Some things just happen. They happen without anyone knowing until it is too late to change things. Kagome pondered this philosophy as she walked down a dirt road pushing her bicycle, following Inuyasha and being followed by Sango, Miroku, and Shippou. The hunt for jewel shards had nearly dried up. Naraku had recently been very hard to trace and no new monsters or terrifying demons had popped up. There had been lulls like this before in the hunt, but they were always followed by frantic traveling and fighting as shards seemed to appear out of thin air.
"Whatcha thinkin'?" questioned Shippou, after having run ahead to sit in the basket of Kagome's bicycle. The young kitsune stared up adoringly into Kagome's face, eagerly awaiting an answer. Kagome made a rapid decision, not wanting to spoil his little ray of sunshine with her depressing train of thought, and told him of an idea she had been bouncing around in her head for a while prior to the lull.
"Oh, I was just thinking about taking everyone back to my time for a visit. I know that I need to go back to retrieve some things and figured since the jewel shards are scarce right now, we might as well take a break." Kagome smiled down at the ecstatic little fox youkai as he whirled madly about in her basket.
"Do you mean it, Kagome? We could go meet your family and see your time and " Shippou was cut off when Inuyasha grabbed the handlebars of the bicycle Kagome had been pushing and yanked them out of her hands. Inuyasha thrust his face right up by Kagome's and stared her down.
"Did you just say what I think you said? You want to take a …break?!"
Kagome shoved her face right back into the dog demon's and sharply replied, "Yes, a break. You know as well as I do that we won't run across any jewel shards for a long while yet, so why not?" Since Inuyasha still looked slightly skeptical and mildly pissed, Kagome decided to pull out the big guns. With the most amazing smile she could muster and with the most batting of lashes she had ever done in her life, she slowly backed out of his face and coyly tossed, " Besides the shards being inactive for a bit, I think I might be running out of ramen…" The girl didn't even get to finish her sentence before she, her bicycle, with Shippou in the basket, were hoisted over the half-demon's head and sped straight for the well.
And so begins the story of a girl and the destruction of her innocence. Please read, review if you like, flame if it pleases you, I just laugh because most of the time, flames are great fun to share with your friends and laugh your ass off over. Thanks for your time and thought.
PhantomLogic