A/N: Enjoy, this newly arrived redone, re-approved, and revised Chapter!
A NEW INUYASHA
chapter two.
start a new with someone new?
He peeked one of his eyes to see that Kagome was right in his face smiling sweetly. InuYasha blushed a deep crimson from the closeness between them.
"Oh InuYasha…."
Kagome said with a voice as sweet as honey.
That scared InuYasha. Kagome had never used that tone of voice with him.
"y-yes."
He stuttered.
Kagome caressed on of his cheeks with her hand. InuYasha blushed madly, his whole face felt as hot as the sun. She never acted like this before. Although he wished she would be more like this everyday. He started to relax into her hand and sighed peacefully.Then a stuck of lightning hit him. Wait a minute this can only mean one thing… He was a bit afraid to look her in the eyes now.
She screamed at the top of her lungs.
"SIT!"
With that InuYasha slammed in the ground forming a large hole.
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All three groaned. If only. For only. One day. JUST ONE DAY. For them not to bicker like children. Honestly sometimes it seemed they were an old married couple.
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She looked towards a comet that caught her eye. She looked at it, when it disappeared she looked towards her hanyou once again. I wish he could be more kind and loving, show his true feelings… She sighed, thinking. Yeah right, like that's ever gonna happen.
She sat down in her sleeping bag letting sleep overcome her.
Bright green eyes fluttered open in the night sky above Kagome. The eyes narrowed at the sleeping Kagome as a voice echoed.
"Your wish is my command…"
The sun had perfectly chosen this day today to rise early. The rays of the sun pierced through even the thickest of the green bushes of the tree. Kagome turned away, roused slightly from the piercing rays of the sun. But she chose to just ignore the sun's threat and hang onto every last once of her strength to hang onto dreamland.
"Kagome!"
With a flick of her wrist and a slender finger pointed toward a lone bucket and rag standing in a dark corner, she found herself once dusty, stained wooden floors sparkling brightly before her very eyes, even shining out her dark brown orbs, scrubbed to the last peck of lint on the doors and stairs looking spick and span from up and down in less than 10 seconds.
"Kagome, I-!" She silenced him with one drawn-out index finger.
"Kagome-sama." She corrected him and drew back her finger to let him continue.
His golden eyes gave off a shinier tone than any wood he had scrubbed so far. "Kagome...sama!" A blush over came his feature. She gave him a snide look. "Your chores have been completed. I have cleaned the entire shrine now. . . all I ask is your. . ." a darker shade took over and he chose to stare done at a random spot on the spotless wood tile. "affection, in return." He looked up, almost afraid.
"hahaha" She turned over a, wide-mouthed smile plastered on her resting face.
Hands in her hips, head up high, with her nose in the air, she gave off a hearty laugh a hand covering her mouth. She looked down at him, his face taking on the one's of a lost puppy starving for affection. She gave a firm grip on his head, patting it, like a dog. He blushed crimson underneath the silver veil.
She brushed his bangs back gently and made him look up at her.
Since when did--? He had long made a begging position when she laughed at him. She could no longer hide the sympathy bursting with in her when she looked into his round puppy dog eyes. Newly shed giant dews of tear gushed forward from her own round eyes. She hugged him tightly. She felt him snuggle against her shoulder. As much as she didn't want to let go, she did and looked him in the eye like a mother would a child. "Your reward is one peck."
He took on the face of a homeless made that had just won a 100 million yen!
He leaped up and fixed himself tidy and pursed his lips leaning in for a sweep sweet taste of those fine lips... but the flesh he was sucking on was not as soft as he hoped, and kinda not as full as he hoped either. He fluttered his eyes open to find a finger in between his eyes. Kagome almost laughed as he strained to look at the finger pressed his lips upon making him look more like a cross-eyed dope.
"Ah, Ah, Aaah!" She wagged herfinger in front of him which his eyes followed stupidly. She poked at her cheek twice, and drew the side of her face near his dumbfounded one.
After about 2 minutes of just waiting there, Kagome scrunched her face in a confusion and turned, "On the cheeck, Inu--mmmpph!"
The claws of his talons pressed as a substitue mussle on her mouth.
"What? On the cheek?" The dope has left the building. Probably hiding away from this violent, gangster-like hoodlum. Kagome widened her eyes in shock. "I'll teach you not to mess with me? Who do you think you are? YOU BITCH!"
"Nnn..." She scrunched her face together like the sun was about to come all together down on her. Sweaty in her own grave.
He tossed her, none too gently, behind his shoulder, and made out for the door. "You're gonna follow MY orders!" He tossed her around aside a bit as an add to her torture. She whined behind him. He held a smirk. "I'm really tired of hollering your ass over to the feudal era..." He mused. "Maybe we should...seal the well, and well, there would be plenty of time for us now," she watched as his rough hand tighten around her back knees and reaching up her skirt. Watched with a left twitch in her eye. "How about becomin' my slave aside of my jewel detector?"
