Chapter 12 revised (2.7.04) ^-^
Disclaimer: You know the drill. I own every single piece of Inuyasha, everyone knows it and Takahashi's just trying to-- ::gets clubbed in the head:: ALRIGHT ALRIGHT I WAS KIDDING I'M SORRY~!!
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To Be With You Tomorrow
Part Five :: Human
Chapter Twelve :: Human
"Kagome-chan?" Kagome looked up. Kitsuko was beckoning, and the young miko wandered over. She looked around as she did, gently touching some of the things as she walked past them.
The house wasn't exactly how she'd imagined. It was bigger than Kaede-baachan's hut in Musashi, much bigger. It would comfortably hold at least six people and those six wouldn't get cabin fever, at least not anytime in the next millennia. The one thing that WAS the way Kagome imagined was that it was filled with flowers and herbs of all kinds, and smelled of earth and plants.
The others were kneeling next to Kitsuko's floor-hearth, drinking tea that she had provided, and the young witch was making something in a small wooden bowl. She had taken two different herbs and boiled them and now she mashed them together, making a paste. Inuyasha was lying down, dozing on a straw pallet away from the fire.
The sun had set an hour before, and now both Inuyasha and Tama were human. Inuyasha's fever had returned with a vengeance, and the first task on Kitsuko's agenda was to bring it down. She had set to work immediately brewing some medicine for him in addition to the pasty stuff.
"Kagome-chan," Kitsuko began, handing Kagome a bowl of some kind of frothy soup, "Give this to Inuyasha-kun. It will bring down his fever and help him sleep." Kagome nodded and went to Inuyasha, sitting him up and bringing the bowl his lips. He sipped it and then made a face. "Aaaa~~ wench, what the hell is this?!"
"It's soup made from a demon hybrid of a fever-reducing herb that I bred myself. Drink it, you spoiled little brat," she teased, and Inuyasha's lips puckered. "It's fucking nasty."
"The worse the illness, the worse the medicine. You're very sick, though you don't feel it because I took some of the pain away. But trust me, you're still very sick," Kitsuko said, still mashing away in the small bowl. "Drink it all," she repeated.
"What does he have, Kitsuko-san?" Kagome asked, still with the hanyou as he drank, and Kitsuko sighed. "It's a simple but deadly youkai virus. It's rare, caused by mukade-byouma. And Inuyasha-kun here has taken in a large amount of the toxin, and his case is actually very severe."
"Is... is he going to... die?"
Kitsuko looked surprised, and smiled faintly when she saw the intense pain on Kagome's face, recognizing the young girl's fears. "No, he won't die." Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Kitsuko sighed. "There IS, however, bad news, though the only thing damaged will be Inuyasha's pride."
Inuyasha hmphed and then continued drinking his medicine. "What do you mean, just my pride?"
Kitsuko smiled knowingly. "You will have to remain human."
Inuyasha spewed out the medicine. "~~~WHAT~~~~!!!??!!!"
Kagome gasped, somehow managing to catch the bowl of medicinal soup that Inuyasha dropped. "Wh-why?!" she wailed on Inuyasha's behalf, seeing as how the hanyou had begun to go into proverbial seizures.
Kitsuko didn't answer at first as she finished mashing the herbs into paste and scooted over on her knees. She gently took Inuyasha's chin and lifted his face towards her. "Open your eyes Inuyasha."
He obeyed, and she wiped some of the paste directly onto his left eye. He flinched, pulling back and turning his head, lifting his hand to rub his eye. "OW~ That stings...!"
Kitsuko grabbed his wrist, preventing him from touching his paste-smudged eye. "I know. Don't rub it out, the medicine won't work if it's not where it needs to be. Now come back over here and let me get the other one."
The hanyou shook his head, blinking. There was paste stuck to his eyelashes and everytime he blinked, it stung even more, and his eyes were watering. "No fucking way, that shit hurts--"
"Inuyasha!!" Kitsuko reprimanded, firmly but calmly, "Listen to me. Your eyes have been permanently damaged by your illness. They cannot heal on their own, and they are useless as they are and will remain useless unless you have this, do you understand? You WILL NOT regain your sight without this medicine."
Inuyasha breathed out angrily, and then opened his eyes again. Kitsuko leaned forward and rubbed some of the paste into his other eye and the hanyou pulled back again with a soft noise that sounded like a curse. Kitsuko ignored him. "Now. Close your eyes, and don't open them until I tell you to."
