Wow...this story actually made it to thirty chapters. I would have never guessed when I posted the first chapter... Hope you enjoy this chapter!
The sun shun down it's bright and sizzling hot rays on the skin of the twelve inexperienced campers. Kagome brought her hand up just above her eyes while she stared up at the beautiful blue skies. She sighed at how really great it was to be away from the hectic city for a little while.
"Uh...Kagome? If you keep looking at that sun you'll get blind; then how are you going to gawk at InuYasha's six pack?" Sango playfully warned; giving the hanyou a tiny glance.
Kagome brought her eyes down to Sango and rolled them. "I was just looking at the sky. And besides they can't be that-" Kagome shifted her eyes to the west of her and Sango where InuYasha was helping put together the tents. "P-perfect." Kagome gulped as she stared at InuYasha's bare torso. Not only did the hanyou have a perfect six pack but a sexy tanned one at that. When had he lost his shirt? "Damn..."
Sango covered her mouth with her hands but couldn't contain her laughter. Her friend was so hopelessly in love, she wasn't positive if she even knew how deep she had fallen. She tried countless times at pushing her two friends together but InuYasha was just too much of an idiot to see the sparks. The things she did only made their friendship better, certainly nothing over that. Kagome, just like every other girl deserved eye candy; Kikyo could do nothing about the harmless stares.
"Oi! You going to gawk the whole time or help us!" InuYasha yelled, nearly falling over as he tried to hold up the tent on one side.
"Y-Yes...Coming!" Kagome blushed and as quickly as she could, dashed over to the struggling males.
"Well if InuYasha can take off his shirt! So can I!" Gramps concluded and began to lift his shirt. Unlike InuYasha, his torso was nothing but...rolls and...white little curls. It was very unattractive and hard to look at.
"Dad! There is children here! Put that on!" Akira scolded.
"What! InuYasha can do it but I can't!"
"Yes." She put it simply. Anything she said would have just offended him and would have caused them to get into an argument.
"Hey asshole, you should be helping us." InuYasha snorted, looking at his brother casually reading the instruction manual. Like that would help them build this thing. As if.
" Whelp, you're doing it all wrong. You have to put the stake in first. How else is it going to stand up."
"Aw! Sesshy! My smart bookworm." Rin cooed lovingly, squeezing her husband's cheek.
"Meh!" Miroku squealed out like a girl when a noticed bug started crawling up his leg. The whole group started laughing at him and his girlish scream.
"Here, allow me to show you." Ukyomi offered, removing the hammer and stake from InuTaisho's sweaty hands.
"Mom will have this done in five seconds." Sango bragged.
"One...Two...Three...Four...Five...Sango?" Sota asked, holding up his hand. "It isn't okay to lie like that."
"It's just an expression dear." Akira informed with a warming smile.
"Mom?" InuYasha called, walking over to his mother. She was sitting quite a distance from the group. She wasn't being her normal self today. There was a lot more silence than talking coming out of her mouth. This wasn't normal for her. It wasn't like Izayoi was a chatterbox that got annoying after a while of hearing her speak. She was actually the perfect one to start up a conversation. "You okay?"
Izayoi just nodded and offered her son a small smile. InuYasha didn't buy it and pressed the back of his hand on her forehead. She didn't have a fever.
"You're scaring me a little. Why are you being so silent?"
Izayoi shrugged, picking at the grass beneath her bare feet. InuTaisho constantly told her that she had the most beautiful feet he had ever seen. And that was saying a lot considering that feet weren't actually meant to be pretty looking.
"A lot's on my mind." Izayoi reached up and rubbed InuYasha's ears in a soothing matter. "Don't worry about me kay? Go have fun."
InuYasha willingly allowed his mother to play with his ears. He would have to remember to let Kagome touch them without his complaining considering she so 'owned' them now.
"At least sit with Akira and Ukyomi."
