From Pages to Reality
Chapter 5 : Tree
The party starts at 6:30 , Inuyasha left for his 'walk' at 5:50 .
Its was now 6:15, and Kikyo knew he wouldn't take time to get ready , if he would change at all. So, she had decided to let Kaede run out and check if he was in the vicinity. Kaede had grown a liking for Inuyasha as soon as she saw his velvet ears .The door slammed shut, so she questioned her ,
"Is he here?"
" He's sitting on a tree." Replied Kaede awkwardly.
There was an awkward silence.
" A tree" Kikyo repeated.
"Yes." Kaede still thought it was strange.
Well, it was strange. Inuyasha was sitting on a tree.
"Did you tell him to come down?"
"No, he looked so , well not happy, but sorta at peace. I didn't want to disturb him. Should I go ask him to come down?"
She sighed , "Mo, I'll do it. Thank you."
Kaede nodded and went back to her room, still thinking about her canine friend sitting in a tree.
He's not an owl…
This was by far the strangest conversation she had ever had with her younger sister and she a feeling , her conversation with the young man who was attached to nature ( thought it really didn't seem so) would most certainly be stranger. How lonely must a person be to find comfort in a tree?
She exited the door and stood on the front steps. There were several trees yet she knew which one he was perched on. Kikyo didn't move for fear he would hear her, and come down awkwardly without a word. Thought he might anyway.
There he was, his silver mane of wild hair was what caught her attention as she looked up the tree she could sense him on. He appeared to be sleeping but as soon as Kikyo descended her first step down the stone stairway, he opened his eyes. They were a distinctive amber , just like the sun, but different all the same.
Inuyasha's eyes seemed to compete with the moon for dominance in the night sky.
She didn't know what to say . What do you say to a man in a tree? And if the only thing you know about him was that he was stubborn and quick to anger? Even though Inuyasha wasn't looking at her , she could tell he was aware of her and Kikyo knew it was only a matter of minutes before he would demand to know angrily why she was here, standing, not saying anything. So she just decided to talk.
"Inuyasha." She stated simply
Inuyasha turned his head to look at her , she was standing on one step , looking straight forward.
"I'm up here." He said, quite a stupid thing to say, he could tell he already knew where she was, who couldn't find a white-haired male in the trees?
"I know, I thought you were going for a walk."
"I was… but it was still daylight out."
"And?"
He sighed. As if she would understand.
"Some idiots tend to stare when I walk down the street, so I walk at night."
"And because , it was still light outside, you sat in a tree." Kikyo wasn't feeling pitiful for him…yet.
"Rather than come inside?"
"I would rather be outside, thank you very much."
"But the sky darkened a ten minutes ago, you could have taken a short walk."
"No!" he said sarcastically.
She was taken aback by his cold response. Kikyo decide to ignore him. She had to deal with childish clients before, the quickest way was to treat them as children back. He could see the surprise on her face and was going to respond, when it looked like she had gone into deep thought.
Some idiots tend to stare when I walk down the street…
Because he's a half-demon, forced in a place where two races exist but he belonged to none of them. She knew a long time ago people and demons shunned hanyous for that fact, but yet in this civilized age, some people still didn't accept him. Kikyo remembered something her professor had told her, ' civilization is not a synonym for good '.
" Kikyo?"
She looked up suddenly.
"Yes?"
"Keh! You think too much. Just say what you want to!"
He turned away sharply.
"You said my name …." She muttered quietly. Guess that was a start. And a rough one at that.
"So?"
"Nothing." Bewildered that he had heard her.
Then she remembered. They had to go!
"Inuyasha " she said sweetly, "Are you planning on coming down? We have an event attend, and I think it would be in your best interest to come with me." Referring to Sesshomaru, who would be quite angry, had he not shown up.
He bounded down the tree effortlessly, landing on his right foot. The moon just lost it's competition, she thought warily then a mixture of shock and surprise about what she had just thought.
"Are you going to change? There is not really much time…"
"Should I?" Inuyasha didn't like to change, he liked what he was wearing.
She eyed what he was wearing, jeans and a denim jacket.
" Your top should be fine, I would wear pants, and take off that jacket."
Inuyasha went in the house to change, to her surprise, she though he would be off to car with just a "Keh.".
They managed to get to the party in time, it was a small elegant set up. The people were dressed casually. Small white tables with a single flower in a plastic vase were scattered here and there. There was a bar in the corner and a large banner with the host, IZANAMI CORP, written in big, black un-appealing letters. Dinner ware was there on the tables, and the chairs were padded with a sash looking quite fancy.
" I am not sitting in those, no one is sitting in them anyway, they must be for the old guys."
Kikyo looked over a him, with a neutral expression, trying to fight a smile.
"You don't have to sit in them. Just meet the clients and you are good to go."
"Good."
" Are you going to eat here?"
Inuyasha sniffed the food, it was some fancy foreign food, that he didn't want to be a part of.
"I am not touching the food either." He said gruffly, with a slight wrinkle on the nose, the food smell suddenly becoming more pungent, as the waiters uncovered it.
She nodded. Sesshomaru was slowly making his way towards them , with the same bored, neutral expression on his face. He stopped to shake someone's hand before coming before them.
"Your on time."
"So?" came his half-brother's reply.
Sesshomaru turned to Kikyo, " Thank you."
Inuyasha folded his arms, he wasn't going to get mad this time, he had gained some more patience , then the last time they had met each other.
"Inuyasha." He began again " You smell like bark."
Kikyo couldn't help but smile that time.
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After some editing, this story is now only , 3 chapters long.
This is my longest chapter ( which was originally supposed to be two),
1, 197 ish.
Maybe now, it'll look long now.
: )
But I supposed you don't care.
Donut signing out.