Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or money, so suing would be
pointless.
As it Should Be
The group had been walking for two and a half weeks now, and got
along no better than when they started.
"Get your hand off my ass, dammit!" Sango yelled at Miroku, who had a
satisfied look on his face. Shippou was riding on Kagome's shoulder
and Inuyasha was walking beside them, but not participating in the
conversation. He was deep in thought when a question Shippou asked
Kagome sparked his interest.
"How'd you know what to do to kill that demon? Did you wait for
Inuyasha to get toasted before you got him? Or did that just happen?"
Shippou looked at her expectantly. She fidgeted, knowing that
Inuyasha was within hearing distance.
"Well, it was pretty obvious when he dodged the scroll instead of
burning it to spite me, like he was doing with everyone else."
Shippou nodded. "My arrows weren't easily dodged by him, but didn't
seem to get lodged in there very well, so I tied a scroll to my
arrow. You helped me a lot, Shippou, I would have never gotten that
close if you hadn't of concealed my presence from the youkai." She
tried to divert his attention with the praise.
"But you would have been just fine because Inuyasha had distracted
him by almost dying, so you could've probably gotten close anyway,
right?" Kagome smiled. What's lost is lost.
"Probably, Shippou." She nodded her head. Inuyasha was a bit troubled
by this. He had almost died? Kagome had saved everyone? Maybe she was
tougher than he had thought. Or maybe just lucky… He would like to
think so anyway. How did he recover so fast if he had almost died?
The question that really nagged at his mind wasn't any one of those,
though. His mind flashed back to her bloodied kimono and her scar he
had glimpsed when she pulled her kimono on before they left their
recovery spot by the water. How did she get hurt?
They set up camp that evening and Miroku and Sango were whispering
about something while the kitsune slept in Sango's lap. Kagome had
just started the fire and walked over to sit beside Inuyasha.
"So what did you and Kouga talk about behind the trees for so long
about?" Inuyasha raised an eyebrow at the Priestess who smiled
innocently.
"I don't know what you're talking about, when was this?" Kagome
blinked up at him with a vacuous expression playing across her face.
The firelight highlighted her long hair and made her skin appear
almost golden. She looked like an angel with her kimono flowing over
her small frame and onto the log the two had chosen to reside upon.
His heart ached, and he didn't know why.
"You know what I mean," Inuyasha huffed "and don't play stupid. What
did you two talk about?" Kagome wondered whether or not she should
tell him or play with him a bit more. She looked up into his amber
eyes that were made golden by the firelight and his hair held a
silver hew by the pale moonlight and decided to go ahead and tell
him.
"We broke up." Kagome busied herself poking into the fire. She didn't
want him to see her face. The hope and love was just too hard to
hide. In the three weeks she had known him, something had risen up on
the inside that she had never known existed. It felt like she had
come home for the first time, though she had never been farther from
it.
"Kagome," Inuyasha said softy and raised up her chin with a single
finger, he could have sworn that he smelled the salty waft of a tear
escaping her eye "how did you get hurt if you killed the demon while
it was killing me?" Kagome looked down at the ground.
"Naosu Kokan, she said "it's a healing scroll that is a media for
transferring wounds from one person to another. The scroll also takes
on some of the wounds itself."
"Why did you do it?" Inuyasha asked, looking deep into her brown eyes
that watered slightly as she pulled away.
"Because I thought you--were going to die." Kagome got up and started
walking over to the trees. She was about to cry and she didn't want
Inuyasha or anyone else seeing her do it. Miroku and Sango were
pretending not to notice when Kagome left and Inuyasha got up to
follow her. They giggled and whispered loudly.
Kagome had sat down on a rotting log and put her head in her hands.
The tears flowed freely down her cheeks and spotted the ground at her
feet, though still no sobs escaped from her throat. Inuyasha stood
behind her and smelled the tears and heard them drop on the ground.
He spoke softly to her after watching for a little while.
"Kagome, thank you for saving me. I can only hope that I can do the
same for you someday." He put his hand on her back and she turned
around and hugged him. Inuyasha was stunned, but after a moment,
hugged back. This felt so right. He didn't understand why or how he
could fall in love again, but somehow he had. He pushed her back
slightly with is hands and tilted his head down and sideways. When
she looked up to see why he had stopped the embrace, he touched her
lips with his in a soft kiss of a hanyou in love.
Kagome was in a daze all the next day. Was it just her, or was
everyone getting along a little better?
"Kagome," Shippou asked "why isn't everyone killing each other?"
Kagome sighed.
