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"only bald men wear turbans.."
chapter two: why am i so lost without her?
My eyes fluttered opened and I was staring at Shippo. He was sitting on my chest and looking a little worried. "Inuyasha?" he asked.
I sat up and he tumbled to the ground. I moaned.
"Whats wrong?" asked Sango, coming over with Kirara in her hands. "Headache, I presume?" she said.
I could only nod as I layed back down on the grass.
"Inuyasha, I can't believe you went out and got yourself drunk.." said Miroku. "If I didn't find you, who knows what could have happened."
"Leave me alone.." I said.
"You deserve it." said Miroku. "At least Kagome wasn't here to see this horrible behavior." he said.
That hurt. It dawned on me again that she wasn't here. And she wouldn't be here for five days. I just groaned.
"We'll have to see to it that you don't get your hands on a bottle of sake again for quite a while." said Miroku.
"I'll go start breakfast." said Sango, standing up and walking over to the fire with Kirara. Shippo bounced along after her.
I stared up at the sky. What was I supposed to do now for five days? I knew if I went to her time, she'd 'sit' me more than I could count. I'd learned that the first couple of times I went back there, when she first started coming here, around three years ago.
Yeah, three years. Its been that long and we still haven't found all the Jewel Shards or defeated Naraku. We are pretty pathetic, aren't we?
"Inuyasha..I suggest we go out and do some guy stuff." said Miroku suddenly.
"Oh then maybe you should've come with me last night, as I got drunk." I snapped. "If you had come, it would've been more fun, fore sure."
"Excuse me, Inuyasha." I heard him say. "I'm going to help Sango with breakfast."
"Yeah and make sure you don't ask her to bear your child again or something!" I shouted at him. "I don't want my breakfast to be spoiled!"
I looked over and saw him glare at me. I just grinned at him. Then the headache came back and I just relaxed as best I could.
"PERVERT!"
I laughed. In spite of the warning I gave him, he still did something to her. Looks like my breakfast isn't going to be that good afterall.
Shippo came trotting back over to me and sat on my head. "Hey, Inuyasha?"
"What now."
"How come you never run after Kagome anymore when she goes back home to her time?" he asked me. "Dontcha miss her?"
I growled at him and he ran off.
Staring at the sky, I fell asleep again.
*******
A whack on my head woke me up. I opened my eyes and was staring at Kagome. What?! She was back?
"Kagome?" I asked.
"Its time for breakfast, Inuyasha." she said. "Why don't you come sit next to me and we can cuddle?"
I glared at the kitsune and pulled his hair.
"Oww oww oww!!" he said, turning back into himself and dashing over to Sango and jumping on her shoulder.
I stood up and walked over, lazily as I still had a slight headache. I sat down with a thump next to the monk and grabbed the Ramen.
"You're welcome, Inuyasha." said Sango.
I didn't reply. I quickly finished my Ramen and walked back over to the spot where I had woken up. I layed down and stared up..
Dammit! What was I supposed to do for five whole fricking days waiting for Kagome to come back? Usually, I'd just go run off for a while and went I smelt her wonderful scent, come speeding back to the village but this time..I just didn't feel like running.
"Miroku!" came a distant voice. I looked over to the merry little group and saw Old Kaede walking every so slowly over to them.
"What is it, Lady Kaede?" asked the monk.
"I have just recieved word that a young maiden in a nearby village seems pocessed by a demon and they requested a skilled priest to exorsis(A/N: did I spell that right?) her." she explained. "I told them they ye may be willing-"
"Gladly!" replied Miroku. He jumped up imedietely and grabbed his staff.
"I think perhaps we should all go along.." said Sango, standing as well. "With the monk going and all." she said.
"You don't trust me?" asked Miroku inocently.
Sango just narrowed her eyes as Kirara jumped into her arms.
"Oh, I forget to mention to ye that she is but a little child." said Kaede. "Around the age of eight or nine." she said.
Miroku's face dropped a bit.
"We'll still go." said Sango. Then I saw her lean in and whisper something to the rest. Feh, like I couldn't hear it.
"Besides.." she said. "It will give us something to do while Kagome is gone..." she said. "Otherwise, Inuyasha will just sit down and slump the whole time."
"Great idea, beautiful Sango!" said Miroku. She glared and slapped his shoulder. "My sincerest apologies." he said.
