A Lazy Afternoon
It was one of those fine, sunny days when people feel the urge to slow down, take a break, admire the beauty of nature or join their friends in a pleasant conversation. It was good that the gang was in Kaede's village while resting after an another long journey of following rumors about the jewel shards. Kagome was sitting on a blanket under Inuyasha's Napping Tree - named this way by Shippou because the hanyou liked to sleep there more often than anywhere else - and enjoying a picnic with her friends. She looked around to see the tired, but smiling faces.
There was Shippou munching on a chocolate covered nuts while drawing, Sango repairing a leather strap of her bag, Miroku polishing his staff with a cloth and Kirara curled in a ball beside Sango's leg, protecting the woman from Miroku's cursed hand. Kaede was sitting with her back against the tree bark, sorting herbs in her basket and there was plenty of food between them all to eat whenever they felt like it. Kagome was holding a book on her lap, trying to read, but her eyes were drifting off the text to admire the beautiful landscape around them, wild nature, polution-free air, sun rays filtered through leaves of the tree above them... Her eyes drifted up to the red-clad hanyou dozing off on his favourite branch.
For a dog youkai he sure liked to stay high. It was quite funny because that was a rather cat-like behavior, but she understood why he was doing it - it was much easier to keep watch from up there. He seemed to be as tired as everyone else, but refusing to admit it, as always. Now he was laying with his legs and hands dangling in the air, wind playing with his loose robes, his head tilted to the side. She giggled when she saw one ear twitch as if in annoyance.
As she was observing him for a little longer she could see this action repeating over and over again, his expression changing from a relaxed one to a fierce scowl. She noticed a small fly buzzing around the white fuzzy triangle.
"It seems our friend got a new admirer of his cute ears," Miroku commented and Kagome looked down to see that the rest of her gang was glancing up in amusement.
"Aye," Kaede nodded. "One wonders how lo-"
"Fuck you, flying bitch!" the hanyou sprang to action in a second, jumping to stand on the branch. To Kagome's surprise he drew Tessaiga and let it transform.
"Is he...?" the young miko breathed.
"He is," Sango replied in a tone suggesting she had seed that before.
"Wind Scar! Adamant Barrage!"
A couple of minutes later Inuyasha spat some more curses, sheathed his sword and jumped off the branch to stalk away in search of a new napping place to rest in peace. His gang was staring after him and around their picnic location. Kagome's wide eyes took in the deep scratches marring the grass of the meadow and the diamond spears impaling some trees around it and the interior of the glade. The space closes to the foot of their tree was the only one part of the clearing being not destroyed. Miroku let out a sigh of relief.
As they all were watching the field of destruction a small fly stood between the shads of adamant, shook its wings and took into the air to find a new viction to buzz around.
A/N: It was like 5 am. It was already too hot for me to sleep peacefully. And then the buzzing started. I have too weak sight to hunt a fly when it pesters me and I can't ignore when it makes that noise. Essentially a fly in my room means no more sleep.
This time, luckily, I at least got an idea for a Barks chapter while cursing the small animal...