"Whatever..." he agreed, keeping his eyes closed, "But how come none of your medicine feels good?!!"
Kitsuko laughed as she set an incense stick to smoke. "Medicine isn't supposed to," then she said with a grimace, "My mother used to be sadistic and say it's payback for having gotten sick in the first place."
"What about him having to stay human, Kitsuko-sama?" Miroku asked a bit impatiently and Kitsuko nodded and she turned back to them, wiping her hands of the pasty eye medicine. "Yes. Inuyasha's body has deteriorated a great deal in the past three days that he's been ill. The virus is a youkai one. If he were a full youkai as he WISHES to be... he would be dead now." They all sucked in a gasp and Inuyasha frowned.
Tama blinked, narrowing her violet eyes inquisitively. "It's not a human virus…?? But the humans we saw at the village…?"
"It is very capable of killing humans; I did not mean that it cannot affect human beings. However for human beings the virus spreads slower and it would take longer for them to pass. But for Inuyasha-kun, as a hanyou, his human blood was not even touched by the sickness. When he transformed into a human, it saved his life."
The group stared at the healer, transfixed.
Kitsuko turned to her medicines and herbs, clearing them from her small table. "Until his youkai blood is completely free of the disease, Inuyasha-kun will remain human. My medicine will prevent the transformation back to his hanyou body until his body heals."
"How long will that be?" Miroku asked and Kitsuko shook her head. "Sadly, I don't know. He is very ill as I said, but he could very well transform back tomorrow morning when the sun rises, as usual... or he may stay like this for up to a week."
They all looked a little grave, and everyone was silent for a long time. Kitsuko tended to the fire and after a moment laughed to herself. "It still surprises me how Inuyasha's human blood was saved. He should be dead. Hanyou or not, struggling for three days with a youkai virus, he would have been killed. And yet here he is human and fine. Rather intriguing, don't you all think?
They all glanced at Inuyasha, who was leaning over on Kagome's shoulder, his eyes closed. He looked to be mostly asleep, which was to be expected; Kitsuko's fever medicine would make him drowsy. Kagome rubbed his hand.
*Something protected Inuyasha's human blood. When he should have died, he's alive.* Kagome looked at her friends. "So what was it?"
~*~
An older man shuffled along, looking up at the palace of a lower daimyo he had arrived at and panting from the weight of the pack on his back. Despite it being very late, the older man noticed a young boy standing outside, and he looked to be about eleven or twelve. He had black hair, pulled up into a short bob ponytail in the back, and a freckled little nose. He wore a no-sleeved kimono common for boys his age, and when he saw the elderly man, he gasped. "Sir, do you need help?"
He rushed over and gingerly lifted the pack, hefting it up on his own small shoulders easily. The old man eyed him for a moment before he smiled. "Thank you young man, that's very kind. You are a servant here?"
"Yessir, just an orphan looking for work. I came to work with the guard here a few days ago," the boy replied, gesturing to the sickle-blade stuck in his belt. The old man seemed surprised that such a young child would be a guard, but he said nothing as the boy helped him enter.
One of the young ladies, a girl who was a little older than the boy, noticed them and smiled. "Ah, Sofu-ue!" The boy blinked. "Hana-himesama, this man is your grandfather?"
"Yes! Thank you so much Kohaku-kun, for helping him." the young girl said, bowing, "My brave Sofu-ue likes to travel, and despite the threat of youkai he sometimes wanders off too far! It's why he returns late at night!" She teased, patting the old man's back.
The grandfather narrowed an eye. "Young lords do not like young potential brides with smart mouths... but since you are not such a girl, Grandfather will show you what he has brought."
He pulled out of his sash a small pink, glowing shard. The girl, Hana, smiled. "How pretty!! Grandfather you brought it for me?!"
"I did. Here, my lovely Hana." He handed it to her and Hana clasped it between both hands. "Thank you very much, Sofu-ue." He placed his hand over hers. "Hana-chan, listen to Grandfather. You must NEVER give it to anyone, do you understand? Many people would like to take this from you, and you must not let them."
She nodded, and then pinned it between her fingers and showed it to the boy, whom she'd called Kohaku. "Kohaku-kun, isn't it pretty?"