Her petite feet rubbed against the grass as she thought about the idea. It wasn't like she was against hanging out with Akira and Ukyomi. She actually had a lot of things in common with the two and had plenty of things she could gossip about with them. But with the thoughts that had been corrupting her mind for the past few weeks it would be hard to stay focused on anything. The only one that knew what had been on her mind this whole time was her mate. The simple gestures he gave her helped assured her that he was there for her. Sometimes there were things she wish she didn't know about. Things that she would rather have come up as a surprise. She worried as she gazed at the laughing faces of the the families joined for a get-together. How many more of these would actually be granted to her before...well those thoughts...began.
"Izayoi?" Her mate whispered to her, gently placing a hand on her shoulder.
"My apologies."
InuYasha and InuTaisho both watched as Izayoi got up from the comfortable grass and dusted off her bottom.
"You boys going to just stand there?" Izayoi smiled, beginning to walk off towards their group.
InuYasha and InuTaisho both exchanged a glance and followed slowly after Izayoi.
"What's wrong with Mom?" InuYasha wanted to know, he knew for sure that his father was aware.
"There's been...things happening..." InuTaisho said slowly. "All over Japan actually."
"What kinds of things?"
"Things that cause wars." He informed, never meeting his son's gaze. The purple skies, as well as the earthquakes were beginning to puzzle him. There was no way it was nature's doing. Something was up.
"She's scared that they'll take us away from her..." InuYasha softly answered half asked.
"If things get bad...it's possible."
" How soon?"
" Things are slowly taking their first steps for now. I haven't let the information get to me as much as it did to her."
InuTaisho rubbed his face with up and down motions with his hands. "We shouldn't even be talking about this. We're supposed to be enjoying nature."
"Then I'll leave it alone for now. I just wanted to know what had her in a daze and had her so...so antisocial. It just isn't like her..."
InuYasha watched from afar as his mother idly chatted with Akira and Ukyomi as the remainder of the tents were being put up. If a war was supposedly going to take place in the near future why hasn't someone banged on the Taisho's door informing all recruiting of young men. They'd be more then happy to take strong hanyous like himself. Miroku's girly scream cut his thoughts shout and caused him to chuckle. Until he saw some actually evidence, he planned to rid the topic from his mind.
()()()()
Not like it was too difficult, Sango was able to bring up the rest of the tents with the help of her friends. The tents were big enough to fit four people in each one.
"Anyone up for a hike?" Ukyomi offered with a shrug. Sota and Kohaku cheered and hollered. And Kohaku said he wasn't a kid...
Everyone seemed to agree with the idea except for Rin and Sesshomaru, who quickly claimed a tent to themselves and zipped themselves in.
"Jeez...He couldn't wait til we all fell asleep." InuYasha groaned, smashing his hands to his face.
"Ew..."
"InuYasha...Your brother is a grown man. He and his mate can do what they wish, when they wish to do it." Izayoi said, backing up the couple with her famous comforting smile. It seemed like the old her was back...for now at least.
"Besides; regardless if you were asleep or not; you're a hanyou and would have to suffer and hear them."
"Ew! Dad! That's gross!"
Kagome and Sango laughed at InuYasha's innocence. Miroku didn't seem to mind. Actually, it appeared he wouldn't even mind having a front row seat to watch.
"Frickin' pervert." Sango grumbled and slapped Miroku hard in the back of the head. It was like she could read his mind. Any hope he had of her forgiving him was now gone.
Kagome chose the moment to walk beside InuYasha on their journey. She was completely okay with the fact that he still had not decided to put his shirt back on.
"Man I never thought I would be jealous of a guy." Kagome frowned.
"Of what? My eye color? My hair?"
"Your stupid perfect tan that you were lucky enough to be born with." She replied, with jealously dripping from her lips. She picked up his arm, flipping it over. His whole body was the same beautiful color!
"Well when you decide to provide InuYasha with a heir, he'll be tan too. There's something to look forward to." Izayoi playfully told. InuYasha froze in his steps causing the ones following him from behind to bump into him. InuYasha's eyes were bugging out of his head, a major blush appearing on his face. Kagome, on the other hand hid her face with her bangs and stared at the ground, dropping his arm.
