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I DON'T OWN INUYASHA!
Chapter 16: Underwater
A pale card slides through the card scanner on the side of the door as a green light buzzes. 'Click' went the door as it was unlocked. The guest's quick movement claims the ice, cold handle and the door swings open in revealing the now unprotected area. The room, warm and calming, invites its new members to come in as the night is still young and full of energy.
Left behind were just brochures and magazines on one of the nightstands while the fabrics of two queen beds were untouched in neatness and in a high class taste of a creamy coffee color. Stumbling feet enter in the permitted space as suitcases hit the carpet floor from the force of gravity.
"Gosh, what a room," a male observes the master bathroom in awe and trails back to the sight of the beds, "next time we see lady Mayu we are sure to thank her. This room must've cost a fortune?"
"It's not that bad, but I still prefer sleeping on a tree," a man with hair as dark as coal had been the one to bring the room some color from switching and flipping the electricity on. A little lad squints his round eyes in adjusting to the light. His face moves towards the shadows, "not so bright, Inuyasha! Are you trying to blind me?"
"Stop your whining kit," mouths the late teen as he dimmers the energy down, "What's this?"
"Must be some place to settle your things. Open it up," advises Miroku.
Sliding the twin doors open of something very similar to a wardrobe Inuyasha investigates what was inside it, "this place just got a whole lot better," the man's expressions held a toothy smile as he waves a hand so the others could come over and see. A lean boy then crawls in from practically dragging heavy luggage as if it weighed like lead. Lump arms and legs wobble and wiggle like spaghetti as the child made it to the closest bed. From using most of his strength in trying to catch up to Inu, Miroku, and Shippo he lets go of himself and falls on the bed. The mattress giving a tender halt to his body. Sinking his head into the comfortable substance Miroku glares over to the young one in presenting him something, "hey Souta, there's a T.V. in here and they have an Xbox that comes with it!"
Souta brings a thumbs up, the front of his body and face still buried in the plushy object. The fox demon hops on the bed and searches over his friend, "he looks beat up."
"Why would he be exhausted? We only went up by elevator or is he's just not that fit," human Inuyasha tangles his arms against his broad chest in gazing at Kagome's brother with newly violet eyes like Miroku's but with more of a harsh brown to it.
"Inuyasha you can at least have a bit more of a heart for him. It seems that we were going too fast for his liking," the monk glances.
"No he's right, I'm not that fit like you guys are. All I do is sit around most of the day while you guys are running everyday fighting demons," explains Souta, picking up is cranium as his dark bangs stick to his forehead, "yawl's lives are more exciting."
"Yeah but it's also really dangerous," Shippo adds to Souta's saying in pulling up his brown shorts a notch.
Inuyasha then realizes the door had not yet been shut and in making his quest to the doorway he feels a recognizable object block his feet from going any further. The three males then view the rare appearance of Inuyasha trampling over Souta's suitcase and crashing to the floor as flat as a pancake. A low groan breaks out of the mortal's lips and raises himself up to his elbows with his long, fresh, raven hair curtaining over his face.
"I guess even Inuyasha can be 'sat' in human form," theories Shippo.
"Then how about you shut your trap and close the damn door!" snarls Inuyasha while grinding his teeth together.
"You're making a scene Inuyasha," therefore Miroku takes Inuyasha's place in locking the door from making other visitors of the hotel snoop their eyes to see the young man's accident.
"Keh," Inuyasha ignores as he was now standing in noticing that one of his tennis shoes had slipped off his foot from the fall as one foot bore with only a sock. After that he straightens his blue shirt in making the silver symbols on the cotton fabric readable.
"Okay guys we said that we would meet the others down at the pool at ten…" Miroku views at the clock from grabbing it and almost unplugging it out of the wall, "it's now 8:48 so…" he flashes his head to the kids as Souta was out cold as Shippo began to join him. The monk could see that it had been a long day so he notes Inuyasha to keep silent.
"I'm starving," complains Inuyasha as it was five after nine. In boredom the human hanyou rips open the curtains and looks out the window. The see-through wall shows the night of the new moon as the view proves that they were in great altitude from seeing the pool way down below. They were at least six stories high!
"We ate right before we got up here," announces the monk having been settling on a chair at the corner of the room in looking over one of the magazines.
"Well I wasn't hungry at the time," he gleams up at the white diamonds in the sky that extended into the galaxy. He detects the Big Dipper that Kagome had once shown him back in the Feudal Era.
"You have to remember Inuyasha you were a hanyou at the time that we ate. Demons don't feel the need for food as much as humans do. So you should've eaten to your heart's desire before becoming human or else you wouldn't be in this condition," he advises flipping a page of gossip over.
