InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Hanyou and Miko ❯ Silent Wench and an Ear Rub ( Chapter 14 )

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Chapter 14: Silent Wench and an Ear Rub

 

InuYasha watched as Kagome slept. There was something about her that always numbed his thoughts to just her. Her breathing was shallow, and even, telling him she was really sleeping now. She had wanted to say up watching one of her `movies' on the `TV', but after only a few minutes her eyes had drifted closed. InuYasha gathered her up in his arms and took her to her bedroom laying her on the bed and taking his own position on the floor at the foot of her bed. Soon he was asleep also.

 

“InuYasha?” he could feel Kagome's hand shaking his shoulders.

 

“Hmm?” he was already awake, but didn't open his eyes. Her smell invaded his nostrils, sending heat over his whole body in waves. How can she do this to me and not know it? He sensed her moving closer; raising her hand toward his head. He thought quickly, knowing he wouldn't be responsible for his actions if he allowed her access to one of his most sensitive parts. He flipped her onto her back and pinned her to the floor.

 

“What did I tell you, wench?” his amber eyes hovered right above her own. This wasn't such a good idea… he told himself. Her smell wrapped around him, causing his heart to skip a few beats. It was overpowering, making him only have one thing on his mind.

 

“InuYasha…”

 

“What did I tell you?” his gaze didn't falter from her own. InuYasha was in a trance brought on from his own stupidity. Smell… good… Kagome…

 

“But…”

 

“No.” You don't deserve her baka! He shook his head, bringing himself out of his Kagome-induced trance and released his hold. “You know, you have a very strange obsession with my ears.” He flicked them a few times.

 

“I can't help it, they're cute.”

 

“Keh! They're not cute.” Kagome laughed. InuYasha sat on his haunches, hands on the floor between his legs. Kagome stood up, brushing the wrinkles out of her clothes.

 

“I'm going to take a bath.” She ran over to her closet and picked out an outfit to change into.

 

“That doesn't surprise me.” He rolled his eyes. That's not going to help a thing. A bath will only make her smell better…

 

“I won't be long, go fix yourself some ramen. You know where everything is.” She headed off to the bathroom. InuYasha sat in her room for awhile. He liked it in there. He rummaged through some of her stuff.

 

“Keh.” He found one of her books and threw it at the wall.

 

“InuYasha, what are you doing in there!” Kagome yelled from the bathroom.

 

“I ain't doing a thing!” he yelled back.

 

“Whatever, dog-boy. But when I get out everything better be the way I left it.”

 

“Keh.” He picked up the book and threw it under her bed instead. He fumbled with a few things on her desk, sneezing at some sort of powdery junk she had in a little canister. After he got bored with snooping he went down the stairs to the kitchen and put water to boil on the stove; sitting down in one of the chairs around the table. Mrs. Higurashi came down, wishing him good morning, followed by Souta and Kagome's grandfather. Souta left for school, while Mrs. Higurashi left for the store for a few things.

 

What do you think you were about to do, baka?! His mind lingered on that one moment, face to face with Kagome, not wanting to move from that spot, not wanting to let her go. He sighed, pouring the boiling water into his cup of ramen. It was going to take more than a cup a ramen to get his mind off of how close he was to kissing…

 

“Ramen. So typical.” InuYasha looked up to see Kagome entering the kitchen on cue.

 

“Keh. Best food you have here.” He took a big mouthful as if to emphasize his statement. “You gonna eat?”

 

“Not hungry. Where's moma?”

 

“Store.”

 

“What about grandpa?”

 

“Keh! He's trying to `ofuda' up the well again. That old man doesn't know when to give up.” Kagome giggled.

 

“He's only trying to protect me, InuYasha.”

 

“That's my job.”

 

“Oh, guess what?!”

 

“What?” he took another bite of ramen.

 

“Moma gave me a letter I got in the mail. I passed my tests!” InuYasha's ears perked up and twitched in her direction.

 

“No more school?” he said between bites.

 

“Not unless I go to a university.”

 

“Like I'd let you.”

