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Family Secrets
By: You know who it's by, for heaven's sake! I'm not repeating myself.
Chapter 6: Rabbit holes, Lechers, and Chaos as a Result
A/N: I am sooooo sorry about the lateness of this chapter! I know I promised that I would up-date every other night, but now that I'm off of vacation, I just know I'm going to have some trouble doing that. But I will up-date at least once a week, and every once and a while, more, n'kay? And can I just say. . .I HATE HOMEWORK!!!! ARGH! Ok, done now. . .
"So let me get this strait. You have a well that goes back in time? And he's half inu-youkai? And you two, along with four others, search for these Shikon shards, that used to be one ball called the Shikon no Tama? And he fights demons that get in the way of this search?"
They were sitting at the dining room table, well, Kiry and Kagome were; InuYasha was sitting on the counter in his typical 'I'm-not-listening- honest-but-I'm-aware-of-every-little-word-you-say-and-oh-by-the-way-I'm- still-pouting' pose (A/N: He's so kawaii when he does that! Ok, so he's kawaii no matter what you do!) Kagome had gotten out of Kiry's clubbing outfit and was much more comfortable in a pair of shorts and a baby doll tee that proclaimed 'Chick Power', which InuYasha had took one look at and snorted.
Kagome had just finished telling Kiry about the Sengoku Jidai and the Bone Eaters Well, minus the parts about Kikyo and InuYasha, InuYasha's New Moon problems, Sesshomaru, and Naraku. Those weren't hers to tell. Now Kiry was giving them that look she did when she wasn't letting a single thought show on her face or in her expressive eyes. She repeated the short version of the tale in questions, as if to make sure she had gotten everything correct.
"Yah, that's about the gist of it." Kagome was starting to get nervous. 'Why do I feel like she's going to say I'm a psychotic freak? Please, Kiry, say something. . .'
InuYasha snorted, eyes still closed. "You forgot one part. She gets kidnapped and I save her pathetic ass."
Kagome flashed him a look that promised him trouble up the wazoo if he opened his big mouth again. He could practically feel her scalding eyes boring a hole through his head and smirked. Kiry made a noise that sounded suspiciously like she was choking down a laugh. Kagome turned her livid gaze to her cousin, who looked more innocent that should be deemed possible. She could care less that Kagome was giving her death glares; that was how close they had gotten in one night.
"Well, back to the subject at hand." Kiry looked at her cousin and InuYasha in a way that was uncannily like Kag's mom's 'Behave!' look. "Kagome, this just rocks!"
"I-huh?" Kagome was thrown for a second. 'Wait, this was supposed to be where she told me I was nuts!'
"Kag-chan, think bout it! You act like it's a major drag. You have a well. . .in your backyard. . .that can take you through time! Hello?! And, oh, hey, a cute boy, watching your butt."
InuYasha snapped out of his aloof position with a gulp/snort/puff of outrage. "Just what are you accusing me of bitch?!?!"
Kiry rolled her eyes and muttered something that sounded like a self- explanatory (to girls) "Males. . .", then she said, in an exaggerated tone, as if she were speaking to a complete moron (A/N: Which she was if you think about it ^.~) "I MEANT that she had you watching OUT for her, so she wouldn't get HURT. Mou, men are such pervs. Oh, and thank you for the wonderful compliment."
Kagome blinked. "Compliment? There was a compliment in that sentence?"
"Of course he did." Kiry was grinning in a rather disturbing manner. "He called me a bitch. Rather interesting choice of word usage for a dog-demon, ne? Does he ever call you that ?"
InuYasha blanched. 'Uh oh. . .' Kagome's face had gone from bewildered to shocked/horrified. 'I've called her that so many times, I've lost count. Wasn't thinking. . .or was my subconscious knowing what it was doing. . .for once.'
Kiry saw the tell-tale evidence on Kagome's face and rushed on before the two of them could get into a 'SIT-THUD-cuss-SIT-THUD-cuss-repeat-10-times' argument. "Well, this is just. . .neat! So when do we go?"
A ivory head and a ebony head twirled to look at her. "Go?" they asked in unison.
"Yes, go. With you guys. Back in time. These are all statements, not questions, by the way." Kiry had this look that could have been a mirror of Kagome's when she is being stubborn.
