Hey! What's with the growling?
another Inuyasha fanfiction
by
mkh2
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…)
Disclaimer: Once again, taking inventory of my possessions, I have found that I have yet to acquire the rights to Inuyasha. They are still in the hands of Rumiko Takahashi.
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Hey! – Chapter 7
Day 4 – Training Day
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"Get off. My bed."
The two puppies whimpered before bouncing off to stare up at Kagome, their heads and ears cocked.
"Ah… Bah." Kagome climbed onto the bed and turned off the light. She was, to put it frankly, exhausted. Ryo, Ryo, he wasn't so bad, but Inuyasha was a bundle of energy – after all, puppy-brained though he may be, he still had the body of a hanyou.
"Tell me this is a dream, just one long, annoying dream, she whined.
Shlurp!
"Ugh, hanyou slobber."
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"Geroff, geroff, geroff!" Kagome moaned and stuttered from under a mouthful of white hair. Sometime in the night Ryu and Inuyasha had taken it upon themselves to keep her warm, thus Inuyasha was cuddled up to her side, long silvery locks going everywhere, while Ryu chose to curl up on her already heavily blanketed stomach. Ryu may have been a cute ball of fluff, but he was also a heavy ball of fluff.
Yipping, the two bounded off her bed, eager to start another full day of fun puppy games.
"Yeah, yeah, scoot," grumbled Kagome, gesturing to the door.
They… scooted. Kagome decided to try for a catnap before Buyo might try something.
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"So, let's see how this works…"
Kagome, after having set out food for the, er, dogs, had sat with her own breakfast at the table and started to read the book. After a few moments her face scrunched up in frustration and annoyance.
"Dang it, Mikki, this book is in English! How am I supposed to use it now?" she flipped to the inside cover where there was two huge yellow Post-It notes attached.
'Oi, Kaggers,
I'm figuring by now you wished you had paid more attention to my English lessons the other day, hah? Well, if you did – good for you! This book doesn't use very difficult language – all the important stuff is underlined – and you can always use a dictionary for the rest. If you hadn't and waited till the next day to look at it, well, too bad, so sad, I'm classes all day today! Bwahahaha!
'Anyways, best of luck – if I were you, I'd start with the basics, and no, I'm not talking parlor tricks like roll over or play dead. I mean, guard the house, don't go outside just cause the door is open, come, stay; you know, useful things, until you can find some way to get Inukiku back to normal.
Mikki'
There was also a little doodle of Mikki's grinning face holding her fingers in the peace sign next to it with the slogan under it "Procrastinator's Anonymous! – Helping you do today what you normally put off 'til tomorrow."
"Dang it, MIKKIIIIIIII!"
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"Let's see… toss the snack, click the clicker (the side note said snap your fingers) and say good boy? Is that right?" Kagome, was standing in front of the "puppified" hanyou, who looked up at her in confusion, while she held the book in one hand and a cookie in the other, trying to understand the absolute gibberish that was the English language (at least, according to her.) "Hm. This would be so much easier if I spoke English!"
She tossed the cookie at Inuyasha, bonking him in the head, then snapped her fingers and shouted "Good Boy!"
(Actually, it sounded more like "Gouda Boy-yo", due to her accent, but that's not important.)
Inuyasha stared at her in confusion for a moment before bending down, scarfing the cookie, and leaving the room.
Kagome stared blankly at the vacant spot.
"Is it something I said?"
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"Well, I guess I did something wrong, but what was it? I'm figuring it's the "good boy" thing… or maybe it's the wrong sort of treat… What do you think, Ryu?" Kagome asked the dog as she set about making lunch, exhausted from chasing Inuyasha around the house for the past three hours. Apparently he thought it was some sort of game so puppy-brains refused to cooperate with the tired girl and eluded her grasp the whole while. He may have thought it was tag, but she just wanted to get back to the training.
Ryu stared at her blankly.
