InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Tales of Inuyasha ❯ Settling In ( Chapter 2 )

Tori the Hanyou: Okay, since I've gotten a few reviews saying I should continue, I'm going to! Yippee!!

Inuyasha: Okay, what's your problem? You're makin' me look like an idiot!

TTH: Don't worry, you're not an idiot, and everyone knows it, so calm down, will ya?

Miroku: Yeah, you're not an idiot on SOME occasions, at least.

Inu: What was that, pervert? *threatening

Mir: Oh, nothing . . .

TTH: Anyways, let's get on with Chapter 2! Please remember to review!

DISCLAIMER: Nope, still don't own Inuyasha. Try the next author, two doors down, ok?

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The Tales of Inuyasha

Chapter 2: Settling In

"Um, Sango?"

"Yeah?"

"Is this yours?" Kagome pointed to a kitten sleeping on her bed. It was yellow, with black tips on its ears, paws and tail tip.

"OH, MY GOD! KIRARA!" Sango raced over to the bed and scooped the kitten up. "How the hell did you get here?? You're supposed to be at home! You little sneak! Did you hide out in my suitcase?" The kitten stretched and yawned in Sango's hands, and Kagome thought it was positively adorable. "Kagome, I'd like you to meet Kirara!" The kitten looked up at Kagome with its big eyes and mewed.

"Oh! It's so tiny! And adorable!" Kagome scratched it under the chin. Tiny purrs could be heard from its throat.

Just then, the front door slammed open. That could only be one person, Inuyasha. The girls and kitten peeked out to see one bruised, cut- up, and pissed off hanyou march through the living room and go into his room, slamming the door, waking the unconscious Miroku on the floor. His eyes fluttered open to see the girls staring at him. Kirara jumped out of Sango's hands and ran over to Miroku. She sniffed him to see if he was still alive. He raised his head to look at her, making her jump. She ran back to Sango and hid behind her legs.

"Hey, you guys, when we're done unpacking, how about we play a game?" asked Kagome. Sango looked at her curiously.

"What kind of game?" she asked.

"Oh, just the usual hide-and-seek tag. How about it?" she asked. Miroku got up.

"Fine with me. How about you, Sango, my dear?" he asked.

"Yeah, sure, why not?" came the answer.

"Okay, I'm gonna ask Inuyasha." Kagome walked over to the boys' door. She knocked on it.

"What?" came an extremely annoyed voice from behind the door.

"Hey, Inuyasha, you wanna play a game with us?" she asked, waiting. The door opened, and Kagome gasped. All of his cuts and bruises were gone!

"What?" he asked snappily. "You got a problem with my face?" Kagome was taken aback. Why was he being so rude?

"N-no, it's just, your cuts and bruises, they're . . ."

"Gone?" asked Inuyasha, bored.

"Yeah," answered Kagome.

"I heal fast," was his explanation, and Kagome left it at that.

"So, how about that game? You wanna play with us?" she asked. It was a while before he answered.

"Yeah, sure," he answered in a surly manner.

"Okay!" cried Kagome, pushing open his door and pulling him out into the living room. He stood, ears twitching from the noise, watching the two girls as they bounced around, suddenly on a sugar-rush. They were trying to think of who should be It first.

"Hey, I got an idea, how about you two go all crazy and bounce around like I know girls love to do, and the first one to drop dead on the floor loses," he muttered sarcastically. The girls first glared at him, then looked at each other as if in thought.

"You know, that wouldn't be a bad idea," said Sango, "except people might think it a little weird if two boys were bouncing around acting like hyperactive girls." Kagome couldn't help but burst into laughter at Sango's comment. Miroku even snickered a little bit, and earned himself a death look from Inuyasha.

"Hey, who's side are you on, anyway?" he asked. Miroku scooted over to Sango.

"Theirs," he said quietly, and his hand moved.

"PERVERT!!!!"

*SLAP*

"Oww . . ." Miroku sat on the floor, a red hand forming on his other cheek.

