From Bad to Worse
By: Menolly Harper
If there were ever a time to have a run of bad luck; this was certainly the worst time.
Higurashi Kagome: A normal now 16-year-old high school freshman with a strong spirit and a determination to pass onto the next grade.
Normal, no?
Not exactly.
At least, unless every other 16 year old female high school freshman is off carousing around with Hanyou's, demons, Taijiya, and perverted monks Oh My!
Didn't think so.
Kagome, while chasing down shards and with them friendly enough to bite your arm off demons…she had a teensy little run of the mill crisis.
Such would be in the shapes of a silver-hair colored Inu-Hanyou and a blue-eyed Wolf demon Prince.
People would deem her lucky to have such hansom, courageous men fighting over her…except for the fact that they wanted to kill each other that is.
So Kagome didn't exactly look at it from other people's point of views. No, she was far too stubborn and opinionated to even think of such a thing.
So as she let the yellow straps of her backpack slide off of her shoulders and to the ground in exhaustion we begin our said dilemma.
"Oy! Yo, Kagome!", called a certain wolf prince.
"Ah…heh, Ohayo Kouga-kun!", Kagome replied with forced cheer as she tried not to roll her eyes and just sit down, knowing that InuYasha would start up at any moment and it may be their groups' only rest for the day.
"Kagome-," Kouga started as he gently grabbed up Kagome's hands and held them.
"Oy, wolf! What are you doing coming and going bothering us whenever you please! It's damn annoying! So go away!", InuYasha barked at the wolf demon who was still transfixed on Kagome.
Before Kouga yelled back though, Kagome started in, "Kouga-kun, don't start, onegai?"
Kouga looked at her pleadingly before sighing inwardly and slumping his shoulders; relenting.
"Hai, Kagome; anything for my mate.", Kouga conceded with a flash of him pearly white canines in a wide grin at the word 'mate'.
Of course as Kouga was saying his little remark in favor of Kagome, a certain short-tempered hanyou was practically steaming from his ears in response. Kouga would never know what had hit him as the hanyou roughly grabbed at wolf prince. Then again neither would Kagome nor InuYasha himself.
"Kouga-kun!" Kagome started in alarm as InuYasha grabbed at Kouga. So she did the first instinctive thing that came to mind: Pull Kouga toward her.
And as fate would have it, as she pulled the rather startled wolf prince away from the rampaging hanyou; loose rocks caused the rather miffed girl to slip as she stepped backward, inevitably pulling Kouga down with her.
But no, landing on her wouldn't have been bad, not at all.
Landing on her and accidentally kissing her wouldn't have been much better but would have still not been as bad.
Landing on her, hand accidentally having reached out and collided with said right breast and stayed on said breast while lying on the ground, then screaming and slapping commence, would have been better than the inevitable.
Landing on her, hand accidentally having reached out and collided with said right breast and stayed on said breast while lying on the ground lips on lips and not for resuscitation by all means and not saying a damn thing.
And the worst part was that she actually liked it and moaned a little didn't help the situation at all.
All hell broke loose.
Or it at least came crashing down.
So how is our lead male protagonist of this story fairing so far?
Kouga seemed to be enjoying himself pretty much a damn lot.
As for our lead female protagonist…
Kagome was enjoying Kouga and hers positions a little too much if you get the drift.
Now to our not so friendly dog-eared hanyou companion:
Ready to bleed out of his ever-loving eyes.
As for the others in the vicinity of this…occurrence:
Gaping mouths wide open ready to receive flies and all the air that can be taken from the atmosphere.
Back to the hanyou on the brink of mass destruction.
InuYasha positively could not believe his eyes or his nose. The scents off of Kagome and Kouga were astounding him to no end. Well, not really Kouga's, more Kagome's than anything. She was actually pleasured by the wolf! How dare she be! But the fact that InuYasha couldn't get over was, was that he wasn't the one in Kouga's position.
Because by all means in InuYasha was completely and utterly convinced that Kagome worshipped the ground he walked on! Kagome was never supposed to like anyone other than him! Even though he had his little sessions with his dead past love…which he still loved.
But there Kagome was, practically having it all out on the forest floor with that ever so horrible, in InuYasha's opinion, weak wolf demon.
Thus, leads us to the next point of catastrophe:
Say hi to loyal and dense Ginta and Hakkaku!
The two aforementioned wolf demons who struggled constantly to keep up with their own valiant leader Kouga, finally caught up.
To a very interesting scene.
Sadly for the couple giving each other physicals on the ground, it snapped them out of their little daze and back to the horrible reality of gaping mouths and glaring eyes.
"Oh…shit." Kagome muttered as she looked past Kouga to InuYasha…to Sango, Miroku, Shippo, Ginta, and Hakkaku … even Kirara.
"Eh?" Kouga replied as he lifted his head up to look at the people surrounding them…particularly the two humans as they were behind him. Were they doing what he thought they were doing?
"Stop looking up my wrap dammit!" Kouga shouted at them, annoyed that they were looking up his skirt. He glared at them something fierce, just for good measure.
Of course this made Miroku and Sango scatter and scuttle away over by where Shippo and Kirara were standing back a safe distance.