"Yes." Akira agreed. "Kagome's hips are perfect for bearing a heir."
"Mom!" Kagome screamed out of embarrassment. What would that lady know!
"Hey!" InuYasha said with a clap of his hands. "Let's change the topic!"
"Y-yeah! That sounds like a great idea!" Kagome urged, slightly walking a little a head of the rest of the group. "H-how's uh...how's m-math doing for you?"
The adults, as well as Sango and Miroku were cracking up at the two flustered teenagers.
"They're not going to f-force me to give you a heir are they?" Kagome whispered, messing with her fingers out of nervousness. Kagome practically reeked of a strange combination of embarrassment, fear, uncertainty, and a dose of excitement...wait. Excitement? Did she want to gift him a heir...?
"C-course not! Only if...never mind. Besides...I d-don't even want children." InuYasha scoffed and shrugged his shoulders. This was getting pretty awkward. "Well, right now I don't...I'll probably change my mind when I'm older and...uh..um...I-if Sesshomaru has a child then I...uh..I won't need one." Kagome watched in shock as huge balls of sweat rolled down his face as he stuttered and blushed, all this while scratching the back of his head. Kagome giggled at his nervousness.
"Calm down InuYasha. It's not like it's going to actually happen."
InuYasha found himself somewhat disappointed on the inside. 'What...what's wrong with me? I'm...she...She's my childhood friend. Kikyo's the one who would be the one...if...if I ever needed a heir.'
Kagome...Mate.
InuYasha looked up from the ground and silently gasped. 'Could...could you repeat that for me...Weird, inner demon who hasn't decided to talk to me until now..'
His father always told him that he would only be helping fifty-percent in finding a mate. InuTaisho tried explaining that his inner demon would be the one to make the final decision. Demons as well as hanyous always thought that they were in love but their inner demons would have to disagree. At the time, none of it made sense to InuYasha. He didn't understand how his inner demon would let him know who was the right mate for him. Supposedly, self consciously he would converse with him. It was something he wasn't used to and it was a bit odd.
You heard me...She's our mate.
' K-kagome? T-that can't be. We...we're just friends.'
Not good enough. She's mate...
InuYasha gulped down his incoming blush and glanced over at his best friend while he 'conversed' with his inner demon. Kagome was busying chatting with Sango and glancing at all the different trees surrounding them. He always knew she loved nature she wasn't one who wanted to stay locked up in her room all the time doing nothing. That was just for Sundays. Kagome's weekends usually consisted of her close friends hanging out together. She would switch on and off with Ayumi, Eri, and Yuka; Sango; and InuYasha. Since his inner demon wanted Kagome...Did that mean he did too?
' H-hey uh...'inner demon'. Um...I'm kinda dating Kikyo. N-not Kagome. Are you sure you don't mean her?'
We don't stutter
Kagome...Is...OUR...MATE!
'Jeez! Okay okay.' InuYasha was growing terrified of the rough voice in his head. He was about ready to cry over to his daddy and say, he's scaring me daddy! He won't stop! He was quite curious as to what would happen if he took Kikyo as his mate. He really thought it would be a miracle to have her stay with him even after graduation. Could you blame him? He's only met her parents once! And that was on the night of the new moon...Any other time she would refuse. Something seemed off about the whole ordeal.
The splashing of water interrupted InuYasha's mental argument and cleared him of all other previous thoughts. InuYasha halted in his steps, amazed over how he totally left the present to go talk with himself inside his head for a while. InuYasha's amber eyes found the site of a small lake with everyone removing what clothes they could to have some fun in the water.
"You coming Yash?" Kagome asked, lifting her shirt above her head and tossed it onto a nearby branch.
InuYasha watched with his mouth hanging wide opened as Kagome revealed her teal and yellow bikini top.
