What Two Little Kids Can Do
Chapter Two:
Best Friends
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The sky was dark, it was painted with blood. A demon, no two demons sat on clouds in the sky. The clouds they sat on were dark. The man's black, and the woman's stained red with the blood that came from her shoulder. The woman looked like her mother, this demon that had an endless supply of blood. The man was like the one her father described: pale, with long black hair, it was stringy, and his eyes matched the color of the rain coming from his cloud. But, wait, it wasn't rain that came from his cloud, it was blood the blood that covered the sky was coming from the dark clouds.
"But where did the blood come from?" she asked herself out load her voice echoing strangely. Her gaze turned away from the demons in the sky to the ground. The ground was silent, every thing was silent. She looked around, no grass, no rice fields, no animals, no people... or at least, no people that were alive.
Bodies, the ground was covered in bodies. The bodies of men, women, children and infants, both human and demon alike. The huts in the village were destroyed, only the temple remained.
She slowly took a step; the earth beneath her was soaked in blood. She walked toward the shrine, slowly, as she passed bodies she looked at them. They all had the same look on their faces: horror. She new some of the people, some were her friends. She let tears slide down her cheeks silently, the shock and fear in her eyes was evident.
She reached the shrine's temple and she saw five more bodies. "No," she whispered as she stared at the faces of the bodies before her. "No, Otou- san, Onii-chan, Aunt Sango, Uncle Miroku, Koshi-kun, no... no." She whispered in denial.
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"NO!" Screamed a small girl as she franticly sat up. Sweat covered her brows, fear and anger in her eyes.
She looked around instinctively. It was night and the stars were shining brightly outside. The calm melody of crickets chirping filled the air, and the grass blew lightly in unison to the waters ripples.
"Onee-chan, what's wrong?" Kawainu asked as he franticly ran toward the area his twin sister had been sleeping in. He could smell her fear, and was afraid that a powerful demon was attacking her.
"I'm okay Onii-chan I just had a bad dream, that's all." She said with out looking at him. She new he was walking toward her, she could hear him.
"Onee-chan, tell me about the dream was it one of the premonition dreams?" He asked her as he sat down next to her on the blanket. He was worried about her, she hadn't been acting normally ever since her last dream, which she refused to tell anyone about.
"Yes, Onii-chan, I want Okaa-chan," She said quietly as she stared down at her lap. She was trying to keep from crying, but she knew it was useless, her could smell her tears.
"I know, I miss Okaa-chan and Otou-san too, but their not here right now... well, they are, but they don't know it." He said trying to be sympathetic, not an easy task for him, 'I'm going to kill Otou-san for this someday...' He thought as her looked at his, now sobbing, sister.
"I know, but I don't understand why we can't tell them." She complained, she was still crying, but he could smell the change in her emotions, they had gone form sad and scared to mad and frustrated, and he new from experience that was not a good thing.
"I already explained that to you, remember?" He asked.
~Flash Back~
It was after noon, and Kawainu and Masako were sitting in a tree, they had long lost interest in chasing Inuyasha, well at least Masako had and had forced Kawainu to stop.
Masako looked around the area to make sure that Inuyasha was out of earshot, before asking her brother what was going on. When she decided they were fare enough away she spoke.
"Onii-chan, why don't they remember us, and why do the smell and look different?" She asked her brother. Her big crystal blue eyes were brimming with tears, and Kawainu new that unless he answered her she would start crying.
"Didn't Okaa-chan tell you what would happen when she gave you a shard?" He asked her not fully understanding what was going on.
"She told me to wish to go to the gates of time thing and I did." She said, she was confused, should her mother have told her more?
"Yeah, but she didn't tell you what would happen when you did?" He asked again trying not to get annoyed, which was hard, considering just about everything annoyed him.
"No, was she supposed to tell me something else?" She asked still confused.
"Okay, well Otou-san gave me a shard to, he told me that I had to wish to go to the 'Gates of Time', he told me when I got there I'd see a lady and she'd send me to the past, before we were born, and we were supposed to do something, but he wouldn't tell me what, he said that he didn't know." He explained, obviously annoyed that his mother hadn't already explained it.
