InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Perfect Birthday Present ❯ Breakfast With the Enemy Part 2 ( Chapter 12 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
*Chapter 11 part 2*

Sesshoumaru smiled, "I did not come here to upset you Kagome, but that is an added bounus. You are beautiful when you are angry." "You know you really need to get over yourself. Why are you here? You know it drives Inu Yasha crazy when you are around. Did you come here to torture him? And don't tell me it is the shards, I know you have had no interest in those so that can't be the reason."

"Kagome, I am hurt, have you forgoten what has happened already?" Sesshoumaru put on his best hurt look. "I can't be away from you, so I did what I thought would be best. I came to you under false pretenses that I am helping you look for the shards." Smiling she walked up and gave him a hug. "But of course, if you want me to go.." Before he could finish Kagome cut him off "no, no I don't want you to go. Just go easy on Inu Yasha, I don't want to have to deal with more fights than are necessary." "You have my word that while we are traveling together I will go easy on him." "Thank you Sess-chan. Now if you don't mind I would like to take my bath now."

He gave her one last smile before he turned to go, then headed back to the village. 'This is working out better than I planned' he thought as a wicked smiled spread across his lips.

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K agome had made it back from her bath, and was now with the rest of the group in Kaede's house discussing where to go to find the next shard. "There is a rumor of a demon with great power to the north of here. It could quite possibly have a shard" Miroku said. Everyone nodded their head, and decided it was best if they checked out this rumor. Even if it didn't have a shard it needed to be stopped.

"Well let's leave then" Inu Yasha said as he slung Kagome's bag over his shoulder. Without looking to see if anyone was following him, he walked out the door and started in the direction the demon was rumored to be in.

"Oh well, there is no point in arguing with him when he gets like this." Kagome sighed, "let's head out guys." Kagome reached out her arms to Shippo, who immediately jumped into them. He made his way up to her shoulders and settled himself in for the long journey. After everyone had grabbed their things they headed out, almost running to catch up with Inu Yasha.

It was well past midday when Kagome finally convinced Inu Yasha to stop for a break. They had been walking non stop at a frightening pace that herself, Miroku, Sango and Rin were having problems keeping up with. Kagome sighed as she sat down with a plop, stretching her legs out in front of her. 'Man it feels good to relax and take a break' she thought tiredly. The muscles in her legs ached and the blue jeans she wore to cover up the cuts on her legs clung to her from sweat.

"Hey guys?" Kagome said as she rumaged through her bag, "let's have some fun. I brought some swim suits, the cool water should feel nice on a day this hot. Of course we would have to find a river or lake." She passed out shorts to all the guys except for Jaken. "Sorry toad man, I don't have one for you." She handed Sango hers then turned to Rin, "I'm sorry Rin, I don't have one for you either." The little girl started to pout and tears came to her eyes. "But" Kagome chimed in with a smile, "I do have a pair of shorts and an old shirt you can wear." The pout quickly turned into a smile as the little girl tackled Kagome with hug.

"Thank you, Rin likes it very much!" She clutched the clothes closely to her as she spun in circles in joy. Kagome looked towards the woods that were to her left and smiled. She grabbed the little girl's hand "come on, I think there is one this way." With that she took off with Rin in tow.

"Oi, wench, where do you think you are going? We still have to find the shards, remember?" Inu Yasha yelled after her. "Inu Yasha, I am not going to argue with you today, I am tired and I want to relax. We were going to be here for a while anyway so why not have some fun while we take a break." "No, we are leaving right now!" "Fine, SIT! Come on Rin, let's go have some fun" she said to the little girl who was now laughing.

The corners of Sesshoumaru's lips twitched slightly as he stiffled a smile. Not saying anything to further instigate things, he turned and followed the rest of the group into the woods.

Kagome some how with out any problems found a huge lake in the woods. She smiled as they came upon it, "ok, guys you go that way" pointing to her right "to get dressed. Rin and Sango you follow me. And guys, no peeking!" They split up to put on the swimming gear, after everyone had finished they met up in the water.

Rin and Shippo stayed in a more shallow part of lake playing a game of tag the best they could in the water. Inu Yasha sat by himself, sulking obviously because they were not off finding shards. Sango was beating Miroku over the head mercilessly for trying to grope her but you could tell she wasn't mad really due to the huge grin splayed across her face. Sesshoumaru was sitting on the bank watching everyone with his normal stoic face. He had refused to wear what Kagome had given him and she refused to let him wear just his loin cloth.

Kagome was trying to sneak up on Sesshoumaru to splash him when she noticed the sad look on Inu Yasha's face. Quietly she swam up to her friend, "What's wrong Inu Yasha?" "Keh." "Come on, we are friends and friends talk. Tell me what is wrong." He sighed, "something's wrong, I can feel it I just can't place my finger on what it is." She gave him a quizzical look then playfuly grabbed his ears. "Come on, this is not the time to worry. We need to relax a little and we includes you" she said with a laugh. He growled playfuly at her and proceeded to chase after her.

They were having a good time when all of the sudden Kagome froze and went stiff. At the same time both Inu Yasha and Sesshoumaru growled in warning. A blur of something went flying past Sango only to hit Kagome and send her flying out of the water hitting a tree and landing with a sickening thud.

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I am going to be unusually cruel and leave it at that for tonight. I know this chapter is short, but to be completely honest it is the second half to chapter 11. Anyways, thank everyone for their reviews! Please continue to enjoy the story :c)