A/N: okay! Hi pplz! Yes this is the tenth chapter! Hurray! And I have almost 50 reviews! And guess what? I'm not going to post an eleventh one until I get 50! Just because I'm so mean :P. Merry Boxing day, to all of you! I hope everyone had a happy Chanukah and a merry Christmas. O yeah, Merry Boxing day as well!
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Kagome: You do know that in Japan, we don't celebrate Christmas, right?
Jassy: Yeah. I know. But I just though it would be fun to have a few Christmas related little bits and pieces in here.
Sango: Well what do you think should be in the next chapter? More Kilala, I presume?
Jassy: O don't worry Sango! I know just what to do. –Mischievous little grin-
Kouga: Well, just make sure that Kagome and I are together.
Jassy: Excuse me? Are you giving me orders? I think that just for that, I'll leave your fate to the reviewers! I trust them, but I'm not sure that they can trust you.
TurboTwistedFire: Plageresse
Shippo: Disclaimer time! And I've got another poem. But it's kinda old.
Roses Are Red
Violets Are Blue
Jassy Doesn't Own InuYasha
So You'd Better Not Sue
Because Your Fate Will Be Terrible
If You Chose To Demand
And Jassy Will Have No Choice
But To Chop Off Your Hand
Jassy: What was that? Chop off their hand?
Shippo: So that they couldn't write a complaint!
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.o0O0o. .o0O0o.Chapter 10
Confusion between Friends .o0O0o. .o0O0o.
Kagome slid out of the embrace, giving Kouga a teasing little kick.
"Okay Kouga," Kagome started. "I just need to round up a few more necessities, then we'll be off." Kouga noted that his woman wasn't really giving him a choice in the matter. Kouga gave a quick little grin, baring his fangs.
'That's what the Alpha-Female does though. And she's just going to have to get used to being Alpha-Female and giving the orders. After all she is to be my mate.' Kagome practically read his mind.
"Kouga, I'm no demanding anything. I just thought that, well, you'd like to be getting back to your country. I mean I know that you've been itching to get back to the well." Kagome laughed at the mental image of Kouga popped into her mind.
Kouga said nothing, yet followed Kagome around her den, ramassing the odd object every now and then.
Kagome went to her room to get a new set of clothes, and some hair accessories.
"Hairbrush, pyjamas, new uniform, hair clips, chapstick. That seems to be everything." Kagome listed everything as she picked it up. Kouga, as usual, just leaned against the hall's wall and just watched Kagome run from room to room gathering whatever she could find that she could manage into that bright yellow backpack of hers.
"Room done, now for the bathroom," Kagome quickly brushed past Kouga. Kagome gave no not to keep things tidy and organized as she basically threw everything around the pale blue bathroom. The dim-lighting wasn't helping Kagome's eyes much, but it was certainly helping Kouga's vision in more ways than one. The dim lighting and the pale school uniform was enough to bring out Kagome's curves and accents, and the dim lighting made Kagome look more peaceful. 'Like an angel' Kouga decided.
"Band-Aids, rubbing alcohol, ointment, gauze, scissors, plenty of safety pins, cotton, a sling, little wooden slits," Kagome was replenishing the first-aide kit. In the Sengoku Jidai, you can never be too careful.
"Hey Kagome, what's a 'tam-pawn'?" Kouga asked as he picked up something coated in a crackly coating. Kouga sniffed the tampon, and eyed it thoroughly.
"Well Kouga, it's-" Kagome cut herself off, and snapped her head around. Kagome was blushing; partially out of embarrassment, mostly out of anger.
Kagome snatched the tampon from Kouga's grasp. Kagome was very tempted to slap Kouga straight across the face. 'But he doesn't know. I have to treat him like I would Shippo.' Kagome told herself sternly.
"Oh! I get it!" Kouga snapped Kagome back to reality. Kouga had managed to take the plastic wrapper off of Kagome's second tampon.
Kouga had found a box full of these strange things of Kagome's. Kouga found a small hold at one end of the object, and inserted his thumb, applying pressure. A piece of something-or-another was sticking out of the opposite end.
