EAT ME
By Clarinet Koko

My first IY fic. It's an extremely short one-shot, but I did try my best.:) This one is slightly AUish too. Kagome is a stranger and Shippo and Inuyasha are… friends. If you can call them that. o.O Well, enjoy, and please review.;)

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Kagome jumped as she heard a small coo from behind.

"What...?"

A little fox demon sat inside an old tattered box. He gave another coo, and Kagome thought it was mostadorable thing in the whole world.

She read the sign pasted on the box, and the little fox demon gave her a toothy smile.

'Surely something must be wrong with my eyes.' she thought, and after rubbing her eyes, she reread the sign.

But as she read it again for the fourth time, the sign pasted on the box remained the same.

The fox grinned at her and gave another coo.

"Uh..."

Another coo.

"Sorry."

Kagome sprinted out the ally and wondered what on earth the 'EAT ME' on the sign had meant.

---Meanwhile---

Shippo blinked. That was strange. He'd gone on 'I'm a cute lost fox so save me' mode to the extreme when she'd arrived. And yet she ran away...?

He checked the sign on the box. He was pretty sure that he hadn't misspelled anything wrong. According to Inuyasha, that weird bunches of symbols meant 'SAVE ME'.

But then again, maybe 'save me' sounded too desperate.

Humming, he tore off the sign and decided to go visit Inuyasha. Maybe 'I AM CUTE' would be better.

---2 days later---

Kagome hummed as she skipped through the alley. Apparently, she'd forgotten all about the weird fox with the 'EAT ME' sign.

And then, there was a coo.

Rooted to the spot, she slowly turned her head and saw none other then the adorable little fox giving her the irresistible puppy eyes. (Fox eyes?)

And then, her eyes caught sight of the new sign.

'I AM AN INARI-SUSHI, EAT ME!'

...Ok...

She whirled around and ran out of the alley as if a monster was chasing her, leaving Shippo in his wonder.

---Inuyasha?---

Inuyasha yawned and leaned back on his chair. Any moment now that twit would come running his way yelling...

"INUYASHA! SHE RAN AWAY AGAIN!"

He sniggered. No doubt she'd run away. Shippo was so naive, he should learn how to write and read by himself. He'd rewritten his sign 23 times, and was still counting.

"So I was thinking..." The little fox said, leaning over. "Maybe we could go for a more... you know, innocent one. Like 'TAKE ME HOME'. And then maybe we could run that tape of human songs called 'Home on the Kitchen'."

"Alright, Shippo." Inuyasha drawled, taking out a new piece of sign. "Take me home, was it?"

He nodded vigorously, and Inuyasha produced a new sign for him.

"There you go." Inuyasha said easily, handing it to Shippo's outstretched hand. "Good luck. And here's the radio, too. Its number 3 don't forget."

And so a happy Shippo ran out to the usual alley to stake out for his favorite girl to pass by.

---And here comes his favorite girl---

Kagome cautiously treaded through the alley, remembering the 2 fox incidents.

"Home, home on the range..."

She froze. What...?

"Where the deer and antelope play..."

And there it was. The oh-so-familiar coo.

She turned her head (despite her mind screaming not to) and saw the usual fox giving her the usual puppy eyes. And her eyes roamed to the new sign.

'TAKE ME HOME AND BAKE ME'

She turned and ran.

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How was it? Please review too if you can. ;) I did try though. Might make a continuation of these… (More of those weird signs lol)

Oh yeah, for those who don't know what Inari-Sushi's are- they're flavored boiled rice wrapped in bean curd. There's this legend that the rice used to be wrapped up in fox skin or meat or something instead of bean curd. O.o Weird.