Chapter 4
Kagome sat next to him with Shippo still in her arms. But when Shippo saw Inuyasha, he jumped over to sit on his head instead. Kagome knew everyone was bothered by the days' events when Shippo just sat there not teasing Inuyasha, and Inuyasha let him not trying to beat the fox kit up.
'Man, this is bad' she thought. Sango and Miroku sat by the newly lit fire, with the nekumake at their feet.
"We were able to salvage some of the fish from this morning, Inuyasha. Are you hungry?" she asked.
"No"
"Oh." She sighed. Then after a minute she asked him to join them by the fire instead.
"No" was all he replied again.
"Ok," was all she could muster to answer and she just sat there with him by the river. The breeze was sharp in the evening like this as the sun was going down. She couldn't help the shiver that shook her, so she just curled up more, pulling her legs up and resting her head on her knees. She shivered again.
"Kagome, come sit by the fire and warm up." Miroku called to her, and Sango smiled warmly.
As much as she wanted to, she told them she was fine. She actually didn't want to leave Inuyasha sitting by himself. She wanted him to know that she was there if he needed to talk.
After a minute, he growled softly and then sighed. Standing up, he grabbed her by the arm and helped her stand, then walked her over to the fire and sat next to her there. "Stupid girl." He mumbled, but she still heard it. But instead of getting upset, she smiled inwardly. She knew that he did it for her, in one of those rare occasions he let it show that he cared for her. It was a quiet night and they soon settled in to sleep.
Inuyasha ignored the small pair of dog eyes that peered at them from bushes just at the tree line. He knew it was there. But he wanted to follow it back to its master.
The little dog was not in control of itself, but in fact was being manipulated by another Inudemon. She was a minor Inu to be sure, but she was doing this deed to move herself up in her own pack. Their leader wanted the humans to fear them more, but with the half breed and his ridiculous pack going around helping villages all over the western land, the humans were losing their fear of all Inu demons.
They needed to be put back in their place, to fear their betters again on site. Not just after a show of force. This is the third village she had influenced an attack. But the half breed hadn't shown up to investigate the others. So she decided to bring it home, so to say. Now he had to act. And she would get rid of him and restore the order.