HEY GUYS! I know I said I would update a few days ago, but i finished school and was sleeping in, then had to go to a party. then my sister took the laptop, which had the beginning of chapter 2 on it. In exchange for your forgiveness (hopefully), I have a MUCH longer chapter for you guys, plus I'm going to spend all day on chapter 3, and try to upate tonight (if i dont get kicked off!). EnJOy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. THERE I SAID IT! *Runs into corner and acts like Tamaki*
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InuYasha POV
I really wasn't all that worried about finding Naraku right now. I only said those things because I didn't want her to leave. And, dammit, when she mentioned wanting to see that Hobo guy, I got so mad, that if I hadn't known better, I would have thought I actually transformed into a full demon.
Then I said something really stupid. I insulted her commitment to our task, and practically told her to leave, even though that was the opposite of what I wanted, that was why I started the fight.
So, of course, she sat me. I was expecting that. I was not expecting what came next. She ran away, sitting me each time I started moving again. Wow, I thought, she's never been this mad before.
As soon as I could move again, I started dishing out the threats, I knew she could still hear me.
"Your gonna get it, ya damn wench! Ya hear me?" As soon as I was finished, I was promptly sat a few more times.
I got back up, and was about to run after her, but was stopped.
"Tsk,tsk," chided Sango, trying to hold back giggles. "You really did it this time, Inuyasha."
I was about to yell at her, when Miroku spoke up. "Sango's right, Inuyasha. If you go after her now, you'll only make her angrier. Wait a while, let her cool down."
I growled, but I knew he was right. I climbed up to my favorite branch of the Goshinboku, near the top, and scowled. This was my favorite place to be, I could see all the way to distant villages, and no one could bother me.
It wasn't helping my mood now, though. I was feeling pretty damn bad about I had said, Kagome didn't deserve that. "Idiot! Idiot! Idiot!" I repeated, smacking my head against the tree. I could hear Shippo making fun of me below, but I didn't care.
Then I realised something.
Kagome was hiding something from me.
There was no other reason why she would sit me that much. Sure she was mad, but the only reason she would act like that was if she didn't want me to follow her. Usually, she wouldn't have been upset about that, in fact I tink she secretly likes it when I come to get her.
But back to the point. Now that I think about it, I did smell panic on her. Which only added to my conclusion that she was hiding something from me.
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KAGOME WAS HIDING SOMETHING FROM ME?
I suddenly got very, very angry. I don't know why. I absolutely hated the idea of her hiding something from me. Especially if that something was hurting her. Which it obviously was. A lot.
At that thought, my eyes darkened, I bore my fangs, and I growled. Loudly.
Shippo looked up. "Inuyasha, what's wr-AHHHH!" he screamed, hiding behind Sango. "He's scary!" She looked up, and her eyes widened.
"What is it, Inuyasha?" she asked.
"I'm going after Kagome." Sango started to say something, but I was already running.
Suddenly a scent hit my nose, and it was so terrifying it made me stop dead in my tracks.
Blood. Kagome's blood.
I began to panic. "DAMMIT! DAMMIT!" I shouldn't have made her mad. What had happened? Was she okay?
I then looked down, at the source of the smell. I chuckled a bit as I saw a broken tree root with blood on it.
"Klutz," I muttered, much less worried, but still very much so. She had to have been badly hurt to bleed this much. I followed the scent into the clearing, wow, she really flew.
And then I was even more horrified.
There was a spot, right against the well, where the grass was matted down. What freaked me out, is that it was covered in a puddle of blood. And what freaked my out more, was the scent that was overpowering it.
Tears.
She had been crying. Why had she been crying? I was even more angered, and also slightly hurt. I was also upset about another thing. She had to have been really uspet, because she cried far more than she bled. I know this because the scent of blood is much, much stronger than the scent of tears, yet the tears greatly overpowered the blood.
I couldn't take it anymore. I grabbed onto the side of the well with one arm, and flung myself over.
~~~~~~~~Blue swirls of the space-time continuum~~~~~~~~
I jumped straight out of the well, almost going through the ceiling of the wellhouse. Damn, I always seemed to forget about that.
I sprinted out of the wellhouse, and within seconds, I was up on the branch outside her winow. I was about to open it, when I caught sight of what was through it, and my jaw dropped. I felt a painful tug on my heart, tears pricked my eyes (which I quickly wiped away), and I was overcome by guilt.
She was balled up on her bed, asleep. Her face was scrunched up into a painful expression, and she had tears streaming down her face. Her leg had a huge gash in it, it was very deep, although it had stopped bleeding and she had cleaned it a bit, probably so that she wouldn't upset her mother. Then she muttered something, and it shocked me.
"Inu..yasha... can't..see..cry."
What? I had seen her cry plenty of times before, how was this any different? Why couldn't I see her cry? It's not as i I would think she was weak, I knew for a fact that if I weren't a hanyou, she would probably be far stronger than me. I got even angrier, why did she think she had to keep whatever was bothering her a secret?
Suddenly she gasped and fell out of bed. She looked up and met my eyes. Suddenly, she looked scared, so I dropped my gaze. I was hurt. She had never been scared of me, not even when I transformed, so why now?
"W-w-w-what a-are you d-d-doing here?" I almost whimpered because she sounded so scared of me, but I only showed the part of me that was mad.
"What are you hiding from me?" I asked.
"What are you talking about?"
"Kagome, I may be dense sometimes, but I'm not totally stupid. You were trying as hard as you could to keep me from following you, and you broke down crying twice in the last half hour. Plus, what's this about me not being able to see you cry?"
Her face paled. "Um-well-t-thats.." Then her face got very red and I knew what was coming. "Why are you even here?" she screamed. "I thought you wante me to leave! So I did! And I'm not coming back!" My stomach dropped and my heart jumped up to my throat. "So just leave!" I could see tears building up in her eyes again, and I'm sure she did too, because she crossed her arms and turned around.
"You don't mean that."
She turned around, glaring at me, but now, the tears were starting to run down her cheeks. "I do."
I whimpered. "I'm sorry Kagome, I really didn't mean it. Please, come back."
Her eyes softened, and she hesitated. Then, they hardened again. "Too bad, I don't believe you. It'll just happen again. Now leave."
I hung my head, and turned, but said, just loud enough for her to hear, "Fine, but I'm not giving up," and dropped from the tree.
