Chapter 6: WHERE'S MY DEO?!

Disclaimer: Anybody want to sue me? Well, too bad, busters, because I DON'T own InuYasha!

A/N: Yes, the five long days of my school trip are over. Yahoo! Oh yes, I'm not putting any fluff in this chapter. MUAHAHAHA!

In a Clearing with our Famous Characters

InuYasha was still out, but Kagome was the one to have insomnia now. For some reason, the coffee she had taken earlier was beginning to have its effects on her. She was still very hyper, but there was no one to communicate with.

Sighing, the teenage girl remembered that she had to take care of InuYasha; the dog demon was very easy to kill when he had passed out. She shot right out of her sleeping bag and looked around wildly. The stupid jerky hanyou was nowhere to be seen. It seemed that he had woken up and run off somewhere...

...to have hot, wild, passionate sex with Kikyo.

Kagome slapped her forehead in frustration. Couldn't she actually stop thinking about Kikyo just ONCE?! If only the priestess were still dead, then everything would be fine. Kikyo was too much to handle along with the fact that Naraku still had most of the Shikon jewel.

The teenage girl suddenly smelt a big wave of smelliness wash over her. How could she ever have forgotten to take a shower after the excitement of the night? And especially when InuYasha's pee scent had gone all over her!

Kagome abruptly remembered that she herself had taken off the dog demon's clothes, washed them, and then hung them off a tree branch. Looking upwards, she couldn't help bursting out laughing. The hanyou's clothes were still where she had left them for the night! And guess what THAT meant? InuYasha was somewhere out there...naked!

With a snort of laughter Kagome decided that she'd have no time for bathing the next day; they were already delayed enough by the ice demon that had captured all the males in their group. Actually, she had never seen InuYasha that helpless.

Sighing, the typical high school girl gathered all her bathing gear and headed for the stream that was in a nearby clearing. Maybe Sango would wonder why she wasn't showering, but it WAS 4:30 am right now, so it would count as 'taking a shower a day'.

Nobody saw Kagome slip away into the shadows to head for the little stream.

With the Stupid Hanyou

InuYasha grumbled as he trudged with no clothes on in the woods. He couldn't find his clothes, as he just couldn't sniff them out. Maybe Kagome had washed them or something. Just great, it'd probably be too small for him now! Anyways, maybe he should have looked harder for his haori at the campsite.

Muttering curse words that shouldn't be repeated, the unlucky dog demon continued wandering on. He suddenly stopped near the stream, his ear twitching. He could hear someone happily splashing in the water. Come to think of it, it was kind of a hot night. Maybe he should surprise the person in the water by running towards them yelling insane things and acting half mad (InuYasha was still hyper that time).

Finally InuYasha couldn't take the scary temptation any more. Running out into the woods, he yelled like a mad man, but when he was halfway across to the river, all his craziness evaporated. He gulped, closed his eyes and backed off again, for lo and behold, there stood a naked Kagome, who was looking daggers at him. It was a pity he couldn't see more of her though...

"SIT!" poor Kagome screamed, and the forest echoed her exclamation. Another thud echoed through the forest, and more curse words followed.

It wasn't long before InuYasha was hanging upside down on a tree next to his clothes. Kagome was smirking at him, Miroku's staff in her hand. She would have liked to use Sango's boomerang, of course, but the weapon was too heavy for her, so now she had to be content with this. She was about to raise the stick and hit the hentai where the sun doesn't shine when...

"Kagome, please don't do that! I think the magic word is quite enough for him!" a voice shouted out from particularly nowhere.

"Huh?" Kagome lowered the staff and looked into the darkness. Nobody was there, and a sudden happy and relieved shiver went down her spine. Could the voice be coming from...?

InuYasha cocked his head in amusement. Clearly the teenage girl was having a hard time beating him up. Anyways, the rope that was securing him to this branch was so frail he could break through any moment. All he had to do was flex his muscles...

"Fine, you can break the rope and come down here," Kagome's voice was distant. She couldn't believe that she'd actually tried to beat him up. The moment the dog demon was down, she threw herself onto him, sobbing uncontrollably and wailing for him to forgive her.

InuYasha patted her back awkwardly. There was nothing more embarrassing than actually being in this position. He wished, for once, that he were still drunk.

"Having your fun times now?" a mocking voice asked.

The pair, realizing that they were doing something stupid in public, shot upwards, blushing furiously. Kagome was kind of angry with herself for crying.

Miroku had ruined their big moment. He was kind of bare without his staff, and Kagome felt another wave of panic, for she had thrown the stupid object into the river the moment she had gotten all emotional.

"Um...here is your substitute staff then!" InuYasha hurriedly shoved a long walking stick towards Miroku. He had guessed what Kagome was thinking about.

The monk took one look at his 'substitute staff' while absorbing the dog demon's words. His face turned from a light peach to an angry red. After counting from one to ten, he asked the two, "Where's my REAL staff?"

The teenage girl gulped. This was the question she had been dreading. InuYasha had saved her neck just now, and she wanted badly to save his in return. Finally there was only one possible thing to do.

"Oh Miroku, you see, I was taking a bath when InuYasha came and...um...he tripped over and hurt me really badly! So I need you to get me an herb which is red in the middle with blue petals!" Kagome gabbled, and pretended to wince in pain as she touched a wound that was untended (she was a little wounded by the demon in the huge castle).

The hentai monk's anger faded and was immediately replaced by concern. "Sure," he replied at last. With those words he trotted off into the dense, thick trees, mumbling about how stupid InuYasha and Kagome were.