"It's a pen!" Kouga explained, beaming. Kagome fell over anime style, and then went to Kouga's side. Kagome knew better than to try to explain to Kouga what a tampon was really used for.
'Remember, treat him as if he was Shippo.' Kagome instructed herself as she hurried around the rest of the bathroom, collecting the rest of the necessities.
"Okay! I just need to grab something to eat and some food for the others and," Kagome stopped as she tried picking up her backpack. She felt that her arm would break off as she could barely lift it past her knees. Kagome grunted out the last of her sentence, "then we're off."
"I can't believe it! There's too much stuff!" Kagome stated with an exasperated sigh. She examined her backpack nearly bursting at it's seams. Kouga had volunteered to carry her backpack multiple times, but Kagome had insisted that she could carry it on her own. Kouga knew of course Kagome was very stubborn, and that she would drag it around with her through the Sengoku Jidai if she had to before she got anyone else to carry it for her.
"I guess I'm going to have to leave these behind," Kagome could barely believe her eyes. She was leaving behind all of her schoolwork. Math, Vocab., English, and the rest of her work. Kouga could easily tell that Kagome didn't want to leave these books behind in her home land.
"Kagome, you know that only demons have books. You should be grateful that you have these!" Kouga picked up a book. "After all, only demons and some mikos know how to read! And even then, only the demon Lords have books. The rest of the demons usually can't write, let alone read for that matter." Kagome noticed that he had picked up her math textbook. Kouga opened the book to try and prove his point, and failed miserably. Kouga gave the book a long, blank stare.
"See? I'm a Lord and even I can't read this!" Kouga tried to not only show off his won celebrity status, but to prove that the majority of mortals didn't know how to read. Kagome understood that, because she had met the villagers before. She had noticed how uneducated and illiterate all of the humans were when she had written simple directions and prescriptions for the villagers.
"Yes Kouga, but you have to understand that you are over 500 years old in this time." As soon as the words had left Kagome's mouth, she immediately regretted it. Kagome had not told Kouga that she had been able to travel across time. Kagome knew better than to explain time travel to a wolf-demon who still hadn't grabbed the entire "electricity" and "technology" concepts.
"What I mean is…" Kagome started sheepishly. She had no idea how she could take back what she had said without it sounding like an insult. "Arg! Just…nevermind!" Kagome was nearly ripping out of her hair.
Kouga gave Kagome a blank glance and then put down the mathbook. He then picked up Kagome's history textbook, and then laughed. Laughed like a complete fool, did he. Kagome asked Kouga what was so funny, and Kouga stood up, wiping tears from his eyes.
"Whoo! This book! It's like a fairy tale. All of these facts were obviously done by some stupid mortals." Kagome winced at his reaction to humans, but insisted Kouga to continue. "There's no mention in here about demons in here at all! All that's in here is little fights between little human villages. And even then they were Wars that lasted for decades. Apparently demons don't even exist! They had though no more of us after 'An evil hanyou was sealed to the god tree. He was sealed away by a powerful miko. The seal was supposed to last forever. But a beautiful young miko had broken the seal. The two were fated to be lovers, but the girl disappeared forever' That's about all that this book says about us.
Kagome was a little relieved that Kouga didn't know the whole truth. He had not known that it was Kikyo, the devil that he made a deal with, was the miko that had sealed InuYasha to the Goshinboku forever. Kagome would have to explain her whole life story with the Sengoku Jidai to Kouga.
"Not now though, maybe later," Kagome whispered the words. Kouga arched an eyebrow towards his woman.
" 'Not now' what?" Kouga placed both of his hands on Kagome's shoulders, their faces inches apart. Kouga's sky-blue eyes were staring straight into Kagome's milkchocolate eyes. Kagome could do nothing but stare into the pupil-less eyes, while Kouga stared into Kagome's eyes of swirling emotions.
"Nothing really. Just talking to myself," Kagome finally spoke, as she broke eye contact with Kouga. Kouga arched his eyebrow again, but left her alone this time.
With the history of InuYasha, Kagome's heart quickened as she remembered when she had stumbled into the Sengoku Jidai. She shuddered, recalling Mistress Centipede.
