Author: Mistress Nika
Rating: PG-13
Couples: Kurama/Kagome, Kouga/InuYasha, Miroku/Sango, Hiei/OC (eventually)
Warnings: shounen-ai, crossover, minor violence, language, sexual humor
Archive: InuYasha: My Will (Any others, ask and ye shall recieve. But please, ask first?)
Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha nor Yuu Yuu Hakusho. If I did, the upcoming lemon would have occured in the anime. I obviously don't own either as the upcoming lemon will not be a lemon, probably not even a lime and, in fact, will not even be seen here! Uchiha Kair owns the OC Kairi. She gave me permission to use her.
Chapter Fifteen:
Season of Romance Part II
In a busy airport a man with extravagantly long black hair and sparkling blue eyes wearing black dress slacks and a neatly tucked black dress shirt was talking animatedly with a younger man. The younger man had chin length black hair and was wearing a pair of black jeans and an untucked blue dress shirt.
"I can't believe you kept me a secret for this long, Ma-chan!" the younger man teased, poking his counterpart in the chest with a finger. "What will your mother say? Or that sister of yours?"
"I haven't kept you secret exactly!" the older man explained, placing his hand over the other's on his chest. "I may have mentioned you...in passing. Besides, kaasan and Kagome-chan have other things on their minds! And anyways," he grabbed the other man by the hip and pulled him flush against him, "I never kept any of my other lovers secret. Therefore it MUST be love."
Both of their eyes sparkled with barely contained lust as they gazed into each other's eyes. Lowering his voice seductively, the younger man replied, "Well, in that case I expect a ring sometime in the near future."
Mimicking his tone, he lowered his head toward the shorter man and said, "Who knows? Maybe that's the point of this trip."
Their lips then met, uncaring of the hordes of people going to and fro around them, most now staring with wide eyes. A siren wailed in the distance and a man cried for assistance as an elderly woman took one look at them and collapsed clutching her chest.
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As the sun sank beyond the horizon, Sango sat in the middle of Kagome's living room floor. Kagome had given her a quick rundown of all the things she would need to know in her stint as babysitter. Basically all she had to do was keep the kids alive and well, keep an eye on them so they didn't destroy anything, and keep them out of her grandfather's study. The old man had stuck his head out only once since they returned to bid Kagome's mother goodbye as she left for classes and greet Sango at the same time, then he disappeared back into the room with the door closed firmly behind him.
Souta and Shippou were playing the elder boy's video games. Kagome had barely managed to pull them away long enough to say hello to the taijiya. Apparantly they were both trying for the high score and couldn't be bothered with such trivial things as food, sleep, or demon slayers from five hundred years in the past.
Kagome had gone to her room to change and get ready while Sango began her duties watching the boys. Yukito, displaying an already keen mind, seemed to remember Sango's scent from the brief time she had cared for him months before. He was currently chewing on a plastic ring and drooling in her lap. Kagome said he was teething and his fangs had already started to come in. Sango decided to watch her hands. The baby was clad only in a diaper, having shredded his shirt earlier when he managed to catch a newly developing claw in it. He then proceeded to become frustrated at not being able to remove it and jerked his hand until the little digit was free and the cloth was in shreds.
Sango couldn't get over how much the child had grown in only a few months. When they had first come by him she would swear he was only a few days old. But now he appeared for all the world to be a healthy young boy probably coming upon his first birthday. Youkai certainly matured at a different rate than humans. Some grew faster than humans. Some grew slower than humans. Some grew faster at first and then when they reached a certain point, grew slower. It all depended on their species. In her limited experience with kitsune, she had found they generally matured slower. However, that was obviously not the case with Jikan.
Grabbing his long, silver tail in his hands, he pulled it up to his chin and snuggled up with it as if it were a favorite stuffed toy, still chewing dutifully on his toy. "Nii!" he barked around the plastic in his mouth, one silver ear twitching in response, his eyes trained on the back of Shippou's head.
Turning her attention to the other two, she questioned, "What are you playing?"
The two boys locked in a grudge match in front of the tv didn't even look up.
"Kaiju Gao vs King Gojira." Souta said absently as he commanded his rampaging monster to destroy yet another unsuspecting city.
"It's really good." Shippou commented with a glazed expression, his own monster ravaging a mountain village and eating their chickens.
