Shattered Spirit
Chapter 4
(The last one was depressing, this one... Is a little strange, and a little tiny bit depressing, but, not as much as that chapter, which is the most depressing of this story.)
Inu Yasha was nothing more than a puppet without strings, he wouldn't budge, or even indicate he was alive any more. Kagome had him, and that child from the lab with her.... She was fed up with him acting like this, how dare he give up on himself! She felt such anger as she looked at his empty eyes, this was hard damn it! Kagome's anger rose in her chest until it struck out at the empty body with a smack. "GET OVER IT INU!!!!!!", She yelled.
Then, when she looked, Inu was watching her with hurt eyes, he was back, but hurt.... His gaze turned from that of pain to that of defiance. Inu got up, and ran outside. "Inu....", Kagome whispered to herself.
Inu- Yasha ran out into the forest, and dropped to the ground. True his soul was free of it's previous pain, and sorrow, but now, now it was rebelling in a way. He made his decision to stay in this forest, to regain himself through it...
.... About a year later....
Sessho- Maru strolled through the forest on his way to Kagome's, he had killed all of those creations.... Except one, he was going to at first, but skipped it, and kept doing so until it was the last one left. Sessho freed it, and decided that having one around wouldn't be so bad. He was wrong, and that is why he needed Kagome's help, he realized he didn't know how to take care of a baby. The one she had taken had matured rather quickly, and looked about five when it was a little over a year old. He kept strolling, until he stepped right in front of a large deer which had just been freshly killed. He could tell it was no ordinary forest creature that had killed it too, the marks were all wrong, like it had been slashed with blades. "That's my kill.", Sessho heard a familiar growl from behind himself.
Sessho- Maru turned, his hands in the air to show he didn't touch anything. "Of course it is.", he said, finally looking at the other before shock crossed his face, "Inu?!",
Inu didn't respond, but, just crouched low, and bared teeth at Sessho, his face was bloody, and his hair tangled, the brush of the forest had long stripped off his clothing. The only true indication it was Inu was the prayer beads around his neck. Sessho just smiled, before slowly leaving his younger half brother to his meal, and continued on his way to Kagome's whom he told about the odd encounter with Inu- Yasha. "Well, I thought he'd gone home after I.... Slapped him over everything....", Kagome said, quietly, "I was just fed up with things.",
"Yes, well, I believe that after going into the situation of fight, or die of the forest's type of cure might have helped a little too much.", Sessho said, "I'd leave him where he is, that is unless you run into him somehow.",
"Good idea.", Kagome said, "Come on Mirague, you need your bath before bed, and so does Tohoto, Sessho.",
.... A few weeks pass before Kagome and Mirague (The little baby she got from the lab, only now grown up a bit.) Go into the forest for a walk...
It was Mirague that found him first, he ran back to Kagome as fast as he could, being rather scared of the thing he saw. Kagome peered carefully through a bush, only to find it was Inu, who was struggling with something. He looked as though he'd gained some muscle, though he was still considerably skinny in the stomach, she caught the look of blood coming from his right ankle. Which, now that she'd noticed had been caught in a bear trap. Kagome carefully walked up to Inu- Yasha, carefully, before she startled him. It looked as though he'd been trying to knaw his foot off to get free, it looked painful. "Mirague, go get Shippo, and Miroku, I'll stay here, okay? And mark your path as you go along got it?", Kagome asked.
"Right, Mommy.", Mirague nodded, before running off.
Inu snarled at her. "Now, we'll take a look at your, leg.", Kagome said, reaching for the foot.
Inu snapped at her. "SIT!", She demanded, keeping him still while she washed the wounded area.
Inu snarled, and growled at her, only he couldn't move, so, she finished with cleaning it, and got a good look at it. "Leave me be....", Inu said, in a huffy tone, "I can handle myself.",
"Nope, not this time, steel, you can't free yourself from that, I know.", Kagome said, "Inu what happened to you?",
"I do not know you, so why do you know me?", Inu asked.
"You... Forgot?", Kagome said shocked.
End Chapter: Sorry super, super busy! Gah!