AN:
Well, here's an extra fat chapter, because last week's was so short! ^_^
we can't believe how many people were asking to spare Inuyasha from getting
a period! *blink* Now there's a sentence I never thought I would write!
Guess you're gonna have to wait to see whether or not we're actually going
to be that cruel to poor Inuyasha.
Let's just clarify: We help but write fluff. And comedy. But there is
lots of comedy here.. And what plot? I never said we had a plot! *Em
whispers to her* Oh. Right. That plot. Well, they are still working on
the puzzle. You know, in between Monopoly and ice cream.
I think that's actually what all of the reviews were about: chapter length,
plot, periods. Important stuff. So hopefully this will satisfy your
cravings! Enjoy! (Yeah, yeah, short An, I know. My bad!) As I said:
enjoy!
Inuyasha awoke not much later. Souta was staring at him, their noses pressed together. "Gyaaahhhh!!" he screeched, jumping out from underneath Kagome's arm. For a moment he wondered why his voice was so high, and then he remembered. Stupid female vocal chords! 'Kagome's voice goes so high she should just scream in battle and then the demons would cover their ears and I'd be able to get right in there.'
"What do you want, kid?" he asked, sitting back down on the couch.
Souta held out a video game cartridge. "Play?"
He nodded, and slid onto the floor in front of the television. "Sure, Souta. I'll play games with you. Until your sister awakes, that is. Then I think we need to grab some food and boot it back to my time, to see if Kaede knows a way to fix this." He stretched on the floor as Souta booted up the system. "So, what are we playing today, kid?"
"Bloody Roar 3." The little kid smiled. "There's a Halfling in it, but she's a girl. But there's another guy who turns into a wolf."
"Really?" That kind of piqued his interest. Then somebody threw a textbook at his head so hard his nose almost hit the floor.
Kagome let out a loud snore and flipped over. That book was really poking into her back. Still taking part in a non-verbal semi conscious activity involving the release of muscles around the optical organs and the vacillation of strength as she merrily drifted into a netherworld from whence the term 'lala land' may be derived; while this may seem to be an odd situation, it is one to which many of their compatriots and enemies alike must eventually succumb to -- usually after the star known as "Sol" is no longer within view. "Sit..." Kagome murmured under her breath from within sleep and scratched her crotch at the same time.
Inuyasha's body was really funny like that. It itched in all kinds of funny places. Thankfully enough, Kagome was asleep during the last.
Souta poked Inuyasha, or rather his sister's body between the shoulder blades. "You ok?"
This time his nose really did hit the floor. He patiently waited, staring from the corner of his eye at the screen as he waited for the spell to wear off. 'Damn it, even in sleep she screws me over with the damn spell of her. I should have 'sat' her more when I had the chance! Except that my body would have been hurt too,' he rationalized after a moment.
"I'm just fine," Inuyasha said. He picked the guy who turned into a wolf, while Souta picked the guy who turned into a tiger. Personally, Inuyasha thought that the character looked a little bit like Miroku, which went to show exactly how screwy his vision was after his human body was 'sat'.
He was actually winning when he saw Kagome scratch herself. His eyes widened and he slapped her hand away. "Cut that out, Kagome! Keep your hands on your own goddamn body!" Then he saw that Souta had managed to change into his beast form and had thoroughly kicked his ass. "Aw, hell. This just ain't my day!"
Startled, her eyes snapped open only to see Inuyasha's hand hovering over her crotch, well technically his. And her hand stung. Even sporting Inuyasha's vocal cords she let out a very feminine loud shrill scream. "Hey! Inuyasha! You... You... PERVERT! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!" Kagome screamed after she hopped over the back of the couch, putting said furniture between them. She knew being in separate bodies was getting to him... But this was sick! "You're sick!" She screamed her last thought at him. "SIT!"
"What the hell do you mean.. Ack!" His protest was quickly cut off when the carpet rushed up to meet him. "Not me day at all. Hell, not my goddamn week."
When the spell had lifted enough that he could look at her, Inuyasha did so, glowering. "I didn't do anything, Kagome!" he cried, enunciating each syllable of her name, as if she was so stupid she wouldn't recognize it. "I was just trying to keep your hands to touch something they really shouldn't!" And then he decided to switch topics. Inuyasha stayed on the floor, hoping it would hurt less when she 'sat' him for what he was about to say.
