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Ok, here are the results so far from the voting:
Rurouni Kenshin: 3
Inuyasha: 3
Pokemon:1
Gundam Wing: 1
Trigun: 2
Outlaw Star:1 (That's from my friend, the Kurama hater) *hissss* (you know who you are)
Anti-Pokemon:1
Ooh, the race is neck and neck, wonder who'll win. *rolls eyes sarcastically* Come on people! You do want a sequel, don't you?
*cricket, cricket*
Well I do! But I can't make up my mind! @ .@. But don't worry, thinking about a sequel will not take away anything from this story! This story . . .tis my masterpiece! *gushes*
*~So onto the next Chapter, Chapter 11!~*
Hiei's eyes snapped open and he shot up from his sleep, looking around. Something was wrong, very wrong.
"Kitsune." he barked quietly, the fox's eyes opening lazily.
"What?"
"Wake the others, quickly." Kurama raised an eyebrow but complied, shaking little Shippo beside him. They both moved from person to person, waking them until Kurama got to the sleeping Botan.
"Botan." Kurama said gently, shaking her, but she didn't stir. "Botan, wake up."
"Lazy Onna." Hiei muttered as the fox frowned, placing a hand over her heart to make sure it was still beating. It was, a bit slower than normal, but nothing to be too concerned about. Kurama opened her eye, gently touching the raspberry colored iris, but gained no response from the young girl.
"Something's wrong with Botan." Kurama muttered as he closed her eye, picking her up and gently cradling her in his arms.
"Look!" Shippo pointed into the sky towards a green snake like demon clutching a glowing white orb. Hiei shot up and sliced it in half; grabbing the soul and bringing it down to the girl's limp body.
"Is it hers?"
"No." Kurama shook his head and stood.
"What happened to her?" Shippo cried, looking up at Botan worriedly.
"Her soul is missing." Hiei muttered and looked up into the sky, spotting more of the green demons floating through the skies, clutching the souls.
*Those are the demons Kikyo uses . . .* Inuyasha's eyes widened as he sprang off into the forest, the others following close behind.
***
Sango had been staring up into the sky, unable to sleep, when she saw a snakelike demon weaving through the sky. Her eyes widened and she shook Miroku awake.
"Miroku! Look, it's one of those soul gathering demons." The monk looked up sleepily, his eyes widening.
"Get everyone else." After they were all awake, Sango prepared to kill the demon, but was stopped by the monk.
"No, don't. It's one of Kikyo's demons-"
"And wherever Kikyo is." Kagome said, cutting Miroku off, "Inuyasha's sure to be."
***
Inuyasha stopped in front of the huge barrier, daintily touching it. *Will she let me go through?* Surprisingly, he passed through without hindrance.
Kurama came upon the barrier, frowning. "How is Inuyasha involved in this, exactly?"
"Kikyo is Inuyasha's old girlfriend, and Kagome is her reincarnation, which is actually kinda strange because Kikyo is actually dead; Well not really dead but dead, 'cause she has to use dead women to sustain her body, which really isn't her body because she's dead, but not really . ." Shippo clutched his head, "Just thinking about it is giving me a headache!"
Kurama nodded curtly, he had heard enough. Handing Botan's body over to the fire demon, he shielded his face with his arms and pressed through the barrier. Small shards of energy shot at him, slicing his skin as he forced his way through. With a small cry he broke through, the wall instantly swallowing the hole he had created.
"Kitsune, what the hell?!" Hiei yelled, struggling to hold the girl's body, as she was about a foot taller than he. Hiei kept busy by engineering an array of curses to spout off at the fox when he returned.
"Kikyo." Inuyasha murmured as he came upon her, surrounded by souls. It was like deja vu from a few months before.
"Inuyasha, what do you want?" She demanded as the snakes surrounded her, releasing the souls to form a sort of aura around the girl.
