Inutori: I don't own Inuyasha, so don't go saying that I'm doing illegal things.
Inuyasha: But Kagome told me that you can't just go kill the people you don't like. She said it was e-legal.
Inutori: For everyone who gets caught. If you get away with murder like me, it's not really illegal.
Kagome: Don't go filling Inuyasha's head with nonsense, get caught or no, killing someone is against the law.
Inuyasha: I like Inutori's way of thinking better. Can I go kill Hobo now and make it look like Kouga did it?
Inutori: You dolt, you have to frame someone that actually exists in the same time as Hojou, not the wimpy-wolf from the past. Someone like…oh, say…Sailor Moon would be better. I hear she goes slicing people in half with that tiara of hers all the time.
Inuyasha: Hahahahaha *runs off to fetch Sailor Moon and kill Kouga…wait…I mean Hojou…or maybe both, who knows*
Kagome: IIE, MATTE, ONEGAI! INUYASHA! Don't kill Houjo-kun! *runs after Inuyasha*
Inutori: *looks at readers* I lost my actors! Too bad! No chapter today! *readers throw rotten fruit and shout* Wait…You people actually expect me to play their parts for them? *sighs* Well then, BRING ON THE MAKEUP!
Chapter 12
Subduing Spell
Last time:
Nothing was coming to mind as a way to calm the enraged twenty-two year old half demon.
"Do I have to repeat myself?"
Inuyasha stood up to his full height, towering several inches above Kagome, forcing her to look up in order to meet his glare.
And now on with the story…
Kagome hesitated momentarily, not wanting to become minced meat. She needed something, and she needed it fast.
Then a light bulb went off in her head. Her great-aunt Kaede had given a rosary to Kagome while on her death bed, telling her it would save her when the time came. The baa-chan had cast some sort of spell on it…perhaps…
She concentrated her energies on the rosary and a blue light filled the room as the beaded necklace sitting in the closet appeared piece by piece on the hanyou's neck. In Kagome's mind, she heard Kaede baa-chan's voice. "Say the word that will subdue his youki."
She looked at Inuyasha, who had paused in his confusion to look at the necklace now draped on his neck. "Nani? What am I supposed to do?"
Inuyasha looked up at her glaring coldly. "Get this off of me, wench."
Well, at least his voice was back to normal. Kagome stepped back as she racked her memory for some clue. All her training with Kaede would be a waste if she weren't able to protect herself now. She shook her head frantically at Inuyasha, suddenly having a single word come to mind. "Osuwari."
The hanyou pummeled to the ground unceremoniously, his face hitting the floor with a thud. He sat up quickly, trying to yank off the necklace, but to no avail. "What the-?"
"Inuyasha, are you OK?" Kagome knelt down next to Inuyasha after sensing the change in his aura. She brought up a hand and touched his face gently.
He jerked away from her touch and looked at the opposite wall. "Keh."
"What was that back there?" Kagome leaned towards Inuyasha curiously and cocked her head to the side.
"…"
Time seemed to freeze for the moment as both sat there, pondering the events that had just occurred.
*
"Ah, my dearest Sango, how are you this lovely evening?" Miroku opened his eyes to see Sango grumpily glaring at him from across the room.
"None of your business, houshi-sama." Sango looked away towards the bedroom where Kagome and Inuyasha were. She thought she had heard some growling and a loud thud, but that could have just been her imagination.
"I'm doing well myself, but I have this nasty headache." Miroku rubbed his head curiously and looked at Sango with a smile. He seemed to have recovered from his encountered with the coat stand quite nicely.
Sango didn't move from her spot as Miroku stood up and approached her.
"Where's Inuyasha?"
The taijiya nodded her head in the direction of the bedroom and watched out of the corner of her eye as Miroku's face was plastered with a lecherous grin.
"Well, while they're busy in there, let's get it on ourselves." Miroku wiggled his eyebrows suggestively at Sango and motioned to the couch with his shoulder.