"But. . .no one can travel by the well but me and InuYasha."
"Well, why don't we test that. Lemme try to get through. I'll just jump in and if it works, I'll come right back so that I can pack my bag. If not, then you can go and I'll be here when you get back." She said after a moment of thought, glancing into space.
"No-" InuYasha's expression of denial for the privilege was killed before he could get a second syllable out.
Kagome looked thrilled at the idea of her cousin coming with her. "Yeah!" She jumped up and grabbed Kiry's hand. "Let's go!" She started to run out the door, dragging Kiry, when she noticed that InuYasha hadn't followed them. She poked her head back in. "InuYasha, aren't you coming?"
He looked from Kagome to Kiry, who had that 'Behave!' look on her face again. He 'feh-ed' and stood up, following them out the door.
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Kiry stood on the brink of the well, looking down with speculation into the deep black depths. "So, I just. . .jump in?"
Kagome nodded. She didn't feel like talking just now. 'What if. . .what if she makes it? What if she can come. . .and I can finally have someone from here with me. . .someone who knows what everything back here is like? That would be so cool.'
"Can we hurry it up already? We have shards to get." InuYasha was getting very impatient.
"Jeez man, cool your jets. I'm goin', I'm goin'." And she dropped. Not a jump, she dropped, like she was stepping off a diving board. And fell. . .and disappeared in a swirl of blue light.
Kagome hadn't realized that she was holding her breath until she let it out in a sigh of relief. "She made it. She made it!" In her joy, she grabbed InuYasha's arm and hug/squeezed it, letting go as fast as she had touched him. She was too excited, waiting for Kiry to come back, that she failed to see the expression that registered on InuYasha's face. It was awe, it was shock, it was disbelief. 'She. . .she. . .she did that so unconsciously. Like it was just a normal thing, to hug a demon. Well, ok, half demon, but still. . .Kikyo never did anything like that. It was so. . .stilted, our. . .romance.' He glanced at Kagome, who was still staring down into the well. 'Is she even aware of what she did?' He was about to say something, when the well glowed blue once again, and Kiry came into being at the bottom.
She looked up. "WOW! Now that was fun! Can't wait to do that again." she looked around the well, and then up at them again. "Now, just tell me how I get outa this thing!"
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Fifteen minutes later, much to a certain furball's displeasure, Kagome was running around the kitchen, stuffing boxes of instant ramen (A/N: Dog-boy's gotta have his ramen! *wink, wink*) into her backpack. They had run out back there, so she had to stuff practically the entire cupboard's worth in the already over stuffed yellow monster. Kiry had taken every single outfit ("All skirts. . ." she had tisked.) out of her pack and proceeded to put in "much more sensible" ones. Now she was upstairs, packing her own backpack, which she a pulled out from some hidden pocket of her luggage.
InuYasha was outside after filling Kagome in on jewel shard whereabouts, now opting to stay where there were no "human-y smells to over tax his nose". Kiry had muttered something in English at that and was refusing to translate it.
Kagome ran up the stairs, finished now with her food stuffing, and swung herself around the doorjamb into the room, just in time to see Kiry clipping something round her neck. "Hey, what's that?" she asked, curious. Kiry hesitated, then held out. . .a necklace. It was a clear crystal, small, only an inch long, in a tear drop shape on a silver chain. "Oh that's pretty! Where did you get it?" Kiry dropped it back to it's resting place against her chest.
"It was. . .given to me. . .by someone very special." She said.
"Boyfriend?" Kagome asked slyly. Kiry hadn't said anything about having a boyfriend.
"No." Kiry responded simply, in a tone that some how forbade further inquiry, starting to zip up her backpack. She had changed her clothes to tight black leather pants and a modest blue tank top, her hair in the same style as Kagome's, up in a twist. She stood up and yanked on a black leather jacket. Kagome tilted her head to the side and looked her cousin up and down. Those pants were surely going to get Miroku in trouble.
"Kiry, how much leather do you own?"
"Uh," she looked down at herself, as if just realizing what she had put on. "I guess quite a bit." She looked up with a sheepish grin.
"Can we get going now?! We have shards to collect, saving your majesties' presence's!" came the voice of one very patience depleted InuYasha.