"I think you lied when you said you found me attractive only when I was being a nice guy. I think that you like me all the time. You just can't keep your hands off of me, even when you sleep."
Kagome narrowed her eyes at him, until they seemed like thin dagger like slits. "What are you talking about?" She asked suspiciously, her eyes narrowed at him dangerously. Something was fishy here.
Souta sat in the background and sighed. These two really had issues to work out. "Wait, nee-chan! You like doggy-boy??"
Kagome nearly balled over when her brother butted in. "W-what?! Where did you get that from!?"
Souta looked confused and pulled on Kagome's sleeve, which was dressed over Kagome's body, that was possessed by Inuyasha's soul. "I must have gotten it wrong, what do you mean about keeping hands off?"
"That's between your sister and I, Souta," Inuyasha said gravely, holding Souta by his shoulders as he looked at the kid, acting quite a bit like Miroku before he asked a girl to have his child. Without the groping, obviously. "And yes, yes, Souta. Yes, your sister does like me. In fact, she has even professed her undying love to me on more than once occasion, usually after I saved her from some sort of monster or demon that threatened her very life."
Kagome stared at him with unnerving intensity. "Hey, how many times I have sat you that you hit your head so hard on the ground to hear me profess anything like that?" Kagome asked and blushed on the inside. Idiot. He was joking... But it was right.
Inuyasha blinked when she didn't sit him. Was it because he was holding the kid, or some other reason? His gaze turned into a full out stare laced with a scowl. "Okay, what are you planning for revenge? You're planning something, I know who you are! Do I smell food?"
Souta laughed. "It's lunchtime."
"Crap! How long were we asleep?"
Souta thought about it. "Until now." He answered simply.
Great help, Inuyasha thoguht.
Kagome looked at the clock. "Well, we might as well eat..." Kagome said, she liked being home, even if it was in the wrong body. "Oh, and I am planning nothing Inuyasha. Just gotta find wax. That's all."
Souta cringed.
And then he suddenly thought about her dripping hot wax on his body. When he was in his body. 'Where did that thought come from?' Inuyasha counted on his hands. Five hours or sleep, more or less. He sniffed the air. "Is your Mother making ramen?" he asked Kagome, as she now had the better senses.
"I don't mind staying for lunch, not at all, but afterwards we need to be getting back to the past. Maybe Kaede found a way to break the spell. All we found out was what happens to my body on sugar." He shook his head at the memory. Now she would never let him have ice cream again.
Kagome glared at him, then turned that scornful look onto the bottle of Coke. "Don't go looking at me. It's YOUR body." Kagome huffed and crossed her arms over his flat chest. How she missed her own. "When we are back... You are never having sugar again!" Kagome said then looked at Souta who squirmed on the side. "What is it?"
Souta pointed. "Your fly is open."
Inuyasha hadn't even noticed. He grimaced. "You mean. were. and the.. Down. ugh! I think I'm going to be sick!" But he grinned teasingly and headed straight for the kitchen.
Some time later..
Kagome looked at herself in the mirror. Inuyasha's reflection still startling her as she examined his eyebrows. "Hey, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked looking over at him as he was struggling with her school uniform skirt. "Have you ever thought of fixing your eyebrows up?" Kagome questioned swinging her back pack up to her shoulders, for the first time finding it extremely light.
"Well! Time to go!" Kagome said mimicking Inuyasha's incessant ranting demands from during the whole day. Walking up to the door, Kagome swung it open and nearly balled over. Not now.. Noooo.. Kagome thought she was about to choke.
"Ah! Higorashi!" Hojo said sounding enchanted as he practically floated through the door carrying a gift towards Inuyasha, as per usual of late, looking like Kagome. "You didn't seem quite yourself yesterday. So I figured you weren't quite over your exotic west Niles of the Amazon fever you had. It really took it's toll on you. Here." He said offering Inuyasha a gift.
"Erm.." At least if Inuyasha (Kagome, really) was supposed to know this guy, he could blame not knowing him on the west nile fever. But Inuyasha recognized his voice. Even humans had some hearing skills, after all. "Hojo?"
