Kikyou and Koga came back =] that's basically all that happened in the last chapter.
Disclaimer: I serious don't own Inuyasha.
Chapter 28: Adjusting
I glanced over at Inuyasha and when our eyes met, I burst out laughing. Kaede was wrapping up my arm that was bleeding quite a bit. Inuyasha had a good bruise of the side of his face, but neither of us could get those stupid grins off our lips.
I got into a fight with Kikyou and Inuyasha did with Koga. We both won but didn't escape without injuries. The only reason I got hurt at all was because I wasn't used to this sort of power. She just got a good shot with an arrow at my arm but it still only skimmed me.
"Maybe we shouldn't have left you two there alone with them," Miroku chuckled, drinking his tea like everyone else, except Shippo and Kirara that was out playing outside.
"It was fun though," I mentioned. "Especially since it was Kikyou."
"And Koga," Inuyasha added. "Now you understand why I enjoy fighting."
"I do. I'm not going to make a bad habit out of it though."
"There ye go child." Kaede finished. "If ye heal as fast as Inuyasha does, that cut will be gone by tonight. Don't think ye need the bandage Midori."
"I suppose not, I didn't really think about it that way. Guess I'm still not used to being a hanyou yet." I reached up and touched my ear with my good arm, I still can't believe it.
"Well I wish I was there to see it," Kagome laughed. She closed up her yellow backpack and pulled it onto her back. She got onto her feet and waved to us. "I'm heading back home for a while guys, I'll be back eventually."
"Oh, bye Kagome," Sango waved back. We all said goodbye and waved before she left the hut.
I'm sure she was excited to get home. This was all over for the most part. Hopefully there aren't too many demons in the future, since she's bringing the jewel with her.
All of us settled into the village. Sango and Miroku got their own hut, Inuyasha and I did too. Shippo was to live with us but he was spending a lot of time with the other children, having fun and being a kid like he deserved, so we weren't able to give him the news.
After getting our own hut, Inuyasha and I went off into his forest. We held hands until we came to the tree that Kikyou had stuck him to all those years ago. I sat down on the ground and pulled out the dinner I packed.
My ears twitched at every sound around me, so they were going crazy since we were in a forest. I don't see Inuyasha's ears being this twitchy.
I glanced up to check and he was glaring at the tree with a giant scar on it.
"What did that tree ever do to you?" I joked.
He looked down at me from his feet. "What?"
"You were looking at it like it had Naraku's or Princess Akki's face on it," I explained. "Why so irritated?"
"You can't guess? Bad memories."
"Oh, well no reason to be mad at the tree." I threw him a pear. "I like that tree, so you know."
"Why? I was stuck to that thing for fifty years and it was absolute hell."
"I know, but while I was in the future…this tree was almost reassuring to me. I don't know why since at the time I had no idea what had happened to you. Hell, I didn't even know what had happened to me."
He took a big bite out of his pear. "That's weird."
"You don't sound that surprised."
He shrugged his shoulders. "I did just spend years doing some pretty odd stuff," he reminded me. "It'll have to take something pretty earth shattering to surprise me now."
"I think I'm pregnant."
"WHAT?!"
"Ha, ha! Got ya!" I laughed. "I surprised you!"
"You gave me a heart attack!"
"Pft, it's an impossible situation at this point in time. Don't hurt yourself." I took a bite out of my own pear and smiled. "So…are we going to go back to our old village?"
He sat down across from me. "Why'd we do that?" he wondered, his mouth full. "Last time we went there, it was supposed to be the last time, remember? We said our last goodbyes and everything."
"I know, but we finally avenged them and all. I thought it would be nice to pay our respects…again."
"Do you really want to go back there?"
I shrugged my shoulders. "It would be weird if there were ghosts still and they saw I was a hanyou," I chuckled, imagining it in my head.
"Since when are there ghosts there?"
"I'm not saying there are, but if there were. Also, if you weren't a hero there before, the first time we went back there, you sure as hell are now. They're avenged and all."
"I didn't go there to avenge them, maybe for a short period of time I wanted to but in the end I had a different reason to kill Princess Akki."
"I know. But they still would be grateful."
"I don't think we'll exactly get that message from them."
I sighed, "I'm getting the sense you don't want to do."
"It's not that. It's…I have mixed feelings about that place. I have reasons I want to go back and I have reasons why I'd rather roast in hell along side Naraku and the Princess."
I laughed. "I'm with ya there. What about we…go to your mom's grave? We can visit the village while we're there then."
He gave me a weird look.
"What?"
He threw the core of the pear deep into the trees. "Seems like a strange excuse."
"Oh come on! It's not even that for away! We have nothing better to do, so we might as well."
"I can think of something better to do."
"Which is?" I asked exasperatedly.
"Like get married," my eyes grew wide at him, "for example."
"Are you trying to bribe me? With my own wedding?"
"…Did it work?"
"Not even a little."
"Damn."
"If you really don't want to go, we don't have to. We are a couple, so we're supposed to make decisions together…right? And I don't want to go alone."
He sighed and scratched his head. "How about we go there after we're settled down a bit, after being married and after the honey moon. I don't want to do any traveling right now."
"That actually…sounds like a great plan."
"Why do you sound surprised?"
"Because you hardly ever have an actual plan, and when you do they're pretty stupid."
"Wha? You callin' me dumb now?!"
"Of course not," I leaned over and gave him a peck on his cheek, "it's just your ideas."
"Thanks."
"Would you rather I lie?"
"…No."
"I love you," I gushed, trying to make it better.
"Is that a lie?"
I shoved him over, as a clear answer. "You kiddin'. You're my number one!" I laughed.