"SIT!" Yelled Kagome. The resulting effect of the prayer beads could be heard ringing through the air in some of the most foul utterances known to human- and demon-kind alike.
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"This is just amazing! I mean, look at this scenery! You can't even find this type of surroundings in the best of modern Japan!" Kiry was walking and. . .well. . .spinning around, looking at everything. Her eyes darted from here to there, taking in every detail of the landscape. Kagome started to look around with eyes that hadn't seen it that way for the longest time.
"Feh! It's just some old trees!" InuYasha snorted.
Kiry stopped and gave his back a long look. "Are you always this much a pain in the ass, because if your planning on keeping this up the entire time I'm here, I'm really gonna have to kick it into shape."
InuYasha halted in his tracks and spun around to face her. He was the picture of pure male arrogance. "HA! As if a wimpy little human like you could ever hope to take me!"
Kiry face was the epitome of female arrogance, sure and confident in her capabilities. "We'll see." The sheer blandness of the answer, the tone in which it was said, and the fact that Kiry was refusing to rise to his challenge gave InuYasha a second of wiggy-ness, but in a second was Joe Smug again.
"Feh! I'd-" he started, but, again was interrupted.
"KAGOME!!!!!!" shouted a voice. Shippo came careening around the trees to fly into her arms. "I missed you! I missed you so much! I-huh?" he had spotted Kiry, who was looking more amused than ever at the kitsune's obvious affection for her cousin.
Shippo jumped down and walked over to Kiry, who crouched down to oblige him. She grinned at the green-blue wide-eyed fox. "Well now aren't you just a perfect cutie? I'm Kiry. I'm Kagome's itoko."
Shippo's heart was won in New York minute. (A/N: Which technically shouldn't be any shorter or longer than any other minute any other place- *readers clap hands over Aelii-chan's mouth*-Ok! Fine! Writing. . . sheesh. . .) "Cousin? Cool! Kagome, you never told me you had a cousin that could come through the well!" Shippo leapt back into Kagome's arms as they approached Kaede's hut (house? What would you call it?).
"Well, Shippo, I didn't know she could either. She kinda came on the spur of the moment, both here and to my house." Kagome petted Shippo's fluffy tail, glad that he had accepted Kiry so readily. InuYasha, on the other hand, was looking especially grumpy.
"How come you don't have a smell?" Shippo asked Kiry with his typical charm.
InuYasha started. 'The brat picked up on it too! So it's not just me thinkin' I'd finally cracked!'
Kiry shrugged and gave an odd smile. "I don't know. Nobody ever told me that before." Her eyes slanted to the left. "I guess no smell is better than a bad smell, ne?"
'She acts like she's hiding something, but what?' InuYasha's feelings on the small brunette were getting weirder with each new odd thing that came up.
By this time, they had reached the front of the hut and Shippo had gone pelting in with a high pitched "Kagome's back! Kagome's back! And she has a cousin!"
Miroku and Sango, with Kirara on her shoulder, came out and looked at the leather clad vision. Miroku sprang forward and took Kiry's hand with enough speed to shame InuYasha.
"Lovely maiden, I am Miroku. Kagome never told us she had so fair a cousin. Would you do me the honor of bearing my child?" Four hands came down on his skull with a *THUD!**BOOM!**BANG!* and one sickening *CLANG!*
Miroku looked up from his new position at Kiry's feet. "WHAT?!?!" he asked, just a little dizzily.
Kiry had watched this odd display, not being an active participant of the indenting of the lecher's skull, with-again-a look of amusement so highly developed that it should be fined. Now she bent down, crouching, to look the monk in the eye. . .the slightly out of focus eye.
"Miroku, thank you for asking me such an honoring question, but I must say that I to say that I can't, I'm sorry." Kiry somehow managed to say this with a perfectly calm and serious expression.
Miroku looked at the girl in front of him with something akin to respect. He stood up and dusted off his robes, then put down a hand to help Kiry up. She took it and was pulled to her feet. He bowed over her hand, then looked at her and smiled.
"You are indeed a gracious lady, and I thank you." He released her hand, allowing her to turn to Sango. . .until he saw those pants. He salivated, his hand reaching towards it's demise. . .when Kagome decide to 'help' him out by thwacking him in the head, hard. His consciousness was not missed.
