Hey, look!
It's an update of "There's Gotta Be Something in the Water!"
Ta-da!ducks as an onslaught of flying chairs is thrown her way
I know, I know! I am such a bad authoress. I'm sorry. So much has been going on. I got my license, a job, a car, an F in Algebra, a love life (just kidding. I couldn't get one of those if it came up, stomped me on the foot, wagged its butt in the air, and sung the Y.M.C.A. song. In Swedish. Naked. In the snow.)
But you know what I mean. Life can really get in the way of my writing. I'm sorry, my lovely reviewers.
Disclaimer: … just read the story.
With out further ado,
The latest installment of "There's Gotta Be Something in the Water"!
"DEMON PIXIES!"
"Agh!"
-fwomp-
-thud-
"Ow! I didn't realize I was that high up!"
"Dear god! So many pixies…"
"Oh, for the love of-"
"Will you two keep it down? I'm trying to sleep!"
"But-"
"Shh!"
-groan-
"Hey, stop with all the groaning. I don't care how much you're enjoying it, Inuyasha, take it somewhere else."
Inuyasha: OO… "You raunchy moron!"
Kagome! "Ew! As if! That's disgusting, Miroku!"
Inuyasha: "'Ew!'? What is THAT supposed to mean!"
Kagome: "Didn't mean it like that… uh…"
Miroku: "Oh, so are you admitting to letting your passion interrupt your reason and that you mated wildly like happy gerbils all steamy night long and are upset that Kagome didn't find it as pleasurable as you did, Inuyasha?"
…
…
…
"MIROKU!"
-smash-
-slam-
-crack-
-PAIN-
"Hey, I've only got one of those!"
"Too bad, pervert!"
"OW!"
"Wanna borrow my Hiraikotsu?"
"Yes, I do!"
"No, she doesn't!"
-bam-
Shippo cracked one eye open and rolled it. Did they really have to start THIS early in the morning? The dawn had barely reached horizon and the group was already up in arms. Sitting up and stretching his small arms toward the sky, he yawned lazily and shot an angry glare at the four alleged adults. Who would want to wake up to a sexually tactless monk getting the living crap beat out of him by a fuming teenage girl borrowing a large boomerang, and an even angrier dog demon sharpening his claws on aforementioned monk's hide?
"Actually, I would." Shippo thought as he silently giggled at the predicament. Realizing that the beating would probably continue for a while, and not wanting to be within 20 feet of either Kagome nor Inuyasha, Shippo resolved to go to the village and buy them bread for breakfast. So, he slipped past the bloody pulp, formerly known as Miroku, and headed for the village unnoticed. As he strolled through the woods, he thought about how much his life had changed since Kagome and Inuyasha and Sango and Miroku came into the picture. It sure had changed, but for the better. When his parents had died, he thought he'd never be happy and be a part of a family again. But then he met Kagome, and now…
Now, he had a family. Kagome was like his mother, Sango his older sister, Miroku a brother, and as much as he hated to admit it, Inuyasha had a respected role in his life as a father figure.
In a really distant, weird, scary sort of way.
He smiled at the thought. He was once again a member of a family. A wonderful, (if not slightly dysfunctional, totally ignorant of the fact that most of them were in love, and occasionally violent) family.
In short, he was thankful he had them. He had no idea where he'd be without them. And he didn't want to think about it. As he arrived at the village and was about to enter the bakery, Shippo heard a sound that made him change directions. Someone was singing.
It was a beautiful voice, the person had. Shippo felt spellbound as he let his demon senses direct him to the origin of the singing. Finally, he found the owner of the voice; standing near a rock near the outskirts of the village, away from everyone else with eyes closed, singing. They seemed to be a child, of his own age.
A girl, to be specific.
'A very pretty girl, to be very specific,' Shippo thought. She was a little bit taller than him (although that was nothing new, seeing as how his body had taken a vow not to grow anymore at around age 3) with shoulder length, wavy, brown hair, a couple of freckles placed sporadically on her face, and the biggest, prettiest smile he'd ever seen grace on someone's face.
In a nutshell, she was gorgeous.
She had her eyes closed as she continued singing her song. She spun around, dancing, singing, and completely stealing Shippo's heart.
