Author's Note: Hey Guys! Sorry for the delay on this chapter, but it is pretty long for me so be thankful for that! I know the last update wasn't very fun for all you Kag/Inu fans…but this chapter will be! And so will the next! And the next! So fear not! It was simply a necessary part to the story.
School just started so my updating might become slightly irregular, but I'll do my best to update on weekends!
I might be taking a small break from this story soon so that I can finish my Cardcaptor Sakura story, Syaoran's Three Wishes. Just thought I'd warn you!
Disclaimer: Don't own nuthin'…
On with the story!
Mistaken Identity
Chapter 7
To Rob A Town
Kagome woke up to find herself wedged firmly under a certain someone's arm. With soft, white hair falling around her face like a frame. And her body being smooshed up against a hard, firm chest….Kagome shook her head.
'Bad Kagome! Bad, bad Kagome!' she scolded herself. Glancing up she saw that Inuyasha was still sound asleep. "Figures," she grumbled aloud to herself. Poking out her tongue in concentration, Kagome slowly wriggled herself out of Inuyasha's grasp, being careful not to awaken the sleeping hanyou. When she had succeeded in extracting herself from Inuyasha, Kagome threw on the same outfit Sango had given her to wear. The same one she had worn over the past couple of days. Wrinkling her nose, she pulled the simple shirt and loose pants on, 'When we go to town today, I have GOT to get new clothes…'
Once dressed, she left the room and headed to the chicken coop. "I still have to tell Sango about poor Amy…hopefully she won't be too mad at me," Kagome said to herself amiably. Crouching down, she crawled, once more, through the small door into chicken land. To be greeted with a very familiar scene…blood and feathers. Glancing over at the chickens, she noticed that, sure enough, five, and only five, chickens were perched peacefully on the roost. Sarah was missing. Steeling her face, Kagome began cleaning up the mess before the stench sank into the wooden boards.
"I have got to catch whatever animal is responsible for this!" she exclaimed angrily as she wiped up the floor. Once the mess had been cleared up, Kagome jerkily grabbed four eggs and headed back into the house to begin scrambling them with an angry storm cloud crashing above her head.
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Inuyasha awoke to the gentle sound of a metal frying pan pounding down onto a solid stove. Wincing, he covered his ears and tried to block out the sound. When this failed, he dejectedly opened his eyes. Sitting up, he looked down at his taxi uniform. "I should have remembered to at least bring some extra clothes…" he muttered to himself. "Oh well, we ARE going into that little nearby town today." Blinking sleepily, he entered the kitchen and relaxed back into the closest chair.
Unintentionally, Inuyasha's eyes drifted to the cooking girl to his right. Her clothes were creased and wrinkled, her hair was tangled, and her ever-present smile had become a scowl.
"Any of your little chicken friends not wake up this morning?" Inuyasha asked. He had meant it as a joke, but Kagome only glared fiercely at him and her scowl deepened.
"Do NOT mess with me," she warned in an icy voice. Inuyasha smirked but chose to remain silent in favor of listening to Kagome who was scrambling some eggs in a frying pan. Five minutes later, a plate was set down in front of him filled with fluffy, yellow eggs. Inuyasha looked questioningly up at Kagome.
"Mine?" he asked.
"If you don't want them then I'll feed 'em to the chickens!" she declared. Inuyasha snorted.
"Don't you think that's a bit barbaric?" he teased. She glared at him again. "I mean, feeding a chicken its fried son or daughter?" Kagome glared harder. "I mean, how would you like it if -"
"ALL RIGHT!" Kagome cut him off mid-sentence. "Geez, what do you want from me anyway?" Inuyasha was about to open his mouth before Kagome thought better of it. "Never mind, don't answer that." Inuyasha grinned a triumphant smile and Kagome couldn't help but smile in return. "Well, since we're on the subject of chickens, I want you to stay out with me tonight so that we can catch whatever it is that killed poor Amy and Sarah," Kagome explained.
Inuyasha looked at her. "You mean one of those things really did die last night?" Kagome sighed in exasperation.
