A/N: Well well well.. another InuyashaxKagome handcuff ficcy. Actually, I've never read any before. ^_^;;; Anyone want to recommend a good one? I'll probably have to read it after I finish this one though.. no copying others! Anyway, I don't know what category to put this under.. so I just chose "romance" because I don't think it's funny enough to put under humor.. right?
Um... at this point I have no idea how long the story will be, but I'm guessing it's not a oneshot. I wanted to do something light-ish, because my other ficcy got sort of sad-like at the end. Anyway, enjoy! (hopefully)
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"Happy birthday!"
A beaming Souta looked around the table, eyes finally lighting up on a large pile of presents. Following her son's glance, Souta's mother chuckled. "All right," she allowed. "go ahead and open your presents now, Souta-chan." Before she had even finished her sentence, Souta was ripping the wrapping paper off the largest present. "A remote control car! Yes! Thank you grampa!"
"You're welcome, kid." Before Souta could attack another gift, Kagome swept in through the door, breathless and rosy from the cold outside. "Sorry, Souta! The line at the store was really long. Anyway, here's your gift!"
She presented a ravishly wrapped square shaped gift to Souta. Ignoring the paper Kagome had painstakingly wrapped around it, Souta ripped through the bows to find a shiny black box underneath. His mouth dropped open. "This is.." he managed. "This is the Police Kit 007!! Kagome, I can't believe you bought this for me!" Kagome grinned. "Saved up my manga money." she said cheerfully. "You like it?"
Souta threw himself at her. "Thank you! You're the bestest big sister in the entire world!"
"Don't I know it?"
Souta looked guiltily over his shoulder. His "bestest" sister was out for the afternoon, at a friend's house to catch up on the homework she'd missed. And he needed a place to dust for fingerprints with his newest acquisition. He'd already been kicked out of the kitchen, the master bedroom, the living room, the dining room, and his grandfather's room. Heck, he'd been kicked out of every room in the house, save his own and the bathrooms. His mother had said something about not wanting the white powder in the eating areas, and his grandfather had been watching TV in the living room. Souta couldn't see how his quiet dusting could disturb the baseball game, but he'd learned long ago that if he pointed this out, he would be doing chores before one could say "handcuffs."
Which reminded him.. Souta looked down to make sure that his cuffs were firmly linked through his belt loop. Good. Satisfied, Souta turned his attention to Kagome's desk. Now, just move these books aside..
A car honked loudly outside. Souta stiffened guiltily and shifted. Kagome wasn't due home for an hour yet.. but guilty creeps were already catching up to him. Souta unlinked the handcuffs, his favorite part of the kit, and managed a grin in the shiny plastic. "Nothing to worry about." he assured himself. "Detectives are brave.. who's scared of Kagome anyway?" Just then, Buyo decided to jump straight into Souta's legs. Giving a high pitched yelp, Souta flung his hands into the air, looked around wildly and ducked beneath the bed. It wasn't until the handcuffs landed with a clatter that he noticed they were missing. Oh no... he must have thrown them in the air when he panicked. Just great. When Souta judged the place was safe and was about to creep out, the door nudged open and Kagome herself came in, throwing her book bag onto the bed with a bounce. "Sheesh!" she said, collapsing in the desk chair. "How can there possibly be so many math theorems in the entire world?" Souta stiffened, then realized that she was talking to herself. He allowed himself a tiny breath of relief. She didn't know he was there yet. "What are you doing in here? I thought I closed the door!" At this exclamation, Souta jumped, startled, and hit his head with a muffled thump on the underside of the bed. He peered out cautiously to judge just how mad Kagome was. But instead of scowling, Kagome was giggling and cuddling Buyo. "Silly cat." she admonished. "You're supposed to stay out of my room!" Souta's mouth dropped open. She had been talking to the cat! All that panic and head bumping for nothing. There was a sound of nails tapping on glass. Souta pulled himself back into the shadows of the bed, hoping this newest distraction would provide him with the perfect chance to escape. "Inuyasha! What are you doing here?"
