Aa, shitsurei shimashita!!! I'm a baka, I made the list because the word "nete" reminded me to, then I forgot to put nete in…gomen ne!
Nete=a polite command for "to sleep", like itte. It sounded better to me than, "Sleep, Kagome; sleep" so I used it.
Shitsurei shimashita: basically a big apology; used mostly for people superior in social status to you (ie, instead of saying "Gomen nasai" (sorry) to your boss, you'd use Shitsurei shimashita). Literally translated, means "I've committed a rudeness"
Koibito: keeping up with another of my "favorite words in Japanese that tie in with my fan-fic somehow", I'll translate this here. Koibito means lover/sweetheart/soulmate; probably my second favorite word in Japanese ^_^.
Ocha: Standard word for 'tea', sounds really harsh if you drop the 'o' but still means the same thing.
Oh well, back to the fic…most of you probably didn't see chapter 6, because even I couldn't find it; I posted it at like 8:30 last night but Fanfiction.net didn't update for a loooong time (ie I was up at midnight and it still didn't show). Oh well, you just get to read two chapters in a row then ^_^ enjoy!
I don't own Inuyasha; since I don't own him, my ideas are nothing more than faceless entities swirling somewhere in the depths of an Internet server. But you all seem to like them, and I really appreciate it ^,^
Chapter Seven
The forest—the night before seeming as if it were a dark monster, poised to spring, to coil, to suffocate—took on a completely different aspect as it jumped up over the horizon and suffused the forest with a glow of piquant beauty; a beautiful glow none too different than that which illuminated the sleeping faces of Kagome and Inuyasha, still propped up against the tree.
Inuyasha, however, was not asleep for long after the rising sun; less than a quarter of an hour after the sun began it's heavenward climb, Inuyasha's eyes fluttered open at the sudden change of light.
He yawned mightily and began reaching his foot up to scratch his ear (a/n: he can do this, by the way: he did it once in the anime after he was woken up by Sango frapping Miroku over the head with her bone boomerang), but stopped as something told him to stop. Blinking stupidly, he yawned as he looked down at whatever was stopping him from scratching his ears—and promptly stopped as he realized it was Kagome.
"It wasn't a dream?" Inuyasha wondered out loud as he recanted the previous night; Kagome running into his arms, crying about something she thought she'd done to her. He remembered holding her close to his chest, tears streaming down her face as he looked down into her eyes…sitting against the tree, Kagome's head in his lap as he stroked her hair, whispering for her to stop crying…
It wasn't a dream.
He sat a moment more, savoring this memory so that his inner light would have another weapon in which to fight the darkness of his life's experiences, before he gingerly took off his outer kimono and rolled it into a soft pillow.
Lifting Kagome's head, gently so as not to disturb her, he slid himself out from under her and placed his kimono-pillow under her head. He turned towards the forest, but something held him as he looked back at Kagome, her face that of a radiant angel in her sleep.
He returned to her side once more, kneeling as he held her head to his chest and whispered,
"Sleep well, Kagome."
He regretfully released his hold upon her as he turned towards the green, tangled mass of life that surrounded them both; with one final, longing look, he leapt into the air and sniffed the air around him for any sign of prey.
It was time for the hunt.
Aa, shitsurei shimashita!!! I'm a baka, I made the list because the word "nete" reminded me to, then I forgot to put nete in…gomen ne!
Nete=a polite command for "to sleep", like itte. It sounded better to me than, "Sleep, Kagome; sleep" so I used it.
Shitsurei shimashita: basically a big apology; used mostly for people superior in social status to you (ie, instead of saying "Gomen nasai" (sorry) to your boss, you'd use Shitsurei shimashita). Literally translated, means "I've committed a rudeness"
Koibito: keeping up with another of my "favorite words in Japanese that tie in with my fan-fic somehow", I'll translate this here. Koibito means lover/sweetheart/soul mate; probably my second favorite word in Japanese ^_^.
Ocha: Standard word for 'tea', sounds really harsh if you drop the 'o' but still means the same thing.
