A special thanks to…
Miko no Kaze
alchemistgrl09
elvira-inu-girl
Remenescent
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There was another person to, coughAlcough…but she used those cursed words. So she must now feel slighted! Mwah-ha-ha!
Disclaimer: Inuyasha belongs to Rumiko Takahashi-sensei, Shogakukun, Yomiuri TV and Sunrise 2000. Whatever any of that is.
A/N: Sorry about the late update. I meant to update sooner, but I got sick on Sunday, and I had to spend the entire day in bed feeling miserable. Seriously, I had problems just opening my eyes. And THEN yesterday, when I tried to load this, it just...wouldn't load. Sorry.
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If this were a musical Satsuki would sing the Worm Song.
"Nobody likes me, everybody hates me. I think I'll go eat worms, fat ones, long ones…" ect ect
The Stamp Of Gold
Dare To Be Presumptuous
By Pwalefriend
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When Kagome finally caught up with the runaway Satsuki she was out of breathe and had developed and stitch in her side. Satsuki was crying into the wooden surface of an old dry well, as Kagome saw when she had recovered her wind.
"Waahh!" Satsuki sobbed. "Nobody likes me…"
Kagome winced. She had met this type before; the type of child who was convinced that it was them against the entire world…and that was all there was to be said. Rarely could children like that be shaken from their view, even when they were all grown up.
"That's not true Satsuki." Kagome said in a soft voice, coming up from behind the little girl and kneeling down next to her. "I like you, and I just met you!" Satsuki sniffed a couple times and then looked up at Kagome with big watery eyes.
"Really?" Satsuki asked. "You're not just saying that?"
"Of course I'm not!" Kagome protested. Satsuki looked at her, a little suspicious. Then she stuck out her pinky.
"Promise?" She asked of Kagome. Kagome smiled kindly and then entwined her own larger and longer pinky finger with Satsuki's smaller and chubbier one.
"I promise." Kagome said.
"WAAAHHHH!" Suddenly a great cry shook the forest and Kagome and Satsuki both looked up, startled. A moment later Shippo and Rin both came running out of the forest at top speed, both of them screaming.
"KAGOME! KAGOME!" They cried. "KAGOME! SAVE US!" They screamed. Shippo and Rin both skidded to a halt and then his behind her skirt.
Kagome couldn't have been more confused.
"What is it?" She asked. "What's wrong?"
"Inuyasha's mad at us!" Rin whined.
"He's gonna kill me! He's gonna kill me! He's gonna kill me!" Shippo babbled. He looked up at Kagome. "He's gonna kill me!" He said. Kagome's heart ached when she saw the tears of fear in the little boys green eyes. "He's gonna kill me!" Apparently this was all he could say.
"Huh?" Kagome said, still very confused.
"He's gonna kill m-"
Kagome picked Shippo up and hugged him to her, rocking him back and forth, as much as to comfort him as to get him to shut up.
"Why don't you both calm down and tell me and Satsuki what happened." Kagome suggested. But inside she was thinking. 'Life! I haven't been here a whole day and already they're this attached to me? How neglected could they have been!'
"Well…" Rin began. "It all started as soon as you left the clearing, chasing after Satsuki…" Rin's voice took on a softer quality as she began to tell what misfortune had befallen them. She used hand gestures to make her point clearer…seeing her actions Kagome's eyebrows rose a notch but she still listened closely to Rin.
Apparently Rin was going to have a career in story telling.
"Shippo and I looked at each other, we were wondering whether we should stay at the tree and set up the picnic or follow you two. And if we were to follow you two, did we bring the picnic basket? We were just looking at each other and wondering just what I told you, when suddenly Uncle Inuyasha jumped from out of the top of the tree! He had been there the whole time! Can you believe it? And when he comes down he glares at us for a second and in the second we realize that we are in big trouble…but we don't know why. Then he says,
"Do you two have any idea how much racket you were making!" And we say-"
But here Shippo interrupted her.
"He did not say that!" Shippo protested. "He said-"
Kagome gasped in shock when she heard a sentence of foul and crude language come out of Shippo's mouth. Apparently Mr. Takahashi didn't understand the concept of restraint in language when addressing young ears.
"Shippo!" Satsuki cried, just as shocked as Kagome. "Just because Inuyasha talks like that doesn't mean you should!"
"Well it's what he said!" Shippo protested. "I just wanted to make sure she got it right!"
"If you two will please let me finish!" Rin said indignantly. Kagome resisted the urge to giggle; that was the thing she loved the most about children. They were normal people, complete with all the quirks, except they were a lot cuter, a lot sweeter, and a lot nicer then people.
