"I can't believe the nerve of that guy!" Kagome angrily exclaimed as she through her yellow backpack on the floor and jumped onto her bed. "How dare he tells me what's what and calls me stupid!" The girl growled and sat up on her knees. InuYasha faced that demon all by himself; and got injured really badly. And even after that he still wants to do things on his own after I clearly told him we can help!
Kagome angrily through her hands on her pale pink pillow and clung to it tightly. "InuYasha, you're so stupid!"
"Somebody's having a rough day."
Kagome turned to see her brother standing at her doorway, realizing he had probably heard the whole thing. "Sota."
"You're back already? I thought you'd be gone longer."
"Give it a rest. I told you I can come home whenever I want. This is where I live after all."
"Well, how long are you staying?"
"I don't know." She closed her eyes and pointed her nose toward the ceiling like she was a little girl not getting what she wanted. "Whenever I feel like it."
Soto still didn't move and quickly slid his school backpack further up his shoulder. "You know Kagome, maybe you should just let it go."
"Huh?" She turned her head back at the boy to listen to what he was going to say. He was on to something, although she wasn't sure what.
"You and InuYasha seem to get in these little fights often. But then you always make up. So whatever it is, you should just let it go."
Kagome couldn't believe what she was hearing, and whom she was hearing it from. It wasn't natural for Sota to give her advice like that, not to mention pretty wise-sounding for a third-grader.
"So um, how long are you staying?" he asked again.
"I already told you, I'll leave whenever I feel like it! Now get out of my room!"
After Sota ran as fast as he could down the stairs, Kagome let out a big sigh and through herself back down. She sometimes got kind of moody when she was angry, especially with InuYasha. But deep down she knew her little brother was right. Sure, InuYasha was acting stupid and stubborn, but Kagome always managed to convince him to do things different. Why does he have to be this way? Why can't he just let us help him? I know one thing, sitting around here isn't gonna help. I can't just leave him and the others. Kagome then figured if she gave it some time, cool down, and make up with InuYasha, things would work out and the half-demon would eventually give in and let his friends help him like always.
"I can't stay here," she decided and got up to collect her things and headed back downstairs. When she did get down, her mother gave a warm smile and welcomed her home. "Hi mom, I'm going back now, bye!" She called as she ran out the house.
"Well that didn't take as long as I expected," Sota let out.
Kagome headed for the shrine and immediately jumped back down the well.
"InuYasha, why did you have to send Kagome home?" Shippo asked angrily.
InuYasha rolled his eyes and sat up from resting on his side. "Hey Kagome left by herself. She chose to go home."
"Yeah, but you had to act like a jerk, and that's what made her leave!"
"Shut up! It's not your place to tell me what I should and shouldn't do!"
Shippo knew too well that anything smart he said to InuYasha would get a whack on his head. But it really made him angry how ignorant and stubborn the half-demon was being. Everybody agreed on that one. "Kagome cares about you, and so do the rest of us. Can't you just think about that?"
This time InuYasha almost did hit Shippo, but held back before standing up and leaving the area. He walked himself away from the village as he thought about what Shippo had said. I know everyone cares about me. But I…I care about them, too. Judging by his character and ego, that wasn't something he would say straight out to anyone, but he really cared about his friends. He really cared about Kagome, and because of that, he was ok if she went home. She would be safe, and that's what InuYasha wanted.
Kagome climbed out of the well that was in the beautiful forest she loved so much. I hope he's not mad at me. The girl slid her backpack further up her back and ran as fast as she could toward the village. She really hoped that InuYasha or any of the others left for IraKouba without her. She knew that they all needed her help.
When Kagome got to Kaede's hut, she found Miroku and Sango having an unknown conversation, and Shippo and Kirala playing together. She was a little concerned not to see InuYasha, and feared that he had gone to do what he had planned. But by the looks of everyone else, it didn't seem to be like that.
When she stepped closer, Shippo immediately saw the girl and ran toward her. "Kagome, you're back!"
"Kagome!" Sango called, shocked to see her show up so soon but relieved, as well as Miroku.
"Hey guys," Kagome said as Shippo jumped into her arms. "Where's InuYasha?" She didn't want to be rude for skipping the greetings, but this was important to her and she was sure her friends would understand. They always did.
"InuYasha went for a walk," Sango answered.
"Yeah," said Shippo, "he was a little frustrated about the fight you guys just had."
Kagome closed her eyes and calmly sat Shippo down before taking off after her half-demon friend.
"Do you think InuYasha will listen to Kagome?" Shippo asked.
"Let's just hope that it doesn't turn into another argument," Miroku replied.
Kagome ran as fast as she could through the village and away from it. She wasn't going to stop until she found InuYasha.
Kagome knew that a lot of the time when the boy was depressed and liked some time to think, he would go to a big hill where you could get a good view of a small field and the village.
It's the first place the girl decided to look, and when she found the hill and climbed it, soon enough she found InuYasha, his back facing her and his silver white hair blowing in the wind as he looked out to the world.
Kagome was relieved to find him and deeply sighed. "InuYasha." Her voice wasn't loud, but loud enough for the half-demon to hear, and he slowly turned his head to her.