Sango watched as they continued to play, seemingly oblivious to the world around them. Their eyes were vacant and stared unblinkingly ahead at the flashing colors on the screen. "I wonder if they're under a spell." she pondered softly.
"ALRIGHT!" Souta suddenly yelled, jumping to his feet excited and making Yukito jump. Keeping his eyes locked on the screen and the controller firmly in his hand, he shouted, "FACE OFF!!"
Shippou mimicked him, leaping to his feet as the words 'Enemy monster sighted - Face off for domination' flashed across the screen.
The two monsters then began duking it out as the boys pressed buttons frantically, Shippou's tongue poking out between his lips in concentration.
Sango shook her head and looked away. The future didn't seem quite so strange when Kagome had been explaining it. Looking down at the drooling kit in her lap, she smiled at him and said, "What about you? Do you think the future is strange?"
The kit turned his head backwards and up, regarding her upside down for a few minutes in curiousity before breaking into a large grin.
"That's what I thought." she chuckled as she averted his attempt to grab at her hair.
Footsteps on the stairs drew her attention and she turned to face the doorway, waiting for what had to be her friend to appear.
And appear she did. The second Sango laid eyes on the girl, she thought that surely this wasn't the same person. Gone was the sailor fuku and white socks to be replaced by a red, sleeveless dress and strappy red heels. Gone was the slightly untamed hair and innocent smile, replaced by elegant curls piled atop her head and the painted face of a woman. Smoky grey outlined her eyes and golden eyeshadow played over her lids, causing her blue eyes to seem to sparkle. Her reddened lips turned up in a smile as she regarded the girl before her playing with her youngest son.
"So," she asked, shifting her weight to one side and striking a pose, "How do I look?"
Sango was temporarily at a loss for words. Yukito finally managed to regain her attention by slipping out of her lap and crawling awkardly over to his mother, the plastic ring still clasp in his mouth. His tail swayed back and forth with his jerky movements and Sango was struck by how puppy-like he look at that moment.
"You look great, Kagome-chan." she replied as she stood up and walked over to her friend.
Kagome bent down to retrieve the kit as he latched onto her leg, lifting him into her arms and walking towards the kitchen. "Thank you, Sango-chan." she smiled at the girl following along behind her. Her heels clicked against the tile floor making Yukito cock his head to the side at the foreign sound as his ears twitched curiously. Quickly dismissing it as being inconsequential, he began reaching for a black curl just out of his reach.
His quest was thwarted however when Kagome promptly sat him down on the counter beside the sink and reached for a wet rag. As she cleaned the majority of the drool from his body, she spoke to her friend.
"He's been drooling a lot so you'll probably have to keep a bib on him if you don't wanna give him a bath. Can you hand me that?"
Sango looked to where Kagome was pointing and retrieved a yellow bag. Handing it to her, she said, "Got it. Bib at all times. So, what are you two doing tonight?"
As she struggled to get a little blue night shirt onto the equally struggling body, Kagome replied, "Oh, you know. The usual."
Sango bit her lip, wondering if she should mention that there was no usual for her. Women in her time usually had their husbands chosen for them by their fathers and rarely met them before the wedding. She hadn't even known what a date was until her friend had told her.
"Ano...what's the usual?" she questioned quietly
Moving from the shirt to a pair of tiny blue pants, she replied distractedly, "Dinner and dancing. We're going to an Italian resturant and then some fancy latin dance club. It'll be fun."
Finally managing to get the unhappy kit into his night clothes, she lifted him back into her arms and gave him a little bounce in an attempt to lighten his foul mood. It worked as he began giggling and hurled his chew ring at Sango who's instincts saved her from being struck in the head by the gooey toy.
"Yu-chan!" Kagome scolded. "You don't throw things!"
Crossing the room to pick up the toy from the floor, she waved the ring in front of his face and reprimanded, "Now you can't have this back until it's properly cleaned!"
Tossing the ring into the sink, along with a hoard of other dirty toys he liked to chew on, she turned back to Sango and immediately began to appologize. "I'm so sorry, Sango-chan. If it makes you feel any better, he only throws his toys at people he likes." A lie, of course. He threw his toys at everyone.
Sango, who had been mildly shocked to see a baby toy come flying at her head, smiled and laughed. "It's alright! I know he didn't mean anything by it."
