Writer's Oasis »
First off, I would like to announce that I've started school, and the days I do skip will be spent in my bed XD not updating my fanfics. In other news, I just recently saw the Third Movie of InuYasha, and I seriously recommend watching it even if it does take you three damned days to download it and install a few minor programs. It's simply stunning, and InuTaisho is the cutest damned dog to grace the earth! Lol.
However, while this movie supplies my need to know about InuTaisho, I am seriously yearning to learn about Sesshoumaru's unspoken mother. I role play "her" and she's kinda like Sesshoumaru, but fragile in the heart and seriously sarcastic about everything... She picks on everybody and can't seem to bring herself to kill InuYasha... The best thing about her is that her past isn't all sparkling clean, which is why she is abnormally fragile in the heart for a demon. -cough-
Anyway. What's bad is that I really am too obsessed with this anime, becuz Bandit oh-so-cutely bursted into my room (IE. My door slammed into the wall ) and literally jumped in my lap and I was like: "Where's the fire? The house burning down or something?" Then I thought of the Izayoi and her little castle thing burning down and etc... -sweatdrop- anyway...
Of course, then I realized Bandit had rolled in something, eww, smelly -.- so, he got a bath of course. Annnddd...
LoverofInuKagome: I have two horses, well, actually we might have three now XD... Just to ramble, I'll give you the status of each XD.
Challenger's "Scooter" - Chestnut Sorrel Paint Quarter Cutting Horse - Gelding (registered as a Stallion however)
16 hands high. He was broke back in February, and is seven some years old. He is too green for me to ride, but I can do whatever else I please with him otherwise. Such as spoiling, grooming, playing with him basically, just as long as I stay off his back.
Breeze - Bay-Brown Arab/Quarter Horse - Mare
13 hands high. She's six years old, but acts like she's about to... die. She's a deadhead in the arena, but on the trail she's stubborn as hell sometimes. Jintsuri, Sango's horse, is sort of based off of her. I can do anything I want with her, and I often go on trail rides by myself with her most of the time (something I know I shouldn't do, but neh XP, Judy (stable owner) says I can so...)
Lacy - Chestnut Quarter Horse - Mare (registered)
16 hands high. She's a push-button horse, meaning all you have to do is say "Come-on, babe! Let's go!" and she takes off, and it's the same with stopping her. She's a bit more spirited then my Breeze, but supposedly I'll be able to ride her in a few more months, but mainly she will be my mother's horse for now...
State of Denial » Bite me. I don't believe in copyrights! XD! INUYASHA IS MINE!
Chosen Moments Stable
Session 6 : Justin Roper's Number Five!
Kagome was no longer wearing InuYasha's clothes, Kaede had made a trade to give them back to InuYasha and now she was wearing some of Kikyou's "play-day" clothes. Meaning, she was wearing some torn, mud stained, faded jeans, with a hunter green muscle top. Obviously Kikyou had trimmed the bottom of it off, as it was slowly falling apart and probably wasn't worn as much to prevent it from falling into worse conditions faster. However, it certainly gave her a certain playful charm, cute and laid-back, femme-rustic look... Something you don't find too often in the stereo typical world any more...
The clothes fit her snugly, and were truly comfy... Her wet sneakers however, squeaked and squished as she ran up the hill and down into the gravel parking lot. She was far ahead of InuYasha, excited about boot shopping and such. She paused her gleefulness in the middle of the large, and unkept, parking lot, her steel blue eyes watching the horizon of the hillside that hid the stables for InuYasha's ears or black hat. He was clearly taking his own sweet -sweet- time, and was in no hurray to catch up. The midnight-haired girl began to teeter back and forth from her heels to her toes, looking at the mostly empty parking lot. She had actually parked in a grassy area, near some trailers that she could actually afford... if she moved out of her apartment and decided to live in it however. It made her old land cruiser look out of place up against the shiny tan and green two-horse trailer.
