Hi Minna-chan! I hope you guys had a wonderful a Christmas as we had. Thank you guys so very much for all of your wonderful reviews and for inspiring us even more. Okay, on with chapter 5, enjoy ^_^.
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Written by: Breezbox and Usagipegusus
Disclaimer: We don't own Inuyasha
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Kagome's mouth opened, releasing a loud gasp as she looked at Inuyasha's clawed hand on her arm before her gaze flew to his livid visage. I didn't even hear him come up behind me!!! She though, still staring at Inuyasha warily.
Inuyasha started at the girl through narrowing amber eyes. He had suspected that she had been lying and her little escape scheme had all but validated his suspicions. All of the events that she had relayed to him seemed too unusual for him to accept. Well, all accept one fact. He did seem to know her by some means. When he had momentarily dozed off a little while ago, he had several visions, all what had seemed like memories. Disturbingly, they were all memories of her.
Seeing Inuyasha's faraway expression made Kagome's feelings suddenly change from wary to consternation. He still is really sick, she thought as she took the opportunity to carefully extricate her arm from his loosened grasp, gently putting her hand to his forehead.
The electric shock of her cool, soft hand brought Inuyasha out of his trance. He pulled back quickly from her touch, as if she had burned him. "Don't touch me!!" He snarled offensively, unconsciously taking a step back from her foreboding form. "I thought I told you to wait until those other damn humans came…if they really are going to come." He finished in a growl, his exaggerated tone of voice implying that he didn't trust her at all.
Kagome gave an exasperated huff. First he acts like he doesn't want to be around me, then he tells me to stay, and now he's accusing me of being deceitful!!! "Well, for your information I was just going to use the bathroom!" She yelled, her lie making Inuyasha's suspiciousness valid.
"Keh! Yeah? Then what's this for?!" He yelled, gesturing to her weird looking bag. And what they hell was a "bathroom" anyway!?!?
Kagome opened her mouth uselessly before letting it close once again. "It doesn't matter, I-I had to use the bathroom!" She sputtered indignantly.
She had said that weird word again. Not knowing what the word meant, he took a guess. "You mean you have to piss?" He inquired, her reddening face, to his amusement, telling him that his guess was correct. "Fine! Just hurry up!" He yelled, his amusement slowly starting to abate.
Inuyasha stared at Kagome a moment waiting for her to make her move outside to handle her business but Kagome remained in the same spot for a matter of moments, turning redder by the second. Finding a small amount of amusement in her embarrassed state, he decided to keep at it. "Well? What's wrong? Do you want me to go with you?" He inquired somewhat innocently, his amber eyes gleaming with something a little more dangerous than anger- mischief.
Kagome stood there uselessly, not really knowing what to do. That bastard! Kagome inwardly fumed, he knew what his words were doing to her! He was toying with her! Had he not been sick with the unknown disease, she would have sat him a million times.
Abruptly, a clawed hand clasped on her arm as Inuyasha quickly began dragging her out of the small hut.
"W-where are we going?" Kagome stuttered slightly, trying vainly to dig her heels into the soft earth as a means to halt Inuyasha's swift movements.
Inuyasha turned his face back to her, a sly smirk on his face. "To piss of course." He said matter -of -factly, chuckling inwardly as he saw color returning to the girl's face.
Sickness bedamned!!! She thought as she opening her mouth to utter the subduing command.
Abruptly, Inuyasha halted all movement, causing Kagome to crash into his hard back. Kagome watched closely as Inuyasha lifted his face to the air as if sensing a new presence.
A world of emotions crossed his face: ranging from disbelief, confusion and then anger, anger being the strongest of the three. He then growled an almost incoherent word that was still heard clearly by Kagome.
"Sesshomaru…"
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Miroku heaved a heavy sigh, his gaze fixed on the makeshift fire that they had started when they had decided to stop for the night. Things seemed to be turning out a lot worse than he had thought when they had first started this journey. All this traveling around and they were back at square one: still trying to discover what was wrong with Inuyasha. The disease that the fake healer had told them about could still actually be what Inuyasha had, but still they were not certain it was. And now, they still had yet to find Kaede. All of this was so confusing.
A soft but audible yawn broke into his thoughts. He slowly looked at the culprit as she gently put a hand to her mouth to stifle the yawn. Miroku's eyes softened as they focused on the beautiful, strong, youkai hunter, taking note of the faraway yet troubled look in her eyes. "Sango…"
Sango's head immediately lifted from her bent knees at the mention of her name. "Houshi-sama…" She whispered in question, watching him rise as he slowly made his way over to her.
"What are you thinking about?" Miroku inquired quietly, his gaze holding hers.
Sango shrugged nonchalantly, something she did not feel at the moment, "Everything." She replied, placing her head back on her knees. "I'm wondering how Kagome and Inuyasha are doing…" She continued, meeting Miroku's eyes once again.
