InuYasha Fan Fiction / Fan Fiction ❯ Adventures in Sunnydale ❯ An Afternoon Rest and Plans For A Fight ( Chapter 6 )

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Chapter 6: An Afternoon Rest and Plans For A Fight

The group once again gathered after classes in the library, main room this time, to discuss what to do about the prankster, and InuYasha.

They were currently watching Kagome crawl silently up to what looked like a deeply asleep InuYasha, sitting propped up against the wall.

Once she was close enough she got into a kneeling position.

"*InuYasha, I sense a Shikon Shard!" she whispered silently. Nothing. "*I've decided to give Miroku an heir.*" Nothing. Tentatively she reached out her hands to the top of his head and stroked his ears. The first time she had done this it had been a weird compulsion to touch them, this time she really wanted to feel them. She ran her fingers down the ridge of his ears and around the back to come up the body of the ear with the fur. She repeated this, all the while wearing the look of innocent fascination, only this time she cupped all of her fingers around the ear as she stroked, smoothing the fur, molding her hand to the shape of his ear.

A low contented growl arose from InuYasha just before he looked her in the eye.

"*Hey Kagome.*" he smirked.

"Eep!" Was all she said as she jumped back blushing. "*Sorry InuYasha. I um…" she had no good excuse. "*Um… sorry*" she uttered again as she stood and walked to the table.

"*Forget about it.*" InuYasha closed his eyes again. He hadn't been asleep, not much anyway. How could he? In a strange land, thick with demons, in a room with a strange man, and Kagome to protect. Not to mention the sudden addition of the other three. No, he was awake. Just really bored, tired, and curious. She had been slightly afraid when she approached him. He had wanted to know why.

"*Damn,*" he thought, he silently demanded that his ear stop tingling like that. He did his best to ignore that the tingle was spreading. Their relationship was always easier when they didn't touch. InuYasha silently dug his fingernails into his arm. How did she make him feel like that just by touching his ears? It wasn't like others hadn't rubbed his ears before. Ok so not many, his mother, her mother. A few others, since for some reason people weren't as scared of him when Kagome was around. But he had never reacted this way before. Of course he never wanted them to touch him and they always caught him by surprise, with the exception of his mother. And Kagome. But as far as he knew she had never touched his ears. If only he could understand their language he could distract himself.

Kagome had joined the rest of the group at the large table.

"What was that?" Buffy asked innocently.

"I was curious," Kagome stared down at the book she had been trying to read earlier. "I have traveled with him a long time, I haven't had the opportunity satisfy my curiosity since I began to wonder about them."

"Like how to make a dog demon purr?" Xander grinned.

Kagome blushed deeply and her eyes bore holes in the book before her. The words had returned to gibberish in her embarrassment.

"Leave her alone guys." Willow came to the poor girls' defense. "We have work to do, right?"

"Yeah," Buffy turned to Kagome, "Where did we leave off?"

Kagome looked up, "What?"

"Well, we still have this little thing about InuYasha sudden appearance to deal with. Why is he here?"

"He told you, it was an accident when he was coming to get me." Kagome answered slightly confused.

"Right, sorry" Buffy thought back over the short interrogation.

"What is the time difference between InuYasha and your times?" Giles asked.

"What do you mean?" Kagome sighed, why was all this important. Where was her cousin? What was she going to do with InuYasha? How was she going to get him home? What did Buffy just say?

"I'm sorry, what did you just say?" Kagome asked, slightly embarrassed at having asked a question and let her mind wander like that.

"Well, it's just that here the spell took place between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. so we were wondering when he was coming to get you and Giles was wondering about the time traveling well." Buffy repeated.

"There is a seven hour time difference between Japan and California." Kagome responded. "And none between one side of the well and the other. Except for 500 years. So that means that he was coming to get me between 5:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. I'd bet right at sunrise so he could wait for me with a big scowl for sleeping so long, and make sure that I didn't sneak off to school."

"A regular Mary Sunshine huh?" Buffy looked over at the "sleeping" hanyou, "Does he ever actually sleep? I mean when he hasn't been stench bombed."

Kagome looked sharply at Buffy, "Did you do that to him? His nose is very sensitive; he gets very sick for a long time!"

"I was trying to bring him in alive!" Buffy defended herself.

"Yes well," Giles broke in, "We still have to determine why InuYasha was brought here and what else may have been brought with him."

"Why?" Kagome was cranky and suspicious now, she wanted some answers. "Why are you asking all these questions?"