"You deserved that, even though it was from the other side," muttered Inuyasha.

"Hey! How about we just do rock-paper-scissors?" suggested Kagome.

"Okay," came three different tones.

~*367 games and arguments later* . . .~

"Oh, come on Miroku! That was a millisecond after mine! Rock beats scissors! Get over it! You're It!" cried Inuyasha.

"Kagome, do tell me how you managed to win all these other times," said Miroku. (A/N: I am SO gonna give away my secret to rock-paper- scissors! So PAY ATTENTION, cuz this is one of the number one tricks to winning, unless your opponent knows it, too)

"I think Inuyasha knows the secret, too," said Kagome, "But, everybody always picks scissors first, so I always pick rock. That's the secret. But, if you know that your opponent knows the trick, you always pick paper, 'cause you know that they think that you're going to pick scissors. Got that?" Miroku had whisked a pad and paper out from behind his back (like they do in cartoons) and was trying to write it down.

"Could you repeat that?" he asked, scratching out something and trying to write something else.

"Sorry, once per customer. Maybe I will later, though," said Kagome. Inuyasha had heard everything, though. Miroku had heard the first part, and was going to pick rock, to try and throw Inuyasha off.

"This is seriously the LAST one!" said Sango.

"You said that 124 games ago," said Kagome.

"Yeah, well, this time, if anyone complains about the outcome, they're answering to me, GOT THAT?" she yelled at Miroku. Miroku scrunched down.

"O-okay," he stuttered. Inuyasha had heard the last part of what Kagome had said, and picked his object. "Okay," muttered Miroku, "One, two, three!"

He flashed his hand out in a rock triumphantly, hoping Inuyasha had either fallen for the trick, or picked the same thing. He opened his eyes, and saw an evil smirk on Inuyasha's face. He looked down in horror at Inuyasha's flattened-out hand.

"No! PAPER!" he cried.

"You're IT!" cried Inuyasha. 'What do you know,' he thought, 'that trick really works. Maybe Kagome will come in use for something besides a new teasing target this year.'

By the time they'd decided who was It, it had gotten dark outside.

"Perfect," said Kagome, running around and turning off all of the lights and closing doors, putting Kirara in the girls' room so she wouldn't get trampled.

"Hey! I thought this was hide-and-seek tag!" complained Miroku, knowing pitch-darkness made it about ten times harder.

"Yeah, well I changed it while you two were arguing. It's now just hide-and-seek-in-the-dark, or I also call it Zombie," said Kagome triumphantly. Miroku grumbled. Inuyasha sniggered. This would be a piece of cake for him, seeing as he had super senses such as hearing and smelling. Even if he had been made It, he would've found anyone in a split second. He didn't need sight to win hide-and-seek. The only one who could still beat him was Sesshomaru, since his senses were much sharper.

Miroku went into the center of the room. Sango came up and tied a blindfold around his eyes, watching his hands carefully, slapping them anytime they made a move towards her. She backed away, and Inuyasha whirled Miroku around about twenty times.

"Inuyasha, you're only supposed to do it eight," said Kagome. Inuyasha shrugged.

"I wanted to make sure he was nice and dizzy," he said. Sure enough, Miroku was dizzy, so dizzy, in fact, that he tumbled around the room for about five minutes before he straightened himself out, giving everyone else plenty of time to hide. He began stumbling around, feeling for any of his friends. He tried to peek out the bottom of the blindfold, but Sango had made sure he couldn't.

After a while, bored of just sitting around, Inuyasha got an idea. He took a pillow off the couch he was hiding behind, and pegged it at Miroku, almost knocking him over. Sango decided that was a good idea, Kagome followed, and soon Miroku was getting pegged by all manner of debris, such as socks, pillows, unopened soup cans, empty soda cans, plastic bottles, seat cushions, bunched-up blankets, hats, unopened candy packs, stuffed animals, and even a few empty suitcases (courtesy of Inuyasha and Sango). Finally, after stumbling around for a bit, Miroku accidentally tripped over one of the empty suitcases Inuyasha had thrown, and grabbed Sango for support. Sango had been too busy laughing to notice how close Miroku had gotten, and they both fell over into the pile of junk littering the floor.

