:::says in mocking tone::: I do not own, nor will i ever, Inuyasha or any characters in the story, in-fact, for future reference, i only own the story that i write. continue with the story now. - :action:
"words"
'thoughts'
Sunrise
By Sango
The First of the Courting
When Kagome woke up, Inuyasha was gone. She got up and checked to see if Kaede had made any soup, 'Aww....and I'm really hungr-' "Eh!" she squeaked out of fright.
For, lying right in-front of her was a bloody, dead, deer.
"Morning." the miko heard the hanyou say, at that she looked up to see him washing off his bloody claws in a bowl of water.
"I-Inuyasha? Did you catch this?" she asked, with a 'still-a-little-creeped-out-because-there-was-a-dead-animal-infront-of-her' voice.
"Yea....It's for you....if your hungry," at that Kagome's stomach growled and the hanyou smirked withought looking up.
"You don't....you know....expect me to gut it...do you?...Because I will....if you want me to..." she said even though she really didn't feel like ripping apart a cute little animal at that moment... br "Nope, i'll do it. Unless you really want to-" he stopped at seeing her shake her head 'no' violently, "Didn't think so."
::::::Two hours later::::::
Inuyasha was almost done ripping meat off the poor animal. They had moved it outside after about an hour of just debating on where to rip it apart. Kagome didn't want blood all over the floor.
Miroku, Sango, Kirara, Shippo, and Kaede were still asleep.
Kagome sat a good distance away from the bloody animal and her hanyou. She sat on some hay stacks outside of the hut with Inuyasha's Fire-Rat shirt draped over her shoulders, since it was still only about six in the morning.
Shippo woke up and walked outside to find Kagome, hearing her talk to Inuyasha. He smelt blood. When he ran out of the hut he yelled in surprise and jumped into the startled Kagome's lap.
"Shippo...Good morning. You should probably be quiet so you don't wake up Sango and Miro-" Shippo interrupted her.
"EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!! INUYASHAAA! That's gross! Get it away from here!" br Inuyasha was about to yell at him, but he respected what Kagome had said and just walked over to him and Kagome. Shippo looked up to see Inuyasha looming over him, and the kneel down to eye height. Kagome knew what was happening but shouldn't stop it in time. Inuyasha wiped a bunch of blood all into the kitsune's hair, and walked back over to the deer.
"Inuyasha! That's really nasty!" Kagome yelled at him with a freaking-out kitsune struggling in her arms, "Come on, Shippo, let's go to the hot springs and get you cleaned up." with that Kagome got up and walked towards the hot springs, not wasting time when she gave inuyasha a playful walk-by smack to the side of his head.
Kagome also then had blood on her, but continued walking to the hot-springs. Shippo was now on her shoulder, scratching and smacking at his head to get the blood off of him.
They finally got there and Shippo wasted no time in jumping straight into the hot spring, clothes on and all.
Kagome came in right after and screeched as her feet hit the water. It was really cold.
"Damn, why is it so cold," now noticing that the little kitsune was freezing cold and wet. Kagome jumped in really quickly and, despite the freezing cold of the water quickly washed off Shippo's head. When they got out, Kagome quickly grabbed a towel and ran towards camp to dry off next to the fire.
:::::Back at Camp:::::
Inuyasha looked up to see Kagome shaking cold...and in a towl....(hehehe bet he liked it ;-) k sorry)
"K-Kagome! Put something on! Miroku's here! You know he's gon-" he was cut off when she lunged at him, seeking warmth. He was surprised at this and blushed a little at Kagome being practically naked, but he hugged her back.
"O-OHMIGOD! I-IT WAS S-SO C-C-C-COLD I-INUYASHA!!!!!!!!!!! I N-N-N-NEED W-WARMTH!!!!" she was squeezing him so tight he couldn't breath.
"K-Kagome...C-can't bre-eath..." at that she loosened her grip and, shaking, sat down at the fire, still shaking.
Inuyasha chuckled, "You know, It would be warmer if you put some clothes on," he draped his fire-rat shirt over shoulders again and went to get her clothes which she had left behind. When he got to the hot springs, he picked up her clothes, but noticed the deer blood from Shippo's head, and went and washed her clothes out, thinking that Kaede could give her some priestess outfit or something.
As he walked back with Kagomes clean-but-wet clothes, his hanyou ears picked up people talking at the camp.
"...Well well, Kagome...I see you are in a towel? What have you and Inuyasha been doing while we were asleep?" br Then a ::SMACK::
"YOU PERVERT!!!!!!"
".....will he ever learn?" he growled to himself.
