Um... one shot. I couldn't get this out of my head and have nothing particularly better to so, so I write. I don't own any characters and mean no disrespect to anybody at all, so don't sue me. You'd get nothing anyway, all I've got is Paranoia agent and some twinkies.
"I hate it here. I absolutely hate it."
Kagome sighed. Somehow, she had just known bringing Inuyasha back to her own time would be a problem. But he wouldn't let her come home, otherwise.
"Settle down, it's only a few more minutes and we'll be there, okay?"
"This 'bus' thing is stupid. I could run faster than this, even if I was carrying you."
"Me and the groceries?"
"… sure. Anything's worse than this STUPID BUS!"
People inched away from the hanyou. Not that there was any particular abundance of space on the crowded vehicle.
"No way. If you dropped anything the whole trip would have been a waste. So just settle down and wait it out, okay?"
"Fine. But I'm never doing this again."
The silver-haired boy sat on the window seat, looking annoyed. The absence of the tessaiga was heavy on his mind, but he couldn't carry it around in the city. On the other hand, Kagome would just get herself hurt, or worse, if he left her alone.
He just hoped her grandfather didn't try to exorcise it while he was gone…
Somewhere in the back, some lady was wearing WAY too much perfume.
Argh, could this thing go any slower? As if the smell of the thing wasn't bad enough, it had to go inching along, too, dragging out the torture. He didn't know how Kagome could stand it.
She was sitting calmly, watching something in front of them.
"This is the second to last stop before ours, okay?"
"Yeah, that means nothing to me."
Some people filed off, including the lady with the perfume, but more got on. Somebody had a baby, which was wailing pitifully.
The man behind them poked the back of Inuyasha's baseball cap.
"Hey, do you mind if I open the window?"
Inuyasha glared at Kagome.
"These things open?" He said slowly.
"Yeah," The guy said, pulling the glass panel open. "What, haven't you ridden a bus before?"
"You could have told me," Inuyasha accused.
"I didn't think it would matter," Kagome confessed.
The bus started moving again, and a lot of air poured in the open windows. It wasn't
As clear as the air in the sengoku jidai, but at least it didn't reek of Little Cramped Spaces.
"Actually, screw this. I'll meet you when you get off," Inuyasha told the miko. She stared blanky at him.
Realization dawned.
"Please don't go out the wind-"
But he was already gone.
The roof of the bus was much, much nicer than the inside. Even if he did have to hold tightly onto the baseball cap to keep it from blowing away.
The hanyou got a lot of weird stares from passersby, including a policeman, but that wasn't anything new.
By the time Kagome got off the bus, her arms full of groceries, he was halfway enjoying the warmth of the metal vehicle. But that didn't mean he was gonna stay there for one extra second.
He dropped to the pavement, grabbed half the bags out of Kagome's arms, and without another word set off in the direction of the shrine. Kagome hurried to catch up.
"Inuyasha?"
"What?"
"You're not claustrophobic are you?"
It was his turn to stare blankly.
"What does that even mean?"
"… nothing at all."
"Well don't say it then."
Trust Inuyasha to turn something like an ordinary grocery run into an ordeal. They were never doing this again.
She grinned.
Or maybe they were…
Okay, yeah, that was totally pointless. Ah, well. Don't hate me.
Oh, I've got another good fanart up my website, in case anyone wants to go look…
(Inuyasha section, Images)