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Chapter 7!
'Look on the bright side, Kagome,' She thought to herself. 'The bath could've gone MUCH worse. All of your shampoo could've been spilt over the bathroom floor while you and Inuyasha fought over who bathes who and how, before you both were pushed into the tub by mom.' Kagome sighed and continued rubbing her fluffy puppy ears dry with her towel.
"Meow..." Kagome's ears perked under the fluffy comfort of the towel, and Kagome looked up, her yellow eyes narrowing. "Say, Inuyasha," Kagome began watching him playing with Boyu her cat, "how is it that he is still so playful with you?" Kagome questioned, slightly puzzled by this. Sure, he was playful with her too, but it was just different somehow with Inuyasha and it amazed her that it was still like that, even though they were in each others bodies.
He glanced up at Kagome, then back down to the cat. "I have no idea. Who can say how a cat thinks?" He grinned. "Maybe your cat's part demon, like me." Okay, he realized afterward, yeah, not a good joke, not even a good conversation starter, but he was a little out of it. She had "sat" him in the bathtub! It wasn't his fault that his hand had accidentally touched something it shouldn't have when he got pushed into the bathtub! He sighed, rolling over on Kagome's bead, her pet sitting on his stomach. "I wonder how Kaede's doing with that damn riddle. . . ."
"Probably as well as we are," Kagome said and paused to look down at the note in her lap, with the riddle scribbled on it. "Only less wet." Kagome muttered as a droplet fell from her nose onto the paper. "I can't believe you flooded the bathroom." Kagome muttered under her breath throwing him a slashing look, that got the cat nervous enough to hide under Inuyasha's skirt.
"That was not my fault," he growled. At least she wasn't bringing up how he tried to shake himself off when he got out the bath tub! He glanced down at the paper, even though it was rather upside down to him. "I wish we had Ryoga with us. Too bad he disappeared after passing out. He was a drunken pervert, sure, but I could've beaten more information out of him!"
Kagome glanced at him. "Would that be before or after he examined my legs again?" Kagome asked shaking her head at Inuyasha. "It's a shame really." She sighed and leaned back against the headboard of her bed. She still couldn't believe that it had twitched in the bath... Who would've known that it would twitch after coming in contact with water... Kagome had never seen anything like it...And to TWITCH yet... Kagome closed her tightly trying to get the image and feel out of her head. She was never going to be able to look at Inuyasha the same way again, she just knew it.
Who would've known Inuyasha's nose moved like that anyway? It was weird, Kagome shook her head and rubbed her nose.
"It's not my fault that you have slower reflexes than I do! If I was in my body, I never would have let him get that close to you! Why didn't you stop him if you were so worried about him lookin' at ya!" he yelled. He pulled the cat out from under his shirt and stroked the pet. "And don't yell, Kagome. You'll scare Boyu."
Kagome opened one eye and glared at Inuyasha. "I was too deep in shock after having my butt caressed by his pig paw!" Kagome shot back, glad that this body didn't blush as easily as hers did. Otherwise, she might look around the same color shade as Inuyasha did now. Kagome then glared down at the purring Boyu. "Ungrateful cat." Kagome muttered then looked back down at the riddle. "We really should've tried jumping into that spring a few more times, maybe if we had jumped in together a third time, it would've switched us back?" Kagome thought out loud. "Then again, the water was getting pretty cold and it was late."
Inuyasha shrugged. "Well, at least we know the line about drowning doesn't mean we have to do climb out of the spring together. And I don't think the first line really helps us at all. I think that was just that damn pig trying to piss us of." He paused, trying not the think about how comfortable it felt to be on Kagome's bed. "I can't help but wonder what it means about honesty though. Do they mean real honesty?...." He let the thought dangle.
Kagome quirked her brow at him. "Inuyasha," Kagome stated matter-of-factly, "you look nervous."