"Oh so they don't know us, and we have to act like we don't know them?" She asked looking up at him with teary eyes again.
"Yep." He said as they jumped out of the trees to find Kagome and Inuyasha.
~End Flash Back~
"I know," She answered as her head fell and she folded her arms. She was annoyed and frustrated, not a good thing, and Kawainu new it, he felt helpless. The only time he ever felt helpless was when his sister got like this, and his mother normally took care of it, but she wasn't here to this time.
Or was she, "Masako-chan, Kawainu-kun, are you okay, I thought I heard someone scream?" Kagome asked as she walked toward them. Kawainu looked like he was in some sort of trouble but couldn't get out of it by hitting something, he looked like Inuyasha, when he had that expression on his face, it was quite funny and she had to suppress a laugh.
Masako looked bed ragged, which made since considering she had been sleeping for a few hours. At first Kagome thought that nothing was wrong with her, but upon closer inspection she noticed the tears that had dried on her face.
"Masako-chan, what's the matter, why were you crying?" She asked softly and she knelt next to the child, she wanted to hug her and tell her every thing was alright, but knew that wouldn't be appropriate. To her surprise however, Masako jumped into her lap and started crying again.
She looked down at Masako and then to Kawainu who looked even more baffled. She glanced back down at Masako who was now sobbing on her chest. "What was your dream about?" Kagome asked as she hugged the small girl to her.
"My Otou-san, and Onii-chan, and the rest of my village were dead. There were to people on clouds, and they were evil, one looked like you, but she was evil. It was raining blood, and every thing was quite. I walked to the shrine and saw my family dead, every one except my mother, and then I woke up." She explained in a hurry, not stopping to breathe the whole time.
Once again Kagome hugged Masako to her and began to rub the cute little ears on top of her head. She glanced up at the sky and saw that the stars were exceptionally bright tonight, and that the moon was about a week away from waning completely. She drew her gaze back to Masako when she heard a purring sound and found that the child had fallen asleep again in her lap.
She glanced over to Kawainu, who still looked very confused. She motioned for him to come over and opened her left arm up for him to come curl up next to Masako. At first he was reluctant, but he slowly made his way over and a moment later was cuddling up against Masako and into her.
"Kagome-chan, you're nice, you smell like my Okaa-chan, you remind me of her a lot..." Kawainu whispered into her chest half asleep. Kagome couldn't help but have her heart warm at that, maybe because she had perceived him as particularly hard to please.
She slowly drew her right hand away from Masako and grabbed the blanket that she had brought with her when she came to see what was wrong. She slowly drew it over them and wrapped her arm around Masako's small form. She made sure that Kawainu was secure in her grasp, and then leaned back against the trunk of the God Tree who's branches Inuyasha was watching her from, thought she didn't know that.
Kagome turned her gaze up toward the stars and the moon, which was halfway through its cycle. 'I wonder if Inuyasha thinks about how pretty the moon and stars are when he looks at the sky, or if he just looks to see how far through it's cycle the moon is...' She thought, her eyes were now fixated on the moon, she had always loved it's soft glow, it was so mystical, like there was an angel on the moon watching every thing that happened during the night.
'I wonder if, just maybe, Ojai-chan's tales about the Moon Goddess were real... his tales about the God Tree, and the half demon were real, they even mentioned a strange girl, though I couldn't imagine why...' She thought as she began to laugh quietly to her self, but she stopped when she heard a small sneezing noise and very distinct 'Keh'.
"Inuyasha come down from there." She said as she closed her eyes and leaned back against the tree in exasperation.
"Feh," He said as he jumped down and landed next to her with his arms and legs crossed and an annoyed expression on his face. She could tell he was trying to seem mad, but she had known him a little to long not to see through it.
"Hello Inuyasha, why were you watching me in the tree?" She asked quietly as she unconsciously began rubbing Kawainu's ears.
"Huh. Uh... I had to make sure that my shard detector was safe, that's all." He said as he turned away from her sticking his face in the air.
"Is that all, just trying to protect 'your shard detector,' is that still all I am to you, or is that an excuse, which you've used for two years because you can't think of anything better?" She asked in a calm soft voice, as she turned her eyes back toward the sky.
