InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Project Hope ❯ Flying and Flooding ( Chapter 5 )

Once again, my quarterly exam is creeping closer and closer. That and cello, piano, newspaper club, chamber orchestra, horse-back riding, SAFE Teens, art classes and gumdo which is a sort of sword-fighting and homework is keeping me tied up. Yes I do all of the after school activates that I have just listed. So please be patient with me.

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Chapter Five

Flying and Flooding

After two days of downpour, the sky finally cleared up. The streets partially flooded and the air was damp.

Kagome rolled around in bed and sucked in her breath as the bright sunlight hit her eyes. Untangling the blanket from her limbs she got up and stretched. Not bothering to change she brushed her teeth and trudged downstairs to make herself some hot chocolate. Breaking a huge yawn, Kagome pushed open the swinging door only to slip on the wet floor. She flared her arms and prepared herself for the impact. But instead she felt two strong arms slip under her back and waist, keeping her steady.

Kagome opened her eyes and found herself staring at Inuyasha. He scowled and pulled her back into a standing position. Kagome put her hand on her chest and let out a relieved sigh. "Thanks Inuyasha. You saved me a nasty bump on the head."

Inuyasha jumped on the counter and scoffed. "Stupid humans. You need to learn to take care of yourself."

Yawning again, Kagome leaned on the counter next to Inuyasha. "So what are you doing here?"

"Nothing."

Kagome opened a drawer and pulled out two packs of cocoa mix. Shaking them, the tired miko said, "Do you want some hot chocolate?"

Inuyasha looked at the small bags, then at Kagome then mumbled, "Don't know what hot chocolate is."

Putting on a fake horrified expression, Kagome gasped, "Hot chocolate is a gift from the gods!" Her face returned to normal and she said, "It's like melted chocolate in water. It's really good. Want to try some?"

Inuyasha's nose had already detected the thick sweet scent of chocolate. "Are you trying to poison me wench?"

Narrowing her eyes, Kagome reached up and gave one of his ears a sharp tug. Cringing in pain and surprise, Inuyasha whined, "Ow! That hurts! Let go!"

Standing on tiptoe so that she was face to face with Inuyasha she said, "I'm not a wench. Got it?"

Inuyasha nodded and rubbed his ear with the expression of a little boy who had been yelled at. He remained silent while Kagome made the hot chocolate. As the steam rose into the air., the rich scent of chocolate filled Inuyasha's nose. Kagome handed him a mug that said, "Hand over the mug and no one gets hurt" filled with dark liquid.

Inuyasha pointed in the cup and asked, " What are those floating white things?"

At the curious expression and madly twitching nose Kagome couldn't help but laugh. "They're marshmallows. I thought you might want some."

As the amazed hanyou raised his mug to his lips, Kagome warned, "Be careful, it's hot."

Inuyasha yelped as the hot liquid hit his tongue. Kagome shook her head, smiling, as Inuyasha stuck his pink tongue out and fanned it. Kagome took a sip of her hot chocolate and Inuyasha pouted. Finally after a string of cursing, he finally shut up and sat back down.

Picking up his cup again, he followed Kagome's example and blew on the liquid before drinking it. He seemed to almost chew it before he gulped it down.

Peering at him for his reaction, Kagome asked, "So, what do you think?"

Giving a boyish grin he said, "It's not so bad when it's not burning your tongue. But all my marshmallow things melted."

"Here I'll get you some more." Setting her hot chocolate down, Kagome bent down and opened a cabinet "Ah-ha!" She jumped back up with a extra large bag of Mini-Marshmallows. She ripped it open and sprinkled a handful into his cup.

Inuyasha gulped down the marshmallows like a starving animal and said, "Those marshmallows are not so bad."

Grinning Kagome put the bag back into the cabinet and said, "Then feel free to take some whenever you want."

Suddenly the door was pushed open and Rin along with Sango dragging Sessomaru rushed in. They were still in their pajama's and looked half asleep.

Rin put a hand on her hip and said, "Now I know you're not having hot choco without us."

Kagome, Rin and everyone else were in the living room when the phone rang.. Back-flipping over the couch, Sango grabbed the phone and said, "Hilo!"

"Hello Charice…" said a whispery voice.

Sango rolled her eyes. "Hey, Midoriko. What's up?"

Sango put the phone on speaker and said, "Ok, we're all listening."

Midoriko's voice could be heard saying, "We have a slight problem. The rains have caused a small flood. Nothing major but we still need some help cleaning up. Can you guys make it?"

Everyone except for Inuyasha and Sessomaru answered, "No problem."

Quickly supplying everyone with raingear Kagome glanced out the window, "Well, the good news is that this part of town wasn't badly flooded so we can walk out the door without having to worry about being washed away, The bad news is that we won't be going in the car. We'll have to walk."

Sango stepped forward and said, "We could always ride Kirara

Inuyasha gave a skeptical look and demanded, "What's a Kirara?"