THIS was Hojo? THIS was HOJO!? Inuyasha felt like throwing the guy into a river and laughing at him. This was the guy who was trying to take HIS woman? He snorted quietly. At least Kagome's annoying friends had one thing right. 'I'm so much more better looking than he is! I bet you that Kagome didn't walk up to Hojo and start feeling him up when they first met! Okay, so she had been feeling up his ears, but that was besides the point!
He took the box from Hojo, trying his best not to let his real feelings show. "Thanks, Hojo."
Hojo smiled warmly and looked completely and utterly smitten. "How are you today, Higorashi?" He asked, her last name sounding like a sweet caress upon his lips as he looked at her doe eyed.
Not being the target of his affections for a change, Kagome managed to stand on the side and gawk. Wow. He was blushing. And he looked so... Honest and innocent about it. "Hojo..." Kagome whispered, feeling really bad for him right about now.
Hojo snapped out of his pink fluffy, petals and bubbles daydream and blinked at Inuyasha. For a second stopped to rub his eyes when he thought he saw puppy ears.
Kagome quickly grabbed a hat and laid it over her head. Damn Inuyasha and his fluffy ears!
Inuyasha ignored Kagome. He didn't want to have to go through all that bull. But when he saw the respect glowing in her eyes, he knew he really didn't want to go through introducing his body. Was it possible that Kagome liked him back? Because he brought her gifts and seemed sweet? An idiot, but sweet?
Pain crossed his heart. 'I can be sweet and shit too!' He lowered his eyes, feeling guilty, and unintentionally making it look like Kagome was flirting. "I'm fine, Hojo, thank you. You didn't have to bring me anything, you know."
Hojo turned back to Kagome and a soft dull witted look took over his face again, but was quickly replaced with concern. "Higorashi, are you sure you are well?" He asked taking a step forward and blushing.
Kagome arched her brow. Wow. He really was slow...
"I just told you I was fine," he said, blinking, thinking the same thing as Kagome. Maybe he wasn't playing her properly again. But Kagome wasn't shooting him death glares, so he had to be doing something right. 'Of course she's not shooting me death looks! She's too busy making faces at Hojo! Stupid, stupid Hojo!' He coughed, clearing his throat. "But as you can see, I'm about to go. I'm afraid I can't really stay and talk."
"Oh... well. I won't keep you... Though... Higorashi! I have tickets to this concert... and..." Hojo began fumbling as he pulled the tickets out.
Kagome blinked and felt herself falling. Argh... How many times had she stood him up already? Well, he was at least persistent.
He blinked again. And then he felt himself blush. He was being asked out on a date? He was being asked out on a date! Inuyasha almost answered yes, before he got a hold of himself. He was being asked out by another guy! In other words: not Kagome! But the blush would leave, and then all he could think about was seeing Kagome in this position, blushing and acting shy as Inuyasha kicked Hojo out of the spotlight and swept her off her feet.
"I don't think so, Hojo," he tried to sound like himself, but it still came out in a meek little voice. Damn girls and their voices! "I haven't been myself lately, and although I'm feeling better, I don't know when I'll forget who I am again." He didn't add on something about having him ask again later. He didn't like the idea of this jerk dating Kagome.
Hojo's whole face fell and his shoulders slumped. "Well, next time then... But as long as you rest! I hope you don't mind my saying this, but you don't look well, Higorashi. Oh sure, you were playing it brave with your friends last night." He said taking a hold of her hand in both of his. "But I could see the pain! You were trying so hard! I could see right through the act!"
Kagome arched a brow, and under the baseball cap her ears twitched. Damn. She was glad she wasn't in her old body now, although she did feel bad for Hojo. Poor Hojo.
This was all Inuyasha's fault.
'How the hell can he be holding my hands when I was holding the box?' Then he spotted the box was on the ground. 'This guy's smooth,' Inuyasha thought, almost respectively. It only hardened his resolve. 'Hojo isn't really that stupid, just as stubborn as hell and brain dead! There's no way I'm going to let a guy like this get near Kagome!' Inuyasha slipped his hand out of Hojo's and shook a finger at him. "Just a minute right there, Hojo! I'm not in pain! And how dare you take my hands in such a manner! It's not like I'm your girlfriend or someone that you can just hold whenever you want! Good day, Hojo!"
