Under the Pale
Autumn Moon
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Kagome fidgeted, suddenly getting
second thoughts about telling Inuyasha. She couldn't, if he knew,
then he might not help her.
"Never mind, it's not
important!" she quickly said as she stood up and tried to leave
by going around Inuyasha, he blocked her way, unfortunately.
"No
way, you're telling me it's very important!" Inuyasha gripped
her shoulders but her eyes grew that hazy look again and she slipped
right past him. He blinked in confusion and cursed.
Kagome
rushed outside of the house and towards the backyard, a place she
rarely went, and if she did, only in the spring or summer. It was
summer now, which meant that it would be the perfect time to look at
the plants.
She stopped in the garden. The garden she had
planted so many years ago, before Kikyou came into her life and made
it a living hell. That woman, first she had the nerve to look like
her, then she had to ruin her life by making her what she was
today.
She peered at her hands and felt the salty tears run
down her cheeks. She couldn't stand the thought of Kikyou and all
she'd done, all she would do.
She fell to her knees amid the
roses, the sweet smelling flowers helping her sobs stop. She wiped
them away and looked up into the sky, clouds were forming overhead
and she could feel it deep within her that there was going to be
rain.
She picked a rose and stroked the petals, picking them
one by one and throwing them into the wind. She sighed.
"What
are you doing?"
Kagome jumped and looked up at Inuyasha,
who stood over her, holding an umbrella over her head. She peered up;
it had started to rain, and after her storm prediction. She shrugged
and continued to stroke the petals and releasing them into the
rain-covered wind.
"What does it look like I'm doing,"
she said with her fake sweetness. She shrugged to herself and dropped
the now petal less rose stem.
He smiled softly and dropped to
his knees, holding the umbrella over her head, not caring or seeming
to notice that he was becoming drenched by not covering himself.
"A
wench like you shouldn't be out in the cold, it's bad for you, even
if you are unnatural," he said jokingly, trying to sound tough
but failing miserably, she laughed.
"What do you mean,
unnatural?" she said pushing him playfully. He growled and
pushed her slightly back, "Do you mean a freak show with elf
ears? A three eyed monster, someone who can control plants? Someone
who can spring a sword from her hand made completely out of energy?
Or maybe shooting a gun made of energy from your fingertip?"
She
laughed again and Inuyasha noticed how it sounded like ringing bells.
He chuckled along with her.
"Nah, I was talking about
transforming into a demon at will, or maybe growing an extra arm
where your belly button would be. Or being able to fly up five miles
into the sky. Or turn into a baby or a teenager at will," he
shrugged.
Kagome raised an eyebrow, "Turn into a baby at
will? That's weird."
Inuyasha snorted, "Well,
apparently I'm crazy, so it doesn't really matter now does it wench?
Now come inside, I'm not leaving my room, and I'm guessing you aren't
either, so I don't want your sneezing keeping me up all
night."
Kagome smiled, "I don't get colds."
Just as soon as it left her mouth, she sneezed. She looked up
sheepishly at Inuyasha, who gave her a smug look, "Oh, be
quiet."
Inuyasha sat on his couch with Kagome
floating over his head. Inuyasha stared in awe. Even if he'd been
living in this house for three days, he had yet to discover anything
that his room didn't have. A huge bed, a couch, a mini bar, a
fireplace, a TV, Hell, there was even a pool table that folded out
when you opened a door.
Inuyasha clicked off the TV with a
huge sigh and just sat in the darkness with Kagome, who would sneeze
every so often. Even if it had happened two days ago, she was still
sneezing.
"Don't get sick, huh?" he teased, breaking
the silence.
"Oh hush," she snapped from her
position in the air.
"I've been meaning to ask you,"
Inuyasha looked up at Kagome, who looked back down towards him, "in
the garden, why were you crying?"
Kagome stiffened and
looked away, fidgeting with her fingers she tried to think up a good
lie, "I, uh, was just thinking of something depressing."
She
smiled with fake cheerfulness, but Inuyasha shrugged, "Fine,
don't tell me, its not like I care."
"You're so
rude," she scowled at him and floated over to his large bed,"
good night."
"No way in hell are you sleeping on my
bed, wench," Inuyasha jumped from the bed and tackled Kagome
before she could pull her see-through stunt. He straddled her hips
and stared evilly at her, "The bed is mine."
Kagome
blushed, "Um..."
Inuyasha suddenly blushed as well
as he suddenly realized what he was doing, he got off her quickly and
sat, poking his two index fingers together.
The two sat in
silence for a long time, neither speaking nor daring to look at the
other.
Inuyasha cleared his throat and stood up, "Well, I
guess I'll go sleep on the couch."
Kagome watched him
travel across the blue carpet and plop onto the huge couch, large
enough in width, but his legs hung over the side, showing the muscles
through his pajama bottoms, they were long and lean.
Every
part of him was lean, muscular, but not too muscular. His long black
hair billowed out behind the arm of the couch. Kagome watched his
hair with curiosity. 'Why does a guy have such long hair?' she
asked herself as she floated over and touched the hair softly.
She
looked up at Inuyasha's face to make sure he was asleep, his face
looked calm, she liked that calm, the kind of calm you only witness
when one's asleep.
His hair slips between her fingers, its
silky texture tickling her fingers. For a moment, the black hair
became silver at the base, almost like the black hair was dyed, but
she pushed it aside as a hallucination, because the moment she
focused on it, it was gone.
She floated over him, watching his
face with a faraway look on her face. Reaching down she trailed her
fingers along his jaw line, his nose, his eyelids, and his lips. She
paused on the lips, they were soft, tender, not to thin and not to
fat.
Very kissable.
She shook that thought aside and
floated over to the bed that Inuyasha had allowed her to sleep in.
closing her eyes she huddled up into a ball, much like a cat, and
slept the rest of the night away.
Kagome floated
around the house, Inuyasha being the only one who can see her made it
very handy to get around without being noticed. All she had to do was
avoid Inuyasha. But today she was searching for him; as soon as she
awoke he was off the couch, somewhere.
She yawned, for a human
he sure could move quietly, Kagome was usually a light sleeper and
the slightest thing could wake her up, but somehow Inuyasha had snuck
off the couch, across the room, opened and closed a door, and walked
down a hall without he awakening.
"Maybe he's a ninja,
that would be a cool job," she spoke to herself, ninjas were the
only people she really had to listen for, not that she'd met many
ninjas, she'd met a band of them right before she and Kikyou had
their disputes.
She floated around the third story looking for
him, she'd never recalled him actually coming here, but she figured
he'd go anywhere to get away and have some alone time. Too bad she
was going to be interfering soon enough.
She finally came and
floated outside, searching the front yard, the back yard, and the
yards on the side. He was nowhere.
"He wouldn't actually
leave without saying goodbye would he?" she asked herself as she
peered around. Her sights settled on the forest. The dark forest that
resided near her old house, before her home landed with
Sango.
Kagome landed on the ground softly, anyone who was
looking at the blades of grass would have seen them bent and then go
back to normal position as Kagome ran across the lawn towards the
forest.
Rushing in she shot up into the sky with a sickeningly
high jump. She gasped loudly, she hadn't known she could jump that
high, peering over the forest's canopy, she searched for Inuyasha.
She began to descent but was too lazy to make herself float and
allowed herself to land in a clearing.
She peered around the
clearing and gasped again.
She wasn't alone.
