InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Decisions of Love ❯ Peek and Shriek ( Chapter 6 )

Peek and Shriek

Surprisingly, Inuyasha waited till Kagome was done with her lunch instead of taking off after

he had finished. He scooped her up again in his arms and took her outside.

"Where are you going next?" he asked.

"I don't know."

"Well, make a decision, my arms are getting tired from holding up your heavy body."

Kagome gasped.

"Are you calling me fat?!"

"No, just implying it."

"You're so rude and callous!"

"Just hurry up and pick a place, my arms are killing me."

"Fine, take me to the water garden." she snapped.

"That far?"

"Well, if you're too weak and tired to do it, I can always ask Kouga to take me in his arms."

"Forget it, that idiot doesn't even know where the water garden is."

"Ah, but he just showed me where it was the other day."

"So?"

"Just proving you wrong."

Inuyasha rolled his eyes.

"You are impossible."

"So are you."

Suddenly, Inuyasha took a flying leap and Kagome grabbed onto to his clothes tighter. She

buried her head in his chest in fright as he started jumping from branch to branch.

"What are you doing?!!!" she screeched.

"It will be faster if I jump on the trees."

"What if you fall?"

"I never fall."

"There's a first time for everything!!!"

"Not for m-"

A branch broke under his foot and he plummeted to the ground. Kagome's breath got stuck in

her throat and she couldn't scream as she watched the ground get closer. Inuyasha caught

himself in time and landed neatly on a branch. He took another flying leap and started to go

about his way again.

"And what was that?!!"

"Nothing."

"You fell!"

"No, just tripped, there's a difference."

"And just what is the difference?"

Inuyasha stopped under a weeping willow that was growing right by the waterfall. He bent

down and laid Kagome by the lake's edge.

"When you fall, you hit the ground. When you trip, you don't. And soak your legs in here, the

water is suppose to have special healing powers."

"Really?"

"Yes."

"Hey, does anybody come around this lake often?"

"Rarely, it's too far away for the courtiers, the girls are too lazy, and the servants don't have

enough time."

"Would anybody mind if I take a bath here?"

"What?!!!" Inuyasha's mouth fell open.

"Well, I figure if I take a bath here, I'll feel a lot better and I can go riding some more

tomorrow."

"Are you crazy?"

"I don't like feeling helpless." she said quietly.

"Feh.....fine, but don't come running to me if some monster eats you."

"Which is why you'll be situating yourself behind those bushes over there." she said as she

pointed to a little cluster of bushes about twenty feet away.

"What?!!"

"You know, you should really try expanding your vocabulary to something more than 'what'."

"I am not going to be some bodyguard."

"But what would your mother say if I happen to get eaten by some youkai?"

She gave a mental grin in her head as he began to curse and walk towards the bushes.

"And don't even THINK about looking." she called out.

Kagome could hear the last snatches of his grumbles.

"Like I would even want to."

She took Inuyasha's example and rolled her eyes. She looked cautiously at the bushes to

make sure he wasn't going to pop out and started to slip off her clothes. She poked a toe in and

found the water to be a delightfully warm temperature. She sinked into the refreshing water

and leaned against the bank.

"Mmmm, the lake is working it's wonders already." she sighed.

With the waters moving around from the waterfall, it felt like her skin was being lightly

massaged. And the calming sound of water falling was really helping with the relaxation. Her

eyes closed and she felt herself slipping into a world of her own. Meanwhile, Inuyasha was

sitting on the top of a tree and still grumbling. He could see the lake from the view but not

enough to see her.

"Can't believe she's blackmailing me." *grumble grumble* "Dumb girl, who does she think she

is?"

She could feel every tense muscle melting and the feeling was so wonderful. *I'm going to

have to come here every day* Hot springs were spectacular, but the lake was ten times

better.

"I can't believe it, it really does have healing properties." she said to herself.

She was smiling when something splashed in the lake. Her eyes flew open and she screamed.

"Kyahhh!!!!!!!!"

Inuyasha jumped from the branch and sped to the lake. His claws were out and ready and he

looked around for a ferocious youkai. But what he found was worse. Before he could even

start complaining, a huge rock hit him right in the head and he conked out.

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