Travel Travails Chapter 2: The Commencement of a Custom, an inuyasha fanfic

A/N:Such a quickupdate! You all have my oh-so-boring job to thank for this! Tons of mindless drudgery while I have internet access. Hmm…I wonder what I'll end up doing? That's right! Writing stories and playing online! I'm quite pleased with how the first chapter was received and, hopefully, everyone will like this as well! Thank you to anyone who reviewed! I loved every one!

Keep in mind that later I'm going to have some chapters that take place before this and some that take place after this. This collection of ficlets is not necessarily in a time-wise sequence of events. There is no particular order!

Enjoy!

Chapter Two: The Commencement of a Custom:

Inuyasha stared down at the exhausted girl lying in a heap at his feet.

"Pleeeaaaasssseeee?" whined Kagome.

"Go to hell."

"Plllleeeeeeaaaaaaassssssseeeeeee!" begged the schoolgirl.

"I don't get it!" snapped Inuyasha. "Why the fuck are you tired already? We've only been walking for six hours!"

"I'm dying," Kagome stubbornly insisted. "My feet are going to fall off and I'll become a cripple!"

Inuyasha groaned, her melodramatic tendencies giving him a headache. "Come on, you stupid bitch. Just get up and move."

He grabbed her around the waist and hauled her up. Kagome was as limp as a dead fish in his arms and Inuyasha let out an explosive sigh.

"Fine," he grumbled as he dropped her onto the floor. "We'll stop for a bit."

Kagome let out a blinding smile and thanked Inuyasha profusely. Rolling his eyes, the half demon leapt up into a tree, settling himself comfortably against the trunk.

"You know," he said a few minutes later as the thought occurred to him, "if you weren't so chubby and soft, you'd be able to walk more."

"Excuse me?" Kagome asked uncomprehendingly after a moment of shocked silence had passed.

"I said you're chubby. Fat even. I mean, I can hear your thighs rub together when you walk," Inuyasha unwisely continued.

He did not just say that! she thought incredulously as a feeling of pure rage grew her chest.

"Why? What do they call fat girls in your era?" Inuyasha asked innocently. "Plump? Pigs? Horses? Cows?"

"How dare you?" Kagome hissed, her glare impressively frightening.

Inuyasha looked down at her odd tone of voice and blanched at her furious expression. "What the fuck is that expression for? You have to go to shit?"

"No you, you….jerk!" Kagome shouted, unable to bring herself to curse.

"Oh no please don't hurt my feelings with such mean words," Inuyasha snickered.

"SIT!" Kagome shrieked on the top of her lungs.

With a hard thump, Inuyasha landed on his head, his poor dog ears crushed and his ego flattened.

"Bitch!" he spat out as he struggled to raise his head. "You better not do that again!"

"Oh really?" Kagome shouted. "Why shouldn't I, huh?"
"Because…I can see up your skirt like this!" he lied quickly.

Kagome's hands fisted and she struggled to think of something biting to retort but a piercing whistle interrupted her thoughts. Turning slowly, Kagome stared at her portable water heater and then slowly looked at her backpack. A sly smile broke across her face and Inuyasha, remarkably quick on that sunny afternoon, went pale.

"Kagome…," he threatened, "don't you dare!"

Humming happily, Kagome ambled over and calmly mixed up a bowl of Ramen, ignoring Inuyasha's strangled pleas for mercy.

"Sit," she called out as he surged to his feetonce the incantation released him.

Whump!

Once more chained by the spells power, he was helpless at Kagome's mercy. Smiling widely, Kagome poured the Ramen onto the ground right before Inuyasha's horrified eyes.

"No!" he wailed unhappily.

"Whoops," Kagome said cheerfully. "And that was the last one too…"

"Damn you, you aren't as nice as you pretend to be!" Inuyasha shouted as he jumped up. "And your thighs are even bigger then I thought!"

Kagome smiled a hard smile. "Sit." Inuyasha crashed to the ground with a curse and the vengeful schoolgirl picked up the portable teapot.

"What are you doing?" Inuyasha asked nervously.

Kagome opened the top of the kettle and poured the boiling hot water all over Inuyasha's defenseless back.

"ARGGHHHH!" he screamed in shock.

"Oh calm down," Kagome snapped. "That fire rat fur you wear didn't let a little hot water hurt you, did it?"
"That is not the point!" Inuyasha hollered as the spell released him. Jumping straight up into the safety of the trees, he hugged a branch and cursed Kagome loudly. "Crazy bitch!"

The girl glared and whirled around. "I'm going to go look for shards of the Jewel. You can stay up there and hide. Apparently, you're not half dog but really half chicken!"

Inuyasha growled and dropped to the forest floor. Unsheathing his Tessuiga, he roared a challenge.

"Sit," Kagome called out lazily.

Inuyasha toppled, just barely avoiding stabbing himself on a dull blade.

"It won't work against me remember?" Kagome reminded him as she took the sword from him and sheathed it clumsily in its scabbard.

"After pouring the Ramen everywhere, my sword would work against you 'cuz you are plainly not human!" Inuyasha yelled. "No human would be that cruel! Or fat!" he added empathetically.

Kagome, enraged, hurled the metal teapot at Inuyasha's head. It landed square between his eyes with a slight ping.

Inuyasha blinked and tried to stop his head from ringing. He coughed once or twice and shook his head vigorously. "It didn't hurt," he called out weakly.

Kagome snorted once eloquently.

"And you're still weak and soft and chubby," the hanyou finished with a mean grin.

"Argh!" Kagome wordlessly screamed, stomping her foot. Her blue eyes flashed with anger and her entire body strained with the urge to slap the arrogant boy.

Inuyasha looked up at the livid girl and noticed for the first time that she was quite pretty like this. In fact, she was very nice to look at in general, he realized in shock.

Kagome stormed off, muttering about how stupid teenaged boys were, shouting the restraining word a few times for extra measure.

Inuyasha eventually got up, brushed himself off and wandered after her, plotting what else he could say to once again make her so prettily infuriated.

"I'm going back to Kaede's and then I'm going home, you jerk!" Kagome yelled from up the path.

Inuyasha smiled gleefully. Now this'll be useful… "No way bitch!" he shouted, jogging to catch up.

Thus, a tradition was born.

A/N: There you have it- my explanation for the vigorous arguments they always have over Kagome going home. Hope you all like it. I'll be updating 'Thank You' next (BIG lemon scene!) and then 'Wardrobe Malfunction'. This noticeis just in case anyone cares.

Thanks for reading!