"I am not!" he protested. He actually sulked. "I'm never nervous! I'm a half-demon: we don't get all..." He stopped when he saw that her amused expression was turning volatile. He whistled, trying to look like he hadn't just been about to insult her. "So... how about that weather?"
Kagome huffed and shook her head. Giving up on the riddle, Kagome placed the note on the bed and pulled the towel around her long silver hair before examining herself in the mirror. I want my old body back, she thought to herself before turning to Inuyasha and wondering why it felt so weird seeing him as herself sprawled on the bed with Boyu. "The weather is fine, Inuyasha. A clear night. Perfect for a new moon." She sighed and sat down on her chair cross-legged.
As if on cue, Inuyasha's grandfather barged through the door. "I found it!! The cure you've been looking for! Dried up Oni boils!"
"Are you trying to mock me?" When the door barged in, cat on his chest or no, he sprang up to defend Kagome. When he saw it who was, he groaned and slammed the door back shut before he the old man could throw something or other on them. "We don't need Oni boils! We don't need eye of newt, or conch shells or talismans or anything else! We need to figure out a riddle!" He leaned against the door, hoping he wouldn't return and force them to take another bath. He also hoped the grandfather didn't decide to use the window.
Kagome blinked at Inuyasha and tried to warn him when she saw her grandfather step into action, but it was too late.
"Ah! Be gone demon!" He yelled tossing dried Oni boils onto Inuyasha and then staring blankly when they didn't work. "Hm, that should've worked. Maybe we should try a hot bath with some wolf tongues and lizard saliva... Yes... yes that would do... It will return the karma and send you each to your own body while clearing up zits..." He didn't even notice the odd looks he was getting while he ranted on.
"Inuyasha, maybe we should get a little more pro-active with turning back into our previous selves, we can't continue like this. What if... We tried to knock into each other? Like, ran real fast and then our souls would leap out into the rightful body? We would be on even ground and honest with each other wanting our souls back in the right body?" Kagome asked then sliced her grandfather an odd look.
"Grandpa," Kagome began in Inuyasha's irritated voice. "We are not rubbing demon waste on our skins."
He disdainfully picked off the balls one by one and threw them into the garbage can. His eyes lit up when he heard the idea. He didn't see a reason for it not to work. He braced his foot against the wall to give himself an extra bit of push. "All right! You ready?"
Kagome bit down on her lip and nodded moving over to the opposite wall. The room was small, but had just enough space for them to be able to lunge at each other. "Here goes nothing!" Kagome cried before pushing off of the wall and rushing to meet Inuyasha's advancing self.
Pushing himself off the wall, he was just about to hit Kagome when he realized what a bad idea this was, because she was still in demon form and wouldn't be able to control.... Then they struck each other. Inuyasha flew against the bed, and heard something snap. Pain flared up and down his back. He slowly moved his head, wanting to make sure that he snap had not been anything important. Nope.. he could still move his toes. The stars didn't want to be leaving his vision though. He wearily stood up, and found his back sore. It probably needed to be realigned or something. He rubbed it, and stated the painfully obvious,. which hurt about as much as his body. "It didn't work."
"Urgh." Kagome muttered, "You think?" She asked testily, happy to find out that though she was sure her own body once she regained it would be sore and in pain, this one for now spared her of it. "Eh, Inuyasha. I am not sure how we managed this, I guess from the force of it all, but would you please get off of me?" Kagome asked then blinked when she realized her bangs were now black, must be the new moon being out and all. "Oh, and Inuyasha. Where is Boyu?" Kagome asked ignored the dumbfounded look her grandfather was throwing them before yelling something about them being in bed together and running off to get her mother while Souta stood in the door way watching them wide eyed.
His face erupting in a blush, he got off the bed to actually stand up, wishing that Kagome's grandfather would stop yelling. Inuyasha was developing a headache. He looked around for the cat, and found it hiding behind the night stand. The cat was scared, but was unharmed. If only Inuyasha could say the same. He bent over backwards, feeling his back crack back to where it was supposed to be. "Much better. Okay, so running into people doesn't work. Any other ideas?"
