Shotgun Wedding: Part II
By Emania
A/N: Second verse, same as the first!
Disclaimer: All the characters belong to Rumiko Takahashi. Except for Pinky, Green, the Elder (very creative names, ne?) and Hikari. I made them up. And the basic plot idea came from, as I said above, Lavern & Shirley and Happy Days creators and writers, which I don't know who they are.
Summary: How far will the girls go to get their guys out of trouble? All the way up to the altar!
Shotgun Wedding
"I'm sure sometimes on the sly you do it
Maybe even you and I might do it
Let's do it…
Let's fall in love!"
- Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love), Cole Porter
Part II
"I see that two women have come to our village," the elder spoke hospitably. "What do you seek from us?"
Kagome narrowed her eyes, irked at his tone, but managed to control her temper. She pointed to where Inuyasha and Miroku were watching them carefully. "Them," she told him. "Our intendeds."
The elder turned back to look at the boys as the crowd grew. "How can we be sure the fox kit did not merely bribe two random ladies in a nearby village?"
"You can't, father, just get rid of them!" a brown haired woman in a green kimono exclaimed as she stood next to Miroku.
"Now, now, daughter, I promised them the chance to prove that they are indeed spoken for," the elder soothed.
"Well, what sort of proof are you looking for, elder?" Sango asked, her eyes flicking to where the girl was still standing possessively by Miroku. She met the eyes of the girl and narrowed hers, clenching her fist to keep it away from Hiraikotsu.
"How long have you been promised to each other?" the elder asked. When Sango opened her mouth to speak, he pointed to Kagome. "You!"
Kagome thought about it for a moment. "Inuyasha and I were meant to be together for over 50 years now…"
"Fifty!" the elder exclaimed. "That's preposterous."
Kagome watched as Inuyasha glared at the black haired girl who had come out to stand beside him. She watched as she smoothed out her pink kimono and realized how much she hated the color. "No it's not!" Kagome argued. "Our families have meant for us to be together for that long." She straightened her shoulders and put on her haughtiest expression. "My grandmother and…"
"Silence!" he demanded. Kagome looked about ready to argue when the man turned his back to her and faced Inuyhasha. "You!" he demanded. "Explain what she means."
Inuyasha sighed audibly. "God-damnit Kagome!" he exclaimed. "Takes you forever to get here and then you have to go with all this shit?" he shakes his head. "You couldn't just give the simple answer?"
"Stop complaining, you baka!" Kagome threw back. "If you didn't get yourself in these messes you wouldn't have to…"
"I didn't get myself into…" he started to argue back when the elder's voice cut through their discussion.
"Silence!" he demanded. He pointed to Inuyasha. "Answer the question, boy!"
Inuyasha glared at him but one word out of the side of Miroku's mouth clamed him. "She says we've been meant to be together for 50 years because her grandmother and my grandfather were in love over 50 years ago and when they couldn't marry for political reasons, they swore they would unite the families once there were children that would reach marrying age at the same time," Inuyasha spat out.
Kagome gaped. She didn't think Inuyasha had such romantic creativity in his body.
"But she only believes that romantic hooey because she's a romantic fool, that's why!" Inuyasha finished. Kagome narrowed her eyes, shaking her head. He glared defiantly at Kagome and then back to the elder. "We've really been promised to each other for a little over a year now."
"You don't seem to like her much," the girl next to him purred.
"That's none of your damn business, wench!" Inuyasha growled.
"Watch your mouth, boy!" The elder spoke, pointing the sword at Inuyasha and pressed it against his neck, Inuyasha started to growl and raise his hand when Miroku leaned against his and spoke soothingly. Inuyasha keh-ed and raised a warning finger at Miroku instead.
"Look," Kagome started, trying to soothe the situation. "Inuyasha is my intended just like Miroku is Sango's…so why don't you just let us take them home, huh?"
"I don't believe them, yet, pappa!" the girl next to Miroku spoke up.
"Pappa!" the girl next to Inuyasha pouted. "The fox could've told them that information!"
"Yes!" the one in the green piped up. "They could still be random, normal girls!"
Kagome glared at her and was just shy of growling. "Do we look normal to you?" Kagome pointed between herself in her uniform and Sango in her Yukata and Hiraikotsu.
"No," the one in the pink spoke. "You look like whores."