"You have no sense of compassion, you do know that don't you?" Kagome complained. Inuyasha grinned proudly and struck a heroic pose.
"Damn proud of it too!" he declared.
"I give up…" Kagome mumbled to herself.
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A few hours later, Kagome and Inuyasha were off, on the road to the little nearby town.
"So, which town is it?" Kagome questioned, trying to start a conversation.
"Shikon," Inuyasha replied stoically.
"Hmmm, that's an interesting name for a town," Kagome thought aloud. "Have you ever been there before?"
"No."
"What are we going to get?"
"Stuff."
"What kind of stuff?"
Inuyasha glared at her. "You will see when we get there," he said through clenched teeth.
"Okay!" Kagome replied cheerfully, purposefully not noticing the hostile tone to Inuyasha's voice.
"So how far away is this town anyway?" Kagome asked, still trying to get Inuyasha talking.
All she earned was another glare.
"Well?" she probed further.
"Will you just shut-up!" he roared angrily. "Maybe we would be there already if you weren't using up all of your feeble amounts of energy on blabbing!"
Kagome narrowed her eyes. "Don't tell me to shut-up Mister!"
"I'll do whatever I please!"
"You most certainly will not!"
"You're MY prisoner!"
"That doesn't give you the right to boss me around!"
"That is where you're wrong!"
Kagome was about to retaliate when she saw the faint outline of buildings up ahead. With a happy squeal she ran ahead. "Come on Inuyasha! We're almost there! Quit lagging behind and holding us back!"
Inuyasha's jaw dropped. Him? Quit holding them back? She was the one who'd been struggling to keep up this whole walk! Rolling his eyes up to the heavens, Inuyasha mumbled one thing before running to catch up with the girl in front of him: "Please help me God…"
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Kagome couldn't get enough of this new town, Shikon, or whatever Inuyasha had called it. People everywhere. Shops lining the streets. A girl's dream come true! Like a happy child she ran back to Inuyasha with her hand outstretched. Inuyasha looked down at it. Reaching out he shook her hand and continued walking down the street.
Kagome sighed exasperatedly. "No, silly! I need money so that I can go shopping!" She grinned ecstatically and stretched her hand out again
Inuyasha was able to maintain a straight face for about three seconds. Then he burst out laughing. Kagome tapped her foot impatiently, waiting for his little fit to end.
"What is so funny?" she finally exploded angrily. Inuyasha only laughed harder.
"You! You think that after I went through all the trouble of kidnapping you that I had enough money to go on shopping sprees?!?!" he collapsed into another fit of laughter.
Kagome's face went from a look of surprise to a look of shock to a look of downright horror. "You don't mean- I'm sure you're not expecting me to- we're not going to- to STEAL the stuff we need are we?" she asked nervously. One look of Inuyasha's laughing face told all. "YOU'RE CRAZY!" she shouted.
Inuyasha flinched back from the loud noise. "Not so loud!" he hissed.
Kagome ignored him in favor of scolding him. "You're mad! We can't steal stuff! What if we get caught?"
"So?" he asked unconcernedly.
"So? So! So if you get caught then the police are going to hunt you down all your life! It'll go on your permanent record! You'll have to hide everywhere you go! You'll need a new name…I suppose you really would have to be Balthazar. You would live like a rat! You'd always be hungry and living on the streets! You…but…" she trailed off as she caught sight of Inuyasha's facial expression.
He had one of his perfect eyebrows cocked, a smirk planted on his rather kissable lips, and his arms crossed over his hard chest….whoa whoa whoa! Where did all that come from!?! Kagome shook her head softly, trying to fight back the blush threatening to creep across her face. "What do you find so amusing?" she asked more snappily than she had meant in an attempt to cover up her own embarrassment.
"Kagome…the police will already be after me since I kidnapped you. Once I get the ransom money I can bribe the police to clear my record and then live a life of luxury!" he explained nonchalantly.
Kagome looked at him incredulously. "You can't bribe the police, Inuyasha!"
