Hello, everyone! I'm sorry about the long, long delay for my stories. But now, since its summer, then I could write more chapters and not worry about stress from school. But, now, on with the chapter all right!-D.N.A
Spending Time
They were walking back to Kaede's Village while Inuyasha and Kagome were walking ahead with Kaname behind them. They reached the village and walked by the fields as Inuyasha said walking ahead, "Finally, we're back." "Yeah, I'm pretty tired." Kagome agreed stopped and looking around the village. "What about you, Kaname?" she asked turning towards her until something caught her eye. "What is that?" she asked with a smile. "What is what?" Kaname asked confused. "That. The bouquet in your hand." She answered pointing to the bouquet in her right hand. Kaname looked at the bouquet and suddenly blush a little. 'Oh, man, I forgot about the bouquet!' she thought in her mind when she gasped a little. "Is that from a secret admirer?" Kagome questioned while watching her face. She blush redder as Kagome exclaimed, "I knew it! There is someone! Do you know who he is? How long did you know him?"
Inuyasha turned around with an irritated face and said angrily, "What are you talking about?" "Kaname got a secret admirer, Inuyasha!" she told him as he walked over towards them. "A what?" he asked puzzled looking at Kagome. "A secret admirer, it's an anonymous person that leaves presents, poems, or flowers for the one they crush on." She explained to him calmly. "And Kaname got one, right?" he said with Kagome nodding. He looked at Kaname and saw the bouquet in her hand and cat bell around her neck. "What's that bell doing around your neck?" he asked while looking at it. "A bell?" Kagome questioned looking at what he's looking. "Oh, it's a small bell! It's so cute! Is that another present from your secret admirer, too?" she questioned excitedly while smiling at her. She blush more with Inuyasha saying, "Kagome, she doesn't know who this 'admirer' guy is alright? So can it."
Kagome sighed in disappointment and said, "Alright." "Besides, shouldn't you help Kaede collecting herbs for the village?" he told her while she looked up in surprise. "Oh, that's right. I forgot! I better go then. See you later." Kagome ran off leaving Inuyasha and Kaname alone. "Thank you, Inuyasha." Kaname thanked him while holding the bouquet close to her. He turned to her and nodded while saying, "Kagome's always trying to be a matchmaker, like she tried to get Sango and Miroku married. So, most times, she's just a pain in the neck." She smiled while rubbing her head with Inuyasha saying, "Anyway, let's go training. I want to see if you got stronger during this time." She stopped rubbing and replied, "Good idea. I want to practice my Shikigami spells I learned back home some time ago." He nodded as they both went off in the woods to train.
After three hours of training, they both walked back to the village to have some lunch with the others. "I'm so hungry." Inuyasha said entering the village and walking towards Kaede's house. "Me too." She agreed with a small smile walking by his side. "Kaname, do you know how to go back in your own time?" he asked looking over. She nodded saying, "Uh-huh, I learned a spell that could return me home ever since Naraku was defeated and I left." "How did you learn that?" "I found an old Shikigami spell book in a chest up in the attic and I got to practice them when I came home from school. Of course, I have to practice them in the shrine where nobody can see me practice. If they did, they probably do something drastic and I don't want that to happen." "Right." He said nodding with his eyes closed. "Kaname, Inuyasha!" Shippo shouted jumping in front of Kaede's house. "Lunch is ready!" "Really?! Let's eat!" Inuyasha exclaimed happily running towards the house with a giggling Kaname running behind him.
After they all ate Kagome's bento boxes, they laid against the walls stuffed and full. Kagome walked from the kitchen and sat with them while Kaede was drinking her tea. "I'm stuffed." Shippo said with relief rubbing his stomach. "That was the best lunch I ever had." Miroku said while Sango lay against him exhausted. "I'll say." Kaname added smiling at the others. "Thank you. What did you think, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked him turning his head towards him. He was lying on the floor with head lying on the pillow Kaname gave him and lightly snoring away. "Hmmph!" she turned her head away irritated by him. Kaname sat there in silence as she occasionally turn towards the bouquet she got that is resting in a small vase sitting in the corner of the house.
While the boys went out to play outside in the village, the girls were sitting in the house talking about some things. "I should take a bath. I'm sweating from all the training I did with Kohaku." Sango said while rubbing her forehead. "Yeah, I'm also sweating from the training with Inuyasha." Kaname agreed with rubbing her shoulder. "I know! Let's go have a bath in the hot spring I found a while ago." Kagome suggested clasping her hands together. "There's a hot spring around here?" Sango asked blinking. "Yeah, while I was looking for some herbs, I found a hot spring near the village. We should go there tonight and take a bath." She explained smiling at the imagination of taking a hot bath instead of a cold one. "What about the others?" Kaname asked titling her head to the side. "We could take Shippo with us, but Inuyasha and Miroku need to stay out near the hot springs." Kagome said with Sango nodding as well. "Right." They all said at the same time.
It was dark in the village as everyone in the village went inside their homes and the girls walked outside. "Alright, it's time to go!" Kagome exclaimed walking in front of them. "Why do we have to go with you? Why can't we stay at Kaede's place?" Inuyasha complained with Miroku beside him. "Because we want to bathe in peace without worrying about demons attacking us and we can't have that without you and Miroku around to help." Kagome answered looking over to him. "But still-!" Inuyasha tried to argue. Miroku interrupted him "Inuyasha, think of it as an opportunity to spend time to ourselves while the ladies spend their bathing in the spring. And besides, that also means we get to see the girls bathe in the spring too." He whispered in his ear by the last sentence. His head crashed to the ground with Sango looking mad and her Hiraitoksu on top of his head. "I heard that, monk!" she said angrily with her eyes twitching. "He needs to grow up." Shippo said sitting on Kaname's shoulder with her holding the white towels.
