A/N-So sorry this wasn't up sooner. See, I go through certain phases of creativity and I kind of switch off between drawing and writing and lately, I've been in the drawing phase so I've just been spending my time drawing fanart and other pictures. That's exactly what happened before when I was writing all those Tamora Pierce and Harry Potter fanfics. I just fell out of writing for awhile and I just drew and painted but then I got back into writing but I started writing for Inuyasha instead so yeah. No worries though people, I'm staying here. I just gotta motivate myself to write and update and stuff. I can just draw during math class. That works. I would post my Inuyasha fanart somewhere but it's kind of…errr… "suggestive." Well, I suppose I could post it. It's really not that suggestive. It really isn't. It's just lots of Kagome and Inuyasha fluff scenes ^_^
Disclaimer-I do not own the Inuyasha characters. I do own a poster of Samurai Deeper Kyo that's hanging on my wall right now and I'm looking at it but that's really got nothing to do with anything.
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When Did Things Get Complicated?
Chapter XVIII
Inuyasha paced around the clearing nervously. Kagome hadn't come. He had been waiting for an hour and a half now and she still hadn't shown up. He tried to find her scent in the forest just in case she had gotten lost (which wasn't likely since they both knew this area of the forest like the back of their hands) but no such luck.
What if something had happened to her? Something had to have happened to her; she wouldn't just leave him waiting in the clearing like this. Or maybe she would? Maybe he was just kidding himself and she was just like all the others. All the other people who saw him as some sort of monster.
'Idiot! You know she isn't like that!' Inuyasha told himself. He did know. But then why wasn't she here?
Inuyasha glared towards the human realm. It had to be Naraku. He had to have done something to her! He found out that she had the jewel and-Inuyasha's thoughts stopped short as he realized that if this were what had happened, it was his fault since he had given her the jewel.
"Damn it!" Inuyasha cursed. He had done it! He had put Kagome in danger and now something horrible was happening to her! And here he was doing nothing! He couldn't live without Kagome anymore, since he now knew what it was like to not be lonely. He just couldn't live without her and he had to go do something!
Nodding decisively, he ran through the forest towards the human realm, knowing that he'd be able to find the castle easily if he just followed the way Kagome went all the time.
"That bastard is going to pay if even a hair on her head is hurt!" Inuyasha muttered to himself, growling. Inuyasha would make sure Naraku paid if anything happened to Kagome.
Just as he was at the edge of the forest, a solid body came colliding into him, knocking him back under the cover of the trees.
Growling, Inuyasha leapt to his feet and cracked his knuckles. His fighting stance was gone immediately when he saw that the person who had run into him was Sango, Kagome's friend.
"Inuyasha! What are you doing trying to leave the forest like that?" Sango hissed, looking over her shoulder to make sure no one had seen him.
"That bastard is doing something to Kagome! She didn't come to the clearing!" Inuyasha retorted angrily. "He's going to pay!"
"No, I forgot to tell you that Kagome stopped by this morning to tell me to tell you that she wasn't going to be able to make it today. She went somewhere and she wouldn't tell me why. She said it was too dangerous for me to know."
Inuyasha felt the tension in his shoulders ease as he breathed a sigh of relief. She must have gone somewhere to find out about the jewel. At least he knew that she wasn't in the clutches of Naraku.
"Sorry, I forgot," Sango told him sheepishly.
"That's alright. So long as Naraku doesn't have her."
"Now, hurry and leave before someone sees you!" Sango whispered, glancing over her shoulder again.
"Thanks Sango," Inuyasha said, before heading back towards demon realm, his fears about Kagome's safety appeased.
*
"Kagome! You came!" a small boy with long, white silver-hair, golden eyes, and pointy dog ears on his head cried happily, running towards her after hopping out of the tree he had been impatiently waiting in. Kagome looked around to find herself watching her younger self and a younger Inu-Yasha meet in the clearing.
"Of course I came silly!" her younger self said, running into the clearing and tapping his shoulder. "You're it!"
"Hey! That's not fair! I wasn't ready!" Inu-Yasha protested.
"Inu-Yasha! You're much faster than me! You can't handle catching me?" Kagome teased.
"I never said that!" Inu-Yasha pouted, and then ran towards her.
"Eep!" Kagome squeaked as she leapt to the side. Then she looked up at the sky. "Look! The stars! They're so pretty!" Inu-Yasha looked up.
"Hey, Kagome?" Inu-Yasha asked as they both lay back in the soft grass, looking up at the stars. "Do you think we'll remember today when we're older?"
"I'll remember it forever," Kagome declared. "My mama says that no one can forget a happy memory and I think this is one of the happy ones."
"Even if we never see each other again? We'll remember it, right?" Inu-Yasha asked.
"Of course! We always have to have happy memories to remember when times get bad. That's what father told me. So if it's a bad time, we can remember the happy times! And you're so pessimistic! Who says we'll never see each other again?"
"What's pessimistic?" Inuyasha asked.
"I don't know. I heard my mom use it once and I figured it fit here," Kagome admitted, shrugging.
"We'll never have a bad time though, right?" Inu-Yasha asked after long moments of silence.
"Nah, I don't think so. We'll always be happy because we always have each other," Kagome assured him.
"But what if we don't have each other? Then what? What if our parents separate us?"
"I don't know," Kagome admitted.
"I know! I'll come over and rescue you so we can run away and have lots of adventures. We could become pirates! Traveling the wide open seas and searching for buried treasure!" Inu-Yasha said excitedly.
