AN: Dang! Lol Everybody got what was coming next! I hope we're not that
obvious in all our surprises! Hm. a call of nature scene.. It crossed my
mind once or twice. Okay, a lot more than once or twice, but the ideas we
have planned are gonna make up for the avoidance of a washroom scene, we
promise! Fireash. I blame all the comedy on Emmie. *nods* Three-Legged
Dog, I wish I could say all the fluff was mine. *blink* Emmie, there's a
sexual innuendo in that name, isn't there? Oy, I'm slow today! Oh well.
^_^ No, actually, the guy behind the counter wasn't Hojo, just a nameless
bishounen. Ice cream shops always have to have nameless cute boys! Lei:
Happy Belated Birthday! And, well, it was better than watching Kagome's
body try and fight with a transformed Tetsusaiga, no? Besides: it's a
comedy! They're supposed to have bad ideas! (Real Rosie Gamgee, you might
want to breathe!) My excuse for the typos is we got carried away with the
comedy? And I also want ice cream.
And now, boils and ghouls, Happy Halloween, and enjoy more ice cream, more
crazy girls, a pun or two, and more of the poor, poor Inuyasha beating!
Suddenly there were three faces in Inuyasha's and foreign hands were hugging her. He laughed when one of them touched a ticklish spot and made a point to tickle Kagome once she had her old body back.
"Um. hello," he uncertainly greeted, looking at Kagome for some sort of help. They appeared to be friends, and they weren't attacking him, so Inuyasha had no idea as to what to do.
Kagome stared and felt her heart just drop and hit the floor. Perfect. Great. Kagome allowed Inuyasha's head to hit the table. It's not like it would leave a mark or anything- OW! Dammit, Kagome forgot he, she, was in human form. It did hurt! Kagome looked up at her friends swooning over her, saying how great it is to see her healthy and well again, but then Ayumi glanced at her.
"Kagome, who's the boy?" Yuka asked.
His jaw just hung open for a second. What was he supposed to say? Telling them the truth was out of the question. "Um, this is. Inuyasha." Only then did he wonder if maybe that would be an odd name for a boy in Kagome's times. Oh well! If they asked, he'd say it was a nickname.
Uninvited as they were, they squeezed into the table. One of the girls poked Kagome's. poked the arm of the male's body, feeling for muscle. Finding what was more than adequate, she then looked at the female body. "He's a hunk! He's even better looking than Hojo! Is he your boyfriend?" Eri asked.
"Don't be silly! Hojo's her boyfriend!" Inuyasha felt his heart plummet at this unforeseen news. The girl who had spoken gasped. "You're not two- timing Hojo, are you?" Ayumi demanded.
Kagome felt herself groan. This... Was a nightmare. Maybe if she pinched herself real hard... Yeah. This was a nightmare. Were her cheeks turning red? Kagome wondered then looked over at her body, whose cheeks were incidentally turning red as well. Horrible, horrible nightmare. She was never going to bathe in Inuyasha's world again. It was just too complicated, what between Miroku's spying and switching bodies... Why did they bring Hojo into this? Kagome let her head thump against the table again.
The pain not bothering her this time as much as the fact that it didn't wake her from this nightmare. "Eh, I-Kagome we need to be going." Kagome tried, she had to make a narrow escape.
"You can't leave me like this!" he hissed, the three girls looking between them expectantly. When he saw that she was insistent to leave, Inuyasha knew he had to make her stop. Fine, she wouldn't listen to help, then she'd have to listen to blackmail! He coughed. "Actually, I never dated Hojo. I don't like him at all. I'm desperately in love with Inuyasha. Who is soooo much more stronger, and better looking, and stronger than Hojo could ever be!"
Kagome narrowed her eyes at Inuyasha. 'Not this again...' She thought miserably, wondering how it was that even in her own body, Inuyasha managed to be a jerk. Worst was, he didn't realize how he was playing into their hands... After their conversations... Oh, she was going to have a lot of explaining to do.
"Weren't you hooked up with Kouga?" Kagome asked, ignoring the looks her friends were throwing between them.
"So this is the boyfriend..." Eri commented.
"The one with the dangerous brother..." Yuka added.
"Yeah but he's cute..." Ayumi concluded.
"What about Hojo?" Eri asked.
"Well, Kagome is talking about him openly, so maybe he knows..." Ayumi thought aloud.
"Does Hojo know about him?" Yuka wondered.
