InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Frog Houshi ❯ Communication ( Chapter 8 )

Yay! another chapter! I'm almost done, two or three more chapters... :*(

disclaimer: see chapter 5

VIII. Communication 

Sango sat there on the boulder, depressed about not being able to break the spell. The frog jumped onto her lap and croaked softly as if to comfort her. But it just made Sango feel worse as she remembered how he comforted her when he was human.

The frog croaked in surprise when he felt a drop of salty wetness on his back. He glanced up to find the source, paused slightly, and then jumped onto her shoulder. From there, his tongue darted out to stop the drop of wetness from rolling down her cheek. He tried to hide the distaste of the saltiness from showing, but failed as Sango giggled slightly at his effort.

It was, um, interesting to have a frog catch your tears with his tongue, but Sango got over that weirdness as she realized that it was his way of wiping her tears away. She gave the frog a smile of gratitude and dried off the rest of the tears.

She took the frog in her hands and saw concern in his dark eyes.

"I'm okay Houshi-sama, really." She looked away. "Thank you," she whispered.

Sango realized that she had a problem to solve: how to turn Miroku back to his human self. Kissing didn't work, so now what?

She stood up and looked around for inspiration. She spotted Kagome's book and walked over to it. The book was open to the end of the frog story Kagome had just read. Sango knelt to pick the book up, but a gust of wind came and flipped the pages back to the picture of the girl and frog accompanying the story. The frog-houshi jumped from Sango's palm onto the page to keep the wind from turning it.

"It worked for that girl, so why won't it work for me?" she mumbled to herself as she stared at the picture. "Is it because I'm not a princess?" The frog croaked as if to protest her comment. Sango turned to him.

"What? I'm not a princess. But then again, you are not a prince either. Maybe that's why it won't work!" she exclaimed, "The kiss to break a spell only works on princes and princesses." She felt somewhat relieved at this discovery. It was almost like an excuse. Yes, that what she would tell Kagome. Anything other than because she wasn't his true love would suffice.

She was about to get up and tell Kagome about this when the frog's frantic croaks caught her attention. She looked down and saw that he was trying to get her to see something. His right front foot was pointing at something in the picture. She looked down closer to see where he was pointing and saw…

Nothing.

Well, nothing special anyway. The frog was simply pointing at the part of the picture that showed the girl's lips touching the frog.

Sango narrowed her eyes in suspicion. "Forget it! If you want more kisses, you can just forget it. I'm telling Kagome so that we can think of another solution."

The frog gave a frustrated croak and shook his body. After some shakes, Sango realized that this was the frog version of shaking his head. Since frogs don't have necks, they don't have distinct heads, so they shake their bodies instead.

He beckoned her to look at the picture again, so she followed his foot. This time, he covered the picture of the girl's lips with his right foot. He then placed his left foot on the picture frog's eye so that the part of the picture that was showing was the frog's mouth. Sango was still confused, so he tried a new strategy.

The frog curled his tongue to touch roughly the spot on his forehead where Sango had kissed him. He shook his body again, which Sango took that he meant no. Then he opened and closed his mouth, and pursed them as much as his muscles would allow, which was only slightly, but was good enough that Sango saw the action. When he had done that, he bobbed his body up and down, which Sango took as he meant yes.

Sango took this information that he was trying to send her and thought it over. But it was not until she looked down at the picture again that she understood what he was trying to tell her.

"Oh I get it! The kiss has to be on the lips, not the forehead, for it to work!" she exclaimed. The frog-houshi bobbed up and down and croaked in approval. So that was what Houshi-sama was trying to show her, he had been trying to show her the detail of the picture that showed the girl kissing the frog on its mouth."Wait," Sango gulped. She just realized what she had said. She had to kiss him on the lips, well, mouth, since frogs don't have lips.