Celestial Lad

A/N: Hey, look, we all know IY characters love to bathe. And to sneak on people bathing. So this was bound to happen at some point of time.

It was another peaceful evening for the rag tag group of friends. Naraku was gone, hidden in some unknown location, even his incarnations were hard to find the last few days. The summer was slowly turning into autumn. Shippou was coloring peacefully, his back resting against Kirara's side as the transformed cat was sunbathing in the rays of the sun hanging just above the horizon. Kagome looked at Sango and Miroku engaged in a heated discussion about personal space and why Miroku's hands shouldn't be in Sango's personal space. The young miko sighed and stood up from her spot near the fire of their little camp in the forest.

"I'll go fetch Inuyasha," she said to her friends. "He's taking oddly long to catch fish for our dinner."

"Okay, Kagome," Sango smiled warmly. The young miko nodded and went in direction of a small lake hidden between the hills, just a short walk away from their meadow. Kagome was walking quietly, looking around herself, admiring the beauty of the nature around her, not touched by humans' hands. Suddenly she heard a splash and became aware how close she was to the lake. It was just behind a thick path of bushes. She moved closer to the bushes and moved their branches to look through them to see what made the splash.

Who.

Kagome swallowed when she saw Inuyasha swimming through crystal clear water of the lake, silver hair floating behind the doggy paddling hanyou. The time-travelling miko used all her willpoer to stop blushing and peel her eyes away from the view of her friend obviously enjoying a refreshing swim after a long, hot day. She managed to spot a pile of fish nearby on the shore, under a tree where Inuyasha's robes were hanging. She was thinking what she should do - leave or make him know she was here for the fish and to call him back to the camp? As she was pondering this and keeping her eyes trained at the bush in front of her.

"Oi!" her eyes flew up at the rough voice of the hanyou and focused on him. He was standing in the water fairly far from the shore, the liquid reaching high enough to cover his southern regions, but doing nothing to obscure the upper body of the man currently scowling and crossing his arms in front of himself. Kagome was about to apologize, blusing fiercely at being discovered, but then she noticed his golden eyes weren't focused on her. She followed his gaze to see he was looking in the direction of the fish pile and his robes.

Which were held by a woman in green kimono. The woman was looking at Inuyasha with an expression on her face which made Kagome growl deep in her throat as if she was an inu youkai herself. How did she dare to spy on Inuyasha like this and grab his precious robe?

"What do ya think ya're doin'?" Inuyasha demanded. The woman rolled his robe and started to stuff it in a bag she was carrying.

"Celestial lad, I have your heavenly robe. Now you must marry me," she stated smugly.

"What?!" Inuyasha barked. "I ain't a celestial anything, wench! Gimme back my clothes before I come there and shred you, human!"

He had no chance to say anything more.

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Sango and Kagome were sitting on both sides of the woman in green kimono, the former eyeing warily the monk stirring their fish soup while the latter was tending to the woman's bruises. The woman was telling them her story - she had been on her way to a nearby village when she had stumbled upon a celestial being bathing in the lake. She had been stunned by his silver hair and wonderfully shaped body, so she had looked for his heavenly robe. Upon finding it she had told the being he was bound to marry her, as it was in legends. Miroku and Sango looked at each other before turning their gazes in the direction of their hanyou friend sulking on a high tree branch far enough that they couldn't see him in the darkness of the evening.

"...As soon as I told him that, something attacked me," the woman continued. "I could feel such a violent aura radiating from it. I think it was a terrible youkai that came from behind me and hit me on my head... When I came to the miko was there," the woman looked at Kagome who had his eyes glued to her hands. "I thank you for defeating the youkai who attacked me. It's pitiful the heavenly being disappeared, along with his robes..."

"A youkai attacked you?" Sango raised her eyebrows, gazing at the lump on her heaad

"Maybe it was also after the handsome celestial lad," Miroku grinned, his eyes fixed on their miko. Kagome glared at him and growled like their hanyou friend.

Inuyasha was silently listening to what was done and said in the camp. His ears twitched when he heard a word uttered in a quiet, but firm voice.

"He's mine."

He turned his head slightly to look at the miko and smirked a little. 'I wonder when she'll give me my robe back...'

A/N: So, okay, it was totally pointless, but I had to write it. I'll work on FS now, promise. If you read this you should check out Adorable Curse or other Barks chapters - they're actually funny