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Inuyasha walked until he hit the clearing full of wild flowers. Even out of his demon form, he had to admit that the white flowers smelled nice, and they looked really pretty in the sun light and the blue sky behind them. "Don't guys usually give girls flowers in your time?"
Kagome blinked and stared at him dumbly. "Are you planning on giving me flowers??" Kagome asked, alarmed to feel her heart slam against her chest in a quickened pace. Maybe female hormones were good for Inuyasha after all... He was so... Kagome raised her brows up into the bangs of her hair, until they were lost there. "Inuyasha.." Kagome whispered, about to go on, if it wasn't for a sudden tornado that swooped up, knocked her aside, vanished to reveal Kouga with a tight hold on Kagome's body's hands. "Yo."
Inuyasha stared up at Kouga with Kagome's eyes and face, minus the rather horror stricken look that he had on his face. He felt him squeeze her tighter, and his chest began to feel slightly uncomfortable. "Kouga!" He managed to laugh as he tried to take the wolf demon's hand off of his waist. "Imagine meeting you here!"
"Uh, Kouga..." Kagome began softly, poking the wolf demon in the shoulder.
"What smelly dog?! Can't you see I'm busy with Kagome?!" Kouga declared, loudly and turned back his smitten eyes to her, his whole being focused solely on Kagome before him, who was looking up at him with such beautiful brown eyes. "How are you?" He asked in sweet earnest.
Actually managing a realistic laugh, he replied, "I'm really not feeling like myself, wolf spit." Inuyasha, recovering from his initial shock, glared at Kouga, but the opportunity presented here was too good to pass up. He wanted to try and make Kagome as jealous as he had felt when he saw how Hojo treated her, but he'd been trying to do that since they had switched bodies. Therefore his glare really wasn't so much a glare as it was a direct gaze. "You might say I feel like a bitch today."
Kagome glared at Inuyasha then looked sorrowfully at Kouga's shocked expression. "Kouga-kun!" Kagome began right before she was about to launch into a full explanation. How cruel of Inuyasha... "It's not what you think!"
"Shut up dog piss!" Kouga shouted and grabbed Kagome's body close to his. "Kagome. It's alright. You can be yourself with me. You'll always be my bitch." He promised and to spite the annoying dog demon standing behind them, swept her into a kiss. "What is wrong, Kagome? Has dog dung done something? Come with me!" Kouga said in a rush, as always enjoying the way Kagome felt in his arms.
Kagome for her own half, stood behind them with her jaw slacking down to the ground, staring stupidly and wide eyed at the scene. "I.. In...K...Ko... I..." Kagome thought process paralyzed. 'My second kiss and I didn't even feel it! Does it count as my second kiss then?' Kagome wondered still staring, her mouth probably beginning to draw flies.
Inuyasha went lax in Kouga arms. It seemed that Kouga wasn't just talented with his mouth! His knees went weak, and Inuyasha actually had to lean against Kouga to support himself. Bloody weak female bodies! "Um.." Inuyasha looked up at Kouga, trying to concentrate. "Could you repeat the question?" he asked, trying to find strength in at least one arm, to either smack Kouga or himself.
Kouga encouraged by Kagome body weight against his. Unwrapped his hands from hers and lowered them to her waist. Had she finally decided to join him? To become his mate? To lead his wolf pack beside him? "Kagome..." He whispered huskily, his gorgeous blue eyes seeking her brown ones. He didn't know what happened between her and the smelly dog, but she had finally come to her senses. He knew it. "I'll protect you and care for you much better then the dumb dog, come with me. My pack will care for you until I bring you Naraku's head and then we can be together. You can be the mother of my pups."
'The mother of his pups?' Okay. This was maybe going a little bit too far. He managed to get some sense back into his body and managed to push himself an inch or two away from Kouga's body. Damn he was strong! And his legs weren't just the only things that were muscular, as Inuyasha could now vouch. "Yeah, sure, wolf piss. But you're gonna have to call my Inuyasha, and you get to be the mom."
Kouga faltered. "Huh?" Kouga asked, looking dumbstruck before scrunching his brows together. Was Kagome sick? What did Dog piss let happen to her?!?
"Kagome!" Kouga rushed to her, his hand feeling her forehead. "Are you well? Why do you mention dog crap now?"
"I'm fine you stupid wolf!" he snarled, slapping the hand away. "I just told you: I'm not feeling like myself. And you can call me Inuyasha. I-NU- YA-SHA." Did he have to spell it out for Kouga or something? Inuyasha arched an eyebrow, staring up at the wolf demon to see if he got the hint, while he wiped his lips with the sleeve of Kagome's school uniform, trying to make the feel of Kouga's lips go away.
Kouga snarled but calmed himself. Something was wrong with Kagome! He had to find some help for his beloved... "Kagome... What happened? What's wrong??" Kouga demanded then reared about, his tail swishing and his mini skirt stretching as he stood with his legs parted in a fighting position to face Inuyasha. "What did you do to her you sniveling dog?!?"
Kagome blinked and toyed with the strap of her yellow backpack, fingering Inuyasha's sword at her side. "Uh, Kouga? It's not like that. See, Inuyasha and I switched bodies." Kagome explained softly, this had to be handled carefully... For Kouga's sake.
Kouga's face paled and he stared dumbly. "Huh?" He asked after a moment, wondering what rock dog fart fell off and dragged his poor mate with him, probably hurting her head at the same time.