Kagome's heart sunk when she saw the look on his face. He seemed a little depressed and exhausted. Plus, when he turned around like that, Kagome thought she saw something like this in a dream she wasn't comfortable with.
But this wasn't a dream, and she sighed before walking over to him. She stepped when she was a footway from the boy and looked into his amber eyes. They looked serous, but calm. "InuYasha, I'm sorry…about our fight I mean."
InuYasha quickly turned his head back. "It's alright. It was my fault."
Kagome was shocked to hear those words come out of the boy's mouth. InuYasha never really took the blame for their arguments.
Five seconds passed and the half-demon curiously looked at Kagome again, and after the girl shook her head with a smile, she pointed a head. "Look!"
InuYasha looked back and saw that the field was covered with butterflies galore. He hadn't remembered seeing them before.
"I've never seen so many butterflies," the girl said. The two stood there for a few seconds staring out at the field when some of the butterflies flew up a bit from the flowers they were perched on to. That's when Kagome suddenly felt like doing something exciting as she smiled brightly and grabbed InuYasha's hand. "Come on!" She ran the blushing boy down the hill as she laughed excitedly in the bright sun.
When they got down to the field, Kagome immediately started for the butterflies like a little girl and messed around to make them fly up. It was almost like popping bubbles, put instead they were beautiful insects flying all over the place.
As Kagome laughed and played with the flying bugs, InuYasha stood there and watched them. The butterflies were everywhere of all kinds of colors. Most of them were purple and blue, and when Kagome put her hands on the tips of the flowers, more of them kept flying up all over the place.
InuYasha watched them all until one landed and perched itself on his dog-ear, and the boy froze for a second. Kagome saw that and giggled. When InuYasha's ear twitched, the butterfly finally flew away and InuYasha looked up and watched it leave in the air.
Kagome leaned down to pick up a flower and stood back up. "InuYasha, look," she said in amazement as she held the flower up to him. The half-demon looked at it; there on top was a silver colored butterfly. It was so unusual and so pretty that InuYasha stared at it wide-eyed in amazement with his mouth half open.
Kagome smiled brightly as she held it. All her worried thoughts just suddenly disappeared and she felt very happy. Both of them felt good and decided to eat lunch alone together near a lake.
Kagome grabbed her empty water bottle and happily jumped in the shallow end of the lake to fill it up when she heard a growl. The girl turned her head toward InuYasha, who was right next to her, wet from her splash. "Oh InuYasha, I'm sorry. I didn't mean it!"
He was briefly glaring at her and remained quiet.
"InuYasha?"
A smirk finally grew on the half-demon's face that made Kagome gasp and lean back a bit to get away, but it was too late when InuYasha finally splashed her.
The girl happily screamed while covering her face and finally fell on her bottom as she started laughing.
Shippo rested on the edge of a boulder and smiled with his hands on his cheeks as he watched Kagome happily splash the half-demon back. The kid was glad to see that the two weren't arguing anymore, and instead were actually getting along and having fun. It made Shippo very happy to see them like this.
As it started to get dark, InuYasha ran through the field happily with Kagome on his back. The girl felt the cool breeze blow in her face and had never felt so happy in her life. Before she knew it, she happily rested her head on the boy's back as he continued running and smiled back at her over his shoulder.
That night when all the bright stars were out, Kagome and InuYasha both lay on the field grown with their heads next to each other and their bodies opposite from each other. They stared at the stars and talked about simple subjects.
"So did you ever watch the stars before in the past?" Kagome softly asked.
"Yeah, a few times," he casually answered, his eyes still up at the sky.
"Really? Have you done it with somebody else?"
He didn't answer until five seconds passed. "Yeah, I did."
"Who?"
"My mother." Kagome felt a little awkward for some reason and sat up to look at him. "Oh InuYasha."
He sat up also and looked at her curiously. "What?"
She smiled sweetly at him and shook her head. "Never mind."
Again, InuYasha was getting use to that and lay back down to look at the stars again with his arms folded behind his head.
Kagome was still sitting up but looked back up the sky also. "The stars are so beautiful. Those butterflies were beautiful, too."
The boy said nothing and continued to watch the stars.
"And the flowers they were on."
"Flowers," InuYasha finally replied.
Kagome curiously looked at him and figured out what he was getting at. "Yeah, even IraKouba's flowers can be pretty."
"Yeah, and you can never know what they would do."
Kagome sighed and looked to the ground. "InuYasha, IraKouba needs to be destroyed." She looked back at him and finally saw his eyes on her. He was ready to listen. "And we can work together to defeat him. All of us. I know we can do it, InuYasha. We can do it together."
The boy looked at the ground and was silent as Kagome watched him think, waiting for a reply. Finally he spoke. "I guess you're right."
She softly gasped and smiled. "You mean it? So we're all going tomorrow to look for IraKouba."
He sighed but nodded. "Alright."
"You promise?"
He growled annoyingly, sick of all the questions. "Yes."
Now Kagome didn't know what could make this day better. She looked back at the stars. "I think supper is about ready. What do you think?" She looked at InuYasha and grew confused when she saw the look on his face. He was sniffing the air with a serious look on his face and immediately stood up.