Miroku gasped and Inuyasha growled, but Sango was much more worried about holding Kagome back when she started to stalk angrily toward the one in the pink.
Finding herself unable to move because of Sango's hold, Kagome resorted to glaring at her. "Listen here, you floozy!" Kagome started, her voice dangerously low. "I am not the one throwing myself at strange men just because I'm horny and too desperate to get any other man to pay attention to me!"
Miroku winced and Inuyasha's eyes opened wide. He turned to Miroku and grinned. "Did Kagome really just say that?"
Miroku grinned back. "She did."
Inuyasha turned to Kagome and grinned even wider. "Atta girl," he whispered.
Pink grew closer to Inuyasha. "Is this kind of filth what you really like? And you with such cute ears…" she started to reach out to touch him and Inuyasha glared warningly at her, but it was Kagome's voice that froze her hand mere inches from Inuyasha's ears.
"Touch them and I'll break your arm off and beat you with the blunt end," Kagome growled.
Inuyasha, for his part, was grinning like a fool. "Damn, Kagome," he said in a pleased tone. "I didn't know you had it in you!"
Kagome closed her eyes and exhaled, physically calming herself. She nodded at Sango that she could let her go. Kagome looked at the Elder. "I apologize," she told him seriously. "I shouldn't have resorted to that level…and before it gets any worse, you really should just let us take our men home."
The Elder looked almost pleased. "You're not taking them anywhere, missy," he told her smugly. "You're free to go anytime you like, but these here men are to marry my daughters until and unless one or both of you can prove they're to marry you."
"You haven't even told us how to prove it!" Sango exclaimed, exasperated. "We've already given you information."
"You haven't," the one in green exclaimed.
"That's right, you haven't!" the one in pink supported.
"Yes, Sango, dear," Miroku grinned.
Sango narrowed her eyes at him. "You're enjoying this, aren't you?" she accused. His only reply was a smile, but it was more than enough for her. "Why, I aught to…" her hand itched to raise Hiraikotsu, but Kagome's hand on her arm stilled her. Instead, she sighed, calming herself much as Kagome had done.
"What information would you have?" she asked the elder, refusing to acknowledge the girls.
"Where does his father live?" The Elder asked after a moment's consideration.
"Nowhere," Sango answered, her tone clipped due to her frustration and annoyance.
"Ah!" Green almost purred. "She doesn't know!"
"Nonsense!" Sango exclaimed in return.
"Then answer the question!" Green countered.
"I did, you overdeveloped, underinformed…" Sango swallowed the rest of her comment before she lost her temper again.
"What kind of answer is that?" Green pressed.
"The only kind!" Sango bit back. She glanced at Miroku for a moment and her expression turned soft. "His father passed away when he was a child," she turned to Green, "So he lives nowhere," she specified. "Do you need me to explain that further, or have you got the concept now?" she asked sarcastically.
"Heh," Inuyasha laughed.
"Indeed," Miroku agreed, smiling proudly. He glanced at the girl at his side who looked at him as if for confirmation which he gave her by a nod of his head. "She is correct," he told the elder. "Two to nothing, girls," he counted.
Green floundered for a moment and glanced at Pink, who in turn glanced at her father.
"We claim the right of Aio!" Pink exclaimed, almost desperately.
Kagome and Sango blinked in confusion.
The Elder grinned approvingly before turning to Sango and Kagome. "Well, do you accept the challenge?"
"If we knew what Aio was, we might be better equipped to tell you!" Kagome bit out caustically.
"You have been challenged to a contest, the winner shall be found to be the person who deserves to marry these men," the elder explained.
"How positively medieval!" Kagome exclaimed before she could help it. There was not an understanding eye around her. She shook her head.
"Do they really expect us to do a contest with the boys as prizes!" Sango exclaimed, aghast.
"I've died and gone to heaven," Miroku stage-whispered to Inuyasha.
Sango glared at him, Kagome ignored him. "Apparently," Kagome suddenly realized they hadn't been told what the contest was. "What exactly does this contest entail?" she asked warily.
"It is a simple matter," the Elder said which only made the hairs in the back of Kagome's neck stand on end. "We go to the stream and we see who is better equipped to keep their men well fed by catching the fish in the stream."
"You've got to be kidding me?" Kagome asked. Inuyasha's laughter rang out suddenly and when he noticed that everyone was staring at him, he stopped. Kagome narrowed her eyes at him. "You really are enjoying this too, aren't you?"
