InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Romancing the Enemy ❯ Scroll Two: Flowers and Bobby Pins ( Chapter 2 )

Romancing the Enemy

By: MeldaVeanarSuure

Disclaimer: Blah blah, I don't own InuYasha, Rumiko Takahashi does…

Author's Notes: Chapter 2!! Yay!! Plans get put into motion!!

Kagome climbed out of the well, grunting with the effort. Her backpack weighed twice as much as usual, as she'd also brought things that went with The Plan, as well as the usual supply of Ramon and snacks and whatnot.

Sango ran up to her. "I left the others in the village. They've seemed out of it for the past two days, anyway… What took you so long?"

Kagome dropped her backpack on the ground, and pulled out two high-fashion magazines. "I had to scrape money off of almost ALL of the people I know to buy all of these magazines… Are you sure we need them? I can't afford anything out of these…" She said, looking worried.

Sango sat down, propping herself against the well. She took out one of the magazines and flipped through them. She got a look of obvious distress on her face. "Oh my gosh, Kagome, do you people actually WEAR these clothes?!"

"I don't but some people do." She answered.

"This is just… Oh, I can't even think of anything to say about it!!"

Kagome blushed. "Well, I'm glad I wasted money on dumb things that won't help…"

Sango shook her head. "Oh, no, no, no they're fine, we'll manage to work things out… I'm just a bit shocked about the whole… what do you call it, dasion faster?"

Kagome laughed. "Fashion disaster." She corrected.

"Yes, that. Okay, come on, we'll go over to the Tree; the boys won't think to find us there. We'll go over things there and plan the next move." Sango said, and gathered up some of the magazines.

*~*~*Miroku and InuYasha*~*~*

Shippo balanced a stick on his nose, while balancing the rest of himself on one foot. "Hey!! Look what I can do!!" He called over to Miroku and InuYasha, who had their heads bent over a bit of parchment, Miroku scribbling on it with an ink quill.

Miroku glanced over and gave a half smile to the young demon. "You appear to be very talented, Shippo."

InuYasha shrugged. "Keh. So he can balance two things at once, a stick and his self, so what?"

A firecracker went off just two inches away from InuYasha's backside. He jumped in surprise and gave a look of death over to Shippo, who was innocently in the same position he'd been in fifteen seconds ago. "You'll get yours, raccoon boy…"

"I'M NOT A RACCOON!!!!! I'M A FOX!!!" Shippo yelled, dropping the stick and hopping from one foot to the other.

Miroku sighed. "Now you've gone and done it. Okay," He snapped his fingers at InuYasha's nose, "get back to the present, if you're going to get Kagome to fall in love with you, you need to pay attention."

InuYasha bent over the paper as Miroku began talking in a voice just above a murmur.

*~*Five Minutes Later*~*

"I HAVE TO DO WHAT??"

"Just go with it. She'll like it and you'll like the results of when she likes it."

"I HAVE TO DO WHAT?!?!?!?!?!"

"InuYasha, stop being a grouch and do it!"

"Oh shut up, raccoon."

"I'm NOT a raccoon!!"

"Boys, calm down. Yes, InuYasha, you have to do it."

"Feh…"

"If it's any help, I'll get it to her for you."

"Fine… Only if Shippo goes with what he said, though!"

*~*~*~*Later, Sango and Kagome*~*~*~*

"Okay, so I twist it around like this…" Sango looked at the hairstyling magazine, and twisted Kagome's hair in the same style. "And then around again like this…"

"OW! Sango don't pull so tight, I happen to like my hair on my head!"

"Sorry, I've never done this before." Sango apologized. She continued to fix Kagome's hair into a beautiful and ornate style.

Kagome winced slightly at the tight pull. "I'm sorry I yelled before, when you said it wouldn't work. The clothes styles, I mean."

"It's all right. I'm sorry I made you waste your money."

"Are you sure that your kimono and obi will fit me?" Kagome asked.

Sango smiled. "You're about the same size as me. My extras should fit you. If not… well, we can always fit it so it's a slight bit baggier around your chest, and-"

"SANGO!!!" Kagome cried, her face a brilliant shade of red.

The other girl laughed, pinning a lock of hair down into one curly loop. "My apologies, I must talk to Miroku too much. We'll fix it somehow, I promise."

Kagome smiled to herself and let herself fall into a waking dream, the kind you only get when someone's brushing your hair and putting it into a hairstyle you know is going to be pretty. But, suddenly… Birds flew from the trees, crying their alarm, branches snapped and leaves rustled, and a slowly growing louder voice reached their ears: "KAGOME!!!! KagomeKagomeKagomeKagooooooooooomeeeeee!!!!!!!!"