"I'm goddamn Inuyasha, you stupid pile of shit!" Inuyasha yelled, slapping Kouga across the back of his head. "Feh. You wanna fight? Fine! I'll beat you even in Kagome's body! And make you regret that you ever kissed me, even though you were trying to take advantage of my Kagome!"
A sweat drop appeared on Inuyasha's forehead. Did he actually just say 'my Kagome'? Oh well!
Kagome and Kouga faltered.
'My Kagome'?
Wow. Female hormones not only made him touchy, hearty and somewhat sweet... But possessive too. Kagome thought while still trying to processes through this situation.
Eh...? "Wait!" Kouga shouted trying to make sense of this and looking Kagome over, it was Inuyasha alright. Only Inuyasha's words could annoy him that much, and Kagome was above a stupid prank to lie about switching bodies. Looking at Inuyasha and seeing the sheepish smile... "How the hell did this happen?!?!"
"We both got into a spring at the same time," he replied. Then he realized how that sounded and shook his hands, trying to wave away the thought and protect himself before Kouga could decide to tackle him. "I mean, it's not like that at all! Kagome was already in the hot spring, and then I.." He really didn't want to have to admit this, but it looked like it would have to, if he didn't want Kouga to think of what he and Kagome might have been doing together in a hot spring at the same time. Inuyasha had no problem letting Kouga think that he and Kagome were in a passionate, physical relationship, he was worried about Kagome beating him to a bloody pulp. "I fell in."
Kouga stared. "You stupid clumsy worthless hied of a dog!" Kouga shouted then paused for a moment. "Wait," He turned to look at Inuyasha and searched for something about the stupid dogs face, that he could latch on to in search of his Kagome... But... He only smelt dog crap. "Kagome, is your virtue safe?" He asked taking a hold of her hands, but avoiding her yellow eyes.
Looking over at Kagome's body though, was a whole other matter. "How does your lecherous act against my betrothed have anything to do with this predicament?!?"
Kagome cleared her throat for the first time. "It was an enchanted spring." Kagome chirped in, then eased Kouga's temper. "Now stop calling Inuyasha names. It wasn't like he MEANT to fall in."
He smiled at her gratefully. That was Kagome alright, standing up for him even though she'd yelled at him plenty of times for falling into the hot springs. "I didn't lay a hand on her, slut puppy! You're the one who kissed her body! It wasn't a lecherous act, and it was an enchanted spring!" He replied, in order, ticking things off on his fingers. "Get it, Kouga?"
Kouga got it alright and then started cursing so loud, and so vehemently he could've made his wolves blush. "I kissed a god damn dog-crap-demon!!!" Kouga yelled and began spitting, wanting to wash his mouth out with acid.
Kagome looked at him sympathetically. "Well." Kagome said staring at Inuyasha. "For good measure he kissed you back." It was only a moment later when Kouga fell to his knees and started rubbing grass against his tongue and promising his revenge once Inuyasha was in his own body and the trashing he would get wouldn't hurt Kagome's body, that Kagome realized that was not the thing to say.
"Well, at least we ruled out you being homophobic..." Kagome commented to Inuyasha while scratching the back of her puppy ears. Ooooo... That felt soooooo gooood.... Why did Inuyasha complain when she touched them!?
Inuyasha came to stand beside her. "Didn't we rule that out before? And I didn't kiss him back." He sighed, watching Kouga lick the grass. "If you eat it enough of it, you'll throw up," he advised helpfully. He sighed, staring at Kagome. Being in her body was really quite an eye opener. In the space of an hour he had been hit on by both Hojo and Kouga. They probably saw the same thing in Kagome that he did, but what would Kagome ever see in him?
Then he remembered what he had come here for in the first place. He scooped up a handful of the white flowers, checked them over once, and handed them to Kagome with a blushing face. "Here, K.. Kagome."
Kagome dropped her hand away from her now twitching ear and stared at them, before looking up at Inuyasha, her eyes wide and bright. "Inuyasha..." She said softly, looking down at the flowers again and taking them from him, she hugged them to herself. "Thank you." She said feeling all warm and fuzzy inside. For now glad she wasn't in her body, but still, it didn't stop the soft smile from creasing his lips.
Kouga got up and spat. Again. "Don't try stealing my woman dog f-... Wait, your in Kagome's beautiful body, I can't say face. Well, dog shit! She's mine! Get it! You are only protecting her till I bring her Naraku's neck as a wedding gift! Now, how do we switch you back?! I don't want my intended's body soiled by your presence! How could you let this happen? If it's not putting her in life threatening danger, you're just hurting her! She should be with me if you can't handle her!"
He glared at Kouga, and seeing as how he hadn't just been kissed, it actually worked. Minus the cute blush that wouldn't leave his cheeks. "Well, wolf dung, seeing as how you're the one currently spitting and eating grass, I'd really leave it up to Kagome to decide. I think you got your order mixed up, Kouga: you're supposed to ask for her hand in marriage first, and then you're supposed to go and make preparations for what to get her as a gift. And, by the way, she's the one who handles me, remember?" He gestured to the necklace.
Kagome stood back and shook her hands at both of them. "Not this again! I told you already-!"
"It's alright, Kagome." Kouga reassured, appearing by her side instantly, her hands clasped in his. "I will find the cure for this, and give your body back to you." Kouga promised, still trying to get over the shock of his beloved in. A damn dog demon body. Damn.
