I would just like to appologize in advance for bashing any Virgos out there…and leos who don't like Kouga and were insulted by the last chapter….but this chapter might offend some virgos….you'll see….
Chapter 10: Virgo Kikyo
Camp had just been set, and already Kagome was breaking out the ramen packs. But not by her own free will..;;;;;
"Is it ready yet?" Inu Yasha asked.
"No. I haven't even opened them yet, Inu Yasha." Kagome growled.
"Oh…….is it ready yet?"
"Inu Yasha!" Kagome picked up the zodiac book and tossed it.
KA-POW!
Right between the eyes!
OO Kagome sweatdropped. "Whoops….mood swing…."
Shippou clapped.
Sango looked nervously up at the sky just as a group of soul carrying serpants flew across the clearing. "Hey, look!" Sango pointed upward at them. They gave their mournful whistling sound as they flew by.
Miroku picked up the zodiac book which had left a big red mark across the bridge of Inu Yasha's super sniffer.
Inu Yasha suddenly leapt into the trees and out of sight.
Kagome poured the water irritatedly. "Three guesses as to where he's going."
Then from the opposite direction that Inu Yasha had exited, Kikyo walked in.
"Is Inu Yasha here?" she asked right away.
"No…he-" Kagome pointed over her shoulder and sweatdropped. "-he…just ran off to look for – for you." ;;;; Maybe when she hit him with that book she damaged his sense of smell. He wouldn't be happy about that….
Kikyo looked around at all of them before noticing Miroku looking through the sex signs of the zodiac book. "What's that?" she asked.
"That's Kagome's zodiac book." Sango answered her…since Kagome and Shippou didn't look like they were comfortable about asking and Miroku was mesmerized by the lovely vocabulary words. - -
"Zodiac?" Kikyo asked. "You mean the yearly order of anim-"
"No, actually," Kagome snatched the book from Miroku, ultimately ending his happiness and held it so that Kikyo could see the cover. "It talks a lot about the greek zodiac! It's monthly so…." She trailed off while watching Kikyo's expressionless gaze, like the dead woman was uninterested. Kikyo then sniffed like a British prep watching an all American class clown.
Sitting down, Kikyo replied, "Fine then. Read me this "greek zodiac" that you seem so interested in, and I'll wait till Inu Yasha comes back."
Kagome felt her skin crawl with distaste for the indirectly rude comment but opened the book without saying a word. "When is your birthday?"
"September 2nd." Kikyo replied.
Kagome flipped through the pages again in search of the sign. "Virgo the Virgin."
There was a brief silence before Shippou said, "Well that makes sense…she's a priestess so that makes her a virgin, right?"
Kikyo's eyes widened a centimeter and she looked off in another direction. "Right….a virgin….yeah…"
Kagome cleared her throat nervously before reading. "The sixth sign of the zodiac is concerned with self-perfection, critical faculties, altruism, honesty, responsibility, cleanliness, hygiene, health, healing, efficiency, daily routines, reliability, strength of character, veiled sensuality, service, hard work, passivity, modesty, incisive communication, shrewd logical thought."
Everyone turned their attention from Kagome to Kikyo to see what she would say.
Kikyo sat there expressionlessly. "Continue."
"Um…personality traits." Kagome went on, "Would you like to hear positive or negative first?"
"Just go by whatever order it's in…it doesn't matter." Kikyo said.
Kagome couldn't stop herself from sighing loudly, but she read the positive traits. "Gentleness with the helpless-"
"It's my job to heal those who are suffering from war." Kikyo said.
Oh, so even Kikyo
likes to interrupt me. Kagome thought getting mad. "Sympathetic, humane and
helpful, organized-"
Sango
darted forward and snatched the book. At least she could tell how read Kagome's
face was turning. Kikyo's gaze turned to her. "Do go
on."
Sango glanced at Kagome who gave a fake smile back before giving a small nod. Sango read more of the positive traits. "Knowledgeable about good health, witty and charming, physically sensual-"
"Maybe when I was alive…all I feel now is hatred." Kikyo said.
Wow. This is amazingly disturbing. Miroku thought raising an eyebrow slightly.
"Painstaking, emotionally warm, and dedicated."
