Author's Note: Hey minna-san! I'm back with chapter 2! Sorry for the delayed update, but I do have the whole story planned out in my story notebook so never fear! The story will be finished! I promise! Anyway, here we go!
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, Kagome, Sango, Miroku, or anyone else created by Rumiko Takahashi….unless she decides to give them to me!
Mistaken Identity
Chapter 3
New Faces
Kagome awoke shivering. She reached to pull the covers more snugly around herself, only to discover that they weren't there. Reluctantly, Kagome sat up and groggily recognized that she was on the floor. Blinking her eyes a couple of times she saw a bed not but a few feet away from her. She staggered up and stumbled over to the bed, collapsing onto its warmth with a happy sigh. She vaguely noticed a warm body lying next to her. So, wrapping the blankets around her torso, she happily snuggled in closer to the warmth. It wasn't long before she drifted off into sleep once again.
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Inuyasha cracked open an eye. The sun was just rising above the hills and casting its yellow light across the land. Inuyasha grumbled something incoherent while burying his face back into the pillow. 'At least the bed smells good,' he thought, breathing in deeply, 'Something like a mix between sunshine and roses.' Just as he was finishing up that last thought, the bed shifted and the springs creaked. 'What in seven hells was that?' Inuyasha thought to himself while bolting upright, now wide awake.
It was then that he saw the girl cuddled up under his arm. Her long black hair was spread out every which way and her chest was rising gently every time she took a breath. He stared at her stupidly for a moment, trying to remember where she had come from when it hit him like a bulldozer. This was Kikyou's sister who he had accidently mistaken for Kikyou last night and kidnapped. With a groan he pushed her away from himself and swung his legs over the bed. He moved towards the kitchen and began making himself a bowl of ramen chicken noodle soup.
"What the fuck am I supposed to do with her?!?" Inuyasha muttered to himself while watching the water begin to boil. "It's not like I can just send her back home with a basket of fruit and hope she doesn't tell anybody! And then the very next day have her older sister snatched! Life sucks!"
"Oh come on! Life can't be that bad. You're probably just looking at the bowl half empty," replied a feminine voice from behind him.
Inuyasha spun around and in the process, knocked the pot of boiling water off of the stove and onto the floor. "SHIT!" he yelled as the burning liquid seeped towards his toes. He began to frantically dance around on his scorched feet while strings of cursing punctuated every stomp his foot made. Meanwhile, Kagome was laughing her head off. Inuyasha glared fiercely at her. "Are you going to sit there laughing all day, bitch? Or are you going to clean up this mess!" Inuyasha questioned angrily.
Kagome crossed her arms indignantly. "You're the one who spilled it. Not me!" she retorted.
"If you hadn't surprised me in the first place then I wouldn't have knocked it over!" Inuyasha responded. But Kagome had already up and left the room. Growling, Inuyasha threw a towel on the soggy floor and marched after Kagome. "Get your ass back here bitch! What makes you think you can…..just….," Inuyasha trailed off as he saw what she was doing.
"Yes! You're a good little chicken aren't you? Aren't you?" Kagome squeaked in a baby voice while talking to the seven chickens pecking at the grass. They didn't really seem to be paying much attention to her, and just continued to thoroughly search the ground for bits of food. Kagome, of course, noticed none of this and continued chattering away at the plump fowl.
"You aren't seriously talking to the chickens are you?" Inuyasha snickered with a huge sweatdrop on his head.
Kagome glanced up at him. "Of course I am. They have feelings too you know!" Kagome then remembered that this was her kidnapper. "Hey, did you really kidnap me?" she asked curiously.
"No, I just thought I would pick a lucky random girl and take them to a farm for vacation," Inuyasha responded in a voice dripping with sarcasm.
Kagome smiled brightly at him and left the chickens in favor of the big horse standing at the edge of a fence a few yards away.
Inuyasha was dumbfounded. 'Isn't she going to try to escape or at least throw a tantrum? Or something?' When he saw that she wasn't giving the fact that she was currently kidnapped a second thought he guessed not.
Meanwhile, Kagome wasn't having much luck with the horse. He was all black with a long, wavy mane blowing in the wind. He had a white mark on his back that looked an awful lot like a spider. Whenever Kagome tried to get close to him, he snapped at her and kicked up his feet in anger. After several attempts with no positive results, Kagome gave up on him. Looking up, she saw that Inuyasha was still staring at her suspiciously. Kagome sighed and walked up to him.
"What's your name again?" she asked curiously.
"Why should I tell you?" Inuyasha taunted.
"Fine then. If you won't tell me your name, I'll just have to come up with one of my own," Kagome thought for a moment before snapping her fingers, "I got it! I'll call you Balthazar!" (A/N: Those of you in my Language Arts class must forgive me for my lack of creativity!)
"Keh!" Inuyasha snorted and crossed his arms.
"And are these real?" Kagome exclaimed while standing on tip-toe and fondling his white doggy ears.
"Watch it bitch!" cried Inuyasha as he swatted her hand away. "Yeah, they're real!"
Kagome giggled as she watched his ears swivel back and forth. "They're adorable!" she squealed excitedly. But Inuyasha was no longer listening. "Hide," he murmured while shoving her into a pile of hay.
