Hmmmm…I seem to be getting more reviews per chapter the further the story goes…woohoo! Thanks to everyone who reviewed, I'm only 9 reviews away from a hundred…like I said in the last chapter, I'm surprised the story has received this much attention, but what can I say…just thanks for reading ^_^.
Well, here's some of my now-every-chapter review responses…enjoy!
Sauratos: Yeah, it's nothing; sorry if I sounded too serious…I found it quite funny, because you sound exactly like my friends when they're goofing around, hahaha.
Diablo: Whether or not Kikyo loved Inuyasha is a matter of opinion; at least it will be until they get around to it in the series. Your evidence supports that he did love her, but I look at it this way: Kikyo says she loved him, yet she wanted to change him. If you love someone, you love them just the way they are and you shouldn't want to change them; the only way that this could be plausible to me is if Inuyasha volunteered to become human, but anybody whose watched the anime knows how unlikely that is. With this, I just see it as Kikyo asked him to become human, he reluctantly agreed, then Onigumo got in the way and blah blah blah…
DracOnyx: Yeah, I was paranoid about my own writing for the longest time; I wrote when I was bored, but I never showed anybody my writing (an example of this would be creative writing in 7th grade), so yeah; I understand how you can be all paranoid about your writing, then just be like 'Whoa!' when a bunch of people start going "Dude, your story's awesome!".
Well, enough with preambles and crap like that and disclaimers (::sigh:: do you really need me to say I don't own Inuyasha?), on with the story!
Chapter Fifteen
Kagome lay, entangled in Inuyasha's grasp as she fought a futile battle to keep herself asleep…listening to his gentle breathing…inhaling his musky scent; a scent perfumed with the odor of wind, leaves, earth…listening to his snoring…
'Snoring???' Kagome thought groggily to herself before she propped herself up on an elbow and saw, what else, but a hanyou who's snores sounded like a rusty saw trying to grind through a gnarled old tree. She couldn't help but grin as he let out a particularly vicious snort and tried to scratch his ear with his foot.
'Sleep-scratching?' Kagome giggled to himself as he tried to reach but just couldn't make it. 'Oh well…I may as well help him out…'
Reaching down to scratch the offending right ear, she stopped at the touch of the soft, silver fur on his ears; so different, yet so alike, from the usually-tangled silver mane that threatened to reach down beyond his butt. She smiled at the feel of his ears—just like a soft, plush teddy bear—and began scratching them. Realization struck her as it dawned upon her that this was the first time she had touched his ears since before she had unsealed him: he protected his ears with a passion; she'd once had to sit him several dozen times to stop him from killing Shippou when Shippou had yanked on them rather hard in a quarrel the two had been having.
It was quite understandable, then, that Kagome dissolved into a fit of hysterical giggles when Inuyasha smiled, began to give a low, rumbling growl from deep inside his chest, and then began motoring his leg in the air, like any dog will when it's belly is scratched. She tried to stop laughing, fearing that she'd wake up Inuyasha, but her giggles went far past what 'hysterical' could begin to describe as he began growling, more fiercely, as he tried reaching his ear once more, leg motoring helplessly in the air.
With a final sleep-filled grunt, an irritated Inuyasha arose to scratch his ear; foot going at what looked like ninety miles an hour as he finally took care of the damn itch, head bobbing up and down as it bounced off his foot, which was little more than a blur of motion. Itch now taken care of, he turned towards Kagome (who, by now, had long ago dissolved into tears of laughter), blinked stupidly, and said,
"Huh??? Oi, Kagome, what's so funny?"
Yeah, yeah; you're all going to hate me because it's so short, but I'm getting writer's block right now (it's lifting as I'm typing this, but I'm so sleepy and tired that you'll get a lot more out of me if you just wait for me to type it tomorrow…). If you really want a hint, it'll have something to do with Kouga…bum bum bum, dramatic reverb! Lol.
As always, please read and review (not so sure I want people to do it this time; I get the feeling most of them are going to be from people wanting to murder me for giving such a short update…heh).