The fluttering murmurs were really getting on Kagome's nerves. Since when was she such a gossip dish? Kagome glanced under the table looking through all the feet for Inuyasha's. She was going to make sure his shin got in the way of her foot.
"Kouga?" he snorted. "That dog! He. ow!" He reached under the table and rubbed his leg, glaring at her. Luckily, the thought he was rubbing Kagome's leg rather than his own didn't cross his mind, otherwise he might have started wishing he was still wearing her skirt. Fine, if Kagome wanted war, then war she'd get!
He leaned on the table. "No, Hojo doesn't know about him, and I want to keep it that way until I can break it to him. I'm sure that loosing a gorgeous gal like me is going to be hard on the poor guy! But if you really wanted to know why I love Inuyasha so much, it's because a demon in the sack!"
Kagome stared at Inuyasha. Her mouth fallen open.
He was dead.
Standing up and slamming her hands down on the table with enough force to cause the whole thing to rattle and for people to turn and look. Kagome glared at him. "Kagome, come on. We better go." Kagome said grabbing Inuyasha's hand and pulling her up.
She could see the startled look on her friend's face and sighed, this was the worst day of her life. She really hated Inuyasha right about now. "Lets just SIT and explain." Kagome said and watched Inuyasha, in her body hit the chair with a thud. "Careful you don't slip while you SIT." Kagome repeated, then watched her body crash even harder. "K-A-G-O-M-E," She spaced out reminding him whose body he was in, "Maybe you should just SIT, because if you SIT, you won't keep hurting yourself, so just SIT - And feel better." She ended with a dazzling smile then looked at her friends apologetically. "I'm sorry, she's still sick and on a lot of cough medicine." She tried her best to explain Inuyasha's horrid behavior in her form, as well as pull of the prince charming act. While she was in his form.
Her friends stared up in wonder and disbelief but then looked sympathetically over at Kagome.
"Awwww... Kagome! You really are sick! Is there anything we can do for you?" Ayumi asked.
"Careful not to get up too fast!" Eri added.
"You aren't infectious are you?" Yuka questioned.
"Why did you go out in the first place?" Ayumi demanded.
"Dont worry, we won't tell Hojo- though you were mean!" Yuka promised.
"Who's Kouga?" Eri mused.
"Kagome, are you okay? You look pale."Ayumi commented.
"Maybe we should get you to a doctor?" All three asked.
Kagome smiled and took her seat again. Maybe Inuyasha would understand this time. "Oh, don't worry. She's fine. It's not like she's going to be jumping down any well ANY time soon." Kagome said, getting weird looks from her friends but hoping her meaning was clear to Inuyasha. "Kagome, relax, SIT."
His head was starting to spin. "Stop that," he managed to get out before he was attacked by the mothering girls. He wasn't sure which was worse: getting glomped by three teenagers or being 'sat' all those times. And then he knew that he was dead. But if he was going to go, then, dammit, he might as well go with style! "You worry about me too much, Inuyasha. Does that mean you love me too?"
Kagome grinned. Her BEST imitation of Inuyasha ever. Shippo would be proud of her for it too. "Feh."
Inuyasha'a eyes started to fill up with tears and he sniffled loudly. Kagome's friends had quieted themselves to watch the play unfold. His face scrunched up: Kagome's female body was ready to bust into tears? "Feh? I pour my heart out to you and all you can say is 'feh'? Whatever happened to your idea of being completely and totally honest with each other? Did those rules apply to only me?" He was near hysterics now, while inside he was nearly peeing himself laughing. Stupid female mortal emotions!
Kagome blinked. What the-? "Oye... You really feeling okay?" Kagome asked worried that she might have sat him one too many times when he started crying. "Wait, but you said you loved me." Kagome said wondering why only NOW did his heart start pounding.
"That was just me goofing off." Somehow his real feelings felt easier to admit in Kagome's body. Which was all the more odd given the fact that he was saying them to himself. "But I, I do find you attractive, K. Inuyasha."
The lead girl leaned over. "Did you her the heard 'k' sound? I bet that Kagome was going to call him 'koi' before she remembered that we're here." Ayumi whispered to the others.
"She was going to call him a fish?" Eri blinked.
The third girl just blinked, her voice quieter than her friends' as she stared at Inuyasha's human body. "I bet you he really is a demon in the sack." Yuka said simply.
Kagome leapt up and wagged an accusing finger at her. "W-What did you say?!?"
