InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Happy Holidays Inuyasha! ❯ Gotta Love That WetDog Smell! ( Chapter 1 )

Happy Holidays Inu-Yasha!!

 

By: Andrea W.

Disclaimer: Just to let you know, this is a fan fiction so I don't own any of the inu-yasha characters so don't sue! ^_^..Ahem…. Chapter 1.

 

Chapter 1: Gotta Love that Wet Dog Smell!

 

A flash of red and white sped through the thick forest. A lizard demon that stood taller than the trees swatted at it like a fly. The half-demon with a miko on his back leaped just out of range.

“Kagome!” Inu-yasha yelled over the sound of smashing trees behind them. “Are you going to shoot it or are you just wasting my time on purpose?”

Kagome already had the arrow strung and pulled back, struggling to hold it still. “You try aiming an arrow when riding on someone else's back, leaping through trees, and getting whacked at by a giant raging demon! Can't you go any faster?!”

The demon's arm fell like a meteor, crashing right in front of them. Inu-yasha sprang himself and the girl over the gigantic, scaling limb and into the flying debris. Kagome's arms started trembling in the pursuit to lock the targeted gem on the demon's forehead. With a loud grunt, she released the arrow within the best aim she could, watching it speed almost timelessly through the falling debris toward the lizard's head. Shlunk! It sank itself in the demon's flesh about two feet too low from the gem. In pain, the lizard roared out a horrifying screech that shook the ground. The two fighters landed on solid ground at last.

Blinking, “Did you hit it?” Inu-yasha asked.

“Uh…” Kagome hesitated. “I missed….” He then dropped her on the ground.

“Ow! Hey that hurt!” Kagome exclaimed.

“How could have you missed?!”

“You were moving around to much!”

“I had to! You want to die a death by a falling tree?!”

“Well it's you're fault I missed. You could have easily gone the other way away from the debris! Not into it!”

“I was trying to make it lose track of us!”

“Baka!”

“Imbecile human!”

“Stupid Mutt!”

The sun disappeared slowly over them, raising a large shadow and ceasing the argument. Both of them looked up to catch a heavy, spiked tail descending upon them.

“Oh…. my…” Kagome was quickly filled with adrenaline; she then decided to run for it, even though she could never get away in time.

“Kagome!” Inu-yasha dove at her, sending her to the ground and guarded her with his body. The tail whistled, as it cut through the air to impale them to their deaths.

"Hiraikotsu!" Sango's large boomerang-like weapon struck the tail and redirected it, but not enough to completely miss the victims. Inu-yasha and Kagome flinched before they met it. It crashed down upon them with the hard spikes nailing into the ground, blowing up a thick cloud of dust and thunder. Silence.

Inu-yasha slowly opened his eyes to the girl before him. “Kagome…” He whispered. Kagome's eyes peered open. Inuyasha was hunched over her on his hands and knees, hanging his head. The stench of blood filled the air and she soon realized that she was covered in it. But no pain, she was confused for a moment until she looked over Inuyasha's back to find one of the lizard's spikes sticking into his right shoulder blade.

“Inuyasha!” She cried out.

The half-demon struggled to lift his head and greet her eyes but succeeded. He finally forced out his word, “Airhead”, before collapsing on top of her, pulling the spike from his back.

`Humph,' she thought. `He just had to have the last word, didn't he?' She gave a light smirk from the thought.

Huffing and panting, Sango, Miroku, and Shippo (followed by Kirara) all ran up to tail that caged Kagome and Inuyasha with it's spikes.

“Are you guys alright?” Miroku panted out, exhausted from the hike there.

“I'm fine, but Inuyasha's hurt.” Kagome announced while trying to heave the dead-weight demon off of her. Miroku came over and lifted the poor guy off of her. Kagome arose from under the tail and looked around. The lizard demon was gone, along with the two Shikon Jewel shards with it

“What happened?” She asked.

After laying Inuyasha down, the monk answered, “Well, while you two were biting each other's heads off, Sango and I finally distracted it long enough for you two to attack. Unfortunately, you never pursued. Sango cut off its tail and redirected it just enough to save you.”

This made Kagome's heart sink in guilt and lowered her eyes sadly to her feet. But for only a moment, her sorrow turned into anger as her slashed out her finger towards Inuyasha.

“Well if he hadn't been so difficult then I wouldn't have been distracted!” She exploded. Immediately, the half-breed sat up in pain.

“Don't blame this on me, you know it's your fault for not paying attention, wench!” he lashed back.