Baka: Anybody who watches anime should know this; hell, it's probably the only word as widely known as 'hai'. For those few who don't, it means fool, idiot, or stupid (when used as an adjective)
Oh well, back to the fic…most of you probably didn't see chapter 6, because even I couldn't find it; I posted it at like 8:30 last night but Fanfiction.net didn't update for a loooong time (ie I was up at midnight and it still didn't show). Oh well, you just get to read two chapters in a row then ^_^ enjoy!
I don't own Inuyasha; since I don't own him, my ideas are nothing more than faceless entities swirling somewhere in the depths of an Internet server. But you all seem to like them, and I really appreciate it ^,^
--Later, back at the campsite…--
"Inuyasha…," Kagome mumbled in her sleep, reaching up to where he still lay in her dreams; not wanting to leave this perfect place, not wanting to wake up and see that he was not still with her; comforting her; caring for her…
"Inuyasha?" She asked groggily as her head rolled off the makeshift pillow that Inuyasha had left for her; her dreams faded, darkened, and then vanished as her head tumbled onto the soft grass next to the blanket.
She sat up groggily, and looked at the spot where Inuyasha had sat the night before; holding her close…or had she merely dreamed it?
'No,' she told herself. 'I'm sure I didn't imagine it…right? I know I apologized to him, and he held me…but did he really…I mean, did he…'
"Oi, Kagome," Inuyasha said softly, seeing that Kagome had finally awakened. "Why are you staring at that tree???"
Kagome blushed a little in embarrassment as she turned around to say 'good morning' to Inuyasha—unfortunately for her, she was stopped in the middle of her greeting as an astounding sight met her eyes: Inuyasha was perched over a fire.
With a frying pan and kettle.
Cooking breakfast.
She felt a strange desire to go back to sleep as he stared back at her with questioning eyes; at the same time, she felt an even stronger desire (although this one was more understandable) to burst into a hysterical fit of giggles as she saw Inuyasha flipping over some form of steak in the frying pan as he stared back at her with puzzling eyes.
She decided to ignore both of these impulses, as the tangy aroma of whatever Inuyasha was cooking began making her stomach howl, as she hadn't had anything to eat since before last night.
She got up off the ground groggily, stumbling over a little dirt knoll in her bare feet, and finally plopped herself down next to Inuyasha just as he began taking the food (which, by now, was making Kagome absolutely ravenous) out of the frying pan and tossing it down upon the plate that he had borrowed from Kagome's travel-bag (how it had lasted this long without bursting at the seams from the strain, Inuyasha would never know), and thrust it into Kagome's arms.
"Here, eat. Even a human could hear your stomach from twenty feet away," he grumbled; Kagome was surprised to see that not only had he provided the meat, but there was also rice and even a couple of eggs on her plate; the kettle began to screech, and in a motion so fast Kagome only caught a glimpse, she suddenly had a cup of ocha to wash down her breakfast with.
Kagome began to speak, but Inuyasha cut her off before she got the second word out.
"You're hungry. Eat. Then you can say whatever you want," Inuyasha said as he tossed a second slab of meat onto the frying pan and set it over the fire. He then turned to Kagome diligently and waited expectantly until she began to eat; although a little nervous from his stare (and more nervous from his cooking, since he'd never cooked for them before and she suspected he'd never had much occasion to cook well for himself), began eating, and soon found to her surprise that it was actually quite good.
Within five minutes, she had eaten her substantial breakfast and drained several cups of tea, only to leave Inuyasha thinking, 'And here I thought that I'd cooked too much…'
Kagome sighed contentedly, then bowed her head to Inuyasha as she said, "Arigatou" (a/n: I'm not even going to bother to translate this; all of you should know, lol).
Inuyasha blushed slightly, then turned his head away as he muttered, "Feh, it's no big deal."
Kagome looked at the blush that slightly suffused his cheeks with a pinkish glow, then asked, "Thank you for the breakfast, but…ah…why did you cook it?"
