"And that children, is how ye treat deep wounds when ye be out in the wilderness." Kaede told her small class of children, including Rin, who was the oldest in the group now that she lived with them in the village. She was wearing a new kimono.
"Rin, you look nice today." Kagome said sweetly as they picked up the moss and the little training dummy they had made to help with the classes.
"Oh," Rin blushed, using her palm to straighten out her skirts. "Thank you."
"Kagome, over here!" InuYasha called, sending some of the smaller children into a fit of giggles. "You done yet?!"
"Yeah, be right there!" She called back, waving to the kids as she hurried over to him.
"What's up?" Kagome said, slightly out of breath as she caught up to him.
"I got a message from Myoga, apparently something strange is happening in the eastern lands where the wolf demon tribe lives, looks like your little boyfriend might have gotten himself into some real trouble, him and his whole clan." InuYasha looked at the moon, slightly visible in the mid day light, a small slit of a crescent.
"He's not my boyfriend! Besides, isn't he married now too? Stop calling him my boyfriend because you know damn well he never was and never will be." Kagome shouted, making InuYasha's ears fall. "Besides, why would I want to have another boyfriend, you're more than enough trouble by yourself."
"Well I uh," the last sentence made him blush, looking away from her reddened face as a blush made it's way onto her face as well. "Okay."
"Hm," she said in a snooty tone, turning away from him. "So when do we leave?"
"In two days it's going to be the new moon, so that means I can't be anywhere someone who might want to hurt us is, so we're going to have to leave tomorrow, it takes several days to get to the eastern lands and if I time it right we can make it to the mountains by the time new moon nightfall hits. There's caves there we can wait out the night in."
"That sounds like a good plan, for once." Kagome agreed and looked at InuYasha with a slightly awestruck face.
"Whaddya mean 'for once'? I have good plans and ideas all the time." InuYasha glowered.
"Sure you do boy, sure." Kagome said, waving her had and smiling before she turned back to walk home and get what she'd need for the trip.
"And don't treat me like I'm some kind of dumb dog, hey wait up!"
"InuYasha, how long has it been since you washed your cloths the last time?" Kagome remarked as she packed her cloths into the bag along with some dried food.
"I dunno, like a month I guess." He shrugged, looking at the sleeves. "I guess I only really wash it when it gets all bloody."
"Well, you're starting to smell, go change into something else and I'll wash it for you." She sighed, pointing to the cloths Kaede had gotten him, but he never wore.
"Nah, I don't like those cloths they smell weird and they're itchy, but if you wanna wash these ones that bad here." Without warning, he pulled off his kimono shirt and the second shirt, tossing them into Kagome's lap and starting to untie his pants sash.
"Woah woah I didn't say get naked what are you doing!" Kagome covered her eyes and looked away before he could get his pants off.
"What? You said you wanted to wash em, now you don't want me to take them off, what are you going to do, wash my cloths with me in em?" InuYasha looked down and retied the sash in confusion. "You're weird, what do you have against being naked."
"Everything!" She screamed, throwing his cloths back at him without staring at his bare chest for too long and storming out of the house.
"Huh, must be a human thing." InuYasha shrugged again, before finishing getting undressed and throwing on one of the pairs of pants that would fit him, just to keep Kagome from freaking out.
"Key Kagome," InuYasha called out as he walked out of their house after her, she was sitting in a tree staring off towards the forest, where the villagers were clearing some land to build a shrine next to the sacred tree.
"What?" Kagome snapped, sounding irritated.
InuYasha darted into the tree in three bounds, landing on the balls of his feet next to her on her branch. "I'm not going to fake that I get how you feel, but I'm gonna try to make sure you stay happy okay?"
"You..." Kagome started, looking at his state of half dress and just letting it go. "Thanks."
InuYasha's hand was on her back as he patted her, he wasn't looking at her but rather in the opposite direction as he did this, something that he did often when he wanted to kiss her.
"Come here, stupid." Kagome breathed, reaching up and grabbing a fistful of his hair and tanking his face to hers.
An electric warmth shot through them, nearly knocking them off of the branch, and they had to break the kiss just to steady themselves. Kagome's heart pounded in her chest and rose to her throat as she looked off over the forest again.
"So," InuYasha said suddenly, sounding satisfied with himself. "You wanna wash cloths or what?"
"Sit." Kagome said quietly. Leave it to him to ruin the moment.