A Heart's Desire.
Disclaimer: (-Well that pretty much says it all but w/e) I do not own Inuyasha or any characters (psh I wish!) , just the plot and o.cs
Chapter 1, Arguments:
A beautiful girl of 16 waved goodbye to her family as she made her way towards the old well-house that was located on the grounds of her family's shrine. She shifter her huge, heavy-looking, yellow backpack that was resting on her back into a more comfortable position, and opened the well-house door. The girl stepped in, and closed the sliding door behind her. Once the door was closed, the fake smile she was wearing on her face slipped of to be replaced with a frown. Kagome sighed. She was extremely tired. She had stayed in her era for two weeks, catching up on school work, and studying for her mid-term exams. She had studied hard for all of her exams, so she was fairly confident that she had passed all of them, so that wasn't the thing that was bother her. No. It was something completely different. The thing that was bothering her was the fact that she had been away for two whole weeks, he wasn't going to like that. Not at all. You would think that two weeks would be nothing to someone who had almost all eternity to live, but to him it wasn't. He was going to be mad. Very mad. She sighed once again and walked down the rickety old stairs to the even older well , knowing that she would have to face him ( and his anger) sooner or later. And with that thought in mind, Kagome lifted herself up and jumped into the well. As the familiar warm blue light engulfed her, she couldn't help but smiling an equally warm, genuine smile.
"Where the hell is she?!"
"Calm down Inuyasha! She'll come back soon."
"Yea, don't worry Inuyasha!"
"Feh! I'm not worrying! I just want to get the jewel shard before Naraku!"
Sango rolled her eyes. This was pretty much how all their conversations had been these past few weeks, and it was starting to get on her nerves.
"Dammit! It's been two weeks!" growled Inuyasha.
"Yes we are aware! She was probably just held up in her time by her test thingys. Calm down, she's been away longer than this before." Miroku reasoned.
"But we just found out Naraku's secret! How long does it take her to get 'supplies'? I wanna kill that stupid piece of filth sometime this century!" said Inuyasha angrily. "I think I'll just go get her."
"She told you not to follow!" replied Sango, a little too quickly. Inuyasha spun around to look at her, his eyes narrowing slightly.
"You know something don't you?!" He accused.
"Not one thing! She didn't tell anyone anything!" Sango said. Well… actually she knew that Kagome would be gone for a while. Kagome told her one day while they were taking a much needed, relaxing bath in a hot spring. Even though she told her she would be gone for a while, she had never mentioned what she would be doing.
"Surreee." Inuyasha said in a sarcastic tone that was followed by an eye roll. "Why would you care if I went to go get her or not? "
"I just don't want her to get mad! She specifically told you not to go!" Sango said, clenching her hands into fists.
"Keh. Since when do I care what she tells me to do?" Inuyasha said, with one of his famous "im-a-bad-ass" grins. And with that the irritated inu-hanyou left the hut.
Sango sighed, knowing that the outcome of Inuyasha's actions would NOT be pretty.
Kagome landed carefully at the bottom of the dark well, and took off her bulky backpack. She threw it over the rim of the well, using up most of her strength. The young miko looked up to see that the ceiling of the well-house had disappeared , and it was replaced with an endless stretch of beautiful blue sky that had several white clouds scattered randomly in it. She mustered up all of her remaining strength and started climbing out of the well using the thick vines that were growing on the sides. Once she was finally at the top, she sat on the rim of the well, taking a small rest. Despite her less than happy mood, she couldn't help but smile yet again as she stared at the lush green forests that felt more like home than her house in Tokyo. That smile quickly disappeared as she spotted a silver-red blur coming closer to her at a very fast speed. She stood up, and grabbed her backpack from the ground, placing it on her shoulders once again. Just as she straightened up, the blur landed in front of her. She stepped forward cautiously, waiting for him to snap with all the anger that he (obviously) had bottled up.
"Hey…" Kagome said quietly, looking down and hoping he wasn't too angry. She shifted her head upwards, just to peek out of her lashes to see his expression. One glimpse of his face destroyed all of her hope like a candle doused in water.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'Hey'?!" Inuyasha shouted, stepping forward. "WE FINALLY KNOW HIS SECRET AND YOU TAKE OFF FOR TWO WEEKS! TWO WEEKS!! AND ALL YOU CAN SAY AFTER THAT IS 'HEY'?!"
