*Here you go! Another chapter! After this, I have another...say...five more
chapters to upload. Unfortunately, there a little short...but I'm sure you'll
enjoy them!*
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha and co. If you read the other disclaimer's, you find that out as well. Man I hate writing disclaimers! But hey...we have to let the Great Rumiko Takahashi know that her work is appreciated and loved!
Chapter 21
Kagome couldn't help but smile at the wolf's antics of breaking off her prayer beads.
He had freaked out when he first woke up, feeling the cool beads on his neck, and then began to gag, rolling around on the ground like a dog looking to get dirty after a bath, and then had actually tried biting it off.
"Wench...what the hell is this!?" Kouga shouted.
"Down!"
SPLAT!
His face and body pulled to the dirt in a sickening blow to the chest as the beads took to affect.
"Do it again Kagome!" Inuyasha shouted. "Do it again!"
"Sit!"
WHAM!
"What the hell! You were supposed to do it to him! Not to me!"
"Inuyasha." Kagome began with a smile. "I only have this on you to keep you from fighting. Now please...if you two stop being rude and stop fighting I won't have to say the words."
"Yeah...got that mutt."
"Down!"
SPLAT!
"Uhgg...." Came Kouga with his face in the dirt.
"Kagome...I believe it's about time we began fixing dinner. Did you bring that Ramen stuff from your world?" Sango asked politely, not even paying any attention to the two canine demons on the ground.
"Yeah...it should be there in the pack." Kagome replied, standing up from her perch on the rock to help the exterminator find the microwave-able packages.
The group had been traveling most of the day...and had finally decided to rest here...a good piece of land just next to a cliff...in which the only thing at the bottom, was a swirling hot spring, in which she, Sango, and Kojika had gone down to a while ago to bathe.
Of course, just to make sure Miroku didn't follow, Kagome had placed some prayer beads on him as well and had pretty much prevented him and the rest of them from peaking in on them until she'd come back and removed them.
Of course...being a monk...he probably could have broke them off himself...but he insisted that this time he would be good...and to their surprise, he actually stayed put.
Unfortunately, it wasn't that easy with these demons.
Inuyasha of course was no problem...he wouldn't come down to look on them unless they screamed or something.
Kouga on the other hand...
Well...to say the least...he was an extreme pervert...
In fact...he actually had pulled off a branch and tossed it over the cliff...just so he could jump in to supposedly "save them" as his intention.
He'd earned a HUGE "Down" for him... in which he had been so far stuck in the ground, it had taken a strong nudge from both Miroku and Shippo in order to pull him free of it.
Kojika of course...didn't react when Kouga tried his attempt...instead she had smiled...and then held her nose to get under water...in which she never resurfaced.
Kagome and Sango had found her sitting by the campfire when they climbed out of the hot pool and gotten dressed...insisting that she'd had enough of the hot water on her skin.
Yeah right...
She knew better than every one of Kouga's antics and of what he thought about, simply because she could read his mind...
Kagome wondered if Inuyasha had similar thoughts as Kouga.
"Ramen!" Inuyasha shouted, running towards a sealed package of dry noodles.
"Ramen? What's that?" Kouga asked, coming up to take a look at the package in Inuyasha's hands, and making the mistake of simply taking it from him.
"Food..." Kagome replied...but she was too late to answer.
Inuyasha had already become offended.
"That's mine!" He shouted, grabbing the Ramen from Kouga's hands.
Uh oh...
"Well now it's mine!" returned Kouga, snatching the small tub from Inuyasha's hands once more.
"Mine!" and Inuyasha grabbed it again.
"Mine!" and Kouga punched Inuyasha in the cheek.
"No Mine!" and Inuyasha kicked the wolf away and nearly over the edge.
"No Mine!" and Kouga ran back and kicked Inuyasha into the forest.
"Um guys..." Kagome began...wondering how she was going to say "Sit" and "Down" at the same time to get them to sit down.