"Well, are we going with or without the books?" Kagome asked at last. Kouga shut the history textbook, but carried it along with them. Kagome gave Kouga a look that clearly asked what-are-you-doing-with-that, but continued walking. Before the two of them jumped into the well, Kagome asked Kouga what he was doing with Kagome's history textbook and homework, since her papers were still inside the book.
"Well, I wanted to show Ginta and Hakkaku what the future was going to be like with the humans. Plus I think they'd like to know what the humans think of us in the future." Kagome gave him a look that one would give to a child caught stealing. "What?" Kouga demanded, clearly confused. Kagome shook her head. It was obvious that Kouga had never had to ask permission for anything before, so why start now?
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"Okay guys! Let's go!" Ginta led the pack down the well. Ginta and hakkaku jumped first, with the others hot in pursuit.
But the group did not get to feel the warm, tingling sensation of the 500 year time travel. Kouga's pack wound up piling on top of Ginta and Hakkaku.
"OW!" Ginta and Hakkaku cried in unison. The wolves quickly stood up. The demons that resembled more like humans grabbed the wolves and leapt out of the well.
"Well that sure didn't work," Hakkaku said through gritted teeth, as he arched his back, cracking many bones to prove his point.
"Yeah, I wonder how Kouga and Sister Kagome got through," Ginta looked up, his chin placed comfortably between his middle finger and index finger, and his thumb.
"Definitely not the way we tried!" Oh, how wrong Hakkaku was.
Whilst Kouga's pack was panick-stricken by the sudden disappearance of their leader and his woman, the couple were having plenty of fun enjoying the other one's company.
The wolves and the cubs howled, crying out for their leader and friend. But their cries and howls fell upon deaf ears; for Kouga and his mate were in "Kagome's country."
"What do you suppose?" Ginta finally asked Hakkaku as the pack was attempting another run at the well.
"Suppose what?" Hakkaku just looked at Ginta. The two just looked at each other until Ginta spoke up as if just remembering the second half of his question.
"Suppose what's going on with Kouga and Sister. Kouga's still pretty determined to get Kagome to strengthen the pack."
"And the only real way of being able to do that would be either be with the jewel shards,"
"Or to become the Alpha-Female." The chorused. Ginta and Hakkaku were about a foot away from the time-crossing well. In the two wolves excitement, they tripped over the well. Quite awkwardly I might add.
For about a whole seven seconds, the darkness of the well engulfed the two. Thinking they might have found a way closer to Sister and Kouga – since their scents were nearing with every passing second- the two demons underestimated the power of gravity. Before the two could act, they were both eating deliciously all-natural dirt pies!
Ginta's chin was the first to get gucked, and Hakkaku's forehead and nose were his ground testers. And let's not forget the rest of the pack, loyal to the seconds in command.
"Not again!" Ginta braced for impact. Hakkaku had forgotten about the other wolves, and was forced yet again to eat dirt.
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InuYasha turned around, smelling trouble. He just stared away in the distance, concentrating on something.
"What is it InuYasha?" Shippo popped over Sango's shoulder to try and find what InuYasha was either hearing, smelling or sensing. Kilala dropped to the ground from Sango's shoulder, and transformed, baring her teath.
"Kilala?" Sango asked, as she looked at her feline friend who was staring off into the woods, as if something was about to attack from the behind. Kilala let out a loud roar of hers, and all of her fur stuck up. Both of her tails were sticking straight up, and her ears were pricked forward.
Just then, Ginta and Hakkaku popped out of the forest, running as fast as they could, gasping for air. Ginta had his hands on his thighs, taking rapid gulps of air. Hakkaku was panting, but was not as exhausted as his fellow comrade.
Hakkaku took a few steps towards InuYasha and company.
" Kouga's wolves," Miroku gripped his staff in both hands, getting ready to strike just in case. InuYasha gave his infamous "Keh" and walked towards Kouga's second leaders in command.
