A/N ~ Alright Kya-chan here. Yah, so this is my first fic ever. Stop, don't go away, I swear its good. I crossed that magical line between just reading to actually writing when I realized there is not a lot of actually good Inuyasha stories out there. ( And that's scary cuz there really is a lot of em. ) My story here is the only one I've ever seen like it so I'm hoping it's the only one like it out there. Anyway, if you guys are still reading this its going to be a Kagome/Inuyasha Sango/Miroku fic. (Its the only kind I will ever read) And I'm not quite sure how long it gonna be. Ok now I'm rambling, on with the story.
******Helpful hints******
" Talking in Japanese " 'Thinking in Japanese.'
" Talking in English " ' Thinking in English. '
Flashbacks
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Chapter One-
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The world felt like it was in slow motion around her. She started to awake in layers and slowly, she became aware of her surroundings. The thick and stale air, the cool grass touching her skin and the slight breeze chilling her, bringing her closer and closer to the surface of consciousness. All she could hear was the thick beating of her heart in her ears.
The smell of blood filled her senses first and brought her to consciousness faster than anything else could. She sat up straight and stared mindlessly at the carnage before her. Her bright blue eyes widening in horror as her mind caught up with what she was seeing. She opened her mouth and wide for a second nothing came out. Then she screamed, an ear pricing scream, that shattered the air around her like glass. A sound wave traveled out from around her small form in a circle, knocking every unsuspecting creature to the ground for miles. Her scream was short, shrill and loud, lasting for only a few seconds.
She sat there silently for a few minutes, breathing deep and ragged breaths. She stared unthinkingly in front of her, not looking at anything.
She opened her mouth and mumbled quietly, almost wordlessly, one word.
"..M-mommy…"
And then she cried.
***
"Inuyasha you are being so unfair, put me down or I'll tell Kagome you were being mean." Shippo threaten from his completely undignified position, being held upside down by his tail. His tiny arms crossing over his chest as he tried his best to glare at the hanyou holding him.
"Not a chance runt and your not telling Kagome anything." Inuyasha glanced around the clearing, as if to check if he was being watched. He brought his attention back to the kitsune in front of him and hosted him eye level. "Now tell me, what exactly did Kagome say to you before she left?"
"Nothing," huffed Shippo from his upside down position. "Just that she'd be back in a few days and not to let you come after her." He turned his nose up and crossed his small arms tighter in front of him.
"Dammit, stupid bitch, I told her not to run off." Inuyasha growled looking off toward the well. What the hell did she think she was doing sneaking off to her time while he went looking for shard rumors. 'I specify told her not to go back to her time.' Inuyasha growled dangerously, absentmindedly tightening his hold on the poor kit's tail.
"Ite, that hurts Inuyasha! Put me down." The tiny kit reached up and bit Inuyasha 's hand. Sinking his little teeth into flesh.
Inuyasha growled deeper in his throat. Shacking his hand, dropping the kit on the ground rather harshly. Shippo jumped to his feet and puffed himself up glaring darkly at the distracted hanyou.
"Its not my fault she keeps running away from you, stupid. Maybe if you weren't such a big jerk she'd stick around longer." Shippo yelled up at the now scowling hanyou.
The only proof that Inuyasha had heard Shippo was the scowl on his face and the slightly louder growl coming from deep in his chest. He turned around and crouched down ready to bound off toward the well.
"Hey!" Shippo wailed. "Where do you think your going?" he asked while jumping on Inuyasha's shoulder and tugging his hair. Inuyasha huffed and rolled his shoulder, dislodging the kitsune form his hair and tossing him the ground again. "To get Kagome." he growled out. He jumped away toward the well and was down it the next second and in Kagome's time.
"But she said!…… not to come after her." Shippo yelled after the hanyou but was soon talking to himself because of Inuyasha speed. The small kitsune took a heavy sigh. 'I hope Kagome doesn't get mad at me for letting Inuyasha go… And that, the stupid jerk gets himself sat.' Shippo thought to himself. He turned and started walking down the familiar path towards the village. 'It not my fault Inuyasha is such a jerk and won't listen to anyone.'
