D: Sugarsugarsugarsugarsugarsugarsugar!

K: Someone HELP!!!

M: She's at it again!!!

S: Someone grab her!!!

Inu: *dives for authoress* *misses* *slams into wall*

D: SUGAR!!!! MINE!!!! *runs*

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HOLD ON!!!!! WHOA WHOA WHOA!!!! STOOPPP!!!

*huffhuff* sorry guys, but I forgot to put a disclaimer on this fanfic!!! *ahem*

D/C I don't own InuYasha . . . But I wish I did!!!

Okay, proceed.

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Chapter 2

The Swamp Demon

InuYasha faced the monstrous demon, Tetsusaiga drawn.

The creature was horrendously huge. It was like a large octopus, but with about a dozen more legs. It was green, with red eyes. Its mouth was full of rows upon rows of sharp, pointed teeth. The jewel shard imbedded in its forehead glimmered slightly.

Kagome gasped and then took a deep breath . . .

"InuYasha! The jewel shard is in its forehead!"

InuYasha shot a glance over his shoulder and nodded, then turned his attention back to the task at hand.

"This'll be simple enough!" he crowed, leaping into the air.

With one swipe of his mighty Tetsusaiga, the demon was vanquished. Chunks of its flesh hit the ground in various places; Kagome caught the jewel shard, instantly purifying it.

InuYasha sheathed his sword and turned toward Kagome.

She stood there, her hair carrying some small pieces of algae and moss. Her clothes were soaked and had a green ting to them from the swamp water. Her face was slightly smeared with mud, as were her legs.

'She still looks beautiful.' He thought, then froze. 'What did I just THINK?! I don't think she's- she's- . . .'

"Feh!" he snorted to himself, not being able to think up a good come back to his own thought. He walked over to Kagome and looked her over.

"Are you okay Kagome?" he asked.

She nodded a response and was about to reply when-

"Kagome!"

The two turned to see their friends running towards them.

Shippo immediately jumped onto InuYasha's head and began beating him with his little fists. The little kitsune was very upset about something.

"Don't you dare hurt her! You evil swamp demon!!!" he cried as InuYasha plucked him from his head by the little runts tail.

"Evil swamp demon?" InuYasha demanded, "Did you put your head on straight this morning, runt?"

The little kitsune blinked.

Slowly, realization dawned on him.

"InuYasha?"

The hanyou dropped him, "Who else did think it was?"

Miroku and Sango stood there for a second and then began biting their lips, to stop themselves from laughing. InuYasha glared at them and edged closer.

"What?" he demanded, only getting him more stifled laughter.

Kagome giggled as well as she walked over to Kirara to pull something out of her backpack, which the cat demon was holding.

"Here," she said, pulling out a small mirror, "Look at yourself."

InuYasha stared at his reflection.

He was covered in algae and moss. His hair was tinged green and had several strings of "seaweed" in it. He was also covered in mud, so much so that his red haori was almost undistinguishable.

He really did look like a swamp demon.

"Feh!" he said, crossing his arms and looking away.

Kagome laughed a little more and took his hand.

"Come on, that's enough action for one day. Let's go get cleaned up."

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"InuYasha! Stop being such a baby!"

The hanyou ignored her, sitting up on his tree branch. They had found a small river and followed it to a spring. It was only around midday, and the sun was wonderfully bright.

Kagome had brought some swim gear for everyone with her, from her time. Sango had on a blue, one-piece bathing suit, and Shippo had on a pair of her brothers old swim trunks. Even Miroku dropped his normal composer and put on the pair of swim trunks that Kagome had brought him. Kagome herself was wearing her one-piece flower swimsuit. They all retreated from the hot day in the clear water.

All except for a certain, hardheaded hanyou.

He was sitting up in a tree, whose branches went out over the water's edge. He was still dirty from the battle but wouldn't join everyone in the water.

"Whatever! I'm not getting in, and that's final!"

Kagome got a sly look on her face.

"Oh really?"

InuYasha opened an eye to look at her and got a really bad feeling.

"Sit."

Splash!!!

InuYasha was yanked out of the tree by the beads around his neck and splashed down into the water below. He instantly stood back up, the water only coming up to his waist, and glared at Kagome. The others laughed as the hanyou got out of the water to sit on the bank.

Their laughter was renewed when he shook himself dry.

"Oh, come on InuYasha!" Kagome called to him, trying to get over her giggle fit. But it was no use; he wouldn't hear anything of it.

'Wench!' he growled; taking off his haori and setting it in the sun to dry.

'The nerve she's got!' he sat there sulking, not really paying attention to what was happening around him.

Miroku had started to move closer to Sango and she freaked. She turned around so fast that she splashed him. The monk splashed her back but missed and ended up splashing Kagome. She laughed and splashed him back, only to end up splashing InuYasha.

There was an awkward silence as the hanyou slowly turned around, vein popping on his forehead in annoyance.

"Who did that?" he demanded; Kagome sank down to her nose in the water.

It was Shippo who saved her from certain "death".

"Why?" he asked the hanyou, bouncing energetically over to him, "Afraid of a little WATER?" with that last word, the little kitsune splashed InuYasha again and jumped back into the water just in time to dodge some very sharp claws.

"You're DEAD!!!"

He tore off his inner shirt and jumped into the water after him.

Kagome covered her face with her arms, while InuYasha tried to kill Shippo and ended up just splashing around. Miroku stopped his antics by tripping him. The hanyou fell face first in the water, jumped up and started chasing after the monk instead. Miroku jumped and hid behind Sango.

Sango put her hands up, while the monk shifted her by her shoulders so InuYasha couldn't get to him. Kagome waded over to them and jumped onto InuYasha's back, throwing him off balance and dunking him in the water.

"Stop being such a spoilsport Inu-Ahh!" InuYasha left the others alone and dove for Kagome. Kagome made a run for it, though running backwards isn't always the most efficient way of escaping. She ended up tripping in the shallows, and InuYasha fell, landing on top of her.

They lay there laughing for a couple seconds and InuYasha pushed himself up with his hands, which were on either side of Kagome. Their laughter subsided; leaving in their wake puzzled looks and jumbled feelings. The couple finally realized in what position they were in and InuYasha immediately got off. He and Kagome sat there, blushing a very bright red. Sango and Miroku stood there smiling, and Shippo sat there with a very confused face look on his face.

The awkward moment was broken by a sudden cry and a red hand print on a certain monks cheek.

"Hentai!!!"

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There! Some pointless fun! Don't worry it'll get much better, I promise!!! So what do you think!!!! Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh? Sosososososososo?! I won't know what you think unless you review!!! Yupyupyup!!

K: Sugar should've never been discovered!

M: The world would be a safer place today if it hadn't.

S: It would also be a lot calmer.

D: THANK YOU, to whoever made the discovery and invention of the common candy!!!

R&R people!!! My email address is denrawhite@yahoo.com just in case you want to know!!! LATER!!!