"MINE!" and Inuyasha jumped out of the woods and performed a flying kick into Kouga's chest...which sent him into the forest opposite Inuyasha.
"Um guys..." Kagome continued.
"MINE!" returned Kouga, and he too jumped out of his side of the forest, preparing a wind attack that swirled around his arm.
"Guys..." she was beginning to get agitated.
"MINE!" and Inuyasha pulled out the Tetsusaiga and prepared to send his main attack at him.
"TAKE THAT!" The two demons chorused...by now it was Kouga holding the ramen and Inuyasha looking quite enraged.
"SIT...DOWN!" Kagome shouted.
Both Kouga and Inuyasha crashed into the ground...and Kouga lost grip of the ramen...and sadly...both men watched the tub roll towards the edge of the cliff...teeter at the edge...and then plunge into the hot spring...to be carried along through the current that connected to it down into the hot stream that lead away from there.
"NO!" Both chorused again, fighting to stand up.
Just as they managed to make it to the edge to look down upon the drifting Ramen...they found that Kojika had snuck up on them and then...
"Loose something guys."
"GAH!" and they nearly fell over the edge in surprise if it weren't for Kojika grabbing them by the back of their necks.
"You two have to be more careful. You could end up like the Ramen." And she carried them to the campfire, both paralyzed because it was...of course...the back of the neck we were talking about...and she'd done good to pinch the area just right.
"But it was Ramen..." Inuyasha snarled angrily.
"Yeah...what he said..." Kouga agreed.
When Kojika dropped both men, they were only able to look up and see one very agitated young woman.
"Kagome...?" Inuyasha's ears drooped. Was she going to say "it" again?
"Inuyasha...Kouga...you two don't have to fight over one tub of ramen. I brought plenty for everyone." She had her hands on her hips...not good...
That was the usual pose for when she said sit in full.
"Yes...Kagome..." Kouga whispered. He two saw the anger in her stance...the readiness of her lips to say the words that would send them into the ground.
"Here!" She said, shoving a box of ramen into each of their hands..."Stop arguing!" and then she turned around and stalked away. Perhaps they were saved from the Sit and Down treatment.
"Oh, Inuyasha...Kouga." She announced from behind.
"What?" Both chorused.
"Sit Down!"
WHAM! SPLAT!
Meanwhile, about a half a mile away, walking along the hot stream that ran through the valley, was the proud demon lord of the Western Lands...Sesshomaru. His loyal servant Jaken followed him along, dragging their bet two headed dragon by the reins, as the little human girl Rin, that followed the both of them, collected flowers along the stream's bank.
"Sesshomaru! Isn't it a beautiful day!" Rin shouted happily, putting a flower on Jaken's hat, only for it to get pulled off and smashed under his foot.
Sesshomaru didn't reply, as always. He just remained the same, quite demon lord that walked along, only giving a favored word every now and then...and only when he felt like it.
Rin was used to this attitude, having dealt with it for a couple of months or so now, and was not surprised when he didn't answer.
She simply smiled, and ran along the bank of the stream, popping her revealed foot into the stream now and then to feel the warm water trickle and around it, and to throw leaves and flowers in just to watch them float along.
But she happened to notice a rather odd looking object floating down stream.
It was a good sized box...colorful with bright yellows and blues and red, and when she pulled it out, the package was steaming hot...with the picture of a bowl of some noodle like soup on the front.
"Sesshomaru...what's this?" She asked, looking at the package.
The demon lord didn't stop or turn around, he simply continued on, leaving his associates to follow him only.
"Rin...what have you found?" asked Jaken, turning around to look at the package in Rin's hands.
"I don't know...but it smells good!" She replied, listening to her own stomach growl.
It had been a while since lunch time, so by now she was getting pretty hungry. "I say we eat the contents!"
"No Rin." Jaken turned around and placed his three fingered hand under his chin. "It could be poisonous or contain some venom from a snake. Could even have been sent down the river to draw us in and kill us."
