Disclaimer: Ok...*pants* I have finally *pants* caught *pants* Inuyasha... ok, now what to do with him? *hanyou growls at Bunny fro within enchanted net* Uh...maybe, I should wait till the NewMoon to do this.
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Notes: Yup yup.. another chappy as promised! (though slightly late, so it's longer) also, I looked back at all your wonderful reviews from chappy 36.. you know, before I disappeared again, and yes, I remember you all, and I still want your opinions as you read.. AND anyone else's... so.. uh, I wont babble this time, jus read.. and enjoy ~ Bunny n.~
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~*Over the Edge - Chapter38: The Greatly Anticipated Return*~
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Keade woke up late the next morning to find that Kagome and InuYasha were getting ready to head to that fated well that had brought the young miko to their time in the first place. As for the others in their group, Sango had fallen asleep halfway through the tale they had told her last night, and was still next to the monk, her head on his shoulder as they sat up against the wall; except theat at some point during the night, Miroku had slipped an arm around her. And the young kitsune and neko-youkai... they were fast asleep over by the hearth were it was warmest, curled up on some sacks of herbs she had yet to grind.
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Letting out a sigh, still processing what all had happened, she went over to her sister's reincarnation to ask if se could be of any assistance.
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"Thanks Keade-san, but I think I'm all ready. It was nice seeing you, but I really ought to get back to my family."
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The old miko smiled at her before turning to InuYasha. "Don't give her that much of a fight this time..." With that said, she tuned and headed to the back of the hut, mumbling about 'stubborn hanyous'.
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She watched as the graceful fire hawk flew above her and continued on to somewhere unknown. But she didn't exactly care about the bird. Se was merely looking to catch up with a certain..hanyou. In her mind, a malicious grin spread across her face, but her outside shell remained composed. "I will deal with you, my little birdy, another day."
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She walked on for the rest of the day, scaling the mountain as if it were only a small hill that she had already crossed a million times before. Then again, she was used to the sloping lands from all those years of going to see Oguimuto (sp?)...
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A spirit-demon came streaking through the flaming sky as the sun set over the trees of Inuyasha's forrest and landed upon Kikyou's outstretched hand as though it were a beautiful butterfly. 'Your time will come soon...'
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Mrs.Higurahsi was in the kitchen cooking breakfast, while Souta was getting ready for school, when she heard her father give a shriek of terror. "GAIIEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!! No inhuman being should be able to pass past my ancient scrolls! They are all originals from ancient times! Demon be gone- Oni Shatsou Onkuuuuuu."
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With a pause in his rambling, Mrs.Higurashi left what she was doing in the kitchen to go outside and see what was going on at the shrine. As she approached, a tall, lean figure practically wallpapered with ancient scrolls was seen crumpling up the pieces of paper and picking them out of his hair. "Oi Jijii! When is it going to get through your damn head that these scraps of paper are worthless!"
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"They are from ancient Japan, Demon, and you should be a pile of dust now that they have been cast!"
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Inuyasha looked at him blankly before taking a single scroll in his hand and sliced it evenly and slowly with a claw. "Like that?"
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"No!. This is some new evil. You will truly fall to my more powerful of spells!" The old man stuck another scroll to Inuyasha's forehead, which effectively made him go cross-eyed for a couple seconds while he disappeared into another building on the shine grounds to most likely dig out those 'more powerful spells'.
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While the two had been arguing, Kagome had climbed out of the well and was leaning in the doorway of the well-house. When her other came out from the house, a smile lit her face up and she went around the two, unnoticed, giving her mom a big hug.
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Her mother smiled back at Kagome, feeling a wave of relief that her daughter was still okay. She was about to ask about what had held her up in the past, but Kagome just stood back from her mother a little after their embrace seized and said, "Something came up, but it feels good to be home again."
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"Well, I'm glad you came back in one piece Kagome. Why don't I go kick Souta out of the bathroom and draw you a nice bath, then you can tell me about it over breakfast, ne?"