A loud scream abruptly ended Shippo's train of thought. The air around him seemed to shatter and an odd sound of breaking glass could be heard behind the shrill scream. Almost a second later a strong force knocked him to the ground and he skid a foot.
The strange force ended almost as abruptly as it had begun leaving a very confused kitsune in its wake. Shippo sat up dazed and confused. "W-what the hell was that?" he squeaked out as he got to his feet feeling a little shaken up. He looked around him for the source of the bizarre energy but found nothing out of the ordinary except that all the underbrush was pushed down. There was not a sound in the forest and it was starting to frighten the poor kit more than he all ready was.
Exempting the thought off looking for the source of the scream Shippo turned and ran the rest of the way back to the village. Back to Miroku, Sango, and Keade who would figure this all out and protect him.
***
"Uhhh… Brittany and Susan want to the park…on Sunday, to play baseball." Kagome looked up at the older woman hopefully when finshed. Silently praying she got it right.
"Close, Kagome, close but not quite correct. It should have been, Brittany and Susan went to the park on Sunday." Kagome's English sensei explained to her. "You are getting much better though, keep up the good work. Now Eri, could you please do the next one." She continued walking down the row and away from Kagome.
Kagome sighed and put her head down on her desk. She had such a headache. 'Ugh…, I'm so behind in English it's not even funny….It's almost as bad as Math.' She sighed again. 'Ok, so no, it's not that bad' Kagome thought miserably thinking back on her most recent Math grade. 'But still…'
Kagome glanced up at the clock. The day was almost over. She sat up and started to discreetly pack up her things. She needed to get home fast and finish her work, so when Inuyasha came he wouldn't be so upset. 'Ohh who am I kidding, I bet he's so pissed right now.' Kagome thought dejectedly. 'I'm willing to bet he's also on this side of the well already.'
It has been almost two years since this whole mess with the jewel shards started. Two years and still no complete jewel, no dead Naraku, and Kikyo, she still stole Inuyasha away from Kagome from time to time. And Inuyasha still didn't like her going to her time for school. Kagome wouldn't change what happened to her for anything though. She was happy, most of the time, and she like being with Sango, Miroku, Shippo and Inuyasha. Especially Inuyasha.
Kagome sighed for the third time in the last 5 minutes. "He better not be to grumpy when I get home, I don't want to deal with it." Kagome said lowly to herself, but still had a small smile on her face.
The class bell rang, signaling the end of the day, and everyone got up out of there seats and walked toward the door.
"Have a nice day class." The sensei called to her students. "Oh and Kagome, could I speak with you for a second?"
Kagome's shoulders dropped a little but she turned and walked over to her teacher with a smile on her face. "Yes Ms. Yukino?" She asked politely.
"Yes, Kagome I wanted to give you something that would hopefully help you with your English." She leaned over her desk and retrieving three small books. "These books are usually used by students who are homed schooled, and since you are absent quite often I thought they might be of some use when your out." Ms. Yukino explained.
"Thank you Yukino-sensei ." Kagome replied taking the books and blowing slightly to the sensei. "They will help me a lot, I'm sure."
"Why your welcome Kagome, I was glad to help. I hope I will be seeing you in class tomorrow?" The teacher asked watching Kagome carefully. She noticed the look of doubt in her eyes and the weak smile on her lips. She frowned slightly herself.
"Yah me too.." Kagome replied softly.
***
"Wait, wait, slow down Shippo." Miroku said, trying understand the rambling kitsune who was jumping around in front of him. "What happened in the forest?" he tried again.
"Ahhhh you guys aren't listening. There was a really loud scream and the air, it broke." Shippo explained, throwing his arms out wide for added effect. "Then this weird force knocked me down and. And the whole forest went quite!" Shippo all but yelled at the confused monk, taijiya and old miko sitting in front of him around a pot of herbs. "Didn't you guys hear anything?"
"No Shippo, none of us heard anything out of the ordinary." Keade said to the baby youkai. "Now, ye need to clam down."
'How could they have not heard anything?' Shippo thought franticly. He was pretty close to the village when he heard the scream. It was so loud too, how could anything not of heard that? 'I want Kagome.' he thought to himself shacking slightly.