A sudden case of shyness overcame Shippo, and just as he was about to depart without her knowledge of him ever existing, when she caught sight of him. Blushing a bit, she giggled and said, "How long have you been standing there?"
Shippo looked up at her, a bit sad that she had ended her song, and nervous that she had spoken to him. In most traditions, when someone speaks to you, it's politest to speak back. Shippo had a problem doing this, seeing as how he couldn't get over how intriguing her eyes were. They were an extremely pale gray color, almost silver. They seemed to twinkle at her every word.
When the girl realized that the strange boy wasn't about to strike up an intelligent conversation any time soon, she smiled and said, "My name is Kisa. I live in that hut over there." She pointed.
Shippo: OO
Kisa raised an eyebrow, waiting for the strange boy to say something. "What's your name?"
Shippo: OO
Kisa tapped her foot lightly on the ground, waiting for the strange boy to say anything.
Shippo: OO
Kisa rocked back and forth on her heels, waiting for the strange boy to make any kind of movement proving he was in fact alive and breathing.
Shippo: OO
"Ri-ight." Kisa said slowly. "Well, I'm going to leave now. It was…uh…quiet meeting you. See you later." With that, Kisa skipped off, leaving poor Shippo in a possible permanent state of amazement and stupidity. After a good five minutes, his legs and arms thawed out and he regained the ability of intelligent speech.
"I'm Shippo." He whispered. Sadly, he walked back to where the group had camped out the previous night.
"Hey squirt, where were you? And why didn't you get us some food? I'm starving." Was his welcome.
Shippo just narrowed his eyes at his so-called "father figure" and stomped past him.
"What crawled up your butt and died?" Inuyasha asked.
"My dignity." Was the reply. He marched up to Kagome with a determined look on his face. "Kagome, I need your advice."
Although the question was addressed to Kagome, Inuyasha and Sango and Miroku all leaned in a bit closer, wondering what was up with the young kit.
"Sure, Shippo, what's up?"
Sighing, Shippo retold his sad story of love and loss. When he was done, he looked up at Kagome. "So, you see, I need your help. I need you to give me advice on women."
"Well, sure Shippo. I'd love to-"
"NO!" Miroku and Inuyasha cried in unison.
Startled, Kagome looked at the two boys. "What is your problem?"
"YOU can't give him advice on women." Inuyasha said.
"And why not? I do happen to be one."
"Lady Kagome, although I agree with you that you are a woman in every way, shape, and definitely form of the word, this is a matter that should not be dealt with by a woman."
"Why?" Sango asked.
"Because she'll screw up his masculine way of thinking by teaching him all that sissy stuff you girls are always going on about. He needs to know the manly way to get a woman and we as the older men that he looks up to in his life, have to look out for him and help him become one." Inuyasha stated.
Kagome raised her eyebrow. "Is that so? Well then, pray tell, how do you plan on going about giving him advice on women when neither of you seem to be able to do so well in that subject yourselves?"
Narrowing his eyes, Inuyasha walked toward Kagome. "I'll have you know, I have plenty of experience with women and will personally see to it that Shippo becomes the manliest man around. Come on Miroku."
Miroku tore his eyes away from Sango's posterior where they had been glued for the last couple of minutes. "Excuse me? Why do I have to help?"
Sango smirked. "Oh, Miroku, I thought you were a manly type of man as well." She gave a discreet wink to Kagome as she walked closer to Miroku.
The poor idiot...
Sango made her voice as smooth as syrup as she slowly circled the monk, lightly touching his upper arms. "Wouldn't you want to help Shippo become as much of a ladies' man as you are? I'm sure there's a lot you could teach him, right?"
Miroku: "Uh…" he replied stupidly. Having Sango that close to him, speaking in that voice he'd never heard before…well, to say the least, it made him into a mound of retarded putty. The only things he could focus on were Sango's siren like voice, her delicate fingers brushing on his biceps, and the fact that she was (willingly) mere inches from him.
Seeing the effect she was having on him, Sango stopped circling him and leaned in close, right next to his left ear. As seductively as possible without bursting into laughter, she whispered for his ears only "Will you do it? For me? Please?"
Her warm breath made the hairs on the nape of his neck stand on edge. How could anyone say no to that? In a daze, he smiled goofily and nodded his head.