Sango stepped forward with an outstretched hand, which Kiry gladly took. "I'm Sango," then pointing at the fox-cat demon on her shoulder, "and this is Kirara."
"Furukuri Kiry." She said easily. She held out a hand for Kirara to sniff, which she politely did.
"I hope that InuYasha wasn't too much of a. . .erm. . .shock, when you saw him this morning?" Sango was curious as to how this pretty girl had taken a. . .uh. . .loudmouthed inu-youkai bursting into the Higurashi Shrine at 10:00 in the morning.
Kiry's eyes had, for some odd reason, taken on a very mischievous glint as she glanced briefly at her cousin, who began to look a little panicked. "Well, you see, that's a very interesting story because-" He sentence was ended by a hand clamping down on her mouth. The owner of the hand, Kagome, was giving her a 'Shut-up-or-I-so-swear-I-am-going-to-kill-you-and-then- bring-you-back-so-I-can-kill-you-again!' look.
"Well, now that's a wonderful story, but don't we have jewel shards to collect? Ok, good so lets get going!" She grabbed her cousin's wrist and began yelling at her in whisper. Kiry just turned around and gave Sango a wink and a mouthed "We'll talk later."
Sango sighed in an exasperated manner after she had given a big grin in response to the unsaid statement. 'What on earth did Kagome get herself into this morning? Obviously something embarrassing. . .' she glanced at Miroku, who was still on the ground, regaining his (slight) wits.
"Come on, voyeur" she said prodding him with her boot. "Time to go." She walked on. . until she felt a hand caress her rump. She spun around with a backhanded swing and knocked the monk back on his own butt, again. 'Gods,' she thought, stomping away, "why must I be forced to lo-like!-a man with such horrendous habits!' Shippo leaped after her, to jump on Kiry's shoulder, much to her delight.
Miroku got up for what seemed like the umpteenth time this morning, dusted himself off, and then ran after the girls, calling "But, Sango-".
InuYasha was left standing there, watching all of them start down the path that led to where the youkai's they were looking for were. 'I have a feeling this one is going to be different from the rest, but in a good way or a bad way?'
"Hey! InuYasha! Aren't you coming?" Shouted Kagome, breaking into his thoughts. He snapped his head up to see them waiting. . .waiting for him. 'Oh, well, puzzle this out later-we have shards to find!' he thought at himself.
He gave a nod and then leaped off, ahead of them all. As usual. The rest followed at a less lively pace.
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A couple of hours later they were still walking, though somewhat less lively than before, the long walking having worn on them all. . .all that is but mr. Happy-go-Bouncy-through-the-trees. Noooo, he was still walking like there was no tomorrow.
Kagome had been walking along, not keeping an eye on Kiry, who was at this present moment recounting the mornings incident to Sango, who was trying not to die of laughter, when she felt the presence of a shard in her mind, two shards to be exact. Coming. . .strait at them. . .fast. . .oh no. . .
InuYasha lifted his head and sniffed. Then he growled, getting stares from everyone but Kagome, who completely understood his agitation. 'This is too fuckin' great! Just what I don't need! Kouga. . .'
A/N: AH-HAHA! What happens next, I wonder?! Am I an evil puppy or what? But, I am a happy evil puppy who loves each and every one of her very patient readers, who I'm sure are ready to give me the most horrible case of dead ever seen! YAH!
Comechatcha, Ash ~~ Isn't Murphy's law great! Evil, oh yes, but great!
Black Wolf ~~ I'VE corrupted YOU! I thought it was the other way around!
Notanigen ~~ Does that mean it's good? Poor little lost me. . .
Jupiter's Light, Dark Jedi Princess ~~ You guys are such faithful reviewers! Can't tell you how much that means 2 me! You supported my insanity, now see what happened? Craziness! Hehehe. . .
Skara Brae ~~ *hides under a VERY big rock* Gomengomengomen!! Here it is. . .finally. . .oy. . .
DemonDuelst ~~ Well here's an even bigger cliff! Climb this one, if you dare! ;)
Mandy ~~ Awww. . .how sweet, thanx very much!
^.~ Aelii-chan, Keeper of the 'Happy evil puppy dance', and the evil cliffies! *runs!*
Family Secrets
By: You know who it's by, for heaven's sake! I'm not repeating myself.
