Whoaness... I jumped about 100 reviews in how many chapters! I thank you all very much.
Anyway... for one... KPK, NOT SO LONG OF A DISCLAIMER! IT WAS LONGER THAN THE CHAPTER!
Sheesh...
(KPK- Well pardon me, Mr. "Write-the-Disclaimer-for-my-fan-fiction-without-anything-in-return")
Now, on to my apologies. After I finished with my damned finals at High school and the semester ended (FINALLY!) a few things happened. First, my brain needed to recuperate from the school year, so that took a weekend. Then I got addicted temporarily to my Nintendo Game Cube game 'Animal Crossing', so that took me away from typing for another two days. On Wednesday I got over that addiction because I got another one when I bought 'The Sims 2', which is addicting as hell. So here I am, now getting the Sims 2 rave under the wraps and getting this chapter out. Oi, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease don't hurt me!
Disclaimer - (WARNING! LAST CHAPTER! EMERGENCY MEETING OF THE DISCLAIMER ACTORS!)
Inuyasha- so what is this all about?
Kagome- Yeah, I'm confused
Shard- You and the rest of the world
Good Felix- I'm not!
Stalking Chicken- That's why you're crazy
Evil Felix- Oh shut up
Miroku- HEY! Why are we here!
Kamiko-Zephuru- We are here because it's the last chapter of the story.
Ayame- So?
KZ- (ahem)
Ayame- (rolls her eyes) (raises hand)
KZ- yes Ayame?
Ayame- so?
KPK- so the last chapter of the disclaimer was supposed to be a kind of party thing, and we didn't finish the usual craziness. In fact we had a cliff hanger!
("Kagome- (to Jack) wanna know my favorite part of the film? "(Rose) I'll never let go, Jack! Plop!" (makes hand motion of someone letting someone else fall)
Miroku- GUYS! LOOK OVER THERE!
Inuyasha group look where Miro.s are pointing
Inuyasha- (bleep))
KZ- (glares at KPK)
KPK- oh shut up
Koga- So what's the big deal?
Shard- We don't have enough time to do both
KZ- (glares)
Shard- (throws a lunchbox at KZ)
WHAP
(...where'd I get "lunchbox?")
Sesshy- Hey I have a question!
KZ- (rubbing shoulder) yeah?
Sesshy- How come I hardly ever have any lines?
KZ- uh
Morobuku- This is not a complaint session!
Sesshy- I'm not complaining, I'm asking!
Rin- Hey, I have no part what-so-ever! Don't complain!
Kaede- ye shut it
KZ- Guys? Hello!
KPK- (makes teasing face at KZ)
KZ- (sarcastic) you're support is appreciated
Inuyasha- How come my hair still hasn't grown back?
Strawberry- Well, if you reread all the disclaimers, you'd realize this all happened in one day
Koga- (face drops)
Shard- Are you serious?
KPK- I have a question!
KZ- Oh brother
KPK- that would be 'sister'
KZ- Just ask the question!
KPK- how did Evil Felix and Good Felix get separated?
Sango- that's a good question
Inuyasha- and how come her hair grew back?
KZ- if you wanna know that, KPK, why don't you ask the Felixes?
Felixes- (are clinging for dear life to a jet pack, which is flying around the room, and singing to top it off... in Finnish!) Mai-a-hii, Mai-a-huu, Mai-a-hoo, Mai-a-haha! Alo Salut sunt eu, un haiduc si te rog, iubirea mea primeste fericirea. Alo, alo, sunt eu Picasso! Ti-am dat beep, si sunt voinic. Dar sa stii nu-ti cer nimic! Hey what are you doing! Oops. What do you mean 'oops'! Gaah! IT'S ON FIRE! DO SOMETHING! LIKE WHAT! I DUNNO, THIS IS YOUR FAULT!
KPK- (to KZ) because I fear for my life
Kagome- (raises hand)
KZ- yeah?