She wondered whose car they'd be taking, her own? Or his? She had not been here long enough to identify which car or truck belonged to whom, so it didn't do her much good to look at the few ones there. Still rocking back and forth from her heels to toes, InuYasha makes his appearance with a single ear sticking out from underneath his black cowboy hat.
"InuuuYaaashaa!" Kagome shouted in a playful singsong tone, waving her hand as in a gesture to hurry up.
The half demon cringed at his name, giving the college student a 'would you SHUT UP!' look.
"Whose car are we taking...?"
InuYasha held out his hand at Kagome. His bandages had been changed, and they were now a reddish sort of color, easily seen through his gray mud/grass-stained muscle shirt that went with the mud/grass-stained black jeans fully well. Getting little of the response he wanted, InuYasha finally snapped.
"Give me your keys." He growled loudly, making his back arch and that caused pain to shoot up his back.
Kagome stopped teetering, "No! It's my truck, and I'll drive it! I don't even think you should be driving in the first place!"
"Keh!" With that, InuYasha closed the small distance between him and Kagome in a rush. Hovering over her, the girl jumped and even cowered a little, allowing the Hanyou to smirk in satisfaction. Kagome was frozen, dumbfounded at his speed, but was clearly right back to life when InuYasha had grabbed her by the left arm, holding her down somewhat, then stuck his hand in her pocket trying to fish for the keys! Now Kagome was growling and her face was defiantly flushing a bright red. However, he was reaching for the wrong pocket, and instinctively Kagome stuck her free hand in another pocket and pulled out the key to her car. InuYasha releases her, and Kagome begins to tease him with it, barely able to keep it out of his reach...
As the wonderful fate called gravity would have it, InuYasha, getting more pissed by each missed grab for the key, finally got it. But his lunge for it toward Kagome was a little too strong, and he fell forward... with Kagome under him. Straddling her waist, his hand was griping Kagome's hand that had the key in it, and had been softly pined to the ground, while his other hand was free to help stabilize his fall. His silver locks were not at all tied back, and tumbled off his back and down past his shoulders, creating a curtain around his face and Kagome's directly below him. Not aware of the seating arrangement, he watched in delight as Kagome tried to squirm her way out...
"Get off!" Kagome almost literally growled through her teeth.
"Not until you give me the key..." InuYasha uncharacteristically cooed down at her, smirking.
By now, it was clear to InuYasha of their seating arrangements, Kagome's squirming and brushing of her slender body between his inner thighs was not going unnoticed at all. Of course, he was a guy, and those natural dirty thoughts came without pause in the mind. However, he was counting on the odds of never being spotted by a living soul, and thus remained on top of Kagome.
Kagome's slender fingers curled around the car key, giving it a tougher grip. Her face was completely flushed from being pined to the ground with InuYasha on top of her. Speaking of the ground, it didn't feel too great. Although grass was slowly taking over the gravel parking lot, the area she fell in did not supply a well enough cushion to her petite body. Through her pined hands, she could feel how tensed InuYasha was, and her own body was reacting to it more then she would have liked...
A wordless struggle over the key began. InuYasha had released Kagome's said hand with the key, only to have Kagome try and throw it out of his reach. Which, it had slipped out of her grip too soon in the toss and landed well in both their reaches. Feeling Kagome arch up against him made him reel away from her, not excepting such a move from an innocent type girl. However, he had still managed to get the key, and didn't really care as much.
Climbing to their feet, Kagome instantly blushed and InuYasha gave her look.
Sango, had pulled into the parking lot during their fight over the key, and had been watching closely.
"Uhh... Hi? Sango-chan?"
InuYasha looked over his shoulder, looking at Sango. He sighed, and grabbed Kagome by the wrist and started on over to his student's car.
"Tell Miroku we'll be back in an hour or two, Sango. He knows where we're going."
Sango double blinked at InuYasha, not really sure if she wanted to know where they were going herself. Shrugging at his simple request, she waves at them as InuYasha attempts to peel out of the gravel parking lot in Kagome's land cruiser, then heads over the stables herself for the weekly bucket cleaning chore...
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"This isn't a sports car you baka! You can't peel with it!"
