Ichigo Lolipop

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Hi, there. I’m Seriou Sakura.
Thank you so much for taking a look at this book.
I finally completed it...
I dropped it during the Winter Comiket in 2004, and I didn’t finish until the Summer Comiket (sweats)
The contents and story have transformed into something completely different at this point, but I still included some fun moments with characters like Miroku-sama and Sango-chan.

I hope you’ll be able to think of this as a plausible side story that could have occurred.

All right, let’s move on to the actual book.

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1: I wonder if there’ll be an inn today.
2: A hot spring would be nice, too.
3: Kagome, // Sango, // we aren’t here to play around.
4: Now, now. // I don’t see the problem.
5: Even better if the hot springs had mixed bathing ♥ ♥ (bubbleless)
6: You too, Miroku.
7: Inuyasha!
8: Hmm?

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1: Inuyasha!
2: Inuyasha-sama!
3: (bubbleless) I”m right here...
4: I missed you so much!
5: Bwah!

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1: Ow...
2: Who might you be?
3: Do you know her, Inuyasha?
4: Huh?! Isn’t this just another one of Shippou’s pranks?!
5: I’m right here, though.
6: Huh...?
7: (bubbleless) Oh, aren’t you cute.
8: (bubbleless) I”m not transformed or anything.
9: Huh?

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1: Their clothes are different, but...
2: she really does look just like Kagome-sama.
3: I guess look-a-likes // really do exist out there...
4: Even we wouldn’t be able to tell the two apart.
5: I’m Kaname ♥ // It’s nice to meet you all ♥
6: (bubbleless below 5) Even her voice is the same.
7: What’s going on...
8: I feel like I’m having trouble looking at Kagome...

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1: (bubbleless) Oh.
2: So...
3: how exactly did you get to know Inuyasha, Kaname-sama?
4: Well, you see...
5: It all happened just a few months ago...
6: I was on my legs and having trouble getting up.
7: What the heck are you doing Ka...me?
8: That’s when Inuyasha showed up...
9: Geez... I just can’t ever leave you alone, huh...?
10: Ah!
11: He carried me on his back.

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1: I fell in love with his looks // and words in an instance.
2: Mm...
3: He must have mistaken her for Kagome-sama/chan! (the text has both “chan” and “sama” next to each other, since two people are saying it at the same time)
4: Ever since then, I worked on becoming a good wife for Inuyasha-sama // and walked all over the place in search of him...
5: Huh?!
6: Eek!
7: I’ve finally found you, but...
8: are you not okay with someone like me?
9: Don’t say stuff like that while having the same voice and same face as Kagome!
10: ...Wife, huh...?

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1: Good for you, Inuyasha.
2: Ka-
3: Kagome!
4: Since you two are getting married,
5: why don’t
6: (bubbleless) Don’t drag us into this.
7: you talk about this by yourselves.
8: (bottom right of page) Kagome! Wait!
9: Sit.
10: (bubbleless below 9) My, what happened...?
11: (left of 10) Kyah!
12: (bubbleless below 10) There wasn’t really...
13: anything he could do this time around...

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1: Geez... What’s with that girl...
2: Saying whatever she wants...
3: What’s with that whole “Inuyasha-sama” thing?!
4: What’s with that whole “wife” thing?!
5: And what’s with Inuyasha?
6: He hardly did anything to fix the situation...
7: He could’ve just turned her down.
8: Hey.
9: What do you want.

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1: Houshi-sama.
2: Hmm?
3: I don’t see // Inuyasha anywhere.
4: Well, knowing him, // he’s probably gone after Kagome.
5: I see.
6: That’s fine and all, // but...
7: Kaname-san’s not around either...
8: Hey.

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1: How long do you plan on staying mad...
2: Mad?
3: I don’t know how you got that impression.
4: You’re being really annoying about this, // Inuyasha.
5: You’re totally mad right now...
6: A- // Anyway...
7: I don’t remember that chick at all.
8: She’s the one that just suddenly decided to bring up all that wife talk...
9: It’s not like I’ve got the time to be hanging out with someone like that!
10: Inuyasha-sama!

