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Pwale: Okay, I am really running out of script ideas. So if anyone has any, tell me!
Mr. X: Oh! Oh! I know! I know!
(Everyone looks at him)
Mr. X: How about a hippo attacks!
Everyone: …(The just keep staring at him)
Pwale: …Okay, even I can't work 'We don't own the characters' into a script where a hippopotamus attacks.
(Mr. X looks triumphant and Pwale, realizing what she just said, then she hits her forehead)
Calcifer: Now that was good.
Lawyer #1: Well, he wasn't picked for this case for nothing.
Everyone: Huh?
…
The Stamp Of Gold
Sol
By Pwalefriend
The Winter Solstice is a day and night to celebrate the arrival of the new sun as Winter ends and Spring finally starts to come.
And celebrate they did.
That day had been spent talking and laughing and trading presents among friends and family. Kagome had gotten a glass vase from the children, a new ribbon from Sango, a horse from Kanna (who had said that it was from Sesshomaru and Kagura), a kiss from Koga (she hadn't returned it, she hadn't had the chance and he didn't ask it of her) and some other things from people like Miroku and Kaede and even a few of the servants.
She had received nothing from Inuyasha, but she hadn't gotten anything for him either.
Why?
Not from lack of affection, I assure you. But instead due to a quite common problem that they were bother suffering.
They hadn't the slightest idea what to get one another.
In such situations, what can one give someone?
What did Inuyasha not already have?
What did Kagome want that she didn't already have?
And where they supposed to get it?
"You know, my friend." Miroku said as Inuyasha sulked on his couch. "If you don't do something then Koga will take her away from you."
"Feh!" Inuyasha barked out. "Good riddance! I don't care."
He sulked for a moment more before looking worriedly at Miroku.
"Do you think she likes him?" He asked, though for the life of him he couldn't figure out why he cared. Miroku hid a smirk.
"Well," the young butler said happily. "He did kiss her today."
"What!" Inuyasha bellowed, sitting upright. He stared at Miroku (who was trying very, very hard not to fall of his chair laughing helplessly) in absolute horror. "He did what!" But Inuyasha must have seen something in Miroku's face for he sunk back down into his seat.
"Feh." Inuyasha said. "Doesn't mean anything. Besides, what did you get Sango?"
Inuyasha had asked the question with the intent to embarrass Miroku, but the effect was quite the opposite. Miroku grinned wolfishly and practically oozed satisfaction and joy.
"A ring." Miroku said. "Which reminds me, I came up here to ask for a vacation for Sango and myself."
"Why the-…" Inuyasha's mouth dropped open and he sat upright again, starring at Miroku in shock. "You didn't!" He said. Miroku nodded and Inuyasha grinned at him. "You sly dog!" Inuyasha said. "You never even admitted that you loved her!"
"Oh, contraire!" Miroku said, holding up a finger. "I did! Just not to anyone but myself!"
There was a knock on the door and Sesshomaru entered, glaring blackly at Miroku.
"This is all your fault." The older man said.
"What is?"
"That the girls are all sighing and dreamy." Sesshomaru said with a shudder of disgust. "And they're staring off into space with those expressions that you know mean trouble to you."
"How is that Miroku's fault?" Inuyasha asked. Miroku nodded and Sesshomaru starred at them as if they were both idiots.
"It's Miroku's fault," Sesshomaru explained angrily. "Because he just had to romantically propose!"
The other's didn't get it and Sesshomaru became convinced that they were idiots.
…
Shippo was pacing in front of the pile of pillows in the nursery, holding a little package in his hand. Rin was watching him.
"Shippo, calm down!" Rin said. "You'll do fine!"
"Easy for you to say!" Shippo said, glaring at Rin. "What if she doesn't like me? You aren't about to give a present to the girl you love!"
"Well, no." Rin said. "I'm not. But I did already give mine to the boy I love, and it went quite well." That distracted Shippo.
"What?" He demanded. "Who?"
But Rin wouldn't tell him and so he went back to pacing, nervously pulling at his collar until Satsuki edged into the room a couple minutes later, clutching a brightly wrapped bundle to her chest. Rin chose that moment to tactfully fade out of the room, leaving, as she put it, the two little lovebirds to face their sheepishness alone.
…
A gaggle of servants were stitching at the Solstice Wreath when Kagome and Sango approached to put in their items that would be added to the wreath.
It was tradition, you see, that every Winter Solstice they would make a Solstice Wreath. And everyone in the mansion would tie a little trinket into the wreath, something with sentimental value, and at midnight they would burn the wreath. It was said to cleanse away bad memories and feelings and bless the good memories and feelings.