Shippo hopped on Miroku's shoulder. "Can I come too?" he asked.
"We're all going." replied Sango. "Even you, Inuyasha!" she called out.
"Feh!" I shouted at them.
"Come on, lazy dog!" shouted Miroku.
I wanted to jump up and rip his throat out. But Kagome would not be happy with me when she came back. Besides, my headache was too bad for me to care very much.
"Nothing doin'."
Miroku came over and pulled me to my feet. "You ARE coming." he said. "Or I will tell Kagome things she doesn't want to know."
I glared and walked over to join them. Stupid monk and his blackmail threats. He knew my weak spots, that was for sure.
"Thats a good dog!" said Miroku.
I just grumbled.
"Will you be coming with us, Lady Kaede?" asked Sango.
"Ne, child." replied the priestess. "I must stay here and look out for this village why you all are gone." she said.
"All right." said Sango. She picked up her boomerang and heaved it on her back. Shippo jumped on her shoulder.
"We're goin' on an adventure!" he cried.
"Not really." I said angrily. "We're just going to the next town so the monk can do that stupid exorcism. Then we're coming right back."
Miroku grinned evilly. "And I'm sure I know the reason." he said, stepping away from me. "You want to get back here in time so you don't miss an instant of Kagome."
I turned on him and he hid behind Sango's back. Sango looked at him with confused and narrowed eyes. As if threatening him to make a move.
"Help me Sango." said Miroku, putting his hands on her shoulders.
She pinched his hands. "You're on your own, monk." she said. She stepped aside, leaving Miroku defenseless. I walked over and whacked him on the head.
"That was uncalled for." said Miroku, patting the jump on his head.
"Yeah right.." I replied. "Lets just get to the stupid town already."
"You guys are really confusing." said Shippo, hopping onto Miroku's shoulder. "Sometimes I wonder if I should just stop asking questions. Afterall, I barely every get answers to them anyway." he said.
"I will you ye all in tomarrow, I presume?" asked Kaede. "Assuming all goes well."
"Good day, Lady Kaede." said Miroku, doing that thing with his hand.
"So long Kaede!" said Shippo cheerfully. Sango bowed. I just stood there. Actually, I had already started walking.
"Inuyasha!" called Sango. "Wait for us!"
Ignoring it, I just kept walking. "It might go a lot faster if you all rode on Kirara!" I shouted back at them.
I heard a whoosh over me and saw Kirara fly by overhead. "Too late for your advice, Inuyasha." I heard the monk call down to me.
I grinned and started to run.
Normally, Kagome would be on my back. Whether or not he felt like it, Shippo would be there too. I complain about her being there, but I don't really mind at all. She's not too heavy and it lets me smell her scent without anyone realizing it.
I ran passed Kirara and the others and just imagined her on my back. I would imagine her hands on my shoulders, preventing her from falling..as if I would let that happen anyway.
"Inuyasha! Wait up!" called Shippo. "You're going way too fast!"
I slowed down a bit and waited for the cat demon(A/N: is that what Kirara is?) to catch up, then I just started running again.
With an hour or so, we reached the village and were greeted by a bunch of children, all running over to Kirara with big huge eyes and cooing.
"Are you the monk we were told about by High Priestess Kaede?" asked an old man, coming over to me.
"Ha. As if I would be a monk!" I declared. "Its that lecher over there. He's the monk."
"Lecher?" asked the man.
I made no reply, just grinned and walked passed him. "Hey Miroku, they're looking for ya." I called.
Kirara transformed back into her cuteness, and Sango and Miroku hopped off and jogged over to me. The children went starry-eyed at the kawaii cat and ran over to her, nearly trampling me. My anger rose and I was about to charge but I felt two hand grab my shoulders. Turning, both Miroku and Sango had a firm grasp on me and refused to let go.
"Not worth my time anyway." I said, shaking them off and stepping away.
"Excuse me!" called the man. He ran over to us and looked between us. "An intesting group of people you have here."
I growled at him and Miroku bonked my head with his staff. "Forgive his rudeness, good Sir." he said, glaring at me. "I am Miroku, a humble monk."
"I am Sango, pleased to meet you." she said and bowed politely.
"Shippo!" he grinned, popping up from behind Miroku's shouders. "Thats Inuyasha. He's a little hostile right now because Kagome's not here."
