InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Hardly There ❯ The Power of the Lollipop ( Chapter 9 )

AN: I updated!! I actually updated!!

Summary: A/U Kagome, Sango, and Rin are three Junior High girls who gets dared into going into the creepy abandoned old house across the school and bring back something. While they're exploring, they encounter three ghosts that date back to the Sangoku Jidai. IY/K M/S S/R

Hardly There

by Kumori Ryuuzaki

Chapter Nine: The Power of the Lollipop

"Okay, we're at the store with a big teddy bear on display near a coffee shop," Sango stated. "Now what?"

Kagome, Rin, Sango, and Sesshoumaru were all standing in front on the shop with the teddy bear. Miroku and Kouga were in cages, and Inuyasha was on a leash, suspiciously sniffing out everyone because he could and because he loved the feeling of fear some people possessed as they inched away from him.

Yes, you puny, weak humans! Fear the great Inuyasha! Buwahaha!

Ahem, ANYWAYS. . .

"Maybe we should ask around," Rin suggested lightly, looking into the toy store. "We could split up; it'll be faster."

"Fine," Sango agreed. "As long as I'm not with Houshi-sama."

"Well I'm insulted," Miroku mumbled quietly in his cage, causing Kagome to kick it lightly. He really wanted to be with Sango. . .

"Mice don't talk," Kagome muttered under her breath, glaring at Miroku in his cushion lined cage. "Neither do cats or dogs," she added, glaring fiercely at Inuyasha and sending Kouga a stern stare. "Just shut up and agree with our arrangements; you can whine at us when we're alone."

"I'll take Houshi-sama for you, Sango," Rin offered.

"Yes!" Sango cheered happily, hugging Rin fiercely. "I'm forever in your debt, Rin!"

"I'll take Inuyasha," Kagome stated. "At least I can control him somewhat."

Inuyasha the Big Ball of White Fur growled.

"Anyone's better than Houshi-sama," Sango said, picking up Kouga's cage.

"What about you, Sesshoumaru-sama?" Rin asked smiling sweetly, looking up at the taller youkai. "Will you come with me and Houshi-sama, onegai?"

One look at Rin, Sesshoumaru couldn't for his life say no. But he wasn't gonna let Inuyasha and Miroku know that. Not even the girls and ookami-no-baka. Nope. No one. He just nodded slowly, looking away.

"Now that that's settled, we should start now," Kagome said. "I'll take the coffee shop. Rin, you and Sesshoumaru can take the toy store, and you Sango, can have the candy store."

"But Kagome," Sango protested. "They're more stores around here than those!"

"Fine! We'll *start* in the coffee shop, the toy store, and the candy store. Happy now?"

Sango beamed. "Yup!"

Kagome sighed. "Can we go now?"

~*~

"Cats don't like candy, cats don't like candy," Sango chanted under her breath, glaring Kouga who was drooling at the sight of lollipops. "Cats. Don't. Like. Candy."

"Well this cat does," Kouga muttered grumpily in his cage. "Hopefully soon to be ex-cat. Once I'm back to my other, more handsome self, I'll steal away Kagome's heart and--"

"Cats don't talk!" Sango snapped, shaking the cage furiously. "They don't like lollipops, either!"

"But Sango~!" Kouga almost whined. Not quite. Even if he was a wolf demon morphed into a stupid house cat, he still had pride, unlike a dumb half-breed he could name would kept sniffing at everyone like a common mutt. "I like lollipops!"

"You damn little--!" Sango screamed, making an effort to reach in and choke the cat to death.

"ANIMAL ABUSER!" a high-pitched voice cried not too far away from Sango. Someone had snatched Kouga's cage from Sango's hands. "DON'T TORTURE THE POOR THING!"

Sango blinked, staring blankly at her now empty hands. She said the first thing that came to her mind: "What the hell?"

"You!" A young dark haired girl had jumped in front of Sango, holding Kouga's cage away from Sango protectively. "Just who do you think you are??"

". . .Sango. . ."

"Don't play smart with me!" the girl snapped furiously. "What rights do you think you have with this animal? What has it done to you?"

Sango glared back at the girl. "Oh yeah? Where should I start, huh?"

"You obviously misjudged the fact that you could take care of cats!" the girl rambled on angrily. "It hasn't done anything to you?"

