Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. At least not right now. Give it a few years. But as of now I own nothing but some vague thoughts that I turn into a story. So now I'll let you read.
"Kagome! Where is the sacred jewel shard?!" shouted Inuyasha as he dodged yet another attack from the demon bear.
"Oh! Uh….. They're... ummmm…oh I see them! They're in its right paw Inuyasha!" she told him.
"Alright! Here I go!" shouted Inuyasha.
As he went to cut off the bear's right paw, its left paw came up from behind him and sent him flying onto the nearest tree.
"Inuyasha!" screamed Kagome as she tried to run to help Inuyasha, but as she was nearly to him the bear demon slammed its paw down right in front of her. The impact on the ground sent her flying backwards.
'Oh no!' she thought. 'If I hit the ground the force will kill-"oomph!"
"Kagome are you okay?"
"Y-y-y-yes Shippou. Thank you." She said quietly.
She slid off of Shippou who had inflated to catch her and kneeled on the ground shaken.
'I need to take better care of-' Kagome's thoughts were cut off by the sound of Inuyasha screaming as he was thrown once again into a nearby tree. She slowly and carefully got up and ran off.
"Kagome-chan? KAGOME-CHAN?!!" screamed Sango after her frightened friend.
"Forget her for now Sango!" said Inuyasha, "we have a fight to finish and she ditched, so she'll have to wait!"
"Yeah, but…."
Then all of a sudden the youkia that they were fighting fell over dead.
"Whoa, what just happened?" questioned Sango.
"Sango-san, Inuyasha, look." Said Miroku
And when they looked they were all shocked, for in the middle of the bear youkia's chest were three arrows still glowing with purifying power.
"Whoa!" said shippou. "Did you see her do that? I sure didn't!"
"I didn't either." said Sango. "What about you two?" she said looking at inuyasha and Miroku.
"No we didn't" they both said in unison.
"Wow she's gotten way faster!" said shippou, using the slang that he picked up from kagome.
Meanwhile
Kagome had run into the forest and was now sitting against a tree with an arrow strung on her bow and ready to attack if anything were to come her way. Who could blame her? After all she almost lost her-"who's there?" she asked loudly, her hands bringing her bow unconsciously closer to her. She could hear them rustling through the forest. They weren't trying to hide from her.
'Maybe it's a friend-NO, that may be their plan if they are an enemy' she thought.
Inuyasha bristled. He went looking for Kagome as soon as they found the bear youkia dead. The others went looking for her in the village while he stuck to the forest since he had the best sense of smell. He could sense every negative wave that came off of her. She was scared out of her mind, but why? Couldn't she sense that it was him?
"If you don't leave right now then I'll shoot, I can sense where you are." She said.
Now inuyasha was very confused, why would she shoot HIM? Then he had a thought.
'Maybe she can't sense that it's me' he thought. 'She is really scared right now maybe that's overwhelming her senses'
This thought was confirmed when her heard her say
"Who are you, and what do you want?"
"Kagome, it's me, Inuyasha!" he said semi-quickly because he heard the small sound of her bow string being pulled back more than it already was.
"I-Inuyasha? Why did you leave me in the dark for so long? You really scared me!" she said still staying where she was. Inuyasha waiting for a little while longer to see if she would come to him, (they still are blocked from each others view by a couple bushes and trees) and when she didn't he went to her. When he saw her he was shocked because she looked so helpless sitting on the ground her bow semi-strung like she hadn't the strength to string it all the way. Then he looked at where they were. What tree they were under.
'This is where it all started. Where I first met her.' He thought. Then he looked down at his rosary beads. He had thought for the longest time that he didn't want them, that he wanted them off, but a few months ago he realized that that wasn't the case. He hadn't realized how special these beads were. These were what brought him and Kagome together. Without them he would've killed kagome with no thoughts or regrets and that would've been the worst thing ever. She had stopped using the 'sit' command long ago only using it when it was really necessary. A few months ago though Kagome offered to take them off for him. She said that there was no use in having them anymore, the only reason they put them on him was so that he wouldn't kill her and they knew very well now that there wasn't even a chance that he would think about it. But her offering to remove them made him think about them and what they were. Even though he didn't realize it at the time, the rosary beads were a second chance for him. And he thanked the gods that he got it whether he liked it or not.