"I don't feel pain and I don't feel warm." Kikyo said. "But I'm dedicated to everything I do."
Kagome resisted the urge to smack her, but it was close.
"Negative traits," Sango read nervously. She could sense the chilling atmosphere of the camp, and was hoping it would at least weaken Kagome's portion after reading the negative traits. "Scathing criticism of the lazy, cranky and irritable, dogmatic-"
Kagome coulding resist grinning though.
"What does dogmatic mean?" Shippou asked.
"Well, um…." Sango sweatdropped.
"Rigid, narrow, strict, a couple of words off the top of my head." Kagome said quickly.
Kikyo looked unaffected. "Sorry you were interrupted by your friends. Please continue."
"Untidy, tendency to be a hypochondriac, nervous and worried-"
"I have nothing to be nervous or worried about." Kikyo said looking away as if this reading was tedious and completely moronic.
"What about Inu Yasha? Don't you get nervous or worried about him?" the words jumped out of Kagome's mouth.
Kikyo looked at Kagome as if she didn't care at all how she felt. "Whether he lives or dies, it's a win/win situation. If he lives and helps me slay Naraku, then I will live with him till he grows old and dies. If he dies early, then this restless soul will be satisfied and I can rest in peace."
Sango held Kagome's hands to insure her to sit down. Miroku held onto Shippou and clamped his hand over the child's mouth to keep him from shouting anything.
After she was sure that Kagome wouldn't attack Kikyo right away, Sango let go of her and went back to the book. "Prudish, eccentric, unemotional, and overdemanding."
Kikyo said nothing. She already knew it was true.
"The typical Virgo woman," Sango turned the page. "has a pointed chin and face in repose, the eyes are often soft and very beautiful, the hair may be long or short but is normally impeccably groomed, the mouth and lips are well formed, she is typically clean and very neatly dressed."
All of a sudden, Inu Yasha walked in, "I can't find her anywhere guys, I think-" he saw Kikyo sitting in camp and everyone looked up at him as if they were suffering from extreme discomfort. He immediately turned around and began to fast walk away.
"Inu Yasha!" Sango called after him, frowning. "Come back, sit down, and be a man!"
Inu Yasha came back and sat beside Miroku just as Sango went on with the personality traits. "can analyze situations in detail, is devoted to her work, usually serving others in some way, is basically shy, has incredible strength of purpose, will pursue happiness wherever it leads."
Kikyo glanced at Inu Yasha while fingering her long bow.
"Is pure of mind but not naïve…"
Kagome's nostril's flared and she looked away knowing that one was very debatable.
"Thinks of herself as more orderly and efficient than other people…"
Kikyo glanced at Kagome…in her silent way, that was suggestively comparing Kagome as an example of truth to the statement.
"-has a delightful, straightforward personality, does not express her feelings easily-"
Try not at all. Kagome thought.
"-can be soothing one moment and critical the next." Sango turned the page and her mouth straightened as she flipped the pages. Kikyo noticed.
"What are you passing?" Kikyo asked calmly.
"Um…n-nothing.." Sango said. She looked up and saw Kikyo staring at her as if seeing that she was hiding something and demanding her to come clean.
That did it for Sango. Compulsively without another thought, she tossed the book over her shoulder to get rid of her problem. Shippou ran over to get it and came running back to his place.
Miroku started massaging his temples.
"Hey! What's this picture of a heart? Is this the love signs or something?" he looked up cluelessly. Kikyo took the book out of the kitsune's hands and looked over the page. "Love signs," she repeated.
"Well, I'm sure no one in this group or any of the readers want to hear about love signs." Sango said waving her hand as if it were a silly idea to read the love signs.
Kikyo raised her eyebrows to Sango before turning her gaze on the dog boy. "I'm sure Inu Yasha would like to hear." She replied coolly.
Inu Yasha sweatdropped. He glanced from Kikyo's "You'd better say yes" expression to Kagome who looked like she was very tired from having the moral, happiness, and enthusiasm of her new book drained out of her. We all know that's the kind of effect Kikyo has on people. And Inu Yasha knew already that he was being put on the spotlight.