"Are you kidding?" Inuyasha asked, smirking. "I wouldn't miss it."
"I should just leave you here," she told him seriously. "Would you like to live with these nice people?"
"You do and I'll haunt you!" Inuyasha threatened.
Kagome looked smug for a moment before the Elder's voice cut into her self-serving thoughts of Inuyasha's torment should she leave him to Pink's ministrations.
"Do you accept the challenge?"
Kagome and Sango shared a look. "Do we have a choice?" they asked each other. At the answering look in the other's eyes, they nodded and turned, determined to the elder.
"We accept," they said in unison.
"Fine," the elder said and he seemed upset for a moment, before he suddenly brightened. "Off to the stream we go."
Sango sighed and started to undo the tie of the bundle around her waist that held her slaying armor.
"You!" The elder pointed to her. "What are you doing?"
Sango stopped mid roll. "I'm retrieving my uniform, it is much more comfortable for me to maneuver in."
"Will you always change to feed your husband?" the elder asked sarcastically. "No. You must wear your yukata." He looked at Kagome and Sango. "And no weapons, either, you will remove them please."
"I really don't mind if she changes, Elder-sama!" Miroku called out. "I appreciate the view, actually…" he stopped as Hiraikotsu lodged not two feet from where he stood. Damn. He hadn't even noticed her fling it. She was fast. "I was only trying to help you, my love!" he called back to her. She only glared and, if he weren't so far away, he might have been clearer as to whether or not she were growling.
Kagome was mumbling under her breath as she removed her bow and arrows and placed them on the ground. She glared daggers at the woman closest to them and anyone would've understood the threat behind them. She pointed at her just in case.
By the time she removed her shoes and socks she was grumbling loud enough for Sango to understand her.
"Swine contests that swine people have to get in swine spring water that's probably swine freezing at this point only because swine boys can't keep their swine hands to their own swine selves!"
"Are you ready, Stranger-san?"
Kagome looked at Pink, narrowed her eyes and stopped her mumbling. She looked at Sango who had prepared as best she could by taking off her slippers and tying off the folds of her yukata against her legs, essentially making pants of them and together they started for the edge of the stream.
They looked around and realized that they had acquired a rather large crowd, all female of course, except for the odd older male interspersed. The elder lifted his hand and all the whispering stopped. "The judging will be as it normally goes, but for the sake of the strangers, I will reinstate it…the winner will be the girl who manages to catch not only the most fish, but the better quality fish as well in the time it takes the sand to make its way through this glass…" The Elder reached into the folds of his clothes and pulled out a rather large hourglass.
Sango's eyes narrowed and she leaned toward Kagome. "Where did he get that?" She asked.
Kagome shrugged. "Does he carry one around with him at all times, just in case?" she whispered back. She heard a growl and her eyes were drawn to Inuyasha where Pink was trying to reach for Inuyasha's ears which kept flicking out of her reach. "Oi! Pinkie!" Kagome called out angrily. She responded by jumping to attention. "Stop handling my fiancé!"
Inuyasha's eyes widened and the look of annoyance left his face replaces slowly by a grin.
"That's still to be decided," Pink replied.
Kagome narrowed her eyes but Sango's hand was on her arm motioning that the girls were starting to wade into the water. They waded in after them, the only indication that Kagome thought the water was cold being her sharp intake of breath and the goose-pimpling of her flesh.
"Too cold for you, Stranger?" Pink asked teasingly. "You could always quit."
"Don't you wish?" Kagome countered.
Pink and Green glanced at each other and grinned. "Not really," Green answered.
"This is fun," Pink finished.
"Begin!" the elder's voice boomed.
Pink and Green had caught one fish each by the time that Kagome realized the elder had turned the hourglass. She looked down at the crystal clear spring with an eep and reached down blindly for the first fish that neared her feet.
'What the hell?' Kagome exclaimed mentally as she kept dipping into the cold water, but kept coming up with nothing.
"You're slow, stranger," Pink exclaimed and before Kagome could comment or even completely raise her head, she felt a bump and the rush of cold water as it came up over her head for that one moment before she realized she was under water and she rose her head above water, sputtering and spitting. Every time she tried to stand, something, (a foot or an elbow) kept knocking her back down.
"FOUL!" Inuyasha exclaimed, starting to strain at his, however meager, bindings.
