Once upon a time…Sugar and Spice
By: Haruka-chan

AN: Damn it's been a while huh? Well not that I have a good excuse other then the one I always say which is I was busy, so forgive me, but if you cant here is the next chapter. I love you guys for making this the second Inu-yasha fan fiction that reached the 100 reviews. Sorry about the spelling and grammar. Enjoy!

Chapter 8: Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Kagome and Inu-yasha walked around where she showed him some of the best placed to take a pee, they soon found that it was indeed a good idea that they brought a basket lunch for ten considering, Kagome some how convinced him that camping out in the forest was good for a man's penis growth. He must have been insecure about it.

Kagome laughed as she watched Inu-yasha trying to fish, some how they agreed to camp out, there was no way she was going back to the castle while all these suitors where there for her and her cousins who she figured was smart enough to get out of there before things got worse. "Inu-yasha why don't you stand still, then they'll come to you, you know what here let me show you."

Inu-yasha smiled as he watched her hike her gown up her thigh and look at him with her hand on her hip, she definitely was a princess who could handle war. "Ok princess show me what you can do."

Kagome smirked as she stood absolutely still before she plunged her hand down into the water and grabbed a fish, she was carefully not to cut herself, as she threw it on the grass waiting for the fish to die out slowly. She looked at the young prince and smiled with her pearly whites, "now tell me that you could have done that, since I'm catching dinner it's only fair that you cook it."

"You have got to be joking me! I'm not a woman that I'm going to cook." Inu-yasha stood with arms folded over his chest with a stubborn pout.

Kagome glared but then cracked into a smile, "fine then you catch your own dinner and cook it too, I think that will be fair no? I will make my dinner and bed, and you yours."

Inu-yasha looked at her and sighed, "Fine you will, how about this I'll gather the fire woods and then we'll do it together,"

Kagome laughed slightly as she grabbed a couple more fish and then walked onto land, they had enough food from their basket lunch, but Kagome once again convinced Inu-yasha that camping out meant fishing, and cooking under the night sky.

Sango and Miroku had been out on a walk after her rigorous training and to her surprise Miroku kept up, though he acted like a complete idiot, he was strong. They too decided to take a basket lunch for their walk seeing as how they didn't eat since breakfast, and the training burned up the two pieces of toast Miroku had.

"So where do you want to sit?" Miroku asked as Sango walked ahead, she seemed strangely out of it since their training. "Sango?"

"How about over their on that hill?" she asked almost as if she was lost in thought.

Miroku was surprised of course, not once since he came had she looked so lost and confused, what was she wondering about anyway? "Right."

Sango walked as she dragged her sword slowly, she didn't know why suddenly she felt as if she was growing tired of games, perhaps now she was truly getting too old for such games, or perhaps she finally came to the decision that all her life she was going to be auction of to the highest bidder. When she finally kicked herself and brought her thought back she looked up to see that they were already at the hill and Miroku was setting up the picnic, he didn't seem to mind either. She smiled.

Miroku caught it, that careless and finally real smile from her, as if she was truly falling into their friendship, he was glad of course something about her drew his attention and that was always welcomed by him. "So the cook seemed to have given us enough food to feed a village and were well prepared for anything, what would you like first?"

Sango laughed, "yes I think the cook gets a bit annoyed with us for eating like we do, but I'm sure he takes joy into for his cooking is wonderful, I'll have the roast beef sandwich, thank you."

Miroku nodded as she placed her sword on the ground and sat down on the blanket, to take the offered sandwich. "So tell me what should we do considering that we're far off from the palace grounds and away from all of your umm interesting suitors."

Sango took a couple of bites of her sandwich and laughed, "interesting? No more like idiotic, they come every year, they leave every year, they don't know how to woo a princess, well not like me anyway."

Miroku laughed as well, "I noticed that you and your cousins are no princesses to mess with, I mean you three could bring down an army if you wanted to."

Sango laughed, "I suppose we could," she pushed some of her long hair out of her face and ate with a man, some how that was somewhat strange that she was sitting here having lunch with a suitor and she didn't feel like sending him fetching for something telling him that it turned her on.

Miroku smiled at her, she was finally acting like she trusted him, funny how he enjoyed her company, and felt as if she alone could entertainment him for hours. "Maybe we should stay out here tonight, I mean that way I get to know the land, and you get away from your suitors."

Sango looked at him for a while, before she nodded, "I think we should, but you better not try anything, or I will cut it off."

Miroku laughed, "no not my hair, it's the only thing that makes me mysterious."

Sango glared before breaking into fit of laughter, he was so weird.

Rin and Sesshoumaru also took a walk into the flower field, they were trying to avoid every and all-living beings for at least two hours or at least that's what Rin propose they play a game of. Frankly he couldn't careless but seeing how everyone in that palace was demented he rather be with someone who didn't scare him as much. They walked slowly, it seemed she was quite for more then ten minutes not that he didn't enjoy the peace and quiet but that meant something was wrong with the girl.

"Rin?"

"I'm tired…" was all she said before her body gave away and she fainted.

