Hiya! I'm back! Sorry sorry sorry, but I couldn't update for forever like usual because I had so much stuff to do . I've added a new thing to my chapters, so at the very bottom there will be a comment response…thingy, cause I feel like having about two comments per chapter merits that. Anywaaaays, I'm adding an ability that Inuyasha doesn't have in the series to this fic, so Inuyasha can now turn into a dog, like, a fluffy white dog about a foot high. Just be warned, because it will be useful in the story.
A SHOUTOUT TO ALL WHO FOLLOWED AND REVIEWED AND READ ^^, here's your new chapter.
The Wolf's Dog
Jun
Key
*(insert name)* = POV change
Italics = thoughts or flashback
*Kagome*
Her days were now marked by her forest walks. Like the idiot he sometimes was, Kouga was convinced that all she did was walk. No. She visited Inuyasha. Their friendship had grown tremendously over the past month she had been trapped in the past. She knew that even if she managed to convince Kouga to let her go back, she would never be able to leave for good. Not now.
*General POV*
Every day Inuyasha and Kagome would get into a fight about something stupid, like the way Inuyasha was too lazy to find himself food and she would have to bring him some. HE'S A FREAKING HALF-DEMON WHY DOES HE HAVE TO BE SO LAZY! Sometimes Kagome would hit him very hard, with her trusty stick. Kouga said that he would get her a sword to protect herself eventually. If she promised to not kill him with it first, but that promise didn't have to include Inuyasha.
Nobody would have thought that Inuyasha and Kagome would grow to be friends, giving how they acted towards each other. Inuyasha was totally indifferent to Kagome, except for that one time when she had somehow missed that there was a huge cliff in front of her. Then he had lunged towards her with a horrified look on his face. He had caught her just as the loose dirt on the edge crumbled down into a huge chasm that awaited. They had both clung to each other for a minute, breathing heavily as they stared at the rather beautiful red death trap in front of them. Differently colored layers of stone made up the sides of the canyon, all shades of orange and red. The other side was well over 500 feet away, and looked like a desert. There were a few green-brown shrubs clinging to the orange sand, and several cactus standing tall. The sun decided that it was a perfect time to plunge towards the horizon, bathing the already orange-red landscape in soft peach hues and gray shadows.
Kagome had even protected Inuyasha once. He had been sleeping, and a demon had decided to visit. It was one of the extremely low level ones, but Inuyasha was sleeping deeply and didn't notice as the demon decided that a powerful half-demon was good enough for a meal. Kagome had wandered in at the right moment, stopping the demon in the middle of its plotting. She had immediately sized up the situation and smacked the demon, hard, across the nose. It merely whined at her and retreated. That was one of the few experiences with 'evil' demons that Kagome ever had.
Eventually, Kagome and Inuyasha had come to respect and care for each other in their own demented way. They protected each other, mostly Inuyasha protecting Kagome, and they fought a lot. But they cared, you could tell from the way they would have conversations over the most stupid stuff. Kagome happened to rant a lot about the stupidities of her wolf-demons, and Inuyasha just sat though her rants and played with the grass beside him. They mostly just sat beside the tree where Kagome had found Inuyasha. He practically lived there, you could see the dent in the grass where he slept every night.
*Kagome*
"Hey Inuyasha? Kouga says that we're going to go back to his original home in a week. They don't usually live here apparently," she sighed and turned her brown eyes towards the blue cloud-less sky. Besides her Inuyasha shifted and stopped scratching designs in the dirt.
"You're leaving?" He asked, turning to face her. Even though he tried to hide it, loneliness crept into his golden eyes.
"You can just follow us right?" Kagome asked hopefully. Inuyasha scratched at his right ear and threw his nose into the air.
"Why would I want to follow a stupid girl like you who can't even protect herself!?" he snorted and turned around so that his back was to her, long silver hair rustling in the faint breeze. A stray light pink sakura petal drifted down onto the grass in front of Kagome. She picked it up and sadly crushed the delicate petal between her fingers, turning it a dark pink. Another one landed on Inuyasha's nose, and he sneezed, dislodging it. In the distance, she could see the tree that the petals had fallen from, glowing pink in the midday sun. They sat in silence for a few minutes as she turned and played with the grass by her side. Inuyasha faced her once again, but with worry in his eyes this time. "So who will protect you if I'm not there? Kouga can't. Wolves can't protect anything, just destroy it," he whispered so softly it was as if he didn't want her to hear.
Kagome stood up and prepared to walk away, even though her 'walk' was still not over. Usually she left about now, but she had wanted to spend some extra time with Inuyasha, just in case he decided to stay like he had. He was always so infuriating, acting like he didn't care one moment, but acting as if she meant the world to him the next.
"I'm going to go back and pack," Kagome waved and started to leave, but a hand on her sleeve stopped her.
"I have an idea," Inuyasha grinned widely, showing off sharp, long canines. "Lookie what I can do!" He closed his eyes for a second, before slowly beginning to shrink. Like any normal person, Kagome stared. His long silver hair shortened and thickened, covering his entire body. Mouth and nose lengthened into a muzzle, and a stubby tail grew. On the forest floor was a dog. Albeit a small fluffy white dog, but a dog. Who was Inuyasha. Inuyasha was a dog. Inuyasha could turn into a dog. Well that was interesting.
He woofed…literally, like he was trying to act like a dog, but failing. Apparently he could still talk.