"Kikyo . . ." *Why is it, that whenever around her, I'm at a loss of words.*
"Did you come to finally join me?" She whispered, looking at him coldly, "r will that girl appear and you try to destroy me?"
"No, never Kikyo." Every time she was around him, he couldn't think straight; he was like clay to be molded in her beautiful hands. He shook his head, trying to comprehend the situation, but the mere sight of her was . . intoxicating.
Return Botan's soul, woman."a voice rang out behind them, and the two turned to see a very pissed off Kurama, glowering at Kikyo.
"Inuyasha, what is this?"
"You stole a living woman's soul." Kurama growled, "Now return it." He flicked his wrist, the rose whip appearing instantly, "Or will I be forced to take it from you?"
***
Kagome ran ahead of the others, slipping through the barrier.
"Yusuke, Kuwabara, stop! There's a–" Both slammed into the invisible wall, falling back with dazed expressions on their faces.
"Barrier." Sango finished, sighing heavily as she shook her head.
Kagome ran down the hill, spotting Inuyasha and Kikyo talking. *Great, they're probably going to start sucking face soon. Huh, Inuyasha that jerk!* She slipped back behind the bushes, watching intently.
***
Inuyasha stepped in front of Kurama, "No, Kurama, you don't understand-"
"I understand the situation perfectly. You are allowing your senses to be clouded by this. ." He struggled for a word, "Thing. If it were any other adversary you would not hesitate to dispose of it." Kurama's eyes softened a bit.
"Do not live in the past, Inuyasha. I have learned that lesson the hard way."
"How sweet." Kikyo raised a hand, "But I must have these souls; you will not stand in my way!" A bright pink energy shot from her hand, Kurama just barely able to dodge from getting hit square in the chest, but instead his side was singed. His skin smoldered as he raised a hand to grasp it.
"Bitch." Kurama raised a hand to use the rose whip, but Inuyasha stepped towards the fox.
"Don't Kurama!" He hesitated for an instant.
"Inuyasha, let her go! She doesn't belong here!" Kurama yelled as the whip lashed forward, but Inuyasha jumped in front of the attack, Kurama pulling the whip back just before it would have sliced the dog demon in half.
"Inuyasha, if you do not step aside I will be forced to kill you. If I do not get Botan's soul back soon her body and spirit will die. Are you willing to sacrifice her for a wandering memory?"
"Inuyasha, let me take care of this nuisance and we can live together forever, just like you said before. You would do anything for me, so just let me . ."
Inuyasha stood, deaf to both parties. Thoughts darted through his mind, he had never been so confused. A girl's life, or a woman he had loved for as long as he could remember. How was he supposed to choose?! How could he?! Before . . .before Kagome . .he would have made the decision in an instant, but now . . .
Inuyasha bit his lip and closed his eyes, suddenly very tiered, frustrated. Angry at her, for being so beautiful, so loving, so important to him. Angry at her, for a brief period fifty years ago, when she melted the ice incasing his heart, and that he could never forget.
He looked at her now, not even truly living, not real, perfect face contorted in rage. It was her who tried to kill him, to bring them together forever. *I still love her! I still love her dammit!*
An image of Kagome flashed through his mind, The girl who freed him, who was like her in nearly every way, except . . .*Dammit, why do I have to choose?! Why . . .* He looked at the woman he knew so well . .he thought he knew.
*What happened to us Kikyo? What happened . .?* He turned to her, eyes defeated.
"No, Kikyo." He shook his head, pausing for a moment. "The Kikyo I knew would never manipulate me, try and take advantage of me. She loved me, and I . .I loved her. You are just a lingering memory of her anger." He looked at her with dead, distant eyes.
"The Kikyo I loved died fifty years ago. You are not her."
"Inuyasha, how could you?!" She gasped, backing away.
"Just give us back her soul, I don't want to hurt you." His bangs masked his eyes as a trembling hand reached for his sword, grasping the hilt weakly.