"Watch me!"
It was clear that InuYasha either drove a lot and loved to peel, or did not drive a lot and peeled purposely anyway. Either way, Kagome was not too thrilled when InuYasha finally did get her faithful truck to peel on the road. Nor was she pleased, it was ruining her tires!
"GRR! Stop it! Your gonna ruin my tires!"
"Fine!"
An awkward silence filled the SUV as they headed to one of the local western store...
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'Wonder if this place as ever heard the word... "clean?"' Kagome thought to herself as she shut the passengers' door to her land cruiser, whereas InuYasha slammed his. Kagome was about ready to bite his head off for abusing her faithful truck. Given, it was just a out of date SUV, but Kagome had received it as a gift from her father sometime back. She didn't get to see him much, so she treasured the little four-wheel drive gas eater that got her from point A to B without minor difficultly...Following after InuYasha across the dirt parking lot, if people even considered that, her steel blue eyes darted everywhere around the area trying to get in as much information about it as she could. She'd actually driven past this place a lot, but never thought she'd actually be going inside it one day. She tripped over her own feet, and barreled right into InuYasha. He instantly went ridged as Kagome lightly stroked his bandaged back, but held his tongue as they stepped into the leather tainted air store. A large cow bell was hanging from it, and it clanged against the door when it opened and shut behind Kagome.
Kagome double blinked, finding it cleaner then she thought it would be. Nobody was in sight, probably in the back. However, InuYasha took this as a moment to give her a mini lecture.
"Don't speak unless spoken too. Compendia?"
"Yes sir!"
InuYasha gave a Kagome a funny look. Kagome returned it with a double blink.
"Can't you take a joke?"
"Ummm... Rain check please?"
Kagome shook her head, and was about to comment until somebody popped out of the backroom.
"Scruffy-ototokun!" The girl shouted, "Haven't seen ya' for a while, whatcha need?"
Kagome double blinked again, this time at the girl... and what looked like InuYasha's nickname. Her hair was usually spiked out, cyan, and she had the same golden eyes as InuYasha and Sesshoumaru, but Kagome could not figure out if they were a little darker or lighter, but there was something defiantly different from the demons about this girl. Her clothes were a simple pair of jeans and a brown tank top with the white words "City Slicker," obviously a joke shirt, written across it. She had a few grease stains here and there on her. One was even on her cheek, but the rest was on her clothes and arms.
InuYasha blushed lightly at his nickname from the cyan-hair girl, having completely forgotten about that, it'd been -that- long since he'd seen her.
"Kagome here needs some boots."
"Any preference...? Size?"
InuYasha translated for Kagome, "Lace-up or slip-on?"
Kagome blinked stupidly, "Uhh. Lace-up? Ten."
The cyan girl turned on her heel, wearing her worn out converse sneakers, and made a hand motion for them to follow. Naturally, InuYasha knew where he was going, and did not fall behind. Kagome on the hand had that wondering eye problem and it made her walk slower then normal to get a good look of the homey store.
"Oi, Ryoko...?" InuYasha called as the cyan-hair girl picked out several different brands and styles.
"Hai."
"Keep it less than a hundred. All they need is a heel so her feet don't get caught in the stirrups."
Ryoko put a few boxes back.
Kagome took a seat on a creamy couch, which had actually been the back seat in some sorta of car, but it was very comfy where is was now. She flipped off her wet sneakers, and InuYasha tossed her a pair of socks, which hit her squarely in the face.
She glared.
He grinned.
From the boxes that Ryoko put back, there were two pairs left. Kagome tried both of them on, with the help of Ryoko and InuYasha lacing them up for her, seeing as she'd never owned a pair of shoes like that before.
"There... funny..." She was having trouble picking the right words.
"Feel like there gonna squeeze your foot off?" InuYasha asked.
"There designed like that to give you ankle support, incase you fall in a hole or something, it'll help keep you from twisting your ankle."