The moment Miroku was out of earshot, InuYasha scowled at Kagome as if to say, "What a corny excuse that was! And what was with me being the fool?"

"Well, if you don't mind, dog boy, I wouldn't say that to somebody who's just saved your neck!"

"Feh and your point is?" InuYasha cocked his eyebrows up at the girl from the future.

Kagome didn't have an answer to that, so she simply kept silent and turned away from him.

Finally Miroku came back from his quest to tell Kagome that he hadn't found the herb, and Kagome responded by saying that it was alright and that InuYasha had helped her find that specific flower. Miroku answered with a simple shrug, and Kagome was glad that he'd forgotten about his staff.

"What's with you guys getting up so early?" Sango's sleepy voice pierced the morning air.

Kagome jumped, and Sango was right behind her. Turning around and giving a sheepish look, she told Sango everything that had been going on (except, of course, what happened to Miroku's staff). After telling the tale, the 16 year old bit her lip. Telling a lie to her friends would be something she'd never master.

Sango nodded after the story telling before facing Miroku and ordering him to pack quickly; she herself was going to wake Shippo up, and that wasn't an easy task.

"Wench, why are you beginning to smell of Naraku again? I'll bet you were meeting up with him," InuYasha mumbled angrily.

Kagome's response was to smack him hard on the head. If there was one thing she had to master, it was hitting that stupid moron hard enough on the head when necessary.

"Ha! You stupid weakling! That didn't hurt at all!" the dog demon taunted her. In his heart he knew that 'his Naraku reminder' would never be able to hit him hard enough, not ever. But that's what he thought, for the next blow could've knocked a thousand mules over (A/N: I'm just exaggerating, ok? The point is, Kagome's blow just hurt InuYasha).

"Ouch! You #$&, what did you do that for?" InuYasha rubbed his head hard.

"You were asking for it, ok? And if you delve deeper into my nerves, I'll use the magic word 15 times over!" Kagome snapped. That silenced the dog demon. So there that 'poor widdle doggie' sat, using his best puppy eyes, although I wouldn't fall for a pair of amber eyes staring daggers at me.

Kagome was about to stomp off when Shippo jumped into her lap, yelling, "Sango says there are traces of Naraku's castle again! Maybe we can recover the rest of the Shikon jewel!"

The teenage girl patted Shippo on the head and praised him before going to the stream with her wash bag. She had intended to use her deodorant at her bath time, but InuYasha had butted in then, and she didn't have time at all. InuYasha just then sniffed the air and realized that the same sweet and sickly smell that had haunted him when he was with the 'little green men' now lurked faintly around Kagome's little bag. Sensing that she was up to no good, the hanyou decided to follow her.

InuYasha's Point of View

She was up to no good, I just knew that she would be sneaking off somewhere, so I decided to stalk her and see was she was going to do next. How did I know that she wasn't going to do something good? That very same sweet smell lurking around her wash bag, of course. I also knew she wasn't going for a bath because Sango still had Kagome's towel, and Kagome didn't look like she wanted it right now.

So anyways, she was stumbling around in the woods, although I knew that she knew the way to the stream. I think that spray thing was the object that emitted the really awful smell.

Nobody's Point of View

Kagome trudged along in the woods, singing quietly to herself. She didn't want to be too loud just in case InuYasha heard and decided to follow her. Hopefully he believed that she was going for a shower; that demon was a very smart one.

Finally, after ten minutes of walking and jogging, she reached her destination. Looking around cautiously, she quietly opened her wash bag and rummaged around for her deo. Surprisingly enough, it wasn't there!

With InuYasha

The hanyou could hardly take it any longer. He gagged as Naraku's stench reached his nostrils yet again, and finally InuYasha resolved to breathing through his mouth instead. But when he tried that, an even worse effect happened; he could taste Naraku's stench now.

With Kagome

The poor teen panicked. Where could her deodorant possibly have gone? She knew that she had left her wash bag by the stream for a little while, but when she had come back, her wash bag was still there, and it was closed. Funny! Unless...unless some demon had snuck up while she was dealing with InuYasha, opened her bag, and then stolen her deodorant!

Finally Kagome couldn't keep herself quiet anymore. She had two choices: one, to tell the rest of the gang about her deep dark secret, or go back to the future and buy another one! Both options, however, didn't sound too good, for she didn't want to waste any money, and she also didn't want to reveal her body odour to anybody. Seating herself on a rock, she began to cry.

InuYasha was still hiding on his tree branch. Why in all the hells was Kagome crying? It was so stupid when she began to cry, it was like as if the whole world was falling down on him...in fact, part of him wanted to come out and comfort her, but the other part said, no, she'd sit him for following her.

And there the two sat, both torn between many bad decisions. InuYasha, however, had a dreaded feeling that he knew what Kagome wanted, but it was going to be a hard move to make.

With Sango, Miroku and Shippo

"Man, what's taking those two so long?" Miroku complained, scratching his ankle in frustration. The mosquitoes were out to get him today, so that was why he was so eager to get going.

"Lord Monk, stop being so impatient. You just don't know how long girls take to take a bath," Sango replied, annoyed. Suddenly, she remembered something; Kagome was probably using what she called deo! Looking down, she realized that she was still holding Kagome's towel.

A/N: Well, I'm FINALLY done with chapter 6, but I'll give you a little flash of the next chapter...

The little demon looked at the aerosol can curiously. The spray can smelled sweet, so the demon decided to open it.

'PFFT' went the spray can all over the demon.

The little demon was suddenly very excited and happy about this strange new smell all over him. Jumping up and down with happiness, it skipped down the leaf-strewn path with a new kind of glee it had never felt before...

Well, anyways, please review!