Knowing just how to make an entry, a small figure that had been resting on the couch lightly jumped up and unto Inuyasha's shoulder. It was some sort of cat demon. Even to Inuyasha's eyes she was cute with her fluffy white fur, large eyes and two tails.

Giving a snort Inuyasha said, "That's Kirara? You people must have been dropped on your heads early on or something. She can't carry us!"

Sango grinned. "She may be small now but that can change. Kirara!"

At the command, Kirara was suddenly engulfed in flames while still on Inuyasha's shoulder. Before the unfortunate demon could react, Kirara became the size what could have been either a very large horse or a medium sized elephant. Her fangs were deadly daggers. And she was sitting on top of Inuyasha.

Managing to push her partly off Inuyasha grunted, "Ok. You, stick-face! Get this over-sized cat off me!"

"Stick-face?" Sango self-consciously puffed out her cheeks a little and ended up making herself look like a chipmunk. "Kirara, squish the filling out of him!"

After finally getting Sango to call off Kirara, the group mounted Kirara and set off for the Flood Center. It was a very interesting ride right after Inuyasha discovered that Kagome had a fear of heights.

Sango sat at the front right at the base of Kirara's neck with Miroku who had somehow managed to slide in behind her; Rin sat behind him, Sessomaru behind Rin, Kagome and then Inuyasha sitting on Kirara's rump with his arms crossed. Finding this a good time to tease her friend, Sango leant forward and whispered in Kirara's ear, "Higher."

Kirara bounced on air and shot higher into the sky. As soon as she felt the wind rush past her, Kagome gave a loud and frightened squeal. "No, no, no, no! Sango go lower before I die from the lack of air!"

Rin grinned and yelled back to Kagome, "Don't be such a wuss! There's plenty of air up here."

Kagome tightened her hold on Sessomaru's abdomen and clamped her eyes shut. They popped open when she heard the sarcastic chuckle from behind her.

"So you're afraid of heights? Stupid girl. If you fall the worst that can happen is you break your spine from the angle that you hit the ground, mess up your nervous system, crack your skull open, sever some body parts and die. Or maybe you'll get lucky and somebody will mistake you for a bird and shot you. Less painful." Inuyasha gave a horrible, humorless smile at and pathetic sound that Kagome made.

"How dare he make fun of me?! When I find out what he's afraid of he's going to get it. But in the meantime…" Kagome faced her fear telling herself that it would be worth it and let go of Sessomaru's stomach. - Much to his relief. Kagome's death grip had been cutting of the path to his lungs.- Taking a deep breath she dropped her hands to Kirara's side and glanced behind her to give Inuyasha a triumphant smile.

Inuyasha gave her a fairly impressed look. However he couldn't pass up this opportunity. "Well that's nice that you opened your eyes but why don't you look down? The view's great."

Kagome screwed up her face and retorted, "Bite me."

Baring his fangs threateningly, Inuyasha hissed, "With pleasure."

Suddenly Sango yelled back her voice full of warning, "Everyone, duck!"

Sure enough a group of ducks came flying out of nowhere and straight at the unwary travelers.

Rin stuck her tongue at Inuyasha and shouted over the wind, "Looks like they're here for revenge for that little bird comment you just gave."

Sango yelled again, "Duck!"

Everyone leaned down and covered their heads hoping to save themselves from natural waste. Kagome leaned down off to the side and unconsciously looked down.

Bad idea.

The sight of how little houses the houses looked and how far up they were instantly made her eyes cross and her head become dizzy. Unknowing, she slipped off and she snapped open.

"Oh my GOD!" The rushing air slapped the words from her mouth as everyone still aboard Kirara saw her fall; Sango and Rin screaming. Suddenly Kagome felt a hard jerk on her arm as a hand caught her wrist. Surprised that she wasn't falling, Kagome looked up and tried to catch her breath. Inuyasha was hanging off the side of Kirara while gripping her fur. He had somehow managed to catch her wrist and ultimately save her dropping life.

As Sango, Rin and Miroku continued to yell at Inuyasha to pull her up and Sessomaru grabbed Inuyasha so he didn't fall, Inuyasha grunted and began to pull her back up.

Sessomaru and Inuyasha pulled her up and kept a hold of her. Kagome was pale and shaking from the ordeal and she rasped out to her friends, "I'm ok. Now…" She had somehow gotten up backwards and was now facing Inuyasha.

"Thank you for catching me."

Inuyasha looked like he was still trying to catch up with what had just happened. "Well, somebody had to save you I guess." Kagome, still light-headed from nearly dieing, leant forward and rested her head on Inuyasha's shoulder.

Inuyasha blushed slightly and tightened his hold on her shoulders. Miroku, Sango, Rin and Sessomaru stared at the two. Miroku and Rin gave quiet cat-whistles to try and lighten the mood. Of course that just received a death glare from Inuyasha. But Sessomaru noticed that his little brother scooted a teeny tiny bit closer to Kagome.

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Kirara lowered herself into the flooded street and trudged to the door. Sessomaru reached down and easily pulled it open and everyone quickly jumped into the dry and warm building. Kirara transformed back into her kitten shape and hid herself in Sango's jacket.

