Disclaimer: InuYasha is not mine and such…it belongs to Rumiko Takahashi, the woman who can write plots and draw very well, too. And so I have no claim on InuYasha, though I wouldn't MIND owning Inu-chan…
A/N: Thanks for the reviews, because I didn't think I'd get any! Well, here's the next chapter, hope you enjoy it. This following chapter is about Kagome's training and such, well I shouldn't be summarizing it, you should just read. I'd just like to say thanks! And yes, these charas will be a bit OOC, but I'll still have Miroku get slapped somehow! Ok, now you may read…
Feeling Awake
By: Spellcaster Inverse Gabriev
'Never get back home?' Kagome froze. She imagined how horrible it would be if she just died, and she wasn't even conscious so she wouldn't get to say goodbye to anyone. But it's okay, she told herself. She'd never follow Naraku, whoever he was. More strange thoughts ran inside her head, but were interrupted by another young woman walking in the door.
"Hey all! I got some information about the whereabouts of Narak--who is that?" The young woman asked.
Inuyasha and Miroku sighed.
"Kagome. She's the unconscious one," was all Inuyasha said.
She laughed. "He never likes talking to me. Hi, Kagome, I'm Sango."
Kagome smiled. "Pleasure to meet you, Sango."
"Oh, she's polite, too! I wonder if you want to lead this one back to her world, Inuyasha! You might just want to keep her here!" Sango said and elbowed the dog-boy, who blushed at the crazy idea.
Sango laughed. "I love doing that to him! He blushes so easily…"
Miroku growled. Sango sweatdropped. Inuyasha scooted his chair away from Sango. Kagome was extremely confused at what was going on.
"Well, I guess I'm just saying pointless things right now," Sango sighed and set down her strange weapon. She took a seat at the only available seat left at the table.
Miroku tapped his fingers on the table. "Unwanted silence ensues. You said you had information on Naraku's whereabouts, Sango?"
"Oh yes! Yes I do!"
Another long silence followed.
Inuyasha was getting frustrated. "Care to TELL US?!"
Sango nodded. "I was waiting for someone to politely ask, but that was as close as I'm gonna get to your polite side, if you have one."
Kagome laughed, "Oh, he does."
Sango raised her eyebrow. "Really now?"
Inuyasha rolled his eyes. He had been hoping that Kagome wouldn't mention that…
No matter now. Sango had some information to share. It turned out that Naraku had made himself a disguise and moved closer to the lair that the ruler of this place sat in.
"WHAT?!" Inuyasha asked, astounded.
"Yes, it's true. I think Naraku knows that someone is here, and I think he just wants to beat the ruler 'at his own game', I bet."
Kagome looked a little confused. "So, what's the name of the ruler, if I may ask?"
"Oh, you MAY ask, but…" Sango started.
"…there's no time for that now!" Inuyasha finished, not in the way that Sango would have put it but close enough.
"No time?" Kagome asked, confused. Inuyasha nodded back to her, then he asked,
"Do you know any martial arts?"
Kagome bit her bottom lip and mumbled, "…no."
Sango smiled. "It's ok. It'll just be a little longer before you get back home."
Kagome sighed, but she didn't get why she had to learn martial arts in order to go back home. She could never learn.
As if reading her thoughts, Inuyasha answered. "You see, it's been a tradition for AGES that you have to show your martial arts skills to the ruler in order to go back home, or stay here, if that is what you wish. It depends on what you choose. Unless you have a 'troubled spirit', or whatever they call it. Then, no matter what, you'd have to go back and what not bla bla bla."
"And he has a POLITE side?" Sango asked. "I mean, bla bla bla?! That's such a stupid explanation!"
Miroku and Sango both started laughing.
"Couples…" Inuyasha mumbled. "Once they're together too long they start thinking alike. I hate it. Now, come on girl, your training starts…now."
***
"Oh, come on, put your whole body into it!" Inuyasha ordered to Kagome. Kagome, now dressed in more fitting clothes for martial arts, threw a large punch, but obviously threw too much of her body into it, and she completely lost her balance and fell.
"Clutz…" Inuyasha stated and rolled his eyes. Kagome growled at him. "…but hey, at least you have a good battle face."
Sango watched the two from inside, smiling. Suddenly she felt two arms circle her shoulders and heard very naughty suggestions whispered in her ear. She closed her eyes and smacked the culprit square in the face.
"Take that as 'not now you sick moron,' which would be my answer…" Sango said, not even turning her head to look at him. Meanwhile Miroku was getting up off of the floor and rubbed his nose.
"You have a pretty hard right," he said.
"Thank you!"
"Alright, Kagome, take a break!" Inuyasha said again. She nodded and quickly ran inside the strange looking building, and when she saw the back, it looked like something completely different. Almost like a dojo porch, but not quite.
Sango handed Kagome some water, and Kagome smiled in thanks.
"So, here's one thing, if this is just my soul and a created body, why do I need to replenish myself?" She asked Sango.
"Everyone does. You're still alive an you're living here, so you need energy. That's why. Good question though."
Kagome nodded and drank the water slowly, sip by sip, talking to her new friend in-between sips. Then finally, from outside,
"How long does it take you?! Get back out here!"
"Ugh! Fine, I'm coming!" Kagome called back to Inuyasha. Then she mumbled, "…slave driver. He's working me too hard."
"He thinks you have potential, that's all," Sango said to Kagome. The two girls smiled at each other and Kagome stepped outside again.
***
The rest of the day went by quickly. Inuyasha figured out that Kagome learned rather fast, but she still had so much more to learn. He watched her as she finished one last kick, and then sunk to the ground, exhausted. The stars seemed to light her way back to the porch so she could rest for awhile before going in for the night. She rested her back against one of the poles holding up the porch, not so far away from Inuyasha, and stared up at the sky.
"Surprised that we have stars in the sky? Or a sky at all?" Inuyasha asked.
Kagome smiled slightly and shook her head. "By the way, how do you know so much about my world?"
Inuyasha shrugged, "We have to learn about it. We can't communicate with people like you if we don't. Plus there aren't TOO many differences between here and there."
Kagome laughed, "Except there's grass EVERYWHERE over here."
"That's true!" Inuyasha had to agree with the girl.
For awhile, the two just stared into the void of stars. Then Kagome asked,
"Do you know about fairy tales?"
Inuyasha grunted. "I hate fairy tales."
"Really? Why?"
"They always have happy endings. Nothing ever really ends like those stories do, even though the plot is already WAY too fictional, the endings clean up everything horrid about it."
Kagome got his point. It was quite true. But then she commented on his previous statement, "many people like the happy endings."
"Yes," he nodded, "but why do they?"
"Maybe it comforts them…"
Inuyasha blinked, obviously confused. Kagome decided to back her statement up,
"Yes. It comforts them. Everyday life can be filled with so many strange things and it's so unexpected. Sometimes something sad or depressing can suddenly sweep over someone's life. Fairy tales might just comfort them to think that there might actually be a happy ending somewhere after all…" she smiled at Inuyasha, who was dumbfounded.
"Either that, or I'm just crazy talking about these kinds of things. Goodnight, it was nice talking to you." Kagome then stood up and walked inside, leaving Inuyasha sitting there, utterly astounded by what she just said. Then she just smiled at him…this girl was strange, and unlike any other ones he'd ever met before.
What was it about her that just left him amazed?
A/N: Corny chapter, I know. Well, please drop a review and tell me what you think of this chappie! I'd appreciate it lots! I tried to get in some happy almost couple-ish stuff here.
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