Inuyasha! A Feudal Fairy Tale!
AN: Thanks for the info, Squeakyinuears! ^_^ I just watched the anime last night: I should have known what color their eyes were, no? Anyone mind telling me that of Sango's and Miroku's, too? For future reference? *blink* What? Did you really think that I'd kill of Sango so soon? Sure, I don't know anything about her personality, but that's why it's so much fun writing AU's! And I even did research for this part. Sango has brown eyes, right? And I found a nifty pic of Miroku with blue eyes, and I figured, 'Why not?' ^_^ Oh yes, Miroku and Shippo being bandits… okay, so I've seen F one too many times and figured that if they can have a hot bandits who's afraid a girls, why not have a perverted bandit? Wait till you see what else I have in store for them!
And yes, I know I got this one out soon, but the next one will be out in no less than two weeks, as a forewarning. I have a few essays to write, an X-Men fic I need to update before people skewer me, and all the usual stuff like eating and sleeping. And I'm Canadian, so it's Thanksgiving this weekend, which means lots of family time.
Oh yes, if you thought the last chapter was fluffy, wait till you see when I really get going. Then again, I'm going to need to be really creative with this fluff, as it needs to be… special. I've never written InuKag fluff (at least by myself) so any hints or suggestions would be appreciated! (Although I'm so sick I already have their first kiss planned. I'm unhinged.) That's, My MSN screen name is now Unhinged.
Kikyo being nice? Lemme put it this way, tsunami-chan: everybody deserves to be forgiven, and seeing as how I haven't read the firs manga in years, I can't seem to hate her. So yeah, she'll be nice.
Enjoy!
There Was A Handsome Prince. . . .
Kagome was warm. There was a weight on her waist that first startled her, until she remembered that it was the hand of the handsome human that had saved her from Hiten and Manten. She sighed and rolled over, wondering if the face of her savior would be softer in his sleep.
And then she let out a scream.
His eyes snapped open to find the girl scrambling away, grabbing the first weapon she could find. She swung it at him, as he stretched. Her caught it like it was nothing, still in mid-yawn. He caught her astonished expression that was still laced with fear. Inuyasha pulled the stick from her tiny hands and examined it. "It's a decent size and weight; sturdy, too. You should have put some of your magic in it, priestess. If you'd managed to hit me with it, you might have even succeeded in hurting me. What's the matter? You look like you've never seen a demon before."
"Well… I haven't… that is, not this close and…" She realized she was stumbling over her words. Her hands were shaking. Suddenly she wished she wasn't wearing leggings that showed off her legs, or her grandfather's shirt that was long enough to wear as a very short dress. When he looked at her, she was suddenly aware of how she must look and sound. She took a deep breath and tried to calm down, brushing her hair out of her face. "You were a human yesterday, but now, you're demon. You're a Halfling, which would mean. . . ."
Her voice trailed off when she concluded she was looking at Lord Inuyasha, the man she was supposed to marry. He wasn't quite like he expected. Then she remembered the moment of softness she had seen in his eyes the night before. Lord Inuyasha wasn't anything like she suspected.
"Which would mean what?" he inquired. He stood up and threw his shirt back on. He stood there, and just stared at her. He knew what she was thinking by her expression: she was standing in front of Lord Inuyasha, the only Halfling in the world. Inuyasha; the mutt of the great demon nation! "You seem to know who I am. You mind telling me what you were doing riding around in my big brother's carriage?"
The brown eyes girl looked uncomfortable for a second, and then she curtseyed. She wobbled a bit, a tell tale sign that she was still new at court manners. She remained like that. "Lord Inuyasha, my name is Kagome. Kagome Higurashi."
Inuyasha's jaw dropped. His staring suddenly became something completely out of his control. Kagome as in the woman his brother had condemned him to marry? Her black hair was in tangles, her face was smudged with dirt, and she didn't even know how to bow properly.
He was already starting to develop a headache from her. Walking over and taking her by her shoulders, he steadied her back up, staring at her with an expression that was clearly not amused. "We can do this type of thing when we get somewhere safe," he told her. "This is still bandit country. How quickly can you move?"
Finding his query odd, to say the least, she wondered how she ever could have found this cold man attractive in any sort of way! He was inhuman in more then just looks. How could she ever have thought he was a genuine hero? Kagome pushed the image of his hazel eyes opening up with endless possibilities all the way to the back of her mind. She knew she'd never see that again.
