Shippo happily hopped onto Kagome's head. Inuyasha gracefully jumped onto a branch which he believed to be comfortable enough and got in an upright, sleeping position.
Kagome jumped and swung one leg over a low-lying branch. This was a fairly painful move for the middle-aged librarian. She landed fairly hard on her inner thigh. "Ow.." she muttered.
She slumped forward and slid towards the trunk of the tree. Upon feeling the pressure of the trunk against her front she began to carefully change into a more comfortable position. Of course, Kagome and every one of you knows that a tree is not a comfortable place to sleep. This is especially true for someone who has had a nice comfy bed for most of their life.
Shippo fluffed her hair through is paws, lifting it up and shoving it back down onto her scalp (not unlike what a cat does). He did this and walked in a little circle before curling up to sleep atop her head.
Kagome grumbled at the feeling of a knot in the wood pressing itself into her back. She would never be able to sleep like this. She tried to sleep this way but failed. After about five minutes, she was so miserable that she felt like crying. She decided to voice her discomfort. "See, Inuyasha? This is a great reason why I don't want to live here. How can you expect me to sleep in a tree?"
Inuyasha opened his eyes and looked at her. "Come sleep in my lap then."
Kagome shot him a suspicious glare. "No..." she responded.
"You'll come around eventually." He said with great confidence as he closed his eyes.
Kagome "hmph"ed.
However, after only ten minutes, she began to watch him, hoping that he was asleep. Seeing that his chest was moving fairly steadily and he hadn't moved in a while she assumed that he was asleep.
She had decided that she couldn't get any less comfortable than she was right now. She couldn't even be less comfortable sleeping on the lap of the guy whom she'd spent all day rejecting.
She moved carefully, she moved so slowly that she was sure that Inuyasha would not feel her moving. She was careful not to wake up Shippo.
She was certain that she could feel each branch stop moving and looked at both Inuyasha and Shippo to check for signs of consciousness before moving on to the next branch.
Eventually, very carefully, she settled herself into Inuyasha's lap. She looked at him, feeling slightly unnerved. Still, she was relieved that he showed no signs of wakefulness.
She relaxed into him, copying his position. She lay with her head on his left shoulder, in the same upright position with her feet dangling below her.
She closed her eyes and fell asleep very quickly. It was very comfortable... there... in his lap, touching his warm skin, feeling his chest rise and fall. She felt very safe, this felt like a very familiar place.
Inuyasha was indeed awake... this entire time. Pretending to shift around in his sleep, he moved, flopping each of his arms over her in a loose sort of hug. He carefully tightened his grip.
She would not escape to her time now.
If she had looked up at him, she would have seen that he had the craziest grin ever, right now. He almost felt like laughing.
Capturing such a prized creature was just so easy. It was amazing. He was proud of himself.
After silently gloating for some time, he too, fell asleep.
"COCK A DOODLE-DOO!" A child exclaimed repeatedly while running through the village and flapping his imaginary wings.
At some point in the night, Inuyasha must have sent Shippo away, for he was gone now.
Kagome squeezed her eyes tighter and then opened them up a little. She knew that kid from somewhere. Then, it dawned upon her. That was one of Sango and Miroku's little ones. Did they know that he was missing? Kagome jolted up. Or rather, she tried to jolt up. Inuyasha's tight grip prevented her moving that far. It felt like being trapped in a seatbelt which was bracing itself for impact. It was tight, uncomfortable and frustrating.
Kagome turned around and faced her captor: Inuyasha!
"Morning, Kagome." He said smugly.
"Let me go, Inuyasha!" She demanded.
"Why should I?" He smiled.
"Because if you don't I'll make you fall to your death!"
"If you do it then you will fall too."
"Let me GO!" Kagome screamed, kicking at him violently.
Even her best efforts didn't really hurt him much. He put his legs over her and held her arms closer to him.
"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPP!" Kagome screamed.
People started to gather around them, watching the hostage situation. About fifty people were gawking at them.
"PLEASE! HELP ME!" Kagome cried to the onlookers.
One spectator spoke up. "We'd like to, miss. We really would. We just don't know how to reach you up there."
"Now you can stay here forever." Inuyasha told her.
"Let me go!" She jerked around futilely. Tears dripped down her face. "Let me go...this hurts..."
"Kagome..." He sounded sad. He loosened his grip on her just a bit, but she was still quite helpless.
