MWA HAHAHAHAHA! I have finally reached 100 reviews! (Sorry, Sauratos, but you were two off from getting 100; I would, however, like to thank Ancient Zoidian for giving me my 100th review ^_^. ::Applause for Zoidian!::). I'm quite surprised I got this many (heh….I remember how excited and thrilled I was when I went to sleep after posting chapter two, and lo and behold—I had three reviews. That feeling, by the way, still has yet to diminish: I check back two or three times a day, and I read every review I get; aside from the fact that I just enjoy doing it, I figure if you guys take the time to write it, I should take the time to read it!)
Well, I have only one review response; and that one's to Sauratos (hahaha…nobody posted questions/stuff I could respond to, except saying "thank you" to everyone who reviewed ^_^). I still believe that Inuyasha and Kikyo weren't in love; Kikyo could have granted Inuyasha's wish to become a full demon—this would have granted Inuyasha's desire to become a full demon, and it would have been made by Kikyo in the name of love and purity.
Any other questions? (Looks around, sees nothing) All right then, on with the (no I don't own Inuyasha so stop reminding me) story!
Chapter Sixteen
Kagome grumbled as Inuyasha halted their journey through the forest (yet again), paused, sniffed the air, and continued their march. At first it had been a minor annoyance, but after he had started doing it every five to ten minutes, refusing to leave her side while he sniffed for something. When she, as a matter of course, had asked what in the world he was doing, he merely muttered, "None of your business".
She sighed; her possessiveness of her had been tolerable before, but since he'd kissed her (a slight blush still tinted her cheeks rosy pink every time she thought of it), it had increased to near intolerable. In one aspect, it was good: it meant he wasn't likely to run off anyone else, and he was always around to protect her; in every other way, it was bad, however.
She struggled to keep her temper in check as she heard the now-infuriating, 'Sniff…snuffle…sniffsniff…'; she began losing the battle, however, as he began their march again, only to halt not fifty paces onward.
'Damnit, we just had to find Kouga's new territory, didn't we?' Inuyasha grumbled to himself as he checked the forest for the distinct, musky smell of Kouga. The smell had faded in and out for several hours; sometimes so far away that Inuyasha could barely smell him, sometimes so close that he wonder how Kouga could not smell him back. 'Now he's going to find me and Kagome; I'm gonna try to fight him; Kagome's going to sit me; and he'll get away yet again, and…'
"INUYASHA! OSUWARI!"
BAM!
Unfortunately for Inuyasha, Kagome's patience had worn out three halts ago; it was amazing that she'd been able to hold herself back for so long, but her anger at his over protectiveness, combined with her anger at his other prominent faults (stubbornness, not telling people what they need to know, desire to get his own way all the time, just to name a few), finally made her reach a breaking point.
She strode over to where Inuyasha now lay, pinned to the ground by the rosary, and shouted, "Enough, baka! Now you're either going to tell me where we're going or I'm going to sit you till you're ten feet underground! Now are you going to tell me where we're headed to!?"
Inuyasha sat up, pride wounded heavily and anger flaring; coupled together, it was these that led him to his fatal mistake.
"Keh," he muttered, turning his head to the side.
"Inuyasha…," Kagome said in a dangerous voice that was far scarier than many youkai that the two had encountered together; Inuyasha realized the enormity of his mistake too late.
"OSUWARIOSUWARIOSUWARIOSUWARIOSUWARIOSUWARIOSUWARIOSUWARIOSUWARI!!!!!!!!!!!" Kagome screeched as the poor hanyou as flattened mercilessly against the ground, earth shaking underneath Kagome's feet as the rosary worked it's magic on Inuyasha.
"Now will you tell me?" She asked, smiling sweetly.
"Keh, why should I?" Ever clueless as to when he should give up his principles and just submit, Inuyasha growled back, face sunk deep into the soft earth. This, of course, was definitely the wrong answer.
"OSUWARI!"
'Gods, how can someone who acts as sweet as she does be such a bitch???' Inuyasha griped to himself, wind knocked out of him.
"How 'bout now?"
"How many times do I have to say, 'No!'!?" He snarled, and was rewarded by another, "OSUWARI!"
"Now?"
"Chikusho!" He muttered, face pushed deep into the ground. "Why the hell do you want to know so bad!?"
"Because I want to know why you're acting like a complete jerk today!" She screamed back.
"Keh."
"O. Su. WARI!"
This was too much for Inuyasha to take, however: after the spell on the rosary beads released him, he ripped himself up off the ground and snarled at Kagome,
"Fine, if you want to be mad at me for trying to protect you from that blasted Kouga, be that way!" This being said, he spun around; with a final glare back at Kagome, he leapt away, speeding through the forest even as a cheerful farewell was called by Kagome.
"Osuwari!"
A few hour's time found Inuyasha griping in a tree; reflexively cracking his knuckles as he tried to stoke the dying embers of anger in his heart, trying to convince himself he was still mad at Kagome. He recalled every argument they had had…every time she had sat him unfairly…every time she had been a jerk to him for no reason…yet nothing happened.
'Damnit, why in the seven hells can't I stay mad at her!?!?' Inuyasha growled to himself, paying more attention to his attempts to stay mad at Kagome than the warning bells going off in his head as the scent he had been searching for began to grow nearer. 'Why is she the only one that makes me feel like I should just do what she says, just so I can keep her near me?' The jangling bells in his head grew louder and louder as his olfactory senses rang upon the deaf ears of his brain. 'And why, why, WHY has she made me feel like this; so soft, so vulnerable? Even Kikyo never made me feel like that…could it possibly be…'
He never got a chance to finish his thought; the bells that had been jangling in his head exploded into sirens as Kouga burst into the clearing. Taken completely off his guard, Inuyasha could only watch dumbly as Kouga's foot collided solidly with the side of his face; he could only feel the pain coursing through his head, the blood flowing from his mouth; he could only hear Kouga's triumphant cry of,
"Inukoro! Thought you could just hit and run, didn't you?"
A little over a mile away, Kagome heard Inuyasha's cry of, "TEME!!!!"
'Oh, Gods, Kouga's found him…'
The return of the evil cliffhanger…bwa hahaha! At least you don't have to wait that long for me to update ^_^. I know that it's short, but if you guys want them to be longer, I'll only be able to update once every two days…heh; just let me know if you want it short and once per day or longer and once per every two days (possibly once per day if I'm able to). Oh, btw: if you guys want to hear a song that characterizes Inuyasha perfectly, listen to 'Headstrong' by Trapt: I'm extremely surprised no one has made an Inuyasha music video out of it yet…
Oh well, that's all for tonight…sleep I need, for tomorrow stuff I am going to do. Jaa!