Just Some Random Fun
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Inuyasha tore through the thick brush and vines of the forest they were traveling through on their way to another crystal shard. Inuyasha was quite annoyed at this point since everyone decided suddenly on breaking up.
"Where did that onna run off to." He grumbled raising his nose to the air again. Kagome was standing in the middle of a clearing in the woods her eyes closed and her mind centered on finding a shard of the Shikon no Tama.
The dog demon sniffed the air a bit, with Kagome's cloths smelling rather strange it wasn't that hard to locate her and soon found where she was.
"Hey Kagome, stop daydreaming and lets go."
"I'm trying to find the shards. So shut up!" She yells from between clinched teeth.
"Not like where gonna get it just standing around, come on, Sango and the others found a place for us to camp tonight." Inuyasha replied with a huff.
Kagome looks over at him. "The shard is just over there. It's not that far."
"Over where." Inuyasha moves to where Kagome was standing and scans the area a bit. He didn't have to wait long as the offending youkai made it's self known, lounging at the dog youkai and knocking him into the foliage.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome screams looking around trying to find her protector. The sound of rustling leaves and struggling is heard and suddenly ends with a loud shriek and a limb or two flying out of the bush. Inuyasha stands up, his haori a mess and what's left of the youkai held in his hand. Kagome turns away and points to two of the limbs. "The shards are there."
"Well that didn't take long." Inuyasha carelessly tossed the dead ninja youkai over his shoulder and tore the shard pieces from the limbs as they faded out of existence. Kagome still doesn't look at the bloody mess but just holds out her hand.
"The shards Inuyasha."
"Fine" He drops the shards into her hands and turns towards the open path. "Well you comin or not?"
Stuffing the shards in her pocket she hurriedly follows to catch up. At the campsite, Miroku is sitting next to a fire, a big sore on the right side of his face as Inuyasha and Kagome walk in.
"At it again I see." He said emotionlessly.
Kagome stifles her laughter and moves over to Sango to talk to her about how they made out with finding shards. Looking over her shoulder, Kagome notices that Inuyasha's haori was covered in blood for the first time and becomes concern.
"Inuyasha are you wounded?"
"Of course not, it's that youkai's blood." Sighs with annoyance. "I'll have to watch how Ihit them next time."
"Oh..." She turns back to Sango and helps her make up the ramen for dinner. "Then I hope you're hungry."
"I know I am!" The young kitsune came bouncing out of nowhere jumping into Kagome's arms earning a slight growl from Inuyasha. Kagome smiled and huggled the kitsune. "I missed you today, Shippo." Letting the child cling to her side she stirred the ramen one last time before handing it out to Inuyasha. Inuyasha takes the ramen and nearly inhales it all as it disappears in a matter of minutes.
"So where to from here?"
Kagome holds back a giggle as she hands the next one to Shippo letting Sango take care of Miroku. Holding her cup of ramen close Kagome closes her eyes and a deep frown creases her face.
"Whats the matter with you?" Inuyasha asks as he chucks the empty package of ramen away.
"I feel more then one shard..." she opens her eyes and sighs, dark circles hand under her eyes*
Inuyasha and the others look around. tensely they ready themselves for whatever happens as Shippo takes cover with Kagome. "Wheres it coming from?"
Kagome sways as if under a spell and her eyes drift close. As Kagome is in the middle of her trance the owners of the shard become present. Long lanky looking youkai, their faces covered by decorated masks and their forearms covered with blades.
"Give us shards!"
Kagome passes out and her body before heated. Somehow these youkai were affecting her in ways no miko should be. Shippo helps to break her fall as the others stand ready to fight.
"What are you demons doing to the girl." Sango calls out as she tears off her kimono and into her shinobi gi.
Miroku stands ready to use his air hole, while Shippo stands near Kagome. The youkai's head shakes and Kagome's body twitches. "Her body and mind are mine." Its states simply.
"Well see about that when I hold your head in my hand." Inuyasha draws the dull katana as it forms into the Tetsusaiga, he is the first to charge as he draws his blade back to strike.The masked head twitches to the right and Kagome goes flying from her spot and right in front of the youkai.
"KAGOME!" Shippo yells, tears in his eyes. The Tetsusaiga stops only mere inches away from her face as Inuyasha freezes in place.
