Well folks, here's where the line falls. Hope you liked all of the sunshine and buttercups that sprouted up in the last few chapters….it's about to get really dark….
Chapter 27: The Setting Shadow
Kagome walked down the hall while carrying a small bucket with a couple of towels and soap in it. Sango and Kirara walked beside her.
"This place actually has an indoor hotspring?" Sango asked in amazement.
"Yeah, I didn't even know they had those here!" Kagome said. She knocked on a door. "Sumiko, we're going to the bath. Do you wanna come?" she called.
No answer came.
They waited a few seconds before Sango called, "Sumiko, free candy!"
No answer.
"Darn. Thought that would have gotten her out." Sango said, petting Kirara's back.
"Sumiko?" Kagome called, putting her hand on the door. "I'm coming in!" she slid the door open to find – no one.
"Where'd she go this early?" Sango asked.
Kagome shrugged.
Sumiko lay on her back, with her arms outstretched, dead asleep. Shio lay on his side, also still asleep with his back to her. He stretched his legs and arms and groaned. He rolled over on top of Sumiko and used her chest as a pillow for his chin.
That wasn't what woke her up though. What woke her up was the feeling of something long and hard poking into her leg. She opened hers sleepily seeing Shio's face between her breasts and immediately knew what it was.
"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!"
Shio's eyes popped open and he looked at her too shocked to say anything or show any other emotions.
They both heard feet running toward the room and the door flew open. Kagome and Sango stood in the doorframe and guess what they saw?
Shio just looked at them with the same shocked expression. Sumiko was freaking out, confused and scared.
The girls in the doorway screamed. Sango covered Kirara's eyes and Kagome picked up Sango's boomerang.
Shio regained thought when he saw the big boomerang bone fly at his head. He rolled to the side just as it was about to send him flying into the wall.
Shio tied the sheet around his waist and looked up at her wide-eyed. Kagome shifted her weight to balance the boomerang high over her head. She looked down at him murderously. "You-you sicko!!!" she cried.
Sango ran to Sumiko's side with Kirara. "Are you okay??"
WHAM!!!
Hirikotsu put a huge hole in the floorboards as Shio dodged it's attack again. He stood up and tried to get some answers and maybe quell her rage. "Please calm down, Kagome! What did I do??"
She swung the boomerang around and came at him for another attack. "You know perfectly well what you did, you perverted WOLF!!"
"I'm not a wolf!" he said, ducking to miss a blow to the head. "I'm a fox!"
For some reason, that seemed to make her angrier. She screamed a battle cry and swung at him, smashing the door in half. Seeing it as a chance of escape, Shio jumped through the hole that once was a door and ran for his life.
Inu Yasha came walking around the corner and saw Shippou sitting on the rail overlooking the courtyard, swinging his feet. Inu leaned on the bar and saw Shio and Kagome running back and forth, Kagome chasing him with Sango's boomerang bone.
"Wha'd I miss?" he asked Shippou calmly and watched with him.
"Kagome caught Shio laying naked on top of Sumiko on his room and now she's trying to kill him." Shippou said with the same calmness. They watched them run past again.
Miroku came to watch also. "Hmm…..Kagome-sama is in pretty good shape." He said.
Shippou and Inu Yasha nodded as Kagome and Shio ran around the side of the house and out of sight. Inu Yasha stood up and stretched the muscles in his back. "I'm going to go stop her before she hurts him or something."
"I'll go with you." Miroku said. It would take more then Inu Yasha to subdue Kagome. They walked around the side of the house where Kagome was standing and looking around with a red face. "Where'd he go?! I lost him!!"
"Oi, Kagome! Put down the Hirikotsu!" Inu Yasha slowly walked toward her.
Kagome turned to glare at him. He froze in fear and she held the boomerang toward him. "Don't come near me!! I'll kill that sick pervert for what he did!!"
All of a sudden, a huge white dog demon about the size of Kirara lept out of the trees roaring like a lion and knocked Kagome on her back. Hirikotsu flew out of her hand and sliced a tree in half. She looked up at the dog demon in shock as it transformed into Shio, but he was wearing a red and white kimono similar to the one Sesshomaru wore. Inu Yasha knew the style of clothes very well. It was one of the training uniforms of Sashimi's Top Dogs.
Shio straddled Kagome, and he was stronger then he looked. "What did I do??" he asked.
Kagome looked at him angrily and tears sat on her lids. "You seduced Sumiko!"
Shio looked taken aback, and confused. "Humma?"
"You were on her and everything! She's just an innocent girl, Shio! How could you do that!?" Kagome shouted.
"You think I-??" he saw the upset look on her face. "You don't actually—you really think I—???" he looked up at Inu Yasha and Miroku who showed no signs of defending him.
Sumiko saw Shio later that day, he was sitting, facing the sunset. She walked toward him tentatively. His wolfy ears twitched and he turned his head to look her with a flat glare. Sumiko stopped where she stood. "Kitty?"
Shio stood up still glaring. "My name isn't Kitty. It's Aka Shio. And because of you, my family is dishonored." He bowed. "Good day, ma'am." He walked away from her not looking back.
Sumiko watched him walk away. The sun set and a shadow set over her. She walked toward the campfire with lazy steps and her head hanging.
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Mmmmmm……green tea is gooood……huh? What??! Oh! You're done reading. Well, sorry I've been so slow lately. Things are kinda wonky at home. But reviews would be loverly, and when you review it would be cool if you answered this question: "Have you ever kissed a guy/girl before on the mouth. You know, a real kiss?" I'm probably going to poll it in the next chapter. ^_^V