She didn't want to play games right now; she didn't want to wait for him to realize that excuse didn't work any more. She was going to get an answer out of him, and find out the real reason, whether he liked it or not.
"W-what is that supposed to mean," He asked as he slowly turned back around to face her. He unfolded his arms and placed them in his lap, his annoyed expression was gone, and was now replaced with a shocked look.
His hair was blowing in unison to hers, but that was the only thing that they had in common at that moment. Her body was calm his was tense. Her eyes held a melancholy expression his held confusion and frustration. Her voice was soft his was rough. But all in all that didn't matter to them right now.
"It means what it sounds like, do you really just protect me because of the shards, or do you just use that as an excuse?" She repeated her question looking into his eyes.
"W-well, it's none of your business wench." He said his expression held annoyance, but his stuttered gave away his reluctance to answer.
"On the contrary Inuyasha," Kagome began looking him strait in the eyes, "it is my business, it's me your protecting whatever the reason may be, it's my life, my feelings, my-" She suddenly stopped when she realized what she had just said. She hoped that Inuyasha hadn't heard her, but she knew he had.
"W-what do you mean, your feelings?" He asked the shock evident in his voice and on his face, there was no denying it this time, he was shocked beyond reason.
"Inuyasha, are you really that dense?" Kagome asked as small tears began to come to her eyes, but she still kept her voice calm.
She smiled at him; it was the saddest smile he had ever seen. 'Why is she sad?' He asked him self as he stared at her still trying to process what she had said.
"What do you mean, I don't get it..." He asked as he stared into her eyes, he could smell the tears coming, but he didn't know how to make them go away.
"Do you still think of me as your shard detector, or do you think of me as a person," She asked him quietly, he could tell that if he answered wrong her tears would spill.
"I think that you're a person." He responded a little unsurely.
"You do?" She asked disbelievingly.
"Do I?" He asked him self. "She's my friend, or at least she says that she is. Yeah, she is my friend she was always there; she was always the one who stuck by me, even when no one else would. She is the only person that hasn't betrayed me. She's the only one who, who I... trust. Do I trust her? I've never really trusted anyone before, can I trust her? She told me that she trusts me, so shouldn't I trust her? But if I trust her would she do the same thing as Kikyo? She always says that she's not Kikyo, and she's not. She's Kagome, she's,... and she's my best friend." He thought as realization dawned on him.
"Yeah, I think that you're Kagome, not Kikyo, not my shard detector, not any one but Kagome, you're my best friend....." He said, he decided to voice his thoughts. He looked up at her for approval. He looked into her eyes, and then he smelled salt. She was crying.
"What! Why are you crying, did I say something wrong?" He asked franticly.
"No, I'm crying because I'm happy. Some how I can tell that you're telling the truth. But please be quite, you'll wake up Masako-chan and Kawainu- kun." She told him quietly. She was smiling at him, and a single tear slid down her face and landed on Masako's nose, but Kagome didn't know that.
"Okay..." He said as he thought, "Women are very strange..."
"Inuyasha, can you stay down here, with me tonight, you make me feel safe..." She whispered as she leaned against his shoulder and shut her eyes. As she did this Masako managed to crawl into his lap and snuggle up against him as Kawainu shifted and snuggled further into Kagome's lap. He wrapped his right arm around Kagome and his left around Masako as he glanced down at Kagome who was by now half asleep and whispered:
"Okay, if it makes you happy, I'll stay here." He didn't know why but this felt right to him, to have Kagome there with him, and he couldn't help but imagine how nice it would be if Kagome was his mate and the to kids were their pups, though he didn't know why he even did imagine it.
"Life is so confusing..." He thought as he drifted off to sleep.
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Konnichiwa Minna-san,
Sorry it took me awhile to update, I've been busy. I got some reviews saying my author notes and reviewer replies are to long, and their right. So if you want me to respond to your review than put it in the review and I will than, other wise I wont. Thank you to every one who reviewed the last chapter, and everyone who will review this chapter, your so nice.
