Inuyasha Part IIb: Kagome’s Payback
(As requested by Kim, A.K.A Ryoko of the ATF
;)
Inuyasha was in even more of a smarmy mood than usual,
Kagome noted sourly. Ever since his
discovery that she was incredibly ticklish, he’d used it to get his way
on more
than one occasion – and worse, to circumvent her use of the rosary to
control
him when he started getting out of control. Even the memory of it made
her look
sideways at him crossly – her trying desperately to gain enough breath
to yell
“Sit!” while he sat there and teased her. With a “Hmmph!” she turned
aside and
continued drinking.
Inuyasha merely gave her a sideways glance and returned to
lazing about, propping up his head with his arm. She was probably still
worked
up about this tickling business. With a smirk he recalled the last
incident –
her giggling uncontrollably, trying with all her might to slam him into
the
ground. Only after about five minutes or so had she been able to make
him stop.
After scampering away, she’d been taken to moody broodings lately,
trying to
think up revenge.
Sango sat next to her with a little bounce and said,
“You’re not still mad at Inuyasha, are you?”
“Mad? Why would I be mad? Of course I’m not mad,” Kagome
said sourly. Sango shook her head and put a hand on Kagome’s shoulder.
“There is a saying, don’t spend your time in anger, spend
your time balancing the ledger…”
“We have that saying too, it’s called ‘don’t get mad, get
even’.” Kagome snorted. “How would I get even with Inuyasha? I can
barely do
anything to him at all. He can pick me up as if I weigh nothing!”
Kagome sighed
heavily.
Sango smiled. “The same way we got even with Miroku,” Sango
said, glancing at the monk who sat quietly a few feet away.
“Does that even work on Inuyasha?” Kagome asked skeptically.
“I don’t think he’s ticklish.”
“Have you tried yet?” Sango asked.
“No,” Kagome admitted. “But how can I?”
Sango grinned. “You can get close to him, easily. You know
that, right? Just sort of sneak in and wait for the right moment…”
Kagome still looked dubious. “I guess… nothing to lose,
right? Except my sanity…” she muttered. If this messed up and Inuyasha
got her
again, well… Her feet twitched with the memory of his claws. With a
quick shake
of her head she readied herself, then scooted over to Inuyasha.
“Eh? Hi Kagome,” he said quickly. “What’s up?”
“Hi Inuyasha. I just wanted to see how you were doing.”
Kagome smiled warmly.
“Y-you did?” Inuyasha asked, the tone of her voice and
expression on her face breaking through his front of apathy and making
him sit
upright and look at her. “Wait a minute… you never just come over to
ask if I’m
ok. Something’s up.”
“Am I not allowed to see how you’re doing?” Kagome asked
heatedly, abandoning the original plan. Inuyasha was such a…jerk!
“Well I bet you’re still sore over how I gotcha earlier
today,” Inuyasha teased. He grinned in his irritating manner and folded
his
arms, nodding sagely. “That’s got go be it. You always look like you’re
about
to blow after I finish with you – “ Inuyasha looked up as he felt a
curious
sensation.
Kagome felt it. She felt the twitch, and the sudden cutoff
of his sentence. With a giggle she smiled back at him, but it wasn’t
exactly
the nicest smile to reach her face. “Something the matter, Inuyasha?”
she
asked, poking into his side a little harder this time.
“What are you doing?” Inuyasha asked, deadpan, and
narrowing his eyes. To test, Kagome suddenly squeezed his sides gently
with her
fingers. His eyes shot open for a quick moment before returning to
narrowed,
glaring this time. “You’d better quit that before I…”
“Before what? Before you laugh?” Kagome asked with a grin.
“Don’t try and hide it from me, Inuyasha, I can tell you’re ticklish!”
“I am not!” Inuyasha yelled. “Just what do you think you’re
– gaaah!” Inuyasha went into the ground and quick as a flash Kagome was
atop
him, digging her fingernails into his sides. This time there was a
satisfying
squirm and what sounded like a quick gasp to stop a laugh.