"I-I thought you loved me." She gasped, tears coming to her dark eyes. "But after fifty years my love, it seems even that could not survive." She raised a hand, a single soul from the crowd gently floating towards Kurama, who grasped it gently.
"Farewell Inuyasha." Kikyo murmured, tears spilling from her eyes, "We will not meet again."
Inuyasha fell to his knees, still gripping the sword, a single tear sliding down his cheek as his eyes stared at the ground. *Yes, we will. I will destroy you.*
"You made the right decision, my friend." Kurama said gently as he placed a hand on Inuyasha's shoulder.
"What the hell do you know?" The dog demon demanded, scrubbing his eyes with his sleeve.
"You would be surprised how much we are alike. Maybe some day I shall tell you the story of my old friend Kuronue."
Inuyasha turned and looked at the fox, question in his eyes, Kurama reached out a hand and helped the demon to his feet, Kagome bursting through the woods, tears streaming down her cheeks.
"Inuyasha!" She cried, running forward and jumping into his arms.
"Kagome?"
"Oh, Inuyasha, I-I'm so sorry . ." she whispered, clutching him tighter. He held her gently, dazed expression on his face. Suddenly Kurama remembered Botan and took off to where Hiei was waiting, exceedingly irritated.
"Give her to me." Hiei scowled and handed over the unconscious girl, who held her gently, raising the wriggling spirit to her lips. It gently slipped back into her body and she gasped, her eyes sliding open.
"Kurama?" she whispered confusedly as he smiled lightly. She reached up and touched a cut on his face caused by the barrier, frowning.
"What happened?"
"Nothing, don't worry about it." he smiled, brushing a strand of hair from her eyes, "Now go back to sleep." She nodded and her eyes slid closed, slipping into unconsciousness once again. Hiei snorted at the kitsune's display of affection for the girl; he was definitely soft.
"Is Botan going to be alright?" Shippo asked worriedly as he examined the girl fearfully.
"She'll be fine as long as the kitsune's here to nurse her back to health." Hiei said sarcastically and rolled his eyes, drawing a smirk from the fox.
"But why did she take Botan's soul? I thought Kikyo could only take the soul of dead women."
"Botan has been temporarily given a human body to assist Yusuke, so she can go between the two. She isn't totally connected to her human body, much like a dead person." Kurama smiled at the little fox's blank expression, "It's complicated."
Miroku, Sango, Yusuke, and Kuwabara all appeared, Kilala bounding into her owners arms.
"I'm happy to see you too, Kilala." Inuyasha came closer, sighing heavily, a concerned Kagome watching him closely.
"What's wrong with him?" Kuwabara asked Miroku, who smiled sadly.
"It's a long story." Kuwabara frowned.
"Why am I always the last on to know about this stuff?" Hiei smirked at his opening.
"Because if we told you, your thick head probably wouldn't comprehend it anyway so why waste our breath?"
"Come here oompa loompa boy, I'll kick your ass!"
The others sweat-dropped and walked on.
***
They had paused in a field when Shippo noticed everyone was burned somewhat. "What happened to you guys?"
"Uh, we kinda had a bad run in with a fire demon." Kurama came towards the boy, seed in hand, who backed away.
"I'm fine, Kuwabara has the worst burns." He turned to the carrot head, who scratched the back of his head.
"Nah, they're fine, just a few on my back-"
"And you put a shirt on over them?!" *This is going to be ugly*
"Hn, baka." Hiei smirked, he was going to enjoy this. Kurama commanded the boy to sit down, grabbing the collar of his shirt from behind.
"This will hurt." With that, he ripped of the boy's shirt.
"YEOUCH!" he screamed, silencing the forest as Kurama examined the burns. Most of his back had evolved into blisters the size of half dollars, many which had popped or torn when the shirt came off, bleeding lightly or oozing thick white goo. The rest was peeling badly. Either sort of grayish or the color of a tomato.