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1: Geh! // She found me!
2: (bottom left of 1) Listen to me, // Kagome!
3: Don’t get the wrong idea!
4: Huh? // Where’d Inuyasha-sama go?
5: He already left.
6: That’s too bad.

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1: I suppose that’s fine.
2: I had been wanting to talk with you as well.
3: With me?
4: Kagome...sama, right?
5: What kind of relationship do you have with Inuyasha-sama?
6: Wha...?! T-That obviously has nothing to do with you!
7: It does, though.
8: We’re rivals, after all.
9: When I met Inuyasha-sama today, // he seemed to be awfully worried about your mood the whole time.
10: Even though I was giving him so much attention, // he didn’t seem to care at all...
11: Yet you’ve been mad at him this whole time.

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1: You aren’t cute at all...
2: I won’t lose // to someone like you...
3: Inuyasha...

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1: Stop pushing, damn it!
2: I can take care of treating your injuries ♥
3: Leave as soon as you’re done!
4: We’re going to be married, so it should be fine if we’re together.
5: Get out right now!
6: Inuyasha...
7: Why would you let her into your room...?
8: I thought you didn’t want me to get the wrong idea...
9: “You aren’t cute at all...”

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1: Am I... // at fault here...?
2: I’m not cute at all // since I’ve just been mad at him this whole time...
3: Kyaaaah!
4: That scream // was coming from Inuyasha’s room!
5: Inuyasha! // What’s wrong?!

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1: Inu... // ya...sha...
2: Kagome!

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1: Oh...
2: I see...
3: “I see”?!
4: Kagome! Wait, it’s not what you think!
5: Sorry...
6: Kagome!


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1: Whoa, there...
2: Was that...
3: Kagome-chan?
4: Let go of me!
5: Let go, damn it!
6: Inuyasha.
7: Where’s Kagome?! Did you see where she went?!
8: Inuyasha... // Don’t tell me you...
9: (below 8) Nooo!
10: Like I said already, that’s not it! // Let go of me!

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1: Would you stop being such a pain, already?! // Do you want me to cut you down?!
2: Let go!!!
3: No! // I said, no!
4: (bubbleless) Our faces and voices are the same, aren’t they?
5: Why do you prefer the other girl so much?!
6: You two // aren’t the same.
7: Sorry...
8: Kagome made such a face...
9: Don’t even put yourself on the same level as her!

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1: Whoa, there.
2: Inuyashas!
3: Kyaah!
4: Kagome’s scent
5: is completely different from the scent of a man’s like yours!
6: Huh?
7: Don’t take me for a fool!
8: (bubbleless) Ow...
9: Man...?

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1: Kaname... // sama...?
2: Man...?
3: It’s true, she doesn’t have a chest.
4: Kyaah!
5: Ahah...
6: I guess I got turned down...
7: Kagome!
8: Kagome!
9: Kagome!

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1: Kagome!
2: Inuyasha...

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1: Um, about Kagome-chan...
2: Sorry...
3: I couldn’t find her.
4: My nose is all out of whack because of that weird scent.
5: Inuyasha...
6: Kagome-chan came back.
7: She returned just a little while ago...
8: But...
9: She said she didn’t want to see you...

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1: How is he?
2: Looks like it’s really been getting to him.
3: Inuyasha-sama!
4: What are you doing?
5: (bubbleless) Oh, it’s you.
6: Can I sit next to you?
7: Leave me alone.
8: Don’t mind if I do, then.
9: Didn’t I just tell you to leave me alone?!
10: Did you, now?

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1: Wha?!
2: Hey, Inuyasha-sama... // What do you find so great about that woman?
3: She’s just been mad this whole time, // how could you find anything cute about that...
4: What makes her so special?
5: It was all your fault, though...
6: I don’t have any // obligation to tell you something like that.

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1: Why not? We’re both men here!
2: Seriously? // NOW you’re calling yourself a man?
3: (bubbleless) Man...?
4: Listen up, here. No matter // how similar your voices and faces are,
5: Kagome is Kagome! // No one could possibly replace her!

