InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Condom City ❯ For Fun ( Chapter 5 )
[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
By: broken_angel 
Some people have been asking what happened to the condoms. Well, this is it.
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Comedy | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 09.29.2004 | Updated On: 10.03.2004 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.6K | Visits: 1.7K | Status: Work In Progress
Some people have been asking what happened to the condoms. Well, this is it.
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Hentai / Comedy | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 09.29.2004 | Updated On: 10.03.2004 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.6K | Visits: 1.7K | Status: Work In Progress
Chapter 5: For Fun
Days passed.
Kagome avoided Sesshoumaru like he had the plague.
Sesshoumaru watched Kagome intently.
Inuyasha stayed by Kagome’s side whenever he could, and glared at Sesshoumaru more than usual.
And the rest of the group watched their interaction, or lack thereof in Kagome and Sesshoumaru’s case, with a sort of morbid fascination. They didn’t know what was going on. And with the way Sesshoumaru was acting, they weren’t sure they wanted to know.
~*~
Kagome sighed in frustration as she looked around the group of travelers that surrounded her. She desperately needed a bath, and she was lucky enough that there was a hot spring nearby. But she didn’t know where Sesshoumaru was. He took off as soon as they decided they would be stopping for the night, without a word about where he was going.
Deciding to take the chance, she really was grungy, she gathered her bathing supplies and told her friends where she was going. Kagome nodded when Inuyasha told her exactly how far away the hot spring was and in what direction, and then headed that way. She nearly broke out into a run in her eagerness to reach the hot spring.
Once she reached the hot spring, Kagome was delighted to see that the spring was rather large with a small waterfall running into it. She set her things on a rock at the waters edge and quickly undressed, setting her clothes on another rock.
With a happy sigh, Kagome sunk into the warm water. She grabbed her supplies and made her way over to the small waterfall, and quickly washed off. After she was sufficiently clean, she headed back over to the edge where she had left her things, but what she saw there didn’t please her at all. Crossing her arms over her chest and sinking further below the surface of the water, Kagome glared at the being sitting on the bank of the spring.
“What do you want, Sesshoumaru?” Kagome asked, rather annoyed that he interrupted her so far pleasant bath.
“Why are you out here, alone and unprotected?” Sesshoumaru countered with his own question. “It’s not safe.”
“I can take care of myself,” Kagome growled at him. “Now, if you don’t mind, and even if you do, I’d like to take the rest of my bath in peace,” she told him, hoping he’d get the point and leave her alone.
“You are clean. What would be the purpose of staying further?” Sesshoumaru asked, intrigued by the curious desire.
“So I can relax,” Kagome replied. “Now, leave, please.”
“I cannot do that. It’s not safe out here,” Sesshoumaru replied, watching her intently. He was fascinated by the way she hid herself beneath the clear water, as if thinking it would afford her some protection.
“I can take care of myself,” Kagome repeated.
“While naked and unarmed?” Sesshoumaru questioned.
Kagome felt her anger rising, but she tried to restrain it. “Whatever. Just leave me alone,” she told the youkai lord, turning and moving away from him. Kagome stopped moving when she came face to chest, a very naked chest, and she stepped back.
“I cannot do that,” Sesshoumaru told her, now standing naked in the spring with her.
“And you think you can protect me. You’re naked and unarmed now, too,” Kagome screeched, turning her back so she wouldn’t see anything she didn’t want to see.
Sesshoumaru stepped up behind her and draped an arm over her shoulder, holding his hand up in front of her face. “I am not as unarmed as I appear,” he reminded her, showing his claws off a bit.
Kagome stiffened at the position Sesshoumaru had put her in. He wasn’t actually touching her, only his arm on her shoulder, but he was still too close for her comfort. Shrugging her shoulder, she slid to the side, slipping out from under his arm. “Hentai,” she muttered as she turned to glare at the youkai.
“You believe that I will behave as the monk does? If that is the case, why have you not tried to strike me yet?” Sesshoumaru asked, cocking a dark brow at her. “I have no desire to act in such a manner. I will take you as my mate after Naraku has been destroyed.”