Shippo bounded out of the forest and jumped onto Kagome's lap, laughing the entire time. "Hiya, Kagome! Sango, whatcha doin' to Kagome's hair?" He asked.

"Hello, Shippo. Kagome and I are playing hairdresser." Sango replied.

"What's that? Is it a fun game? Can I play?!"

Kagome laughed. "If you'd like, I'll play with your hair, okay?"

Shippo nodded and turned himself around to sit properly on Kagome's lap. She undid the bow securing his ponytail, and let his orange hair fall to his shoulders. She took the comb next to her and began to get the knots out of Shippo's hair. "Owie, Kagome, you're pulling! It hurts!"

"It's supposed to hurt a little. It won't as soon as I get all the knots out." She replied.

"Okay…"

Shippo sat there for a while, and completely forgot why he'd come in the first place. Soon though, after a butterfly had caught his attention and went over to a flower to grab a snack, did the little kitsune remember why he was there in the first place. "Oh, Kagome, I was supposed to bring you something… Now where did I put them?" He asked himself, looking around for it, while Kagome stopped combing.

Shippo yelped suddenly, and started to panic when he realized… "NO!!"

'InuYasha's going to KILL me!!! I can't believe I lost them!!!!' He thought. 'I must have dropped them when I was running to find Kagome!!'

"Shippo, what's wrong?" Sango asked, fitting another piece of Kagome's hair into place.

"I… Inu… I mean… Well…" He shook his head, sighing. "InuYasha picked some flowers for you, Kagome, but he was too embarrassed to being them to you himself, so he told me to take them to you. I was so happy that I found you… that I dropped all of the flowers…"

"Oh, poor Shippo. It's okay, really it is." Kagome told him with a smile, while thinking, 'InuYASHA? Picking ME flowers?? We'd better check on him when we get back, I think some of Naraku's poisonous miasma got to him…'

"No it isn't! InuYasha said he'd kill me if I messed this up! And I did, and how he's gonna-"

Sango frowned, sticking a bobby pin (which had taken her a full fifteen minutes to learn how to master) into Kagome's hair, and two more into her mouth. "That's just like him, the big bully. We'll handle everything, Shippo, don't you worry." She said around the pins.

"In the meantime, why'd he want you to give me flowers, anyway?" Kagome asked.

Shippo shook his head. 'Oh great!! One word outta me, and she'd know what was up!! Good thing Miroku told me what to say if she asked…' "I don't know. You'd have to ask him… Maybe he was trying to be nice?"

Sango laughed. "InuYasha being nice is like Miroku not paying any attention to women!!"

Kagome shrugged. "He's had his moments, though. I've seen him. He wasn't exactly nice, but he was kinder than normal, and he didn't yell or anything."

Shippo was sitting on Kagome's leg, still pouting. 'If Kagome doesn't fall for InuYasha now, it's probably going to be all my fault… and THEN he'll kill me…' He thought, a stray lock of orange hair falling into his eyes. "Kagome, could you put my hair back up, it's getting in my face. Please." He added, remembering what manners he'd learned.

Kagome smiled, and absently combed up his short hair, tying the green ribbon back in. "Thanks! That was fun, but I'd better get back…" Shippo said, sounding pretty down.

"Don't worry, Shippo, just tell InuYasha that you delivered the flowers, and we'll make something up when we get back, okay?" Sango asked.

"Okay."

"And sound happy, too. He'll see right through you if you sound as unhappy as you do now."

"Okay."

Shippo bounded off, tail bouncing a bit more with every step. Kagome sighed. Sango frowned slightly. "Don't worry about him. You know Shippo, he'll be bouncing around, happy as a fish in water, as soon as we get back."

*~*~*Hours Later*~*~*

"What is taking those girls so long?" InuYasha muttered, crossing his arms in his haori, plopping himself down on Kaede's front steps.

He wanted to see how Kagome would react to him personally about the flowers. Shippo had said she was very pleased with them, but then again, why should he trust what a kitsune said? Tricksters, the lot of them.

'I can just see the smile on her face…' He thought, closing his golden-amber eyes. 'She'll be glowing… Even though she always glows. And maybe-' His thoughts wandered off to more… unrealistic thoughts.

'At least for now.' InuYasha told himself firmly. 'They'll become… closer to reality, anyway, by the time this is all said and done.'

