{The Road Between Souls}
"Okay," she said, hopping off his back. "you'd better eat now, before your food gets cold." Inuyasha grunted in response.
Kagome did something she hadn't done since that first time she'd crept in: she curled into a ball and sat in the far corner of Inuyasha's room.
"Oi. What're you doing over there?"
The silence was broken by his confused voice. "I'm sitting here trying to forget." Kagome whispered, forgetting that Inuyasha did not have the average human's hearing.
"What're you trying to forget?" he asked, his chopsticks pausing on their way to his mouth, a piece of tempura clenched between them.
Kagome swiveled her head around, trying to stop the moistness building in her eyes. "I was pregnant. They took that away from me. Does that answer your question?"
"Who?" he shoveled the tempura into his mouth.
"Who else? Konton-ko and his gang of bastards," she responded bitterly. "you wouldn't know what it's like, being a hanyou. But all I have now is Sango-chan and Yari-chan. And your damn brother keeps Yari-chan occupied fairly often." Inuyasha's eyes seemed to bore into her.
"But it's in the past now, ne?" she smiled brightly, a false smile for his benefit.
He wasn't fooled. You're putting on a show for me, aren't you Kagome? You don't want to lose anybody else.
"Those are very pretty chopsticks," she commented after moving to her usual place, sitting across from him.
"So you've mentioned." Inuyasha continued to eat in silence, watching Kagome. On a sudden impulse, he shoved the chopsticks over toward her. "See if you can still use them." Kagome opened her mouth to protest, but Inuyasha continued. "What do they feed you, anyhow? You're way too scrawny."
Kagome scowled. "We get one small meal a day, and work our asses off. Of course we're scrawny." she reached and grabbed the ivory-white sticks. Carefully, she picked up a piece of shrimp tempura, beaming at him.
The first real smile since she'd found that spell.
Inuyasha gave her a smug grin for no apparent reason. "So. That wolf moron didn't totally ruin you."
She shrugged, then reached across the table and popped the tempura into his mouth. Inuyasha blinked, half of the breaded shrimp sticking out of his mouth.
"Wha wash dat for?" he spoke around a mouthful, then swallowed it down.
She grinned. "You're still hungry."
"No I'm not." Growl, growl.
"Your stomach claims different." Kagome was giggling now at his expense. Inuyasha scowled, but allowed himself a chuckle.
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Meanwhile, the mangled body of a beautiful youkai girl was shoved out in the rain.
"Disgusting bitch," Sesshoumaru muttered, supervising Jaken's work.
"Yume-ne-chan!" a small child came running up. She wore a simple farm girl's kimono, and her face was filthy with dirt. Sesshoumaru watched, interested. But Yari was a youkai...and this child is...human. Not a hanyou like Inuyasha...
"Who are you?" he asked coldly.
"..."
"I know you can talk, brat, so spit it out."
The child promptly began to bawl her eyes out. Sesshoumaru winced inwardly.
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The small fox kit jumped from tree to tree, trying to find a decent cave to stay in - which was near impossible, with all this rain. Rain, rain, rain. It had been like that when okaa and otou had died.
Water washing away the blood and the tears and the scent of them.
Water falling like tears from the sky.
Water...water was the gods crying sad tears, okaa had once told him. When the gods cry, so does the sky. When it's crying outside, Shippou, run away. Bad things come with tears.
That was what she'd told him.
And ever since then, the little kitsune had hated the rain.
The rain that killed.
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Rather...melancholy...a-hem.
Now, as for Yari...yes, she's dead. Boo hoo. Wanna know why? How?
TOO BAD. Wait till I get the next chapter out. It goes faster if I get more positive reviews...hint, hint.
Also, somebody mentioned that the cast is slightly OOC. Wanna know why? I'm essentially subtracting 50 years of events. That's why. All the OOC-NESS is based upon what is a possibility. See, if all that shit hadn't happened (Sango thinks her village is fine) the characters would've been FAR different.
This is simply my idea. XP
See you in the next chapter...REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!
