Part two
'InuYasha, seat that -' cute butt- '-rear down, before I make you.'
Kagome was glaring up at him, who was refusing to take a seat again, and to calm down.
They were in the middle of their first flight, somewhere over central America, on their way to LA, which would be the first of three flights back to tokyo.
Kaogme, both thanking her lucky stars she didn't try to get him onto the straight, thirteen hour flight straight to Japan, and was on the first five hour flight of two and a seven hour flight left to go, and cursing Naraku for putting her through this.
Miroku and Sango were out like lights, and Kirara, who was hidden in a backpack on Sango's lap was curled up, as all of the above did not sleep the night before.
'Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to sit down.' A steward told him, but he didn't understand her and so he ignored her.
'She said to si- take a seat, InuYasha-sama, so just come back over here and do it!'
'Why? It's so boring!'
'We are travelling at speeds faster then Naraku when confronted with Jakotsu, and you're bored?'
He almost cracked a grin at the thought.
'Why don't you take a nap? You haven't slept in weeks.'
'What do you mean? I have so.'
'Ever since you heard of Naraku's whereabouts, about five weeks ago, you have not slept because we had heard he was after us again. Story of our lives at the moment.'
If she looked closely, Kagome could see very slight dark shadows under his eyes, but he clearly wasn't comfortable sleeping in such a noisy, unfamiliar area.
'What are you, scared or something?'
'No!'
Reluctantly, he sat back down, but still stared at her defiantly.
Okay, Kagome thought, That won't work, so lets try, 'Don't you trust me?'
'Keh.' He turned his shoulders away and folded his arms, but the single noise was in such an isn't it obvious manner that she ignored it.
'Well then, I'm sure we'll be fine, as sure as I know you have ears under that hat.'
He gave her a suspicious, disbelieving look.
'Listen.' Kagome said, putting a hand on his shoulder. 'This is just a really big, really noisy, but really fast way to travel a long way. It's the best, if not the only way to get back to the feudal era.'
He made a noncommittal noise and faced the front again, shutting his eyes and subconsciously making a fist where his sword usually leant across one shoulder.
Kagome was surprised herself, as all of their stuff (minus the Hiraikotsu and Miroku's staff, which were in oversized,) were inside a wheelie-bag, as checked in luggage.
As this included the Tessaiga, she had to keep InuYasha calm and in the belief that he life was not in danger, which had been teetering on the edge ever since they got on, he would not turn into a demon that could cause trouble.
They did not need a reenactment of that movie, 'Snakes on a Plane'.
Kagome turned and looked out of the window, out at the afternoon sky, where clouds were gathering below them.
She glanced back over to where Miroku and Sango where, and surprisingly, the arm rest had been lifted and Sango was tucked under Miroku's shoulder, fast asleep, with Kirara hidden on her lap.
Well, they are engaged, so they were perfectly allowed to do that, especially since it looked so positively adorable.
Kagome smiled as she turned back towards the window.
xXxXx
'Okay guys, I warn you now. It will be very hot when we get off this plane.'
Somehow, they had survived two five hour flights over two days, and were currently sitting in Honalulu International Airport, looking exactly like they've been on two five hour flights.
'Why?'
The door was being unlocked, and the passengers were slowly making their way out into the stifling heat.
'It's summer, and this place gets very hot in the summer.'
True to her word, it was stifling the second they stepped onto the tarmac, the ground was shimmering slightly.
Jumpers, gloves and scarves were disappearing everywhere, and hats, sunglasses, and sunscreen was taking their place.
This did not help Kagome's concentration of luggage, weapons in oversized baggage, and finding a taxi to the hotel they were staying at, as she was perfectly content with staring at InuYasha.
Unfortunately, she was not the only one.
She had caught a few other girls eyeing him up, thankfully he was too dense to notice it.
Sitting in the little, open aired taxi, the group caught glimpses of a beautiful warm beach, with pristine palm trees all along it.
Miroku simply had eyes for the scenery, or the scantily clad beauties all along the water's edge.
