A/N: Aaand we're back to silly fluffiness again!
I promise, there will be some real MirSan chaps in near future instead of them creeping out InuKag.
Fishing
It happened after the gang had a run in with Sesshomaru's group. The two groups had spent a whole day together, resting and sharing information. Sesshomaru and Inuyasha had spent a good amount of time glaring at each other, but to everyone's surprise there had been no violence, not even verbal.
But now, a few days after this, it happened. Inuyasha was napping under a tree near a stream, happily enjoying his time and not-resting-after-a-fight-with-a-weasel-youkai that had happened that morning.
His human friends were talking, mending their clothes and just being glad that they were not rushing anywhere. There was a good chance they were going to stay in the meadow in the forest for this night and no one had any objections. Even Kagome, who usually got a bit cranky when they had to sleep on the ground for too long, was in a good mood.
"Oi, Inuyasha!"
The hanyou opened an eye and saw Shippou standing in front of him.
"What?" asked the inu hanyou, suspecting the kitsune was about to test a prank on him. And just when he was so comfortable...
"Will you... Uh..." Shippou looked down to his paw drawing circles in the dirt. "That is..."
"Spit it out, brat," Inuyasha sat up. Whatever it was that was making the boy look so anxious he wanted to know now. Still, he kept his distance, just in case it was just a trick to make him drop his guard.
"I... Last time we camped with Sesshomaru..." Shippou glanced up because upon hearing his brother's name the hanyou growled. "I was playing with that girl... And she told me she can fish. Canyouteachme?"
Green eyes looked with anxious hope into surprised golden orbs. Inuyasha tilted his head, trying to understand what was going on. Was Shippou asking him to teach him to fish?
Usually it was Inuyasha who was providing for the gang and till today Shippou never shown any interest in catching his food. Was it the sign of him growing up? Or maybe he finally realized he had to rely on himself, not Kagome's pocky stash? Or - Inuyasha grinned widely - his pride was wounded because a human girl could do something he couldn't.
Shippou paled when he saw Inuyasha's smile, but to his relief the hanyou wasn't going to reject him.
"Okay, fine. But you have to promise one thing," Inuyasha lifted a finger.
A couple of minutes later Kagome found Shippou and Inuyasha in the stream, both poised to pounce as their eyes were following movements of shadows in the water. Inuyasha was grunting something to the boy, who was listening intently. Suddenly Shippou jumped forward and with a cry of excitement started to wrestle a fish, trying to pull it out of the water. When it became clear that he wouldn't win and when the boy was soaked Inuyasha reached for him and pulled him out of the water, along with the fish as big as himself he was still clinging to.
"Try to catch smaller fish first," Inuyasha said as he put the boy on his feet and threw the wiggling fish to the shore where Kirara was patiently waiting to watch the catch. "You can't wrestle with it, you have to throw it out of the water fast."
Shippou nodded and bit his bottom lip, looking for a smaller target in the water around his feet.
Kagome smiled, glad that her boys were finally spending some quality time and bonding instead of fighting.
Shippou couldn't wait to meet Rin again and tell her that he, as a proud youkai, could fish and was better at it than anyone else, bringing fish for his entire group.
Inuyasha couldn't wait for Kouga to come sniffing around Kagome. He couldn't do anything about the wolf, but he was sure Kagome wouldn't get angry at Shippou 'by accident' setting Kouga's tail on fox fire.