His mind jumped to a conclusion and he followed suit, standing up and crossing her arms over his chest, still not quite getting the stance right. "You heard me," he said snappishly. "Don't point at me. You said that you wanted honesty, so I'm sorry if you're disappointed or disgusted or something! But frankly. that's how I feel, okay?! And before go accusing me of anything else, this has absolutely nothing to do with. with what happened at the spring! I'm not a pervert like Miroku, so don't even think of grouping me with the likes of that womanizer!"
Kagome sat back down and looked thoughtful. "Sit down, we'll talk this ou- Oh! I'm sorry!" She quickly jumped and leaned over the table looking at herself on the floor. God, she was really "clumsy" tonight. "Okay, okay, you're right... I just... You caught me off guard... Can I buy you more ice- cream?" Yes. Bribing with food was the way to go. "Besides, I'd never group you with him..."
"Who's Miroku?" Ayumi asked suspiciously.
"Another one of Kagome-chan's friends I guess... Why would she be grouping herself with a womanizer?" Eri wondered aloud.
"Kagome likes boys, not girls... Does she?" Yuka murmured.
"What spring?" Ayumi questioned.
"What happened at that spring?" Eri added.
The quiet one still considered Inuyasha. "Hm. Demon in the sac." Yuka mulled over.
Inuyasha had heard more than enough of her chattering. What was he? A man or a mouse? Well, technically at the moment he was neither. He could defeat monsters to protect Kagome but her honor was endangered by chattering females? Of course, Inuyasha's statement had absolutely nothing to do with the present predicament.
"Yes, I like men. And I'll tell you about it later." Then she turned back to Kagome, who was suddenly very closer than she had been. He rubbed his sore nose, which had landed squarely on the table. Inuyasha had felt proud when he got called better looking than Hojo, but now he felt even better. At least the words about never getting grouped with the lecherous monk were from Kagome's own mouth! "No, I think. wanna split one? My brain is kind of. cold from the first one. Can brains really get cold from eating ice cream?" And at this questions there came whispers of how her condition must really be serious if she were asking such stupid questions.
Kagome smiled softly and nodded sympathetically. "Yeah," She said Inuyasha's dark eyebrows knotting together. "It's a brain freeze. Like when Shippo eats too much and then his stomach starts spinning? It's the same." Kagome explained patiently then looked in her purse, err. wallet. "Okay. What flavor do you want? Hey, I'm sorry about the nose." Kagome said tenderly. Thinking, that all in all, Inuyasha being an ass, wasn't too bad. Her friends didn't seem to mind too much.
Oh, how wrong she was.
"Kagome!" The girls called at once, pinning and circling her at the same time. "It's decided. We don't like the company you keep! Sure this guy here cares and is gorgeous-"
"A demon in the sac!" Yuka added. The other two glaring.
"But we don't like this! Womanizing people??? A spring? You're sick! What were you doing in a spring?"
"With a guy who is a demon in the sac!" The other two girls shared looks and glared at Yuka. Did she just get stuck on that point?
"Kagome! We demand to know what is going on with you! How sick are you? Why are you with these people? Is this a gang issue?" Ayumi questioned.
"Oh dear, what if it is?" Eri whispered.
"We can help! We'll hide her out, change her name, talk to her parents, the principle-" Ayumi consoled Eri.
"The police!" Eri added.
"Oh, Kagome! You lost child! We'll help you find your path!" They all vowed then looked Inuyasha over.
Questioning looks aside, they sighed. "You'll help won't you?"
"Are you really a demon in the sac?" The not-so-shy-anymore Yuka asked.
"Ah. I." Kagome felt her cheeks heat up. Why were her friends talking to her about being a demon in the sac? Or rather, to Inuyasha! And. Ok, her palms were sweaty. Looking at Inuyasha for an answer, all of the sudden she realized she didn't want to know it. But getting an image of Inuyasha's ears twitching. Kagome sat back down in a thud. "I dunno?" She squeaked out, sounding like a pre-pubescent teenage boy.
'These girls are crazy! But I bet Miroku would like the one with sex on the brain.' Inuyasha thought a moment. "Yes he is, and it was a healing spring. Inuyasha told me about, and it helped enough that I was able to come out and get some ice cream. Do you think that my mother would have let me come out if it weren't perfectly safe?"
Kagome arched her brow. Where was this coming from? "Uh, Kagome..." Kagome began.