Sesshoumaru moved to catch her, placing her slowly on the flowerbed, he touched her forehead and wondered what was bothering the princess now, was she ill? Finding a cool shaded tree he moved her under it, placing her head on his lap, and sitting back against the tree. Suddenly thinking about to meeting, he had to smile, she was a beauty when she was saying strange things and acting like a wild animal, but it was that behavior that gave her such a glow. He stopped any more thought as he fell slowly asleep, something quite comforting knowing that she wasn't going to cut something off or do something strange to him while he slept, considering she herself need some rest as well.

It was already dark by the time Inu-yasha and Kagome set up their camp, they ate dinner that they both made together, and now laid to rest for a while, some how it was both comforting and unnerving as they both waited for the other to say something, of course it was Kagome who broke it.

"Inu-yasha?"

"What?"

"Are you afraid of the dark?"

"No"

"Are you sure?"

"Damn it Kagome I've spent all my life in the dark, camping out and such."

"Oh no I just thought you were sense your all on my side of the grass and all, you invading my personal space bubble, and I don't like having my space invaded, I mean I'm really bipolar you know."

"Yea I've notice."

"Wait are you calling me crazy?"

"No I'm just agreeing with you when you said that you're bipolar."

"But that's calling me crazy."

"NO! I'm not calling you crazy!"

"yes you are, you just called me bipolar, like I'm some demented psycho."

"I didn't say anything I simply agreed, but forget it, it'll be the end of me to mess with your weird mind."

"Oh so now you think that I have a weird mind?"

"Oh god, here we go again."

"what does that mean?"

"nothing, I was praying for the meal we just had."

"no you weren't you were saying that I'm a demented psycho with a weird mind, and I'm bipolar."

"Ok calm down Kagome and tell me why you and your cousins are this way, I mean come on what could be bad about having a husband anyway?"

Kagome rolled to her side and faced the grass, "you know I mean doing all this different things today I thought at least you'd get what I was trying to tell you, some how I felt like letting you guess your way into understanding me, and the things that I do, and why I do them."

Inu-yasha sat up and looked down at her, she was beautiful but she was also a person trying to make her point across to idiots of her time, "I'm trying believe me Kagome, hell I'm trying to understand what your making something that should so easy as hard as your making it."

Kagome closed her eyes for a moment, a moments weakness was all he needed to capture her, and she wasn't about to be weak; not now, not ever. "Inu-yasha…"

"Yea Kagome?" he asked as he tried to comfort the girl.

"So you really think I'm bipolar and demented?"

'Oh god!' Inu-yasha sighed as he lay back down on the grass watching the star filled sky and thinking about the young girl next to him who made him feel strangely, she was trying to tell him something, she was scared of something, but what? "No Kagome I don't think your bipolar or demented."

Kagome smiled at the grass, as she slowly turned towards the sky, "even though I am."

Inu-yasha laughed lightly joined in by the princess next to him.

Sango sat by the small creek drinking the cup of coffee, she looked outward towards the other side, and smiled, some how things just seemed wonderfully ok, some how they were ok so far, no one was going to take them away from their adventures and make them into cages of nothing but training to be queens. The thought alone sent chills up her spine, but that's when she felt the warm fleece blanket on her shoulders, she looked up and found the 'wanna be monk' smiling down at her. "Thank you."

"Do my ears deceive me or did I get a 'Thank you' with no smart comment?" he asked with a smirk.

Sango chuckled and looked at him, "yes, I don't feel too much of being a bitch at this moment."

"Why is that?"

"I just don't"

"want to talk about it?"

"no"

"come on."

"I said no monk"

"please, talking helps, you know sharing is caring."

"your sick, did you know that."

"I was told that before."

"well take it seriously then"

"I can't it just so erotic."

"ah, why even bother with a moron with you?"

"because I'm sexy"

"right"

"no really I am"

"yea ok"

Sango finally stood and walked towards the fire, it was getting a bit cool, or maybe it was her over active mind telling her that it was time to stop fighting what was bound to happen, but her heart wouldn't let her, she didn't want a cage, she wanted a life.

Sesshoumaru woke to find he was sitting a front of a small fire and the crazy princess was actually making a cup of coffee from where she found the essential for their dinner and coffee was beyond him, but some how this side of the princess was nice too. He said nothing as she passed him a cup of coffee, and then a plate of food, he took both but looked to where she ate quietly like she didn't have much to about anything.

"Rin?"

"I'm sorry sometimes that happens to me, I try an be strong, but my body can't handle it." She said almost with sadness coating her cheery voice.

He said nothing, he thought it best not to ask or even pry at this very moment but some time soon, he will. "So will we be out here tonight?"

Rin smiled, "That's right fluffy! We're camping out!"

Sesshoumaru had a pulsing vein on his forehead, so much for the sweet moments.

TBC

AN: I know suckie but hey I promise to make the next one funny, oh to all those who read Varsity Drama, I will be putting the next chapter probably next week sometime, and do I have a surprise for you guys, I know most of you want to kill me, but I had the BIGGEST writer's block ever! But now I'm coming out of my slum and able to write once more. So come on people review! Keep me going! Help Varsity Drama make 550 reviews! And I'll give you the best chapter yet! Yeah! 'til next time my lovely reviewers!