"It's been a week! When were you planning to come back?" Hearest this new voice in the room, or rather, outside the window, Souta could barely restrain himself from jumping out to see Inuyasha. Kagome often teased him for his hero-worship of the dog demon, but Inuyasha was just so cool! Souta wanted to be a demon too.
"I was just taking a rest before going down!"
"You've had the whole week to rest! There's a new demon who might have some shards, and we need to follow it. Now."
"Okay, okay," Kagome grumbled. "At least let me get my bag!"
"Where is it?"
"In that corner."
"Okay, let's go."
"You don't have to carry that, you know."
"You're too weak to. If you carried it, we'd never get to the shrine."
"Hey! I've carried it lots of times without your help, mister."
"My name's Inuyasha, wench. Did you forget?"
Kagome blew a raspberry. "Never mind." After a moment's silence, Souta was certain that the pair had left. However, to make sure, he waited for Kagome's "Bye mom! Bye grampa! Bye Souta!" before sliding out from under the bed. Well, he figured. That bought him some time. He would have until Kagome got back to find his handcuffs.
Kagome followed Inuyasha down the well. "Weak," she grumbled as they entered the familiar forest. "who's weak?" Inuyasha ignored her and dumped the backpack under a tree, where Shippou was waiting. "Kagome-chan!" he leapt into her arms. "I missed you!"
Kagome laughed. "Shippou-chan, you have no idea how nice it is to be greeted by a smiling face." So saying, she shot a pointed look toward Inuyasha, who ignored her just as pointedly. Miroku emerged from a clump of trees nearby, and grinned when he saw Kagome. "So, are we ready to start the search?"
"Sure." Kagome answered agreeably. "Where's Sango?"
"She's just down at the creek." Miroku jerked his chin in a random direction. "Shall I go get her? Inuyasha seems quite impatient to get started."
"Don't use me as an excuse to see a naked girl." Inuyasha grumbled.
Kagome could just imagine the scene if she said yes. "No," she answered quickly. "I'll go tell her I'm here."
Miroku looked disappointed. "You're sure?"
"Positive."
"Sango? Sango-chan, it's me, Kagome!"
"Oy! Kagome! Over here."
Kagome saw Sango behind her, fully dressed. "Hi!"
Sango gave a sunny smile. "Hey. Just waiting for my hair to dry."
"You chose a nice spot." Kagome admired the scene, yellow sunlight drifting onto green grass.
"Yeah." Sango gave a sigh. "Just thinking."
Kagome sat down next to her, concerned. "Is something wrong?"
"No.." Sango frowned thoughtfully. "Not exactly. Actually, it's something good, but I don't understand why I'm not estastic about it."
"What happened?"
"Well.."
"When are they coming back?" Shippou whined, bouncing onto Inuyasha's head. Inuyasha punched him off. "You little brat."
"They probably started catching up and lost track of the time." Miroku said mildly, "they'll come back soon as they realize the sun's setting."
"But I'm hungry!"
"Listen, kid, if you don't shut up-" Inuyasha stopped in mid-sentence, and had Shippou and Miroku look over at him in puzzlement.
"You'll pound me?" Shippou finished helpfully, poised to dodge.
"No," Inuyasha said grudgingly. "I'm hungry too."
"Look in Kagome's backpack." Miroku suggested. "Doesn't she usually bring food?"
"Yeah, yeah!" Shippou looked at Inuyasha expectantly.
"Why me?" Inuyasha complained.
"Because Kagome-chan gets mad when people go through her stuff. Then she hits them." Shippou explained, rolling his eyes. "Duh."
"Kagome shouldn't have taught you that word." Miroku said, "It's annoying when you use it."
Shippou wasn't listening. He was already hanging over Inuyasha's shoulder, almost drooling in anticipation.
"Book, book, pencil," Inuyasha muttered, tossing the listed items over his shoulder. "Hey- what's this?"
In the fading sunlight, the plastic of the handcuffs seem to gleam even brighter. "Who cares?" Miroku said. "We can't eat it."
"You're right." Inuyasha threw it over to join the growing pile of inedible objects. "We'll ask Kagome about it later."
"Ask me what?" Kagome and Sango appeared just as the last rays of the sun disappeared.
"Shit!" Inuyasha began cursing as his body started to change.