Sango growled furiously, already stressed from Kouga. She snatched Kouga's cage away from the strange girl. "It's none of your business whether I mistreat this. . .this. . ." Sango looked down at Kouga with a look of disgust,". . .cat or whatever it really is or not! It's. . .my. . .animal. . .and I'll do whatever I want with. . .it. . ."

"Can't you read my bloody shirt?" the girl snapped, turning around so the colorful logo on the back of her shirt faced Sango. "'The Anti-Animal-Abusers', that's what we are! We stop people like you from abusing creatures like that poor innocent cat!"

"You don't eve know this. . .cat. . .you annoying little shrew!" Sango snapped, turning away abruptly and marching from the store. "Stupid people and their nature-loving ways," Sango muttered under her breath angrily. "Of course they always target the humans. We're all pure evil, didn't you know that? Afterall, all nonhuman creatures are the good guys, aren't they? Can't do anything wrong, the little bastards. . ."

Kouga wisely stayed quiet, the lollipop-craving never leaving him, as he watched hungrily as the lollipops got smaller and smaller as he got farther and farther away. . .

He would've bursted into tears at the sight of the shrinking lollipops if Sango wasn't around.

Afterall, he still needed to salvage what little of his manly pride he had left after being turned into a cat when he WAS a WOLF demon.

At the corner of his vision, Kouga could still see the animal loving girl glaring at Sango's back, until the door to the candy shop slammed shut, cutting the girl from his view.

~*~

"Well, might as well get some coffee while I'm out here," Kagome said, opening up her purse. "I know I have some money somewhere in here. . ." Kagome stopped scavaging through her purse when she felt a wet nose nudge her leg. She sighed and looked down at the canine, who was looking up at her as if he was glaring at her. "What now Inuyasha?"

He nudged her leg again.

"Look, I know you want to be back to your normal self again and all, but what's so bad about a cup of coffee?" Kagome asked expasteradedly. "It's just a cup of black liquid!"

Inuyasha shook his head furiously, nudging her leg again away from the cash registers and whatnots.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome snapped, tugging furiously on his leash. "Knock it off!"

"Oh my gosh, KAGOME!!" a voice squealed loudly, causing Inuyasha to wince and lay his ears down on his head. "He's so cute!"

"Eh?" The next thing Kagome and Inuyasha knew, Yuka and Eri were crouching arounded the confused hanyou-in-dog-form.

"I didn't know you had a dog!" Eri said excitedly. "He's so cute, Kagome!"

"Does he have a name?" Yuka asked.

Kagome had came to her senses, and shoved Inuyasha behind her roughly with her foot when he looked as if he wanted to bite the other two girls. "Eh heh. . .What a suprise. . .Eri. . .Yuka. . .Ah hah, so. . .what brung you two here. . .eh?" Kagome rambled nervously.

"Coffee," Eri and Yuka announced in union, holding up their cups of coffee up simultaneously.

Kagome sweat-drop. "Oh, that makes sense. . ." 'I'm so stupid. . .'

"What's his name?" Yuka asked again, peering around Kagome to looked at Inuyasha.

"Yeah," Eri said, mimicking Yuka's actions. "And where did he come from?"

"Err. . ." Kagome started playing with the leash in her hands nervously. "Eh. . .Inuyasha. . .? And. . .erm. . .he's. . .SESSHOUMARU'S!!"

Eri and Yuka looked at Kagome oddly, and Inuyasha gawked at her--well, as best as a dog could gawk.

"You said my name?" Sesshoumaru's voice said coolly from behind Kagome, causing the said girl to squeak in suprise. Sesshoumaru raised an eyebrow at her coolly.

"Kagome? Is something wrong?" Rin asked worriedly, holding a sickenly adorable teddy bear to her chest.

"Oh everything's fine!" Kagome said in a falsely happy voice. Kagome nudged her head in Yuka and Eri's direction. "Just eh. . .talking to a few friends. . .you know. . ."

"Ooooh," Rin murmured nodding her head in understanding. She smiled brightly. "Hello Yuka, Eri."

"Hello, Rin!" Eri replied. "That's such an adorable stuffed bear. Where'd you get it?"

