and looked at her with an unexplainable expression on his face.
"What?"
He shook his head and pulled the t-shirt on over his head.
"It kinda feels like I have a mom agai-"
His head went falling backwards at the hard swipe of her hand.
"ARGH!"
She rubbed her fist.
"You call me mom again and I'll slug you. Pfft, what am I? A hen with her chick?"
He glared up at her from the bed.
"Tweet tweet, I'm all beat, momma's soup with me as meat."
He dodged another blow as she marched to the door. But she sighed as she turned to face him.
She forced a smug grin on her face and mimicked a sweet voice.
"Alright, you be a good boy and be nice to your friends. Don't talk to strangers!"
Right then, she lunged at him, wrapping her arms around his neck and slamming her lips full force into his left cheek.
"Mommy wuvs you!!!"
She quickly dashed out the door and picked up the mini cooler, running out to the streets while laughing whole heartedly all the way. She left Inuyasha in the room looking rather confused, wondering whether he was supposed to be fuming or blushing. Either way, he stumbled after her, remembering to lock the door as he grabbed his shoes and leapt down the street.
"Kagome, you retard!!"
* * *
"Miroku tell me how this feels. I think it's pretty good in weight."
Sango dropped the hammer in his hand and he clutched it, lifting it slightly up and down as he felt its weight.
"It's alright. But I'd like you to try this one."
She took the hammer from his hand and made a swinging motion, as if hammering a nail.
"I agree. It's pretty good."
Sango and Miroku had left the house at 7:00 that morning, and stopped by the hardware store for new tools. Hammers happened to take the longest to choose.
Miroku suddenly stopped by the newspaper rack as they began to leave the store. Sango looked at him curiously.
"What is it, Miroku?"
They were pretty used to talking with people in public by now, but reading was still a challenge. After all, they didn't have as much of the kanji characters and things of that sort in their time...
"I'm rather confused with this article. Come take a look."
She looked over his shoulder as he pointed to the large print, being the headline.
"There's the kanji for 'dog'. There's a whole bunch of characters kinda stuck together here, and I can make out 'dirt', and oh, here's 'person' but it's inside some sorta little box shaped thing..."
Sango pointed to it as well.
"That's odd, why are all these kanji stuck together? I see 'mouth', and 'heart' over here..."
"Oh, there's the word 'nine', and 'tree'."
Miroku pursed his lips in confusion.
"Dirt, person, box thing, dog, mouth, heart, nine, and tree?"
They looked at each other quizzically.
"What are the rest of the little squiggly lines?"
"Sango, let's not make this any harder for the both of us."
"Right."
The two of them thought for a moment. Suddenly, Miroku seemed to understand.
"A person fed a dog some dirt in a box thing, and it went from his mouth into his heart, so it split apart into nine dogs and turned into a tree...?"
Sango looked bewildered.
"So what, basically the dog turned into an amoeba?"
He looked at her.
"A wha-?"
"I'd rather not go into explinations, but it's something that divides itself."
He nodded wisely.
"I assume that's what happened."
He paused.
"How tragic."
She sighed as she walked with Miroku out the automatic doors.
"Do you think Inuyasha would split into nine baby Inuyashas, then into a tree if we fed him dirt?"
* * *
Inuyasha hammered down the last bit of the roof before leaping down to admire his work. He beamed at its sturdiness.
"Yo, MOM!"
Kagome poked her her head out of the main door.
"What, chickling?"
He grinned at her with much pride and enthusiasm.
"I finished the roof!"
She went outside to join him, and the two of them stood together to admire the roof.
"Not bad, eh?"
She patted his back affectionately.
"Quite nice, Inuyasha. Come help me with the interior now."
They walked inside to find Sango and Miroku putting up the walls. Shippo was drawing out the correct sizes of the boards on large pieces of lumber. He was quite intelligent in math.
She led him over to a table, with large blue prints spread out. She described to him how the plumbing will be installed, as well as the designs of the tables she wished to have.
"I was thinking of cherry wood tables, probably rectangular. I also need matching chairs, and there should be a counter over towards the back of the room. We'll use the back room for storage, and use the other one for the kitchen."
Inuyasha sighed. He was the main carpenter of the entire project, and Kagome had to admit, he was a wonderful artist.
"Alright. So what should I work on?"
She sighed.
