Hey! What's with the growling?

another Inuyasha fanfiction

by

mkh2

What? A disclaimer? No way! People should know by now I don't own it! Grrrr… Fine then, be that way… I don't own Inuyasha. If it was mine, Kikyo would've been gone long ago (I don't hate her but she keeps messing with poor Inu-chan's head.).
Bleh.

That about summed up how Kagome felt about this situation. Currently she was watching Inuyasha and Ryu chasing each other around the family room. Luckily, they knew enough not to make a mess, so instead they ran around and around the table. Occasionally they'd stop and chase their tails (well, imaginary tail in Inuyasha's case) but generally they just chased each other. Kagome let her eyes slide shut. She really needed a nap – this was beginning to mess with her mind.

Whump!

Kagome sat straight up, startled. Inuyasha was sitting on her lap, panting lightly and whining a little. Jumping lightly off her to the ground, he tugged on her sock.

"What do you want?" Kagome asked slowly, hoping maybe he'd understand enough to maybe, possibly, hopefully respond back in kind. No such luck.

"Whiiiiiiiiiinnnneeeeee." Inuyasha turned a small circle before running to the paper door and pausing at the opening. He looked back at her, ears twitching slightly.

"Okay, okay," Kagome muttered, walking over to him. Inuyasha led her to the kitchen and started snuffling around on the ground. He stopped by Ryu's food dish and gave a small snort before trying to find another one.

"Hungry, huh?" Kagome grabbed a saucepan, filled it with water and set it to boil. Inuyasha got up on his legs slowly, wobbling slightly, and leaned on the counter, staring at the water. He seemed to decide it was good and, with a happy yip, flopped over onto to Kagome and started licking her face excitedly.

"Yech! Inuyasha, quit it!" Kagome knocked him off. "I've got your slobber all over me! Eww!"

Ryu sat by the door of the kitchen, wondering how he got mixed up with these crazy humans.

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After some initial problems with the food (she discovered she had to separate the broth from the noodles in two different dishes) Kagome was again resting in the family room, Inuyasha taking a nap on her legs. She frowned slightly. Whenever he got up, she'll have to pull her legs away and rub the blood back into them – her legs fell asleep ten minutes ago… she thinks. She couldn't see the clock.

Ryu, meanwhile, was jumping up and down on this stuffed ball that would jingle every time you shook it.

"Wow! This is so cool! I wonder how it makes that noise?" Ryu bit one of the loose pieces of yarn (the ball was knit) and gave it a wild shake, making the tiny puppy fall over on its face. "Kagome, throw the ball for me, I wanna chase it!" Ryu dragged the ball over to Kagome and sat, panting slightly.

Kagome stared at Ryu for a moment before looking at the ball. "You wanna chase it?" She picked it up and threw it a little ways away. "Go fetch."

Zoom! Ryu went after the ball and tackled it.

Inuyasha's ears perked up, twitching. "Gwrrl?" He hopped to his feet (including his hands, of course) and bounded over to Ryu to do a tug of war with him and the ball.

"Gwuu! Gwuu! Gwuull!" Kagome sighed as she watched the two of them and pushed herself up onto the couch, rubbing her tingly legs.

'I wonder how I'm going to turn him back to normal? He can't go back to the Sengoku Jidai like this. He can't leave the house like this!' Her eyes widened. 'Don't tell me I'm going to have to keep him forever in my house, sleeping at the foot of my bed like Buyo!' She pulled at her hair in horror at the thought. True, it was kinda funny catching him taking "cat-naps" at the foot of her bed when she came home from school, but to have to see it every night, and feed him ramen in two separate dishes every evening and buy Purina Puppy chow – wait, no not puppy chow, he should be old enough for big dog food, right? – every week… that was just too—

Ding-Dong!

She blinked her eyes in surprise. Inuyasha and Ryu both raised their heads and ran howling for the front door.

Ding-Dong! Dingdongdingdongding-dong!

Kagome groaned. It couldn't be her, could it?

She walked to the front door and opened.

"Hiya, pal!"

It could.

Mikki grinned over the top of a huge bag of… dog food?

"Mind if I come in and put this down? This thing is a lot heavier than it looks." Smiling Mikki wobbled through the front door, Kagome blinking at her.

"You know, now is not such a good time…"

"Nonsense! Every time is a good time – oh wait, you mean you have company?" Mikki turned to look over at her, letting the bag slide down along her body to rest on her feet.

"Gwrr?"

Mikki blinked and looked down. Two pairs of eyes blinked up at her.

"Puppy!" Mikki, squealing slightly, picked up Ryu. "Aren't you a cute puppy? Yes you are! Yes you are!" She rubbed her nose gently against his, laughing when he licked it. "Just adorable!"

"Yip!"