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Kagome gave her mom another hug before she tuned to go back inside as small puffs of smoke were coming from the kitchen now. But before she passed entirely through the door she called back over her shoulder to her daughter. "And Kagome, please make sure that young gentleman doesn't kill your grandfather! Oh, and invite him in for breakfast!" A resounding beep was head from the house and she disappeared into the house yelling audibly about her ruined sauce.
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'Well, not too much has changed around here at least..'
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Kagome eased further into the depths of the wonderfully hot waters of the bath, steam rising up fro the masses of bubbles. 'Ahhhhhhh, this has to be one of the things I missed most..' She took her time shaving her long overdue legs, spreading the cool gel over her skin before taking it away with the new blade. It was a while before the bubbles began to thin out, and she felt like a soggy sponge from stewing in the water for so long. 'Well it was good while it lasted.' with that thought, she pulled the plug from the drain and got out of the tub to dry off.
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With the towel secure around her she left the sauna-like bathroom for her bedroom long since actually used to sleep in. That was another thing she figured she missed... her comfortably worn in mattress bed. '..then again, there was something to trees too...' She bit her lip as she remembered some of those nights with InuYasha when he was being all overprotective over her.
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She heard the door creek open, and blush found her face as she turned around to face none other than the hanyou of her thoughts.
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InuYasha inwardly gulped when he saw Kagome standing in the middle of her room with that short, fluffy, towel just barely covering her up. It had been a while since he'd been able to study those curves... he'd not nearly forgotten how shapely her hips an legs were, but to see them freshly smooth, and glistening slightly from some water left from the bath, it was just different after a while of those jeans she'd come back in that day about a month ago.
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He absently had leaned into the door more and it creaked as it opened up further, and his ears perked up as she turned around to face him, blushing. "Uh...your mom wanted me to tell you breakfast was ready."
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"Okay...uh..tell her I'll be down in a second." She composed herself a little, holding the towel more in place with her hands, wavering her gaze between InuYasha and the carpet when he didn't close the door right away.
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"Oh, and also that she'd give you some money to go to the m-mol-l-l?"
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"The mall? Why?" Usually, Tokyo-ten Kagome would have loved this, but miko-time-traveling Kagome was slightly ore apprehensive... after all, she didn't exactly know what her grandfather had been feeding her friends when they came to see her for THAT long.
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"Yeah.. that. Well, uh.. she said some moths got into your closet... only a couple of things were left, that you could wear that and get some more stuff today."
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Kagome couldn't believe what she was hearing from outside her door. She practically ran to her closet and flung the door open only to find that her denim mini and a blouse that was practically see-through along with a few rather tragic christmas presents from older relatives over the years remained on several lonely wire hangers.
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Her eyes went wide as she took the skirt and top from their places and put them on. As she studied herself in the mirror, they actually fit better now than they had before all the walking and demon-hunting in the Sengoku Judai. '..well, it's warm out, and at least I'm covered...well, some..' Then she opened her door and headed for the stairs to go to the kitchen, passing Inuyasha who had probably chosen to stay in the hall and wait for her rather than be surrounded by Souta, high on Sugar-frosted who knows what before school, and her Grandfather who would probably try to smite him again with his worthless memorabilia.
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"Come on InuYasha..smells like fresh ramen or something."
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He grinned some and trailed after her.
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"Hey, Inu-Oniican, are you going to be here when I get home from school?"
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"Now demon! see if you can withstand THIS!"
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Kagome fell back some and whispered to him... Just ignore them. Besides we have some things to take care of today.."
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'Wait, Kagome... 'We'?"
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InuYasha scrunched his face up as he tried to position the hat on his head in the mirror, but wound up shaking his head so it would fall off. That damn contraption hurt his ears some when he wore it... "I don't see why I have to go with you to this 'mol' place anyway."
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Kagome picked the hat up off the floor and ran her finger over the stitching. "Well... I COULD always go alone."
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InuYasha turned away from the mirror to face her and snatched the hat from her hands. "Oi wench! you're not going anywhere alone in THAT."
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Kagome grinned inwardly knowing she had him set now. "What exactly is wrong with what I'm wearing InuYasha?"