Inuyasha kept an eye on Kagome and looked around the room. It was pretty cozy. There were sign in desks, beds to sleep on, chairs, desks, food centers and stations. Kagome stepped forward to greet a girl that had jogged up to them.

"Hey Midoriko."

Flicking back her dark hair Midoriko frowned at Kagome and said strangely, "Are you ok Kagome? You look kind of pale."

Laughing nervously Kagome dismissed the question. "Oh I'm fine." If you consider falling from a mile in the air fine. "Do you have anything you need us to do?"

Eyeing Kagome as if she might faint any second, Midoriko said, "Actually we do need some help. There weren't any reports of major damage or flooding but we need some help cleaning up."

They quickly paired off and set out for their assigned jobs. Everyone seemed to have it in for Kagome and Inuyasha because they somehow ended up as partners.

Inuyasha huffed and said in an annoyed voice "Why do I have to do this?"

Kagome lightly replied, "You and I have to do this because the rain hit the west woods hard and trees and brushes were knocked around."

"I didn't mean literally."

Kagome rubbed her temples and took several deep breaths, trying to get the image of the ground rushing up to her out of her head. Even without the fear of heights, going through what she had just gone through was terrifying. She gave a quick shake of her head and shot Inuyasha a energetic smile. "Ok let's go!"

Once out in the flooded roads Inuyasha hissed apparently annoyed, "Are you always this slow?"

"Nope not always."

Rolling his eyes, Inuyasha crouched in the water and sighed, "I want to go home so get on."

Kagome nodded happily and hopped on his back. "I'm so happy, Inuyasha."

"You're happy because I think your slow?"

Wrapping her arms around his shoulders she said, "No I'm happy because you said you want to go home. You're already thinking of that house as home."

There was no reply as Inuyasha stood up with her on his back and raced away towards the woods.

About six minutes later, the pair arrived at the woods which looked more like a swamp at the moment. Kagome jumped off of Inuyasha's back only to find that her feet sank so far deep into the muddy ground that she was stuck. "Um. Inuyasha?"

He had been walking off and without turning around he growled, "What?! Are you always this annoying, bitch?"

Wide-eyed, Kagome bent down and scooped up a handful of mud and chucked it at the back of Inuyasha's white head. With a sloppy thuk, the mud smacked it's target and began sliding down his long hair.

"What the hell was that for you ugly little hag?" he roared.

Staring at him in disbelief Kagome yelled back from where she was standing. "Well as is you unthoughtful jerk, I only called you because the mud just so happened to have immobilized me! But no. You being the inconsiderate, ungrateful bastard that you have proved yourself to be, you couldn't even turn around. And you called me a bitch for no reason!"

. He hadn't thought she had it in her to say what she had just said. "You're calling me ungrateful? I think I'm the one that saved your life! I should have let you drop soen to earth and decease to breath!"

Kagome spat right back at him, "Yeah well I'm the one that saw and saved your life on the beach, took care of you and let you have somewhere to live and start a new life. And I'm starting to wish that you had just drowned!"

The two probably would have gone on forever but at that moment a certain somebody came along. Kagome shut her mouth when she saw the dust tornado and inwardly groaned. Just what she needed. Inuyasha spotted it too and got ready to fight. The tornado skid to a stop near Kagome, splattering mud all over Inuyasha. As the dust settled there stood a wolf demon. He was tall and dressed in fur clothing. Unruly hair sat on top of his head, pulled back in a small ponytail. Challenging brown eyes and a fanged smirk settled on his face.

"Kouga. How nice to see you." Kagome greeted him with a smile. "Could you help me out of the mud?"

Kouga easily pulled Kagome out with a strange sound, compliment of the mud. "Kagome you look more beautiful than ever."

Inuyasha growled and stepped forward. Hearing Inuyasha with his pointed ears, Kouga looked over at him and remarked. "Who's the mutt, Kagome? Is he bothering you?"

Baring his fangs Inuyasha snarled, "Who the hell are you calling a mutt wolf?"

Sighing heavily, Kagome introduced her companion, "Kouga, this is Inuyasha. Inuyasha the is Kouga, Prince of the Wolves."

Scrunching up his face Kouga sniffed. "Well dug-turd, it seems that you should take a bath. Your stench might have an effect on my mate's health."

Inuyasha's face became one of total surprise and disgust. "Mate? Are you telling me that this wimpy wolf is your mate?"

Kagome put up her hand to try and say something but Kouga interrupted. "Of course. She's my woman."

"How many times do I have to tell you Kouga? I'm your friend not your woman." Kagome said in a tired voice.

Neither of them noticed Inuyasha's small sigh of relief. "I know the girl's dumb but no female would be the mate of a filthy idiot like you."

The two demons snarled at each other and most likely would have carried on, however, at that precise moment, a bomb fell on top of them.

I'm so sorry that this chapter is horrible but I had to rush it. But I hope that you enjoyed it anyways…I'll try to update as soon as I can. Pretty please…REVIEW~^^