“Only if the terms of the agreement you made with Inuyasha allow you to,” Kagome pointed out, reminding Sesshoumaru that she wasn’t guaranteed to be his mate yet. “Why couldn’t you have just come talk to me? It would have been so much less complicated,” she said, running a hand through her hair.
“Because Inuyasha never would have allowed you to come with me unless it was something he had agreed to before hand,” Sesshoumaru stated simply. “Even if it had been your choice to become my mate, Inuyasha would have fought me. It is in his nature.”
“And he still will,” Kagome said, holding her head in her hands. She peeked through her fingers, keeping an eye on Sesshoumaru, and took a step back when he took a step towards her. Stepping onto a slick stone under the water, Kagome lost her balance and fell backwards, her arms flailing at her sides, trying to regain her balance.
Before her head even hit the water, Kagome felt two strong arms wrap around her waist and pull her against a solid body. She didn’t look up at him, just buried her face in his chest in embarrassment. Here she had been trying to get away from him because she was afraid of his words, and in her hurry, she made a complete fool of herself.
“Why would you want a clumsy fool like me?” she muttered against his slick skin, the fact that they were both naked not lost on her frazzled mind.
A small smile flitted across Sesshoumaru’s face at her question. “I will make a deal with you,” he told her. “You let me decide what I want and who I want it from, and I will let you decide if you want to come with me after Naraku has been destroyed, but only if you actually give me a chance. No trying to avoid me. And forget most of what Inuyasha has told you about me.”
Kagome nodded, relieved that Sesshoumaru was actually giving her a choice now. “You have a deal,” she told him. Pulling back a little, she looked up at him. “I’m going to go back to the camp now,” she told him, pushing back on his chest slightly.
Sesshoumaru nodded, his eyes intently watching her. He lowered his head slightly and placed a chaste kiss on her lips before he released her from his arms.
“You said you wouldn’t do anything,” Kagome accused.
“No, I said I would not act like the monk. Meaning I would not grope you or say anything inappropriate,” Sesshoumaru told her, moving to exit the spring.
Kagome squeaked and turned around as fast as she could when Sesshoumaru’s butt came into view above the water. She waited for several minutes to give him time to get dressed before she turned around and made her way to the edge of the spring. Glaring up at the youkai still watching her from the shore, she stopped before she revealed more than she wanted to.
“If you insist on staying, you have to turn around,” Kagome told him, raising her hand and moving her finger in a circular motion.
Sesshoumaru did as she asked and shook his head. It wasn’t like he couldn’t hear every single thing she did.
Kagome made sure Sesshoumaru was completely turned around before she got out of the spring and quickly dried off and dressed, keeping an eye on him the entire time. She gathered all her bathing supplies along with her dirty clothes and started walking towards the campsite, Sesshoumaru walking right by her side.
The first thing Kagome saw when she got back to the campsite was Shippo and Rin flinging opened condoms back and forth, while Miroku was holding one, looking at it quite curiously. She gaped at the scene before her. Miroku had a condom and the look in his eye told her he wasn’t curious about where it went on the human anatomy, but more likely why she had them. But first things first. She needed to scold Shippo and Rin for getting into her bag without her permission.
“Shippo, who told you that you could get into my bag?” Kagome asked, a none to happy look on her face.
“I told the runt you wouldn’t like him going through your stuff, but he wouldn’t listen to me,” Inuyasha said from a low branch on a tree.
“Then why didn’t you stop him?” Kagome demanded, glaring at the hanyou.
“Because the runt doesn’t listen to me. In fact, he does just the opposite of what I tell him, and you yell at me when I hit him,” Inuyasha defended.
Shippo and Rin both dropped all condoms they had in their hands with extremely guilty looks on their faces. Together, they looked down at the ground, drawing shapes in the dirt with their toes with their hands behind their backs.
“I’m sorry, Kagome,” Shippo murmured, peaking up at Kagome through his bangs.
“Rin, apologize to Kagome,” Sesshoumaru said monotonously.