"Oi! Flea bag! She is mine! I announced her as mine! My clan knows her to be my mate! You are the only one who doesn't seem to get it and rightfully she should control you!" Kouga then turned back to Kagome, his bedroom voice back. "If you need me, call. I will come to you. I will go find out what I can for your. Situation. Then, once you are cured I will take you to my clan dwelling. After I beat Naraku, we shall be reunited. I swear it! See you soon, Kagome!" Kouga called to her stepping back and disappearing in a whirlwind off to find the cure.
Kagome stood there rather breathless and flustered as she stared after him. "I really wanted to get a word in edgewise." Kagome said softly, accidentally cutting her lip again with Inuyasha's fangs. "Hm." Kagome sounded dreamily, before shaking her head and looking over at Inuyasha again, trying to hide her expression. "He. Doesn't smell as bad as you keep saying." Kagome tried to reason.
"You obviously didn't get a whiff of his personality," he snarled, staring in the direction Kouga had disappeared into. He glanced up at her and saw she was bleeding. After a brief poke into the yellow knapsack, he withdrew a hanker chief and gently patted her bottom lip dry. Then he arched an eyebrow. "So what was this word you wanted to get in edgewise?"
"Huh?" Kagome asked her thought still lingering over the feeling of concern Inuyasha showed her. She liked him like this, very much in fact. But she missed his other self. They had to fix their situation, and fast. Before they got into more trouble then Kouga just kissing Inuyasha, though to Kagome's curious side, it was found odd how easily Inuyasha was taking that. "Well, that I'm not his wife."
He nodded. "We're both fully aware of that, Kagome," he said with a tiny smile, starting to walk back to the village, praying Kaede had found a way to fix their bodies, so that he could get his back and then go and beat Kouga until the wolf would learn never to go and kiss Kagome again. He had thought about doing it in Kagome's body, but didn't want to break a nail.
That damn sweat drop reappeared. "Pick up your feet, Kagome! Don't stand there all day smelling the flowers! That's part of the reason why I gave them to you!" He rolled his eyes. 'That and because you wanted to, you sentimental fool..'
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Kaede shook her head slowly as she waxed the string of her bow. "No. I tried my best, Kagome, but I could find no cure for your ailment. If you did not find one in your world, then at least we can be thankful that no harm came to you two during the time when Inuyasha is human. I can continue looking for a spell, but you two cannot give up looking for the Shikon jewel shards. You must continue on your journey, regardless of your predicament."
Inuyasha stared at the old priestess a moment, before he blinked his wide brown eyes and felt his bottom lip start to tremble. "I'm not getting my old body back?" Tears began to run down his cheeks, and he looked like Shippo did when he was told he wasn't getting any candy. "I'm not going to be a demon again?"
Kagome turned startled to Inuyasha. "Hey... Inuyasha... Don't cry... I mean..." Kagome was speechless. 'Female hormones and mood swings, it takes more then a couple of days to get use to them.' Kagome thought with blunt maleness. Wrapping an arm around Inuyasha, Kagome steeled her will. She couldn't stand seeing her demon crying! "We'll find the drunken Pig!"
His sadness was washed away as he thought of Ryoga. Stupid drunken pig! He dried his cheeks slowly, sniffling. "So much for his riddle. I mean, I was honest and everything, but did we change back or anything? NO!" He snuggled up under the fire rat robed arm for a moment, thinking of Kagome's life. Kaede quietly slipped out, giving them some privacy so they could talk about what they were going to do to get over this.
"How can you put up with all those guys chasing you?" he asked gently. "They wear me out. Hojo's persistent as hell, and Kouga, well, I had a low opinion of him from the beginning."
Kagome shrugged her shoulders back simply, watching him warmly. "They are friends." Kagome explained, "I guess you just learn to deal with it. Like you learned to use the sword." Kagome said looking down at the sword by her side. "I'm still lost about swinging it. Not to mention Kaza no Kizu." Kagome said then arched her brow at Inuyasha. "Inuyasha, that is very impolite, stop touching and don't touch there at all!" Kagome chided, smacking his hand away from her chest. What was he trying to do?! Readjust it!?
"Sorry," he demurred. Inuyasha slipped out from under her arm. "Listen, Kagome, I. if you want to come back early one time so that you can go out with that Hojo guy, I guess I wouldn't mind. He's a better guy than Kouga at least, even if I do still say he's a stalker. What I'm trying to say is.." He stopped again. How could he tell Kagome that he understood her so much better now? His frown grew slightly, and he looked away. "I trust your judgment, and whatever you decide to do after this is all over, whoever you decide to chose, I'll still be here for you. I'll still be your friend."
Kagome felt all warm inside. Feeling a blush touch her cheeks, Kagome averted her yellow eyes. Snuggling close to him, Kagome smiled, contented and happy. "I'm glad to know that, Inuyasha." Kagome said softly, but then felt a slight pang. Was that all they were? 'Just' friends? Sighing, Kagome lay her head on his shoulder and looked into Kaede's cooking fire. "It's alright though. I am not interested in Hojo." Kagome soothed him. "But I don't want you to fight me so hard when I have to go home early for a test!" Kagome chided.
"Really?" he asked eagerly, his eyes filling with hope. She was eager to point out that Kouga was not her mate, and now she said she had no interest in Hojo. Maybe Inuyasha really did have a chance! He coughed loudly, trying to steady his voice from the high squeal it had been in his moment of delight. "I mean. ah. really?" There. Now he sounded more casual, even though nothing could wipe the hopeful smile off his face.
Thinking back to the book he had glanced at, he rolled his eyes. "If I had to learn stuff like that, I think I'd prefer missing the test. Then again.." He leaned against the wall of Kaede's hut, still held closely in the arms of his old body, which Kagome now sported. "What's it like, learning all the neat stuff?" he slowly asked, wanting to hear her opinion, because he had grown to value it.
