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AN: Megu-Sama: ::shudders:: That is just plain disturbing! . I like it. But still, waaaaaay too traumatizing. For everyone. Not just Shippo. ::thoughts lead to a pregnant Inuyasha:: Like I said, just wrong. Glad you are enjoying though!
insomni-maniac: Hmm. Myths? I dunno. We should really find some perverted mask and try the theory out. You know, just to be. Sure. As for Michael Jackson's face, I still maintain it is a special effect, therefore I still list it as impossible, along with Anna Nicole smith's weight.
Weyrdette: Now there is a compliment! Thank you so much!! We are delighted you are enjoying, and yes, fanfiction is great. You should really write some and give it a try!
Kris-chan: You know, it's scary how well you imitate the exaggerated Shippo- style hissy-fit. You do it so well! It's astounding! Astonishing! Amazing! . Moving on, yes, we agree. It is frightening how Kagome's body is taking over, however, we should all be pleased that his maleness still shines through when discussing Kagome's undies. Long live thongs to save Inuyasha's soul! . Took it too far, didn't I?
Loki: lol, glad you are enjoying so much! Just careful on the ribs. You know, don't wanna crack them or anything, and oh! When laughing (caution) remember to breathe! It is often forgotten. And yes, those seat guards are great. If they only wrapped around the front too, so you didn't fall forward and straight into the computer screen. not. that. I'd know. Oh Shiiiiiiipppppppooooo!!
AssassinReiX: I love people who love it! ^_^ Here's the update!
Silver Eyes Bright: Put down. the tar and feathers. Just step away from the tar and feathers. Awww, come on, please? You just said he did the right thing! I mean, he was being a gentleman and. ::notices Shippo:: Ok. You can tar and feather him.
kiko-love-kurama: Well, we do! Here it is! Hope you enjoy!
The-Real-Rosie-Gamgee: You are just a person of very few words, aren't you?
FireBringer: Yes sir (or ma'am)! Here is the updated! Hope you enjoy!
Indiscretion: ::grins:: Well, yes, now THAT is an idea. And Miroku would love that perversion of yours, so please stay out of Sango's way. And you still aren't getting any chocolate dipped Inuyasha. 0=) (that is suppose to be my angelic face expression)
Thank you to everyone who reviewed this story! We love your reviews and insights! Please continue doing so! We hope you enjoy the rest of the story! Woot!!! We passed 200 reviews!!! Yes!!!! I can still remember when we gloated over passing 100. Awww this is great! Yay! Thank you again to everyone! We hope you continue enjoying this story to the fullest and promise you more sidesplitting fun!
Happy holidays!
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Chapter Fifteen!
Kirara looked over her back, both tails splitting to meow at Miroku.
"Shut up," Miroku bitterly growled to the cat. Then he sighed. So that was it then. She had really done it because of the sake, and not because she wanted to. Which was unfortunate, because Sango had made him feel. different. Things were probably better this way.. Still, thanks to his vivid memories, Miroku needed some cold water, and fast. He glanced at her over his shoulder. "Sango, my offer still stands. Anytime you need it. My bedroll or bedroom is open and at your disposal." He stood up, thankful for the robes he wore. It would have been a mess if he had been wearing pants like Inuyasha. Miroku smiled broadly. "Race you to the water!" he challenged, taking off.
Sango stood there with a stupid dry humor expression over her features. "Is that his form of an apology? Racing me to the water and watching me get wet?" Sango questioned out loud, to which Kirara answered with 'meow.'
Hmpf! Marching after him, her hand closing over the handle of her boomerang protectively. "Bed roll... Couldn't he have at least made me an offer he DOESN'T to all of the other women!?"
"Meow."
"Traitor." Sango muttered and threw her weapon, watching it swirl through the air and knock Miroku's feet out from under him. Reaching out her hand, Sango caught it as it flew back and continued on marching towards the water, literally stepping over Miroku on her way there. "Pervert."