"You cowardly bastards," he says with a growl, "to bad, she mine now." The other two take the moment to attack, as the slash about with insane speed over the defenseless dog demon.
Inuyasha managed to regain some ground as he started to block, thankfully Sango's boomerang broke up the attacks as they switched to the others. Miroku held off one from hurting Shippo while Sango barely dodged the incoming blow from another as she caught her boomerang. The main youkai holds up his hand and the other two stop and head back to his side. he hands a sword to Kagome who's eyes are open but blank.
"Go," he hisses, "destroy the mutt." wWth a roll of her colourless eyes Kagome moves forward and twist her wrist making the sword catch the light and shine in Inuyasha's eyes. Inuyasha closes his eyes as the light momentarily blinds him, but the sound of swishing wind alerts him and his hand flies up to catch the blade, blood soon is flowing down his arm and down the blade. Kagome pushes harder with strength unnatural for her. She kicks Inuyasha in the stomach sending him flying back.
"Inuyasha!" Shippo and Sango yell in concern.
"I'll make sure you pay dearly for this.." Inuyasha yells as he picks himself up along with the Tetsusaiga but is hesitant as he cannot bring himself to strike her down. Kagome swings lazily at him catching him a few times with the blade.
"You wont be able to win. On my word she will kill you." The masked youkai sneers at Inuyasha.
Inuyasha tries to block with the Tetsusaiga, but fighting with Kagome only makes him loose his focus as the hits soon rack up, his haori is shredded and bloody. In the midst of the brutal beating he finally comes to a decision.
"Sorry Kagome.." with a single punch, he lands it into Kagome's face, throwing her off balance as he charges the youkai.
Kagome falls to the ground, her lip bleeding. Sango runs to her friend's side and tries to help but is swatted away with the sword as Kagome bounds up and races after Inuyasha with amazing speed.
Inuyasha focuses his mind as the wind scar soon becomes visible, hearing Kagome moving quickly, he raises the Tetsusaiga and slashes the wind scar releasing it's awesome energy in a blinding flash as Kagome's blade finds its way through Inuyasha's back.
The masked youkai scream as they disappear and Kagome falls to the ground out cold and unable to willingly pull herself from the darkness. Inuyasha slowly turns around, the katana blade sticking out through his chest as he looks down at Kagome, while the others rush to her side.
" She's okay but she's still under the effects of that youkai. Sango, help Inuyasha, I'll take care of Kagome." Miroku picks up Kagome and takes her back toward the dying fire. He leans over her and mutters a spell breaker over her prone body. Sango looks at Inuyasha then moves behind him and pulls the sword free, reach to catch him if needed.
Inuyasha barely budges as the blade is pulled from his body, blood spills out from the gaping hole but stops as the hole vanishes. Inuyasha turns and walks into the forest, a strange look on his face and very quite.
"Inuyasha, where are you going?" Sango calls out about to follow him.
"Uh, Sango?" Miroku says from where he is over Kagome. "She's not waking up."
Inuyasha stands some distance away from the camp, he sits on the limp of an old looking tree thinking deeply back to the events. Very disturbed by what had happened.
"Why so glum." A voice calls out of nowhere.
"Huh? Who's there?" Suddenly the branch he's on moves and he jumps down, seeing as a face appears on the tree.
"Why me, of course."
Kagome moans and lashes out against Miroku who's trying to keep her clam. He gets punched in the eye by one of Kagome's frilling fist.
"Who the hell are you?" The face laughs a bit as he answers.
"My name is Florabaku, a forest youkai, I saw what happened to you and your traveling party not to long ago."
Sango notices Inuyasha looks like he's talking to himself and yells. "Inuyasha you fool who are you talking to?"
" I believe I can help, those youkai you fought are called Hame's, they have a tendency to control human minds that aren't strong enough to resist." The youkai turns into a mist as it flows out of the tree and towards the camp. Kagome thrashes around wildly and Miroku nurses his bruised eye and ego. Sango watches the mist with her hand ready to throw her boomerang.
"Sango, wait he's alright, he's not evil." Inuyasha speaks up just in time to stop her then looks to the mist as he walks beside it. "So how do you intend to help our friend here get better?"