Mikki's eyes widened and looked down. Inuyasha was sitting next to her leg, head leaning against her jean clad thigh, wiggling his ears like crazy. They seemed to scream to be scratched. He looked up at her cutely. "Whiiiiineee."

"Inu-kun?" Mikki looked at him closely.

"Yip! Yipyipyip-awooooo–" Mikki covered Inuyasha's mouth.

"I'll take that as a yes."

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"Puppy so sweet. The both of them," Mikki nodded as she drank some Pepsi and watched Inuyasha play with Buyo like he often did when he came over. This time however he used his teeth to tug on Buyo's ears gently… Buyo didn't need new piercings, after all.

"Not Inuyasha. I want him back to normal!" Kagome wailed softly, dropping her head on the table. Mikki patted her back.

"There, there, it'll be okay. Cookie?" Mikki offered the plate.

'Where'd she pull those out of? They weren't here earlier…' Kagome wondered as she numbly picked one.

"Ah, Mikki, what's the deal with the huge bag of dog food, not that I don't appreciate it – I mean, I was going out to get some more myself – but seriously, what's up?"

"Um," Mikki chewed thoughtfully on one of the cookies. "I'm not quite sure how it happened exactly."

"What?" Kagome blinked in surprise at her."

"Heh heh heh," Mikki laughed sheepishly and scratched the back of her head. "Well, on the college campus I joined an Animal Lover's Club and when I signed up to register I guess I also signed up for this contest… not that it matters since I never win anything… oh, but I won this time, and it seemed one of the lesser prizes, the one I won, was a huge bag of puppy chow." Mikki inclined her head to the bag sitting next to the refrigerator that Ryu was now sniffing at. "I was trying to figure out what to do with it yesterday when your mom called and mentioned that you were puppy-sitting all week so – here I am!"

"Oh." Kagome nibbled on the cookie. "What do you think I should do with him?"

"Well, this one "Gilligan's Island" episode where one of the castaways had a case of amnesia – I think it was Gilligan since when something happens it's usually to him – the solution to it I think had involved lot's of hitting on the head. With coconuts." Mikki scrunched up her nose. "Personally, I think it's kinda screwy and dangerous. It's probably a mild concussion and will probably solve itself in no time."

"I think hitting sounds just find – he could live through it." Kagome sighed and glared at Inuyasha, who had knocked over the bag of dog food and decided to take a nap on it. "I think he's gotten even stupider than before."

"He was never stupid… Actually, being as moody as he is, I think he's very intelligent." Mikki nodded her head thoughtfully. "However right now… he's just a cute puppy."

"If we were looking at his age level as a dog, where would you place him?" Kagome asked curiously, wondering about her opinion.

"Eighteen months."

"That's all?" Her eyes widened in surprise.

"Yeah, sure – just mature enough to safely have kids of his own (if he were a female), but no reason to have any yet since he's really still a puppy himself. Anyways, have you listened to his barks? They're very similar to the ones of those big breed puppies that used to live on both sides of my home back in good ol' U.S. of A. They weren't fully adults till a bit past two years. Just cause they grew to their full height in less than a year didn't mean they weren't still puppies. Just like with humans, just because you've physically matured it doesn't mean you aren't still a kid – I mean, look at you. Do you want to have kids right now?"

"I'm too young!" Kagome snapped, turning red.

"That's what you think – but kids even younger than you have had children… I remember this one sad case in Mexico where an eight-year old girl gave birth… but that's too graphic for innocent ears such as yours and the puppies to hear," Mikki nodded wisely. "Got any more Pepsi?"

Kagome blinked. "Yeah. Sure. Fridge. Third shelf from bottom."

"Thanks."

Owari

Me end this chappy right there. :points at "Owari": Don't worry, the next chapter should be up sooner than this one. :sheepish grin: I won't leave a story unfinished if I post it – I think that's unfair to the people who actually like it.

I also updated "Inuyasha: Thoughts" (now 5 one-shots), posted "Needed to Go, Wanted to Stay" (based on one of the one-shots in "Inuyasha: Thoughts"), and "Inuyasha's Trip Through the Drive Thru"

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Hey Merfair! Whaddya know, I updated. :chuckles: Sorry I took so long. I shouldn't have used Wordpad – it's evil. Even Notepad is better.

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I don't own "Gilligan's Island." Great show, by the by.

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:does a little happy dance: Yay! Today I (finally) got my Shonen Jump 12 (Chuquita always seems to get hers before me… wonder why that is.) Vegeta is adorable, I loved Yusuke's and Kuwabara's competitiveness, Naruto made me all sniffly (but I liked his interaction with both Haku and Sasuke), I cackled over One Piece, and my heart nearly leapt out of my throat at the cliffhangers in both Shaman King and Yu-Gi-Oh… go fig. I skipped Knights of the Zodiac… maybe if I get desperate I'll read it.

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Took 2 hours cause I kept getting distracted. :smiles: