hehe. I like this chapter. personally. it gets all touching and whatnot. not very realistic, but that's why this is a fanFICTION. tender moments between
two very stubborn people happen in this world :p enjoyy
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I woke up the next morning and all I could think was headache. I opened my eyes, grateful my shades were pulled down and looked around the room. I was alone, and wearing a little black dress. Groaning unhappily, I sat up and got shakily out of bed. My bedroom door suddenly opened, scaring me half to death until I saw Inuyasha walk through the door with a glass of orange juice in his hand. "You're awake."
I rubbed my eyes. "I feel like I just died." I groaned again, reaching out for the glass. I took a sip and cherished the cold, non alcoholic drink. Never again.
"You had quite a night. Remember anything?" He asked in a kind of funny way, almost too interested.
I thought for a second and realized I really didn't. "Oh my god I don't. I've never drank so much I couldn't remember! Oh my god what happened? Wait… why are you here?" I asked, walking out into my living room/kitchen.
"I came by last night to check and see if you were up to any trouble with DECO and Koga was dropping you off. I told him I'd make sure you got to bed okay since you couldn't even stand on your own."
I sat down on my couch, my face beating red with embarrassment. "Ah, I am so sorry about that. I usually never drink."
"Heh," he scoffed, "I can believe that."
I ignored that. "Well thank you for staying but I'll be fine now. You know you're way out."
Inuyasha scowled and walked over to me, standing in front of where I sat on the sofa. "Not just yet. Let me just double check something. You're 19, am I right?" I nodded up at him. "Okay, so you're under age, which means you just broke the law again last night. I can't be having one of my best hunters getting into so much trouble."
"I'm one of the best hunters at DECO?" I smiled a little. He rolled his eyes.
"If you keep this stuff up any longer you won't be. Here's the deal, either I keep an eye on you for the rest of your suspension, or you lose your job permanently."
My smile dissipated, and I gaped up at him. "You're bluffing."
"No, I'm not. We can stay here, but my apartment is much bigger." He reasoned.
"What?" I gasped. "You mean live together for the next two months? That doesn't sound very professional."
"Yeah, well neither is letting you keep your job after what happened the last couple of days. I have the power to make the rules, and this is it. Take it or leave it."
I stared back at him with hard eyes, waiting to see him break under my death stare, but he didn't. Instead he sent one back equally terrifying. I sighed, slumping my shoulders and leaning back against the couch. "Fine. But that means we're going to your place. I'm gonna enjoy my vacation in a bigger place where I don't pay the bills."
Inuyasha smirked momentarily before stepping away to give me room to get up. "We'll leave in 10 minutes."
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I was officially temporarily moved into his apartment a half an hour later. I had all my mail stopped, and utilities shut down for the next two months. "Where do I sleep?" I asked, realizing there was only one bed.
"On the couch." He said nonchalantly. I frown at his large white sofa. It was very comfortable, but you would think as his guest he'd offer the bed.
"Now what?" I asked, already finding myself bored.
Inuyasha looked up from his kitchen barstool where he was eating noodles. "Hell if I care. There's a TV, stereo, refrigerator full of food, books, anything. Just do something."
"This isn't going to work out." I grumbled plopping down on my couch-bed.
"Make it work."
I snarled. A phone started ringing from the end table next to the couch. I looked over to see a cell phone, Inuyasha's cell phone. I reached for it.
"Don't answer other people's phones!" He yelled jumping off his chair.
"Hello?" I said into the phone after hitting 'answer'. Inuyasha ripped the phone out of my hand before I could hear anything. "What?" He barked into it. After a few moments of listening, Inuyasha snapped the phone shut without a goodbye and grabbed his keys from the table. "Come on, I've got business."
I jumped up happily, hoping this was a hunt. I ran over and pulled my bow out of my bag. "No, no. This isn't a hunt for you. You're off duty."
"But if it's dangerous I should have these with me!" I argued.