Kagome's eyes widened. "Oh, I forgot! It's that time of the month for you."
Moments later, the dog demon was a human boy with raven black hair and deep purple eyes. Kagome suppressed the urge to whistle. It seems that every time Inuyasha changed into his human form, the fluttering in her heart whenever she saw him changed too- into a strong pounding. 'Well,' she thought to herself, annoyed at the very female reaction she was having. 'Why shouldn't I feel a little.. weird? I mean, Inuyasha is pretty good looking.'
Five minutes later, Kagome was watching, amazed, as the sixth empty ramen cup joined the already large pile of trash. "How can you guys eat so much?" Miroku looked up, and, swallowing, asked politely, "Did you want some?"
Kagome shook her head. "Not anymore."
"No more," Inuyasha announced, peering into the backpack. Kagome snatched it away from him. "You already had two. Isn't that enough?"
"I'm still hungry too." Shippou said shyly. Kagome's mouth dropped open. "But you're tiny! And you had the same amount as Inuyasha!" Then she giggled. "That's so cute!"
"Why is it cute when you eat a lot?" Inuyasha demanded.
Shippou shrugged.
"Hey, what's this?" Sango held up the handcuffs.
"What?" Kagome exclaimed. "Handcuffs? How did these get here?"
"I don't know," Sango said, puzzled. "I was just putting all this trash in a bag for you to throw away when you get home, and I found this at the bottom of the pile." Kagome's eyes narrowed. "Souta was in my room!"
"Huh?"
"Oh hey, those things." Miroku came up behind Sango.
"You saw these things?" she asked.
"Yeah." Miroku said. "Inuyasha was going through Kagome's stuff looking for food, and he found those. Shippou was going to ask you about it, but I guess he fell asleep before he remembered."
"Inuyasha went through my stuff?!"
"They use it to catch bad guys." Kagome explained.
"How do they catch people with this?" Sango examined the object in question closely.
"Well," Kagome amended. "after they catch the bad guys, they put this around their wrists so they can't escape or hurt anyone."
Inuyasha snorted. "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!" he scoffed. "Humans are even weaker than I thought if something like that can disarm them."
Kagome looked annoyed. "Don't insult the handcuffs! They cost me a lot of money!"
"You paid money for this thing?"
"Well, it came in a kit. Anyway," Kagome returned to the original subject. "I bet it can hold you. Plastic is stronger than you think."
"Even in this weak body that thing can't hold me." Inuyasha glowered at the handcuffs. "You underestimate me."
"And you're underestimating the handcuffs." Kagome shot back.
"What's going on?" Shippou rubbed his eyes sleepily and eyed the others, who were huddled around the campfire.
Sango grinned at him. "Kagome says that the handcuffs can hold Inuyasha, but he doesn't believe her."
"I want to watch!" Shippou hopped into Sango's lap and watched in eager anticipation.
"Here," Kagome was explaining. "you just snap this around your wrist. But Inuyasha, I don't think this is a good idea. The key to the cuffs are probably still back home. I know they're not in my bag."
"Who needs a key? I get out of this without a key."
"But it's Souta's birthday present! I don't want to break it!"
"Look." Miroku interrupted smoothly. "Why don't you two compromise: Inuyasha can try to get out of the handcuffs if he promises not to break it."
Inuyasha didn't look disturbed. "Whatever."
Kagome bit her lip. "Well, he has to give his word."
"You have it. Can you hurry this up? I want to finish and get to sleep."
Kagome clicked one of the handcuffs around Inuyasha's wrist with a loud "snap"! Shippou jumped up. "That looks fun! Can I try, Kagome? Please?"
"Of course." Kagome said.
"Hey," Inuyasha said, eyeing Shippou. "How do you know the kid can do it right?"
"How hard can it be?" Shippou grabbed the second handcuff out of Kagome's hand. "Thanks, Kagome."
"Oh, Shippou, be careful, here-" Kagome reached out to adjust Shippou's grip.
SNAP!
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"Shippou!"
"Oops."
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Ending notes:
So.. did you like? Well, review! And of course, constructive criticism is always welcomed. Tell me if you find any glaring holes in the plot.. because I don't usually see clearly when it comes to my own stories. What else..? Um.. review!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please..?