"Was I the only one not informed to wear swim trucks under my pants! I-I didn't even know there was a lake here..."
Kagome giggled and tossed up her shorts onto the tree branch so her shirt had company. "Your mom said Nozomi slipped then into your pants so when you put them on you wouldn't notice."
"The hell..?" InuYasha stretched the front of his jeans and clearly saw his swim trucks hidden beneath. How the hell was Nozomi so sneaky? And creepy at that. She could have just said, InuYasha...the family suggests you wear swim trucks underneath because they plan on swimming in the lake!
He couldn't take his eyes of Kagome's body, skipping towards to the lake to join her friends and family. He undid the button on his jeans with a smooth use of his claw and pulled them down; careful just enough so all bottoms didn't get pulled down... Miroku would probably make fun of him for as long as he lived. And that was quite a long time.
Kagome dipped her toe in the water, quickly getting second thoughts. The water was absolutely freezing, but with as hot as the day decided to be it would probably cool her off instantly.
"Come on Kagome!" Miroku encouraged. "Or would you rather me see your wonderful chest in it's...cold state?"
Sango punched Miroku into the water, preventing him from coming up to breathe. "You...pervert." She growled in a demonic voice.
"Sa-Sango dear! Don't kill the poor boy!" Ukyomi cried. "He-he hasn't lived long you see."
Sango tried her very hardest to not drown the pervert. Before he lost consciousness due to the lack of oxygen, Sango hauled him up using all her well deserved upper body strength. Miroku could not stop coughing and gasping for breath. He couldn't believe that his one dear Shango...Had just tried to kill him!
Protect...Mate.
'Damn it, she ain't our mate! Sango has it taken care of anyway.'
Kagome dipped her whole foot in the water and squealed. "How on Earth did you all just jump in like happy campers!"
"Sis, you answered your own question! It's because we're happy campers!" Sota cheered, ignoring the fact that his new friend Kohaku was shivering his butt off. Seriously...
"Aw man. There went my other butt cheek.." Kohaku sighed.
"It came off?" Gramps asked with sympathy laced in his voice. "I feel you bro."
"..."
Kagome at that moment realized Izayoi and InuTaisho hadn't decided to swim either. She considered sneaking off to obtain her clothes before she was lifted off the ground by two muscular arms.
"Uh...InuYasha?"
"Yes Kagome?"
"Where are you taking me?"
"I'm only getting in if you get in. So looks like we're going in at the same time."
"But InuYasha." Kagome whined. "It's so cold!" Kagome started to squirm as they got closer to the lake. This only made her breasts have much more contact with InuYasha's skin. His demon growled in approval.
'Pervert...' InuYasha growled back at his inner demon. Who would have guessed?
"Please InuYasha! I'm begging you." Kagome started shivering just staring at the water. Sota, Gramps, and Kohaku's chants of encouragement to have InuYasha throw her in was not making her very pleased. Kagome wrapped her arms and legs around InuYasha knowing that if they were both going in she would at least get some warmth.
"Oh Kagome..." Akira joked. " It feels good after we've been baking in the sun for a while."
InuYasha got quite the enjoyment of pretending to almost let her go causing her to scream each time.
"InuYasha that isn't funny! Put me down!"
"Yes it is!" The whole party shouted.
"Kagome? I have InuYasha's towel here for you to use. Just dunk your head and you can get out with all of us being satisfied." Izayoi offered, showing the towel that was bundled in her lap.
Kagome sighed. She actually liked InuYasha's little teasing. It gave her an excuse to hold onto him for dear life.
"Alright fine..." She mumbled a pout on InuYasha's shoulder.
"Kagome...Are you actually crying on my shoulder?" InuYasha asked in disbelief. If tears were involved he definitely was not going to do it.
"No. They're boogers." Kagome informed, wiping her nose on his shoulder. Not only cleaning her nose, but getting a good whiff of InuYasha's scent.
"Eww! Kagome!" InuYasha shivered and glared at her. "You'll pay for that, wench."