The two girls then made their way back into the living room to find Souta and Shippou still sitting in a trance in front of the tv. Kagome rolled her eyes and stalked over to the console, quickly flipping the power switch off as well as the tv.
Immediately cries of protest began.
"Aw, okaasan! What'dcha do that for!?" Shippou whined, trying his best to look pitiful and perching on Souta's shoulder.
"Yeah, neechan!" Souta chorused. "I was winning!"
Kagome remained unaffected. "You've been sitting there for the past four hours and I distinctly remembering mama telling you forty minutes ago that dinner was ready. You both said you were busy and proceeded to ignore both of us. That thing is rotting your brains. It's seven now. I want you both to go eat dinner and don't complain that it's cold. It's your own fault. After that I want you to do your homework and don't complain that it's Friday and you can do it later! At nine thirty it's bedtime and I don't want to hear about you giving Sango a hard time. You brush your teeth, put on your jammies, get in bed and go to sleep. Understand?"
To puncuate the end of her speech, Yukito stuck his tongue out and blew, spraying the two boys with spit.
Shippou and Souta both looked horrified and began frantically wiping at their faces. "Oh gross! Baby goo!" Souta cried and proceed to flee the room with Shippou heading for the kitchen and, most likely, a clean towel.
Sango stared at the sight as Yukito began laughing and Kagome joined him.
"You tell them, Yu-chan!" she laughed. "Just don't point that thing my way."
The doorbell ringing broke through their laughter and Kagome left the room to answer it, asking Sango to check that the boys were doing as she said on her way.
Realizing it could be anyone from Kurama to Avon at the door, Kagome quickly cast an illusion over the kit in her arms making him appear human. The illusion of a kitsune child, though cast by the parent, often takes on characteristics the kit chooses, consciously or subconsciously and Kagome had noticed that Yukito's had changed over the past month or so. Originally his illusion simply gave him black hair and blue eyes, without the youkai aspects of course. But apparantly the kit had become enamoured of Kurama's red mane because his own was now a fiery red. Kurama himself said he found it flattering that the kit should choose to mimic him. Kagome found it somewhat embarrasing being unable to take him out in human form with Kurama without getting strange looks. She even had one woman come up to her and ask how long she had been married and state that she looked too young to have a family.
Opening the door and expecting to see smiling green eyes, she was instead startled to find her three friends, Houjo and two other boys standing there.
"Yuka-chan! Eiri-chan! Ayumi-chan! Houjo-kun! What are you doing here!?" she gasped. This evening was not starting out right.
Yuka grinned and held out a bag of candy. "Trick or treat!" she giggled.
"Did you forget it's Halloween, Higurashi-san?" Houjo asked, a smile upon his face. "We're all supposed to go to the dance at school."
Realizing that all of them were wearing costumes, she stammered, "I...I guess I did."
Yuka wore a blue skirt that looked like it was covered in scales and a seashell print top with a strand of fake pearls around her neck. Mermaid obviously. Eiri was dressed as a princess in a light purple gown with a plastic tiara pinned to her head. Ayumi was a fairy dressed in a sequined pink dress and with a sparkly foam wand in her hand. Houjo was wearing his school uniform for some reason with a black cape and a plastic bowtie. One of the other boys Kagome didn't recognize was dressed as, Kagome shivered, a spider, complete with extra arms. The other was dressed as a giant flyswatter.
Staring at the six teens before her, they stared back as their smiles slowly faded and their gazes shifted to the red-headed boy in her arms currently regarding them all with a curious expression.
"Kagome-chan?" Ayumi questioned as her eyes remained on the baby. "I didn't know you had another brother. Or are you babysitting tonight?"
"He can't be her brother." Eiri wisely put in. "Her father passed away several years ago. Perhaps he is a cousin?"
Leaning closer to the stammering girl, Yuka said with a gleam in her eye, "May we come in, Kagome-chan?"
"Ah, sure." she said and stepped back from the door to allow them entrance.
Yuka led the others confidently through the house, having been there many times before, and made her way to the living room where she claimed a seat on the sofa. The others took up seats as well.
Before any of the others could speak, Houjo motioned to the unknown boy dressed as a spider and said, "Ah, Higurashi-san. This is a distant cousin, Saionji Makoto, who is visiting me." Then motioning to the other, Mr. Flyswatter, continued, "This is my other cousin, Ichijo Kyosuke."