"Get up and walk around the store in them, then we'll try some slip-ons." InuYasha directed her, and Kagome without a word began her trek around the store, leaving Ryoko and InuYasha to watch her walk. InuYasha then fell back on the makeshift couch, making it almost tip over from his weight. Ryoko and he were old friends, and as Kagome took her walk around the store, they chose to catch up with each other.
"First pair of boots...?" Ryoko asked about Kagome.
He gave a pointed look to her shirt, right at the words "city slicker."
"Ahh. I see. So, how's Fluffy-oniichan?"
"A pain in the ass." InuYasha moaned, tipping his hat forward, relaxing as if he was going to take a nap.
Ryoko snorted a laugh. "Heh! Sounds like him. Maybe I should pop over there, drag Minagi along, and "play" with him."
InuYasha cracked a grin, "I bet he'd be thrilled..."
"More like horrified... He'd probably be like, 'Oh gods! What the hell did I do now to merit this?!'" She mumbled as she leaned over a table with a bunch of animal hides draped over it, the comment making InuYasha grin even more. There was a pause as they watched Kagome get side tracked by some saddles and other tack. Of course InuYasha didn't mind right now. He didn't want to clean stalls at all...
"Broken tractor?" InuYasha randomly asked, having noticed the grease stains all over Ryoko.
"Second time mother has broken that damned old Massey tractor... Gonna blow it up next time..."
They paused, watching Kagome walk funnily around the place for a few seconds.
"New girlfriend?" Ryoko asked randomly about Kagome, her turn.
InuYasha gave her an insane look and shook his head quickly.
"Aww! Scruffy-ototokun has moved past Kikyou-baba and found new love! KA-WA-II!"
InuYasha blushed, and was almost ready to kill his friend as his body became ridged again. "So, how 'bout you and this Tenchi guy?" He tried to change topics on her, knowing how easily side tracked and other things' Ryoko could become when nothing serious was going on around her.
"Fine I guess, you know how love triangles work... Nearly every tv show that doesn't have Bugs Bunny featured has them."
InuYasha snorted his chuckle about that as Kagome made her reappearance.
"So...?" Ryoko asked, not applying any pressure on Kagome to buy them like she would normally with others.
"They still feel funny..." Kagome almost whined in a small voice.
"They take a while to get used too." InuYasha suggested.
"Ryoko-san, can we try on the slip-ons?" Kagome asked sweetly.
Ryoko nodded, but headed over to the mens section instead for some eight and a half-
sized ones.
Kagome quirked an eyebrow, wondering why she didn't stay in the ladies.
InuYasha was quick to explain.
"Most of the Lady boots are the roach-killer ones, and butt-ugly. You just want a plain pair of boots, nothing that is pink striped, purple poka-dotted, and... yellow highlighted with glitter, correct?"
Kagome nodded, wondering who in the hell would make a shoe THAT horrifying.
Ryoko returned with a pair of tan roper Justins, and Kagome slipped on easily. Walking around in them, she noticed her heel slipping up and down. That too, also felt weird, and she gave both Ryoko and InuYasha a concerned look...
"They slip up on my heel..."
"They're supposed to, they're not like sneakers."
Kagome and Ryoko gave InuYasha a 'der' expression.
Ryoko shook her head, "Other then the heels, are they tight anywhere or do they feel snug on your feet?"
"They're pretty snug."
InuYasha, bent over from his relaxed position on the couch and gave Kagome's feet a few squeezes in different areas.
"They're perfect," he approved.
"It's natural for your heel to slip in boots, they're designed like that," Ryoko informed. "You'll barely notice that they do slip once you get used to them. In fact, Minagi wears her's constantly everywhere, you just slip them on and you're out the door. She finds them super comfy for some reason, I only wear mine when it's needed." She then raised her jeans up a tad to show off her black fading converse shoes.
"Okay," Kagome smiled, "I'll take them then."