"Wait! Inu-"
SPLASH!
InuYasha gave no time to allow Kagome to finish her sentence before he jumped into the lake, still holding her in his arms. Their weight together brought them under for more time allowing them to open their eyes. Kagome's heart pounded in her chest as she stared into glowing amber eyes. They seemed to light up under the water.
Though they could probably stare in each others' eyes for a long period of time, InuYasha pushed his feet against the bottom of the some-what shallow lake and brought them both above water to breathe. Everyone was about to cheer for Kagome until she started screaming as the cold water burned her skin.
She had a death grip on InuYasha, trying to obtain any body heat. You didn't see him complaining.
"G-g-g-get me out!" She shivered.
"Oh Kagome..." Her mother gave a disappointed shake of her head. "Stop acting like such a drama queen. You just have to get used to it."
"It's...uh...Actually not all that cold Kagome. What's the deal?" InuYasha chuckled.
Mate wants our touch...
'Y-yeah right...'
Kagome dunked her head under the water, causing InuYasha to let her go. She only did this to hide her blush. Okay...So the part with them coming up from the water and having to hold onto him was a big fat lie but beforehand it was real. Jakotsu had drilled the simple fact into her head that if she wasn't a little greedy every now and then she would never get what she wanted.
Coming up from the water once again Kagome rid of her blush.
"I think my body is becoming used to the water temperature now..."
"Swimming race! Swimming race!" Sota and Gramps chanted.
" But Grandpa Higurashi? How can you possibly race without a butt?" Kohaku asked.
"Looks like you can't race either Kohaku." Sota pointed out.
()()()()
Rin rested her head on her mate's chest as he read his newest novel that came from America just two days ago. The novel seemed to be the same width as Rin's head and he was already almost done with it!
"They actually thought we would do...that...on a family trip?" Rin blushed.
"I hope they aren't that dense. We have more respect for the pups." He casually replied, flipping to the next page.
"What'cha reading about?"
"Things that I could explain to you for hours but you still wouldn't be able to understand."
"Oh. Okay..I'm going to take a nap until someone wakes me up for dinner."
"I'll be sure to awaken you."
Rin smiled as she inched herself further in her sleeping bag and fell right to sleep. No matter what trip that was thrown at them, as long as they were with each other it was the best time in the world.
()()()()
"S-something just rubbed against my foot." Akira panicked. She gazed down into the dark waters of the lake but failed to spot anything.
"We are in a lake Akira, there is bound to be fish and the sorts here." Ukyomi said swimming towards her. "Be my race partner."
"Alright."
"I'll be on Gramps team!" Sota called out with a raise of his hands. "Cause he can pick me up and we'll go faster!"
"Trader!" Kohaku cried. "And I thought we were friends!"
Sango made sure she was at least twenty feet away from Miroku at any given time in the water. He could not keep his perverted mind calm today and it was making her furious. She was glad she avoided the whole bikini ordeal and just wore a surfer top, much to Miroku's displeasure. She tapped her younger brother on the shoulder and smiled at him.
"I'll be your partner."
"But what about Miroku."
"Who would want to be that pervert's partner!" She yelled. Sango's angry comments about him were really putting him down. He had to find a way to make up with her. He came from a family tree filled with perverts. It just came natural to him! His first book ever read to him was probably a playboy magazine!
"There's an odd number so Miroku, swim as far as you can and...the first one to touch the pervert wins." InuYasha ruled out what was to be done.
"Well if it's just that kind of race why do we need partners?" Kagome asked.
" Uh...lightest person gets on the bigger person's back so it's harder to swim."
Akira and Ukyomi were deciding who was the smallest and ending up laughing when they got to asking each other weights. Since Ukyomi was one to work out all the time, she decided to put Akira on her back. Gramps tried getting on Sota's tiny shoulders knocking them both into the water.
"Gramps! I'm the smallest!" Sota argued. "It's pretty obvious!"