He sweatdropped and looked away. Don't make eye contact if you want to stay alive. "Well…um….I dunno…" he sweatdropped nervously. From what he could figure, that was the truth.
Kikyo took that as yes and smiled. "Fine then. I'll read it. Though I know you already know what I like."
Inu Yasha gulped and didn't dare look up at either woman….or Sango….because he knew he was getting a death glare from her.
Kikyo licked her lips and read, "The typical Virgo looks for quality, may look for years for the right person, once in love, loves warmly and steadily, is devoted to the loved one, will rarely give cause for any jealousy…" Kikyo smiled as if remembering an encounter with Kouga that should make Kagome look bad, but she went on reading instead, "will do anything to avoid breaking up."
Inu Yasha was overcome with curiousity, so he briefly glanced up at Kagome nervously. She was leaning forward with her hair hiding her eyes, her lips were thin and her nostrils still flared.
Kikyo looked too and smiled smugly as she read the next section. "The typical Virgo expects devotion from the partner, a sense of decency, to enjoy platonic, flirtation, to be fussed over when feeling down, personal matters, to be kept private, her feelings to be handled with great care." Kikyo shook her head with an expression like she had something sweet on her tongue. Now it was time to rub salt in the wound and rub it in deep. "Virgo and sex."
Now Sango knew that no one wanted to hear that, especially not the readers. Kikyo smiled at Sango handing her the book. "Could you read this? It sounds better when listening to someone else say it."
Sango glared and took the book. She read with fake enthusiasm, "When a typical Virgo makes love it is a pure-minded, natural, healthy ct. Virgo only enjoys sex when it is with someone who has gained Virgo's confidence…."
Inu Yasha glanced at Kagome again. Her bottom lip was trembling a bit but she was trying so hard to hold it back. Inu Yasha's skin pricked.
"Virgo (male or female) tends to seduce with finesse, charm, and subtlety-"
"Sango."
Sango looked quickly up at Inu Yasha not expecting him to interrupt. "Yeah?"
Inu Yasha looked up at her with a deep pleading fire in his eyes. "Why don't you go to the compatability charts."
Sango stared back for a few moments confused.
Kikyo looked disappointed. "I want to hear the rest of this InuYasha!"
"No, I think we should read the compatability charts," he said looking at Sango determinedly. "Why don't you go there, Sango?"
She nodded, still not sure of what he was up to and turned to Virgo's compatability page. "With Miroku, Kikyo is harmonius; with me she is harmonius; with Shippou she is difficult; with Kagome she is difficult; and with Inu Yasha-" Sango then realized why he told her to read them. Her eyes widened and her mouth hung open a little bit.
"Well?" Kikyo asked. "Inu Yasha and I are-?"
Sango smiled a little bit. Kikyo and Inu Yasha…so that's Virgo and Aries…..hmmm, wow, Kikyo!" Sango smiled at Kikyo making her think that she was very lucky. "Looks like your relationship is – oooo – turbulent."
Kikyo's smile faded. "Excuse me?"
Inu Yasha closed his eyes with a serious, bracing expression on his face.
Sango was happy to show her the book for proof.
Kagome looked up at Kikyo kind of surprised and confused.
Kikyo looked it over. Out of all twelve zodiac signs, Inu Yasha was one of the two ones that she was supposed to not get along with at all. The pot of water on the hot plate started to boil and spill water over the sides.
Kikyo gave the book back to Sango whom gave it to Kagome. "Well," Kikyo said standing up again. "I guess we found a very big reason to call this Greek zodiac fake."
"Bye Kikyo!" ^_^ Sango waved at her pleasantly.
"I'll see you later Inu Yasha, I think I'd rather be with you alone." Kikyo said looking around at his friends.
"Bye Kikyo!" ^_^ Sango waved at her pleasantly.
Kikyo started walking away, "Or if you feel like getting away from your problems, you can always see me, Inu Yasha."
"Bye Kikyo!" ^_^ Sango waved harder but still pleasantly.
Kikyo went off into the forest again.
Kagome watched her leave, still confused. She looked over at Inu Yasha with his eyes closed. Then he opened his eyes, smiled at her and winked.
Kagome nodded and smiled back.