InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Pirates ❯ Hot Spring Tempers ( Chapter 2 )

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

After Aayme had shown them to their room, Alaina had gone behind the screen to change and get things for a bath.
“Marie, I’m going to the hot springs. Stay here and please be good. If you need anything, tell Aayme that I’ll castrate Kouga if she doesn’t get it.”
“You need anger management, ya know that?” Marie quirked an eyebrow at Alaina and giggled slightly when she looked a little pissed off.
“Just go to bed, brat.” Alaina stalked out of the bedroom and headed towards the outdoor hot springs. Aayme would have already cleared them out. She and Ally used to be good friends and they still knew what each of them was like. Basically, if a man had been anywhere NEAR the springs when she was bathing, Aayme’s boyfriend would be in pain and Aayme would be very very frustrated. She quickly stripped down and slipped into the relaxing water. She hadn’t realized how much they had walked today. Her muscles were sore and the hot water stung where she had been cut by things like thorns and other sharp plant life. She closed her eyes and drifted off to a dreamlike state.
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Sesshomaru dropped down into his spring and thought the day’s events. He, Rin, and Jaken had been traveling all day. When they had come across the village ravaged by pirates, Rin had started crying and even he had been slightly disgusted by anyone who could do that to innocent people. He normally wouldn’t have stopped at the tavern but Rin had seen some other girl playing with a doll and had naturally joined in. He had thought about just picking her up and leaving but decided against it when he saw her yawning. They had slept on the ground for a fortnight and even though Rin had a blanket she wasn’t very comfortable. He had talked to the red-haired demon and bought a room. She glanced curiously at Rin, but his glare warned her against asking. When he asked where the hot springs were, she just grinned mischievously and pointed towards a doorway to his right. He had found drying cloths and soaps on his way there. He had picked up on a lingering ningen scent, but he owed it to a past visitor.

When he heard a faint splash, he immediately awoke from his sleep. He looked over to the separate spring and noticed a head and shoulders barely bobbing above the water. How dare this….this human invade his bath. He quickly stepped out of the bath and wrapped a cloth around his waist. He stood over the girl and waited for her to look up.
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Alaina opened her eyes to look for her shampoo and jumped when she saw a man standing over her. Let me correct that, when she saw a GOD standing over her. Her eyes widened as they glided over his muscular torso and the towel slung across his lean hips.
“Who are you to intrude upon my bath?” Sesshomaru asked indignantly.
“Uhhhhh,”was Ally’s intelligent response. Her eyes were still caught on the glorious body.
“Speak up, ningen!” His eyes snapped with impatience. Was the girl illiterate or just stupid?
“Wait just a minute. I was in here first. What gives YOU the right to intrude upon ME???!!!!” He had apparently gotten her attention.
“No human speaks so disobediently to this Sesshomaru!” He reached down and dragged the girl from her spring. He immediately let go when he felt his arm being purified. ‘She’s a miko?! What the hell?’
“Surprised? Next time you decide to drag a nude woman from her bath, make sure she can’t purify your ass!” Alaina quickly grabbed her towel and wrapped it around herself. She didn’t notice the demon lord’s eyes bleeding red as she took her clothing and soaps off the table.
“How dare you! I am the almighty Sesshomaru, demon lord of the west. Do not expect to get off that easily because you are a miko.” His voice rang like thunder, but he didn’t notice as the area around Alaina crackled with electricity when he grabbed her arm.
“DON’T TOUCH ME!” She threw him back into the changing screen and her hands started to glow pink. “ I don’t care if you’re the ruler of the entire world! GET your filthy hands off of me!!!!!!!!!!” Sesshomaru’s usually stoic face had turned into shock. How had this woman thrown him off so easily. He hadn’t been hurt like that in years. He watched in amazement as the girl….as the woman walked back up the stairs to her room.
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“Of all the egomaniacal, stupid, male typical, pigheaded, and arrogant things to do!!! How dare he do that to me! How dare Aayme let him in there! Ohhhh, is Kouga gonna get it!”
“Would you shut up already! I went to bed like you said to! Now, shut up!” Marie threw a pillow across the air and hit Alaina in the face with stupendous accuracy. Ally stood there, stupefied into shock before a very mischievous thought entered her mind. She tiptoed over to the washbasin while Marie had fallen back asleep. She made sure the water was freezing before she dipped the side of the pillow into it. She quickly went over to Marie’s bed and flung the soaking wet pillow right into her bed.
“AHHHH!” Marie’s scream was ear piercing and soon half the tavern was bellowing with shouts and complaints. Ally hurriedly went over to Marie and tried to shush her in between giggles.
“Marie……please…..calm..down! Please, oh my god!” Alaina continued laughing while a VERY pissed off teenager sat in her bed, soaking wet. Marie was right in the middle of taking off to kill a certain miko when a rumpled looking demon lord slammed the door open.
“WOULD….YOU…TWO…..PLEASE…..SHUT UP!!!!!!” Marie and Ally both stopped in their play when the door slammed open. Alaina could see it barely rocking on it’s hinges.
“Ummm, sorry. We were just, umm, sorry.” Alaina and Marie both looked at the apparently very interesting floor while Sesshomaru just glared.
“Just go to bed, filthy humans.” Sesshomaru slammed the door back injuring the hinges which were already only hanging on by a thread. When Alaina heard the last two words, Marie had to grab her arms and talk her into bed.
“Stupid demon.”
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“Inu Yasha, put that DOWN!!” Kagome watched in horror as Inu Yasha pulled the compact yellow container from her purse. She grabbed at the “feminine product” from Inu Yasha’s hand.
“What is it?” He asked. He stared in curious rapture, his eyebrows drawn together. As realization started to dawn, he finally figured out that you’re supposed to open the container. As if in slow motion he drew one hand closer and was tackled to the ground by a slightly upset girl.
“Ah hah!” Kagome cried as she grabbed the item from Inu’s hand. She quickly stuffed it into her purse and walked off. When she felt Inu Yasha following her, she yelled out sit and heard a deafening “ow”, not five feet behind her. She smiled in accomplishment and raised one eyebrow gleefully. She saw Sango up ahead and waved.
“Hey, wait up! Inu Yasha decided he would be a jerk and try to take my purse and go through it.” Sango rolled her eyes and said something about the perversion of guys.
“So, when’s your next “test” thingy?” Sango asked in slight confusion. She still didn’t understand why Kagome left for these things.
“Tomorrow actually. I haven’t told Inu Yasha yet, but I have to leave today. I was hoping to just leave a note. Think I can get away with it?”
“Ummm, no.”
“You’re right. But the only way to get him happy is if he comes with me and then I can’t study anyway. Besides, you’d think he’d rather be here with Kikyo anyway,” Kagome said resentfully. Sango almost smiled at how much her friend liked Inu Yasha and how much she wouldn’t admit it.
“What about Holo?” Kagome glared at her. “Hobo? (more glaring) Hojo?” The glare finally relented and Sango wiped off her forehead. Kagome hated it when Inu Yasha purposely got Hojo’s name wrong and apparently when Sango did it on accident.
“What about him?” She glared at Sango, daring her to say something.
“Nothing, I just thought you liked him. Guess I was wrong.” Sango looked out of the corner of her eye at Kagome’s reddening face.
“Umm, I never said that.”
“Then who do you like?”
“Umm. Actually, I think I may like…..

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Sorry, love cliffhangers.
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