Kagome thought about it. "What if I took a bath and you jumped in again?" Kagome asked then glared at Souta. "GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!" Kagome shouted, the boy threw Inuyasha a 'how do you put up with her?' look and ran off screaming something about how she was much more scarier in her old body then she is now. Sighing, Kagome leaned back against the pillow and fixed her robes about her. "You better help with the thinking here too you know..." Kagome said and idly without thinking about it, picked up a nail file.
He sighed, and scratched his head, where his ears would have been, as he reflected on the riddle. "I don't know, Kagome. Personally, I think it's something to do with the honesty. Damn it, I wish that riddles were easier to understand! How come they have to be so metaphorical!" Still bent over backwards, he looked at his position. "I never realized your body was so... bendy."
"You know, since we are suppose to be honest and all that, maybe you are at fault. Jumping in without your lecherous sneaky spying on me bathing attempts in mind." Kagome said in reply to his 'honesty' comment and then glared feeling an odd quirk in her eye start up as she watched him. "I- Inuyasha! Don't do that!" Kagome yelled then stopped still for a moment and watched Inuyasha with deadly calm. "Inuyasha," Kagome began gulping down. "Why do I feel a flutter in my stomach?" Kagome asked hoping Inuyasha's body wasn't approving of her own body's bending. Oh god... Ewwwwwww!!!! "I want back in my body now!!"
"I am helping," he protested, standing back up and jumping beside Kagome on the bed. "Hmm.... Well, it says that honesty can break the spell. Do you think it would work if we told each other a secret?" he inquired, before rubbing his chin and sighing. "I find it a more peculiar problem of why the spring made us change bodies. I mean, there are love springs, sure, and those things are a pain in the butt! And there are springs where the waters are poisonous, but I've never heard of something like this from happening before!"
Kagome blinked at him. At least he didn't notice her near nervous break down. "Inuyasha, you are standing like a perched cat on my bed." Kagome pointed out then blinked. "Love springs?" Kagome asked then huffed. "What secret do you have that I could possibly be interested in?"
He sputtered: "Wha? Well, none!" He could feel his face go warm. "At least I... I... You asked me for an idea and I gave you one!" he finally answered.
Kagome narrowed her eyes at him and leaned forward. "I have a feeling you are lying. Tell me, or I... I..." Kagome thought about it, her mean streak wasn't as mean as she thought when she drew a blank before sputtering out, "I'll shave your legs, give you a bikini wax and a full facial treatment!"
"Whatever," Inuyasha said, flopping back on the bed, his hands bracing his head. The cat ran up and pounced on his stomach, earning a smile from him. He knew he couldn't tell Kagome the secret he really had! If he did, then she might just do worse than shaving his legs! Absentmindedly, Inuyasha wondered if she meant shave the legs on Kagome's body or Inuyasha's body. If she meant his body, she might as well go ahead and do it! Nobody saw his legs under his red robes, anyway! he searched his mind for another little grain of truth, in case this really was the way to beat the spell. He turned away from Kagome. "Ithoughtthatitwasactuallykindofcutehowyouaskdmetoalwaysprotectyouinreturnfo ryoutellingmehowtousemyfather'ssword!"
Kagome blinked. It took her a few moments of sitting back and staring at her trash can to decipher Inuyasha's statement he said it in such a rush of breath. But when she figured it out, without much thought because she was too giddy and her mind was racing, Kagome flopped forward on top of Inuyasha, Boyu escaping by the nick of his whisker as Kagome pinned Inuyasha down. "Then why were you so difficult about it??" Kagome asked then smiled down at him, her now human dark hair falling down, but alas the black hair wasn't her own but Inuyasha's human form. "Thank you." Kagome added.