"I thought I smelled wolf. Their scent is unmistakable. Unmistakably vile, that is." InuYasha smirked. Even though the wind was blowing from the front of him, Ginta, Hakkaku and company were too easy to smell. 'That's strange. Kouga and Kagome aren't with them If anything's happened to her-' "Hey! Where's Kagome?" InuYasha demanded. Ginta and Hakkaku just looked at eachother. Ginta pressed his two index finger tips together. Hakkaku tapped his left foot on the ground.
"Well? Answer me!" InuYasha was tempted to go and wring their necks until they spoke.
"Sister's with Kouga. I don't know where they are exactly. But it smells like they fell down a well that appears to have been cursed. There's magic being practised, and we couldn't get to them," Hakkaku was the first to speak.
InuYasha grabbed the first thing he could see, which would have been Hakkaku's blonde mohawk, and lifted him up by it. Even though InuYasha was only a half-demon, he was strong enough to do much destruction. Ginta piped up.
"We thought you might know how to get to her, or where she is," InuYasha then took Ginta by his vest and lifted him by it. InuYasha was very VERY tempted to just knock them out cold, and he almost did. But his conscience was getting in the way. So instead, he just banged their heads together rather forcefully.
"Wait a minute –did you say a magical well?" InuYasha demanded, not liking the fact that Kagome was with Kouga, unsupervised. 'Keh. What do I care Kagome' perfectly fine on her own.' Ginta got to his feet. He shook his head, with it being so sore with colliding it with Hakkaku's head.
"Uugh. Hakkaku, you have a really thick skull, you know that?" Ginta groaned, then faced InuYasha. "Yes, there was this odd well. Once the wolves and we, Hakkaku and I, jumped through the well, we could smell Kouga and Sister, but they weren't there. But when we jumped through the well, all of a sudden their smells disappeared. As in they just...vanished! Like as if we had passed them." InuYasha just stared at the two in disbelief.
'So without the shards, they can't get through. Just like Kagome couldn't when she didn't have the shards.' InuYasha saddened. "Take me to the well."
"Kilala will take the rest of us," Sango reached for Kilala's mane. Kilala crouched down lightly so that Sango could hop on. Shippo clutched onto Sango's arm, so that he wouldn't fall off of Kilala. Sango eyed Miroku. Miroku just looked at Sango with puppy-like eyes. 'He looks like InuYaha when Kagome left us for good,' Sango sighed.
"Get on, Lecher," Sango neared Kilala's neck. She patted a seat behind herself, which Miroku smiled gratefully at. Sango sighed, knowing what would happen. "But don't try anything funny. Or else," Kilala growled, interrupting Sango. "What is it Kilala?" She looked forward at what her feline friend was gazing at. Sango nodded.
Ginta, Hakkaku and InuYasha had all run off towards the magical well. InuYasha knew the way there better than Ginta and Hakkaku, so he sped off before all of them had time to blink.
"InuYasha, wait up!" Shippo cried out. Of course he didn't like being left behind again. Because InuYasha was so impatient and irrational a lot of the time, Shippo was usually the one who either got stepped on, or got left behind.
"He's heading towards Kagome's well!" Miroku exclaimed, as if telling Kilala where to go. Kilala gave a slight growl, acknowledging the new directions.
"Wait a minute!" Shippo cried out, mortified.
"What?" Sango demanded, slightly impatient. Kagome might be in trouble, and Shippo was stalling the whole group.
"We forgot Kikyo!" Shippo cried out, nearly jumping off Kilala's back. Sango just stared blankly at Kilala's back, until she gave her a quick squeeze. Kilala gave a quick roar, and then ran back to the campsite as fast as she could.
"There you all are! I thought you had left me." Kikyo had a visibly dark blue aura surrounding her. Shippo jumped off of Kilala and ran to Kikyo.
"Come on Kikyo," Shippo yelled as he grabbed her by her hand with his little hand and dragged Kikyo towards Kilala. Kilala growled, clearly not liking the fact that a pile of clay and bones was riding on her back.
'As soon as we get back, I had better get brushed,' Kilala mumbled to herself mentally. "Sango, may we go now?" Kilala said in her own native tongue. Sango didn't understand a word that Kilala was saying. Sango heard a growl and a slight hiss coming from her feline friend.
