"I did." Inuyasha said. Kagome whirled around and stared at him. "I said it." Inuyasha repeated. Kagome's eyes glazed over and she fainted. "Oh great, just great."
Spellcaster
Cleanliness
Was It Worth 2 Dollars?
Kagome had the weirdest dream that a dirty white dog had spoken to her. She opened her eyes and found she was lying on the floor, surrounded by dogs in cages. It wasn't a dream. Kagome yelped and backed away from Inuyasha.
"Calm down." Inuyasha said.
Kagome pressed her back against the cage behind her. The pit-bull inside barked at her causing her to jump and crawl very quickly to Inuyasha's cage.
"Listen up." Inuyasha barked, though not in the same way the pit-bull had.
Kagome just stared at him. "You can, can, talk?" she stuttered.
"No shit Sherlock." Inuyasha rolled his eyes. Kagome saw this.
"I think I'm going crazy…" Kagome rubbed her head. "It's finally happened. Sota told me this day would come."
Inuyasha was getting annoyed. "Listen you are NOT going crazy!"
Kagome glared at him. No vision of hers was going to yell at her. "Then how do you suppose I explain this?" she leaned closer to the cage he was in.
"No need, you're the only one that can hear me."
"And see you." Kagome added.
"No," Inuyasha was ready to rip her throat out. "Everyone else can see me."
"Then how come I can hear you?" Kagome didn't really care. She was just a tad bit worried for her sanity.
"Cause." Inuyasha wasn't sure if he should tell her she was his soul mate. How could she be his soul mate? She was so annoying. "I was put under a curse." He hoped she would drop the subject.
"To what be a dog forever and only talk to one person?" she said sarcastically. She still couldn't believe she was talking to a dog.
"Yes!" Inuyasha yelled. Of course that was a lie.
"Whatever." Kagome stood up and made her way to leave.
"WAIT!" Inuyasha panicked.
"What is it? I would like to leave her with some of my sanity." Kagome put her hands on her hips and waited for him to respond.
"Just get me out of here. They kill dogs after one week if they're not adopted." Inuyasha did his best puppy dog eyes. God he hated groveling.
"They wouldn't!" Kagome was astonished.
"Look you don't have to keep me just pay the two dollars and I'll be on my way." Inuyasha said.
Kagome looked at him and then walked over to the desk. She pulled two dollars out of her back pocket and signed the paper. "It seems it wants me to pick a name for you." She read the document. "How about Snowball? You are white, or were at some point." She guessed since he was covered in dirt and smelt of fish.
Inuyasha nearly fainted from panicking. "Inuyasha!" he yelled. "Inuyasha!"
"Is that some dog thing?" Kagome mocked him, she knew it was his name.
"Not Snowball!" Inuyasha was angry now and couldn't even form a decent sentence. "Inuyasha. Not Snowball."
"How do you spell that? S-T-U-P-I-D?" Kagome pretended to write.
Inuyasha growled. It had be some mistake this girl was diffidently not his soul mate. "I-N-U-Y-A-S-H-A!" he spelled it out for her.
"Oh," she wrote his name down, a sly smile on her face. She ripped off the bottom half of the document and left the top half. Each part held her signature and his name. She put her copy of the paper in the back pocket of her shorts. "Okay then."
She grabbed a red collar and leash from a hook behind the desk.
"What do you think your doing?" he said as she grabbed the keys to unlock his cage.
"I'm going to unlock your cage. Unless you would like to stay in there?" She stood just in front of his door.
"That's not what I mean." He growled. "What's with the leash?" if dogs could point, he did.
"It's against the law for dogs to wander about without a collar and leash." She unlocked his door.
"What do you care?" he growled as she snapped the red collar around his neck.
"I have to leave here with a dog." She clipped the leash to the collar.
"HEY!" Inuyasha pulled back and tugged on the leash. "I thought you were just going to let me go!"
"Sota really wants a dog, and I have to get one." She stopped talking and looked at him sternly. "You better be nice to him."