Kagome fought back. “From my understanding, you weren't paying attention either! Sit, boy!” The spell threw Inuyasha back into the ground, giving him even more pain and swirley-eyed. As soon as the spell wore off, Inuyasha went back barking at her (well not literally…). The two of them fought again (sigh), Kagome yanked on his doggy ears and her yanked on her hair. This went on with whacks and bops for about two minutes.

Shippo sighed in annoyance. “There they go again.” He said.

“Well, I suppose we should take them to Kaede, again.” Sango suggested as she approached the monk's side with her demon cat in one arm and the boomerang in the other behind her back.

“I agree,” Miroku replied as he slid his hand over Sango's bottom.

“Miroku you good-for-nothing baka hentai!!!” She screamed while chasing him in circles beating him in the head with her boomerang.

Shippo let out another sigh and turned to Kirara. “And there they go again…” he added. Kirara let out a small meow in reply.

 

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The group was back at Kaede's house, all, but Inuyasha, surrounding the little fire with the elderly woman.

“It seems to me that ye and Inuyasha haven't been getting along lately,” Kaede inquired.

“When did they ever get along?” Sango hysterically asked followed by a light chuckle from Shippo.

“Kagome, Have ye and Inuyasha spent anytime alone recently?” Kaede asked, drawing Inuyasha's attention from the corner of the room.

“Wha?” Kagome's checks instantly turned red before her nervously replied, “N-no, C-come to think of it…we've always just been with the group. W-why do you ask?” Her blushing seemed to amuse the half-demon, making him smile smugly.

“Ye two fighting all the time is affecting ye teamwork,” The elder answered. “I believe it is because ye never get to spend any quality time with each other as friends and partners. Ye will never be able to work with each other if ye don't learn anything from each other. My advice to ye is to break off from the quest and group for a while to rebuilt ye's companionship once again. Otherwise, ye shall meet defeat against Naraku.”

Inuyasha decided to speak, “Feh! As if. I can take him down with or without Kagome's companionship.” He turned his nose up and towards the window.

“Wrong, are ye Inuyasha!” Kaede threw out at him. He grunted as he threw a dirty look back at the old woman. She continues, “Need I to remind ye that without Kagome's help, Inuyasha, ye would be still pinned to that tree.”

“Feh! And I will remind you that you both would have been centipede bait without my help, old hag!” He shot back.

“Exactly,” She replied catching his confusion. “Do ye get my point yet, half-breed? Ye two support each other in unison. Protecting each other, serving each other, combining each other's talents and abilities for the most effective strategy. And ye do it well physically, but ye will fail if ye are not spiritually supporting each other as well.”

Inuyasha turned his attention back to the window's display of the rising sun. “Feh. Whatever.”

“Inuyasha, she's right.” Kagome admitted. “Our bickering isn't going to help anyone and it's certainly not going to help us defeat Naraku. You know what happened today. We need to spend some time together. Just us.”

“How about you guys go out on a picnic!” exclaimed Shippo. Everyone sweatdrops. “Kagome can make you're favorite! Ramen!”

Although one of his dog-like ears twitched to the word “ramen”, Inuyasha's attention didn't budge from the window.

“Fine!” Kagome huffed. “If you don't want me around then you got your wish!” She then picked up her overly large, yellow backpack and stormed out the door. For a moment there was a complete silence until Shippo interrupted.

“Well aren't you going after her?” He asked. “It's cold outside!”

“You aren't just going to let her leave like that are you, Inuyasha?” Sango added.

“Feh.” The demon stood up from the corner. “Why should I care?” He then walked outside and stood in the snow.

 

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Kagome slides her bedroom door open and falls on her bed with a smile. “Oh…I missed you.” She said out loud closing her eyes. Buyoh happily greeted her with constant licks on her hand. Kagome inched her eyes open in sadness. `Does he really hate me that much?' she thought. `If I told him how I feel about him he'll never speak to me again.' A single tear rolled down her cheek only to be licked up by her excited cat.

Later Kagome indicated the household that she was home and received an overbearing embrace from her mother.

“Oh, honey! I'm so glad you're home! Just in time for Christmas, too!” Her mother wailed.

“Christmas?” Kagome asked. “What day is it?”

“December 15th.”

“Have I really been gone for two and a half months straight?”

“You have.”

“Hmm…”

“Kagome.”

“Huh?”

“You've got blood all over you!”