One of her friends beat her to it. "What healing spring? You mean the spa?"
"No, it was just a spring," he mentally crossed his heart and hoped that Kagome hadn't told them as much about him as it seemed like. "It's near where Inuyasha lives. He's just visiting. And he's so sweet and nice and charming that I bet he wouldn't mind helping me back home, right Inuyasha?" he asked, squirming his way out of the table in an attempt to make a hasty exit.
"Oh, so NOW you want to go." Kagome muttered and stood up, smiling the most charming smile. Well, better make a good impression. "It was a pleasure meeting all of you! Kagome has told me so much about you! You're all nice! But I better get her home, she's sick." Kagome said managing to get out of the booth and reach a hand out to Inuyasha.
The girls sat there blinking as they watched them leave. "Wow. He's cute."
"He's... hot. And caring! Oh, he isn't half as bad as Kagome made him out to be!" Eri and Ayumi both said dreamily.
"He's a demon in the sac." Yuka stated.
He took the offered hand and refused to let go of it as they walked back toward Kagome's home. Once they were a safe distance from the ice cream parlor, he looked up at her. Inuyasha had spent far too long in the human body. He was starting to think that it was unfortunate the ears weren't there to pull. "So?" he demanded.
"I'm angry at you. Don't talk to me." Kagome said still holding his hand and turning her chin up. He was rude, made a joke of herself to her friends... But he liked her. And Kagome relished that fact. Smiling and giddy about it in the inside. 'Maybe that's the point of the riddle...' Looking at Inuyasha, Kagome understood it wasn't where her own brown eyes stared back at her. "Keh."
"I'll talk to you if I want! So what is it, Kagome? Are you disgusted at the idea that I find you attractive or something?" he demanded, wondering if he'd had her wrong all along. What if she was disgusted at the idea that he was a mutt? The Kagome in his dreams would never think that, but then, this was reality. Unfortunately. "What is it? Do you have to play the nice girl in front of your friends and then you're suddenly compelled to turn into a bitch when it's just us?"
Kagome stopped and glared at him. "I am not a bitch when it is just the two of us!" Kagome yelled, stuffing her hands into her pants pockets and quickly pulling them out. She didn't want her hands anywhere inside the pants, Kagome reminded herself. "You find me attractive?"
"Yes," he sighed. Inuyasha felt as prickly as a hedgehog, and just as defensive. "Why is it so hard for you to accept it?" He blinked his large brown eyes. "That's what it is. You don't believe me, do you? Fine, Kagome! Don't believe me then!" Inuyasha kept walking.
"Eh? What? No! Inuyasha!" Kagome shouted then stopped and crossed her arms over her flat chest. How she missed her own chest! "Inuyasha," Kagome said in a stern voice that just didn't have that female whip to it. "You're going in the wrong direction." Kagome told him, then turned on her heels to go in the right direction. "Besides, I do believe you. How would you otherwise explain your spying on me while I bathed?" Kagome asked hiding her satisfied smile. He found her attractive!
Spinning around in a huff, he ran to catch up with her. "Why do we always have to come back to that?" he demanded, thinking that if she brought it up again he would scream and pull his hair out in a fit of frustration. And he'd actually pull out his hair, not Kagome's, so that she felt some of his pain! "I wasn't spying on you! I just wanted to make sure that you wouldn't drown or anything!"
"Other times when I took baths and obviously didn't drown, were you spying on them too?" Kagome demanded to know with narrowed eyes. "Hey, Inuyasha, why are you blushing and biting my lips?"
"It wasn't spying," he repeated in a growl. He paused before he looked up at her. "Well? Aren't you going to say something else? Is a 'thank you, Inuyasha, that's a wonderful compliment that you gave me' too much to ask?" He huffed and buried his arms in he sleeves, the same way he would have if he were wearing his normal vestments. Inuyasha might have been prompting her for a thank you, but he was really hoping that she would tell him that she found him just as attractive.
"No, it isn't you're right. I'm sorry." Kagome said then took a deep, smug, breath. "It's nice to know you think I'm attractive. It makes me happy." Kagome said walking side by side. "You aren't that bad yourself. When you're acting nice of course."
Her words took him by surprise. He stared at her as they walked, and he felt his cheeks get warm again. It made her happy? He hadn't been expecting that. He made a mental note to try and be nicer to her. Inuyasha stared at the ground. "Would you ever have admitted this if we hadn't switched bodies?" he inquired gently.