She pointed down at her feet with an angry finger. "I can walk as fast as these can carry me."
Inuyasha shook his head, clearly not satisfied with the mode of transportation. He stepped closer to Kagome, who took a step away from him without first thinking. Kagome tried to ignore the flash of disappointment that crossed his face when he realized that she was still afraid of him. His shoulders slumped slightly. Somehow he knew he was going to be in for a lot of explanations. "Walking isn't going to be fast enough, Lady. We're in bandit country, remember? I can get us to the castle in two days, you'd take a week. Do you really feel like spending a week out here?"
"Well, no. . . ." She wondered why she felt like such an idiot around him.
"I didn't think so. So as long as you don't mind being near me, seeing as how I am your fiance, I can carry you." When she nodded compliantly, he bent down and once again scooped her up, as he had last night.
Inuyasha didn't think that she was comfortable with this arrangement, but Kagome wondered if maybe she was too comfortable with it. Now the she was cradled against his chest like a little kitten, she could once again feel his erratic heartbeat and sleek muscles. Her own heart was beating just as wildly. Timidly, she raised her eyes just to see what he was going.
He was staring down at her. Of all things, he was actually staring down at her! His cheeks suddenly burned red, and he quickly looked away. Inyasha's armed tightened around her, and then he pushed off without so much as a word of warning.
Kagome felt her stomach lurch with the first movement, but then she realized that his hopping was almost like the swaying of a ship. It was certainly smoother than any carriage, including the one that had just been demolished. She clung to his shirt, and he didn't seem to mind a bit. Or, if he did, he certainly didn't say anything. She tilted her head and looked back at the road and the large crater left by Hiten's attack. Seeing it herself, she knew that Inuyasha had been correct. There was no way Sango could have survived. She felt tears start to run down her cheeks, but dried them away with her sleeve. She's cry later on, when Inuyasha wouldn't be able to see her.
~*~
Back at the road, the bushes rustled and Shippo popped out. He danced along the edge of the crater childishly, not aware of the danger he had of slipping in. Or not caring, which is often how demons felt, as there were very few injuries they wouldn't be able to heal from. He whistled as he danced. "You were quite lucky, Sango. You'd be as dead as the other girl now."
Sango pursed her lips as she stared at the massacred road. She shook her head her, her hands shaking. Miroku noticed this and took one of them. "I can't believe she's really gone," Sango sniffled. "I mean, she was a priestess. She was supposed to have been stronger than to just be defeated by some asshole like Hiten. And you say you can find no trace of her, Shippo?"
The young demon shook his head and stopped his dangerous acrobatic act. "I can't find any trace of her magic, Sango. I really am sorry. I kind of liked her." He reached back and clutched his tail, hiding his face in it. No human had ever healed his tail before. Not even Sango, although the bodyguard had never seen Shippo when the young boy was injured. "But all I can smell is Lord Inuyasha. A human Inuyasha, too."
Miroku clenched his teeth at the demon's name. "I hope that all the energy from the lightning bolt made it impossible for him to smell us. Otherwise, Shippo and I are two very, very dead bandits. What are you going to do now, Sango?"
She glanced at Miroku, sad that she would not get to stay with him longer, and then began to determinedly walk around the hole. "I've got to go and tell King Sesshomaru what happened here. Otherwise, he may think Queen Kikyo went back on her word. Then we'd be even worse of then before."
The human stared at her. He couldn't let his Sango just go off like that, could he? Miroku snatched Shippo, shoved the boy under his arm, and ran up to walk beside Sango. When she gave him a puzzled expression, the blue-eyed boy smiled at her. "I'm not going to let you wander around the demon country by yourself," he told her. "You'll run into less trouble if I'm here with you, and even less if we drag Shippo with us!"
"You know, you could've just told me that you wanted to come with her to protect her, and I would've been willing! I don't need to be carried like this!" the boy cried from Miroku's arm. "Come on, Miroku! Put me down!"
Laughing, Miroku tightened his grip on Shippo. "I don't think so, kid. Your legs are too short. You'd just end up sitting on my shoulder, and then you'd mess up my hair."
Rolling her eyes, Sango managed to put the tragic incident behind her, as any trained warrior would, and smiled. Kagome was dead, but there was still life around her, in the form of Miroku and Shippo. And with those two accompanying her to the demon castle, she knew it was going to be an interesting journey.