"Good." She whispered. She winked at him and strolled over to Kagome, leaving Miroku much like Shippo had been left with Kisa.
Miroku: OO
"Come on, Miroku." Inuyasha said as he rolled his eyes. He grabbed the monk by his collar and dragged him deeper into the forest with Shippo trailing behind them.
Once they were out of earshot, Kagome turned to Sango.
"What on earth was all THAT about? I thought he was gonna pass out."
Sango smirked. "Just proving that men are powerless against women. In just six short sentences I could have asked him to jump into the stream and he would've done it. It's too easy. You should try it on Inuyasha. It's pretty funny to watch."
Kagome shook her head. "That worked on Miroku because he really likes you."
"What, and Inuyasha doesn't like you?" Sango challenged.
"Not the way you're thinking. Maybe you haven't seen the way he looks at Kikyo whenever she comes around, but I have. Plus, it's not like I like him like that anyway."
Sango just sighed and threw her hands in the air. "You and I both know you're lying. You guys are perfect for each other. You're both just too blind to see it. But I suppose you'll have learn that the hard way, huh?"
Kagome shrugged her shoulders. "Whatever you say, Sango."
Meanwhile, Inuyasha was dragging a slightly incapacitated holy man towards the rushing river with Shippo close behind.
"God, you are whipped." Inuyasha muttered.
"And the sad thing about that is, I don't even care." Miroku mumbled, a smile still gracing his face.
"You're a disgrace to the male population."
Miroku just shrugged. Sighing, Inuyasha turned toward Shippo.
"So, what exactly are we gonna do to train me to be a better man?" the younger boy asked.
"Feh. A BETTER man? You not even classified as a guy yet, much less a man. No, you're nothing but a whiny kid. A child. A youngster. We're gonna teach to how to be a man. And Miroku is gonna go through the teaching process with you."
"Excuse me? I don't need to know how to be a man. I am nothing BUT man!" Miroku exclaimed as he flexed his muscles.
"What are you doing?" Inuyasha asked.
"Why, I'm flexing my Manly muscles, because that's what Manly Men do. And that's what I am. A Manly Man."
"You sure about that?"
"A Manly Man never doubts his Manly statements of Manliness." Miroku said as he put his fists to his side in a Super-Man kind of position.
"That is the most retarded thing I've heard all day." Shippo piped up.
"Shut up, you non-Manly kid!"
"Are you done yet?" Inuyasha asked irritated.
"You're just jealous of my Manly Manhood in all its Manly glory." Miroku muttered under his breath. Luckily, Inuyasha didn't hear it, or else we probably wouldn't have the "Manly" monk we have now.
"OK, anyways…moving right along…" Shippo said.
"Yeah. First we're gonna have to build your muscles up." Inuyasha said.
He clapped his hands together. "Let's get down to business, to entice that girl. Are you just a dumb kid, or are you a guy? You're the saddest case I've ever met, but you can bet before we're through, mister, I'll make a man, out of you!"
"So, what's first?" Shippo asked.
"First you must meditate. Search for the inner adult inside. Come, sit with me." Miroku said. Inuyasha rolled his eyes as the two boys sat down next to a tree. But that soon changed when Miroku…
"Tranquil as a forest
But a fire within
Once you find your center
You are sure to win!"
Shippo: Oo?
Inuyasha: NO! Not again! NO more singing!"
Before Miroku could utter another word, Inuyasha grabbed Shippo and stomped off deeper into the forest. "You're a spineless pail, pathetic kid. And you haven't got a clue. Somehow I'll make a man, out of you!"
With an evil glint in his eyes, he pushed Shippo hard, "Run till I tell you to stop."
As Shippo was running like a madman, Inuyasha went back over to Miroku. "What the hell was that about?"
"You'll catch more flies with honey than with vinegar Inuyasha." Miroku said simply.
"I don't give a crap about flies. I'm trying to make that kid into a man. And you're not helping with your pansy singing. You make me nauseous. So, I suppose I'll have to make a man out of you as well."
Miroku stuck his chest out. "What do you mean, make a Man out of me? I am nothing but 100 Man-ified, Manly-"
"I suggest you start running." Inuyasha interrupted.
"Huh? Why?"
