InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Foul Play ❯ What the Hell? ( Chapter 2 )

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"Talking"

`Thinking'

~*Scene change*~

Chapter 2

What the hell?

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Next Day*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

The day was gorgeous, the birds were singing, the sun was shining, and this is what got our favorite jewel shard detector up.

Kagome opened one eye and groaned, covering her head with her sleeping bag as she tried to go back to sleep.

"Oi wench, get up, the suns shining and we were supposed to leave hours ago. I would have gotten you up earlier but Sango wouldn't let me"

Kagome opened her eyes again to find a furious hanyou, ventilating in her face, her breath hitched in her throat, even mad, the half-breed still had the most amazing molten gold eyes. She found herself getting lost in them.

*Sigh* `I wish he'd look at me the way he did when he thought I was Kikyo, but it will never happen, he loves her too much to look at me that way again, or at least not consciously, knowing that it is me he is looking at '

"What's that wench?"

`Oh my God, did I say that out loud?' Kagome thought frantically, looking from side to side, eyes wide, trying to remember if she had.

Inuyasha's POV

`I could have swore I heard her say something. Something about Kikyo… And me… And her. Didn't hear enough of it to get anything else, weird, my hearing should have picked it up if she had said anything at all' He continued thinking as he saw her eyes getting larger and larger, soon they were about as big as those things they call `plates' in the future.

"Course not, what would I say so early in the morning to a grump like you" Kagome said crossly, trying to get him off her tail.

Inuyasha sputtered, got up, and went walking down the road towards their destination.

Sango and Miroku looked over to each other wondering what had gotten into their usually happy friend. Inuyasha was the one who was normally cross, not Kagome.

The object of their thoughts got up, turned to them with her brightest smile and said.

"Lets go you guys, we don't want to fall behind" She tsked them while shaking her finger. Shippo jumped up into her arms, oblivious to anything, as usual, while the other two fell to the ground twitching.

Sango and Miroku looked at each other when they finally got up, even more confused about what just happened, before taking off running to catch up to their friends.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*Later in the day*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"Inuyasha, why can't we stop and eat! I'm starving!" Kagome whined as she hopped around him, hoping it would make him stop.

Inuyasha walked on, looking strait ahead, one eyebrow twitching.

`She called me a grump. She called me a grump! How dare she call me a grump!' He could still just NOT get over the fact that she had called him a grump, and he had been sulking all day because of it, not that he would tell anyone that was the reason.

Sango was hungry also and didn't want to wait until Kagome wore him down.

"Miroku, go persuade him to stop will you? I'm hungry too and I'm sure you are too. Please?" She gave him the puppy dog eyes, knowing he couldn't refuse; no one could refuse the puppy dog look.

Miroku shook his head in defeat and started walking up to the enraged hanyou. He spoke softly to Kagome, telling her that he would handle it and to leave. So she walked back to Sango and Shippo and they all watched on as Miroku took `care' of it.

"Inuyasha, you can not keep sulking about the fact that Kagome called you a grump." He said quietly, leaning in to make sure that he listened.

"Feh, I'm not sulking, and even if I were, I wouldn't be sulking because of that. What do I care what Kagome thinks of me. She's nothing to me, just my shard detector, yup that's all she is to me." Inuyasha asserted vehemently

Miroku chuckled, almost inaudibly; only Inuyasha's sensitive ears picked it up.

"Yeah, sure, keep telling yourself that, and if you aren't sulking, why won't you let us stop for lunch? Or are you doing this to spite Lady Kagome for calling you grumpy?"

Miroku supposed sardonically, laughing at the way his friend kept trying to hide his feelings for the young Miko who was walking in the back with Sango.

"Feh, yeah right! It's nothing like that. Fine we'll stop but only for a couple of hours." Inuyasha grumbled, trying to get Miroku off his trail, that monk was too perceptive sometimes.

"Thank you my friend" Miroku thanked him and scurried off before his moody friend could change his mind.

When Miroku walked back to the girls, he saw them both looking at him expectantly. He smiled his trademark grin and said.

"We're stopping to eat!" As one, the girls simultaneously jumped on Miroku and each gave him a kiss on the cheeks.

Miroku's eyes grew wide, if this was the thanks he would get for getting them something they want, he should do it more often. He then ruined the moment be touching the girl's butts and getting slapped, as usual.

Inuyasha had turned around to see what all the screaming was about when he saw Kagome jump up and hug Miroku.

"Grrrrr, dumb bitch, she's gonna get groped if she keeps that up"

Inuyasha chuckled as he heard the resounding slaps that came from behind him, that monk will never learn.

He turned to see Miroku lying on the ground, swirly eyed and grinning. Inuyasha then saw Kagome step over the Houshi and start to meander over, as though not fully intending to come and walk next to him.

He turned his head to walk strait again and to retain the impression that he was still mad at her when he felt the girl in question snake her arms around his belly and his perceptive ears picked up the whispered `I'm sorry' that came from those supple lips as she hugged from the back.

Inuyasha stopped and turned around, still in her arms, and bent his head down to smell her hair. It smelled of strawberry and a unique scent that could only mean, Kagome. It was this smell that separated her from Kikyo. This scent that kept him from abandoning this whole excursion. Kikyo actually owed her revenge to her incarnation. If it weren't for Kagome, he would have given up long time ago. She kept everything alive, she was the one that put a smile on his face as he saw her waking up and doing her morning routine of stretching, being able to see that tiny, white belly of hers, even though he knew he would never be able to touch it as he so often dreamt of doing. She was his everything. It was then that he finally figured out, that he didn't love Kikyo anymore. He would always love her. But he could never be in love with her. Not after meeting Kagome, seeing someone of flesh and blood instead of just a dead corpse that lived off souls. Kagome's soul was so big not even Kanna's mirror could hold all of it. She was so giving had such a loving heart. And she accepted him for who he was, not wanting to change him, make him human.

`I love you Kagome. I finally realize that. Its taken me so long, but I finally realize it.'

"You what?" Kagome's head snapped up, hitting Inuyasha's head in the process. She was sure that she had heard him say `I love you Kagome'

"I didn't say anything" `Oh shit did I say that out loud? No, I'm not ready to tell her yet; there is no way I said that out loud. Absolutely no way'

"But I would have sworn I heard you Inuyasha" Kagome looked around and discovered they were alone; the others had gone on ahead of them.

"But I didn't say anything Kagome, your hearing things" Inuyasha looked down at her panicked eyes, and watched as they grew in realization.

` Inuyasha can you hear me?' Kagome thought, testing her theory.

"Course I can hear you, `member? The ears?" He said, pointing to them.

"Inuyasha. I didn't say that out loud"

Inuyasha stilled.

"What?"

"Inuyasha I think something happened to us when we got bit by those bugs. Think of something, anything, and I'll tell you what you thought" Kagome commanded hoping against hope that she was right in her belief and she wouldn't look like a complete idiot.

`I want Ramen soup'

"Well of course you want Ramen soup dummy, you always want Ramen soup"

Inuyasha's eyes grew as round as saucers.

`See, I told you'

"Oh Kami-sama, this is not good" Inuyasha started to pace, walking back and forth in front of Kagome, he was walking so fast he wore a whole in the ground after five minutes.

`Inuyasha lets just go ahead and catch up with the others, and then we'll see what we can do ok?'

*Sigh* "Ok lets go"

And with that they plodded on, thinking again and again how they were going to get out of this one.

And Kagome was so shocked that she could read Inuyasha's mind that she forgot all about his little confession in his head.