"You wanna go back to Kaede's, Kagome? Everyone is looking for you, I'm sure that they're worried."
"Sure." She shrugged. And as she moved to get up Inuyasha gave her his hand and pulled her up.
"You wanna ride on my back? It'll be faster."
"Nah." She said. "I feel like walking today."
"Okay." He said and they walked the rest of they way in silence.
back at the village
"So houshi-sama, do you think that Inuyasha has found Kagome yet? asked Sango.
"Most likely, by now they're probably on they're way back here. (He's right they are) but my question is has she told him yet.
"Probably not," said Sango. "I think that she's having a hard time putting it into words that aren't to blunt."
"Well if that's the case I can help her, I'm not afraid of putting things bluntly."
WHACK
"Ouch! Ok, what was that for?" asked Miroku sincerely.
"Hmmm, let's see. 1. this is for Kagome to tell Inuyasha herself, he absolutely cannot hear it from anyone else. 2. you would say something perverted if you told Inuyasha and would get him mad and upset about the whole thing, and 3. You need to learn how to keep your wandering hands to yourself.
"They're back, let's go inside and tell Shippou, Sango-san.
"You first Houshi-sama." She said seeing the lecherous smirk on his face as he gestured for her to go in before him.
"You're no fun." He murmured.
"Oh, and Houshi-sama? Would you please talk to Inuyasha and Shippou when they get and keep them here while I take Kagome-chan to the bath so that I can to talk to her?
"Only if you call me by my first name, Sango-san."
"O-okay M-Miroku-sama."
"There that wasn't so hard was it? Oh and you can drop the –sama I don't deserve it compared to you." And effectively making her blush he walked into Kaede's hut smiling.
back to Inu and Kag
The whole way back was silent, Kagome thinking of how to tell him, Inuyasha thinking about how he almost let kagome get severely hurt. It was not a comfortable silence and both were relieved when they saw the village. They saw Miroku and Sango heading back to Kaede's hut. Then they saw them stop and talk a little bit and saw Miroku look at them. Both Kagome and Inuyasha sighed when they saw Sango whack Miroku on the head for being a lech and also saw them stop before the doorway of the hut. Then they saw Sango blush and Miroku smile, which made them both wonder what they were saying. When the got to the door of the hut they heard Sango tell shippou that he needed to stay here while she and kagome took a bath.
"So I guess that it is already decided for me that I'm going to take a bath, huh Sango." said Kagome smiling.
Inuyasha looked at her and frowned. The smile that was plastered on her face was 100 percent fake.
'What happened to make her so unhappy' he thought. 'Come to think of it she hasn't smiled in a while'
"So let's go Sango-chan, I really do need a bath." said Kagome.
So they gathered their bathing supplies and went to the hot springs that were near the village.
"Here Kagome, let me see your stomach." said Sango. "I don't see any cuts or scratches so that's good.
"Yeah, but it doesn't always have to be a cut or scratch to loose a baby." said Kagome. "In my world it's not uncommon for a woman to loose her child if she fell or for no reason at all, especially if they're young.
"Really." said Sango. "You can loose the child if you fall down? That's strange, most of the women who've lost a child have had scratches on their stomach. Wow I bet they got the scratches by falling down. That's very interesting."
"For you it may be interesting but for me it is terrifying. I could've died today. I may have lost my baby."
"But you didn't fall down Kagome, Shippou caught you." said Sango, confused.
"Yes I didn't hit the ground but the impact of hitting… anything really could jolt a baby enough that it kills it.
"Kagome, I have a feeling that you didn't lose your baby. I just don't think you did." said Sango.
"Really?" asked Kagome. She had learned long ago to trust Sango's feelings. They were almost always right.
"Really. So…. When are you going to tell Inuyasha the good news?" asked Sango excitedly.
"Well." said Kagome hesitating "I've thought really hard about it. I thought of different ways that I can tell him and I've predicted what his reaction will be based on how I tell him, and I've decided." She paused. "That I'm not going to tell him.
"WHAT?" Sango screamed so loudly that birds flew off the branches in the nearby trees
End of chapter
Meanings of Japanese words I used
Youkia – Demon
Houshi – Monk
-sama – respectful term
-san – respectful term
-chan – friendly term
If I used any other words that I didn't define then email me and I'll tell you.
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