Kitty:If I owned Inuyasha, Katy would be a part of the Anime and I'd be writing an Inu book...

Katy:Bout' time you updated. Slap!

Miroku: Ow...Thud! OW Thud! OW Thud! OWOWOWOWOW

Sango: SMACK SMACK SMACK! HENTEI!

In other words... I DON"T OWN HIM!

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Chapter 9 Rubber Ducky

Katy opened her eyes groggily. Her body was aching. She felt like a train hit her at high speed... SEVERAL TIMES. She moved her arms, feeling like she hadn't moved them in years and they had rusted over.

As she sat up her covers fell to her waist. Her back was killing her. Her head couldn't stop throbbing.

She raised her hand to her forehead, applying presser and willing the pain away. It was pitch black, the only light being that of a crescent, smiling, moon and the many fireflies seeming to be fallen star, they were so bright.

Realizing she was the only one upwasn't hard. there was no dog, sorry, 'inu' de... youkei, on... IN... the ground. The monk's hands were wondering, but Sango wasn't slapping him.

She thought a bath might help her aching muscles, so she got up slowly, trying not to wake the kit sleeping by her cousin. She dug out her shampoo and soup. Looking to the woods, she set out to the spring...

He watched her as she slept. Such power hidden beneath such an innocent face. All the destruction she could cause, all the devastation she could cast on an unsuspecting world... all the good she could do and noone could see it... Pitiful humans...

He fallowed her as she trecked soundly through the forest.

It seemed to get thicker as she walked.

She jumped at the sound in the trees. She breathed and rolled her eyes at how jumpy she was. It was only a bird, right?... Right?...

Katy arrived, looking wearily around. Something as watching her.

She jumped, her breath catching. She held it for a moment.

An owl called, shocking her back to rationality. Katy could only blink, at how paranoid she was being, and begin to undress. A breeze chilled her bair skin as she removed her last garment and set with the others on a near by rock. She waded in, letting the hot liquid of the spring wash over her.

She sighed as the water worked it's miracle on all her aches and pains.

She didn't realize as he joined her. She was, however, as he wrapped his strong arms around her.

She went stiff.

"Don't fear me, love. Never fear me, " he spoke softly, his breath caressing her ear. It was sending shivers down her spine.

She gasped as he pulled her back. She collided with a firm chest and he ran light fingers over her arms. Her shivers seemed to please him. He turned her slowly in the water, to face him. She looked up into his eyes, melting in their golden depths.

.She woke up, thinking, 'Rubber ducky,' she had to stiffle a laugh, 'Squeak, squeak...'

Inuyash awoke to the watery smell of noodles and the spice of seasons mixing with it. He cracked one eye open. The other one shot open, when kagome motion for him to 'come and get it'.

Eating his food, he quickly noticed something missing.

The monk was missing. He looked around, carefully. Sango was trying to dry her damp hair. Kagome was giving Shipou more, for he was 'a growing boy.' End quote... Katy was... eating?... With... 'WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?' He shook his head, as if trying to rid himself of those thoughts.

That's when Miroku came walking back. Where was he anyway? His hair was drpping and he smelt of... OH... UGH... GAH! 'I Didn't need to know that.' he thought.

He glanced over at Shipo to see if he had smelled it, too. Judging by his typical actions, either he wasn't effected by it, or he was too young to even notice the difference.

Inuyasha's ear twitched, when he heard Sango mumble something, sounding, strangely, along the lines of, "Slow polk..."

Ok, this was just botring him too much, what was that thing Katy was eating with?

"So, All we do is travel the country side, looking for jewel fragments?" Katy asked and he watch her take another mite with that thing.

"That's the routine."Kagome answered her question and took a bite with chopsticks.

'HA! Chopsticks.'He thought.

"But, we always end up helping this person, or that village," Sango added and took a bite.

'Again, chopsticks. Something I know.' He slirped his.

Katy stabbed a piece of beef that was in ther cup.

'It's already dead. Why continue trying to kill it.'

She took a bite and repeated the process.

'Oh, c'mon. Hasn't the poor cow been through enough, already?'

She twirled some more noodles and took a bite.

'She doesn't even slirp and that's were all the fun in eating it is.'

She twirled and ate another bite. 'She must fine torturing her food to be fun.'

She repeated the process several times, while he was pondering her utincels. 'That's it! It's an ancient western torture device...'

"It's a fork..." He hadn't realized he was staring at her the whole time. Nor, did he realize a very green miko. Kagome's complection even seemed to have an olive hue, as her naile dug holes in her palms.

"Is it-"

"No."

"Does it-"

"No."

"But I thought-"

"Nuh uh, Inuyasha, it's just a fork..."

AU I'll leave ot there for now. night.