Picking himself up, he rubbed his head. Running after her, he tried to smile, but the sweat drop hanging over his head was making it rather difficult. "Is that really what you want? That's easy enough to be done." He stepped in front of her, his dark eyes staring into hers. Sometimes Miroku thought he was going to pull out his hair trying to understand Sango. "My darling Sango, there is very little that I can offer you in this world except for the meager belongings I have. And my bedroll isn't even one of them, as Kagome brought it from the future. I would offer you my respect, but you already have it; you had it since first we met, when you proved yourself to be brave and strong in a fight. I could offer you my shoulder, but I would not wish to insult you by implying that you would need someone to cry on, on a daily basis, though when you need it, it is there. And I should gladly offer you my soul and all that comes with it, but I fear that it is not worth much."
Sango's eyes widened and looked bright with unshed tears. Spinning around on her feet, Sango turned her back on him and clamped her hands together pressing them against her chest. He actually said something... Touching! Sango looked ambushed by warm emotion as she thought about how to deal with it. A blush touching her cheeks. "Houshi-sama..." Sango whispered faintly.
Kagome peered through the bushes and punched Inuyasha for being so loud in her shoes. "Shh! You are ruining their moment!" Kagome reprimanded him and continued her spying.
The monk's face almost faulted. A tender touching moment, and Kagome and Inuyasha had to ruin it all. He smiled at Sango. "But I think that I found something to offer you that no one else can, and that I have never offered to anyone else. Like the heads of two peeping toms on a silver platter."
"Damn it! We're caught!" Inuyasha tried to flee, but tripped over a branch, landing on his face.
Miroku peeped through the bushes, and found that Kagome had disappeared, but that Inuyasha was still there. and presenting him with a lovely view. His hand itched, and he sighed, closing his eyes. Oh, he'd to burn off a layer of skin if he was planning on doing what his hand was planning on doing. Miroku had just started to communicate on some deeper level to Sango, and now he was going to ruin it just to watch Inuyasha freak out. He shouldn't do it; he really shouldn't do it.. He was already doing it.
Inuyasha screeched and immediately launched himself at Miroku with more anger than Kagome or Sango ever had. It might have been Kagome's body, but it was still Inuyasha's pissed off nature. "You bastard! You touched me! I'm going to beat you to within an.. Oh." He stopped punching Miroku's face, the poor monk pinned on the ground, to see Sango looming above him. Inuyasha smiled Kagome's bright, perky smile, hoping it might ease over the situation. "Hello, uh, Sango."
Kagome stepped up beside Sango, her arms folded over her chest, hands up her sleeves. "Miroku. Inuuuuyasha." She said with narrowed eyes at the two. She couldn't really blame Inuyasha for beating Miroku up. But still. "Miroku, were you touchi-"
Sango snapped into the scene. "Houshi-sama..." She said in a threateningly cold voice that got Kirara hiding behind Kagome's legs.
As Inuyasha hadn't had his old strength, Miroku was still able to talk, although he already had a lump or two on his head. He held up his hand. "It has a mind of it's own, Sango! I swear it does!"
Inuyasha climbed off of Miroku guiltily. "The bastard started it."
Kagome nodded. "What did he do, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked patiently.
Sango narrowed her eyes at Miroku. "I'm sure it does. Maybe we should cut it off just to see." She said in a deadly voice.
Kagome shuddered and stared at Sango, her ears twitching nervously. Sango was a scary opponent. Stepping aside, Kirara quickly followed and made a small sound of protest when her hiding place moved. "No one is condemning you, Inuyasha. Maybe we should just leave Miroku here for a while to think about what he's done." Kagome said thoughtfully, while looking around. Usually there would be some smart mouthed comment from Shippo, but he wasn't there.
Turning on her heal to look around, she suddenly caught sight of a naked Shippo running down the grassy slope towards the water. "WEEEEE!!! SWIM TIME!!!" He called.
Kagome's ears flattened back. "What is wrong with all of the males lately?"
Sango sighed. "Even in a woman's body..."
Kagome and Sango both hung their heads.
Men.
Kirara meowed.
Inuyasha felt like he was going to faint. Which never would have happened had he not been in Kagome's body. "I. I'm not?"
Miroku paled, and clutched his good hand. "You wouldn't dare! Nobody would be so cruel as to take my good hand from me, and you know what will happen if the right hand goes!" He stood up, rubbing his now very sore head. "Besides, Kagome's body made a very tempting target. You can hardly blame me for wanting to frighten Inuyasha. I might be the only time in his life that Inuyasha will get hit on. And the sad thing is, it's all because he's in Kagome's body. Somehow even her beauty will cover up his aggressive attitude and make Inuyasha into a sweet maiden." He glanced at Sango. "Much as you yourself looked when I poured my heart out to you just now, Sango. Like a blushing bride."
