Title: Kirara's Secret
Description: Kirara takes off a lot and the group starts getting concerned, what is the real reason behind her disappearances? Please r&r, it shall be better than it sounds;)
Disclaimer: InuYasha and its characters belong to Rumiko Takahashi.
Chapter 1
The sleepy feline stretched out her front legs and purred softly before spinning around a couple of times and lying back down beside Sango. It was a chilly night and the demon twin-tailed cat had grown quite restless in the late hours. She sat up and began licking herself in hopes it would calm her to sleep.
When that didn't work she went over to Kagome's yellow carrying bag and noticed that it was luckily opened. Kirara stuck her nose into the large bag and began sifting through all Kagome's belongings until she finally found the cat treats that Kagome had brought especially for her.
When she got a couple in her mouth, Kirara pulled her head out of the bag and munched on them happily, but quietly enough where no one would wake up. After her snack she curled up next to Sango once more and closed her drowsy eyes.
That is when she heard a faint noise and her ear twitched in its approach. She turned her head to the door curiously, without moving the rest of her body.
Figuring it was no use trying to forward her effort to sleep, she got up and went to the door of the hut her and her company were sharing.
She looked back at her companion and made a noise as if letting her know she would be back.
She was able to push the door open with her nose since it was only a curtain like door made of bamboo. She didn't have to push it far since she was small, but as soon as she was able, she squeezed through the doorway and out to the fresh night air.
Kirara stood still for a moment, looking up into the beautiful starry sky. To the fireflies that twinkled artfully in their dance and the shooting star high above her head. After taking all of this in she followed her ears to the faint noise.
Inside Sango moved in her wake, still half asleep. She absentmindedly moved her hand across the spot Kirara had been the last time she saw her. This brought Sango fully awake and she stared at the spot a few seconds. When her brain began waking up also, she sat up and looked around.
"Kirara," she whispered.
She got up slowly as not to wake anyone and went to the door. Once outside, she too got momentarily mesmerized by the beauty of nighttime.
"Kirara," she finally called, but there was no answer.
A hint of worry plastered onto Sango's expression, but she went in, hoping she was just out chasing a mouse and would be back before morning.
Inuyasha could be a heavy sleeper when he really got into his sleep, but the morning after, brought Inuyasha into his crabby mood. He heard the sounds of his friends echoing something over and over. Inuyasha growled in his sleep and his ears moved up and down until they picked up the clear calling of 'Kirara.'
Sleepily, Inuyasha sat up with a face that suggested he was not in the very best mood to be woken up in the morning when they didn't even have a lead on their clever foe. His eyes still droopy, the half demon, scratched his ears with his foot just like the dog he really was.
That's when Shippo chose the wrong time to run into the hut as the others were outside.
"Have you seen Kirara?" he asked frantically.
Inuyasha grabbed the small kitsune by the tail and brought him straight at eye level with him before saying in an annoying tone and greeted teeth, "Do I look like I've seen Kirara?"
"Kagome," Shippo cried, struggling to free himself.
"Sit boy," Inuyasha heard just before he plummeted to the floor.
Kagome, who had entered the hut, caught Shippo in the air before he too would have hit the floor from Inuyasha's fall.
"Inuyasha," she said in a warning tone, "jeez, what's your problem this morning."
Inuyasha mumbled angrily into the wood of the floor.
Soon Miroku and Sango joined the others inside.
"Don't worry Sango, Kirara has gone off on her own and she was fine then after we found out she was alive," Miroku put his hand to his chin, recalling the memory.
"Yeah not thinks to a certain fox kid who didn't tell us where she was," Inuyasha snarled, shooting a threateningly look at Shippo as he sat up.
"Uh, I don't know where she is, honest," Shippo shot up his hands in defense, shaking them in front of him as he sweat nervously.
"Inuyasha sit," Kagome said.
"Would you stop that?" Inuyasha barked, lifting his head slowly from the floor for the second time.
"Shippo has already apologized for that," Kagome shot back, glaring at him.
Through all of this, Sango looked at the door and finally said, "I just hope she's ok."
A/N: yeah, I know I said I wasn't going to write on other stories at the moment, but I couldn't help it, lol, I wanted to start this story because I think it will be good also so please review if you want me to continue.