Inuyasha gave him a scary smirk. "Because you've got till ten before I sharpen my claws on you, and I'm already on four."
"What makes you think I'm gonna-"
"Six, seven…" Inuyasha ran his claws across a nearby tree, almost cutting straight through it.
Miroku: OO…
"Eight…"
Miroku: AAAGGGHHH!
Miroku ran off, screaming bloody murder. Sango and Kagome giggled in amusement from their hiding place behind some large blueberry bushes.
As Miroku caught up to Shippo, he heard music coming from out of nowhere and the young kit panting out in song,
"I'm never gonna catch my breathSay goodbye to those who knew me!"
Miroku joined in,
"Why was I such a fool in school
For cutting gym?"
Out of nowhere, Inuyasha was running besides the two boys, smiling wickedly. "Now, kiddies, we're gonna swim!"
"Inuyasha! That water is freezing!" Miroku exclaimed.
"No way am I getting in there!" Shippo added.
With a quick flick of his wrist, both Miroku and Shippo saw the sun shine dangerously upon the hanyou's claws.
Both boys looked at each other. "Swimming sounds great!"
Sango shook her head as the two boys plunged into the glacial waters. Suddenly, something came over her. She turned to Kagome and sang out to the music,
"This guy's got them scared to death!"
Kagome: OO?
"Hope he doesn't' see right through me!" Shippo gasped as his head came up from the water.
Miroku looked like he was about to cry as he splashed and flounder about in the water, singing, "Now I really wish that I knew how to swim!"
Suddenly, an ominous wind swept through the trees, and Inuyasha's eyes flashed between crimson and gold.
Everyone else: OO!
Inuyasha'sfangs elongated, purple marks appeared on his face, his claws sharpened…to everyone's absolute horror, Inuyasha went 100 demon on them. Now, I suppose you're all wondering: "WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED!"
Wouldn't you like to know?
Miroku and Shippo stood motionless in the arctic waters. Kagome and Sango gasped.
Inuyasha made his way to the guys, walking through the water as if it were air. When he got at arm's length, Miroku attempted to strike him, but was stopped mid-punch by Inuyasha's hand. Grinning evilly, Inuyasha put a strong hand on both boys' shoulders and stood there for a minute.
Miroku's heart: thump! Thump! THUMP THUMP THUMP!"
Shippo's heart: …
Standing up straight, Inuyasha opened his mouth widely, as if to eat them.
"To be a man…
You must be swift as the coursing river!To be a man…
With all the force of a great typhoon!
To be a man…
With all the strength of a raging fire!
Mysterious as the dark side of the moon!" he sang in a rich, deep, baritone voice, a little different than his drunken one.
"NOT AGAIN!" Shippo screamed. He writhed in Inuyasha's grasp, trying desperately to get away. "NO MORE SINGING!"
"Silence!" Inuyasha said calmly. Licking his fangs slightly, he said, "I have arranged for my woodland creatures to bring that female here. You will become a man before then so you may procreate with her."
Kagome!
Sango: Woodland creatures?
Shippo: Oo?
Miroku! YES! When will I get to procreate?
Inuyasha shoved Miroku into the water, as he continued,
"Time is racing toward us
Till that girl arrivesHeed my every order
And you might survive!"
"Oh my gosh…" Kagome said softly, as her face turned scarlet.
"Are you as scared as I am?" Sango asked.
"No. I just realized something... Inuyasha has got a really sexy voice."
Sango? "Inuyasha has turned 100 psycho demon, is running around singing, and will probably kill Shippo and my Miroku, and the only thing you can think about is Inuyasha's sexy voice!"
Kagome shrugged. "Hey, I call it as I see it. Besides, it's not like I- wait a minute, what did you just say?"
"When?"
"Just now."
"The only thing you can think about is Inuyasha's sexy voice?"
"Before that."
"He'll probably kill Shippo and Miroku."
"Bingo."
"What? Why do you ask?"
"Because that's not what you said. You said 'my Miroku.' 'MY Miroku.'"
Sango could do nothing but blush deeply and stutter, "I didn't mean it like that…"
"Oh, I'm never gonna let you live this-"
"Hello ladies." A voice from behind them said.
"AAAAGGGGHHHH!" The girls screamed. They shot up from behind the blueberry bush to see Inuyasha standing over them.