"We've been working on this sucker for at least a year now. Sango and Miroku should be done with the walls soon, so cut up the boards Shippo drew out and begin hammering them to the floor. They'll be the final layer of wood, and we'll stain it and polish it once all is complete."
She herself began choosing the colors for the building. For the inside, she imagined something like a reddish, cinnamon color with intricate patterns and designs along the edges. And since both the cherry wood and the color itself might be a bit dark, she decided perhaps to balance it out, she'd paint out a simple pattern on the chairs with white.
For the decor, she knew it would be rather empty if there was nothing on the walls. So, she decided to mount a humongous piece of heavy fancy paper, and place a box of pastels beside it for the customers to come in and freely draw what they wished. Of course, she'd put a sign saying nothing inappropriate...
"Kagome-chan, the walls are finished!"
Sango hugged Kagome happily as the two of them gazed at the little interior. It looked fabulous. Miroku wiped the sweat from his brow.
"Well, looks like we should help out Inuyasha with the floor, Sango."
The two of them ran off to where Inuyasha was pounding on the boards. Kagome looked on as her friends worked busily. She'd really hoped they'd be happy here, and she was relieved to see that they seemed to be.
"Oi, MOM!! WHAT'S FOR DINNER?"
Miroku looked at Inuyasha dubiously.
"Why are you calling Kagome-sama your mother?"
Inuyasha blushed slightly, but it dissappeared in a flash.
"She just is."
Sango and Miroku looked at each other curiously. Miroku couldn't help questioning about the topic. He whispered to Sango.
"Are they hiding something?"
Sango looked at him, confused.
"Hiding? Like what?"
He put a hand under his chin.
"Perhaps Inuyasha has made his own heir-"
"MIROKU!!"
Inuyasha looked up at Sango, startled. She shook her head nervously and turned back to Miroku.
"Stop thinking such dirty thoughts!"
"I'm not! But just, why else would he call her mother?"
"Miroku, I think he meant that Kagome was HIS mother..."
"Oh? Then perhaps it's Kagome-sama who's hiding-"
"You don't get the joke, do you?"
Right then, Kagome hollered back.
"IF YOU WANT A MEAL, YOU OUGHT TO COOK FOR YOURSELF, CHICKLING!!"
Miroku looked at Sango.
"Chickling?"
"Miroku, I don't get the joke as much as you do, so just shut up."
* * *
Everyone was feeling fresh from the shower, and Sango, Kagome, and Miroku found themselves sitting around the table with the newspaper.
"I still don't understand, why did the dog split into nine dogs, and then into a tree?"
Sango scratched her head wonderingly. Inuyasha grunted from reading his book.
"You see Sango, I bet there was something in the dirt that made the dog into an amobelia or whatever you call it."
Miroku began explaining. Kagome sat there, reading the article in utter silence.
"So are you saying this was a case of food poisoning? Oh, and it's amoeba, by the way."
Miroku nodded.
"Exactly. For example, perhaps he mixed in the powder of cleaning."
"Why the powder of cleaning?"
"Why, of course it's toxic!"
"But Miroku, there are LOTS of powders that are toxic..."
"Sango, I'm saying just for example..."
Kagome raised a hand between them.
"Wait a sec, what IS this powder of cleaning?"
Inuyasha muttered.
"Laundry detergent."
"Oh."
Kagome suddenly put a hand to her mouth, and in seconds she was on the floor laughing, cackling almost. Inuyasha looked up from his book. Miroku's glasses slid down his nose slightly as they all watched her in bewilderment. She wiped the tears from her eyes.
"Heeheehee, sorry, it's just-HAHAHAHAHA...."
Sango chuckled slightly.
"Kagome-chan, what is it?"
She finally ended her fit and she led them through the headline.
"This says 'Shitsunai ken nimo kan sen.' Meaning there are bad bacteria even in house hold dogs."
Miroku looked slightly dissappointed that his prediction was wrong, but brightened a little.
"Well, at least I knew that there was some sort of bad thing inside a dog..."
Sango, on the other hand, looked worried.
"What is this bacteria, Kagome-chan?"
"It's apparently called eqnicox in Japanese, and it's a type of bug that first comes form vermin like rats, and it gets into the predators bodies, and the bugs lay eggs and that's where it can even get into human bodies. So the paper is just telling us nowadays, dogs can give you bad sicknesses."