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"No-one should have to look at you in that."
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"UHG! SIT BOY!"
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InuYasha slammed into the carpeted floor but managed to mumble through his face-plant. "..ot ike dat... owe-un ut eeeeee...owe-un ut ee Ag-o-ae."
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She crouched down next to him as he was soon able to lift his head and oved his hair out of his face. "What?"
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"I said, not like THAT! I don't want other guys seeing you in that...feh."
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Kagome rolled her eyes and stood up to leave the room. "Whatever Inuyasha... there are some of my dad's old clothes on the bed there. Weather you come or not, I'm going to the mall in fifteen minutes." She waved her hand like it was common knowledge and nothing new as she disappeared through the doorway, leaving him to himself.
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'Feh.. we'll see about that. Aint no way in hell she's leaving this house looking like that without me. For all that wench's luck, some kid like that Hobo kid will be there...'
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Sango was down at the lake with some of the other village women to bathe, glad she finally would get that grimy feeling off of her skin. Since Kagome had introduced her to some of the future's products, her hygiene had skyrocketed... but then half the tie she felt so dirty. 'Well, I guess that would be the case considering I would be... but it's not like I could shower in the rain or bathe with a flood." She smiled, splashing more of the glorious water over her body. 'No worries now though.. I have a crystal-clear lake, a fresh bar of soap Kagome left for me and a perverted monk knocked out back at Keade's..'
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Yup. Life was good.
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"GAHHHHHHHH! Hentai!" Sango sighed as she turned to see what the commotion was about on the other side of the lake only to see some of the villagers hitting Miroku upside his head with buckets and other things.
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'Okay...maybe not so unconscious.' she cringed slightly as a rock hit hi in the temple and he collapsed in the dirt a few yards from the other side of the lake. '..well, that should keep him out for a while at least.'
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She shook her head. 'Poor fool probably forgot I wouldn't be alone with Kagome not here...'
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"Hentai."
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InuYasha looked around the 'mall' as they ventured down the long hallway thing with stores along on all sides. It reminded him a lot of some marketplaces he had been to over the years... Except it was all enclosed and rather than trading gold or other things, you ad to use all this paper money and only a couple coins.
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Kagome had grabbed his hand, not necessarily to be affectionate.. but more to guide him along through the noisy crowd. Now he was glad the hat muffled some of the sound, everything seemed to bounce off the high walls and back at him.
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"How's this look?" Kagome held up a shirt that was on sale as if he knew how to visualize it on her.
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"Uh... good.... I think." It had a mandarin collar and was a deep red with a dragon stitched into it with gold thread. He actually thought it looked really nice, but didn't see the point of it if she wasn't wearing it.
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"So you don't think I should get it?"
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He hesitated for a second, looking around the store. Some of the things the were on racks just looked like cheap, worn down, shirts that were hastily made. Some even had rips all through them, held together with only 'saftey pins' as Kagome had called them. Rather than just answering, he pointed to another top that was near where Kagome had picked up the red dragon one.
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"Get this one. It brings out your eyes." Kagome blinked in surprise, but traded the top she'd been holding for the one he'd picked. It was pretty nice. A royal blue with a snake stitched into it with silver.
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"Ok. Do you see anything else?"
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"Just some of those jean things over there... your other ones got pretty worn out lately."
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She smiled at him and took his hand to trail over to the other side of the store where jeans were. After picking out a few pairs, she went to try te on, but they didn't see to fit right with some of the weight she'd lost over the past few months of time-travel.
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"What about these?"
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Kagome bit her lip as he pointed to some extra low-rise, strech jeans. She didn't really like showing that much stomach... not to ention, they wouldn't exactly be the beat for trudging around the Sengoku Judai is that's what she' have to wear until her mom could get her some more stuff.
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"Uh... not that type Inuyasha."
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"Type?" He glanced down at the denim pants, not exactly seeing anything that different about them from any of the others she had tried on in the fitting rooms. "Tey look just like the other ones you had tried on."