"Shippo, did this just happen or was it earlier this morning?" Sango question the him, trying to understand.
"It just happened!" Shippo exclaimed. "It happened and I ran back as soon as I could, I swear." Shippo had a terrified look on his face and was clutching his tiny hands together.
'Whatever Shippo's talking about really scared him.' Sango thought to herself. She could almost read his feelings from the look on his face. He was scared and he wanted Kagome. She reached over and picked the kitsune up, hugging him to her chest.
"It's alright Shippo, clam down. Houshi-sama and I will go out and look for whatever it is that caused that scream, ok." Sango reasoned. She set Shippo in her lap and tried to comfort him some more by stroking his head softly.
"O-ok," Shippo looked up at Sango's face, seeing her smile down at him, and then over to Miroku, who look like he was a little upset. "D-Do you guys need me to come with you." he asked up to Sango.
Miroku opened his mouth to answer but Sango beat him to it. "No that's ok Shippo-chan, Houshi-sama and I have it under control." Miroku closed his mouth when he got the glare from Sango. "You can stay hear and help Keade out ok."
"Ok" he squeaked and jumped from Sango's lap over to Keade.
Sango stood up and walked over to the door. "Coming Houshi-sama?", she questioned. Miroku stood slowly and walked over to the door next to Sango. Sango grabbed Hiraikotsu and strung it over her shoulder, glared at the monk, and walked out the door. Miroku sighed and followed after her.
Kirara jumped out the door and up to Sango shoulder but Sango pulled her off. "Stay here Kirara, go keep Shippo company ok?" The little nekomata mewed and jumped out of her arms and trotted back into the hut. Sango started walking towards the woods. Miroku just stared after her for a few seconds before he sighed and followed after her.
"Sango, why are we walking out here just to investigate a child's made up story." Miroku questioned once he caught up to the taijiya. They were walking toward the path to the well and where Shippo said this supposed scream had been. He was very doubtful of what the kitsune was saying. If it was true why didn't he feel the power that something like that would send off? It sounded to farfetched to be authentic, he would bet it was a child's attempt to get attention, or a trick.
"I don't think he made it up." Sango explained, "Something scared him really bad, and what about that strange presence you felt this morning."
"Like you said Sango, that was this morning, it is well after midday now, and I haven't felt anything strange since then." Miroku complained. Sango stopped walking and stared at the monk. Miroku stopped a few feet after her and turned, a confused look on her face.
"What's wrong?" he asked her.
"I should be asking you that Houshi-sama, what's wrong?" she asked taking a step toward him. Miroku looked at for a few moments before looking away. "It is nothing Sango, I am not feeling well and was hoping to rest the remainder of the day, that is all."
Sango looked at the monk before her. She had the distich feeling that he wasn't telling her the whole truth but she pushed that feeling away. "Don't worry, we'll just look around and go right back. To easy Shippo's worries. Is that alright?"
"Hai" Miroku responded. They started walking in silence toward the woods. 'Ever since this morning, after that strange presences seemed to explode with power, I haven't been feeling well.' Miroku thought to himself, bring his hand to his hand to his head and rubbing his temples. He seriously hoped it wasn't going to be serious and had nothing to do with Shippo's little story.
***
"Dammit, where the hell is that bitch anyway." Inuyasha swore, getting restless. 'I've been waiting for the gods only knew how long and Kagome still isn't home.' he stared growling, despite the fact that no one was there to hear it.
He was currently sitting on Kagome's window sill waiting, not so patiently, for her to get home. To him, Kagome's world smelled and sounded bad, he couldn't wait to get out of there, with her of coarse. He did admit, to himself only, that he thought some of the things here were interesting. 'Like her image painting she has.' he thought to himself, thinking back to when Kagome brought it once. She only took his picture once and that was the only time Inuyasha would stand for it, before he new what it was.
Inuyasha looked around her room, still sulking. She had a lot of weird stuff if you asked him. He looked to her bed. 'Feh, there's one of her stupid skool books.' he jump from the window sill and walked over to the bed, sitting on the side. He picked the book up off the pillow and opened it. There were a lot of pages with writing on them, he noticed, and a lot of pages that were empty.
