A/N: I left you guys in a horrifying cliffhanger for as long as I could stand it. So here's the next one! I LOVE PAKI!!!
Disclaimer: I don't own the InuYasha characters…Damn the copyright laws!!! DAMN THEM TO HELL!!!!!!!!!!!
~By The Light of The Moon~
Ch.2~ Freedom Lost
Kagome leaned closer and closer to InuYasha. InuYasha had no Idea what she was about to do. "I've been meaning to do this for a long time." Suddenly he knew what she wanted to do…or so he thought. He backed up a bit but Kagome grabbed his arm and held him there. Her other hand reached up to his neck. InuYasha felt her hand brush across his neck and he gasped at the light touch and the shivers it sent through his whole body. Kagome grasped the beads around his neck and lifted them off.
"InuYasha," Kagome's voice was barely a whisper since InuYasha had reached his hand up and touched her neck and rubbed her earlobe between his forefinger and thumb. "I still don't understand the fascination you had with my ears when we first met. There's nothing special about my ears. Nothing to special about yours either. They're just odd shaped appendages." Kagome had thought he was being sweet when he had touched her neck and ear, then he had started to insult her ears in his normal egotistical, jerkish manner. She had had enough. She thrust the necklace back over his head and on to his neck.
"You JERK!!! I thought you were being sweet! But nooo, you had to go and insult my ears! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT! SIT!"
InuYasha was pummeled into the ground by Kagome's attack of "Sit"'s. He was getting very annoyed with her. When her attack was completed he stood up and spit the grass out of his mouth. "You will pay for that, wench!" InuYasha tackled her and pinned her to the ground. "Saying "Sit!" won't work, Kagome. It'll just force me down on top of you. I suggest you stop wriggling. I won't work." InuYasha Leaned closer to her until their breath mixed together and mingled in the dewy morning air. He leaned down so close that their lips were almost touching.
Sango had heard Kagome screaming "SIT!" and decided to just walk a little faster past Miroku. "Where are YOU going, my dear Sango?" Sango turned towards Miroku and blushed. She was a victim to his flattery and was every time. Miroku put his arm around her waist. He slid his hand down to her bottom and gave it a rub. Sango's eye twitched in suppressed violence. Miroku laughed and laid his head on her shoulder. He moved his hand back up to her waist as they walked together towards the camp.
Kagome was breathing raggedly from the closeness of InuYasha's body. He leaned further down and rested his lips on hers in a sweet, soft kiss. She gave in to his kiss as it grew more heated and he released her arms to let his own wrap around her waist. His other hand went behind her neck as he lifted her closer to him. Almost all his weight was pressing down on her but she really didn't care. She enjoyed feeling that weight. It seemed natural to her. It was simply her fate and she embraced it lovingly. Her heart was growing larger and larger as more time passed with no space in between their faces. InuYasha Let himself give in to his emotions and feelings. He gave in to his instinctive urge that told him this girl was his and he was hers. He gave into it but somewhere in the back f his head a voice seemed to scream. 'You are the great InuYasha! The fearsome Dog Demon! You cannot get mixed up with this mere Human girl! You are a Demon! A powerful Demon! The girl is beneath you(bad pun)!' The voice grew louder as the passion between the two grew. It was soon to loud for him to ignore. It screeched in his ears. His heightened senses sent flying out of control as he broke away from Kagome and ran deep into the forest.
Kagome lay on the ground in complete disarray. She quickly got up and sprinted after InuYasha, screaming his name the whole way, begging him to return to camp with her, begging him to return period. He heard her cries but just ran faster, tears streaming down his cheeks. He ran until he couldn't hear her feet pounding at the Earth any more, until he could no longer hear her pained voice crying out for him to come back to her.
He stopped in a clearing next to a sparkling creek and broke down next to it. His body was racked with sobs as he poured out all his grief to the nearby creatures of the forest. A small cat crawled out from under a bush and nestled up against him. Mewing and purring in response to his grief. InuYasha was a dog demon but he took a strange liking to this little creature and stroked its head as he wiped the tears from his eyes and tried to regulate his unruly breathing. He laid down next to the creature and fell asleep pledging that this would be his new friend and he would take it with him everywhere. The dog and the cat. The Human and the Youkai. Two creatures thought by everyone to hate each other. Now friends, sharing their grieves and sorrows.
Kagome had stopped a little ways downstream from where InuYasha and his new found friend were resting peacefully. She sat there looking into the waters for the rest of the day. Only when the sun began to set did she start making her way back to camp, wondering if InuYasha had already returned. The moon was nearly gone. InuYasha would be turning Human soon. When she reached camp, Sango and Miroku were curled up together asleep and Shippo was lying in her sleeping bag. She sat on the top of the hill nearby.
Kagome sat silently, reflecting on her fight with InuYasha earlier. She stared up at the moon as a single tear rolled down her cheek. She cared for him! No matter how much he hated her she still cared for him with all her heart. A selfish, egotistical, jerk he may be, but he was still close to her heart. A little too close than Kagome would have liked before that day. All she wanted was for him to hold her beneath the moon and tell her that she will stay with him for eternity. She started sobbing. Heart-wrenching sobs that came straight from…well…her heart. She cried until she couldn't possibly keep her eyes open any longer. She leaned over on the grass and fell asleep.
InuYasha woke up when he thought he heard the sounds of Kagome sobbing. He picked up his cat friend and jumped across the rocks to the other side of the stream. He pushed a bush aside and noticed that the camp and the hill next to the camp was right there! He must have run in a giant circle when he ran away from the hot spring! He walked up to Kagome and looked down into her face. It was covered in dirt from running behind him and his dust trail. Two lines down her face were clean though. Two lines from when she had cried herself to sleep. Her eyes were puffy and her hair a mess. She had completely undone the washing process she had undergone earlier that day. He brushed some of her hair out of her face and laid a light kiss on her fore head before setting down his cat and carrying Kagome over to his tree. He jumped up into the tree and settled her against his chest. She was too exhausted to even stir slightly from her sleep. Miroku opened one eye to look at the sweet couple up in the tree. He smiled, closed his eye, and settled himself closer to Sango. Sango smiled as she felt his warmth become closer. Her dreams had just taken a turn for the better.
InuYasha watched the cat claw its way up the tree to him just before he drifted off to sleep with the beautiful Kagome resting peacefully on his chest. The Happy, sleeping wanderers were so wrapped up in their own happy dreams that they didn't notice the cold wind sweep over the camp as someone with destructive thoughts suddenly appeared in a tree close to camp to observe the group of possible victims whenever they woke in the morning.
^-0 Another Cliffhanger! Aren't I just Evil? And I'm Going back to school soon so I won't be able to get on the computer as much. It might be another week before I'm able to get enough time and good ideas in order to move on to chapter 3! I'm sooo evil…
(rubs hands together Evilly) Or I may be able to get it out sooner…you never know o.O