Inuyasha stared at himself in disbelief. "What have I done to her?" he
asked, stricken. 'I hope she isn't angry at me,' he thought, dubiously. He
knew she was. "What I need to do………..is get OUT OF HERE and respect her
privacy!" he whispered harshly to himself, but loud enough for Kagome to
hear through the closed door.
'Is he…..is he really saying this?' she asked herself. She never knew Inuyasha was so considerate……..
"Goodbye, Kagome," he whispered tenderly. He flew down the stairs two at a time and when he got to the bottom and looked back, Kagome was standing at the top of the staircase. "Kagome……" he managed to mewl.
"Inuyasha! Don't go!!" she had never been so passionate upon their parting before. She didn't know what made her feel so attached this time. There was a dreading feeling inside of her that if Inuyasha left now, she would never see him again. They stood there for a moment, nothing separating them except the staircase, their heart warming eyes mingled within each others' gaze. Inuyasha's soft look then turned to a look of indifference from the huge 'sit' Kagome had just given him. Kagome's look pained even more.
"Inuyasha, I'm sorry," she said as she started down the stairs….but only took a few steps before Inuyasha bounded the whole staircase and stood in front of her.
"Kagome," he said with genuine concern. "Something's bothering you……..if you can ……tell me maybe I can do something about it….." he paused and thought. They stood there on the staircase, which was a very uncomfortable place for Kagome to explain about her Jusenkyo experience; not that she actually wanted to tell Inuyasha about it. Without a word, she walked down the stairs leaving Inuyasha to do nothing but follow her dumbly.
'This is it.' She thought, her heart beating wildly inside her. 'This is THE confession. The one and only biggest confession I'll ever have to make in my life.' She went to the sofa. "Inuyasha, please wait here." She told him to sit on the sofa, and he did. But as soon as he saw her heading towards the bathroom with a yellow floor bucket, he strode up to follow her. "SIT!!!" Inuyasha slumped down onto the ground.
"Curse that little…….." he stuttered and tried to find a suitable word, but he thought it over and knew that it wasn't any good to curse at Kagome. Not in a time like this. He could tell she was tensed up and didn't want to reveal anything, so he had to be extra careful. He heard the faucet filling up the bucket and then Kagome came down and sat next to Inuyasha. Then, Inuyasha made the boldest move ever. He scooted himself closer to her and put his arm protectively around her in a warm, understanding embrace. (A/N: don't worry nothing's going to HAPPEN between them ………YET!!!!! bahahahaha)
"Inuyasha…….I wanted to keep this from you, but now I know it's….."
"Impossible," they both finished. Kagome looked up, startled that Inuyasha actually understood, despite how stubborn he was. Inuyasha gave her a plain innocent look.
"Remember when I went away and didn't come back for like……two weeks? Before I shut you in the well?" Inuyasha nodded dumbly. How could he forget the time he got trapped in the well!?
"Well, during that time……I went to Jusenkyo Springs." An H-bomb exploded within Inuyasha's mind.
'JUSENKYO SPRINGS!?' more bombs exploded within him. 'No wonder she's so damn fucking afraid of cold water!!!! BECAUSE SHE FELL INTO THEM!!!!' he thought, as he jerked violently. 'Those are the accursed springs….that……' "KAGOME! Why did you go there!?"
"My mother suggested it……as a break from my studies," she went on.
"Why didn't you just come back to Sengoku-jidai? Isn't it enough of a break from your studies to be ………..with me?" he finished, from a forte voice to a soft ushering diminuendo.
"I don't know, Inuyasha. I couldn't think! I was so frustrated with my calculus homework…..and I just wanted to get away from it all! Everything about Japan! I just wanted to let it all go!!!" she pouted.
'Ooh, she looks so cute when she pouts!' Inuyasha thought and smiled. But then he turned serious. "Even me?" he questioned.
"No, Inuyasha…….I don't know! I wasn't thinking and my body and mind was so out of control and the brochures looked so zealous…..but you know and you will always know from now and after a million years that I would never, ever, EVER let you go…….." Inuyasha's eyes widened.
'No….nononono! I don't want that to happen! I want you to let me go!!!!' He started to choke and pull on his rosary beads. 'I'm her 'pet' for the rest of my life!!!!!!!' Kagome laughed.
"Not that, I meant YOU." She looked seriously into his eyes.
"Okay….." he said slowly. "I understand that. Go on,"
"So then I visited the Springs with my mother and this ugly girl pushed me in and when I came out, I felt WEIRD. You know, I felt like…..like," she sighed. "My mother doesn't know. My grampa doesn't know. Only Sota does…… and I don't want my mother to know……..please don't ever let my mother know." she reached over for the bucket of water and Inuyasha shut his eyes. He didn't want to see what she turned into.
'Oh nonono….' He didn't want to see it. He had heard that people who fell into the Jusenkyo Springs turned into really nasty things. He shut his eyes, but he never heard the sound of splashing water. He opened one eye, and saw that the bucket was above Kagome's head and he shut his eye again. The bucket tilted more, and more until half the bucket was empty and the water splashed onto Kagome. The scent of a female hanyou found its way to Inuyasha's sensitive nose. He heard Kagome put the bucket down and heard the water slosh up the sides of the bucket. He then opened his eyes with startling alacrity. What he saw, was …….a half-demon like him. Alike him in every way.
"Kagome!!!!" he blinked. "Is it……really you?" He could hardly contain his happiness. 'This is so cool!' he thought. 'But why does she seem so sad?'
"Yes, Inuyasha, it's me." She said, looking down. She bit her lip as it started quavering. She was crying, but this time, Inuyasha wasn't taken aback.
'This isn't the way I planned it!' she thought. 'This isn't the way Inuyasha is supposed to react! Why, he doesn't even feel sorry for me! It's like he's--"
"Kagome," his warm voice interrupted her thoughts. "Why so sad?"
"Inuyasha," she said, wiping tears away from her eyes and face. "I don't want to be a hanyou!! I want to be me! I want to be a human!!"
"You're still you when you're a hanyou, you know……" Kagome was crying, and crying so hard……… "K-Kagome…..please…….don't cry," Inuyasha felt the corners of his eyes wet with moisture, and tears streamed down his face too. He felt for her. He brought her closer to him, and buried his tear streaked face into her hanyou hair and cuddly ears. His hot tears fell into her head, and Kagome was human again. The stifled a few more sniffs and fell asleep with exhaustion. Inuyasha, equally tired, and aching from her 'sits', fell asleep with equal speed and tiredness. When, in the morning, Mrs. Higurashi awoke at 5:00 AM to tend to the morning chores, she found Inuyasha and Kagome sound asleep huddled together on the sofa. She burst into an invisible flame of anger and screamed at the top of her lungs,
"KAGOME HIGURASHI!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Kagome lifted her heavy eyelids as fast as she could, but her eyes were puffy from the crying overnight. Inuyasha was still asleep, and he stirred as Kagome awoke.
"I knew you LIKED Inuyasha, but I never knew you 'LIKED' him enough to SLEEP with him!!!!!!!!" she rushed over and kicked Inuyasha in the shins. "GET OUT!!!! GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!!!!!! And stop influencing my little girl to be like the whore your other bitch, Kikyo was!!!!!!!!!!" Inuyasha flinched. He flinched yet again. His eyes were cast down and the amber in his eyes were glowing like lit embers in a fire. He thrashed out, but never saw who he was thrashing at.
"AIEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!" came Kagome's high shrill human scream. Blood came pouring from her sides, unstoppable, it seemed.
"KAGOME!!!!!!!!!" Inuyasha yelled. Mrs. Higurashi screamed and started cursing at Inuyasha. Inuyasha was padding Kagome's sides with a cotton substance to try to stop the bleeding. But no avail. The blood kept coming! There was nothing Inuyasha could do……..except……the bucket of water!!!
'THAT'S IT!!!!' Inuyasha snapped. 'A hanyou's wounds will heal faster than a human's!!!!' But memories of the night before flashed back into Inuyasha's mind.
'"I don't want my mother to know……..please don't ever let my mother know."' Inuyasha bit his lip in pure guilt. Her mother would find out now, but if Kagome wanted to live….. he dashed for the bucket, which was still half full, thank God.
"I'm sorry, Kagome," he whispered to an unconscious Kagome. "I'm sorry to let your mother know about your secret……but," he paused. "I love you……and I don't want you to die," he poured the water on top of Kagome's bloodied body and Mrs. Higurashi screamed.
"What do you think you're doing, you insolent boy!?" grabbing the bucket away from Inuyasha, and not noticing the change in her daughter.
"Why, what am I doing? I'm saving Kagome's life, Mrs. Higurashi."
'Is he…..is he really saying this?' she asked herself. She never knew Inuyasha was so considerate……..
"Goodbye, Kagome," he whispered tenderly. He flew down the stairs two at a time and when he got to the bottom and looked back, Kagome was standing at the top of the staircase. "Kagome……" he managed to mewl.
"Inuyasha! Don't go!!" she had never been so passionate upon their parting before. She didn't know what made her feel so attached this time. There was a dreading feeling inside of her that if Inuyasha left now, she would never see him again. They stood there for a moment, nothing separating them except the staircase, their heart warming eyes mingled within each others' gaze. Inuyasha's soft look then turned to a look of indifference from the huge 'sit' Kagome had just given him. Kagome's look pained even more.
"Inuyasha, I'm sorry," she said as she started down the stairs….but only took a few steps before Inuyasha bounded the whole staircase and stood in front of her.
"Kagome," he said with genuine concern. "Something's bothering you……..if you can ……tell me maybe I can do something about it….." he paused and thought. They stood there on the staircase, which was a very uncomfortable place for Kagome to explain about her Jusenkyo experience; not that she actually wanted to tell Inuyasha about it. Without a word, she walked down the stairs leaving Inuyasha to do nothing but follow her dumbly.
'This is it.' She thought, her heart beating wildly inside her. 'This is THE confession. The one and only biggest confession I'll ever have to make in my life.' She went to the sofa. "Inuyasha, please wait here." She told him to sit on the sofa, and he did. But as soon as he saw her heading towards the bathroom with a yellow floor bucket, he strode up to follow her. "SIT!!!" Inuyasha slumped down onto the ground.
"Curse that little…….." he stuttered and tried to find a suitable word, but he thought it over and knew that it wasn't any good to curse at Kagome. Not in a time like this. He could tell she was tensed up and didn't want to reveal anything, so he had to be extra careful. He heard the faucet filling up the bucket and then Kagome came down and sat next to Inuyasha. Then, Inuyasha made the boldest move ever. He scooted himself closer to her and put his arm protectively around her in a warm, understanding embrace. (A/N: don't worry nothing's going to HAPPEN between them ………YET!!!!! bahahahaha)
"Inuyasha…….I wanted to keep this from you, but now I know it's….."
"Impossible," they both finished. Kagome looked up, startled that Inuyasha actually understood, despite how stubborn he was. Inuyasha gave her a plain innocent look.
"Remember when I went away and didn't come back for like……two weeks? Before I shut you in the well?" Inuyasha nodded dumbly. How could he forget the time he got trapped in the well!?
"Well, during that time……I went to Jusenkyo Springs." An H-bomb exploded within Inuyasha's mind.
'JUSENKYO SPRINGS!?' more bombs exploded within him. 'No wonder she's so damn fucking afraid of cold water!!!! BECAUSE SHE FELL INTO THEM!!!!' he thought, as he jerked violently. 'Those are the accursed springs….that……' "KAGOME! Why did you go there!?"
"My mother suggested it……as a break from my studies," she went on.
"Why didn't you just come back to Sengoku-jidai? Isn't it enough of a break from your studies to be ………..with me?" he finished, from a forte voice to a soft ushering diminuendo.
"I don't know, Inuyasha. I couldn't think! I was so frustrated with my calculus homework…..and I just wanted to get away from it all! Everything about Japan! I just wanted to let it all go!!!" she pouted.
'Ooh, she looks so cute when she pouts!' Inuyasha thought and smiled. But then he turned serious. "Even me?" he questioned.
"No, Inuyasha…….I don't know! I wasn't thinking and my body and mind was so out of control and the brochures looked so zealous…..but you know and you will always know from now and after a million years that I would never, ever, EVER let you go…….." Inuyasha's eyes widened.
'No….nononono! I don't want that to happen! I want you to let me go!!!!' He started to choke and pull on his rosary beads. 'I'm her 'pet' for the rest of my life!!!!!!!' Kagome laughed.
"Not that, I meant YOU." She looked seriously into his eyes.