Sango saw what he was staring at, and twisted his ear.
Hard.
She shot him her dirtiest you-do-you-die glare, which would have sent lesser men then him scrambling for cover, so he turned his attention to his now sweaty right hand, under all of it's protection.
xXxXx
The beach was practically begging them to swim, so once everything had been dropped at their apartment, and a quick stop at a swimwear shop, they were there.
Miroku and InuYasha were running around in board shorts, Miroku's were dark blue and InuYasha was deep red with white strips down the sides.
Sango was in a pink one piece, which had a large diamond shaped hole across her stomach, which had taken a lot of persuasion, bribery and blackmail to get her into.
Kagome had a light blue one piece that was a halter-neck.
They were already about waist deep in the water, throwing about a large beach ball Kagome had picked up whilst shopping.
Somehow, it turned into a piggy-in-the-middle, with the two men on the outside.
'Come on, Sango!' Miroku teased. 'Try harder!'
InuYasha was laughing, enjoying using his abilities to sneak the ball past Kagome and into Miroku's hands.
Sango was more happy 'attacking' Miroku whenever he had the ball, mostly ending a feel up and a slap, and during this the ball would somehow appear in InuYasha's hands.
This continued, until Sango finally caught the ball, and almost simultaneously, InuYasha fell in the water until he was right up to his chin.
'You okay, InuYasha?'
'Keh. There was a hole in the floor.'
And the ball appeared in InuYasha's sure hands.
Kagome leapt at him, securing one arm around his neck as she reached for the ball, which was being held surly out of her reach.
'Aw, come on,' She said, stretching as far as she could, but it was just beyond her fingertips.
Suddenly the ball was gone, InuYasha was passing it back to Sango.
Kagome suddenly dived, and InuYasha chased after her, splashing everywhere and reducing visibility to nil.
Kagome, holding her breath, swam around Miroku and seized Sango's foot, causing the demon-slayer to overbalance and topple into the water, flailing comically.
'Hey! That's cheating!' InuYasha had grabbed her and lifted her up, out of the water, whilst Miroku came to Sango's aid.
They were all laughing by this point, until Kagome was thrown gently into the water with a squeal.
She emerged spluttering, pushing her hair out of her eyes.
'Why I oughta…' And she leapt at him again, the ball forgotten this time, where she wrapped her arms around his neck in an attempt to completely dunk him.
Behind her, Sango was currently trying to wrestle the ball of Miroku, a blow landing harder then usual when his wandering hands got, well, out of hand.
xXxXx
On shore, Kirara was perfectly happy to take a nap next to the group's stuff.
She was unaffected by the heat, and it was nearly dusk by the time she had woken up, when the others started to head back towards her.
She looked up and mewed, trying to scratch away some of the sand that had collected on her fur.
Others were running in and out of the water, children were playing, and the waves were picking up.
The beach where they were was pretty sheltered, and a good place to hide from those people with boards.
Sango flopped next to Kirara, giving her a quick tickle, and Kagome sat down on the other side her.
'So what else is there to do here? Apart from swim and stand on those boards?' InuYasha asked.
Kagome had to think a minute before answering.
'Dunno. Pretty much only water sports, and that's about it.' She shrugged.
'But then, what now?'
There was a moment of silence, before Miroku suggested,
'Shall we get a drink?'
Kagome gave him a questioning look.
'Over there,' he nodded in the direction of a bar where people were walking away with drinks. 'It looks like you can buy them there.'
Kagome nodded, and after a bit of persuasion by Miroku, Kagome and Miroku went to get drinks.
xXxXx
'Why are we doing this again?'
'Miroku said he…' Sango drawled, swaying slightly. 'Wanted to test something.'
Kagome giggled for no apparent reason, and sat down, looking over at Miroku, who was looking absolutely fine, despite the fact he had a small mountain of empty glasses of the most potent drink they served.
InuYasha sat, directly across from him, had made a fort-like structure from his glasses, and, though looking uncomfortable, seemed just as sober as Miroku.