I ripped him off the monk's shoulders and slammed him towards the ground. "I am not hostile." I growled, narrowing my eyes at the kitsune.
The man stared. "Are you sure we can trust him..?" he asked.
"Inuyasha is perfectly fine around humans." said Miroku. "Shippo here is a demon. Inuyasha would never hurt a human, otherwise Sango and I would be dead. He and Shippo are always fighting like that." he explained. Sango nodded.
"I see.." said the man. "Well, Lady Kaede said that this monk could perform an exorcism on my sweet daughter."
"Indeed." said Miroku. "And just how old is your daughter?"
Sango glared and smacked his head. "Forget that. It is of no concern to him." she said. "Besides, didn't you hear Kaede say that she was young? And not the kind of young that you're thinking mister."
"And how would you know what I am thinking?" asked Miroku.
"I know exactly what you're thinking." replied Sango. "Lecher."
The man's eyes widened. "Now I do not know if I should trust any one in the little group.." he said.
"Listen here, guy." I said, pushing Miroku out of my way. "Do you want the monk to perform the damn exorcism or not? You can trust him to do that, but just keep an eye on him if you have any older daughters, in case Sango isn't around to control him."
Everyone stared at me, at my sudden outburst.
"Please.." said the man, breaking the silence. "Come this way." he started walking down the street. Shippo jumped off Miroku's shoulder and followed, Miroku nodded and walked with them.
"Psst! Come on Kirara." said Sango, calling her cat to her. The children were sad to see her go but Kirara meowed and just followed after Sango anyway.
I walked after them, thinking of how much differently this would have gone if Kagome were here. It would be a LOT different, the more I thought about it.
"Please, this is the place." said the man suddenly, stopping. Causing Shippo to run into his feet, then Miroku to run into the man and squash Shippo and then Sango ran into Miroku's back. I caught myself, before flying into her.
"And please, monk.." he said. "My daughter is young..be careful with her."
Miroku nodded. "Of course." he said as the man led him inside. Everyone followed.
Turned out, the girl was only around nine as the old hag had said, and Sango was not needed to keep Miroku away, as he was clearly not interested. Which was good because if he was, then I woulda thought he was way more perverted than he let on.
Miroku intrusted Sango, Shippo and me to wait outside and we did. We went out and sat on the walkway around his house. (A/n you know, those things around the outside of all the houses in feudal japan..wooden..)
Shippo ran off into the street with Kirara and the other children and they started a game. Sango sat near, unusually quiet.
"Whats with you?" I asked.
"Nothing!" she said fiercely.
My eyes widened as she moved further from me. "All right, what are you hiding?" I asked, watching her creep further and further away.
"I am hiding nothing.." she said, continuing to move away.
"If has something to do with Kagome!" I said angrily.
"It doesn't! I mean, it does! I mean, no!" said Sango, clearly confused. "It doesn't! I am not hiding any secrets!" she said, moving all the way to the other side of the walkway thing.
"Spill it!!!" I shouted at her.
She turned her back to me and a large sweatdrop appeared on the back of her head. "I don't have anything to spill!" she called.
I ran over and before she could move, was up in her face. "Talk, exterminator." I said angrily, glaring at her.
Sango's eyes widened. "Well...uh, you see..." she started.
"If it has something to do with Kagome, tell me now." I said.
"She made me swear not to tell!!" said Sango, closing her eyes.
"Inuyasha!" called Shippo, trotting over. "What are you doing to make Sango look scared?" he asked.
"She's hiding something about Kagome and I demand to know it!" I said.
"Hiding?" asked Shippo, petting Kirara. "The fact that she's almost done with high school?" he said.
"What?" I asked.
"Yeah...she said that in a few months, she's done with school!" said Shippo.
Wow..why would Sango hide that from me? "Thats good." I said. "She can stay here longer now, and we can find more jewel shards."
Sango looked somewhat relieved, but there was still something.
"Thats not it, is it?" I asked.
"I have no reply!" said Sango, backing agains the wall.
"Ooo than could it be that she doesn't always go back for tests?" asked Shippo.
"What?!" I shouted.
I saw Sango waving her hands behind me, as if saying 'No no no, shut up!' I looked at her. "Thats it, isn't it?"
Sango shook her head. "No!" she grinned in a non convincing way.
"Yeah.." said Shippo. "She doesn't have as many tests this year because most of them are at the end or something.." he said. "Thats what she told me and Sango anyway.."