Kagome- How come there haven't been any 'Inuyasha, sit' jokes recently?
Thud
Sango- Guess you got your fix
Inuyasha- WOULD SOMEBODY SHOOT ME?
Koga- And why do I hafta act all tough! I like cooking!
Kaede- Yeah, well I'm really a 20 year old super model who wears a fat-suit and mask, and you don't hear me complaining
Shippou- How come I never get any lines!
Sesshy- Yeah, he gets less than me and he's part of the star group in the TV show!
Stalking Chicken- What is your phone number? What is your address? Where are you at 7 p.m. on Thursdays?
Shard- How come I can't have a sword!
Love Music- Because we'd prefer to be alive by the end of the day!
Miroku- What the heck was it that I saw in the last Disclaimer anyways!
(entire group loses it and are shouting at KZ)
KZ- (looking a mite bit frightened) little help?
KPK- (lounging on a couch) hey, you're the one who started this whole mess by capturin' them in the first story. But here
KZ- (gets tossed a frying pan) gee thanks
KPK- anytime...
(The group of angry characters continue to shout until...)
Felixes- LOOK OUT BELOOOOOOOOOOOWWW!
Crash, Ka-Bloomie!
(group is toasted)
Inuyasha- (cough)
Felixes- ow...cool!
KPK- well that turned out all right!
Strawberry- uh oh...
KZ- what?
Strawberry- I just found out... this might not actually be the last chapter
(Ha ha!)
CHAPTER 34 - Warmth
'Tomorrow's Monday...' Kagome thought dreadfully as she finished changing into her nightclothes. 'School will be back and on... for a week... and that whole week will be mid-terms...' She let her face slam down on the windowsill in her room from stress. The miko had barely been able to study at all once the Senko problems had began to set in, and even though her grades were shooting back up to where they would be if she had never fallen through the well, the teenage girl was still worried. Who wouldn't be?
She silently slid her window open, a gust of the brisk winter air rushing into the room. She would never say it aloud, but the miko was a little glad that Sango wasn't in her room right now. As much as she was like a sister to her, Kagome still liked her occasional privacy to think about things. People were not excluded from her thought either.
Kagome looked up at the sky, attempting to catch a glimpse of any stars. The light from her room, however, made it impossible to see anything beyond the high-rises of Tokyo. But she wasn't giving up that easily.
Kagome walked down the stairs of her house, slid her heavy coat up onto her shoulders, and slipped on her shoes on the way out of the house. Ever so serene was the night and the shrine courtyard as the girl made her way to the back area near her window, leaving her tracks in the packed snow upon the ground. The snowfall was still doing its deed to the Honshu area, but she didn't care. Most girls complained about how they hated winter, and that it was too cold, plain, ugly, or got them sick. 'As for me,' Kagome grinned to herself, settling down next to Goshinboku. 'I love winter...'
She saw things that no one ever did try to look at. Kagome could see the silent pure beauty of the snow, the way it swept over everywhere like a warming blanket, trying to keep all warm in the colder months. But, that was trait of hers, to see the best in things. She saw into Inuyasha, and when so many others would have given up, refused to try to know him, denounce him for his impure blood, she kept going. And look to where it had gotten to; the miko had fallen in love with the 'worthless' Inuyasha. The Inuyasha. 'How could anyone think he is worthless?' she asked herself. No answer came to her mind, but erasing the doubtful thinking would not come. "How could anyone think that he is worthless?" she asked to the world. Although no answer could be heard, she knew one had been made. 'No one would try...'
Kagome flopped down to the ground, head and body in the snow, and she stared up and the branches of the god tree and the stars above. The snow fell down to the ground, landing softly on her face and body, and melted quietly as if small tears from above were sliding down her cheeks. She wiped them away, but more came to replace those dispersed, and slipped down her face as melting snow.