'My blush bride,' he silently added.
The half demon trapped in a female body grabbed the first weapon he could find. "I'll shy maiden you, you pervert!"
"Inuyasha! SIT!" Kagome yelled and rushed over to Miroku. "Those were such sweet words!" Kagome declared, sniffing. Looking at Inuyasha in her body, she still couldn't see how it could contain his.. well, self. Kagome sighed. "I can't wait to be back in my body." She murmured.
Sango stood there in shock, her mouth open in a small 'o' shape. 'Blushing bride?' she wondered.
Kagome quickly perked up the situation, now that Miroku's hand wasn't in danger of being cut off and Inuyasha was, well... Kagome pocked him with her toe. "Hey, Inuyasha? You okay?" She asked.
"No," he mumbled, spitting dirt out of his mouth. He felt his bottom lip start to tremble, and he sniffled, getting angry at himself for suddenly starting to cry.
Inuyasha turned away from the others, and dried his cheeks. "So far today I've fallen down, been groped, sat. I want my old body back! I hate being a girl!" Kagome gritted her teeth. "Well, I LIKE being a girl! So whenever you want to give me my body back!" Kagome protested. "Oh yeah, Miroku, Sango, we think this is the same place where the two of us switched bodies a few days ago." Kagome said looking around. "You haven't seen a lecherous pig around here anywhere, have you?" Kagome questioned, narrowing her eyes at Miroku. "Well, you know, like... finds... like."
"Are you insinuating I'm a lecher or a pig?" He teased with a straight face. "Wait, but then, is Shippo.."
"Shippo's not in any danger unless somebody gets into that stream with him. It needs to have two humanoid bodies, or so we believe."
"But," Miroku wisely pointed out, "if you're wrong, and perhaps, a fish or a monkey comes along.."
Inuyasha looked unhappy. "With Shippo's brain and the way he climbs all over Kagome, is that really going to make a difference?"
Kagome threw Inuyasha a death look. "Sit." She said and watched her poor miserable body hit the ground again. She hated having to hurt her body, but how else would Inuyasha learn? "Don't talk like that about Shippo!"
Sango looked worried. "All the same, Houshi-sama, perhaps we should go get him? We don't know what other spells might be connected to this spring." Sango said surveying the area before turning back to Inuyasha and Kagome. "There isn't much growth to hide behind while bathing..." She said watching both of them carefully.
Kagome's ears perked up. "Wait! If you are trying to in-"
Sango raised her hands in self-defense and innocence. "I didn't say anything!"
This time Inuyasha stayed down in the dirt, as it would mean he'd have less space to fall if she did it again. He looked up at Kagome, and rolled over to his back, almost feeling more like himself now that he had been 'sat' and the tears had stopped. unless he started to think about the fact that he had been 'sat' twice, in which case he would surely start to cry again. "She has a point. And it was your idea to spy on them."
Miroku glanced over his shoulder at them, and leaned in closer to Sango, his voice a whisper. "I was telling the truth. You know that, don't you, Sango?"
Sango looked at him and blinked innocently. "About them spying? Yes. I know that."
Kagome cringed and pulled at Inuyasha's arms. "Come on.. This is... errm... Our cue to leave... and... try to find Ryoga!"
Miroku, meanwhile, was going to pull out his hair in frustration. Damn Inuyasha! Inuyasha stayed on the ground, half sulking. "Maybe I don't want to find Ryoga. I don't like him. All we have to do is stay here overnight, and tomorrow we can be gone from this place. I don't want to move, otherwise I might end up getting even more cursed than I already am. Need I remind you the shit I've been through these past few days? No. I'm staying right here!"
"What you've been put through!?" Kagome demanded, feeling Inuyasha's knuckles beg to be cracked. "You... You... No! You are getting up right now, even if... even if... Even if I need to throw you over my shoulder to find that pig!" Kagome declared loudly. Stay here? Lay back and relax? This place was where all of their troubles began and he was willing to just... Damn! He would be such a whipped girl!
Sango cleared her throat. "Actually, isn't he a boar?"
