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Grr...I've been really busy lately! I'm working on a CG for a friend cuz she's moving away next month...makes me very sad. I've also been working on like, 3 songs, which is a pain in the butt! I can't seem to get a good ending for any of them! I'm gonna pull all my hair out, I swear! Ok, maybe I won't, but the point is, I've been a bit busy and I hope you can forgive me!
Chapter 14-His Category
The sun was rising and peaking through the mauve curtains, and the warm streak caused Shippou to open his eyes. He sat up and decided since he was awake, everyone else should be too. He crawled over Sango and poked Rin until she stirred and turned to look at him. He put his finger to his lip, motioning her to keep quiet. She nodded and they crawled out of the bed and tiptoed over to the window. Shippou grabbed one curtain, indicating she should do the same; so she did. They jerked them open at the same time and light flooded into the previously dark room.
"Rise and shine!" Shippou yelled. Miroku fell off the couch that he was forced to sleep on, and Sango jerked up to a sitting position. Rin giggled at their reactions.
Miroku looked at his watch and then back to Shippou. "Do you know what time it is?" He asked groggily. The two children shook their heads. "It is 7 in the morning."
Shippou scoffed. "Then you need to be up anyway!" Miroku only glared at the kitsune, who smiled brightly when he did.
Sango crawled out of bed and went to the closet where she pulled out a black pleated mini-skirt and white button up shirt (another one of their uniform options). "I'm going to take a shower. It won't take long." She turned and went into the bathroom, locking the door behind her.
Miroku sighed, "Why can't she forget to lock the door like Kagome?"
Shippou looked puzzled. "Why don't you want her to lock the door, Miroku?"
Rin giggled. "He wants to see Sango taking a shower!" She fell to the floor and laughed even harder.
"You're sick!" Shippou yelled.
Miroku put up both his hands defensively. "No, no...it's nothing like that (coughliecough). It's just...if there was an emergency of some sort I would want to save our dear Sango. With the door locked, it would be much more difficult. You see what I'm talking about?" He faked a face of concern and the children believed it.
Shortly after, Sango walked out of the bathroom and over to the dresser where she had her brush sitting. She started brushing her hair and then pulled it up in a high ponytail like always. Rin came running over to her and said, "Sango! Here, you forgot this." The little girl handed her the black tie that went with the uniform (I have an outfit like that, and it's really cute! Kinda school girlish looking. Unfortunately, you also look like a waitress...so don't wear it to a restaurant b/c you might get mistaken for someone that works there).
The older girl smiled at the child. "Thank you Rin. Here, let me brush your hair." Sango set the tie on her lap and went to brushing Rin's hair. She pulled part of it into a small pigtail on the side of the younger girl's head. "You look adorable!" Sango said, making Rin smile brightly.
Shippou and Miroku watched the girls giggling. Shippou shook his head. "I'll never understand women."
Miroku laughed and said, "You got that right. They're a mystery to all men." He kept his eyes on Sango though. 'She'll make a good mother some day.' He smiled gently, and for once, it wasn't that lecherous grin that was seen on his face almost all the time.
Rin ran over to Shippou and said, "Let's go eat!" The children ran out the door, and Sango watched them leave as she put on the tie. She glanced over at Miroku, who still had that smile on his face.
"Are you okay?" She asked walking up to him. "You aren't sick are you?" (Yes, he is-sick minded that is-...but she means ill...but I've never asked someone if they were 'ill', so she won't either) She put her hand to his forehead to check for a temperature.
Miroku snapped out of his daze. "Oh, no. I'm fine, just thinking is all."
"Well, what were you thinking about? You had a strange look on your face, it was different than usual."
"Oh, my Sango," he said, grabbing her shoulder and pulling her closer to him, "I was only thinking of how wonderful you'd look in a wedding dress." By now, that lecherous grin had crept upon his face once more.
"Wha-" Sango's face turned a slight shade of red. She jerked her attention to his face. "What are you getting at here, cook?" Her eyebrows furrowed.
"Think about it. We could have lots of children!" Miroku exclaimed.
"We?" Sango asked uneasily. "Whada ya mean, 'we?' You aren't indicating you and me, are you?"
"Who else would I be talking about?" He looked into her eyes with the most serious expression she'd ever seen gracing his face.
Her face grew even redder at that comment. "You're joking!" Sango said, turning away from him. Bad idea.
"Sango, how could you think like that? Surely you know that you are the only one for me." Miroku said, his hand making its way down her back.
"Why you..." She growled, "PERVERT!"
- SMACK! -
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Kagome was sitting in a chair and putting on her shoes when she saw Inuyasha's ear twitch (lol, he heard the slap in his sleep). She had noticed the ears before, but she'd never seem them twitch like that. She giggled, and it twitched again.
'That's so cute!' Kagome thought. 'I've never touched them before. I wonder if he'd get mad?' She stepped closer and looked at his sleeping form. 'Who cares!'