Inuyasha forced himself to look at her. She really was kind of cute, for being headstrong, and vindictive and... and... He had never felt his heart beat this fast before. 'Stupid female body getting all emotional!' He stared up at her and gripped her arms, as if he were going to buck her off, but instead his fingertips brushed the tips of his hair. Her hair. His hair. Whatever! "I don't know," he finally answered. "And you're welcome, I suppose."
Kagome smiled triumphantly, the rolled off of him and laid beside him on her bed, her head laying on his shoulder. Or rather her old shoulder, and looked up at her ceiling, from the corner of her eye noticing that Souta has returned to stare from the door frame. "Hey, Inuyasha? Since we're being honest and all, I guess I ought to tell you, that I thought Sesshumaru was rather handsome." Kagome said figuring if honesty was the way to get their bodies back, might as well use it. "But I like you better." She added with a blush, though her masculine face hardened into a stubborn gaze.
He stared at her, as if seeing her in a whole new light. 'Being in a half human body really draws attention to her stubbornness,' he thought, his mind paralyzed from then on. He felt his breath become caught in his throat. He licked his dry lips. "I... I... um...." Then suddenly, his calmness broke. "You thought my brother, my brother who wanted you killed, was actually handsome?!" he bellowed. Still, there was a certain air of pride in his face from burning her words into his mind. "I like you better."
Kagome shrugged and turned her head to stare out of her window at the moon. "Well, yes. I mean sure I know he is pure evil and as evil as evil gets, he's bad news and he's your bad brother, but you have to admit that he is handsome, if however evil. That's why I would never go for someone like him." Kagome said, hoping that Inuyasha's thoughts would point out to him that that was just what he wanted to become... Like his older brother. But she didn't say that, instead she just lay there rather content and looked out and around her room. "It's nice.. like this, isn't it?" Kagome asked softly then heard Souta whistling. "Get out of my room!!" She yelled tossing a pillow at him, the earned a scream and shouts for her mother. Kagome sighed. "Mama's going to kill me. On the bright side, it's the weekend so Grandpa isn't making up any excuses about why I am not in school." She added babbling.
"You're in my body: you'll live through anything she can put you through," he said gently, pulling her back down on the bed. He rubbed his forehead, and stretched his arm so that when she lay back down it was under her neck. His head was still ringing from getting knocked about the room. "But it is nice like this," Inuyasha said, looking at the moon he'd so often cursed. He wished it could be like this every time they had a full moon. He raised an eyebrow. "Do you think we could do this every time I turn human. I mean, it's a lot safer here for us then it is back there."
Kagome made a small 'mm' sound and nodded cuddling close to her body and closing her eyes. Sure, it was weird she was cuddling up to herself after all. All of the sudden she was a boy, with boy things and as a girl trapped in a boy's body she missed her girl things, but somehow all of that evaded her now as they cuddled together both not quite daring to look at the other. On Kagome's behalf, partly because of the feeling of her blood rush into her face a million miles per second. But even though the situation was something you could find only in a horror movie or sick and twisted comedy, after all: Trapped in someone else's body? And someone you liked yet? How would you be able to look at them again after you have peed in their body? It was a sweet moment, and Kagome was enjoying it. Enjoying it too much to let the disturbance of it get to her. "That would be nice." Kagome replied with a soft smile. "We'll just have to make sure Grandpa stops," Kagome paused to remove a ward label from her head, "putting these on us each time though."
He wasn't saying anything. He just nodded, and said nothing. Kagome smelled really good. He wrapped his other arm around her waist, completely forgetting, with his partially closed eyes and Kagome no longer wearing the robes, that she was in his body. Just... everything about the situation made him feel like he was holding Kagome. Her black hair, her scent, the softness of her skin, the way she sighed and the rhythm of her breath. He just wanted to hold her close and keep her safe from everything: even from Souta's prying eyes or her Grandfather's odd ideas.