Suddenly, his sensitive ears picked up footsteps, and he looked for the source. Emerging from the forest was Sango. He looked away. Not important. His frowned suddenly: Kagome had been with Sango. If Sango was here, then where… "Hey, Sango! Where the hell's Kagome? She go home again or what?" InuYasha called, looking impatiently grumpy.

Why did Sango have that look on her face? He shifted uncomfortably, ears twitching. "She's back in the forest. She said it was so peaceful there; she had to stay for a while longer."

"Feh…" He muttered, looking even more grumpy than normal.

Sango's smile widened. "If you're that concerned about her, go and find her yourself."

"Why would I do something like that?" InuYasha snapped. "She always tells me she's perfectly capable on her own, and once I'd get there she'd just yell that damned word and my face'd be shoved into the dirt, again. I'd rather not go through that for the fifth time this week, if it's all the same to you." He thumbed his nose, sprawling out into a lazy stretch.

Sango just continued to smile, and even laughed to herself. InuYasha glared at her as she walked away. 'What the hell was that about?!'

Though, he didn't much like Kagome being out in that forest by herself. Hell knew how many times he'd had to save her ass-'Her very nice ass', he corrected himself-from certain doom-by-demon in that forest. Sighing, he stood up, and shook out the sleeves of his haori, walking into the forest.

Once he was out of sight of the village, InuYasha lifted his head up and sniffed for Kagome's scent. There - slightly to the north and east. Moving silently, he looked around all over. Suddenly, a strong wind picked up. A cry from ahead came to his ears; he recognized it as Kagome. Thinking that Kagura had reared her ugly head again, InuYasha whipped out the Tetsusaiga and dashed for where the cry had come from. "You stay the hell away from her, Kagura-" He yelled, then skidded to a stop, seeing no sign of Kagura. Or Kagome.

Instead, sitting on a felled tree, was a woman. Okay, she was a pretty woman, with a nice, but slightly confusing hairstyle, twisted and pinned complexly. She wore a light, rosy pink kimono with golden cranes embroidered on it; the inner one was a plain white, and a red obi kept it all tied together. InuYasha frowned, the outfit looked slightly familiar. The frown deepened when he realized that he was laughing at him, somewhat politely, keeping a sleeve-covered hand over her mouth. "Yeah, yeah, laugh it up." He sneered sheathing the Tetsusaiga again.

"I'm sorry, InuYasha, but it was just too funny. I'm sorry I yelled, if that's what set you off." The woman said, in Kagome's voice.

InuYasha frowned, walked towards the woman, and sniffed. 'She smells like Kagome… But why would she wear all this? Why not wear her own weird clothes?' "Kagome." He stated, folding his arms and hiding his hands in his haori again.

"Can't fool you with this getup, can I?" She asked, smiling.

InuYasha grumbled to himself a little, and sat down on he tree near her. "Keh…" It was the only thing he could think of to say. Then, "Why aren't you wearing your own weird clothes? And what's with your hair?"

"Sango and I were walking, and I… fell. My clothes got all muddy, and we had to wash them. Sango lent me one of her spare outfits. And Sango happened to look at one of the magazines I brought back, and wanted to try putting my hair up like it." Kagome explained.

InuYasha suddenly went into a coughing fit, to hide his red face under his hair, a very naughty image of Kagome washing her clothes popping into his head. 'Oh great, I'm turning into Miroku!' The girl, surprised, smacked his back a few times to help him, and the hanyou stopped.

They sat in silence for a few minutes, Kagome wondering what had brought InuYasha's coughing fit on, InuYasha trying to keep his mind in at a PG rating. "Oh, InuYasha, I wanted to thank you for the flowers. It was very… uncharacteristically sweet of you." Kagome said suddenly, looking at him.

Was it her imagination, or did InuYasha's cheeks turn pink? "Oh… right, that… It was nothing…"

He glanced over at her, and didn't see the flowers. He frowned, dark eyebrows coming together with an almost audible 'click'. 'SHIPPO!! That little wretch didn't get them to her! He must've lost them, and then told her, and now-' "Kagome, where are those flowers?" He asked, struggling to keep his voice level.

"Oh… That bit of wind that came by… snatched 'em right up from my arms and blew them into the stratosphere. Really bites, you know? They were so pretty, too…" Kagome said, trying to keep an upset look on her face.

InuYasha 'humph'ed, his face returning to it's normal grumpy look. 'That kitsune did something… but I'll let him go… for now.'