"Inu-Inuyasha…imagine seeing you here. Right now. On this glorious day. In this glorious forest. Which is filled with glorious trees. Isn't it glorious?" Kagome said.
'Smooth.' Sango thought.
"Did you really think I didn't notice you were there?" Inuyasha purred. Kagome blinked stupidly at him, relishing in the sound of his "sexy voice" "Did you think I wouldn't be able to detect your scent, the scent that haunts my mind and entices my senses every minute of every day? Is that what you really thought?" he asked smoothly.
Kagome was taken aback by this unexpected confession, and resolved to shake her head. Smiling, Inuyasha placed a claw under her chin, tilting her face to meet his and tracing an invisible line along her jaw and said dangerously, "You really are quite attractive, you know."
Kagome: OO…?…!…!
Right as Sango was about to comment, a baby deer (A.K.A. a fawn) came up to Inuyasha. Bending down, he petted the animal on the head. "What news have you got for me, Dana?"
Kagome and Sango looked at each other. Realizing that Inuyasha had really gone crazy and might be suffering from Schizophrenia, Sango said gently, "Um…Inuyasha, that deer can't-"
"Inuyasha, sir. The young girl you have asked us to retrieve is on her way. She will be here shortly." The deer, whose name obvious was Dana said.
Sango and Kagome: ACK! IT'S A TALKING DEER!
"Excellent." Inuyasha smiled. He turned around, leaving the girls with zero explanation to find Shippo.
Standing there with Dana, Kagome dug her toe in the dirt, trying to think what to say to the deer. Whose name was Dana. And apparently had a thing for talking... "So, imagine seeing you here. Right now. On this glorious day. In this glorious forest. Which is filled with glorious trees. Isn't it glori-"
"Enough of your incessant babble. Haven't you ever heard the saying 'Don't speak unless you can improve upon the silence'? Well, you're definitely not enriching anything." Dana said coldly.
With that, the fawn trotted off.
Kagome was dumbfounded. "Did I…was I…did that deer just insult me!"
Sango shrugged. "That's one way to say it. You could go with humiliated, verbal whiplash, your dignity was attacked, were caused to lose face, outsmarted, outwitted, flabbergasted, thunderstruck, slapped with-"
"THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SANGO!" Kagome said loudly. She stomped off in the general direction Inuyasha just had moments ago. Sango shrugged again. "What'd I do?"
Meanwhile, Miroku was devising a plan to escape the tyrannical…uh…tyrant as he ran for bloody hell.
"If we use the Pythagorean Theorem to polarize his demonic electrons, then maybe we can Alamo him back to a ground state and monopolize his Declaration of Transuranium thermosetting polymer at an ideal interval, thus radiating the quadratic formula (-b/- the square root of b squared minus 4(a)(c) all over 2(a)) of the trigonometric ionization alkyl halide back into the Monroe Doctrine."
Shippo stared at Miroku. "Just what the hell does that mean?"
"It's too advanced to explain it to you." Miroku replied.
"So, basically, you just like to hear yourself talk and have no idea what you just said."
"Precisely!"
"Run faster, you pathetic humans!" someone from behind them said. Fearing it was Inuyasha they turned quickly only to meet with a chinchilla.
Miroku and Shippo: ACK! IT'S A TALKING CHINCHILLA!
The chinchilla sneered. "I have direct orders from General Inuyasha to make sure you worthless excuses of mankind don't slack off. You may call me Lieutenant Chester."
Just as Miroku was about to declare heart failure, Inuyasha showed up.
"You're unsuited for
The rage for war
You should pack up
Go Home
Be through
But I swear, I'll make a man
Out of you!"
Shippo jumped when he heard Inuyasha's voice. "Ah shi-"
"General Inuyasha, the girl will be here momentarily." Chester said.
"Excellent. Good work, Lieutenant." Inuyasha nodded at his military official of woodland furriness. He looked back at his two prisoners-um-pupils. "Twenty push-ups! Now!" he barked.
Rolling their eyes, they both dropped to the floor, starting the tedious task, which they were sure would be more than a measly 20 push-ups. Their suspicions were confirmed when Inuyasha laid a 180-pound log across their backs.