In one mighty sweep, she stomped from Hojo and looped her arm with that of his old body's, pulling it towards the well house as if he had all his demonic strength back.
Kagome smacked Inuyasha. Accidentally of course. Swirling about, Kagome waved a dismissive hand feeling a droplet of sweat collect at her temple. "Ignore her please! She is still ill with fever! Well, we're off to the doctor's office now! Feel well! I'm sure when she feels better she'll see the error in her ways! Bye!" Kagome called over her shoulder and narrowed her eyes at Inuyasha. "I don't go around embarrassing you." Kagome hissed swerving him around towards the well, from the backside of the shrine.
Safely out of earshot from Hojo, he still glared at the human boy's direction anyway. "I did not embarrass you! If anything, Hojo was the one doing all the embarrassing! Was that guy dropped on his head as a baby or something? And you actually like that creep?" he demanded.
"He's sweet!" Kagome protested and shoved Inuyasha into the shrine. "Jeez! Some of us like the caring type!" Kagome shot back at him, backing him up to the well. "You know. I'm going to tell e-v-e-r-y o-n-e you had a thing for Hojo." Kagome called before she pushed him into the well without warning and then looked down as the blue light consumed him. "Feh. Suites you." Kagome sighed. Poor Hojo. She really felt bad for him.
"I do not have a thing for Hojo!" He immediately retorted as he landed in the well. When she landed next to him, he repeated it, less angry this time. Inuyasha sulked, which actually looked a lot less childish in a female body. Sulking was just one of the things girls inherently did better than males. "He just. there's something creepy about him, okay?!"
Kagome shoved her face in Inuyasha's. "Are you homophobic?"
Inuyasha just stared at her a moment, half wondering what she was talking about while the other half wondered what she would do if he grabbed her and kissed her. "There's something not right about a man who gets shot down by a girl, even a pretty one, all the time and yet he still chases her! I mean, obsess much? Shit, maybe he was dropped on his head twice as a little kid. Hey! Are you trying to say that I'm not caring? Remind me not to save your ass next time you're in trouble!"
"Fine!" Kagome shouted at him. "Remind me not to tell you when I sense a Shikon Shard next time!" Kagome retaliated.
'Ack!' He shook his finger at her, but could come up with nothing. He was tempted to storm away, but they were in a well! Inuyasha stared at her a second, his anger slowly slipping away. It wasn't Kagome he was mad at, it was Hojo for being so damned nice to her. And what had he been thinking earlier? His girl? Since when was Kagome his girl? "Why does he bring you stuff?"
Kagome shrugged. "Because he cares and while I am here and not at home, Grandpa tells everyone I'm sick." Kagome said then muttered under her breath, "With invented diseases..." Shaking her head, white hair flying about. Kagome decided to return the favor Inuyasha bestows upon her often enough and wrapped her arm around her own waist and leapt out of the well, pulling him with her. Landing outside, Kagome stepped back. "He brings me stuff to make me feel better. I guess."
"But you're not really sick," he pointed out. "Doesn't it make you feel bad to be accepting something that you don't really. I was going to say deserve. Doesn't it make you feel bad to accept something when you're lying to him?" He pressed the clawed hand of his demon body against his side to keep her from removing the hand.
Kagome looked down at her hand and then up at Inuyasha. A giant big question mark popping up over her head. "Well, um, yeah." Kagome confessed lowering her eyes. "Sometimes. But he means well, and not to accept would hurt his feelings." Kagome explained shifting her feet and gaze. "I told him not to, but he says he wants to." Kagome said, her thick black brows knotting together. She really missed her old eyebrows.
He seemed to register something that he hadn't before. She had been telling the truth. She liked Hojo because he brought her stuff. He let go of the hand and smiled sweetly. "You go on ahead to village. I have something to do, and then I'll catch up with you at Kaede's."
Kagome arched her brow at him and scratched the nape of her head. "Um, Inuyasha I really rather not split up... Now that you are in my body and all." Kagome explained.
Sulking for a second, he shrugged, and started off in the opposite direction. "Fine. But it'll ruin the surprise."