Until Next Time,
Ja ne
Winged Angel
Chapter Two:
Best Friends
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The sky was dark, it was painted with blood. A demon, no two demons sat on clouds in the sky. The clouds they sat on were dark. The man's black, and the woman's stained red with the blood that came from her shoulder. The woman looked like her mother, this demon that had an endless supply of blood. The man was like the one her father described: pale, with long black hair, it was stringy, and his eyes matched the color of the rain coming from his cloud. But, wait, it wasn't rain that came from his cloud, it was blood the blood that covered the sky was coming from the dark clouds.
"But where did the blood come from?" she asked herself out load her voice echoing strangely. Her gaze turned away from the demons in the sky to the ground. The ground was silent, every thing was silent. She looked around, no grass, no rice fields, no animals, no people... or at least, no people that were alive.
Bodies, the ground was covered in bodies. The bodies of men, women, children and infants, both human and demon alike. The huts in the village were destroyed, only the temple remained.
She slowly took a step; the earth beneath her was soaked in blood. She walked toward the shrine, slowly, as she passed bodies she looked at them. They all had the same look on their faces: horror. She new some of the people, some were her friends. She let tears slide down her cheeks silently, the shock and fear in her eyes was evident.
She reached the shrine's temple and she saw five more bodies. "No," she whispered as she stared at the faces of the bodies before her. "No, Otou- san, Onii-chan, Aunt Sango, Uncle Miroku, Koshi-kun, no... no." She whispered in denial.
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"NO!" Screamed a small girl as she franticly sat up. Sweat covered her brows, fear and anger in her eyes.
She looked around instinctively. It was night and the stars were shining brightly outside. The calm melody of crickets chirping filled the air, and the grass blew lightly in unison to the waters ripples.
"Onee-chan, what's wrong?" Kawainu asked as he franticly ran toward the area his twin sister had been sleeping in. He could smell her fear, and was afraid that a powerful demon was attacking her.
"I'm okay Onii-chan I just had a bad dream, that's all." She said with out looking at him. She new he was walking toward her, she could hear him.
"Onee-chan, tell me about the dream was it one of the premonition dreams?" He asked her as he sat down next to her on the blanket. He was worried about her, she hadn't been acting normally ever since her last dream, which she refused to tell anyone about.
"Yes, Onii-chan, I want Okaa-chan," She said quietly as she stared down at her lap. She was trying to keep from crying, but she knew it was useless, her could smell her tears.
"I know, I miss Okaa-chan and Otou-san too, but their not here right now... well, they are, but they don't know it." He said trying to be sympathetic, not an easy task for him, 'I'm going to kill Otou-san for this someday...' He thought as her looked at his, now sobbing, sister.
"I know, but I don't understand why we can't tell them." She complained, she was still crying, but he could smell the change in her emotions, they had gone form sad and scared to mad and frustrated, and he new from experience that was not a good thing.
"I already explained that to you, remember?" He asked.
~Flash Back~
It was after noon, and Kawainu and Masako were sitting in a tree, they had long lost interest in chasing Inuyasha, well at least Masako had and had forced Kawainu to stop.
Masako looked around the area to make sure that Inuyasha was out of earshot, before asking her brother what was going on. When she decided they were fare enough away she spoke.
"Onii-chan, why don't they remember us, and why do the smell and look different?" She asked her brother. Her big crystal blue eyes were brimming with tears, and Kawainu new that unless he answered her she would start crying.
"Didn't Okaa-chan tell you what would happen when she gave you a shard?" He asked her not fully understanding what was going on.
"She told me to wish to go to the gates of time thing and I did." She said, she was confused, should her mother have told her more?
"Yeah, but she didn't tell you what would happen when you did?" He asked again trying not to get annoyed, which was hard, considering just about everything annoyed him.
"No, was she supposed to tell me something else?" She asked still confused.
"Okay, well Otou-san gave me a shard to, he told me that I had to wish to go to the 'Gates of Time', he told me when I got there I'd see a lady and she'd send me to the past, before we were born, and we were supposed to do something, but he wouldn't tell me what, he said that he didn't know." He explained, obviously annoyed that his mother hadn't already explained it.