"Inuyasha... please, let me go free... if you let me leave, I'll take off your rosary. We can both be free, please?" She pleaded.
Inuyasha looked thoughtful. Kagome bit her trembling lip while he thought it over.
"Alright. Take off my rosary, then I'll let go of you."
"Promise?"
"Yeah..."
He let go of her arms and she, reaching behind her, felt for the rosary and gently removed it.
He released her completely. "Thank you, Inuyasha... I'm glad that you came to your senses."
He took the rosary in his hands and chucked it onto the ground far beneath them, Inuyasha's branch was quite far above the one that Kagome had chosen for herself originally. It had to be at least thirty feet up... at least.
Kagome looked at him oddly, surprised at his actions. She didn't have much time to gawk though, because as soon as the beads hit the ground he lunged at her and grabbed her even tighter than before.
"I win! I outsmarted you, now you HAVE to stay with me."
Kagome started to cry harder and scream all she could. "You didn't outsmart me, You broke a promise!"
"No I didn't, I promised to let you go, then I did, then I grabbed you up again. I did let you go, just like you wanted."
Kagome trembled. "HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPP MMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! SOMEONE!!!!! HELP!!! RAPE!" She screamed to the village below.
Kagome could see Sango and Miroku within the crowd, with twelve little children around them.
Kagome couldn't hear what they were saying. They looked desperately at each other. Kagome hoped that they could help her... still, as she knew from her own past: Inuyasha was unbeatable.
Kagome sobbed bitterly. She tried to speak to the crowd but the words died in her mouth. She could only scream her garbled message. She ceased to make sense. Soon, she just cried and cried.
"Kagome, please... don't cry... you're making me seem like a monster. You like me, don't you?" Inuyasha tried to reason with her.
"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPP!" She managed.
"Kagome! Stop it!" He ordered.
Helpless and defeated, she did. She stopped. She stopped screaming. She just looked idly downward, Everyone in the village was right below her.
On the ground, Sango was holding the discarded prayer beads with two hands. She looked at them woefully, knowing now how completely helpless her dear friend was. Kagome did not cry out, but silent tears fell from her and made the ground far below wet.
Suddenly, she felt a spark of hope rise in her heart. Miroku had thrown a long rope over a branch next to theirs. He had tied one end to himself, and Sango was pulling the other end. Through this method, Miroku came to be in the tree with them.
"Lady Kagome," He addressed her. "Why did you discard the prayer beads?"
Kagome felt so glad to see a friendly face up here that she felt words almost return to her.
"'e (sob) 'aid (whimper) let go... (sniff) ...didn't." She sputtered out.
"It's gonna be okay." He comforted her from a few feet away. "I promise." He assured her.
Somehow, Kagome felt that the monk's promise was better even though Inuyasha could normally be considered more trustworthy.
She smiled as more tears fell from her, she continued to sob, just from the momentum of the heavy sobs from before. She couldn't stop... not just yet. She still felt herself to be in danger.
"Inuyasha, you must let Kagome go."
"No way!" Inuyasha shouted back stubbornly. "You're all just angry because I outsmarted everyone!"
"That's not true!" The monk asserted. "Everyone's upset because you've kidnapped your ex-girlfriend."
Inuyasha got a little angry. "She's not my EX-girlfriend. She's my GIRLFRIEND!"
Kagome continued to cry. "... Not... TRUE!" she sputtered out.
"Inuyasha, just because you say it, doesn't make it true. Right now, you are no better than Koga. Think of what Koga did, kidnapping Kagome, calling her his mate. You remember how wrong he was. You remember how much you hated him for that. If you really do love Kagome, you'll let her go. Can't you see how much she's hurting. Look at her... crying like this. You hate to see her cry. Don't make her cry so much." The monk pleaded with him.
In a state of sheer shock, Inuyasha released Kagome. He buried himself in thought.
While Inuyasha was still thinking, Miroku grabbed Kagome and returned the the branch that he came from, still cradling her.
"Sango! lower us! Hurry, just don't drop us!" Miroku yelled to her while pointing down, just so that she would get the message.
Thanks to Sango and Miroku, Kagome safely reached the ground.
She hugged Miroku. Then she hugged Sango.
"Run to the well, Kagome." Sango instructed her.
"Thank you, I love you both. I'll always remember this" She wanted to say. However, she wasn't all that articulate right now, she sniffed, nodded and ran away. She hoped that they got her message somehow.