"Okay….." he said slowly. "I understand that. Go on,"
"So then I visited the Springs with my mother and this ugly girl pushed me in and when I came out, I felt WEIRD. You know, I felt like…..like," she sighed. "My mother doesn't know. My grampa doesn't know. Only Sota does…… and I don't want my mother to know……..please don't ever let my mother know." she reached over for the bucket of water and Inuyasha shut his eyes. He didn't want to see what she turned into.
'Oh nonono….' He didn't want to see it. He had heard that people who fell into the Jusenkyo Springs turned into really nasty things. He shut his eyes, but he never heard the sound of splashing water. He opened one eye, and saw that the bucket was above Kagome's head and he shut his eye again. The bucket tilted more, and more until half the bucket was empty and the water splashed onto Kagome. The scent of a female hanyou found its way to Inuyasha's sensitive nose. He heard Kagome put the bucket down and heard the water slosh up the sides of the bucket. He then opened his eyes with startling alacrity. What he saw, was …….a half-demon like him. Alike him in every way.
"Kagome!!!!" he blinked. "Is it……really you?" He could hardly contain his happiness. 'This is so cool!' he thought. 'But why does she seem so sad?'
"Yes, Inuyasha, it's me." She said, looking down. She bit her lip as it started quavering. She was crying, but this time, Inuyasha wasn't taken aback.
'This isn't the way I planned it!' she thought. 'This isn't the way Inuyasha is supposed to react! Why, he doesn't even feel sorry for me! It's like he's--"
"Kagome," his warm voice interrupted her thoughts. "Why so sad?"
"Inuyasha," she said, wiping tears away from her eyes and face. "I don't want to be a hanyou!! I want to be me! I want to be a human!!"
"You're still you when you're a hanyou, you know……" Kagome was crying, and crying so hard……… "K-Kagome…..please…….don't cry," Inuyasha felt the corners of his eyes wet with moisture, and tears streamed down his face too. He felt for her. He brought her closer to him, and buried his tear streaked face into her hanyou hair and cuddly ears. His hot tears fell into her head, and Kagome was human again. The stifled a few more sniffs and fell asleep with exhaustion. Inuyasha, equally tired, and aching from her 'sits', fell asleep with equal speed and tiredness. When, in the morning, Mrs. Higurashi awoke at 5:00 AM to tend to the morning chores, she found Inuyasha and Kagome sound asleep huddled together on the sofa. She burst into an invisible flame of anger and screamed at the top of her lungs,
"KAGOME HIGURASHI!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Kagome lifted her heavy eyelids as fast as she could, but her eyes were puffy from the crying overnight. Inuyasha was still asleep, and he stirred as Kagome awoke.
"I knew you LIKED Inuyasha, but I never knew you 'LIKED' him enough to SLEEP with him!!!!!!!!" she rushed over and kicked Inuyasha in the shins. "GET OUT!!!! GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!!!!!! And stop influencing my little girl to be like the whore your other bitch, Kikyo was!!!!!!!!!!" Inuyasha flinched. He flinched yet again. His eyes were cast down and the amber in his eyes were glowing like lit embers in a fire. He thrashed out, but never saw who he was thrashing at.
"AIEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!" came Kagome's high shrill human scream. Blood came pouring from her sides, unstoppable, it seemed.
"KAGOME!!!!!!!!!" Inuyasha yelled. Mrs. Higurashi screamed and started cursing at Inuyasha. Inuyasha was padding Kagome's sides with a cotton substance to try to stop the bleeding. But no avail. The blood kept coming! There was nothing Inuyasha could do……..except……the bucket of water!!!
'THAT'S IT!!!!' Inuyasha snapped. 'A hanyou's wounds will heal faster than a human's!!!!' But memories of the night before flashed back into Inuyasha's mind.
'"I don't want my mother to know……..please don't ever let my mother know."' Inuyasha bit his lip in pure guilt. Her mother would find out now, but if Kagome wanted to live….. he dashed for the bucket, which was still half full, thank God.
"I'm sorry, Kagome," he whispered to an unconscious Kagome. "I'm sorry to let your mother know about your secret……but," he paused. "I love you……and I don't want you to die," he poured the water on top of Kagome's bloodied body and Mrs. Higurashi screamed.
"What do you think you're doing, you insolent boy!?" grabbing the bucket away from Inuyasha, and not noticing the change in her daughter.
"Why, what am I doing? I'm saving Kagome's life, Mrs. Higurashi."