Sango huffed up slightly and hit him across the side of the head without holding back. The black-haired man fell over and was knocked unconscious as his head hit the coffee table.
Sango stepped over him and into the spare bedroom across from Kagome's. "Serves him right." She locked the door to be sure to keep the monk out before climbing into the bed and drifting into a deep sleep.
*
In the morning, Sango awoke, refreshed and ready to start the new day…until she found Miroku using her stomach as a pillow and his arms wrapped around her affectionately.
"HENTAI!!!"
Sango kicked him numerous times before leaving the room, silently wondering how he had gotten into the room.
Then she remembered that she had to let Inuyasha and Kagome out of the professor's room now as well. Hoping to catch them in a compromising situation, Sango fished out Kagome's camera and held it with one hand as she unlocked the door.
She tried to swing it open, but it hit something and someone let out a cry of protest.
"Ite! Now I know why you insisted on positioning yourself the way you did. That hurts!"
Sango poked her head in through the door and found Inuyasha and Kagome awake, playing a card game. A sweat drop found its way down her face as she looked at the pair.
Inuyasha was sitting with his back to the door, apparently the barrier that had kept the door shut, and Kagome was in front of him, lying on her stomach, propped on her elbows with her lower legs up in the air behind her.
"Do you have an eight?" Kagome only glanced at Sango before looking back to Inuyasha.
"Go fish."
Sango's sweat drop grew dramatically. "You guys…are playing…GO FISH?!" She looked between them angrily, now standing fully in the room.
"Yah, what'd you expect us to be doing, having sex?"
Sango remained silent, confirming what Inuyasha had only thrown out there as a joke. It was Inuyasha and Kagome's turn to sweat drop, but at the same time, each flushed slightly pink in the cheeks.
"Keh, what kind of person do you think I am?"
"Sango-chan, that's just disturbing. Are you sure you've never met Miroku-sama before…maybe an ex-boyfriend or something?" Kagome looked at Sango curiously, her innocent expression added to by the slight blush adorning her cheeks.
"Of course not! It's just…"
*
Kagome sighed as she trekked up the stone steps leading to her family's shrine. After Sango, Inuyasha, and Miroku had all left, she had decided to pay her family a much-needed visit.
So as she reached the top of the stairs, she wasn't surprised to see her grandpa telling a tourist about some old legend that she had probably heard from him a hundred times before. Kind of weird that she ended up teaching about legends and myths, ne?
"Jii-chan! I'm home!" Kagome smiled at the old man, allowing the poor tourist a chance to escape.
"Ah, Kagome, I was just telling this nice young-hey, where'd he go?" The old man looked around frantically trying to locate the man he had been scaring just moments earlier.
The college professor giggled slightly at her grandpa's antics, knowing that this sort of thing happened on a daily basis. "Ohayo, jii-chan, where's kaa-san?" Kagome glanced around, noticing the lack of tourist at the shrine.
"In the house cooking lunch. Come, inside, Kagome. Souta shouldn't be home for another couple hours." Kagome nodded and followed behind her grandpa quietly.
A strange feeling of evil overwhelmed her mind, and she turned quickly to see where the source of the power was. She could have sworn that she saw something white in the woods, but it was gone the next instant, so she could have just imagined it.
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Inutori: A bit longer than the last chapter, hope people are happy. I finally gained some inspiration for this story, and now I'll be giving this thing a real plot. A shock? Don't I know it.
Inuyasha: Just shut up already, there's no point to your mouth opening and closing like that, is there?
Inutori: …
Inuyasha: My point exactly.
Kagome: *Inutori hands her a piece of paper* Inutori's threat this time is that if you don't stop degrading her, she'll kill you. Ooh, that's harsh.
Inuyasha: Like that wench could kill me, yeah right! Kikyou couldn't even do it!
Kagome: *handed another paper* She says she'll attach you on the new moon and steal Tetsusaiga.
Inuyasha: …
Inutori: *sticks out tongue at Inuyasha*