Sango relaxes just a bit but continues to hold her boomerang and scans the area around them instead. Miroku watches the mist in shock.
The mist floats over to where Kagome lies and looks over her, "The Hame's got to her really bad ,but don't worry I can fix this."
"How do you intend to do that?" Miroku speaks up curious as to what the youkai had in mind.
"You'll see." Then youkai broke off into smaller mist forms and possesses the surrounding trees. They all soon began to sway back and forth, the wind howling louder then usual.
"Hey what's this weird noise?" Inuyasha asks as he sticks his fingers in his ears.
" Be silent or it won't work." The sound grows louder as the effects soon take effect. Kagome begins to look more and more normal with each passing moment. Her body stills and she lays limp on the ground, her chest rising and falling with her breathe.
The trees stop and the youkai flies out rejoining himself in the middle of the camp as he looks over the girl again.
"She's fine but it seems she's still lost in her mind.... Looks like she was affected more then I thought."
"What can we do to bring her back?" Sango asks in concern. Shippo starts to cry. The youkai suddenly flies to Inuyasha's face. " Hey, what's with all of this?"
"I heard you mumbling while you were walking... you seem closest to her. You got to jog her back from where ever she's is."
Inuyasha scratches his head. " And just how do I do that?"
Both Sango and Miroku seem surprised at this information, while Shippo continues to cry over Kagome's prone body.
"Talk to her, in fact that goes for all of you. If she hears your voices it might help her come back."
Shippo stops crying..."We can bring Kagome back?" The kitsune jumps on Inuyasha's head and yells. "You stupid head tell her you love her and that you're here for her!" He beats him just to get the point across.
"What?! Tell her I....I mean...it's not..." The dog youkai was at a lost for words now lost himself as the young kitsune beats on his head.
"INUYASHA! You stupid mutt! Bring back Kagome!"
Inuyasha grumbled as his face began to turn several shades of red. "Alright, alright." He goes to Kagome's side and crosses his arms. "Um..I love you." His blunt statement earns him a nice smack on the head by Miroku.
"Say it like you mean it!"
Sango's boomerang hits his head too. "Inuyasha." She growls warningly.
"Okay damnit, just back off!" Inuyasha sighs and takes a breath, "Um..okay. Kagome, if you can here me its me...um I know I just can't simply say I love you...hell it isn't that simple, I can't even understand what I feel for you. I detest you because your keeping me from becoming a full fledge demon and of course using the "S" word on me but then again you've shown me stuff...made me relise certain things." The dog demon managed to choke out as he waited for something, anything to happen
Kagome grows very still. Shippo wails something about Kagome being dead. Inuyasha bops Shippo on the head.
"She's not dead, stupid." Then in turn gets bopped on the head by Kagome. "Don't hit him!"
"She's alive at least." Miroku replies dully.
"Your back!" Shippo jumps into her arms while Inuyasha rubs his head.
"Glad your back." Inuyasha mutters.
Kagome looks over at Inuyasha. "Did you really mean it?" She asks so full of hope.
"Yeah, you just can't fake stuff like that you know?"
" I bet you could." Shippo teases the poor blushing hanyou.
"Shut up you little brat!"
Kagome giggled. "Inuyasha, thank you."
"Yeah sure" He said putting his hands in the sleeve of his ragged haori then turned his attention to the youkai. "Thanks."
Kagome's eyes become heavy again as she becomes tired.
"Don't mention it, just glad I could help." The mist turns and vanishes.
"Well that's enough excitement for one night." Miroku yawns as he tried to place an arm around Sango's shoulder earning him a well placed smack in the face.
Kagome is asleep were she is sitting and Shippo looks up in her face. "Is she taken under control again!?" He wails unsure of what was happening.
"No, Shippo she fell asleep, now you go somewhere and do the same." The kitsune sticks his tongue at him.
"Whatever, you just want to take my place under her arms. Hehe"
"Why you little." Inuyasha barks taking off after Shippo. The kitsune yells as he ran for his life.
Kagome moans but doesn't move. Inuyasha sighed as everyone went to their tents. He stayed outside with Kagome under the starlight not wanting to move her. He looks down at her and runs a hand over her cheek. Kagome turns her cheek into his caresses.