And in complete unison, their three heads turned to Inuyasha. He looked up a second time.
"What?"
Kagome muttered.
"Who knows what's in HIS body..."
His ears perked up.
"What?!"
"Nothing!"
In the end, Inuyasha ditched his book and joined them in flipping through the newspaper for practicing their reading skills. Kagome led them through.
"..okay, so here's 'person', and there's the number '2' before it, so that reads 'futari', meaning 'two people'."
"Ooooh, okay, so what happens when there's a four? I mean, I understand what it means, but..."
"You would pronounce it 'yonin'. It's confusing since there's a different way of saying the number of people in particular numbers..."'
"Ano...Kagome-sama?"
"Remove the -sama, Miroku."
"Kagome?"
"Yes?"
"There's another article about dogs here. What's it about?"
Inuyasha's ears perked up then. He leaned over for a closer look.
'RATE OF DOGS BEING NEUTERED RISING, POSSIBLE REQUIREMENT IN FUTURE YEARS FOR NEUTERED PETS'
"Well...?"
Kagome snapped out of her daze.
"Yes?"
"What does it say?"
She looked up to see Inuyasha in her face, looking extremely curious.
"I-I don't think you'd want to-"
"Of course I do!"
"Hehehehe...no you don't..."
"Kagome..."
"What?"
"TELL ME!!"
"NO!!"
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TO BE CONTINUED...
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Rising With the Sweetness
Chapter 2: Knocking on Hearts
The building of the shop was going so rapidly, it made their eyes whirl. It was either that they were so tired they were hallucinating, or they were just going blissfully fast with their hanyou's macho strength. In Kagome's eyes, he was like their own personal superman.
"Inuyasha, any coffee before we head on for the shop?"
Kagome called out from the kitchen as she packed things into the mini cooler. Inuyasha came lumbering down the stairs, still wearing his sweat pants and walking around with a bare chest rubbing his hair with a crisp, white towel. She gave him a funny look as he sleepily made his way to the fridge.
"You haven't even CHANGED yet?"
He looked up from his milk carton. He never really bothered to use a cup. Kagome just wish she had known a little earlier that he'd been doing likewise since he GOT here...and she'd been pouring milk into her coffee every morning since then...
"Mmmmmm?"
She sighed, looking him over from head to toe with skeptical eyes. She finally shook her head and grabbed hold of his hand, dragging him back up the stairs along with his milk carton.
"Mmmmf?!"
He stumbled up the stairs and fell over on his bed as she sorted through his wardrobe. She worked so hard just to get cash for everyone's new outfits...
In the end she chose a black t-shirt, specially hand embroidered with her own hands the big kanji character for 'Inu' (dog) in red thread. He never admitted it, but he seemed to be very fond of its special look. She tossed him a pair of jeans and shut the closet door.
"That should do it. Don't forget your socks, ok?"
Inuyasha examined his picked out outfit, and looked at her with an unexplainable expression on his face.
"What?"
He shook his head and pulled the t-shirt on over his head.
"It kinda feels like I have a mom agai-"
His head went falling backwards at the hard swipe of her hand.
"ARGH!"
She rubbed her fist.
"You call me mom again and I'll slug you. Pfft, what am I? A hen with her chick?"
He glared up at her from the bed.
"Tweet tweet, I'm all beat, momma's soup with me as meat."
He dodged another blow as she marched to the door. But she sighed as she turned to face him.
She forced a smug grin on her face and mimicked a sweet voice.
"Alright, you be a good boy and be nice to your friends. Don't talk to strangers!"
Right then, she lunged at him, wrapping her arms around his neck and slamming her lips full force into his left cheek.
"Mommy wuvs you!!!"
She quickly dashed out the door and picked up the mini cooler, running out to the streets while laughing whole heartedly all the way. She left Inuyasha in the room looking rather confused, wondering whether he was supposed to be fuming or blushing. Either way, he stumbled after her, remembering to lock the door as he grabbed his shoes and leapt down the street.
"Kagome, you retard!!"
* * *
"Miroku tell me how this feels. I think it's pretty good in weight."
Sango dropped the hammer in his hand and he clutched it, lifting it slightly up and down as he felt its weight.
"It's alright. But I'd like you to try this one."
She took the hammer from his hand and made a swinging motion, as if hammering a nail.