The boy inclined his head to her and she responded in kind. "Nice to meet you, Saionji-kun, Ichijo-kun." she said, sitting down across from them in a chair. "My name is Higurashi Kagome."
"Now, Kagome-chan." Yuka said, interupting any other pleasantries that could be traded. "You ARE going with us to the dance, right?"
"No, I'm sorry." Kagome replied, finally regaining her senses. "I'm afraid I made other plans. I didn't mean to, but I didn't remember at the time that I had promised to go with you all tonight."
"Well," Ayumi chirped. "That just means you'll have to cancel since you made plans with us first!"
"I can't." Kagome said quickly, "He's already on his way."
The three girls eyes lit up at that comment and Houjo looked slightly upset. The other two boys remained stoically calm, Saionji watching Kagome with amber eyes.
'Amber?' Kagome did a double take and discovered that he did indeed have amber eyes. However, just as soon as she focused on them, they turned a common brown. 'Odd.' she thought to herself. 'Usually I can see through a youkai's illusion thanks to my miko powers. Is he a youkai? But how could he be related to Houjo-kun. But...Houjo-kun did say he was a distant cousin.'
"He?" Yuka's question brought her attention back to the conversation at hand. "Is it that violent, obsessive, possessive jerk?"
"Yeah!" Ayumi said. "Is it him? Is that why you're so dressed up? Are you going to the dance with him? Will we get to meet him? Why aren't you wearing a costume? It IS a costume party, you know?"
Kagome started to reply but Sango's strangled cry from the kitchen cut her off.
"Kagome-chan! Help!" she cried as she came dashing into the room. Ignoring the strangers in the room, she continued on in a frantic voice, "How old is that oden in the back of the fridge!?"
"Why!?" Kagome cried, leaping to her feet and jiggling Yukito who giggled at the impromtu ride.
Throwing her arms up into the air, Sango replied, "Shippou ate it!"
Kagome looked horrified to the kitchen doorway where Shippou came stumbling through, thankfully in his human form.
"K..Ka...Kaasan!" he choaked as he clutched at his throat. "I can't breathe!"
"Shippou-chan!" Kagome cried, racing over to him and sweeping him up into her arms and onto her other hip just as he collapsed unconscious. Quickly placing Yukito at her feet, Kagome began shaking Shippou, trying to rouse him.
"Sango!" she said, facing her friend. "Was it the oden in the blue bowl or the red one?
"The blue one." the frightened girl replied. It wouldn't look good if she had killed one of the kids before the mother even set foot out the door! Even if this WAS her first time babysitting!
"Blue?" Kagome asked calmer now and narrowed her eyes suspiciously. "You're sure?"
Sango nodded and Kagome turned her eyes to the seemingly unconscious boy in her arms. She then walked over to Souta's beanbag chair, opened her arms and dumped him into it. "Shippou!" she demanded, "Stop playing around!" When he didn't move and just kicked a leg out as if in a spasm, she cried, "Shippou, I made that oden for lunch!!"
"Awww..." the kit moaned and sat up, looking abashed. "I was just playing, okaasan."
"Playing or not," Kagome scolded, "You scared both me and Sango and probably our guests as well!" She threw an arm out toward the people seated in the living room staring with wide eyes. "Now go to mama's room and think about what you've done!"
Slowly, Shippou stood and skulked across the floor, out the door, up the stairs and down the hall. They then heard a door shut above them.
"Mama-san's room?" Sango asked confused.
Kagome nodded. "There are no toys in there." she said and went to pick up Yukito who was attempting to crawl after Shippou calling "Nii!"
As she stood, Kagome froze. "Oh, Kami-sama." she groaned, realizing she had just punished her son in the same way her mother had punished her. "I'm getting old! I'm becoming my mother!!"
Sango laughed, but the others were still stunned, having no clue what to make of the previous situation.
"Ah, Kagome-chan?" Eiri said, for once at a loss for words.
Turning to her friends, Kagome decided to try to play this cool. "Forgive me." she said and motioned to Sango. "This is Sango, a close friend. She's babysitting for me tonight since mama is at classes. Sango-chan, this is Eiri, Yuka, Ayumi, Houjo-kun and his cousins, Saionji-kun and Ichijo-kun."
"Hajimimashte." Sango said as she bowed to the still speechless six.
