Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, but I do, however, own this story. Please don't duplicate...or sue.
A couple of days had passed. During this time, Kagome had gone to the Health Clinic and the doctor had told her mother, "She's alright, just a few cuts and bruises, and some minor bleeding. Her test results will be in soon to see if she has any STDs from the rapist. Will she be pressing charges?" Will I?
Kagome's eyes watered again as she lay in her bed, 50 percent of her face buried into the softness of her pillow. She'd just spent the passed few hours lying there, not moving, barely breathing. She just couldn't believe how someone so seemingly cive could be so cruel and vicious. She'd seen demons with a better personality.
She quickly sat up in her bed. Realization flooded her mind with the fact that she'd been gone from the feudal era for a while now. Almost a week. Inuyasha must still be angry at me, she thought. I couldn't blame him. I'm nothing but my own monster...
If I hadn't been to easy that night, Hojo wouldn't have done anything. I would've fought back like usual and came home, still pure. I woudln't have had this negativity claiming my life. Everything wouldn't hurt this much. But now, everytime I even look at anything in my room, it reminds me of when I first got back form the feudal era, last Thursday, when Inuyasha and I were angry at each other, when I wasn't so disgusting.
Another tear slipped form her eye and rolled down her cheek.
Inuyasha must hate me by now. There's no wonder we fight all the time. I'm always so stupid about everything, always getting so ridiculously jealous over his first love, something of which I could never, nor could want to, take away from him. He loved her first. Not me. He doesn't love me now, at all, I'm sure, sp there's really no competition there. I'm nothign but a stupid little girl and Inuyasha is a powerful hanyou who still loves a remarkable priest...they're so differnet...but that makes them perfect for each other... I'm just lucky he claims me as his friend...
Still, I wonder where he is. Even if he was this unbelievably mad at me, he would've came here and gotten my jewel shards already, and I've checked--I still have them. ...What's happened to him?
Inuyasha sat up in the sacred tree, above the well, impatiently waiting for Kagome's return, yet hiding it extremely well, as always. Where the hell is that wench? Did I really piss her off that much...?
Inuyasha mentally slapped himself. GAH! Inuyasha, you are so stupid! Why do you have to keep messing everything up? It's just all or nothing for you isn't it?
He growled to himself, drawing the attention of a young kitsune walking on the ground below him, also checking for he young girl's return. Shippou looked up at Inuyasha.
"You idiot! Just get down here and go get her! Can't you just swallow your pride for once, Inuyasha? What if she's in trouble in her time? What if she can't come back here?" Shippou asked quickly, already frustrated with Inuyasha's stubborn attitude. "What if...the well sealed?"
Inuyasha's ears perked up. He hadn't thought of that. Quickly, he jumped down from the tree and made his way over to the well. He looked down it. Hmm...
Suddenly, Shippou wacked him on the head causing Inuyasha to fall down into the well. "Go get her! And don't come back until she's here!"
As Inuyasha fell, he thought, Wow, I didn't know Shippou had that in him...but he's going to get punched when I get back!
Inuyasha popped up in Kagome's time. Birds were singing outside of the shine. The air was fresh...well...not so fresh to him, what with being littered by automobile gasoline and other unmentionable and unidentifyable scents. But anyway, I walked out of the shine, hopping up into the tree next to Kagome's bedroom window. Being quiet, and not to spy on her or anything, Inuyasha sat in the tree and peered through her window.
He saw her, lying on her bed...crying? What reason does she have to cry? I'm the one that's been abandoned for almost a week! What's her problem?
Detrmined to check things out, Inuyasha got on the edge of a tree branch and opened Kagome's bedroom window. He stepped through it, silently slipping himself onto the floor. I looked over at Kagome a few feet away. Smelling the scent of her tears, Inuyasha was reminded, I hate when she cries.
"Kagome?" he called softly.
The girl sat up in an instant, quickly wiping her watery eyes before they were exposed to Inuyasha more than already. "Inuyasha, what are you doing here?"
"What do you mean, what am I doing here?" he asked, crossing his arms. "What do you think I'm doing here? I'm getting you so we can continue on with the whole Jewel Shard hunt. Why else?"
Kagome's lip quivered. Why must I be so weak, now of all times?
"What?" Inuyasha asked. "What's wrong with you?"
She thought for a moment. Didn't she vow to herself that she would never tell him? Besides, it's not like he would care, anyway... She shook her head, clearing her thoughts. "It's nothing, Inuyasha."
He blinked in confusion. Oh, what she's lying now? Nobody cried for nothing!
He watched Kagome jump out of her bed and walk over to the large yellow bag she carried around, picking it up. She then walked out of the room and the stairs.
She came back a few minutes later, the yellow bag full with supplies. "Come on, Inuyasha let's go." She smiled. Inuyasha couldn't help but just stare at her.
"What?" she asked.
He glared at her for lying to him.
"What?" she asked again, a little harsher this time.
He looked away, snarling. "Nothing..."
"Then let's go."
Inuyasha following Kagome, they walked down the stairs and through Kagome's house until they were outside and to the shrine. Inuyasha took Kagome's bag as she jumped in, him right behind her.
When they arrived in the feudal era, Shippou immediately noticed. "Kagome!" he yelled, running to her like a lost child who'd found its mother.
"Hi, Shippou," she greeted quite happily.
They all then walked to Kaede's hut where the others sat, resting. As Kagome, Inuyasha and Shippou walked through they door, they didn't even bother ackowledging anyone other than, "Kagome!" But of course they wouldn't considering it hadn't been Inuyasha and Shippou that had been gone for almost a week.
"Hi everyone!" Kagome said. She was hiding her pain pretty well so far...or so she thought...
There's definately something wrong with her, Inuyasha concluded, studying her actions, and judging that someting just wasn't quite right.
Haha. I've been tolf that I apologize at the end of every chapter.
Well, that probably true, considering:
I'm sorry that one sucked. I had writer's block.
But thank you Elisha for the threats that made me continue!
Kisaki-x