Kagome's puppy ears perked up and shot forward. Her nose twitching. "Waaaait! Surprise???" Kagome called after him and ran to his side quickly. "What surprise?" Kagome asked, her amber eyes glowing brightly.
"Well, if I tell you it won't be a surprise, baka!" He rolled his eyes, and felt his cheeks grow warm. 'I just thought that since Hojo can bring you gifts, maybe I can too. But no, you don't want to let me out of your sight, so you decide to follow me. Feh! Whatever!'
Inuyasha awoke not much later. Souta was staring at him, their noses pressed together. "Gyaaahhhh!!" he screeched, jumping out from underneath Kagome's arm. For a moment he wondered why his voice was so high, and then he remembered. Stupid female vocal chords! 'Kagome's voice goes so high she should just scream in battle and then the demons would cover their ears and I'd be able to get right in there.'
"What do you want, kid?" he asked, sitting back down on the couch.
Souta held out a video game cartridge. "Play?"
He nodded, and slid onto the floor in front of the television. "Sure, Souta. I'll play games with you. Until your sister awakes, that is. Then I think we need to grab some food and boot it back to my time, to see if Kaede knows a way to fix this." He stretched on the floor as Souta booted up the system. "So, what are we playing today, kid?"
"Bloody Roar 3." The little kid smiled. "There's a Halfling in it, but she's a girl. But there's another guy who turns into a wolf."
"Really?" That kind of piqued his interest. Then somebody threw a textbook at his head so hard his nose almost hit the floor.
Kagome let out a loud snore and flipped over. That book was really poking into her back. Still taking part in a non-verbal semi conscious activity involving the release of muscles around the optical organs and the vacillation of strength as she merrily drifted into a netherworld from whence the term 'lala land' may be derived; while this may seem to be an odd situation, it is one to which many of their compatriots and enemies alike must eventually succumb to -- usually after the star known as "Sol" is no longer within view. "Sit..." Kagome murmured under her breath from within sleep and scratched her crotch at the same time.
Inuyasha's body was really funny like that. It itched in all kinds of funny places. Thankfully enough, Kagome was asleep during the last.
Souta poked Inuyasha, or rather his sister's body between the shoulder blades. "You ok?"
This time his nose really did hit the floor. He patiently waited, staring from the corner of his eye at the screen as he waited for the spell to wear off. 'Damn it, even in sleep she screws me over with the damn spell of her. I should have 'sat' her more when I had the chance! Except that my body would have been hurt too,' he rationalized after a moment.
"I'm just fine," Inuyasha said. He picked the guy who turned into a wolf, while Souta picked the guy who turned into a tiger. Personally, Inuyasha thought that the character looked a little bit like Miroku, which went to show exactly how screwy his vision was after his human body was 'sat'.
He was actually winning when he saw Kagome scratch herself. His eyes widened and he slapped her hand away. "Cut that out, Kagome! Keep your hands on your own goddamn body!" Then he saw that Souta had managed to change into his beast form and had thoroughly kicked his ass. "Aw, hell. This just ain't my day!"
Startled, her eyes snapped open only to see Inuyasha's hand hovering over her crotch, well technically his. And her hand stung. Even sporting Inuyasha's vocal cords she let out a very feminine loud shrill scream. "Hey! Inuyasha! You... You... PERVERT! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!" Kagome screamed after she hopped over the back of the couch, putting said furniture between them. She knew being in separate bodies was getting to him... But this was sick! "You're sick!" She screamed her last thought at him. "SIT!"
"What the hell do you mean.. Ack!" His protest was quickly cut off when the carpet rushed up to meet him. "Not me day at all. Hell, not my goddamn week."
When the spell had lifted enough that he could look at her, Inuyasha did so, glowering. "I didn't do anything, Kagome!" he cried, enunciating each syllable of her name, as if she was so stupid she wouldn't recognize it. "I was just trying to keep your hands to touch something they really shouldn't!" And then he decided to switch topics. Inuyasha stayed on the floor, hoping it would hurt less when she 'sat' him for what he was about to say.
"I think you lied when you said you found me attractive only when I was being a nice guy. I think that you like me all the time. You just can't keep your hands off of me, even when you sleep."
Kagome narrowed her eyes at him, until they seemed like thin dagger like slits. "What are you talking about?" She asked suspiciously, her eyes narrowed at him dangerously. Something was fishy here.
