Sleepover - Chapter 5 By: Sakura Katsana

Disclaimer: Who said I own Inuyasha?

. . .

Me?

Oh, well, I was lying. I don't. ^_^;

Sakura's Note: I'm done with my mid-terms! *Grabs up Inuyasha manga* I think I did well . . .

Hopefully.

Well, here's the next chapter of Sleepover, sorry it took so long to post. *Hands out cookies*

Not much to say this time, just that I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Shout outs: Warcrafter, kawaii monkey hanyou, papercut15, kiwichan, InuShemeeko, justevilgurl, StickySyrupPancakes, and Miko Sakura-sama fan.

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Chapter 5: Shut up

Miroku raised an eyebrow as the sun slowly began to set behind the trees.

They'd been gone a while.

What were they *doing* out there?

. . .

Ah.

His trademark hentai grin appeared, Sango no longer in his arms but shining her boomerang bone.

"Miroku, wipe that grin off your face, they're not doing anything," Sango scolded, not even looking around.

"How did you-"

"Experience."

Shippou snickered from his place by the taijiya, quickly 'falling asleep' when Miroku cast him a glare.

"How do you know they're not doing anything," Miroku retorted, "The way Inuyasha was acting . . ."

Sango rest her boomerang on the trunk of a nearby tree, turning to look at Miroku. "Because I'm no pervert, hentai-sama."

Miroku's eye widened, "Hentai-sama?!"

"Yes, hentai-sama. I think that fits you, doesn't it?" she quirked an eyebrow, "Thinking all those things about Inuyasha and Kagome-chan."

"You've wounded me, Sango," Miroku sniffed, turning back to watch the sunsets.

Sango scoffed.

"No, really."

Sango looked at the monk, her skeptical attitude dissipating.

Had she hurt him?

"Miroku . . . I-"

Miroku turned fully around, a small smile appearing on his lips. The demon exterminator sighed, walking to his back and leaning over, about to kiss his cheek.

Suddenly, Miroku turned so their lips met, catching Sango off guard. The monk smiled into the kiss, deepening it without and resistance on Sango's part.

Someone clearing their throat abruptly ended their make out session.

"I don't think it's safe to leave you two alone," Kagome winked from Inuyasha's protective embrace.

Sango blushed, quickly getting up from her awkward position in Miroku's lap to look up at their 'audience'.

Inuyasha 'keh'ed the whole situation, taking his place by Kagome's backpack, sniffing for any hidden contents that would be of some importance to him.

In other words - - -

Ramen.

Kagome giggled at the hanyou, walking over to unlatch her comically overly stuffed backpack. Digging around for a few minutes the pearl-gray-eyed girl was able to uncover her huge ramen stash.

"Your ramen'll be ready soon, Inu-kun." The hanyou blushed at his new 'pet- name' as she had put it once before.

He didn't like the phrase 'pet-name'.

He wasn't a pet.

Not even for Kagome.

But in her time it wasn't what people in his would think it was, so he had gone along with it.

Kagome had ways of making him agree to things today . . .

His blush darkened as he fought away a grin that he knew was already showing.

"Oh, that reminds me," Kagome knelt down to grab something from her pack, "I brought this for you, Miroku." The raven-haired girl held up a magazine from her time. Taking a moment to ignore the houshi's already perverted smile and look at Sango she let out a chuckle. "But I guess now you don't need it."

Wait a second!

Kagome never gave Inuyasha anything . . .

Except ramen.

But still! Why was she going to go out of her way to bring the monk something and not him?

Inuyasha turned to look at this 'magazine for Miroku' and almost choked as he gawked at the cover.

A woman in less than Kagome's 'shiny clothing' posed on the cover, the words 'Victoria's Secret' printed at the top.

Quickly, the embarrassed honey-eyed hanyou turned away, finding Shippou and Kirara very interesting.

"You're right, Lady Kagome," Miroku stood up, "I don't need it anymore. Allow me to rid us of this-"

"Oh no, Miroku, you're too busy here," Sango smiled, "Allow me."

Miroku slumped his shoulders forward, "Busy with what?"

"Watching Kagome."

"Hey! What the hell am I doing here?! Painting a damn picture?!"

"She didn't mean it like that, Inu-kun."

"It's my job to protect you and make sure you're safe and unharmed, not the monk's. You're my woman, not his!"

"See? Inuyasha can take care of Kagome, I need a walk. Let me just toss it somewhere."

"So you never want to see this again, ne?"

"N-no. No! Of course not!"

"Fine then, there's a fire right here. We can just burn it." Sango kissed his cheek playfully.

"But we'd be killing two birds with one stone if you let me rid us of it while taking a wa-"

"I'll kill a monk and a magazine in a secon-"

"SHUT UP!"

Everyone blinked in shock as Kagome grabbed the magazine away from her friend and tossed it into the fire. "Now, Miroku go for your *walk* and then we'll have killed two birds, unless you're not happy and then I can send Inuyasha to kill a third."

"You can't tell me what to do!"

"Inuyasha-"

"Kagome, maybe you shouldn't-"

"Sit!"

*Wham*

Right into the fire.

*

"I said I was sorry," Kagome reasoned, picking another branch from the ground.

". . ."

"Please, Inu-kun, forgive me?"

"You . . . 'sat' me . . . in the *fire*," Inuyasha seethed.

"I'm sorry! It's not like you caught fire or anything, don't you think you're overreacting just a little bit?"

"NO!"

Kagome sighed, picking up another stick and readjusting the firewood in her arms. "Alright, don't forgive me. I'm going back to camp, you can stay and collect more firewood if you want."