Chapter 6: Rabbit holes, Lechers, and Chaos as a Result
A/N: I am sooooo sorry about the lateness of this chapter! I know I promised that I would up-date every other night, but now that I'm off of vacation, I just know I'm going to have some trouble doing that. But I will up-date at least once a week, and every once and a while, more, n'kay? And can I just say. . .I HATE HOMEWORK!!!! ARGH! Ok, done now. . .
"So let me get this strait. You have a well that goes back in time? And he's half inu-youkai? And you two, along with four others, search for these Shikon shards, that used to be one ball called the Shikon no Tama? And he fights demons that get in the way of this search?"
They were sitting at the dining room table, well, Kiry and Kagome were; InuYasha was sitting on the counter in his typical 'I'm-not-listening- honest-but-I'm-aware-of-every-little-word-you-say-and-oh-by-the-way-I'm- still-pouting' pose (A/N: He's so kawaii when he does that! Ok, so he's kawaii no matter what you do!) Kagome had gotten out of Kiry's clubbing outfit and was much more comfortable in a pair of shorts and a baby doll tee that proclaimed 'Chick Power', which InuYasha had took one look at and snorted.
Kagome had just finished telling Kiry about the Sengoku Jidai and the Bone Eaters Well, minus the parts about Kikyo and InuYasha, InuYasha's New Moon problems, Sesshomaru, and Naraku. Those weren't hers to tell. Now Kiry was giving them that look she did when she wasn't letting a single thought show on her face or in her expressive eyes. She repeated the short version of the tale in questions, as if to make sure she had gotten everything correct.
"Yah, that's about the gist of it." Kagome was starting to get nervous. 'Why do I feel like she's going to say I'm a psychotic freak? Please, Kiry, say something. . .'
InuYasha snorted, eyes still closed. "You forgot one part. She gets kidnapped and I save her pathetic ass."
Kagome flashed him a look that promised him trouble up the wazoo if he opened his big mouth again. He could practically feel her scalding eyes boring a hole through his head and smirked. Kiry made a noise that sounded suspiciously like she was choking down a laugh. Kagome turned her livid gaze to her cousin, who looked more innocent that should be deemed possible. She could care less that Kagome was giving her death glares; that was how close they had gotten in one night.
"Well, back to the subject at hand." Kiry looked at her cousin and InuYasha in a way that was uncannily like Kag's mom's 'Behave!' look. "Kagome, this just rocks!"
"I-huh?" Kagome was thrown for a second. 'Wait, this was supposed to be where she told me I was nuts!'
"Kag-chan, think bout it! You act like it's a major drag. You have a well. . .in your backyard. . .that can take you through time! Hello?! And, oh, hey, a cute boy, watching your butt."
InuYasha snapped out of his aloof position with a gulp/snort/puff of outrage. "Just what are you accusing me of bitch?!?!"
Kiry rolled her eyes and muttered something that sounded like a self- explanatory (to girls) "Males. . .", then she said, in an exaggerated tone, as if she were speaking to a complete moron (A/N: Which she was if you think about it ^.~) "I MEANT that she had you watching OUT for her, so she wouldn't get HURT. Mou, men are such pervs. Oh, and thank you for the wonderful compliment."
Kagome blinked. "Compliment? There was a compliment in that sentence?"
"Of course he did." Kiry was grinning in a rather disturbing manner. "He called me a bitch. Rather interesting choice of word usage for a dog-demon, ne? Does he ever call you that ?"
InuYasha blanched. 'Uh oh. . .' Kagome's face had gone from bewildered to shocked/horrified. 'I've called her that so many times, I've lost count. Wasn't thinking. . .or was my subconscious knowing what it was doing. . .for once.'
Kiry saw the tell-tale evidence on Kagome's face and rushed on before the two of them could get into a 'SIT-THUD-cuss-SIT-THUD-cuss-repeat-10-times' argument. "Well, this is just. . .neat! So when do we go?"
A ivory head and a ebony head twirled to look at her. "Go?" they asked in unison.
"Yes, go. With you guys. Back in time. These are all statements, not questions, by the way." Kiry had this look that could have been a mirror of Kagome's when she is being stubborn.