"Glad to have you back..." He whispers then replaces his hand back under his sleeve as he lays down next to her. Kagome seeking out his warmth and snuggles closer to him. She sighs "Inuyasha."
"Guess this isn't so bad after all."
Then why don't you claim her as your mate? a voice inside his head spoke.
"Cause it wouldn't be right, I just can't take her as my mate."
And? Why not she knows you love her, and you can smell that see loves you. You've even seen it in her face.
"You make it sound easy, well sorry but it isn't"
Why not? The voice said taunting.
"I...I just don't really, well truly understand what I'm feeling right now alright, I like her but..."
but? What you want more? You want to feel her soft skin pressed against yours?
Inuyasha blushes furiously at the voices comment. "You say that again and I'll gag you with my sword, get it?"
How could you? im you? would you leave your MATE defenseless?
"Smartass. Why don't you try it then, you seem to have all the answers."
Inuyasha's hand moved of its own accord toward Kagome and wrapps around her waist earning a contented sigh from her as he pulls her closer to his body, pressing her back to his chest.
"Hey stop that!" Inuyasha yelled mentally.
Too late.
"Damn you..." As much as Inuyasha would like to beat himself up for that last action, what's done has been done. He could feel Kagome snuggling closer to him and he sighed in defeat. "Fine, but if I find a way to get up there I'm kicking your ass."
Like you could. The voice replied fading now that the damage had been done. Kagome rolls over and snuggles her face into his neck. The dog demon's ears perk up as a slight rustle in the brush catches his attention. "Shippo, if you tell anyone about this I'll personally rip your tail off."
Shippo yelps and runs back to Kirara who he snuggles up with and pretends to sleep.
"Might as well make the best of it now. I'll figure this out as I go along I guess." He finally reasons to himself and places and arm over her hip before succumbing to sleep.
Shippo watches them through narrow eyes to make sure that Inuyasha won't find an excuse to hit him again as a wide grin spreads across his face. Shippo turns to Kirara who had woken up and followed the young kit.
"Hey Kirara I got an idea, let's get some cherry blossom leaves." The kit grins as he and Kirara set his plan to motion. Kirara follows him closely wondering what the tiny kit has planed for the unsuspecting couple.
Taking a basket with him, he goes to the Cherry blossom trees and scoops up the fallen leaves filling the basket to the rim. "Okay Kirara, transform so we can fly over them."
Transforming into her demon self, Kirara waited for the kitsune to mount before taking off and flying over the couple. Shippo jumped onto Kirara's back with the basket in hand. "Lets go!" Kirara circles the couple.
"Here we go!" The kit releases his payload of leaves over the couple, each one falling gracefully as they begin to blanket the two. Kirara throws her head to the side indicating Sango with a sneaking hand Miroku near her. The sound of Sango's hand automatically flying to Miroku's face stirs the couple into waking up to their shower of leaves.
"What the? What's all this?"
Kagome smiles up as the soft petals hit her face. "It's so beautiful." She looks over at Inuyasha. Inuyasha looks around for a second. "What?" He looks up as the petals hit his face as well. "Yeah, lovely." He says spitting a few out of his mouth. Kagome laughs at him and leans forward and kisses his cheek. He looks to Kagome, not saying anything for a moment, but body language takes over from there as they both lean in and kiss. The kiss started out soft and sweet but quickly turned to more as they tasted each other's deepest secrets.
"Way to go Inuyasha." Miroku said with a grin gaining a third smack from Sango.
"Don't say such things, this is sweet, now let's go and leave them alone." She said forcefully dragging Miroku with her. Kagome pulls away from Inuyasha and blushes to the roots of her hair. Inuyasha grins a bit and nuzzles his newfound lovers cheek before looking up into the sky.
"Your gonna get it big time you two."
Kagome poked him in the side. "Leave them alone. Besides I'm tired." She yawns widely again.
"Then go back to sleep onna-kun"
Mock growling she leans against him again and closes her eyes falling asleep. Afterwards everyone went back to sleep, Shippo snoozing away with Kirara, Miroku merely an arms length from punishment by Sango and Kagome sleeping peacefully with Inuyasha.