Souta sat in the background and sighed. These two really had issues to work out. "Wait, nee-chan! You like doggy-boy??"
Kagome nearly balled over when her brother butted in. "W-what?! Where did you get that from!?"
Souta looked confused and pulled on Kagome's sleeve, which was dressed over Kagome's body, that was possessed by Inuyasha's soul. "I must have gotten it wrong, what do you mean about keeping hands off?"
"That's between your sister and I, Souta," Inuyasha said gravely, holding Souta by his shoulders as he looked at the kid, acting quite a bit like Miroku before he asked a girl to have his child. Without the groping, obviously. "And yes, yes, Souta. Yes, your sister does like me. In fact, she has even professed her undying love to me on more than once occasion, usually after I saved her from some sort of monster or demon that threatened her very life."
Kagome stared at him with unnerving intensity. "Hey, how many times I have sat you that you hit your head so hard on the ground to hear me profess anything like that?" Kagome asked and blushed on the inside. Idiot. He was joking... But it was right.
Inuyasha blinked when she didn't sit him. Was it because he was holding the kid, or some other reason? His gaze turned into a full out stare laced with a scowl. "Okay, what are you planning for revenge? You're planning something, I know who you are! Do I smell food?"
Souta laughed. "It's lunchtime."
"Crap! How long were we asleep?"
Souta thought about it. "Until now." He answered simply.
Great help, Inuyasha thoguht.
Kagome looked at the clock. "Well, we might as well eat..." Kagome said, she liked being home, even if it was in the wrong body. "Oh, and I am planning nothing Inuyasha. Just gotta find wax. That's all."
Souta cringed.
And then he suddenly thought about her dripping hot wax on his body. When he was in his body. 'Where did that thought come from?' Inuyasha counted on his hands. Five hours or sleep, more or less. He sniffed the air. "Is your Mother making ramen?" he asked Kagome, as she now had the better senses.
"I don't mind staying for lunch, not at all, but afterwards we need to be getting back to the past. Maybe Kaede found a way to break the spell. All we found out was what happens to my body on sugar." He shook his head at the memory. Now she would never let him have ice cream again.
Kagome glared at him, then turned that scornful look onto the bottle of Coke. "Don't go looking at me. It's YOUR body." Kagome huffed and crossed her arms over his flat chest. How she missed her own. "When we are back... You are never having sugar again!" Kagome said then looked at Souta who squirmed on the side. "What is it?"
Souta pointed. "Your fly is open."
Inuyasha hadn't even noticed. He grimaced. "You mean. were. and the.. Down. ugh! I think I'm going to be sick!" But he grinned teasingly and headed straight for the kitchen.
Some time later..
Kagome looked at herself in the mirror. Inuyasha's reflection still startling her as she examined his eyebrows. "Hey, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked looking over at him as he was struggling with her school uniform skirt. "Have you ever thought of fixing your eyebrows up?" Kagome questioned swinging her back pack up to her shoulders, for the first time finding it extremely light.
"Well! Time to go!" Kagome said mimicking Inuyasha's incessant ranting demands from during the whole day. Walking up to the door, Kagome swung it open and nearly balled over. Not now.. Noooo.. Kagome thought she was about to choke.
"Ah! Higorashi!" Hojo said sounding enchanted as he practically floated through the door carrying a gift towards Inuyasha, as per usual of late, looking like Kagome. "You didn't seem quite yourself yesterday. So I figured you weren't quite over your exotic west Niles of the Amazon fever you had. It really took it's toll on you. Here." He said offering Inuyasha a gift.
"Erm.." At least if Inuyasha (Kagome, really) was supposed to know this guy, he could blame not knowing him on the west nile fever. But Inuyasha recognized his voice. Even humans had some hearing skills, after all. "Hojo?"
THIS was Hojo? THIS was HOJO!? Inuyasha felt like throwing the guy into a river and laughing at him. This was the guy who was trying to take HIS woman? He snorted quietly. At least Kagome's annoying friends had one thing right. 'I'm so much more better looking than he is! I bet you that Kagome didn't walk up to Hojo and start feeling him up when they first met! Okay, so she had been feeling up his ears, but that was besides the point!