March 7th, 2oo2
P.S. Wow.. this chapter is waaaay longer than my usual ones! Heheee. Review!
Um... at this point I have no idea how long the story will be, but I'm guessing it's not a oneshot. I wanted to do something light-ish, because my other ficcy got sort of sad-like at the end. Anyway, enjoy! (hopefully)
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"Happy birthday!"
A beaming Souta looked around the table, eyes finally lighting up on a large pile of presents. Following her son's glance, Souta's mother chuckled. "All right," she allowed. "go ahead and open your presents now, Souta-chan." Before she had even finished her sentence, Souta was ripping the wrapping paper off the largest present. "A remote control car! Yes! Thank you grampa!"
"You're welcome, kid." Before Souta could attack another gift, Kagome swept in through the door, breathless and rosy from the cold outside. "Sorry, Souta! The line at the store was really long. Anyway, here's your gift!"
She presented a ravishly wrapped square shaped gift to Souta. Ignoring the paper Kagome had painstakingly wrapped around it, Souta ripped through the bows to find a shiny black box underneath. His mouth dropped open. "This is.." he managed. "This is the Police Kit 007!! Kagome, I can't believe you bought this for me!" Kagome grinned. "Saved up my manga money." she said cheerfully. "You like it?"
Souta threw himself at her. "Thank you! You're the bestest big sister in the entire world!"
"Don't I know it?"
Souta looked guiltily over his shoulder. His "bestest" sister was out for the afternoon, at a friend's house to catch up on the homework she'd missed. And he needed a place to dust for fingerprints with his newest acquisition. He'd already been kicked out of the kitchen, the master bedroom, the living room, the dining room, and his grandfather's room. Heck, he'd been kicked out of every room in the house, save his own and the bathrooms. His mother had said something about not wanting the white powder in the eating areas, and his grandfather had been watching TV in the living room. Souta couldn't see how his quiet dusting could disturb the baseball game, but he'd learned long ago that if he pointed this out, he would be doing chores before one could say "handcuffs."
Which reminded him.. Souta looked down to make sure that his cuffs were firmly linked through his belt loop. Good. Satisfied, Souta turned his attention to Kagome's desk. Now, just move these books aside..
A car honked loudly outside. Souta stiffened guiltily and shifted. Kagome wasn't due home for an hour yet.. but guilty creeps were already catching up to him. Souta unlinked the handcuffs, his favorite part of the kit, and managed a grin in the shiny plastic. "Nothing to worry about." he assured himself. "Detectives are brave.. who's scared of Kagome anyway?" Just then, Buyo decided to jump straight into Souta's legs. Giving a high pitched yelp, Souta flung his hands into the air, looked around wildly and ducked beneath the bed. It wasn't until the handcuffs landed with a clatter that he noticed they were missing. Oh no... he must have thrown them in the air when he panicked. Just great. When Souta judged the place was safe and was about to creep out, the door nudged open and Kagome herself came in, throwing her book bag onto the bed with a bounce. "Sheesh!" she said, collapsing in the desk chair. "How can there possibly be so many math theorems in the entire world?" Souta stiffened, then realized that she was talking to herself. He allowed himself a tiny breath of relief. She didn't know he was there yet. "What are you doing in here? I thought I closed the door!" At this exclamation, Souta jumped, startled, and hit his head with a muffled thump on the underside of the bed. He peered out cautiously to judge just how mad Kagome was. But instead of scowling, Kagome was giggling and cuddling Buyo. "Silly cat." she admonished. "You're supposed to stay out of my room!" Souta's mouth dropped open. She had been talking to the cat! All that panic and head bumping for nothing. There was a sound of nails tapping on glass. Souta pulled himself back into the shadows of the bed, hoping this newest distraction would provide him with the perfect chance to escape. "Inuyasha! What are you doing here?"
"It's been a week! When were you planning to come back?" Hearest this new voice in the room, or rather, outside the window, Souta could barely restrain himself from jumping out to see Inuyasha. Kagome often teased him for his hero-worship of the dog demon, but Inuyasha was just so cool! Souta wanted to be a demon too.
"I was just taking a rest before going down!"