Chapter 7!
'Look on the bright side, Kagome,' She thought to herself. 'The bath could've gone MUCH worse. All of your shampoo could've been spilt over the bathroom floor while you and Inuyasha fought over who bathes who and how, before you both were pushed into the tub by mom.' Kagome sighed and continued rubbing her fluffy puppy ears dry with her towel.
"Meow..." Kagome's ears perked under the fluffy comfort of the towel, and Kagome looked up, her yellow eyes narrowing. "Say, Inuyasha," Kagome began watching him playing with Boyu her cat, "how is it that he is still so playful with you?" Kagome questioned, slightly puzzled by this. Sure, he was playful with her too, but it was just different somehow with Inuyasha and it amazed her that it was still like that, even though they were in each others bodies.
He glanced up at Kagome, then back down to the cat. "I have no idea. Who can say how a cat thinks?" He grinned. "Maybe your cat's part demon, like me." Okay, he realized afterward, yeah, not a good joke, not even a good conversation starter, but he was a little out of it. She had "sat" him in the bathtub! It wasn't his fault that his hand had accidentally touched something it shouldn't have when he got pushed into the bathtub! He sighed, rolling over on Kagome's bead, her pet sitting on his stomach. "I wonder how Kaede's doing with that damn riddle. . . ."
"Probably as well as we are," Kagome said and paused to look down at the note in her lap, with the riddle scribbled on it. "Only less wet." Kagome muttered as a droplet fell from her nose onto the paper. "I can't believe you flooded the bathroom." Kagome muttered under her breath throwing him a slashing look, that got the cat nervous enough to hide under Inuyasha's skirt.
"That was not my fault," he growled. At least she wasn't bringing up how he tried to shake himself off when he got out the bath tub! He glanced down at the paper, even though it was rather upside down to him. "I wish we had Ryoga with us. Too bad he disappeared after passing out. He was a drunken pervert, sure, but I could've beaten more information out of him!"
Kagome glanced at him. "Would that be before or after he examined my legs again?" Kagome asked shaking her head at Inuyasha. "It's a shame really." She sighed and leaned back against the headboard of her bed. She still couldn't believe that it had twitched in the bath... Who would've known that it would twitch after coming in contact with water... Kagome had never seen anything like it...And to TWITCH yet... Kagome closed her tightly trying to get the image and feel out of her head. She was never going to be able to look at Inuyasha the same way again, she just knew it.
Who would've known Inuyasha's nose moved like that anyway? It was weird, Kagome shook her head and rubbed her nose.
"It's not my fault that you have slower reflexes than I do! If I was in my body, I never would have let him get that close to you! Why didn't you stop him if you were so worried about him lookin' at ya!" he yelled. He pulled the cat out from under his shirt and stroked the pet. "And don't yell, Kagome. You'll scare Boyu."
Kagome opened one eye and glared at Inuyasha. "I was too deep in shock after having my butt caressed by his pig paw!" Kagome shot back, glad that this body didn't blush as easily as hers did. Otherwise, she might look around the same color shade as Inuyasha did now. Kagome then glared down at the purring Boyu. "Ungrateful cat." Kagome muttered then looked back down at the riddle. "We really should've tried jumping into that spring a few more times, maybe if we had jumped in together a third time, it would've switched us back?" Kagome thought out loud. "Then again, the water was getting pretty cold and it was late."
Inuyasha shrugged. "Well, at least we know the line about drowning doesn't mean we have to do climb out of the spring together. And I don't think the first line really helps us at all. I think that was just that damn pig trying to piss us of." He paused, trying not the think about how comfortable it felt to be on Kagome's bed. "I can't help but wonder what it means about honesty though. Do they mean real honesty?...." He let the thought dangle.
Kagome quirked her brow at him. "Inuyasha," Kagome stated matter-of-factly, "you look nervous."
