The Most Dangerous Game
by Kiko Takata
Chapter Two
Kagome quickly ran up to the edge of the forest and turned around waiting for her friends.
"Hey you guys, what's taking do long? Inuyasha will be getting up before long!" she giggled as she saw Inuyasha pounding the hard earth with his one hand free from the spell.
"Kagome, while what you did to Inuyasha was humorous, I have to say it would not be wise to charge into the forest without him. He is the strongest of us all," Miroku stated wisely. The effect would have been complete if he hadn't been slapped by an angry Sango.
"Miroku you pervert," said a sly Shippo, who was sitting atop Kagome's shoulder, "you're as dumb as Inuyasha."
Miroku was about to pound Shippo's little head when Kagome spoke up in his defense.
"Aw, don't be cruel Miroku, he is only a little guy after all."
Miroku turned red in the face from anger, "But h-he…"
Sango picked her Hiraikotsu up and lightly bonked Miroku on the head—leaving a fair sized knot where it had hit.
Kagome watched the interaction between the two, and then decided she didn't need them giving her position away. And she was strong enough to protect herself—she could hit fairly accurately with her sacred arrows after all.
Shippo had joined in the little spat between Miroku and Sango—seeing her opportunity Kagome ran into the thick brush of the forest.
Inuyasha was just feeling the pressure rise from his neck when he heard Sango and Miroku going at it again. Surprisingly, he didn't hear Kagome siding with Sango—he didn't hear Kagome at all. And that could only mean trouble. Inuyasha lifted his head just in time to see Kagome running head first into the forest without even the tiny kitsune, Shippo, with her.
"KAGOME!" Inuyasha howled as he was finally able to kneel. He smirked as Sango and Miroku jump when they saw he was up.
"Inuyasha! Where are you going?" exclaimed a furious Sango, as Inuyasha ran past, ignoring everything Sango spouted off.
"So, who's up for making camp," said Shippo sitting by Kirara, playing with his spinning top.
"KAGOME!" Inuyasha hollered for what seemed the millionth time as he searched fruitlessly for Kagome in the dark woods.
Deciding his hearing would do no good, Inuyasha slowed his rapid pace and got on all fours, sniffing Kagome out would work. After a short time Inuyasha wondered why he didn't just sniff her out from the beginning—then it started to rain.
"Damn it! Why does this always happen to me?" He cried up into the crowns of the trees that surrounded him.
Inuyasha sat on the ground.
I would take a hundred sits in a row if I could just find Kagome, thought Inuyasha mournfully.
Suddenly, the branches of a nearby bush started to quiver and rustle. Inuyasha's heart leapt into his throat, beating a mile a minute. Kagome, she's come to me.
Ready to ignore her he heard the rustle of the leaves underfoot.
Heh, she's gonna try and scare me is she? We'll just see about that.
When the sound of the rustling leaves stopped Inuyasha jumped up and roared as he turned around. All he managed to accomplish was scaring the pee out of one frightened rabbit.
Kagome, meanwhile, sat huddled in the hollowed out bottom of an ancient tree.
"I should have stayed and waited for Inuyasha," she groaned miserably. "Now I'm cold, wet, hungry and disgruntled."
The rain fell for hours and Kagome's heavy lids drooped. She soon fell asleep. When she awoke it was to two pairs of eyes in very blurry faces.
"Whaaah!" she shrieked. "Hakkaku! Ginta! Don't do that!"
"Sorry sis—we smelled a ways from here and decided to come get ya," said Hakkaku.
"Oh, well, that isn't necessary. You see Inuyasha will be here any minute and I really don't want him to worry."
"But, if you didn't want him to worry why did you leave in the first place?" asked a disgruntled Ginta.
"But you see, we're…" Come on Kagome think! Bingo—"We're playing a game."
The twin wolf brothers looked confused.
"A game?" they asked in unison.
"Yeah, a game—you know, hide and seek," said Kagome.
"But why would Inuyasha play a game in such a dangerous forest?" queried Ginta.
"Because he doesn't want to bore Kagome, duh!" replied a now rather bored looking Hakkaku.
Suddenly, the dust and a little mud flicked onto Kagome's face, causing her to scowl. A whirlwind appeared and a very happy Koga greeted the young girl from the future.
"Hello Kagome, finally decided to leave that mangy mutt, did ya?"
"What are you talking about Koga, of course I didn't—"
"They're playing hide and seek Koga, because Inuyasha didn't want Kagome to be bored," said a self-gratified Hakkaku.
"Kagome," said Koga in a deep, almost irresistible voice, "if you were my woman, you wouldn't have to worry about being bored."
"Uh-huh, right Koga," Kagome shot-back, "I would sit around a cave all day or have to hunt food."
"What's wrong with that?" exclaimed Koga.
"Oh, my goodness! Nothing Koga, nothing."
"So, you agree that you're my woman?" Koga asked happily.
"I never—" Kagome was cut off again.
"That's great sis," said both Hakkaku and Ginta.
"But—I—ugh—INUYASHAA!" Kagome cried out into the highest branches of the tall trees as Koga, Hakkaku and Ginta, carried Kagome to their cave.