This won second place at
iy_insomnia for the prompt 'dread'.
Title: I Ain’t Hiding
Author: aimee_blue
Prompt: Dread
Words: 250
Characters: Kagome, Inuyasha, Miroku.
Summary: CU. Inuyasha does the unthinkable.
Inuyasha glowered unrepentantly at the pink thing that Kagome insisted on riding. More trouble than it was worth, the thing not only made Kagome whine about her bruised bottom, but it also denied a certain possessive Hanyou the only avenue he had for touching and holding Kagome.
Golden eyes narrowed sharply as Kagome groused over the graze she’d received from one of the pedals. That settled it, if the cursed contraption actually hurt Kagome, he’d hurt it.
Yes, the bicycle’s days were numbered.
0-0-0
Pausing beneath the boughs of the goshinboku, Miroku sat down leisurely in the partial shade, leaning back against the tree.
“Why are you hiding?” Miroku called out cheerfully to the Hanyou that skulked in the branches above him.
Inuyasha scoffed callously. “Feh. Ain’t hiding,” he bluffed.
Miroku chuckled softly and said nothing, coaxing the Hanyou into words with his silence.
“I broke the wench’s damned bike!” Inuyasha finally bit out, anger and a little dread seeping into his tone.
“Ah,” Miroku commented, “perhaps an apology is in order?” he cajoled.
Asperity lacing his tone, Inuyasha replied. “She’ll still sit me.”
“You don’t know until you try.”
0-0-0
“Inuyasha!” Kagome raged as she set foot on feudal era soil, “what did you do to my poor bike?”
The red-clad Hanyou in question coughed uneasily and shrugged. “Accident.”
“Accident?”
“I’m...”
“Sorry, I didn’t catch the last bit,” Kagome returned, eyes wide as Inuyasha blushed furiously.
“Sorry.”
“Wow.”
He actually said sorry! Kagome gushed mentally.
“Keh, don’t get used it, wench.”
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