Hey all. Sorry that it took so long to get this chapter up, but I was
debating on whether to continue on with this fic or not. Let me know if I
should or if this is a total bust. I won't be hurt if it is a bust cause
my Valentine's Day fic (which I wrote after I hand wrote this one) did very
well I think. So for the few readers that are actually reading this I
thank you and would like to know what you think. Anyway, I'm rambling too
much so on with the chapter!
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha and characters, however Kika is a character that I made up. =^.^=
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Getting Through with Love
Chapter 5: Something's Wrong
"No, no, AHHH!" Inuyasha cried as he awoke. He sat up and was breathing heavily with sweat dripping down his face. He wiped it away with his hand and looked around the room.
"It was only a dream, or rather a nightmare." He sighed.
He looked around the room again and noticed that everyone was there except Kika. She's probably on guard duty. Inuyasha looked at his legs and tried to get up feeling that they should be strong enough to support him. He struggled a little but eventually was on his feet. He started walking towards the door wanting to get out of the stuffy hut and into the fresh night air. He was walking clumsily when he felt dizzy and saw everything start to spin. He lost his balance and fell flat on his face.
"Hey are you ok?" Kika asked coming into the hut. "You shouldn't be up."
"I know that, I'm not stupid! I just wanted some fresh air if that isn't too much to want!" he said trying to stand.
"Here let me help." Kika said as she set a hand on his shoulder. He smacked it away and got to his feet.
"I don't need your help." He growled slightly.
"Ok, geez."
Inuyasha walked out of the hut and a cool breeze wrapped around him. He sat down against the outside wall of the hut and pulled his knees up close to him, wrapping his arms around them. He breathed in deep, picking up different scents with his sensitive nose. He could smell the dew on the grass and the flowers that were growing out in the field.
"It's better being outside at night than cooped up in some hut. It's so quiet and a lot cooler than in there." He said pointing his thumb in the direction of the hut.
"Well I prefer being out in the daytime." Kika said. "I like the warmth of the sun and how everything is alive."
"Hmph, it's too noisy during the day, it hurts my ears."
"Oh."
The two sat in silence as it got a lot colder. Kika got up and dragged Inuyasha back into the hut, because he wouldn't get up and go back in himself, and the cold air wouldn't help his health any. She left him on his futon and then went back outside to continue her watch. Inuyasha closed his eyes and soon fell back to sleep.
However he wasn't asleep for long until he felt some extra weight on his chest and heard screaming. He opened his eyes and saw Kagome on top of him, kind of like she was protecting him.
"Fox Fire!" Shippo yelled.
At hearing this Inuyasha tried to get up but he was pushed back down by Kagome.
"Where is Inuyasha?" a voice shouted. "I need to avenge my village and family by slaying the demon who destroyed it sixty years ago!"
Inuyasha gently pushed Kagome off of him and got up to his feet. He stood shakily glaring at the man whom was looking at him.
"You are Inuyasha?" the man asked.
"Yeah, and you would be?"
"I am Osaki of the Tenchu clan. I am here to kill you Inuyasha for revenge on what you did to my village." The man said pointing a sword at Inuyasha.
"Feh, I'm not going to fight a weak human like you."
"I don't care if you will, but I shall kill you. Though you look ill that will not stop me from taking your life!" The man shouted charging Inuyasha. The man stopped though when Kagome stood in front of him.
"I will not let you harm him. He is recovering and in no condition to fight. Now leave or else you will have to deal with a priestess and a hanyou as well as a fox child." Kagome said to the man.
The man looked from Kagome to Kika and Shippo and then to Inuyasha.
"I will be back hanyou, and you soon shall face all of your enemies as well as many more." The man laughed and then ran out of the hut.
"Feh, whatever." Inuyasha grumbled. Then he went wide-eyed when he thought about what the man had said. He's planning to spread the word the of my weakened state. Shit. Inuyasha ran out the door as his anger, at allowing the man to leave knowing of his weakness, fueled his body and his demon blood surged inside of him. He caught up with the man in no time.
"You really didn't think that I'd let you get away so easily did you?" Inuyasha smirked as he saw horror spread over the man's face. "Pathetic human, you shall die!"