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On the way back to the stables, Kagome had turned on the stereo to one of her favorite songs. Mambo No. 5 by Lou Bega. If she'd been by herself she would have sung a long with it. Instead, she chose to listen to the song more then she would normally, and the chorus, defiantly caught her attention. Sitting up more, she leans forwards a bit and turns the volume up then goes back to playing with her new socks and boots... Until the chorus of the song comes on, and then she starts staring at the radio as if it was gonna move...
'A little bit of Monica in my life.
A little bit of Erica by my side.
A little bit of Rita is all I need...'
"Oh my god, InuYasha, listen."
"Hmmm...?"
'A little bit of Tina is what I see.
A little bit of Sandra in the sun.
A little bit of Mary all night long...'
"It's..."
"...a Miroku-wannabe song..."
'A little bit of Jessica here I am.
A little bit of you makes me your man...'
"That's so horrible..." Kagome giggled, as she covered her mouth with her hand.
InuYasha snorted his chuckles and kept his eyes on the road....
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Wearing her new boots, Kagome had the song stuck in her head now. InuYasha, once again was taking his sweet time in showing up in the presence of the working stable hands. Clearly Kagome did not know what she was getting into, that or InuYasha did not really enjoy the work force to much and would rather play... like most children...
Approaching the side of the stable were the tractor was currently parked, Kagome approached it cautiously. Sesshoumaru was dozing in the seat of it, his legs using the stirring wheel as a foot stool as he was uncharacteristically leaning back in the yellow metal seat. His dusty baseball hat, torn and worn, was tilted forward to keep the light out of his stunning golden eyes as he waited for Miroku to fill the manure spreader. Although he was well aware he could hop off and join anytime, it was Sunday, his official day off... He actually volunteered to do this job every weekend...
Humming softly, Kagome takes a rock the size of a marble shooter, and chucks it at the green tractor. It's strikes the hood, a big clang sound erupting from the impacted. The "youkai lord", caught off guard, jumps quite high out of his seat. She grins playfully as the inuyoukai glares at her from beneath his hat. Death threats did not scare her so easily as one would assume...
Miroku, at the sound of the rock on the tractor, emerges from the horse stall in a rush. The tractor had a well known history for it's breaks to suddenly just give out and start to roll. Most of the time, it made the almost exact same sound as the rock striking the tractor did. Even though he knew Sesshoumaru was on it and making sure nothing like that happened, he was still paranoid about it ramming into the stables and injuring animals and people, or even worse... killing both.
He saw Kagome, and smiled happily, knowing that InuYasha was -somewhere- around here.
"Have fun...?"
"Yep! I even picked out my saddle and everything! But, damn, it's expensive." The offensive word rolled off her tongue like a foreign word, but she put on a false act that she said stuff all the time like that...
Miroku, being the people person is, could easily see past her act...
"Where is InuYasha?" The "houshi" asked Kagome, wanting to finish up with some sort of help at least...
"Hiding," came Sesshoumaru before Kagome, trying to resettle back into his sunbathing position before Kagome had ruined it.
Kagome blinked, "I can help you clean Miroku, it's like cleaning a large rabbit cage? Right?"
Miroku nodded his head, "Basically, yes, I would have to agree." Horses eat carrots? Rabbits eat carrots? Right...?
Pulling the extra shovel out of the manure spreader for Kagome to use, he handed it to her. He motioned with his hand to follow him, but she knew where she was going. Miroku, although this would remain unknown to Kagome, looked like he had single handedly cleaned half of the stalls. Following him to the stall that was near the back of the manure spreader, she figured that this would be the last stall to clean, then Sesshoumaru would probably move the tractor back for them to add more too. Following Miroku's example on how to shovel, she mimics him and starting throwing the dirtied wood chips into the wooden manure spreader. However, the song from earlier comes back to her mind, and she can't help but starting humming it as she helped with Miroku...
Of course Miroku would be the one to recognize the song she was humming, and jumped in with her, singing the actual song. This boosted Kagome's esteem, and her shy voice soon joined him in the hilariously cute song. Combined, Miroku's deep smoothing voice, and Kagome high strung one echoed out of the dimly lite stall. It wasn't exactly easy on the ears, but it wasn't something that dogs would howl with either.