"You've had the whole week to rest! There's a new demon who might have some shards, and we need to follow it. Now."
"Okay, okay," Kagome grumbled. "At least let me get my bag!"
"Where is it?"
"In that corner."
"Okay, let's go."
"You don't have to carry that, you know."
"You're too weak to. If you carried it, we'd never get to the shrine."
"Hey! I've carried it lots of times without your help, mister."
"My name's Inuyasha, wench. Did you forget?"
Kagome blew a raspberry. "Never mind." After a moment's silence, Souta was certain that the pair had left. However, to make sure, he waited for Kagome's "Bye mom! Bye grampa! Bye Souta!" before sliding out from under the bed. Well, he figured. That bought him some time. He would have until Kagome got back to find his handcuffs.
Kagome followed Inuyasha down the well. "Weak," she grumbled as they entered the familiar forest. "who's weak?" Inuyasha ignored her and dumped the backpack under a tree, where Shippou was waiting. "Kagome-chan!" he leapt into her arms. "I missed you!"
Kagome laughed. "Shippou-chan, you have no idea how nice it is to be greeted by a smiling face." So saying, she shot a pointed look toward Inuyasha, who ignored her just as pointedly. Miroku emerged from a clump of trees nearby, and grinned when he saw Kagome. "So, are we ready to start the search?"
"Sure." Kagome answered agreeably. "Where's Sango?"
"She's just down at the creek." Miroku jerked his chin in a random direction. "Shall I go get her? Inuyasha seems quite impatient to get started."
"Don't use me as an excuse to see a naked girl." Inuyasha grumbled.
Kagome could just imagine the scene if she said yes. "No," she answered quickly. "I'll go tell her I'm here."
Miroku looked disappointed. "You're sure?"
"Positive."
"Sango? Sango-chan, it's me, Kagome!"
"Oy! Kagome! Over here."
Kagome saw Sango behind her, fully dressed. "Hi!"
Sango gave a sunny smile. "Hey. Just waiting for my hair to dry."
"You chose a nice spot." Kagome admired the scene, yellow sunlight drifting onto green grass.
"Yeah." Sango gave a sigh. "Just thinking."
Kagome sat down next to her, concerned. "Is something wrong?"
"No.." Sango frowned thoughtfully. "Not exactly. Actually, it's something good, but I don't understand why I'm not estastic about it."
"What happened?"
"Well.."
"When are they coming back?" Shippou whined, bouncing onto Inuyasha's head. Inuyasha punched him off. "You little brat."
"They probably started catching up and lost track of the time." Miroku said mildly, "they'll come back soon as they realize the sun's setting."
"But I'm hungry!"
"Listen, kid, if you don't shut up-" Inuyasha stopped in mid-sentence, and had Shippou and Miroku look over at him in puzzlement.
"You'll pound me?" Shippou finished helpfully, poised to dodge.
"No," Inuyasha said grudgingly. "I'm hungry too."
"Look in Kagome's backpack." Miroku suggested. "Doesn't she usually bring food?"
"Yeah, yeah!" Shippou looked at Inuyasha expectantly.
"Why me?" Inuyasha complained.
"Because Kagome-chan gets mad when people go through her stuff. Then she hits them." Shippou explained, rolling his eyes. "Duh."
"Kagome shouldn't have taught you that word." Miroku said, "It's annoying when you use it."
Shippou wasn't listening. He was already hanging over Inuyasha's shoulder, almost drooling in anticipation.
"Book, book, pencil," Inuyasha muttered, tossing the listed items over his shoulder. "Hey- what's this?"
In the fading sunlight, the plastic of the handcuffs seem to gleam even brighter. "Who cares?" Miroku said. "We can't eat it."
"You're right." Inuyasha threw it over to join the growing pile of inedible objects. "We'll ask Kagome about it later."
"Ask me what?" Kagome and Sango appeared just as the last rays of the sun disappeared.
"Shit!" Inuyasha began cursing as his body started to change.
Kagome's eyes widened. "Oh, I forgot! It's that time of the month for you."