“M’sorry, Kagome-chan,” the small brunette murmured.
“Apologies accepted. Now don’t do it again,” Kagome scolded. Turning to the monk, she hesitated for a moment before walking over to him and holding out her hand. “Hand it over,” she demanded.
“May I ask, Kagome-sama, what these are used for in your time?” Miroku asked as he handed the object over.
Kagome blushed, turning around quickly. “It’s just a toy. Something people use to have fun with,” she said quietly, not looking anyone in the eye.
“Such an odd shape, though,” Miroku commented, picking another up from the ground and unrolling it completely. Holding it up by the open end with his thumb and forefinger, he examined it until Kagome snagged the object from his grip. He raised his eyes to her face, eyes searching hers for an answer. "Kagome-sama?"
"Just forget it, Miroku-sama," Kagome growled, going about the campsite, picking up the rest of the condoms and throwing them into the fire. After Kagome was satisfied that she had gathered up all the stray condoms, she put her belongings back in her bag and sat down next to the fire, feeling the eyes of the rest of the group on her. "What?" Kagome snapped looking up at everyone else.
"Is everything alright, Kagome-chan?" Sango asked, moving to sit next to her, looking rather concerned about the miko from the future.
"I'm fine, Sango-chan. Thank you for asking," Kagome replied. "I'm just tired. I think I'm going to go to sleep after dinner," she told them, her eyes being drawn to the simmering pot hanging over the fire.
"The food is ready, so we can eat now, if you'd like," Sango told Kagome while moving away toward the fire. "Then you can get some sleep," she added.
Kagome sighed and it looked like a weight was lifted from her shoulders. "Thank you, Sango-chan. That would be lovely," she said as she got her sleeping bag out of her overstuffed bag and laid it out on the ground, then sat down on top of it, smiling when Sango handed her a bowl of stew.
Following Kagome's example, Rin and Shippo sat on either side of her and waited paitently for Sango to hand them their dinner. Inuyasha grunted when Sango handed him a bowl, but sat down and began to eat, just the same. Miroku absently took the bowl offered to him, his mind preoccupied with finding out what had bothered Kagome so much about him having one of those toys she allowed the children to play with. Sesshoumaru merely shook his head, and moved to sit across the fire from Kagome, watching her over the flames. When everyone that was going to eat was served, Sango sat down with her own bowl of stew.
Miroku noticed Kagome finish eating and sat aside his partially finished dinner. "Kagome-sama, might I have a few words with you before you retire for the night," he requested, standing and motioning with his hand in the direction of the forest, "in private?"
Kagome sighed, but nodded. "But if you pull anything, Miroku-sama, I swear you won't be able to walk properly for a week," she warned the monk.
Miroku put on his best hurt expression and held a hand to his chest. "Kagome-sama, your words wound me. It troubles me greatly that you would think that I, a humble monk of budha, would do anythink inappropriate," he said, his lips twitching upward when Kagome smiled.
Kagome stood from her sleeping bag and followed Miroku into the forest, shaking her head at the inu brothers when she saw them tense, readying to stand and follow them. When they reached a small clearing that she knew was most definately out of their youkai hearing range unless she were to yell, she stopped. "Alright, Miroku-sama, what do you want that couldn't wait unil morning?" she asked, looking him in the eye.
Miroku smiled gently at her. "I merely wished to know the true use for these 'toys'," Miroku stated, pulling a condom from his robes.
Kagome gaped at the monk. "How did you ..." she started, trailing off.
"I picked it up when you were busy picking up some of the others," he informed her. When she reached for it, he moved it out of her range. "What is it about these simple children toys do you not want me to know?" he asked, moving about the clearing, always keeping out of her reach.
Kagome blushed. "I never said they were for children," she muttered. "You aren't going to give it back until you know, are you?" she asked, stopping in the middle of the small clearing they stood in.
"That is a correct assumption, Kagome-sama," he told her with a small smile sneaking onto his lips.