"It isn't a hunt. There has just been a possible citing of an unregistered demon on woods outside the city. Whatever resistance we'll need I can provide." He cracked his knuckles when he said the last part, sending a little shiver down my spine.
He wasn't joking when he said woods. We had to leave the city completely, drive a little further, take a left at nowheresville, a right at notalivingsoularound town, and finally reached the uncharted thicket of deep woods that I'm sure has never had a human walk through before.
We were walking through the trees after Inuyasha parked his car on the nearest clearing. Inuyasha kept swearing under his breath, and after piecing a few words together, I managed to figure out my pace wasn't too his liking.
"Will you stop bitching! I don't know if you noticed, but I live in a city. I've always been a nature girl but my foresting is a little rusty." Inuaysha suddenly squatted down in front of me, causing me to bump into him and almost flip over his back. "What are you doing?"
"Get on." He ordered. "If you let me carry you we'll get this done before my hair starts to gray."
I stared at his shiny silver hair and fought back a smart-ass comment. Instead, I knelt down and wrapped my arms around his neck, feeling a little awkward. His hands shot back to lift my legs up aggressively and then rested under my upper thighs, dangerously close to my ass, as he stood up and took off.
I couldn't even bitch because at the pace of the leaps and bounds he was taking, we could probably make it to China by dinner time.
I was hanging on for dear life and enjoying the hell out of myself when he abruptly stopped. There was a clearing believe it or not, and on the ground was what I was guessing was not what he had been looking for. I was prepared to see and demon, and what was on the ground was a piece of paper.
Setting me to my feet, Inuyasha walked further into the middle of the clearing and picked up the note. I followed closely behind and read over his shoulder. Some may call it being nosey; I like to think of it as being a concerned friend.
Inuyasha,
It's been 5 years, and I still haven't given up on you.
"Huh?" I said after reading the note over a couple times. Inuyasha hadn't moved an inch, until a woman's voice yelled his name from across the hearing. The extremely familiar sound of an arrow being released from its bow resounded through the woods closely after.
"Look out!" Inuyasha yelled before shoving me hard to the ground and turning around to face the woman who had just shot the arrow that I saw plunging into his chest before my eyes.
"Inuyasha!" I screamed, watching in horror as his body was sent soaring across the clearing and onto a large tree. Inuyasha's arm that had been reached out from moving me out of the way started to slowly drop, along with his eyes. I pushed myself off the ground and ran over to him.
"Inuyasha!" I yelled again, climbing on the tree's roots so I could grab a hold of him. I clung to his red shirt, not wanting to move him and make the wound worse, but at the same time wanting to try and shake him awake violently. "Come on Inuyasha, wake up!" I begged.
The sound of footsteps had me turning back to see the woman I knew as Kikyo walking closer to the tree Inuyasha was now bound to. She was even more beautiful in person, but that didn't stop me from wanting to rip her head off and use her neck as a bed pan.
"Who are you?" Her beautiful voice rang out in calm disdain. "And why do you have my face."
I just kept staring at her, wondering the same thing. "Why did you kill Inuyasha?" Was all I could come up with. Brilliant Kagome, you're enraged with a women who is a pretty version of you and that's the best answer you have?
Kikyo's pretty face distorted. "He isn't dead yet, only sealed to that tree until I chose to release him. No… he isn't dead, but I will have my revenge on him." Her face softened up to a sad, blank expression before she continued. "Seven years ago, I met Inuyasha. His only interest was in becoming a full fledged demon, something I could provide, however I did not grant him his wish… at first."
Full Fledge Demon? But wasn't he already?
"Two years past, and we were in love to say the least. I told Inuyasha that I can give him what he wants, but instead of using it to become a true demon, he can become a human, and we can be together for the rest of our lives. I foolishly believed him when he agreed." I almost didn't want to hear the rest. "The very next day, I am going out to meet Inuyasha and give him the jewel that would allow us to be together, and I am attacked from behind." She closed her eyes and suddenly a purple light shot out her shoulder and ripped it open, blood pouring down her arm. "This is the wound that Inuyasha inflicted on me! This is the mark his claws made that killed me 5 years ago!" She yelled bitterly as she clutched her arm.
