PLP: Once again this chapter will mostly be mine.
QJP: I don't think so.
PLP: And why not?
QJP: You had the 2nd chapter.
PLP: But you had SOME lines I didn't help AT ALL on the 3rd chapter.
BC: So? Share this chapter. Besides, I might have a few good ideas that could go into this chapter.
PLP: Fine!
BC: See now that wasn't hard, was it?
PLP: That's nice. Onto The Trail ride part 2.
QJP: Oh, and yes, we still are holding the Inu cast in captivity. (Points to magic mirror which shows the cast in a dark dungeon-type room)
----------------------------------------The Trail Ride Part 2:The Sing Along--------------------------------------------
Kikyo shifted in Ginger's saddle. "I'm so sick of having to ride an old mare that's pokey." She stuck up her nose.
'Then maybe you should get better." Inuyasha smiled.
"Stop it you two. NOW." Kagome said, hoping to prevent another fight between them.
"We have a long ways to go you two. We are behind because of you Kikyo. Don't EVEN make us leave you behind."
"Can we canter Miss. Kagome?" Shippo asked. Kagome nodded and cued Prancer to canter. The rest of the group did the same with their horses.
Prancer went to a trot and threw her backend around. "Woah!" Kagome gently pulled back and sat deep in the saddle until Prancer was at a stop. Kasey ran into Prancer's butt.
Kagome hopped off and took off Prancer's saddle. She put it in a bag and slung it over her shoulder.
"Why can't WE ride bareback?" Kikyo asked.
"Because YOU aren't good enough. Besides you don't NEED to. And we'll ride bareback when we get closer. It's just Prancer and Moonshadow don't like saddles very much and they get fidgety when they have one on for too long."
Kikyo made her horse walk in a circle and pulled the reins tight to try and make Ginger rear. She got pulled forward when Ginger jerked the reins out of her hands.
Kagome looked at Kikyo, "What are you doing?"
"Ginger is misbehaving."
"Don't lie to me. Ginger bearly misbehaves unless someone makes her do it. Don't even make me do something you'll regret."
"Like what?"
"Like make you walk instead of ride."
"I won't be able to keep up if you canter."
"Exactly. So keep your mouth shut and behave!"
Inuyasha started to go to the back and started singing 'Don't Take the Girl' by Tim McGraw. Kagome joined in. Sango heard and also joined in. Soon enough everyone was singing it...even Kikyo, who didn't know the words so she was behind.
Kagome had to drop back so no one would see her crying. "I'm going to patrol the back" she said to Sango and waited for everyone to pass her. She started tearing. Inuyasha heard sniffles and looked back and saw Kagome wiping her eyes.
Inuyasha made Princess do a circle. She flung her head up and he stroked her neck to settle her. "You okay?" he asked Kagome now they were side by side.
"Fine. Go back ahead. I don't want no one to be left behind."
It didn't help the tears when Sango started singing 'Please remember me' by Tim McGraw. She wiped her eyes again. "Are you sure you're alright?"
"I said I was fine. Now do what you're told or I'll make YOU walk!" she snapped.
Inuyasha looked at Kagome's sad face and clucked to Princess. She walked slower. He stroked her neck and hit her sides with his heels. She went into a trot. The rest of the group followed. Kagome was at a slow trot.
Shippo started singing 'Hi and Goodbye' by ATeens (a/n: a little preview of another one of QJP's stories...)
Princess started acting up. She reared and bucked. He started singing 'Get Off My back' by Bryan Adams. Kikyo sang along and MADE ginger buck and rear.
"Stop it you two." Kagome warned. She snickered and started singing 'I want It That Way' by the Backstreet Boys.
Sango smiled "Let's sing trail ride songs!"
"Okay. What one?"
"The horses go marching One by one hurray, hurrah," Sango sang loudly. Everyone joined in.