"Watch it!" Kagome yelled, but her shout was muffled by the yellow straw. Peering out between the pieces of hay, Kagome could see two people walking up the path to the farm. Out of the corner of her eye she noticed Inuyasha perched on the roof of the farmhouse. She took a double-take of that last realization and her eyes widened. "How in the world did he get up there?" Kagome whispered to herself. Shrugging, she turned her attention back towards the two approaching strangers.
From what she could see, it was a man and a woman. The man had black hair pulled back into a short pony-tail. The girl's hair was also black, and it too was in a pony-tail, but a much longer one. Interestingly enough, she was carrying what looked like a giant boomerang on her back.
"Meow," came a sound from above her.
Kagome looked up and spotted a cream colored cat with blood red eyes and…was that two tails?!? The cat was kneeled down in a crouch on a shelf just above her head, eyeing the man and woman.
"Here kitty, kitty, kitty," Kagome called. But the cat simply leapt away from her and bolted towards the woman, who caught her with a happy cry.
"Good girl, Kirara!" cooed the woman as she stroked the purring cat. Kagome then saw Inuyasha jump gracefully off of the roof and land next to the man.
"Damn it Miroku! Don't sneak up here like this again! I thought the police had found me already!" Inuyasha scolded.
The man Inuyasha had called Miroku grinned in response. "That assumption isn't far from the truth now is it?" he questioned while pointing to his shiny, gold police badge.
"Keh," Inuyasha responded.
"Where's the girl?" the woman holding the cat asked.
Inuyasha turned towards the barn. "You can come out now, bitch!" he called.
Kagome stood up, picking straw from her hair and brushing down her clothing. "I have a name you know!" she grumbled irratibly as she approached the trio.
Miroku snickered. "Inuyasha!" he crowed. "This isn't Kikyou!"
Kagome's face turned red with anger. "Of course it isn't! And if you say that name one more time I think I'll just have to scream…" she left the threat hanging in the air. But Miroku was all giggles.
"I just KNEW your plan wouldn't work!" he did a little happy dance. "Ha!"
"Keh," replied Inuyasha, rather intelligently.
"If you aren't…you know…then who are you?" asked the woman.
Kagome smiled. "My name's Kagome! What's yours?"
"Sango," replied the lady, "and this is Kirara," she stated while gesturing towards her cat. "So, how do you like my farm?"
"This farm belongs to you?" Kagome questioned.
"Yes, it was my father's, but he died," Sango stated in an even voice.
"I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to bring up back memories…" Kagome said quickly, and she hung her head.
"No, it's all right. Really. It was a long time ago," Sango reassured her. "Come on, let's go inside. Seeing as you'll probably be staying here for awhile, I suppose I had better explain to you all the chores that need to be done around her!"
The two women walked inside while Miroku and Inuyasha remained by the barn. "So what do you plan on doing with her?" Miroku asked probingly.
Inuyasha smirked. "Same thing as I was with Kikyou. I'll send her family a ransom note, and then trade her in for money. She is Kikyou's sister, so I should still be able to get something for her."
Miroku sighed. "You're hopeless," he declared while shaking his head. "Come on, let's go see if the beautiful ladies need any help!"
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After going through a list of every thing that needed to be done at the farm, Sango and Miroku left.
"We'll come back in a few days! Just to make sure everything's going okay!" Sango called over her back as she and Miroku headed down the road.
"Thanks Sango! It was nice meeting you!" Kagome yelled back as she turned to go inside. The sun had already set long ago, and the stars were out and shining. Kagome sighed as she thought about her family. 'I wonder if they even know I'm gone yet,' she thought to herself before shaking her head and entering the house. Inuyasha was sitting in front of the fire with his arms crossed and his eyes closed. Kagome went up and sat next to him.
"So…" she began, trying to work up her courage.
"So what?" he grunted.
"When will I be able to go home?" Kagome asked.
Inuyasha cracked open his left eye and peered at her through the slit. "You'll go home when your family agrees to the ransom demand," he answered before closing his eye again. Kagome nodded in acceptance.
"I'm going to bed now," she stated and headed off towards the bedroom. It was ten minutes before Inuyasha realized that there was still only one bed.
"BITCH! Get back here!" he called. "You can sleep on the couch! I'm the one in charge here! I get the bed!" But he got no response. Muttering to himself, he stood up and stomped towards the bedroom. Slamming open the door he saw that Kagome was already asleep. He glared at her sleeping form for several minutes before sighing and going over his options. He could either sleep on the lumpy couch and wake up with back pains the next day or sleep in the bed…with Kagome. He opted for choice three: shove Kagome out of the bed and get it all to himself. But just as he was about to push her, she gripped the blankets tightly in her fists and wrapped them around herself like a twisted puzzle. Growling, Inuyasha tried to separate her from the only quilt in the whole house, but had no luck. Well, he wasn't about to freeze to death that night just because some human bitch wouldn't share the covers. Therefore, he yanked some of them over his own body and put as much distance between himself and the girl as possible. Soon after, he fell into a dreamless sleep.
Author's Note: PHWEW! Boy that was a long chapter! For me it was anyway! Well, I hope you liked! Please remember to review! ^_^