 

“I could go if I wanted to!” the all-to-familiar pout came across her face. InuYasha leaned in close, his face directly in hers.

 

“The question is, do you want to?” his face blushed slightly, as did Kagome's.

 

“I…uh… Maybe.”

 

“Do you?” he looked directly at her, waiting for an answer. Figuring she wasn't going to get by with a half answer like she hoped, she gave him the first thought that came to her.

 

“No.”

 

“Good. That means you won't need those books anymore.”

 

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“Kagome, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to upset you or InuYasha. I was just overreacting.” Sango held her head low. She had been apologizing back and forth from Kagome to InuYasha ever since they got back. InuYasha had just nodded his head and left, leaving Kagome alone with the exterminator.

 

“For the last time, Sango, no harm done. It's okay.”

 

“Sango, maybe we should head out for awhile.” Miroku's tone told Kagome it was more for himself than Sango. The exterminator gave him an I-don't-think-so look. He backed off.

 

“So,” Kagome was desperate to change the subject, “have you two decided when the wedding is going to be?” Sango smiled.

 

“A little sooner than I had planed.”

 

Miroku coughed. “I think I will step out for awhile.” Kagome gave Sango a suspicious look. As soon as Miroku left, she sat down next to Sango on the floor.

 

“So…”

 

“So…”

 

“Why are you changing your wedding plans so suddenly? I thought you were going to wait till the spring.”

 

“Well… something just came up…. Or is coming up.” She blushed.

 

“Sango! Are you…?” Sango nodded her head. “When?! I mean, when did you find out?”

 

“A few days before we returned to the village. I was sick one morning, and Miroku took me to a healer in a nearby village.” Her blush deepened as she laid her hands across her stomach.

 

“How far along are you?”

 

“We figured about three months by now. At first I didn't know whether to cry or laugh, and now,… I can't stop smiling. I wanted to wait for children, but you just can't be angry with a blessing like this.” She looked down at her still flat stomach.

 

“That means when we were fighting Naraku you were…”

 

“Umhm. I know. I didn't know what to think either.”

 

“I'm happy for you.” Kagome smiled. “And Miroku.”

 

“Wench! Did you know about this?!” InuYasha stormed through the door, followed by a black-eyed monk.

 

“About what?”

 

“About this-this lecher having a pup!”

 

“I just found out, and what did you do to Miroku?!”

 

“Keh! That's just what we need around here, the lechers pup. I knew something smelled different about her!”

 

“InuYasha…” he rolled his eyes and crossed his arms, knowing what was coming next. “Sit!”

 

“Wah!” `THUMP!' He hit the floor.

 

“Pup? Sango's having a pup? So that's what smelled strange…” Sango and Miroku blushed at the kitsune's realization.

 

“And that, my darling, is why you're not doing any youkai exterminating until after the baby is born. Of course, if you want to exterminate a certain hanyou…” `THUMP!' InuYasha, getting up from his `sit'ing, gave the monk a pound in the head with one of his fists.

 

“Sit!” `THUMP!'

 

“What?! Did you hear what he said?”

 

“Yes I did. He was only kidding, InuYasha. You know, you really shouldn't take anything Miroku says personally.”

 

“Keh.” He looked over to Kagome. “You ready to go, wench?” she pouted.

 

“So soon?”

 

“I'm tired of you carrying that thing around.” He pointed to the almost-complete Shikon no tama around Kagome's neck. “The sooner we get rid of it, the better.”

 

“Three more shards, then it's over. Hmm. Hard to believe the jewel's almost complete.” InuYasha nodded. “Alright. Let's go.” She let the vile drop back to it's position and reached for her backpack. InuYasha grabbed it out of her reach and slung it over one shoulder. “You know, I can carry that.”

 

“Keh. What does it matter? I'm going to be carrying you and this thing anyway.”

 

Kagome laughed. “I can walk, too.”

 

InuYasha shook his head. “Too slow.” He grabbed her up in his arms and leaped out of the hut, Kagome waved goodbye to her friends and she flew through the air.

 

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“Please?”

 

“No.”