"When did you get into fashion these days?"
"Fashion?"
The young man sighs in boredom, "are you that clueless? You know clothes, jewelry, style, what the girl is wearing on the cover of the magazine."
"Oh…" he checks the cover again and another few pages in seeing that there were different styles of clothes that women were wearing on each page, "huh, I didn't notice that…"
"You perv…," Inuyasha could slightly see the pages that Miroku was sketching over again, in being only feet away from him, and shakes his head in disgust, "you're about to get married and you're looking at girls!"
"Would you rather me be hitting on them and besides Sango isn't here."
"Who cares if she isn't here. You can't just take advantage because of the fact that she isn't…okay what's that smirk your face now," Inuyasha came out in annoyance.
I'd wouldn't need to look at any woman but Kagome if she were to become my wife…wait did I just say that!
"You know they could be only wearing bathing right now," Miroku suggests in revealing a thin woman to his companion with Hojo's hair on her and wearing a detailed outfit.
"She's just like the girl on the cover, barely has any muscle on her. Some of Kagome's school mates were like that," he held his expression in telling that he though those females were butt ugly.
Miroku states sarcastically with a perverted smile, "oh Inuyasha I didn't know you were so picky."
The monk continues, "I would agree that men's type of attractiveness towards women have changed. The only disappointment that gets me the most is that their bottom's are not even noticeable. I'm mean their…flat!" Miroku shames in making sense. Staying quiet Inuyasha agrees. After time had eaten away in a game of silence the pervert then had, yet again, a charming smirk on his mug in giggling. Inuyasha could tell, but it was beginning to itch in his head on what he was thinking about, "now what are you thinking monk?"
"I wander what kind of bathing suit Sango will be wearing to the pool? What do you think?" he asks in pride, letting his mind imagine on what his fiancée would look like in the many different designs of bathing suits. Inuyasha rolls his eyes, "I don't want to think of Sango in a bathing suit! Do I actually look like a guy that would imagine girls in bathing suits!
"Girls you say?"
"Yeah."
"So you think of a girl instead of girls?" says Miroku glaring at Inuyasha with an ear to ear smile in making the teen speechless, "W-what?"
"Instead of seeing girls in bathing suits you would rather prefer seeing only one beautiful young lady," Inuyasha went beat red like a tomato with big eyes and shrinking pupils, "I didn't mean that!"
"We'll it's appearing that way all over your face," laughs Miroku in exposing a row of top teeth.
"I don't think of a girl or girls at all!"
"So what you're saying is that you're gay?"
"WHAT!" luckily his loud mouth didn't wake the youngsters up and he continues, "I am not gay you lecher!"
"Okay, so if you're a guy who doesn't think of the opposite gender at all and you're not gay. That would mean you would you be a ten year old then."
"I am not frick'in ten," his rage began multiplying in a fast rate.
"Come on Inuyasha, stop defending yourself. I know you think of her every day."
Inuyasha made not a sound and avoids him. Miroku tapes his hand to a glass of ice water and takes a slip, "I beat your thinking of her in a bikini right now."
"If you don't stop your jabbering your imagination will be the only thing that'll make things real enough for ya," he pulls up a fist as a vein pops out on his head in anger. Meanwhile Miroku grins as the magazine brought back his concentration.
Thighs digging into the chlorine water Sango carefully walks downward the shallow steps on the edge of the pool. Now that the liquid was as high to her hips her skin gave out goose bumps from her adapting to the low temperature, "the water is cold."
"You'll adapt to it," Mrs. Higarashi informs as she hangs their towels on an aluminum table. The demon exterminator had been wearing a two piece with the top part covering her stomach and adding some bottom shorts. She rubs her hands on her bare shoulders as she got bold and tip toes to the deeper area. She then signals her now-late friend as she sees her sprinting through tables and bars inside the building, "come on Kagome!"
Kagome had been hauling her butt through the large room with the many odors of food and in barging through the glass doors, "wait for me Sango!"
Stretching her long legs over the edge of the pool she leaps with all her might to the middle of the body of water. Viewing Kagome yelling 'cannon ball' while jumping at her in mid air Sango freaks and wraps her arms over her head in protection. Praying that she wouldn't fall on her she then gasps as an explosion of water crashes on her dry head. The priestess then pops out of the water with an appearance of shock on her face, "it's cold!"
In pulling her raven hair back from it getting on her face Kagome found her friend immediately splashing water on her in revenge of the miko's previous movement. She backfires at Sango in doing the same and it turned out to be a splash war until they got tired. Swimming to the edge they rest both their arms on the lip of the pool as Mayu notes the two females, "the boys should be here any second…oh, speak of the devil here they come."