Miroku extended his hand to still Inuyasha and shook his head. Inuyasha narrowed his eyes but didn't strain anymore. "I'm sure she'll be alright," Miroku whispered.
At the stream, Sango started to go to help Kagome, but Kagome motioned her away. "Keep with the fish, Sango!" she called out.
Kagome looked around herself and tried to grab the fish from this position, but they scurried away. 'This is incredible!' she thought. 'There's no way those floosies could be quicker than we could!'
"Time is up!" the Elder's voice called out.
Sango waddled to Kagome and helped her stand. Kagome stood, pushing her hair out of her eyes.
"Round two!" Kagome called out. The elder started to speak, but Kagome rose a finger in warning. "You are attempting to take away our fiancés and you did not tell us all of the rules to include the possibility of necessary roughness AND…" Kagome paused to take a deep breath, "WE," she pointed between Sango and herself. "should get a second shot to make up for the fact that you all are more familiar with this and it wouldn't be fair otherwise and…" Kagome glared at the girls and pointed at the elder, "You DO want to be fair, don't YOU?"
The Elder paused momentarily before turning to the crowd. "Round two!" he exclaimed.
"Pappa!" the girls screamed.
"Round two!" he repeated.
Kagome turned to him. "Too cold for you, Pinky-sama?" she asked sarcastically.
"Maybe this time you can try not to slip so much," Pinky teased.
"Oh, I think we can manage, can't we Sango?" Kagome asked smiling.
Sango nodded, a smile coming to her lips as well. "We were just warming up before."
"Oh-oh," Miroku whispered, recognizing the look on Kagome and Sango's faces. He may not have Inuyasha's hearing to hear all that was being said between them, but he sure knew the faces of women who had just about had enough and were about to snap.
"Oh, I know that look," Inuyasha whispered to Miroku, smiling wickedly.
"Watch this," Miroku whispered back, smiling also.
"This is going to be fun…" Inuyasha chuckled.
"Begin!" the elder called.
"Let's kick it!" Kagome exclaimed.
Sango shrugged. "Glad to," she grinned as her leg swept under Green's legs and dropped her into the river, the fish Green had caught slipping out of her grip and right into Sango's hand.
A wide grin on her face, Kagome sidled up close to Pink and with a jut of her hips, sent Pink face first into the river. "Well, lookit that," Kagome exclaimed as she reached over and grabbed her own fish. Her grin widened as Pink sputtered, sitting in the water. "Seems we're getting the hang of this, doesn't it?"
"Sure does," Sango agreed, raising up another fish of her own. "Except these little slippery fish keep…" she trailed off as she tried to hold onto the fish and ended up pushing Green off her feet again before she managed to hold onto the fish. "Oh, woops," she said with false feeling. "Sorry."
Sango tried not to laugh, but couldn't help but smile as about to stand, Kagome extended her arm and dropped Pink who was trying to help Green up, thereby knocking both of them back into the water. Kagome and Sango leaned over to pick up another fish and as Pink and Green flustered to stand, Kagome 'accidentally' leaned on Pink's shoulder and shoved her face into the water. Sango leaned to the left and knocked Green off balance, all the while, managing to grab her own fish.
Inuyasha kept close watch on the old man in case he might want to interfere, but he seemed too shocked to find his daughters getting as good as they gave to do much else than blink. The crowd was rowdy, but they didn't seem particularly interested in stopping anything and truly, Inuyasha's eyes went back to the four girls in the water and he grinned, why would they? He may not be as ecchi as the monk, but he couldn't help it if the man in him liked the look of all that water on Kagome and he could help it even less if the youkai in him felt proud that his woman was beating the crap out of the others. Yep, Inuyasha grinned, pleased. It was a win/win situation.
"Time," the elder finally called out as the sand in the hourglass ran out, his tone decidedly more dejected.
Kagome and Sango jumped in joy, whooping. Kagome pointed at the girl in Pink and laughed in her face. "Take that, Pinky!" Kagome looks at the elder and glared at him. "Now are you happy?" she demanded of him as she waddled her way out of the river. "We beat your…" she paused as she considered what word to use, "…girls…" she almost spit out the word, "fair and square…" when the elder appeared to want to interrupt she lifted a finger in warning. "Ah! Those were your own rules, buster!" she exclaimed. "So I do NOT want to hear any more about this…" she disgustedly ran her hands along her sopping legs in a vain attempt to remove some of the excess water but realized it would be pointless without taking off her shoes and she was not about to do that at this point. Remembering she was in the middle of a scolding, she looked back up at the elder. "This mess," she continued. "Now you will be kind enough to untie our fiancés and we will leave this nasty little village of yours and never come back."
