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Kagome Smells - Bloody Noses

By Majicman55

 

Disclaimer: I do not own any part of InuYasha. I just like to play with the characters.

 

It hadn't been that much of a fight.

 

In fact, the youkai's weapon of choice had been…rocks. Lots of rocks. Thrown, heaved, rolled. And while it wasn't all that tough to dodge them, they sent out showers of splinters when they landed.

 

Sango's armor provided some protection for the taijiya, and Miroku's robes cushioned many of the small hits the monk was taking, but Kagome's school uniform offered virtually no protection. The poor miko had small cuts from head to toe.

 

“Damnit!”

 

Unfortunately for InuYasha, he had glanced towards Kagome and turned back just in time to get a fist-sized rock square in the nose. It certainly wouldn't kill him, but there was blood everywhere.

 

“Damnit! Damnit! Damnit!”

 

“Wind tunnel!”

 

InuYasha looked up to find Miroku drawing the storm of stones into his kazaana.

 

“Don't just stand there, InuYasha! Take him down!”

 

InuYasha nodded towards the monk and raised his Tetsusaiga. “Wind scar!” Five jagged lines of force reached out for the youkai, which immediately turned to dust, only to be absorbed into the monk's cursed hand.

 

Miroku rewrapped his hand in the special sealing cloth and prayer beads. “Good job, InuYasha.”

 

“Feh,” grumbled InuYasha. The hanyou was holding his head back and pinching his nose in an effort to staunch the flow of blood. Before he knew it, Kagome had grabbed his arm and assisted him to a fallen log where he could sit down.

 

“Keep your head back, InuYasha,” she fretted.

 

“I know. Don't think this is the first time I've had my nose broken!”

 

“Does this hurt?” asked Kagome as she wiggled the hanyou's nose.

 

InuYasha swatted at the miko's hand. “Only when you do that!”

 

“Sorry.”

 

“You should be! The only reason I got this busted nose was `cause I looked back at you to see if you were okay.” InuYasha laid his head back again. “Pathetic human.”

 

“Just hold still.” Kagome did her best to clean the blood off so she could see the extent of the damage. “I think it's broken.”

 

“It'll be healed by morning…if you'll just leave it alone!”

 

Kagome stepped back and wiped the back of her hand across her own, itchy nose. “Osuwa…” Kagome stopped herself and sighed. She just couldn't do it. “You're lucky you have a busted nose already, InuYasha.”

 

The hanyou just looked at her, puzzled.

 

Kagome continued to rub her nose, which itched even more despite her ministrations. Finally she looked at her hand. “Oh, great,” she mumbled. “I must have dog-boy's blood all over my face…or at least my nose.” She turned to the taijiya. “Come on, Sango. Bath time.”

 

Sango just shrugged. It was better not to argue with Kagome when she was in this mood…and the taijiya felt the need of a bath, anyway.

 

 

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“How bad is it?”

 

Sango looked back at her friend. “How bad is what?”

 

“My face. I felt like I was getting hit with a million splinters.”

 

“Oh.” Sango examined Kagome's face closely. “Not too bad. A few, small cuts along your cheekbones and back towards your ears.”

 

“I was lucky not to get one in the eye. I know I had little cuts all over my nose and…what did you say?”

 

“Your nose is fine.”

 

“Wait a second.” Kagome sat partially out of the water and reached for her bag. After a moments fumbling, she pulled out a small mirror and examined herself closely.

 

No cuts. No cuts anywhere. “I had little cuts all over my nose. I mean, it really itched the whole time I was rubbing it.”

 

Sango looked thoughtful. “You had InuYasha's blood on your hand.”

 

“I'm always getting InuYasha's blood on me.”

 

“I've heard of this,” said Sango. “It's said that the blood of a youkai has healing powers.”

 

“But I've had InuYasha's blood on me before.”

 

“Have you ever rubbed it into an open wound?”

 

“Umm. Come to think of it…no.”

 

Sango smiled. “Well, then. InuYasha's blood healed your wounds.”

 

“O…kay.” Kagome looked thoughtful for a moment before turning back to her friend. “Would there be any other effects?”

 

“I…don't…think so.” The taijiya's brow was knitted. “Not in the amount you used.”

 

“Huh? What's that supposed to mean?”

 

“Well, there is the mating ritual…”

 

“The what?”

 

Sango was regretting opening her mouth. “I don't know all the details, but it's said that sharing blood allows youkai to share their powers with mortal women, should they choose to mate with them.” Sango looked back up at Kagome, who was blushing intensely.

 

“Now I feel dirty…as if I violated him.”

 

“I'm sure InuYasha wouldn't see it that way.”

 

 

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Half an hour later, Kagome and Sango decided they should get out of the hot spring before they turned into prunes.

 

Sango wasn't sure what a prune was, but Kagome had assured her it had plenty of wrinkles. She had even offered to bring her some, but Sango had declined. What if eating these prunes made you old?