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"Okay Kouga. Whenever you're ready," Kagome insisted. She noticed that Kouga wasn't too fond of going anywhere near anything of which magic was being practised. Kagome knew that if there was anything dangerous or unstable, it was best not to go near it. That is, if you valued your life. Not knowing what kind of spell or curse placed upon an object could either maim you with it's aftermath, or kill you.
"Okay." Kouga said a bit reluctantly. His animal instincts were telling him to run away from the evil magic that was being used. But his heart and his head told him otherwise. 'If Kagome uses this to go from her world back and forth, then it can't be bad. And if she was afraid of using it, I would have smelled her fear.' So Kouga had no choice but to trust the well.
Kagome took Kouga's hand, and gave it a slight squeeze of reassurance. Kagome gave Kouga the warmest smile she could, and took the first step forward. Kouga took a step towards the well, following his woman. Kagome looked to the well, and laughed. It wasn't a harsh, high pitch laugh like most women screech; it was a quiet, blissful laugh.
That was all it took. Kouga wrapped his arm around Kagome's waist, and jumped. Kagome was slightly shocked by his sudden movements, but shook it off as the two jumped into the well.
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"So what did you think of my home?" Kagome asked Kouga as the two of them finally reached the Sengoku Jidai. Kouga had volunteered to give Kagome a piggy-back, which she accepted gladly. She still insisted on carrying her own backpack though, no matter how many times Kouga had insisted.
"Well your mother seems very trusting, and I can see where you get your beauty from," Kouga flirted. Kagome just laughed gently.
"And what about Grandpa?" Kagome knew better than to ask, but curiosity was getting the best of her. If Kouga really was a gentleman, he'd say nice things about her Grandpa. But if he let the demon in him come out, he'd say something like "He's arrogant and annoying." Or something else insulting.
"He's too paranoid! And he's a really annoying human. I don't see how you can live with him! He sais he's a monk, and yet his scrolls and spells don't work. So I don't know where you get your Miko powers from, because I certainly know it isn't him." Kouga said with a growl, remembering the time he had practically been a mummy in the Spell Scrolls that Kagome's Grandpa had covered him in.
"And what about Souta?" Kagome asked meekly. Kouga knew he had hurt Kagome's feelings, but it was true. And she had to realize that it was the truth. Kouga had to think a minute about Kagome's younger brother before he could really answer.
"Souta really loves you, and protects you. He really does care for you, Kagome. I think he looks up to you. He's a real twit, and I can tell that he doesn't have much experience with demons, since he definitely didn't know how to act properly around me. If I dare ask, how does he look at InuYasha?" That took a second for Kagome to answer. She looked up at the sky, as if in the clouds there was her answer.
"Well I know that InuYasha's really his idol. He wants to be just like InuYasha, believe me. If he isn't saving my homework, piling it up on his little desk for me, he's always trying to convince me to bring InuYasha over so he can see him again. Souta's always wanted a real friend, and he looks up to InuYasha like any little kid would to his brother," Kagome finally admitted, truthfully. Kouga grinned at first, but then growled at the mention of his arch rival.
Kagome recalled the time that when Souta had finally gotten a hold of InuYasha, he had made him eat some of mom's Onigiri. The stubborn Hanyou could stand having swords go straight through his gut countless amount of times, yet he couldn't stomach spicy food.
"He had his tongue sticking out really far, and must have run our hydro bill up to about two-thousand Zenni," Kagome laughed softly at that thought. The sun was weaving in and out of the trees, dancing on Kagome's face every now and then.
Kouga suddenly stopped, sniffing the air. He gave a slight growl, and then stepped out in front of Kagome. He motioned her to stay behind him no matter what. Kagome gave a small nod of her head.
"Kouga, what's wrong?"
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Jassy: Dun Dun Dun Duh! Cliffie ! See how much you guys like it, and i might write another chapter. Remember, no reviews, no writing.
Kagome: Eep! –Hides behind Kouga- What'll happen to me?
Sango: Kagome! Are you going to be alright?
Ginta: And what's with the whole well incident?
Hakkaku: Yeah! That hurt!
Jassy: Too bad! –Sticks tongue out at all of the IY crew-
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