"That is really gross." Kagome breathed, pressing a finger to her lips.
"That idiot should have known not to put fabric on fresh untreated burns. The two bond almost immediately." Hie snorted, Kuwabara angrily turning back to him.
"Hey shut up! I'll come back there and-"
"Yes, as if you could you overgrown vegetable."
"Your gonna get it runt!" Yusuke's eyebrow twitched in annoyance. "Could you both just SHUT UP?!" The two fell silent, still glaring daggers at each other.
"Thank you Yusuke." Kurama said, using a few of his herbs, he began to treat the burns.
"AHH! AHH! It STINGS! AHH!" Kurama gently wrapped his entire back in gauze provided by Kagome's first aid kit.
"How about you Sango?" She shook her head and smiled lightly.
"No, mine are fine." They all looked from Miroku to Sango, the latter blushing and the first grinning. Everyone else raised an eyebrow, but shrugged. A brisk wind picked up and Yusuke shuddered.
"Where did that come from?" Hiei frowned, looking up into the sky as gentle white tufts danced to the ground.
"It's snowing!" Little Shippo cried happily as he and Kilala pranced around, catching the little droplets of frozen water on their tongues.
"Shippo, you're going to catch a cold." Botan said as she reached for the little fox, but he just grinned and backed away.
"Oh come on Botan, how many times have you seen it snow here?" Promptly, he flopped onto the ground and began to make a snow angel.
"Yeah, I agree." Kuwabara chuckled, a hand shielded behind his back. "Heads up Urameshi!"
"Huh?" Yusuke turned just in time to get knocked right in the face with a good old fashioned snowball.
"Hey!" Yusuke yelled, reaching for a hand of the piled frozen flakes, rolling it and chucking it with one smooth motion, nailing Kuwabara in the mouth.
"Your going to pay for that." Thus ensued the most ridiculous snowball fight of the entire Feudal era; Botan, Kagome, and Shippo all joining in. Soon they had all collapsed to the ground, breathing heavily, forgetting the cold in the heat of battle.
"If you children are done playing maybe we should get going." Hiei growled, Kurama smirking in response.
"Come now Hiei, mustn't intrude on their playtime."
"I hate babysitting."
"Come on people!" Inuyasha grumbled, "Let's get going, I don't wanna have to sit here-" He was silenced with a snowball to the back of the head.
"Who the hell?!" He glared at Kagome, who pointed at Shippo next to her, who pointed right back at Kagome.
"Wasn't me!" He growled and stomped away angrily while the others slowly got to their feet. Hiei turned to Kurama.
*Apparently these imbeciles haven't noticed that it's snowing in the middle of summer.*
*Yes, apparently not.*
WOO! Another chapter down! Yeah!
As you all know, This is an Inuyasha/Kagome story, so any Kikyo fans out there, please don't flame me because I warned you at the start of this story!
I personally think Kikyo is a sadistic psycho bitch, but that's just me. ^-^
I hope I got that part all correct and stuff, I haven't seen IY ever since they took it off! (GRR! The evil minion penguins of Bob will get you, Cartoon Network!) So I may be incorrect on some things. I apologize.
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Cheeto: STAY PUT!!
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But I have two requests of you, my wunnerful fans.
#1- Please vote on the sequel, I'll love you forever!!
#2- LETS GET TO 150!!! YEAH BABY!! And maybe, since you love me, 200? Pwease? *puppy dog eyes* I wanna feel special!!
Cheeto: Do I own it?
Cheerleaders: No!
Cheeto: You gonna sue?
Cheerleaders: Maybe!
Cheeto: And what are you gonna get?
Cheerleaders: NOTHING!! *Group jumps around . . .perkily.*
Cheeto: *eye twitches at perkiness* *Shoots cheerleaders with mini Uzi.*
BOOM!!!