"Ooh! Or gallant knights roaming the country performing good deeds!" Kagome said, happily clapping her hands.
"Girls can't be knights!" Inuyasha insisted.
"Yes they can so!" Kagome pouted.
"Well, I guess if you really wanted to, you could," Inuyasha said finally.
"I can!" Kagome insisted.
"But no matter what, we'll still have the memories of our times together and I think that that's enough even if something really bad happens," Inu-Yasha said.
Kagome nodded her agreement, though she doubted anything bad could ever happen to their fairy-tale life.
Inu-Yasha smiled.
Kagome watched Inu-Yasha slip his hand into younger Kagome's. Then there was a flash of light and a shadow fell over the clearing. Inu-Yasha disappeared and younger Kagome cried out in anguish.
"Inu-Yasha!!"
And then her younger self disappeared as well and she was alone in the dark clearing. Then a man in a white baboon pelt came out from under the cover of the trees. He pulled off the head of the pelt and she saw Naraku.
"What did you do to Inu-Yasha?" Kagome demanded.
"Me?" Naraku asked innocently. "Why nothing, of course."
Kagome began to rush forward, thinking to hit him or something when she saw the bodies of her mother and father lying at his feet. Her mother stood up, blood dripping from the wound in her back.
"Mama?" Kagome breathed as she slowed down to a stop.
"Why did you kill me?" her mother asked, her fingers, covered in her own blood, held out before her.
Kagome stepped back. "But I didn't!"
"Why, Kagome, why?" her mother cried.
Kagome fell to her knees shaking her head while she looked at the ground beneath her. "I didn't…I didn't…" she whispered.
"Why, Kagome, why?" her father asked, rising to his feet and joining the chant.
"I didn't…"
"But I did," Kagome heard someone announce. She looked up to see Naraku gone, replaced by her brother.
"I killed them and I'll kill again. I'll kill until the jewel is returned to me and you are next little sister," Shidosha said.
"No…" Kagome whispered. "You didn't!"
"I did," Shidosha said calmly.
Then Inu-Yasha came into the clearing and walked towards her, holding out his hand. His hand looked so warm and comforting. She placed her hand in his.
*
Kagome woke up gasping for breath, her heart pounding furiously against her rib cage and she realized that tears were streaming down her face. Her legs were tangled in the blankets from her tossing and turning. She clenched her fists as she tried to calm herself.
"It was a dream…" Kagome murmured to herself. The beginning of the dream was a memory. She remembered looking at the stars once with Inu-Yasha when she was nine years old. That had been the exact conversation they had had then.
When her heartbeat had calmed down and her breathing normalized, she laid back down on the sleeping mat but sleep did not come easily.
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A/N-I'm so fricken lucky. From this document I cut the next few chapters from it so I could post this chapter, but I forgot to paste what I cut before I saved the document and then I copied something else and lost the next few chapters. I was panicking because it was like twelve pages of stuff and I thought Word had a clipboard thing I could use but no, it doesn't have one. So then I was totally panicking thinking I could open this file again but then I remembered that I had already saved the new cut up document so finally I just undid everything and I saved the chapters. Hoorah! I'm so glad since I hate typing. But I'm so sad! This fic has only got about three more chapters left L It makes me sad since I don't want the story to end! *Sniff Sniff* Anyway…yeah, review…or else! Kukukukukuku ßEvil Naraku laugh ^_^
Review Responses:
Lylli Riddle-Isn't that what I said? I thought that was what I said. Anyway, I didn't say anything about Inuyasha using the jewel anyway ^_^
youkai chick supreme-Yes! Another death threat! Can my day get any better? First no math class, then sitting around a reading and drawing Inuyasha during the last two classes of the day (instead of going to math) and then a death threat! Woo hoo! No one ever takes my death threats seriously. But penguins armed to the teeth with rotten bananas are terrifying! They are! People need to take them more seriously!
Aoi Tsuki-I will fit in fluff! I'm just working so hard on the plot right now that I kinda keep forgetting bout the fluff. I will fit it in though! Probably next chapter or the one after that. I think…I will do something about Kagome's brother, no worries, but I won't tell you what I'm gonna do with him.
DragonGlare-Ooh, I'm glad it's getting exciting for you! I thought the whole Keade and Kagome talk was pretty boring but okay. If you thought it was exciting, that's awesome ^_^
raynamangga-Me too. I've never actually tasted it and that's strange considering I've tried all sorts of weird food combinations. (Pineapple juice and pickles are good. They taste pretty good when they're separate too ^_^) I still hate him too. I thought about killing him off for awhile and to be honest, I still am.
Dark Shadows aka Shade-That would be a way. I'm not going to tell you what happens so hah! Kukukuku! ßEvil laugh again
Minako-chan-Originally, this chapter didn't have any Inuyasha until Kagome got back from Kaede's home but then I read your review and I added some stuff with him at the beginning just for you ^_^
Hanamaru285-Wee! I continued! (Finally)
Tamababymiko-chan-Out of curiosity, are you a Fushigi Yuugi fan or is the 'Tamababy' part of your name just from the Shikon no Tama? Because I know Nuriko calls Tamahome 'Tamababy' in Fushigi Yuugi (Even though Nuriko is a ***! I blotted that out for all you who haven't seen or read Fushigi Yuugi yet even though it's not really a spoiler since it happens in like the second or third manga, don't remember which. I think it's second though.) Anywho, hmm…maybe Kaede and Kagome's talk wasn't as boring as I thought it was. So, who else wants to help me and Tamababymiko-chan kill Shidosha? *Holds up short sword* Any takers?