Feudal Christmastime

By Ekonika

Chapter 3: Story time!

Disclaimer: Aww… I forgot was I was going to write this time… it was something really good… maybe I'll remember after a ham-and-mayo-and-IDon'tOwnInuYasha-and relish sandwich.

When Sango and Miroku were almost at the sacred well, Kagome had them close their eyes. She led them up to the decorated tree, and told them to open their eyes. They gasped and ran up to the tree, examining the decorations. Miroku was the first to find the mistletoe, and poked it with his staff. He turned to Kagome.

"Is it a party? What are we celebrating?"

"You have to wait for InuYasha and Shippou to get back!" Kagome smiled and felt like running around or slaying a demon, she was so excited. Instead, she made finishing touches on the decorations, pretending to straighten them and such. InuYasha got back 5 minutes later, carrying Shippou by the tail. They were arguing, and Kagome glared at InuYasha. As soon as he noticed it, he shut up and grunted. He dropped Shippou, who jumped up to look at the decorations. Kagome almost made him sit, but was in too good a mood. Instead, she ran over, almost hugged him, thought better, and dragged him over. She stopped by a blanket she had laid out.

"Come on! Do you want to hear about Christmas?" Everyone came and sat in a circle, Sango and Miroku next to each other across from Kagome, InuYasha on her right, and Shippou on her left. She began. "Well, there's a holiday we celebrate in my time called Christmas…"

She had imagined this time all morning, and it was not going right. Every other sentence or so, one of them asked a question. Eventually, she got so tired of being interrupted, that she just yelled, "Be quiet! I'll get there when I get there!" After that, things went a lot smoother. By the time she finished her story, only one of them had a question.

"What's the mistletoe for?" Miroku asked. Kagome started into a fit of giggles at the moment, and InuYasha, who had previously been losing interest, suddenly sat up from his position, and stared at Kagome, with his head cocked.

Kagome straightened, and started to explain it. "Well, mistletoe is that plant I hung from the tree over there. Don't stand under it, because if you do," She giggled some more, everyone was on the edge of their seats. "Someone has to kiss you!" Sango started giggling too, and Shippou was running in circles on all fours, saying,

"Ew! Gross, gross, gross! And presents!" InuYasha and Miroku did their best to look revolted, but the girls could tell they were thinking. Kilala jumped to play with Shippou, and Kagome laughed with the happiness of it all. She suddenly remembered something.

"Oh, everyone, don't tell anybody else about Christmas, it's hard to get presents for EVERYBODY."

"Ok!" said Shippou.

"No problem." Sango responded.

"Don't worry!" Miroku stated.

"Yeah, whatever."

Kagome sighed.

"What time will you be back?" Sango asked.

"Oh… tomorrow, I guess. I'll bring some wrapping paper and labels. Do you think Kirara might want a collar or something?"

"I don't know… some meat would probably be best."

"Okay… I have an idea I think she'll love. See you!"

She left them with a candy cane each, and got up. "I have to go back to my time, to get some presents." She headed for the well, and didn't notice InuYasha walking after her until she almost jumped down.

"Kagome!" he said.

"Hmm?"

"Weren't you going to ask me something?" Kagome looked at him, confused. "You said you had something to ask me when you got here."

"What? Oh, I remember. Do you want to come shopping with me?" InuYasha looked a little disappointed, but nodded.

"Sure, let's go." Kagome hopped onto his back, and they jumped into the well.

I always loved story time, but this story isn't about me! I bet you're all wondering why InuYasha was disappointed… well, I'm not going to tell you, and so you all have to use your remarkable intuitions. Got to love that mistletoe, though, huh? Okay, have fun reading! And, thank you my readers!