"So, you're going to pay me back for that, right?" He asked.

Kagome laughed again. "You expect to be paid back for every nice thing you do?"

"Isn't that how it goes? An eye for an eye."

"If that were true, the world would be blind."

"Not me, remember that time Sessho-maru pulled my father's gravesite out of my eye."

Kagome sighed exasperatedly. 'Still egoistical… And I can't believe he's not paying more attention to how good I look!! Well, if he wants payback…' "Whatever… But, you want payback? I have an idea for payback." She said, smiling slyly.

InuYasha immediately became wary. The last time she'd smiled like that, things hadn't turned out all rainbows and sunshine on his end. More like thunderclouds and tornados. "What is it…?"

"Come here."

'This is it, she's going to kiss me!' He thought, scooting over to where she was sitting.

'That's odd, why's he licking his lips like that?' Kagome thought. "Turn around." She ordered.

Now it was InuYasha's turn to be confused. 'Is this some sort of weird… future kiss or something?' He wondered, obeying.

"Now, put your head here on my lap, and just relax. I'm not going to hurt you."

'What in seven hells is she planning to do?!' He thought, but cautiously obeyed, trying hard not to let it show how much he was liking this whole 'put-your-head-here-in-my-lap' business. He half-closed his eyes, relaxing, slightly. And suddenly, there was an odd tickling sensation at his ears- "KAGOME!! What is seven hells are you DOING?!!"

He shot up, mashing his ears into his head to get the tickling sensation out of them. "You KNOW I hate my ears being messed with!"

Kagome propped her hands on her hips and gave him her very best girl-power glare. "You wanted payback. This is my version of payback. Come on, I know you like it. What dog doesn't love his ears being scratched?"

"Well, I'm sorry if I'm the first to inform you, but I'm a dog demon, and my four-legged cousins are a bit dumber than I am." He stated.

"I find it hard to believe that, especially when you're acting like this. Now sit!" Kagome yelled, pointing to her lap.

And down went the hanyou. Face first into Kagome's lap. Both parties involved turned an eye-smarting shade of red; Kagome more because of anger than embarrassment. Hey, she knew what she was doing. She forced him over on his back, and was a little surprised by his red face, but kept it to herself. InuYasha was busy glaring at her, immobile at the moment by the subduing spell. "I hope you're happy." He grumbled.

"Of course I am. I have you right where I want you." Kagome said, smiling seductively. She reached down and began rubbing his ears again.

At first, all InuYasha could do was grumble and flinch and generally make it look like he was hating every moment of it. But, in a matter of minutes, his flinches subsided and he became calm, and a far-off, dreamlike look washed over his face. Kagome fought with all her being not to laugh as she saw one of his legs twitching out of the corner of her eye, and heard dog-like happy sounds from deep in his throat. "There now, isn't that better?" She asked, letting her nails work in around the base of his ears.

"Mmmmmm… Kagome…" InuYasha murmured, closing his eyes fully.

She wasn't sure why he sounded like that, but it made her feel funny inside. She gave his ears one last rub, then let her hands fall, her fingers running through his hair a little bit. 'He's… sleeping??' She realized, then laughed to herself. It was nice to know he felt comfortable enough to sleep around her, but it was downright hilarious that he claimed to dislike her but he used her as a pillow at this very moment!

'Well… I believe it would be proper to say I've won the first battle.' Kagome thought, sliding his head off of her lap. She stood up, shaking out the kimono, and walked away a little bit, smiling happily to herself. 'I will win you over, InuYasha… I will.' "I will…" She said softly.

"You will what?" InuYasha asked from his laying position on the tree.

Kagome ground her teeth together, telling herself to NEVER speak private thoughts aloud again. "I thought you were asleep." She muttered.

"I was, but you woke me up when you banged my head on this gods-forsaken tree. What are you going to do?"

"Nothing. It's really none of your business." 'For now.'

He smirked. "Keh. Have it your way. We'd best get back to the village, the demons come out at night. In that pretty get-up, you'd certainly attract something." 'That'll get her… but she is very pretty… Especially in that outfit.' He thought.

'N-nani?! Did I hear right?' Kagome smiled to herself. "You're being very odd today, InuYasha." 'Not that I'm complaining.' "Come on."

She reached out and took his hand, dragging him behind her back to the village.

((BLAH the ending was pretty bad, ne? It'll get better, I promise… I think I'm feeling the strain… Please review, it'll get better I promise, and reviews will help me get motivated to get these things out faster!!))