He didn't answer, but his blush grew even deeper still as Kagome grew even more puzzled.
"Inuyasha…?" she inquired again.
"I…uh…Ididittomakeupforlastnight," he said quickly, his blush now painfully red as he jerked his head in the opposite direction as hers, trying to hide his…
'What, shame? I'm not ashamed of anything…what, then, in embarrassment!? I can't be embarrassed! Demons do NOT get embarrassed!!!!' He roared to himself.
Kagome herself blushed slightly at this straightforward (well, more straightforward than Inuyasha had ever been with her before) answer, then tried to force down her blush as she said, "It wasn't your fault, Inuyasha."
Inuyasha then whipped his now-red-hot face towards Kagome and then dropped his head and said,
"What do you mean, it was my fault—if I hadn't run off like that, I wouldn't have made you worry, and I wouldn't have hurt you and made you cry," he said, feeling his face (unbelievably) grow hotter.
It's amazing how many shades of red somebody's face can have.
Kagome, her face now nearly as red as Inuyasha's, turned her face down; the two young adults entering into a silence that seemed as loud as any argument they'd had before; and although Kagome could stand this for only a short length of time, Inuyasha couldn't stand it for any.
"Why were you crying?" He whispered to Kagome, turning his head towards hers; simultaneously lifting her head up gently by the chin with his clawed fingertips.
'Gods, I can't answer…even if I wanted to answer, I don't know why I cried…just, when I saw he was sad…and how much pain I thought I'd caused him, I just…I couldn't…,' she thought, still keeping her eyes averted to the side.
"Why, Kagome?"
"Because, I…I…"
'Gods, I can't do this!'
"Because I thought I'd…I thought that I'd…"
"You thought you'd what?" Inuyasha asked, still gently cradling her chin in his claws.
"I thought that I'd…," she tried again, but she gasped suddenly and whipped her head around as what felt like a lightning bolt ran through her head.
"Inuyasha!" She whispered, her voice going from halting and embarrassed to concerned and urgent in an amazingly fluid change.
Caught off guard by this sudden change, Inuyasha almost fell forward again, catching himself before he tumbled into the fire (and his now-sizzling steak).
"What!?" He cried, reflexively snapping back to his normal, what-the-hell-in-Kami's-name-is-going-on, self as Kagome instantly went from awkward and embarrassed to the urgent and half-concerned, half-afraid voice she used whenever there was a jewel shard near.
"Three jewel shards are near here: not fused, they're individual shards; and they're moving towards us faster than any human could."
'That's IT!?' Inuyasha cried to himself, then caught a hold of himself as he realized what he'd just said: whatever Kagome was about to say to him next was more important than the jewel shards.
Lifting his nose into the air, Inuyasha took a deep breath and smelled, and then immediately stopped: he'd gotten all he needed to know.
The smell of rot, leaving it's black footprints across green life; the faint, acrid stench of jaki growing stronger as it grew nearer; the reek of evil flowing out from it like a tide of filth.
And the final clue: the sweet smell of healing herbs, administered to a certain area among the back; the smell of what could almost be clay, but was, in reality, the flesh of a foul body.
Naraku's reincarnation of Onigumo had come again.
Bwa ha ha, I leave you with a cliffhanger. And by the way, if this doesn't get posted before midnight: I submitted it at 11:45, thus continuing my streak of updating once per day! MWA HA HA!
Hmmm…I'm slightly surprised I didn't get more reviews from chapter 6 (personally it's my favorite so far), but I'm guessing it's because fanfiction.net screwed it over by not showing it to people for some reason and not updating for a long time. Bah.
Oh well, there's all the translations of the Japanese words I think I've used so far: if I've missed any, feel free to hit that REVIEW button, and submit it in your REVIEW ^_^
Thoughts, comments, constructive criticism, fight scenes, gore scenes, love scenes, challenge fics, translations, all are welcome in your REVIEWS. Lol, I'm sleepy…I'll update again tomorrow, when my computer finally comes…^_^