“Oh, yeah. Don't worry, it's Inuyasha's”

After receiving hugs from her mom, grandpa, and Sota, Kagome returned to her room to unpack her things and ready to take a bath but only to find the one and only half-demon sitting on her bed, taunting her cat.

“Geez, Inuyasha. I haven't been home for twenty minutes and here you are.” She teased. He peered up at her and returned a smile.

“Well, I might as well stick around if you really want to be alone with me.”

At first Kagome turned red from embarrassment but then to anger. “Well I'm not the one who came crawling back here to be with me!” She stuck her tongue out at him. He let out a surprised “feh?” before she pick up her robe and headed for the door.

“H-hey! What a minute, where are you going?” He asked while getting up to approach her.

“I'm going to take a bath,” She announced. She the leaned toward him a little and sniffed his stench. “Ugh! You should take one, too!” She held her nose and swatted the air to push the smell elsewhere. He gave her a glare before responding.

“Yeah right.” He then turned from her to go back out her window, but she stopped him with a grab around his waist. “Huh?!”

“Inu-chan, take a bath with me,” She said flirtatiously.

“What?!” Inuyasha started blushing hard.

“C'mon it'll be fun!” She hugged him tighter from behind.

“No way!”

“Pleeeeaaassee!!!!” she begged.

“I don't want be naked with you!” (Ok maybe not really the truth, but he's in an awkward position)

“Hentai! We'll wear swimming suits!”

“Forget it!” He tries to squirm out of her grip.

“If you don't I'll say the s-word a hundred times!”

“Fine! Ok! Just don't say it!” He gave in.

`Haha! It worked! This way he won't stink up the house while he's here,' she thought evilly to herself.

 

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Feudal Japan:

 

The rest of the group sat under a tree in silence.

 

“…….”

 

“I wonder what Kagome's doing,” Shippo announced.

 

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“Ahhhh! What the hell is this stuff?” Inuyasha shouted as Kagome rubs the foamy liquid in his thick, silver hair.

“Dog Shampoo.” Kagome said. “I borrowed it from my neighbor. It's gonna get all the dirt out of your hair.” Inuyasha was in Kagome's Grandpa's navy blue, onesy swimsuit while Kagome dressed in a light pink, two-piece tanksy while washing him in the backyard spring.

“It feels weird!” He yelled.

“Quit complaining, Inuyasha, it could be worse,” She told him as she grabbed the back of his neck and dunked his head into the water. She then pulled him up, coughing and gagging.

“Could you at least warn me next time you try to drown me?!”

She just gave off a smirk at his comment then smoothed her hand over the area on his back where he was spiked. “Looks like your wound is healed.” She said gently. “I'm sorry about what happened over there.” Inuyasha took in her comment but then wildly shook the water out of his hair and onto Kagome.

“Hey!” she yelled. He laughed at her before diving off into the hot water. She placed her hands on her hips. “Inuyasha! I still need to scrub you down!” She then received a huge splash of water leaving her soaked. “That's it…” She stomped deeper down into the water towards him. He didn't try to escape her from approaching him but just smiled suspiciously at her.

She grabbed one of his ears and pulled it forward causing to him to wince and grunt in pain. “When are you going grow up?” She asked. “You're so immature!” Inuyasha wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her into a tight hug. She released his ear and began to blush in surprise.

“How do I smell now?” He asked.

“Oh… um…” Kagome pressed her face against his neck and inhaled his scent. It was a perfect aroma with a musky hint of that wet-dog smell. She returned her eyes to his. “Great. The smell must have been mostly in your hair and clothes. Of which I'll wash today.”

He did nothing but smile at her and enjoyed the curves and features of her body pressed up against him. His blood started to run hot as he peered into her eyes. He so desperately wanted to kiss her.

“Kagome, I…” He hesitated at his words, searching for the right ones to say.

“What is it?” she asked and noticed his face reddening.

“I…”

“IT'S HERE! IT'S HERE, KAGOME!” Sota busted out of the back doors in excitement and interruption.

“What is?” Kagome asked.

“The tree!” He yelled. “Grandpa finally got the tree!”

Kagome's eyes light up in excitement as well. She pulled herself from Inuyasha's grasp and ran out of the steaming water and through the snow, grabbing her robe and a hug from her brother. The two humans quickly went into the house, screaming like little children.

Inuyasha stood there trying to collect what's going on. `A tree?' he pondered, ` Feh, what's so exciting about a tree?' Although he concluded that it was just a human thing, his curiosity held the best of him. He leaped out of the hot water, into the freezing air, and as fast as he could inside the house for warmth.

 

 

 

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