When You're Feeling Down

ONE SHOT - turned into a real story

Never Stop Caring

I don't own Inuyasha. Or anyone else. I'm working on Tessaiga though, so I can Bakuryuuha the crap out of anyone who is even remotely connected to Inuyasha. So hide yourselves.

READ: I ALMOST made this into a InuKik fic (not the same plot, but an InuKik fic), but I just couldn't do it. Because Kikyou's a freaky, evil, demonic little clay pot. Seriously. Someone needs to stick some flowers in her head. Or something like that. It would be fun. -grabs some roses- on second thought... -puts roses down- she doesn't deserve pretty roses.


"Inuyasha, hurry up back there. What are you doing anyway?" The curious kitsune asked Inuyasha, who had caused the gang to stop for awhile. He really didn't mind the break, he rather enjoyed it since it didn't happen often, but something was wrong because one thing was true; Inuyasha never stopped unless it was something really important. After saying this, the cute fox put his hands to his mouth, because he really didn't want to continue their journey. His feet where sore beyond all reason, and he really wished he had accepted those shoes Kagome had offered him earlier that day. They were a bit big on his feet, but they were well worth it to him.

"Not like it's any of your business, runt." Inuyasha replied, lifting his head to talk to the kit, then lowering it to continue was he was doing. He wouldn't reveal what he was doing to anyone, they'd just make fun of him for stopping them to do that. Even if the stop was nice.

"Inuyasha, please be a little bit nicer to Shippou, I think his feet are sore, like mine." Kagome told Inuyasha, sort of a warning for the osuwari that would come if he wasn't going to be nicer to them. She wanted desperately to go over to him and see what he was doing... but she stayed alongside Sango, Miroku, Kirara, and Shippou anyways. Shippou liked her to be near him, and she was certain Inuyasha didn't want her over there.

"Feh. Whatever."

"However, what are you doing Inuyasha?" Miroku, the much lecherous monk, asked. It interested all of them, he wouldn't let any of them come near him, and he also commanded them to stay where they were instead of finding a place to stay. Everyone was getting really tired of just standing there, the urge to sit was horrible, but none of them wanted to sit on the dirt, and they didn't want Kirara to feel uncomfortable if they sat on her. If they found a different place to sit, Inuyasha would growl at them and make them stay.

"None of your business!" Inuyasha shouted with anger in his eyes. "Go ahead and set up camp I guess, we can stay for the night." Everyone in the group was excited to hear this, and Kagome was the one to say, "Thank you, Inuyasha."

"We can trust you to find our camp, right?" Miroku asked him.

"Of course," Inuyasha stated, like it was so obvious. "I'll follow Kagome's scent."

"Ah, running to Lady Kagome," Miroku teased. "Inuya-" Sango could hear the lecherous tone in his voice, and hit him over the head with her Hiraikotsu, hard, before he could finish his thoughts. Kagome just laughed at the monk and Shippou simply stated, "What a baka." Sango was giving Miroku a death glare, Miroku was hoping Sango wouldn't hit him once more and of course having lecherous thoughts, Shippou was just staring at the two, thinking they were stupid, Inuyasha was doing his work, and Kagome was going to be the one to go and find camp.

"Let's go find a place to stay," Kagome told them, surprised that none of them were going to say it themselves; after all, all of them were pretty tired out. "I'm going to try to find a clearing in the forest." She just left them, heading for the forest, and it took them a couple of seconds to actually realize she was leaving, since they were caught up in their own things. After they figured out she was going, they all scrambled to get their stuff together and follow her.


"Thank goodness they're gone," Inuyasha told himself. "They'd just laugh at me, knowing what I was doing." What was he doing anyway? He had walked along with the group, then abandoned them to come over here, and once they started to come near him and ask why'd he'd run off, he just demanded they stayed there while he did his work. About a month earlier, he had seen this "Houjou" guy giving Kagome flowers, which she had thanked him for and called them pretty! Inuyasha would not let this Houjou guy fling himself all over Kagome, and once he had told her that, she just replied with "Don't worry, Inuyasha, he's a kind boy and all; I just don't like him like he likes me." She did, however, like the flowers and put them in their own "vase", in which she put them in sparkling clear water. After this, Inuyasha was turned into "jealous" mode, and had to go find her something.

He had decided on getting flowers too, but he put a month's time in between, so it wouldn't be so obvious that he had took the idea from this guy. That's where he was, leaning down to get flowers from a spot that had many different kinds. He had made sure it was behind some sort of protection; the group would never let him live picking flowers for Kagome up. At first, he never really realized what she had seen in these flowers that made them pretty, but now once he looked at them he could tell that they were beautiful in their own way, and reminded him of Kagome. She was always looking her best, nothing that happened to her took any part of it away.

His picking of flowers wasn't just out of jealousy; it would also be a good chance to tell her how he really thought. Sure, he couldn't get over Kikyou in a snap, but lately he'd been thinking, and realized... Kagome accepts him for a hanyou, even if it was wrong for her to love him as a hanyou. Kikyou wanted him to be human, so she could live a normal life, no hanyous involved. He could see right through her, she probably didn't even care, she only wanted to take him with her because she wanted to get rid of him for not becoming a human..! Inuyasha truly had no clue what flowers to get, so he inspected each and every one carefully, trying to see which ones Kagome would think looked best. he remembered, there was a day she had asked him to go and get some flowers with her, and he strained to remember which ones she got.