She brushed past him, heading towards the firelight ahead, missing the slight regret in his eyes.

Inuyasha was overreacting.

If he had pushed her into a fire she wouldn't have-

. . .

Actually, she would.

"He still mad?" Shippou questioned, looking up with his curious bottle green eyes.

"Yeah," Kagome admitted, tossing her load of wood into the dying fire, her spirit lifting a tad when the fire regained its size.

"Well, you *did* sit him in the fire," Miroku stated matter-of-factly, "I'd be a bit angered myself. Don't you agree my darling Sango?"

Silence.

"Sango?"

"Hmph."

"What's-"

"She's mad at you."

"What for?!"

"For wanting to look at the magazine's my guess." Kagome whispered to him, prodding the fire and observing Inuyasha's uneaten ramen.

Miroku looked from Kagome to Sango with interest. "Sango, I apologize for my behavior earlier."

Sango looked up from her very intense glare at her feet.

"But, if it's any consolation, I would have been imagining your face on all of those other women."

Sango's eyes widened, her cheeks reddened, and her hands twitched.

Kagome, being the intuitive, caring girl she is, quickly grabbed her friend's hand before she could do anything that would prevent Miroku from being able to see tomorrow. "Come on Sango-chan, it's been a l-long day, I saw a hot spring close by."

Sango, who was still tense and muttering dark language under her breath, grudgingly nodded and followed her friend towards the hot spring.

*

"What do you hear?"

"If you'd shut up, I'd be able to tell you."

Silence.

"So far nothing that concerns us, just Sango thanking Kagome for something called a 'tampon', what ever in all the hells that is."

Silence.

"Anything y-"

"Shut up before I snap a twig and run, leaving you here to deal with the women."

". . ."

"Here we go."

Inuyasha twitched his ears in concentration.

"They're talking about you."

". . ."

". . ."

"Well?!"

"Could you please just shut up?!"

The lavender-eyed male sighed in irritation.

"Sango says you're a pervert and she's not sure if she should stay with you. What if you cheat on her?"

"I'd never cheat on my darling Sango!"

"Shut UP!"

"Why are you the only one that's gets to talk?"

"Because I'm the one that got us up in this tree, the one listening, and . . .," he paused, "the best looking one."

"What?! Who told you THAT?!"

"Kagome."

"Oh course, she's your woman . . . She'd say it to Kouga if she was his."

*Thonk*

"Ow . . ."

"Shut up!"

"When we get down from here . . ."

"Oh shit."

"What?"

"They heard us."

"What?"

"Run."

"Get me down first!"

Inuyasha sighed, allowing the monk to grab on as he dived to the ground, taking off at a speed neither knew he could ever accomplish.

"Inuyasha! S - - -"

Yes.

Out of hearing range.

Inuyasha zoomed through the forest back to the campsite almost falling face first into the fire - - -

Again.

"My darling Sango thinks I'll cheat on her!"

"Where'd she get that idea?" Inuyasha drawled dryly, plopping down next to his ramen.

"I'm serious!"

"So am I."

"What do you mean?"

"Every time we pass through a village you hit on every woman you see. You ask every one of the to bear your child, you grope them, need I continue?"

Miroku sighed, "I have a high appreciation for the female body, especially my darling Sango's."

"More than I needed or wanted to know, Miroku."

"That's what best friends do, they tell each other everything."

Inuyasha blinked in surprise, "Best friends?"

Miroku nodded, his eyes glimmering with amusement. "You're the closest thing to a brother I've ever had. Although you are arrogant, rude, stubborn, hard-headed, and I know I'm leaving some stuff out, you're a good guy."

"Stop with all the mushy *flattery* monk," Inuyasha said wryly.

Miroku shrugged, prodding the fire, "When do you suppose they'll be back?"

"Probably soon, they heard us."

"INUYASHA!!!"

"Speak of the devil."

"MIROKU!"

Inuyasha smirked, ignoring Miroku's horror stricken face and ignoring Kagome's piercing gaze.

"You were watching us take a bath!" Kagome shrieked.

"You pervert! You're rubbing off on Inuyasha!" Sango hissed, pointing an accusing finger at the houshi.

"What are you talking about?!" Inuyasha roared, waking Shippou and Kirara from their sleep.

Surveying what was taking place, though, both hurriedly went back to their previous action.

"What are we talking about?! What are we talking about?! We're talking about you eavesdropping on our bath!" Kagome yelled back.

"We weren't eavesdropping!" Inuyasha insisted.

"Then what did we hear?"

"Well, my darling Sango, there are other things other than us around here," Miroku stated matter-of-factly, smiling genuinely up at the taijiya.

"Yeah, who the hell told you it was us?"

". . .no one . . ." Kagome said doubtfully.

Sango sighed, releasing the monk's collar causing his to fall to the ground, "You did say sit, if Inuyasha was there then we'd have heard something."

"Yeah," Kagome looked apologetically at the two men. "Gomen nasai Inu-kun." She kissed his check just as apologetically.

Inuyasha darkened about four shades but was able to mutter a barely-audible "Feh."

Kagome sighed, looking up at the sky.

The waxing moon,

The twinkling the stars,

The calming breeze,

The flying eels thingies - - -

Wait.

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Well, not that great of a cliffy, but one nonetheless. If you wanted a longer chapter you can blame my best friend Yukina-chan, for at the moment she is throwing a pink ball at my head, ergo I can not write in peace. ^_^;

Well, R&R and I promise the next chapter to be up by next weekend.

Yes, this time I mean it.

Ja ne.

~Sakura