Several silent minutes passed after Lady Kaede left the two to their own devices. Kagome let her clothes dry on a stick held up by two branches, a sort of crude drying pole. Inuyasha sat, back to her as she tended to the clothing.
"Hey," Inuyasha said at last.
"What?" answered Kagome.
"Take off those clothes."
*GE-BONG!!!*
"WAAGH!" yelped Inuyasha, nursing a swelling bump on his head. Kagome threw the good-sized rock she used to cause that bump away, a furious look on her face. Inuyasha groaned, "What… what was that for?!!"
"You animal!!" snarled Kagome.
"I didn't say 'get naked!'" protested the doggy-boy. He jabbed a finger at the hanging clothes. "I mean, get back into your weird clothes!"
Kagome was not fazed at all by Inuyasha's heat. "Because these make me look like Kikyou?" she asked.
"That has nothing to do with it."
Is he a demon or a junior-high school kid? thought Kagome. I guess jerks are the same in every era. "If you didn't want to see me in those 'weird clothes,' why did you come here in the first place?" she asked, then blinked as a thought occurred to her. "Hey! How did you find out where we were, anyway?"
Inuyasha glanced at the saber marionette. "How could I not?" he asked rhetorically. "All the men in the village were gossiping about how you were going through this 'purification rite.' I knew that meant a cold mountain stream, and there's only one of them around here." Kagome shivered at the mention of a cold mountain stream. "Besides, you have a very distinctive stinkwater reek about you. It was like following arrows."
Kagome frowned. She didn't like being described as having a 'reek'.
"Feh. They were also talking about how I'd be punished by the gods if I interrupted your so-called rite!" the dog-boy snorted.
"You were. I called it down by my word," said Kagome.
"That's just your witchcraft, witch!" Inuyasha shot back.
"Hey, the name's 'Kagome', not 'witch'!" corrected Kagome. "You said it once before. C'mon, keep using it. It'll grow on ya."
"I don't want it to grow on me!" bellowed Inuyasha.
Wordlessly, Kagome took her clothes off of the makeshift drying pole, folded them, and then strolled off, all with her brow knitted into a severe look.
"Where are you going?" asked Inuyasha.
"I've made up my mind. I'm going home," Kagome said firmly. She looked over her shoulder, "Buh-bye, animal! It's been real!"
"'Home'…?" Inuyasha gasped, rising to his feet. "WAIT!!"
"Uh-uh! It's no use trying to stop me!" Kagome said.
"But you have the Shikon jewel!" Inuyasha held out his hand. "Leave it here!"
Kagome held up a pouch between her fingers. "You mean this?" she said cutely. She made like she would give it to him, but she barely started when her face suddenly turned ugly. "OSUWARI!" she shouted.
*SPLAT!* "OIF!"
Inuyasha laboriously lifted his head from where it was splatted down. "W-Why y-you…" he growled impotently after the retreating Kagome.
"Later, dewd!" Kagome drawled as she walked calmly off, nonchalantly twirling the bag containing the Shikon jewel on her finger.
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