She just hoped that the thunder brothers hadn't gotten a good look at them, otherwise two doomed aristocrats would be on trial for thieving.
~*~
Inuyasha stopped and put her down in the shade of a large tree. He stared at her after glancing around, listening and looking for any signs of wild animals or demons. "Stay here," he ordered, about to leap off again.
The priestess lurched forward and grabbed the hem of his fire rat robe. "Wait a second! Where are you going?"
"To get food," Inuyasha said, his blank look suggesting he didn't have a clue as to why she would be getting jumpy about his leaving. It was obvious from their morning, and their silent journey that she hated him. Still, it made him wonder what it was that had made Kagome agree to the arrangement in the first place. Sure, she may not have dodged a giant lightning bolt that would have burned her to a crisp before she even realized she was about to do, but he didn't assume that was a sign of stupidity. That just meant she'd been taken off guard. Queen Kikyo wouldn't be stupid enough to send someone who didn't know some self defense into the demon country!
'You know,' his mind grumbled, 'for her being a human.'
She felt her cheeks start to go pink. She felt like a fool now. Kagome wouldn't be surprised if Inuyasha hated her. First he risked his life to save her, and then she'd freaked out on him when she awoke and found it he was a demon. How could she have been surprised? No regular human would have run across a field like that to save her life and risk his own in the process!
'Oh,' her mind countered. 'But a demon prince would?' She shied away from him, as if fearing a rebuke, either physical or verbal. 'No wonder he's mad at you, you didn't even say thank you! First you make it seem like you were going to flip when he left you, and now you're cringing like you're scared of him! Oh! Oh Gods, I think he's blushing!'
"What?" Inuyasha demanded, feeling his cheeks burn as her brown eyes stared at him. He felt the intensity of her gaze all the way down to his bones. No matter what her body posture was, her gaze was always warm and collected, showing the soft woman deep down inside. He only wondered if this was a bad thing, seeing as how many demons would take it upon themselves to break the sincerity in her eyes.
It made him want to take up his sword and defend her.
'Ugh! What the hell is the matter with me? Scratch that. What the hell is the matter with Sesshomaru, suggesting that a human come live with us?'
Kagome slowly stood up, and found her balance. She took the step between herself and the demon prince, staring up at him with the eyes he wanted to keep innocent. She leaned over and gave him a kiss on the cheek, her lips lingering as she felt his skin, and his scent touched her nose. He felt so soft. And his scent smelled like dry leaves and bark, from spending so much time outside.
His mouth fell open. He stared at her in shock as she pulled away. Inuyasha slowly touched his cheek. "What was that for?"
Uncertain if he was being rude or was earnestly curious, she couldn't help but smile, as to the first it might brighten his mood and to the second would maker her seem like an idiot, which was often the safer thing to play. "It was a kiss," she said, her voice light hearted despite the events of that morning. She just couldn't grasp that Sango was dead yet. "What's the matter, Inuyasha? Haven't you ever gotten a kiss before?"
"No."
Her smile vanished, her brown eyes wide.
Inuyasha stared at her, his mouth in a serious line. "My mother died in childbirth. My father raised me, with the help of a wet nurse. And no woman of the court would be considered a member of civilized demon society if they touched me. No, I have never been kissed before."
She hung her head, feeling sorry, for unknown reasons. The stupidest thought crossed her mind: would that be considered taking advantage of a demon prince? She shook the thought away, leaves flowing out of her unbound hair, caught there from sleeping outside. Inuyasha looked about twenty. In two decades, he'd never even gotten such a simple token as a gift? "Forgive me, I just thought… I mean, you're a male and a prince and… I thought that all princes had been kissed before."
"To change them out of a frog?" His suggestion was accompanied by a slight change in tone that would almost suggest a smile.
"No," she replied slowly. "Because in fairy tales the prince always ends up kissing the princess, and always makes it look amazing. And that type of thing I always assumed needing practicing."
He all but glared at her. "You're not in a fairy tale, Kagome. This is real… why are you looking at me like that?" If it was even possible, her eyes had gotten softer. She gazed at him as if he'd done something wonderful, or awe inspiring. He crossed his arms. "What?"
"You, you just," she stammered. Kagome reminded herself she was a priestess, and everything seemed better. "You hadn't said my name before. I've never heard it said… like that."
"Like what?"
"Just… like that." She sighed and gestured toward the small village. "Go on. Go get your food, my Lord. I'd hate to think that my pointless chatter was keeping you from your food."