It was as if it were intentional from the thin snow clouds above that she should be the one crying its tears. But what was there to be tearful about? Something that she did not know of, obviously, but should she know, and was there something to do about it? Eminence was a powerful thing, it seemed, for the teenage girl felt its powerful eloquence in the still night.
'It doesn't feel still, though...' she thought, staring endlessly at the small lights of the darkened sky. A feeling of dread, pain, anguish and grief built up into her heart, and the tears from her own eyes mixed with those of the snow. (KPK- Good God, she cries over everything!) It felt as if something terrible was happening, or would. Something that the very sky itself was saddened by. She sat up, and every depressing feeling and memory of her life swept back into her mind. From when the first family cat had died, when she was picked on in the early school times, when Ji-Chan had been attacked by the No mask, Inuyasha saying he wanted to be with Kikyo, everything doubled over within her. Kagome's eyes burst with tears that she could not explain, and she wept for a pain she did not know if it had even happened. 'What on earth is the matter with me?...' she tried to ask herself, but the crying wouldn't stop. Cold from all around her began to sink in, making her feel alone and scared.
"Kagome, why're you crying?" Inuyasha asked her while squatting down so her face met his. She randomly threw her entire body at his, and sobbed into his chest. "I-I... I don't know!" she wailed, facing him again, eyes red and watery. "I was just looking at the sky-y, and I started crying!"
"Well stop, you know I don't like it when you cry, wench," he said in a less gruff tone than usual. However, Kagome only really heard that last word. "H-Hey!" she yelled while clenching her fist in annoyance. "I thought you said you'd stop calling me that!"
"Well, I take it back," he said crossing his arms across his chest. The miko began to regain her composure and blew one of her locks of hair away from her face. "You are very annoying, you know that, dog-boy!"
"DOG-BOY!" The half demon's face got rather angry, in the way that Kagome remembered and knew oh-so-well. "SINCE WHEN DID I GET THAT NAME!"
"Well what would you prefer," Kagome began, leaning up and pointing a finger at his chest. "Should I call you dog-boy, puppy dog, doggy, or maybe something like Inu-tan, or maybe Inuyasha-pin, or perhaps Inuyasha-ki?" she laughed openly in his angry face, warmth being welcomed onto her face and mind.
The hanyou growled at her and began with his moping once again. He hopped off the ground and into the tree's branches, ears strongly against his head. "Not a damn one, wench, so don't even try it!"
"Oh come on, Inu-tan," she giggled to herself and looked up at his annoyed face. "You know I was only kidding."
"If you were kiddin' than you wouldn't have just called me Inu-tan."
"I don't like that tone, Inuyasha-pin," she resounded playfully, standing up and placing her hands on her hips.
"Live with it," he growled back, making himself more comfortable in the trees branches. A massive white puffball slammed into Inuyasha's face. He shot straight up in the branch in shock, lost his footing, and landing up on his face in the snow below. Kagome smiled proudly at her fulfilled scheme, and bent over halfway with chin up. "Sorry, can't live with it," With that, she walked off towards the shrine.
Until a large snowball pelted her in the back. Kagome whirled around furiously to see a certain hanyou walking away, hands behind back and whistling as if he was so innocent.
"Oh you are so dead!" she yelled, rolling up another snowball and hurling it at him. The teenage half demon kicked at it once it was in distance, spraying bits of snow all around him.
"That all ya got?"
"Oooooo!" His daunt shot straight into her and did its deed. The miko began hurling small and quick clumps of snow at the hanyou, who blocked most all of them. Inuyasha laughed to himself while picking up a large bit of snow and hurling it at her. It nailed the girl straight in the face.
She shook her head angrily, and began to run off to the storage building. The boy laughed and laughed, throwing a few more snowballs her way as Kagome ran. She rushed inside and began looking around, with Inuyasha calling out from outside. "Just as I thought, some thin little miko couldn't ever beat a guy like me!"