She reached out a hand and rubbed one of the ears. They were so soft. He shifted in his sleep a bit and she stopped. His eyebrows furrowed and he growled quietly. 'I think he likes it.' Kagome thought. So she went back to rubbing them. The corner of his mouth turned up in a slight smile. 'He does like it!'
She sat down on the bed, which caused him to open his eyes just enough to look at her. Kagome saw this, and stopped abruptly. "Sorry!" She said, "It's just-"
"No. It feels good." Inuyasha yawned. "Don't stop."
Kagome started rubbing his ears again and he fell back asleep, his head sitting on her lap. She smiled down at him. 'He looks like an innocent child when he's asleep.'
Her thoughts were ended when there was a knock at the door. Inuyasha sat up quickly and Kagome hopped off the bed just as fast. She turned to him. "I'll get it, you get some clothes on."
Inuyasha frowned. "Whada ya mean? I got something on!"
Kagome rolled her eyes. "I mean a shirt dummy!"
His mouth formed in an 'oh' before it twisted into a grin. "What, you don't like seeing me with no shirt on? Most girls would die to see this."
The young servant girl's face grew red. "Go!" She yelled, then turned back to the door.
"You have to answer me later!" He yelled from the bathroom.
"He's so full of himself." Kagome said to herself as she opened the door. "Hey Sango! I see you two are up."
Sango and Miroku stood in the doorway. The older girl nodded her head. "Yea, we are. The kids are already downstairs eating. You two coming?"
Kagome looked back in the room to Inuyasha, who had just walked out of the bathroom (with a shirt on now I might add-oh pooh). "Yea, we're coming."
She ran over to her master and grabbed his wrists, earning a questioned look from him. "Come on, we're going to eat breakfast. Then we have to go and meet Kaede, remember?" Kagome explained.
"Oh, is that all?" Inuyasha asked. This time it was Kagome that looked confused. "The way you were grabbing me and all, I thought-"
"Don't even finish that sentence!" The girl hissed. "Now, come on." She pulled him out the door, and they went with the other two downstairs to meet up with the children to eat.
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The six companions had all finished breakfast and were now making their way down the street to the ice cream stand they had stopped at the day before. They received a few stares and glances while walking though. They also got a few snide remarks thrown at them; none of which went unheard.
"Two demons and four humans. Really, how many slaves do those rich kids need?"
"Two demons? Do you not have eyes? One of them is Inuyasha; that half-breed brother of Lord
Sesshoumaru's."
Inuyasha growled, but the comments continued.
"Even still, does he need that many humans around him. Don't tell me he's going soft!"
"I bet he is. Must run in the family. You know how his father was. Marrying a mortal woman...I bet he's gonna do the same thing."
"So you think he sleeps with those two human girls?"
"Hmph...wouldn't surprise me a bit."
Miroku grabbed Sango's wrist and pulled her towards him at hearing this, hoping to at least get her out of their mocking games.
"Ah, it seems that one's with that guy. That other one must be Inuyasha's concubine."
Inuyasha smirked. He could play along with that. He grabbed Kagome's waist and jerked her closer. She glared up at him. 'He's kidding, right? He's really gonna make them think that I...sleep with him!' She was going to give him a nice hard slap once they were out of sight.
The whispers continued.
"See! What'd I tell you? See the way he's touching her?"
They had finally turned a corner off of the main street, away from all the people with the rude comments. As soon as they did, Kagome gave Inuyasha a piece of her mind.
"You...you...YOU..." was all that was coming out as she shook an accusing finger at him.
Inuyasha's smirk grew even more arrogant, if it was possible. "Me what? Say it...I dare you."
"YOU ARROGANT JERK! How dare you humiliate me like that?" The hatred gleamed in her eyes. Everyone was surprised her death-glare didn't burn holes in their master's head.
The hanyou just laughed. "It's pretty simple really. You're strange that way, ya know that?"
Kagome narrowed her eyes. "Strange what way?"
"Well," he started, "you get all embarrassed and offended when we're out in public and someone says something or something happens. Yet when it's just the two of us..." Inuyasha let the last part trail off, knowing she (and the others) would get the gist of it.
Miroku looked at Kagome and a devilish grin crossed his face. "Why, Kagome...I never knew you had it in you!" Sango elbowed the cook in the ribs after that.
The younger servant girl clenched her fists, trying very hard not to physically take her anger out on a certain master of hers. "Your mind...is about as dirty...AS THE BOTTOM OF MY SHOE!" She stomped past him, bumping in to him in the process.
Inuyasha looked shocked for a moment, but not for too long. "Speaking of dirty minds, you still have to answer my question, wench!" He yelled after her.
"ARGH!" Was her only response. That was fine with him, he had succeeded in making mad-which is what he had intended to do all along.
Sango looked at Inuyasha with a peeved expression. "You know, you should try being nice to her for once. I can see why she hates you so much." With that said, she ran off after her friend.
Inuyasha smirked. "She doesn't hate me."
Miroku tuned in on the cockiness of his voice. "How can you be so sure of that, Inuyasha?" He asked.