"I agree. It's pretty good."
Sango and Miroku had left the house at 7:00 that morning, and stopped by the hardware store for new tools. Hammers happened to take the longest to choose.
Miroku suddenly stopped by the newspaper rack as they began to leave the store. Sango looked at him curiously.
"What is it, Miroku?"
They were pretty used to talking with people in public by now, but reading was still a challenge. After all, they didn't have as much of the kanji characters and things of that sort in their time...
"I'm rather confused with this article. Come take a look."
She looked over his shoulder as he pointed to the large print, being the headline.
"There's the kanji for 'dog'. There's a whole bunch of characters kinda stuck together here, and I can make out 'dirt', and oh, here's 'person' but it's inside some sorta little box shaped thing..."
Sango pointed to it as well.
"That's odd, why are all these kanji stuck together? I see 'mouth', and 'heart' over here..."
"Oh, there's the word 'nine', and 'tree'."
Miroku pursed his lips in confusion.
"Dirt, person, box thing, dog, mouth, heart, nine, and tree?"
They looked at each other quizzically.
"What are the rest of the little squiggly lines?"
"Sango, let's not make this any harder for the both of us."
"Right."
The two of them thought for a moment. Suddenly, Miroku seemed to understand.
"A person fed a dog some dirt in a box thing, and it went from his mouth into his heart, so it split apart into nine dogs and turned into a tree...?"
Sango looked bewildered.
"So what, basically the dog turned into an amoeba?"
He looked at her.
"A wha-?"
"I'd rather not go into explinations, but it's something that divides itself."
He nodded wisely.
"I assume that's what happened."
He paused.
"How tragic."
She sighed as she walked with Miroku out the automatic doors.
"Do you think Inuyasha would split into nine baby Inuyashas, then into a tree if we fed him dirt?"
* * *
Inuyasha hammered down the last bit of the roof before leaping down to admire his work. He beamed at its sturdiness.
"Yo, MOM!"
Kagome poked her her head out of the main door.
"What, chickling?"
He grinned at her with much pride and enthusiasm.
"I finished the roof!"
She went outside to join him, and the two of them stood together to admire the roof.
"Not bad, eh?"
She patted his back affectionately.
"Quite nice, Inuyasha. Come help me with the interior now."
They walked inside to find Sango and Miroku putting up the walls. Shippo was drawing out the correct sizes of the boards on large pieces of lumber. He was quite intelligent in math.
She led him over to a table, with large blue prints spread out. She described to him how the plumbing will be installed, as well as the designs of the tables she wished to have.
"I was thinking of cherry wood tables, probably rectangular. I also need matching chairs, and there should be a counter over towards the back of the room. We'll use the back room for storage, and use the other one for the kitchen."
Inuyasha sighed. He was the main carpenter of the entire project, and Kagome had to admit, he was a wonderful artist.
"Alright. So what should I work on?"
She sighed.
"We've been working on this sucker for at least a year now. Sango and Miroku should be done with the walls soon, so cut up the boards Shippo drew out and begin hammering them to the floor. They'll be the final layer of wood, and we'll stain it and polish it once all is complete."
She herself began choosing the colors for the building. For the inside, she imagined something like a reddish, cinnamon color with intricate patterns and designs along the edges. And since both the cherry wood and the color itself might be a bit dark, she decided perhaps to balance it out, she'd paint out a simple pattern on the chairs with white.
For the decor, she knew it would be rather empty if there was nothing on the walls. So, she decided to mount a humongous piece of heavy fancy paper, and place a box of pastels beside it for the customers to come in and freely draw what they wished. Of course, she'd put a sign saying nothing inappropriate...
"Kagome-chan, the walls are finished!"
Sango hugged Kagome happily as the two of them gazed at the little interior. It looked fabulous. Miroku wiped the sweat from his brow.
"Well, looks like we should help out Inuyasha with the floor, Sango."
The two of them ran off to where Inuyasha was pounding on the boards. Kagome looked on as her friends worked busily. She'd really hoped they'd be happy here, and she was relieved to see that they seemed to be.
"Oi, MOM!! WHAT'S FOR DINNER?"
Miroku looked at Inuyasha dubiously.
"Why are you calling Kagome-sama your mother?"
Inuyasha blushed slightly, but it dissappeared in a flash.