"I am not!" he protested. He actually sulked. "I'm never nervous! I'm a half-demon: we don't get all..." He stopped when he saw that her amused expression was turning volatile. He whistled, trying to look like he hadn't just been about to insult her. "So... how about that weather?"
Kagome huffed and shook her head. Giving up on the riddle, Kagome placed the note on the bed and pulled the towel around her long silver hair before examining herself in the mirror. I want my old body back, she thought to herself before turning to Inuyasha and wondering why it felt so weird seeing him as herself sprawled on the bed with Boyu. "The weather is fine, Inuyasha. A clear night. Perfect for a new moon." She sighed and sat down on her chair cross-legged.
As if on cue, Inuyasha's grandfather barged through the door. "I found it!! The cure you've been looking for! Dried up Oni boils!"
"Are you trying to mock me?" When the door barged in, cat on his chest or no, he sprang up to defend Kagome. When he saw it who was, he groaned and slammed the door back shut before he the old man could throw something or other on them. "We don't need Oni boils! We don't need eye of newt, or conch shells or talismans or anything else! We need to figure out a riddle!" He leaned against the door, hoping he wouldn't return and force them to take another bath. He also hoped the grandfather didn't decide to use the window.
Kagome blinked at Inuyasha and tried to warn him when she saw her grandfather step into action, but it was too late.
"Ah! Be gone demon!" He yelled tossing dried Oni boils onto Inuyasha and then staring blankly when they didn't work. "Hm, that should've worked. Maybe we should try a hot bath with some wolf tongues and lizard saliva... Yes... yes that would do... It will return the karma and send you each to your own body while clearing up zits..." He didn't even notice the odd looks he was getting while he ranted on.
"Inuyasha, maybe we should get a little more pro-active with turning back into our previous selves, we can't continue like this. What if... We tried to knock into each other? Like, ran real fast and then our souls would leap out into the rightful body? We would be on even ground and honest with each other wanting our souls back in the right body?" Kagome asked then sliced her grandfather an odd look.
"Grandpa," Kagome began in Inuyasha's irritated voice. "We are not rubbing demon waste on our skins."
He disdainfully picked off the balls one by one and threw them into the garbage can. His eyes lit up when he heard the idea. He didn't see a reason for it not to work. He braced his foot against the wall to give himself an extra bit of push. "All right! You ready?"
Kagome bit down on her lip and nodded moving over to the opposite wall. The room was small, but had just enough space for them to be able to lunge at each other. "Here goes nothing!" Kagome cried before pushing off of the wall and rushing to meet Inuyasha's advancing self.
Pushing himself off the wall, he was just about to hit Kagome when he realized what a bad idea this was, because she was still in demon form and wouldn't be able to control.... Then they struck each other. Inuyasha flew against the bed, and heard something snap. Pain flared up and down his back. He slowly moved his head, wanting to make sure that he snap had not been anything important. Nope.. he could still move his toes. The stars didn't want to be leaving his vision though. He wearily stood up, and found his back sore. It probably needed to be realigned or something. He rubbed it, and stated the painfully obvious,. which hurt about as much as his body. "It didn't work."
"Urgh." Kagome muttered, "You think?" She asked testily, happy to find out that though she was sure her own body once she regained it would be sore and in pain, this one for now spared her of it. "Eh, Inuyasha. I am not sure how we managed this, I guess from the force of it all, but would you please get off of me?" Kagome asked then blinked when she realized her bangs were now black, must be the new moon being out and all. "Oh, and Inuyasha. Where is Boyu?" Kagome asked ignored the dumbfounded look her grandfather was throwing them before yelling something about them being in bed together and running off to get her mother while Souta stood in the door way watching them wide eyed.
His face erupting in a blush, he got off the bed to actually stand up, wishing that Kagome's grandfather would stop yelling. Inuyasha was developing a headache. He looked around for the cat, and found it hiding behind the night stand. The cat was scared, but was unharmed. If only Inuyasha could say the same. He bent over backwards, feeling his back crack back to where it was supposed to be. "Much better. Okay, so running into people doesn't work. Any other ideas?"