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Kagome sighed. "The ones I'd had on before came up to about here..." she held her hands a couple inches below her belly button, "but those are a lot lower.." InuYasha tilted his head to one side, not quite understanding the concept. "Fine.." she took a pair her size from the rack and headed toward the changing room. "I'll show you then."
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After a few minutes she emerged from behind the door of the changing room and InuYasha could definitely see the difference now. Though he ad to admit...while she said she didn't want any that 'type'... they shure did fit nicely, showing her curves nicely as the denim exposed her stomach better now and hugged her hips, trailing snugly down her thin thighs, only moving away from her body a little past the knee.
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She emerged completely from the room and went over to him, spinning for him to see. "Do you understand now Inuyasha"
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He closed in some of the space in between, lightly trailing a claw over the invisible line where she had said the other pairs would come up to. "So... this is where the other ones came up to.." the light caress sent shivers over her skin and he moved even closer, trailing his hands to her hips where they rested along the low-rise line, now barely any space between the at all and she looked up at him. "And this is the 'low-rise'."
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There were mere inches in between their lips and Kagome's eyes were already half shut in anticipation as she looked up at him through a veil of lashes. "Yeah.. that's it."
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The tension was building up, but he teased her a little bit by lightly running his claw along the top edge of the denim's hem, just enough that it grazed her skin too, and keeping the space between them a decent amount still. "Well... I like these better."
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Kagome drew in a slow breath at his touch, smiling. "Then I guess I could get one pair..." She absently licked her lips, the anticipation of one ore little touch killing her. Finally leaning in closer and closer he pulled her to him by her hips and trailed a string of gentle kisses down her cheek until he was to reach her lips.
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They had just barely grazed when out of nowhere she heard it... 'Damn..of all the times..'
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"KAGOME?! Is that you? Oh my god, it is! Come on guys, hurry up, Gome-chan's in here!"
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Kagome let out a sigh, her and Inuyasha moving away fro each other as a group of girls filed into the store. "Just tell the I'll be right out... I'm going to change out of these." He threw her a longing glance and she mouthed 'sorry' to him before closing the changing-room's door.
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Seiko stood up, stretching as the sun beamed down on her back. At some point her braid had come undone over the past two days of tending to Sesshomarou, so her wavy hair hung to her hips, shining a golden brown rather than appearing as dark as it usually did.
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She really didn't look like much of a huntress at all in fact, as soon as her haori wasn't what she was wearing or a knife wasn't what she was using, she was just a mortal woman, tender and caring.
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Sesshoarrou let out a sigh as he laid on his side in the grass, his head propped up by one arm. She had just gone to the nearby stream to wash out some bandages that had been seeped through with blood of reopened wounds and he was doing nothing in particular. At that point, he was actually looking at the markings of his free arm...
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The stripes that his father had passed down. They trailed all over his body, but his arm was the one place where the stripes were interrupted. Another mark lay, almost strangely connecting them with ridged lines over his skin n a slightly lighter color. This was where his mate's fire hawk had bit him... The scar was still there, and it always would be...It was her own marking that claimed him as hers, it connected them.
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The western lord's 'deep thinking' was ended as Seiko appeared back through the trees which she had left through, carrying some clean bandages around her neck like a sash. '...Connection is good.; especially since I need to know what went on with Naraku before I got to her..'
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InuYasha felt like his head was going to blow as the five girls stood near him, exchanging glances as if they were talking without words after he told them Kagome would be right out like she had told him to.
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He was about to go rip the door off the changing room when one of the finally spoke up, but it wasn't at all what he expected to hear.
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"So..what? You're that cheating guy Kagome was telling us about?"
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ok.. my fingers are officially DEAD.. i just typed lik 5 pages straight without stopping (and no... that is not thelength of this chappy.. it's...loooonnnnnggggggggeeeeeerrrrrrrrr.. ya! so, i hope you liked it.. I ight add on a shorter one tomorrow.. well.. later today (looks at clock) if I can get to it, cus i didn't really reach the point I wanted to.....damn... but I can't go on like this *ouch* po fingiees..