"Because, we're all tierd. Except you I guess, huh Shippou?" She
mumbled. He was bouncing up and down on her shoulder and she was
dragging her feet on the ground. She and Inuyasha had stayed up last
night talking about just normal stuff. She didn't get much sleep
either. They had both come to the conclusion that one of the reasons
that Miroku and Sango were so weird was that they were trying to get
them to fess up their feelings to one another. Kagome couldn't wait
to tell Sango.
"Why don't you ride on Inuyasha for awhile while I go talk to Sango
for a second, okay?"
"Okay" Shippou chirped. These damn kids didn't realize exactly how
much he knew did they? Oh well, the dumb kid questions yesterday had
gotten these weirdoes to fess up to one another the night before. It
was about goddamn time.
Kagome walked over to Sango and she sent Miroku away to go talk to
Inuyasha.
"Oh, Sango! I'm in love, I admit, you were right. And he kissed me
last night! It was incredible, I never knew love could feel like
this!" Sango looked on appreciatively.
"Yeah, it was obvious to everyone but yourselves. You should thank
Miroku, Shippou, and me for our careful plotting." Sango grinned.
"Shippou?" Kagome asked quizzically.
"Yeah, he came up with most of the plan himself, kind of a wily
little thing isn't he?" Sango smiled fondly at the memory and the
look on Kagome's face.
"I love you girl, and I'm very happy for you."
"Thanks Sango, I never could have done it without you." Kagome could
have never been happier, except that just then she fell down an
enormous hole and barely managed to grab onto a vine about six feet
down. Sango jumped to the side and barely managed to miss it.
"Kirara, go get her!" Sango yelled and Kirara transformed and
retrieved Kagome in an instant. Inuyasha was instantly at her side.
"What the fuck just happened?" he asked angrily. A soft but
unsettling laugh rumbled up from inside the hole. The whole group
tensed. Inuyasha cracked his knuckles.
"You messed with Kagome, so prepare to die, asshole."
"Inuyasha…" Kagome breathed.
(A/n: Wow, I think that was the longest chapter I've ever managed!
Yay… I love romance…Wow… anywho, review because it's nice to review
what you read. Like cows review what they eat because of their
multiple stomachs. And they love it. You should, too. Kisses!)
*Mwah*
mumu
pointless.
As it Should Be
The group had been walking for two and a half weeks now, and got
along no better than when they started.
"Get your hand off my ass, dammit!" Sango yelled at Miroku, who had a
satisfied look on his face. Shippou was riding on Kagome's shoulder
and Inuyasha was walking beside them, but not participating in the
conversation. He was deep in thought when a question Shippou asked
Kagome sparked his interest.
"How'd you know what to do to kill that demon? Did you wait for
Inuyasha to get toasted before you got him? Or did that just happen?"
Shippou looked at her expectantly. She fidgeted, knowing that
Inuyasha was within hearing distance.
"Well, it was pretty obvious when he dodged the scroll instead of
burning it to spite me, like he was doing with everyone else."
Shippou nodded. "My arrows weren't easily dodged by him, but didn't
seem to get lodged in there very well, so I tied a scroll to my
arrow. You helped me a lot, Shippou, I would have never gotten that
close if you hadn't of concealed my presence from the youkai." She
tried to divert his attention with the praise.
"But you would have been just fine because Inuyasha had distracted
him by almost dying, so you could've probably gotten close anyway,
right?" Kagome smiled. What's lost is lost.
"Probably, Shippou." She nodded her head. Inuyasha was a bit troubled
by this. He had almost died? Kagome had saved everyone? Maybe she was
tougher than he had thought. Or maybe just lucky… He would like to
think so anyway. How did he recover so fast if he had almost died?
The question that really nagged at his mind wasn't any one of those,
though. His mind flashed back to her bloodied kimono and her scar he
had glimpsed when she pulled her kimono on before they left their
recovery spot by the water. How did she get hurt?
They set up camp that evening and Miroku and Sango were whispering
about something while the kitsune slept in Sango's lap. Kagome had
just started the fire and walked over to sit beside Inuyasha.
"So what did you and Kouga talk about behind the trees for so long
about?" Inuyasha raised an eyebrow at the Priestess who smiled
innocently.
"I don't know what you're talking about, when was this?" Kagome
blinked up at him with a vacuous expression playing across her face.
The firelight highlighted her long hair and made her skin appear
almost golden. She looked like an angel with her kimono flowing over
her small frame and onto the log the two had chosen to reside upon.
His heart ached, and he didn't know why.