Inuyasha had left before she'd finished speaking, leaving Kagome alone with her guilty thoughts. He went into the town and made a beeline for the closest restaurant. His purse was light. Most people knew he was the prince when they saw him, as his parentage was visible, but nobody would lend him a dime, royalty or not. He ordered only bowl of miso soup, wanting to ensure that his gold would last.
He could go without eating, if he needed to.
And that was he was brooding in the back of the dark restaurant when Hiten and Manten came in. The thunder brothers could see just as well as Inuyasha could in the dimly-lit room, but they didn't see him, anyway, and Inuyasha was sitting downwind. He'd had one too many comments made about his "too-human" scent over the years.
Manten was groaning, clutching at a wound that showed no signs of healing. "I can't believe that bitch did this! She was only a little human girl!"
The innkeeper rushed over. She'd been rude to Inuyasha, but now she was all worries. "Oh my goodness! What in the world happen to you poor people?" She handed Hiten a bowl of ramen. Inuyasha almost began to drool at the scent of it. "Please, sirs, have it on the house! Lord Hiten, you're so brave and strong to be carrying your brother around like that!"
He wrapped an arm around her waist, gazing deep into her eyes. "Don't worry, Yura! I know I'm brave, and strong. And you are still my favorite demon." Balancing the ramen in one hand and the demoness in the other, Hiten leaned her over and kissed her passionately, the display earning cat calls and cheers from the other residence of the restaurant.
Inuyasha stared at them. Was that seriously what Kagome had been suggesting when she had talked about princes knowing how to kiss? Was that what she'd been thinking about? Ew. Just, plain old ew. It looked… messy. He'd much preferred the kiss Kagome had given him on his cheek. It had been soft, and sweet… as if it had come straight from her heart. But if all kisses were like the one between Yura and Hiten, Inuyasha would be proud to admit he'd never been kissed on the mouth.
When he let her go, she ran a long-nailed hand down his cheek. "Oh, my poor Hiten, whatever happened to you and your unfortunate brother?"
He coughed and began his story. "Manten and I were innocently traveling through demon territory, when we stumbled upon two lost humans. We flew down to try and talked to them, but they attacked us."
"Oh, the horror, the horror!" Manten moaned.
"One of them possessed magic. We retaliated. I hurled my magic at her, and the bitch managed to fire off a single arrow before my attack destroyed them both. But the arrow, overflowing with the power of the priestess, managed to slice through the lightning and struck my brother! Now the poor demon lies dying, being eaten alive by a magic I cannot cure."
Inuyasha bristled in the dark. That was nothing like what had actually happened!
The growing crowd around the three demons began to murmur, some people whispering about Manten's unfortunate fate, and some wondering what a priestess had been doing wandering around the demon country. Inuyasha began to consider challenging them, as dangerous as that was. He was outnumbered here, prince or not. And Kagome was outside. If it was only his life at stake, he might have actually done it, but with Kagome in danger as well, and no bodyguard to protect her as she tried to reach the castle, he had to force himself to stay affixed to the seat.
Yura was the one who spoke up first. As the innkeeper, she'd always heard the rumors before anyone else. "But, Lord Hiten, they say that Lord Inuyasha's bride was coming today, by way of the Main Road. What if that was your victim? King Sesshomaru will surely kill you if he finds out!"
Hiten seemed to have forgotten all about his younger, dying brother. "Let the King try and punish me! His judgments may be harsh, but they are always fair. How can he punish me when I didn't know it was the prince's fiancée? How can he punish me when I was only doing my job?"
Inuyasha had heard enough. His silent frame stirred the shadows as he moved into the lighter areas of the room. "Lady Yura, I'd like to have my food now, if you don't mind."
The face of the older thunder brother paled before he managed to put his mask of heartlessness back up. The slip had been fatal. Now Inuyasha knew that Hiten had indeed seen him at the road, saving Kagome. It was no crime to save a human, especially given the attachment the two would soon share, but it meant Inuyasha would now be a hunted man. A moment ago the only worry he had was running out of money. Now he had to worry about that and a vengeful Hiten chasing Inuyasha down.
And that meant Kagome, too.
Inuyasha wanted to pull out his hair buy the roots. What was the matter with him? Was he really as weak as people said, because of his human side? Why was he so worried about protecting Kagome?
