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Chapter 2!
He'd been certain he was going to get hit, so Inuyasha was surprised when he wasn't. He folded his arms across his chest, but that didn't really feel right. He went back to standing neutral, not caring to shield his body... her body from his eyes.... or was it her eyes? Looking at his own body, knowing Kagome was in there, suddenly made his eyes look gentle rather than cold. "This is all your fault, you know!"
Kagome's rage showed on her face, his face rather, she was sure. "INU- YASHA!" Kagome screamed wanting to hurt him, but hurting him would hurt her body and... Kagome looked down at herself and looked like she was about to cry. "I don't want to be a boy- And get dressed! Or rather, don't! You'll look! I..." Kagome looked around and grabbed her clothes from the stone where they lay by the water. "Close your eyes. I'm going to dress you." Kagome said then quickly corrected. "Me."
"Excuse me?" he growled. She growled. Oh, Inuyasha was going to have a headache soon! He crossed his arms and sunk down in the water. "I don't think so! I can dress myself, thank you! Besides, maybe I'm not done washing myself yet!" He paused. "Besides, then you might get your clothes wet, and then your body would catch a cold."
Kagome stared for a moment before deciding that sitting down, even in knee high waters was preferable to standing with such a dizzy spell. The water felt good and cool, it helped calm her rapid breathing. Bowing her head, Kagome looked at Inuyasha's reflection and smiled softly as her finger tips passed over the water surface causing it to ripple and lose the mirror quality. "Inuyasha..." Kagome whispered then raised amber eyes to look up at herself, but somehow she managed to see him. "You weren't bathing. I was. And it's my body." Kagome said then grinned menacingly, doing what she had wanted to do even since he did it- Cracked all of her knuckles with one move. "And you are NOT going to dress it. Or touch it. OR wash it." Kagome warned then blinked and looked down with a frown. "It's cold." Kagome muttered then stood up her red robes soaking. "Stop staring at me!" Kagome yelled.
"You're only a girl, Kagome," he said superiorily. "It's not like I haven't seen it or felt it before. So what's the big idea?" As if to demonstrate, he wadded out of the water and put his hands on his hips. She looked pathetic sitting there in the water. He tapped his foot irately. "You're getting my robes wetter then they already are! Are you getting out of the water or are you going to sit there all day? I thought you wanted to dress me!" Inuyasha couldn't recall the last time he had said something so dirty to Kagome.
Kagome stared at him for a moment feeling hurt. "'Seen or felt it...'" Kagome whispered standing up and looking down at her soaking wet robes, her silver bangs covering her eyes. "Like Kikyo?" Kagome whispered to herself then sucked in a deep breath and decided to be strong. "Dress yourself." Kagome said throwing the clothes at her naked form and wadding out of the water, passing by Inuyasha in her body without looking back.
Ow. That one kind of hurt. Inuyasha caught the clothes and followed her -his- body as Kagome walked by. His eyes wandered for a moment. He knew for a fact that he didn't look so feminine when he walked! It had to be a girl thing. Pulling out pale blue underwear and what looked like a torture device, he winced. Maybe he shouldn't have been rude and accepted that Kagome "dressed him". He didn't even know what half this stuff was! He pulled on the skirt and the shirt and wrapped the other things up in the towel before he ran after Kagome. "That was completely uncalled for!"
Looking at her claws, Kagome wondered how they worked. Swirling around on his bare feet, Kagome held out the clawed hand. " Sankon deso? How does it go? Soul shattering what? I want to know how to use it." Kagome warned with blazing yellow eyes. "Oh, and you put the skirt on backwards."
He looked surprised before he knew it. For some reason, this body wasn't able to control emotions like his old one. He truly doubted that he would use his own attack on her old body, but his expression changed to one of suspicion anyway. "Why?" he demanded. His hands changed the skirt as he talked. "We're going to go and figure out how to change us back to normal right away, so it's not like you're going to get a chance to use them. I refuse to stay in this weak body any longer than I need to!"