"Oh? This?" Rin's smile never faded. "Sesshoumaru-sama bought it for me at the toy shop next door. Isn't that just sweet?" She beamed, proudly showing the girls the bear.

"That's so sweet!" Eri gushed. "Aww, look! It's got a cute red ribbon. ^_^"

Sesshoumaru, however, paid them no heed. He refused to do an Inuyasha on them and snap and threaten and loose his temper. Nope, he was too good for that. He was the great Sesshoumaru; he was to superior to act like that.

But still. . .maybe he should've went with Sango or Kagome. However annoying those girls were, at least he wouldn't throw away his pride and buy a friggin' STUFFED TOY!

Damn the female race. . .

Sesshoumaru was, however, noticing Sango storming in fuming, swing Kouga's cage furiously, making the currently feline wolf demon crash into all corners of his cage.

Haha, stupid ookami. . .had it coming. . .

"Sango?" Kagome said, looking up when she heard the racket her best friend made. "Is something wrong?"

"No!" Sango screeched. "EVERYTHING'S JUST DANDY!"

Kagome sweatdropped. ". . .right, Sango, right. . .I'm sure everything went fine. . .ha ha. . ."

Sango slammed Kouga's cage down irratably. ". . .stupid animal-loving bitch. . .what would she know anyway? Humph. . ." she mumbled under her breath grouchily before storming over to the registers. "I'll be back. I need something to drink," Sango said loudly.

Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha, and Kouga, however had heard Sango's mumbling. The girls were too busy going back to fawning over Rin's new stuffed bear, and Miroku's cage had been set on the floor, and he had some VERY nice views. . .now he didn't need to depend on random perverts flipping up skirts anymore. . .

Sigh. . .it felt so odd to be able to do something perverted and not get slapped by the lovely Sango. . .The advantages of being a mouse. Shame he didn't have hands anymore.

Inuyasha abruptly shoved Kagome with his head and started growling.

"Inuyasha what's wrong?" Kagome asked, looking down at the white canine, who had now taken to barking at something near the automatic doors. "What are you barking at?"

"I'll be back," Sesshoumaru said shortly, heading out the shop.

Inuyasha howled.

"Knock it off, Inuyasaha," Kagome hissed, nudging him with her foot. "Stop it!"

Miroku was brought out of heaven by someone who ran up to his cage, kicked it, and ran off laughing like maniac. But the maniac only got as far the door where Sango stood blocking it. Needless to say, she was still stressed.

The maniac, which was actually a young boy, inhaled deeply, before he screamed. A really high-pitched, girly scream at that.

Sango staggered a bit to the side, suprised and ears ringing mercilessly, giving the boy a chance to escape.

"Hey!" Sango shouted, ready to chase after the boy, but she accidently ran into an innocent man passing and lost sight of the boy in the crowd. "That filthy--!"

"Sango!" Rin cried as she ran up to Sango. "Are you okay?"

Sango scowled. "Yes."

"Who was that boy?" Yuka asked. "He knocked down that rodent's cage."

"If I knew I'd be trying to kill him right now," Sango spat, grinding her teeth.

Kagome frowned. "You've been very touchy lately Sango. . ."

"It's nothing. . ."

"Sango. . ."

"Really! I'm just over-reacting!" Sango paused. "Where's Kouga?"

"Eh?" All the girls looked at each other and back to the place where Kouga's cage was last found. There was no brown cat anywhere.

To Be Continued. . .

AN: Okay, this is a horrible cliffhanger. . .Too horrible. . .

But I stilled updated. Yes, proof that miracles do indeed happen. Anyways, this chapter is absolutely horrible. Well, it's not completely useless though. It does have something to do with the animal-ized Kouga, Inuyasha, and Miroku. I still think it's horrible.

Inuyasha had no lines in this chapter. o_O

Anyways, sorry about the extra chapter posting. I don't know how to delete them. ;_; I'm such a dork. Updates are still gonna be a bit slow. I'm up to my neck with things to do, even if it is summer. So yeah. Now you know.

No review responses today. Still have lots I still need to do. *siigh. . .*

(Oh yeah, MediaMiner people? I'm terribly sorry I forgot all about you. -_-;; I'm such an idiot. I didn't remember to post a chapter until I received a notice that said I had a new review. . .)

~Kumori Ryuuzaki