"If you had. So I guess the question is, would you?" Kagome asked looking over at him questioning eyes. Since when had they gotten so serious? Why was her heart beating faster? Her palms were sweaty again!
Inuyasha shrugged, and was quiet. He wanted to try and find the right words before he spoke, so that he didn't accidentally insult her. "I thought it was kind of obvious, honestly," Inuyasha said, turning so that he could see her -or his- face.
Almost luckily, he didn't have very long to think that the whole situation was weird because he then tripped and fell over a crack in the pavement. "I hate your body," he growled into the cement.
Suddenly there were three faces in Inuyasha's and foreign hands were hugging her. He laughed when one of them touched a ticklish spot and made a point to tickle Kagome once she had her old body back.
"Um. hello," he uncertainly greeted, looking at Kagome for some sort of help. They appeared to be friends, and they weren't attacking him, so Inuyasha had no idea as to what to do.
Kagome stared and felt her heart just drop and hit the floor. Perfect. Great. Kagome allowed Inuyasha's head to hit the table. It's not like it would leave a mark or anything- OW! Dammit, Kagome forgot he, she, was in human form. It did hurt! Kagome looked up at her friends swooning over her, saying how great it is to see her healthy and well again, but then Ayumi glanced at her.
"Kagome, who's the boy?" Yuka asked.
His jaw just hung open for a second. What was he supposed to say? Telling them the truth was out of the question. "Um, this is. Inuyasha." Only then did he wonder if maybe that would be an odd name for a boy in Kagome's times. Oh well! If they asked, he'd say it was a nickname.
Uninvited as they were, they squeezed into the table. One of the girls poked Kagome's. poked the arm of the male's body, feeling for muscle. Finding what was more than adequate, she then looked at the female body. "He's a hunk! He's even better looking than Hojo! Is he your boyfriend?" Eri asked.
"Don't be silly! Hojo's her boyfriend!" Inuyasha felt his heart plummet at this unforeseen news. The girl who had spoken gasped. "You're not two- timing Hojo, are you?" Ayumi demanded.
Kagome felt herself groan. This... Was a nightmare. Maybe if she pinched herself real hard... Yeah. This was a nightmare. Were her cheeks turning red? Kagome wondered then looked over at her body, whose cheeks were incidentally turning red as well. Horrible, horrible nightmare. She was never going to bathe in Inuyasha's world again. It was just too complicated, what between Miroku's spying and switching bodies... Why did they bring Hojo into this? Kagome let her head thump against the table again.
The pain not bothering her this time as much as the fact that it didn't wake her from this nightmare. "Eh, I-Kagome we need to be going." Kagome tried, she had to make a narrow escape.
"You can't leave me like this!" he hissed, the three girls looking between them expectantly. When he saw that she was insistent to leave, Inuyasha knew he had to make her stop. Fine, she wouldn't listen to help, then she'd have to listen to blackmail! He coughed. "Actually, I never dated Hojo. I don't like him at all. I'm desperately in love with Inuyasha. Who is soooo much more stronger, and better looking, and stronger than Hojo could ever be!"
Kagome narrowed her eyes at Inuyasha. 'Not this again...' She thought miserably, wondering how it was that even in her own body, Inuyasha managed to be a jerk. Worst was, he didn't realize how he was playing into their hands... After their conversations... Oh, she was going to have a lot of explaining to do.
"Weren't you hooked up with Kouga?" Kagome asked, ignoring the looks her friends were throwing between them.
"So this is the boyfriend..." Eri commented.
"The one with the dangerous brother..." Yuka added.
"Yeah but he's cute..." Ayumi concluded.
"What about Hojo?" Eri asked.
"Well, Kagome is talking about him openly, so maybe he knows..." Ayumi thought aloud.
"Does Hojo know about him?" Yuka wondered.
The fluttering murmurs were really getting on Kagome's nerves. Since when was she such a gossip dish? Kagome glanced under the table looking through all the feet for Inuyasha's. She was going to make sure his shin got in the way of her foot.
"Kouga?" he snorted. "That dog! He. ow!" He reached under the table and rubbed his leg, glaring at her. Luckily, the thought he was rubbing Kagome's leg rather than his own didn't cross his mind, otherwise he might have started wishing he was still wearing her skirt. Fine, if Kagome wanted war, then war she'd get!
