Under the Pale
Autumn Moon
Inuyasha sat on his couch, clasping
and unclasping his hands, his mind kept drifting to Kikyo, she was
such an odd girl, kind of cold, but then again, she did fall from the
sky, and it gets really cold up there if you go up high
enough.
Kagome watched him, she felt bad about lying to him
about being Kikyo, but she really wanted to have that human
body.
"You look down in the dumps, Inu," Kagome said
softly as she floated over to Inuyasha, he only shrugged and looked
away, "Is something the matter?"
Inuyasha shook his
head and looked away again, his mind was drifting, and he wasn't
really listening to Kagome anymore.
"Inuyasha?"
Inuyasha
looked up and met Kagome's blue-gray eyes. Hers were so much warmer
than Kikyo's, full of life, even if she wasn't human; it put his mind
at ease to be so close to Kagome. She hesitantly sat down on the
couch next to him, clearing her throat; she searched her brain for
something to break the silence.
"So, how've you been?"
Inuyasha cursed, he was never good at opening conversations.
"Oh
can't complain," Kagome shrugged and giggled when she notice
Inuyasha relax.
After their little conversation,
Kagome floated over Inuyasha who was dozing on the couch. He'd
released himself from his sealing spell, and it flattered Kagome. The
thought that he trusted her enough to become a hanyou in front of her
touched her for some reason.
The memory of when she first saw
Inuyasha as a hanyou came back to her and she began to giggle.
Inuyasha cracked open an and looked at her, "What's so
funny?"
Kagome grinned, "I didn't know that dogs
purred."
Inuyasha looked confused for a second before
remembering her touching his ears, and his purring, he blushed and
then huffed, "Dogs don't purr."
"Then what were
you doing when I touched your ears?"
"Growling
friendly-like," Inuyasha stated as if it were the simplest thing
in the world, "Now don't bug me."
Kagome giggled and
stroked his ears, Inuyasha fought the urge to 'growl friendly-like'
but failed miserably, he leaned into Kagome's embrace and they just
stay like that for a while.
Suddenly Shippou came charging
through the doorway and was surprised to see a hanyou on the couch
the peeping tom was suppose to own, "Ack!"
"Oh
shit," Inuyasha muttered and pounced on the boy.
Kagome
sighed, "Should have seen this coming..."
Shippou
yelped when Inuyasha landed on top of him, "Alright brat, you're
not going to say a word of what you just saw, understand?"
Inuyasha
transformed back into his human form, and chuckled when Shippou's
eyes got larger than saucers.
"Now, I'm going to let go
of you, and you're going to leave and act as if nothing happened,
ok?"
Shippou nodded and as soon as Inuyasha removed his
hand he was out of there, screaming, "Sango-Sama, Sango-Sama,
Sango-Sama, Sango-Sama! I have something to tell you!"
Inuyasha
cursed and raced after Shippou. Leaving Kagome to drift out the
window and down to the second story. She transformed into Kikyo and
rang the doorbell promptly.
Miroku answered the door and
grinned, "Why, my dreams must be coming true, for an angel as
fallen from the sky, how may I be of service, milady?"
Kagome
rolled her eyes, "Grow up, that was the lamest pick-up line I've
ever heard, anyways, is Inuyasha home?" she asked already
knowing the answer.
Miroku grinned, "Ah, so this is were
Inuyasha has been going lately!"
Kagome sighed,
"Hentai."
Miroku moved aside and allowed Kagome to
walk in, just in time to see Shippou run by followed by a pissed off
human Inuyasha.
Inuyasha paused when he saw Kagome and smiled,
"Hey."
"Hello," Kagome said
politely.
Inuyasha walked over to Kikyo smiling, "Miroku,
kill Shippou for me, I'm busy."
Miroku grinned, bowed,
and then left the two alone.
Inuyasha sighed and turned to
face Kagome, he smiled sweetly. Kagome felt her heart flutter, but
then she reminded herself that he was smiling at Kikyo, not
Kagome.
He started walking out of the house and she followed,
they walked in silence until Inuyasha finally said, "Do you
believe in ghosts?"
"What do you mean?" Kagome
asked, curious.
"I mean, do you believe in people who can
move through walls, who can float, can turn translucent at will, that
kind of stuff?"
Kagome smiled, she was about to say yes
when she felt a weird feeling come over her, it felt like she didn't
have control over her body, and she couldn't stop herself, "Oh
course not, that is an ignorant thing to believe."
Kagome's
eyes widened, how could she say that? That wasn't what she was going
to say! This was so odd and Kagome was so confused.
Inuyasha
nodded, "I suppose it is, but it doesn't stop me in believing
it," he said quietly, so quietly Kagome had to strain to hear,
she regretted it because she felt her body moving without
her.
"You're an optimistic aren't you?" she sneered.
Kagome gasped deep within her, what was happening, she suddenly broke
into a run, "I'm sorry I have to go!"
Inuyasha
watched her go sadly, "I guess being an optimistic moron is
better than being lonely and pessimistic."
Inuyasha
walked up the staircase towards his room, he really wanted to talk to
Kagome, though she was the most annoying person in the world, he
liked talking to her, she always made him feel better.
He
opened the door and was happy to see that Kagome was hanging upside
down staring at him as she hugged a stuffed hamster.
He
smiled and flopped down onto his bed, and released himself from his
sealing spell (after making sure the door was locked).
He
moved over to click on a light to discover that the light bulb was
burned out, he sighed.
He then looked up at Kagome and
grinned, "Kagome?"
"Hm?"
"How
many floating people does it take to change a light bulb?"
Kagome gave him a dry look, "One, in other words: you."
Kagome
rolled her eyes, "Yes, heaven forbid you get off your lazy
ass."
She floated up and into the room above him and the
light suddenly came on, she floated back rubbing her hands together
as if she had been burned.
"What'd you do?" Inuyasha
asked curiously.
"I sparked the light bulb," Kagome
stated matter-of-factly, she looked at his bemused expression and
laughed, "I'm a miko, I have these powers."
She
clutched her mouth and realized what she just said; she'd never told
anyone since the curse that she was miko.
Inuyasha shrugged,
but something was pulling in his mind, like a story of a miko he'd
heard before, he didn't know where though.
Suddenly the
window burst open and Miroku stood triumphantly, he held up a victory
sign with his fingers and started doing a little dance right in his
room.
Sango soon followed, grumbling about the injustice of
cooks, and Shippou came in armed with a baseball bat.
While
Shippou and Sango were trying to stop Miroku from making a complete
ass of himself Inuyasha quickly put his sealing spell on.
Finally
Sango tackled Miroku to the ground, "Shut up you stupid
cook!"
Miroku grinned, "HA! You owe me ten
dollars!"
"But, Miroku, you owe me five dollars,"
Shippou piped up.
Inuyasha looked confused for a second before
clearing his throat, all three of the companions looked up in
surprise, having forgotten about Inuyasha for a moment.
"What
the hell are you three doing?"
Sango grumbled, "Miroku
said you talked to your 'imaginary friend' and I didn't think it was
true, so I made a bet, and Shippou made a bet that you're door would
be locked, making us have to use the window."
Shippou and
Miroku grinned, both pocketing their five dollars.
