InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Engaging Enemies ❯ Chapter 11 Admitting the Worse ( Chapter 11 )

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11 Admitting the Worse

“Are you all right, Kagome?”

Kagome opened her eyes and saw that she was being carried, up in the sky?

“Kagome?”

Kagome looked up to the voice that called her. It was Kouga.

“Kouga? What’re you doing here?”

“To help you, of course. I heard from that kitsune of yours that some youkai were attacking your shrine and immediately.”

Kouga finally landed on his feet and placed Kagome on hers. She was gathering her bearings when she realized something. “But how did you know where the shrine was?”

“Well, I…”

“Keh! The dumb, mangy wolf followed us all the way here. He was practically ‘begging’ for help.”

“Us?” Kagome asked as she saw Inuyasha.

“Yeah, and you’re actually smart, mutt.”

“I take that as a compliment, and I still ain’t doing this for you nor helping you in any way, scrawny wolf.”

“You tryin’ to start something’, mutt?”

“Anytime, wimpy wolf. I’ll kick your ass faster than you can imagine.”

Someone cleared their throat, and Kagome looked in that direction.

“Hello, Kagome-sama. I see you’ve caught yourself in a little spot with some youkai. Allow us to assist you girls,” Miroku said as he motioned to Shippou and himself.

Rin looked around just to make sure that it was just them. “Aw, you mean Sesshoumaru didn’t come with you?”

“Sorry, but Sesshoumaru wasn’t with us when we found out about the situation,” Shippou explained.

“So, houshi-sama, how do you guys plan on helping us?” Sango asked as she walked away from the feuding canines, whom were sending flying debris and boulders everywhere.

“That’s what I’d like to know. I’ve been asking this monk what the plan was when we were heading over here, but he just said I would see,” Shippou said. “I bet he doesn’t even have a plan…”

“Whatever do you mean, young Shippou. Of course I have a plan.”

“Oh, yeah? Then what is it?”

“You’ll see!” Miroku said smiling. “Meanwhile, why don’t we help the other girls up from that terrible attack.”

All three of them sighed as they went looking for their buried friends. “Why do I get the feeling that Miroku doesn’t even have a plan?” Kagome asked as she and Sango helped Rin out from under a huge boulder.

“Yeah, he seems too suspicious. Come on, Rin, snap out of it. Rin?” Sango tried slapping Rin out of her stupor.

“Fluffy-sama…? Mmm, Moko-moko-sama feels so nice and soft…” she mumbled, still unconscious.

“She’s totally out of it!” Sango said as she tried shaking her awake.

“Wait, I’ve got an idea. Watch out for a sec.” Sango backed away as Kagome stooped down.

“Are you sure your plan’s gonna work?”

“Don’t worry, I’ve done it a million times. Never fails. Rin. Hey, Rin. Wake up. Sesshoumaru’s here to see you…”

Rin had shot up before Kagome could finish half of her statement. “Sesshoumaru-sama? Where is he? Tell me where my Fluffy-sama is!”

Kagome lightly patted Rin on the head. “Sorry, kitty cat, but your puppy isn’t here. He’s still at school, and his brother is being an idiot. He and Kouga are sending huge pieces of tiles everywhere, and so you ended up on the wrong side of one.”

“Aww, you mean Fluffy never came?” Rin asked as huge tears started forming.

“Afraid not, kitty. But, the sooner we get rid of this centipede and clean up this place before you can see him. So, let’s get these idiots’ minds back on track.”

“ ‘Kay! Sesshoumaru, Fluffy, Sesshoumaru, Fluffy…!”

“Well, that got her back on track.”

“Yep, one down, four more to go. Wait, where did Houshi-sama go?”

“Well, I see Shippou helping Kirara, and the two idiots are over there still tearing up the shrine…”

“There he is with Ayame!”

“What…?” Sango and Kagome looked over to where Rin was pointing and saw Miroku with an unconscious Ayame. It seemed like Miroku was just trying to wake Ayame up, but if one took a closer look, one would no better.