The horses go marching one by one, hurray, hurrah. The horses go marching one by one, hurray, hurrah. The horses go marching one by one; Princess stops to spit out her gum... The horses go marching in. The horses go marching two by two, hurray, hurrah. The horses go marching two by two, hurray, hurrah. The horses go marching two by two; Princess stops to collect more shoes... The horses go marching in. The horses go marching three by three, hurray, hurrah. The horses go marching three by three, hurray, hurrah. The horses go marching three by three; Princess stops to rub on a tree... The horses go marching in. The horses go marching four by four, hurray, hurrah. The horses go marching four by four, hurray, hurrah. The horses go marching four by four; Princess stops to knock down a door... The horses go marching in. The horses go marching five by five, hurray, hurrah. The horses go marching five by five, hurray, hurrah. The horses go marching five by five; Princess stops to dive in a pool... The horses go marching in. The horses go marching six by six, hurray, hurrah. The horses go marching six by six, hurray, hurrah. The horses go marching six by six. Princess stops to throw a stick...the horses go marching in. The horses go marching seven by seven, hurray, hurrah. The horses go marching seven by seven, hurray, hurrah. The horses go marching seven by seven, Princess dies and goes to heaven... The horses go marching in. The horses go marching eight by eight, hurray, hurrah. The horses go marching eight by eight, hurray, hurrah. The horses go marching eight by eight; Princess stops to jump the gait... The horses go marching in. The horses go marching nine by nine, hurray, hurrah. The horses go marching nine by nine, hurray, hurrah. The horses go marching nine by nine; Princess stops to break your spine... The horses go marching in. The horses go marching ten by ten, hurray, hurrah. The horses go marching ten by ten, hurray, hurrah. The horses go marching ten by ten; Princess stops to chase a hen... The horses go marching in.
By the time they were done singing that, Kagome came up with another song to sing.
"We are getting tired of singing."
"I'll sing by myself then!"
"Five little horses jumping over a tree, teasing Mr. Alligator...you can't catch me, no you can't catch me! Along came Mr. Alligator, quite as can be...(claps hands). Four little..."
"Please stop! You're torturing us." Inuyasha said
"Do you want to wa-"
"He's right. Enough singing. I think it's time we let the horses get a drink. We are almost to the cabins so we can leave our saddles and lock them up." Sango interrupted.
"Okay."
After ten minutes of resting, they continued on to the cabin. The rest of the ride was silent. Princess wasn't even fidgeting. There was a pattern, Kagome noticed. First Moonshadow would flick his tail, then Ginger, then Night, and then Pepper. On the way they were following. It was hot and sticky. They needed to spray the horses with Fly spray. She saw the cabin and smiled. They all lined up at the tying posts and tied their horses.
"Kagome and I will go fetch water as soon as we get the buckets." Sango said fishing in her pocket for the key. She found it and opened the cabin. She put the stuff she didn't need in there.
Inside the cabin there was a total of 6 rooms: A bathroom, four small bedrooms, and a combination kitchen/living area.
After getting the horses all untacked and the makeshift pasture put together and everything. It was time to assign rooms. "Alright," Sango began, "now that the horses are all taken care of we need to do our sleeping arrangements. There are only 6 bedrooms and 7 of us all together. That means that one of us will have to pair up with someone else."
"Miss. Sango, I would be honored to b-"
"No."
"How did you know what I was about to ask?"
"Well, from what I know about you already you were going to ask if you would be my roommate and I don't usually do that with perverts OR men I just met two days ago."
"Tell me, if that's not what you do then what is it that you do instead?"
"Mostly I try to avoid them."
"Me and Naraku will share a room." Kikyo finally spoke up. "After all, we ARE married."
"Good. Now that that's settled, why don't we go to our rooms and unpack. Then, when it gets dark enough out, we'll have a bonfire." Kagome said, dismissing everyone and going out to feed the horses and make sure all the tack was put away properly.
-----------------------------------------------------Half hour later-----------------------------------------------------------
It was finally dark enough to have the bonfire. The problem was, everyone was too tired and was practically falling asleep on their feet.
"Well, this certainly wasn't expected," Sango commented when she looked around the bonfire at everyone's tired faces. Even Shippo, who usually was always awake enough to have at least 5 or 6 s'mores, had one and even then he was about to drop where he stood. "We might as well turn in for the night then I guess."
With that everyone filed back into the cabin and Sango was left alone to extinguish the fire. After doing that and putting all the s'more supplies and matches in a saddlebag, she went to make sure the horses had plenty of water and that the make-shift pasture was secure enough so that none of them would somehow find a way to escape. That done, she herself went into the cabin.
