InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Prophecy ❯ Nasty Toad ( Chapter 4 )

Hmkai, well, here's a new chapter! I hope that you're excited for it! Just to warn you, there is fluff in this chapter! Only a bit, but still enough to get anyone by.

 

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, I do own the plot, however.

 

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The Prophecy

 

Chapter 4

 

The morning dawned bright and early, bringing with it the warmth of the sun and the promise of a bright cloudless day. Kagome woke up feeling warm, comfortable, and protected. She felt like she never wanted to move again. She snuggled closer to the warmth that wrapped itself around her, pulling her more snuggly into the warmth. The most wonderful scent assaulted her nose; musky and very masculine, but also clean, like a forest right after a rain shower.

 

The scent hit something within her memory, but for the life of her, she couldn't really remember what it was. `What do I have to do today?' she silently asked herself, running through a mental list of things going on in the day. `Hojo will probably try to get me to go on a date with him again. I doubt Inuyasha would like that—wait a minute…'

 

Her body jolted and her eyes shot open before she propelled herself into a sitting position to take in her surroundings. `That's right, I'm not home am—' her thoughts were interrupted by an angry growl.

 

“What was that for, Bitch?” an angry voice filled with sleep asked.

 

Kagome looked down at the still lying half dog demon and all of her recent memories came back to her. ”Oh, sorry, I forgot where I was for a second,” she said sheepishly, a light blush adorning her cheeks.

 

Inuyasha `keh'd and stood up to stretch. `That's the first time in a long while that I've actually slept all the way through the night,' he thought as he looked the teenager over. `She's cute when she blushes. Maybe…' he didn't even dare finish the thought.

 

The rest of the camp roused themselves and they soon set off. “We'll arrive at the palace by night fall,” Inuyasha told the girls. `We're making good time. They're not complaining as much as I thought they would,' Inuyasha silently mused.

 

They traveled contentedly for hours until the sun was high over head. Inuyasha sniffed the air, nose held up as he caught whiff of something fowl smelling. A shiver went up Kagome's back as a bad feeling ran down it. She frowned as it seemed to be coming from a specific direction in the forest.

 

“Something's coming,” she said quietly. Inuyasha swiveled an ear over in her direction.

 

“Do you know what direction?” he asked curiously.

 

“Oddly enough, yeah,” she said disbelief in her voice. “Over there.” She pointed to their left in the direction of a clump of bushed on the side of the forest trail.

 

Inuyasha turned his horse in the direction she indicated and told them with authority, “Stand back. Soldiers, to the front.” The soldiers moved their mounts in front of the girls.

 

“What's going on?” Sango asked hesitantly.

 

“Something mean is coming,” Inuyasha answered, dismounting from his horse, quickly followed by his soldiers. Inuyasha unsheathed his sword, which instantly grew twice its normal size, much to the shock of the human girls, and growled lowly. The girls watched in amazement as the soldiers' mounts circled them and their mares, creating a protective barrier around them.

 

Twigs snapping in rapid succession alerted them to whatever was coming was coming fast. It burst through the line of trees to come to a full stop in front of their group. `Eeeew,' Kagome thought with disgust. The thing was sort of like a giant toad. Blisters on its back oozed a disgusting and fowl smelling yellow puss. Kagome watched as a drop landed on the ground, causing it to smoke like acid had dropped instead of yellow puss. Its eyes were blood red, its horizontal pupils a golden color. Its second eyelids blinked quickly and saliva dripped from fangs that protruded over his bottom lip.

 

It lunged towards Inuyasha, who effortlessly dodged before bringing his sword down on the toad's shoulder. It howled with pain, dark red blood seeped out of the wound, pooling on the ground under this front foot.

 

The soldiers came forward, all with their own attacks, slashing and hacking at the monster until it finally went down, eyes blank, blood flow slowly stopping.

 

“W-what was that?!” Sango demanded her eyes wide with fright. Rin was shaking slightly and her eyes were equally as wide.

 

“Nasty little toad demon,” Inuyasha replied.

 

“Does this happen often?” Kagome asked with a slight tremor in her voice.

 

“Often enough,” one of the soldiers told her with a cheerful voice.