The guys arrived with each having a different design on their knee high swim suits and brought a couple more bleach towels. It is the first time Mayu had seen Inu in human form and because of that she didn't notice him at first but asks if he wanted his hair in a ponytail but he refuses. Investigating the area Shippo rolls his orange floats on to his delicate arms, and takes a trip into the water along with Souta. The mother follows the kiddies.
Miroku and Inuyasha later on walk around the perimeter of the pool until they halt to the deepest part. The troubling thing was wherever they turned they always got 'heys' from almost every female in the pool. This annoyed the half-demon more than anything as for Miroku it was a whole other story to tell. They sat on the edge and dangle their legs in the smooth, calm water.
Both the boys were hunting for two precise women out of the many strangers in the pond. The dark heads of many people had cut down the boys' chance in finding their ladies until Miroku found his target. Miroku stares speechless as Inuyasha notices. Revolving his neck to where the monk's attention stayed put. A lady had begun to climb out of the mass of liquid as her rich, intense wood hair weighs down in being saturated with water. Her hips rock back and forth along with her perfectly shaped rear that Miroku though he was going to drool any second. That is until some very damp hands snatch his wrists and yank him in the water.
From sighting Sango walking up the stone steps attractively Inuyasha suddenly feels a rush of wind lick his hair and human ears. Next thing he knew he sights Miroku swimming up to the surface as Sango, on the other side of the pool, bursts out laughing. Sango had her index finger pointing at Miroku underwater and also at Inuyasha's shocked look while she tries to hold back tears from giggling so hard. Miroku pops his head out of the water and lets out a holding breath.
Checking on his companion Inuyasha's deep violet orbs catch a figure in the body of water swimming. He could tell it was a girl and a girl wearing a two piece like Sango's swim suit but her stomach exposes in the glowing lights underwater. The waterproof lights made her skin glow a beautiful light tan making the chunky blackness of her hair pop out and sharpen the outline of it. She came to him and when her head sprung out of the surface it became the girl in which he had been searching for, his girl. Kagome tapes her hands on the lip of the pool, puts her fore head on the concrete, and blows out laughing while catching her breath.
"What happened?" Souta swam over in seeing the plan that Kagome and Sango did with Shippo not far behind him. Inuyasha gives the answer away, "Kags pulled Miroku into the pool."
"Kags?" the owner of the name presents him an unusual emotion in curving her brows up.
"Short for your name," his attitude then got questionable but sprinkles in harshness, "If you have a problem-"
"No, it's just that nobody's ever really called me that before, something for me to get used to," she shrugs her shoulders.
"So, you don't mind?" he widens eyes.
She nods.
She personally likes this thoughtful side of him. Well he is human, "Why did-"
"J-Just forget about it, it's stupid."
"No it isn't, it's nice that you care, and besides you can call me anything you want," she blushes in gazing at the shimmering water with a genuine and pure smile and whispers, "…since I am your girlfriend."
Flipping his vision to her bewildered on what she said she shifts to him in viewing her irises to him as he speaks "What?" He hadn't completely heard her but he could've sworn that he heard her last moist syllables in the summer air.
A smile grew on her, "What What?"
"You know what I mean by what," he leans near her wet head in paying close attention to his listening skills in case she sneaks a word out or two. He decides to wait for her if it even meant the whole night and from baring memories on what happened days back he tells her what he had been thinking of telling her, "And this time you better give me an answer. Remember last time?"
She teasingly giggles, "alright Inu, I'll answer, but I think you should be the one warned cause on that day – compared to you hovering over me and with a threatening glare stabbing towards me – you had a date with the forest floor," she tugs on the line of purple beads that dangled around his tan neck. The one thing that he loathed but is also thankful for in the dilemmas that were held in the past.
"You wouldn't dare?"
She narrows her eyes in making him give a mixing confusion if she really would take that step. She wasn't stupid though, she knew he would suffer with injuries like Yuri since he is human and that he would've been the last person to ever have that fate in her mind. Especially since she would be the cause of it.
Instead of a roar of determination in his accent it held a calm and satisfying tone, "tell me Kagome…what did you say?"
"Do you think of me as your…girlfriend?" she asks embarrassment tensing inside her.
"Feh, that's pretty obvious don't you think," he crosses his arms in seeing his muscles emerge from beholding many duels from several demons. He stubbornly shuts himself and his outlook away from her in leaving her with only the question bobbing in her head.