"Nuh uh! How much you weigh foo? I bet I'm less."
"...ninety pounds."
"Dang boy! You must work out." Gramps put Sota on his back, beginning to question whether the boy actually was the weight he said he was. He felt a hundred times more!
Sango quickly placed her hair up in a high ponytail and allowed Kohaku to get on her back.
" Show them a good fight!" Izayoi cheered from the sidelines.
Once Miroku got a far enough distance he turned around and held out his arms.
"Ready!" He cried.
Kagome hopped up on InuYasha's back, wrapping her arms around his chest so she didn't interfere with him trying to swim.
"Ready!"
"On your mark! Get set! Gooooo!"
The four teams took off in a killer push off and gave out a fighting cry determined to win. Gramps was barely moving, deciding that doggy-paddling was the most logical thing to do.
"G-Gramps! Are you kidding me! Stroke! Stroke!" Sota groaned. "We're going to loose..."
"I would go faster but you're so dang fat!"
"Hey! No I'm not!"
The three other groups seemed to be keeping up with each other pretty well, barely breaking a sweat.
Kagome watched InuYasha's back muscles move in action as he swam as fast as he could. She would have thought that he would smoke everyone being the only hanyou swimming at the moment.
Being as furious as she was, Sango was able to take the lead. Miroku watched as Sango quickly made her way towards him like a demon ready to attack. He truly saw her as a beautiful creature whenever she was mad. Kohaku was having a pretty hard time holding on to his raging sister.
Akira and Ukyomi were too busy laughing and having fun to really care if they won or not.
It was just a few more seconds before Sango made it to Miroku and punched him right in the center of his face.
"I win." She growled. Kohaku was getting more scared by the second and hopped off Sango's back. He really didn't want to be in the middle of Sango's unexplained rage.
Once Miroku came up from the water he declared the winner. "And...the...winner is..." He started coughing and took a deep breath. "Shango."
"And my prize?" Sango asked with her fingers laced together in front of her chest.
"An apology." He frowned. "I don't like when you're mad at me...Please forgive me for my perverted ways."
"Aww..." All of the other ladies said at the cute scene.
"..F...F-fine." Sango blushed angrily and crossed her arms. "There isn't any more of those games are there?"
"Uh...I will cancel my subscription as soon as I get home!" he declared, pointing up his finger in the air.
"..."
"We've been swimming for quite a while. It'll be sunset by the time we make it back to the camp site. Why doesn't everyone get out to dry and then we'll finish our hike." Ukyomi suggested, getting out of the water and grabbing her towel.
"Y-you guys knew we were swimming and brought towels! And nobody told me!" InuYasha whined.
()()()()
After everyone let the sun's rays sizzle away the remaining water droplets on their skin, they all changed back into their original clothes.
Sango and Miroku made up and were now displaying their affection by holding hands. Izayoi stayed close to her mate as she had small talk with Ukyomi and Akira. Sota and Kohaku kept chasing each other in circles because the adults were walking just a tad slow.
InuYasha managed to shuffle away from Kagome for a few seconds and tapped on his father's shoulder in need of dear help.
"InuYasha? What it is?"
"Uh...I have a question about our demon heritage..."
"Is that so?"
"Yeah and I was wondering...if your inner-demon...doesn't agree with your choice of a...mate...Then...what happens?"
"Are you telling me you've chosen a mate, InuYasha."
"N-no! It's too early for that. I still just want to date...Not settle down just yet. It was just a question."
"Like I've explained to you before, in the end your inner demon will make the final decision. If you choose to mate another, the whole mating ritual will be incorrect and cause problems."
"So I'd screw up the whole thing?"
"Yes. As soon as your inner demon targets it's chosen mate it never changes it's answer."
"N-never?" InuYasha squeaked. He didn't mean to...he was just in complete shock.
"Never ever. Though you may haven't met face to face with your prospective mate it'll let you know who it wants."