Kagome thought about it. "What if I took a bath and you jumped in again?" Kagome asked then glared at Souta. "GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!" Kagome shouted, the boy threw Inuyasha a 'how do you put up with her?' look and ran off screaming something about how she was much more scarier in her old body then she is now. Sighing, Kagome leaned back against the pillow and fixed her robes about her. "You better help with the thinking here too you know..." Kagome said and idly without thinking about it, picked up a nail file.
He sighed, and scratched his head, where his ears would have been, as he reflected on the riddle. "I don't know, Kagome. Personally, I think it's something to do with the honesty. Damn it, I wish that riddles were easier to understand! How come they have to be so metaphorical!" Still bent over backwards, he looked at his position. "I never realized your body was so... bendy."
"You know, since we are suppose to be honest and all that, maybe you are at fault. Jumping in without your lecherous sneaky spying on me bathing attempts in mind." Kagome said in reply to his 'honesty' comment and then glared feeling an odd quirk in her eye start up as she watched him. "I- Inuyasha! Don't do that!" Kagome yelled then stopped still for a moment and watched Inuyasha with deadly calm. "Inuyasha," Kagome began gulping down. "Why do I feel a flutter in my stomach?" Kagome asked hoping Inuyasha's body wasn't approving of her own body's bending. Oh god... Ewwwwwww!!!! "I want back in my body now!!"
"I am helping," he protested, standing back up and jumping beside Kagome on the bed. "Hmm.... Well, it says that honesty can break the spell. Do you think it would work if we told each other a secret?" he inquired, before rubbing his chin and sighing. "I find it a more peculiar problem of why the spring made us change bodies. I mean, there are love springs, sure, and those things are a pain in the butt! And there are springs where the waters are poisonous, but I've never heard of something like this from happening before!"
Kagome blinked at him. At least he didn't notice her near nervous break down. "Inuyasha, you are standing like a perched cat on my bed." Kagome pointed out then blinked. "Love springs?" Kagome asked then huffed. "What secret do you have that I could possibly be interested in?"
He sputtered: "Wha? Well, none!" He could feel his face go warm. "At least I... I... You asked me for an idea and I gave you one!" he finally answered.
Kagome narrowed her eyes at him and leaned forward. "I have a feeling you are lying. Tell me, or I... I..." Kagome thought about it, her mean streak wasn't as mean as she thought when she drew a blank before sputtering out, "I'll shave your legs, give you a bikini wax and a full facial treatment!"
"Whatever," Inuyasha said, flopping back on the bed, his hands bracing his head. The cat ran up and pounced on his stomach, earning a smile from him. He knew he couldn't tell Kagome the secret he really had! If he did, then she might just do worse than shaving his legs! Absentmindedly, Inuyasha wondered if she meant shave the legs on Kagome's body or Inuyasha's body. If she meant his body, she might as well go ahead and do it! Nobody saw his legs under his red robes, anyway! he searched his mind for another little grain of truth, in case this really was the way to beat the spell. He turned away from Kagome. "Ithoughtthatitwasactuallykindofcutehowyouaskdmetoalwaysprotectyouinreturnfo ryoutellingmehowtousemyfather'ssword!"
Kagome blinked. It took her a few moments of sitting back and staring at her trash can to decipher Inuyasha's statement he said it in such a rush of breath. But when she figured it out, without much thought because she was too giddy and her mind was racing, Kagome flopped forward on top of Inuyasha, Boyu escaping by the nick of his whisker as Kagome pinned Inuyasha down. "Then why were you so difficult about it??" Kagome asked then smiled down at him, her now human dark hair falling down, but alas the black hair wasn't her own but Inuyasha's human form. "Thank you." Kagome added.