'What kind of slaaaaavveee!' she mentally screamed in her mind as he squeezed at her bottom.
Kagome suddenly jack-kniffed from her sleeping bag, her hair tossed messingly about with random locks sticking to her face. She felt her forehead while she panted. Fresh-drenched sweat hung loosely from the edge of her fingers. Suddenly realizing, the cause of this happenings, her left eye took on a twitch. 'Wh-what was that all about?' At first, he seemed a lost puppy starved for her only affection, the next, his usual controller maniac, and then...(twitch)...became, dare she say it, Miroku (twitch).
She shook her head, and tidied herself up, and fixing her sleeping bag. She looked up at the sky while in the middle of her rolling of her sleeping bag. It was early morning all right. She had made early precautions and took a look around to see everyone around the camp deep asleep. Everyone accounted for...except. She gulped. InuYasha. She tied the knot securely. He's probably just out brooding some where since their fight last night. This was going to be her one and only chance to escape. She was the opputunistic type. She will not let this chance slip, she will seize it! She silently knocked a fist in the air, mouthing a 'YEAH!' as to not lost that chance.
Tiptoe-ing over every single little twig and branch in sight, quietly rustling through the leaves, rowing her dead and broken bike over the well as quietly yet quickly as possible. She tossed her head from side to side to take extra precaution. Every move shall determine her fate...
"OI! KAGOME!"
'YIKES!' She made a dash for it. It was her only hope. Her last ounce of courage was what lead her to the well, and by jove(!), she was going to use it!
Tripping over a loose branch that grew rooting out of the old well, she fell over with a gasp. Bracing herself for the impact, it never came. Instead she felt warm hands slide behind her waist slowly and held her securely. She felt safe all of the sudden, to say the least. She brought big round eyes to look at none other than InuYasha holding her.
He looked down at her, with slittle golden eyes, piercing through her soul. She blushed by instinct and let go. What the hell was that? A scene from some sappy shoujo manga? Maybe it was just her imagination talking. Then why the heck was she still blushing for? She slapped her cheeks gently as if to rid the red. Big chance.
"Are you alright?"
"fine." she mumbled under her breath, crossing her arms with a pout. Great, her great escape plan was ruined. Mama's cooking was just waiting for her by one step away. She whined so much in her head, she didn't even realize when InuYasha had grabbed her from behind and embraced her gently yet possessively.
She scrunched her face up in confusion.
'Am I... still dreaming?' She tossed her head from side to side. Great scenery. Birds chirping. Slight breeze. Her secret crush holding her in the middle of the beauty of it all. 'Gotta be a dream! Wake up, Higurashi! Wake up!' She pinched herself. "ow." she mutterred slightly.
"What's wrong, Kagome?" InuYasha suddenly did a 90 degree turn in their embrace and turned her over to face him. He stared intently at her and she was even afraid to breath on him tofalter his intense and seriously beautiful face.
She laughed nervously. "I-I'm fine." She maanged a weak smile. And looked up at him, curiously. "Are you, though?"
"Me?" He laughed, much to Kagome's shock since she had never once heard him laugh(not counting the times he laughed at her or ridiculed shippou). It was a soft and gentle laugh. He placed both arms on her shoulder, making her eyes widen ten fold. "There's nothing wrong with me. Don't worry!" He added light-heartedly.
"Uuhh..." the twitch had made a comeback at her. And it was a hard one.
"Come on. Let's go back. I made some breakfast for the rest of us to eat. We shouldn't journey on an empty stomach!" He placed an arm around her shoulder and led them back along with carrying her broken bike.
"Come on InuYasha, shouldn't we take a rest. I think I speak for all of us, when I say we're tired." Kagome half-whined and pleaded to the irritated hanyou in front of her.
"She's right--" Miroku started.
"SHADDUP!" InuYasha yelled back. He lowered his voice, the glare from Kagome affecting him slightly. "Stop whining, wench!" He arched forward, taunting her. "Why don't you take it like a man! I know you can take it!"
"Am I suppose to be insulted to be called like a man or am I suppose to take it like a comment of being strong." She muttered to herself staring daggers at his back. InuYasha's ear twitched slightly. She knew he heard but she didn't hear a comeback from him since that comment.
Groans from the others reached her ears. She looked back sympathetically.
Thunder sounded followed afterwords.
A groan from her.
This was not InuYasha! Who was this man leading her to camp (as he says) and being a gentlemen as to grab her bike too. This was all to much!
He noticed her wide expression towards the bike and smiled cutely, "Oh, sorry about what happened yesterday with the bike. I promise I'll fix it up nice and new for you, Kagome." He pecked a small kiss on her forehead. She 'eeked' and slipped away from him so quick he didn't have time for his reflex to kick in and hold her back. He stared at her with a confused expression.