"It is, Hana-himesama." Kohaku agreed, eyeing it. He excused himself quickly and returned to his post. Once there, alone again, he reached back and felt the wound where his own shard glowed, keeping him alive.
*I wonder... If Ane-ue will ever find me again... I know not where to look for her, but I know that if I do... it will once again be time to say goodbye. Without the shard in my back, the Shikon no Tama will never be complete. But if they take it... I will die.*
He looked up at the sky sadly. "Ane-ue Sango... where are you?"
~*~
"Something protected Inuyasha-sama's human blood, thereby saving his life..." Myouga mused gruffly, and Tanpopo blinked her sleep-filled eyes. "I KNOW ya were talkin' about this when I went t'sleep, an' here it is nearly mornin' an' yet yer still talkin' about it so now I feel compelled t'ask: why th' hell does this matter?"
"Because he's going to be human longer than just tonight," Kagome yelped, pacing back and forth, "If we can figure out what protected him, then.. then we may be able to protect him while he's this way." She glanced at Inuyasha, who was curled up on a pallet, sleeping, his arms around Tessaiga--
"Tessaiga...?" She gasped, turning to look at her friends. "Do you think.. maybe it was Tessaiga?" Kagome questioned and Sango blinked. "Tessaiga?"
"His demon sword?" Kitsuko asked and Kagome nodded. "This sword was made by Inuyasha's father, Inutaisho, to protect Inuyasha and Tama-chan's mother, who was human. You can't use it without protective feelings for humans. And Tessaiga has protected Inuyasha's life before. Do you think that maybe Tessaiga protected his human blood from the virus?"
"It's possible, but on previous nights of the black moon," Miroku interjected, "Tessaiga never did such a thing. It only seems to protect him while he's hanyou."
"But it protected me that time when we found out about Inuyasha's secret. It always protected me before, but even on the night he was human it still worked... It was created to protect humans, so maybe... maybe it does protect him after all, right?"
"I can't use Tessaiga when I'm human, Kagome."
They all started, surprised by Inuyasha's sleepy voice. She turned and looked at him. His eyes were still closed, but he was awake. He sat up, keeping his eyes closed. "Tessaiga doesn't transform for me on the nights that I'm human, and it's useless otherwise. From now until I transform back, Tessaiga will be essentially useless."
Kagome looked at him, her expression disappointed, and then she sighed. "Yeah, you're probably right, Inuyasha..." She gasped suddenly. "Hey, Kitsuko-san, is it alright for Inuyasha to open his eyes yet??"
Kitsuko looked at the stick of incense she had set to smoke away when she put the medicine on Inuyasha's eyes four hours ago. "I think so."
She got up and went to Inuyasha and said, "Inuyasha-kun, you can open your eyes now, but before you do, I have to warn you: your sight will not return immediately. You have been blind for nearly two days, and your eyes won't be used to having to work again. So open them very slowly, and don't be discouraged if you can't see perfectly."
"Right," he agreed. Kagome was at his left side, gripping his hand tightly, and he squeezed her hand to calm her. Slowly, he opened his eyes, blinking rapidly at the light that bombarded the weakened brown orbs.
Everything was blurry, and very dim, like a black veil over his face. He squinted, peering at his hand. There it was, the shape perfect and unflawed, just dim. He flexed his hand and watched it move. Then he turned his head, and looked at Kagome. "Kagome...?"
"Inuyasha...?? Can you see me???" He grinned, grasping her and pulling her tightly to his chest. She gasped, blushing a bit, and he smiled against her ear. "I can see you."
She smiled, happy tears in her eyes. She slipped her arms around him also. "Inuyasha~!"
"Inuyasha-kun, I'm happy for you, but pay attention for a moment," Kitsuko interrupted, "Your eyes will be very weak for a couple of days, and you mustn't look directly at anything bright, like fire or the sun, because your eyes can't take it yet."
"Okay." he replied, turning to look at her. Behind her he noticed the flicking of the fire in the floor-hearth and looked at it.
"Ow~" he moaned, shutting his eyes and turning his face away, and Kagome sweatdropped. Kitsuko knocked him on the head. "Idiot, I said DON'T look at the fire."
"He's an idiot," Tanpopo observed, her eyes wide and Tama nodded. "That's my brother for you."