Sango sweatdropped.
"Then why is she going back more and more?" I asked.
Sango inched away and braced herself for something. Whatever it was, she knew what was coming.
"You mean she didn't tell you?" asked Shippo. "I thought she would've. Then again, maybe she wouln't have because you'd get all mad and stuff."
"Shippo?" I said sweetly, putting on my 'cute' face. "Why is she going back more and more often?"
Shippo knew the look. "I don't know if I should tell you.." he said, taking a step back.
My 'cute' face disappeared. "Dammit, you've told me so much already! Just finish talking!!" I shouted, picking the kitsune up by the tail.
Sango was now on the other side of the street, her hand holding her boomerang and staring at us with wide eyes.
"Put me down!" cried Shippo.
"SPEAK!"
"Fine!!" he cried. "Kagome has been going out with that Houjo person for a while now..thats why!" he said.
I dropped him. What..? Did he just say..what I think he said? My heart shattered into a million pieces.
"I thought Kagome told you?" asked Shippo from the ground.
I stared mindlessly ahead. Kagome and that..Houjo..I shuddered. Did she really care about him, more..more than me?
"Ka..Kagome.." I whispered.
My insides tightened. Then I laughed.
"You're all lying.." I said. "You're lying. You're just trying to get me to go check on her so she'll get pissed at me and stay away even longer!"
"Why would we lie, Inuyasha?" asked Shippo.
"Because.." I said angrily. "You like to see her 'sit' me and stuff." I jumped off and landed in front of Sango. "Stop the joke! Its stupid!" I screamed and ran off.
Running out of the village as fast as my legs would take me, I headed for the well..I headed for the truth...
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disclaimer: if I owned inuyasha, i wouldn't be writing a disclaimer
"only bald men wear turbans.."
chapter two: why am i so lost without her?
My eyes fluttered opened and I was staring at Shippo. He was sitting on my chest and looking a little worried. "Inuyasha?" he asked.
I sat up and he tumbled to the ground. I moaned.
"Whats wrong?" asked Sango, coming over with Kirara in her hands. "Headache, I presume?" she said.
I could only nod as I layed back down on the grass.
"Inuyasha, I can't believe you went out and got yourself drunk.." said Miroku. "If I didn't find you, who knows what could have happened."
"Leave me alone.." I said.
"You deserve it." said Miroku. "At least Kagome wasn't here to see this horrible behavior." he said.
That hurt. It dawned on me again that she wasn't here. And she wouldn't be here for five days. I just groaned.
"We'll have to see to it that you don't get your hands on a bottle of sake again for quite a while." said Miroku.
"I'll go start breakfast." said Sango, standing up and walking over to the fire with Kirara. Shippo bounced along after her.
I stared up at the sky. What was I supposed to do now for five days? I knew if I went to her time, she'd 'sit' me more than I could count. I'd learned that the first couple of times I went back there, when she first started coming here, around three years ago.
Yeah, three years. Its been that long and we still haven't found all the Jewel Shards or defeated Naraku. We are pretty pathetic, aren't we?
"Inuyasha..I suggest we go out and do some guy stuff." said Miroku suddenly.
"Oh then maybe you should've come with me last night, as I got drunk." I snapped. "If you had come, it would've been more fun, fore sure."
"Excuse me, Inuyasha." I heard him say. "I'm going to help Sango with breakfast."
"Yeah and make sure you don't ask her to bear your child again or something!" I shouted at him. "I don't want my breakfast to be spoiled!"
I looked over and saw him glare at me. I just grinned at him. Then the headache came back and I just relaxed as best I could.
"PERVERT!"
I laughed. In spite of the warning I gave him, he still did something to her. Looks like my breakfast isn't going to be that good afterall.
Shippo came trotting back over to me and sat on my head. "Hey, Inuyasha?"
"What now."
"How come you never run after Kagome anymore when she goes back home to her time?" he asked me. "Dontcha miss her?"
I growled at him and he ran off.
Staring at the sky, I fell asleep again.
*******
A whack on my head woke me up. I opened my eyes and was staring at Kagome. What?! She was back?
"Kagome?" I asked.
"Its time for breakfast, Inuyasha." she said. "Why don't you come sit next to me and we can cuddle?"
I glared at the kitsune and pulled his hair.
"Oww oww oww!!" he said, turning back into himself and dashing over to Sango and jumping on her shoulder.