Inuyasha's smirk only widened. "I have connections."
Kagome looked at him doubtfully before rolling her eyes and mumbling an almost incoherent, "Whatever…"
"Let's see…we need food and water! So let's go in," closing his eyes, he randomly jabbed his finger at a store, "that one!"
Kagome looked at the store. It was called 'Perfumes and Lingerie'. She sweatdropped. Inuyasha looked at her sheepishly.
"Inuyasha. I highly doubt we will find anything edible in that store," she ground out with her eye twitching. Grabbing his arm she quickly steered him away from that store and, instead, to a grocery.
Walking up and down the aisles, Kagome first spotted a huge, yellow backpack. Reaching for it, she looked around cautiously.
"You want that?" Inuyasha asked her. Kagome nodded. Using his claw-like nails, Inuyasha sliced through the tags and handed it to Kagome. Hesitantly, she took it from him.
"It's probably a good idea to have that too, we can put our stuff in it," Inuyasha informed her.
So, together they walked up and down the aisles, placing a pack of water bottles in the bag here, or a handful of ramen packages there. But by the time they left the store, Kagome's new backpack was almost full.
The next stop was the medical store. There, Kagome chose a basic first aid kit with all of the important things for treating wounds, headaches, and other common illnesses.
Last but not least, was the clothes shopping. Kagome led them to the biggest department store there and began grabbing stuff off of the racks faster than Inuyasha could blink.
"You're really getting into this whole 'stealing' gig," he commented slyly, as Kagome shoved a middle school uniform into her bag.
"Well, if we're gonna do it then I figure I might as well take advantage of it," she replied happily while yanking the tags off of an odd looking red haori.
"Are you really going to where that?" Inuyasha asked Kagome.
"Of course not, silly, this is for you!" she replied, holding it up for him to see. "Now, I'm not sure if this is the right size or not…but it looks like it'll fit you just fine!"
Inuyasha gawked at her. "You want ME to wear THAT?" he commanded of her incredulously.
"You mean you don't like it?" she asked. Kagome made certain that her eyes grew wide and pleading, her mouth puckered up into a tiny frown.
Inuyasha's face tinged a slight pink, but this went unnoticed by Kagome.
"Keh," he responded tersely.
"Yay!" Kagome cheered happily, and she shoved it into her bag. Grabbing Inuyasha's sleeve, she tugged him along the aisles until they both came to a stop in front of one specific rack.
The two of them looked at eachother, broke out into wide grins, and sprinted to the huge rack labeled 'Bathing Suits'.
"We can go swimming in that big lake we found before you, clumsily, conked out!" Inuyasha pointed out.
"I know! I love swimming!" she cried back excitedly, ignoring the implied insult. They tried on all kinds of different suits. In all shapes and colors. Finally, they each decided on the one they wanted.
Placing them into the now bulging yellow backpack, Kagome and Inuyasha casually walked towards the exit. But just as they walked through the gates that detected the barcodes on each item, the alarm went off. Extremely loud.
All of the customers in the store turned their heads and were now staring at them. The cashiers were running over to them, waving their arms and yelling at them to 'stay there'.
Inuyasha grabbed Kagome's arm, thrust her onto his back, and called, "Hang on!" to her before he jumped swiftly out the door and dashed out of the town, Kagome and her backpack bouncing along with him.
"I must have forgotten to take the tags off of the bathing suits!" Kagome called to Inuyasha over the rush of wind.
"Good job," Inuyasha shouted back sarcastically.
Kagome gently tweaked his ear. "Let's go swimming when we get back! It's really hot!" she suggested. Inuyasha nodded and continued speeding towards their farmhouse. Only he didn't go as fast as he could have. Inuyasha had slowed down some so that the time in which his luggage was clinging to his back, wouldn't end too quickly…
Author's Note: Yay! Another chapter done! And it was a pretty decent length too! Well, now that school has started the updates might come slower than usual. But be patient, they will come! Thanks for reading, and don't forget to review! The more good things I hear the faster I will want to update for you guys! ^_^