"You know what I mean," Inuyasha huffed "and don't play stupid. What
did you two talk about?" Kagome wondered whether or not she should
tell him or play with him a bit more. She looked up into his amber
eyes that were made golden by the firelight and his hair held a
silver hew by the pale moonlight and decided to go ahead and tell
him.
"We broke up." Kagome busied herself poking into the fire. She didn't
want him to see her face. The hope and love was just too hard to
hide. In the three weeks she had known him, something had risen up on
the inside that she had never known existed. It felt like she had
come home for the first time, though she had never been farther from
it.
"Kagome," Inuyasha said softy and raised up her chin with a single
finger, he could have sworn that he smelled the salty waft of a tear
escaping her eye "how did you get hurt if you killed the demon while
it was killing me?" Kagome looked down at the ground.
"Naosu Kokan, she said "it's a healing scroll that is a media for
transferring wounds from one person to another. The scroll also takes
on some of the wounds itself."
"Why did you do it?" Inuyasha asked, looking deep into her brown eyes
that watered slightly as she pulled away.
"Because I thought you--were going to die." Kagome got up and started
walking over to the trees. She was about to cry and she didn't want
Inuyasha or anyone else seeing her do it. Miroku and Sango were
pretending not to notice when Kagome left and Inuyasha got up to
follow her. They giggled and whispered loudly.
Kagome had sat down on a rotting log and put her head in her hands.
The tears flowed freely down her cheeks and spotted the ground at her
feet, though still no sobs escaped from her throat. Inuyasha stood
behind her and smelled the tears and heard them drop on the ground.
He spoke softly to her after watching for a little while.
"Kagome, thank you for saving me. I can only hope that I can do the
same for you someday." He put his hand on her back and she turned
around and hugged him. Inuyasha was stunned, but after a moment,
hugged back. This felt so right. He didn't understand why or how he
could fall in love again, but somehow he had. He pushed her back
slightly with is hands and tilted his head down and sideways. When
she looked up to see why he had stopped the embrace, he touched her
lips with his in a soft kiss of a hanyou in love.
Kagome was in a daze all the next day. Was it just her, or was
everyone getting along a little better?
"Kagome," Shippou asked "why isn't everyone killing each other?"
Kagome sighed.
"Because, we're all tierd. Except you I guess, huh Shippou?" She
mumbled. He was bouncing up and down on her shoulder and she was
dragging her feet on the ground. She and Inuyasha had stayed up last
night talking about just normal stuff. She didn't get much sleep
either. They had both come to the conclusion that one of the reasons
that Miroku and Sango were so weird was that they were trying to get
them to fess up their feelings to one another. Kagome couldn't wait
to tell Sango.
"Why don't you ride on Inuyasha for awhile while I go talk to Sango
for a second, okay?"
"Okay" Shippou chirped. These damn kids didn't realize exactly how
much he knew did they? Oh well, the dumb kid questions yesterday had
gotten these weirdoes to fess up to one another the night before. It
was about goddamn time.
Kagome walked over to Sango and she sent Miroku away to go talk to
Inuyasha.
"Oh, Sango! I'm in love, I admit, you were right. And he kissed me
last night! It was incredible, I never knew love could feel like
this!" Sango looked on appreciatively.
"Yeah, it was obvious to everyone but yourselves. You should thank
Miroku, Shippou, and me for our careful plotting." Sango grinned.
"Shippou?" Kagome asked quizzically.
"Yeah, he came up with most of the plan himself, kind of a wily
little thing isn't he?" Sango smiled fondly at the memory and the
look on Kagome's face.
"I love you girl, and I'm very happy for you."
"Thanks Sango, I never could have done it without you." Kagome could
have never been happier, except that just then she fell down an
enormous hole and barely managed to grab onto a vine about six feet
down. Sango jumped to the side and barely managed to miss it.
"Kirara, go get her!" Sango yelled and Kirara transformed and
retrieved Kagome in an instant. Inuyasha was instantly at her side.
"What the fuck just happened?" he asked angrily. A soft but
unsettling laugh rumbled up from inside the hole. The whole group
tensed. Inuyasha cracked his knuckles.
"You messed with Kagome, so prepare to die, asshole."
"Inuyasha…" Kagome breathed.
(A/n: Wow, I think that was the longest chapter I've ever managed!
Yay… I love romance…Wow… anywho, review because it's nice to review
what you read. Like cows review what they eat because of their
multiple stomachs. And they love it. You should, too. Kisses!)
*Mwah*
mumu
