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The Fires of Love

(Part II)

Hikari: "… You're fired from the position of 'Chapter-Title-er'."

Reiki: "AWW!!!"

"What a pretty sight… Hehehe…" the monster chortled again, gapping its mouth towards them. "Now, you will perish together!"

Kagome flinched and Shippo took a too brave stance in front of her, willing himself to protect them.

As the fire began to billow up its throat, the monster laughed one more time before…

Having its lips closed.

"Not so fast!" Reiki warned as smoke came out of its ears. Shippo fainted.

"We saw through that stupid illusion dummy of yours!" Hikari grinned victoriously, despite her lips and hands being raw and blistered from the heat as she had tried to physically molest the drop-dead gorgeous figure they had seen. It was her shriek that had snapped them both back to (not to mention it had snapped the bone holding the molten figure together).

"I've got it from here," Reiki commented, "you go and wake up Miroku and Sango, a.s.a.p.!"

"K!"

Kagome gasped when Reiki opened the monster's mouth again and jumped in. It made a face, tried to spit her out, and eventually swallowed her. It 'urp'ed and, with a bug-eyed and shocked expression, began to finger its throat and stomach. Reiki was actually crawling down into the furnace of its stomach.

"This…" Kagome muttered, stunned as well. "This is ridiculous!"

The monster suddenly began to shriek, dancing around like an ember-walker who had made a mistake, and as it turned Kagome saw the spider on its back.

"Ah!" Miroku gasped, coming to and sopping wet (where Hikari found the buckets of water is still a mystery…). "Naraku's monster!" He scrambled for the beads around his wrist, but Hikari turned the metal bucket onto his head, slammed it, and told him that if he even tried that, she would make him suck himself up.

(Reiki: "Yah, she still loves me…!"

Hikari, handling a short whip: "Get to typing or get a beating…")

"AIEEE!" the beast squealed, now rolling on its back and thrashing hither and thither. Kagome's arrowhead suddenly pierced its very round belly and sawed out a circle. Reiki popped out, holding something. She was charred and missing some hair, but alright for the most part. "YOU!" The monster shot a hand at her and she leaped aside. As she did so though, its fires slowly went out, as though it were powering down. "NO!"

"Your turn," Reiki grinned to Miroku as she ran past him, juggling the object in her hands and hooting: 'hot hot hot'.

He stared dumbfounded, and revealed his cursed palm. "WIND… thingy… what ever is in my palm… … How the hell did she…?" he shook his head "TUNNEL !"

The monster was already sucked in though and the earth around them cooled to its natural state. It was a job well done.

"Inu-Yasha!" Miroku rushed forward, hopping over the fainted Shippo while securing the beads. Kagome was crying over his unconscious face. "It looks pretty bad this time," Miroku muttered. "But why is it taking such effect? He's been through this much before..."

"Didn't you know?" Reiki asked, standing over them with a black cooled off egg in hand. "Tonight's the night of the new moon."

Kagome began to bawl her eyes out at this.

"It's okay," Hikari said, coming over with a blinking Sango. "Miroku, do one of your miracle-herbal-prayer-priestly-curing-thingies for Inu-Yasha while Reiki and I try to explain something to Kagome."

The girls scurried off out of earshot, and with a shrug Miroku tried his best to do what he could for their fallen comrade.

"Okay Kagome," Hikari began.

"We know that this series you're in is partially a drama/romance, so our solution shall follow the genre," Reiki stated.

"W-what?" Kagome asked, blinking, confused and scared.

"What we're getting at is how to save your love in the sappiest way possible," Hikari continued.

"And to do that, we have mentally agreed that you should sleep with him tonight!" they both announced.

"WHAT!" Kagome wailed, feeling alone in the world of logic.

"No, not sleep sleep with him!" Reiki laughed. "Or, at least not yet."

"Just share a bed and stay at his side," Hikari smirked. Then she practically sang, "let the powers of love heal his wounds!"

"Or some sappy shit like that," Reiki smirked.

"Hehe, yeah," Hikari giggled.

"I don't love him!" Kagome denied. She was immediately laughed at.

"If you want him alive, just do it," Reiki left it at that, and they walked away for Kagome to muse it over.

(End of REALLY SHORT chapter!)

Reiki: "My fingers hurt… I don't wanna type anymore!"

Hikari: "Ah, perfect! Then just type until they stop hurting!"