"Come on, all you have to do is go get some flowers with me."

"It sounds stupid." he replied, crossing his arms in disgust.

"Please, just do it, Inuyasha." He was about to say yes, but only because the fear of the osuwari.

"Even if you say no I won't o-s-u-w-a-r-i you." She said calmly, aware of his situation. This got to him. he still didn't really want to go pick some flowers, but when she wouldn't osuwari him for something she wanted him to do, he knew it was something she really wanted him to do, purely because she liked being with him. He knew it was because she wanted to be near him, he wasn't bragging or anything, she had told him before. Not like it was easy for her to hide, anyway.

"I'll go, Kagome." It seemed to have made her day that he would go with her, that he could understand that she wanted him to go with her, just because she loved having him there with her. That was one of the many reasons she wasn't always so fearful during a battle, because Inuyasha was there and it seemed to give her hope, gave her determination, gave her confidence, it gave her life. She smiled at him, and walked over to a patch of flowers next to a nearby tree, him following. She got over there, it was only a few steps, and leaned down, Inuyasha leaning down next to her.

"I especially love these," She said as she smiled and ripped off a light purple flower. "I don't know what they are called, but I can recognize them anywhere I go." Inuyasha grabbed her wrist and pulled it up to his nose, and he took in the scent of the flower, once, two times.

Kono chi ni chikara o No ni hana o Kokoro ni ai o... Nee kono mimi o oshiatete kikoeta inochi no zawameki Sou oboeteru atatakana kodou ni tsutsumareteta koto Dare ka no koe mo, dare ka no kizu mo, kikoenai furi o suru Sonna minikui kao ni damasarenaide Ima sugu ni ai ni ikite

"I will know what they are from now on," He let go of her hand and smelled the flowers, then picked a pink flower and gave it to her. "Do you know what this one is? It smells nice... like you. It's not your scent, but it smells good."

Kono yo ni umarete Anata no me ni Nani o utsushite Ima kono chi ni chikara o No ni hana o Kokoro ni ai o... Nee kizutsuita sono hane o iyaseru sube sae shirazu ni Sou doko made mo bokutachi wa aruite mata sore o seoi Donna jidai mo, donna basho demo tashikana ai wa aru Dakara furueru koto mo nageki kanashimu koto mo nai Ai no naka e

"I didn't expect you to actually get some flowers... it's not like you to do that."

Namanurui kaze ni Utare boku wa Nani o nokoshite Ima kono chi ni chikara o No ni hana o Kokoro ni ai o... Soshite Dare ka no koe mo, dare ka no kizu mo, kikoenai FURI o suru Sonna minikui KAO ni damasarenaide Ima SUGU ni ai ni ikite Kono yo ni umarete Anata no me ni Nani o utsushite Ima nama nerui kaze ni Utare boku wa Nani o nokoshite

"I don't do it often, you are correct," Inuyasha said as he sniffed the flowers again and got an orange one, then gave it to Kagome. "In fact, I never do it, but you are an exception."

Kono chi ni chikara o No ni hana o Kokoro ni ai o...
"Let's see if I can recognize any of these, shall we..." he said to himself as he went over to a purple flower like the one he saw on that day and sniffed it. Sure enough, it was that flower, so her got it, and a few others of it's kind. He kept on sniffing loads of flowers and picking until only a few were left, and was satisfied. He stood up, holding the flowers in his hands, and smelled them all together. They were so wonderful, together like that. No matter how good they smelled, they couldn't compare to Kagome. he sniffed the air, pushing the flowers away, so he could get a better sense on other things, like Kagome's scent. Which wasn't too far away, and in the forest. He pulled the flowers back towards him, and ran in Kagome's direction. Instead of walking in front of everyone and giving her the flowers, he set them down by the nearest tree.

"Kagome, come here and spare a second, will you?" He asked, and Kagome turned to face him, and stood up, waving to her friends as to say "Just a minute".

"Yes?" She asked as she arrived. Inuyasha dragged her behind the tree and picked up the flowers, then held them out to her.

"They are for you." She accepted the flowers, but was sort of hesitant, since this wasn't normal.

"Thank you, but," She sort of gave a pause, and Inuyasha looked sort of worried. "You did this because of Houjou-kun, didn't you? Because you're jealous? Right?"

"Well, at first... but..."

"But?"

"Along the way I realized they were more than just because I was... well..."

"Jealous." She said for him. He didn't like to say anything bad of himself, but Kagome knew what he meant. Even if he couldn't say it.

"Yeah, and," he started to say as he pointed to the purple flower. "I could remember the scent... for you. The day you took me to go pick flowers."

"Inuyasha!" She pulled him into a hug, careful not to hurt the flowers he had given her, and buried her face in his haori. "This means so much to me... I know that they are only flowers, but you got them for me, and that makes me happy. To know that you care." He wrapped his arms around her in return.

"I have always cared, and will never stop caring," there was a pause before either of them said anything. "When you're feeling down, I'll be here for you Kagome."