"Yeah, sure, whatever." Something in the pit of his stomach made him want to go with her.
"Good then!" She smiled. She opened the cage wider and Inuyasha walked out. She shut the door and made her way outside. "Can't believe I'm talking to a dog." She said just before she walked out the door.
Sota looked at the dog, then looked at Kagome, then back at the dog. He lunged at Inuyasha and hugged him around the neck. The boys touch surprised Inuyasha, but he remained still. "He's wonderful sis!" Sota was ecstatic. Inuyasha beamed with pride. "Let's name him Snowball!" Sota let go of Inuyasha and stood up straight. Inuyasha came up to the young boy's waist, and Kagome's knees.
"What!" Inuyasha yelled! "We already had this talk!"
Kagome laughed. "He already has a name."
"Aw." Sota said sadly then brightened up. "What is it?"
"Inuyasha."
"COOL!"
As if Inuyasha's pride couldn't get any bigger…
Kagome and Sota started to walk down the busy street.
"So where do you live?" Inuyasha asked Kagome.
"You're going to love our house," she said. Sota looked at her funny. "Well dog's have feelings too! We should tell him about our house."
"Let me do it! Let me do it!" Sota bounced.
"Smooth save." Inuyasha said.
Kagome's smile grew wider.
"We live at a shrine! Well we don't live in it, we just own it. Oh and there is this God tree it's like over 1,000 years old and there's this well shrine. We're not allowed to go near that, and…"
Inuyasha had tuned Sota out after that. He was just watching Kagome's legs as they walked along the sidewalk to her house. She had rather beautiful legs.
At that mere thought Inuyasha stopped walking, but was immediately tugged by the leash, so he started walking again. In over 200 years he hasn't had a physical attraction to anyone resembling anything human. And then she came along.
****
Sesshomaru arrived back at the pound with Miroku in hand. He threw the little pervert into one of the empty dog cages and promptly locked him in. The cage was big enough for him to stand.
"Hey!" Miroku yelled. "The damage to the truck isn't that bad! It can be fixed!"
"DID you not see it?" Sesshomaru threw the keys onto his desk. "It was bent in half and stuck in a tree!" He clenched his fists. "Now how is anyone going to fix that?"
"Carefully." Miroku suggested.
Sesshomaru shook the cage door and walked off to his desk. "You can just stay in there and think about what you've done." He sat in his seat and grabbed the magazine off his desk and started to read it.
"Hey! You can't do that!" Miroku shook the cage door just like Sesshomaru had. "Let me out of here! That is against the law!"
Sesshomaru started whistling. Thank god dogs could not talk.
"I know you can hear me! Fine then!" Miroku sat down with his back against the cage door. He started humming.
For some reason the humming annoyed Sesshomaru more than the yelling and screaming had.
Miroku then, started to sing. "This is the song that never ends, it goes on and on my friends. Some people stated singing it not knowing what it was."
Sesshomaru violently turned the page of his magazine.
"And they'll continue singing it forever just because." Miroku stopped for a second and looked at Sesshomaru, who let out a sigh of relief.
Miroku smiled evilly. "It is the song that never ends, it goes on and on my friends. Some people started singing it not knowing what it was."
Sesshomaru covered his face with the magazine. He wasn't about to give into this man. Sesshomaru clenched his teeth behind the magazine.
"And they'll continue singing it forever just because." Miroku took a deep breath. "It is the song that never ends, it goes on and on my friends. Some people started singing it not knowing what it was."
Sesshomaru squeezed his eyes shut. He felt a tap on his shoulder and turned to see a young woman with a young boy standing on the other side of his desk.
"And they'll continue singing it forever just because. It is the song that never ends, it goes on and on my friends. Some people started singing it not knowing what it was." Miroku continued.
"Hello, I'm Sango and this is my brother Kohaku." Sango introduced.
"Welcome to the dog pound." Sesshomaru rolled his eyes.