"Don't wear that face!" She pointed, blushing madly from the small peck. (Gawsh, she felt like a lune). "I should be wearing that face!" She scrunched her face up in confusion mirroring his. InuYasha restrained a loud laugh from erupting and decided to just smile widely at the girl 2 feet away from him. "Wh-who are you and what have you done with InuYasha?" After a moment or so, she made a fighting pose.
"Maybe we should play fighting after some breakfast, Kagome?" He inched near her. His left ear perked up. And on que, much to his expectation, a loud growl erupted from the pit pf her stomach. Her fists quickly moved to cover her stomach, much to her embarrassment.
'I don't believe this!' Kagome felt like her taste buds had just went to heaven! This stuff had mastered her own...mother! How did InuYasha learn how to cook like this? Wait! She stopped in between her slurps and chomps, much to her regret, and put the bowl and chopsticks down to stare suspiciously at "InuYasha."
"This is excellent, Kagome-sama! You've master even your own and your own mother at that!" Miroku said in between glomps of food, still wedged in his mouth.
"Wonderful! I shall like to have a recipe of his, Kagome-chan!" Sango added cheerfully. It was the first time Miroku was so occupied over something as a meal that he forgot to have his daily dose of bosom from her.
"Waaaay better than the ninja food you bring us, Kagome." Shippo sat atop a box labeled ninja food, and used it as a sitting material to prove he was not exxagerating.
Kagome sweat-dropped with each comment.
"Glad you guys like it." All three, just suddenly stopped to take notice of the smiling InuYasha sitting in front of them and next to Kagome. Smiling? Next to Kagome? Does this add up? All three chocked, gagging away at the food. Taking jugs greedily from the water bottles sitting next to them. All simultaneously smacked at their lips loudly. Didn't they just fight yesterday. Surely, this would have resulted the next day withthe cold shoulder, Kagome going away, InuYasha brooding somewhere (in a tree, most likely) and takes days for them to find real food and continue the journey as always.
Still speechless and unable to speak, Inuyasha spoke up.
"Did I add too much seasoning on it?" He broke out into a childish yet nervous looking grin, scratching at the side of his head.
All three instinctively raised their hands, waving it furiously, their heads following the motion.
"No no no! It's just right!" Sango cried out defensively all of a sudden.
"Delicious!" Miroku added with a thumbs up.
"The best! heh--heh--heh!" Shippo sweat dropped comically.
The three inched from InuYasha and made a dash for Kagome carrying her away to the next three or four trees away out of ear shot from the dumb founded hanyou they just left behind. Poor Kirara who had hung on her Master's shoulder the whole time, fell off, and was left behind with the hanyou. The hanyou looked back and shrugged, petting Kirara gently as she purred and arched back for more petting space.
"Alright. Spill. What did you do to turn that overly temperamental jerk into such a softee, Kagome?" He nudged Kagome in the shoulder and wiggled his eyebrows at her suggestively. "I knew you guys would kiss and make-up. Or maybe there's more...OW!"
"As if, lech." Sango slapped the back of his head harshly, nearly making the houshi trip into Kagome if not for her inching away smartly. "Nice one." Sango smiled at Kagome, then looking back down at the face down monk kissing dirt. Shippo pulled the small lock of hair sticking behind the nape of his neck, to see swirly-eyed Miroku mumbling nonsesities.
"There's something wrong with InuYasha." Sango looked back at him, her keen sight seeing a figure petting a small feline cat. "He's...different."
A picture of his golden eyes piercing through hers flashed before her, earning a blush overtake her features.She turned away from Sango as to let her see, "I dunno what's with him either." She twindled her fingers nervously in front of her. She turned, the crimson fading from her cheeks, her eyebrows cringed in worry. "All I know is that that's not the InuYasha I know and lo---befriended." She cursed herself for letting the accursed word slip from her lips and quickly averted it for another word.
Sango glanced at the blushing girl. She smirked. "I mean, unless there's another InuYasha with the exact opposite personality of our InuYasha, then it's completely impossible, right?" She looked again at Kagome.
"We should be merry for this sudden event! He probably just decided to take a change for the better." Miroku had long risen and dusted himself of the dirt and flicked off dirt clods from his jet black hair.
Sango crossed his arms and again, looked out to the figure who was now dangling the little fish in front of the feline, then laughing merrily. "Miroku's right." She smiled.
Shippo popped from behind Kagome's shoulder suddenly and nodded in agreement. "No more beatings for me! This is going to be sweet." Shippo smiled almost devilishly in a way, in his head, probably plotting ideas of revenge against the hanyou who had tormented him all through was what's suppose to be his happy childhood days.
Kagomestill wore a look of worry on her face.
The laugh somehow reached only her earssince she saw no sign of reaction from the others around her seemingly still staring at their new comrade. She smiled when she caught the smile on InuYasha's face. It was nice to finally see him havea look of peace on his face, and smiling in a care-free way. She looked around, catching the smiles on everyone else's faces.
Maybe, it was the best. . . to start a new with someone new?