Kagome jumped and swung one leg over a low-lying branch. This was a fairly painful move for the middle-aged librarian. She landed fairly hard on her inner thigh. "Ow.." she muttered.
She slumped forward and slid towards the trunk of the tree. Upon feeling the pressure of the trunk against her front she began to carefully change into a more comfortable position. Of course, Kagome and every one of you knows that a tree is not a comfortable place to sleep. This is especially true for someone who has had a nice comfy bed for most of their life.
Shippo fluffed her hair through is paws, lifting it up and shoving it back down onto her scalp (not unlike what a cat does). He did this and walked in a little circle before curling up to sleep atop her head.
Kagome grumbled at the feeling of a knot in the wood pressing itself into her back. She would never be able to sleep like this. She tried to sleep this way but failed. After about five minutes, she was so miserable that she felt like crying. She decided to voice her discomfort. "See, Inuyasha? This is a great reason why I don't want to live here. How can you expect me to sleep in a tree?"
Inuyasha opened his eyes and looked at her. "Come sleep in my lap then."
Kagome shot him a suspicious glare. "No..." she responded.
"You'll come around eventually." He said with great confidence as he closed his eyes.
Kagome "hmph"ed.
However, after only ten minutes, she began to watch him, hoping that he was asleep. Seeing that his chest was moving fairly steadily and he hadn't moved in a while she assumed that he was asleep.
She had decided that she couldn't get any less comfortable than she was right now. She couldn't even be less comfortable sleeping on the lap of the guy whom she'd spent all day rejecting.
She moved carefully, she moved so slowly that she was sure that Inuyasha would not feel her moving. She was careful not to wake up Shippo.
She was certain that she could feel each branch stop moving and looked at both Inuyasha and Shippo to check for signs of consciousness before moving on to the next branch.
Eventually, very carefully, she settled herself into Inuyasha's lap. She looked at him, feeling slightly unnerved. Still, she was relieved that he showed no signs of wakefulness.
She relaxed into him, copying his position. She lay with her head on his left shoulder, in the same upright position with her feet dangling below her.
She closed her eyes and fell asleep very quickly. It was very comfortable... there... in his lap, touching his warm skin, feeling his chest rise and fall. She felt very safe, this felt like a very familiar place.
Inuyasha was indeed awake... this entire time. Pretending to shift around in his sleep, he moved, flopping each of his arms over her in a loose sort of hug. He carefully tightened his grip.
She would not escape to her time now.
If she had looked up at him, she would have seen that he had the craziest grin ever, right now. He almost felt like laughing.
Capturing such a prized creature was just so easy. It was amazing. He was proud of himself.
After silently gloating for some time, he too, fell asleep.
"COCK A DOODLE-DOO!" A child exclaimed repeatedly while running through the village and flapping his imaginary wings.
At some point in the night, Inuyasha must have sent Shippo away, for he was gone now.
Kagome squeezed her eyes tighter and then opened them up a little. She knew that kid from somewhere. Then, it dawned upon her. That was one of Sango and Miroku's little ones. Did they know that he was missing? Kagome jolted up. Or rather, she tried to jolt up. Inuyasha's tight grip prevented her moving that far. It felt like being trapped in a seatbelt which was bracing itself for impact. It was tight, uncomfortable and frustrating.
Kagome turned around and faced her captor: Inuyasha!
"Morning, Kagome." He said smugly.
"Let me go, Inuyasha!" She demanded.
"Why should I?" He smiled.
"Because if you don't I'll make you fall to your death!"
"If you do it then you will fall too."
"Let me GO!" Kagome screamed, kicking at him violently.
Even her best efforts didn't really hurt him much. He put his legs over her and held her arms closer to him.
"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPP!" Kagome screamed.
People started to gather around them, watching the hostage situation. About fifty people were gawking at them.
"PLEASE! HELP ME!" Kagome cried to the onlookers.
One spectator spoke up. "We'd like to, miss. We really would. We just don't know how to reach you up there."
"Now you can stay here forever." Inuyasha told her.
"Let me go!" She jerked around futilely. Tears dripped down her face. "Let me go...this hurts..."
"Kagome..." He sounded sad. He loosened his grip on her just a bit, but she was still quite helpless.