"I think you're getting entirely too much enjoyment out of this," she grumbled, sitting down on a flat rock protruding from the ground. Her cheeks burned from blushing, and she covered her face with her hands. "A couple uses them when they're having ... intercourse," she mumbled. She peeked through her fingers at the monk and saw his eyebrow disappear under his bangs. "So the woman won't get pregnant," she added quickly.
"If the woman can't get pregnant, then what is the point in their joining?" Miroku asked.
Kagome's blush turned an even deeper red. "I told you already. For fun."
Miroku looked at the miko in a whole new light. "You must have wanted to have a lot of fun with the number of these that you brought with you," he said, a lecherous grin appearing on his features.
"It's not like that," Kagome growled at him. "One of my friends from the other side of the well has this brother, and he stuck the bag of condoms in her bag before she left for school the morning before I came back, and we were talking in a hall at school, and this teacher was coming along and we had to put them somewhere or we all could have gotten into a lot of trouble, so they got stuffed in my bag, and when I came home from school, Inuyasha was there waiting for me, and he wouldn't let me switch bags," she said all in one rush. "It's just a good thing I keep an extra bag on this side of the well with things I need for travelling. And I would have just left my school bag at the village, but I would have been too embarrassed if someone had found them in the village. I mean, what if the village got attacked while we were gone and then in my time, someone finds fossilized condoms. And then, before I could decide what to do with them, Shippo found them, and I had to tell him something." Kagome would have continued rambling if Miroku hadn't stopped her.
"I understand, Kagome-sama. Your secret is safe with me," he told her, bringing his hand to his mouth. "It will be too much fun watching you explain it to Inuyasha on your own," Miroku said, fighting to keep the chuckle out of his voice.
"If you laugh at me, I swear I'll tell Sango what these are really used for, and get her to agree to sleep with you, but them make you use these," Kagome growled at the snickering monk.
Miroku's grin widened under his hand. "I'm always up for some fun," he joked as he turned and headed back towards the camp.
Kagome groaned as she watched Miroku disappear into the trees. She would never understand how someone supposedly dedicated to Buddha could act so perverted all the time. Deciding to stay there and think for a while longer, Kagome pulled her knees up to her chest and rested her chin on her arms crossed over them.
A few minutes later, Inuyasha landed in front of Kagome, startling her out of her thoughts. "Why didn't you come back?" he growled.
"I wanted to think for a while. What are you doing here?" she asked.
"When Miroku came back alone, I got worried," he told her. "I thought you were going to come back with the monk," he added.
"It's not like I was that far away from the campsite," Kagome told Inuyasha. "If I had needed something, I would have yelled."
"I thought you were tired and wanted to go to sleep," Inuyasha said, reminding Kagome of her own words. "Besides, it's not safe to be out here alone at this time of night," he told her, sitting next to Kagome where she sat on the rock and wrapped an arm around her shoulders.
Kagome sighed and leaned against Inuyasha's shoulder. "I know that. I also knew that you wouldn't let me stay out here for very long by myself, so i figured it was safe. Besides, what youkai in their right mind would come this close to where you and Sesshoumaru are at the same time. Except for maybe Naraku, and we haven't seen him in a while," she told him, thinking out loud a bit.
"That's not very reassuring," Inuyasha muttered. "Come on. Let's get back to camp," he said, standing up from the rock.
"Yes. I can't believe how tired I am," Kagome said as she stood up and walked next to Inuyasha back to camp.
"You've been under a lot of stress lately. Completely understandable," Inuyasha said as he tentatively took her hand in his.
Kagome yawned as they reached the treeline surrounding the camp. "Thank you, Inuyasha," she said as she reached up on her toes and placed a kiss on his cheek before going to her sleeping bag and crawled in. Shippo and Rin stopped playing with Kirara and snuggled into Kagome's large sleeping bag, and all three of them were soon fast asleep.
"So what are you going to do, little brother?" Sesshoumaru asked as he stood next to his half brother.
"Why are you so damn interested in what I'm doing with Kagome?" Inuyasha demanded. "I can't imagine you possibly caring. Besides, I thought you were here to take her away from me," he growled, crossing his arms over his chest.
