Love Transcends

Chapter Thirteen: The Wanderer

His soft bare feet made the padded sound as he walked through the wet grass, his red pants skimmed atop the grass blades. The half demon, Inuyasha, did not bring his eyes up from their position on the ground affront of him. The last few days, he had found himself…just, wandering. No destination in mind, no value or purpose in life either. He walked automatically, like a phantom. His heart was heavy since Kagome had left.

He had decided on his options. To be full demon, to be full human, or…to die eventually. Inuyasha had chosen to stay as he was. Kagome would be hurt if he was to become full demon, but he couldn't protect her if he was full human. His hand gave a slight twitch but he continued in his aimless wandering.

Inuyasha had left Kikyou and Keade's home village four days ago. He walked out while all where sleeping, and just began to walk. He hadn't stopped for four days, but his mind was shut off from anything but the basics in life. Breathing and walking. He felt numb, not having Kagome by his side…and lonely. Lonelier than when Kikyou had pinned him to the tree, nearly fifty two years ago.

Inuyasha felt his legs give out and he landed on the ground, not moving. He brought his eyes up, to see where he had landed, and found himself by the same large tree that Yura of the Comb had fought them; how differently he had treated Kagome then…as if she were a plague, and how he only wanted to use her to find the Shikon no Tama shards. Yet, when he became when she cried tears for him when he had become full human that first time in front of her…he felt different, as if maybe she wasn't a forum of Kikyou, she was…someone else.

Then those times when he'd become youkai controlled after he would become so injured that his youkai blood took over. Until the last few times had he been able to hear Kagome's voice and be brought back, but every time he became youkai centered, he lost part of himself. He didn't tell anyone, but it scared him a little. What if one time he wasn't able to come back and he hurt someone? Maybe that's why Kagome had left.

Kagome was there when he said to Kikyou he'd never become full human, maybe that hurt Kagome too. Inuyasha sighed and looked up at the large tree. It looked dead now. He wondered what he could do now. There was no point being here, after all with no one to hunt or track down, life in this era of Japan was boring. Inuyasha stood, gripping the hilt of his sword as he heard slowly approaching footsteps.

He turned his head, looking over his shoulder seeing that no one was there. He had felt a presence though, something dark and foreboding. He stood for another moment, and then leapt back the way he had come, running towards the miko village.

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"How many times do I have to say it, old lady!?" Inuyasha barked at Keade. The old miko sat on her bamboo rug, silently sipping some tea. "I don't care what your stupid miko powers or gods say! Something's coming!"

Keade opened her eye and looked up at the half demon. "I never said I denied your feeling of foreshadow, Inuyasha." She took another sip, closing her eye again. "But where did you feel this sensation? It might have nothing to do with us."

"I didn't mean us as in you and me, lady." Inuyasha muttered and folded his arms. He growled, blowing a piece of his white locks out of his eyes. "I meant us as in Kagome, me and the others. Why would anyone come after an old hag like you?" He yelped as Keade gracefully threw a small log at his head. Inuyasha growled and rubbed his head.

"You should have certainly learned manners from Kagome-sama." Keade said, as if she had never thrown anything at the hanyou. "If you are so worried about Kagome-sama, then why do you not go after her and tell her?"

"I don't have any Shikon no Tama shards!" Inuyasha exclaimed, rubbing his head. "Otherwise….I, I would have already gone and warned her." He looked down at the ground sadly, folding his arms. Keade studied him for a moment, without saying anything.

"How is your wound, Inuyasha?" Keade asked, changing the subject. "After recent lights of the events, I think everyone has forgotten about it."

"Eh, it's a scar now." Inuyasha sighed. "I guess Kagome was wrong when she said that it'd never heal."

"All things heal." Keade stood, looking up at him. "She just meant the things in your body won't heal right. After all, with your hanyou and human blood fighting, it may cause more damage to you." She pondered. "I guess we will just have to wait for Kagome to return on her own, Inuysaha."

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Kagome collapsed backwards on the couch, sticking her feet on the table. "All that shopping has killed my feet!" she said, draping her arms behind the couch, letting them dangle on the back. Sango joined her on the couch. "Do you like your new clothes, Sango-chan?"

"Yes, I do." Sango smiled. "Although, I like my youkai exterminator clothes better any day." She sighed and looked down. "Kagome-chan, do you think that we should return to my time?" Kagome looked at her. "I know that you are worried about Inuysaha taking the Shikon no Tama, but you should know we will protect you…and, maybe it was selfish of us to leave like that." She sighed again. "I miss my home, Kagome, but I do not want to leave you alone here in your time with that boy…the one that you said you feared."

Kagome nodded, moving forward and putting her elbows on her knees, looking forward. "I miss Inuyasha too." Kagome looked out the window into the old shrine well house. "I bet he misses me too….I promised I wouldn't leave him, and then I run off from him and leave him there, and he can't get back to me now." She looked down. "Maybe we should go back, Sango…I don't know…I'm afraid of his choice."

"We can go back and see what it is." Sango smiled. "Maybe he changed his mind? I doubt that he'd want to hurt you…he probably only said what he did to hurt Kikyou?" she sighed. "Now I sound like a two timer, changing my mind like this."

"Jii-chan always said that woman were fickle." Kagome laughed and Sango did as well. "Yes, we can go there in the morning…I should give Inuyasha a chance, for all that he has done for me." She lifted the Shikon no Tama out of her shirt and looked at it.

Silence developed the room until the front door was opened. Kagome's mother entered and headed for the kitchen, searching for something to eat. Kagome looked at the wall blankly, thinking about Inuyasha. She hopped she hadn't hurt him too much, although she knew she probably did. She sighed sadly, not hearing as her mother tried to get her attention, her thoughts were adrift. She had never expected to fall in love with a man like Inuyasha…especially not a hanyou! She sighed a small happy sigh though.

"Kagome!" Her mother shouted. Kagome jumped and turned to see her mother standing in the door way. "Honey, we are out of eggs and milk, I need you and your friend Sango to go to the store…I have a gift to finish for someone's birthday so I can't leave." Kagome nodded and jumped up, coming over and completely forgot that her feet were hurting. "Here you go, this should cover it…and if there's any change, go ahead and buy you and Sango-san something nice!"

"Hai!" Kagome nodded and opened the front door. Sango looked up as she was putting on her shoe to see rain poring down. "Looks like we'll need an umbrella." Kagome mentioned and turned, seeing Sango eyeing the door oddly. "Sango-chan, what's wrong?"

"Kagome, maybe we shouldn't go, I have a horrible feeling something bad will happen." Sango said. "If this time wasn't so different, I'd bring my weapons…but, I can't. Perhaps we can go in the morning?"

"Mom needs the groceries for dinner though, Sango-chan." Kagome said. She noticed that Sango only called her by her name when her friend was truly worried about something wrong happening. "Come on Sango-chan, I promise nothing bad will happen."

"If you say so." Sango sighed and picked up the spare umbrella off the rack and followed Kagome out of the house and down the stairs of the shrine. Sango looked up over her shoulder at the shrine and house, hopping they would return. The deep feeling inside was getting worse.  

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A/N: Evil cliffhangers! I know that isn't nice to you guys, espically since you've all waited so long for this chapter. Don't worry, I'm planning the next chapter to be out  before the New Years. I haven't been able to watch Inuyasha on Cartoon Network ;_; but for some reason reading my new Chobits manga got me in the mood to right this! ^0^ Yay! See you soon!