InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Beauty Meets Beast ❯ Being Human Isn't Always a Curse ( Chapter 9 )

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Beauty Meets Beast

A.N. So, I am in a crisis at the moment as I am writing this. As you are aware, at the end of my last chapter I said that the chapter was longer than what I posted. So, here's the problem. When I was writing the last chapter, I had a lot of stuff typed after where I ended up and I cut it so that I could put it in the next chapter. But I didn't post it in another document so I virtually lost an ENTIRE scene which was about two pages long. Also, this particular scene was not in my rough draft, so I have no way of getting it back. I am going to try to think about how I wrote it, but I don't know that I can.

Chapter 9: Being Human Isn't Always a Curse.

Kagome couldn't help giggling. It was just too funny. He was glaring at her, but she didn't care, it was worth it. “I love it!”

“Well, this Sesshoumaru does not, so if you are quite finished.” He attempted to remove the object of her mirth (a giant pink and purple jagged striped hat with light blue stars around the top and bottom) from his head, growling softly when she stopped him.

“Wait! I need a picture first!” When he continued to glare at her, she gave him the infamous “puppy dog look,” inwardly leaping for joy when he sighed in defeat. She reached into her purse and dug out her camera. “Say cheese!” She snapped the picture, laughing at his reaction to the flash.

“Kagome?”

“Oh…joy…” Kagome mumbled, sending Sesshoumaru a silent message to stay quiet before she turned around to face her attackers. “H-H-Hey you guys, what's up?”

“We should be asking you that!” Eri said, grinning like a mad dog at an oblivious Sesshoumaru. “Where have you been? It's been weeks!”

“Yeah, well I've been visiting Inuyasha's family for a while and just recently got back. How have you guys been?”

“Alright I guess, we were just thinking about going over to the jousting tournament. Wanna join us?”

“Maybe in a little while, oh, by the way. This is Sesshoumaru. He's an acquaintance of Inuyasha's. He's from out of town so I've been showing him around.”

“Hi,” the three said synonymously.

“Well,” Yuka said, nudging Eri and Ayumi softly, “I guess we'll see you later.”

“Yup,”

Once they were gone Kagome sighed in relief and slumped her shoulders as if a giant weight had just been removed. “Thank goodness they're gone! I really didn't want to have to play twenty questions.”

“Twenty questions?”

“Oh! Sorry, normally when they see me they ask me 5 zillion questions that mostly revolve around why I am always missing and why I don't want to go out with this guy from our school.”

“Hnn,”

“Well, anyways, what do you want to do?” He shrugged his shoulders slightly and she sighed, `Duh Kagome! He doesn't know what there is to do!' She looked around, searching for something that he wouldn't mind doing, her eyes coming to rest on the ferris wheel.

“Where are you taking me?” He asked as she grabbed his hand and started dragging him towards what could only be described a giant rolling wheel of doom.

“To ride the ferris wheel,”

“Is that so? What makes you think this Sesshoumaru will ride it?”

“Oh, come on! It'll be fun!” They reached their designation and she pulled him into a seat. She giggled as the ride began to move, unconsciously leaning into Sesshoumaru, who consequently was wondering the purpose of this hunk of junk. They went around a few times before it stopped with them in the very top seat. “Isn't it beautiful?” Kagome said, eyes wide as she took in the lights of Tokyo that surrounded them.

“Hnnn,”

She sighed; it seemed male feeling towards aesthetics crossed species. They sat in companionable silence for the remainder of the ride, Kagome reluctantly standing from her seat when it was their turn to exit. “I'm hungry,” she mumbled, looking around for a vendor. Spotting one, she once again grabbed his hand and pulled him towards the rows of cotton candy and popcorn that lined a small little shop nestled between two rides.

“What is that?” he said suddenly, and Kagome couldn't contain her smile when she saw what he was pointing to.

“It's the Tunnel of Love.”

“Can we ride that?”

“Um, sure,” Kagome said, laughing maniacally to herself as, for the first time that night, he took her hand and led her towards said ride. They waited in line patiently, and Kagome couldn't help rolling her eyes at the hordes of high schoolers that surrounded them. `No doubt they simply want a place to sit and make out.' They climbed into the little makeshift boat and Kagome once again leaned against him, taking comfort in his strong form. About halfway through the ride she felt him shiver and shake his head in disgust. “What's wrong?”

“It is nothing,” he said softly, as if he didn't want the other riders to hear him. “But I can truthfully say that, for the first time, I am glad I am not a youkai at the moment.”

She looked up at him curiously for a moment, wondering what he meant, until it hit her. “You finally figured out what everyone does when on this ride huh?” A small scoff was her only answer and she couldn't help but giggle. “I was wondering when you were going to realize that.” To be truthful, she was also glad he wasn't youkai at the moment. His close proximity was starting to affect her body in ways she was sure he wouldn't approve of. She could feel the familiar heat pool at her core, sending her senses into overdrive.

Sesshoumaru was having some problems of his own. It was becoming increasingly difficult for him to ignore the woman leaned against him. `Damn this weak human body with all its infernal emotions!' He quickly adjusted himself so that she wouldn't see the bulge that was becoming rather difficult to hide and tried to think of disgusting things. `Inuyasha…Jaken….Naraku…ARG! WHY WON'T IT WORK DAMN IT!” Fortunately, the ride soon ended and they quickly exited.

“So, what shall we do now?” Kagome asked him, wondering why he seemed determined to walk directly behind her. “Why don't we go to the jousting tournament?” she said when she didn't get an answer.

“What is that?”

“Well,” she said, briefly contemplating the best way to explain it. “It's like a competition where people test their skills in several different categories. The one here though is altered slightly to that there is less danger.”

“What are the catagories?”

“Well, there's archery and I thinking they have fencing and a simplified form of jousting.”

“What is jousting?”

“Well, in old times, two knights would ride towards each other on horses and try to knock each other off their respective steeds, but for this festival they have it set up so that two people run towards each other and spray each other with silly string and at the end, whoever is the most covered in string at the end is the loser.”

“This sounds interesting. This Sesshoumaru would very much like to see this tournament of which you speak.”

“Alrighty, well it's all the way over there on the opposite side of the fair so we're gonna have to walk.”

“That is fine,”

A.N. Again…..SORRY!!!!!!!!!! SORRY! SORRY! SORRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got loaded down with assignments and didn't have time to type anything. Well, I hope you liked this chapter and I will try to get the next one up as soon as I get a chance.