He nodded to himself and turned around, only to find to his horror that the little human girl had already ripped open the top and dug a hand into the pasta.
"RIN!" Jaken shouted.
This caught Sesshomaru's attention finally, who turned around with the same placid face he always presented, to find his little human follower was eating the contents of who knew what.
"Rin. Drop that." He commanded, stepping calmly up to her.
Rin did as she was told, but managed to suck up one last noodle that was hanging out of her mouth.
"Id tasdes good Sessomaru!" She told him with a full mouth, chewing all the while.
Sesshomaru glanced down at the package, and with his one good hand, bent down and picked it up, looking at the cover.
"Ramen..." He read. He had heard of such a dish...but never tried it.
About now could be the time to try.
If it was poisonous, it could not harm him for he was a full blooded demon and Lord of the Western Lands, and he'd always had a system immune to such poisons. Sesshomaru handed the box to Jaken, and then with the same hand he had lifted it with (he only has one hand!) he reached in with one claw and brought out a small amount between his thumb and index finger.
Then he took a sniff...found that the aroma was extremely tempting to his taste buds, and took a bite...becoming rather surprised by the flavor in which burst into his sense of taste.
This was a delicious food, spiced just right and yet not to touch or soft in chewing.
This was what demon's only hoped for at meals...instead of eating raw meat of course. That was good too.
But this was delicious...and it could only be sounded out by a thoughtful: "Hmmm."
"It's good right?" asked Rin.
Sesshomaru nodded.
This was such a great dish...that he promised himself that he would figure out how to get it made himself.
This...my friends...was the first day Sesshomaru had ever had a taste...of Ramen.
*What do you think? Sesshomaru never did seem to have an infatuation with anything but Tetsusaiga. But I will tell you something weird about his event. For anyone that eats ramen, you may know that there is a brand called Maru-chan. Now think about it...Sesshomaru...Maru-chan...Kinda weird eh? I never knew it myself, until my cousin Kojika85 told me about it...She kept saying "You know you've read too many fics and seen too many animes when you look at an object and correspond it with something in anime!"*
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha and co. If you read the other disclaimer's, you find that out as well. Man I hate writing disclaimers! But hey...we have to let the Great Rumiko Takahashi know that her work is appreciated and loved!
Chapter 21
Kagome couldn't help but smile at the wolf's antics of breaking off her prayer beads.
He had freaked out when he first woke up, feeling the cool beads on his neck, and then began to gag, rolling around on the ground like a dog looking to get dirty after a bath, and then had actually tried biting it off.
"Wench...what the hell is this!?" Kouga shouted.
"Down!"
SPLAT!
His face and body pulled to the dirt in a sickening blow to the chest as the beads took to affect.
"Do it again Kagome!" Inuyasha shouted. "Do it again!"
"Sit!"
WHAM!
"What the hell! You were supposed to do it to him! Not to me!"
"Inuyasha." Kagome began with a smile. "I only have this on you to keep you from fighting. Now please...if you two stop being rude and stop fighting I won't have to say the words."
"Yeah...got that mutt."
"Down!"
SPLAT!
"Uhgg...." Came Kouga with his face in the dirt.
"Kagome...I believe it's about time we began fixing dinner. Did you bring that Ramen stuff from your world?" Sango asked politely, not even paying any attention to the two canine demons on the ground.
"Yeah...it should be there in the pack." Kagome replied, standing up from her perch on the rock to help the exterminator find the microwave-able packages.
The group had been traveling most of the day...and had finally decided to rest here...a good piece of land just next to a cliff...in which the only thing at the bottom, was a swirling hot spring, in which she, Sango, and Kojika had gone down to a while ago to bathe.
Of course, just to make sure Miroku didn't follow, Kagome had placed some prayer beads on him as well and had pretty much prevented him and the rest of them from peaking in on them until she'd come back and removed them.
Of course...being a monk...he probably could have broke them off himself...but he insisted that this time he would be good...and to their surprise, he actually stayed put.