I stood up and walked over, lazily as I still had a slight headache. I sat down with a thump next to the monk and grabbed the Ramen.
"You're welcome, Inuyasha." said Sango.
I didn't reply. I quickly finished my Ramen and walked back over to the spot where I had woken up. I layed down and stared up..
Dammit! What was I supposed to do for five whole fricking days waiting for Kagome to come back? Usually, I'd just go run off for a while and went I smelt her wonderful scent, come speeding back to the village but this time..I just didn't feel like running.
"Miroku!" came a distant voice. I looked over to the merry little group and saw Old Kaede walking every so slowly over to them.
"What is it, Lady Kaede?" asked the monk.
"I have just recieved word that a young maiden in a nearby village seems pocessed by a demon and they requested a skilled priest to exorsis(A/N: did I spell that right?) her." she explained. "I told them they ye may be willing-"
"Gladly!" replied Miroku. He jumped up imedietely and grabbed his staff.
"I think perhaps we should all go along.." said Sango, standing as well. "With the monk going and all." she said.
"You don't trust me?" asked Miroku inocently.
Sango just narrowed her eyes as Kirara jumped into her arms.
"Oh, I forget to mention to ye that she is but a little child." said Kaede. "Around the age of eight or nine." she said.
Miroku's face dropped a bit.
"We'll still go." said Sango. Then I saw her lean in and whisper something to the rest. Feh, like I couldn't hear it.
"Besides.." she said. "It will give us something to do while Kagome is gone..." she said. "Otherwise, Inuyasha will just sit down and slump the whole time."
"Great idea, beautiful Sango!" said Miroku. She glared and slapped his shoulder. "My sincerest apologies." he said.
Shippo hopped on Miroku's shoulder. "Can I come too?" he asked.
"We're all going." replied Sango. "Even you, Inuyasha!" she called out.
"Feh!" I shouted at them.
"Come on, lazy dog!" shouted Miroku.
I wanted to jump up and rip his throat out. But Kagome would not be happy with me when she came back. Besides, my headache was too bad for me to care very much.
"Nothing doin'."
Miroku came over and pulled me to my feet. "You ARE coming." he said. "Or I will tell Kagome things she doesn't want to know."
I glared and walked over to join them. Stupid monk and his blackmail threats. He knew my weak spots, that was for sure.
"Thats a good dog!" said Miroku.
I just grumbled.
"Will you be coming with us, Lady Kaede?" asked Sango.
"Ne, child." replied the priestess. "I must stay here and look out for this village why you all are gone." she said.
"All right." said Sango. She picked up her boomerang and heaved it on her back. Shippo jumped on her shoulder.
"We're goin' on an adventure!" he cried.
"Not really." I said angrily. "We're just going to the next town so the monk can do that stupid exorcism. Then we're coming right back."
Miroku grinned evilly. "And I'm sure I know the reason." he said, stepping away from me. "You want to get back here in time so you don't miss an instant of Kagome."
I turned on him and he hid behind Sango's back. Sango looked at him with confused and narrowed eyes. As if threatening him to make a move.
"Help me Sango." said Miroku, putting his hands on her shoulders.
She pinched his hands. "You're on your own, monk." she said. She stepped aside, leaving Miroku defenseless. I walked over and whacked him on the head.
"That was uncalled for." said Miroku, patting the jump on his head.
"Yeah right.." I replied. "Lets just get to the stupid town already."
"You guys are really confusing." said Shippo, hopping onto Miroku's shoulder. "Sometimes I wonder if I should just stop asking questions. Afterall, I barely every get answers to them anyway." he said.
"I will you ye all in tomarrow, I presume?" asked Kaede. "Assuming all goes well."
"Good day, Lady Kaede." said Miroku, doing that thing with his hand.
"So long Kaede!" said Shippo cheerfully. Sango bowed. I just stood there. Actually, I had already started walking.
"Inuyasha!" called Sango. "Wait for us!"
Ignoring it, I just kept walking. "It might go a lot faster if you all rode on Kirara!" I shouted back at them.
I heard a whoosh over me and saw Kirara fly by overhead. "Too late for your advice, Inuyasha." I heard the monk call down to me.
I grinned and started to run.
Normally, Kagome would be on my back. Whether or not he felt like it, Shippo would be there too. I complain about her being there, but I don't really mind at all. She's not too heavy and it lets me smell her scent without anyone realizing it.