He looked closer at the pages with writing on them. He recognized his name on the page, quite a few times too. He was almost positive too, Kagome had showed him how to write his name once before.
He heard the door open below him and Kagome's voice filter up from down stairs, stating that she was home.
"Feh, about time stupid bitch." he said to himself. He placed the book down on the bed, not bothering to close it, and walked out of her room. He walked down the stairs and stopped, setting a scowl on his face and waiting for her to notice him.
Kagome went on completely unaware of the grouchy hanyou in the room, to wrapped up in her thoughts to detect his aura which she was so accustomed to. She turned and walked into her kitchen not even glancing toward the stairs.
'Ok, maybe Inuyasha's not back from his hunt for shard rumors yet.' She thought hopefully. She glanced at the clock, 4:30, ok she had time. If she would just pack up her bag and head back before he got back he might not even noticed.
She walked over to the cabinet and stared to pull out potato chips and Ramen setting them next to the table. She picked up her yellow bag off the floor and opened it. " Mom!" she yelled, while turning around to walk out, looking down in her bag. "Are you hom- uff." She coughed, walking right into a very pissed Inuyasha. 'What the-ohh no, red fire rat kimono …' She new who it was, and she slowly looked up into the eyes of the angry hanyou before her.
"Where the hell have you been wench."
If Kagome was nervous she didn't let it show through for Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha, don't scare me like that." she ignored he's question and slapped him in the chest lightly and walked by him.
Inuyasha growled deep in his throat. "Dammit Kagome, why the hell did you come back here when I told you not to. I told you to stay back with Miroku and Sango and I would be right back." he growled out following her as she walked back up the stairs and into her room.
'Ohh Inuyasha is really pissed, better think of something to make him happy and fast.' Kagome thought to herself. "Inuyasha," she sighed, turning around. "I came back to get more supplies for when you got back from shard rumors." She made up quickly.
"Don't bullshit me, if you were just coming back for supplies then why weren't you here when I came over, I was waiting for fucking ever." Inuyasha growled. "And why did you tell Shippo you would be back in a few days?"
Kagome sighed turning around and placing the worn out yellow bag on her bed. "Inuyasha… ok I came back to go to school, I need to go to school, I haven't been there in a few weeks my grades are really poor. I'll come back with you as soon as I get my stuff together ok." She gave in, she just didn't feel like arguing with him right now. She was mentally and physically exhausted from her day at school and I argument with the hanyou was the last thing she needed.
Inuyasha was a little surprised with her unusual behavior and lack of argument but he pushed it aside. "Damn right you will," he replied roughly. "I want to leave soon, I know where to find a few shards."
Kagome sighed rubbing her temples and sitting down on her bed. She didn't feel like doing this right now. The strenuous day at school and now this? 'I just want to go to sleep.' She whined pathetically to her self.
"Hey, you alright?" Inuyasha questioned, losing his growl and leaning down a little to look at her face. His ears twitched back and forth unconsciously in an attempt to hear anything different about her.
Kagome looked up at him and smiled slightly at the concerned expression on his face. 'He's so cute when he's concerned, it's hard to stay annoyed at him.' She thought and stood up stretching a little. "Yah, I'm alright, it's just a headache. I'll take some medicine before we leave."
Inuyasha stood up and cocked his head to the side. "Keh, well hurry up. I want to leave." he barked.
"Alright, alright, I'm moving." Kagome yawned and walked over to her closet and started pulling out clothes to wear. She grabbed a few sweaters to since it was getting cooler out, especially at night.
Inuyasha went over to her bed and sat on it Indian style. The bed sagged under his weight and the book he had been reading earlier slid down to his thigh. Inuyasha reached down and picked it up. He held it to his face, remembering his earlier interest in it. 'This stupid book thing has my name in it.' he thought look at the different times he saw his name. "Oi," he called out to Kagome, pausing to wait for her to knowledge him.
"Yes Inuyasha." Kagome replied in an exasperated tone, from within her closet.
Inuyasha ignored her tone. "Why does your damn spell book have my name in it so many times?" he voiced his question to her in a not so friendly tone.