"I AM NOT WEAK!" Kagome yelled and slashed at a tree... By accident causing it to fall.. And almost hit Inuyasha. "Sorry..." She whispered and marveled that she didn't break a nail.
"Baka!" he growled. He grabbed her wrist. "If you're not careful you're going to hurt your own body!" His eyes softened slightly. He looked at her uncomfortably. "And I said your body was weak, not you. Compared to my body, this one is pathetic. I can't run fast, I don't have my strength back... the longer you stay in mine, the more dangerous it is!" he added in an embarrassed rush of words.
Kagome studied him, but didn't protest or try to free her hand from his grip, though she knew she could easily. "You don't like being human much, do you?"
He bitterly stared at her. No, he didn't, and he said as much to Kagome. What he didn't say was the it wasn't so great being half-demon either, fearing that one day he might lose control and hurt somebody. Or that in his human form, he felt he couldn't protect her. Even if he did try to.
Kagome thought this over and nodded. "You look nice in my skin." She said softly, however not managing as strong a blush as she usually would in this form. "I guess we better go find out what is going on here."
Inuyasha felt relieved, worried that she might try and press the issue. He didn't notice that he still held her wrist as they walked back towards their campsite. When he did, he let go, only to reach in and pull out the torture device he had found earlier. "So what exactly is this thing? I've never seen you wear it before."
Kagome stared at her bra dangling from her hand. She couldn't find her voice. When she finally did she leapt forward and grabbed it away from Inuyasha stuffing it into a pocket she didn't realize he had in his robe. "It's because it's worn UNDER the clothes!"
"Ohhh.... How?"
Kagome just stared at him. "I-Inuyasha!" Kagome stammered then felt the heat begin to pound in her face. "And then you say you've seen naked girls before!" Kagome pointed out holding her finger out at him. "You don't know the first thing!"
He rolled his eyes. "I meant that I've seen you before. And remember the faceless mother? She was a female too, and she wasn't wearing one of these things! This wouldn't even have happened if you hadn't told me to 'sit', because then...." He stopped ranting when he saw that she had fallen on her face.
Kagome moaned softly and blinked. Why did the ground look so close? Why did she taste earth in her mouth? Why was there a leaf hanging from her bangs? "Ow..." She muttered sitting up on her haunches. "I didn't know it hurt that much..." Kagome muttered touching the beads around her neck. Then she remembered what happened before the 'sit' command. "You've seen me naked?" Kagome asked and got up to her feet, fisting her hands tightly at her sides. "It's a bra! It's meant to hold your-" Kagome just waved at her chest. Hm, that blouse did make them look kinda... Rounder.
"Yeah, well...." he sulked. Then she told him what it was for. "I understand now." He considered bringing out the other piece of equipment, but decided not to. He sat down with the back to their campfire, hoping it would dry his hair. He managed to sit the way Kagome did, with her legs under her body, although he found it awkward. He began to work out some of the tangles, almost absentmindedly. "Try not to lose your temper. So, you have any idea how to change us back?"
Kagome seethed. "I wouldn't lose my temper if I didn't see all the tangles you were causing in my hair! Stop that! I won't be able to ever pass a comb through it!" Kagome yelled then stalked over to him and pulling a brush out of her backpack, sitting behind Inuyasha Kagome began brushing out her long black hair. She always enjoyed brushing it out... It was just a different position doing it now. "We can try jumping back into the water." She said after a while still brushing out her hair, then peeked down at herself.. Or rather, Inuyasha. "Are you purring?"
Nearly jumping out of his skin, Inuyasha immediately stopped. He liked feeling Kagome's fingers through his hair. He couldn't accept that it was really his fingers through her hair. Despite all the looks, she was still Kagome, deep down, where it really mattered. Inuyasha stared down at the ground. He was quiet a moment longer, and even then, his voice was quiet. "Hey, Kagome? When I said that... about girls and stuff... why did you automatically ask me about Kikyo?"