"Sorry" she murmured, hardly audible, but she knew that Inuyasha could hear her.
"SORRY MY A….Wait. What? Did you say sorry?" Inuyasha asked, clearly confused. Why wasn't she fighting back… she always fought back? "Is there something wrong with you?"
He sniffed the air around her; he didn't smell blood, so she wasn't injured or anything. Then what the hell was wrong?!
"There is nothing 'wrong with me'!" Kagome said, stressing the words and drawing little quotation marks in the air with her fingers. He wanted her to fight. FINE THEN. He would get one.
"Oh so NOW you get mad! You don't even have a right to be MAD" Inuyasha spat. Why did she always have to get on his nerves?!
"Impatient Baka!"
"Annoying Wench!"
"Dog Breath!"
"Stupid B-"
" Err… Guys! I hate to interrupt…" butted in Miroku, who had just arrived with Shippo, Sango, and Kirara. After saying this, he gave Inuyasha a sly smile, which only meant he was thinking something lecherous. "But we have important matters to discuss."
"Interrupt wha…." Kagome began to say, but then it hit her. Inuyasha who was much taller than her was looking down at her, and she was looking up at him. Some how, during their argument, their faces had ended up REALLY close together. So close that their noses were almost touching. That's what Miroku was smiling about.
Kagome quickly stepped away from Inuyasha, who was still slightly confused ('thick skulled imbecile' she thought) a light pink blush brushing across her cheeks.
Kagome started walking next to her friend, the pretty demon slayer, Sango. Sango gave her a look as to say sorry, and didn't say anything, not wanting to embarrass her even more. The group moved on, and as Kagome stared at the ground, she could've sworn that she heard a small "Keh." From behind her.
They walked in silence to Kaede's hut, no one brave enough to break the silence.
"So… umm... Where were ya for all this time Kagome?" asked Shippo tentatively, trying to break the long awkward silence. But he was silenced quickly as Kagome gave him a look that said 'Talk again and I'll kill you'. Shippo understood, and shut up.
Five minutes later, you could practically see Shippo struggling with himself to keep quiet.
"AWH C'MON what is WRONG with you guys? Why are you being so quie..." he started to say, but was rudely interrupted by Inuyasha's fist coming down on his head. Sango gasped, Inuyasha sure did know how to get Kagome mad. She wondered if he was doing this purposely. She quietly followed Miroku into the hut, and tried to drown out the sounds of Shippo's crying, and Kagome's yelling.
"Stupid crybaby" Kagome heard Inuyasha mutter before he stuffed his hands into the sleeves of his vibrant red haori.
'I need to calm down. I need to breathe… breathe...brea... OH SCREW THIS!' Kagome thought, failing to calm down.
"INUYASHA! I AM NOT IN THE MOOD FOR THIS! CAN'T YOU JUST SHUT YOUR BIG MOUTH FOR ONCE?!" She yelled, getting out all of her anger and frustration, even if it all wasn't aimed at Inuyasha. "YOU'RE ALWAYS NAGGING ME! I'M NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO GO TO MY OWN TIME FOR TWO WEEKS? WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? MY MOTHER?! BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY YOU'RE NOT. OSUWARI"
And with this, she stormed off into the hut, grabbing the crying kitsune – youkai on her way, and leaving an extremely bewildered inu-hanyou in the ground. With all the arguments he had ever had with Kagome, he had never seen her loose control like this. Well… that was probably because he was usually with his head in the dirt (like now) before the argument got out of hand.
Miroku and Sango (who had Kirara on her lap) sat alone in the hut, yet again trying to ignore the yelling from outside.
"You'd think that Inuyasha would know by now not to irritate Kagome unless he wants to have his mouth full of dirt all day." Sighed the young taijiya. "Well, I guess some people never lea…"
She stopped abruptly in mid-sentence, and brought her hands into fists. Her left eye-brow twitching in anger.
"HENTAI!" she shouted, as she slapped Miroku on the face, leaving an extremely painful – looking red hand mark on the place her hand had just struck. With this, Miroku removed his own hand from her backside, and moved away into a corner before she could hit him again.
"As I said. Some people NEVER learn." She added, her eyebrow still twitching.