by Rhapsody Moonschild and Tat Claire Kokoro
|~*Inu-yasha belongs to someone who's not us. Love Hina is also not ours.*~|
CHAPTER NINE (by Rhapsody)
"Kaede!" Kagome called as they entered the village. An old woman came out of one
of the huts and stared at Keitaro.
"And who be this? He's not Inuyasha…" she said. Keitaro wondered how she could
stare so piercingly with only one eye. He felt small and silly-looking in the red yukata
with his paper ears blowing a little in the wind.
"This is Keitaro," Kagome said in a distracted voice, mind not on the question. "Kaede,
have you seen Inuyasha?"
"I thought he was with ye… No, I hav't," Kaede replied. Kagome sighed unhappily and
her shoulders slumped.
"Kagome misses Inuyasha a lot," Shippo told the old lady, his eyes wide. "I don't miss
him that much. He's mean. But not to Kagome."
"Not to Kagome, of course," Miroku said with a knowing smile.
"Shut up, Miroku," Kagome said, her face reddening.
"What did I say?" he asked innocently. Kagome stomped off to Kaede's hut without
bothering to reply.
"Inuyasha left us after the last village in a sulk. Good riddance, I think," Sango
informed Kaede.
"And he fell out of the well. He belongs to Kagome's time," Miroku continued, pointing
to Keitaro.
"So why did't ye just send him back through?"
"He's missing his turtle," Shippo volunteered, then paused. "What's a turtle?"
*
"Green body covered by a hard rock…" Sesshomaru mused aloud as he examined Tama-
chan. She wriggled in protest when he ran a claw down her patterned back.
"Could it be… a turtle?"
Sesshomaru had heard of the animal. It was good to eat if you could get its rock off…
Well, that shouldn't be too hard. He grasped the rock and pulled at it. The turtle
withdrew its head and extremities into the shell. Now, this was odd…
Sesshomaru peered into the shell. Small, shiny turtle eyes stared back at him.
"Myuh," the turtle said, annoyed. It reached out and bit him on the nose.
"Oh, shi--!!!" Sesshomaru began, but remembered that this story wasn't intended a high
rating for language. He coughed the rest of it down. "Shitake mushrooms!" he
corrected hurriedly. "It bit me!"
He threw the turtle down and disgust and Tama-chan flew off without a care in the
world, especially not for evil half-demons or Keitaro.
