InuYasha Fan Fiction / Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Chance Encounter ❯ almost an encouter....or was it? ( Chapter 5 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

IMPORTANT NOTE: THIS IS CHAPTER FOUR AND CHAPTER FIVE PUT TOGETHER. Since I have taken so long in getting this out to you, this is my apology and assurance that Blaze Tiger (my beloved beta) will poke the heck out of me if I dare to wait so long again. These have been mostly written for a while and I do have more that I hope to get out this next week or so. I am also sorry for not taking the time to reply to all the reviews that I have gotten even though I know it has been a long time since I added a chapter to this story. I have not given up on this story, and as long as you review and let me know that you like it, I have a lot of ideas that BT and I are kicking around. So be sure to review to make me feel loved. And I will reply to ALL the reviews in the next chapter.







It was afternoon, right after school and Kagome was heading home. If she didn't get home soon, Inuyasha was going to come get her. She had been able to stay for four days this time and had taken five tests, most of them make-up tests. Apparently, this time her grandfather had said she had a brain tumor that was the contagious sort. It aggravated her just thinking of it; the looks she’d gotten, how people had talked about her. She took a deep breath. None of that was really important, she just had to pass her tests and collect the jewel shards. So cheer up, she told herself. Ah, I know, how about an ice cream, she thought as she spotted a vendor on the street. She hurried her pace, determined to cheer up.

As she bought her ice cream, she noticed people looking at a conflict across the street, so she looked over as well. She felt her whole body flinch, as her eyes seemed to zero in on the two girls tugging one boy, like a wishbone, between the two of them.

Ranma.

The whole street was quiet, as they watched, confused.

"Ranma going on date with Shampoo. Right, Ranma?" The girl with long purple hair and an extra short dress stated, firmly giving Ranma an extra tug her way.

"Ran-Chan promised to come over and try out a new recipe I have," the brown haired girl wearing the boys’ uniform said, an over-sized spatula strapped to her back. She tugged extra hard bringing Ranma closer to her side.

"He no want eat your food," the purple haired girl said, once again bringing Ranma to her side with one hand, as she waved a hand at the other girl.

"Why he want your nasty food when he come to Cat Cafe and eat my delicious meat buns?" she finished with a smug tone of voice.

The brown haired girl straightened up fast.

"What do you mean by that? Ran-Chan loves my food and why would he want to go eat at your place anyway? You’ll probably just try to slip some kind of potion to him so he’ll fall in love with you. He certainly doesn't want to go on a date with a leech like you," the brown haired girl added, getting back at the purple haired girl for her ‘nasty food’ comment.

Kagome found herself watching in horrified fascination along with everyone else, barely noticing when her ice cream melted, and started dripping down her hand. Throughout all of this, Ranma had maintained a bored look on his face, as if this happened all the time and was nothing to be concerned about.

Well, he did say something about having too many girls after him; this must have been what he was talking about. If this is what he had to go through most of the time, it was no wonder he thought I was after him too, Kagome thought to herself.

The purple haired jumped back at the other girl's words and dropped down into a fighting stance.

"You want fight Shampoo?"

The other girl whipped the enormous spatula off her back. "Fine by me, winner gets Ran-Chan;" she stated, dropping into her own fighting stance.

Both girls had stepped to the side, so that Ranma wasn’t in the middle of the fight, and just stared at each other. They were so intent on each other that they didn’t even notice when Ranma just shook his head and walked off down the street and vanished around a corner.

Kagome watched him disappear, but a shout drew her attention back to the two girls. The huge spatula girl had charged the purple haired girl, only to have her dodge.

"Kagome!?" She jerked her head at the voice. Inuyasha stood next to her in his red haori, complete with his baseball hat, to cover his ears. "What are you doing in this place?" he asked, then grabbed her arm and started pulling her down the street in the opposite direction of the fight.

"Feh, you always take longer and longer to get back whenever we let you come to your era," he stated sulkily as he dragged her off.

"Inu... Inuyasha,” she sputtered in protest, trying to look back at the fighting girls, but she was only able to get a brief glimpse of them. The purple haired girl had brought out a pair of what looked like huge maracas and had them crossed to lock together with the over-size spatula; the girls straining against each other almost face to face, making growling noises.