Unfortunately, it wasn't that easy with these demons.
Inuyasha of course was no problem...he wouldn't come down to look on them unless they screamed or something.
Kouga on the other hand...
Well...to say the least...he was an extreme pervert...
In fact...he actually had pulled off a branch and tossed it over the cliff...just so he could jump in to supposedly "save them" as his intention.
He'd earned a HUGE "Down" for him... in which he had been so far stuck in the ground, it had taken a strong nudge from both Miroku and Shippo in order to pull him free of it.
Kojika of course...didn't react when Kouga tried his attempt...instead she had smiled...and then held her nose to get under water...in which she never resurfaced.
Kagome and Sango had found her sitting by the campfire when they climbed out of the hot pool and gotten dressed...insisting that she'd had enough of the hot water on her skin.
Yeah right...
She knew better than every one of Kouga's antics and of what he thought about, simply because she could read his mind...
Kagome wondered if Inuyasha had similar thoughts as Kouga.
"Ramen!" Inuyasha shouted, running towards a sealed package of dry noodles.
"Ramen? What's that?" Kouga asked, coming up to take a look at the package in Inuyasha's hands, and making the mistake of simply taking it from him.
"Food..." Kagome replied...but she was too late to answer.
Inuyasha had already become offended.
"That's mine!" He shouted, grabbing the Ramen from Kouga's hands.
Uh oh...
"Well now it's mine!" returned Kouga, snatching the small tub from Inuyasha's hands once more.
"Mine!" and Inuyasha grabbed it again.
"Mine!" and Kouga punched Inuyasha in the cheek.
"No Mine!" and Inuyasha kicked the wolf away and nearly over the edge.
"No Mine!" and Kouga ran back and kicked Inuyasha into the forest.
"Um guys..." Kagome began...wondering how she was going to say "Sit" and "Down" at the same time to get them to sit down.
"MINE!" and Inuyasha jumped out of the woods and performed a flying kick into Kouga's chest...which sent him into the forest opposite Inuyasha.
"Um guys..." Kagome continued.
"MINE!" returned Kouga, and he too jumped out of his side of the forest, preparing a wind attack that swirled around his arm.
"Guys..." she was beginning to get agitated.
"MINE!" and Inuyasha pulled out the Tetsusaiga and prepared to send his main attack at him.
"TAKE THAT!" The two demons chorused...by now it was Kouga holding the ramen and Inuyasha looking quite enraged.
"SIT...DOWN!" Kagome shouted.
Both Kouga and Inuyasha crashed into the ground...and Kouga lost grip of the ramen...and sadly...both men watched the tub roll towards the edge of the cliff...teeter at the edge...and then plunge into the hot spring...to be carried along through the current that connected to it down into the hot stream that lead away from there.
"NO!" Both chorused again, fighting to stand up.
Just as they managed to make it to the edge to look down upon the drifting Ramen...they found that Kojika had snuck up on them and then...
"Loose something guys."
"GAH!" and they nearly fell over the edge in surprise if it weren't for Kojika grabbing them by the back of their necks.
"You two have to be more careful. You could end up like the Ramen." And she carried them to the campfire, both paralyzed because it was...of course...the back of the neck we were talking about...and she'd done good to pinch the area just right.
"But it was Ramen..." Inuyasha snarled angrily.
"Yeah...what he said..." Kouga agreed.
When Kojika dropped both men, they were only able to look up and see one very agitated young woman.
"Kagome...?" Inuyasha's ears drooped. Was she going to say "it" again?
"Inuyasha...Kouga...you two don't have to fight over one tub of ramen. I brought plenty for everyone." She had her hands on her hips...not good...
That was the usual pose for when she said sit in full.
"Yes...Kagome..." Kouga whispered. He two saw the anger in her stance...the readiness of her lips to say the words that would send them into the ground.
"Here!" She said, shoving a box of ramen into each of their hands..."Stop arguing!" and then she turned around and stalked away. Perhaps they were saved from the Sit and Down treatment.