"What about the fish?" Inuyasha exclaimed. "You can't leave them with your fish!"
Kagome whirled on Inuyasha and glared at him.
"Forget the fish," Sango interjected as she too was trying to squirt the water out of her yukata. Her exterminator uniform was so much easier to dry, she thought dejectedly. "You can keep the fish," Sango continued. "We just want our fiancés back!"
"Alright," the elder replied on an exhale. "We concede."
"Papa!" both girl exclaimed.
"Hush you two getting us involved in this in the first place! Can't make sure the men you throw yourselves at aren't tied down to someone as determined as these two!" the elder chastised to which both girls lowered their heads in shame.
"Sorry, pappa," they said in unison.
"Fine, apology accepted," Kagome said, starting towards where they were holding Inuyasha. "Thank you so much for the lovely hospitality, but we really must be going," she said dripping in false politeness.
Only to find her way blocked by the tip of the elder's sword. "Not yet."
"Oh, for crying out loud!" she exclaimed. "What now!" She glared at the old man. "You want us to catch shrimp next? Or maybe a nice shark?"
"I feel it is my duty as the elder of these parts to not allow you to continue to live and travel with these two men of slack morals without making certain that you are lawfully wedded first."
For a few moments, all four of the friends were completely silent.
"Pardon?" Kagome finally managed.
"What was that?" Sango spoke almost at the same time.
"…the Hell!" Inuyasha exclaimed.
"You don't have to do us any favors!" Kagome exclaimed. "Really, we're fine."
"If you are truly to be married what does it matter if it is done now?" the elder looked around. "We were all ready for a party, might as well not waste the preparations."
"Hell NO!" Inuyasha exclaimed.
The elder turned to Inuyasha and rose a brow. "Unless you really are not to be married."
Inuyasha looked like he had a few choice words for the elder, and since Kagome thought the elder might not appreciate hearing them, she interrupted by standing in the elder's direct line of sight, blocking Inuyasha from his view. "We are, elder-sama," Kagome said, trying for her sweet voice again. "But as you may imagine, a girl's wedding is a very important time for her and our families have been planning this since we became engaged," she tried to say reasonably. "It would not be fair to them to cheat them out of being present, do you not think?"
"They can always re-do the ceremony again later," the elder said, unperturbed.
"No!" Kagome exclaimed, before she realized what her tone sounded like and she exhaled and turned a smile on the elder. "It would not be the same!" she tried. "My mother for one would be very disappointed!" Kagome tried. "I am her only daughter, after all," she tried to be reasonable.
"And yet she lets you parade around with two men who are neither relatives or to whom you are lawfully married?" the elder questioned. "I am doing you a favor, missy," he told her. "If you don't marry men like these, they're just going to go on spreading their…" he stopped and thought about the word he was going to use for a brief moment before continuing, "…attentions around where they shouldn't be spread." He shook his head. "No sir, your mother will thank me, I'm sure, for preventing that from happening." He motioned to two of the older men in the group who came up close to the girls. "Let us prepare for a wedding, my friends," the elder called out. "Take the brides to be to my hut where they can refresh themselves and find them something to wear for their wedding," he told the men.
Inuyasha started to growl when the men started to take the girls away, but Miroku put a hand to his arm to stop him. "What's wrong with you, monk?" Inuyasha exclaimed. "You seem too pleased to let this play out."
Miroku grinned and shrugged. "What can it hurt?" he asked.
"What can it hurt?" Inuyasha echoed, looking at Kagome's face as she was taken away.
"It'll work itself out in the end…you'll see," Miroku assured him.
"I hope so," Inuyasha spoke.
Sango grew near to Kagome as they were led away. "Why don't we just bust the boys and make a run for it?" Sango whispered.
Kagome lowered her head, defeated and shook it slowly. "We can't," Kagome murmured.
"Why not?" Sango asked.
"Someone here has a jewel shard," she whispered.
"What?" Sango prompted.
Kagome didn't repeat herself. She knew Sango had heard her. "I felt it when the crowds gathered. I don't know who it is yet. But if we run away we can never come back and barter for the shard or get it at all."