Kagome sweat dropped. "Or… do you like 'good boy'?"
Ryu wagged his tail once before getting up and walking over to her dictionary, which he promptly sat on.
"Uh… yeah," Kagome smiled (actually, more like grimaced) and patted Ryu once on the head before walking out of the room. She wasn't about to use that monstrosity if she it wasn't necessary.
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Inuyasha was lying on her bed.
Her bed sheets, however, were lying on her floor.
Kagome's eyebrow was twitching.
"Inuyasha…" Kagome hissed. She really didn't feel like making her bed again.
Inuyasha's head snapped up and he bounded off the bed to her, knocking her onto the pile of bed sheets. She dropped the bag of treats (some of those cookies he liked, some gummy bears, and a couple of crackers, ranging from cheese to graham to animal) and Inuyasha promptly attacked it.
"Wait, Inuyasha, wait," Kagome squawked, snapping her fingers like crazy at him. "Heel, stop, bad, no, wait, please!"
Inuyasha finished up by licking his fingers clean then curling up in the covers, letting out a lazy yawn.
Kagome sighed.
"I think I need more treats."
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Kagome put down another bowl of ramen for Inuyasha on the floor. Ryu was eating the little treat of extra premium puppy kibble out of his dish and lapping at the water in his water bowl at turns.
"Inuyasha! Ramen!" Kagome called, wondering why he hadn't already come barreling down the stairs yet to go sliding across the kitchen floor like he had done the other day.
After sitting at the table eating her own food for a few minutes, she picked up Inuyasha supper and put it in the microwave before going to look for him.
"Inuyasha? Where are you?" Kagome called. She walked up to her room. The spot Inuyasha had been taking a nap in was vacant. Kagome frowned.
Where is he?
She walked over to the bathroom and paused, listening for any sounds.
"Inuyasha? You in there?" Kagome paused and listened.
Whiiiiiiiiiiiiine.
Kagome opened the door hurriedly, worried at the pitiful sound.
Inuyasha kneeled at the bowl, pale and miserable looking from finishing up a round of vomiting, a sickly sheen of sweat on his brow.
Kagome sighed.
"Aw, I'm sorry Inuyasha," she knelt next to him. "I guess that was a little too much snacking for you too handle… and I hadn't thought about feeding you properly." She peeked over at the contents of the toilet and grimaced. "Er, let's get you cleaned up and fed… once I flush this mess."
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Inuyasha, Kagome and Ryu were all curled up in front of the TV, Inuyasha feeling better after having some broth and bread (and the rest of that ramen), lazing the day away.
"Well," Kagome muttered to Inuyasha, who was lazily watching the figures darting around on the ol' Tele, "today was a waste of a training day, but there's always tomorrow."
Inuyasha shivered.
Owari
Sorry for the delay! I've been busy – my computer's so crammed full of junk (and multiple copies of the same file in different places or with a different name) that it's been impossible to do anything! And as if that weren't enough, when I do finally go to post this, the Internet refuses to connect. Argh! How rude!
Also, and this is just because some old readers might be wondering, but I'm planning on changing the format of the older chapters to coincide with the look of the new chapters – just because I'm "anal" like that. (Well, that's my sister's answer for every piece of programming her boyfriend does – "It's cuz he's anal, that's why he has make it look all uniform like that." So…what's wrong with that?)
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I don't own the rights to the "Clicker Training for Cats" book, but I do own a copy, somewhere… I have no idea… maybe I lost it. Oh well, it's not like I could use it, all we have is this stupid, albeit cute, blue parakeet that can't even fly… hopeless.
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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 I have stuff from Naruto, DBZ, and my Big O "Christmas special". Also, I've updated "Inuyasha: Thoughts" (though nobody seemed to notice – I posted at a bad time) so there is another silly Miroku piece and some InuKag waff (very little – I try to keep them from going all hormonal and mushy like they aren't.)