Giles sat down next to Kagome and explained about the ritual. "We think that InuYasha was brought through because he was, uh, will be a great warrior and that he was brought through now because he was already traveling to this time. So it was easy to just pick him up and bring him here."

Kagome turned to InuYasha, "*InuYasha, Did you see or sense anything else around you when you arrived*."

InuYasha blinked his eyes open, "*No, I was standing in fire. There was someone there once, just a weak little demon. Coulda killed him in my sleep if he showed up.*"

"No," Kagome turned back to Giles. "He said that there was only the remnant of a very weak demon that had left. He said that he wasn't at all worried about it though."

"So that's good news right?" Buffy said, "That means that what ever it is making the messes is no a great demon warrior out of time and just another nuisance, right?"

"Maybe," Giles looked back at his books, "but what is it then? You can't see it or feel it so how do you catch it?"

"Hey!" Buffy said suddenly remembering something, "What was InuYasha doing hanging around the strip mall?"

Kagome asked InuYasha, InuYasha answered after a short pause. "He says he was hunting a youkai, an invisible one with a strange sent."

"He can smell it?" Buffy asked brightening.

"Yes. He says so."

Buffy and Giles traded looks.

"Would InuYasha be willing to help us track this demon?" Giles asked.

Kagome asked him, and InuYasha answered, "Yes." In ENGLISH.

Everyone stared. Kagome asked, "InuYasha! You speak English?"

InuYasha shook his head, "*No, I've just picked up a few things.*"

Kagome told the rest what he said, then asked, "Where is my cousin?"

"Oh!" Willow jumped, "She had to stay after chemistry, she was late and caused a small explosion because of it. I was supposed to tell you but forgot when we walked in on the whole ear thing. What do they feel like anyway?"

Kagome blushed and shrugged, "Soft, and sorta stiff. Like a dog ears, I guess. So now what? Are we going to go hunt this thing down now or what?"

"It seems to attack during the day, mostly." Giles said, "I believe that it won't show it's self again before tomorrow."

"The big question is, what do we do with dog boy over there." Buffy looked at InuYasha. His eyes were closed again but his ears were alert.

"Um, I think I should keep an eye on him." Kagome was also looking at InuYasha, he didn't look good. Of course if Buffy had stink bombed him that could explain it. But it didn't look like he had been eating well, "But, how can I explain him to my family?"

"Well, your cousin seemed pretty Ok with him." Willow piped up, "So, odds are, her father would be too. You just need to get a good cover story for him. Sara already thinks that he's a sickly albino, maybe he's a runaway too?"

"To America?" Kagome said confused.

"Hey!" Xander started defensively, "What's wrong with America?"

Kagome shrugged, "Just kinda far away and… not… Japan? I just can't see InuYasha running away to America, he has enough trouble with just the differences between my time and his."

"…Fair enough," Buffy said, "but your family doesn't know that. And America is as believable a destination for a runaway as any other country. More believable then some. So, InuYasha, already known to be a reckless guy, ran away from home… why?"

"Because he's a bad ass and they do stuff like that?" Xander looked at the demon leaning against the wall. He was scowling and had his arms crossed. Xander still didn't trust him. Just because he had a human girlfriend didn't make him a good guy.

"Family problems." Buffy stated, "I mean he did have a bad child hood, so why not?"

"A death in the family." Willow suggested, "Maybe he ran away to get away from the grief."

"Ok, think you can make something out of that?" Buffy turned back to Kagome.

Kagome nodded, "He ran away because he couldn't deal with his emotions. That sounds right." She said, mostly to herself. "So, I take InuYasha to my family's home and tell them this lie and hope they don't question his appearance?"

"Pretty much." Buffy stood and stretched, "The way your cousin reacted you shouldn't have a problem. If they notice the ears just say it's a birth defect."

"InuYasha wouldn't like that." Kagome warned.

"Then it's a good thing he can't speak English then isn't it." Buffy smiled.

"*Hey Bitch, what are you saying about me?*" InuYasha glared at the group from his seat.

"*Nothing, InuYasha,*" Kagome waved her hand dismissively, "*we're just thinking of what to tell my family.*"

"Well, since the baddy isn't going to come around tonight I suggest we all go home and get some rest." Buffy turned to Kagome. "Lets meet at the strip mall tomorrow… say 10ish?" Kagome nodded. "Great I guess InuYasha can show you the way."

Just then Sara walked in the library, "Sorry I'm late Kagome, lets get home, I'm hungry."

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A/N: There will be fighting next chapter, I promise. And I know the ear thing is boardering on OOC, if not actually, but I couldn't edit it out. My muse wouldn't let me… besides, it's not that bad.