Hey! What's with the growling?
another Inuyasha fanfiction
by
mkh2
I regret to inform my loyal reviewers but sigh it turns out my Christmas wish was a flop. So, it seems that Rumiko Takahashi still owns the rights to Inuyasha. But, hey, I can still dream, can't I?
Hee, sorry I took forever… that's all that can be said about that – if you're wondering why, too bad – you should have read my profile when you had the chance on all the boring reasons. (Well – sorta boring… it must be said that such things are more nerve-wrecking for college students than anything else…)
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Hey! – Chapter 6
Day 3 – It's time to potty!
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Kagome woke up bright and early the next morning with a cold wet nose.
It is to be noted that the cold wet nose was given to her compliments of one bright-eyed, fuzzy-eared and puppy-brained inu-hanyou.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome squawked.
Inuyasha promptly fled for the door.
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"Ugh… my head hurts," Kagome muttered. "I was hoping this was all a dream.
It most definitely was not a dream, as evidenced by the two bowls of ramen set in a wide, low bowl on the floor, with one wide, shallow dish set aside for water. Luckily for him, Ryu was a picky eater and preferred the special brand puppy food in his shiny dish and the water in his special bowl.
Inuyasha, however, was not so picky.
Thus half of Kagome's time spent at breakfast involved her jumping up and dragging the inu-hanyou away from Ryu's special shiny bowl and dish. The other half the time she spent trying to keep Inuyasha away from her food.
"Inuyasha – no, get off the table. Inuyasha – away from Ryu's bowl. Inuyasha, don't. lick. my. knee!"
Yes, Kagome had every right to her headache.
After breakfast, she had to take Ryu for a walk. Normally she had no problem with this. This time, however, she was trying to figure out how to deal with taking Inuyasha for a walk… or at least how to keep him at home without destroying the place. Eventually she decided to call Mikki to see if she could take Ryu for a walk.
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"Hi Kagome!" Mikki chirped. "Where's ol' puppy brains?"
"Which one?"
"Both of them – oh, there they are, I see you! What a couple of cyuuuteee puuuuhpies," Mikki gushed, dropping to her knees to give both Ryu and Inuyasha a couple of ear rubs.
"Ah, so, will you walk Ryu for me?"
"Sure – I'm guessing you're going to be busy getting Inuyasha to use the restroom properly, eh?"
"Wh-what?" Kagome went wide-eyed and cherry-faced. She hadn't thought about that…
"Well, I'm sure by now, with all the water you've been feeding him, Inuyasha must have a pretty full bladder by now."
"On second thought, Mikki, I'll walk Ryu, you handle Inuyasha," Kagome rushed, grabbing Ryu's leash up and darting out the door.
"Hey – no, Kagome!" Mikki wailed. "Ah great, she doesn't really expect me to… does she?" She turned around to find Inuyasha doing the puppy version of the pee-pee dance. "Why me? Dog-walking, I can handle, changing the diapers of a speedy toddler, no big… but this –you've got to be kidding me!"
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Kagome walked back into her house, leading Ryu away from the dandelions in the planter – they were hard to get out of his fur, after all – feeling nice and calm and relaxed.
"Ka. Go. Me," a very irritated voice hissed from behind her.
Whoops. Seems she forgot something…
"Oh… heh, hi Mikki, I wasn't long, was I?"
"Oh, no, not long at all, only six hours!" a very frazzled-looking Mikki shrieked, grabbing her long hair in two fistfuls and yanking down. "Hadn't you thought that I might need to be somewhere, run some errands?"
"Um… no?" Kagome squeaked, mildly embarrassed –she hadn't really thought of that.
"Ehhhhh…" Mikki quickly composed herself, running her hands back through her hair to smooth it down. "Well, I did your dirty work for you–" here Mikki shot Kagome a very dirty look "–four times."
"Four times?" Kagome blinked.
"Well, it was six hours," Mikki grated, slightly flustered. "I think I might've been scarred for life if I wasn't used to handling a rambunctious four-year-old who liked to "mark his territory" before."
"What," gaped Kagome. "A four-year-old… doing what?"
"He had three favorite places to go by in the house, all by giant potted plants," Mikki shook her head slightly. "I guess that's what comes of having two dogs for your best friends."
"Eehhehhehheww," shuddered Kagome. "So… was it bad?"