Cheeto: I feel better! Because remember, I'm a certified member of A.S.S. or, Anti-School-Spirit!!
Subliminal Message: Go buy our hats.
Ok, here are the results so far from the voting:
Rurouni Kenshin: 3
Inuyasha: 3
Pokemon:1
Gundam Wing: 1
Trigun: 2
Outlaw Star:1 (That's from my friend, the Kurama hater) *hissss* (you know who you are)
Anti-Pokemon:1
Ooh, the race is neck and neck, wonder who'll win. *rolls eyes sarcastically* Come on people! You do want a sequel, don't you?
*cricket, cricket*
Well I do! But I can't make up my mind! @ .@. But don't worry, thinking about a sequel will not take away anything from this story! This story . . .tis my masterpiece! *gushes*
*~So onto the next Chapter, Chapter 11!~*
Hiei's eyes snapped open and he shot up from his sleep, looking around. Something was wrong, very wrong.
"Kitsune." he barked quietly, the fox's eyes opening lazily.
"What?"
"Wake the others, quickly." Kurama raised an eyebrow but complied, shaking little Shippo beside him. They both moved from person to person, waking them until Kurama got to the sleeping Botan.
"Botan." Kurama said gently, shaking her, but she didn't stir. "Botan, wake up."
"Lazy Onna." Hiei muttered as the fox frowned, placing a hand over her heart to make sure it was still beating. It was, a bit slower than normal, but nothing to be too concerned about. Kurama opened her eye, gently touching the raspberry colored iris, but gained no response from the young girl.
"Something's wrong with Botan." Kurama muttered as he closed her eye, picking her up and gently cradling her in his arms.
"Look!" Shippo pointed into the sky towards a green snake like demon clutching a glowing white orb. Hiei shot up and sliced it in half; grabbing the soul and bringing it down to the girl's limp body.
"Is it hers?"
"No." Kurama shook his head and stood.
"What happened to her?" Shippo cried, looking up at Botan worriedly.
"Her soul is missing." Hiei muttered and looked up into the sky, spotting more of the green demons floating through the skies, clutching the souls.
*Those are the demons Kikyo uses . . .* Inuyasha's eyes widened as he sprang off into the forest, the others following close behind.
***
Sango had been staring up into the sky, unable to sleep, when she saw a snakelike demon weaving through the sky. Her eyes widened and she shook Miroku awake.
"Miroku! Look, it's one of those soul gathering demons." The monk looked up sleepily, his eyes widening.
"Get everyone else." After they were all awake, Sango prepared to kill the demon, but was stopped by the monk.
"No, don't. It's one of Kikyo's demons-"
"And wherever Kikyo is." Kagome said, cutting Miroku off, "Inuyasha's sure to be."
***
Inuyasha stopped in front of the huge barrier, daintily touching it. *Will she let me go through?* Surprisingly, he passed through without hindrance.
Kurama came upon the barrier, frowning. "How is Inuyasha involved in this, exactly?"
"Kikyo is Inuyasha's old girlfriend, and Kagome is her reincarnation, which is actually kinda strange because Kikyo is actually dead; Well not really dead but dead, 'cause she has to use dead women to sustain her body, which really isn't her body because she's dead, but not really . ." Shippo clutched his head, "Just thinking about it is giving me a headache!"
Kurama nodded curtly, he had heard enough. Handing Botan's body over to the fire demon, he shielded his face with his arms and pressed through the barrier. Small shards of energy shot at him, slicing his skin as he forced his way through. With a small cry he broke through, the wall instantly swallowing the hole he had created.
"Kitsune, what the hell?!" Hiei yelled, struggling to hold the girl's body, as she was about a foot taller than he. Hiei kept busy by engineering an array of curses to spout off at the fox when he returned.
"Kikyo." Inuyasha murmured as he came upon her, surrounded by souls. It was like deja vu from a few months before.
"Inuyasha, what do you want?" She demanded as the snakes surrounded her, releasing the souls to form a sort of aura around the girl.
"Kikyo . . ." *Why is it, that whenever around her, I'm at a loss of words.*
"Did you come to finally join me?" She whispered, looking at him coldly, "r will that girl appear and you try to destroy me?"
"No, never Kikyo." Every time she was around him, he couldn't think straight; he was like clay to be molded in her beautiful hands. He shook his head, trying to comprehend the situation, but the mere sight of her was . . intoxicating.
Return Botan's soul, woman."a voice rang out behind them, and the two turned to see a very pissed off Kurama, glowering at Kikyo.
"Inuyasha, what is this?"
"You stole a living woman's soul." Kurama growled, "Now return it." He flicked his wrist, the rose whip appearing instantly, "Or will I be forced to take it from you?"
***
Kagome ran ahead of the others, slipping through the barrier.
"Yusuke, Kuwabara, stop! There's a–" Both slammed into the invisible wall, falling back with dazed expressions on their faces.
"Barrier." Sango finished, sighing heavily as she shook her head.
Kagome ran down the hill, spotting Inuyasha and Kikyo talking. *Great, they're probably going to start sucking face soon. Huh, Inuyasha that jerk!* She slipped back behind the bushes, watching intently.
***
Inuyasha stepped in front of Kurama, "No, Kurama, you don't understand-"
"I understand the situation perfectly. You are allowing your senses to be clouded by this. ." He struggled for a word, "Thing. If it were any other adversary you would not hesitate to dispose of it." Kurama's eyes softened a bit.
"Do not live in the past, Inuyasha. I have learned that lesson the hard way."
"How sweet." Kikyo raised a hand, "But I must have these souls; you will not stand in my way!" A bright pink energy shot from her hand, Kurama just barely able to dodge from getting hit square in the chest, but instead his side was singed. His skin smoldered as he raised a hand to grasp it.
"Bitch." Kurama raised a hand to use the rose whip, but Inuyasha stepped towards the fox.
"Don't Kurama!" He hesitated for an instant.
"Inuyasha, let her go! She doesn't belong here!" Kurama yelled as the whip lashed forward, but Inuyasha jumped in front of the attack, Kurama pulling the whip back just before it would have sliced the dog demon in half.
"Inuyasha, if you do not step aside I will be forced to kill you. If I do not get Botan's soul back soon her body and spirit will die. Are you willing to sacrifice her for a wandering memory?"
"Inuyasha, let me take care of this nuisance and we can live together forever, just like you said before. You would do anything for me, so just let me . ."
Inuyasha stood, deaf to both parties. Thoughts darted through his mind, he had never been so confused. A girl's life, or a woman he had loved for as long as he could remember. How was he supposed to choose?! How could he?! Before . . .before Kagome . .he would have made the decision in an instant, but now . . .
Inuyasha bit his lip and closed his eyes, suddenly very tiered, frustrated. Angry at her, for being so beautiful, so loving, so important to him. Angry at her, for a brief period fifty years ago, when she melted the ice incasing his heart, and that he could never forget.
He looked at her now, not even truly living, not real, perfect face contorted in rage. It was her who tried to kill him, to bring them together forever. *I still love her! I still love her dammit!*
An image of Kagome flashed through his mind, The girl who freed him, who was like her in nearly every way, except . . .*Dammit, why do I have to choose?! Why . . .* He looked at the woman he knew so well . .he thought he knew.
*What happened to us Kikyo? What happened . .?* He turned to her, eyes defeated.
"No, Kikyo." He shook his head, pausing for a moment. "The Kikyo I knew would never manipulate me, try and take advantage of me. She loved me, and I . .I loved her. You are just a lingering memory of her anger." He looked at her with dead, distant eyes.
"The Kikyo I loved died fifty years ago. You are not her."
"Inuyasha, how could you?!" She gasped, backing away.
"Just give us back her soul, I don't want to hurt you." His bangs masked his eyes as a trembling hand reached for his sword, grasping the hilt weakly.
"I-I thought you loved me." She gasped, tears coming to her dark eyes. "But after fifty years my love, it seems even that could not survive." She raised a hand, a single soul from the crowd gently floating towards Kurama, who grasped it gently.
"Farewell Inuyasha." Kikyo murmured, tears spilling from her eyes, "We will not meet again."
Inuyasha fell to his knees, still gripping the sword, a single tear sliding down his cheek as his eyes stared at the ground. *Yes, we will. I will destroy you.*
"You made the right decision, my friend." Kurama said gently as he placed a hand on Inuyasha's shoulder.
"What the hell do you know?" The dog demon demanded, scrubbing his eyes with his sleeve.
"You would be surprised how much we are alike. Maybe some day I shall tell you the story of my old friend Kuronue."
Inuyasha turned and looked at the fox, question in his eyes, Kurama reached out a hand and helped the demon to his feet, Kagome bursting through the woods, tears streaming down her cheeks.
"Inuyasha!" She cried, running forward and jumping into his arms.
"Kagome?"
"Oh, Inuyasha, I-I'm so sorry . ." she whispered, clutching him tighter. He held her gently, dazed expression on his face. Suddenly Kurama remembered Botan and took off to where Hiei was waiting, exceedingly irritated.
"Give her to me." Hiei scowled and handed over the unconscious girl, who held her gently, raising the wriggling spirit to her lips. It gently slipped back into her body and she gasped, her eyes sliding open.
"Kurama?" she whispered confusedly as he smiled lightly. She reached up and touched a cut on his face caused by the barrier, frowning.
"What happened?"
"Nothing, don't worry about it." he smiled, brushing a strand of hair from her eyes, "Now go back to sleep." She nodded and her eyes slid closed, slipping into unconsciousness once again. Hiei snorted at the kitsune's display of affection for the girl; he was definitely soft.
"Is Botan going to be alright?" Shippo asked worriedly as he examined the girl fearfully.
"She'll be fine as long as the kitsune's here to nurse her back to health." Hiei said sarcastically and rolled his eyes, drawing a smirk from the fox.
"But why did she take Botan's soul? I thought Kikyo could only take the soul of dead women."
"Botan has been temporarily given a human body to assist Yusuke, so she can go between the two. She isn't totally connected to her human body, much like a dead person." Kurama smiled at the little fox's blank expression, "It's complicated."
Miroku, Sango, Yusuke, and Kuwabara all appeared, Kilala bounding into her owners arms.
"I'm happy to see you too, Kilala." Inuyasha came closer, sighing heavily, a concerned Kagome watching him closely.
"What's wrong with him?" Kuwabara asked Miroku, who smiled sadly.
"It's a long story." Kuwabara frowned.
"Why am I always the last on to know about this stuff?" Hiei smirked at his opening.
"Because if we told you, your thick head probably wouldn't comprehend it anyway so why waste our breath?"
"Come here oompa loompa boy, I'll kick your ass!"
The others sweat-dropped and walked on.
***
They had paused in a field when Shippo noticed everyone was burned somewhat. "What happened to you guys?"
"Uh, we kinda had a bad run in with a fire demon." Kurama came towards the boy, seed in hand, who backed away.
"I'm fine, Kuwabara has the worst burns." He turned to the carrot head, who scratched the back of his head.
"Nah, they're fine, just a few on my back-"
"And you put a shirt on over them?!" *This is going to be ugly*
"Hn, baka." Hiei smirked, he was going to enjoy this. Kurama commanded the boy to sit down, grabbing the collar of his shirt from behind.
"This will hurt." With that, he ripped of the boy's shirt.
"YEOUCH!" he screamed, silencing the forest as Kurama examined the burns. Most of his back had evolved into blisters the size of half dollars, many which had popped or torn when the shirt came off, bleeding lightly or oozing thick white goo. The rest was peeling badly. Either sort of grayish or the color of a tomato.