Kagome narrowed her amber eyes at Sango. "Pig."
Sango didn't notice the threatening look, already use to it from Inuyasha and since she never took him seriously with it. Why should she take Kagome seriously sporting the same look? "From what I know, he's one of the wild boar demons."
"I don't care if he is pork chops or Ms. Piggy! He gave us this riddle we can't figure out and I don't want to spend the rest of my days peeing standing up!" Kagome announced and yanked Inuyasha up to a standing position and went about cleaning the mud, clinging leaves and other filth off of her body. She sighed. This was horrible. Him ruining her last good school uniform too!
"Inuyasha, don't you want to get back to your old, strong, powerful, kick- ass," Kagome thought about it quickly trying to figure out a way to get him more involved on switching back. "Sexy," Kagome added to the other's collective shock. "Body? After all you keep saying you hate mine. Were you lying? Do you want to be a girl for the rest of your days? A human girl at that! Because you know, as a human girl you can't turn full demon." Kagome pointed out wisely.
"And what of Lady Kikyo?" Miroku asked stupidly, receiving a swift shove from an angry Sango.
"I-I mean. We still have to... Find Naraku! You cannot defeat Naraku as Lady Kagome!" Miroku said wisely.
Sango smiled at Miroku. That was, for now, a good save. "We will go get Shippo, no need to complicate things any further. Perhaps walking around you two might find on your quest a scroll or something to help you with a hint of the power of this place and how to break the spell. After all, you said last time you searched the area during night. It is now daytime. Perhaps you will find something helpful."
Kagome smiled at her friends, and still shuddered at their creeped out reaction of seeing Inuyasha with an ear to ear smile. It was disturbing. And not his usual cocky grin either. Kagome could never muster that one up. "Thank you." She told them then turned around to Inuyasha, hands clasped behind her back and balancing on the back of her feet. "So shall we? Inuyasha?"
He pulled his arm out of her grasp. "Yeah, sure," he huffed. Then he saw her smile, and his old anger came back. "Stop it. You're making a mockery of my body!"
Kagome wrinkled her nose and played with the edge of her ear. "How so?"
AN: Megu-Sama: ::shudders:: That is just plain disturbing! . I like it. But still, waaaaaay too traumatizing. For everyone. Not just Shippo. ::thoughts lead to a pregnant Inuyasha:: Like I said, just wrong. Glad you are enjoying though!
insomni-maniac: Hmm. Myths? I dunno. We should really find some perverted mask and try the theory out. You know, just to be. Sure. As for Michael Jackson's face, I still maintain it is a special effect, therefore I still list it as impossible, along with Anna Nicole smith's weight.
Weyrdette: Now there is a compliment! Thank you so much!! We are delighted you are enjoying, and yes, fanfiction is great. You should really write some and give it a try!
Kris-chan: You know, it's scary how well you imitate the exaggerated Shippo- style hissy-fit. You do it so well! It's astounding! Astonishing! Amazing! . Moving on, yes, we agree. It is frightening how Kagome's body is taking over, however, we should all be pleased that his maleness still shines through when discussing Kagome's undies. Long live thongs to save Inuyasha's soul! . Took it too far, didn't I?
Loki: lol, glad you are enjoying so much! Just careful on the ribs. You know, don't wanna crack them or anything, and oh! When laughing (caution) remember to breathe! It is often forgotten. And yes, those seat guards are great. If they only wrapped around the front too, so you didn't fall forward and straight into the computer screen. not. that. I'd know. Oh Shiiiiiiipppppppooooo!!
AssassinReiX: I love people who love it! ^_^ Here's the update!
Silver Eyes Bright: Put down. the tar and feathers. Just step away from the tar and feathers. Awww, come on, please? You just said he did the right thing! I mean, he was being a gentleman and. ::notices Shippo:: Ok. You can tar and feather him.
kiko-love-kurama: Well, we do! Here it is! Hope you enjoy!
The-Real-Rosie-Gamgee: You are just a person of very few words, aren't you?
FireBringer: Yes sir (or ma'am)! Here is the updated! Hope you enjoy!