He took the box from Hojo, trying his best not to let his real feelings show. "Thanks, Hojo."
Hojo smiled warmly and looked completely and utterly smitten. "How are you today, Higorashi?" He asked, her last name sounding like a sweet caress upon his lips as he looked at her doe eyed.
Not being the target of his affections for a change, Kagome managed to stand on the side and gawk. Wow. He was blushing. And he looked so... Honest and innocent about it. "Hojo..." Kagome whispered, feeling really bad for him right about now.
Hojo snapped out of his pink fluffy, petals and bubbles daydream and blinked at Inuyasha. For a second stopped to rub his eyes when he thought he saw puppy ears.
Kagome quickly grabbed a hat and laid it over her head. Damn Inuyasha and his fluffy ears!
Inuyasha ignored Kagome. He didn't want to have to go through all that bull. But when he saw the respect glowing in her eyes, he knew he really didn't want to go through introducing his body. Was it possible that Kagome liked him back? Because he brought her gifts and seemed sweet? An idiot, but sweet?
Pain crossed his heart. 'I can be sweet and shit too!' He lowered his eyes, feeling guilty, and unintentionally making it look like Kagome was flirting. "I'm fine, Hojo, thank you. You didn't have to bring me anything, you know."
Hojo turned back to Kagome and a soft dull witted look took over his face again, but was quickly replaced with concern. "Higorashi, are you sure you are well?" He asked taking a step forward and blushing.
Kagome arched her brow. Wow. He really was slow...
"I just told you I was fine," he said, blinking, thinking the same thing as Kagome. Maybe he wasn't playing her properly again. But Kagome wasn't shooting him death glares, so he had to be doing something right. 'Of course she's not shooting me death looks! She's too busy making faces at Hojo! Stupid, stupid Hojo!' He coughed, clearing his throat. "But as you can see, I'm about to go. I'm afraid I can't really stay and talk."
"Oh... well. I won't keep you... Though... Higorashi! I have tickets to this concert... and..." Hojo began fumbling as he pulled the tickets out.
Kagome blinked and felt herself falling. Argh... How many times had she stood him up already? Well, he was at least persistent.
He blinked again. And then he felt himself blush. He was being asked out on a date? He was being asked out on a date! Inuyasha almost answered yes, before he got a hold of himself. He was being asked out by another guy! In other words: not Kagome! But the blush would leave, and then all he could think about was seeing Kagome in this position, blushing and acting shy as Inuyasha kicked Hojo out of the spotlight and swept her off her feet.
"I don't think so, Hojo," he tried to sound like himself, but it still came out in a meek little voice. Damn girls and their voices! "I haven't been myself lately, and although I'm feeling better, I don't know when I'll forget who I am again." He didn't add on something about having him ask again later. He didn't like the idea of this jerk dating Kagome.
Hojo's whole face fell and his shoulders slumped. "Well, next time then... But as long as you rest! I hope you don't mind my saying this, but you don't look well, Higorashi. Oh sure, you were playing it brave with your friends last night." He said taking a hold of her hand in both of his. "But I could see the pain! You were trying so hard! I could see right through the act!"
Kagome arched a brow, and under the baseball cap her ears twitched. Damn. She was glad she wasn't in her old body now, although she did feel bad for Hojo. Poor Hojo.
This was all Inuyasha's fault.
'How the hell can he be holding my hands when I was holding the box?' Then he spotted the box was on the ground. 'This guy's smooth,' Inuyasha thought, almost respectively. It only hardened his resolve. 'Hojo isn't really that stupid, just as stubborn as hell and brain dead! There's no way I'm going to let a guy like this get near Kagome!' Inuyasha slipped his hand out of Hojo's and shook a finger at him. "Just a minute right there, Hojo! I'm not in pain! And how dare you take my hands in such a manner! It's not like I'm your girlfriend or someone that you can just hold whenever you want! Good day, Hojo!"
In one mighty sweep, she stomped from Hojo and looped her arm with that of his old body's, pulling it towards the well house as if he had all his demonic strength back.