Then a thought fleetingly crossed his mind, one he'd never seen before. Was protecting someone, without a reason, simply because of a desire to hold them and keep them safe so that pain never touched their hearts, was that really so insane? Impossible, yes, but insane?
Yura handed him the miso soup, sending laughter through the crowd. Hiten laughter was louder than all of theirs. His eyes glowed red in the light. "What's the matter, Lord Inuyasha? Is your human palate too frail for the taste of real food?"
Inuyasha was torn between cuffing him, as would be expected, doing nothing, or making a snappy comeback about how he wasn't the only one to avoid Hiten's cowardly attack. But that was a stupid idea. Then he would know that either Kagome or Sango would have survived, and with another witness, it would make the older brother work all the more harder to kill them both.
He paid and left, telling himself that he was surely the better person for being able to walk away.
But if that was true, then why did his heart fell like it was choking him?
Kagome had been thinking heavily since Inuyasha had left, and she had made a rather startling conclusion, now that she knew a little bit more about him. If he had been raised by his father, if he had never been touched or respected because of his lineage, then that would explain why last night he been able to become so close to her, so close that she could still remember the way his breath made her hair stand on end, yet he hadn't made a single move, or even seemed to have noticed! Had she been that close to some normal human, like Miroku, things may have gotten complicated, and if it had been a normal demon, she might not have made it out in once piece.
She nearly fell of the branch when Inuyasha appeared, carrying a bowl. He handed her the bowl without even looking at her, or uttering a single word. He was too busy looking around, as if worried of an attack. "Drink it quickly," he ordered. "Would you have any complaint if we moved all night? I want to get to the castle as soon as possible."
The miso soup felt good in her stomach. It was nice and light, which was good, considering how she hadn't eaten in almost a whole day, and the warmth was quickly absorbed by her body. She sipped some, before her hunger cleared enough for her to realize that Inuyasha wasn't eating anything. "Have you already eaten dinner?"
"Sure," he lazily answered without missing a beat. "Now, do you have any complaints if I carried you all night? If you do, we're going to have to start looking for a really good hiding spot right now."
Fooled by
his answer, she finished off the rest of the miso
soup. "No, I don't mind at all. That is, I'd feel slightly guilty about
making you carry me around like that, but I don't have a problem with it if you
won't think me weak for needing to be treated like a child."
"Under the circumstances, I
don't think that will happen," he mumbled.
When he saw Kagome stare at him, he realized she'd heard him. He sighed, but didn't explain. He didn't want to. He didn't have the time. Inuyasha took the bowl
from her and chucked it as far as he could.
Who knows? Maybe Hiten would smell it and it would throw the flying demon of
their scent, at least for a little bit.
Wishful thinking.
He bent down so she could climb on his back, and then they were off. Kagome sighed and snuggled into his robes, making Inuyasha think they were going to have another silent journey, so her question surprised him.
"Why did you agree to marry me?" Kagome wondered if Inuyasha knew that she agreed only to be engaged to him. She felt his muscles tense under her.
"How did you know I agreed to it in the first place?" There were a lot of reasons he could have lied about: he wanted to have sex, it was the only way he'd get a wife, he had never been told he was going to marry her… oh! That one would have made her feel like an idiot! That would have taught her to go around talking about stupid sentimental things like weddings! Why hadn't he said that one?
She seemed to shrink on his back. Sorry, it's just, that, well, I thought… I thought that it had to be a mutual thing, because if you don't want to, then I'm obviously not going to push you into it. I was only thinking that maybe… well, it's not important then.
Inuyasha wondered how he could have tried to make her feel bad and end up feeling worse himself instead of laughing at her guilt. He shook his head. Feelings were so stupid! He hated them! "I agreed to it because I don't want to see a war break out between our countries. I don't want to see my family killed, and my towns burned, and I want even less to see that happen to your people, because eventually we'd win. You know that, don't you. Kikyo's a good Queen, but she'd never manage to win in a war against us. Very little can kill us, whereas you humans are as frail as glass in comparison. One of our children could take out a whole village of your people and not be tired."
"Queen Kikyo may surprise you. She has magic yourself, you know." She stared at the moving ground before starting to feel a little ill. Kagome buried her head in his shoulder. Her voice was still her normal speaking voice, even though the wind was ripping the words away from her. Inuyasha could hear her perfectly well with those cute little ears of his. She didn't care about what she'd just thought. Kagome would tell anybody who asked that his ears would cute.