"Inuyasha... please, let me go free... if you let me leave, I'll take off your rosary. We can both be free, please?" She pleaded.
Inuyasha looked thoughtful. Kagome bit her trembling lip while he thought it over.
"Alright. Take off my rosary, then I'll let go of you."
"Promise?"
"Yeah..."
He let go of her arms and she, reaching behind her, felt for the rosary and gently removed it.
He released her completely. "Thank you, Inuyasha... I'm glad that you came to your senses."
He took the rosary in his hands and chucked it onto the ground far beneath them, Inuyasha's branch was quite far above the one that Kagome had chosen for herself originally. It had to be at least thirty feet up... at least.
Kagome looked at him oddly, surprised at his actions. She didn't have much time to gawk though, because as soon as the beads hit the ground he lunged at her and grabbed her even tighter than before.
"I win! I outsmarted you, now you HAVE to stay with me."
Kagome started to cry harder and scream all she could. "You didn't outsmart me, You broke a promise!"
"No I didn't, I promised to let you go, then I did, then I grabbed you up again. I did let you go, just like you wanted."
Kagome trembled. "HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPP MMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! SOMEONE!!!!! HELP!!! RAPE!" She screamed to the village below.
Kagome could see Sango and Miroku within the crowd, with twelve little children around them.
Kagome couldn't hear what they were saying. They looked desperately at each other. Kagome hoped that they could help her... still, as she knew from her own past: Inuyasha was unbeatable.
Kagome sobbed bitterly. She tried to speak to the crowd but the words died in her mouth. She could only scream her garbled message. She ceased to make sense. Soon, she just cried and cried.
"Kagome, please... don't cry... you're making me seem like a monster. You like me, don't you?" Inuyasha tried to reason with her.
"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPP!" She managed.
"Kagome! Stop it!" He ordered.
Helpless and defeated, she did. She stopped. She stopped screaming. She just looked idly downward, Everyone in the village was right below her.
On the ground, Sango was holding the discarded prayer beads with two hands. She looked at them woefully, knowing now how completely helpless her dear friend was. Kagome did not cry out, but silent tears fell from her and made the ground far below wet.
Suddenly, she felt a spark of hope rise in her heart. Miroku had thrown a long rope over a branch next to theirs. He had tied one end to himself, and Sango was pulling the other end. Through this method, Miroku came to be in the tree with them.
"Lady Kagome," He addressed her. "Why did you discard the prayer beads?"
Kagome felt so glad to see a friendly face up here that she felt words almost return to her.
"'e (sob) 'aid (whimper) let go... (sniff) ...didn't." She sputtered out.
"It's gonna be okay." He comforted her from a few feet away. "I promise." He assured her.
Somehow, Kagome felt that the monk's promise was better even though Inuyasha could normally be considered more trustworthy.
She smiled as more tears fell from her, she continued to sob, just from the momentum of the heavy sobs from before. She couldn't stop... not just yet. She still felt herself to be in danger.
"Inuyasha, you must let Kagome go."
"No way!" Inuyasha shouted back stubbornly. "You're all just angry because I outsmarted everyone!"
"That's not true!" The monk asserted. "Everyone's upset because you've kidnapped your ex-girlfriend."
Inuyasha got a little angry. "She's not my EX-girlfriend. She's my GIRLFRIEND!"
Kagome continued to cry. "... Not... TRUE!" she sputtered out.
"Inuyasha, just because you say it, doesn't make it true. Right now, you are no better than Koga. Think of what Koga did, kidnapping Kagome, calling her his mate. You remember how wrong he was. You remember how much you hated him for that. If you really do love Kagome, you'll let her go. Can't you see how much she's hurting. Look at her... crying like this. You hate to see her cry. Don't make her cry so much." The monk pleaded with him.
In a state of sheer shock, Inuyasha released Kagome. He buried himself in thought.
While Inuyasha was still thinking, Miroku grabbed Kagome and returned the the branch that he came from, still cradling her.
"Sango! lower us! Hurry, just don't drop us!" Miroku yelled to her while pointing down, just so that she would get the message.
Thanks to Sango and Miroku, Kagome safely reached the ground.
She hugged Miroku. Then she hugged Sango.
"Run to the well, Kagome." Sango instructed her.
"Thank you, I love you both. I'll always remember this" She wanted to say. However, she wasn't all that articulate right now, she sniffed, nodded and ran away. She hoped that they got her message somehow.