His master glared at him for a moment, wondering if he could trust the cook with an honest/near honest answer. "I just know. Things happen, okay?"
Miroku eyed his suspiciously. "What kind of things, my lord?"
Even Inuyasha couldn't hold back a blush for too long. "Just...things...It's really none of your business." He turned his nose up in the air, hoping his servant wouldn't ask anymore questions.
"Just be careful. You wouldn't want something to happen." Inuyasha turned to look at the cook as he spoke. "I mean, you wouldn't want what happened with your family to happen to you and Kagome now, would you? People may have respected your mother, but only because she was married to your father. Even then, demons and mortals alike still looked down upon her."
Miroku was way ahead of what was really going on. "We're not doing that, idiot!" Inuyasha growled after knocking the cook on the head.
The servant grabbed his head, which was in a good deal of pain today. "My apologies. I was just concerned is all."
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"Hey, Kagome! Wait up!" Sango's voice reached Kagome's ears and she stopped walking. She turned and waited for her friend to catch up. "You okay?" The older girl asked after she had caught her breath.
Kagome frowned. "No...no I'm not okay. He thinks it's just fine and dandy that he messes with me like I'm some kind of...toy or something!"
"Kagome," Sango tried to calm her friend down.
"Well, let me tell you, I am not a toy! I am a human being who has feelings! What, is that something that demons don't have? Do they not have emotions?"
"Kagome," Sango's voice was a bit louder this time.
"I'm sure they don't, because they sure don't act like it! But he should at least have some, after all, he's only half!"
"Kagome," This time, Sango's voice had a slight edge to it.
"Doesn't he care at all? Doesn't he just care a little about how I feel? I thought we were friends! But with the way he treats me, I'm starting to doubt that! After all the things he says, does he honestly think I'll just forgive him and get over it!"
Sango had given up now.
"It's not that simple! Doesn't he know that? He should! Ya know he's never asked for forgiveness...not once! After the name-calling, the attitude, the pranks, the...things he does! He's never said he's sorry!"
Sango sighed, waiting for her younger friend to slow down so that she could get a word in.
"He may say he's sorry, maybe just to mock me...but I don't just want him to say it, I want him to actually be sorry! Is that too much to ask?"
Sango started to open her mouth, but was cut off once again.
"I guess it is. I guess I shouldn't expect anything. Then, when he does do something out of the ordinary, like apologizing, I'll be surprised. Maybe I shouldn't have any expectations of anyone...have no feelings, just be void of emotions. Then maybe I won't feel this way."
She finally stopped. "Let me say something!" Sango yelled before Kagome could open her mouth again.
The younger girl looked to her friend. "Kagome, try to understand this. Inuyasha is a male. Guys have trouble expressing their feelings. Inuyasha falls under a certain category."
"There are categories?" Kagome asked.
Sango nodded and continued. "He's the type that teases to get attention. He's a jerk, yes. But in being one, he's trying to show you how much he cares."
"He's doing a pathetic job." Kagome muttered.
Sango just smiled. "Give him time. He might come around. If not, just get used to it."
The younger servant girl jerked her head up at the elder. "Just get used to it? Is that the best advice you have?"
Her friend shrugged. "You've done it so far. That's gotta mean something."
Kagome opened her mouth as if she were about to say something, but shut it quickly when she noticed that the other four had caught up by then.
Shippou and Rin ran ahead of them. "The stand is just up the street guys, let's go!" The kitsune's voice grew fainter the farther he ran. So the four teenagers followed the children to the ice cream stand, where, as Kaede had said, she was waiting.
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Wow...another (for me) long chapter. Almost six whole pages! Well, I thought it was fun to write. I even had to add my own personal quote..."Your mind is as dirty as the bottom of my shoe." I swear, it's one of my favorite things to say.
So, you know the drill, review please! Oh, and I'd like to wish a happy birthday to Crysie-Poo! She's one of my bestest friends (we even have people convinced we're cousins). Her birthday was yesterday, but since I'm updating today...well, yea. You get my drift.
DramaQueenABZ: Yeesh...sorry about the location thing...lol, I'm slowly loosing my mind...someone lived in Florida, and I don't look at my reviews when I'm writing, just when I go to post to make sure I don't leave anyone out, lol! I'm glad you love the story! It makes me happy to have people say that! And don't worry, I won't go past kissing...lol, that's a lil outa my league. And I never thought of the idea you suggested! I'll have to find a way to work that in there...hehe...that would totally piss Inu-boy off!
Queenie: you live in Florida! I knew it was someone! I don't remember who I said anything to now...I am going bonkers! Umm...Ok...let's try this...Hope the weather is good where EVERYONE lives...that better? lol! Hope so!
So, review! Ask question, give me opinions, tell me how much you hate typing history notes (GAG! I know I do)...I don't care! I just need to know that people out there are reading this. Otherwise, it kinda takes the fun outa writing. (Ponders for a moment) Ok, not much, I'd like writing just as much...reviews just make it better. Love you guys! (Now it is six pages! Lol)