"Huh?" Kagome questioned coming out of her closet with a large pile of clothes in her arms. "What are you talking-ahh Inuyasha sit!" She yelled, dropping the clothes, when she saw he had her journal up to his face.
Inuyasha fell off the bed, face first into the floor. "Damn it bitch! What the hell was that for?" Inuyasha barked form the floor mumbling curses into the ground.
Kagome ran over and pick up her journal off the floor next to the pissed hanyou. "Your not aloud to be looking at this." She yelled hugging the book to her chest. "What did you read?"
Inuyasha pulled his head and upper body up off the floor as the spell wore off, glaring darkly at the miko before him. "I couldn't read any of it bitch. All I could understand was that my name was in there a lot." He growled at her. His growl deepened when he saw her face flush. "What the hell in in that book anyway?" he questioned sitting up.
Kagome turned around, her face darkening a shade deeper. 'Oh my gosh, now's a time to be glad he can't read.' She thought, she breathed a sigh of relief thankful for Inuyasha illiteracy. "This book, it's…a journal."
"A what? What's it for?"
"It's a book.., that I write in…I…uhh," 'Think Kagome, think of something.' "I write about my day usually, and…my adventures on the other side of the well.. with you." She replied slowly. "So.. Naturally your name would be in there, right."
Inuyasha seemed to buy her slight fib when he nodded still sitting on the floor. "Ohh… well hell bitch, you didn't have to sit me for that." he answered angrily.
"Uhh…yah sorry about that." Kagome responded sheepishly. She walked over to her desk and put the book in the top drawer. Turning she picked up the clothes she dropped and placed them in the bag. "Come on, let's go. I just need to get the medicine and ramen, then we can leave."
"Feh, about time."
***
"Well Sango, it appears that young Shippo did encounter something out here."
"Yah, something but what Houshi-sama?"
Miroku and Sango were currently standing on the path through the woods to the well. The well, which was close by, usually could not be seen from that spot because of trees. The strange thing was though, most of the underbrush and some small trees were flattened to the ground making the well visible to them.
"What I don't understand," Miroku thought out loud. "is if this was indeed the caused by magic, then why didn't I or Keade sense it?"
"I don't understand either," Sango replied form her bent over position in the middle of the path. She was looking closely at the ground before her. Miroku couldn't help the sly smile that sneaked it way to his face and walked over behind her. "Don't even think about it Houshi." Sango sat up and gave him an annoyed look.
"Why Sango, I have no idea what you are talking about," Miroku stated with a slight offended look on his face. "I was merely coming over to help you with your search of the ground." he stated lamely.
"I'm sure." Sango replied dryly. She returned to what she had been looking at when Miroku came around in front of her. "Look here, skid marks." She pointed to the marks on the ground. "It looks like it could be Shippo, something really did knock him over."
"Hai, it appears that way. But what?"
***
"Oi, what the hell happened here?" Inuyasha questioned as he jumped out of the well with Kagome. He reached down and pulled up her yellow bag next.
"Why is everything flattened?" Kagome asked out loud staring at all the grass and underbrush that was flattened to the ground. It was all pushed down in the direction of Keade's village and only the tall trees survived. "It looks like a gale force wind went through here." Kagome looked around the clearing for any other life sources. She could swore she could hear something, it was so faint though. She rubbed her ears in an attempt to hear it better.
"Look, there's Sango and Miroku. Let's go ask them what the is going on." Inuyasha said, pulling Kagome out of her thoughts of the strange noise.
They walked off towards Miroku and Sango who were only a short distance away. Kagome shook her head, the noise seemed to be getting louder. She glanced up at Inuyasha. 'He's acting like he doesn't hear anything' "Inuyasha? Can you hear that?" She asked him, putting her finger in her ear and rubbing it again.
Inuyasha glanced down at her giving her an odd look. "Hear what woman? I don't hear anything." He listened again, nothing out of the ordinary.
"No, I hear…" She shook her head again . She heard something, she new it. It sounded like…crying? Someone was crying, but it was so faint she couldn't tell from what direction or even if it was a man, woman, or child. Or maybe it was an animal.