"No please, AHHH!" The man screamed his last breath of air as he fell limply to the ground, a large hole through his chest. Inuyasha smirked satisfied with the kill when he heard someone shout his name. He recognized it as Kagome's voice and his anger began to fade. He looked down at the corpse and ran towards the Goshinboku tree.
"What have I just done?" He whispered to himself.
He jumped into his tree and sat on one of the highest branches. He looked at the blood that soiled his hands and his claws. He frowned and leaned back against the trunk of the tree. Kagome will hate me for this.
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Kagome, Shippo, and Kika found the bloody corpse in the forest.
"Inuyasha's work, his scent's everywhere." Shippo said angrily clenching his fists.
"The man was a threat to Inuyasha and us because he knew that Inuyasha was in a weakened state." Kika said. "Hey Kagome are you alright?"
Kagome didn't answer. All she could do was stare at the lifeless form. She looked at the hole that was through the man's chest, right where his heart lay. Kagome felt tears forming in her eyes.
"I'm going to find and talk to Inuyasha, Kika. Please watch Shippo and don't follow." Kagome said and then took off running in the direction of the Goshinboku tree.
"Ok." Kika said as she watched her friend disappear into the forest.
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When Kagome arrived at the Goshinboku tree, she looked up and saw Inuyasha sitting up in the higher branches. Kagome climbed up the branches when something small and red fell past her. Was that blood? She asked herself. She continued climbing and finally got on the branch next to him. His face was hidden behind his thick silver bangs and he appeared to be looking at his hands.
"Inuyasha, what's wrong?" Kagome asked quietly.
"Just leave me alone. I don't know if you're safe around me."
"Hey!" Kagome said placing her hands on her hips. "I know I'm safe around you or else I wouldn't be here now would I? Besides you would never hurt me."
He looked up at her and she gasped. His eyes were half red and he had a faint purple mark on one cheek. Also one fang was poking out over his lower lip. (A/N he started turning full demon but only transformed ΒΌ of the way)
"Inuya-" Kagome began but he cut her off.
"No Kagome, you have to leave." He then looked down and whispered. "I don't want to hurt you."
"No I'm-Ahh!" She screamed as the branch beneath her snapped and she fell towards the ground.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled as he jumped to catch her.
There was a loud thud and then silence. Kagome opened her eyes and looked around. I'm not dead? She moved to get up but stopped when she felt something holding her down. She looked down around her waist to see a clawed hand and she turned to look behind her. Inuyasha was underneath her and she got off of him as fast as she could. His fang was no longer poking out of his mouth and the stripe was gone. Kagome placed her hand on his cheek and his eyes flashed open. Kagome sighed as her eyes met his golden ones.
"I broke your fall for you." He smirked as he sat up.
"Thank you." Kagome said as she began to feel tears in her eyes. She clung herself to Inuyasha's chest and began to cry quietly. He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her closer.
"I thought that I was going to die." She cried into his chest.
"But you didn't. I will never let anything harm you Kagome." He whispered in her ear.
Kagome nodded and pulled back a little to smile at him. He smiled back and then got up. He helped her get up and then they began to walk back to the village to find Kika and Shippo.
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"Kagome, are you ok?" Shippo cried as he ran to the girl that was walking towards him and Kika.
"Yes Shippo, I'm fine." She replied picking up the little kitsune.
Shippo smiled and then looked behind her at Inuyasha. He growled and glared at the hanyou.
"You're such a jerk! You shouldn't have killed that man, he was leaving. He didn't need to die you murderer!" Shippo yelled at Inuyasha.
Shippo waited for a retort, maybe even a beating, but it never came. Instead Inuyasha just stood there looking down at the ground and his bloody hands. Kagome looked at Inuyasha and noticed a sad expression on his face. She set Shippo in Kika's hands and walked over to Inuyasha. She grabbed his arm startling him. He looked at her with a surprised expression.
"Come on, we'll go back to the village and wash that blood off your hands." She said pulling on his arm gently.
Inuyasha nodded his response and the group walked back to the village.
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When they arrived, Kagome and Inuyasha walked towards the irrigation river, while Shippo and Kika sat under a tree to play tic-tac-toe, the new game that Kika learned when she went to America and had taught Shippo recently.
Kagome sat down on the bank as Inuyasha placed his hands in the river and began to rub the now dried blood from his hands. Kagome thought the water looked nice and removed her shoes. She dipped her feet in the water and quickly removed them from it.
