Author's Note: Inuvember "Main Gang #3" prompt. Nonsensical fluff ahead.

Originally posted on Tumblr: Nov. 11, 2018

Posted here: Sept. 17, 2020

Setting: Canon-verse

Characters: InuGang

Words: 358

Rated: K+

Genre: Friendship & Humor


Hide 'n' Seek

"Shippo's nose may not be as strong as mine," Inuyasha grumbled to Kagome as they ran through the forest to hide, while Shippo counted slowly to a hundred, "but he'll still be able to pick up our scents. What's the point in hiding from him?"

"Inuyashaaaa," Kagome said in exasperation, rolling her eyes. "You're missing the point! It's about having fun!"

"Why should we be having fun when there's Jewel shards to collect?! And Naraku still on the loose?!" Inuyasha shouted.

Kagome whirled on him with a death glare. "Shippo is a child, and he deserves a break from constant battles and terror! Let him have a little fun!"

"I think that's just an excuse for you lazy humans to 'take a break' yourselves," Inuyasha muttered mutinously, jumping up to settle on a tree branch.

Kagome's eyebrow twitched. "Sit, boy," she growled quietly but with a fury that matched her louder commands.

(Inuyasha's body slamming into the forest floor shook the surrounding trees, and did not go by unnoticed by the other players.)

(Shippo's count was currently in the seventies.)

"Work hard, then play hard, as they say," Miroku chuckled to himself, having heard Inuyasha's protests. He was currently residing beneath a thick underbrush, and was pleasantly surprised to find that Sango was crouching low a few feet in front of him, facing the other way.

"Sango, my love," he purred, reaching up and caressing her backside, "we're alone at last."

A loud SMACK could be heard echoing through the trees, not even twenty counts since Kagome's furious sit command.

Shippo sighed to himself, pausing in his last few counts before he would be "it."

Honestly, what was the point of playing hide 'n' seek if everyone kept giving away their positions before the game even began?

"... Ninety-nine, ONE HUNDRED. READY OR NOT, HERE I COME!" he shouted, somewhat disgruntled, ready to find his idiotic friends right away. But the forest had become eerily quiet. As if the hiders were holding their breath, waiting out the game.

Shippo grinned mischievously to himself and darted into the trees. The game he thought had already ended had only just begun.