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha and Company. So don't sure me, just read for you fluffy moment of the day. ::Sesshoumaru pops out from around the corner:: "You called?" "Now, but I'm coming." Grins at readers. Just remember to R+R!
Inuyasha tore through the thick brush and vines of the forest they were traveling through on their way to another crystal shard. Inuyasha was quite annoyed at this point since everyone decided suddenly on breaking up.
"Where did that onna run off to." He grumbled raising his nose to the air again. Kagome was standing in the middle of a clearing in the woods her eyes closed and her mind centered on finding a shard of the Shikon no Tama.
The dog demon sniffed the air a bit, with Kagome's cloths smelling rather strange it wasn't that hard to locate her and soon found where she was.
"Hey Kagome, stop daydreaming and lets go."
"I'm trying to find the shards. So shut up!" She yells from between clinched teeth.
"Not like where gonna get it just standing around, come on, Sango and the others found a place for us to camp tonight." Inuyasha replied with a huff.
Kagome looks over at him. "The shard is just over there. It's not that far."
"Over where." Inuyasha moves to where Kagome was standing and scans the area a bit. He didn't have to wait long as the offending youkai made it's self known, lounging at the dog youkai and knocking him into the foliage.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome screams looking around trying to find her protector. The sound of rustling leaves and struggling is heard and suddenly ends with a loud shriek and a limb or two flying out of the bush. Inuyasha stands up, his haori a mess and what's left of the youkai held in his hand. Kagome turns away and points to two of the limbs. "The shards are there."
"Well that didn't take long." Inuyasha carelessly tossed the dead ninja youkai over his shoulder and tore the shard pieces from the limbs as they faded out of existence. Kagome still doesn't look at the bloody mess but just holds out her hand.
"The shards Inuyasha."
"Fine" He drops the shards into her hands and turns towards the open path. "Well you comin or not?"
Stuffing the shards in her pocket she hurriedly follows to catch up. At the campsite, Miroku is sitting next to a fire, a big sore on the right side of his face as Inuyasha and Kagome walk in.
"At it again I see." He said emotionlessly.
Kagome stifles her laughter and moves over to Sango to talk to her about how they made out with finding shards. Looking over her shoulder, Kagome notices that Inuyasha's haori was covered in blood for the first time and becomes concern.
"Inuyasha are you wounded?"
"Of course not, it's that youkai's blood." Sighs with annoyance. "I'll have to watch how Ihit them next time."
"Oh..." She turns back to Sango and helps her make up the ramen for dinner. "Then I hope you're hungry."
"I know I am!" The young kitsune came bouncing out of nowhere jumping into Kagome's arms earning a slight growl from Inuyasha. Kagome smiled and huggled the kitsune. "I missed you today, Shippo." Letting the child cling to her side she stirred the ramen one last time before handing it out to Inuyasha. Inuyasha takes the ramen and nearly inhales it all as it disappears in a matter of minutes.
"So where to from here?"
Kagome holds back a giggle as she hands the next one to Shippo letting Sango take care of Miroku. Holding her cup of ramen close Kagome closes her eyes and a deep frown creases her face.
"Whats the matter with you?" Inuyasha asks as he chucks the empty package of ramen away.
"I feel more then one shard..." she opens her eyes and sighs, dark circles hand under her eyes*
Inuyasha and the others look around. tensely they ready themselves for whatever happens as Shippo takes cover with Kagome. "Wheres it coming from?"
Kagome sways as if under a spell and her eyes drift close. As Kagome is in the middle of her trance the owners of the shard become present. Long lanky looking youkai, their faces covered by decorated masks and their forearms covered with blades.
"Give us shards!"
Kagome passes out and her body before heated. Somehow these youkai were affecting her in ways no miko should be. Shippo helps to break her fall as the others stand ready to fight.
"What are you demons doing to the girl." Sango calls out as she tears off her kimono and into her shinobi gi.
Miroku stands ready to use his air hole, while Shippo stands near Kagome. The youkai's head shakes and Kagome's body twitches. "Her body and mind are mine." Its states simply.
"Well see about that when I hold your head in my hand." Inuyasha draws the dull katana as it forms into the Tetsusaiga, he is the first to charge as he draws his blade back to strike.The masked head twitches to the right and Kagome goes flying from her spot and right in front of the youkai.
"KAGOME!" Shippo yells, tears in his eyes. The Tetsusaiga stops only mere inches away from her face as Inuyasha freezes in place.
"You cowardly bastards," he says with a growl, "to bad, she mine now." The other two take the moment to attack, as the slash about with insane speed over the defenseless dog demon.
Inuyasha managed to regain some ground as he started to block, thankfully Sango's boomerang broke up the attacks as they switched to the others. Miroku held off one from hurting Shippo while Sango barely dodged the incoming blow from another as she caught her boomerang. The main youkai holds up his hand and the other two stop and head back to his side. he hands a sword to Kagome who's eyes are open but blank.
"Go," he hisses, "destroy the mutt." wWth a roll of her colourless eyes Kagome moves forward and twist her wrist making the sword catch the light and shine in Inuyasha's eyes. Inuyasha closes his eyes as the light momentarily blinds him, but the sound of swishing wind alerts him and his hand flies up to catch the blade, blood soon is flowing down his arm and down the blade. Kagome pushes harder with strength unnatural for her. She kicks Inuyasha in the stomach sending him flying back.
"Inuyasha!" Shippo and Sango yell in concern.
"I'll make sure you pay dearly for this.." Inuyasha yells as he picks himself up along with the Tetsusaiga but is hesitant as he cannot bring himself to strike her down. Kagome swings lazily at him catching him a few times with the blade.
"You wont be able to win. On my word she will kill you." The masked youkai sneers at Inuyasha.
Inuyasha tries to block with the Tetsusaiga, but fighting with Kagome only makes him loose his focus as the hits soon rack up, his haori is shredded and bloody. In the midst of the brutal beating he finally comes to a decision.
"Sorry Kagome.." with a single punch, he lands it into Kagome's face, throwing her off balance as he charges the youkai.
Kagome falls to the ground, her lip bleeding. Sango runs to her friend's side and tries to help but is swatted away with the sword as Kagome bounds up and races after Inuyasha with amazing speed.
Inuyasha focuses his mind as the wind scar soon becomes visible, hearing Kagome moving quickly, he raises the Tetsusaiga and slashes the wind scar releasing it's awesome energy in a blinding flash as Kagome's blade finds its way through Inuyasha's back.
The masked youkai scream as they disappear and Kagome falls to the ground out cold and unable to willingly pull herself from the darkness. Inuyasha slowly turns around, the katana blade sticking out through his chest as he looks down at Kagome, while the others rush to her side.
" She's okay but she's still under the effects of that youkai. Sango, help Inuyasha, I'll take care of Kagome." Miroku picks up Kagome and takes her back toward the dying fire. He leans over her and mutters a spell breaker over her prone body. Sango looks at Inuyasha then moves behind him and pulls the sword free, reach to catch him if needed.
Inuyasha barely budges as the blade is pulled from his body, blood spills out from the gaping hole but stops as the hole vanishes. Inuyasha turns and walks into the forest, a strange look on his face and very quite.
"Inuyasha, where are you going?" Sango calls out about to follow him.
"Uh, Sango?" Miroku says from where he is over Kagome. "She's not waking up."
Inuyasha stands some distance away from the camp, he sits on the limp of an old looking tree thinking deeply back to the events. Very disturbed by what had happened.
"Why so glum." A voice calls out of nowhere.
"Huh? Who's there?" Suddenly the branch he's on moves and he jumps down, seeing as a face appears on the tree.
"Why me, of course."
Kagome moans and lashes out against Miroku who's trying to keep her clam. He gets punched in the eye by one of Kagome's frilling fist.
"Who the hell are you?" The face laughs a bit as he answers.
"My name is Florabaku, a forest youkai, I saw what happened to you and your traveling party not to long ago."
Sango notices Inuyasha looks like he's talking to himself and yells. "Inuyasha you fool who are you talking to?"
" I believe I can help, those youkai you fought are called Hame's, they have a tendency to control human minds that aren't strong enough to resist." The youkai turns into a mist as it flows out of the tree and towards the camp. Kagome thrashes around wildly and Miroku nurses his bruised eye and ego. Sango watches the mist with her hand ready to throw her boomerang.