"Not really – training him was pretty easy, once I got him to sit down on the seat for more than a few moments… getting him to wash his hands was the tricky part," Mikki grabbed her bag and slung it over her shoulder, heading for the door. "I suggest you start training him in other areas now… and that you keep the downstairs bathroom open at all times – he doesn't like the upstairs bathroom much… seems to be afraid of that bathtub." Mikki trotted out the door, whistling the Andy Griffith theme song.
"… Training?" Kagome blinked again at the closed door, then she realized something.
"Mikki," she yelled, throwing open the door, "don't leave me! I don't wanna take care of Inuyasha by myse-he-helf!" she sank to the floor. "Momma, come home soon!"
Boy, Auntie Hiko sure picked a great time to come down with pneumonia…
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"Ahchoo!"
"Hiko, you okay?"
"Yeah, sure, dang, my hand stinks – I'll stay."
"Sure…"
"Hit me," said Mrs. Higurashi, looking over her cards.
"Are you sure? That seems pretty risky…"
"I'm a risk taker."
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"Oh well, can't begrudge Auntie Hiko her illness (Auntie Hiko sneezed again) so… time to eat, eh?" Kagome looked back over her shoulder at Ryu and Inuyasha, both of whom looked very confused at the girl's outburst.
"And what's this about training? Why should I train Inuyasha?" Kagome snapped her fingers, annoyed.
Inuyasha let out a bark and went over to the coffee table and, lightly taking hold of a thin book with his mouth, picked it up and carried it over to Kagome.
"Hm?" Kagome took it from Inuyasha and opened it. A folded piece of paper dropped to the floor; she quickly picked it up. "Mm? What's this?" She unfolded it and began to read.
'Hi Kag-chan! I thought, you know, ol' Inu-kun seems to be a very smart puppy and I figured you'd like to at least train him with the basics, so I thought – why not? I'll lend her my ol' clicker training book and clicker. It works on just about any animal – and occasionally, I've discovered, humans. Have fun with you adorable new puppy while it lasts!
--Mikki'
Kagome groaned and crumpled up the paper. Eh… she just had to be serious, didn't she?
Owari
I don't own "The Andy Griffith Show"… however, I just have this to say: Don Knotts rocks!
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I don't own the rights to the "Clicker Training for Cats" book, but I do own a copy… it's somewhere in my room. I'm beginning to wonder if the name is correct.
Actually, yes, I have babysat such a child. He's the most adorable little guy you'd ever hope to meet and is now five-year-old. He really did prefer to "mark" those places – one time, after he stopped doing that for some months, I deemed it safe to put my bag down near one of the spots and, bingo, he just happened to feel like marking that day. He's done that nasty little habit standing in the hallway, standing on the stairs, just about everywhere, but those three large potted plants were his favorite. One of the last memories of an actual accident he had – he had recently turned five, I was having a hard time trying to find a clean change of clothes (he just had to wear one of those bodysuits, didn't he?) then getting him to stay still long enough for me to put it on – had a hard time with the snap-on jumpsuits. This was me: "1Danny, no! Stay still… lift you leg, put it in the hole… no that one… no, Danny, it can't fit in there… I didn't say to kick it off! Stay there while I grab… no, Danny, come back! You don't even have your Spider Man undies on yet!" Yeah… babysitting is great. .
1Name has been changed.
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For anybody who keeps wondering why I don't update this fic enough… I have other fiction out there, too! If you get bored (and like some slight romance, as I'm sure many of you do), you might like to read "Okay to Lie", my "Big O" "Christmas" special one-shot – has nothing to do with Christmas but that was my planned posting date originally (I wrote it, edited it, and tried posting it all within eight hours that morning)… it was my Christmas gift to my readers. I also have two Naruto one-shots and have recently updated my "Inuyasha: Thoughts" collection. In fact, it seems just about everything that needed-to-be-updated was updated, so go look at the stuff. For DBZ fans, hey, I have some humorous stuff out there, too. "Vegeta ½" seems to make people laugh, anyways.
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Naruto is definitely one of my favorite manga now, as can be evidenced by my two Naruto one-shots. The funny thing I get complimented on all the time is about "how in character" the characters always seem to be (got that especially for "Big O"); however, the (sorta pathetic) thing is, I always do the characters with all my reactions… does that mean I'm cranky like Inuyasha and stoic like Roger Smith? Oy vey. I sure hope not.