"And they'll continue singing it forever just because."
"OoOo, I like that song." Kohaku said.
Sango looked at Miroku in the cage with a skeptical gaze, then the most wonderful idea came over her.
"We're here to adopt."
"Adopt away," Sesshomaru motioned to the cages.
Sango grabbed his keys and a leash and collar off one of the hooks behind him. Sesshomaru watched with much fascination as Sango walked over to Miroku's cage. Causing him to stop his singing. Thank the lord.
She opened the cage and put the collar around Miroku's neck and attached the leash to it. She then picked Miroku up and slung him over her shoulder. Miroku was to stunned to do anything perverted at the moment.
"How much?" Sango said as she slowly walked to the front counter. Sesshomaru stifled back a laugh. Miroku's head was facing away from him and the dogcatcher's booty was.
"2 dollars," he laughed.
"Kohaku?" Sango said. "Reach into my purse and give the nice man two dollars."
Kohaku nodded and did as he was told.
"Two dollars?" Miroku's voice was back. "I'm surely worth more than that."
"Nope," Sesshomaru laughed.
Sango smiled at him and turned around, walking out the door. Miroku saw Sesshomaru laughing.
"Please make sure you keep that dog on a leash." He laughed when she was just about out the door.
"Don't worry." Sango turned slightly so she could see Sesshomaru. "I will."
She walked out the door with Miroku still slung over her shoulder. Kohaku followed with a very wide smile on his face.
****
Inuyasha, Kagome and Sota all arrived at the front door of her house. It was a nice two-story house, nothing to fancy. It looked cozy.
Kagome opened the door and Sota flung his shoes off and ran in. Kagome waited till he was far enough away till she spoke to Inuyasha.
"Be good." She said.
"Nice house." Inuyasha smirked.
Kagome took her shoes off and set them neatly down. Inuyasha watched her, since she still had hold of his leash, he couldn't do much else.
Kagome's mom appeared and frowned at the dog. Sota came bounding out from behind her and hugged Inuyasha again. "He is wonderful Mom!"
(A/N= Kagome's mom will be referred to as 'Mother.' Thank you.)
"I don't know." Mother said. She eyed Inuyasha apprehensively. "What's his name?"
"Inuyasha." Kagome answered.
"It's a unique name." Mother said.
"I know he's dirty Mom, but I can give him a bath!" Sota let go of Inuyasha. Inuyasha let out a sigh of relief.
"The boy was cutting off my air supply." He said. Kagome shot him a quick glare.
"No you can't Sota, you have homework." Mother pushed Sota out of the room. "Kagome dear, would you be so kind as to give it, uh, Inuyasha a bath please?" She left before Kagome had a chance to say no.
"Bath?" Inuyasha said. "No way, no bath for me, thank you!" He tried to pull away from her, but she gripped the leash.
"Doesn't look like we have a choice." Kagome stared off into the direction her mom had disappeared in.
"You're wrong, there is always a choice," Inuyasha said.
"Let's go," She pulled him up the stairs. Inuyasha wasn't too reluctant. He didn't want her falling backwards down the stairs.
Kagome reached the bathroom and opened the door. Inuyasha walked in slowly, with a sad expression.
"Now stay here I'm going to go and get the things we need." She shut the door, which is the same as locking it to Inuyasha's un-opposable thumbs.
The bathroom, had a tub, a toilet, and a counter. That's pretty much what every bathroom really needs. Inuyasha sat in the middle of the room, waiting.
"Hey there poochie." Came Kikyo's voice. Inuyasha turned and saw she was sitting on the counter. She had on a long black dress, and her hair was tied into two braids and she didn't look happy.
"What is it?" Inuyasha tried not to sound to rude.
"So you've finally found your true love?" She said sinisterly.
"So, what of it?"
"Do you not remember the little deal we made?"
"No, refresh my memory." Inuyasha couldn't help himself. He just hated Kikyo so much.
"As you wish."
*Flashy Backnes* (A/N= Or in other words, A Flashback.)