According to Miroku, these drinks weren't as strong as sake, and he was apparently fabulous with his drink.
InuYasha, on the other hand, was only affected through his balance, his demonic blood less affected by the drink then anyone would have thought, even though it extremely dulled his senses, at the moment he had the senses of a human.
Kagome got up and swayed unsteadily, staggering over to where InuYasha was and seated herself next to him, tugging on his ear underneath the cap.
He waved her away as he downed another drink, watching carefully as Miroku did the same.
Miroku was starting to feel the effects, and smiled as Sango tweaked his nose and hit him 'lightly' across the check for the hand that had gone wandering.
A small crowd had gathered around, and had small bets on who would last longest, it could have gone either way.
InuYasha hadn't noticed that everything was going off slightly, though he still felt sober, but he certainly did notice when the only thing he could pick up the scent of was the sweetness of the drink, and the stale sweat of the place they were at.
He could no longer find the odd mixture of scent that was Miroku, the sweet and yet slightly spicy scent of Sango, or even the beautiful sweet flowery smell of Kagome, the most important scent in his world.
Downing another drink, he could feel the slight tug of her running her fingers through his hair, which seemed to be extremely difficult for her, a glance told him she was concentrating very hard.
Yet another glass emptied, he was starting to feel off balance, and suddenly the fact that he needed that scent again sprang forth into his mind.
He seized one of her hands and brought her fingers up to his nose, where he finally caught that wonderful smell again.
He released her hand and glanced again to see she had turned a lot redder then she already was.
InuYasha returned his gaze back to his opposition, who had somehow gotten Sango onto his lap, and she certainly wasn't protesting.
xXxXx
Four figures could be seen staggering down the lonely road, not really sure what they were doing.
They seemed extremely susceptible to breaking out into little fights, but none got far.
A little skirmish had flared, worse then the others, which had gotten bigger and bigger until-
'SIT!' Kagome shouted.
and InuYasha fell face first into the dirt, swearing profusely.
'Sit, sit, sit, sit, SIT!'
InuYasha lay there twitching for a second, before calling her a final, extremely impolite name.
'You stupid, selfish, ignorant, childish, pig headed son of a dog demon!'
He opened his mouth to make an angry retort, but he was cut off.
'You're so stubborn and arrogant I think we might have Sesshomaru here instead! Sit, baka!'
She stormed off in a huff, leaving InuYasha in a crater unable to get up but looking mortally offended.
As soon as he could get up, which took a long moment, InuYasha sprang up and growled, unable to believe what she had said.
'Go after her!' Sango hinted from a few feet away, who had been watching the spectical with amusement. 'Apologise!'
'Why should I, after that? She should be the one apologising to me!'
Miroku looked around, mock-scared.
'I wouldn't let my girl like that wander around in a place like this,' He said almost worriedly, pulling Sango a little closer. 'You never know what could happen.'
'Dammit to hell, you guys are annoying.' He twitched and looked around edgily, suddenly wishing for his senses back. 'I'm going for a walk. I'm NOT going to look for her.'
He turned his back and headed in exactly the direction Kagome had left in, leaving Miroku and Sango standing there, smiling.
'So,' Miroku asked. 'How many pieces do you think he'll come back in?'
Kirara mewed, and stalked off after the two, without the pair of them noticing.
xXxXx
Why that… Kagome was fuming for some reason, but she couldn't remember exactly why.
Remembering all the drinks she had had, and the good time she seemed to recall, she could find no reason why she was so angry, except for the fact it was something to do with InuYasha.
She slowed slightly, looking around, to see the forbidding and unfamiliar scenery around her.
There was a corner nearby, where she hid herself away, waiting for common sense to return to her.
She waited.
And waited.
And waited a bit more.
She pulled herself almost into a ball, suddenly feeling ashamed, remembering the names she had called him for some unknown reason.
All the anger and frustration melted into tears that formed and trickled down her face.
She hid her face in her hands and cried.
There was the crunch, crunch, crunch of steady footsteps, and she held her breath, waiting for whoever it was to go away.