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1: There. // You heard him, right?
2: Ah...
3: Kagome...

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1: Geez... Who made it a rule that a man can’t fall // for another man...
2: You still doubt me?
3: Yep, he’s a guy.
4: I’m a man.
5: Other than my body, I’m exactly the same as her, // so I thought I could’ve fooled you...
6: But oh well.
7: It was fun.

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1: Goodbye.
2: You’re leaving?
3: Yes.
4: I won’t get in the way anymore. // It’s not like he’ll ever fall for me, anyway.
5: Kaname-sama... // Are you really...

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1: Next time
2: I’ll make sure I’m born as a woman.
3: Inuyasha...

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1: Inuyasha...
2: You’re hurting me...
3: You promise you won’t leave me?
4: Do you promise not to leave me // if I loosen my grip even just a little?
5: Those words...
6: Inuyasha...
7: Do you promise to stay by my side?
8: Usually
9: you never tell me stuff like that...

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1: Hey...
2: Kaname-san made your heart skip a beat, didn’t she?
3: No, she didn’t!
4: I saw you getting flustered around her...
5: I knew it! // So you WERE getting excited over her!
6: Shut up, will you?!
7: Only at first, damn it! Do you really think I’d want to fall for a guy even if he had the same face as you?!
8: Mm...
9: Hey... How did you know he was a guy...?
10: He smelled different, obviously.
11: He didn’t smell nice like you...
12: Plus...

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1: she didn’t // turn me on.
2: Ah...
3: Inu... Inuyasha!
4: Ah! Noo! Ah!

PAGE 36:

1: N-No...
2: We’re making so much noise...
3: Ah! // No!
4: Hah!
5: Don’t let me hear that...
6: Ahn!
7: You’re... only going to make me more wet...
8: Ah! Ah!
9: You’re going to make me...
10: feel even better...!
11: Ah! Ah!
12: And then
13: you’re going to make me...
14: I- // Inuyasha!

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1: Ah!
2: Kuuh!
3: Ahah!
4: (bottom right of page) not ever want to leave you again...
5: (bottom right of 3) pump
6: pump
7: Haah
8: Haah... // Haah...

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1: Inuyasha...
2: Geez...
3: I can’t believe you, what the heck were you thinking?! // Why would you suddenly do something like that...
4: What do you mean...?
5: You’re the one that wouldn’t believe me.
6: But...
7: It was faster to do that than having to explain every single little thing.
8: You’re wound’s already opening, you need to take it easy!
9: Your blood’s seeping out. (bubbleless)
10: Hmm?
11: When did that happen? (bubbleless)
12: I didn’t notice...
13: How could you not?!


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1: Shut up, you’re way more important
2: than a dumb wound like this.
3: Huh...?
4: “You’re way more...”
5: Inuyasha... // Did you just say...
6: “important...”

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1: Say it again.
2: Hell no!
3: It’s a good thing you didn't swing that way.
4: (bubbleless) Swing what way?
5: Huh?
6: Swing that way?

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Thanks for reading this far.
That was pretty chaotic, huh?
Kaname-san sure made a mess of things.
I bet Inu x Kago lovers would hate her, poor guy...
This all started from an idea I got during a fight scene.
I wanted to draw an Inuyasha that would be able to tell the difference no matter how much the two of them were alike...
I might have just wanted an excuse to make Inuyasha say stuff like that...
I definitely wouldn’t want to see a shocking scene like that. Yeah.

Also, I know the word “homosexual” probably didn’t exist during the Sengoku period, so don’t bug me about that please.
It probably only became a thing after the Edo period or something. (T/L Note: The text in page 40 uses the word 衆道(shudou) which means homosexuality, which was probably a word that didn't exist in early period of Japan, but I chose a more liberal method of translating it.)

Thanks for sticking around for so long.
Hopefully I’ll see you guys again some time.

Forgive me, Rumiko-sensei.

(bubbleless) Where’d these clothes come from...?
(bubbleless) Try this one on, next ♥ ♥