Me: Omigosh, a second chapter!? How absurd! I really wasn't thinking of writing another chapter, but then here we are. It'll probably take a while for other chapters to come out though, because I'm not sure exactly what to write and don't want to rush things (or waste ideas). Anyways, thanks a lot to Matorif, Alcandre, Vilja, and CrimsonMoonInTheSky for supporting/helping me along! To raziel-009, I guess I should have mentioned that this fic has more shoujo-ai elements than my other ones. Sorry about that.
Yes, just to make it clearer, I've decided to make this a shoujo-ai type fanfiction, yet am still undecided as to if I should end it that way, or with the canon couplings. If you want to help me decide, go ahead!
Disclaimer: "Inuyasha" is property of Rumiko Takahashi, Sunrise, Viz, and all those other people who bring this series to us!
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Kisu (Kiss) Chapter 2
Trudging her way across the soil, Sango made her way back to the others at the campsite. When she got there, Kirara came bounding up into her arms, crying "mews" of affection for her owner. Sango returned the gesture, petting Kirara in her arms.
"Sango!" The girl looked up to see a small fox demon waving at her to come over. "The food's ready! Come and eat!" Shippo shouted with a wide grin on his face. His hands were already around his own bowl of food. Sango smiled at him and continued her path towards the others.
Inuyasha sat on one side of the fire which heated the kettle hanging with its roaring flames. Kagome was next to him, peeling back the cover of one of the bowls of ramen. Sango decided to sit next to Miroku, who held his hand out as she prepared to sit down. Beforehand though, she swung Hiraikotsu off her shoulder, hitting him in the forehead. This effectively caused him to withdraw his anxious hand to attend to the bump on his head. The others eyed him with disapproval. Sango finally sat down, letting Kirara bound away from her to Shippo. Miroku smiled with remorse at her, but Sango just glared at him from the corner of her eye.
"Here, Miroku-sama." Kagome pushed a bowl of ramen over to the lecherous monk.
"Thank you, Kagome-sama," Miroku picked it up and gave his thanks politely to the girl.
"You're welcome," she smiled. Kagome proceeded to tear off the cover of another bowl of ramen, tossing it into her litter bag. She took out a pair of chopsticks from another, placing them carefully across the bowl. She held out the food to Sango without saying a word.
"Oh - thank you, Kagome-chan," Sango said as she reached out for the bowl. As she took it into her own hands, they came into contact with Kagome's. Kagome flinched and pulled her hands away as soon as Sango had taken the ramen. Sango blinked at Kagome, confused as to why she had just done that.
Kagome meanwhile had thoughts rolling around furiously in her mind. It was hard to concentrate with these ideas in her head, and began to worry if someone might notice. She stole a glance at Sango, who seemed to be absorbed in her food. Kagome began to feel weird as she looked at her friend, like there was a slight tingling sensation in her stomach. She looked away before the sensation could intensify, distracting herself by drawing back the cover on her own bowl of ramen. She picked up her chopsticks and began stirring the noodles around, thinking to herself absentmindedly.
'What's wrong with me? Why am I feeling so out-of-place around Sango- chan all of a sudden?' She attempted to bring up some of the ramen to her mouth. 'Is it because of that kiss?' Kagome began sucking in the stands of noodles through her utensils. 'Mmm...!' she groaned inwardly. 'This is so uncomforting. I'm feeling really confused right now, but I don't know what to do. Maybe I should...' she glanced over at Inuyasha. '...try something out...'
"Inuyasha?"
"Hrm?" the hanyou looked up from his bowl of ramen, noodles hanging out of his mouth as he did so.
"Um..." Kagome sweat dropped. "Can I talk to you over there for a minute?" She pointed over to a patch of private greenery away from their site.
"Eh? What for?" he furrowed his eyebrows with suspicion.
"Please?" she begged like a child for a much sought after toy.
"Okay, okay..." he finally agreed, placing his bowl on the ground. He followed Kagome as she led the way to where she wanted to talk with him.
"I wonder what Kagome wants to talk to Inuyasha about," Shippo wondered out loud.
"Hm... I don't know..." Miroku trailed off in thought. "Maybe she's going to tell him that she's pregnant."
"Spurrrfffftttt!" Sango choked on the ramen she was in the process of eating. "What!?" She had a livid look on her face as she turned on Miroku.
"Heh, heh - It was just a suggestion," the monk cowered back at the sight of the taji-ya. 'How scary...'
"A totally groundless one!" she shouted at him with displeasure. Huffing in annoyance, the girl sat back down to focus on her food.
Miroku sweated off the previous occurrence nervously, when he decided to bring up another topic. "So, speaking of being pregnant..." Miroku reached his hand over to Sango's rear. "When am I getting that child you promised me?"
Sango instantly stabbed him in the arm with her chopsticks, Miroku letting out a yelp of pain. "Not soon if this keeps up," she muttered, though she couldn't help a faint blush from crossing her face.
Shippo all the while sighed at the scene in front of him. "Sometimes I feel like we're the only sane ones, Kirara." Kirara "mewed" in agreement.
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"So what did you want to talk about?" Inuyasha said as Kagome stopped in her tracks.
"Um... Inuyasha...?" Kagome still had her back turned to him as she spoke.
"Yeah?"
"I was just wondering if..." she hesitated.
"If what?"
"If you could... um... just..." she shifted a bit so that she could just about see his face.
Inuyasha started growing impatient. "If you're not going to spit it out, then I'm – "
"Canyoukissme?" Kagome said all at once.
Inuyasha faulted over, as if he had been hit by something in the back of his head. "I-I must not have heard you correctly – what did you say?"
Kagome turned around all the way so that she was face to face with him. "Can you kiss me?" Her face blushed as she asked him.
"WHAT!? What the heck for!?" Inuyasha's face turned a nice shade of red at Kagome's request. "Why are you asking me to do something like that all of a sudden!?"
"Can't you please just do it?"
"N-NO!" Inuyasha absolutely refused to give into her demands.
Kagome screwed her face up with frustration. "Fine! I don't know why I bothered asking you anyways! I should have known that you would be a jerk about it!"
"A jerk!?" He took a step forward and raised his fist in the air. "How does simply wanting to know why you want me to do it make me a jerk?" he retorted.
"It just does!" she shouted back at him. Kagome turned on her heel to begin walking away from him.
"Hey!" he yelled at her. "We're not done talk– "
"Osuwari!"
Inuaysha felt a heavy weight pull his neck down, and he fell face first into the ground. "Grumph - Hey!" Inuyasha lifted his dirt covered face up. "Don't just do that and walk away from me! HEY!"
"What a waste," Kagome mumbled as she started looking for the others. "Oh, well." She sighed dolefully. "So what now?"
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Me: The end of the second chapter! I know it's shorter than the last and not much happened, but bear with me if you wish. Thanks a lot! Oh, and don't forget to review, but no flames! Arigatou!