Kagome didn't answer for a long while, brushing back the hair until it shined. "I.." Kagome began then bit down on her lower lip and yelped dropping the brush and touching her, Inuyasha's, lower lip. "I forgot you had fangs.." She explained touching to the small cut lightly.
Hearing her yelp, he automatically turned around. Resisting the urge to say "I told you so" he reached out and touched her lower lip, brushing off a small bead of blood. "I'm half-demon. A scratch like that? It'll heal in no time. I did that once too, you know," he said after a long pause. Feeling almost self-conscious, he looked away again. "You didn't answer my question, Kagome."
Kagome looked down in her lap. {He noticed.} She thought to herself, sitting on her legs the way she did even in her old form. Not that this was going to be her new form. Just her 'now' form. Kagome really wished now that she hadn't said that before. She never felt comfortable around the subject of Kikyo. "You did?" Kagome asked ignoring his question a while longer. "That must've been nice." Kagome said softly, her smile a little more feral then it would've look on her face. Lowering her eyes Kagome then took a deep breath, her nails digging into her knees, or rather trying to but the rat fire robes were thicker then they seemed. "I know you must've known... Other women, but I know Kikyo." Kagome said and looked up at him softly. "And I know how you feel about her, so I figured it only natural that you would know about.. Naked girls with Kikyo." Kagome explained hiding under fallen white hair.
'When did life get so confusing?' Lips drawn in a tight line, he began to trace pictures in the dirt. Kikyo... was a difficult subject. And it was history! So why did he still miss her? And why did he care so much about protecting Kagome, even going to the point of risking his own neck when Kagome herself was the danger to his health? "Well," he snapped, "whether I did or not is none of your business! There's a difference between looking and touching... and when I said 'felt' I mean that I'd felt them when I was carrying you around." He shook his head, his black hair falling into place. It felt nice, now that she'd worked all the tangles out. If only she could do that when he was in his old body! "My robes aren't that thick, you know. . . ."
Kagome let out a small 'oh' and released her nails, before sighing. "I know it's non of my business, that's why I kept trying to change the subject." Kagome reminded with just a little bit of tart. "Besides! I don't care about what you may have or may not have done with her!" Kagome protested then gritted her teeth. Or rather her fangs, suddenly Kagome noticed that the cut on the lip really had healed. Kagome then looked up at him sharply. "Maybe I shouldn't ride you so much any more..." Kagome said softly, not even realizing how sick that sounded.
Inuyasha did, and he smiled; just a little. "If you didn't, we'd never get places as fast as we do now," he wisely pointed out. "Then we wouldn't have gotten to the spring and switched bodies." Kagome pointed out wisely.
"True, instead we might still be trying to find last week's piece of the jewel, or the one before that," he retorted.
Kagome stuck her nose up, very Inuyasha style. "Keh!" She imitated then turned back to him with a bright smile. "I did that good! didn't I?" Kagome asked then looked around her ears pricking and moving forward. "Did you hear that?"
Blandly staring at Kagome, he replied no. It felt like he had cloth stuck in his ears. "It was probably just a rodent or something."
"It smells like... Copper." Kagome whispered her nostrils flaring.
"Copper?" he repeated. He tried to imagine himself in his own body. His gaze was piercing as he stared at her. Even at this body, Inuyasha automatically reached for his sword. "You mean it smells like blood?"
Kagome nodded and looked down at her waist where the hilt of the sword was. "It smells the way your lips smelt a minute ago, and tasted." Kagome said passing her tongue over them now and looking up at Inuyasha with a different look then before. "They taste sweet now. Not like copper." Kagome said then shook her head and her ears perked to the right. "It's coming!"
"Shit," he swore. He handed Tesusaiga back to Kagome. "You take it. I might not be able to use it in this form." When she gave him an odd look, he pressed the hilt into her hands. "It's not like you haven't helped me kill demons before. Hold it like this. Besides, it might just be a bleeding animal or something.... Although if it tasted like my blood, probably not." He picked up her bow and strung it after a second or two.