"Your hearing things." Inuyasha declared in a rough voice. They walked to Miroku and Sango in silence the rest of the way. They got within a few feet of the two and still neither one of them and noticed the scowling hanyou and confused miko behind them. "Oi, what the hell happened here." Inuyasha yelled, giving Miroku and Sango a scare.
"Inuyasha, Lady Kagome." Miroku said a little breathlessly because of there sudden appearance.
"Hi guys." Kagome said to them. "What's going on?"
"That's what were trying to figure out." Sango replied looking around at the bent underbrush around her.
"Well, what do you guys know so far?" Kagome asked.
Sango sighed, "It's a long story why don't we walk back to the hut and we can explain it there. Plus, I'm sure Shippo is dieing to see you." Everyone turned and started walking back toward the village.
"Why would Shippo be dieing to see me? I just saw him this morning." Kagome asked Sango. She absentmindedly shook her head again and rubbed her ears. Inuyasha noticed this and his brow creased in annoyance. 'What the hells wrong with her ears.' he thought as he watched Kagome glance around as if she was looking for something.
"Shippo has had a bad day," Miroku explained. "It appears that when the undergrowth in the woods was flattened he was in there."
"Yah, and it really scared the poor kid." Sango backed him up.
"Feh, stupid brat, anything scares him."
"Shut up Inuyasha, he's just a kid." Kagome scowled at the hanyou. She turned to look ahead. "Poor Shippo-chan" she said quietly to herself.
***
"KAGOME!!"
Kagome barely made it a full step into the hut when a ball of fluff, screaming her name, slammed into her stomach. Affectively knocking her back against the hard chest of the hanyou behind her.
"Uff, Hey Shippo-chan." Kagome said looking down at the small kitsune in the arms as Inuyasha set her back on her feet again. "I heard you had a bad day."
"Ohh Kagome it was so terrible, Inuyasha was mean to me and made me tell him why you left and then I had to walk back all alone and then this scary scream made the air break and I was push down by something and I ran all the way back to the village and nobody hear heard the scream but they still went out and looked for it and-" The kits ramblings were officially cut off when Kagome put her finger to his mouth.
"Slow down Shippo, why don't you let Miroku and Sango tell me and you can fill in the parts they don't know, ok?" Kagome told the kit. Walking further into the hut to sit down. "Here, I have some chocolate in my bag. You want some?" She smiled at the kitsunes vigorous nod. "Alright, Inuyasha can you hand me the bag?" The hanyou grumbled, but obeyed handing her old bag over.
Kagome took out the candy for Shippo and sat down as everyone else in the room sat down. Kagome looked around the room. "Where is Keade?" She asked as she noticed the absence of the old miko.
"Ohh, she's not feeling well so she went to go lie down for awhile." Shippo told the group, taking the candy out of his mouth only long enough to answer.
Inuyasha was getting annoyed at the lack of attention to the current problem of the woods, or whatever the hell was going on. "Who cares about the old hag, how about someone tell me what the hells going on, huh?" Inuyasha complained grumpily to the group.
"Ok Inuyasha, chill out." Kagome yelled at him. She turned to Miroku and Sango and smiled. "Ok you guys go ahead." She gave one last glare at Inuyasha, silently telling him to be quite. Inuyasha just glared right back at her.
Miroku started the story despite the small staring contest between the two. "Well earlier this morning, not long after you two left, there was a strong magical explosion somewhere to the north. The magic lasted only a few seconds and then it went away, rather abruptly. Neither Keade or I could sense anything of it afterward. The day went on pretty uneventful form there, except for Inuyasha coming back and finding Kagome no longer here." There was an annoyed grunt from the corner that Inuyasha resided in, but it was ignored.
"He proceeded to chase Shippo out of the hut and into the woods. After that Shippo told us that Inuyasha forcefully took information from him and then jumped into the well after you, Kagome. Then-"
"Ohh ohh I want to tell it from here." The young kitsune piped up from Kagome's lap, seemingly forgotten his fear in her presence.
Miroku looked slightly annoyed but nodded to the boy. "Go right ahead Shippo, you were there."
Shippo smiled and looked up at Kagome to make sure she was listening. She had her eyes closed and was rubbing her ears. Shippo frowned, "Kagome, aren't you gonna listen to me?" he asked pulling on her sleeve.