"Is it a demon?" Sango asked.
Kagome shook her head. "The shard isn't activated, so to speak, it's just here…somewhere."
"So what do we do?" Sango asked.
Kagome shook her head silently, lowering her head to look at her feet as she walked.
"You're not thinking about actually letting them marry us?" Sango watched her friend wince and lower her head even more in an attempt to get her hair to cover her face from view. "Kagome-chan?" Sango prompted. "Are you?"
Kagome looked up at her. "What difference will it make in the end?" Kagome asked. "Nothing he can do in this village will be binding anywhere else if we don't want it to be, right?" Kagome continued even though Sango's eyes were just growing wider and wider. "Well, think about it," Kagome prompted. "The only thing that'll make it binding is if we…" Kagome blushed. "Consummate the marriage," she whispered. "But if we don't do that, then we can just get married, barter for the shard, and be on our way and outside of this village, no one need be the wiser that we were married at all."
Sango sighed. "There seems to be something seriously flawed with that logic," she whispered back as they were led into the hut and the men walked outside and stood guard at the door.
"It's the best I can do," Kagome offered apologetically.
"Stranger-sama?" came a soft voice on the other side of the covered doorway.
"Yes?" called Kagome.
The flap was pulled aside and a young girl entered with two colorful kimonos slung over her arm and a basket at her elbow. "My name is Hikari," the girl bowed. "The elder sent me to help you dress and prepare for the ceremony."
Kagome sighed and smiled lopsidedly at the girl. It wasn't her fault, after all. "I am Kagome," she introduced. "This is Sango," she pointed to the taiyja who looked to be in some form of shocked acceptance.
The girl nodded. "Kagome-sama, Sango-sama," she repeated. "Shall we begin getting you ready?"
"Do we have a choice?" Kagome asked.
The girl looked confused. "You wish me not to help you get ready?"
"I meant…" Kagome realized that the girl wasn't going to understand her sarcasm and probably for the best so she shook her head. "No, no, it's fine."
The girl smiled at them and put the basket down, drawing up the kimonos. "These were made by the village's best seamstress," the girl announced. "We were to go to market next full moon and sell them, so you are lucky that she had finished them early!"
Kagome and Sango's mouths dropped as the girl lifted each kimono for their inspection. They were absolutely beautiful and very well done.
"Oh…" Kagome breathed.
"They are exquisite," Sango spoke, nearing the girl and reaching out for it.
Kagome found herself dying to try on the red and white one and snapped herself out of it. "We couldn't possibly accept these," she told Hikari. "We do not have the money to pay for them," she admitted.
Hikari pushed the kimonos into their hands. "The elder said they were to be our gift to you."
Kagome frowned. "You are doing so much already," she said through gritted teeth.
"But they are beautiful," Sango repeated. "If we have to do this, at least we won't have to look like drowned rodents."
Kagome finally gave in at the soft feel of the material in her hands. "True…" she whispered, starting to think about what she would look like wearing this standing next to Inuyasha, saying her…
She shook her head and cleared her mind of those thoughts. She would not enjoy something that was obviously going to mean nothing to him.
"Come let us begin," Hikari motioned for them to sit by the fire. "We must comb your hair dry first," she told them. "And then we will dress you in the kimonos and then I will do your hair."
Sango and Kagome slowly sat in front of the fire, relishing momentarily in the warm feel of it against their cold clothes.
Hikari must have seen them shiver, for she was suddenly next to them with a dry towel. "Oh, dear!" she exclaimed. "You are soaking still!" She handed each of them the towels and started to help Kagome out of her shirt. "The Elder's daughters really take things too far!" she mumbled as she reached for Kagome's tie.
Flustered, Kagome stopped her. "Uh…"
Hikari smiled. "We are all girls here, yes?" She looked from one to the other. "Do not your maids help you undress?"
"We don't have maids, Hikari," Sango answered. "We are unused to having anyone help us undress."
Hikari smiled. "Well, please have faith in me?" she approached them again. "We must remove your wet clothes or you will be cold and be sick, and we do not wish you to be sick on your wedding night?"
Sango and Kagome both blushed straight to their roots, but with a shrug, Kagome started to remove her shirt. "Well, I guess when in Rome…" she mumbled.
"Rome?" Sango and Hikari echoed.
Kagome shook her head. "Nevermind."