"Ugh.... Horrible." Kagome muttered burying her face into his shoulder and squeezing her eyes. How was she going to go to tests now without her body!? This was... Probably worse then that time when the three monkey god's chased them. She could get away from them then, but now she was trapped in a body not her own. That itched in all kinds of weird places she wasn't allowed, and didn't want to scratch. It was funny walking and her senses were waaaaaay too hyper. "Inuyasha? I like your body and all. But I want my old one back." Kagome confessed.
"I don't know, I could get used to this body," he teased. "It's all squishy and stuff."
Then she glared at him and he smiled back in response. "I'm joking! I'm joking! I want my old body back to too." He rolled his eyes and pursed his full lips. But her body was really squishy, in a good way. Inuyasha was starting to think that she was made of clouds, while he was filled with rocks. They even moved differently. "I want my brain back too. Yours is too poetic. If I have to keep on dealing with your body, I think I'm going to go nuts. It's going to start turning me into a woman. I'll be a straight man in the body of a female." Then he looked at his own body and thought of the prolonged uses of her mind in his body. Specifically with Kouga.. Inuyasha shuddered. "I'm not giving up yet. There's got to be a way out of this body.."
Shippo, having just learned that Inuyasha and Kagome had returned home, bounded inside and immediately latched unto Kagome's body. "Kagome! I missed you! Did you bring me something to eat?" His tail swished back and forth as he stared up at her with the begging green eyes of a kid who wanted food.
Inuyasha glared at the fox demon that had just grabbed his neck and was now practically building a next on his breasts. Well, they were.. He cut off that thought before it resulted in a nose bleed and pointed at his old body. "I don't know. Ask her."
Kagome blinked and looked over at Inuyasha. 'He doesn't know...' Kagome mouthed to him, throwing him a menacing look. It was his fault, Shippo didn't know in the first place. Playing it all suave, if Kagome didn't know any better, she'd figure Inuyasha has a thing for playing the drag queen and imitating her. However, Shippo was on the mark as usual, pulling out of the side corner of the backpack a red lollipop Kagome handed it to him with a big toothy smile. "Here." Kagome said her eyes closed, thus missing the pale, stunned look Shippo bestowed upon her.
Thinking that since they had found no way to change them back, and the charade was going to continue, Inuyasha found no joy in teasing Shippo. Instead, he glared at the small demon with a look bordering on bored. "How come his body can handle all this sugar you give him, but mine can't even handle ice cream and pop?" he demanded, bitterly. Now that Kagome knew how his body reacted to sugar, she was never going to ask him to her world for ice cream again. "It just isn't fair.."
"What's ice cream? What's pop?" He pouted up at Kagome's body, his tail flopping back and forth. "Did you bring any for me?"
Kagome glared at Inuyasha like a scolding parent. "You did that on purpose, didn't you?" Kagome demanded, then caught the death glare Shippo was sending in her direction. "Shippo! I'm Kagome! Not Inuyasha!"
"I didn't do anything on purpose!" Inuyasha protested, groaning in his head. He'd been able to side step Kouga and Hojo, but it was Shippo that was screwing up everything again. "I'm Inuyasha!" he said.
Shippo glanced at them both a moment, before giggling. "Oh. I get it. You two switched bodies!" He bounded into Kagome's lap, clinging to the red haori and speaking around the lollipop. "What's it like being Inuyasha, Kagome?"
Kagome smiled down at Shippo and ruffled his hair. "Fun. And itchy." Kagome said then yelped, leaping up and jumping around. "OUCH! Watch where you step!!!" Kagome muttered fanning her lap. Poor Inuyasha, if Shippo was always that careless, she could understand the beating... And why the gym teacher from third grade told them to kick the boys "where it hurts".
Inuyasha hid a giggle behind his hand before bonking Shippo on the head. "Hey! It's still my body, so be careful!" He looked up at Kagome, his voice softer again. "You think it's fun in my body? Why would it be fun?"
"Maybe it's because she.."
"Finish that thought, Shippo, and I'm going to shave your tail."
Kagome cocked her head to the side and stared dumbly at Shippo. "Maybe it's because I'm what?" Kagome asked, her curiosity rising.
Shippo poked his fore fingers together nervously, his cheeks burning. "Well, because she's stronger now, she hurts you more when she smacks you around. And because I mean. she can see. stuff. And she can. um. touch stuff. And she can do everything she talks about doing to you in her sleep without having to worry about you saying no, or yelling at her, or swiping at her hands."
Kagome all of the sudden understood why Inuyasha reached out so many times to ring the little demon's neck. "Shippo." Kagome gritted out then lunged at him. Missing as he skipped up in the air, and actually used her head as a stepping stool to run over to Inuyasha before letting out an 'eek' sound.
"I forgot YOU'RE Inuyasha!!" Shippo yelped shrilly.
"Shippo!" Kagome yelled, fisting her hands at her sides and then cracked her knuckles menacingly at him. She and Inuyasha really had to trade bodies soon. Otherwise. Kagome shook that thought away. "Inuyasha will do no touching!!" Kagome yelled and pinned Inuyasha with a look. "No. Touching." Kagome warned then waved her hand dismissivly, "Don't bother me about looking. Nothing that impressive to look at anyway!" Kagome waved indifferently, then narrowed her eyes at Shippo once again, not realizing how menacing her yellow eyes looked. "Shut up about my sleep talking." She said guiltily.
