Prompt given:
"Are you jealous?"
The demon's wings flapped powerfully, a small child wailing while she frantically tried to escape the large bird's talons as she was snatched into the air. Her mother chased after the demon with no hopes of stopping it, the creature flying high into the sky as quickly as it had swooped down, screaming for the group of demon slayers to save her little girl.
"Are you fucking kidding me!?" Inuyasha cursed, following the bird demon's trail as fast as he could. The Wind Scar would easily rip this fucker to shreds, but he was using the little girl as a shield, making Inuyasha's sword as useless as Miroku's staff seemed to be ninety-eight percent of the time. The half demon grunted as he kicked off from the ground, quickly jumping from tree branch to tree branch as he rose higher to get a better vantage point. He grinned confidently, the massive, silver wings of the bird not too far out of leap's reach now. Sure, Tetsusaiga made things easy on Inuyasha, but he was more than happy to grant hand-to-hand combat.
"Inuyasha, hurry!" The monk shouted from ground below, surprisingly doing a decent job at keeping up.
"Yeah, yeah! I got it!" Inuyasha scoffed. He jumped from the edge of a thick branch, admitting more power through his muscular legs, claws at the ready to slice and dice the nasty-looking creep. Just as he was within distance, Inuyasha swung his flexed hand, but the demon pulled away, twisting its body and flinging the girl in a three-sixty loop.
It was like a slow motion play-by-play. He was so fucking close, his fingers grazing a feather or two, turning with the force of his missed attack, observing as the asshole snickered at him, and then seeing a bright, purple light stick the demon in the center of his chest. Inuyasha managed to land on his feet, stumbling only a little as he watched the demon burst from the purifying arrow's power.
"Catch her!"
"I got her!" Kagome sprinted into view, dropping her red bow in her dash and holding her arms out in front of her, dancing forward and back as she tried to estimate the perfect position to catch the little girl. She fell back with an oof, the child safe in Kagome's arms, eyes wide with something mixed of shock and fear as she gathered their position on the lumpy, dirt trail. Kagome giggled, sitting up and holding the girl close to let her know she was okay, rubbing the now-sore part of her butt.
A plethora of cheers erupted, village people pouring in from the left and right to surround the priestess. Inuyasha stared on, mouth slightly agape from the scene that had just taken place. The mother snagged the little girl from Kagome's arms, two men hitched her up to a standing position, all of the villagers shouting and bathing her in attention, going on and on about how skilled she was as an archer and how they could never repay her for saving the young child. She merely smiled and laughed, telling them all it was nothing.
"Well, this is certainly different." Miroku commented, coming to stand next to the baffled half demon. "Isn't it usually you in the center of that?"
Inuyasha shot a glare at the monk, "Tch, lucky shot."
"Lady Kagome! Your aim is as good as ever, I see!" Their friend beamed, smiling at the priestess as she ran over to join the two. "Looks like three years in your time really didn't change much!"
"I was in the archery club in high school." Kagome explained, shrugging carelessly. "The catch was where I surprised myself."
"Lucky catch." Inuyasha surmised, crossing his arms over his chest and huffing.
"You'll have to forgive Inuyasha. As you well know, he's used to being the hero." Miroku chuckled, waving him off and walking towards the excited villagers, many of them demanding they stay for dinner.
"I am not!" He shouted after him, the monk ignoring him while greedily accepting all of the men and women's offers of payment. "We are not staying." He mentioned to Kagome.
"Oh, come on Inuyasha. What's the big deal? The sun's setting and we're still hours away from home."
"Yeah, and we would have been a lot closer had we not had to stop for this stupid bird guy!" He argued. Kagome rolled her brown eyes, crossing her own arms and matching the hanyou's demeanor.
"We've only been here for ten minutes, Inuyasha. We'd have been half a mile down the road." She answered flatly.
"Yeah, well that's still closer!"
"Mhm, okay. Do you not want to stay because you aren't the honorary hero being celebrated?" Kagome teased, cocking a brow in his direction.
"No! That's not it at all! I just know Miroku wants to get back to the kids and- oh, don't let this go to your head, Kagome!" Inuyasha barked.
"What's wrong? Are you jealous?" She giggled, dragging out the last word and poking out her tongue.
Inuyasha pinched his brows together, biting back his huff that would do nothing more than prove her right, instead rolling his golden eyes and looking away from the too-happy girl. "Not jealous."
"Mm, okay… My mistake. My shooting may not be impacted by our time apart, but my abilities to gauge your moods sure are."
"Yeah, gloat all ya want!"
"I will! Over a nice hot meal provided by this kind village!" Kagome laughed, skipping off after Miroku.
Inuyasha stared after her, flexing his jaw as he was left to swallow his pride. He'd definitely met his match when it came to this woman, nothing had changed there.