Just as they opened their mouths to begin questioning her again, two things happened, saving Kagome from another round of avoid-the-question. Souta yelled from the kitchen for someone to come help him reach a shelf and the doorbell rang once again.
Kagome quickly perked up. It had to be him this time! She wouldn't have to face her friends alone! Maybe his calm demenor would help her think up some kind of explanition. Souta yelled again and Kagome yelled back to stop yelling, it's not polite. Then blushed as she realized she had just yelled.
Turning to Sango, she asked, "Sango-chan, would you get the door please? I'll help Souta." Sango nodded and Kagome leaned closer to her so the others couldn't hear. "Remember, red hair equals right person!" then winked.
Sango giggled and nodded happily, going to answer the door eager to meet the new person in her friend's life. Kagome also took this opportunity to dash away.
She dawdled in the kitchen, not wanting to go back out and face her friends without some kind of explanation. She got Souta his cup and filled it with soda. She made sure he had what he wanted to eat and even warmed it for him despite what she had said previously. She grabbed Yukito's brush from his bag which was still sitting on the counter and brushed his red hair until he grabbed the brush from her and began chewing on the handle. She even washed his teething ring and gave it back to him, in an attempt to save the brush from his chibi fangs.
Finally she could stall no longer and was somehow going through separtion anxiety at the thought of not seeing Kurama for another few seconds. So, she returned to the living room.
Only to find Sango standing in a corner, Kurama sitting in her chair and the others watching him with keen facination. Yuka nudged Ayumi in the side and whispered, "red" before staring pointedly at Kurama's hair. Kurama was looking decidedly uncomfortable. No one was saying a word.
Yukito broke the silence with one fateful syllable.
"Tou!" he cried and began reaching for the nervously shifting fox under a silent interrogation by what he considered his intended mate's three female friends.
Heads whipped around and all eyes turned to the oblivious chibi in Kagome's arms reaching for Kurama with an innocent, beaming smile. Kagome and Kurama locked eyes.
Sure, it was cute when he called him that in private. It was natural, after all. Kurama was the only adult male constantly in the kit's life who wasn't a wrinkled old man or his mother's sibling. It made sense that he would latch onto Kurama as his father figure. It was not, however, appropriate at this very moment.
As if coming to some decision, Kurama smiled and stood up. Walking calmly across the floor, he never lost eye contact with the girl holding what he was sure everyone in the room, save Sango, believed was his progeny. Stopping before her, he casually leaned down and placed a chaste kiss upon her lips.
"Komban wa, Kagome-chan." he said, before he took the kit in his arms.
Kagome's expression turned from shock at her son's outburst to a smile, realizing that Kurama was undaunted and had indeed given her an idea to escape questioning. Act normal.
Yukito giggled happily at being held by what he belived to be his father and grabbed a lock of Kurama's hair in his chubby little fist. "Tou!" he cried again and gave a little tug.
"Komban wa, Yu-chan." he said with a gentle laugh to the kit.
Everything seemed to start up again as the three teenage girls leapt over the back of the couch and instantly set upon what appeared to be a happy little family. Crowding around them smootheringly close, they began to pelt them with questions.
"Kagome-chan! Is he your son!?"
"Kagome-chan! Is he the father!?"
"Kagome-chan! Why didn't you tell us!?"
"How could you?"
"What about school?"
"Are you going to quit?"
"Is this why you were never at school?"
"Why didn't you TELL us!? We're your friends!"
"Higurashi-san." a sad murmuring from Houjo as he slowly walked up behind the girls.
The other boy, Saionji, actually wore a small smile as he joined his cousin and said nothing.
A toy flying through the air put an abrubt halt to the questioning.
A gasp came from Yuka as the, luckily clean, object smacked her in the head and fell to the floor.
"Uhhhh..." Kagome began, not knowing what to say but laughing hysterically in her head. "Yu-chan doesn't like it when people he doesn't know get too close."
It was true. Kitsune had a very strong sense of pack and family. Anyone who's scent they didn't recognize, especially when they're as young as he, became a potential threat. It also didn't help that they were giving off enough contrasting vibes to make a lesser youkai's head spin.
Before the questioning could start up again, Kagome said quickly, "Alright! Let's do this quickly! I've got a date to get to! Names and it's out the door for everyone except Sango!"