She gets out of the pool in sitting herself on the edge with only her legs remaining in the water and her eyes where somewhere faraway. Inuyasha panicked in not getting the answer, "Well…"
"I guess?" she puts a finger to her chin in tilting her head.
"What do you mean I guess? In another way I was saying yes, baka! You'd think I'd wouldn't? I've just recently told you I lo-"
She shatters out of her thoughts and quickly smacks her hand on his mouth as her expression came back to reality from her marking a frightened feature. Her voice muffles through her teeth, "Inuyasha!"
That was a close one!
Startled from her reaction he takes a deep breath and slouches his shoulders in giving his girlfriend a sign that she could release her hand from his maw. In doing so she hadn't noticed that she had been holding her breath and blows it out from her respiratory system.
"I would love to hear those words again, but I'm just not prepared to let the entire world know yet. I mean I do, I wanna, I…"
"Shhh," he smudges a long clawless finger to her peach lip. He breaths out a chuckle from her widen expression. His behavior weird and unnatural. Removing his finger he leans to her ear, "The plans going to die away if someone that I dearly love's wreakless words won't stay quiet."
"Wreakless?" her brow twitches.
He hums in a yes along with his ears detecting a growl that holds 'Why you little…' all over it. Heremains on top of her earlobe, "You're so cute when you're mad."
"Well you won't think I'm so cute in a few seconds if you don't stop blaming it on me. You're the one who was about to give it away in a heartbeat," she whispers in his ear this time.
Man with this behavior he's giving me I would mind him being human for another night. Though I do miss his doggy ears…
"Anything I can do to brighten your mood then?"
Kagome pulls back and starts to drown into his sinister orbs. Slowly, her resentment totally faded like a fog had been cleared up. In answering his question she journeys her body nearer to him in a slow but steady pace. Her eyes blinking rapidly as her cheeks blush at the realization of her doing but she kept going for it. With a finishing touch he makes a scene of his impatience as he moves towards her in a faster speed as they kiss. At first Kagome thought that this was just going to be just one simple kiss until Inuyasha chooses to move his lips against hers. Not wanting to make it awkward, and he seems to know what he is doing, she goes along with it. Getting the hang of it.
Kagome didn't mind but treasures the few more rows of kisses that the hanyou grants to her. Right when she had her system up for more she just about had her arms around his neck when he halts and - faster than she expected - goes backwards in breaking the moment. She then cracks her sight open and pictures his form coming closer to her but solves the puzzle in realizing instead she was coming to him.
She's falling…
Effort by her side she quickly avoids collapsing on him and risks it in heading towards the water head first. The young man, with as much velocity as he could bare, instinctively wraps his arms around her waist. Muscles contrasting from measuring her weight he knew he couldn't stop her from falling but that didn't mean he'd let go as gravity pushes them both into the water. They resurfaced.
"Are you alright?"
"Fine, that stung!" Kag messages her poor cheeks.
"I bet," he checks her now rosy nose, "you're not hurt anywhere else?"
"You worry too much."
He huffs as he takes a peak at the tracing laughters of their friends, Kagome does the same. Hoping that the others didn't see what had just occurred they sigh in relief of what is still keep to themselves. Well…for the time being.
"You planned it didn't you? Dragging Miroku into the pool?"
"Yeah, Sango and I had the idea when we found ya'll searching for us. We planned that Sango would step out of the pool over at those steps where you guys saw her and to get Miroku's attention with a little curve to it. And since it worked out perfectly I swam underwater and yanked his butt into the pool. I still can't believe it worked but knowing Miroku I guess you can accomplish anything if his eyes are set on a girl."
After her speech he views the gang once again whilst deep in thought. Mayu, Shippo, and Souta were playing an unusual, well for the hanyou, of Marco Polo. Meanwhile, Sango travels out of the pool again with Miroku waiting for her.
"Well, boyfriend of mine, are you coming?" she teases. The teen had always wanted to say those words and in knowing she did after so many years, and to her dog boy, it became a thrilling experience.
No outer manifestation of the shivering water he walks to her with the water soaring up to his lower abdomen when his priestess's soaring voice immediately reaches far and wide, "Sango, you better not get on that float! I called dibs on it first since I paid for it you trickster!"
She stops her yelling as a confronting arm wraps around hers in grasping their hands together. Somehow the action gently forces her to calm down. So in return she gently slides against Inuyasha and rests her head on his collarbone. Thanking god that the others were not peaking over Kagome's skin turns cold from a whistling breeze as the man's long, black hair beats on her mug… she cuddles closer to his warm form.
Well there ya go so...yeah just look out for another chapter this weekend. More than likely I shall post it tomorrow!
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