~*~ To be continued ~*~
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Tessen
Disclaimer: You know the drill. I own every single piece of Inuyasha, everyone knows it and Takahashi's just trying to-- ::gets clubbed in the head:: ALRIGHT ALRIGHT I WAS KIDDING I'M SORRY~!!
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To Be With You Tomorrow
Part Five :: Human
Chapter Twelve :: Human
"Kagome-chan?" Kagome looked up. Kitsuko was beckoning, and the young miko wandered over. She looked around as she did, gently touching some of the things as she walked past them.
The house wasn't exactly how she'd imagined. It was bigger than Kaede-baachan's hut in Musashi, much bigger. It would comfortably hold at least six people and those six wouldn't get cabin fever, at least not anytime in the next millennia. The one thing that WAS the way Kagome imagined was that it was filled with flowers and herbs of all kinds, and smelled of earth and plants.
The others were kneeling next to Kitsuko's floor-hearth, drinking tea that she had provided, and the young witch was making something in a small wooden bowl. She had taken two different herbs and boiled them and now she mashed them together, making a paste. Inuyasha was lying down, dozing on a straw pallet away from the fire.
The sun had set an hour before, and now both Inuyasha and Tama were human. Inuyasha's fever had returned with a vengeance, and the first task on Kitsuko's agenda was to bring it down. She had set to work immediately brewing some medicine for him in addition to the pasty stuff.
"Kagome-chan," Kitsuko began, handing Kagome a bowl of some kind of frothy soup, "Give this to Inuyasha-kun. It will bring down his fever and help him sleep." Kagome nodded and went to Inuyasha, sitting him up and bringing the bowl his lips. He sipped it and then made a face. "Aaaa~~ wench, what the hell is this?!"
"It's soup made from a demon hybrid of a fever-reducing herb that I bred myself. Drink it, you spoiled little brat," she teased, and Inuyasha's lips puckered. "It's fucking nasty."
"The worse the illness, the worse the medicine. You're very sick, though you don't feel it because I took some of the pain away. But trust me, you're still very sick," Kitsuko said, still mashing away in the small bowl. "Drink it all," she repeated.
"What does he have, Kitsuko-san?" Kagome asked, still with the hanyou as he drank, and Kitsuko sighed. "It's a simple but deadly youkai virus. It's rare, caused by mukade-byouma. And Inuyasha-kun here has taken in a large amount of the toxin, and his case is actually very severe."
"Is... is he going to... die?"
Kitsuko looked surprised, and smiled faintly when she saw the intense pain on Kagome's face, recognizing the young girl's fears. "No, he won't die." Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Kitsuko sighed. "There IS, however, bad news, though the only thing damaged will be Inuyasha's pride."
Inuyasha hmphed and then continued drinking his medicine. "What do you mean, just my pride?"
Kitsuko smiled knowingly. "You will have to remain human."
Inuyasha spewed out the medicine. "~~~WHAT~~~~!!!??!!!"
Kagome gasped, somehow managing to catch the bowl of medicinal soup that Inuyasha dropped. "Wh-why?!" she wailed on Inuyasha's behalf, seeing as how the hanyou had begun to go into proverbial seizures.
Kitsuko didn't answer at first as she finished mashing the herbs into paste and scooted over on her knees. She gently took Inuyasha's chin and lifted his face towards her. "Open your eyes Inuyasha."
He obeyed, and she wiped some of the paste directly onto his left eye. He flinched, pulling back and turning his head, lifting his hand to rub his eye. "OW~ That stings...!"
Kitsuko grabbed his wrist, preventing him from touching his paste-smudged eye. "I know. Don't rub it out, the medicine won't work if it's not where it needs to be. Now come back over here and let me get the other one."
The hanyou shook his head, blinking. There was paste stuck to his eyelashes and everytime he blinked, it stung even more, and his eyes were watering. "No fucking way, that shit hurts--"
"Inuyasha!!" Kitsuko reprimanded, firmly but calmly, "Listen to me. Your eyes have been permanently damaged by your illness. They cannot heal on their own, and they are useless as they are and will remain useless unless you have this, do you understand? You WILL NOT regain your sight without this medicine."
Inuyasha breathed out angrily, and then opened his eyes again. Kitsuko leaned forward and rubbed some of the paste into his other eye and the hanyou pulled back again with a soft noise that sounded like a curse. Kitsuko ignored him. "Now. Close your eyes, and don't open them until I tell you to."