"I would like to take her for my own mate, but if that does not happen, I want her to be happy," Sesshoumaru said, watching Kagome sleep.
"Why would you care about her happiness?" Inuyasha demanded.
"Even this Sesshoumaru does not know the answer to that question," Sesshoumaru said before jumping up into a tree to keep watch for the night.
Days passed.
Kagome avoided Sesshoumaru like he had the plague.
Sesshoumaru watched Kagome intently.
Inuyasha stayed by Kagome’s side whenever he could, and glared at Sesshoumaru more than usual.
And the rest of the group watched their interaction, or lack thereof in Kagome and Sesshoumaru’s case, with a sort of morbid fascination. They didn’t know what was going on. And with the way Sesshoumaru was acting, they weren’t sure they wanted to know.
~*~
Kagome sighed in frustration as she looked around the group of travelers that surrounded her. She desperately needed a bath, and she was lucky enough that there was a hot spring nearby. But she didn’t know where Sesshoumaru was. He took off as soon as they decided they would be stopping for the night, without a word about where he was going.
Deciding to take the chance, she really was grungy, she gathered her bathing supplies and told her friends where she was going. Kagome nodded when Inuyasha told her exactly how far away the hot spring was and in what direction, and then headed that way. She nearly broke out into a run in her eagerness to reach the hot spring.
Once she reached the hot spring, Kagome was delighted to see that the spring was rather large with a small waterfall running into it. She set her things on a rock at the waters edge and quickly undressed, setting her clothes on another rock.
With a happy sigh, Kagome sunk into the warm water. She grabbed her supplies and made her way over to the small waterfall, and quickly washed off. After she was sufficiently clean, she headed back over to the edge where she had left her things, but what she saw there didn’t please her at all. Crossing her arms over her chest and sinking further below the surface of the water, Kagome glared at the being sitting on the bank of the spring.
“What do you want, Sesshoumaru?” Kagome asked, rather annoyed that he interrupted her so far pleasant bath.
“Why are you out here, alone and unprotected?” Sesshoumaru countered with his own question. “It’s not safe.”
“I can take care of myself,” Kagome growled at him. “Now, if you don’t mind, and even if you do, I’d like to take the rest of my bath in peace,” she told him, hoping he’d get the point and leave her alone.
“You are clean. What would be the purpose of staying further?” Sesshoumaru asked, intrigued by the curious desire.
“So I can relax,” Kagome replied. “Now, leave, please.”
“I cannot do that. It’s not safe out here,” Sesshoumaru replied, watching her intently. He was fascinated by the way she hid herself beneath the clear water, as if thinking it would afford her some protection.
“I can take care of myself,” Kagome repeated.
“While naked and unarmed?” Sesshoumaru questioned.
Kagome felt her anger rising, but she tried to restrain it. “Whatever. Just leave me alone,” she told the youkai lord, turning and moving away from him. Kagome stopped moving when she came face to chest, a very naked chest, and she stepped back.
“I cannot do that,” Sesshoumaru told her, now standing naked in the spring with her.
“And you think you can protect me. You’re naked and unarmed now, too,” Kagome screeched, turning her back so she wouldn’t see anything she didn’t want to see.
Sesshoumaru stepped up behind her and draped an arm over her shoulder, holding his hand up in front of her face. “I am not as unarmed as I appear,” he reminded her, showing his claws off a bit.
Kagome stiffened at the position Sesshoumaru had put her in. He wasn’t actually touching her, only his arm on her shoulder, but he was still too close for her comfort. Shrugging her shoulder, she slid to the side, slipping out from under his arm. “Hentai,” she muttered as she turned to glare at the youkai.
“You believe that I will behave as the monk does? If that is the case, why have you not tried to strike me yet?” Sesshoumaru asked, cocking a dark brow at her. “I have no desire to act in such a manner. I will take you as my mate after Naraku has been destroyed.”
“Only if the terms of the agreement you made with Inuyasha allow you to,” Kagome pointed out, reminding Sesshoumaru that she wasn’t guaranteed to be his mate yet. “Why couldn’t you have just come talk to me? It would have been so much less complicated,” she said, running a hand through her hair.
