"She loves me, she loves me not," Naraku was doing the plucking-off-the-petals-from- flowers-while-saying-"She loves me, she loves me not"-thinking-that-the-petals-shows- his-luck-with-the-poor-sap-of-his-dreams thing. "She loves me!" Naraku started dancing around Kurayami's avocado tree. Kurayami came outside to pick avocados for more delicious guacamole until she saw Naraku dancing like the monkey that he is.
"What the fuck?" Kurayami said, looking at him with wide eyes. Hoping that he wouldn't talk to her, she snuck back to door, but it was too late.
"Oh, Kurayami, my deadly little flower!" Naraku said sweetly, skipping over to Kurayami, who was too stunned to walk. "Do you find me kissable today? How about a date, hm?" Naraku bent over and puckered up. Kurayami just looked at him angrily and took out her knife, and slashed him across the face! "My FACE! MY BEAUTIFUL FACE!" he sobbed.
"You sound just like that over-privileged, ego-centric bishonen, Sesshomaru." Kurayami said emotionlessly. She walked away from the bastard and went under the tree branches. There, she saw Shippo and Sesshomaru doing the same thing.
"She loves me," Sesshomaru said,
"She loves me not." Shippo said.
"What the—what the hell y'all doing? Where the hell did you people get these damn flowers? I ain't got no flowers!" Kurayami said, annoyed.
"Oh! Umm, hi Kurayami!" Sesshomaru said, with guilty written all over him. "I was just, um, MUTILATING the flowers that I bought! Umm, yeah!" Kurayami just nodded her head and looked at him funny. Liar. An exposed Sesshomaru ran inside the house screaming, "YOU DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING! I REGRET NOTHING!"
"What about you, Shippo?" Kurayami asked the little kitsune, "You mutilating the flowers with him, too?"
Shippo sighed. "No, I wanted to know if I had a chance." He said, looking down at the ground. He found a tiny, unripe avocado and started to play with it.
"With who?"
"Rin."
"RIN?" Kurayami exclaimed. She imagined Rin and Shippo out on a candle-lit dinner date. "You're kidding, right, right?"
"I love her." Shippo admitted, "I wonder if she loves me?" He looked at Kurayami as if she knows the answer. Kurayami was desperate to kill Shippo for saying the "L" word. But if she did, someone will find out, and put her in jail.
"Well, how should I know?" Kurayami scoffed. "I don't know shit about love. But you seem desperate, ask Maru-sha. She has a boyfriend in New-York."
(Later)
"So you want to know how to win Rin's heart, eh?" Maru-sha said to Shippo over the phone. "Have you tried being nice to her, lately?" Shippo looked back at the time when he said those mean things to Rin while drifting in that disturbing pool of drool. The days after that, he tried, but, Rin was acting just like Kurayami, Naraku, and Sesshomaru: evil, evil, and EVIL.
"I have! But," Shippo said. Maru-sha finished for him.
"I know the rest. Don't worry I'll help you!"
"Thanks!" The little kitsune squeaked in glee.
(Much later)
Rin was all dressed in a little black gothic dress Kurayami found for her ("I can't believe I was dragged in this scheme." Kurayami muttered to herself an hour earlier.) She was sitting at a tiny table with a rose in her hand. Maru-sha, Chiyo-chan, Kurayami, and the rest of the gang arranged a little dinner date between Rin and Shippo. Shippo gave her the rose earlier that day and told her to come. Anyway, Shippo entered the room with a little tuxedo, smiling at Rin, who was frowning at him.
"I only came here for the cake you promised, you know." Rin said to him as he sat down across from her.
"You'll get your cake soon!" Shippo said nervously. Kurayami came into the room, also wearing a gothic dress and sat down on a little stool next to a scary-looking harp. With a mean expression, she started playing it. In the kitchen, Maru-sha, Chiyo-chan, and everyone else was preparing dinner.
"Come on, guys!" Maru-sha said to Sesshomaru and Inuyasha, who were SUPPOSED to chop onions, but they were trying to chop each other up (duh). "This isn't the time for that! Now chop up those onions!"