That thinking ended when she rode out of the building on the ridable snow blower. Kagome revved up the engine, and raced after Inuyasha, sending the snow that was on the ground up through the machine's turbines and outwards at its prey.
Sango finished sliding on her nightclothes in the bathroom, shaking her head violently so that the water droplets remaining would leave their position. She looked at herself in the mirror, and frowned in frustration. "Ugh, I need a brush."
She exited the warm bathroom, and headed into the downstairs hallway, climbing the stairs that Kagome had gone down not too long before. Once she got to the second level she almost shrieked at the cold. Sango rushed to the only open door and bolted inside. As Goosebumps sprung up all over her skin the youkai exterminator reached over and snagged a blanket off of Kagome's bed and draped it over her shoulders.
Sango walked over to the window where the cold and loud noises were deriving from, and peered outside through the wooden frame. She watched humorously as Kagome, riding what looked like a massive (and fast) tractor, circled around the Goshinboku time after time chasing Inuyasha.
On one of the turns, the snow-blowing machine suddenly ran out of gas, stopping directly in place. Inuyasha raced around the god tree again before realizing what had happened, since the device was right in his path, and realized that he was about to be between a rock and a hard place. He launched up into the air, grabbed hold of the miko, and landed in the snow, rolling over and over again in the white fluff. He continued to chuckle to himself as Kagome fought against his vice grip, ignoring the prying eyes he knew were watching him.
Sango smiled, silently closing the window.
"Lemme go, dog boy!" Kagome yelled into the delicate ears of Inuyasha, who although cringed at the sound continued to laugh as she thrashed against him. The grin on his face was idiotic and taunting, but still at least sincere. "Why should I do that, wench?"
"Because, you're crushing me and I'm angry at you!" She deliberately screamed into his ear. The shriek from her mouth quickly snagged the exterminator's attention, who then opened the window back to it's chilled spot outside.
"That doesn't sound like a good enough reason,"
"Then live with it you - ARG!" Kagome wriggled out of his arms and sprang up to the shrine, letting an assortment of curse words follow her. She slammed the door shut, and almost yelled out of frustration. How could he do that!- Kill off any perfect or serene moment she or they possessed and turned it into some kind of war. Well, unrequited war, since the hanyou was not bearing arms. She shook off her jacket, and walked into the kitchen, then turning around to go elsewhere from her mother's very strange antics that she didn't think she would stoop to in her caffinated state.
Inuyasha sat up in the snow, almost dumbstruck at the miko's behavior. Did she not get that he was just kidding around? Which problem had he resurfaced this time? A pouting face slid across his features, until a laugh from above caught his attention. "SANGO! HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN THERE!"
"Quite a long time, dog-boy!" she called back, watching him stand up in a proud matter as if nothing had ever occurred. His expression and the truthful ways his eyes couldn't hide revealed all his confusement. She shook her head from side to side, smiling at the hanyou while he walked over to better earshot. "What'd I do this time!"
"Not so much as what you did," she began. "But your execution. I really think your heart is in the right place, but your lack of experience of what a girl wants is what keeps hurting you. Don't worry, I can find out more stuff for you later on." After quickly turning around and closing the bedroom door, Sango hurried back over to the window. "At least you're trying!"
"Keh," He would not suffice with her words. Yes, of course he was trying; he had been trying for quite some time before the well vanished into air. The predicament lay in what had already been done, the fact that she knew that he loved her and vice a versa and dippidy do da day.
Inuyasha flopped down onto ground with a scowl on his face and mind. 'How can a woman be this freakin' complicated!...' (KZ - Inuyasha-san, you have NO idea...)
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Okay, so that was kinda a filler chapter, but it also had to do with the fact that their dance is on Friday, so this was somewhat needed. Well, more like payment almost fluff for my delay. SORRY! GOMEN-KUDASAI GOZAIMASU!
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(KPK- You better not have been referring to me with that last line!)
(KZ - I have four sisters. Of course it was)
(Strawberry - Watch it, pal...)