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Author's Note/opinion/thoughts A/N-Lot's of lovely FLUFF FLUFF means cutesy romance. in this chapter. Yippee!
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Normal POV
Two more days went by uneventfully, that is, if you ignore all the fights. Inuyasha had gotten 'sat' so much that a bright purple bruise was forming on his stomach, all across it, like a road.
The bright red hand mark from all the slaps had almost become a permanent feature of Miroku's face. And it had started to swell, making the lecher's entire face sore and hideously disfigured. He, of coarse, got no sympathy from anyone else in the group. According, no, especially to them, he disserved what he got.
No demons came to hound them, the maps turned out to be no use whatsoever, so they had sold them to the first merchant who came along. Inuyasha never caught a whiff of Naraku's stench, and there were none of the evil hanyou's hell wasps to be seen or heard. In an act of utter desperation to find at least one lurking in the shrouds of the trees and bushes that aligned the road that they were traveling on, Miroku had unleashed his wind tunnel. But no matter where he pointed it, not a single drop of poison entered his right hand. So, with nerves strung to the breaking point, the group kept warily going. Kagome had a pit of worry in her gut though. She felt that when they next had to do battle, something would go very, very wrong.
"Okay man, let's try this again." When Jenny had found out that Shippo, being the youngest, was never allowed to fight, and when she found out that all he could do was amateur fox tricks, she had taken it upon herself to teach him the ropes. It was fine by everyone else in the group, at first, but then they realized what sort of things that she was telling the poor kitsune, and they were torn between being amused, and being disturbed.
"When killing someone with this form, you must have your blade pointed in 'Steal' position! Otherwise you will never even get past the bodyguards! You don't really think they'll let you in if it looks like you've been taking steroids do you! Get the sword out of your pants, and up your sleeve!" Jenny shouted at the cowering fox child.
"What're…what're…sterods?" Asked Shippo, confused. Kagome doubled over in fits of giggles.
"You…giggle…did…hahahaha…ask for…gigglegiggle…it!" Kagome managed to get out before she was taken over completely by her fits of mirth. Jenny opened her mouth, then closed it again without saying anything.
"Maybe I'll tell you when you're a bit older." She said.
"But I want to know now!" Shippo whined. "You say I'm old enough to fight, so why aren't I old enough to know what sterpods are?"
"Umm, 'cause it's a, erm, a norm in my culture that we don't tell kids your age about things like that, umm, I think-"
"You do?" Asked Inuyasha, who had just walked into the clearing in which Jenny had been teaching Shippo assassination techniques. "Well, what do you know, even I learned something new today!"
"Kagome!" Jenny whined, turning towards the Japanese girl who was keeling over, unable to stand up she was laughing so hard. "Inuyasha's being mean to m again!"
"SIT!" Kagome screamed in laughter.
"ARRRGH!" WHOMP
"Thank you Kagome!" Shouted Jenny, punching the air with her fist. "Champion of the little people! Whoo-ee!" She went over and bent over Inuyasha, who glared at her and growled, but the spell hadn't worn off yet, so he couldn't get up and beat the living daylights out of the girl. "Where you coming to alert us about the arrival of dinner?" She asked huskily. Then, laughing at Inuyasha's helplessness, the girl strode of back to where Miroku and Sango were sitting, Shippo on her heels. The last words to be heard from them were.
"Come on, Jenny, what are slortiods?"
Inuyasha looked up at Kagome, who was still giggling slightly. She had come over and was kneeling next to him. He gulped, and Kagome heard. She looked down at her strong protector, now lying in the mud at her feet, and she noticed a small blush forming on his cheeks. He was looking up at her with that strange expression in his eyes. And even though his mouth was pulled down in his usual scowl, Kagome noticed that his eyes did not hold any hostility towards her. Kagome felt her own cheeks flare up.
"Kagome." Inuyasha breathed. The girl in front of him looked so warm in the setting sun of his world, almost unearthly in her beauty, but she was there, and she was hi-
"Inuyasha! Kagome!" Miroku caroled, coming over to them. Neither of his two friends turned, they both just sat there, staring into each other's eyes. A bubble of hope arose in Miroku's chest. Had they finally realized their feelings for each other? "Sorry." The perverted monk said. "Did I interrupt anything?"
"WHAT!" Screamed Inuyasha, jumping up and whirling around, he glared at Miroku heatedly, but as the hanyou stomped off towards the fire, muttering about how, "one of these days I'm going to kill that leech-" His friend, none other than "that leech," noticed how pale Inuyasha's face was. And how shaken he looked.
Inuyasha's POV
'Dangerous thoughts, dangerous thoughts, Inuyasha. Did I really almost say 'mine?' Kagome is NOT mine, and she never will be, she belongs in her world, and she loves that Hobo freak…' The runt, who chose that moment to jump upon my head, interrupted my thoughts.