"MIROKU!" Chiyo hollered. Sango was opening the oven door. And of course, in order to do that, one must BEND OVER to open it. Miroku just so happened to take the opportunity to touch her butt as she opened the oven to check on the cake. "There's a time and a place for everything, you perv!"
Meanwhile, Rin and Shippo were just sitting at the table, silent, bored, staring at each other. Shippo tried to break the silence.
"So, I'm sorry for calling you a ho, Rin." Shippo said looking away from her. He didn't want her to see him blushing. She looked at him and smiled.
"I'm sure you are!" Rin said. Shippo gave her a shy look.
"I am! I am!" Shippo cried, flailing his arms. "Rin, I just want to say that I—"
"DINNER'S READY!" Maru-sha and Chiyo-chan announced. Kagome brought out a large plate of spaghetti and put it on the table. Inuyasha brought out a bottle of root beer and pour some into their glasses. Kurayami just sat at the harp, playing "Vermillion" by Slipknot on the harp. The young couple just stared at the ONLY plate of spaghetti. Were they expected to share this?
"You are to eat that spaghetti TOGETHER! Just like on Lady and the Tramp." Maru-sha said.
"If you don't eat it," Sango added, "You two will get no dessert!" Then they left. Shippo and Rin picked up their forks and dug in. They slurped their spaghetti forkful by forkful. Soon the spaghetti was almost gone, and they both tried to grab the rest. But, they didn't realize that one particular noodle was very long, so the both of them had an end of it. As they ate, they started to get closer and closer together. So close, the two KISSED! Kurayami stopped playing and stared at them. Seeing two little kids kissing was a real sight to see!
"TIME FOR DESSERT!" Sango and Miroku sang. They brought out a BIG vanilla cake with cherry filling, covered with icing as red as Inuyasha's kimono. Inuyasha cut the both of them a piece of cake. Shippo and Rin had gotten really tiny pieces (because he wanted the cake all to himself!) The couple looked at each other, then at Inuyasha, and they threw their pieces of cake at him!
"You little brats!" Inuyasha said angrily. He scooped up some cake and threw it at them. They ducked and it hit Kurayami. Her eyes grew blood red and she marched over to the table and threw some cake at Inuyasha. He ducked and it hit Sesshomaru in the face. Kurayami, Shippo, Inuyasha and Rin laughed at him as he shrieked like a girl. Sesshomaru ran into the kitchen to wash his face.
(Minutes later)
Everyone now joined in the fight. Kagome threw cake at Sango. Sango threw cake at Maru-sha. Maru-sha threw cake at Chiyo, and so on, and so on. Hey people, it was a big-ass cake. Shippo and Rin some how snuck out and went under Kurayami's avocado tree.
"Now," Rin said to Shippo, who was blushing like mad. "What did you want to tell me?"
"Ummm…ehh…" Shippo stuttered. How can he tell her? 'How can I tell her?' Shippo thought. 'You know what? I must grow up! I should stop acting like a little boy and start being a BIG boy! I will tell her, I WILL TELL HER!' "RIIIIIIIIIN!"
Rin fell back, and then popped back up. "WHAT?"
"I-I LOVE YOOOOUUU!" He screamed at her. She was stunned, but she smiled and hugged him.
"I love you too, Shippo." She said softly.
"Gimme a break!" A voice said. Shippo and Rin turned around and saw Kurayami, who was hiding behind the tree. "So, this means you two are…ugh…GIRLFRIEND and BOYFRIEND?"
"Yep!" The new couple said together enthusiastically, hugging each other.
Kurayami just gave them an emotionless look. "Oookay then. But listen up. Act lovey-dovey OUTSIDE the house, not INSIDE, okay?"
"Yes ma'am!" They said in unison. They just sat there hugging each other for dear life. Kurayami had to leave before the love gets to her.
'Love is so stupid.' She thought.
Ugh...romance, why did you people convince me to write that? I will find you and kill you! Well, not right now anyway. Anyway, review if you dare, and no flames, or I'll use your hearts as firewood! Sayonara!
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