"Oh so they don't know us, and we have to act like we don't know them?" She asked looking up at him with teary eyes again.
"Yep." He said as they jumped out of the trees to find Kagome and Inuyasha.
~End Flash Back~
"I know," She answered as her head fell and she folded her arms. She was annoyed and frustrated, not a good thing, and Kawainu new it, he felt helpless. The only time he ever felt helpless was when his sister got like this, and his mother normally took care of it, but she wasn't here to this time.
Or was she, "Masako-chan, Kawainu-kun, are you okay, I thought I heard someone scream?" Kagome asked as she walked toward them. Kawainu looked like he was in some sort of trouble but couldn't get out of it by hitting something, he looked like Inuyasha, when he had that expression on his face, it was quite funny and she had to suppress a laugh.
Masako looked bed ragged, which made since considering she had been sleeping for a few hours. At first Kagome thought that nothing was wrong with her, but upon closer inspection she noticed the tears that had dried on her face.
"Masako-chan, what's the matter, why were you crying?" She asked softly and she knelt next to the child, she wanted to hug her and tell her every thing was alright, but knew that wouldn't be appropriate. To her surprise however, Masako jumped into her lap and started crying again.
She looked down at Masako and then to Kawainu who looked even more baffled. She glanced back down at Masako who was now sobbing on her chest. "What was your dream about?" Kagome asked as she hugged the small girl to her.
"My Otou-san, and Onii-chan, and the rest of my village were dead. There were to people on clouds, and they were evil, one looked like you, but she was evil. It was raining blood, and every thing was quite. I walked to the shrine and saw my family dead, every one except my mother, and then I woke up." She explained in a hurry, not stopping to breathe the whole time.
Once again Kagome hugged Masako to her and began to rub the cute little ears on top of her head. She glanced up at the sky and saw that the stars were exceptionally bright tonight, and that the moon was about a week away from waning completely. She drew her gaze back to Masako when she heard a purring sound and found that the child had fallen asleep again in her lap.
She glanced over to Kawainu, who still looked very confused. She motioned for him to come over and opened her left arm up for him to come curl up next to Masako. At first he was reluctant, but he slowly made his way over and a moment later was cuddling up against Masako and into her.
"Kagome-chan, you're nice, you smell like my Okaa-chan, you remind me of her a lot..." Kawainu whispered into her chest half asleep. Kagome couldn't help but have her heart warm at that, maybe because she had perceived him as particularly hard to please.
She slowly drew her right hand away from Masako and grabbed the blanket that she had brought with her when she came to see what was wrong. She slowly drew it over them and wrapped her arm around Masako's small form. She made sure that Kawainu was secure in her grasp, and then leaned back against the trunk of the God Tree who's branches Inuyasha was watching her from, thought she didn't know that.
Kagome turned her gaze up toward the stars and the moon, which was halfway through its cycle. 'I wonder if Inuyasha thinks about how pretty the moon and stars are when he looks at the sky, or if he just looks to see how far through it's cycle the moon is...' She thought, her eyes were now fixated on the moon, she had always loved it's soft glow, it was so mystical, like there was an angel on the moon watching every thing that happened during the night.
'I wonder if, just maybe, Ojai-chan's tales about the Moon Goddess were real... his tales about the God Tree, and the half demon were real, they even mentioned a strange girl, though I couldn't imagine why...' She thought as she began to laugh quietly to her self, but she stopped when she heard a small sneezing noise and very distinct 'Keh'.
"Inuyasha come down from there." She said as she closed her eyes and leaned back against the tree in exasperation.
"Feh," He said as he jumped down and landed next to her with his arms and legs crossed and an annoyed expression on his face. She could tell he was trying to seem mad, but she had known him a little to long not to see through it.
"Hello Inuyasha, why were you watching me in the tree?" She asked quietly as she unconsciously began rubbing Kawainu's ears.
"Huh. Uh... I had to make sure that my shard detector was safe, that's all." He said as he turned away from her sticking his face in the air.
"Is that all, just trying to protect 'your shard detector,' is that still all I am to you, or is that an excuse, which you've used for two years because you can't think of anything better?" She asked in a calm soft voice, as she turned her eyes back toward the sky.