"InuYASHA-AAAAA!" The kid screeched. I winced, and but my hands over my ears fuzzy-wuzzy
"You little RUNT!" I screamed. I reached over for the kid's hair when-
"Inuyasha, SIT!" Shouted the love my life Oh, I am pure evil! I am going to make the two lovebirds so unhappy! MWAH HA HA HA HA HA HA MWAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
I felt the bruise on my abdomen getting bigger and it began to ache sharply. I gasped, I was not able to get up (even though the spell had worn off.) due to the pain. I kneeled forward clutching my stomach. I felt an alarmed Kagome at my side, and I tried asking her for help, but my stupid pride wouldn't let me. No matter how much it hurt, I couldn't let Kagome see that she had hurt me, she would be sad. And I couldn't let the others see any weakness in me. I they did, I would probably be left all alone again. Then I looked up.
She was looking at me again, her eyes deep pools of chocolate brown, concern, pain, and compassion filled those eyes, and I found myself sinking deeper into them. I was falling through her eyes, and to me it felt as if Kagome was looking into my soul, and that I was getting lost in hers. Yet I could not see the forest for the trees. Suddenly, her eyes flew open, and I saw fear plain in the whites of her eyes.
"Inuyasha!" She gasped. Her sweet cherry lips parted in horror. I tore gaze from her face and saw the source of her disturbance. That last 'sit' must have pushed the bruise on my stomach a little bit to far because blood was soaking up my already red colored haori.
"Help-" I managed to get that out of my lips before I toppled over. Drifting off into unconsciousness from the pain. The last thing I heard before blacking out was Kagome screaming. I wanted to ask her what was wrong, but by the time I realized it was she, my mind had already fled.
Normal POV
Kagome, who was still holding Inuyasha's hand, stared at the fallen hanyou. Everyone looked over her shoulder, nobody daring to say anything, move, or even breathe. But only for a few moments.
GASP GASP PANT PANT
"Get water!" Screeched Kagome at Jenny, who was doubled over, grasping her kneecaps and striving for breathe. (Jenny really hadn't been breathing.) The American looked at Kagome like she was mad.
"How?" The girl asked. "We used the last of our water already, and without Inuyasha it would take half an hour to get to the stream, and that would be to long-"
"GO FASTER THEN!" The normally placid pushover roared. Jenny just stood there, looking thoughtful.
"All right, I have a…friend, but none of you can follow me, if you do, you'll probably be killed…" That froze everyone but Kagome, who was struggling to get Inuyasha's clothes off him from where he lay on the ground.
"What, who-" Said Miroku. If someone was going to kill his friends if that person saw them, well, Miroku didn't get it.
"Just trust me." Jenny said, looking pleadingly at Sango. With Inuyasha and Kagome out of commotion, Sango was the leader, because Miroku held no power over her. "Please." She said again, noting the demon-exterminator's stormy expression.
Sango sighed, she knew about secrets, and she knew about not being ready to share them. She glanced back at Inuyasha, whom she had come to love as a brother, and at Kagome, who was her best friend in all the worlds. that is meant to be there father! She sighed again, and turned back to Jenny.
"you promise we'll get the water faster this way?" Sango asked. Jenny grinned.
"Scout's honor." She said. "And remember, no following, you do, and I can't guarantee tat you'll live through the night." With that the girl ran off into the woods. Shippo made to follow her, but Sango stopped him.
"You don't really mean to let her go off by her own?" Asked Miroku questioningly. Sango nodded.
"I think that the only thing that I've learned about that girl this entire week is that she can take care of herself." Said Sango thoughtfully as they started to help Kagome do what she could without water (which was limited.) "She gets nightmares some of the time. She'll start screaming in her sleep that she's sorry, but that she had to kill Him."
"Him?" Asked Shippo, as he gaped at Inuyasha's wound. The skin had been torn apart by the merciless beating it had gone through and now the flesh was torn, fitting together like some sort of grisly jig saw puzzle. It didn't look to the kitsune that Inuyasha could get through this.
"Just some one that Jenny killed." Sango said absentmindedly. She was disturbed by Inuyasha's wound, yes, but she had seen our favorite hero pull through worse before. She had no doubt that e would be just fine. No, she was more worried about the fact that he had fainted. Inuyasha never fainted. No matter what anyone through at him, the hanyou would always be there, yelling, cussing, and hounding away at them to stop fussing and to keep going. 'There must be something else wrong…' Sango thought. 'to break his iron will like that. But how DARE he scare Kagome-chan like this! He's going to be in big trouble when he finally wakes up!' Miroku was thinking along the same lines as his beloved Sango, though neither of them knew it. The monk was very angry with Inuyasha, who was responsible for Lady Kagome being so sad the way she was. As the girl tried to clean his wound without water, her salty tears were streaming down her pale cheeks and washing out the wound somewhat. Miroku was glad that Inuyasha was not conscious for this, because the salt in those tears would have given him to much pain.