There was a slight noise right next to her, and nearly screamed, to discover a small twin tail sitting and looking up at her curiously.
She got up and disappeared around the corner, in the direction of the footsteps, which stopped.
'Kirara?' Kagome whispered as quietly as she could.
There was no reply, so she peeked around the corner, to come face-to-face with a jean-clad knee.
'Kagome?'
She looked up, to see a not-so-annoyed InuYasha, and immediately hid herself again.
The sounds of him sitting down reached her, he was still out of sight.
'Sorry I called you a son of a dog demon.' She said quietly, not trying to see him.
'It's true, isn't it, though?'
'And I'm sorry I called you Sesshomaru.'
'Keh. Sorry I called you a, well, you know.'
Kirara appeared right on the corner, and she reached to pet her, only to be intercepted.
InuYasha had seized her hand and pulled her up, both swaying slightly.
'Do you remember what we were fighting about?'
InuYasha started pulling her back towards the place they were staying, with Kirara in the lead.
Kagome took his silence as a 'no'.
xXxXx
'God dammit,'
Kagome woke slowly, rubbing her throbbing head. 'Tequila, where will you wake up?'
The first thing she thought of was the idea that she and her friends had come up with, and apparently they had tested.
After waking up after a bit of a drink, check two things.
One, where you were.
She looked around, to see the couch back at the hotel.
And two, who was lying next to you.
Light snoring was coning from someone right next to her ear, and an arm, indeed, was half wrapped around her. On closer inspection, the hand on the end of it was clawed, and right in the middle of her chest, underneath her chin.
She flushed, a lot, not daring to lift her head, when she realised InuYasha was holding her against him, and they spanned the length of the couch.
Another slight shock occurred to her when she realised she couldn't recall almost any of the events of the previous night, from Miroku doing something to do with 'testing a theory'.
She tried sliding out from under InuYasha, slowly, just so he didn't wake or notice, but the instant she tried to move he twitched and pulled her tighter against him, she could almost hear his ears twitch.
Kagome waited for what seemed a long time, but his grip did not relax on her.
There was the sound of someone moving, through the thin walls, and a door slowly opened.
Sango staggered out, clutching at one side of her head, looking bleary.
She opened and shut cupboards, as quietly as she could, wincing whenever a sound was too loud, until she found some strange-looking glasses.
Grabbing one, she turned on the tap, cringed from the noise it made, and drank, glanced around the room, fortunately not noticing Kagome's predicament, before going and hiding back in her room.
Kagome's head was really hurting by this point, which worsened at every little sound, apart from InuYasha's breathing.
She was perfectly fine, somewhat, just lying there, in the quiet, peaceful, reasonably dark room, for that reason if nothing else, and tried to remember the events of the previous night.
Most of the night was a complete blank to her, so perhaps when her captor decided to wake up, he could remember more.
He twitched again, and unbeknown to Kagome, he was starting to do just that.
InuYasha's eyes snapped open, and it took him a full three seconds to realise where he was and what was going on.
The room swam into focus, and the most splitting headache he had was slowly receding, giving him an odd feeling.
He then noticed that what he was holding onto was alive, and had a scent, and-
With blurring speed, he snatched his arm back and was at the other end the couch before Kagome could blink.
Both were bright red, and Kagome jumped up, apologising, and fled the room.
What the hell? Were the only words that formed into his mind.
From what he could figure out, they had fallen asleep like that, the slight stiffness in his neck told him that, and were probably drunk beyond reason, or common sense.
He thought back, and had times when he could remember, and blank spots when he couldn't.
He remembered walking back, then he and Kagome fought over something, with a lot of name calling, something to do with a 'son of a dog demon', some other colourful language, then a blank, then finding Kagome somewhere, with the intention of not apologising, then a complete blank until this morning.
InuYasha was honestly worried, if he had done anything without his knowledge, not sure if he wanted to remember the rest of it.
Miroku appeared then, stretching and yawning, his hair down.