"But. . .no one can travel by the well but me and InuYasha."
"Well, why don't we test that. Lemme try to get through. I'll just jump in and if it works, I'll come right back so that I can pack my bag. If not, then you can go and I'll be here when you get back." She said after a moment of thought, glancing into space.
"No-" InuYasha's expression of denial for the privilege was killed before he could get a second syllable out.
Kagome looked thrilled at the idea of her cousin coming with her. "Yeah!" She jumped up and grabbed Kiry's hand. "Let's go!" She started to run out the door, dragging Kiry, when she noticed that InuYasha hadn't followed them. She poked her head back in. "InuYasha, aren't you coming?"
He looked from Kagome to Kiry, who had that 'Behave!' look on her face again. He 'feh-ed' and stood up, following them out the door.
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Kiry stood on the brink of the well, looking down with speculation into the deep black depths. "So, I just. . .jump in?"
Kagome nodded. She didn't feel like talking just now. 'What if. . .what if she makes it? What if she can come. . .and I can finally have someone from here with me. . .someone who knows what everything back here is like? That would be so cool.'
"Can we hurry it up already? We have shards to get." InuYasha was getting very impatient.
"Jeez man, cool your jets. I'm goin', I'm goin'." And she dropped. Not a jump, she dropped, like she was stepping off a diving board. And fell. . .and disappeared in a swirl of blue light.
Kagome hadn't realized that she was holding her breath until she let it out in a sigh of relief. "She made it. She made it!" In her joy, she grabbed InuYasha's arm and hug/squeezed it, letting go as fast as she had touched him. She was too excited, waiting for Kiry to come back, that she failed to see the expression that registered on InuYasha's face. It was awe, it was shock, it was disbelief. 'She. . .she. . .she did that so unconsciously. Like it was just a normal thing, to hug a demon. Well, ok, half demon, but still. . .Kikyo never did anything like that. It was so. . .stilted, our. . .romance.' He glanced at Kagome, who was still staring down into the well. 'Is she even aware of what she did?' He was about to say something, when the well glowed blue once again, and Kiry came into being at the bottom.
She looked up. "WOW! Now that was fun! Can't wait to do that again." she looked around the well, and then up at them again. "Now, just tell me how I get outa this thing!"
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Fifteen minutes later, much to a certain furball's displeasure, Kagome was running around the kitchen, stuffing boxes of instant ramen (A/N: Dog-boy's gotta have his ramen! *wink, wink*) into her backpack. They had run out back there, so she had to stuff practically the entire cupboard's worth in the already over stuffed yellow monster. Kiry had taken every single outfit ("All skirts. . ." she had tisked.) out of her pack and proceeded to put in "much more sensible" ones. Now she was upstairs, packing her own backpack, which she a pulled out from some hidden pocket of her luggage.
InuYasha was outside after filling Kagome in on jewel shard whereabouts, now opting to stay where there were no "human-y smells to over tax his nose". Kiry had muttered something in English at that and was refusing to translate it.
Kagome ran up the stairs, finished now with her food stuffing, and swung herself around the doorjamb into the room, just in time to see Kiry clipping something round her neck. "Hey, what's that?" she asked, curious. Kiry hesitated, then held out. . .a necklace. It was a clear crystal, small, only an inch long, in a tear drop shape on a silver chain. "Oh that's pretty! Where did you get it?" Kiry dropped it back to it's resting place against her chest.
"It was. . .given to me. . .by someone very special." She said.
"Boyfriend?" Kagome asked slyly. Kiry hadn't said anything about having a boyfriend.
"No." Kiry responded simply, in a tone that some how forbade further inquiry, starting to zip up her backpack. She had changed her clothes to tight black leather pants and a modest blue tank top, her hair in the same style as Kagome's, up in a twist. She stood up and yanked on a black leather jacket. Kagome tilted her head to the side and looked her cousin up and down. Those pants were surely going to get Miroku in trouble.
"Kiry, how much leather do you own?"
"Uh," she looked down at herself, as if just realizing what she had put on. "I guess quite a bit." She looked up with a sheepish grin.
"Can we get going now?! We have shards to collect, saving your majesties' presence's!" came the voice of one very patience depleted InuYasha.