“Hey, dirty monk, what the hell do you think you’re doing?!”

Ayame finally opened her eyes to see Miroku. Something in her head was tingling, and it finally dawned on her. “Hey, get your dirty hands off of me, you perverted monk!” Ayame yelled as she kicked him into a tree.

“Hey, monk, what the hell do you think you’re doing messing with Ayame!” Kouga yelled, surprising everyone.

“Hey, Kouga, get your head back in the game, or do you just want me to beat you to a pulp without getting a challenge from you at all?” Inuyasha yelled as he held Tetsusaiga leveled with Kouga’s chin.

“Um, guys, what happened to the mother centipede?” Kirara asked after she thanked Shippou for helping her up.

“Centipede?” Ayame asked, scratching her head.

“Oh no, where did it go?” Shippou panicked.

“It went underground. See?” Rin pointed to a giant hole in the ground.

“Rin, did you see it go down there?” Kagome asked.

“Yep, but it’s hiding.”

“Where?”

“ ‘Tra-la la la, tra-la la la, Flu-ffy--sa-ma, Se--sshou-ma-ru, Wheeeeee’!” Rin said as she twirled around.

“Ugh, she out of it again…” Sango sighed.

“Don’t worry, Sango dear. I’m still here for you…”

Sango punched Miroku into another tree. “No, ‘thanks’.”

“Um, so, I think we should go ahead and find the centipede before it causes anymore damage…”

“Yeah, and you two can put your little feud off for another time, so stop messing around,” Kagome scolded towards Inuyasha and Kouga.

“Don’t tell me what to do, wench. I’ll do what I please, so buzz off.”

Kagome did an imitation of a growl as she tried to control herself.

“Calm down, Kagome. You can deal with him later.”

“Wait, Kagome. Didn’t you have something you were going to tell us?” Ayame asked.

“What?!” Kagome squeaked surprised. “What do you mean?”

“Come on, tell us. You were gonna when we were still at school, but you never did. So tell us now.”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“You can’t hide it from us, so stop resisting and tell us,” Ayame pried.

“W-We don’t have time for this!”

“Uh, guys, the ground’s shaking…” Sango said as she tried to steady herself.

“It’s coming!” Rin said smiling, pointing down.

Sure enough, the ground broke again as the centipede reappeared. “Bouncy, bouncy, boun-cy!” she said as she leapt from one flying rock to another.

“You could’ve told us this sooner, Rin!” Ayame said as she avoided one flying rock after another.

“Oops, I forgot!”

Everybody landed flat on their faces. “You FORGOT!!” everyone yelled.

“Rin, you’re hopeless,” Inuyasha said picking himself up from the ground. “Okay, worm, I’ve had enough of you. Time for you to die!”

“Hey, dogshit, didn’t I tell you I was gonna save Kagome from the youkai!”

“Quit your whining, wolf. The wench doesn’t even need saving. It’s you that needs the help.”

“What the hell are you talking about?”

“I’m saying, you slow excuse for a canine, that once I get done with this little worm, I’m gonna kick your ass. Then it’ll take a miracle for them to save you, that is, if you believe in such things.”

“Wanna say that to my face, mutt!”

“I just did. What are you? Slow? Wait, you’re already that. You’re just plain dumb.”

“You’ll regret that!”

“Uh, guys, the centipede?”

“They’re not listening, Kirara,” Shippou said.

“No, I mean the centipede, it’s about to attack them.”

“I guess I’ll just have to give you another taste of Tetsusaiga then!”

“Inuyasha, OSUWARI!”

Inuyasha landed flat on her face, hard, especially when he was 20 meters from the ground.

“Kouga, watch out!” Ayame yelled.

“Don’t worry, way ahead of ya.”

Kouga dodged the centipede’s attack in time as it went right over Inuyasha.

“What the hell didja do that for, wench?!”

