Chapter 3

They both decided to head back to Kaede's village, but it would take nearly 2 days to reach it. Inuyasha and Kagome would have to suffer for 2 days, with not one single lead. Kagome clung to Inuyasha's arm, eyes closed, cringing, as they sat beside the fire.

"How can you stand this!" Kagome cried. "I can hear everything! Animals, wind, everything! It just won't stop! The noise is unbearable!"

Inuyasha grinned. "I'm enjoying the lack of hearing it all. Rather calming, this human deafness." An owl screeched, and Kagome clung tighter. "Look, we need to get some sleep. If we come up against any Youkai, we'll need all the brainpower we can get. And, Shippo isn't around to even rely on his fox fire." He laid down on Kagome's sleeping bag, and moved over for her to join. She did, but kept as much distance as possible between them. Inuyasha frowned, but said nothing as they went to sleep.

Shippo huffed as he grew more and more exhausted, struggling against his bonds. The little black cat purred and rubbed against him for attention, and he tried nudging it away. He growled at the cat, yet he persisted.

Finally, she came back into the small chamber. "Hiro, bed time. We've had enough fun for the day. We'll start, again, bright and early tomorrow. The cat disappeared behind the flowing red curtain she had just entered from. She kneeled down, in front of Shippo. "Now, you should get some sleep, too. I have no plans to kill you, but plans can change. Especially, if you cause me to lose my beauty sleep. We'll have an early breakfast, sleep well, little one." She, too, left, and Shippo was alone, in the dark. He sighed and slumped back, against the metal stake he was tied to.

Kagome awoke, feeling more energetic than she thought she would, considering her trouble getting to sleep, in the first place. She crawled out from the sleeping bag, and Inuyasha just moaned and rolled over. As she stretched out, she felt as if her bladder was about to burst. "You have got to be kidding me…" she whispered. She bit her lip, and debated on whether or not to just go in the forest, or die of embarrassment, and wake Inuyasha up.

She ran, quietly, out to a tree and tried to figure out what to do. She didn't want to touch him, but she wasn't quite sure if the squatting technique would work out, either. She had to think quick, as the bladder grew more and more insistent. "Oh, God! I'm going to explode!" She began to cross her legs and perform the ritual potty dance. "Fine! Fine!" She undid the tie on the red pants, and squatted. She looked up at the canopy of tree leaves, not wanting to seem like a pervert.

Soon, her legs began getting tired, and she was growing bored. "How much pee could he possibly hold?" Finally, it was done, she wiggled her hips, in place of the shake off. She pulled the pants back up, and made her way back to camp.

Inuyasha was sitting on the sleeping bag, still looking tired. He looked up at her, and yawned. "Where'd you go?" Kagome blushed. "Gyah! Don't do that!" Kagome bit her lip. She liked the strange feeling of the sharp fang on her lip, for some reason.

"I had to pee." She whispered.

"Huh?"

"I had to pee!" She cried out.

"What! Did you-?"

"Of course, I did, idiot!" She said, balling her fists. "Would you have rather had me let your bladder explode!"

"Well, no, but…did you….you know…?"

"No, I didn't even look. I just did it the way I normally do."

Inuyasha sighed. "I don't know which is more embarrassing: The squat, or you touching my body." He rubbed his temples and closed his eyes. "Okay, we have to work something out. We can't go on like this when we have to do things like that. Any ideas?"

Kagome looked surprised. "You're asking for my input?"

"Look! You're in this, as much as I am. So, any ideas you may have, would be greatly appreciated." He said, sarcastically.

"We'll work most of the problems when they happen. Right now, we only need to work out peeing…and bathing."

"What do we need to take a bath for?"

Kagome crossed her arms. "You, truly, are disgusting."

"What? Why?"

"I will not allow you to have my body rot in filth, because you don't want to see my body!" Kagome was angry, now. Inuyasha bolted out of the sleeping bag, and came nose to nose with her.

"I didn't say that!"

"Then what are you trying to say?"

"You-I-I just don't wanna get hit for being a pervert! You can't even 'pee' with that body correctly, for the same reason!" Inuyasha backed away and Kagome blushed again.

"Fine! How about this!" Kagome stripped Inuyasha's clothes off her body, and stood naked, in front of him. Inuyasha's jaw dropped, but Kagome's eyes were closed. She crossed her arms over her muscular chest, fingers clinging to her upper arms.

"Are you crazy! What the hell do you think you're doing!"

"You do the same, now. Take my clothes off. Her voice was shaky and nervous. Inuyasha, slowly, obeyed and began removing clothing, until he hit a snag. He became slightly entangled in the fine straps of her bra. "umm, a little help?"

Kagome smiled and reached the snaps of the garment. With Inuyasha's fingers still strange to her, she was, also, having problems. And, Inuyasha's claws weren't helping either. After a grueling, and frustrating 5 minutes, Inuyasha was free. They both, now, stared at their own naked bodies.

Kagome took a deep breath. "What now?" Inuyasha asked. Kagome looked at him.

"Okay. We'll make a pact. We're going to look down, and see ourselves, now. But, after this, we'll agree that whatever one of us does to the others' body, is permission to do vice versa. Alright?"

Inuyasha closed his eyes, irritably. "Fine, it sounds fair enough."

"On the count of 3. 1-2-…3." They both looked down at their respective new bodies. For a moment, there was silence, then the sound of two bodies thudding to the ground, as they fainted.