Inuyasha forced himself to look at her. She really was kind of cute, for being headstrong, and vindictive and... and... He had never felt his heart beat this fast before. 'Stupid female body getting all emotional!' He stared up at her and gripped her arms, as if he were going to buck her off, but instead his fingertips brushed the tips of his hair. Her hair. His hair. Whatever! "I don't know," he finally answered. "And you're welcome, I suppose."
Kagome smiled triumphantly, the rolled off of him and laid beside him on her bed, her head laying on his shoulder. Or rather her old shoulder, and looked up at her ceiling, from the corner of her eye noticing that Souta has returned to stare from the door frame. "Hey, Inuyasha? Since we're being honest and all, I guess I ought to tell you, that I thought Sesshumaru was rather handsome." Kagome said figuring if honesty was the way to get their bodies back, might as well use it. "But I like you better." She added with a blush, though her masculine face hardened into a stubborn gaze.
He stared at her, as if seeing her in a whole new light. 'Being in a half human body really draws attention to her stubbornness,' he thought, his mind paralyzed from then on. He felt his breath become caught in his throat. He licked his dry lips. "I... I... um...." Then suddenly, his calmness broke. "You thought my brother, my brother who wanted you killed, was actually handsome?!" he bellowed. Still, there was a certain air of pride in his face from burning her words into his mind. "I like you better."
Kagome shrugged and turned her head to stare out of her window at the moon. "Well, yes. I mean sure I know he is pure evil and as evil as evil gets, he's bad news and he's your bad brother, but you have to admit that he is handsome, if however evil. That's why I would never go for someone like him." Kagome said, hoping that Inuyasha's thoughts would point out to him that that was just what he wanted to become... Like his older brother. But she didn't say that, instead she just lay there rather content and looked out and around her room. "It's nice.. like this, isn't it?" Kagome asked softly then heard Souta whistling. "Get out of my room!!" She yelled tossing a pillow at him, the earned a scream and shouts for her mother. Kagome sighed. "Mama's going to kill me. On the bright side, it's the weekend so Grandpa isn't making up any excuses about why I am not in school." She added babbling.
"You're in my body: you'll live through anything she can put you through," he said gently, pulling her back down on the bed. He rubbed his forehead, and stretched his arm so that when she lay back down it was under her neck. His head was still ringing from getting knocked about the room. "But it is nice like this," Inuyasha said, looking at the moon he'd so often cursed. He wished it could be like this every time they had a full moon. He raised an eyebrow. "Do you think we could do this every time I turn human. I mean, it's a lot safer here for us then it is back there."
Kagome made a small 'mm' sound and nodded cuddling close to her body and closing her eyes. Sure, it was weird she was cuddling up to herself after all. All of the sudden she was a boy, with boy things and as a girl trapped in a boy's body she missed her girl things, but somehow all of that evaded her now as they cuddled together both not quite daring to look at the other. On Kagome's behalf, partly because of the feeling of her blood rush into her face a million miles per second. But even though the situation was something you could find only in a horror movie or sick and twisted comedy, after all: Trapped in someone else's body? And someone you liked yet? How would you be able to look at them again after you have peed in their body? It was a sweet moment, and Kagome was enjoying it. Enjoying it too much to let the disturbance of it get to her. "That would be nice." Kagome replied with a soft smile. "We'll just have to make sure Grandpa stops," Kagome paused to remove a ward label from her head, "putting these on us each time though."
He wasn't saying anything. He just nodded, and said nothing. Kagome smelled really good. He wrapped his other arm around her waist, completely forgetting, with his partially closed eyes and Kagome no longer wearing the robes, that she was in his body. Just... everything about the situation made him feel like he was holding Kagome. Her black hair, her scent, the softness of her skin, the way she sighed and the rhythm of her breath. He just wanted to hold her close and keep her safe from everything: even from Souta's prying eyes or her Grandfather's odd ideas.