“Shut up and be thankful I just saved your life.”

“I don’t need any help from a pathetic human like you. Just watch.”

“Fine, then! That’s the last time ‘I’ help a ‘pup’!”

“I told you I’m not a pup!”

“You still haven’t proven that to me yet.”

Inuyasha growled. “Just sit on your fucking ass and watch!”

“Are any of you confused, or is it just me?” Shippou asked.

“You are not the only one,” Kirara said.

“It is very puzzling indeed,” Miroku agreed.

“For once, I agree with the monk,” Sango joined in.

“I too am bemused, though I find it quite interesting,” Ayame added.

“What are y’all whispering over there?” both Inuyasha and Kagome asked.

“Don’t worry about us. Let’s just get rid of that centipede.”

“Y’all really tick me off whenever y’all do that…” Inuyasha scowled.

He searched around for the centipede youkai, seeing as it had just disappeared from right under his nose. “Damn it, where did that worm go?”

“Inuyasha, would you please at least try not to destroy my home more than you already did?” Kagome yelled at him.

“Shut up, wench and let me do my job, or would you rather take a swing at this?” Kagome glared at him, but said nothing. “I didn’t think so. Now, back off!”

“Hmph!” Kagome was about to say something smart when the centipede appeared again.

“There you are, you bastard. Let’s see you try to eat my Kaze no Ki-”

“Fluffy-sama!”

A blast of energy came out of nowhere and made a direct hit on the centipede. The centipede became disorientated and exploded right in Inuyasha’s face. Blood and chunks of raw meat flew everywhere, including on Inuyasha.

“Sesshoumaru!” Inuyasha snarled lowly.

“Fluffy-sama, Fluffy-sama, you’re here!” Rin yelled as she danced around the great inu-youkai.

Inuyasha opened his eyes as he sputtered blood and other obscenities from his mouth to see Sesshoumaru with Tokijin slightly in his hand. “What the hell did you do that for?!”

“Pathetic weaklings. Daisuki-san requested for me to come get you fools. Lunch period finished thirty minutes ago, and he suspected that you all were skipping. Obviously, This Sesshoumaru believes that you fools could not take care of a simple matter of destroying that pitiful youkai.”

“Fluffy-sama saved us from the horrible demon. Fluffy-sama’s my hero!” Rin sung as she kept twirling around Sesshoumaru.

“Rin. Stop.”

Rin immediately stood straight and bowed to the Great Lord of Fluff. “Yes, Sesshoumaru-sama,” she said as she calmed down in less than a second.

Ayame, Kagome, and Sango sighed. “Rin is absolutely crazy,” Kagome said.

“I’m with you there, sister,” Ayame agreed.

Suddenly, Sesshoumaru shot them a pointed glare that chilled all three of the girls.

“Th-They were just kidding, Sesshoumaru-san. We’re we, girls?” Sango commented, trying to wave off the chilling look Sesshoumaru sent them.

“O-Of course! We would never talk badly about our friend.”

Sesshoumaru looked away as he watched Rin sway over him.

The three sighed again. “Sesshoumaru’s scary when he gets like that.”

“Eww! Inuyasha smells like bug guts!” exclaimed Shippou.

“Well what do ya expect when Sesshoumaru blew up the damn centipede right in my face?!”

“Inuyasha, I believe you need to clean up before the smell stays on permanently. We wouldn’t want to scare off the ladies with that putrid odor, now would we?”

“Can it, Miroku. I don’t need you as well telling me that I smell like day old trash. I’m about to go home and take an hour-long shower and soak my clothes for the rest of the day. Later!”

“But, wait, Inuyasha. We have to go back to school so we can explain to Daisuki-san that a demon attack the shrine!” Shippou called after him.

“Tell Daisuki he can kiss my ass if he has a problem with it. I smell like shit, and I’m going home to fix it!”

“That temper…” Kagome sighed.