He leaned on the table. "No, Hojo doesn't know about him, and I want to keep it that way until I can break it to him. I'm sure that loosing a gorgeous gal like me is going to be hard on the poor guy! But if you really wanted to know why I love Inuyasha so much, it's because a demon in the sack!"
Kagome stared at Inuyasha. Her mouth fallen open.
He was dead.
Standing up and slamming her hands down on the table with enough force to cause the whole thing to rattle and for people to turn and look. Kagome glared at him. "Kagome, come on. We better go." Kagome said grabbing Inuyasha's hand and pulling her up.
She could see the startled look on her friend's face and sighed, this was the worst day of her life. She really hated Inuyasha right about now. "Lets just SIT and explain." Kagome said and watched Inuyasha, in her body hit the chair with a thud. "Careful you don't slip while you SIT." Kagome repeated, then watched her body crash even harder. "K-A-G-O-M-E," She spaced out reminding him whose body he was in, "Maybe you should just SIT, because if you SIT, you won't keep hurting yourself, so just SIT - And feel better." She ended with a dazzling smile then looked at her friends apologetically. "I'm sorry, she's still sick and on a lot of cough medicine." She tried her best to explain Inuyasha's horrid behavior in her form, as well as pull of the prince charming act. While she was in his form.
Her friends stared up in wonder and disbelief but then looked sympathetically over at Kagome.
"Awwww... Kagome! You really are sick! Is there anything we can do for you?" Ayumi asked.
"Careful not to get up too fast!" Eri added.
"You aren't infectious are you?" Yuka questioned.
"Why did you go out in the first place?" Ayumi demanded.
"Dont worry, we won't tell Hojo- though you were mean!" Yuka promised.
"Who's Kouga?" Eri mused.
"Kagome, are you okay? You look pale."Ayumi commented.
"Maybe we should get you to a doctor?" All three asked.
Kagome smiled and took her seat again. Maybe Inuyasha would understand this time. "Oh, don't worry. She's fine. It's not like she's going to be jumping down any well ANY time soon." Kagome said, getting weird looks from her friends but hoping her meaning was clear to Inuyasha. "Kagome, relax, SIT."
His head was starting to spin. "Stop that," he managed to get out before he was attacked by the mothering girls. He wasn't sure which was worse: getting glomped by three teenagers or being 'sat' all those times. And then he knew that he was dead. But if he was going to go, then, dammit, he might as well go with style! "You worry about me too much, Inuyasha. Does that mean you love me too?"
Kagome grinned. Her BEST imitation of Inuyasha ever. Shippo would be proud of her for it too. "Feh."
Inuyasha'a eyes started to fill up with tears and he sniffled loudly. Kagome's friends had quieted themselves to watch the play unfold. His face scrunched up: Kagome's female body was ready to bust into tears? "Feh? I pour my heart out to you and all you can say is 'feh'? Whatever happened to your idea of being completely and totally honest with each other? Did those rules apply to only me?" He was near hysterics now, while inside he was nearly peeing himself laughing. Stupid female mortal emotions!
Kagome blinked. What the-? "Oye... You really feeling okay?" Kagome asked worried that she might have sat him one too many times when he started crying. "Wait, but you said you loved me." Kagome said wondering why only NOW did his heart start pounding.
"That was just me goofing off." Somehow his real feelings felt easier to admit in Kagome's body. Which was all the more odd given the fact that he was saying them to himself. "But I, I do find you attractive, K. Inuyasha."
The lead girl leaned over. "Did you her the heard 'k' sound? I bet that Kagome was going to call him 'koi' before she remembered that we're here." Ayumi whispered to the others.
"She was going to call him a fish?" Eri blinked.
The third girl just blinked, her voice quieter than her friends' as she stared at Inuyasha's human body. "I bet you he really is a demon in the sack." Yuka said simply.
Kagome leapt up and wagged an accusing finger at her. "W-What did you say?!?"
His mind jumped to a conclusion and he followed suit, standing up and crossing her arms over his chest, still not quite getting the stance right. "You heard me," he said snappishly. "Don't point at me. You said that you wanted honesty, so I'm sorry if you're disappointed or disgusted or something! But frankly. that's how I feel, okay?! And before go accusing me of anything else, this has absolutely nothing to do with. with what happened at the spring! I'm not a pervert like Miroku, so don't even think of grouping me with the likes of that womanizer!"
