Crossover Fan Fiction ❯ The Hybrid's Guide to Miko Hunting ❯ The Teddy Bear ( Chapter 8 )

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The Hybrid’s Guide to Miko Hunting
The Teddy Bear

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Kagome didn’t know what it was, but somehow she felt like she was being watched. The young miko glanced around her room, brow furrowed with suspicion. There was no one here but her, that was for sure.

Shrugging, she decided to ignore the little tingling in her stomach and locked her bedroom door before undressing. Shrugging out of her robe, she entered her adjoining bathroom and stepped into the shower. The hot water soothed her muscles and washed away the sweat from her session with Hiei. Honestly, Kagome loved the little hybrid like nobody’s business, but sometimes (when he was running her ragged with training, for instance) she wanted to smack him.

When she reentered the bedroom, she had the strange inkling that something was off. Her eyes were immediately drawn to the neat pile of stuffed animals in the basket in the corner of her room. With a sneaking suspicion, she stared long and hard at the innocent heap of toys. The little brown teddy bear in the front seemed oddly out of place. Wasn’t it behind that rabbit before?

Narrowing her pretty blue eyes suspiciously, she turned and walked across the room to her little closet, watching the bear surreptitiously from the corner of her eye. Was it her imagination, or did its beady black eyes seem to follow her movement?

No, that was just absurd!

Shaking the ridiculous thought from her head, Kagome unwrapped the towel from around her and threw it at the bear for good measure. It landed over the little thing’s head, effectively covering its eyes and easing her silly suspicions. Now nude, the miko entered the closet and began rifling through the hangers to find something decent to wear on her “date.”

Of course, Hiei didn’t know it was a date. He’d suggested (demanded, really) that she make for him some of her famous butterscotch cookies, and she’d suggested that she would prepare an entire picnic and they’d go down to the beach for a nice lunch. Giggling as she recalled the hybrid’s expression, obviously debating whether or not a whole afternoon in her “pitiful company” was worth a couple of cookies, she pulled out a pretty red sundress and walked back out into the bedroom to search for underclothes.

However, as she glanced over at the pile of stuffed animals, panic gripped her heart. The little brown teddy bear sat staring at her, the towel lying in the floor beside it.

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Lounging around the sitting room of Genkai’s temple, the team relaxed after a long morning of grueling training. But, when they heard a scream from the back bedroom, they all jumped from their seats and sprinted down the hall. Hiei was the first to arrive at Kagome’s door and easily tore through the thin rice paper and rushed into the room, followed closely by Kurama, Yusuke, and Kuwabara.

What they found was a frightened, naked priestess backed up against the far wall. To their disappointment, the red dress she clutched to her chest blocked most of her body from view. However, not so much that she didn’t make for an interesting sight, standing there trembling and shaking as she did.

Upon their arrival, Kagome’s attention was immediately turned to the four males standing in front of her ruined door. Forgetting her fear, she scowled indignantly at them, her blush spreading from her neck and up over her face.

“What do you think you’re doing?!” she screamed, scooping up the nearest handy object, a brush as it were, and chucking it at Yusuke’s head. The detective ducked and grinned lecherously as the movement left one round, full breast bare.

Having enough, Hiei reared on them and growled for them to get out. Reluctantly, they obeyed and filed back out into the hallway. He handed the silk robe on the bed to her and she gratefully wrapped it around herself, still blushing furiously.

“What is going on in here?” he demanded after she had clothed herself.

“That bear!” she whispered conspiratorially, pointing to the innocent little stuffed animal. Hiei stared at her blankly. “It’s watching me!”

Skeptical but suspicious (he had seen stranger things), the hiyoukai squatted in front of the little brown bear. Glaring ferociously at the thing, he stared it down. For several moments, they were very silent. Then, something odd began to happen.

Little droplets of sweat beaded on the bear and rolled down the side of its face.

Kagome gasped and Hiei grabbed the stuffed animal by the throat. Hauling it up to eye level as he stood, he shook it ruthlessly.

With a ‘pop!’ and a puff of smoke, they were soon faced with an adolescent fox hanging from Hiei’s grasp.

“Shippo!” the miko shouted, outraged. Hiei growled dangerously at the quivering boy, but let him drop to the ground on Kagome’s insistence.

The hybrid seethed quietly as the woman chewed out the young youkai, shouting that she knew she never should have left him with “Miroku.” All four of these idiots had seen his onna’s beautiful, naked flesh. Seeing the mischievous twinkle in the fox’s eyes, even as he put on a remorseful face for the miko, he decided that he was just going to have to kill them.

And damn the consequences.