Indiscretion: ::grins:: Well, yes, now THAT is an idea. And Miroku would love that perversion of yours, so please stay out of Sango's way. And you still aren't getting any chocolate dipped Inuyasha. 0=) (that is suppose to be my angelic face expression)
Thank you to everyone who reviewed this story! We love your reviews and insights! Please continue doing so! We hope you enjoy the rest of the story! Woot!!! We passed 200 reviews!!! Yes!!!! I can still remember when we gloated over passing 100. Awww this is great! Yay! Thank you again to everyone! We hope you continue enjoying this story to the fullest and promise you more sidesplitting fun!
Happy holidays!
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Chapter Fifteen!
Kirara looked over her back, both tails splitting to meow at Miroku.
"Shut up," Miroku bitterly growled to the cat. Then he sighed. So that was it then. She had really done it because of the sake, and not because she wanted to. Which was unfortunate, because Sango had made him feel. different. Things were probably better this way.. Still, thanks to his vivid memories, Miroku needed some cold water, and fast. He glanced at her over his shoulder. "Sango, my offer still stands. Anytime you need it. My bedroll or bedroom is open and at your disposal." He stood up, thankful for the robes he wore. It would have been a mess if he had been wearing pants like Inuyasha. Miroku smiled broadly. "Race you to the water!" he challenged, taking off.
Sango stood there with a stupid dry humor expression over her features. "Is that his form of an apology? Racing me to the water and watching me get wet?" Sango questioned out loud, to which Kirara answered with 'meow.'
Hmpf! Marching after him, her hand closing over the handle of her boomerang protectively. "Bed roll... Couldn't he have at least made me an offer he DOESN'T to all of the other women!?"
"Meow."
"Traitor." Sango muttered and threw her weapon, watching it swirl through the air and knock Miroku's feet out from under him. Reaching out her hand, Sango caught it as it flew back and continued on marching towards the water, literally stepping over Miroku on her way there. "Pervert."
Picking himself up, he rubbed his head. Running after her, he tried to smile, but the sweat drop hanging over his head was making it rather difficult. "Is that really what you want? That's easy enough to be done." He stepped in front of her, his dark eyes staring into hers. Sometimes Miroku thought he was going to pull out his hair trying to understand Sango. "My darling Sango, there is very little that I can offer you in this world except for the meager belongings I have. And my bedroll isn't even one of them, as Kagome brought it from the future. I would offer you my respect, but you already have it; you had it since first we met, when you proved yourself to be brave and strong in a fight. I could offer you my shoulder, but I would not wish to insult you by implying that you would need someone to cry on, on a daily basis, though when you need it, it is there. And I should gladly offer you my soul and all that comes with it, but I fear that it is not worth much."
Sango's eyes widened and looked bright with unshed tears. Spinning around on her feet, Sango turned her back on him and clamped her hands together pressing them against her chest. He actually said something... Touching! Sango looked ambushed by warm emotion as she thought about how to deal with it. A blush touching her cheeks. "Houshi-sama..." Sango whispered faintly.
Kagome peered through the bushes and punched Inuyasha for being so loud in her shoes. "Shh! You are ruining their moment!" Kagome reprimanded him and continued her spying.
The monk's face almost faulted. A tender touching moment, and Kagome and Inuyasha had to ruin it all. He smiled at Sango. "But I think that I found something to offer you that no one else can, and that I have never offered to anyone else. Like the heads of two peeping toms on a silver platter."
"Damn it! We're caught!" Inuyasha tried to flee, but tripped over a branch, landing on his face.
Miroku peeped through the bushes, and found that Kagome had disappeared, but that Inuyasha was still there. and presenting him with a lovely view. His hand itched, and he sighed, closing his eyes. Oh, he'd to burn off a layer of skin if he was planning on doing what his hand was planning on doing. Miroku had just started to communicate on some deeper level to Sango, and now he was going to ruin it just to watch Inuyasha freak out. He shouldn't do it; he really shouldn't do it.. He was already doing it.
Inuyasha screeched and immediately launched himself at Miroku with more anger than Kagome or Sango ever had. It might have been Kagome's body, but it was still Inuyasha's pissed off nature. "You bastard! You touched me! I'm going to beat you to within an.. Oh." He stopped punching Miroku's face, the poor monk pinned on the ground, to see Sango looming above him. Inuyasha smiled Kagome's bright, perky smile, hoping it might ease over the situation. "Hello, uh, Sango."