"AGH! What the heck do you think you're doing?" Shippo yelled.
Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "Only what I've been singing about. Haven't you been listening? I'm going to make you into men!"
"It defeats the whole purpose if you kill us first." Miroku wheezed.
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." Inuyasha pointed out.
"This coming from a guy who's been basically dead for 50 years!"
Inuyasha's eye twitched dangerously. In a swift movement, the log was thrown off the pair and Miroku was picked up by his neck and pushed against a tree.
"Inu-Inuyasha…need air. Oxygen…" Miorku gasped out.
"I. Was. Sleeping." The crazed man ground out.
"Air…"
"Wasn't dead."
"Damn…the monkeys…"
"I'll kill you."
"Bloody…turtles…"
"Turtles! Did somebody say 'turtles'?" a voice interrupted. Both men and Shippo turned their eyes downward to see a green reptilian creature in a top hat, purple bowtie, and a cane smiling broadly at them. Inuyasha released his hold on Miroku's only means of breathing.
Miroku and Shippo: ACK! IT'S A TALKING TURTLE!
Miroku gasped for air, shook his head, looked down at the turtle "What the fu-"
He never got to finish his unmonk-like sentence, because right then and there, the little turtle struck a supposedly sexy model move (like the ones one might witness in the movie Zoolander) and sang out,
"I been working so hard
Keep punching my card
Eight hours, for what?
Oh, tell me what I got
I get this feeling
That time's just holding me down
I'll hit the ceiling
Or else I'll tear up this town"
The whole time the little turtle sang, he swayed his hips in tune. He stuck his leg out and shook it with all his might, switching from left to right every so often. He jutted his posterior out and wagged his stubby tail. Shippo and Miroku stared on in amazement. Shippo couldn't even muster any sort of emotion; he'd gotten so desensitized. Miroku on the other hand was silently taking notes on the turtle's moves, hoping to add them to his routine.
Tonight I gotta cut,
Loose, footloose
Kick off your Sunday shoes
Please, Louise
Pull me offa my knees
Jack, get back
C'mon before we crack
Lose your blues
Everybody cut footloose
The turtle threw his top hat to the side, whipped his head in a "sure to give anyone else whiplash" fashion. Suddenly, Kagome and Sango entered the clearing. Sango looked at the turtle. "Oh…how cute! It's a baby kangaroo!"
Everyone: blink, blink
"No, Sango. That's not a baby kangaroo. It's a-" Kagome never got to finish her sentence, seeing as how at that moment, the turtle strode over to Kagome, pulled her hand down to his level, and flipped her around, while singing,
You're playing so cool
obeying every rule
Dig way down in your heart
you're yearning, burning for some
Somebody to tell you
That life ain't passing you by
I'm trying to tell you
It will if you don't even try
Kagome and Sango: (while Kagome is still turning rather awkwardly in the air) ACK, IT'S A SINGING TURTLE/KANGAROO! (You can imagine who said "kangaroo") As Kagome came hurtling back to the ground, she closed her eyes, waiting for the pain that would surely come from smashing into the floor from such a height. But the breaking of her neck never came. Out of the blue, she was in someone's strong arms. She looked up to see Inuyasha, still in demon form, clutching her close. She half sighed, half screamed, not certain if in his arms was a good or bad place to be as of that moment.
You can fly if you'd only cut
Loose, footloose
Kick off your Sunday shoes
Oowhee, Marie
Shake it, shake it for me
Whoa, Milo
C'mon, c'mon let go
Lose your blues
Everybody cut footloose
Bad, Kagome decided. In Inuyasha's arms while he was singing a song from a movie he has never seen was definitely a very bad place to be. He threw her up in the air, catching her and spinning her away from him, then back toward him. When she thought she'd lose her lunch from all the motion, he stopped. With his arms still around her waist, he looked intently into the thicket of the forest. His ears heard something she could not, seeing as how he dropped her rather rudely, turned to look at Shippo, who was hiding behind Miroku's leg. Inuyasha plucked him up by his tail, and while holding him upside down, the turtle sang,
To be a man,
Inuyasha took his cue: You must be swift as the coursing river
Turtle: To be a man
Inuyasha: With all the force of a great typhoon
Turtle: To be a man
Inuyasha: With all the strength of a raging fire
Mysterious as the dark side of the moon!
