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Monsters
His eyes glowed like foxfire in the dark, she thought, when the light was just right from the fire or sometimes the moon. Other people might have thought it was frightening, monstrous, another mark of how he was not like them, but to Kagome, it just meant InuYasha.
Tonight, he looked over the fire as she put away the dinner dishes into her pack. His eyes picked up the light and shone. The way his hair gleamed warm with the fire, and his red clothing faded into black ought to have made him look threatening, like a night haunt or an angry ghost. But the smile on his lips and the way he sat destroyed the effect totally, as he lounged back against a tree, cushioning his head with his hands, relaxed and well fed.
"Want to lay out the bedroll?" she asked.
"Why?" he asked. "You got something in mind?"
"Could be," she said, tying the pack closed. "Long as you can keep the monsters away."
"Keh," he snorted, "Nothing to worry about." He stretched out a leg. "No monsters anywhere near here."
She walked over to him, and sat down next to him, and rested her head on his shoulder. "Exactly the way I like it."
A/N Foxfire refers to a few things - certain tree mushrooms that glow in the dark, and also to Kitsune, who were conceived of as carrying balls of light which would often confuse the unwary as they traveled at night.