"Ne, Kouga-kun…could you move off of me now?" Kagome requested sheepishly as she tried to move out from under him.
Kouga's eyes flew back to hers, surprised. "Of course love, sorry for not moving before." Kouga conceded, even though he really wasn't sorry. If anything he would not mind staying there all day, but the story must go on.
So Kouga raised himself up and dutifully lent a hand to help Kagome get to her feet. They both took a moment to dust themselves off a bit.
Then the real fun began.
"What in HELL'S NAME DO YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING KAGOME!" InuYasha practically screeched at the 16-year-old.
After a momentary look of shock, Kagome screeched back with just as much lung power, " WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING! I CAN DO WHATEVER THE HELL I WANT TO WETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT! I CAN'T HELP THAT I TRIPPED AND FELL BACKWARD AND KOUGA-KUN FELL WITH ME! SO PUT THAT IN YOUR PIPE AND STUFF IT!"
With InuYasha's rather bewildered look came Kagome's next comment, "Oh, and InuYasha?…OSUWARI!"
Kagome gave a very satisfied Kouga-like smirk, turned on heel and went to pick up her backpack.
Meanwhile over in the wolves corner…
"Kouga! Why didn't you tell us that Kagome nee-san finally accepted to be your mate?" Hakkaku asked as he gave Kouga a clap on the back.
"Ah, well, she hasn't actually accepted yet…" Kouga started but was cut off by the shout of the dirt encrusted hanyou.
"Damn straight she hasn't accepted! Because she would NEVER accept! Because she doesn't want you!" InuYasha yelled at the momentarily disheartened wolf prince.
"INUYASHA, OSUWARI!" Kagome screamed at the amber-eyed Inu-Hanyou until he was unconscious and eating dirt before turning to Kouga with an apologetic look on her face.
"Ne, Kouga-kun, don't listen to InuYasha, you are really sweet, and he doesn't make my decisions and obviously isn't me and wouldn't know my feelings." Kagome soothed the self-doubting wolf demon.
Kouga's lowering head snapped up with a renewed look of hope in his eyes, "Does this mean that you are accepting me as your mate?" Kouga asked with widening azure eyes.
Kagome contemplated this for a while, standing there under Kouga and everyone else's watchful gazes.
"Kouga-kun," Kagome began as she took a step forward and another until she was about two feet in front of the wolf prince, "Will you give me a few days to think it over? I know I've had all of this time…but considering this afternoon…I need to give this some thought. I mean, being mates is a big step, and I just need to make sure I'm ready Kouga-kun. Onegai?" She pleaded with her eyes.
"Kagome…" Kouga whispered, feeling his heart lighten with joy at the mere prospect of her saying yes to him now, he closed the distance between them hugging her tightly, "I will come back for your answer in three days then." He flashed his infamous toothy grin before dashing off in his whirlwind.
"Kouga!" Ginta and Hakkaku shouted after their leader while running off to catch up with him…yet again.
Kagome gave a little wave goodbye and turned to look at the rest of the group. InuYasha was still out cold; Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Kirara were all still looking at her in shock. Well, not Kirara, she was really just going with the crowd you know…just trying to be a…cool cat.
"Ah…Sango-chan, I think I'd like to take a bath right about now, wouldn't you?" Kagome hinted as she tugged on Sango's kimono sleeve in the direction of the conveniently placed hot spring about half a mile away.
Sango snapped out of her previous daze and quickly consented. The two girls packed up their essentials and sprung off to their awaiting bath and conversation.
"Ne, Kagome-chan, are you really going to accept Kouga as your mate?" Sango asked as she started to rinse her hair.
Kagome sighed and answered her, "I want to, I really do, I just want to make sure that I really am ready." She smiled at her best friend that had grown to be like a sister to her.
Sango raised her eyebrows at her friend as she rang out the water in her hair, "Honto? Then I'm really happy for you Kagome-chan!" Sango smiled back.
After looking around the surrounding area to check for any unwanted listeners, "Say, Sango-chan, What about you and Miroku-sama?" Kagome pitched in slyly.
Sango blushed magenta and sputtered, "M-Miroku-sama and-d I? There's nothing between us!"
The high school freshman girl rolled her eyes and laughed at her friends' embarrassed reaction, "Come on Sango-chan, I know you like him."
"N-nani! I do not!", Sango tried to defend herself but with the pointed look she received from Kagome she caved in, "…Alright…so maybe I do like him…just a little…" Another pointed look from Kagome, "OKAY FINE! So I like him a lot!" Confessed the now highly frustrated taijiya.
"Come on, we'd better get back to camp, I'm hungry" Sango changed the subject quickly and started to get out of the water.
"For some Miroku-sama that is…" Kagome whispered with an evil grin on her face that would put the Cheshire cat to shame.
Sango's eye's widened to the size of saucers when she heard the comment, and she did the only thing reasonable at the moment: She splashed Kagome in the face a few times before smirking evilly and saying, "Like you are for Kouga?"
To say the least, the girls didn't head back to camp for another good fifteen minutes.
Yay! A story that I actually liked writing so far!
I honestly hope that everyone reading this enjoys it as much as I did writing it!
And please do review, it makes my day and helps my fingers type faster!
I want to get the next chapter up as soon as possible
Menolly