Summary: He "rescued" her, told a lie or two, and now there's no way out! (Ban/Kag)
Disclaimer: Don't own it.
AN: Oops! Not sure how I did it, but somehow I managed to upload chapter 1 again instead of chapter 2. My bad :(
My Banryuu (Two)
"No amount of careful planning will ever replace dumb luck."
Chapter 2: Food for Thought
Woe! It was a sulking evening at Bankotsu's campfire.
"So..." He tried, yet again, to strike up a conversation.
"Inuyasha will come and rescue me, you know."
He tried not to groan. That was all she'd said, all evening. He suspected that she was broken in some way. He wanted to scream in frustration—finally, a new companion, and he'd broken it already! Maybe he would have been better off with just Banryuu. After all, a sword didn't need to eat.
Neither did he, for that matter.
And with that thought came another: 'I wonder if she's hungry?'
She wasn't complaining, though. Still, she hadn't eaten once since he'd taken her into his care the previous morning. That was, what, almost two days?
He shrugged it off. Two days wasn't a long time to go without food. Right? It had been a while since he'd been alive. Now, was eating done once every three days or three times a day?
He gave her a furtive glance.
Maybe he just wouldn't feed her. 'She can feed herself, right?' He looked to Banryuu for reassurance. 'Right?'
No response.
Clearly, Banryuu was suggesting that he was in the wrong here. The girl was his companion, and therefore his responsibility. He had to feed her himself, because Banryuu certainly wouldn't do it for him. As a matter of fact, Banryuu had told him that he wasn't ready for a living companion. They took so much more effort than undead ones—feeding, warmth, protection, bathroom breaks… the list went on. Plus they had an annoying tendency to get sick and/or die.
He grumbled and got up, leaving Banryuu behind to keep an eye on her sister while he found something edible.
…and when he returned after an hour of chasing around a pesky rabbit with the dead offender in his hands, Banryuu Two was gone. This was not his day.
"Where did she go?" he asked Banryuu, who had been supposedly keeping an eye on the girl.
No response. Stupid sword.
Or perhaps not stupid, but… jealous? He'd heard of this sort of behavior from jealous older siblings. Did this mean that he could no longer trust Banryuu where Banryuu Two –er… the girl—was involved?
…and when he returned after an hour of running through muddy forest tracking a pesky companion with the offender slung over his shoulder screaming bloody murder, he half expected to find Banryuu the Betrayer gone. She was still there, though, waiting for him patiently.
He dumped the girl on the ground unceremoniously, reclaimed his seat by the fire, and held out the dead rabbit.
"Eat it and shut up."
It was quiet again except for the crackling fire.
Then suddenly two arms embraced him, and he heard a soft, "Thank you."
Perhaps he would have to feed her more often.
CY: I'm sorry for the short chapter. It just wanted to end there cough. Also, characters will probably be somewhat OOC (should have said this earlier). Thanks to everyone who reviewed :)