Chapter 2!
He'd been certain he was going to get hit, so Inuyasha was surprised when he wasn't. He folded his arms across his chest, but that didn't really feel right. He went back to standing neutral, not caring to shield his body... her body from his eyes.... or was it her eyes? Looking at his own body, knowing Kagome was in there, suddenly made his eyes look gentle rather than cold. "This is all your fault, you know!"
Kagome's rage showed on her face, his face rather, she was sure. "INU- YASHA!" Kagome screamed wanting to hurt him, but hurting him would hurt her body and... Kagome looked down at herself and looked like she was about to cry. "I don't want to be a boy- And get dressed! Or rather, don't! You'll look! I..." Kagome looked around and grabbed her clothes from the stone where they lay by the water. "Close your eyes. I'm going to dress you." Kagome said then quickly corrected. "Me."
"Excuse me?" he growled. She growled. Oh, Inuyasha was going to have a headache soon! He crossed his arms and sunk down in the water. "I don't think so! I can dress myself, thank you! Besides, maybe I'm not done washing myself yet!" He paused. "Besides, then you might get your clothes wet, and then your body would catch a cold."
Kagome stared for a moment before deciding that sitting down, even in knee high waters was preferable to standing with such a dizzy spell. The water felt good and cool, it helped calm her rapid breathing. Bowing her head, Kagome looked at Inuyasha's reflection and smiled softly as her finger tips passed over the water surface causing it to ripple and lose the mirror quality. "Inuyasha..." Kagome whispered then raised amber eyes to look up at herself, but somehow she managed to see him. "You weren't bathing. I was. And it's my body." Kagome said then grinned menacingly, doing what she had wanted to do even since he did it- Cracked all of her knuckles with one move. "And you are NOT going to dress it. Or touch it. OR wash it." Kagome warned then blinked and looked down with a frown. "It's cold." Kagome muttered then stood up her red robes soaking. "Stop staring at me!" Kagome yelled.
"You're only a girl, Kagome," he said superiorily. "It's not like I haven't seen it or felt it before. So what's the big idea?" As if to demonstrate, he wadded out of the water and put his hands on his hips. She looked pathetic sitting there in the water. He tapped his foot irately. "You're getting my robes wetter then they already are! Are you getting out of the water or are you going to sit there all day? I thought you wanted to dress me!" Inuyasha couldn't recall the last time he had said something so dirty to Kagome.
Kagome stared at him for a moment feeling hurt. "'Seen or felt it...'" Kagome whispered standing up and looking down at her soaking wet robes, her silver bangs covering her eyes. "Like Kikyo?" Kagome whispered to herself then sucked in a deep breath and decided to be strong. "Dress yourself." Kagome said throwing the clothes at her naked form and wadding out of the water, passing by Inuyasha in her body without looking back.
Ow. That one kind of hurt. Inuyasha caught the clothes and followed her -his- body as Kagome walked by. His eyes wandered for a moment. He knew for a fact that he didn't look so feminine when he walked! It had to be a girl thing. Pulling out pale blue underwear and what looked like a torture device, he winced. Maybe he shouldn't have been rude and accepted that Kagome "dressed him". He didn't even know what half this stuff was! He pulled on the skirt and the shirt and wrapped the other things up in the towel before he ran after Kagome. "That was completely uncalled for!"
Looking at her claws, Kagome wondered how they worked. Swirling around on his bare feet, Kagome held out the clawed hand. " Sankon deso? How does it go? Soul shattering what? I want to know how to use it." Kagome warned with blazing yellow eyes. "Oh, and you put the skirt on backwards."
He looked surprised before he knew it. For some reason, this body wasn't able to control emotions like his old one. He truly doubted that he would use his own attack on her old body, but his expression changed to one of suspicion anyway. "Why?" he demanded. His hands changed the skirt as he talked. "We're going to go and figure out how to change us back to normal right away, so it's not like you're going to get a chance to use them. I refuse to stay in this weak body any longer than I need to!"
