AN: Sorry I took so long to post. I promised myself I wouldn't post until I had chapter five finished. It took forever. :) well, here ya go.
Ch. 3 Eaves Dropping and Investigations
“So, Kurama, have you heard any news from spirit world?”
‘Kurama?’ Kagome wondered, ‘spirit world?’
“Strangely, Koenma hasn’t called me for over a week. What about you and Yusuke?” Suichi asked a tall ugly guy standing by his booth.
“Me? I’m not an official employee, but Yusuke did get called there this afternoon; probably another easy case. I’m happy not to get too involved.”
“You’re fortunate you’ve got choice. I’ve got a debt to pay off. Just one more month.”
“Debt?”
“You always have been the blind one among us, Kuwabara.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
“In words you could comprehend; Hiei and I both have a debt to pay off to Koenma.”
“How’d you get a debt?”
“I stole an artifact from Spirit World a few years ago and Koenma let me off without the death penalty.”
‘This is too weird,’ she thought, listening closer.
“What’d you do that for?” Kuwabara continued.
“Personal reasons” Kurama replied sadly.
“Wouldn’t you be better off if you hadn’t stolen whatever artifact? You wouldn’t be working for Koenma and have a demon tracker on you. No one would have any idea.”
“I would do just the same had I been given the situation again.” Suichi informed, with an expression capable of murder.
“Sorry Kurama! If I ticked you off. I mean I don’t know anything and I’ll never bring it up again.” Kuwabara blabbered.
Suichi- or rather Kurama- glanced away. The two remained silent
4:50. School was out, and Kagome sat quietly eaves dropping on a conversation in an uptown café’. She was here for two reasons.
The first was her effort to make InuYasha look human. Yesterday, her plans to tame InuYasha’s hair had fallen of a cliff and suffered a bloody death. First, she had tried to brush it, only to find it to consist of 50 grease. After having him take a shower, wash his hair, and let dry: she brushed it out again. Then –foof. To the dog demon’s dismay, his head turned into a fluffy, staticy, fuzz ball. Kagome had given up on making him look human by such methods. He wasn’t even attempting co-operation.
Since that hadn’t worked and she knew he would never dye his hair she came simply to buy InuYasha some modern clothes- and hat. Task #1 complete. You see, if InuYasha wore a hat and modern clothing, he could pass as a wanna be rock star. Those types are at least non-demonic. Maybe he’d look normal on Halloween but other than that...
The second was to track that jewel shard. She’d found Suichi. She’d tracked the shard. Now maybe she could get some information about Suichi, well, Kurama...
“So, when’s Hiei coming back from demon world?”
“He sent me a message a few days ago; he’ll be back within a week.”
“What do you think about makai, Kurama?
“I find human world more appealing, but some aspects of the demon’s dimension I enjoy.”
“That place is crazy. I don’t see how you, Hiei, and Yusuke just casually cross over every few months. I can’t stand it there.”
“That’s because you’re human. The only humans who wouldn’t hate makai are either insane or livestock.”
“I’m 100 human and never going to makai again.”
“Of course not”
“Umm, Kurama,” Kuwabara started and said something quietly.
Kurama turned around looking directly at Kagome.
Oh, Crap.
“You’re right, Kuwabara, she has been listening,” said Kurama, standing. He walked directly over to her, standing right next to her menacingly. “What have you heard?”
“Nothing. Nothing!”
“I can recognize a lie, Kagome.”
“You didn’t last time,” she muttered.
“What?”
“I didn’t just say that out loud, did I?”
“Yes you did. What do you know?”
“Nothing Suichi, I mean Kurama, No! Got it right the first time,” she winced.
“Just tell me. I’m not going to hurt you.” Kurama explained.
“Just some stuff about demons and spirit world and livestock people.” She blurted.
“Did you know anything before?”
“No! It’s just a bunch of weird stuff you were talking about that I heard,” she covered.
“Why are you here?”
“Shopping and I went in for a cup of coffee,” that part was true, not the whole truth, but still.
Kurama glanced into her bag which was sitting beside her.
“For men’s clothing?” he asked.
She nodded.
“In any case, I can’t have you know about such things.” Kurama told her, and pulled a small bag from his pocket. He took a pinch out of a yellow dust and explained, “I’m going to have to erase your memory of the last few minutes. It won’t hurt.”
“No way I’m letting anyone erase my memory!” Kagome exclaimed then slapped Kurama, grabbed her bag, and ran.
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Fortunately for Kagome, the bus had stopped right out side the café, and she escaped quickly. The bus had taken her across town, where she caught a different bus to go back the way she came.
She opened her bedroom door with a relieved sigh. InuYasha sat on her bed, as she had told him not to leave the house. He was currently reading one of her books with an obscure expression on his face. Curiously, Kagome looked at the cover.
It proudly announced The Body Book for Adolescent Girls.
“InuYasha, where did you find this?”
“Buried in some trash underneath your bed,” He responded coolly.
“It’s there for a reason!” she exclaimed. “Why are you reading this?”
“I’m bored.”
“Read some thing else! Watch TV! Look, it says for girls.”
“So?”
“Are you a girl?”
“No.”
“Then you shouldn’t read it,” Kagome explained taking it away, and shoving it back under her bed.
“Kagome?”
“Yes”
“Are you on your period?”
“Mind your own business!” Kagome shouted at him.
InuYasha yelped, clutching his ears.
“Serves you right, I don’t know why I even bother.” She said haughtily, “I even went out and got you some clothes so that you would look human. I’ve been trying to help you fit in, and you treat me like this.”
“I don’t want to fit in or wear human clothes anyways.”
“Well, you’re going to have to wear human clothes and fit in.”
“Why?”
“So you can get a job.”
“A job?”
“Yes”
“Why?”
“For money so you can eat and live; besides, no one wears rat skin now a day. It smells bad.”
“It doesn’t smell bad!”
“Yes it does, it smells like a wet dog. Now change.”
“Fine,” said InuYasha, taking a shirt and pair of pants from her shopping bag, and proceeding to undress.
“In the bathroom, InuYasha!”
InuYasha rolled his eyes and walked down the hall.
“The nerve,” Kagome muttered, as she opened her back pack. It was nearly dark; she should get started on her homework.
Ding Dong. Ding Dong.
“That’s odd. I don’t know anyone that might be coming over.” Kagome mused as she headed to the door.
Ding Dong. Ding Dong.
“Coming,” she yelled as she opened the door.
Now, I’m going to go ahead and spoil the fun. It’s not Jason, Ronald McDonald, Bugs Bunny or Kurama. There. But who and why? Find out in the next Chapter!
Great chapter! I hope you continue on with the story. Heh, and Kagome really seems suspicious of Kurama.
NICE! That chapter was very nice. But,there was parts that confused me:
50 grease: 50 of what of grease?
100 human: That doesn't make sense. I know you probably meant 100%,but could you put that in? Apart from that,nice chapter.
i like it i can't wait for the update