With Jenny
Jenny ran through the woods, tripping every now and then on the roots that were in her path. Soon enough she came to a clearing. She raced to the middle of it, and though her lungs burned, she started to sing. Her voice, which was beautiful and clear in the cold night, was welcome as it pierced the darkness. It seemed to chase away the shadows, and the sweetness and longing in it could melt even the iciest of all hearts. In fact, it had.
'come on…' Jenny thought desperately. 'you have to be here, you just have to!' And as if the person that she was singing to had heard her thoughts, he appeared.
Jenny's wordless song was caught short as she whirled around, and the two stared at each other. They had loved each other, but nameless circumstances had torn them apart. They had both gotten revenge, but then they couldn't find each other. Now they faced each other again for the first time in 100 years.
"Fluffy." Breathed Jenny, hesitantly taking a step forward. A single tear fell down her cheek, it glistened silver in the moonlight. The man stared in fascination at the tear as it went down her cheek, and continued it's course down her chin and her neck only to be absorbed by the fabric in the flowing clothes. He had seen her, yes, he had been following her since she had come back, but…now she was awake, now she was looking at him again. He had only once ever seen her this sad. And he couldn't bare it, not then and not now.
"My love-" He breathed, stepping forward and he grabbed her in an embrace. He wanted to just keep holding her, to never let her go. But he had to, he knew that, they had business to attend to. He pulled out of her arms, and looked at her. The first smile that he had seen on her face in 100 years was on her lips. Not one of those cheesy half smiles that she had been wearing the entire week, but one of her real smiles, the smile that had first made him fall in love with her. He smiled back.
"Climb on." He said gesturing to his back.
"Oh, thank you Fluffy! Thank you!" Jenny breathed as she climbed on. She knew he was going to help her get water for Kagome and Inuyasha, she didn't even need to ask, that was just the way it worked. He grinned fiercely. He had missed his nickname, but no one but her was allowed to use it. If anyone else used that name for him, he had killed him or her on the spot. He had missed his love. He wanted to say her name, but he knew he couldn't in case those who were searching for her heard him. He couldn't afford to lose her again, not after he had just gotten her back.
Jenny was listening her love think. 'I missed you so much, my darling.' She thought. 'Oh my god, I missed you so much.' She buried her face in the crook of his neck, and let dry silent sobs rack her body. She hugged him to her body all the more. 'This is too hard.' She thought. 'How am I going to leave you again? How can I go back to the group?' Jenny realized that she had said the last two sentences out loud, and that they had reached the stream. She blushed and looked up into his eyes.
"You won't." He said. "Don't worry. I'll stay there to protect you. You need never fear that I'm not here again, except tomorrow, but after then I'll be with you for the rest of the time, you just won't see me." Fluffy realized that he was rambling on, and making barely any sense as well. He shut up. Jenny was looking at him oddly.
"Where are you going to be tomorrow?" She asked. Fluffy grinned at her, then he leaned over and whispered his plan in her ears. Her eyes lit up with a mischievous light, and she grinned as well. "C'mon!" She said, repressing giggles. "If we want that to work then we have to get Inuyasha some water, to make sure he lasts the night." The two got the water and rushed back to the edge of the camp.
Group all together again
It had only been about five minutes maybe a little bit more, but hey, nobody's watching a clock, they didn't even have clocks. since Jenny had left but already they had all run out of things to do without water.
"I never knew how much we depend on the stuff." Muttered Miroku, who sat with Sango as they watched Kagome worriedly. Sango nodded in agreement and opened her mouth to speak.
"Yes, we wouldn't-" But what they wouldn't do Miroku never learned because at that moment Jenny burst through the woods, lugging two huge water bags full to bursting with water from the stream about two miles away.
"Finally!" Kagome screeched. She grabbed the water and finished dressing the wound, she had to completely clean it, and she started crying again. Once there was nothing more she could do, Kagome turned to the others in the group.
"Shh, it's okay sweetie, it's okay." Murmured Jenny as she and Sango, as if at some unseen signal, took Kagome in their arms at the same time. All Miroku and Shippo could do as they watched their female companions comfort each other.
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A penny for your thoughts: What is the master plan? I'll give you a hint, I was tempted to re name this fic and call it Matchmakers United: Match of the era! Or something like that. Who the heck is Jenny's long lost love! Will Inuyasha be okay Well, of coarse he will be. I just can't bring myself to kill him, but I might if he chooses Kikyo one more time! Speaking of Kikyo, should I put her in this fic? I might have to, because she keeps Kag and Inu apart all of the time. WHICH IS BAD! My apologies to Kikyo lovers everywhere. But I am loath to like her.
Till next time, then. TTFN, Ta ta for now! Pwalefriend, Jenny, Grace, What ever.