InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Love Potion ❯ Magic Mushrooms ( Chapter 2 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

The sun crept through the window, spreading slowly across the floor, resting on the sleeping forms of Shippo and Kirara. Shippo sat up yawning and rubbing his eyes. He turned to Miroku and Sango, still in each other's arms and then to Inuyasha and Kagome. "Did we miss something?" He asked Kirara.

She just mewed gently and walked over to Sango. She licked Sango's hand, receiving no response she began licking her cheek. Slowly Sango opened her eyes and smiled at her kitten companion. She looked down at her waist where a gloved hand lay and her smile grew wider. "Act two." She whispered.

"OH MY GOD!!!" Sango screamed, jumping out from under the blankets.

Miroku sat straight up in alarm, "What!?" He yelled.

Inuyasha woke with a start at the sound of Sango's "distress".

"What the HELL!" She squealed.

Inuyasha watched in amusement as he continued to cradle Kagome, who was indeed awake but was pretending to sleep through the noise, unwilling to give up her spot in Inuyasha's lap.

Miroku threw his hands into the air, "It's NOT what it looks like! Nothing happened! I SWEAR!" He said quickly.

She looked at the monk, visibly flustered, with a look on her face that clearly said that she was trying to discern whether or not to believe him. Her expression slowly relaxed and she nodded.

Miroku sighed. He wouldn't die today. . . at least not at the hands of Sango.

Kagome stirred. Inuyasha smiled. "So she finally wakes up." He thought.

Kagome looked up at Inuyasha and smiled, "Oops." was all that she said before awkwardly climbing out of his lap. "Sorry." She mumbled. "That couldn't have been very comfortable." She said blushing.

"Keh." He shrugged off her comment. Truth be told, it really was very comfortable. In fact, he couldn't remember the last time he had slept so well.

"Our behavior last night must have been appalling." Kagome said, pulling him out of his reverie.

There was a knock on the door and the Innkeeper walked in. "Oh good. You're all wake. I just came up to tell you that breakfast was ready."

"Great! I'm starving!" Shippo said enthusiastically. They all gathered up their belongings and walked downstairs for breakfast.

They once again ate their meal in silence. Shippo and Kirara because they were too busy eating, but the others because they were all replaying the events of last night in their minds. Shippo looked around at his friends, each one supported a small grin and a blush of different shades of pink and red. "Did I miss something?" He asked for the second time today.

Inuyasha stood up, "We should get going." The rest of the group stood and followed him, mumbling their agreement. Shippo watched their backs retreat hurriedly out of the room.

"HEY! Wait for me!" He hollered as he raced after them.

On the road again. . . .

Inuyasha and Miroku walked ahead, as the girls, Shippo and Kirara walked behind them. Inuyasha sighed.

'It's not that at all Kagome.'

"What was I thinking?" He thought.

' Ask me again when you're sober.'

'Will you tell me then?'

'Yes.'

'Promise?'

'Promise.'

"How could I promise her something like that?" Inuyasha mentally slapped himself. "Stupid, Stupid, Stupid. Kagome please don't remember." He sighed deeply.

"Could you please stop that."

"Huh?"

"You keep sighing." Miroku said, "It's beginning to get rather annoying. You aren't the only one thinking about last night."

"WHAT DO YOU KNOW?" Inuyasha burst out.

"You boys okay up there?" Kagome asked.

"Fine!" They both said quickly.

"I kind of feel guilty." Kagome whispered to Sango. "It's obvious that they are thinking about last night. And something seems to really be bothering Inuyasha."

"So are you going to ask him?" Sango whispered. Kagome had told her all about her and Inuyasha's conversation the previous night.

Kagome sighed sadly, "I don't think so."

"Why not?" Shippo asked.

"Shippo!" Kagome and Sango said in unison.

"We thought you were asleep." Kagome said.

"Nope." Shippo said grinning. The girls just shook their heads.

"Well, why not?" Shippo inquired. " I would want to know if it was me."

"I'm . . . scared."

"Of what?" Asked Sango.

" Of what he will say. What if he just said that to pacify me? What if he really didn't plan on telling me anything? What if he only said that because he thought that I wouldn't remember?"

"I didn't think about it that way." Sango said. Kagome's shoulders sagged. "It doesn't matter anyway. I'm getting tired of being the only one who tries . . . . really tired. So I won't mention it."

Inuyasha had been picking up bits and pieces of their conversation. And the last bit he picked up very little. "Kagome's tired and she doesn't want to mention it?" He thought. He looked up, well they had been walking for hours. It was after all WELL past noon and they hadn't even stopped for lunch. "We'll stop here for dinner." He yelled over his shoulder as he stalked off of the road and into a little clearing in the trees.

They all looked at Inuyasha, dumbfounded at the fact that he would stop with out them asking or rather begging first. "Well? Are you gonna sit down?" He asked from his position in the grass.