"Oh, Inuyasha...Kouga." She announced from behind.
"What?" Both chorused.
"Sit Down!"
WHAM! SPLAT!
Meanwhile, about a half a mile away, walking along the hot stream that ran through the valley, was the proud demon lord of the Western Lands...Sesshomaru. His loyal servant Jaken followed him along, dragging their bet two headed dragon by the reins, as the little human girl Rin, that followed the both of them, collected flowers along the stream's bank.
"Sesshomaru! Isn't it a beautiful day!" Rin shouted happily, putting a flower on Jaken's hat, only for it to get pulled off and smashed under his foot.
Sesshomaru didn't reply, as always. He just remained the same, quite demon lord that walked along, only giving a favored word every now and then...and only when he felt like it.
Rin was used to this attitude, having dealt with it for a couple of months or so now, and was not surprised when he didn't answer.
She simply smiled, and ran along the bank of the stream, popping her revealed foot into the stream now and then to feel the warm water trickle and around it, and to throw leaves and flowers in just to watch them float along.
But she happened to notice a rather odd looking object floating down stream.
It was a good sized box...colorful with bright yellows and blues and red, and when she pulled it out, the package was steaming hot...with the picture of a bowl of some noodle like soup on the front.
"Sesshomaru...what's this?" She asked, looking at the package.
The demon lord didn't stop or turn around, he simply continued on, leaving his associates to follow him only.
"Rin...what have you found?" asked Jaken, turning around to look at the package in Rin's hands.
"I don't know...but it smells good!" She replied, listening to her own stomach growl.
It had been a while since lunch time, so by now she was getting pretty hungry. "I say we eat the contents!"
"No Rin." Jaken turned around and placed his three fingered hand under his chin. "It could be poisonous or contain some venom from a snake. Could even have been sent down the river to draw us in and kill us."
He nodded to himself and turned around, only to find to his horror that the little human girl had already ripped open the top and dug a hand into the pasta.
"RIN!" Jaken shouted.
This caught Sesshomaru's attention finally, who turned around with the same placid face he always presented, to find his little human follower was eating the contents of who knew what.
"Rin. Drop that." He commanded, stepping calmly up to her.
Rin did as she was told, but managed to suck up one last noodle that was hanging out of her mouth.
"Id tasdes good Sessomaru!" She told him with a full mouth, chewing all the while.
Sesshomaru glanced down at the package, and with his one good hand, bent down and picked it up, looking at the cover.
"Ramen..." He read. He had heard of such a dish...but never tried it.
About now could be the time to try.
If it was poisonous, it could not harm him for he was a full blooded demon and Lord of the Western Lands, and he'd always had a system immune to such poisons. Sesshomaru handed the box to Jaken, and then with the same hand he had lifted it with (he only has one hand!) he reached in with one claw and brought out a small amount between his thumb and index finger.
Then he took a sniff...found that the aroma was extremely tempting to his taste buds, and took a bite...becoming rather surprised by the flavor in which burst into his sense of taste.
This was a delicious food, spiced just right and yet not to touch or soft in chewing.
This was what demon's only hoped for at meals...instead of eating raw meat of course. That was good too.
But this was delicious...and it could only be sounded out by a thoughtful: "Hmmm."
"It's good right?" asked Rin.
Sesshomaru nodded.
This was such a great dish...that he promised himself that he would figure out how to get it made himself.
This...my friends...was the first day Sesshomaru had ever had a taste...of Ramen.
*What do you think? Sesshomaru never did seem to have an infatuation with anything but Tetsusaiga. But I will tell you something weird about his event. For anyone that eats ramen, you may know that there is a brand called Maru-chan. Now think about it...Sesshomaru...Maru-chan...Kinda weird eh? I never knew it myself, until my cousin Kojika85 told me about it...She kept saying "You know you've read too many fics and seen too many animes when you look at an object and correspond it with something in anime!"*