 

So Sango got dressed in her traveling kimono while Kagome put on a fresh school uniform. Just before putting on her fuku, Kagome had gotten out something she called dee-o-der-rant. The last thing the miko remembered, she was removing the cap. The next thing she knew, Sango was standing over her, fanning her vigorously.

 

“Wh-What happened?”

 

“I don't know, Kagome. You opened this and…”

 

<KLUNK>

 

Sango looked down. Her friend was out cold again. She sighed, replaced the cap on Kagome's deodorant, and began fanning her again. Sure enough, after a moment, the miko began to recover consciousness.

 

“What happened?”

 

“I don't know. You smelled this and fell unconscious.”

 

Kagome placed her hand over the taijiya's to avoid her opening the container again. “I…I must have gotten a defective product. The smell was so incredibly strong.”

 

“Kagome?”

 

“Just leave the cap on,” said Kagome as she pulled on her top.

 

“Okay.”

 

 

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Kagome and Sango walked together back to where the boys were.

 

“They've set up camp,” said Kagome.

 

Sango looked questioningly at her friend. “How do you know?”

 

“They're roasting fish. It smells good, Sango. I can't believe how hungry I am!” Kagome began an easy lope towards camp.

 

“What's gotten into her?” thought Sango as she followed along. She couldn't smell any fish yet, but Kagome sure could…at least judging by the way she was salivating. After a couple of minutes of jogging, the taijiya finally began to smell fish cooking.

 

She pulled up short. Kagome really had smelled the fish…

 

…from the hot spring.

 

“Side effects,” thought Sango. “Kagome asked about side effects.”

 

Sango's eyes widened. Kagome had rubbed InuYasha's blood on her nose. The cuts on her nose had healed. But what else had happened? What had happened to Kagome's nose?

 

 

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By the time Sango reached the camp, the boys were staring in wonder as Kagome wolfed down the cooked fish.

 

“Are you sure there's not more? It sure smelled like you guys were cooking up a whole bunch of fish,” said the miko.

 

“I assure you there are no more fish, Lady Kagome,” answered Miroku. “You have eaten all of them.”

 

“I have?” Kagome's shoulders slumped. “Gee, I'm sorry.” The miko turned to InuYasha. “You can catch more, can't you?”

 

“Feh!”

 

Shippo and Kirara chose that moment to return to camp. The firecat was looking around as if she expected to find something. Finally she looked at Kagome and mewed.

 

“I…I'm sorry, Kirara. I don't know what came over me…but I'm sure InuYasha can catch more for you.”

 

InuYasha “feh'ed” again.

 

“What about me, Kagome?”

 

The miko looked down to find a teary-eyed Shippo looking back up at her. There was an odd…smell…coming from the kitsune. It reminded her of disappointment. Yes, that was it: disappointment.

 

Disappointment?

 

How could a smell remind her of disappointment? And what had gotten into her that she had gobbled down all those fish?

 

“Please catch some more fish, InuYasha. You catch them and I'll cook them for everyone.”

 

InuYasha thought about saying “feh” again, but something about the look in Kagome's eyes told him not to. Instead, he bounded off to catch more fish. Kirara looked after him, gratefully.

 

 

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An hour later, Kagome sat by the fire roasting fish and wondering why the aroma was so strong. She hadn't added any more of her cooking spices than usual. In fact, she could barely stand adding any at all.

 

Yet the roasting fish called to her as though they were being prepared in the best restaurant by the most able chefs.

 

She was practically drooling the whole time she cooked…and it was the hardest thing for her to pass the fish to everyone else. “What's happening to me?” she wondered. “I never used to be such a slave to my appetite.” She blushed when her stomach gurgled every time she passed out another fish.

 

 

 

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Kagome sat back happily, her back against a tree. She closed her eyes and reveled in the feelings of…satisfaction…that washed over her. The first change she had noticed was in Shippo. She sensed his delight that his - mother? - would make sure he was well fed.

 

Mother. He really did think of her as his mother.

 

Kagome smiled.

 

She sensed Kirara's satisfaction, too…although on a more basic level. Then there were Sango and Miroku. And InuYasha. At first the hanyou had smelled irritated. Then, as the fish crackled and cooked, he had begun smelling more, well, pleased. When he noticed that she was going very light on the spices (which, for some reason, were now making her sneeze if she used more than a little), he smelled even happier.

 

Smelled?

 

Smelled.

 

Shippo's smell had reminded her of “mother.” Sango and Miroku had smelled satisfied…satisfied with their dinner of fish. And then there was InuYasha. She seemed to be able to understand his scent on a more subtle level. Not that she would complain about understanding the hanyou, even if being able to was a little scary. She looked up, across the campfire, when she detected a slight change in his scent.

 

InuYasha was staring at her and was more than a little surprised she had caught him at it. He blushed and looked away, but not before she had an impression of…

 

She shuddered. What was happening to her?

 

 

 

A/N: I wondered what would happen if Kagome acquired InuYasha's youkai-enhanced sense of smell and his ability to interpret scents. Of course, she still has to learn how to use it…

 

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