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Me (now) No Inuyasha

Once A Month

Chapter One: An Awkward Explanation

Morning comes around and Kagome is packing up her things when she has a familiar feeling of (what I call) "flowage"…panicking she quickly takes Sango away from packing and pulls her aside to talk…

"Sango… can I talk to you a minute?"

"Yeah, what's going on Kagome?"

"In private please."

The girls walk a ways into the woods, away from camp and four confused companions.

"What's wrong?"

"I'VE STARTED!"

Sango looks at the branches above, "Oh boy… this could be a problem, Inuyasha wants to get moving and you're in no condition-"

"Not to mention I am getting cramps"

Sango continues studying the branch as she sarcastically says, "Wonderful." She thinks to herself for a moment and then has Kagome sit near a tree trunk, motioning her to stay…

"Hold on Kagome, I will go talk to Inuyasha."

Walking back into camp she walks straight to Inuyasha. He gives her a concerned look as she says…

"Hey, we need to hold up a little longer"

"Why? Don't we need to get Kagome home for her 'supplies'?"

"Yeah well, about that, she isn't feeling very well."

His look growing more concerned he sniffs the air, "What's wrong? Sht she's bleeding"

He turns and off into the forest following her scent yelling, "KAGOME!"

Sango slaps her forehead with her hand and calls out to the hanyou, "WAIT INUYASHA!"

"KAGOME!" He locates her scent and follows it to the source, finding her calmly sitting under a tree, looking slightly pained, but seemingly unharmed.

Kagome sees his approach and without standing she replies calmly, "Right here."

He runs up, looking worried, he kneels beside her, "Are you alright?"

She looks up and smiles at the overly concerned and confused hanyou, giving a calm if not pained reply, "Im fine."

"Your bleeding, you don't sound fine."

"I've just got cramps."

"Cramps?"

"You don't want to know"

Inuyasha blinks what the hell is wrong with her?

As if reading his thoughts she looks up and says, "I've started."

"Does it hurt?"

"No, well kind of, just the cramps on the first day."

"What? There is more than one day!"

"Yeah. Usually it goes from 3-5 days."

Inuyasha stands for a moment, contemplating what he should do, the idea came to him that if he got her home quickly they could fix it, or at least she may be able to get some of her future medicine to help what ever was wrong with her. Deciding to himself that he should get her home quick he turns around and squats, "Here get on my back."

Kagome is startled by his compassion for her well being, but suddenly the thought of straddling him while being jostled slightly didn't sound like such a good idea. She stays where she is, giving him a simple, "No."

He turns around, now surprised at her refusal and quickly becoming annoyed,"What do you mean 'No'."

"Will it hurt you?"

"No."

"Then get on."

"No, (sighing to herself and patting the ground next to her) Inuyasha have a seat there is something I need to explain to you."

He remains crouched urging her to get on, but he turns, giving her another concerned look, "What?"

"Inuyasha" (she said warningly)

He still refuses to sit so… "Osuwari"

"Ouch! Btch! What was that for!"

"Now listen and keep your yap shut… (takes a deep breath) girls go through a period. Once a month-"

"You already told me…"

"SIT!"

"OUCH!"

"I'm not done…we bleed out what is old, it doesn't hurt…its perfectly natural… and now you will just have to deal with it."

"Your blood will drive me nuts!"

"Well can't say I didn't warn you."

"Well you should have 'sat' me until I took you home."

She gives him a pointed look, "That can still be arranged."

Thinking to himself that he can still get her home, "Then get on!"

"No!"

"Why!"

"SIT!"

"OUCH! STOP!"

"I'm STILL not done, we bleed in for about 3 to 5 days and…"

"WHAT!"

Ignoring his interruption she continues, "So I will not be going anywhere until the bleeding slows down."

"So put a band aid on it and lets go!"

Kagome's eyes grow to the size of dinner plates as her cheeks go bright red in both frustration and embarrassment. "YOU…. YOU ARE UNBELIEVABLE!"

"What! You apply bandages with all other bleeding!"

Sango walks up and sits down beside Kagome, wondering why she looks so incredibly flustered. Inuyasha gives her a look of frustration, and confusion as she seemed to have snuck up on the two.

Sango, seated next to Kagome turns to her and asks, "Have you told him?"

Kagome shakes her head with a look of defeat, "No."

The silence is dragged out as Sango is still confused as she wonders, and eventually asks after a time, "What happened?"

Kagome's eyes lit up with entertainment as she looks to Sango and says, "He wants me to put a band aid on it and move on."

The girls look at each other and both begin rolling in laughter and poor Inuyasha just looks very confused.

Sango stands up and looks to her two companions, still trying to get over the comment,

"Kagome you better let me handle this one, until then why don't you go to the hot spring I found near the camp. I will explain the situation to Inuyasha, and if you stay in the water he doesn't have to smell you."

Kagome gratefully takes a hand up from her friend and heads towards camp. As she leaves and Sango turns to a very confused Inuyasha.

Poor Inuyasha got a very strong wiff of blood as the girl stood up and left. He was grateful she was leaving but he couldn't help worrying over her condition and the troubles it would bring. Still getting over the dizziness from the overpowering smell of blood he turns to the taijya next to him, suddenly grateful of her knowledge of his sensitive nose.

"You know about periods too?"

"Yeah I'm a girl, we all go through it."

Inuyasha rolls his eyes, "Oh goodie."

"What you don't understand is where we bleed."

"Are you gonna tell me or am I gonna have to ask someone else."

"You really want to know?"

"No DUH I have only tried to get Kagome for the past…"

"Ok, Ok… we bleed out… oh how can I say this… ok we bleed out where we will eventually be having children."

Inuyasha goes very pale, realizing why the girl was so hesitant to answer to his nagging, he hesitantly turns to her and asks…

"why on earth-"

"Kagome told me it has something to do with "eggs" inside us, they get old and die and we get rid of them so a new one can wait."

"Wait for what"

Sango again slaps a hand to her forehead, "My goodness Inuyasha are you really that naïve."

Inuyasha realizes the implications and goes even more pale, looking as white as his hair.

"Um … I'll just keep my distance for a while then."

So what do you think? I hope you enjoyed. I must apologize to my cousin for recalling his experience with the whole band aid thing. It gets more fun from here I promise.

FYI: it also starts veering off from the t.v. series. But that's a but DUH.