Unexpected

Summary: A broken heart can blind a person. She ran into him and just couldn't look up. She just cried until she had no more tears. Then she fell asleep. She knew only one thing; it wasn't the one who betrayed her.

Chapter 1: An Unknown Encounter

A young woman sat calmly in the forest watching as the wind blew through the trees. She was in more of a clearing than the actual forest sitting on the edge of an old well. She was just waiting for him. 'Any minute now,' she thought. He normally came soon after she got out of the well. Sighing she slid off the side of the well to sit in front of it. She hugged her knees to her chest as she waited thinking about all she had been through the last few years. Breaking the Shikon jewel was the main worry she had at the moment. Naraku had been defeated but they had found that he didn't have the rest of the shards. Sighing she laid her head down on her knees slowly closing her eyes enjoying the wind in her hair. It was one of the few times anymore that she got to enjoy something so simple.

After a while she opened her eyes yawning and looked around. The sun was lower than it had been when she had closed them as she realized she had fallen asleep waiting for him. 'Where is he?' she asked herself confused. Normally he would have been there right as she was climbing out of the well. Stretching as she stood she gazed around quietly a bit miffed that he hadn't come for her like he always did. Shrugging she picked up her yellow backpack and started towards the village. 'He probably was in a fight with a demon that couldn't wait,' she thought calmly.

She entered Kaede's village in not too long a time. It didn't seem like a very long walk anymore. She walked directly to Kaede's hut figuring that she would find out where everyone was from the old priestess. As she neared the hut she heard the sound of a loud smack and a familiar voice screaming, "HENTAI." She laughed quietly to herself before she thought of something. 'Why aren't they with him fighting the demon?'

A girl walked out in a huff dressed in a simple kimono. Her hair hung in loose pony tail. Her eyes were heated as she glared at anyone in her path before she saw her friend. Her gaze softened some and she got a slight smile on her face before she frowned and her gaze turned sad. The two girls stood silent as everything was said with the sad look on the one girls face. The smile on the others girls face turned quickly into a frown.

Dropping her yellow back pack she went off in search of him. The soul catchers caught her eye as soon as she entered the woods meaning that she was close. She continued as quiet as she could. 'I'm getting pretty good at this' she thought subconsciously as she neared the spot. He always seemed to meet her here by the Goshinboku. She thought it odd that this was the place where the other woman had killed him. She hid quietly behind a tree when she caught sight of his silver hair.

"Inuyasha," she whispered silently to herself. He didn't turn his attention from the dead priestess though. But that could possibly be because he wasn't awake. They both lay sleeping side by side. The dead miko was covered only in his haori but it looked as if he had dressed some time while she had been sleeping. Tears slowly welled up in her eyes as she took a step back. Her earlier attempt at silence was forgotten as she stepped backwards onto a twig that snapped loudly in the peaceful silence. She watched as his ear twitched before he sat up quickly looking in the direction of the sudden noise. A small gasp escaped her as he growled at her without thinking. It suddenly stopped as his eyes cleared and he recognized her.

"K-Kagome," he said lightly. She stared silently at him with watery eyes as a tear escaped the dam to cascade down her cheek. Inuyasha just sat there staring at her with a confused expression on his face before he looked down at the one beside him. She closed her eyes as she turned her head away not wanting to look. She felt her legs start to run as she cried silently. She couldn't hear a thing as she ran listening to the pounding of her heart in her ears as she ran. Her tears blinded her as she stumbled through the woods not caring where she went. Her only reaction to running into something soft was to bury her face in it. For some reason she got the notion it was her pillow. She put her hands up grabbing onto the fabric of what she thought was the pillow case clinging tightly to her 'pillow.' Her crying slowly died down before she fell into a dreamless sleep never once looking up from crying.


He looked down with a stoic expression watching his half brother's wench crying into his haori. Something about her had made him unconsciously react with a comforting sound. She had soon fallen asleep against him and would normally have fallen to the ground if her grip on his haori hadn't been so tight. He silently lifted his hands trying to pry her off him but to no avail. Holding back a sigh he slid down to sit at the base of the tree he had been leaning against when the girl had run into him. He leaned his head back against the tree staring up through the leaves. At some point he laid his head down against her hair and drifted off to sleep, something he hadn't done in a long time.