"I AM NOT WEAK!" Kagome yelled and slashed at a tree... By accident causing it to fall.. And almost hit Inuyasha. "Sorry..." She whispered and marveled that she didn't break a nail.
"Baka!" he growled. He grabbed her wrist. "If you're not careful you're going to hurt your own body!" His eyes softened slightly. He looked at her uncomfortably. "And I said your body was weak, not you. Compared to my body, this one is pathetic. I can't run fast, I don't have my strength back... the longer you stay in mine, the more dangerous it is!" he added in an embarrassed rush of words.
Kagome studied him, but didn't protest or try to free her hand from his grip, though she knew she could easily. "You don't like being human much, do you?"
He bitterly stared at her. No, he didn't, and he said as much to Kagome. What he didn't say was the it wasn't so great being half-demon either, fearing that one day he might lose control and hurt somebody. Or that in his human form, he felt he couldn't protect her. Even if he did try to.
Kagome thought this over and nodded. "You look nice in my skin." She said softly, however not managing as strong a blush as she usually would in this form. "I guess we better go find out what is going on here."
Inuyasha felt relieved, worried that she might try and press the issue. He didn't notice that he still held her wrist as they walked back towards their campsite. When he did, he let go, only to reach in and pull out the torture device he had found earlier. "So what exactly is this thing? I've never seen you wear it before."
Kagome stared at her bra dangling from her hand. She couldn't find her voice. When she finally did she leapt forward and grabbed it away from Inuyasha stuffing it into a pocket she didn't realize he had in his robe. "It's because it's worn UNDER the clothes!"
"Ohhh.... How?"
Kagome just stared at him. "I-Inuyasha!" Kagome stammered then felt the heat begin to pound in her face. "And then you say you've seen naked girls before!" Kagome pointed out holding her finger out at him. "You don't know the first thing!"
He rolled his eyes. "I meant that I've seen you before. And remember the faceless mother? She was a female too, and she wasn't wearing one of these things! This wouldn't even have happened if you hadn't told me to 'sit', because then...." He stopped ranting when he saw that she had fallen on her face.
Kagome moaned softly and blinked. Why did the ground look so close? Why did she taste earth in her mouth? Why was there a leaf hanging from her bangs? "Ow..." She muttered sitting up on her haunches. "I didn't know it hurt that much..." Kagome muttered touching the beads around her neck. Then she remembered what happened before the 'sit' command. "You've seen me naked?" Kagome asked and got up to her feet, fisting her hands tightly at her sides. "It's a bra! It's meant to hold your-" Kagome just waved at her chest. Hm, that blouse did make them look kinda... Rounder.
"Yeah, well...." he sulked. Then she told him what it was for. "I understand now." He considered bringing out the other piece of equipment, but decided not to. He sat down with the back to their campfire, hoping it would dry his hair. He managed to sit the way Kagome did, with her legs under her body, although he found it awkward. He began to work out some of the tangles, almost absentmindedly. "Try not to lose your temper. So, you have any idea how to change us back?"
Kagome seethed. "I wouldn't lose my temper if I didn't see all the tangles you were causing in my hair! Stop that! I won't be able to ever pass a comb through it!" Kagome yelled then stalked over to him and pulling a brush out of her backpack, sitting behind Inuyasha Kagome began brushing out her long black hair. She always enjoyed brushing it out... It was just a different position doing it now. "We can try jumping back into the water." She said after a while still brushing out her hair, then peeked down at herself.. Or rather, Inuyasha. "Are you purring?"
Nearly jumping out of his skin, Inuyasha immediately stopped. He liked feeling Kagome's fingers through his hair. He couldn't accept that it was really his fingers through her hair. Despite all the looks, she was still Kagome, deep down, where it really mattered. Inuyasha stared down at the ground. He was quiet a moment longer, and even then, his voice was quiet. "Hey, Kagome? When I said that... about girls and stuff... why did you automatically ask me about Kikyo?"