"SIT!" Yelled Kagome. The resulting effect of the prayer beads could be heard ringing through the air in some of the most foul utterances known to human- and demon-kind alike.
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"This is just amazing! I mean, look at this scenery! You can't even find this type of surroundings in the best of modern Japan!" Kiry was walking and. . .well. . .spinning around, looking at everything. Her eyes darted from here to there, taking in every detail of the landscape. Kagome started to look around with eyes that hadn't seen it that way for the longest time.
"Feh! It's just some old trees!" InuYasha snorted.
Kiry stopped and gave his back a long look. "Are you always this much a pain in the ass, because if your planning on keeping this up the entire time I'm here, I'm really gonna have to kick it into shape."
InuYasha halted in his tracks and spun around to face her. He was the picture of pure male arrogance. "HA! As if a wimpy little human like you could ever hope to take me!"
Kiry face was the epitome of female arrogance, sure and confident in her capabilities. "We'll see." The sheer blandness of the answer, the tone in which it was said, and the fact that Kiry was refusing to rise to his challenge gave InuYasha a second of wiggy-ness, but in a second was Joe Smug again.
"Feh! I'd-" he started, but, again was interrupted.
"KAGOME!!!!!!" shouted a voice. Shippo came careening around the trees to fly into her arms. "I missed you! I missed you so much! I-huh?" he had spotted Kiry, who was looking more amused than ever at the kitsune's obvious affection for her cousin.
Shippo jumped down and walked over to Kiry, who crouched down to oblige him. She grinned at the green-blue wide-eyed fox. "Well now aren't you just a perfect cutie? I'm Kiry. I'm Kagome's itoko."
Shippo's heart was won in New York minute. (A/N: Which technically shouldn't be any shorter or longer than any other minute any other place- *readers clap hands over Aelii-chan's mouth*-Ok! Fine! Writing. . . sheesh. . .) "Cousin? Cool! Kagome, you never told me you had a cousin that could come through the well!" Shippo leapt back into Kagome's arms as they approached Kaede's hut (house? What would you call it?).
"Well, Shippo, I didn't know she could either. She kinda came on the spur of the moment, both here and to my house." Kagome petted Shippo's fluffy tail, glad that he had accepted Kiry so readily. InuYasha, on the other hand, was looking especially grumpy.
"How come you don't have a smell?" Shippo asked Kiry with his typical charm.
InuYasha started. 'The brat picked up on it too! So it's not just me thinkin' I'd finally cracked!'
Kiry shrugged and gave an odd smile. "I don't know. Nobody ever told me that before." Her eyes slanted to the left. "I guess no smell is better than a bad smell, ne?"
'She acts like she's hiding something, but what?' InuYasha's feelings on the small brunette were getting weirder with each new odd thing that came up.
By this time, they had reached the front of the hut and Shippo had gone pelting in with a high pitched "Kagome's back! Kagome's back! And she has a cousin!"
Miroku and Sango, with Kirara on her shoulder, came out and looked at the leather clad vision. Miroku sprang forward and took Kiry's hand with enough speed to shame InuYasha.
"Lovely maiden, I am Miroku. Kagome never told us she had so fair a cousin. Would you do me the honor of bearing my child?" Four hands came down on his skull with a *THUD!**BOOM!**BANG!* and one sickening *CLANG!*
Miroku looked up from his new position at Kiry's feet. "WHAT?!?!" he asked, just a little dizzily.
Kiry had watched this odd display, not being an active participant of the indenting of the lecher's skull, with-again-a look of amusement so highly developed that it should be fined. Now she bent down, crouching, to look the monk in the eye. . .the slightly out of focus eye.
"Miroku, thank you for asking me such an honoring question, but I must say that I to say that I can't, I'm sorry." Kiry somehow managed to say this with a perfectly calm and serious expression.
Miroku looked at the girl in front of him with something akin to respect. He stood up and dusted off his robes, then put down a hand to help Kiry up. She took it and was pulled to her feet. He bowed over her hand, then looked at her and smiled.
"You are indeed a gracious lady, and I thank you." He released her hand, allowing her to turn to Sango. . .until he saw those pants. He salivated, his hand reaching towards it's demise. . .when Kagome decide to 'help' him out by thwacking him in the head, hard. His consciousness was not missed.