'Morning,' He said, nodding towards InuYasha and pulling a glass from the cupboard and taking a drink.
InuYasha nodded back, still slightly stunned.
'So where's Kagome?' Miroku said cheekily.
InuYasha shrugged, and then realised what he was implying.
He went red, and stood up.
'How much do you remember?'
'Quite a lot, actually. You know, if you were human, you would have been as much a light weight as the girls.'
InuYasha snorted, and glanced away.
But, upon closer inspection, Miroku seemed to be one large, human-shaped bruise.
'The hell happened to you?'
The monk grinned and touched a particularly dark spot on his cheekbone.
'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.' He quoted.
'Translation, Sango.' InuYasha replied.
InuYasha rolled his eyes.
''s what happens when you do that stuff to her, perv.'
Miroku looked slightly offended, but then gave the half-demon a sly look.
'So were you,' he smiled.
InuYasha's eyes nearly fell out of his head.
'What? I wouldn't do that to Sango,' He shuddered slightly, picturing the savage beating.
'No, I am referring to you and Kagome.'
InuYasha went redder.
This became more pronounced as he lifted the monk off his feet by the collar, bringing their faces close.
Miroku, fearing for his life slightly, but enjoying himself, grinned.
'I never thought you thought like that of her.' The monk said, drawing him along.
InuYasha was beet red, but pressed on.
'Listen, if you mention a single word, I will lock you in a room with Sango.'
Miroku gave him a confused look.
'If her headache's as half as bad as mine, then I would hate to be you.'
The confused look froze into one of horror.
'I-I was having you on.'
InuYasha was truly scary, and was doing a fabulous impression of his brother. 'Hn.' It was obvious he didn't know whether to believe him or not.
'No, really. I'm telling the truth now!'
InuYasha cocked his head to one side, and glanced back towards the hall where the rooms were.
'I wonder where Sango is.'
Miroku went pale.
He held up his hand, and said; 'Look, I promise. Nothing spectacular happened. I doubt she would remember as much as you do. Now can you put me down?'
InuYasha dropped him, gave a final suspicious look, and left, thinking, what does he mean, spectacular?
Miroku grinned. Wonder if I can blackmail Kagome then… although I would probably have to find her first.
xXxXx
'Oh, look!'
They were down the beach again, in the early evening.
Explosions of light and colour were filling the sky, someone was setting off fireworks from around the corner.
There was no particular order, but they were big, and beautiful.
The small group lay back and watched, as the lights twirled, sparkled, and danced around the dark space.
Music suddenly exploded from around the corner, in beat with the fireworks, quite the party must have been going on.
Miroku sprang up, pulling Sango to her feet with him.
'Shall we dance?' He asked, pulling her around and seizing her other hand.
She snatched her hands back, shaking her head no, and turned away.
'Come on, Sango? Please?'
He turned her around by her shoulders and pulled her into a kind of made up waltz style dance, turning slowly.
She objected, but did not pull away.
She accidentally caught Kagome eye and the girl winked at her mischievously.
Shooting her a dirty look, she turned another circle to the slow music.
Kagome stood up, which immediately had InuYasha's attention, which had otherwise been solely on the fireworks.
'Would you like to,' she mumbled, turning pink but offering her hand.
InuYasha stood up too, and without a word, awkwardly, he took her other hand and the two couples danced under the fireworks.
I wonder, could this get any more cheesy? A small voice asked in Kagome's head after a long, silenced time.
The song ended, where it faded into a beautiful, familiar song.
A deep voice sang out, and she instantly recognised it, an old classic.
It fit the scene so well.
'There's a calm surrender, to the rush of day.
When the heat of the rolling wind, can be turned away…'
The small voice was cringing of the cheesiness, but Kagome ignored it.
Miroku turned Sango in an effortless circle, getting a quick up-and-down look while she had her back turned, before giving her a small smile.
The smooth, liquid-english song sang its words through the language barrier, and so picking up what was said was almost easy.
InuYasha still didn't get it.
But, it was still pretty.