“Because Inuyasha never would have allowed you to come with me unless it was something he had agreed to before hand,” Sesshoumaru stated simply. “Even if it had been your choice to become my mate, Inuyasha would have fought me. It is in his nature.”
“And he still will,” Kagome said, holding her head in her hands. She peeked through her fingers, keeping an eye on Sesshoumaru, and took a step back when he took a step towards her. Stepping onto a slick stone under the water, Kagome lost her balance and fell backwards, her arms flailing at her sides, trying to regain her balance.
Before her head even hit the water, Kagome felt two strong arms wrap around her waist and pull her against a solid body. She didn’t look up at him, just buried her face in his chest in embarrassment. Here she had been trying to get away from him because she was afraid of his words, and in her hurry, she made a complete fool of herself.
“Why would you want a clumsy fool like me?” she muttered against his slick skin, the fact that they were both naked not lost on her frazzled mind.
A small smile flitted across Sesshoumaru’s face at her question. “I will make a deal with you,” he told her. “You let me decide what I want and who I want it from, and I will let you decide if you want to come with me after Naraku has been destroyed, but only if you actually give me a chance. No trying to avoid me. And forget most of what Inuyasha has told you about me.”
Kagome nodded, relieved that Sesshoumaru was actually giving her a choice now. “You have a deal,” she told him. Pulling back a little, she looked up at him. “I’m going to go back to the camp now,” she told him, pushing back on his chest slightly.
Sesshoumaru nodded, his eyes intently watching her. He lowered his head slightly and placed a chaste kiss on her lips before he released her from his arms.
“You said you wouldn’t do anything,” Kagome accused.
“No, I said I would not act like the monk. Meaning I would not grope you or say anything inappropriate,” Sesshoumaru told her, moving to exit the spring.
Kagome squeaked and turned around as fast as she could when Sesshoumaru’s butt came into view above the water. She waited for several minutes to give him time to get dressed before she turned around and made her way to the edge of the spring. Glaring up at the youkai still watching her from the shore, she stopped before she revealed more than she wanted to.
“If you insist on staying, you have to turn around,” Kagome told him, raising her hand and moving her finger in a circular motion.
Sesshoumaru did as she asked and shook his head. It wasn’t like he couldn’t hear every single thing she did.
Kagome made sure Sesshoumaru was completely turned around before she got out of the spring and quickly dried off and dressed, keeping an eye on him the entire time. She gathered all her bathing supplies along with her dirty clothes and started walking towards the campsite, Sesshoumaru walking right by her side.
The first thing Kagome saw when she got back to the campsite was Shippo and Rin flinging opened condoms back and forth, while Miroku was holding one, looking at it quite curiously. She gaped at the scene before her. Miroku had a condom and the look in his eye told her he wasn’t curious about where it went on the human anatomy, but more likely why she had them. But first things first. She needed to scold Shippo and Rin for getting into her bag without her permission.
“Shippo, who told you that you could get into my bag?” Kagome asked, a none to happy look on her face.
“I told the runt you wouldn’t like him going through your stuff, but he wouldn’t listen to me,” Inuyasha said from a low branch on a tree.
“Then why didn’t you stop him?” Kagome demanded, glaring at the hanyou.
“Because the runt doesn’t listen to me. In fact, he does just the opposite of what I tell him, and you yell at me when I hit him,” Inuyasha defended.
Shippo and Rin both dropped all condoms they had in their hands with extremely guilty looks on their faces. Together, they looked down at the ground, drawing shapes in the dirt with their toes with their hands behind their backs.
“I’m sorry, Kagome,” Shippo murmured, peaking up at Kagome through his bangs.
“Rin, apologize to Kagome,” Sesshoumaru said monotonously.
“M’sorry, Kagome-chan,” the small brunette murmured.
“Apologies accepted. Now don’t do it again,” Kagome scolded. Turning to the monk, she hesitated for a moment before walking over to him and holding out her hand. “Hand it over,” she demanded.