The rest of the gang joined him. They soon had a fire going and Kagome began preparing their dinner. She looked past Inuyasha towards the horizon. "The sun will be setting in a few hours." She thought. "And Inuyasha will surely want to get a few more miles in before we stop for the night." She sat back, sighed and rubbed her temples. "I'm just so tired." The water began to boil but she didn't notice.

"Hey, are you okay?" Inuyasha asked.

"Huh? Yeah." She said with a smile. "I'm fine."

"She must not feel well." He thought. "Hell, I would feel like shit too if I had drank as much sake as she did last night."

"So how much farther are we going today?" Kagome asked pouring water into the ramen cups and handing them around to everyone.

Inuyasha sighed, " Might as well." He thought. "We'll stop here for the night." He said aloud.

They all stared at him, " Are you sure?" Sango asked.

"Yeah, I mean we haven't gotten that far today." Miroku added.

"Keh, there is a hot spring right through those trees." He said simply. Offering nothing more on the subject he began to eat his ramen.

"Thank you." Kagome said so quietly that only Inuyasha heard her. He stopped eating and looked at her. Their eyes met momentarily. Losing their nerve they broke eye contact and continued with their meal.

Miroku, Sango, and Shippo just stared at their two friends. They all shook their heads and continued eating as well.

"And. . . and she screamed KILL IT!" Miroku howled as Shippo broke out laughing.

"I did NOT!" Kagome said laughing.

"Yes, you did." Sango said giggling.

"Oh really!" Kagome huffed. "At least my mind wasn't in the gutter. 'You're stroking his sword.' Remember that?"

Sango blushed. "Yes."

"Your mind went there too." Miroku laughed, " 'I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to molest your sword.' " He said in his best girly voice.

"I miss all the good stuff." Shippo squealed though his laughter as he clutched his sides.

Kagome grabbed her clean clothes from her bag, "I'm going to take a bath." She stalked off into the woods, her laughter trailing behind her.

Sango stood, " I think I will too." She followed after Kagome.

Inuyasha sat high in a nearby tree. His fingers absently stroking his smiling lips. He had been listening to the conversation below him. He too was remembering. And just like every time that day when he let his mind wander to the events of last night, his smile faded.

'Promise?'

'Promise.'

"Please tell me that you don't remember, Kagome. I can't face that right now." He thought aloud.

"INUYASHA!" Miroku called up to him. "Inuyasha, I must speak to you." Inuyasha groan irritably but jumped down anyway. "What is it monk?" "I was watch . . . uh I mean I was walking and I over heard the girls talking. You won't believe---"

"Hold on a minute. You were spying on the girls again, weren't you?"

"Well, uh yes. But hear me out first. I swear you'll want to hear what I over heard. If you don't then I will stand and let you beat me." I

Inuyasha lowered his newly raised fists, "I'm listening."

"The girls were laughing and talking when I walked by. I heard Kagome'I can't believe how easy it was.' she said. And then Sango said, 'I know it. I didn't really think that it would work at first, but.' And then Shippo said, `You two know that they will be angry when they find out that it was water, not sake that you were drinking last night.'

And then I came back here to tell you." Miroku gasped. He was now short of breath because in his excitement he forgot to breath while he spoke.

"So you are saying they weren't drinking sake but water?"

"Yep."

"Then the whole time, they weren't drunk at all."

"Nope."

Inuyasha smiled evilly. "Oh, they're gonna pay."

"Inuyasha, there was no harm done. Why seek revenge?"

"Hee hee. Because." He cracked his knuckles and arched his brow, "It'll be fun."

Miroku smiled and nodded. "What did you have in mind?"

Shippo, who had over heard everything, walked up. He smiled up at them from the ground. "Anything I can do to help?"

Inuyasha and Miroku looked at each other and then down at Shippo, "Yes!" They said in unison.

The girls walked back into the clearing a little while later.

" I guess you didn't drown after all." Miroku said sarcastically.

Sango and Kagome looked at each other. "We weren't gone that long." Sango replied.

"Keh! Long enough." Miroku said as he rolled his eyes. He stood up, walked over to a tree. He jumped much like Inuyasha usually does but only succeeded in jumping straight into the trunk and falling to the ground.

The group looked at him. "Are you all right, Miroku?" Sango asked.

He turned around and sat at the base of the tree. He crossed his legs and arms and scowled, "Fine!"

Sango and Kagome looked at each other and just shrugged. "I'm going to bed." Kagome announced as she rolled out her sleeping bag and climbed into it.

Sango yawned. She gave the guys one last weird look. "Me too." She curled up next to Kirara and the girls were soon asleep.

"Okay." Inuyasha said smirking. "Next step."

The next morning. . .

"Come on! Everybody wake up!" Miroku yelled roughly.