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Please review, option 'B' was unanimous.. so I'm going wit that....
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~Bunny
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Notes: Yup yup.. another chappy as promised! (though slightly late, so it's longer) also, I looked back at all your wonderful reviews from chappy 36.. you know, before I disappeared again, and yes, I remember you all, and I still want your opinions as you read.. AND anyone else's... so.. uh, I wont babble this time, jus read.. and enjoy ~ Bunny n.~
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~*Over the Edge - Chapter38: The Greatly Anticipated Return*~
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Keade woke up late the next morning to find that Kagome and InuYasha were getting ready to head to that fated well that had brought the young miko to their time in the first place. As for the others in their group, Sango had fallen asleep halfway through the tale they had told her last night, and was still next to the monk, her head on his shoulder as they sat up against the wall; except theat at some point during the night, Miroku had slipped an arm around her. And the young kitsune and neko-youkai... they were fast asleep over by the hearth were it was warmest, curled up on some sacks of herbs she had yet to grind.
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Letting out a sigh, still processing what all had happened, she went over to her sister's reincarnation to ask if se could be of any assistance.
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"Thanks Keade-san, but I think I'm all ready. It was nice seeing you, but I really ought to get back to my family."
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The old miko smiled at her before turning to InuYasha. "Don't give her that much of a fight this time..." With that said, she tuned and headed to the back of the hut, mumbling about 'stubborn hanyous'.
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She watched as the graceful fire hawk flew above her and continued on to somewhere unknown. But she didn't exactly care about the bird. Se was merely looking to catch up with a certain..hanyou. In her mind, a malicious grin spread across her face, but her outside shell remained composed. "I will deal with you, my little birdy, another day."
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She walked on for the rest of the day, scaling the mountain as if it were only a small hill that she had already crossed a million times before. Then again, she was used to the sloping lands from all those years of going to see Oguimuto (sp?)...
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A spirit-demon came streaking through the flaming sky as the sun set over the trees of Inuyasha's forrest and landed upon Kikyou's outstretched hand as though it were a beautiful butterfly. 'Your time will come soon...'
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Mrs.Higurahsi was in the kitchen cooking breakfast, while Souta was getting ready for school, when she heard her father give a shriek of terror. "GAIIEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!! No inhuman being should be able to pass past my ancient scrolls! They are all originals from ancient times! Demon be gone- Oni Shatsou Onkuuuuuu."
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With a pause in his rambling, Mrs.Higurashi left what she was doing in the kitchen to go outside and see what was going on at the shrine. As she approached, a tall, lean figure practically wallpapered with ancient scrolls was seen crumpling up the pieces of paper and picking them out of his hair. "Oi Jijii! When is it going to get through your damn head that these scraps of paper are worthless!"
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"They are from ancient Japan, Demon, and you should be a pile of dust now that they have been cast!"
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Inuyasha looked at him blankly before taking a single scroll in his hand and sliced it evenly and slowly with a claw. "Like that?"
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"No!. This is some new evil. You will truly fall to my more powerful of spells!" The old man stuck another scroll to Inuyasha's forehead, which effectively made him go cross-eyed for a couple seconds while he disappeared into another building on the shine grounds to most likely dig out those 'more powerful spells'.
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While the two had been arguing, Kagome had climbed out of the well and was leaning in the doorway of the well-house. When her other came out from the house, a smile lit her face up and she went around the two, unnoticed, giving her mom a big hug.
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Her mother smiled back at Kagome, feeling a wave of relief that her daughter was still okay. She was about to ask about what had held her up in the past, but Kagome just stood back from her mother a little after their embrace seized and said, "Something came up, but it feels good to be home again."
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"Well, I'm glad you came back in one piece Kagome. Why don't I go kick Souta out of the bathroom and draw you a nice bath, then you can tell me about it over breakfast, ne?"
