I know I know. Starting ANOTHER story when all of mine need to be edited and/or completed. I'm a Gemini and can't just stick to one project at a time! I hope you like this one. I know my writing skills need so much improvement but I hope I'm getting better. I'm even attempting to outline what I want to happen instead of writing stuff off the top of my head as I go. Please R&R. Keep it respectful but I do appreciate specific critism. I know my grammar is still pretty weak. Xo.
-Silver Mist
It felt like fire was spreading through her veins. Starting at her cold pulsating heart, and then slowly trailing outward, prolonging the self inflicted pain she was endearing.
Shapes began to blur and distort themselves. Her mind became a living piece of abstract art, the continuous molding and shaping causing a constant throbbing pain in her right temple. She closed her eyes, allowing the sinking feeling to ensue.
When Kagome opened them again it was dark out. She glanced at her cellphone and found she had been asleep for more than eight hours, but the drowsy sensation she got from crying did not leave. She felt a tightness behind her brown eyes, and blinked a few times to bring the world into more focus. Her black mascara was now smudged on the pillow, she made a mental note to start buying waterproof mascara despite how much more difficult it would be to remove each night.
She had fallen asleep in an awkward position. She stood up, rubbed the soreness out of her muscles, glad she had slept in her bed and not on some floor hut.
Raising her arms above her head, she mumbled some profanities under her breath.
Running her hand through her haphazard shoulder length hair she noted that the house was quiet, understandable at 2 o'clock in the morning.
She glanced back at her phone and glanced at the photos.
She smiled at the look on Inuyasha's face when she had snapped a picture, forgetting to turn of the flash. It took her a long time to convince her companions it wasn't some "soul sucking device" but she still had to sneak photos of Inuyasha because he scowled every time she tried to take a picture.
She grinned despite her bad mood and thought back on the afternoon, and how it had quickly grown out of control. Emotions went awry. She tried to remember why they had even started fighting in the first place, but couldn't recall anything of importance.
They always fought but they also always came back to each other. They were both ferociously stubborn, but they needed each other. Well, more like he needed her to detect the Jewel shards and she needed him to guide and protect her through the greatest adventure of her life.
She smiled at the irony of the situation. How she would of told anyone in her position that they should just walk away. That if it wasn't better by now it wouldn't ever be. But she was an advice giver, not taker.
She closed her eyes willing herself to fall into more blissful hours of sleep. Fifteen minutes ticked by, and then thirty. She shifted in her bed, trying to find a better position, and even flipped her pillow to a new cooler side.
Eventually she gave up and decided that she might as well write while she was up. Images swirled through her mind but words refused to make themselves present. She quickly grew tired of trying to process the words that would not come to her mind.
Her thoughts began to trail back. She sighed, deflated by the amount of moments she had been able to sear into her brain in such a short time. Her headache was returning now, stronger than before. She willed her eyes to close and her mind to wander to something lighter, airer, like the grasslands and forests she and Inuyasha had run through when they travelled from the Bone Eaters well to the village.
Inuyasha.
The name caused a sharp pain in her heart and she clutched her chest, trying to ward off the pain.
She huffed and sat up suddenly.
"Who cares? Kikyo met Inuyasha first." Kagome scoffed, "Besides Kouga and Hojo are interested in me. I just need to get out." She smiled ruefully, "And then I'll forget all about Inuyasha."
She changed her position again, causing her mattress to squeak. It was faint but the sound was more than enough to cover the light thump of Inuyasha's feet pushing off the roof, sending him sailing to the ground below.
After a fitful night Kagome woke up, still frazzled. She stumbled to her bathroom and turned on the water until the bathroom was steaming. She slid her petite body into the silky waters, and sighed as the water began to work wonders on her muscles. She used generous amounts of cherry blossom scented shampoo and conditioner. Spending a large amount of time working the knots out of her dark tresses. Once she was satisfied with her hair she grabbed some vanilla scented body wash and began working on covering her entire body in a soapy lather. She submerged herself to rinse and then grabbed for some shaving cream. After carefully spreading it onto her legs, she grabbed a brand new razor and set to work. She took her time, careful not to nick her skin.
"Kagome!" A voice called out to here from outside her bathroom door.
She flinched and instantly felt a sharp sting on her knee. "Kagome!" The voice suddenly grew panicked.
Thud.
She looked up from inspecting here knee to see her bathroom door now lying carelessly on the floor. A silver haired hanyou in the door way, face full of concern, claws protruding, seemingly completely unaware of her current state.
"Kagome. Are you okay?" He kept his eyes moving around the room searching for possible dangers, "I smell blood."
She sighed, "Inuyasha get out of here!"
"But Kag-"
"Inuyasha go into my room and wait for me or I'll sit you."
Inuyasha face planted onto the bathroom tile.
"Oops." She squeaked. "I didn't mean to do that."
Kagome left her bathroom, now fully dressed, and was faced with a really peeved hanyou. He sat on her bed, legs crossed. His elbow rested on his knee, and his face on his hand. His fingers on his left hand tapped impatiently.
"Are you still mad about me accidentally saying s-i-t. I didn't mean too."
"Why did I smell blood?" He eyed her suspiciously.
"I was shaving and you startled me. It's just a nick." She smiled awkwardly, showing him the small mark on her knee.
He inspected it and decided she wasn't in any really danger.
"Let's go. The others are waiting for us." He turned to look at her, amber eyes lit on fire by the ray of sunshine that ran acrossed them.
Kagome's heart skipped a beat.
"You okay?" Inuyasha asked, seemingly unconcerned.
"Of course." Kagome chirped back, a little too happily, before mentally adding, 'Kagome. Focus. He doesn't want you. He wants Kikyo.'
She climbed onto his back, and rested her head on his shoulder blade, ignoring the voice inside her head, but nothing could muffle the truth.
She wanted him.