Kagome looked back to see Sango plop herself down at
Inuyasha’s feet, and with a quick motion they rolled him over, as he
was still
dazed from the hit. And just like that Kagome was astride Inuyasha’s
waist.
“Hey – what?” Inuyasha demanded. “What are you – “ Before he could
exercise his
superior strength, Kagome got her nails under his arms and wiggled them.
“Gah haha - ! “ Inuyasha burst out before squeezing his
eyes and mouth shut, trying to push her off. “I said I ain’t ticklish
now –
GYAH!!” A big smile and laugh burst from Inuyasha’s mouth as Sango
quickly ran
her nails up and down his feet, causing his legs to kick before Sango
sat on
them to prevent a recurrence.
“Ready, Kagome?” Sango asked with a grin.
“Go!” Kagome giggled, tickling from Inuyasha’s underarms
down to his sides and over his ribs again. Inuyasha squirmed and
chuckled in a
most satisfying manner. That was before Sango ran her nails in a quick
spiderwalk from his heels to his toes and back down again.
“GYAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH!!!” Inuyasha cried, nearly throwing the
two of them off with his wild reaction to that. “Heehheehheheheheeey!
Kagome!!!
Sango!!! Quihihihihit!!!”
“Oooh!” Kagome giggled in delight. “What’s that? Is the
tickling too much for the tough boy?” She snuck her hands under
Inuyasha’s robe
and tickled under his arms again, causing his arms to contract suddenly
as he
frantically and unsuccessfully tried to remove her hands.
Sango giggled at this new reaction and commenced slowly
dragging her nails up and down his soles. This sent Inuyasha into wild
spasms
of laughter and rendered all his attempts at covering himself
completely
useless.
“GyahahaahAHAHAHAHA!! AHAHAHEHEHEHEH! STAHAHAHAHAHHAAP IT!!
GYAHAHAHAHAHAHA I’LL GET YOHOHOHOHO YOU!!!!” Inuyasha continued to
uselessly
threaten the pair of girls as they ran their fingernails along his
ticklish
spots. Eventually Kagome stopped tickling his upper body in favor of
just
teasing him.
“Is Inuyasha ticklish?” she teased in a baby voice. “Does
he have da giggles? Yes he does! Yes he does!”
“SHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAA HAHAHHEHEHEHE SHADDAP KAGOME!!!
GYAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH!
I SWEAR YOU’LL – GHAHAHAHAHHHAAHAHA!!!” Inuyasha could barely complete
his
sentences, much less say anything, as Sango exploited his worst
weakness – his
toes. She would tickle his toes until he tried to scrunch them, then
she would
tickle his soles and make his toes point out of reflex. She kept this
up for
quite awhile.
Finally Kagome felt sympathy for Inuyasha and called a
halt, though neither of the girls let him up just yet. Inuyasha wound
down
slowly, still breathing a little hard from his workout. “You’re….
nuts!”
Inuyasha exclaimed. “You are both soo… dead… when I get out of this,”
he
panted.
“Oh really?” Kagome giggled. “Now I know that you’re weak
to tickling too!” She stuck her tongue out at him and with a final
giggle, rolled
aside and allowed Inuyasha to stand.
“Just you wait,” he grumbled, brushing himself off and
trying his best to act like it had never happened. “I’ll get you both
for that…
then you’ll be sorry… hmph.” Inuyasha went off by himself a bit to go
and sulk.
“Do you think we were a little too hard on him?” Sango
asked.
“Nah,” Kagome said, her good mood returned. “He’ll come
back in a few minutes. Honestly, sometimes he’s more half baby than
half
demon.”
“I heard that!” Inuyasha yelled from his perch on a rock
some distance away, his back to them. Kagome merely stuck out her
tongue, and
Sango giggled.
Miroku shook his head and sighed. “Kids…”