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Kagome gave her mom another hug before she tuned to go back inside as small puffs of smoke were coming from the kitchen now. But before she passed entirely through the door she called back over her shoulder to her daughter. "And Kagome, please make sure that young gentleman doesn't kill your grandfather! Oh, and invite him in for breakfast!" A resounding beep was head from the house and she disappeared into the house yelling audibly about her ruined sauce.
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'Well, not too much has changed around here at least..'
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Kagome eased further into the depths of the wonderfully hot waters of the bath, steam rising up fro the masses of bubbles. 'Ahhhhhhh, this has to be one of the things I missed most..' She took her time shaving her long overdue legs, spreading the cool gel over her skin before taking it away with the new blade. It was a while before the bubbles began to thin out, and she felt like a soggy sponge from stewing in the water for so long. 'Well it was good while it lasted.' with that thought, she pulled the plug from the drain and got out of the tub to dry off.
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With the towel secure around her she left the sauna-like bathroom for her bedroom long since actually used to sleep in. That was another thing she figured she missed... her comfortably worn in mattress bed. '..then again, there was something to trees too...' She bit her lip as she remembered some of those nights with InuYasha when he was being all overprotective over her.
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She heard the door creek open, and blush found her face as she turned around to face none other than the hanyou of her thoughts.
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InuYasha inwardly gulped when he saw Kagome standing in the middle of her room with that short, fluffy, towel just barely covering her up. It had been a while since he'd been able to study those curves... he'd not nearly forgotten how shapely her hips an legs were, but to see them freshly smooth, and glistening slightly from some water left from the bath, it was just different after a while of those jeans she'd come back in that day about a month ago.
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He absently had leaned into the door more and it creaked as it opened up further, and his ears perked up as she turned around to face him, blushing. "Uh...your mom wanted me to tell you breakfast was ready."
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"Okay...uh..tell her I'll be down in a second." She composed herself a little, holding the towel more in place with her hands, wavering her gaze between InuYasha and the carpet when he didn't close the door right away.
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"Oh, and also that she'd give you some money to go to the m-mol-l-l?"
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"The mall? Why?" Usually, Tokyo-ten Kagome would have loved this, but miko-time-traveling Kagome was slightly ore apprehensive... after all, she didn't exactly know what her grandfather had been feeding her friends when they came to see her for THAT long.
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"Yeah.. that. Well, uh.. she said some moths got into your closet... only a couple of things were left, that you could wear that and get some more stuff today."
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Kagome couldn't believe what she was hearing from outside her door. She practically ran to her closet and flung the door open only to find that her denim mini and a blouse that was practically see-through along with a few rather tragic christmas presents from older relatives over the years remained on several lonely wire hangers.
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Her eyes went wide as she took the skirt and top from their places and put them on. As she studied herself in the mirror, they actually fit better now than they had before all the walking and demon-hunting in the Sengoku Judai. '..well, it's warm out, and at least I'm covered...well, some..' Then she opened her door and headed for the stairs to go to the kitchen, passing Inuyasha who had probably chosen to stay in the hall and wait for her rather than be surrounded by Souta, high on Sugar-frosted who knows what before school, and her Grandfather who would probably try to smite him again with his worthless memorabilia.
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"Come on InuYasha..smells like fresh ramen or something."
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He grinned some and trailed after her.
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"Hey, Inu-Oniican, are you going to be here when I get home from school?"
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"Now demon! see if you can withstand THIS!"
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Kagome fell back some and whispered to him... Just ignore them. Besides we have some things to take care of today.."
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'Wait, Kagome... 'We'?"
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InuYasha scrunched his face up as he tried to position the hat on his head in the mirror, but wound up shaking his head so it would fall off. That damn contraption hurt his ears some when he wore it... "I don't see why I have to go with you to this 'mol' place anyway."
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Kagome picked the hat up off the floor and ran her finger over the stitching. "Well... I COULD always go alone."
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InuYasha turned away from the mirror to face her and snatched the hat from her hands. "Oi wench! you're not going anywhere alone in THAT."
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Kagome grinned inwardly knowing she had him set now. "What exactly is wrong with what I'm wearing InuYasha?"
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"No-one should have to look at you in that."
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"UHG! SIT BOY!"