InuYasha gulped. 'P-prospective...' Did Kagome even like him that way? He could just imagine walking up to her and saying, My demon wants you. Marry me. Ha! As if. Kagome probably thought of him as only a best friend, or maybe even an older brother. She couldn't have thought of him as anything more. So, if he understood correctly, he'd mess everything up if he claimed...Kikyo for instance? 'I guess that means I'll be a lonely hanyou for the rest of my life. I can't just make Kagome...never mind. My inner demon will just have to suffer.'
InuYasha leaped into a nearby tree and pushed him self off to the next one. It beat just walking...
'You're going to have to pick someone else...demon. Kagome only likes us as a friend.'
No
'Don't you tell me no! We're in this shit together! You're me, and I'm you! Fifty-percent!'
"InuYasha? You okay?" Kagome giggled as she stared up into a tree he was about to leap from. "You look angry."
"No I'm fine.."
"If you say so.."
Mate wants us...too.
'Will you cut that out! No she doesn't! Ugh now my head hurts...'
According to InuYasha, both people had to be in love to claim each other. Friends just didn't marry each other for the hell of it. Or...did they?
()()()()
Akira stirred her stew in the large pot she brought along, over the fire made by InuTaisho. She thought it would be perfect to serve for dinner tonight.
"Let's tell scary stories while we wait for the stew!" Sota suggested. All twelve of them waited around the large fire in chairs while other decided just to sit on the floor.
"Sounds fun!" Rin exclaimed. "Sesshy. You tell the first one."
"But Rin..."
"Please? For me?" Rin rested her head on Sesshomaru's shoulders and folded her bottom lip in a pouting matter.
"Alright fine." Sesshomaru scratched his head not liking being center of attention. "Uh...Once there was a demon who...fell in love with a human. And...They had a son. Who was a hanyou." Sesshomaru shivered and sighed. "Gives me the shivers all the time. The end."
InuYasha picked up a rock and threw it at his half brother's head. He knew that story all too well. He was that hanyou he was talking about.
"Asshole." He whispered.
"Well he tried!" Rin argued. "Hm...How about you go Kagome."
"Okay...Sure!" Kagome got comfortable in her seat next to InuYasha and stared at the fire. "Okay once upon a time...Their was an evil miko. She was so evil, that she took the one thing that the nice miko loved. She was selfish, mean, rude, and only cared about her happiness. Then-"
"I know you're not talking about my girlfriend." InuYasha threatened, rolling his eyes. Kagome sunk into her seat and hid her face.
"Uh...the end."
"Man! You guys are the worst story tellers ever!" Kohaku complained. "I'll tell a story."
"Once upon a time a little girl met a hybrid in a circus. Nobody had ever met such a creature. She made the wrong move of falling in love with the creature. The creature followed her home without her realizing it. He watched as she slept past the hours in the night. She had awaken when she felt a sudden cold breath breathing down her neck. 'Twas you who killed all those who interfered. Was it not?' The creature said nothing and just stared deeply into her soul with his white glowing eyes. 'I suppose I'm next.' The hybrid gave a sinister smile, one she'd never seen before. 'You died only moments ago.' He held up a knife that had slowly punctured her heart during her fourth stage of sleep. The one stage where nothing is felt. 'Welcome to a hell without any escape my love.'"
Kagome hugged herself at the tragic yet sort of eerie story. Did the hybrid love her back? Why'd he kill her? She could just picture those glowing white eyes stare her down the moment her eyelids blanketed hers.
"Rawr!" InuYasha grabbed her shoulders from behind making her fall over screaming.
"Ahh!" Kagome got up off the ground and dusted herself off. She glanced at all her friends laughing at her. Even her own mother! "InuYasha! That wasn't funny!"
"Yes it is. You're the easiest one to scare here."
"Alright, leave my daughter alone..." Akira warned in a playful tone. "Time to eat everyone!"
"That scared me too!" Gramps confessed with a hand placed over his heart. "Good thing I wore my brown hakama."