Kagome stepped up beside Sango, her arms folded over her chest, hands up her sleeves. "Miroku. Inuuuuyasha." She said with narrowed eyes at the two. She couldn't really blame Inuyasha for beating Miroku up. But still. "Miroku, were you touchi-"
Sango snapped into the scene. "Houshi-sama..." She said in a threateningly cold voice that got Kirara hiding behind Kagome's legs.
As Inuyasha hadn't had his old strength, Miroku was still able to talk, although he already had a lump or two on his head. He held up his hand. "It has a mind of it's own, Sango! I swear it does!"
Inuyasha climbed off of Miroku guiltily. "The bastard started it."
Kagome nodded. "What did he do, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked patiently.
Sango narrowed her eyes at Miroku. "I'm sure it does. Maybe we should cut it off just to see." She said in a deadly voice.
Kagome shuddered and stared at Sango, her ears twitching nervously. Sango was a scary opponent. Stepping aside, Kirara quickly followed and made a small sound of protest when her hiding place moved. "No one is condemning you, Inuyasha. Maybe we should just leave Miroku here for a while to think about what he's done." Kagome said thoughtfully, while looking around. Usually there would be some smart mouthed comment from Shippo, but he wasn't there.
Turning on her heal to look around, she suddenly caught sight of a naked Shippo running down the grassy slope towards the water. "WEEEEE!!! SWIM TIME!!!" He called.
Kagome's ears flattened back. "What is wrong with all of the males lately?"
Sango sighed. "Even in a woman's body..."
Kagome and Sango both hung their heads.
Men.
Kirara meowed.
Inuyasha felt like he was going to faint. Which never would have happened had he not been in Kagome's body. "I. I'm not?"
Miroku paled, and clutched his good hand. "You wouldn't dare! Nobody would be so cruel as to take my good hand from me, and you know what will happen if the right hand goes!" He stood up, rubbing his now very sore head. "Besides, Kagome's body made a very tempting target. You can hardly blame me for wanting to frighten Inuyasha. I might be the only time in his life that Inuyasha will get hit on. And the sad thing is, it's all because he's in Kagome's body. Somehow even her beauty will cover up his aggressive attitude and make Inuyasha into a sweet maiden." He glanced at Sango. "Much as you yourself looked when I poured my heart out to you just now, Sango. Like a blushing bride."
'My blush bride,' he silently added.
The half demon trapped in a female body grabbed the first weapon he could find. "I'll shy maiden you, you pervert!"
"Inuyasha! SIT!" Kagome yelled and rushed over to Miroku. "Those were such sweet words!" Kagome declared, sniffing. Looking at Inuyasha in her body, she still couldn't see how it could contain his.. well, self. Kagome sighed. "I can't wait to be back in my body." She murmured.
Sango stood there in shock, her mouth open in a small 'o' shape. 'Blushing bride?' she wondered.
Kagome quickly perked up the situation, now that Miroku's hand wasn't in danger of being cut off and Inuyasha was, well... Kagome pocked him with her toe. "Hey, Inuyasha? You okay?" She asked.
"No," he mumbled, spitting dirt out of his mouth. He felt his bottom lip start to tremble, and he sniffled, getting angry at himself for suddenly starting to cry.
Inuyasha turned away from the others, and dried his cheeks. "So far today I've fallen down, been groped, sat. I want my old body back! I hate being a girl!" Kagome gritted her teeth. "Well, I LIKE being a girl! So whenever you want to give me my body back!" Kagome protested. "Oh yeah, Miroku, Sango, we think this is the same place where the two of us switched bodies a few days ago." Kagome said looking around. "You haven't seen a lecherous pig around here anywhere, have you?" Kagome questioned, narrowing her eyes at Miroku. "Well, you know, like... finds... like."
"Are you insinuating I'm a lecher or a pig?" He teased with a straight face. "Wait, but then, is Shippo.."
"Shippo's not in any danger unless somebody gets into that stream with him. It needs to have two humanoid bodies, or so we believe."
"But," Miroku wisely pointed out, "if you're wrong, and perhaps, a fish or a monkey comes along.."
Inuyasha looked unhappy. "With Shippo's brain and the way he climbs all over Kagome, is that really going to make a difference?"