Sango silently tied in a little ribbon, it was a beautiful shade of lilac and it had been the first present that Miroku had ever given her. She hoped that the Solstice Wreath would bless her with good luck in her marriage with Miroku. She kept looking happily at the glowing golden ring that seemed to wrap itself around her finger. After she had tied in the ribbon she went to the serving women and they all gossiped, especially about Sango's upcoming marriage to the infamous and amorous head butler.
Kagome took a moment more, before she tied in, with a little bit of twine, a golden stamp. It had once belonged to her late father and it was all of him that she had with her. Or at least, that was what she had thought.
But Kagome had lately come to realize that she had her father's love with her, and that was all that she needed. And she wanted to give this new coming year the memories of the old ones, to bless and cleanse as it saw fit.
If there was one thing you could always count on it's that Time goes on. And you'll feel alone one minute and crowded the next, but things change. They always will.
With a twinge of sadness but with a lot of hope Kagome finished the final knot on the tie and left the wreath to go gossip with the other women.
…
That night, when Kagome was busy kissing the sobbing Shippo's boo-boo all better, Inuyasha was the first, as custom demanded to set his torch to the large pile of logs that they had set up on the lawns. It was carefully placed downwind of the mansion, due to the prior fiasco no one was taking any chances.
When Inuyasha's torch caught the twigs at the bottom on fire and the stack then roared into heated life, the cheer that went up was enormous, and several people had broken down crying.
It had been a trying winter.
Miss Kagome had come, and brought with her much joy and pain. Memories had resurfaced for everyone.
Inuyasha liked to think that he knew everything, and he only. But there was nothing that you couldn't hide from the servants. And when you did hide it, then their speculations were much, much worse then your secret.
After he threw his torch into the flames that now licked and pulled down at the entire stack Inuyasha leapt up and away from the beautiful firelight that flickered across his face.
For some reason, it made him sad. As if he were burning away something wonderful and safe.
"Feh." Inuyasha said, and practically flew away.
…
Kagome sat alone by the fire as it drifted out of life. It was early morning, too early for anyone, even the sun, to be up. She thought she was all alone, until a person settled next to her. She looked up and smiled happily when her deep brown eyes met with Inuyasha Takahashi's golden ones.
"Hello Inuyasha," she said. "I haven't been able to give you your gift yet."
Inuyasha looked down guiltily.
"Kagome," he said. "Maybe you should keep it, I didn't get you anything, and I couldn't find you anything…" But he trailed off when Kagome winked at him.
"Don't worry Inuyasha." She said. "I couldn't find anything to give you either, so what my gift is, is something that you can give me a little of too."
Inuyasha was confused. Kagome faced him with her legs crossed and motioned for him to do the same, so he mirrored her without question. She took his hands and looked into his eyes.
"Inuyasha Takahashi," she said solemnly, though her eyes twinkled merrily. "In face of the lack of ability I suffer to give you something material in celebration of Winter Solstice, I give you my friendship. For though we have certainly gotten closer, neither of us has quite dared call the other friend."
Inuyasha smiled. Now he understood. Count on Kagome to figure something like this out!
"I gratefully accept your offer." Inuyasha said, gripping her hands a little. "And I return it with my own offer of friendship, twice more then I received."
Kagome's eyes narrowed.
"Then I give you thrice times more." She said.
"Four times more." Inuyasha said.
"Five times more."
"Six times more."
"A hundred times more!"
"Infinity time more!"
"Oh!" Kagome shouted gleefully. "Infinity and one times more!"
"You can't do that!" Inuyasha protested, absolutely outraged.
"But I just did!" Kagome said happily.
"But infinity means limitless, there's no such thing as infinity and one!" Inuyasha protested.
"There is now." Kagome said, a smug grin on her face. The two looked at each other for another moment before bursting out laughing.
It felt good to be friends.
…
I hoped you liked it!
I don't know if it'll go all that well, but I'll try to work on the next chapter at camp this week and I might update next weekend, but I can't promise anything. My friend from Turkey is going to be here so I don't know if I'll have the time to type up the next chapter. If I can't I'll once again give you a hint.
Next time on The Stamp Of Gold
"Wait, he was going to marry this lady!"
"Yay."
"…But…But…But…"
"Yea, we had much the same reaction."
…
"What are you doing here!"
"What am I-….I thought you were dead!"
"…"
"Wait a minute…you are dead! I killed you! What the hell is going on here!"
"…Divine intervention?"
"…I'm going to kill you."
"Well, it didn't work last time."
"That's it. You're going down."
"Running away now."
"GET BACK HERE YOU COWARD!"
…
Once again, maybe not exactly like that but something to that extent.
Well, farewell my friends. Farewell!
Roar.
And the Review Lion is still ready to pounce!
Sincerely
Pwalefriend