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InuYasha slammed into the carpeted floor but managed to mumble through his face-plant. "..ot ike dat... owe-un ut eeeeee...owe-un ut ee Ag-o-ae."
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She crouched down next to him as he was soon able to lift his head and oved his hair out of his face. "What?"
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"I said, not like THAT! I don't want other guys seeing you in that...feh."
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Kagome rolled her eyes and stood up to leave the room. "Whatever Inuyasha... there are some of my dad's old clothes on the bed there. Weather you come or not, I'm going to the mall in fifteen minutes." She waved her hand like it was common knowledge and nothing new as she disappeared through the doorway, leaving him to himself.
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'Feh.. we'll see about that. Aint no way in hell she's leaving this house looking like that without me. For all that wench's luck, some kid like that Hobo kid will be there...'
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Sango was down at the lake with some of the other village women to bathe, glad she finally would get that grimy feeling off of her skin. Since Kagome had introduced her to some of the future's products, her hygiene had skyrocketed... but then half the tie she felt so dirty. 'Well, I guess that would be the case considering I would be... but it's not like I could shower in the rain or bathe with a flood." She smiled, splashing more of the glorious water over her body. 'No worries now though.. I have a crystal-clear lake, a fresh bar of soap Kagome left for me and a perverted monk knocked out back at Keade's..'
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Yup. Life was good.
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"GAHHHHHHHH! Hentai!" Sango sighed as she turned to see what the commotion was about on the other side of the lake only to see some of the villagers hitting Miroku upside his head with buckets and other things.
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'Okay...maybe not so unconscious.' she cringed slightly as a rock hit hi in the temple and he collapsed in the dirt a few yards from the other side of the lake. '..well, that should keep him out for a while at least.'
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She shook her head. 'Poor fool probably forgot I wouldn't be alone with Kagome not here...'
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"Hentai."
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InuYasha looked around the 'mall' as they ventured down the long hallway thing with stores along on all sides. It reminded him a lot of some marketplaces he had been to over the years... Except it was all enclosed and rather than trading gold or other things, you ad to use all this paper money and only a couple coins.
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Kagome had grabbed his hand, not necessarily to be affectionate.. but more to guide him along through the noisy crowd. Now he was glad the hat muffled some of the sound, everything seemed to bounce off the high walls and back at him.
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"How's this look?" Kagome held up a shirt that was on sale as if he knew how to visualize it on her.
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"Uh... good.... I think." It had a mandarin collar and was a deep red with a dragon stitched into it with gold thread. He actually thought it looked really nice, but didn't see the point of it if she wasn't wearing it.
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"So you don't think I should get it?"
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He hesitated for a second, looking around the store. Some of the things the were on racks just looked like cheap, worn down, shirts that were hastily made. Some even had rips all through them, held together with only 'saftey pins' as Kagome had called them. Rather than just answering, he pointed to another top that was near where Kagome had picked up the red dragon one.
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"Get this one. It brings out your eyes." Kagome blinked in surprise, but traded the top she'd been holding for the one he'd picked. It was pretty nice. A royal blue with a snake stitched into it with silver.
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"Ok. Do you see anything else?"
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"Just some of those jean things over there... your other ones got pretty worn out lately."
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She smiled at him and took his hand to trail over to the other side of the store where jeans were. After picking out a few pairs, she went to try te on, but they didn't see to fit right with some of the weight she'd lost over the past few months of time-travel.
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"What about these?"
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Kagome bit her lip as he pointed to some extra low-rise, strech jeans. She didn't really like showing that much stomach... not to ention, they wouldn't exactly be the beat for trudging around the Sengoku Judai is that's what she' have to wear until her mom could get her some more stuff.
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"Uh... not that type Inuyasha."
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"Type?" He glanced down at the denim pants, not exactly seeing anything that different about them from any of the others she had tried on in the fitting rooms. "Tey look just like the other ones you had tried on."