"Sango, wait he's alright, he's not evil." Inuyasha speaks up just in time to stop her then looks to the mist as he walks beside it. "So how do you intend to help our friend here get better?"
Sango relaxes just a bit but continues to hold her boomerang and scans the area around them instead. Miroku watches the mist in shock.
The mist floats over to where Kagome lies and looks over her, "The Hame's got to her really bad ,but don't worry I can fix this."
"How do you intend to do that?" Miroku speaks up curious as to what the youkai had in mind.
"You'll see." Then youkai broke off into smaller mist forms and possesses the surrounding trees. They all soon began to sway back and forth, the wind howling louder then usual.
"Hey what's this weird noise?" Inuyasha asks as he sticks his fingers in his ears.
" Be silent or it won't work." The sound grows louder as the effects soon take effect. Kagome begins to look more and more normal with each passing moment. Her body stills and she lays limp on the ground, her chest rising and falling with her breathe.
The trees stop and the youkai flies out rejoining himself in the middle of the camp as he looks over the girl again.
"She's fine but it seems she's still lost in her mind.... Looks like she was affected more then I thought."
"What can we do to bring her back?" Sango asks in concern. Shippo starts to cry. The youkai suddenly flies to Inuyasha's face. " Hey, what's with all of this?"
"I heard you mumbling while you were walking... you seem closest to her. You got to jog her back from where ever she's is."
Inuyasha scratches his head. " And just how do I do that?"
Both Sango and Miroku seem surprised at this information, while Shippo continues to cry over Kagome's prone body.
"Talk to her, in fact that goes for all of you. If she hears your voices it might help her come back."
Shippo stops crying..."We can bring Kagome back?" The kitsune jumps on Inuyasha's head and yells. "You stupid head tell her you love her and that you're here for her!" He beats him just to get the point across.
"What?! Tell her I....I mean...it's not..." The dog youkai was at a lost for words now lost himself as the young kitsune beats on his head.
"INUYASHA! You stupid mutt! Bring back Kagome!"
Inuyasha grumbled as his face began to turn several shades of red. "Alright, alright." He goes to Kagome's side and crosses his arms. "Um..I love you." His blunt statement earns him a nice smack on the head by Miroku.
"Say it like you mean it!"
Sango's boomerang hits his head too. "Inuyasha." She growls warningly.
"Okay damnit, just back off!" Inuyasha sighs and takes a breath, "Um..okay. Kagome, if you can here me its me...um I know I just can't simply say I love you...hell it isn't that simple, I can't even understand what I feel for you. I detest you because your keeping me from becoming a full fledge demon and of course using the "S" word on me but then again you've shown me stuff...made me relise certain things." The dog demon managed to choke out as he waited for something, anything to happen
Kagome grows very still. Shippo wails something about Kagome being dead. Inuyasha bops Shippo on the head.
"She's not dead, stupid." Then in turn gets bopped on the head by Kagome. "Don't hit him!"
"She's alive at least." Miroku replies dully.
"Your back!" Shippo jumps into her arms while Inuyasha rubs his head.
"Glad your back." Inuyasha mutters.
Kagome looks over at Inuyasha. "Did you really mean it?" She asks so full of hope.
"Yeah, you just can't fake stuff like that you know?"
" I bet you could." Shippo teases the poor blushing hanyou.
"Shut up you little brat!"
Kagome giggled. "Inuyasha, thank you."
"Yeah sure" He said putting his hands in the sleeve of his ragged haori then turned his attention to the youkai. "Thanks."
Kagome's eyes become heavy again as she becomes tired.
"Don't mention it, just glad I could help." The mist turns and vanishes.
"Well that's enough excitement for one night." Miroku yawns as he tried to place an arm around Sango's shoulder earning him a well placed smack in the face.
Kagome is asleep were she is sitting and Shippo looks up in her face. "Is she taken under control again!?" He wails unsure of what was happening.
"No, Shippo she fell asleep, now you go somewhere and do the same." The kitsune sticks his tongue at him.
"Whatever, you just want to take my place under her arms. Hehe"
"Why you little." Inuyasha barks taking off after Shippo. The kitsune yells as he ran for his life.
Kagome moans but doesn't move. Inuyasha sighed as everyone went to their tents. He stayed outside with Kagome under the starlight not wanting to move her. He looks down at her and runs a hand over her cheek. Kagome turns her cheek into his caresses.