Kagome sat back down and looked thoughtful. "Sit down, we'll talk this ou- Oh! I'm sorry!" She quickly jumped and leaned over the table looking at herself on the floor. God, she was really "clumsy" tonight. "Okay, okay, you're right... I just... You caught me off guard... Can I buy you more ice- cream?" Yes. Bribing with food was the way to go. "Besides, I'd never group you with him..."
"Who's Miroku?" Ayumi asked suspiciously.
"Another one of Kagome-chan's friends I guess... Why would she be grouping herself with a womanizer?" Eri wondered aloud.
"Kagome likes boys, not girls... Does she?" Yuka murmured.
"What spring?" Ayumi questioned.
"What happened at that spring?" Eri added.
The quiet one still considered Inuyasha. "Hm. Demon in the sac." Yuka mulled over.
Inuyasha had heard more than enough of her chattering. What was he? A man or a mouse? Well, technically at the moment he was neither. He could defeat monsters to protect Kagome but her honor was endangered by chattering females? Of course, Inuyasha's statement had absolutely nothing to do with the present predicament.
"Yes, I like men. And I'll tell you about it later." Then she turned back to Kagome, who was suddenly very closer than she had been. He rubbed his sore nose, which had landed squarely on the table. Inuyasha had felt proud when he got called better looking than Hojo, but now he felt even better. At least the words about never getting grouped with the lecherous monk were from Kagome's own mouth! "No, I think. wanna split one? My brain is kind of. cold from the first one. Can brains really get cold from eating ice cream?" And at this questions there came whispers of how her condition must really be serious if she were asking such stupid questions.
Kagome smiled softly and nodded sympathetically. "Yeah," She said Inuyasha's dark eyebrows knotting together. "It's a brain freeze. Like when Shippo eats too much and then his stomach starts spinning? It's the same." Kagome explained patiently then looked in her purse, err. wallet. "Okay. What flavor do you want? Hey, I'm sorry about the nose." Kagome said tenderly. Thinking, that all in all, Inuyasha being an ass, wasn't too bad. Her friends didn't seem to mind too much.
Oh, how wrong she was.
"Kagome!" The girls called at once, pinning and circling her at the same time. "It's decided. We don't like the company you keep! Sure this guy here cares and is gorgeous-"
"A demon in the sac!" Yuka added. The other two glaring.
"But we don't like this! Womanizing people??? A spring? You're sick! What were you doing in a spring?"
"With a guy who is a demon in the sac!" The other two girls shared looks and glared at Yuka. Did she just get stuck on that point?
"Kagome! We demand to know what is going on with you! How sick are you? Why are you with these people? Is this a gang issue?" Ayumi questioned.
"Oh dear, what if it is?" Eri whispered.
"We can help! We'll hide her out, change her name, talk to her parents, the principle-" Ayumi consoled Eri.
"The police!" Eri added.
"Oh, Kagome! You lost child! We'll help you find your path!" They all vowed then looked Inuyasha over.
Questioning looks aside, they sighed. "You'll help won't you?"
"Are you really a demon in the sac?" The not-so-shy-anymore Yuka asked.
"Ah. I." Kagome felt her cheeks heat up. Why were her friends talking to her about being a demon in the sac? Or rather, to Inuyasha! And. Ok, her palms were sweaty. Looking at Inuyasha for an answer, all of the sudden she realized she didn't want to know it. But getting an image of Inuyasha's ears twitching. Kagome sat back down in a thud. "I dunno?" She squeaked out, sounding like a pre-pubescent teenage boy.
'These girls are crazy! But I bet Miroku would like the one with sex on the brain.' Inuyasha thought a moment. "Yes he is, and it was a healing spring. Inuyasha told me about, and it helped enough that I was able to come out and get some ice cream. Do you think that my mother would have let me come out if it weren't perfectly safe?"
Kagome arched her brow. Where was this coming from? "Uh, Kagome..." Kagome began.
One of her friends beat her to it. "What healing spring? You mean the spa?"
"No, it was just a spring," he mentally crossed his heart and hoped that Kagome hadn't told them as much about him as it seemed like. "It's near where Inuyasha lives. He's just visiting. And he's so sweet and nice and charming that I bet he wouldn't mind helping me back home, right Inuyasha?" he asked, squirming his way out of the table in an attempt to make a hasty exit.
"Oh, so NOW you want to go." Kagome muttered and stood up, smiling the most charming smile. Well, better make a good impression. "It was a pleasure meeting all of you! Kagome has told me so much about you! You're all nice! But I better get her home, she's sick." Kagome said managing to get out of the booth and reach a hand out to Inuyasha.