Kagome threw Inuyasha a death look. "Sit." She said and watched her poor miserable body hit the ground again. She hated having to hurt her body, but how else would Inuyasha learn? "Don't talk like that about Shippo!"
Sango looked worried. "All the same, Houshi-sama, perhaps we should go get him? We don't know what other spells might be connected to this spring." Sango said surveying the area before turning back to Inuyasha and Kagome. "There isn't much growth to hide behind while bathing..." She said watching both of them carefully.
Kagome's ears perked up. "Wait! If you are trying to in-"
Sango raised her hands in self-defense and innocence. "I didn't say anything!"
This time Inuyasha stayed down in the dirt, as it would mean he'd have less space to fall if she did it again. He looked up at Kagome, and rolled over to his back, almost feeling more like himself now that he had been 'sat' and the tears had stopped. unless he started to think about the fact that he had been 'sat' twice, in which case he would surely start to cry again. "She has a point. And it was your idea to spy on them."
Miroku glanced over his shoulder at them, and leaned in closer to Sango, his voice a whisper. "I was telling the truth. You know that, don't you, Sango?"
Sango looked at him and blinked innocently. "About them spying? Yes. I know that."
Kagome cringed and pulled at Inuyasha's arms. "Come on.. This is... errm... Our cue to leave... and... try to find Ryoga!"
Miroku, meanwhile, was going to pull out his hair in frustration. Damn Inuyasha! Inuyasha stayed on the ground, half sulking. "Maybe I don't want to find Ryoga. I don't like him. All we have to do is stay here overnight, and tomorrow we can be gone from this place. I don't want to move, otherwise I might end up getting even more cursed than I already am. Need I remind you the shit I've been through these past few days? No. I'm staying right here!"
"What you've been put through!?" Kagome demanded, feeling Inuyasha's knuckles beg to be cracked. "You... You... No! You are getting up right now, even if... even if... Even if I need to throw you over my shoulder to find that pig!" Kagome declared loudly. Stay here? Lay back and relax? This place was where all of their troubles began and he was willing to just... Damn! He would be such a whipped girl!
Sango cleared her throat. "Actually, isn't he a boar?"
Kagome narrowed her amber eyes at Sango. "Pig."
Sango didn't notice the threatening look, already use to it from Inuyasha and since she never took him seriously with it. Why should she take Kagome seriously sporting the same look? "From what I know, he's one of the wild boar demons."
"I don't care if he is pork chops or Ms. Piggy! He gave us this riddle we can't figure out and I don't want to spend the rest of my days peeing standing up!" Kagome announced and yanked Inuyasha up to a standing position and went about cleaning the mud, clinging leaves and other filth off of her body. She sighed. This was horrible. Him ruining her last good school uniform too!
"Inuyasha, don't you want to get back to your old, strong, powerful, kick- ass," Kagome thought about it quickly trying to figure out a way to get him more involved on switching back. "Sexy," Kagome added to the other's collective shock. "Body? After all you keep saying you hate mine. Were you lying? Do you want to be a girl for the rest of your days? A human girl at that! Because you know, as a human girl you can't turn full demon." Kagome pointed out wisely.
"And what of Lady Kikyo?" Miroku asked stupidly, receiving a swift shove from an angry Sango.
"I-I mean. We still have to... Find Naraku! You cannot defeat Naraku as Lady Kagome!" Miroku said wisely.
Sango smiled at Miroku. That was, for now, a good save. "We will go get Shippo, no need to complicate things any further. Perhaps walking around you two might find on your quest a scroll or something to help you with a hint of the power of this place and how to break the spell. After all, you said last time you searched the area during night. It is now daytime. Perhaps you will find something helpful."
Kagome smiled at her friends, and still shuddered at their creeped out reaction of seeing Inuyasha with an ear to ear smile. It was disturbing. And not his usual cocky grin either. Kagome could never muster that one up. "Thank you." She told them then turned around to Inuyasha, hands clasped behind her back and balancing on the back of her feet. "So shall we? Inuyasha?"
He pulled his arm out of her grasp. "Yeah, sure," he huffed. Then he saw her smile, and his old anger came back. "Stop it. You're making a mockery of my body!"
Kagome wrinkled her nose and played with the edge of her ear. "How so?"