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Inuyasha walked until he hit the clearing full of wild flowers. Even out of his demon form, he had to admit that the white flowers smelled nice, and they looked really pretty in the sun light and the blue sky behind them. "Don't guys usually give girls flowers in your time?"
Kagome blinked and stared at him dumbly. "Are you planning on giving me flowers??" Kagome asked, alarmed to feel her heart slam against her chest in a quickened pace. Maybe female hormones were good for Inuyasha after all... He was so... Kagome raised her brows up into the bangs of her hair, until they were lost there. "Inuyasha.." Kagome whispered, about to go on, if it wasn't for a sudden tornado that swooped up, knocked her aside, vanished to reveal Kouga with a tight hold on Kagome's body's hands. "Yo."
Inuyasha stared up at Kouga with Kagome's eyes and face, minus the rather horror stricken look that he had on his face. He felt him squeeze her tighter, and his chest began to feel slightly uncomfortable. "Kouga!" He managed to laugh as he tried to take the wolf demon's hand off of his waist. "Imagine meeting you here!"
"Uh, Kouga..." Kagome began softly, poking the wolf demon in the shoulder.
"What smelly dog?! Can't you see I'm busy with Kagome?!" Kouga declared, loudly and turned back his smitten eyes to her, his whole being focused solely on Kagome before him, who was looking up at him with such beautiful brown eyes. "How are you?" He asked in sweet earnest.
Actually managing a realistic laugh, he replied, "I'm really not feeling like myself, wolf spit." Inuyasha, recovering from his initial shock, glared at Kouga, but the opportunity presented here was too good to pass up. He wanted to try and make Kagome as jealous as he had felt when he saw how Hojo treated her, but he'd been trying to do that since they had switched bodies. Therefore his glare really wasn't so much a glare as it was a direct gaze. "You might say I feel like a bitch today."
Kagome glared at Inuyasha then looked sorrowfully at Kouga's shocked expression. "Kouga-kun!" Kagome began right before she was about to launch into a full explanation. How cruel of Inuyasha... "It's not what you think!"
"Shut up dog piss!" Kouga shouted and grabbed Kagome's body close to his. "Kagome. It's alright. You can be yourself with me. You'll always be my bitch." He promised and to spite the annoying dog demon standing behind them, swept her into a kiss. "What is wrong, Kagome? Has dog dung done something? Come with me!" Kouga said in a rush, as always enjoying the way Kagome felt in his arms.
Kagome for her own half, stood behind them with her jaw slacking down to the ground, staring stupidly and wide eyed at the scene. "I.. In...K...Ko... I..." Kagome thought process paralyzed. 'My second kiss and I didn't even feel it! Does it count as my second kiss then?' Kagome wondered still staring, her mouth probably beginning to draw flies.
Inuyasha went lax in Kouga arms. It seemed that Kouga wasn't just talented with his mouth! His knees went weak, and Inuyasha actually had to lean against Kouga to support himself. Bloody weak female bodies! "Um.." Inuyasha looked up at Kouga, trying to concentrate. "Could you repeat the question?" he asked, trying to find strength in at least one arm, to either smack Kouga or himself.
Kouga encouraged by Kagome body weight against his. Unwrapped his hands from hers and lowered them to her waist. Had she finally decided to join him? To become his mate? To lead his wolf pack beside him? "Kagome..." He whispered huskily, his gorgeous blue eyes seeking her brown ones. He didn't know what happened between her and the smelly dog, but she had finally come to her senses. He knew it. "I'll protect you and care for you much better then the dumb dog, come with me. My pack will care for you until I bring you Naraku's head and then we can be together. You can be the mother of my pups."
'The mother of his pups?' Okay. This was maybe going a little bit too far. He managed to get some sense back into his body and managed to push himself an inch or two away from Kouga's body. Damn he was strong! And his legs weren't just the only things that were muscular, as Inuyasha could now vouch. "Yeah, sure, wolf piss. But you're gonna have to call my Inuyasha, and you get to be the mom."
Kouga faltered. "Huh?" Kouga asked, looking dumbstruck before scrunching his brows together. Was Kagome sick? What did Dog piss let happen to her?!?
"Kagome!" Kouga rushed to her, his hand feeling her forehead. "Are you well? Why do you mention dog crap now?"
"I'm fine you stupid wolf!" he snarled, slapping the hand away. "I just told you: I'm not feeling like myself. And you can call me Inuyasha. I-NU- YA-SHA." Did he have to spell it out for Kouga or something? Inuyasha arched an eyebrow, staring up at the wolf demon to see if he got the hint, while he wiped his lips with the sleeve of Kagome's school uniform, trying to make the feel of Kouga's lips go away.
Kouga snarled but calmed himself. Something was wrong with Kagome! He had to find some help for his beloved... "Kagome... What happened? What's wrong??" Kouga demanded then reared about, his tail swishing and his mini skirt stretching as he stood with his legs parted in a fighting position to face Inuyasha. "What did you do to her you sniveling dog?!?"
Kagome blinked and toyed with the strap of her yellow backpack, fingering Inuyasha's sword at her side. "Uh, Kouga? It's not like that. See, Inuyasha and I switched bodies." Kagome explained softly, this had to be handled carefully... For Kouga's sake.
Kouga's face paled and he stared dumbly. "Huh?" He asked after a moment, wondering what rock dog fart fell off and dragged his poor mate with him, probably hurting her head at the same time.