But that didn't mean she'd marry him.
"I bet I know another reason why you don't want us to go to war. It's because you'd wouldn't know where to go, isn't it?" Inuyasha nodded, letting her think that was the real reason.
How he could tell sweet, little Kagome that the world wasn't just that simple? His humanity made him a good person to occasionally deal with humans in politics, but it was his station that kept him from being something more than a simple politician. And his anger. He had a lot of anger. But it was humanity that also kept him from ever being a part of his own society. If the demons and humans began to fight, the first thing they'd do is kill Inuyasha, as his human heart would risk a leak of vital information that might bring the demon country down.
He'd been branded a traitor at his birth.
"Inuyasha?" she asked again after a moment. "Would you mind telling me about your life? Tell me about yourself. Tell me every story you can remember. I want to know everything about you, Inuyasha."
The half-breed shrugged. "There's not much to tell."
"Tell me anyway," she urged. Kagome smiled when he gave in, and began to tell her all about his life.
~*~
Inuyasha was getting hungry. It was about midnight. He'd hoped to go on further, but his stomach was crying for attention. He just kept telling himself that he'd stop when he reached a cave, or someplace where he could hide her. Finally, he found one. Placing her sleeping body on the ground, he covered her again with his robe. He'd almost escaped when she revived herself enough to see he was leaving her.
Rubbing her eyes with one hand, the other covered her yawn. "Where are you going?"
"I'm going to go hunting. I'll be back soon. Get some sleep."
"I've been sleeping for the past five hours," she said. "I've gotten enough rest. Can't I come with you?"
"My fastest hunting is done by myself. You stay here. Stay here and tomorrow I'll tell you another story."
Even in the dark cave, her smile lit up the place. "For not having a lot to say about yourself, you certainly seem to be proving yourself wrong." Kagome curled up under his robe. "Good luck hunting, Inuyasha."
Like most other girls from low-class families, she had often dreamed of being a princess. She'd often dreamed of getting into some frightening, terrible danger and having a prince come and rescue her, carrying her away on, what was usually, a brave white horse. What else but a brave horse would actually take his rider into a dragon's cave or into the realm of some other great peril?
Never had she imagined that the prince would have fluffy dog ears, or would be rough on the outside and… almost naïve on the inside. Inuyasha's life, she now knew, had been lonely and depressed, filled with an anger that Kagome could not understand, due to her own childhood experiences. Now he used that anger to live his life. He lived outside, more or less, and he lived off the land, much as Kagome had done with her family's farm. She wondered how it was fairing, now that she had left her farm.
It dawned on Kagome that now she was a noble, whether or not she would marry Inuyasha. She'd never work on making things grow, or healing stray animals again. She would never be able to take of her shoes and walk through fields of flowers, or splash in the puddles. In fact, now she'd have to wear dresses too tight in the chest and with too much fabric in the skirt part. She'd have to wear stockings, and always have her hair pulled or piled into the latest fashion.
But, Sango was a noble who was a bodyguard. Maybe there was hope for Kagome yet!
She forcefully corrected herself: Sango had been a noble.
Absorbed in her thoughts, she was still awake when Inuyasha returned. He carried with him a small bundle. He settled down at the mouth of the cave, and stared outside. Kagome sat back up again. "Are you really going to stay up last night?"
He didn't answer her, so she got up and sat beside him, drawing the robe around them both. It was too small, she lifted his arm and snuggled under it, drawing it around her shoulders like a living blanket. Kagome rested her head on her shoulder and sighed.
"But…." He stammered. He stared at her, already starting to fall asleep. "But I thought you only would have offered me the robe if I was human. You were so scared of me this morning."
"I was only startled, not scared. I went to be wrapped in the arms of a human, and woke up in the arms of I demon. I didn't know… I wasn't aware that you switched. But now you explained to me that you did, so I understand." She tilted up her face towards his, smiling very softly. Her brown eyes were already half-closed. "And, for the record, Inuyasha, that just makes your bravery seem all the more noble. You weren't just risking your life when you saved me, you were risking your privacy too."
He hadn't thought of it like that. He hadn't realized that Hiten would know he was a human at the moment. The scent would give him away. Hiten was smart. It wouldn't take him long to figure out what was going on, and then Inuyasha's biggest weakness would be out in the open.
Kagome sighed beside him.
Okay, his second biggest weakness would be out in the open.