At the last word, he chucked poor Shippo over the trees in the distance, yelling after him, "Huah!"
Shippo: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA…
Kagome, Sango, and Miroku: SHIPPO!
Shippo: …AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH…
Everyone turned to look at Inuyasha, floored by his actions. Unfortunately, they couldn't get a word out of him. Because Inuyasha was on the floor.
Sleeping.
The group looked around for the crazy turtle, but he was gone. There was no evidence whatsoever that everything they'd just seen had actually happened. And they liked it that way. They all decided to let that afternoon be kept with the remainders of their repressed memories. They all decided to find Shippo, hoping he wasn't dead, and coming up with excuses as to why he was thrown several hundred yards away into the distance without Inuyasha being the prime suspect. That would bring them back to that afternoon.
Bad.
Very bad idea.
Meanwhile, Shippo was still flying, and still screaming.
Shippo: …HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
With a loud thud, Shippo landed tail-first on the ground. Wincing in pain and annoyance, Shippo began muttering darkly under his breath.
"I can't stand that Inuyasha! Stupid, no good, rotten, son of a bi-"
Shippo abruptly stopped mid-curse word, when he looked up to meet the most amazing gray eyes he'd ever seen.
"K-Kisa?" he asked shyly.
The girl was standing over him, with a look of concern troubling her round face. She kneeled on one knee, examining him closely. "How did you know my name?" she asked. Shippo just blushed. Recognition dawned on the young girl, as she said, "Oh! You're the boy from earlier today! The one who can't talk!"
"I can talk!" Shippo said indignantly.
"Well, then why didn't you? You have a very nice voice." Kisa commented as she sat down on the grass, leaning on a tree. Shippo blushed even harder at this.
He shrugged, trying not to show how this girl he'd known for approximately 13 minutes (give or take one) had him completely wrapped around her adorable finger.
"I-I couldn't think…of anything…to-to say… to you, I mean."
"Well, now that I've got you talking, can you please answer my question?"
"Uh…?"
"What's your name?"
"It's…it's…uh…it's Shippo" he stuttered.
"Shippo? I like that. So, tell me, Shippo, why didn't you want to talk to me earlier?"
"I did. I was just too shy."
"Shy? What did you have to be shy about?"
Shippo was about to regress into his previous state of mental vegetation, when he remembered something…
-flashback-
"To be a man…
You must be swift as the coursing river!To be a man…
With all the force of a great typhoon!
To be a man…
With all the strength of a raging fire!
Mysterious as the dark side of the moon!"
-end of flashback-
'Yeah, I can do it. I'll be a river. And a typhoon. And a raging fire!' Shippo thought.
"Mysterious as the dark side of, the moon! Huah!" Shippo sung out. Kisa stared at him, bewilderment plain on her face."What does the dark side of the moon have to do with you being shy?" She asked.
"Oh, nothing. I was shy, because…well, because I like you. A lot. And I didn't know how to talk to you." He scooted over till he was sitting next to her.
Kisa smiled at him. "You do?"
"Yeah, I do."
"I think I like you too, Shippo." They both blushed, when Kisa leaned over and kissed Shippo lightly on the cheek. He smiled widely at her, knowing this was true love. They sat there in a comfortable silence, when Kisa said, "Hey, Shippo?"
"Yeah?"
"Can I ask you a question?"
"Sure."
"Why was I kidnapped by a bunch of talking rabbits?"
"Uh…"
END OF CHAPTER 9
So, there you have it. 13 pages! Took me almost a year to write, but it's there. I had about 50 separate cases of writer's block. I hope this chapter didn't seem too choppy. I have no idea what I'm doing for the next chapter. If you guys have any ideas (or Disney songs) please leave them in a review. And even if you don't, leave me a review anyway. Remember, REVIEW!
Much love,
Shiroryu
PS: Saffron Spice, the bum who didn't write a lick of this story, says to tell you all that she helped getting me out of my writer's block, by writing a completely crappy ending for me, that I had to correct immediately, because it was so stupid. Maybe at the end of the story I'll post it, along with this other chapter that was gonna be #4, but I decided it was no good. I'll name that chapter the "Be Happy, Because This is How the Story Could've Been" Muahahahaha!