Inuyasha and Kagome took one look at the crumpled-up couple on the floor and burst into uncontrollable laughter. Sango got up to avoid being groped, blushing, and snatched the blindfold from Miroku's face, putting it on amidst the hilarious laughter of the schoolgirl and hanyou. She marched out into the middle of the room, tripping over various items, making the rolling couple laugh even harder (if that was possible). She started counting really loudly as she spun herself around.

"ONE! TWO! THREE . . ." Inuyasha and Kagome shut up immediately and scrambled for new hiding places, still sniggering slightly. Miroku had already found one. Sango tripped around after finishing her count, and Inuyasha decided to try throwing something at her. He reached for an unopened pack of Skittles behind her, unaware that she heard his movement. Sango turned around and stomped on his wrist, making him drop the Skittles. "You're . . .It," she said dangerously. Inuyasha winced, trying to yank his hand out from under Sango's foot.

"Okay, okay! I'm It!" he yelped. Sango released him and tossed the blindfold onto his open hand. He put it on, and went out into the middle of the room, smelling and listening his way there. He listened for where the AC was bouncing off of and blowing over objects. He spun himself about twenty times, to give everyone a good head start. It didn't take long to get over the dizziness. The chase began.

Kagome kept her eyes on Inuyasha as he sniffed the air. Kagome realized he was trying to sniff out emotions, like nervousness, giddiness, fear, or excitement. She tried to hide her emotions as best she could, but it obviously didn't work, as Inuyasha turned his head towards her and began walking carefully toward her. Kagome jumped up, forgetting all modes of stealth, and ran for it, jumping over anything she could see in the dim light from the moon outside. Inuyasha was hot on her heels, able to hear her every move, and smell her scent, which was rather pleasant, so he thought. Kagome squealed as he swiped at her and missed by two inches. She was about to leap over the couch when a pair of arms wrapped around her waist, and the force from the tackle knocked them both onto it. Everybody laughed at them, including themselves, until Inuyasha realized his position and jumped up, blushing furiously. Thank God it was almost impossible to see. Kagome had been blushing too.

"Okay, your turn," said Inuyasha, changing the subject as he tossed the blindfold to Kagome.

"How about we call it quits?" asked Sango, pointing to the clock. It was near midnight. "We start classes tomorrow."

"Ugh, don't remind me," moaned Inuyasha.

"Yeah, we're not babies, we make our own bedtime," said Miroku jokingly. Inuyasha and Kagome went into their bedrooms, but the other two stayed out.

"Did you notice something?" asked Sango.

"You mean the fact that they actually enjoyed that little moment on the couch?" asked Miroku.

"Exactly," said Sango.

"Are you thinking we should get them together?" asked Miroku. Sango nodded. "I like it, evil plots are fun," said Miroku.

"Yeah, here's what we'll do . . ."

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Tori the Hanyou: Oh, God, hope what they're planning isn't anything violent. Anywho, we're at the end of Chapter 2, BUT chapter 3's well on its way! Heck, I've already finished half of it, sooo, here are the shoutouts!

Silent-sparkling Angel: Glad u like! Please review next chappie!

Shin1: Thanks for the compliment, and hope your sugar-rush doesn't make you do anything . . .weird . . . O_O;

KagomeInuYasha4ever: I'm glad YOU can wait till the next chapter, cuz this is it! lol!

Serena71: I'm glad you love it! Plz review next time, too!

Yui_Chan: I know, cliffhangers drive me up the wall, but I had to cut it off there, it was getting too long ^-^ Don't go crazy, cuz ch 3's already almost done!

Hunter the Dusk: Thank you, I'm glad u like! Ch 3's coming!

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