"INUYASHA!!! Kill Miroku! Now!" Kagome yelled angrily, covering herself in the fire rat shirt.
"...Why? Anything aside from the perverted words?" he said walking over to her and glaring at Miroku.
"He tried to STRIP ME!" at that Miroku watched in horror as Inuaysha pulled out his Testusiga but didn't transform it.
"I'm gonna give you one chance to explain yourself before i cut your damn, perverted hands off. Now, explain."
"W-Well you see, Lady Kagome was cold and I was wondering why so I went to take off your fire rat coat because she was shaking an IhappenedtoaccidentallytakeoffhertowelbutIswearIdidn'tseeanythinghonest! These things just happen!"
"..."
"That what happened, Kagome?" the hanyou asked still holding the sword in the air.
"Uhh....Sure...whatever. I'm too tired and cold to argue. you get my clothes?" she asked tired out from yelling.
"Uhh..no. I thought you might be able to get some from the hag because they were covered in blood."
"Oh, ok." br "Aye, child, I have some right here, come get them." Kaede said on Que. She had just woken up...apparently to the yelling. Along with Sango and Kirara.
Kagome went inside to get changed and when she came back out she looked almost like Kikyo, and Inuyasha wasn't happy about it. He kept thinking about times he had with Kikyo, Times before she died, and times after. Like their first kiss (which I actually found out that they kissed before she died, I got a special episode from Japan...Damn Kikyo!!!) and when she almost dragged him down to hell.
Inuyasha snapped out of his thoughts when Kagome waved a hand in-front of his face.
"N-nani?" he asked, a hint of being pissed in his voice. Kagome handed him his fire rat shirt, "You ok? You seem....pissed off...at...me?"
"No...well I guess you could say it's you....You just look way too much like Kikyo and I don't like it too much. Put this back on. You'll look like Kagome," he answered.
"inuyasha? If i ask you a question, will you answer me honestly?" Kagome asked.
"Yeah, sure, what is it?" "Do you....still love Kikyo....at all? Answer honestly, 'cause I wont be angry if you answer yes."
He paused for a second, and then bent down and placed a kiss on her lips, "No, I only love you," he said when he pulled away.
Kagome blushed.
"Ahem..." Sango interrupted. They both snapped their heads towards the sound of the intruder, "Why in the world is there a ripped apart deer in the front of our hut?" she asked with curiosity in her voice.
"Heh, that would be our meal, Sango-chan," Kagome replied.
"Speaking of which, hey hag! You wanna put some of the meat up the fire so we can eat anytime?" Inuyasha asked.
"Aye, Inuyasha, I will do that when I am fully awake, if you wish to have it done earlier, then do it yourself," the old woman replied.
"Hag..." Inuyasha grumbled and went to put some of the meat on the fire.
Kagome sat down by him next to the fire, still cold.
"How long does it take to cook meat? I'm really hungry, Kagome! That was gross Inuyasha, don't kiss Kagome in-front of other people! I'm cold, Kagome! I'm bored, Kagome. I'm Tired, Kago-" br He was cut short when Inuyasha slapped his hand over his mouth to stop him from talking, "Hey Shippo, why do you always have to bug Kagome when your bored? Why do you always have to bug Kagome when your tired? Why do you always have to bug Kagome when your cold? Why are you so annoying? When are you planning on actually being a help around here? When were you planning on shutting up before i stopped you? Hey, Shippo, I'm tired, too! I'm hungry, too! So how about you SHUT UP!" Inuyasha said in a mocking tone as he took his hand off of the kitsunes mouth and went back to putting meat on the fire.
"Wow, Inuyasha! i thought only Shippo had the ability to be abnormally-annoying! I think you broke a record!" Miroku put in after laughing at the stunned look on the kitsunes face.
After eating breakfast, Inuyasha and Kagome sat around the fire lazily as the others took the day off, too.
Kagome laid on-top of Inuaysha and stared lazily into the fire, thinking about all that had happened.
She decided that she should tell Inuyasha what was on her mind, "Inuyasha? Don't you think we should, you know, try to find out about this new enemy of ours?"
"Oh, come on, don't tell me you don't want one more day off. I thought you got 'tired out easily'. Are you saying that you are awake now?"
She chuckled, "No, it's just unlike you," she replied lazily.
"All right then, we'll continue our brake then ok?" he said before drifting off to sleep.
'He must still be tired. Hmm....He does overwork himself sometimes....' she thought to herself before drifting off to sleep again.
Ok, chapter done! finally! so sorry about the wait, i was busy, but now i already have another chapter in the works! (even though it a few chapters ahead of what i was planning...)
ja ne
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