"It's cold!" she cried as she began to rub her feet trying to warm them up.
"I could have told you that." Inuyasha smirked as he removed his hands from the water and shook them dry.
"Well then you should have!" she yelled.
"Why, when I could let you learn that for yourself?"
"Ugh, you're impossible!" she said. "How can you stand how cold it is anyway?"
"I'm used to it." He said sitting down next to her.
Kagome smiled when he sat down and ten she looked at the sun setting in front of them. The brilliant purples, pinks, and oranges splashed together in the wide canvas that was turning midnight blue above their heads.
"It's beautiful." She whispered.
"You're beautiful." Inuyasha whispered as he wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her close him. She rested her head on his shoulder and sighed.
The sun soon dipped below the horizon and the couple got up and walked back to the hut. Kika and Shippo were inside eating stew that Kaede had prepared before she had left to tend to some ill villagers.
Inuyasha and Kagome sat down near the fire and Kika handed them each a bowl of the hot stew. The group ate in silence, with the exception of Shippo who was rambling on about winning tic-tac-toe and some other kid things.
When the stew was gone Shippo curled up in Kagome's lap and soon fell asleep. Inuyasha was sitting in his usual spot and Kika was still sitting by the fire.
"Um, Kagome?" Kika asked her friend who was absent-mindedly stroking Shippo's tail.
"Yes, Kika?"
"Well, it's been a whole week and my parents will be worried if I don't show up soon." She hesitated. "But how am I going to explain these?" she asked pointing to her ears.
"Hmm. we can have Inuyasha come along with us to explain things, and about the one night that you'll be human. How's that sound?" Kagome asked.
"Hey I'm not going to go to your time to talk to her parents!" Inuyasha yelled.
"Yes you are or I'll say 'you-know-what'." Kagome threatened him.
Inuyasha gulped and stayed quiet.
"I guess so. I just hope that my parents don't freak out too much." Kika said.
"Ok then it's settled, we'll leave in the morning." Kagome said.
Kagome then set Shippo down and helped Kika get out the sleeping bags. Then they laid down and everyone soon fell asleep.
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Ok there's that chapter. Once again I'm sorry it took so long. Please let me know if I should continue or stop the fic because it's a total failure. Also I'm on spring break, so I'll try to update as much as I can although my family is going to go to VA for a weekend, so I don't know how many chaps I'll get up. As always please review! Ja ne!
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha and characters, however Kika is a character that I made up. =^.^=
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Getting Through with Love
Chapter 5: Something's Wrong
"No, no, AHHH!" Inuyasha cried as he awoke. He sat up and was breathing heavily with sweat dripping down his face. He wiped it away with his hand and looked around the room.
"It was only a dream, or rather a nightmare." He sighed.
He looked around the room again and noticed that everyone was there except Kika. She's probably on guard duty. Inuyasha looked at his legs and tried to get up feeling that they should be strong enough to support him. He struggled a little but eventually was on his feet. He started walking towards the door wanting to get out of the stuffy hut and into the fresh night air. He was walking clumsily when he felt dizzy and saw everything start to spin. He lost his balance and fell flat on his face.
"Hey are you ok?" Kika asked coming into the hut. "You shouldn't be up."
"I know that, I'm not stupid! I just wanted some fresh air if that isn't too much to want!" he said trying to stand.
"Here let me help." Kika said as she set a hand on his shoulder. He smacked it away and got to his feet.
"I don't need your help." He growled slightly.
"Ok, geez."
Inuyasha walked out of the hut and a cool breeze wrapped around him. He sat down against the outside wall of the hut and pulled his knees up close to him, wrapping his arms around them. He breathed in deep, picking up different scents with his sensitive nose. He could smell the dew on the grass and the flowers that were growing out in the field.
"It's better being outside at night than cooped up in some hut. It's so quiet and a lot cooler than in there." He said pointing his thumb in the direction of the hut.
"Well I prefer being out in the daytime." Kika said. "I like the warmth of the sun and how everything is alive."
"Hmph, it's too noisy during the day, it hurts my ears."
"Oh."
The two sat in silence as it got a lot colder. Kika got up and dragged Inuyasha back into the hut, because he wouldn't get up and go back in himself, and the cold air wouldn't help his health any. She left him on his futon and then went back outside to continue her watch. Inuyasha closed his eyes and soon fell back to sleep.