"Whatever..." he agreed, keeping his eyes closed, "But how come none of your medicine feels good?!!"
Kitsuko laughed as she set an incense stick to smoke. "Medicine isn't supposed to," then she said with a grimace, "My mother used to be sadistic and say it's payback for having gotten sick in the first place."
"What about him having to stay human, Kitsuko-sama?" Miroku asked a bit impatiently and Kitsuko nodded and she turned back to them, wiping her hands of the pasty eye medicine. "Yes. Inuyasha's body has deteriorated a great deal in the past three days that he's been ill. The virus is a youkai one. If he were a full youkai as he WISHES to be... he would be dead now." They all sucked in a gasp and Inuyasha frowned.
Tama blinked, narrowing her violet eyes inquisitively. "It's not a human virus…?? But the humans we saw at the village…?"
"It is very capable of killing humans; I did not mean that it cannot affect human beings. However for human beings the virus spreads slower and it would take longer for them to pass. But for Inuyasha-kun, as a hanyou, his human blood was not even touched by the sickness. When he transformed into a human, it saved his life."
The group stared at the healer, transfixed.
Kitsuko turned to her medicines and herbs, clearing them from her small table. "Until his youkai blood is completely free of the disease, Inuyasha-kun will remain human. My medicine will prevent the transformation back to his hanyou body until his body heals."
"How long will that be?" Miroku asked and Kitsuko shook her head. "Sadly, I don't know. He is very ill as I said, but he could very well transform back tomorrow morning when the sun rises, as usual... or he may stay like this for up to a week."
They all looked a little grave, and everyone was silent for a long time. Kitsuko tended to the fire and after a moment laughed to herself. "It still surprises me how Inuyasha's human blood was saved. He should be dead. Hanyou or not, struggling for three days with a youkai virus, he would have been killed. And yet here he is human and fine. Rather intriguing, don't you all think?
They all glanced at Inuyasha, who was leaning over on Kagome's shoulder, his eyes closed. He looked to be mostly asleep, which was to be expected; Kitsuko's fever medicine would make him drowsy. Kagome rubbed his hand.
*Something protected Inuyasha's human blood. When he should have died, he's alive.* Kagome looked at her friends. "So what was it?"
~*~
An older man shuffled along, looking up at the palace of a lower daimyo he had arrived at and panting from the weight of the pack on his back. Despite it being very late, the older man noticed a young boy standing outside, and he looked to be about eleven or twelve. He had black hair, pulled up into a short bob ponytail in the back, and a freckled little nose. He wore a no-sleeved kimono common for boys his age, and when he saw the elderly man, he gasped. "Sir, do you need help?"
He rushed over and gingerly lifted the pack, hefting it up on his own small shoulders easily. The old man eyed him for a moment before he smiled. "Thank you young man, that's very kind. You are a servant here?"
"Yessir, just an orphan looking for work. I came to work with the guard here a few days ago," the boy replied, gesturing to the sickle-blade stuck in his belt. The old man seemed surprised that such a young child would be a guard, but he said nothing as the boy helped him enter.
One of the young ladies, a girl who was a little older than the boy, noticed them and smiled. "Ah, Sofu-ue!" The boy blinked. "Hana-himesama, this man is your grandfather?"
"Yes! Thank you so much Kohaku-kun, for helping him." the young girl said, bowing, "My brave Sofu-ue likes to travel, and despite the threat of youkai he sometimes wanders off too far! It's why he returns late at night!" She teased, patting the old man's back.
The grandfather narrowed an eye. "Young lords do not like young potential brides with smart mouths... but since you are not such a girl, Grandfather will show you what he has brought."
He pulled out of his sash a small pink, glowing shard. The girl, Hana, smiled. "How pretty!! Grandfather you brought it for me?!"
"I did. Here, my lovely Hana." He handed it to her and Hana clasped it between both hands. "Thank you very much, Sofu-ue." He placed his hand over hers. "Hana-chan, listen to Grandfather. You must NEVER give it to anyone, do you understand? Many people would like to take this from you, and you must not let them."
She nodded, and then pinned it between her fingers and showed it to the boy, whom she'd called Kohaku. "Kohaku-kun, isn't it pretty?"