'That the twisting kaleidoscope,
Moves us all in turn…'
'InuYasha?' Kagome whispered, gazing at him.
'Yeah?'
'Beats in time with yours…'
'I'm getting dizzy.'
They slowed to a halt, InuYasha looking slightly worried.
'Then, maybe, we should stop turning.' He whispered back, and staring back.
'It's enough, for this wide eyed wanderer,'
'We have stopped…'
'That we got this far,'
He leant in, slowly, and their faces met.
It started sweet, but deepened, slowly.
Luckily, neither of the other two were paying the slightest bit of attention.
They had nearly gotten up to what Kagome and InuYasha were doing, but a wandering hand had gotten in the way.
'-off, Miroku.' Sango was spitting, borrowing language from InuYasha, deeply embarrassed.
'But, Sango,' The monk replied, looking like he was seriously sorry. 'I have apologised already, how else can I make it up to you?'
She crossed her arms haughtily for a moment, and stared at him dangerously.
Her look softened slightly, but immediately hardened into something sly.
She somehow unfolded her arms, and offered one hand back to him, which he took uncertainly.
Again, he took the other offered hand, getting more and more scared.
Pulling herself close, she kept his hands at safe distances, she looked up at him with a wondering look.
'S-Sango?'
Closer and closer, she smiled slightly, right until-
There was an incredible pain, and he fell.
Sango's smile was less wandering, and more pure evil as she lowered her knee and he landed in the fetal position at her feet.
'Now you're sorry.'
She sat casually next to him, hugging her knees and looked up at the fireworks, listening to the music, and the little whimpers that escaped the ball next to her.
xXxXx
Kagome finally woke to see a familiar sight.
It was morning, and they had just finished the final leg of the trip.
Unfortunately, the only flight available for that day had been in the very early morning, but it meant many hours of caught up sleep on the seven-hour trip.
She nudged InuYasha next to her, who woke with a start, turning slightly pink, again.
'Somebody tell Naraku, coz we're back.' She smiled, glancing back out the window.
She reached through the gap between the chairs in front of her and tapped the only thing visible, a shoulder.
It moved, and Miroku's face appeared.
'Welcome to Tokyo, where our portal back can be found.' She smiled.
The sound of the engines powering down reached them, and the lights turned back on.
The usual announcement came over the speakers, and people stood up to get bags, and to stretch.
Kagome stood, and looked over the seats to see the two in front peering out the window.
'Don't worry guys, this is the last one.' She said, making them both jump.
Sango smiled up at her, and stood up, stretching, and whacked Miroku, again.
They slowly filed out of the plane, there were that many people pushing and shoving that it was hard to stick together.
Kagome seized InuYasha's hand, and Miroku Sango's, so they wouldn't get separated.
Still, on the bridge, the crowd was thick, and the little party were swept up the stairs and out through the gate.
Kagome searched for a familiar face, but did not see any.
That is, until a being smaller then her collided with her middle.
'Kagome!'
'Souta!'
He looked the lot of them up and down, InuYasha flushed as he followed the boys spmiling glance at his hand, entwined in hers, which he dropped immediately.
The boy lead them back to Kagome's mother, who was waiting on the outskirts of the crowd.
'Kagome!'
The woman seized her in a quick hug.
'How did you manage? And are these your friends?'
'Yeah. Mom, this is Miroku,' Miroku looked like he was going to say something but Sango neatly stood on his foot warningly. 'and Sango, with Kirara.'
The two tail suddenly popped seemingly out of no-where.
'We need to go back to the well ASAP, we wasted enough time with this.'
xXxXx
One trip down a well and about a further week of travelling later, they arrived.
Finding Shippo, who had told them Naraku had not moved far, as his main opposition had severely diminished.
It ended with a fight.
Dark, messy, and they have to give it their all.
In a fight for their life, when not only their own life, but also the lives of others depend on it, they have no other choice.
They wouldn't have it any other way.
(A/n, a cookie to anyone who can tell me what song they were dancing to (: luv inukag123)