Hey! What's with the growling?

another Inuyasha fanfiction

by

mkh2

Disclaimer: Looks at inventory of my stuff: According to this, I don't own Inuyasha. However, I did buy quite a few of the books, some pictures, three character bags (bags made out of the characters – ever see them? Cute…), some key chains, and it seems I might even be getting a shipment of some DVDs (original Japanese with English subtitles) soon. Other than that, nope, don't own Inuyasha. Ah, well, gotta keep on wishin', ne?
Whee… I'm feeling a lot better today; hope you aren't mad about my having taking forever to update this fic. I mean, it has been a week. Sorry about that. Mikki
" " – denotes speech

" " – denotes thinking (usually)

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Hey! – Chapter 3

Day 2 – "what goes up…"

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Inuyasha sighed as he came back up the well. Kagome wasn't able to come back yet and he was bored. He quietly leaped into the Goshinboku before hopping from one of the branches over to Kagome's window. He pulled the window up and came in.

"Hey, Inu, whatcha doing here?" Inuyasha turned around to see Ryu sitting on the floor.

"None of your business really, but if you must know, I was feeling bored and kinda hungry. I think I'll go have some ramen." Inuyasha smirked at Ryu's face.

"Ya mean you don't want to play with me?" Ryu asked, whining softly.

"No – I'm hungry and until you're gone Kagome can't come back to my time: I wish you weren't here." Inuyasha opened the door and was about to step out when –

"Aauugghhh!" Inuyasha was hopping up and down on one foot, nursing the now chewed on ankle of his other foot. He looked at it – two half circles of little pricks from where Ryu's teeth had sunk in, a few bleeding.

"You're mean!" growled Ryu, yanking on Inuyasha's pant leg. Unfortunately, he didn't notice the stairs next to them and doing so put Inuyasha off balance…

"Waugh!" Inuyasha went tumbling down, landing in a red and white heap at the bottom of the stairs. He let out a soft whimper.

"Inuyasha, is that you? Inu- Inuyasha?" shrieked Kagome, who had come out of the kitchen where she was trying to pick out something to eat. She ran to him side and knelt next to him. "Are you okay?"

"Unhh…" Inuyasha moaned softly. "My ankle…" He had a hard grip on it.

"Lemme see…" Kagome pried his hands off and gasped, surprised to see the bite mark. "What- who or what did this."

"Ryu." Inuyasha's ears drooped. "And when I was grabbing my ankle he yanked on my other leg and I fell down."

"What? Ryu! Get down here!" Kagome glared at the nervous puppy who slowly came down the stairs. "Why did you bite him? You know better than that." She grabbed the puppy up in her arms. "Be right back, Inuyasha." She went outside and tied up Ryu. "You're staying out here until you learned your lesson," she said, shaking her finger at him. Then she went back inside and looked at Inuyasha, who had sat up and leaned against the wall, holding his ankle and rubbing his head.

"Inuyasha, here, come on, let's get to the bathroom," she hooked her arm under his arm and around his back, helping him to the restroom.

"But Kagome, I don't need to go the bathroom." Inuyasha blinked.

"No, we gotta get your bite cleaned up – don't want it to get infected."

Inuyasha would've said that it was already healing up except… well, he didn't know when the next time would be that he'd get this much attention with Ryu around. He put on a big show, making a lot of fuss and whining a bunch when she put on the disinfectant, and continued to make a sad, injured puppy face as she bandaged him up.

"How's your head, Inuyasha? Did you get that hurt too?"

"I dunno," Inuyasha cocked his head to her. "Are you gonna check?"

"Yup, put your head down." She looked him over. "It looks fine – you don't have any swelling or anything."

He nodded then remembering something he turned to her.

"I'm hungry. Can I have some ramen?"

Kagome laughed.

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Inuyasha was happily polishing off his third bowl of ramen – this time he got her to mix chicken and ramen together – had a rather nice flavor, he thought – when he heard something in the backyard. Gingerly walking over to the back door, being careful to play up his ankle in case Kagome was watching, he peeked out and promptly dropped the bowl. Ryu had managed to chew through the rope and was running around in the back.

"Oh no, Kagome'll kill me if I leave him like that out back… he could get hurt or something. After all, he's just a pup." Inuyasha yanked open the door and quickly jumped outside, stepping on Souta's skateboard.

"Whoa!" Inuyasha zipped across the yard towards the Goshinboku. "How do you steer this thing?" he yelled when suddenly the skateboard ran into Ryu's play rope and tossed Inuyasha in the air.

"What the–?" was the last thing that went through his mind before he smashed head first into the Goshinboku and everything went black.

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Kagome had heard some commotion outside and went to investigate. When Ryu started howling she ran and half-panicked when she saw Inuyasha's bowl, with some ramen left in it, lying by the open door. She darted outside.

"Inuyasha? Ryu?" Kagome heard a bark and looked over to the Goshinboku. Ryu was whining and tugging on Inuyasha's hakama as he lay sprawled under the tree.

"Oh no –what happened?" Kagome ran over to them and saw Souta's skateboard lying upside down, next to Ryu's rope, and noticed that Inuyasha's ankle, the one that was bandaged up, looked sort of twisted. 'Inuyasha doesn't play with skateboards – he hasn't liked them since that time he accidentally stepped on it and fell on his face in the mud.'

"Inuyasha?" she rolled him over onto his back. "Inuyasha? Wake up. Come on, open your eyes."

Inuyasha slowly blinked his eyes, wiggling his nose around and then looking over at her.

"Oh good, you're awake – are you okay?"

Inuyasha quietly sat back onto his haunches and, sniffing slightly at Kagome yipped and pounced on her, licking her face.

"Yip, yip!" Inuyasha happily barked from on top of her.

"Inuyasha?" gawked Kagome. She pushed him off her. "Ew… puppy spit." She glared suspiciously at Inuyasha.

"Inuyasha – oswurai."

Inuyasha sat – just like any good puppy would. Kagome stared at him. If he had a tail, it would be wagging like crazy.

"Haah, haah, yip! Yip, yip, growf!" Inuyasha gave a puppy grin.

Kagome fainted.

"Oh no!" wailed Ryu.

Owari

Okay, time to up the tempo, eh? So… it seems that Inuyasha has a puppy mind now? (In case you were wondering – when Inu went "haah, haah" he was panting, not laughing, not really.)

Yup, here's my update. Next chapter should be up soon. I might do a walk-on role in it. Believe me, nothing big, it's really just in and out if I do it. See you then.

--mkh2

Start: 12:25 p.m., 09/18/2003

End: 1:21 p.m., 09/18/2003