Kagome didn't answer for a long while, brushing back the hair until it shined. "I.." Kagome began then bit down on her lower lip and yelped dropping the brush and touching her, Inuyasha's, lower lip. "I forgot you had fangs.." She explained touching to the small cut lightly.
Hearing her yelp, he automatically turned around. Resisting the urge to say "I told you so" he reached out and touched her lower lip, brushing off a small bead of blood. "I'm half-demon. A scratch like that? It'll heal in no time. I did that once too, you know," he said after a long pause. Feeling almost self-conscious, he looked away again. "You didn't answer my question, Kagome."
Kagome looked down in her lap. {He noticed.} She thought to herself, sitting on her legs the way she did even in her old form. Not that this was going to be her new form. Just her 'now' form. Kagome really wished now that she hadn't said that before. She never felt comfortable around the subject of Kikyo. "You did?" Kagome asked ignoring his question a while longer. "That must've been nice." Kagome said softly, her smile a little more feral then it would've look on her face. Lowering her eyes Kagome then took a deep breath, her nails digging into her knees, or rather trying to but the rat fire robes were thicker then they seemed. "I know you must've known... Other women, but I know Kikyo." Kagome said and looked up at him softly. "And I know how you feel about her, so I figured it only natural that you would know about.. Naked girls with Kikyo." Kagome explained hiding under fallen white hair.
'When did life get so confusing?' Lips drawn in a tight line, he began to trace pictures in the dirt. Kikyo... was a difficult subject. And it was history! So why did he still miss her? And why did he care so much about protecting Kagome, even going to the point of risking his own neck when Kagome herself was the danger to his health? "Well," he snapped, "whether I did or not is none of your business! There's a difference between looking and touching... and when I said 'felt' I mean that I'd felt them when I was carrying you around." He shook his head, his black hair falling into place. It felt nice, now that she'd worked all the tangles out. If only she could do that when he was in his old body! "My robes aren't that thick, you know. . . ."
Kagome let out a small 'oh' and released her nails, before sighing. "I know it's non of my business, that's why I kept trying to change the subject." Kagome reminded with just a little bit of tart. "Besides! I don't care about what you may have or may not have done with her!" Kagome protested then gritted her teeth. Or rather her fangs, suddenly Kagome noticed that the cut on the lip really had healed. Kagome then looked up at him sharply. "Maybe I shouldn't ride you so much any more..." Kagome said softly, not even realizing how sick that sounded.
Inuyasha did, and he smiled; just a little. "If you didn't, we'd never get places as fast as we do now," he wisely pointed out. "Then we wouldn't have gotten to the spring and switched bodies." Kagome pointed out wisely.
"True, instead we might still be trying to find last week's piece of the jewel, or the one before that," he retorted.
Kagome stuck her nose up, very Inuyasha style. "Keh!" She imitated then turned back to him with a bright smile. "I did that good! didn't I?" Kagome asked then looked around her ears pricking and moving forward. "Did you hear that?"
Blandly staring at Kagome, he replied no. It felt like he had cloth stuck in his ears. "It was probably just a rodent or something."
"It smells like... Copper." Kagome whispered her nostrils flaring.
"Copper?" he repeated. He tried to imagine himself in his own body. His gaze was piercing as he stared at her. Even at this body, Inuyasha automatically reached for his sword. "You mean it smells like blood?"
Kagome nodded and looked down at her waist where the hilt of the sword was. "It smells the way your lips smelt a minute ago, and tasted." Kagome said passing her tongue over them now and looking up at Inuyasha with a different look then before. "They taste sweet now. Not like copper." Kagome said then shook her head and her ears perked to the right. "It's coming!"
"Shit," he swore. He handed Tesusaiga back to Kagome. "You take it. I might not be able to use it in this form." When she gave him an odd look, he pressed the hilt into her hands. "It's not like you haven't helped me kill demons before. Hold it like this. Besides, it might just be a bleeding animal or something.... Although if it tasted like my blood, probably not." He picked up her bow and strung it after a second or two.