However he wasn't asleep for long until he felt some extra weight on his chest and heard screaming. He opened his eyes and saw Kagome on top of him, kind of like she was protecting him.
"Fox Fire!" Shippo yelled.
At hearing this Inuyasha tried to get up but he was pushed back down by Kagome.
"Where is Inuyasha?" a voice shouted. "I need to avenge my village and family by slaying the demon who destroyed it sixty years ago!"
Inuyasha gently pushed Kagome off of him and got up to his feet. He stood shakily glaring at the man whom was looking at him.
"You are Inuyasha?" the man asked.
"Yeah, and you would be?"
"I am Osaki of the Tenchu clan. I am here to kill you Inuyasha for revenge on what you did to my village." The man said pointing a sword at Inuyasha.
"Feh, I'm not going to fight a weak human like you."
"I don't care if you will, but I shall kill you. Though you look ill that will not stop me from taking your life!" The man shouted charging Inuyasha. The man stopped though when Kagome stood in front of him.
"I will not let you harm him. He is recovering and in no condition to fight. Now leave or else you will have to deal with a priestess and a hanyou as well as a fox child." Kagome said to the man.
The man looked from Kagome to Kika and Shippo and then to Inuyasha.
"I will be back hanyou, and you soon shall face all of your enemies as well as many more." The man laughed and then ran out of the hut.
"Feh, whatever." Inuyasha grumbled. Then he went wide-eyed when he thought about what the man had said. He's planning to spread the word the of my weakened state. Shit. Inuyasha ran out the door as his anger, at allowing the man to leave knowing of his weakness, fueled his body and his demon blood surged inside of him. He caught up with the man in no time.
"You really didn't think that I'd let you get away so easily did you?" Inuyasha smirked as he saw horror spread over the man's face. "Pathetic human, you shall die!"
"No please, AHHH!" The man screamed his last breath of air as he fell limply to the ground, a large hole through his chest. Inuyasha smirked satisfied with the kill when he heard someone shout his name. He recognized it as Kagome's voice and his anger began to fade. He looked down at the corpse and ran towards the Goshinboku tree.
"What have I just done?" He whispered to himself.
He jumped into his tree and sat on one of the highest branches. He looked at the blood that soiled his hands and his claws. He frowned and leaned back against the trunk of the tree. Kagome will hate me for this.
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Kagome, Shippo, and Kika found the bloody corpse in the forest.
"Inuyasha's work, his scent's everywhere." Shippo said angrily clenching his fists.
"The man was a threat to Inuyasha and us because he knew that Inuyasha was in a weakened state." Kika said. "Hey Kagome are you alright?"
Kagome didn't answer. All she could do was stare at the lifeless form. She looked at the hole that was through the man's chest, right where his heart lay. Kagome felt tears forming in her eyes.
"I'm going to find and talk to Inuyasha, Kika. Please watch Shippo and don't follow." Kagome said and then took off running in the direction of the Goshinboku tree.
"Ok." Kika said as she watched her friend disappear into the forest.
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When Kagome arrived at the Goshinboku tree, she looked up and saw Inuyasha sitting up in the higher branches. Kagome climbed up the branches when something small and red fell past her. Was that blood? She asked herself. She continued climbing and finally got on the branch next to him. His face was hidden behind his thick silver bangs and he appeared to be looking at his hands.
"Inuyasha, what's wrong?" Kagome asked quietly.
"Just leave me alone. I don't know if you're safe around me."
"Hey!" Kagome said placing her hands on her hips. "I know I'm safe around you or else I wouldn't be here now would I? Besides you would never hurt me."
He looked up at her and she gasped. His eyes were half red and he had a faint purple mark on one cheek. Also one fang was poking out over his lower lip. (A/N he started turning full demon but only transformed ΒΌ of the way)
"Inuya-" Kagome began but he cut her off.
"No Kagome, you have to leave." He then looked down and whispered. "I don't want to hurt you."
"No I'm-Ahh!" She screamed as the branch beneath her snapped and she fell towards the ground.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled as he jumped to catch her.
There was a loud thud and then silence. Kagome opened her eyes and looked around. I'm not dead? She moved to get up but stopped when she felt something holding her down. She looked down around her waist to see a clawed hand and she turned to look behind her. Inuyasha was underneath her and she got off of him as fast as she could. His fang was no longer poking out of his mouth and the stripe was gone. Kagome placed her hand on his cheek and his eyes flashed open. Kagome sighed as her eyes met his golden ones.