"I'm goddamn Inuyasha, you stupid pile of shit!" Inuyasha yelled, slapping Kouga across the back of his head. "Feh. You wanna fight? Fine! I'll beat you even in Kagome's body! And make you regret that you ever kissed me, even though you were trying to take advantage of my Kagome!"
A sweat drop appeared on Inuyasha's forehead. Did he actually just say 'my Kagome'? Oh well!
Kagome and Kouga faltered.
'My Kagome'?
Wow. Female hormones not only made him touchy, hearty and somewhat sweet... But possessive too. Kagome thought while still trying to processes through this situation.
Eh...? "Wait!" Kouga shouted trying to make sense of this and looking Kagome over, it was Inuyasha alright. Only Inuyasha's words could annoy him that much, and Kagome was above a stupid prank to lie about switching bodies. Looking at Inuyasha and seeing the sheepish smile... "How the hell did this happen?!?!"
"We both got into a spring at the same time," he replied. Then he realized how that sounded and shook his hands, trying to wave away the thought and protect himself before Kouga could decide to tackle him. "I mean, it's not like that at all! Kagome was already in the hot spring, and then I.." He really didn't want to have to admit this, but it looked like it would have to, if he didn't want Kouga to think of what he and Kagome might have been doing together in a hot spring at the same time. Inuyasha had no problem letting Kouga think that he and Kagome were in a passionate, physical relationship, he was worried about Kagome beating him to a bloody pulp. "I fell in."
Kouga stared. "You stupid clumsy worthless hied of a dog!" Kouga shouted then paused for a moment. "Wait," He turned to look at Inuyasha and searched for something about the stupid dogs face, that he could latch on to in search of his Kagome... But... He only smelt dog crap. "Kagome, is your virtue safe?" He asked taking a hold of her hands, but avoiding her yellow eyes.
Looking over at Kagome's body though, was a whole other matter. "How does your lecherous act against my betrothed have anything to do with this predicament?!?"
Kagome cleared her throat for the first time. "It was an enchanted spring." Kagome chirped in, then eased Kouga's temper. "Now stop calling Inuyasha names. It wasn't like he MEANT to fall in."
He smiled at her gratefully. That was Kagome alright, standing up for him even though she'd yelled at him plenty of times for falling into the hot springs. "I didn't lay a hand on her, slut puppy! You're the one who kissed her body! It wasn't a lecherous act, and it was an enchanted spring!" He replied, in order, ticking things off on his fingers. "Get it, Kouga?"
Kouga got it alright and then started cursing so loud, and so vehemently he could've made his wolves blush. "I kissed a god damn dog-crap-demon!!!" Kouga yelled and began spitting, wanting to wash his mouth out with acid.
Kagome looked at him sympathetically. "Well." Kagome said staring at Inuyasha. "For good measure he kissed you back." It was only a moment later when Kouga fell to his knees and started rubbing grass against his tongue and promising his revenge once Inuyasha was in his own body and the trashing he would get wouldn't hurt Kagome's body, that Kagome realized that was not the thing to say.
"Well, at least we ruled out you being homophobic..." Kagome commented to Inuyasha while scratching the back of her puppy ears. Ooooo... That felt soooooo gooood.... Why did Inuyasha complain when she touched them!?
Inuyasha came to stand beside her. "Didn't we rule that out before? And I didn't kiss him back." He sighed, watching Kouga lick the grass. "If you eat it enough of it, you'll throw up," he advised helpfully. He sighed, staring at Kagome. Being in her body was really quite an eye opener. In the space of an hour he had been hit on by both Hojo and Kouga. They probably saw the same thing in Kagome that he did, but what would Kagome ever see in him?
Then he remembered what he had come here for in the first place. He scooped up a handful of the white flowers, checked them over once, and handed them to Kagome with a blushing face. "Here, K.. Kagome."
Kagome dropped her hand away from her now twitching ear and stared at them, before looking up at Inuyasha, her eyes wide and bright. "Inuyasha..." She said softly, looking down at the flowers again and taking them from him, she hugged them to herself. "Thank you." She said feeling all warm and fuzzy inside. For now glad she wasn't in her body, but still, it didn't stop the soft smile from creasing his lips.
Kouga got up and spat. Again. "Don't try stealing my woman dog f-... Wait, your in Kagome's beautiful body, I can't say face. Well, dog shit! She's mine! Get it! You are only protecting her till I bring her Naraku's neck as a wedding gift! Now, how do we switch you back?! I don't want my intended's body soiled by your presence! How could you let this happen? If it's not putting her in life threatening danger, you're just hurting her! She should be with me if you can't handle her!"
He glared at Kouga, and seeing as how he hadn't just been kissed, it actually worked. Minus the cute blush that wouldn't leave his cheeks. "Well, wolf dung, seeing as how you're the one currently spitting and eating grass, I'd really leave it up to Kagome to decide. I think you got your order mixed up, Kouga: you're supposed to ask for her hand in marriage first, and then you're supposed to go and make preparations for what to get her as a gift. And, by the way, she's the one who handles me, remember?" He gestured to the necklace.
Kagome stood back and shook her hands at both of them. "Not this again! I told you already-!"
"It's alright, Kagome." Kouga reassured, appearing by her side instantly, her hands clasped in his. "I will find the cure for this, and give your body back to you." Kouga promised, still trying to get over the shock of his beloved in. A damn dog demon body. Damn.