I ran passed Kirara and the others and just imagined her on my back. I would imagine her hands on my shoulders, preventing her from falling..as if I would let that happen anyway.
"Inuyasha! Wait up!" called Shippo. "You're going way too fast!"
I slowed down a bit and waited for the cat demon(A/N: is that what Kirara is?) to catch up, then I just started running again.
With an hour or so, we reached the village and were greeted by a bunch of children, all running over to Kirara with big huge eyes and cooing.
"Are you the monk we were told about by High Priestess Kaede?" asked an old man, coming over to me.
"Ha. As if I would be a monk!" I declared. "Its that lecher over there. He's the monk."
"Lecher?" asked the man.
I made no reply, just grinned and walked passed him. "Hey Miroku, they're looking for ya." I called.
Kirara transformed back into her cuteness, and Sango and Miroku hopped off and jogged over to me. The children went starry-eyed at the kawaii cat and ran over to her, nearly trampling me. My anger rose and I was about to charge but I felt two hand grab my shoulders. Turning, both Miroku and Sango had a firm grasp on me and refused to let go.
"Not worth my time anyway." I said, shaking them off and stepping away.
"Excuse me!" called the man. He ran over to us and looked between us. "An intesting group of people you have here."
I growled at him and Miroku bonked my head with his staff. "Forgive his rudeness, good Sir." he said, glaring at me. "I am Miroku, a humble monk."
"I am Sango, pleased to meet you." she said and bowed politely.
"Shippo!" he grinned, popping up from behind Miroku's shouders. "Thats Inuyasha. He's a little hostile right now because Kagome's not here."
I ripped him off the monk's shoulders and slammed him towards the ground. "I am not hostile." I growled, narrowing my eyes at the kitsune.
The man stared. "Are you sure we can trust him..?" he asked.
"Inuyasha is perfectly fine around humans." said Miroku. "Shippo here is a demon. Inuyasha would never hurt a human, otherwise Sango and I would be dead. He and Shippo are always fighting like that." he explained. Sango nodded.
"I see.." said the man. "Well, Lady Kaede said that this monk could perform an exorcism on my sweet daughter."
"Indeed." said Miroku. "And just how old is your daughter?"
Sango glared and smacked his head. "Forget that. It is of no concern to him." she said. "Besides, didn't you hear Kaede say that she was young? And not the kind of young that you're thinking mister."
"And how would you know what I am thinking?" asked Miroku.
"I know exactly what you're thinking." replied Sango. "Lecher."
The man's eyes widened. "Now I do not know if I should trust any one in the little group.." he said.
"Listen here, guy." I said, pushing Miroku out of my way. "Do you want the monk to perform the damn exorcism or not? You can trust him to do that, but just keep an eye on him if you have any older daughters, in case Sango isn't around to control him."
Everyone stared at me, at my sudden outburst.
"Please.." said the man, breaking the silence. "Come this way." he started walking down the street. Shippo jumped off Miroku's shoulder and followed, Miroku nodded and walked with them.
"Psst! Come on Kirara." said Sango, calling her cat to her. The children were sad to see her go but Kirara meowed and just followed after Sango anyway.
I walked after them, thinking of how much differently this would have gone if Kagome were here. It would be a LOT different, the more I thought about it.
"Please, this is the place." said the man suddenly, stopping. Causing Shippo to run into his feet, then Miroku to run into the man and squash Shippo and then Sango ran into Miroku's back. I caught myself, before flying into her.
"And please, monk.." he said. "My daughter is young..be careful with her."
Miroku nodded. "Of course." he said as the man led him inside. Everyone followed.
Turned out, the girl was only around nine as the old hag had said, and Sango was not needed to keep Miroku away, as he was clearly not interested. Which was good because if he was, then I woulda thought he was way more perverted than he let on.
Miroku intrusted Sango, Shippo and me to wait outside and we did. We went out and sat on the walkway around his house. (A/n you know, those things around the outside of all the houses in feudal japan..wooden..)
Shippo ran off into the street with Kirara and the other children and they started a game. Sango sat near, unusually quiet.
"Whats with you?" I asked.
"Nothing!" she said fiercely.
My eyes widened as she moved further from me. "All right, what are you hiding?" I asked, watching her creep further and further away.