"It is, Hana-himesama." Kohaku agreed, eyeing it. He excused himself quickly and returned to his post. Once there, alone again, he reached back and felt the wound where his own shard glowed, keeping him alive.
*I wonder... If Ane-ue will ever find me again... I know not where to look for her, but I know that if I do... it will once again be time to say goodbye. Without the shard in my back, the Shikon no Tama will never be complete. But if they take it... I will die.*
He looked up at the sky sadly. "Ane-ue Sango... where are you?"
~*~
"Something protected Inuyasha-sama's human blood, thereby saving his life..." Myouga mused gruffly, and Tanpopo blinked her sleep-filled eyes. "I KNOW ya were talkin' about this when I went t'sleep, an' here it is nearly mornin' an' yet yer still talkin' about it so now I feel compelled t'ask: why th' hell does this matter?"
"Because he's going to be human longer than just tonight," Kagome yelped, pacing back and forth, "If we can figure out what protected him, then.. then we may be able to protect him while he's this way." She glanced at Inuyasha, who was curled up on a pallet, sleeping, his arms around Tessaiga--
"Tessaiga...?" She gasped, turning to look at her friends. "Do you think.. maybe it was Tessaiga?" Kagome questioned and Sango blinked. "Tessaiga?"
"His demon sword?" Kitsuko asked and Kagome nodded. "This sword was made by Inuyasha's father, Inutaisho, to protect Inuyasha and Tama-chan's mother, who was human. You can't use it without protective feelings for humans. And Tessaiga has protected Inuyasha's life before. Do you think that maybe Tessaiga protected his human blood from the virus?"
"It's possible, but on previous nights of the black moon," Miroku interjected, "Tessaiga never did such a thing. It only seems to protect him while he's hanyou."
"But it protected me that time when we found out about Inuyasha's secret. It always protected me before, but even on the night he was human it still worked... It was created to protect humans, so maybe... maybe it does protect him after all, right?"
"I can't use Tessaiga when I'm human, Kagome."
They all started, surprised by Inuyasha's sleepy voice. She turned and looked at him. His eyes were still closed, but he was awake. He sat up, keeping his eyes closed. "Tessaiga doesn't transform for me on the nights that I'm human, and it's useless otherwise. From now until I transform back, Tessaiga will be essentially useless."
Kagome looked at him, her expression disappointed, and then she sighed. "Yeah, you're probably right, Inuyasha..." She gasped suddenly. "Hey, Kitsuko-san, is it alright for Inuyasha to open his eyes yet??"
Kitsuko looked at the stick of incense she had set to smoke away when she put the medicine on Inuyasha's eyes four hours ago. "I think so."
She got up and went to Inuyasha and said, "Inuyasha-kun, you can open your eyes now, but before you do, I have to warn you: your sight will not return immediately. You have been blind for nearly two days, and your eyes won't be used to having to work again. So open them very slowly, and don't be discouraged if you can't see perfectly."
"Right," he agreed. Kagome was at his left side, gripping his hand tightly, and he squeezed her hand to calm her. Slowly, he opened his eyes, blinking rapidly at the light that bombarded the weakened brown orbs.
Everything was blurry, and very dim, like a black veil over his face. He squinted, peering at his hand. There it was, the shape perfect and unflawed, just dim. He flexed his hand and watched it move. Then he turned his head, and looked at Kagome. "Kagome...?"
"Inuyasha...?? Can you see me???" He grinned, grasping her and pulling her tightly to his chest. She gasped, blushing a bit, and he smiled against her ear. "I can see you."
She smiled, happy tears in her eyes. She slipped her arms around him also. "Inuyasha~!"
"Inuyasha-kun, I'm happy for you, but pay attention for a moment," Kitsuko interrupted, "Your eyes will be very weak for a couple of days, and you mustn't look directly at anything bright, like fire or the sun, because your eyes can't take it yet."
"Okay." he replied, turning to look at her. Behind her he noticed the flicking of the fire in the floor-hearth and looked at it.
"Ow~" he moaned, shutting his eyes and turning his face away, and Kagome sweatdropped. Kitsuko knocked him on the head. "Idiot, I said DON'T look at the fire."
"He's an idiot," Tanpopo observed, her eyes wide and Tama nodded. "That's my brother for you."
~*~ To be continued ~*~
a/n :: ^-^
~*~ V^-^V ~*~
Tessen