"Oi! Flea bag! She is mine! I announced her as mine! My clan knows her to be my mate! You are the only one who doesn't seem to get it and rightfully she should control you!" Kouga then turned back to Kagome, his bedroom voice back. "If you need me, call. I will come to you. I will go find out what I can for your. Situation. Then, once you are cured I will take you to my clan dwelling. After I beat Naraku, we shall be reunited. I swear it! See you soon, Kagome!" Kouga called to her stepping back and disappearing in a whirlwind off to find the cure.
Kagome stood there rather breathless and flustered as she stared after him. "I really wanted to get a word in edgewise." Kagome said softly, accidentally cutting her lip again with Inuyasha's fangs. "Hm." Kagome sounded dreamily, before shaking her head and looking over at Inuyasha again, trying to hide her expression. "He. Doesn't smell as bad as you keep saying." Kagome tried to reason.
"You obviously didn't get a whiff of his personality," he snarled, staring in the direction Kouga had disappeared into. He glanced up at her and saw she was bleeding. After a brief poke into the yellow knapsack, he withdrew a hanker chief and gently patted her bottom lip dry. Then he arched an eyebrow. "So what was this word you wanted to get in edgewise?"
"Huh?" Kagome asked her thought still lingering over the feeling of concern Inuyasha showed her. She liked him like this, very much in fact. But she missed his other self. They had to fix their situation, and fast. Before they got into more trouble then Kouga just kissing Inuyasha, though to Kagome's curious side, it was found odd how easily Inuyasha was taking that. "Well, that I'm not his wife."
He nodded. "We're both fully aware of that, Kagome," he said with a tiny smile, starting to walk back to the village, praying Kaede had found a way to fix their bodies, so that he could get his back and then go and beat Kouga until the wolf would learn never to go and kiss Kagome again. He had thought about doing it in Kagome's body, but didn't want to break a nail.
That damn sweat drop reappeared. "Pick up your feet, Kagome! Don't stand there all day smelling the flowers! That's part of the reason why I gave them to you!" He rolled his eyes. 'That and because you wanted to, you sentimental fool..'
* * * *
Kaede shook her head slowly as she waxed the string of her bow. "No. I tried my best, Kagome, but I could find no cure for your ailment. If you did not find one in your world, then at least we can be thankful that no harm came to you two during the time when Inuyasha is human. I can continue looking for a spell, but you two cannot give up looking for the Shikon jewel shards. You must continue on your journey, regardless of your predicament."
Inuyasha stared at the old priestess a moment, before he blinked his wide brown eyes and felt his bottom lip start to tremble. "I'm not getting my old body back?" Tears began to run down his cheeks, and he looked like Shippo did when he was told he wasn't getting any candy. "I'm not going to be a demon again?"
Kagome turned startled to Inuyasha. "Hey... Inuyasha... Don't cry... I mean..." Kagome was speechless. 'Female hormones and mood swings, it takes more then a couple of days to get use to them.' Kagome thought with blunt maleness. Wrapping an arm around Inuyasha, Kagome steeled her will. She couldn't stand seeing her demon crying! "We'll find the drunken Pig!"
His sadness was washed away as he thought of Ryoga. Stupid drunken pig! He dried his cheeks slowly, sniffling. "So much for his riddle. I mean, I was honest and everything, but did we change back or anything? NO!" He snuggled up under the fire rat robed arm for a moment, thinking of Kagome's life. Kaede quietly slipped out, giving them some privacy so they could talk about what they were going to do to get over this.
"How can you put up with all those guys chasing you?" he asked gently. "They wear me out. Hojo's persistent as hell, and Kouga, well, I had a low opinion of him from the beginning."
Kagome shrugged her shoulders back simply, watching him warmly. "They are friends." Kagome explained, "I guess you just learn to deal with it. Like you learned to use the sword." Kagome said looking down at the sword by her side. "I'm still lost about swinging it. Not to mention Kaza no Kizu." Kagome said then arched her brow at Inuyasha. "Inuyasha, that is very impolite, stop touching and don't touch there at all!" Kagome chided, smacking his hand away from her chest. What was he trying to do?! Readjust it!?
"Sorry," he demurred. Inuyasha slipped out from under her arm. "Listen, Kagome, I. if you want to come back early one time so that you can go out with that Hojo guy, I guess I wouldn't mind. He's a better guy than Kouga at least, even if I do still say he's a stalker. What I'm trying to say is.." He stopped again. How could he tell Kagome that he understood her so much better now? His frown grew slightly, and he looked away. "I trust your judgment, and whatever you decide to do after this is all over, whoever you decide to chose, I'll still be here for you. I'll still be your friend."
Kagome felt all warm inside. Feeling a blush touch her cheeks, Kagome averted her yellow eyes. Snuggling close to him, Kagome smiled, contented and happy. "I'm glad to know that, Inuyasha." Kagome said softly, but then felt a slight pang. Was that all they were? 'Just' friends? Sighing, Kagome lay her head on his shoulder and looked into Kaede's cooking fire. "It's alright though. I am not interested in Hojo." Kagome soothed him. "But I don't want you to fight me so hard when I have to go home early for a test!" Kagome chided.
"Really?" he asked eagerly, his eyes filling with hope. She was eager to point out that Kouga was not her mate, and now she said she had no interest in Hojo. Maybe Inuyasha really did have a chance! He coughed loudly, trying to steady his voice from the high squeal it had been in his moment of delight. "I mean. ah. really?" There. Now he sounded more casual, even though nothing could wipe the hopeful smile off his face.
Thinking back to the book he had glanced at, he rolled his eyes. "If I had to learn stuff like that, I think I'd prefer missing the test. Then again.." He leaned against the wall of Kaede's hut, still held closely in the arms of his old body, which Kagome now sported. "What's it like, learning all the neat stuff?" he slowly asked, wanting to hear her opinion, because he had grown to value it.