"She just is."
Sango and Miroku looked at each other curiously. Miroku couldn't help questioning about the topic. He whispered to Sango.
"Are they hiding something?"
Sango looked at him, confused.
"Hiding? Like what?"
He put a hand under his chin.
"Perhaps Inuyasha has made his own heir-"
"MIROKU!!"
Inuyasha looked up at Sango, startled. She shook her head nervously and turned back to Miroku.
"Stop thinking such dirty thoughts!"
"I'm not! But just, why else would he call her mother?"
"Miroku, I think he meant that Kagome was HIS mother..."
"Oh? Then perhaps it's Kagome-sama who's hiding-"
"You don't get the joke, do you?"
Right then, Kagome hollered back.
"IF YOU WANT A MEAL, YOU OUGHT TO COOK FOR YOURSELF, CHICKLING!!"
Miroku looked at Sango.
"Chickling?"
"Miroku, I don't get the joke as much as you do, so just shut up."
* * *
Everyone was feeling fresh from the shower, and Sango, Kagome, and Miroku found themselves sitting around the table with the newspaper.
"I still don't understand, why did the dog split into nine dogs, and then into a tree?"
Sango scratched her head wonderingly. Inuyasha grunted from reading his book.
"You see Sango, I bet there was something in the dirt that made the dog into an amobelia or whatever you call it."
Miroku began explaining. Kagome sat there, reading the article in utter silence.
"So are you saying this was a case of food poisoning? Oh, and it's amoeba, by the way."
Miroku nodded.
"Exactly. For example, perhaps he mixed in the powder of cleaning."
"Why the powder of cleaning?"
"Why, of course it's toxic!"
"But Miroku, there are LOTS of powders that are toxic..."
"Sango, I'm saying just for example..."
Kagome raised a hand between them.
"Wait a sec, what IS this powder of cleaning?"
Inuyasha muttered.
"Laundry detergent."
"Oh."
Kagome suddenly put a hand to her mouth, and in seconds she was on the floor laughing, cackling almost. Inuyasha looked up from his book. Miroku's glasses slid down his nose slightly as they all watched her in bewilderment. She wiped the tears from her eyes.
"Heeheehee, sorry, it's just-HAHAHAHAHA...."
Sango chuckled slightly.
"Kagome-chan, what is it?"
She finally ended her fit and she led them through the headline.
"This says 'Shitsunai ken nimo kan sen.' Meaning there are bad bacteria even in house hold dogs."
Miroku looked slightly dissappointed that his prediction was wrong, but brightened a little.
"Well, at least I knew that there was some sort of bad thing inside a dog..."
Sango, on the other hand, looked worried.
"What is this bacteria, Kagome-chan?"
"It's apparently called eqnicox in Japanese, and it's a type of bug that first comes form vermin like rats, and it gets into the predators bodies, and the bugs lay eggs and that's where it can even get into human bodies. So the paper is just telling us nowadays, dogs can give you bad sicknesses."
And in complete unison, their three heads turned to Inuyasha. He looked up a second time.
"What?"
Kagome muttered.
"Who knows what's in HIS body..."
His ears perked up.
"What?!"
"Nothing!"
In the end, Inuyasha ditched his book and joined them in flipping through the newspaper for practicing their reading skills. Kagome led them through.
"..okay, so here's 'person', and there's the number '2' before it, so that reads 'futari', meaning 'two people'."
"Ooooh, okay, so what happens when there's a four? I mean, I understand what it means, but..."
"You would pronounce it 'yonin'. It's confusing since there's a different way of saying the number of people in particular numbers..."'
"Ano...Kagome-sama?"
"Remove the -sama, Miroku."
"Kagome?"
"Yes?"
"There's another article about dogs here. What's it about?"
Inuyasha's ears perked up then. He leaned over for a closer look.
'RATE OF DOGS BEING NEUTERED RISING, POSSIBLE REQUIREMENT IN FUTURE YEARS FOR NEUTERED PETS'
"Well...?"
Kagome snapped out of her daze.
"Yes?"
"What does it say?"
She looked up to see Inuyasha in her face, looking extremely curious.
"I-I don't think you'd want to-"
"Of course I do!"
"Hehehehe...no you don't..."
"Kagome..."
"What?"
"TELL ME!!"
"NO!!"
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TO BE CONTINUED...
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