"I broke your fall for you." He smirked as he sat up.
"Thank you." Kagome said as she began to feel tears in her eyes. She clung herself to Inuyasha's chest and began to cry quietly. He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her closer.
"I thought that I was going to die." She cried into his chest.
"But you didn't. I will never let anything harm you Kagome." He whispered in her ear.
Kagome nodded and pulled back a little to smile at him. He smiled back and then got up. He helped her get up and then they began to walk back to the village to find Kika and Shippo.
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"Kagome, are you ok?" Shippo cried as he ran to the girl that was walking towards him and Kika.
"Yes Shippo, I'm fine." She replied picking up the little kitsune.
Shippo smiled and then looked behind her at Inuyasha. He growled and glared at the hanyou.
"You're such a jerk! You shouldn't have killed that man, he was leaving. He didn't need to die you murderer!" Shippo yelled at Inuyasha.
Shippo waited for a retort, maybe even a beating, but it never came. Instead Inuyasha just stood there looking down at the ground and his bloody hands. Kagome looked at Inuyasha and noticed a sad expression on his face. She set Shippo in Kika's hands and walked over to Inuyasha. She grabbed his arm startling him. He looked at her with a surprised expression.
"Come on, we'll go back to the village and wash that blood off your hands." She said pulling on his arm gently.
Inuyasha nodded his response and the group walked back to the village.
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When they arrived, Kagome and Inuyasha walked towards the irrigation river, while Shippo and Kika sat under a tree to play tic-tac-toe, the new game that Kika learned when she went to America and had taught Shippo recently.
Kagome sat down on the bank as Inuyasha placed his hands in the river and began to rub the now dried blood from his hands. Kagome thought the water looked nice and removed her shoes. She dipped her feet in the water and quickly removed them from it.
"It's cold!" she cried as she began to rub her feet trying to warm them up.
"I could have told you that." Inuyasha smirked as he removed his hands from the water and shook them dry.
"Well then you should have!" she yelled.
"Why, when I could let you learn that for yourself?"
"Ugh, you're impossible!" she said. "How can you stand how cold it is anyway?"
"I'm used to it." He said sitting down next to her.
Kagome smiled when he sat down and ten she looked at the sun setting in front of them. The brilliant purples, pinks, and oranges splashed together in the wide canvas that was turning midnight blue above their heads.
"It's beautiful." She whispered.
"You're beautiful." Inuyasha whispered as he wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her close him. She rested her head on his shoulder and sighed.
The sun soon dipped below the horizon and the couple got up and walked back to the hut. Kika and Shippo were inside eating stew that Kaede had prepared before she had left to tend to some ill villagers.
Inuyasha and Kagome sat down near the fire and Kika handed them each a bowl of the hot stew. The group ate in silence, with the exception of Shippo who was rambling on about winning tic-tac-toe and some other kid things.
When the stew was gone Shippo curled up in Kagome's lap and soon fell asleep. Inuyasha was sitting in his usual spot and Kika was still sitting by the fire.
"Um, Kagome?" Kika asked her friend who was absent-mindedly stroking Shippo's tail.
"Yes, Kika?"
"Well, it's been a whole week and my parents will be worried if I don't show up soon." She hesitated. "But how am I going to explain these?" she asked pointing to her ears.
"Hmm. we can have Inuyasha come along with us to explain things, and about the one night that you'll be human. How's that sound?" Kagome asked.
"Hey I'm not going to go to your time to talk to her parents!" Inuyasha yelled.
"Yes you are or I'll say 'you-know-what'." Kagome threatened him.
Inuyasha gulped and stayed quiet.
"I guess so. I just hope that my parents don't freak out too much." Kika said.
"Ok then it's settled, we'll leave in the morning." Kagome said.
Kagome then set Shippo down and helped Kika get out the sleeping bags. Then they laid down and everyone soon fell asleep.
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Ok there's that chapter. Once again I'm sorry it took so long. Please let me know if I should continue or stop the fic because it's a total failure. Also I'm on spring break, so I'll try to update as much as I can although my family is going to go to VA for a weekend, so I don't know how many chaps I'll get up. As always please review! Ja ne!