Hey! What's with the growling?

another Inuyasha fanfiction

by

mkh2

Whee! Look, I salvaged most of this chapter – don't worry, I'm almost done with the next chapter – I hopefully ill post over the weekend. Enjoy!

Oh yeah, two things:

Hey watergoddesskasey – what did you mean by your one word review: 'god'? I don't get it…

Also, someone said I was spot on for the Inu characters' personalties – it's kind of scary, considering I generally use different aspects of my personality for them (in Kagome's case, I use a huge chunk of my personality – kinda weird when you compare it to my little rambling author notes, ne?)

Disclaimer: Sad to say, I don't own Inuyasha. I'd really like it if someone would give me Inuyasha for my birthday – it's coming up soon – but since I probably won't be getting Inuyasha, I'd settle for some of the manga instead… and lots of reviews, please!

" " – denotes speech

' ' – denotes thinking (usually)

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Hey! – Chapter 2

Whaddya know… another chapter. I pity thee. (Tippy: Yes, pity them… pity them well. mkh2: Quiet you!)

Day 1 – Intruder on the premises

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Inuyasha flopped down on his stomach, arms lying back on his sides as he glared with a sleepy eye at the little white puppy yipping and bouncing around in Kagome's lap, soliciting a bunch of happy squeals from the schoolgirl. Tiredly, Inuyasha closed his eyes. He decided he could do just as well to listen instead.

Ryu tumbled off her lap and rolled onto his back, yipping like crazy and then… purring?

'What's that?' Inuyasha lifted his head and stiffened as he watched Kagome giving Ryu a tummy rub, alternating between rubs, pats and scratches. Ryu happily kicked his leg out. Angrily, Inuyasha snorted and rolled on his side, grumbling loudly.

Kagome look up and grinned. "Hey Inu, want your tummy rubbed too?"

Inuyasha stiffened. Kagome, noticing this, started cracking up. "Hey, it's just an offer, y'know." He rolled onto his back and looked at her.

"That's not funny."

"Yes it is."

"No it isn't."

"Yes it is."

"No it isn't!" Inuyasha looked away from her, folding his arms over his chest and his ears down, eyes closed – in essence, he was sulking.

Kagome frowned, sweatdropping slightly. Creeping around Ryu over to Inuyasha's side while keeping up the scratching (much harder than it looks!) – keeping Ryu fully preoccupied with the pets and rubs – she sat next to him and… poke

Inuyasha twitched. Was it just his imagination or… did someone just poke his stomch? Nah, couldn't be. He went back to sulking.

poke poke There… he definitely felt something that time.

poke poke rub Inuyasha's eyes snapped open the squinted shut real fast before anyone noticed. 'Who's rubbing my tummy?' His eyes slitted open slightly, he looked at who the tummy-rubber was and had to restrain himself from turning full out red. 'Kagome!'

Kagome was leisurely rubbing circles on his tummy, long slow strokes, soft pats, gentle circular sweeps over his hakama – it was all Inuyasha could do to stop himself from turning pink with pleasure; as it were, he was so caught up in keeping the color from his face he forgot something…

Prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Inuyasha's eyes snapped open and stayed open, going stiff under the suddenly still hand.

Curious brown eyes stared steadily at him, or rather his leg, that had frozen in mid-shake, a silent question in her eyes, while a soft whine from the neglected fuzz ball alerted him to the fact that both hands were still.

'Aw doody.'

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After getting laughed at (he didn't think he had ever seen Kagome turn so red – her laughs had become silent gasps, and he had only seen stupid Mikki do that), he was now sulking on Kagome's bed watching her do her homework while Ryu tumbled around on the floor happily gnawing on a thick, colorful rope.

"Hey you, Ryu, what's with you getting all 'buddy-buddy' with Kagome, eh?" whined Inuyasha quietly at the puppy in inu-talk. Ryu looked up at Inuyasha and, carefully arranging the rope at his feet, barked back.

"Aw, don't worry, I'm not interested in her… I just like watching how many shades of red you can go through in one sitting." Ryu smirked at Inuyasha's dumb-founded face. "Hey, and what's with the face – I'm three months old – I'm not a complete dimwit!"

"That's still young! Besides… I didn't think you were paying attention." Inuyasha glared at him. "You think you're so cute – how'd you like it if I got all 'buddy-buddy' with your mistress?"

"Oh puh-leeze!" laughed Ryu, batting lightly at a toy ball now. "As if she'd think you were cute."

"Kagome says I'm just like a big puppy, cute and cuddly and everything (keh, she says that and thinks I don't hear her) – can't see why she wouldn't like me and maybe even want me to replace you, after all, I can do more things than a little shrimp like you could ever do!"

Ryu glared. "You wouldn't dare! What could you do that I couldn't – " He stopped abruptly, suddenly thinking of all sorts of horrible possibilities.

Inuyasha obliviously rattled of some suggestions. "Well, I could give her a ride around town if she's running late… I'm also very strong, and a better bodyguard than you could ever be…"

Ryu sweatdropped. 'Of course… Kagome said he was kind of an airhead… not that I'm complaining – he coulda been thinking up something else!'

Inuyasha sniffed haughtily then looked up, noticing someone was watching him.

Kagome grinned. "How cute – male bonding!" she laughed.

Inuyasha and Ryu both face faulted.

"Gah!" "Woooohf!"

Owari

Well, I was originally going to make this a one shot, but I thought, what the hey, let's see how many chapters I can add before I run out of notes.

That said, keep on reading, please – let's see how far it will go, together! --pink sparkles--