Title: Caught Looking
Summary: After finishing the laundry, Kagome stays back as Inuyasha arrives.
Canon
Rating: T
Inu/Kag
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I shouldn't be doing this, Kagome nibbled her bottom lip, slowly placing her newly washed clothes aside as she hunkered down behind a small shrub. I really should just go...
Her hands gently sunk into the branches, slowly pushing the leaves apart to view the other side. An embarrassed blush stained her face as she peered out.
His haori and kosode discarded and laying on the pebbled ground a few feet from the water. The half-demon himself stood in the middle of the knee-high stream, cupping the cool water in his hands to splash against his face.
Kagome's teeth were starting to make imprints in her lip as she struggled to breathe calmly. The summer air did nothing to cool her down as her eyes followed his movements. To her guilty pleasure, she wanted to move closer to see every individual drop trickle down his chest, across his six-pack of abs to soak into his loosened hakamas...
Suddenly, Inuyasha was eying her direction, more specifically, the greenery she hid behind. Making a squeak of surprise, she scrambled back, grabbing her linens to run back to Kaede's village before she was actually caught.
She heard the leaves above her rustling before she abruptly collided with the man she's been spying on. Claw-tipped hands shot out to steady her and to keep her from fleeing. Slowly, Kagome raised her gaze to the cocky smirk and knowing golden eyes.
"What do you think Miroku and Sango would say about this?" he asked rhetorically. The priestess in his arms attempted to look anywhere else but him after their eyes met as she tried to stammer a reasonable explanation. Her failed attempts swiftly quieted as he ducked down to murmur in her ear, "Stay up wind, next time. I might give you a show."
Her blush deepened, something he found endearing as her mouth opened and closed with no words being said. "...Eh?" she finally croaked.
Inuyasha tapped his nose once before gathering the rumpled garments in her arms and tossing them on the grass. "If I catch you next time," he picked up his stunned priestess and walked back, "You're mine, little mate."
Kagome barely registered that they were at the stream before he dropped her into the water. When she pulled herself up, sputtering, Inuyasha ran away, chuckling. She glared at his back, "Inuyasha!"