"See see see see see see see…aren't I the coolest thing you ever saw!" he barked energetically. Kagome wrinkled her nose as he rubbed up against her leg and gave it a big slobbering lick.
"Ew! If you come like that, no more licks!" she shouted as loud as she could, disrupting the birds in nearby trees. Inuyasha cowered on the ground as she stopped her stick millimeters from hitting his head.
"You're lucky that I don't have the sword Kouga promised me, or your head would be in two pieces on the ground!" she harrumphed and sat down on the grass, her stick mysteriously stuck back in her belt.
"Keh, you couldn't even lift a sword!" he snorted and transformed back into his human-ish form. "That form is so restricti-…OMPH. NO MORE STICKS OKAY!"
"No," Kagome turned her nose into the air as he twitched on the ground behind her. "You need discipline, and for your information, I can lift a sword. I practice almost daily with the swordsmith who's going to make it. He says that I'm more of a speed type anyways, so it won't be anything heavy." She turned so her back was facing Inuyasha and rubbed the top of her trusty, stout, stick/practice sword. The sunset spread slowly across the sky as the unlikely pair of friends, a human from the future, and a 200 year (about) old half-demon.
"Shoot! I need to get back to Kouga, he'll be wondering where I went. We're leaving tomorrow, want to come back with me today? They might want to make sure that you're not going to like, pee on them or something before they let you come." That made Inuyasha turn around.
"I do not pee on people. Maybe you, if you annoy me sometime though?"
"YOU WOULD NOT DARE."
"I would."
"No. I still wear this stick for the sole purpose of hitting you now. You are the BANE OF MY EXISTANCE."
"Keh, don't get all riled up, woman."
"WHO ARE YOU TO CALL ME THAT IN SUCH A DISRESPECTFUL MANNER, DAMN DOG."
"WOMAN WOMAN WOMAN WOMAN WOMAN WOMAN WOMAN."
"YOU. UHMGR. I SWEAR YOU DOG. YOU WILL BE PUT IN YOUR PLACE."
"Even when you can't touch me?"
"Get out of that tree! Come down! Nrgggggggg."
Two hours later…
"If you do that again, I will hang you from your damn tree with your own hair." Kagome growled and walked away from the twitching heap of half-demon.
"Bitch! DON'T YOU DARE LEAVE ME LYING HELPLESS HERE!" Inuyasha managed to reach one shaking hand out to her. "I DON'T WANT TO DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE." She kicked away his hand and leaned down.
"If you promise to never again grab my leg to stop yourself from falling off the highest branch in a huge tree." She proposed.
"So, I can grab your foot to keep me from falling off?" he asked innocently.
"NO. You can't grab any part of my body if you're about to fall." She retorted. He looked up at her with, ironically enough, big puppy eyes. She could have sworn that his mouth was actually quivering as if trying to hold back tears. Of course she couldn't resist.
"Fine! If I let you have my hand, you can take it to keep you from falling!" she sighed and grabbed him by his hair. "We're going back now. It's three hours past when I usually go in." She yanked him by his mane of shaggy, silver hair towards the cave the wolf-demons were currently staying in. "C'mon and change already!"
"Okay, okay. Wait a minute, woman." He muttered, and started to change.
"DON'T CALL ME WOMAN AGAIN!" she growled.
"Shush little woman don't say a word, Inuyasha…can't sing." He said as his voice broke in the middle of a note. Kagome just picked up the little, fluffy, white dog currently on the ground and ran full tilt back towards the cave.
"Kouga! Sorry that I'm late. I just found him in the forest and had to bring him home! Can he stay? Please! Please!" Kagome turned on her act.
"Eh? What? You're late?" Kouga scratched his head. Inuyasha growled for no reason.
"Shush…don't scare Kouga…Jun." Kagome crooned, coming up with another name for Inuyasha in a second. Inuyasha growled again, but at her this time, because the name literally meant obedient.
"Anyways, Kagome, we were just packing! Are you sure that you want to bring that mutt along?" Kouga asked, looking apprehensively at the fluffy dog in Kagome's arms.
"Of course I do! He can just stay with me." She moved to her part of the cave, and gathered up her few belongings, setting Inuyasha down. "Stop misbehaving Jun. Or else I might have to actually kick you out." Inuyasha just glared and showed a fang.
Kagome ignored him and picked up her bag, another gift from the wolf-demons, and stuffed extra pairs of clothes into it, including her old, ruined, school uniform, which she only saved because of the memories and hope to go back embedded in the filthy, torn fabric.
She was ready to leave, with her best friend the dog by her side. She might not ever come back to her world now, so she would visit the well tomorrow, just to say goodbye.
(my new comment thing)
Crayzedfangurllll: XD…I love how it was originally 5 times, but I messed it up and made it 6, so now you just watched 167 more episodes.
Cutepuppy01: Here's your long awaited new chapter! Sorry about the cookie thing, it was fake bribery (low of me I know…), but you can have a character you want in here, just ask and I'll try!
Larissa: Thanks! I don't even have the story plotted out, the summary basically sums up all I know about the plot so far. I just write as I go…XD.
Lady takahashiblu: I see you were too lazy to log in, friend. Yup, next chapter she gets to fall back into her time too. Oops, no more plot revealers :P
Guest: Yeah…they have an, interesting, relationship sometimes.