The girls stripped down with privacy in the bushes and the guys sat near the area with a raging fire warming them on the cold night. Kagome slipped into the warm water as Sango and Kaname wrapped a towel around them and slipped in also. "It's so good." Kaname said while laying her head against the stones. Sango started to wash her hair with soap and Kagome took out a bottle of shampoo and conditioner. "Cannonball!" Shippo exclaimed as he jumped in naked as a jaybird. The splash got them all wet. Kaname and Shippo splashed each other and they were finishing washing their hair. After Kagome was done, she threw the shampoo and conditioner bottle to Kaname while she was doing her hair and Shippo's hair, who protested about washing his hair.
After they were done washing themselves, they relaxed in the spring while the girls were talking and Shippo played with Kaname more. "Hey, Sango?" Kagome said to her quietly. "Yes, Kagome?" Sango responded back quietly too. "Do you know who likes Kaname?" she asked while Sango exclaimed quietly, "What?!" "Shhh, not so loud, do you know someone who likes Kaname?" she asked again. "No, I don't. Why?" "She got a secret admirer." "Really?!" "Yes, but the problem is that I don't know who." They turned to watch Kaname playing with Shippo giggling and laughing at the fun. "She doesn't know anyone except the ones on our journey." Sango said leaning against the wall. "It might be someone from another village or a city." Kagome suggested while dipping herself lower in the spring.
Inuyasha was sitting on the ground thinking of something while Miroku, who was conscious again, rubbing his head from the pain he received earlier. "This is boring. I don't know why we have to sit and wait for them anyway." Inuyasha muttered tugging at the fire with a stick. "It's perfectly reasonable incase a demon comes and attacks the girls then we would be prepared to stop them with force." Miroku said while holding his staff on the ground. He then stood up and said, "Let's go and see if the girls are alright." "You perverted monk, you only want to peek do you?" "No, I just want to check on the girls. So, I'll be back." Miroku said while running off towards the spring. "You mean checking out their bodies." Inuyasha muttered running after him, not wanting to let Miroku peek at the girls.
The girls were having their time of their lives bathing, talking, gossiping, and laughing with Shippo. Kaname smiled at them talking about Inuyasha and Miroku as she lifted her hands from the water and looked at them. "I'm getting out of the spring. My hands are becoming pruny." Kaname said lifting herself out of the spring wearing the drenched towel around her. She gathered her clothes which were lying on the bank and went into the bushes to change. "I'm changing too. I think I'd bathe for the night." Shippo said gathering his clothes and went into the other bushes. Kagome and Sango looked and went back to talking about the guys.
"Miroku! Miroku!" Inuyasha silently called searching the woods for the perverted monk. "I'm over here!" Miroku quietly called out. He looked to see Miroku peeking through the bushes. "What are you doing?" he questioned walking over. "Get down!" Miroku whispered pulling him down beside him. "What was that for?" "You'll blow our cover!" Miroku pointed through the bushes' opening to see the spring and the Kagome's and Sango's back. "Where are Kaname and Shippo?" Inuyasha questioned searching for the Shikigami Master and the kitsune. "Probably changing." Miroku replied. "What do you think of Inuyasha?" Sango asked looking at Kagome. "Hey, I asked you first!" Kagome said to her. "You didn't ask me anything." She replied. "Yes, I did. I asked what you think of Miroku." Kagome told looking at her.
"You hear that, Miroku?" Inuyasha questioned eyes widening in shock. "Yes, Inuyasha, I've heard." He replied leaning in with open ears. "I'll tell if you tell me what you think of Inuyasha." Sango said standing up and sitting on the bank with the towel covering her body. "Well, I think Inuyasha is a really nice guy." Kagome said blushing red. "And that he's…ummm…" "You don't have to say if you don't want to." Sango told her relaxing. "Okay, Sango, what do you think of Miroku?" "What I think? Well, I'll tell you one thing." She started to say while picking up her Hiraitoksu with one hand. "I think that Miroku is a perverted peeping tom!!" she exclaimed angrily throwing her Hiraitoksu at the bushes where they were hiding. "Oh damn!!" they silently screamed jumping out of the way as the boomerang crashed into the bushes and the trees. "Miroku!" Sango screamed charging at Miroku beating him up. Inuyasha landed against the tree as Kagome looked at him red in the face. "Inuyasha!" she muttered glowing red. "Wait, Kagome, I can explain!!" "SSSSSIIIIITTTTTTT!!!!" the scream ran throughout the woods. Kaede was sleeping in her house when she heard the scream. "Inuyasha's in trouble again." She muttered sleeping.
"What's going on?" Kaname questioned running out of the bushes with Shippo on her shoulder. They both saw an unconscious Miroku and Inuyasha lying on the ground with Kagome and Sango above them. The guys both got multiple bumps on their heads that look like anthills. "Miroku peeped again along with Inuyasha." Shippo said looking at the scene. "Let's go back to the village. I'm done bathing for the night." Sango said to Kagome, who nodded in agreement. They dressed up and walked to the village while helping carrying Miroku and Inuyasha. They were in Kaede's House getting some sleep to rest their bones as Inuyasha on Kaname's pillow again, Miroku leaning against the wall, Sango lying on him, Kagome on the ground, Shippo lying on her, and Kaname leaning against the corner sleeping. The bell around her neck jingled and chimed with the wind's movement as she thought of her friends by her side again.
TBC
That is the chapter. What do you think? Thank you for the reviews. Bye.