 

“I'll beg.”

 

“No.”

 

“I'll make you ramen.”

 

“Keh. I can make it myself.”

 

“I…”

 

“Look, wench, you so much as move those fingers of yours anywhere near my ears and I'll bite them off.”

 

“No you won't.”

 

“Try me.” Kagome let out an exaggerated sigh and slumped onto InuYasha's back.

 

“InuYasha, we've really got to think of how we're going to get Kouga's shards.”

 

“Keh! I'll get them the same way I'd got all the rest of the shards. Tell him to hand'em over, if he doesn't, he'll get up close and personal with Tetsusaiga.”

 

“InuYasha! You can't just go around shoving Tetsusaiga in our friends' faces like that, you know.”

 

“For one thing, who ever said anything about that mangy wolf being a friend? For another, I didn't say I was going to shove Tetsusaiga in his face, I was thinking more along shoving it up his…”

 

“Don't finish that.” InuYasha stopped abruptly, sending Kagome lunging forward, pressing hard against his back. “What did you do that for?” Kagome looked around for any sign of youkai. InuYasha lowered her to the ground. “What?”

 

“The jewel… I want you to keep it.” He crossed his arms and turned his back away.

 

“InuYasha, it's yours. I can't…”

 

“For once, don't argue Kagome. My wish? I don't want that anymore. You're the miko, so when it's finished, it's yours.” Kagome nodded, not really knowing what to think. At first the plan was for her to stay long enough to complete the jewel for InuYasha, then she would go back to her time. But so much had changed since then. Naraku had made the hunt for the shards longer then expected, and the addition of new friends, how close she has grown with InuYasha, how much he had changed since she first met him…

 

When she did go back to her time now, she felt out of place. For some reason the little things her friends argued about or discussed were just that, little. Face it, problems like what you're going to do over the weekend or what girl the cute-boy is going out with this week doesn't compare to being chased by youkai or nearly being killed by a dead priestess. She just wasn't in tune with her old friends anymore. Kagome shivered, closing her jacket around her tight.

 

“I'll build a fire.” InuYasha offered. He was off in a flash, gathering firewood. Soon the two where sitting around the fire eating ramen. They ate quietly. When she finished, Kagome slipped into her sleeping bag and gazed up at the starry sky. InuYasha joined her.

 

“How many do you think there are?”

 

“Don't know.”

 

“You're not much for small talk, are you InuYasha?”

 

“Nope, how'd you guess?” Kagome shifted her body so she was facing InuYasha. He's so different now. When we first met, all he wanted was the jewel, and now he doesn't even want that.

 

“If you could have anything right now, what would it be?” she tensed under her own question. InuYasha puzzled for a moment.

 

“Umm, nothing.”

 

“Nothing?”

 

“Okay, I wish you would keep quiet for a day.”

 

“InuYasha!”

 

“What? Can't you just sit there without saying a word for five minutes.”

 

Kagome smiled at the sudden thought that ran through her head. Maybe it's time for a trade. “Tell you what. I'm willing to make a deal.”

 

InuYasha ears tweaked in her direction. “I'm listening.”

 

“Okay, I won't talk for the rest of the night, but you have to let me rub your ears.” InuYasha thought.

 

“How long?”

 

“As long as I want.”

 

“You got five minutes.”

 

“Deal.” I win. InuYasha rolled over, placing his head in Kagome's lap, crossing his arms against his chest and closing his eyes. Kagome squealed with delight at the sight of the twitchy ears. They flattened.

 

“None of that either!” Kagome nodded and latched onto the ears, using her fingers to caress them both at the same time. InuYasha's body automatically loosened its tension. Still works. She thought silently.

 

Kagome continued rubbing beyond the five-minute mark, as InuYasha drifted into sleep. She yawned, overcome with drowsiness herself. She lie down flush against InuYasha's back and fell asleep.

 

A/N: Ooo… Sango and Miroku had a few secrets. Hmm. How about that. I did put fluffiness in the story. EVERYONE has asked for more, but like I said before, not yet; you'll just have to wait a little longer.

 

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