Not giving anyone a chance to reply, she turned to a still kindly smiling Kurama and said, "This is my boyfriend, Minamino Shuuichi and NO, before you ask, he is not the violent, possessive jerk. I broke up with said jerk several months ago. This," she put a hand on Yukito's head, "is Yukito. Higurashi Yukito. That," motioning to Sango who was still staying out of the way, "is Sango." Continuing on, she got to the six teens stunned into silence. "This is Yuka, Eiri, Ayumi, Houjo-kun, Ichijo-kun and Saionji-kun. The kid who decided to play dead was Shippou. That," she pointed behind her to where two forms stood watching the proceedings hidden mostly behind the door, "is my little brother Souta and my Jiichan. I'm Higurashi Kagome and now it's time for everyone to leave!"
Still not giving anyone a chance to speak, she began herding them towards the door. Kurama watched amused as half a dozen protesting people were shoved out the door by a single girl and had it quickly slammed behind them with a "Nice seeing you! Hope to see you again not so soon! Ja!"
With a sigh, Kagome walked back into the living room. Sango had her back pressed against the wall from where the six had been pushed past her and was looking around with a supremely confused expression. Kurama smiled at her, not caring that Yukito batted a lock of his hair back and forth with vigor.
"Long night already?" Kurama asked with a smirk, walking towards her.
'Why did that just sound incredibly wrong?' Kagome wondered but just said, "Nothing I couldn't handle."
'Wow. That did not sound right.' Kurama thought to himself.
/Oh! Are we playing games already!?/ Youko laughed wildly.
/You're not my real father!/ Kurama responded quickly with a small mental chuckle.
An image of a confused Youko appeared in the blackness of their shared mind. His head cocked to the side, he made a questioning sound.
An image of the red-headed Kurama appeared before him with a blank stare directed his way. /Nevermind./
The Youko image shrugged it's shoulders and said, /You watch too much ningen tv./
/Not according to kaasan./ Kurama replied, turning away from his counterpart to watch something only he could see. /What do you want? I don't want you ruining my date with Kagome-chan./
/I wanna take over!/ Youko shouted vehemously, jumping towards the other him with excitment.
Kurama quickly spun around, his outfit changing to priests robes. Holding his arm out before him, he brandished a cross at the attacking kitsune. /Back, Demon!!/ he yelled dramatically.
Youko crashed into the floor mid-leap. Looking up, he sweatdropped. /You've had coffee, ne?/
Kurama dropped his arm and managed to look halfway innocent. /No?/
Youko sat up, crossed his arms and legs and stared at the redhead. /I'm you, y'know. All I have to do is sift through your memories from today and.../
Kurama sweatdropped now. /Okay, maybe a little. But after eluding fangirls for three hours during school I amassed quite a bit of missed work and needed something to keep me awake while I finished it this evening and I couldn't very well go on my date and fall asleep in my plate or collapse on the dance floor or be yawning all the way through because I'm sure Kagome would think I thought she was boring and it would be rude anyway and--/
/You're babbling./ Youko interrupted.
Kurama closed his mouth and paused a moment before opening it again. /Okay, so maybe I should have stopped at the third cup./
/Why don't you let me take over then? Since you're currently inebriated./ Youko smirked.
Kurama glared at him. /No way. Same body, remember? It'd be ten times worse if you were in control./
/Well in that case...she's been trying to get your attention for the past three minutes./
/What!?/ Kurama gasped. /Why didn't you tell me!?/
/What can I say? I like causing havoc./ Youko said with a sly grin.
Kurama fixed his youkai half with an equally sly expression and smirked. /Y'know, if you ruin my chances with Kagome-chan, you also lose your chance with her. In essence, you're screwing yourself over./ Then he disappeared, leaving the youko to gape.
Youko's jaw dropped. /K'so!/(A/N) I had a non-lemon, meaning a fade-to-black, planned for this chapter...but then...I had eleven different scenes planned for this chapter as well and only did two. If I had stuck by my plans this chapter would have been horrifingly long. As much as I know people enjoy long chapters, I also know that if they're too long they can turn your brains to mush as you have to read for an extended period of time. So, in essence, the Season of Romance arc will be extended to four, maybe five, chapters. More fluff for everyone!
Ah, and I had this ready to go the day after I last updated. However, my computer decided to play trick or treat...without the treat, and crashed. -.- Sorry.