"Y-you're…" I stuttered, stepping back slightly, my back now resting against Inuyasha. "You're dead?"
She smiled coldly. "Yes, girl. I am dead, and I will not rest until I drag Inuyasha down to hell with me. I tried 5 years ago, after he had attacked me, using the last ounce of life I had, however he narrowly dodged my arrow, something he could have also done today. Instead, he decides to save you. A women with my face." She pulled another arrow out and loaded her bow, aiming it straight at Inuyasha and I. "I do not care who you are, and I will have my revenge." She yelled before the twang of her bow rang through my ears, and a spiritual arrow came flying towards me.
I did the only thing I could think of, knowing I couldn't jump out of the way and save myself but leave Inuyasha, and still be able to look at myself in the mirror afterwards. I turned around, screamed, and clung on to Inuyasha tightly, burying my face against his chest and praying it wouldn't hurt as bad as I knew it would.
A pink glow started to illuminate from my stomach and then suddenly grew into a large barrier surrounding the tree, me, and Inuyasha. I heard the sizzling sound of Kikyo's arrow being disintegrated as it hit the barrier. I closed my eyes tightly, not sure what was going to happen next, but cracked an eye open to see the pink barrier shrinking back into my stomach. I looked back at Kikyo who was staring at me in horror. "The… Shikon Jewel…" I barely heard her mumble before she stepped back. She snapped out of her amazement and scowled at me. "I'll be back for Inuaysha, reincarnation."
Suddenly white Shinidamachu came gliding from between the trees and wrapped around Kikyo to lift her into the air and disappearing with her.
After staring in shock after her, I turned back to Inuyasha and tried calling his name more. He looked dead to me. I felt for a pulse and couldn't find one, than I actually started crying.
"Shit! I don't know how to get out of these woods!" I yelled at him, grabbing onto the arrow protruding from his chest. "You can't be dead yet!" I pulled as hard as I could on the arrow and suddenly felt it disappear from my hands. Inuyasha's arms suddenly shot forward and wrapped around me as he fell forward, pulling both of us to the ground.
I was sitting on my knees and Inuyasha was kneeling in front of me, hugging me tightly and burying his face into my hair. "Kagome." He breathed in deeply. "Shit."
"Are you okay?" I asked panicked, pulling back from him enough to take a look at his chest. There was a whole in his shirt but I didn't see any blood. I reached down and started to yank up the bottom of his shirt. He grabbed my hands stopping me.
"What the hell are you doing?"
"You were just shot with an arrow! Let me look at your wound!"
"I'm fine, idiot! I'm a demon! A little scratch like that is already healed. She didn't shoot to kill!"
I stared at him, not moving. "Yes she did Inuyasha. Not with that arrow, but she shot a lethal one while you were unconscious."
Inuyasha stared down at me with serious eyes. "Yeah, I had a feeling she did. I don't know what you did, but thank you."
I felt my cheeks start to burn red from that serious, deep look he was giving me. I stood up quickly and waved him off. "It was nothing! I'm just happy you're not dead." I wiped the remaining tears from my face.
Inuyasha stood up and suddenly wrapped his arms around me from behind, burying his face in my hair again. I stiffened. "Thank you Kagome. Really. After seeing her again after all these years… and that smell. God I never want to smell that again." He took a deep breath of my hair as his arms tightened around me. Was Inuyasha actually shaken?
"Inuyasha… was Kikyo… dead?" I asked hesitantly. I felt his head nod.
"She smelt of grave soil and ashes. Of death."
I shook my head, not being able to understand it. "How is that possible?"
"Most likely a witch's doing. Animating corpses is a black magic thing." He explained, still not moving from our embrace.
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See what i meant about tender moments? No? Just me?