 

“Alright,” Kagome said, putting a hand over her nose, “can we leave? This stink is getting to me.” Inuyasha nodded, climbed back onto his horse, and led their procession away from the dead toad thing.

 

As they got further and further away, Kagome was able to breathe easier. “Gods, I feel nauseous,” she moaned. “I have no idea how you were able to stomach that putrid smell,” she directed the comment at Inuyasha.

 

“I've smelt worse,” he told her.

 

“You, yourself? Or were you referring to something else?” she asked, smirking.

 

Inuyasha growled while his soldiers and her friends chuckled at their antics. “If I remember correctly, Bitch, you said you liked my scent,” he told her, smirking at her blushing face.

 

She waved it off. “I was half asleep and not completely sane when I said that,” she told him, turning away from him to hide her heated face.

 

“You wanna know what the worst thing that I've smelt is?” he asked, leaning towards her slightly. She didn't give an answer, but he continued anyway, “You.”

 

“AH!” Kagome exclaimed angrily. She turned back towards him, her face now red with anger as she pointed her index finger at him. “You evil little puppy!” she forged ahead, ignoring his appalled look at the title `little puppy.' “I'll have you know that I wouldn't smell so bad if I had some soaps, dammit! Unlike you, I don't like being covered in dirt and smelling like shit all the time.”

 

“What the hell?” Inuyasha yelled. “I do not smell like shit and what the hell is with the `little puppy' shit?!”

 

“That's what you are, Inuyasha, a little puppy. All bark and no bite,” she told him cheekily.

 

“You call what I did to the toad no bite?!” he demanded incredulously. “Do you know what I could do to you?!”

 

`Other than give me mind blowing pleasure? NO! Bad Kagome, keep it in your pants!' “And you wouldn't. Guys like you are so predictable. You wouldn't hurt any of your friends, now would you?” she asked with pleading eyes.

 

“Wha—I—huh?” he stammered.

 

“Completely and utterly predictable. You hide your true self, the caring, loving, fluffy puppy under a gruff exterior. You need to let the fluffy puppy out more or else it'll shrivel up and die from malnourishment,” Kagome continued in a psychiatrist's voice through the laughter of their companions.

 

“When did you become a psychiatrist, Kagome?” Sango asked in between giggles.

 

“Since I came here to find a lost and lonely puppy with the cutest little ears,” Kagome answered in a sage-like voice.

 

“She's got you all figured out, doesn't she, sir?” one of the soldiers asked, laughing.

 

Inuyasha blushed, ears pinned back, growling low in his chest. “Aw, don't be angry little puppy,” Kagome said, reaching over to rub one of his cute little ears. The laughter stopped immediately when Inuyasha rumbled deeply in his chest and tilted his head towards her hand. His right leg twitched in time with her magic fingers and he closed his eyes, a contented growl coming from his chest.

 

It was the single most amazing feeling he had ever felt, and he never wanted it to stop. All of his cells were tingling with the wonderful pleasure as it coursed through his veins. But all too soon, the magic stopped and he let out a pitiful whine. He opened his eyes, unaware of when he'd closed them, and blinked; once, twice, thrice. He looked around to Kagome who had a smug look on her face when sound seemed to fade back in. Laughing was what he heard from behind him. He turned around and leveled a glare at his soldiers.

 

“What?!” he demanded.

 

“I never knew that you liked to have your ears rubbed,” Ayame said, laughing outright at his confused face.

 

He racked his brain for what just happened, but all he could come up with was a blinding pleasure; an unbelievable myriad of sensations. Realization hit him and he flushed.

 

“Can I rub your ears too, sir?” a soldier laughed. Inuyasha growled and snapped at him in warning.

 

“Aw, but you let the human girl, rub them!” another added.

 

Inuyasha's blush deepened as did his growl. “Let's just move,” he mumbled, urging his horse into a trot.

 

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I hope that you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it! And, hey, if there are any artists out there who want to draw pictures for the story, it'd be wonderful! I might get around to drawing some of my own and will probably end up posting them on my Media Miner account. Either way, I'll tell you when I have them done, `kay?

 

~Emi