Everyone woke with a start. Miroku paced back and forth. "Let's go! We're burning daylight here!" He spat.

Inuyasha stood up. "Calm down. We all want to find the shards as well as Naraku as much as you do. But I doubt even Naraku is up this early." He said calmly.

The girls looked at each other and then back at the guys, their mouths agape in shock. Their stood Miroku and Inuyasha but they were wearing each other's clothing. Inuyasha stood there regally in Miroku's monk's robes. Miroku stood in a trademark Inuyasha stance wearing Inuyasha's fire rat robes.

"What is going on here?" Kagome asked loudly.

"I'm not sure." Sango said.

" I think I do." A small voice said from the bush behind them.

"Shippo?" Kagome and Sango said together.

Shippo stepped out of the bush. "Please don't be angry with me."

"Why would we be angry, Shippo?" Kagome asked.

"This is POINTLESS! We should get moving." Miroku said angrily.

"Let us hear him out." Inuyasha said.

"Well," Shippo began, "I think they may have eaten some of my magic mushrooms."

"Mushrooms!? What---"

"AAAHHH!" Kagome squealed.

Everyone looked over at her.

Inuyasha was holding Kagome's hands while staring intently into her eyes. "Kagome, would you do me the honor of bearing my child?" He crooned.

"INUYASHA!" Kagome screamed, blushing furiously.

"That's not exactly a no, now is it." Inuyasha said with a wink.

Kagome jumped back issuing a small squeak.

Sango massaged her temples. "What exactly do these mushrooms do?" She asked, finishing her question from before.

"Well, it switches the personalities of whoever eats them." Shippo replied.

"Meaning?" Kagome asked, taking a few timid steps away from Inuyasha.

"It causes the people who eat them to act like the other."

"Is there a remedy?" Sango asked him.

He just shook his head. "It just wears off. . . eventually."

Kagome was beginning to get irritated. " How long is eventually?"

"It depends on the person."

Kagome jumped, "EEEP! SIT BOY!"

Inuyasha looked up from his newly formed hole, "What? I was just appreciating your wondrous curves." He said grinning as he moved his hand in a grabbing motion.

Sango giggled, "It would explain why Miroku ran into that tree last night. He must have wanted to jumped into it like Inuyasha does."

"I suppose." Kagome sighed.

"We've discussed this ENOUGH! Let's get moving!" Miroku said impatiently.

"Oh NO!" Kagome said. " We aren't going anywhere until this wears off."

"Damn it, wench!" Miroku hollered. "We can not be wasting time like this when Naraku is still out there!"

"You don't have a choice." Sango snapped back.

"Perhaps it is for the best that we wait a day." Inuyasha said sitting up.

"Keh. Whatever." Miroku said as he sat down in frustration .

They spent most of the day in silence. Miroku, Inuyasha and Shippo on one side of the camp. Sango, Kagome, and Kirara on the other.

"At least they had the sense to keep their own weapons." Sango commented. "I don't know what would have happened if Miroku forgot about his wind tunnel and removed the glove."

"True." Kagome said. She giggled, "But they do look ridiculous in each others clothing. And earlier when Inuyasha left after lunch, he went off to meditate."

"No!" Sango said.

"Yes!" Both girls started laughing.

"Help! Kagome, Miroku is trying to hurt me." Shippo squealed as he ran into her lap.

"SIT!"

Inuyasha went crashing into the ground.

"OH! Inuyasha, I'm so sorry. It's a reflex."

"That's alright." He said. He got up and walking over to Kagome he took her hands. "You can make it up to me by. . . bearing my child."

"Oh really!" Sango said, "It's even worse hearing it from him."

"Are you jealous Sango?" Inuyasha grinned, "You can bear my child too if you wish."

"Um. . . .Okay! It's getting dark. Why don't you boys go take a bath." Kagome said rubbing her temples for what seemed like the millionth time today. "I need a break."

"Anything for you, Kagome dear." Inuyasha said before walking into the woods shortly followed by a sulking Miroku.

"I hope this doesn't last too much longer." Kagome sighed.

"I know. I don't know how much more I can take."

A short time later, Miroku and Inuyasha's roaring laughter could be heard filtering through the trees.

"They certainly are taking this well." Sango commented.

"They would be wouldn't they." Shippo gasped as both girls locked their gazes onto him. "Oops."

"Alright, Shippo. What do you know?" Kagome asked.

"I can't! Inuyasha will kill me!"

"You know that I wouldn't let him hurt you. And besides, if you don't tell us, I will never bring you another piece of candy." Kagome said sweetly.

Shippo groaned. "Miroku over heard you two talking about the sake water and told Inuyasha. So they came up with this switched personality thing to get back at you two." Shippo said. "I DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT! THEY MADE ME!" He lied.

"Oh really!" Both girls said evilly.