However, it did catch the ears of others, and soon the well known stable hands had made there way over to investigate.
Sesshoumaru wasn't even paying attention, but getting annoyed nonetheless.
Watching from the sidelines, Sango was extremely annoyed, InuYasha was cracking up with Rin watching, and Kaede (mature well beyond her age) just watched as Miroku and Kagome made fools of themselves by using the ends of their shovels as microphones.
"A little bit of Monica in my life..." Kagome sung into her shovel handle, swinging it around, mocking mambo singers of the 30's and 40s.
"We've lost them to the dark side..." Came Kaede's wisdom filled comment.
"A little bit of Erica by my side..." Miroku sung, swapping lines with Kagome, doing the same thing with his shovel as her.
"I'm gonna kill him..." Of course, this is Sango speaking here.
"A little bit of Rita is all I need..."
"Aww, Sango-chan, you don't mean that..." Rin spoke, looking up at the older girl.
"A little bit of Tina is what I see..."
"Sssh! Rin, let her kill him!" InuYasha joked.
"A little bit of Sandra in the sun..."
"InuYasha," Kaede scolded half-heartily.
"A little bit of Mary all night long..."
"Nani?"
"A little bit of Jessica here I am..."
"Nevermind..."
"A little bit of you makes me your man..." Miroku finished with a big grin, amused more then he should be.
Realizing that they had an audience, both friends, Kagome and Miroku, quickly silenced themselves in embarrassment and returned to work... Going quicker then normal, trying to act as if they'd done nothing out of the ordinary...
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By the end of the afternoon....
InuYasha wasn't a happy stable hand...
"Tell me again, why do I have to fill the stalls, ALL BY MYSELF!?"
"Because you hid from your chores all day and Kagome did most of them for you..." Kaede prodded her finger into InuYasha's firm chest, pushing him back a little...
"Her job was originally to fill the stalls, and Sesshoumaru had to leave early because Rin was having allergy problems caused by the dust from the wood chips... It wouldn't be fair for Kagome to clean and then fill them all by herself." Miroku said, backing Kaede up.
Kagome was actually pretty dead beat from working with Miroku, so tired that she wasn't even sure she could drive. She wasn't used to moving around so much, and she felt sore in the strangest place of all, her butt. Bending over so much had strained the muscles in her back thighs, and it even hurt to bend over the slightest.
"But... Sango can help me...?" InuYasha whined...
"She's taking Kagome home and then she has some other errands to run..."
"Sorry, InuYasha," Sango wasn't exactly that sorry, he brought it upon himself, like he did last week.
"Feh," the hanyou turned, starting on his job that would have to be finished by the evening when the horses were put back up...
Watching her trainer leave, Kagome couldn't help but feel bad about him having to do all that work by himself.
Sango caught on to her concern by her friend's expression.
"Don't worry Kagome-chan, Houshi-sama here will help..."
"I will...?"
"Of course!" She flashed a fake smile at him, scaring the "houshi" a bit...
Miroku, like a trained puppy, turned and chased after InuYasha...
Kagome and Kaede giggled as Sango went through hand motions of saying how wrapped around her finger he was, then giggled herself...
This chapter was fun to write. It took me about three days to do, off and on of course, but I like how it turned out. Although, I still cant believe I wrote eight pages of shoe shopping, and most of this is based on my own experiences, by the way, just so you know. And, this plot is slipping away from me. Need some action, meaning next time I'll try to include a chase for Kamikaze and such...
I don't know if I should apologize for the OOC characters, which are VERY similar to Tenchi Muyo characters. But, I have been role playing them for over 3 years now and it felt so strange to not have Ryoko picking on the Taisho boys... Minagi, btw, would be Sesshoumaru's "girlfriend" person, so... -cough- I tried to keep it within the original InuYasha anime/manga characters, but... gah IT CANNOT BE DONE! -swt- At least there not Mary-Sues... -shudders-
Crap, speaking of my RPG, I've been neglecting it -.-;; grr.
Ano. R&R-!