“By the way, Kagome, you still haven’t told us about what’s up with you and Inuyasha acting so nice to each other.”

“W-What? You ‘still’ wanna know?”

“Yeah, it has to be something big if you’re making a big fuss about it. So what is it?” Ayame pried again.

“Inuyasha and Kagome? What are y’all talking about?” Kouga asked. Is that mutt making my Kagome do something that she doesn’t want to do?” He quickly ran over to Kagome and gently grabbed her arms. “What did he make you do, Kagome? Tell me ‘cause I’ve been wanting an excuse to get that mutt away from you. Just say the word, I’ll get a restraining order and a permit to kill so I can hunt that dogshit down.”

“No, it’s nothing, nothing at all like that. So please calm down.”

“No, don’t tell me! Has he lain a hand on you? Are you hurt in any way? Why didn’t I notice it before? His scent is all over you! I’ll murder him for laying a hand on MY KAGOME!”

“Kagome, you might want to back away from Kouga. I think he’s foaming at the mouth,” Shippou said, hiding behind Miroku.

“I think he’s out of it…” Kirara giggled.

“Kouga, it’s nothing like that!” Kagome tried reasoning.

“Don’t worry, Kagome. You don’t have to hide it anymore. Your protector is here, and he’ll never let you get hurt again.”

“Yes, Lady Kagome. I have given up everything to protect you from any harm that will hazard my fair miko.”

“Put a sock in it, Miroku!” Kagome said as she punched him into the shrine barrier, where he fried like a chicken.

“W-Why, Kagome, I was only trying to show you my loyalty…”

“Get it a rest, Houshi-sama!” Sango said as she dug her heal into his back.

Kagome looked back at Kouga, and he was standing on a mound of broken up pavement, confessing his love and loyalty to Kagome.

“Will you just listen?!” she said, throwing a nice sized rock at Kouga’s head. Her head was dead on, and he fell to her feet. “The only reason why I smell like Inuyasha is because I have to stay at his house until my mom comes back from Osaka. My brother’s staying at a friend of his while I stay at the Kanashii’s. It’s not…”

“WHAT?! That mutt is making you live with him?!! Oh, I’ll make him pay dearly for taking advantage of you like this!!”

“Kouga, stop it. Will you listen? I’m not even done! Neither of us wanted to do this, but apparently since I’m engaged to him, we have to get…”

“He’s making you MARRY HIM! I’ll murder that damn cur!”

“Kouga, you’re not making any sense. Did you even hear what I just said? Our parents are making us marry each other. We have no say in the matter. Because it is his house, I have to live and breathe there while the walls are covered with his smell. Hell, you might as well say that I smell like Sesshoumaru since he’s been there longer…”

Kouga sent a look at Sesshoumaru that expressed all of his anger. “Sesshou-”

Ice suddenly flew at him and froze him stiff. Then, Rin appeared and brutally kicked Kouga orbiting. “Don’t ever get the idea that Sesshoumaru would ever do such a thing, you BAKA! No offense, Kagome.”

“None taking. I would never dream of taking your Fluffy from you when it’s obvious that you’re in love with him,” Kagome said, relieved that Rin saved her from Kouga’s drama.

Rin stooped down and started twirling circles on the ground. “You really think it’s that obvious?”

“Of course not! I’m just very perceptive.” Kagome tried to hold a honest and straight face. ‘She really has no clue!’

Rin started twirling herself as she held her burning cheeks. “I guess I really do like Sesshoumaru-sama a lot… Oh, Fluffy-sama…”

‘For someone so smart, she sure is oblivious to her own self…’

“Kago-me! Tell us!” Ayame continued. She had been trying to get Kagome to tell her what the problem was while she was dealing with Kouga.

“I would have to join Ayame. We really want to know if you are stressing over it this much.”

“Et tu, Kirara?”

“Je regrette, mais oui.”

“Come on, tell us, pleeeeaaaassssee!”

“Oh, all right, already. If it is a must know, I’ll tell, if you won’t get on me about it, all right?”