She took out her thick sleeping bag and unfolded it. She snickered as she heard Kagome snore. Her eyes widened as Kagome snorted. She had to stuff her hand in her mouth to stop herself from bursting in laughter. She dragged her black leather sleeping bag (PLP: is everything black leather with this girl? QJP: NO! You're the one that wrote it! PLP: Good point...) to her bed and climbed in. She sneezed as dust floated up to the ceiling.
Her eyes started to drift before she could even pull up her sleeping bag. Her arm went wild to grab it, but her arm just didn't seem long enough. She didn't want to be cold, but her eyes just were still drifting and she couldn't stop them from doing so. Before she knew it her eyes where all the way shut. Her arm fell onto the bed, a whole new group of dust floated up. She sneezed and her eyes opened. She sat up and grabbed her sleeping bag, then pulled it up to her neck as she lay back down. She turned onto her right side and immediately fell asleep.
A shadowy figure walked around the cabin. Tip toeing throughout out it, making it creek and squeak.
Sango woke up to the noise of her door opening. She stretched and sat up, rubbing her eyes. She grabbed her watch and read the time, 12am. She looked around her room. Finally she decided everything was okay and lay back down. A loud squeak almost made her jump out of bed. She looked towards the door and saw someone standing there. She grabbed her watch and threw it at the person. "MIROKU! GET OUT OF HERE!"
"Ouch!" A whiny voice came. "That watch hurt."
Sango blinked, "You're going to get a lot worse then that if you don't get out of my room NOW!"
The figure came towards her. "But Sango..." Sango looked as the figure approached her bed. She grabbed Hiraikotsu and swung it towards the voice. "Please don't hurt me Sango! It's me Shippo!" Sango tried stopped the boomerang in mid swing by pulling it up, but it didn't help. Shippo had to duck.
"Oh my God! I'm so sorry Shippo. I thought you were someone else." Sango said as she hurriedly got out of bed and ran to his side, checking him over for injuries.
"Who?"
"Miroku. I figured that if he was wondering if he would be sharing the room with me that he would try to sneak in." Sango explained. "Why are you in here anyway?"
"This is my first year going on the annual campout with you guys. I'm not used to being out in the woods like this and I got scared." He paused and said hopefully, "do you think I could sleep in here with you for tonight?"
"Alright. But only for tonight."
"Thanks." Then both of them went to bed and were soon fast asleep.
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QJP: Third chapter done. And personally, I'm starting to lose some of my ideas of what could happen while everyone's on the trial ride.
PLP: But still, this will be at least a five-part trail ride so when you run out of ideas I'll take over.
QJP: And that reminds me. For all you readers/reviewers like PLP's work or better yet me and PLP's work combined will be happy to know that from now on she will be co-authoring every single one of my fics. Even the ones that are still being planned!
PLP: I look forwards to making your fics mine! First the fics...then the WORLD! (Insert evil laugh here)
QJP: What did I tell you about saying your plans for world domination!?
PLP: Uhhh, not to mention them out loud?
QJP: That's right. Now to end this author note we should point out that any and all flames/reviews are greatly accepted and from now on are going to be needed in order for us to be inspired to right more. I should point out also that any requests to release the Inu cast will be ignored because only me and PLP can decide when we want to let them go. Also to help along with the chapters requests are also appreciated. And this chapter was 5 pages long.
PLP: WAIT! We never answered the requests/questions that we got for the last chapter yet.
QJP: Oh yeah. Uh here are the answers to chapter 3's requests and/or questions...
Fang girl: Yeah, Kikyo's starting to bug me too. But it'll all be over by the end of the trail ride and she won't be bothering anyone anymore. And the whole reason that I actually have Inuyasha being polite is because with me and my riding instructors, I have to show respect towards them by saying "Mrs. Sena" and "Mr. Wes" and plus, PLP usually is writing all the talking for Kagome and I don't know what she'll have her do if he didn't respect her at least a little bit.
Blackcat8610: You said the exact same thing as Fang girl so just read that so I won't have to repeat myself.
Bizm: Oh yes, I plan on keeping the Inu characters in that room until at least the end of the trail ride. At that point I'll let some of you reviewers try and rescue them. And how did you know that was what was going to happen to Kikyo? Unfortunately though, she won't die for a while. Sorry.