The girls sat there blinking as they watched them leave. "Wow. He's cute."
"He's... hot. And caring! Oh, he isn't half as bad as Kagome made him out to be!" Eri and Ayumi both said dreamily.
"He's a demon in the sac." Yuka stated.
He took the offered hand and refused to let go of it as they walked back toward Kagome's home. Once they were a safe distance from the ice cream parlor, he looked up at her. Inuyasha had spent far too long in the human body. He was starting to think that it was unfortunate the ears weren't there to pull. "So?" he demanded.
"I'm angry at you. Don't talk to me." Kagome said still holding his hand and turning her chin up. He was rude, made a joke of herself to her friends... But he liked her. And Kagome relished that fact. Smiling and giddy about it in the inside. 'Maybe that's the point of the riddle...' Looking at Inuyasha, Kagome understood it wasn't where her own brown eyes stared back at her. "Keh."
"I'll talk to you if I want! So what is it, Kagome? Are you disgusted at the idea that I find you attractive or something?" he demanded, wondering if he'd had her wrong all along. What if she was disgusted at the idea that he was a mutt? The Kagome in his dreams would never think that, but then, this was reality. Unfortunately. "What is it? Do you have to play the nice girl in front of your friends and then you're suddenly compelled to turn into a bitch when it's just us?"
Kagome stopped and glared at him. "I am not a bitch when it is just the two of us!" Kagome yelled, stuffing her hands into her pants pockets and quickly pulling them out. She didn't want her hands anywhere inside the pants, Kagome reminded herself. "You find me attractive?"
"Yes," he sighed. Inuyasha felt as prickly as a hedgehog, and just as defensive. "Why is it so hard for you to accept it?" He blinked his large brown eyes. "That's what it is. You don't believe me, do you? Fine, Kagome! Don't believe me then!" Inuyasha kept walking.
"Eh? What? No! Inuyasha!" Kagome shouted then stopped and crossed her arms over her flat chest. How she missed her own chest! "Inuyasha," Kagome said in a stern voice that just didn't have that female whip to it. "You're going in the wrong direction." Kagome told him, then turned on her heels to go in the right direction. "Besides, I do believe you. How would you otherwise explain your spying on me while I bathed?" Kagome asked hiding her satisfied smile. He found her attractive!
Spinning around in a huff, he ran to catch up with her. "Why do we always have to come back to that?" he demanded, thinking that if she brought it up again he would scream and pull his hair out in a fit of frustration. And he'd actually pull out his hair, not Kagome's, so that she felt some of his pain! "I wasn't spying on you! I just wanted to make sure that you wouldn't drown or anything!"
"Other times when I took baths and obviously didn't drown, were you spying on them too?" Kagome demanded to know with narrowed eyes. "Hey, Inuyasha, why are you blushing and biting my lips?"
"It wasn't spying," he repeated in a growl. He paused before he looked up at her. "Well? Aren't you going to say something else? Is a 'thank you, Inuyasha, that's a wonderful compliment that you gave me' too much to ask?" He huffed and buried his arms in he sleeves, the same way he would have if he were wearing his normal vestments. Inuyasha might have been prompting her for a thank you, but he was really hoping that she would tell him that she found him just as attractive.
"No, it isn't you're right. I'm sorry." Kagome said then took a deep, smug, breath. "It's nice to know you think I'm attractive. It makes me happy." Kagome said walking side by side. "You aren't that bad yourself. When you're acting nice of course."
Her words took him by surprise. He stared at her as they walked, and he felt his cheeks get warm again. It made her happy? He hadn't been expecting that. He made a mental note to try and be nicer to her. Inuyasha stared at the ground. "Would you ever have admitted this if we hadn't switched bodies?" he inquired gently.
"If you had. So I guess the question is, would you?" Kagome asked looking over at him questioning eyes. Since when had they gotten so serious? Why was her heart beating faster? Her palms were sweaty again!
Inuyasha shrugged, and was quiet. He wanted to try and find the right words before he spoke, so that he didn't accidentally insult her. "I thought it was kind of obvious, honestly," Inuyasha said, turning so that he could see her -or his- face.
Almost luckily, he didn't have very long to think that the whole situation was weird because he then tripped and fell over a crack in the pavement. "I hate your body," he growled into the cement.