"Ugh.... Horrible." Kagome muttered burying her face into his shoulder and squeezing her eyes. How was she going to go to tests now without her body!? This was... Probably worse then that time when the three monkey god's chased them. She could get away from them then, but now she was trapped in a body not her own. That itched in all kinds of weird places she wasn't allowed, and didn't want to scratch. It was funny walking and her senses were waaaaaay too hyper. "Inuyasha? I like your body and all. But I want my old one back." Kagome confessed.
"I don't know, I could get used to this body," he teased. "It's all squishy and stuff."
Then she glared at him and he smiled back in response. "I'm joking! I'm joking! I want my old body back to too." He rolled his eyes and pursed his full lips. But her body was really squishy, in a good way. Inuyasha was starting to think that she was made of clouds, while he was filled with rocks. They even moved differently. "I want my brain back too. Yours is too poetic. If I have to keep on dealing with your body, I think I'm going to go nuts. It's going to start turning me into a woman. I'll be a straight man in the body of a female." Then he looked at his own body and thought of the prolonged uses of her mind in his body. Specifically with Kouga.. Inuyasha shuddered. "I'm not giving up yet. There's got to be a way out of this body.."
Shippo, having just learned that Inuyasha and Kagome had returned home, bounded inside and immediately latched unto Kagome's body. "Kagome! I missed you! Did you bring me something to eat?" His tail swished back and forth as he stared up at her with the begging green eyes of a kid who wanted food.
Inuyasha glared at the fox demon that had just grabbed his neck and was now practically building a next on his breasts. Well, they were.. He cut off that thought before it resulted in a nose bleed and pointed at his old body. "I don't know. Ask her."
Kagome blinked and looked over at Inuyasha. 'He doesn't know...' Kagome mouthed to him, throwing him a menacing look. It was his fault, Shippo didn't know in the first place. Playing it all suave, if Kagome didn't know any better, she'd figure Inuyasha has a thing for playing the drag queen and imitating her. However, Shippo was on the mark as usual, pulling out of the side corner of the backpack a red lollipop Kagome handed it to him with a big toothy smile. "Here." Kagome said her eyes closed, thus missing the pale, stunned look Shippo bestowed upon her.
Thinking that since they had found no way to change them back, and the charade was going to continue, Inuyasha found no joy in teasing Shippo. Instead, he glared at the small demon with a look bordering on bored. "How come his body can handle all this sugar you give him, but mine can't even handle ice cream and pop?" he demanded, bitterly. Now that Kagome knew how his body reacted to sugar, she was never going to ask him to her world for ice cream again. "It just isn't fair.."
"What's ice cream? What's pop?" He pouted up at Kagome's body, his tail flopping back and forth. "Did you bring any for me?"
Kagome glared at Inuyasha like a scolding parent. "You did that on purpose, didn't you?" Kagome demanded, then caught the death glare Shippo was sending in her direction. "Shippo! I'm Kagome! Not Inuyasha!"
"I didn't do anything on purpose!" Inuyasha protested, groaning in his head. He'd been able to side step Kouga and Hojo, but it was Shippo that was screwing up everything again. "I'm Inuyasha!" he said.
Shippo glanced at them both a moment, before giggling. "Oh. I get it. You two switched bodies!" He bounded into Kagome's lap, clinging to the red haori and speaking around the lollipop. "What's it like being Inuyasha, Kagome?"
Kagome smiled down at Shippo and ruffled his hair. "Fun. And itchy." Kagome said then yelped, leaping up and jumping around. "OUCH! Watch where you step!!!" Kagome muttered fanning her lap. Poor Inuyasha, if Shippo was always that careless, she could understand the beating... And why the gym teacher from third grade told them to kick the boys "where it hurts".
Inuyasha hid a giggle behind his hand before bonking Shippo on the head. "Hey! It's still my body, so be careful!" He looked up at Kagome, his voice softer again. "You think it's fun in my body? Why would it be fun?"
"Maybe it's because she.."
"Finish that thought, Shippo, and I'm going to shave your tail."
Kagome cocked her head to the side and stared dumbly at Shippo. "Maybe it's because I'm what?" Kagome asked, her curiosity rising.
Shippo poked his fore fingers together nervously, his cheeks burning. "Well, because she's stronger now, she hurts you more when she smacks you around. And because I mean. she can see. stuff. And she can. um. touch stuff. And she can do everything she talks about doing to you in her sleep without having to worry about you saying no, or yelling at her, or swiping at her hands."
Kagome all of the sudden understood why Inuyasha reached out so many times to ring the little demon's neck. "Shippo." Kagome gritted out then lunged at him. Missing as he skipped up in the air, and actually used her head as a stepping stool to run over to Inuyasha before letting out an 'eek' sound.
"I forgot YOU'RE Inuyasha!!" Shippo yelped shrilly.
"Shippo!" Kagome yelled, fisting her hands at her sides and then cracked her knuckles menacingly at him. She and Inuyasha really had to trade bodies soon. Otherwise. Kagome shook that thought away. "Inuyasha will do no touching!!" Kagome yelled and pinned Inuyasha with a look. "No. Touching." Kagome warned then waved her hand dismissivly, "Don't bother me about looking. Nothing that impressive to look at anyway!" Kagome waved indifferently, then narrowed her eyes at Shippo once again, not realizing how menacing her yellow eyes looked. "Shut up about my sleep talking." She said guiltily.