"You did what!?" A shrill voice echoed through the small house. Inuyasha was sure even the sheep in the far off meadow heard the yell. He sure had.
"It ain't like I broke it on purpose Kagome!" He yelled back ears twitching painfully. Kagome was seething with anger. Although, she seemed to calm down a bit after she saw what looked like an apologetic look on his face. She sighed dramatically.
"Fine. Hand it over". She demanded. Inuyasha fumbled nervously as he tried to unhook the sword from his belt loop. Kagome grabbed it and began to pull it out of its sheath when half of the sword promptly dropped to the floor.
"I thought you said you only broke the seal!" Kagome screamed.
"Well how'dya think the seal got broke?" He retorted. She was really mad now…
"Sit boy!" Inuyasha was forced face-first onto the floor. He had become too well acquainted with these wooden floorboards over the past year or so. How the young girl had managed to enchant the beaded necklace his mother had left him, he had yet to figure out.
"Damn moody priestess…" He growled too low for Kagome to hear.
"Granny, I think I'm going to need your help on this one." Kagome called to her Grandmother Kaede, who was currently in the kitchen preparing dinner. She came into the living room and looked the sword over thoroughly.
"How did ye do this mutt?" Kaede questioned.
"Who yah callin' a mutt, you old hag!?"
"Who ye be calling an old hag!?" Kaede dropped the sword pieces back into the sheath, "Kagome, ye go ahead and relax, I'll handle this one." The old woman assured her. Kagome nodded in surprise. That was odd, usually her grandma would take this opportunity to further her training. Kaede took the sword down to the workroom in the basement and Kagome sank into the old couch in the living room, motioning for Inuyasha to join her. He scoffed one of his usual 'keh's and joined her, his arm twinging in pain as he sat. Kagome, unfortunately for him, did not miss the scowl that had briefly crossed his face.
"You're hurt." She stated, peering up at him worriedly. He started to deny it, but figured Kagome would probably see through his lie, and offered her his arm. Kagome pushed up his black sleeve and couldn't suppress her gasp as she surveyed the damage. A large gash was situated on the inside of his forearm. It was red and swollen, but seemed to already be healing. She made her way to the kitchen and returned with a medicinal balm she had, conveniently enough, made earlier in the day.
"I don't need any of that." He protested, "I ain't a weak human, besides its already healing." She glared at his 'weak human' comment and applied the balm anyway. When she was done she leaned back into the cushion of the couch, staring down at the balm in thought. Inuyasha relaxed a bit, the balm did ease the pain a bit, and leaned back as well.
"I just wish you'd come back home." Kagome whispered, "You barely ever visit, and when you do you're always hurt. I don't understand why you think you need to go on this journey of yours." Inuyasha looked down letting his bangs fall over his face.
"I just. I don't want to be this way. I want to be human." He whispered. "I can't handle the glares and hateful comments anymore. If I can find the Shikon Jewel, I could make it all stop." Demons were very uncommon in this country, half-demons even more so. As a result Inuyasha wasn't usually accepted by others. She knew this caused him endless emotional pain, but he usually never spoke of it. Kagome's eyes began to fill with tears, he so rarely opened up like this to her.
"Inuyasha," she sniffed, "You don't need to change who you are. You're perfect the way you are." Inuyasha began to blush until he saw Kagome's tears.
"Why're you crying, dummy?" he asked, "Don't cry over me, that's just silly!"
"It's n-not s-silly," she was sobbing now, "You won't shed any tears, so I'll cry for you." He socfffed at her statement, expressing that he still thought it was dumb. They sat in awkward silence until her crying subsided.
"So," she broke the silence, "When are you leaving again?"
"As soon as the old lady's done fixin' the sword."
"So soon?"
"I'm supposed to report back to central within the next few days." He said. "The Colonel's apparently got a new lead on the Jewel for me."
"Oh." She sounded disappointed, "When will you be back next?" He glanced back down, not wanting to see her sad expression.
"I don't know..."
A/N: I hope I kept everyone in character enough! I thought Hagane no Hanyou was fitting enough as Hagane can mean stubborn as well as steel, and Inuyasha is very stubborn. I know this is like super au but, I hope you guys like it! Also I really suck at writing long things, bad habit of a science major. Part 2 will star Miroku as our favorite flame alchemist and Sango as his loyal lieutenant. Although he won't actually be a flame alchemist, I don't even know if I'm going to work alchemy into this at all. I don't really know where I'm going with it. I'm also toying with the idea of Inuyasha somehow coming up with a way to hide his ears (like Ed hides his automail) my only idea thus far is he does something with his hair, or maybe Kagome can give him a temporary cover with her priestess powers? I don't know let me know if you have any ideas.