“May I ask, Kagome-sama, what these are used for in your time?” Miroku asked as he handed the object over.
Kagome blushed, turning around quickly. “It’s just a toy. Something people use to have fun with,” she said quietly, not looking anyone in the eye.
“Such an odd shape, though,” Miroku commented, picking another up from the ground and unrolling it completely. Holding it up by the open end with his thumb and forefinger, he examined it until Kagome snagged the object from his grip. He raised his eyes to her face, eyes searching hers for an answer. "Kagome-sama?"
"Just forget it, Miroku-sama," Kagome growled, going about the campsite, picking up the rest of the condoms and throwing them into the fire. After Kagome was satisfied that she had gathered up all the stray condoms, she put her belongings back in her bag and sat down next to the fire, feeling the eyes of the rest of the group on her. "What?" Kagome snapped looking up at everyone else.
"Is everything alright, Kagome-chan?" Sango asked, moving to sit next to her, looking rather concerned about the miko from the future.
"I'm fine, Sango-chan. Thank you for asking," Kagome replied. "I'm just tired. I think I'm going to go to sleep after dinner," she told them, her eyes being drawn to the simmering pot hanging over the fire.
"The food is ready, so we can eat now, if you'd like," Sango told Kagome while moving away toward the fire. "Then you can get some sleep," she added.
Kagome sighed and it looked like a weight was lifted from her shoulders. "Thank you, Sango-chan. That would be lovely," she said as she got her sleeping bag out of her overstuffed bag and laid it out on the ground, then sat down on top of it, smiling when Sango handed her a bowl of stew.
Following Kagome's example, Rin and Shippo sat on either side of her and waited paitently for Sango to hand them their dinner. Inuyasha grunted when Sango handed him a bowl, but sat down and began to eat, just the same. Miroku absently took the bowl offered to him, his mind preoccupied with finding out what had bothered Kagome so much about him having one of those toys she allowed the children to play with. Sesshoumaru merely shook his head, and moved to sit across the fire from Kagome, watching her over the flames. When everyone that was going to eat was served, Sango sat down with her own bowl of stew.
Miroku noticed Kagome finish eating and sat aside his partially finished dinner. "Kagome-sama, might I have a few words with you before you retire for the night," he requested, standing and motioning with his hand in the direction of the forest, "in private?"
Kagome sighed, but nodded. "But if you pull anything, Miroku-sama, I swear you won't be able to walk properly for a week," she warned the monk.
Miroku put on his best hurt expression and held a hand to his chest. "Kagome-sama, your words wound me. It troubles me greatly that you would think that I, a humble monk of budha, would do anythink inappropriate," he said, his lips twitching upward when Kagome smiled.
Kagome stood from her sleeping bag and followed Miroku into the forest, shaking her head at the inu brothers when she saw them tense, readying to stand and follow them. When they reached a small clearing that she knew was most definately out of their youkai hearing range unless she were to yell, she stopped. "Alright, Miroku-sama, what do you want that couldn't wait unil morning?" she asked, looking him in the eye.
Miroku smiled gently at her. "I merely wished to know the true use for these 'toys'," Miroku stated, pulling a condom from his robes.
Kagome gaped at the monk. "How did you ..." she started, trailing off.
"I picked it up when you were busy picking up some of the others," he informed her. When she reached for it, he moved it out of her range. "What is it about these simple children toys do you not want me to know?" he asked, moving about the clearing, always keeping out of her reach.
Kagome blushed. "I never said they were for children," she muttered. "You aren't going to give it back until you know, are you?" she asked, stopping in the middle of the small clearing they stood in.
"That is a correct assumption, Kagome-sama," he told her with a small smile sneaking onto his lips.
"I think you're getting entirely too much enjoyment out of this," she grumbled, sitting down on a flat rock protruding from the ground. Her cheeks burned from blushing, and she covered her face with her hands. "A couple uses them when they're having ... intercourse," she mumbled. She peeked through her fingers at the monk and saw his eyebrow disappear under his bangs. "So the woman won't get pregnant," she added quickly.
"If the woman can't get pregnant, then what is the point in their joining?" Miroku asked.