"InuYasha, what's the matter?"
He still said nothing as Kagome stood beside him.
"InuYasha?" that's when she saw the familiar snake like demons fly around them. "Soul collectors," she whispered. And then they both saw Kikyo standing thirty feet away from them. Kagome's heart started to pound when she saw the priestess staring at them; staring at InuYasha.
InuYasha was staring at her, too, and there was sadness in the priestess' eyes. They were completely different from the last time he saw her. The last time she gave a straight face and ignored him. This time she seemed serious, like she was trying to say something.
InuYasha's face was full of sadness and curiosity. Sadness because of how things were from the last time he saw her, and curiosity because things seemed different now.
Kagome's face was also full of emotion. She herself wasn't sure how she was supposed to feel, but she wasn't surprised and felt a little sad for the two.
The wind blew in Kikyo's face and her long black hair back when her sad face started to calm down and suddenly looked serious, although InuYasha's remained the same.
Kagome and InuYasha then watched Kikyo slowly turn to the left and slowly started to walk off. But she looked back at InuYasha, giving him a look as if she were telling him to come with her.
Kagome knew that InuYasha wanted to come with her. He wanted to talk to her and the 15 year old couldn't blame him for feeling that way, although her heart was still going crazy. "She wants to see you," she said to the half-demon softly.
"Huh?" he said as he turned to her curiously.
"Kikyo. She wants to talk to you. Go to her."
"Yeah," he breathed with a nod and ran after the priestess.
Kagome stood there, her heart pounding and her stomach tingling as she watched the boy leave. Then she turned around and headed back to the village. She walked for a while, but slowly. I should have known this would happen. I should have known that Kikyo would come back for him. I just thought…after what she did to him….but….I guess she still loves him. And…
She felt the tears welling up in her eyes and stopped dead in her tracks. …He still loves her. But I thought InuYasha and I were…. we were having fun….but… Now the tears slowly started to fall down her cheeks. Then Kikyo had to come back. And with all those thoughts, Kagome, with ought even thinking, let out a loud scream.
"You look well," Kikyo said to the boy in the dark field.
"Huh? Yeah." He still felt awkward about what happened between them before, but he still remained calm. "And…how are you?"
"Me?" She let out a sad chuckle. "Any other girl would feel better than I am."
InuYasha was sure she said that because when he first met her, she wasn't whom she wanted to be and even though she stood here now, she was still dead. "Well, I mean…since the way you didn't…talk to me the other day."
The priestess' eyes turned back to sadness. "Oh InuYasha, I was just so distracted. I know deep down in my soul," she stepped close to the boy, "I would never want to hurt you on purpose. Except for…what I did to you 50 years ago." She put her cold hand on InuYasha's chest and had a face full of regret. She could feel the boy's heart beating, unlike hers.
"No Kikyo, don't worry about that. I mean…we both know that it wasn't our intention to do something bad to each other." InuYasha remembered that 50 years ago somebody had torn them apart, and tricked them into trying to kill each other.
It was silent for ten whole seconds when Kikyo spoke. "InuYasha, IraKouba is really strong…"
"Huh?" the boy had his full attention on her and was curious. "You know about IraKouba?"
"Yes. And I know that he's trying to kill you."
"Yeah." He looked to the ground. "It seems he wants to kill me, Kagome, and the others to get the jewel shards.
But the priestess shook her head. "You don't understand. He wants to kill only you because he's after me."
"You?" He didn't quite understand what was going on, so he remained silent to listen to the rest of her theory.
"Yes. I have confronted him before, and he seemed to be fond of me. Probably loved me."
InuYasha was quiet. IraKouba loves Kikyo? "So that's why he's after me. Because-"
"He knows that we once were in-"
InuYasha didn't let her continue. "And he wants to destroy me to get revenge." He felt like this had happened before. He knew this had happened before, but he ignored that subject. "Kikyo, I will destroy IraKouba. This is something that only I have to do. I don't want you or anyone else to get involved. Let me handle it."
Kikyo actually let out a small smile and embraced the half-demon. "I have faith in you."
InuYasha slowly hugged her back, but only for a second and broke away. "I don't want you to worry. Just leave it to me."
When Kagome got back to Kaede's hut, her friends were outside and all looked at her curiously, starting to ask her questions about where InuYasha was.
She only gave her sad look, a sign that was clear to them, picked up her bag, and walked away.
InuYasha and Kikyo said their goodbyes, and after Kikyo wished him luck, the half-demon slowly walked back. He noticed Kagome wasn't in their current spot anymore, and decided she must have headed back to the village to eat supper with the others. Although he had a weird feeling about something and gulped as he walked back.
Kagome sighed before putting her back- pack over her shoulder and immediately jumped down the well to go back to her own time.
Hope you liked this chapter. Just to let you know, the part where Kagome apologizes to InuYasha and they do all that fun stuff together, I imagined it while listenening to Rose's theme from the Titanic soundtrack. And the part where inuyaha and kikyo were staring at each other and kagome was sad, I was listening to Sadness and Sorrow from Naruto.
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