A trove of peccadilloes

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a re-spun Inuyasha fanfiction

by

mkh2

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            "A trove of peccadilloes."

            I had seen this phrase, maybe once before, but I had never stopped to find out what this meant. I had liked the way it sounded, certainly, and found the last word particularly delightful to say – peccadilloes – but I, in all my rush to move onto the next thing, the next moment, the next… whatever… hadn't, in my opinion, found any time to take a moment to understand the meaning.

            Naturally, when I saw it again in my leisure time, I felt inclined to pass it over once more, to find something more interesting to do than wallow in linguistics. But, being a dedicated student when not on my oh-so-fascinating adventures, well, sometimes fascinating, I put down the article, picked up my dictionary and thesaurus, and began to translate.

Trove: treasure of unknown ownership found hidden. any collection of valuables that is discovered.

Peccadilloes: sin. offense. failing. indulgence. crime. transgression. wrongdoing.

            I tittered a bit at the thought. A collection of valuable sins? Then, sobering up a little, I thought, perhaps a treasure of hidden indulgences? Is such a thing possible?

            Naturally.

            I've pretty much kept all my little indulgences to myself, though, in having known me, some people have found some out from their hidden places. For instance…

            In my leisure time, there is nothing better, in my opinion, than sitting down with a freshly made bowl of oden and the latest shoujo manga available to me.

            I like to ride on Inuyasha's back because it means I get to touch him and smell his hair… kinda musky but nice.

            Whenever I get the chance to, I blackmail Inuyasha into letting me pet his ears.

            I have a secret stash of Hershey's kisses under my bed.

            So many little secrets…

            a touch of vanity…

            I mean, I wear my school uniform in the Sengoku Jidai, which is highly impractical, but I never want to be mistaken for her again…

            some envy…

            again, her… Kikyo, the one Inuyasha loves…

            some telling of falsehoods…

            I do not always go home for tests… however, what is worse, is not telling my family just how much danger I face each day in the Sengoku Jidai.

            I, too, have a trove of peccadilloes.

            And yet, don't we all?

            ~Owari~

Well, I was wondering when that was going to be put out (I seem to have misplaced this other one-shot, but I only have a few places left to look… my car, for instance… and even if I can't find that one I think I can wing it.) By the by, this is Kagome speaking.

Originally, it was written completely from my point of view – it wasn't for Inuyasha or anything else, but then I thought, hey, even Kagome has wondered at times when she became such an awful person (over Kikyo – wishing she was dead or gone or something, can't quite remember right now.)

I got the definitions from using the thesaurus on my computer and the dictionary on FF.net. Who knew FF could be so useful as well as entertaining?

For people who read "Vegeta ½," I combined the "Inspiration behind Vegeta ½" and "'veggie's boo' review AN" together and placed them at the end of a, I think, rather unusual bonus chapter… I'm guessing I ate one too many Cheetos late at night or something…

Don't worry! I'll have more stuff out soon. Just keep an eye out for it, I won't fail (I hate it when author's discontinue their stories, so I'm going to try never to do so myself. I think I hate hypocrisy even worse, and loathe it when I am guilty of the same transgression.) Ja.