"As I was saying, before I was so rudely interrupted," Rin started again, with a quick glare at Shippo who buried his head back into Kagome's chest. "He yelled at us in foul language and then bopped Shippo on the head. We ran to find you then, but as we were running off he shouted at us that he was going to…" Rin paused for dramatic effect. "Kill Shippo." Rin finished in a hushed voice, then she sat back with a self-satisfied look on her face.
Kagome closed her eyes for a second so that she could better process this new information. In the second that her eyes were closed a person of red, silver and gold that had been hiding in the trees flashed away back towards the mansion, where he could safely hide in his room for the rest of the day.
Kagome opened her eyes.
Now, Kagome was no fool, she knew that children, especially small children, had a tendency to exaggerate situations. But there was one way to tell…
"Shippo?" Kagome asked softly. "Do you have a bump where Mr. Takahashi hit you?"
It took Shippo a moment to realize that when Kagome said Mr. Takahashi she meant Inuyasha…or rather Baka-Yasha, as Shippo preferred to call him.
"Ah!" He said. "Yes I do!" Shippo nodded a few times. "Right here." Shippo bowed his head so that Kagome could see the top of it and then pointed at his unruly mop of orange hair in general. "See it?" He asked.
Kagome politely refrained from answering and instead she began to gently sift through his head in search of the bump. When she found it she winced sympathetically.
Kagome had never before though it possible to have a bump the size of an egg. She had heard of such things in her books, but she had always thought it a "literary license" thing. Never had she actually seen such a large bump on the head!
"Shippo, hun…" Kagome said softly. "Try not to go to sleep any time soon. You might have a concussion, we'll have to talk to Kaede about that. And in the mean time…" She looked at her charges, a fierce and fiery glint in her eyes. "Which revenge scheme should we use this time?"
The children all grinned. Now this was something that they did best.
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"Inuyasha? Inuyasha?" Miroku called as he pushed open the door. The perverted valet grimaced when he saw the darkness within his master's quarters. "Inuyasha…for the thousandth time turn on some lights!" Miroku snapped. He reached out and groped blindly for the switch to the oil lamps that were supposed to light the room. Once he had he grimaced at what he saw.
There was Inuyasha, lying on the floor with his silver hair spread out all around him and nothing on but that strange baggy old-fashioned red hakama of his. And scattered on the floor nest to him…an empty beer bottled.
"You idiot." Miroku muttered. Inuyasha opened an eye and looked at him, then growled.
"It didn't work." Inuyasha informed Miroku.
"Well I can see that." Miroku scoffed. "If you had managed to finally drink yourself into a stupor you'd be out of it, not talking to me. That's why they call it a stupor."
"Feh." Inuyasha said, sitting up and turning away with his arms crossed. "Who said I was talking to you, pervert?"
"Oh, and then who were you talking to, an imp on my shoulder?"
"…Maybe."
"…Life…what exactly is wrong with you Inuyasha?"
"Did you come here for a reason bouzo, or was it just to annoy me?" Inuyasha demanded.
"Yes, I came here to talk with you about the new girl, Kagome." Miroku said in a determined voice. Inuyasha sighed, he knew that when Miroku put on that voice there would be no deterring him from his mission, whatever that mission may be.
Inuyasha stood up and cleared away the broken glass with a wave of his hand. It was a talent that he had learned from even before his transformation. Beckoning with his right hand, he led Miroku into his study.
It was a dimly lit room; though it was the only room he kept lit at all times. Unlike most of the mansion, Fire was what kept this room lit. Fire of witchery, supernatural Fire, eternal Fire, Fire that flickered, yet never cast a shadow. Fire that burned its life, yet never went out. The Fire that lit Inuyasha's personal rooms was a riddle, like the man himself. And Miroku never let himself forget it.
Inuyasha sat down in his large chair behind the desk, and Miroku sat down in the much smaller chair in front of the desk.
"…Well?" Inuyasha said after a moments pause. "What do you want? 'Cause if this is it you can leave already."
"I told you, I wanted to speak to you about Kagome." Miroku said patiently, he was by far used to Inuyasha's temper.
Inuyasha blinked.
"Kagome?" He quoted. "Awful familiar with the wench after only meeting her a few times."
"What?" Miroku teased, unable to help himself. "Jealous, Inuyasha?"
"WHAT!" Inuyasha screamed, shooting up. "NO WAY!"
Miroku's mouth dropped wide open, he hadn't expected such a reaction! And so Miroku did what any good friend would do when faced with such a lovely reaction.
"Ooo-ooh!" Miroku said in a singsong voice. "You like her, don't you Inuyasha!"
"WHAT!" Inuyasha howled. "NO! YOU FREAK! NO!"