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Kagome sighed. "The ones I'd had on before came up to about here..." she held her hands a couple inches below her belly button, "but those are a lot lower.." InuYasha tilted his head to one side, not quite understanding the concept. "Fine.." she took a pair her size from the rack and headed toward the changing room. "I'll show you then."
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After a few minutes she emerged from behind the door of the changing room and InuYasha could definitely see the difference now. Though he ad to admit...while she said she didn't want any that 'type'... they shure did fit nicely, showing her curves nicely as the denim exposed her stomach better now and hugged her hips, trailing snugly down her thin thighs, only moving away from her body a little past the knee.
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She emerged completely from the room and went over to him, spinning for him to see. "Do you understand now Inuyasha"
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He closed in some of the space in between, lightly trailing a claw over the invisible line where she had said the other pairs would come up to. "So... this is where the other ones came up to.." the light caress sent shivers over her skin and he moved even closer, trailing his hands to her hips where they rested along the low-rise line, now barely any space between the at all and she looked up at him. "And this is the 'low-rise'."
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There were mere inches in between their lips and Kagome's eyes were already half shut in anticipation as she looked up at him through a veil of lashes. "Yeah.. that's it."
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The tension was building up, but he teased her a little bit by lightly running his claw along the top edge of the denim's hem, just enough that it grazed her skin too, and keeping the space between them a decent amount still. "Well... I like these better."
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Kagome drew in a slow breath at his touch, smiling. "Then I guess I could get one pair..." She absently licked her lips, the anticipation of one ore little touch killing her. Finally leaning in closer and closer he pulled her to him by her hips and trailed a string of gentle kisses down her cheek until he was to reach her lips.
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They had just barely grazed when out of nowhere she heard it... 'Damn..of all the times..'
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"KAGOME?! Is that you? Oh my god, it is! Come on guys, hurry up, Gome-chan's in here!"
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Kagome let out a sigh, her and Inuyasha moving away fro each other as a group of girls filed into the store. "Just tell the I'll be right out... I'm going to change out of these." He threw her a longing glance and she mouthed 'sorry' to him before closing the changing-room's door.
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Seiko stood up, stretching as the sun beamed down on her back. At some point her braid had come undone over the past two days of tending to Sesshomarou, so her wavy hair hung to her hips, shining a golden brown rather than appearing as dark as it usually did.
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She really didn't look like much of a huntress at all in fact, as soon as her haori wasn't what she was wearing or a knife wasn't what she was using, she was just a mortal woman, tender and caring.
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Sesshoarrou let out a sigh as he laid on his side in the grass, his head propped up by one arm. She had just gone to the nearby stream to wash out some bandages that had been seeped through with blood of reopened wounds and he was doing nothing in particular. At that point, he was actually looking at the markings of his free arm...
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The stripes that his father had passed down. They trailed all over his body, but his arm was the one place where the stripes were interrupted. Another mark lay, almost strangely connecting them with ridged lines over his skin n a slightly lighter color. This was where his mate's fire hawk had bit him... The scar was still there, and it always would be...It was her own marking that claimed him as hers, it connected them.
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The western lord's 'deep thinking' was ended as Seiko appeared back through the trees which she had left through, carrying some clean bandages around her neck like a sash. '...Connection is good.; especially since I need to know what went on with Naraku before I got to her..'
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InuYasha felt like his head was going to blow as the five girls stood near him, exchanging glances as if they were talking without words after he told them Kagome would be right out like she had told him to.
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He was about to go rip the door off the changing room when one of the finally spoke up, but it wasn't at all what he expected to hear.
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"So..what? You're that cheating guy Kagome was telling us about?"
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ok.. my fingers are officially DEAD.. i just typed lik 5 pages straight without stopping (and no... that is not thelength of this chappy.. it's...loooonnnnnggggggggeeeeeerrrrrrrrr.. ya! so, i hope you liked it.. I ight add on a shorter one tomorrow.. well.. later today (looks at clock) if I can get to it, cus i didn't really reach the point I wanted to.....damn... but I can't go on like this *ouch* po fingiees..
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Please review, option 'B' was unanimous.. so I'm going wit that....
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~Bunny
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