Miroku gave her a reassuring smile. "I'm sure their fine. Inuyasha's a strong person." He said, trying to put her mind at ease, unconsciously placing a comforting hand atop of hers.
Sango rewarded the monk with a grateful smile. Under the perverted exterior he usually displayed to everyone, he really was a good guy and a good friend. Blood started to rise to Sango's face as she wondered what it would be like to have him as more than a friend.
The rising color in her cheeks did not go unnoticed by the monk. He smirked inwardly at her apparent shyness as he brought both her hands up to his face, his face contorted in mock seriousness. "Sango, I must ask you something important." He started, Sango's quick nod telling him to go on. "Will you bear my child?" He asked her for the umpteenth time.
Sango's eyebrow started to twitch with annoyance at the ruined moment. Angrily, she slapped the monk upside the head before flouncing down angrily beside the slumbering Kitsune muttering something about delinquent monks and hell.
Miroku chuckled in return rubbing the back of his head as settling down on the soft earth himself. At least he had gotten her to think of something else besides their current predicament. His idle smile suddenly turned sad. Had they a stable future together, he could make good on his promises and stop fooling around. With a sigh he closed his eyes, slipping into a dreamless slumber.
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Inuyasha hissed defensively as Sesshomaru gently descended towards the ground. 'What the hell is he doing here?' Inuyasha thought angrily, not at all happy to see his older sibling.
Kagome peeked behind Inuyasha's back to get a better look at the new arrival, all the while wondering the exact same thing. A very real possibility suddenly struck her. Was he here to fight Inuyasha? She thought frantically, recalling how sick Inuyasha was. Well, she wasn't going to let that happen. She quickly stepped from behind Inuyasha's daunting form to inform Sesshomaru of his sickness.
'What the hell was wrong with this girl!?!? Had she lost her mind!?!?' Inuyasha thought, his mouth slightly agape. A sudden fierce wave of protectiveness washed over him as he griped the moronic girl by her shoulder, pushing her back behind him. He wasn't sure why he had wanted to protect this stupid human girl, but something inside him urged him to do it anyway. Maybe it was because she was too weak to defend herself, he reasoned.
Sesshomaru's feet softly settled onto the pliable soil as he slowly assessed his Hanyou brother and his human mate with a cool gaze. Inuyasha's blood was undergoing some kind of change again, even though his outward appearance showed no sign of anything amiss.
"What the hell do you want!?!?" Inuyasha yelled belligerently, trying to force a response from the enigmatic older youkai.
"The Tetsusaiga of course." Sesshomaru said, his eyes momentarily darting to the sword strapped to Inuyasha's waist.
Inuyasha's frowned in confusion. 'The Tetsusaiga?' Inuyasha thought confusedly, until Sesshomaru's gaze flitted to the object strapped to his side. He carefully took the ancient looking sword from its sheath to inspect it. He wasn't sure why Sesshomaru wanted this sword, but he wasn't going to get it. Inuyasha took the sword, dropping into a fighting stance. "Well you'll have to fight me to get it!" He yelled to Sesshomaru, determination shinning in his eyes.
At Inuyasha's challenge, Kagome became greatly alarmed. Inuyasha was sick! He couldn't fight!! When she saw Sesshomaru charge at Inuyasha, she immediately took action, not even thinking about the consequences.
Sesshomaru stopped just inches from the protective figure poised in front of his intended victim. "Inuyasha, stop hiding behind you human mate before I kill the both of you." He replied curtly, flexing his clawed hands for emphasis.
"Y-you can't fight him! He's sick!" Kagome implored him, to Inuyasha's outrage, her heart beating rapidly within her heart.
Sesshomaru straightened, looking down at the foolish girl, taking in the information that the girl had relayed to him. So that's what was wrong with the hanyou, and by the smell of his changing blood, he could tell it was some sort of blood disease. Sesshomaru drew back, starting to slowly levitate. "I can't kill you because you are sick and therefore you would not be a challenge to kill." He said matter-of-factly, quickly ascending upward into the sky.
Kagome finally lowered her arms in relief, her heart still racing. That was close! She sighed aloud, turning to Inuyasha.
Inuyasha had been more than ready to rant and rave at her for her stupidity until Sesshomaru said something that had startled him. His human mate!?!? Was that true!?!? It would explain many of the strange ways that he felt about her. He turned to her giving her an enigmatic look as he slowly sheath his Tetsusaiga, creating a soft click as he did so. After staring at her a moment he turned his back to her, walking into the hut.
Kagome looked at Inuyasha's retreating form angrily. He wasn't even going to thank her for saving his life!? Kagome was ready to tell him what she thought of his ungratefulness when his next statement shocked her speechless.
Inuyasha stopped, noticing that the girl wasn't following him into the hut. He turned around, an unnamable emotion shining in his eyes. "Hurry up, mate."
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