She didn't want to play games right now; she didn't want to wait for him to realize that excuse didn't work any more. She was going to get an answer out of him, and find out the real reason, whether he liked it or not.
"W-what is that supposed to mean," He asked as he slowly turned back around to face her. He unfolded his arms and placed them in his lap, his annoyed expression was gone, and was now replaced with a shocked look.
His hair was blowing in unison to hers, but that was the only thing that they had in common at that moment. Her body was calm his was tense. Her eyes held a melancholy expression his held confusion and frustration. Her voice was soft his was rough. But all in all that didn't matter to them right now.
"It means what it sounds like, do you really just protect me because of the shards, or do you just use that as an excuse?" She repeated her question looking into his eyes.
"W-well, it's none of your business wench." He said his expression held annoyance, but his stuttered gave away his reluctance to answer.
"On the contrary Inuyasha," Kagome began looking him strait in the eyes, "it is my business, it's me your protecting whatever the reason may be, it's my life, my feelings, my-" She suddenly stopped when she realized what she had just said. She hoped that Inuyasha hadn't heard her, but she knew he had.
"W-what do you mean, your feelings?" He asked the shock evident in his voice and on his face, there was no denying it this time, he was shocked beyond reason.
"Inuyasha, are you really that dense?" Kagome asked as small tears began to come to her eyes, but she still kept her voice calm.
She smiled at him; it was the saddest smile he had ever seen. 'Why is she sad?' He asked him self as he stared at her still trying to process what she had said.
"What do you mean, I don't get it..." He asked as he stared into her eyes, he could smell the tears coming, but he didn't know how to make them go away.
"Do you still think of me as your shard detector, or do you think of me as a person," She asked him quietly, he could tell that if he answered wrong her tears would spill.
"I think that you're a person." He responded a little unsurely.
"You do?" She asked disbelievingly.
"Do I?" He asked him self. "She's my friend, or at least she says that she is. Yeah, she is my friend she was always there; she was always the one who stuck by me, even when no one else would. She is the only person that hasn't betrayed me. She's the only one who, who I... trust. Do I trust her? I've never really trusted anyone before, can I trust her? She told me that she trusts me, so shouldn't I trust her? But if I trust her would she do the same thing as Kikyo? She always says that she's not Kikyo, and she's not. She's Kagome, she's,... and she's my best friend." He thought as realization dawned on him.
"Yeah, I think that you're Kagome, not Kikyo, not my shard detector, not any one but Kagome, you're my best friend....." He said, he decided to voice his thoughts. He looked up at her for approval. He looked into her eyes, and then he smelled salt. She was crying.
"What! Why are you crying, did I say something wrong?" He asked franticly.
"No, I'm crying because I'm happy. Some how I can tell that you're telling the truth. But please be quite, you'll wake up Masako-chan and Kawainu- kun." She told him quietly. She was smiling at him, and a single tear slid down her face and landed on Masako's nose, but Kagome didn't know that.
"Okay..." He said as he thought, "Women are very strange..."
"Inuyasha, can you stay down here, with me tonight, you make me feel safe..." She whispered as she leaned against his shoulder and shut her eyes. As she did this Masako managed to crawl into his lap and snuggle up against him as Kawainu shifted and snuggled further into Kagome's lap. He wrapped his right arm around Kagome and his left around Masako as he glanced down at Kagome who was by now half asleep and whispered:
"Okay, if it makes you happy, I'll stay here." He didn't know why but this felt right to him, to have Kagome there with him, and he couldn't help but imagine how nice it would be if Kagome was his mate and the to kids were their pups, though he didn't know why he even did imagine it.
"Life is so confusing..." He thought as he drifted off to sleep.
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Konnichiwa Minna-san,
Sorry it took me awhile to update, I've been busy. I got some reviews saying my author notes and reviewer replies are to long, and their right. So if you want me to respond to your review than put it in the review and I will than, other wise I wont. Thank you to every one who reviewed the last chapter, and everyone who will review this chapter, your so nice.
Until Next Time,
Ja ne
Winged Angel