“Promise.”

“I won’t tell!”

“My lips are sealed.”

“Moi aussi.”

“All right. The ‘only’ reason why Inuyasha and I are ‘trying’ to get along with each other is because…because…” Everyone was leaning in to hear what she was saying, including Shippou and Miroku. “We’ve agreed to try to cooperate for the rest of the trimester. We’re in enough trouble as it is, so we have to get along before we get in any more trouble.” Everyone was silent and still, making Kagome feel nervous. “Will you say something, all ready?”

“Is that all?” Ayame said frustrated.

“Mostly, yes.”

“Kagome, I can understand that you truly don’t like him, but when it gets to this, that you can’t even admit that you two made a truce without having it pried it out of you literally, there is a problem.”

“San-go. You don’t understand. I’ve hated him ever since grade school. It’s not that easy to do something like that, especially when you think your best friend betrayed you.”

“Do you even remember why you hate him so much?” Rin asked.

“Um…uh…no, not…really…”

“Kagome, I will find you some help, because your problem with Inuyasha is getting out of hand.”

“No, it’s not. The only thing we agree on is that we both don’t like the fact that we’re engaged and are staying under the same roof just about 24/7.”

“Well, I believe this situation goes both ways. Inuyasha too had to be blackmailed for him to tell us what you just admitted. He was very reluctant to tell us at first, but when we mentioned something, he was willing to comply.”

“Miroku, what did you say to him?” Sango asked, holding a fist up threateningly.

“Oh, nothing. Just a little comment he made about someone.”

“And that was…?”

“Oh, nothing.”

“Miroku said he would tell Kagome that Inuyasha said she was eating too much and she would eventually get fat. But then he said that Kagome was too scrawny, that she would never get fat enough to look human.”

“Shippou, you weren’t supposed to say that. Now Inuyasha will have both our heads.”

“Uh, Kagome? Calm down, please, I think you’re scaring Kirara and Rin…” Sango said, tried to ease the anger out of her friend.

“I-NU-YA-SHA!”

“Fluffy-sama! Help, Kagome’s scaring me,” Rin said as she ran to where Sesshoumaru was. “Fluffy-sama?”

“Looks like Sesshoumaru hightailed it out of here before things got ugly.”

“Can you blame him? Kagome’s scary when she’s angry!”

“O-SU-WA-RI!!!!”

Somewhere a few corners from the Higurashi shrine, a few seconds earlier…

“Finally, I’ve made it to the house. Now I can get out of these clothes,” Inuyasha said as he leapt from the tree to the roof. ‘Damn that Sesshou-’

In midair, Inuyasha landed on the ground from three stories high. “ACK! …Ka…go…me…!”

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Y ay! I finished my thingy-ma-bobber! I am so behind in all my updates. This month was supposed to be Say Goodbye while Engaging Enemies was April. I’ve decided to do one story a month so I can concentrate on one thing at a time. I just get confused and delayed when I do too many things at once. June is suppose to be for Forgiving Loss, but first I have to do at least two chapters of SG before I can get to that.

I’m sorry I haven’t updated in so long. I’ve been so busy with end of school stuff and my poem collection for this lady at church that’s doing a poem book thing. But I’m back. Yesterday, I had a scare because I thought my hard drive had crashed since it was saying something about the data. But it didn’t delete so I’m glad. Well, I must go before I’m forcefully kicked off the computer. Later!

(Oh, I’ll shoot her with my ray gun when she comes
Yes, I’ll shoot her with my ray gun when she comes
Oh, I’ll shoot her with my ray gun
Yes, I’ll shoot her with my ray gun
Oh, I’ll shoot her with my ray gun when she comes
When she comes
I’ll be blasting all the humans in the world
I’ll be blasting all the humans in the world
I’ll be blasting all the humans
I’ll be blasting all the humans
I’ll be blasting all the humans in the world, in the world

…One more time!
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