"Kikyo!" Inuyasha was alone in a field of wild flowers still a dog. "KIKYO!" he yelled again.
"What?!" she appeared before him, very annoyed.
"It has been 300 years since you cast this spell and I sill have not found my soul mate. I am beginning to think that I don't have one!" He yelled it, even though it was a rather sad thing to say.
"Nonsense," Kikyo crossed her arms over her white kimono. "Every one has a soul mate."
"I don't!" Inuyasha was sad, but yelled as though he were angry.
"Tell you what." Kikyo leaned down to be eye level with the talking dog. "When you 'find' your soul mate I will deduct 50 good deeds."
"70." Inuyasha bargained.
"60." Kikyo glared.
"75." Inuyasha glared right back.
"Hey, this is a bargain you aren't supposed to go up!" Kikyo stood straight.
"Who said?" Inuyasha mocked.
"Me! That's who. I mean it would be okay if we started at 80 then you said…"
Inuyasha cut her off, "Okay 80 it is. Wow you really know how to haggle."
There was a strong gust of wind that signaled the deal was sealed.
"WHAT!" Kikyo yelled so loud it hurt Inuyasha's ears.
"A deal is a deal, when I find my soul mate you take 80 good deeds away." Inuyasha smirked.
Kikyo gritted her teeth. "I HATE YOU!" and she vanished into thin air.
Inuyasha was boasting with pride. Not that he needed any more of it.
*Flashy Back Endie* (End of Flashback)
Inuyasha just smiled at Kikyo. She was about ready to beat him into a blood pulp.
"So now I only have 20 good deeds left." Inuyasha said.
"Yeah, and unfortunately you've made that boy really happy, so there goes another one." Kikyo rolled her eyes. "But you better watch, any little screw up and I add more good deeds." She pointed a finger at him.
"Okay, okay. You better get going that girl's coming back." Inuyasha turned away from her.
"Whatever." Kikyo whispered as the bathroom door opened.
Kagome walked in and set the supplies she had gotten onto the counter. Inuyasha turned around sure, he was going to see Kikyo sitting there, but she had vanished.
"Okay, the faster we get this over with the better." Kagome said.
Inuyasha noticed she had changed into a two-piece swimsuit. It's a good thing he was covered in fur because he was blushing up a storm. Kagome went to the tub and turned the water on.
"No time for hot water." She said. She picked up Inuyasha, and tried to put him into the filling tub.
"There is always time for hot water!" he yelled, spreading is feet so he blocked himself from going into the tub.
"Come now, don't be silly, it takes forever for the tub to fill with hot water." Kagome tried to push him into the tub.
"I am willing to wait." He grunted against her push.
"Fine." Kagome said giving up. She let go of Inuyasha and shut the bathroom door. Inuyasha jumped away from the tub and sat as far away from it as possible.
Kagome walked over to it and turned the hot water on.
"Why the sudden change of attire?" Inuyasha asked looking at her yellow swimsuit.
"Just in case." Kagome said. She put her hand under the faucet of the tub checking for the temperature. "Still ice cold."
"Ice cold? And you were going to put me in that?" Inuyasha said angrily.
Kagome didn't answer she just rested her hand under the faucet and watched the waterfall.
She was rather beautiful. Perhaps she was his soul mate. Inuyasha watched her with his golden dog eyes.
"There." She said, breaking him from his trance. "It seems about right to me." She got up and stood back. "Care to try it?"
He looked at her and jumped into the half filled tub. It was ice cold.
****
Sesshomaru sat at his desk reading the magazine till the clock on the wall read eight o'clock. Time to go home. He was just about to stand up when he saw the paper the girl had signed when he had left to pick up Miroku. "Wonder what she named her dog." He said. He picked up the paper and his eyes widened in astonishment.
"Inuyasha." He read. "This can't be."
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No more disclaimers from this point on. If you really need to see one, refer back to chapter one. Please review and encourage me to write the third chapter.