"That's just gross." InuYasha groaned and moved into the forming line to get a bowl of stew. If it was Kagome's mother cooking, it was sure to be good.
"Are you scared Shango?" Miroku asked. "Free fill to leap into my arms for comfort."
"It was a little creepy but no I'm fine." Sango found her brother trying to cut her in line and stopped him. "Where'd you hear that story Kohaku?"
"I made it up as I went along." He shrugged.
"What are the sleeping arrangements if I may ask?" Izayoi wondered out loud.
Ukyomi took a quick gander at the four tents and started counting on her fingers. "Doesn't matter to me. three tents will have at least three people in it. The other will need four.
"Me, Miroku, Kagome, and InuYasha can share that tent." Sango offered.
"Sounds good."
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Everyone eagerly finished their bowls of stew. Some even went up for seconds bringing a smile to Akira's face. Ukyomi and Izayoi passed out graham crackers, Hershey bars, and marshmallows, giving everyone an option to either roast their marshmallow or eat everything separately. InuYasha, InuTaisho, and Sesshomaru all passed on the chocolate.
Rin ate her treat, getting the melted chocolate everywhere on her face. She was worse than Sota.
Kagome watched her third marshmallow burn in the flames and took it out to blow on. Once she decided it was cool enough she marched over to Rin and Sesshomaru. Currently he was helping her get rid of the chocolate on her face.
"Sesshomaru? You're not going to even eat a graham cracker?" Kagome asked.
"I'm not one for sweets Kagome. Go ask the whelp."
"Sesshy?" Rin smiled innocently.
"Wha-oof!" Kagome took the chance to stuff the marshmallow in him mouth causing Rin to burst out in a fit of giggles.
"Tasty huh? Thank Rin." Kagome waved and dashed off.
Sesshomaru spit out the marshmallow and tossed it away from their campsite. "You knew she was going to do that?"
"Mhm." Rin nodded, swallowing the rest of her chocolate bar. "It was funny."
Sota began dancing and played on his air guitar. "C-a-m-p-f-i-r-e-s-o-n-g Song! C-a-m-p-f-i-r-e-s-o-n-g Song! And if you-"
"Not that song. Please." InuYasha whined.
"But it's a campfire song! Perfect for this time!"
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The adults watched Sota play the rest of his catchy song and let the fire burn until they ran out of firewood, letting them know it was time to sleep.
"Okay so... Sango, Miroku, InuYasha, and Kagome in the first tent. Gramps, Sota, Kohaku and Akira in the second. InuTaisho, Izayoi, and me...in the third. And Rin and Sesshomaru in the fourth. Perfect!"
Rin and Sesshomaru were the first ones to call it a night. He was more than glad that they were lucky enough to get a tent by themselves. He would have to thank Ukyomi for being flexible with them.
Izayoi kissed InuYasha goodnight and disappeared into her tent with InuTaisho and Ukyomi.
Akira made sure everyone got their goodnight kiss from her. She was the perfect mother after all and would not have someone feel sad without their kiss.
"Don't stay up too late. We may do something tomorrow too if we aren't too tired."
"Okay."
With that being said, Akira gave out a good stretch and called in for the evening.
Inside Kagome's tent, The girls were in the middle together with Miroku on Sango's side and InuYasha on Kagome's side.
The night's moon was blanketed by the sluggish moving clouds as the cool breeze lulled everyone to sleep. The chirping of crickets and the final crackles of the burnt firewood were the only sounds in range. Gramps was able to pass out the moment the first hair on his head made contact with his pillow. InuYasha was too busy arguing with his inner demon to sleep. It was driving him insane how much the thing talked!
Make mate...
'That's a good one! Not... She's sleeping, vulnerable, that's totally wrong, and I can't believe you suggested that.'
NOW
'Not listening to you anymore...I'm going to bed.'
InuYasha's inner demon finally made an appearance. Yay. :D Hope the chapter was enjoyable.
(' ') ('') ( ' ' ) ~レビューを残す