Chapter 4: Spying will get you nowhere
Disclaimer: If you have been reading very carefully through start and finish of each chapter, you'll notice that I DON'T OWN INUYASHA!
(Modern Era)
"…And then, if you round it up like 'this'-" Kagome, sitting on a stool next to Hojo's bed, scribbled a little in a big red notebook, "-It should end up as 729, which you then put up here." She passed the notebook over to Hojo. "See?"
Hojo took it and beamed at her as he had been doing for the past hour. "Yeah, I see now! Thanks for- 'coughcoughcough' explaining this. I think I can do the rest now."
Kagome smiled back. "Okay then! So, is that all?" she both asked and prayed.
Hojo shifted through the books on his bedside table. "No… I still have geometry left. But that should be a snap for you- 'HACKHACKHACK!! ahem' -right Kagome?"
Her smile froze in place. "Uh, yeah, a snap, right," she forced through clenched teeth.
'Geometry! Oh, I am so dead!'
(Sengoku Jedai)
As Inuyasha dropped out of sight over the rim of the well, Miroku, crouching in the undergrowth at the side of the clearing, rotated the Elephant Ear he was holding to block the sunlight and sighed. "So there he goes."
Shippo mimicked him with the leaf he was holding over his head. "Going to fetch her again? It's not even close to sundown. He must be really impatient." He looked up at Miroku for input.
The monk looked disappointed. "Now we can't even track him. Kagome and Inuyasha are the only ones who can pass through the well, after all. The only thing to do is to sit here and wait until he returns, with or without Kagome."
Shippo snorted. "Probably without. Did you see the look on his face last time? She must have scared him silly with her temper!"
Miroku nodded but remained silent, considering what to do next.
Suddenly, an eerie voice wafted through the air. "Mir-o-ku… "
He whirled around, staff at the ready. "Who's there? Show yourself!"
Sango oozed up into being behind him. He gaped, horrified, and turned to stone.
"Sango! And Kirara!" Shippo exclaimed as the tiny cat demon leapt onto Miroku's shoulder. "What are you doing here?"
"What else? Keeping track of the Hentai Houshi. So, what excuse do you have for me this time, hmm?" Sango asked grimly, poking the back of Miroku's head.
He didn't move.
Sango hit him with her Hiraikotsu. "Hey! Snap out of it!"
Miroku keeled forward from the force of the blow, then rocketed back up again, looking sheepish. "Oh, ah, Sango! What brings you here?"
She glared. "That's what I'm supposed to ask you."
Before Miroku could make up some story about a demon possessing a swarm of mosquitoes and forcing them to flee out here before they could warn anybody, Shippo pounced on top of his head and told Sango, "Inuyasha's up to something. We saw him sneaking around, and followed him here."
Miroku silently thanked Buddha that Shippo had not fully given away their real intentions. Sango moved to a position behind a nearby bush and mused aloud, "Hn, he's probably just gone to get Kagome again. He's done it so many times before, it's so predictable."
"That's what we thought. But he went through the well, and now we can't follow him anymore," Shippo complained. Sango looked thoughtful.
"Didn't Kagome say that she had to help some friend? What if he's worried and went to check on her? Or…" and she grinned an un-Sango-like evil grin, "What if he's jealous, if this friend proves to be the opposite gender?"
"Jealous? Inuyasha? Of Kagome?" Shippo exclaimed. "No way… But still, it could solve everything for us!"
Sango shot him an inquiring glance. Miroku, seeing that, said hastily, "Quite right Shippo. Inuyasha could confess without our urging… Uncle Miroku," he added softly, imagining himself surrounded by a gaggle of giggling dog-eared kids, but Sango overheard.
"Miroku, don't go rushing into things," was all she said. He was surprised; when she'd first spoken he'd expected to be beaten within an inch of his life for that; then he realized with a jolt that maybe Sango had her hopeful expectations also…
Once again Inuyasha landed at the bottom of the modern well, leapt up and rushed to Kagome's window. Upon opening it, he saw that the room empty.
'Kagome's already left! I'll just have to follow her scent.'
He streaked across the rooftops, knowing the dangers that could come from traveling on ground. Kagome's scent was faint, overrun by the smoke that those 'cars', coughed out and other odors he couldn't even begin to describe, but he followed it steadfastly.
Sooner then he'd thought, the scent stopped at a white house. It was strongest at an upper-story window. Inuyasha leapt up onto a tree branch reaching across it, and then almost toppled over.
Kagome was in there- with that stupid, bumbling guy Homo! What was she doing? Why the heck was she smiling at him like that?? He had half a mind to smash through that window and grab that worthless idiot by the neck…
Suddenly, as Kagome turned her head to say something to Hojo, he leaned down and kissed her.
Inuyasha did fall out of the tree then.
Augh! Don't hate me, Hojo bashers! Believe me, I had a bit of a hard time writing this myself... So, R&R! Please! And now, I have resolved not to update until I get 3 or more reviews.
Random person: You're desperate, aren't you.
Me: So what if I am! Go back into your hole!