Kagome's blush turned an even deeper red. "I told you already. For fun."
Miroku looked at the miko in a whole new light. "You must have wanted to have a lot of fun with the number of these that you brought with you," he said, a lecherous grin appearing on his features.
"It's not like that," Kagome growled at him. "One of my friends from the other side of the well has this brother, and he stuck the bag of condoms in her bag before she left for school the morning before I came back, and we were talking in a hall at school, and this teacher was coming along and we had to put them somewhere or we all could have gotten into a lot of trouble, so they got stuffed in my bag, and when I came home from school, Inuyasha was there waiting for me, and he wouldn't let me switch bags," she said all in one rush. "It's just a good thing I keep an extra bag on this side of the well with things I need for travelling. And I would have just left my school bag at the village, but I would have been too embarrassed if someone had found them in the village. I mean, what if the village got attacked while we were gone and then in my time, someone finds fossilized condoms. And then, before I could decide what to do with them, Shippo found them, and I had to tell him something." Kagome would have continued rambling if Miroku hadn't stopped her.
"I understand, Kagome-sama. Your secret is safe with me," he told her, bringing his hand to his mouth. "It will be too much fun watching you explain it to Inuyasha on your own," Miroku said, fighting to keep the chuckle out of his voice.
"If you laugh at me, I swear I'll tell Sango what these are really used for, and get her to agree to sleep with you, but them make you use these," Kagome growled at the snickering monk.
Miroku's grin widened under his hand. "I'm always up for some fun," he joked as he turned and headed back towards the camp.
Kagome groaned as she watched Miroku disappear into the trees. She would never understand how someone supposedly dedicated to Buddha could act so perverted all the time. Deciding to stay there and think for a while longer, Kagome pulled her knees up to her chest and rested her chin on her arms crossed over them.
A few minutes later, Inuyasha landed in front of Kagome, startling her out of her thoughts. "Why didn't you come back?" he growled.
"I wanted to think for a while. What are you doing here?" she asked.
"When Miroku came back alone, I got worried," he told her. "I thought you were going to come back with the monk," he added.
"It's not like I was that far away from the campsite," Kagome told Inuyasha. "If I had needed something, I would have yelled."
"I thought you were tired and wanted to go to sleep," Inuyasha said, reminding Kagome of her own words. "Besides, it's not safe to be out here alone at this time of night," he told her, sitting next to Kagome where she sat on the rock and wrapped an arm around her shoulders.
Kagome sighed and leaned against Inuyasha's shoulder. "I know that. I also knew that you wouldn't let me stay out here for very long by myself, so i figured it was safe. Besides, what youkai in their right mind would come this close to where you and Sesshoumaru are at the same time. Except for maybe Naraku, and we haven't seen him in a while," she told him, thinking out loud a bit.
"That's not very reassuring," Inuyasha muttered. "Come on. Let's get back to camp," he said, standing up from the rock.
"Yes. I can't believe how tired I am," Kagome said as she stood up and walked next to Inuyasha back to camp.
"You've been under a lot of stress lately. Completely understandable," Inuyasha said as he tentatively took her hand in his.
Kagome yawned as they reached the treeline surrounding the camp. "Thank you, Inuyasha," she said as she reached up on her toes and placed a kiss on his cheek before going to her sleeping bag and crawled in. Shippo and Rin stopped playing with Kirara and snuggled into Kagome's large sleeping bag, and all three of them were soon fast asleep.
"So what are you going to do, little brother?" Sesshoumaru asked as he stood next to his half brother.
"Why are you so damn interested in what I'm doing with Kagome?" Inuyasha demanded. "I can't imagine you possibly caring. Besides, I thought you were here to take her away from me," he growled, crossing his arms over his chest.
"I would like to take her for my own mate, but if that does not happen, I want her to be happy," Sesshoumaru said, watching Kagome sleep.
"Why would you care about her happiness?" Inuyasha demanded.
"Even this Sesshoumaru does not know the answer to that question," Sesshoumaru said before jumping up into a tree to keep watch for the night.