"Glad to have you back..." He whispers then replaces his hand back under his sleeve as he lays down next to her. Kagome seeking out his warmth and snuggles closer to him. She sighs "Inuyasha."
"Guess this isn't so bad after all."
Then why don't you claim her as your mate? a voice inside his head spoke.
"Cause it wouldn't be right, I just can't take her as my mate."
And? Why not she knows you love her, and you can smell that see loves you. You've even seen it in her face.
"You make it sound easy, well sorry but it isn't"
Why not? The voice said taunting.
"I...I just don't really, well truly understand what I'm feeling right now alright, I like her but..."
but? What you want more? You want to feel her soft skin pressed against yours?
Inuyasha blushes furiously at the voices comment. "You say that again and I'll gag you with my sword, get it?"
How could you? im you? would you leave your MATE defenseless?
"Smartass. Why don't you try it then, you seem to have all the answers."
Inuyasha's hand moved of its own accord toward Kagome and wrapps around her waist earning a contented sigh from her as he pulls her closer to his body, pressing her back to his chest.
"Hey stop that!" Inuyasha yelled mentally.
Too late.
"Damn you..." As much as Inuyasha would like to beat himself up for that last action, what's done has been done. He could feel Kagome snuggling closer to him and he sighed in defeat. "Fine, but if I find a way to get up there I'm kicking your ass."
Like you could. The voice replied fading now that the damage had been done. Kagome rolls over and snuggles her face into his neck. The dog demon's ears perk up as a slight rustle in the brush catches his attention. "Shippo, if you tell anyone about this I'll personally rip your tail off."
Shippo yelps and runs back to Kirara who he snuggles up with and pretends to sleep.
"Might as well make the best of it now. I'll figure this out as I go along I guess." He finally reasons to himself and places and arm over her hip before succumbing to sleep.
Shippo watches them through narrow eyes to make sure that Inuyasha won't find an excuse to hit him again as a wide grin spreads across his face. Shippo turns to Kirara who had woken up and followed the young kit.
"Hey Kirara I got an idea, let's get some cherry blossom leaves." The kit grins as he and Kirara set his plan to motion. Kirara follows him closely wondering what the tiny kit has planed for the unsuspecting couple.
Taking a basket with him, he goes to the Cherry blossom trees and scoops up the fallen leaves filling the basket to the rim. "Okay Kirara, transform so we can fly over them."
Transforming into her demon self, Kirara waited for the kitsune to mount before taking off and flying over the couple. Shippo jumped onto Kirara's back with the basket in hand. "Lets go!" Kirara circles the couple.
"Here we go!" The kit releases his payload of leaves over the couple, each one falling gracefully as they begin to blanket the two. Kirara throws her head to the side indicating Sango with a sneaking hand Miroku near her. The sound of Sango's hand automatically flying to Miroku's face stirs the couple into waking up to their shower of leaves.
"What the? What's all this?"
Kagome smiles up as the soft petals hit her face. "It's so beautiful." She looks over at Inuyasha. Inuyasha looks around for a second. "What?" He looks up as the petals hit his face as well. "Yeah, lovely." He says spitting a few out of his mouth. Kagome laughs at him and leans forward and kisses his cheek. He looks to Kagome, not saying anything for a moment, but body language takes over from there as they both lean in and kiss. The kiss started out soft and sweet but quickly turned to more as they tasted each other's deepest secrets.
"Way to go Inuyasha." Miroku said with a grin gaining a third smack from Sango.
"Don't say such things, this is sweet, now let's go and leave them alone." She said forcefully dragging Miroku with her. Kagome pulls away from Inuyasha and blushes to the roots of her hair. Inuyasha grins a bit and nuzzles his newfound lovers cheek before looking up into the sky.
"Your gonna get it big time you two."
Kagome poked him in the side. "Leave them alone. Besides I'm tired." She yawns widely again.
"Then go back to sleep onna-kun"
Mock growling she leans against him again and closes her eyes falling asleep. Afterwards everyone went back to sleep, Shippo snoozing away with Kirara, Miroku merely an arms length from punishment by Sango and Kagome sleeping peacefully with Inuyasha.
