Title: And the fox says to the dog
Author: Angelicatt
Prompt: Cloud
Genre: Friendship/Humor
Rating: K+
Warning: Mild language (Yasha on the warpath)
Word Count: 400
Summary: Continued from #86 Lick: InuYasha's lack of social grace causes him to miss the signs.
A/N: Almost there. A couple reviewers have asked me to write a spinoff featuring InuYasha & Toki – would love to know if others are interested in the same. Originally posted on LJ 5/16/2010
Disclaimer: I do not own anything but my own cracked imagination (& Toki-Mai)
Birds were chirping, the sun was high in the cloudless sky; but time has stopped for the inu hanyou, as he looked at the silver kitsune with a mixture of awe and confusion.
"What the hell was that?" he snarled, causing his face to flush further.
"What was what?" Toki giggled back.
"You licked me and I want to know why." InuYasha spluttered out.
"If you knew what I did, why ask?" she taunted.
"Feh, stupid wench doing dumb shit! You don't go running around licking people unless you're interested in them. What do you think this is, mating season or something? Bad enough the Ice Prince ran off with my best friend and neither had the balls to say nothing to me. Now I have got some crazy fox harassing me. Is it 'let's drive the hanyou nuts' day?" he muttered to her.
Toki sniggered. InuYasha's flustered face and flailing arms had her in stitches and doubled over; so when she lost her footing on the gnarled branch, it was his quick grab that saved her from tumbling the thirty feet to the ground.
She looked up and locked onto his amber eyes. They were clouded over with desire, concern and a lot of frustration.
"Arigato InuYasha" she said with a slight bow of her head.
Now she was the one blushing.
He still had not let go of her and she didn't feel any need to pull away either.
"Some spy you are, falling out of trees. Sesshoumaru obviously doesn't keep you around for your agility." he goaded with a shit-eating grin of his own.
Toki pushed off from him and growled with a choked up voice:
"Baka Inu! Is that all you know how to do? Piss people off? It's no wonder every one rags on you. And don't even start whining about what a hard life you had and how you are a hanyou. Stuff it! I don't care. I don't know what I was thinking. I guess I was hoping that Lady Kagome had rubbed off on you some; obviously, I was delusional to think that you were different, special even."
"You thought that I'd be special." InuYasha sheepishly asked.
His ears were lowered and he felt like an idiot. The lick, the smiles, the embrace and her rambling confession – she liked him and he had managed to stick his foot in his mouth again.