Facing My Past
Summary: After Naraku goes into hiding InuYasha and his friends decided to enjoy a short rest back at Kaede's village. But that is cut short when a man with an unsettling connection to InuYasha's past comes seeking aid.
Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha. The works of Rumiko Takahashi inspired this story. I own only my original characters that will be added in later.
I am Rewriting this Story!
A Real Family
The next morning found InuYasha and Kagome walking to the bone eaters well. For once the pair were not yelling and arguing about the young teenager's desire to return to her time for a couple of days.
Much to his chagrin, the nightmare from the night before had InuYasha feeling a little clingy, though he hid it well; he didn't want to be alone. It was times when he was alone that he realized how much he hated to be that way when he had no other choice. So he found solace in the comforting presence Kagome offered.
"So you're really okay with me staying home for a day or two?" Kagome asked as she looked over suspiciously at her half demon friend and guardian. "I know you and this is so not normal for you."
"Feh!" InuYasha scoffed as he folded his arms and stuck his nose in the air facing away from the priestess. "I can be nice when I want to be you know!" he said. "I'm not heartless."
Kagome laughed as she bumped his shoulder slightly in comradely.
"I know you can be nice InuYasha, but that doesn't change the fact that sometimes you can be a little stubborn about me going home and we both know how bored you get."
InuYasha narrowed his amber eyes at his female companion before he stopped to face her.
"Okay then you want me to fight with you?" he asked annoyed. "Cause I can, then you can sit me and run home like always!"
Kagome shrunk back slightly in surprise at InuYasha's attitude before she took a deep breath and smiled softly.
"No thanks, I actually like not fighting wit you for a change." She then grabbed his hand and pulled.
"Well come on, I'm sure Mama is making something delicious for breakfast."
And so InuYasha smiled when Kagome's back was turned and her grip never left his wrist.
Meanwhile in the village Shippo sat on the roof of Kaede's hut, eyes and ears fixed on the forest that bordered the village. InuYasha had acted so weird that morning and when he not only agreed to let Kagome return to her time for a few days but actually asked to accompany her the fox kit had wondered if maybe InuYasha was actually a demon is disguise. Of course that theory was ruined when the hanyo's scent was as it always was, masculine pine and oak with a hint dog, and he hadn't seemed sick at all either.
So Shippo figured it was only a matter of time until the hanyo opened his big mouth and got sat.
"Shippo what are you doing up there?"
The fox looked down to find the demon slayer staring up at him her hands on her green clad hips.
"I'm waiting for Kagome to sit InuYasha. He was way to weird tis morning."
Sango frowned as she also looked to the forest. InuYasha may not be as rough around the edges as he use to be but he was still pretty predictable.
"I wonder if something is bothering him." Sango wondered out loud until the feel of a hand that didn't belong to her groped her rear end.
With her brow twitching she turned and slapped the monk in the face as he grinned like a fool.
"Perhaps InuYasha is getting closer to lady Kagome." Miroku said as he rubbed his red cheek before sighing dejectedly. "I envy him."
Sango's face turned red as she lifted her boomerang bone into the air.
"InuYasha isn't like you, you corrupt monk!" she yelled. "He actually has some respect for women and Kagome isn't that type of woman!"
Miroku quickly dodged the weapon aimed at his poor abused head.
"Now Sango wait don't be so rash it was only a guess!"
The slayer huffed as she put her left hand on her hip once more and glared at the man with his nay blue eyes sparkling with mischief even in the face of being beaten to a pulp.
Shippo sighed and shook his head.
"Never a dull moment around here." He thought dully. "If it isn't InuYasha and Kagome it's those two."
"I'm home!"
Kagome called as she entered her home with InuYasha on her heels. After nearly a year and a half with Kagome InuYasha had become surprisingly comfortable with her home and her family. There was something about knowing that he was absolutely safe without a doubt in his head that made InuYasha feel almost normal.
"Feh figures I have to travel five hundred years into the future to be treated normally."
InuYasha thought as Kagome's mother came to greet them.
"Welcome home you two." The kindly elder woman greeted with a serene smile. "InuYasha it's wonderful to see you again dear."
The hanyo blushed slightly not use to positive attention from human women and merely nodded in return.
The mother looked to her daughter and hugged her. "Why don't you go take a bath dear and I'll get InuYasha something to eat. I'm sure he's hungry."
Mama then turned her smile, so much like Kagome's, on him. "Right?" she asked and InuYasha smiled.
"Yup."
And so Kagome left InuYasha with her mother and went to soak in the bath and just relax for a bit.
That night dinner was the usual event. InuYasha watched the family interact. Kagome and her brother Sota were either bickering good-naturedly or teasing their grandfather who kept going on and on about some story or other and Mama just smiled and laughed happily at her family's antics.
"Hey InuYasha," the hanyo looked to the ten year old boy across from him. "Want to play video games with me after dinner?"
InuYasha smirked. In the last few months he had actually gotten pretty good with video games.
"Sure runt you're on!"
Not for the first time InuYasha wondered if this and his friends in the feudal era are what it was like to have a real family.
That night in the feudal era at a castle in Hitachi Province there was a man, no older then mid twenties, and setting out from the gates. With him were two armed guards.
"Don't worry grandfather," the man said as he looked back to an elderly Lord. "I will find our saviors and we will be rid of this beast!"
Then the man raced away with his guards behind him toward Musashi and the village of a group of demon slayers said to have defeated many powerful monsters in the last year.
A/N: Yes I think I like this much better. It seems to flow so much better and it doesn't seem as rushed to me.
Please review and let me know what you think!