Sango stepped forward with an outstretched hand, which Kiry gladly took. "I'm Sango," then pointing at the fox-cat demon on her shoulder, "and this is Kirara."
"Furukuri Kiry." She said easily. She held out a hand for Kirara to sniff, which she politely did.
"I hope that InuYasha wasn't too much of a. . .erm. . .shock, when you saw him this morning?" Sango was curious as to how this pretty girl had taken a. . .uh. . .loudmouthed inu-youkai bursting into the Higurashi Shrine at 10:00 in the morning.
Kiry's eyes had, for some odd reason, taken on a very mischievous glint as she glanced briefly at her cousin, who began to look a little panicked. "Well, you see, that's a very interesting story because-" He sentence was ended by a hand clamping down on her mouth. The owner of the hand, Kagome, was giving her a 'Shut-up-or-I-so-swear-I-am-going-to-kill-you-and-then- bring-you-back-so-I-can-kill-you-again!' look.
"Well, now that's a wonderful story, but don't we have jewel shards to collect? Ok, good so lets get going!" She grabbed her cousin's wrist and began yelling at her in whisper. Kiry just turned around and gave Sango a wink and a mouthed "We'll talk later."
Sango sighed in an exasperated manner after she had given a big grin in response to the unsaid statement. 'What on earth did Kagome get herself into this morning? Obviously something embarrassing. . .' she glanced at Miroku, who was still on the ground, regaining his (slight) wits.
"Come on, voyeur" she said prodding him with her boot. "Time to go." She walked on. . until she felt a hand caress her rump. She spun around with a backhanded swing and knocked the monk back on his own butt, again. 'Gods,' she thought, stomping away, "why must I be forced to lo-like!-a man with such horrendous habits!' Shippo leaped after her, to jump on Kiry's shoulder, much to her delight.
Miroku got up for what seemed like the umpteenth time this morning, dusted himself off, and then ran after the girls, calling "But, Sango-".
InuYasha was left standing there, watching all of them start down the path that led to where the youkai's they were looking for were. 'I have a feeling this one is going to be different from the rest, but in a good way or a bad way?'
"Hey! InuYasha! Aren't you coming?" Shouted Kagome, breaking into his thoughts. He snapped his head up to see them waiting. . .waiting for him. 'Oh, well, puzzle this out later-we have shards to find!' he thought at himself.
He gave a nod and then leaped off, ahead of them all. As usual. The rest followed at a less lively pace.
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A couple of hours later they were still walking, though somewhat less lively than before, the long walking having worn on them all. . .all that is but mr. Happy-go-Bouncy-through-the-trees. Noooo, he was still walking like there was no tomorrow.
Kagome had been walking along, not keeping an eye on Kiry, who was at this present moment recounting the mornings incident to Sango, who was trying not to die of laughter, when she felt the presence of a shard in her mind, two shards to be exact. Coming. . .strait at them. . .fast. . .oh no. . .
InuYasha lifted his head and sniffed. Then he growled, getting stares from everyone but Kagome, who completely understood his agitation. 'This is too fuckin' great! Just what I don't need! Kouga. . .'
A/N: AH-HAHA! What happens next, I wonder?! Am I an evil puppy or what? But, I am a happy evil puppy who loves each and every one of her very patient readers, who I'm sure are ready to give me the most horrible case of dead ever seen! YAH!
Comechatcha, Ash ~~ Isn't Murphy's law great! Evil, oh yes, but great!
Black Wolf ~~ I'VE corrupted YOU! I thought it was the other way around!
Notanigen ~~ Does that mean it's good? Poor little lost me. . .
Jupiter's Light, Dark Jedi Princess ~~ You guys are such faithful reviewers! Can't tell you how much that means 2 me! You supported my insanity, now see what happened? Craziness! Hehehe. . .
Skara Brae ~~ *hides under a VERY big rock* Gomengomengomen!! Here it is. . .finally. . .oy. . .
DemonDuelst ~~ Well here's an even bigger cliff! Climb this one, if you dare! ;)
Mandy ~~ Awww. . .how sweet, thanx very much!
^.~ Aelii-chan, Keeper of the 'Happy evil puppy dance', and the evil cliffies! *runs!*