Moments later, the dog demon was a human boy with raven black hair and deep purple eyes. Kagome suppressed the urge to whistle. It seems that every time Inuyasha changed into his human form, the fluttering in her heart whenever she saw him changed too- into a strong pounding. 'Well,' she thought to herself, annoyed at the very female reaction she was having. 'Why shouldn't I feel a little.. weird? I mean, Inuyasha is pretty good looking.'
Five minutes later, Kagome was watching, amazed, as the sixth empty ramen cup joined the already large pile of trash. "How can you guys eat so much?" Miroku looked up, and, swallowing, asked politely, "Did you want some?"
Kagome shook her head. "Not anymore."
"No more," Inuyasha announced, peering into the backpack. Kagome snatched it away from him. "You already had two. Isn't that enough?"
"I'm still hungry too." Shippou said shyly. Kagome's mouth dropped open. "But you're tiny! And you had the same amount as Inuyasha!" Then she giggled. "That's so cute!"
"Why is it cute when you eat a lot?" Inuyasha demanded.
Shippou shrugged.
"Hey, what's this?" Sango held up the handcuffs.
"What?" Kagome exclaimed. "Handcuffs? How did these get here?"
"I don't know," Sango said, puzzled. "I was just putting all this trash in a bag for you to throw away when you get home, and I found this at the bottom of the pile." Kagome's eyes narrowed. "Souta was in my room!"
"Huh?"
"Oh hey, those things." Miroku came up behind Sango.
"You saw these things?" she asked.
"Yeah." Miroku said. "Inuyasha was going through Kagome's stuff looking for food, and he found those. Shippou was going to ask you about it, but I guess he fell asleep before he remembered."
"Inuyasha went through my stuff?!"
"They use it to catch bad guys." Kagome explained.
"How do they catch people with this?" Sango examined the object in question closely.
"Well," Kagome amended. "after they catch the bad guys, they put this around their wrists so they can't escape or hurt anyone."
Inuyasha snorted. "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!" he scoffed. "Humans are even weaker than I thought if something like that can disarm them."
Kagome looked annoyed. "Don't insult the handcuffs! They cost me a lot of money!"
"You paid money for this thing?"
"Well, it came in a kit. Anyway," Kagome returned to the original subject. "I bet it can hold you. Plastic is stronger than you think."
"Even in this weak body that thing can't hold me." Inuyasha glowered at the handcuffs. "You underestimate me."
"And you're underestimating the handcuffs." Kagome shot back.
"What's going on?" Shippou rubbed his eyes sleepily and eyed the others, who were huddled around the campfire.
Sango grinned at him. "Kagome says that the handcuffs can hold Inuyasha, but he doesn't believe her."
"I want to watch!" Shippou hopped into Sango's lap and watched in eager anticipation.
"Here," Kagome was explaining. "you just snap this around your wrist. But Inuyasha, I don't think this is a good idea. The key to the cuffs are probably still back home. I know they're not in my bag."
"Who needs a key? I get out of this without a key."
"But it's Souta's birthday present! I don't want to break it!"
"Look." Miroku interrupted smoothly. "Why don't you two compromise: Inuyasha can try to get out of the handcuffs if he promises not to break it."
Inuyasha didn't look disturbed. "Whatever."
Kagome bit her lip. "Well, he has to give his word."
"You have it. Can you hurry this up? I want to finish and get to sleep."
Kagome clicked one of the handcuffs around Inuyasha's wrist with a loud "snap"! Shippou jumped up. "That looks fun! Can I try, Kagome? Please?"
"Of course." Kagome said.
"Hey," Inuyasha said, eyeing Shippou. "How do you know the kid can do it right?"
"How hard can it be?" Shippou grabbed the second handcuff out of Kagome's hand. "Thanks, Kagome."
"Oh, Shippou, be careful, here-" Kagome reached out to adjust Shippou's grip.
SNAP!
.............
"Shippou!"
"Oops."
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Ending notes:
So.. did you like? Well, review! And of course, constructive criticism is always welcomed. Tell me if you find any glaring holes in the plot.. because I don't usually see clearly when it comes to my own stories. What else..? Um.. review!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please..?
March 7th, 2oo2
P.S. Wow.. this chapter is waaaay longer than my usual ones! Heheee. Review!