InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Longing ❯ The sticky pages ( Chapter 38 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

The group assembled the dining hall for breakfast the next morning.

“Morning, Kagome!”, sang out a very chipper Sango. Kagome grinned at her best friend. “Morning, Sango! Did you sleep well?”

“Better than I’ve ever slept in my entire life!” Sango grinned pointedly at a very haggard looking Miroku, who scowled at her and sat down at the table.

“Miroku, are you okay?”, Kagome asked her friend, concerned for his health. Miroku leaned his elbows on the table and buried his face in his hands. “He put us in the room next to his.”, he mumbled out from under his hands.

Sango giggled and sat down next to him. “I think Miroku is traumatized from yesterday.”, she said and grinned stupidly at the disgruntled monk.

“Serves the fucking letch right.”, Inuyasha snickered as he entered the dining hall, and plopped down next to Kagome, earning himself a glare from a sleep-deprived Miroku.

Suddenly the room erupted in complete chaos as it was filled with fox children, their parents, and Rin. The hyper little kits ran around the dining room in a frenzy as their parents calmly seated themselves at the table. Kuri sat next to Inuyasha, who glanced nervously at her and scooted a little closer to Kagome, and Shippo sat next to Sango, and gave her a cheesy good morning smile.

Suddenly the chaos came to order as the kits randomly found their seats at the table. “There will be no throwing food this time, or you will all spend the day in your rooms.”, Kuri warned as she fixed each kit with a hard look. “Yes Mama.”, they said in unison, with sweet and innocent looks on their faces. Kurie glared at them suspiciously, then looked away when Jaken started serving breakfast.

Sesshomaru walked in right as his plate was placed at the head of the table. “Oh! I’m so sorry I’m late, I just had so much trouble finding something decent to wear this morning.”, he complained. The new arrivals to the castle just gaped at the demon lord who was currently decked out in a soft pastel pink women’s kimono, and had his glorious platinum hair pinned up in an elaborate bun. His lips were graced with bright red lipstick (or whatever the hell they used back then), and his cheeks were painted a delicate pink. He sat down next to Miroku, who had inadvertently taken the spot next to where the dog demon normally sat at the dinner table. Sesshomaru took out a dainty yellow fan with blue butterflies painted on it, and coyly covered his face. He peeped over the top and batted his eyelashes at the stunned monk. “Did you sleep will, monkey-poo?”

Miroku nervously cleared his throat and scooted his chair closer to Sango, who was desperately trying not to laugh at him. “Um…yeah…thanks.”

“Wow…Sess 230;you look very pretty today.”, Kagome said, once she got over her shock. “Yeah, I like your kimono.”, Sango agreed. “Don’t you think Sesshomaru’s kimono is pretty, Miroku?”, she asked the monk with a evil smile, who was all but shielding his eyes from the sight of the beauty at the head of the table. He shrugged and concentrated on shoveling his breakfast into his mouth as quickly as possible.

Kagome turned to Inuyasha a fixed him with a sickeningly sweet smile, as she watched him eat his food. He looked at her suspiciously, but continued to eat. *Oh, shit. What did I do?*, he thought as he nervously glanced at her between bites.

“Kagome,”, Miroku had noticed her looking at Inuyasha oddly. “Yes, Miroku?”, she answered in a sickeningly sweet voice. Inuyasha’s eyes got big, and he waved his hands at Miroku to get his attention from across the table, while he mouthed ‘NO! Don’t do it! Don’t do it!’. Miroku gave him a strange look with a raised eyebrow that plainly said ‘Why not?’

“Is every thing okay?”, he asked her as Inuyasha slumped in his chair, shaking his head dejectedly.

Kagome cocked her head and her smile widened. “Actually, Miroku, now that you mention it, I do have a little problem.” She looked at Miroku, then Shippo, then Inuyasha for a few seconds each, giving them each the benefit of her sick smile. She took a book out of her pocket and placed it on the table in front of her, causing her male traveling companions to cringe slightly.

“Last night…”, she paused for effect,”…I took out my diary to write in it, and I discovered that there seems to be a little problem that needs to be addressed.” She picked up the book and gingerly flipped through the pages. “It seems…that there is something making some of the pages stick together…and some are…stiff…and crusty.”, she said crinkling her nose at the book. She carefully closed her diary and set it back down on the table. Kagome then gave all three guilty looking males a meaningful look, then continued, “Now. I am not naive. Where I not mated, I would still know why my book is ruined, just by taking note of which entries have been ‘soiled’.” she took a deep calming breath and glared at the offending males. “If any of you snoop in my stuff again, I will make sure that you will never be able to ‘soil’ anything ever again.” she stabbed her butter knife into the table, causing all three males to jump and unconsciously cover their crotch, and smiled cheerily at the now cowering and shaking men. “Have I made myself clear?”, she asked sweetly. They all nodded dumbly, then ran from the table, followed by a chorus of giggles from the women (Sess included) and children.

Sango and Kagome high-fived each other from across the table. “That was awesome, Kagome!”, Sango giggled. “It was, wasn’t it?”, Kagome smirked back.