Kagome smacked Inuyasha. Accidentally of course. Swirling about, Kagome waved a dismissive hand feeling a droplet of sweat collect at her temple. "Ignore her please! She is still ill with fever! Well, we're off to the doctor's office now! Feel well! I'm sure when she feels better she'll see the error in her ways! Bye!" Kagome called over her shoulder and narrowed her eyes at Inuyasha. "I don't go around embarrassing you." Kagome hissed swerving him around towards the well, from the backside of the shrine.
Safely out of earshot from Hojo, he still glared at the human boy's direction anyway. "I did not embarrass you! If anything, Hojo was the one doing all the embarrassing! Was that guy dropped on his head as a baby or something? And you actually like that creep?" he demanded.
"He's sweet!" Kagome protested and shoved Inuyasha into the shrine. "Jeez! Some of us like the caring type!" Kagome shot back at him, backing him up to the well. "You know. I'm going to tell e-v-e-r-y o-n-e you had a thing for Hojo." Kagome called before she pushed him into the well without warning and then looked down as the blue light consumed him. "Feh. Suites you." Kagome sighed. Poor Hojo. She really felt bad for him.
"I do not have a thing for Hojo!" He immediately retorted as he landed in the well. When she landed next to him, he repeated it, less angry this time. Inuyasha sulked, which actually looked a lot less childish in a female body. Sulking was just one of the things girls inherently did better than males. "He just. there's something creepy about him, okay?!"
Kagome shoved her face in Inuyasha's. "Are you homophobic?"
Inuyasha just stared at her a moment, half wondering what she was talking about while the other half wondered what she would do if he grabbed her and kissed her. "There's something not right about a man who gets shot down by a girl, even a pretty one, all the time and yet he still chases her! I mean, obsess much? Shit, maybe he was dropped on his head twice as a little kid. Hey! Are you trying to say that I'm not caring? Remind me not to save your ass next time you're in trouble!"
"Fine!" Kagome shouted at him. "Remind me not to tell you when I sense a Shikon Shard next time!" Kagome retaliated.
'Ack!' He shook his finger at her, but could come up with nothing. He was tempted to storm away, but they were in a well! Inuyasha stared at her a second, his anger slowly slipping away. It wasn't Kagome he was mad at, it was Hojo for being so damned nice to her. And what had he been thinking earlier? His girl? Since when was Kagome his girl? "Why does he bring you stuff?"
Kagome shrugged. "Because he cares and while I am here and not at home, Grandpa tells everyone I'm sick." Kagome said then muttered under her breath, "With invented diseases..." Shaking her head, white hair flying about. Kagome decided to return the favor Inuyasha bestows upon her often enough and wrapped her arm around her own waist and leapt out of the well, pulling him with her. Landing outside, Kagome stepped back. "He brings me stuff to make me feel better. I guess."
"But you're not really sick," he pointed out. "Doesn't it make you feel bad to be accepting something that you don't really. I was going to say deserve. Doesn't it make you feel bad to accept something when you're lying to him?" He pressed the clawed hand of his demon body against his side to keep her from removing the hand.
Kagome looked down at her hand and then up at Inuyasha. A giant big question mark popping up over her head. "Well, um, yeah." Kagome confessed lowering her eyes. "Sometimes. But he means well, and not to accept would hurt his feelings." Kagome explained shifting her feet and gaze. "I told him not to, but he says he wants to." Kagome said, her thick black brows knotting together. She really missed her old eyebrows.
He seemed to register something that he hadn't before. She had been telling the truth. She liked Hojo because he brought her stuff. He let go of the hand and smiled sweetly. "You go on ahead to village. I have something to do, and then I'll catch up with you at Kaede's."
Kagome arched her brow at him and scratched the nape of her head. "Um, Inuyasha I really rather not split up... Now that you are in my body and all." Kagome explained.
Sulking for a second, he shrugged, and started off in the opposite direction. "Fine. But it'll ruin the surprise."
Kagome's puppy ears perked up and shot forward. Her nose twitching. "Waaaait! Surprise???" Kagome called after him and ran to his side quickly. "What surprise?" Kagome asked, her amber eyes glowing brightly.
"Well, if I tell you it won't be a surprise, baka!" He rolled his eyes, and felt his cheeks grow warm. 'I just thought that since Hojo can bring you gifts, maybe I can too. But no, you don't want to let me out of your sight, so you decide to follow me. Feh! Whatever!'