"Oh! You do! You do!" Miroku cried. "I bet your heart flutters every time you hear her name! I bet you can't think of anything else but her! I bet that it was love at first si-"
Miroku then realized what he was saying.
Miroku glared at Inuyasha suspiciously.
Inuyasha looked very, very guilty.
"Say…Inuyasha…" Miroku said slowly. "When did you see Kagome?"
"Feh." Inuyasha said. "I never said that I saw her, that was all you."
"Really?" Miroku said. "You mean you haven't stared into her blue eyes, her cobalt orbs that sparkle with joy and-"
"Her eyes are brown, you idiot." Inuyasha snapped. "And the only thing they sparkle with is malice and evil."
Miroku grinned triumphantly.
"Ah-ha!" He said, pointing a finger at Inuyasha. "So you have seen her!"
Inuyasha realized then that he had been caught out.
"Keh." He said. "So I watched her a little bit last night, and today in the woods. It was only to make sure she wasn't a spy."
"Inuyasha." Miroku said in a condescending tone. "You should really have more faith in our dearest Sango's taste in friends. I mean really. A girl with a gorgeous a body as Sango's, and with just as nice a bosom may I add, well…she can't be all bad!"
There was a moment of utter silence.
Then Sango came running in.
"PERVERT!" She screamed at the top of her lungs. Lifting her broom above her head she brought it down with a vicious THUMP on Miroku's crown and Miroku fell to the floor, twitching randomly. Inuyasha raised an eyebrow, mildly impressed.
"How'd you hear him?" He asked her.
"I didn't. What did he say?" Sango asked.
"Nothing out of the usual, though very perverse. So how did you know if you didn't hear him?"
"I was walking by and my pervert sense started tingling." Sango said with a shrug. "Say, Inuyasha?"
"Mmm?" Inuyasha asked absentmindedly. He was busy watching Miroku twitch like some sort of insect on the floor.
"What do you think of Kagome?" Sango asked, a little bit afraid of his answer. She wanted her friend to stay, yes, but…could she really hope to put her friend in such danger? Was she really that horrible a person.
Inuyasha looked up, surprised. His surprised golden eyes met Sango's wary black ones. There was something in her eyes…something that worried Inuyasha. A spark from a Fire drew his attention away from Sango and he stared at the Fire that had made the noise for a moment before answering.
"She'll do." He said.
Meanwhile, downstairs, the object of their discussion was currently plotting revenge for the pain that Inuyasha had unwittingly inflicted on poor innocent Shippo.
"We have to wait for nightfall." Kagome told Shippo. "Meet me after the girl have gone to sleep, then…we attack."
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The quarter moon rose full and cold, sending wave after wave of its stony light out onto the plains and bathing the mansion in an icy relief. It streamed in through the windows like so much ice cold water and after feeling it touch her skin with its pale and silver fingers Kagome couldn't help but shiver and pull her bathrobe just a little bit tighter.
"Kagome?" Shippo whispered. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine…" Kagome replied. "Just a little cold." Shippo silently nodded his understanding.
"The nights can get pretty cold out here." He told her.
"So I've noticed." Kagome said a little sourly. They tiptoed on in silence for a couple moments but Kagome was drawn up short when Shippo gasped.
"What is it?" She asked worriedly. Shippo nodded in front of him.
"Baka-Yasha's gone out drinking again…" Shippo whispered, distaste obvious in his voice. "He's such a spoiled brat." Kagome's eyebrows raised. In her opinion, children should never have to say that about adults. It was just pure evil, to say that ones provider had "gone out drinking again." Kagome's eyes narrowed. This new employer of hers must have desired to be punished.
She pushed open the door and went inside, an evil grin on her face and a strange purple and white item dangling from her hand.
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It was a pure miracle that Inuyasha managed to miss Kagome's trap when he came back to his rooms that night. But he was not so lucky the next morning when he stumbled out of bed and got dressed in his usual red outfit…and then stumbled out the door. Apparently someone (he had no idea who) had booby-trapped the door, because as soon as he stepped out this…purple rosary with…some sort of teeth threaded into it fell onto his head! And then around his neck! Of all the chances in a million that it would actually work that perfectly…well, Inuyasha knew that he should just start cussing his head off then…but he still wasn't quite sure. So he settled for a:
"What the hell?" Inuyasha asked of no one. Then he tried to get this odd rosary off his head…tried.
For you see, not even Inuyasha could take the rosary off.
Not even Inuyasha…
Even with all his hanyou strength.
Well, that's that I suppose. Tell me, how was it? I know that it wasn't as long as the first two chapters, but very few chapters will be as long as the first two chapters. There was plenty of description to put there to make it flow better. Well, you know what to do! Please review all! Till next time.
Sincerely
Pwalefriend