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Hiei/Kairi? Should
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tessa3: Yay! I get to keep Kyou-kun for a
while! (pets Kyou-kun)
Kyou: Stop that! I'm gonna go bald! I'm
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about that!? (continues petting him) Actually, the reason they put
it off is because they thought I was hypoglocemic and I had to be
cleared for surgery. I got cleared and now I just need another
appointment. I'm waiting until after Halloween. I love Halloween!
(puts on her neko ears)
Kyou: That looks really stupid, you know.
-.-
Nika: (glares at him) Did you know cats are lactos
intollerant? That means milk makes you hurl. -.-
Kyou: O.O It's
not true!!
Nika: (nods) Yep, very true.
Kyou: (faints) X
X
Nika: (giggles) The truth hurts! Anyway! To answer your
questions; the non-lemon is between a certain pair of
canines...therefore there will be more fluff between them soon. I
don't know how deeply Kagome and Kurama are involved. I'm taking
votes on that. Why don't you vote? The pictures, as I mention last
chapter, are in the hands of others thanks to a mix-up at the photo
lab. (hate when that happens!) I'm thinking of having Kagome make a
photo album of the pics and give it to InuYasha for Christmas.
;D
excel-saga: Wow, you're the third person to do that for this fic. O.o (sighs and rubs forehead) Look. You cannot ask me to update one day and then scold me for not doing it the next. You're lucky if I update twice a month! Besides, with my internet acting evil I don't have a choice about when I can update. It's whenever it decides to work. :p
ladyofthedragons: LOL Why do you think I'm writing this? It's certainly not because I've got suitors knocking down my door! (door is knocked down and hordes of bishounen flock through) O.O .............. THEY'RE ESCAPING!!! (grabs a net and chases after them)
silver: I have never before seen Kagome as a kitsune and I read IY fanfics quite religiously. Hey! Maybe I've started a fad! O.O But I'm pretty sure that, if it wasn't the first, it was in the minority when I started writing it. And I find her to be very kitsune like! What would you prefer? A dog demon? -.- Follow the crowd much?
Crimson
Colored Cloaked Figure: Yay! You've started converting others!!!
I usually don't read Hiei/Kurama on this site. They do tend to
suck. But if you can find them I like "Dear Fox" by Yoake
Hajime, "Do Tell" by Keph, "Lets Fly as the Birds Do"
by Hikari, "The Hardest Thing" by Rose Thorne, "Who
Wants to Marry a Fire Demon" is funny too. I don't remember the
author.
"Dear Fox" is a bit angsty. Hiei writes Kurama
a letter.
"Do Tell" has Hiei addicted to
Kurama...litterally.
"Let's Fly as the Birds Do" is
maybe my favorite. Very intense and deep with lots of angst and a
happy ending. Kurama and Hiei have to deal with the unacceptance and
hate of those around them.
Skitzoflame: Thank you! You were the only one who voted on ALL of them! (huggles you and gives you pumpkin cookies)
hakkai-my-youkai: Actually, Kurama and Kagome are not supposed to be doing anything I don't want them to. After all, it is my fic. In their world, I am their Goddess! Besides, in most of my fics the relationships tend to advance way too quickly. I'm taking it slower this time. ;p
SunStar Kitsune: (speaks as if talking to a child) Well, oftimes there are things called "arcs" that exist within a storyline. They are usually all titled the same and the titles are followed by the word "part" and a number, indicating they are all part of the same arc. (holds up Yami no Matsuei as an example) And when there are no more numbers and a new title begins you know that particular arc is over. (sighs) Why do I get the ones that never read author's notes?
Killiara: Neko-chan!! (glomps
you) You didn't abandon me!! (shares left over Halloween candy with
you) Nummies, I like the chocolate balls!
Kurama: Why does
that sound wrong?
Youko: Because you're a hentai! And I am
too! Let's play! ;D (gropes Kurama)
Kurama: O.O He just...groped...himself. Odd.
Kazetaka no Yume: Thanks for the offer! I promise, if I need anything translated you'll be the first one I call upon! But I'm good for now. :) Thanks! Happy Halloween!
ShadowedRuins: (hands you Snickers, the candy) I like Snickers! I'm so glad you like my fic! (dumps a bag of Snickers over your head) Chocolate showers!! (laughs insanely, spins around three times, does a bow and runs off still laughing)