"You know," Kagome remarked. "I'm surprised that you're doing this."
Inuyasha scrunched his eyebrows and paused his stroking of his new black piglet's ears. It was snoring happily into his red Fire-Rat Robe. Cute little guy. He'd found it in the stream that Ryoga had fallen into, drenched, shivering, and squealing miserably.
Inuyasha may have had a rough and abrasive personality, and a big mouth, and a tendency to get into a lot of fights, but he was an animal lover at heart, and it had been several days since he'd played with Buyo.
"I have no idea what you're talking about."
"Oh, come on! You gave Ryoga-san little belly rubs and let him eat from your bowl. And now this."
"This is a pig."
"Ryoga-san turns into a pig when he gets wet," Kagome said. "He fell out of the sky by mistake and crashed into the hot springs we were in and transformed before our eyes, remember?"
Inuyasha grinned. "Okay, very funny. I didn't know you had it in you to be a prankster, Kagome."
"I'm not joking. Did you notice that Ryoga-san vanished and this pig appeared in his place?"
Inuyasha shrugged. "That moron gets lost a lot. Probably washed up in one of those villages downstream. I wouldn't be worried. He has that weird Shi Shi Hokodan attack. Don't see what this pig has to do with it."
Kagome sighed, adding more twigs to the campfire. Sango, Miroku, and Shippo were scouting for more firewood. Turned out that Ryoga and his Shi Shi Hokodan had the effect of a hurricane on the landscape. The man Kagome was claiming to a small helpless piglet.
Inuyasha snorted. Ridiculous.
"Don't say I didn't warn you."
Rin had searched up and down and left and right for her lost piglet. Jaken-sama had scolded her for getting so worked up over such a trifle. Sesshomaru-sama had taken her side and silenced Jaken-sama with his frosty gaze. She had spent at least three hours a day looking for her friend, and he hadn't even protested.
Sesshomaru-sama really was very kind.
So many nightmares she'd had. Her poor piglet, lost, her poor piglet, swept into a stream, her poor piglet, attacked by Naraku.
She'd wandered off a little from Sesshomaru-sama again. Now she was in a dark valley, the grass hard and sharp against her bare feet. Jaken-sama would have scolded her for wandering around in sharp grass barefoot at night. But...her poor piglet.
The moon was a thick sliver in the sky. She thanked the moon for being in its waxing phase. Her poor piglet would have been lost otherwise.
Her poor piglet.
She squinted.
Her poor piglet, sitting in Inuyasha's lap?
A/N: I bet you weren't expecting Inuyasha to adopt P-chan, were you?
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