"I am hiding nothing.." she said, continuing to move away.
"If has something to do with Kagome!" I said angrily.
"It doesn't! I mean, it does! I mean, no!" said Sango, clearly confused. "It doesn't! I am not hiding any secrets!" she said, moving all the way to the other side of the walkway thing.
"Spill it!!!" I shouted at her.
She turned her back to me and a large sweatdrop appeared on the back of her head. "I don't have anything to spill!" she called.
I ran over and before she could move, was up in her face. "Talk, exterminator." I said angrily, glaring at her.
Sango's eyes widened. "Well...uh, you see..." she started.
"If it has something to do with Kagome, tell me now." I said.
"She made me swear not to tell!!" said Sango, closing her eyes.
"Inuyasha!" called Shippo, trotting over. "What are you doing to make Sango look scared?" he asked.
"She's hiding something about Kagome and I demand to know it!" I said.
"Hiding?" asked Shippo, petting Kirara. "The fact that she's almost done with high school?" he said.
"What?" I asked.
"Yeah...she said that in a few months, she's done with school!" said Shippo.
Wow..why would Sango hide that from me? "Thats good." I said. "She can stay here longer now, and we can find more jewel shards."
Sango looked somewhat relieved, but there was still something.
"Thats not it, is it?" I asked.
"I have no reply!" said Sango, backing agains the wall.
"Ooo than could it be that she doesn't always go back for tests?" asked Shippo.
"What?!" I shouted.
I saw Sango waving her hands behind me, as if saying 'No no no, shut up!' I looked at her. "Thats it, isn't it?"
Sango shook her head. "No!" she grinned in a non convincing way.
"Yeah.." said Shippo. "She doesn't have as many tests this year because most of them are at the end or something.." he said. "Thats what she told me and Sango anyway.."
Sango sweatdropped.
"Then why is she going back more and more?" I asked.
Sango inched away and braced herself for something. Whatever it was, she knew what was coming.
"You mean she didn't tell you?" asked Shippo. "I thought she would've. Then again, maybe she wouln't have because you'd get all mad and stuff."
"Shippo?" I said sweetly, putting on my 'cute' face. "Why is she going back more and more often?"
Shippo knew the look. "I don't know if I should tell you.." he said, taking a step back.
My 'cute' face disappeared. "Dammit, you've told me so much already! Just finish talking!!" I shouted, picking the kitsune up by the tail.
Sango was now on the other side of the street, her hand holding her boomerang and staring at us with wide eyes.
"Put me down!" cried Shippo.
"SPEAK!"
"Fine!!" he cried. "Kagome has been going out with that Houjo person for a while now..thats why!" he said.
I dropped him. What..? Did he just say..what I think he said? My heart shattered into a million pieces.
"I thought Kagome told you?" asked Shippo from the ground.
I stared mindlessly ahead. Kagome and that..Houjo..I shuddered. Did she really care about him, more..more than me?
"Ka..Kagome.." I whispered.
My insides tightened. Then I laughed.
"You're all lying.." I said. "You're lying. You're just trying to get me to go check on her so she'll get pissed at me and stay away even longer!"
"Why would we lie, Inuyasha?" asked Shippo.
"Because.." I said angrily. "You like to see her 'sit' me and stuff." I jumped off and landed in front of Sango. "Stop the joke! Its stupid!" I screamed and ran off.
Running out of the village as fast as my legs would take me, I headed for the well..I headed for the truth...
MD: hmm..that wasn't exactly what I was hoping it would be.. well, I might fix it, I might not. Lemme know what ya think in a review, ok?
THANKS~
FayeFaye : hee hee..inu drunk IS funny...o^_^o
Noelle: GOOD CHARLOTTE!! I love them too!! As for your question..yup, sorry but I can't answer you!! It WOULD spoil the story...
LonelyAngelofSadness: Exclamation points rock! Feel free to end all reviews this way! Lmao!
IceDagger: ::nods:: very stupid of him..but, kagome is not here so he's a little..'lost'? ::grin::
clow12391: go human early? hmm.. i never thought of that before..thats for the idea! Can't say if it will happen b/c whatever happens, happens.
Demon Girl: thank you!! I liked the ending too...inuyasha drunk is funny..i also considered miroku getting drunk too but then I went against it... ::grin::
FallenAzrealPenemue: The very first review!! thanks and I'm glad ya like the story!