"That is really gross." Kagome breathed, pressing a finger to her lips.
"That idiot should have known not to put fabric on fresh untreated burns. The two bond almost immediately." Hie snorted, Kuwabara angrily turning back to him.
"Hey shut up! I'll come back there and-"
"Yes, as if you could you overgrown vegetable."
"Your gonna get it runt!" Yusuke's eyebrow twitched in annoyance. "Could you both just SHUT UP?!" The two fell silent, still glaring daggers at each other.
"Thank you Yusuke." Kurama said, using a few of his herbs, he began to treat the burns.
"AHH! AHH! It STINGS! AHH!" Kurama gently wrapped his entire back in gauze provided by Kagome's first aid kit.
"How about you Sango?" She shook her head and smiled lightly.
"No, mine are fine." They all looked from Miroku to Sango, the latter blushing and the first grinning. Everyone else raised an eyebrow, but shrugged. A brisk wind picked up and Yusuke shuddered.
"Where did that come from?" Hiei frowned, looking up into the sky as gentle white tufts danced to the ground.
"It's snowing!" Little Shippo cried happily as he and Kilala pranced around, catching the little droplets of frozen water on their tongues.
"Shippo, you're going to catch a cold." Botan said as she reached for the little fox, but he just grinned and backed away.
"Oh come on Botan, how many times have you seen it snow here?" Promptly, he flopped onto the ground and began to make a snow angel.
"Yeah, I agree." Kuwabara chuckled, a hand shielded behind his back. "Heads up Urameshi!"
"Huh?" Yusuke turned just in time to get knocked right in the face with a good old fashioned snowball.
"Hey!" Yusuke yelled, reaching for a hand of the piled frozen flakes, rolling it and chucking it with one smooth motion, nailing Kuwabara in the mouth.
"Your going to pay for that." Thus ensued the most ridiculous snowball fight of the entire Feudal era; Botan, Kagome, and Shippo all joining in. Soon they had all collapsed to the ground, breathing heavily, forgetting the cold in the heat of battle.
"If you children are done playing maybe we should get going." Hiei growled, Kurama smirking in response.
"Come now Hiei, mustn't intrude on their playtime."
"I hate babysitting."
"Come on people!" Inuyasha grumbled, "Let's get going, I don't wanna have to sit here-" He was silenced with a snowball to the back of the head.
"Who the hell?!" He glared at Kagome, who pointed at Shippo next to her, who pointed right back at Kagome.
"Wasn't me!" He growled and stomped away angrily while the others slowly got to their feet. Hiei turned to Kurama.
*Apparently these imbeciles haven't noticed that it's snowing in the middle of summer.*
*Yes, apparently not.*
WOO! Another chapter down! Yeah!
As you all know, This is an Inuyasha/Kagome story, so any Kikyo fans out there, please don't flame me because I warned you at the start of this story!
I personally think Kikyo is a sadistic psycho bitch, but that's just me. ^-^
I hope I got that part all correct and stuff, I haven't seen IY ever since they took it off! (GRR! The evil minion penguins of Bob will get you, Cartoon Network!) So I may be incorrect on some things. I apologize.
Sensei: Excuses, excuses.
Cheeto: AH! How did you get out?! *attacks with various sized spoons* *shoves Sensei back into closet*
Cheeto: STAY PUT!!
Sensei: MmmHmmhmmm *muffled noises*
Thank you sycogirl64 and Cloud 8.9 for the cookies *tears into bag* SUGAR HIGH!!
But I have two requests of you, my wunnerful fans.
#1- Please vote on the sequel, I'll love you forever!!
#2- LETS GET TO 150!!! YEAH BABY!! And maybe, since you love me, 200? Pwease? *puppy dog eyes* I wanna feel special!!