Inuyasha sat comfortably in one of the trees closest to the Bone Eater's Well. He could feel the texture of the bark through his heavy coat, but he didn't let it bother him. This was his third day on watch for Kagome to return to him, her forth day gone. "Everyone deserves a day with their family, if they have 'em" he thought, watching the well. "But, she doesn't need to be gone this long." He smelled Miroku's presence before he was aware of him standing under the tree branch that had been his lookout today.
"Inuyasha," Miroku calmly stated. "Will you come out of the tree?"
"Feh" Inuyasha said. In this instance, Feh meant that he could hear the monk just fine from here, and didn't feel like moving.
Miroku took the response as a no, and continued talking, much to Inuyasha's annoyance. "Why have you not gone to her yet?" he asked, in the same infuriatingly calm tone.
"Feh" Inuyasha said again. This time, he meant that he was thinking about it, but just hadn't wanted to fight with her when he got there.
Miroku took the response to mean he didn't care to go and get her. "She does care about you, you know. You care about her, too, or you wouldn't be waiting so anxiously for her to return." The monk's voice was starting to grate on Inuyasha's nerves.
"I'm not anxious," Inuyasha snapped, still not opening his eyes or leaving his perch. "She said three days gone. This is the forth day. She lied to me." Inuyasha paused, hearing his own hurt in his voice. "Where'd that come from? Who cares if she's gone or not…" Deeper in his own mind, he heard a quiet response. "You do" it said. "Feh" he answered to his quiet voice and to Miroku both.
"I'm sure she didn't intend it," Miroku calmly answered to calm Inuyasha's own nerves. "She does have a whole other life back there, you know."
Inuyasha tensed on the branch, suddenly aware of the uncomfortable position and the painful tree bark. He opened his eyes half way against the light of the afternoon and dropped to the ground in front of Miroku. Miroku took a step back, to avoid being in Inuyasha's personal space. Inuyasha glared at Miroku. "Her life there isn't as important as her life here with me," Inuyasha announced stubbornly. His eyes widened slightly ad the admission to the monk, and he quickly amended his statement. "She does have to find the shards after all." He smirked at Miroku and crossed his arms across his chest, daring the monk to argue his meaning.
Miroku looked defiantly at Inuyasha, irritating him to no end. "Of course," Miroku said, and Inuyasha could hear in his tone that Miroku didn't buy his excuse for an instant.
"Feh" Inuyasha responded and looked away, dropping his arms to his side. This time, Feh was his way of telling the monk to believe whatever he wanted, just leave him alone. He looked right at the Bone Eater's Well, and if his will alone would cause it, Kagome would come back at any moment and end this conversation with the annoying monk.
"Shall I tell Sango and Shippou that you have gone to retrieve her?" Miroku asked, looking at the well instead of at Inuyasha.
"Feh." With that, Inuyasha jumped from the ground and gracefully disappeared into the well.
Miroku shook his head, though no one was around to see him, and said, "That one must have been a yes."