Kagome put up little fight as Inuyasha pulled her around the corner her eyes still trying to keep in sight the two girls fighting. "Come on, woman, we have to get back so that we can get more jewel shards so we can defeat Naraku. You have been away too long as it is," Inuyasha persisted, tugging harder on her arms. She lost sight of the two girls and started arguing with Inuyasha.
"I haven't even been here that long and you are already trying to get me to go back. Why don't you and the gang go out and try to make some money before we start out? It would be nice if I didn't have to carry my backpack all the time." She flung her arms back, trying to dislodge his grip but he only tightened it, ignoring the fact that she had been heading in the general direction of the shrine anyway. "You always argue when it is time for you to come back," he stated, still dragging her along. "Why don't you just come and take responsibility for your own actions, for once? You shattered them now you have to go and find them."Angry, she dug her feet in and pulled back with all of her might, startling him into letting her go and making her fall on her rump in the middle of the sidewalk. She could only be glad that this was a side road and that there was no one there to see them argue. "Since when have I ever denied that I was the one who shattered it?" yelling now, she pushed away his hand as he tried to help her up. "I don't want to go back right now, so why don’t you go back and leave me alone." She got to her feet and started to walk the other way, back to the street. Inuyasha started to follow her; spouting complaints the whole way.

"I gave you four whole days before coming to get you, isn't that enough time for you to do whatever with the test things? Don't you know how tired I am of hearing Shippo whine about you not being there and how I should come and bring you back? Or listening to Miroku and Sango argue about his perverted ways?

Nope, now come on. You have to come back. I can't take much more of Shippo's whining about you not being there."

Kagome went silent thinking, but not daring to say it, that is Inuyasha for ‘I missed you‘.

He grabbed her arm again as she almost got to the public street, and started pulling her the other way. "Not this time, you are definitely coming back right now."

Resigned to her fate, and ignoring the fact that she was heading that way to begin with, she was about to stop dragging her heels when they both heard a voice cut through their arguments.

“The girl said she doesn’t want to go with you. What kind of man would force a girl to go somewhere unwillingly? Not much of one, I can tell you."

Inuyasha stopped fast and spun to face a tree they were passing.

"What was that? Come down and say that to my face, coward." He kicked the tree with the flat of his foot, making the tree shake violently.

Kagome, knowing whom the voice belonged to, panicked.

"Sit!" Making a startled noise, Inuyasha was planted face first into the sidewalk.

"It’s alright Ranma, he is not really forcing me to go, I was going that way anyway," she looked up searching the tree but couldn't see anything because of all the leaves. She waited a few minutes for a reply, but didn't get one. She shrugged and turned to watch Inuyasha struggle up from the sidewalk.

"Woman, what is it with you? You just wait until the day comes when I am not burdened with this stupid necklace." Standing now, he once again grabbed her arm and started pulling her along. This time she didn't resist, feeling almost weak with relief. She really did not want the two of them meeting face-to-face. She didn't think she could put up with two Inuyashas at once.

There was a ‘thunking’ sound just after Inuyasha had kicked the tree and she turned her head to look back. A red umbrella had fallen to the ground and left a slight dent in the ground. Wondering why Ranma would be carrying around such a thing and not wanting Inuyasha to turn around and investigate, she started keeping up with him instead of having him practically drag her.

"Why are you so far away from the shrine anyway?"

"Eh?"

"You must have walked for hours to get here. It’s a good thing your scent is embedded in my nose."

Kagome looked around and realized that she didn't recognize any of the businesses and shops that she had lived around all of her life.

"I don't know."

Inuyasha stopped and crouched down.

"Come on, it’ll be quicker going back if we do this my way."

Still confused, she did as he asked and made herself comfortable on his back. As Inuyasha leapt to the top of the building, she noticed a familiar person wearing a red shirt and a pony tail walking back the way they had just come, then they were off, bounding from rooftop to rooftop.

Kagome's mind never stopped all the way back to her house.

What was going on?

How did she end up so far from home?

Could it have something to do with Ranma?

One question that was in the uppermost part of her mind...if that hadn't been Ranma in the tree, then who was it?

These questions ran circles in her head until they finally got to her family's shrine.

She was busy packing her book bag full of food to cook for them while on the road; keeping Inuyasha from playing too rough with Buy; and telling her brother that ‘no, Inu-neechan was not supposed to be anywhere near the TV set after what he had done to the last one‘..etc. etc.

Oh well.... If it were important, it would happen again.


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