"Huh?, Oh sorry Shippo, go right ahead." Shippo looked up at her for a second but when she smiled down at him he smiled and turned forward to tell his story. Inuyasha looked at Kagome, a little concerned, but chose to ask her about it latter seeing she looked like she was giving all her attention to the kit in her lap.
"Ok, well I was walking back to the village when all of a sudden I heard this really loud scream." Shippo told his story, complete with hand motions and head gestures. "The scream broke the air and it looked like it was falling in pieces toward the ground. Then, like right after the scream, something invisible pushed me, and the rest of the bushes and small trees, down.
"Everything ended really fast and I was just laying on the ground in the forest. It was so quite afterwards, I couldn't hear anything, not even the wind. It was really scary" he said while looking up at Kagome, who stroked his head reassuringly. "So I ran all the way back here."
"Is that all that happened?" Questioned Inuyasha from the corner, "That still doesn't tell us what did it."
"Patience, Inuyasha." Miroku responded calmly to him. "There is a twist Shippo's story. There is definite proof that something happened to Shippo in the woods, but the thing is neither Keade or I sensed any magic or anything for that matter, not even a demon, since earlier this morning. I didn't even feel the wind change, which it should of done considering the direction the underbrush was forced down. In all honesty, I have no clue what happened in the forest." Miroku finshed.
"That really is strange." Kagome thought out loud. "I wonder what happened."
"Who the hell cares anyway." Inuyasha grumbled, standing up. "There are no jewel shards around here and no demons. It was probably just a strong wind." Everyone gave him a bland look. Inuyasha ignored it. "There's a rumor of a few jewel shards to the north, were leaving tomorrow. Get some sleep. I don't want you people complaining tomorrow." With that said Inuyasha walked out the door. A soft thump was heard from the roof signifying that the hanyou was going to sleep on the top of the hut for tonight.
"Ohh sometimes he is such a jerk." Kagome exclaimed with a scowl on her face. Glaring up at the roof where she thought the hanyou was sitting.
"He is probably right though, Kagome-chan." Sango said to her as she got up to walk over to her bedding. Kirara jumping up from her corner and walking over to her mistress wrapping around her ankles. "It is probably something we shouldn't be worrying about." Sango laid down on her bedding in the corner of Keade's hut and turned to Kagome. "You should get some sleep, you look tired.
Kagome nodded and turned to crawl into her sleeping bag. Shippo curled up by her chest placing his ear against her skin to hear her heart and fell asleep quickly. Kagome looked down at him and smiled, wondering how babies can fall asleep so quickly when even things like this happens.
Miroku started to scoot closer and closer toward Sango but with a quick warning from the taijiya he scooted back. After a few more moments of scooting around there was nothing more heard in the room up breathing.
That is for everyone but Kagome. She laid awake in her sleeping bag staring straight ahead. She could hear it clearly now, the crying. It was a child, a small one. She could hear it so clearly now, and it sounded so sad so…helpless. She wanted, no, she needed to find this child, and help it. It was calling out to her, that had to be the reason only she could hear it.
She tried to fall asleep with the sobbing in her head. She waited for a long time, long past the time everyone else fell asleep and still she couldn't sleep and the sound wouldn't go away.
The room had almost no light left in it save the small fire that had nearly burnt out. Kagome sat up, placing the sleeping baby youkai next to her pillow. She couldn't sleep now. That child, it needed help. Kagome stood and walked to the door quietly. She glanced back at her companions in the hut, making sure they were all asleep, and walked out into the dark village alone. She stood and listened to the cry. She started walking slowly toward the woods and the sound grew slightly
louder. Encouraged she started walking at a quicker past into Inuyasha's Forest.
She was completely unaware of the two angry amber eyes that watched her walk away.
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End Chapter 1
Hehe so how'd you like it? ^-^ Review if you like, I would love feedback. I don't really think I'll beg for review though, I know there's a lot of you people who just read and don't review. ( I've been one of them *gasps* ) But I don't know, this is my first story so I might start begging later on, while just have to see. I'll update once a week, that's the best I can do sorry. I hate it when people take forever to update so I'll try to be fast but yah, who knows.
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Kya-chan