On the Way to the End
By: ParisOutlaw
Disclaimer: I own Inuyasha and how could you doubt that as it was also I who painted the Mona Lisa, built the Sears Tower and invented post-it-notes. In fact when God was creating earth I said hey God ya know what it is kinda dark, what ya should do is put a glowy orb thing up in the sky there to brighten things up ... yeah that was my idea too. My doctors say I am a pathological liar but you believe me right?
*Inuyasha wakes from the drug and Kagome falls in a trap
*(A/N)* : words here = flashback
'words here' = thoughts
"words here" = talking but did I really need to tell you that?
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Chapter 3: Tracking and Trapping
"Inuyasha, Inuyasha...." The annoying voice of Shippo shot through Inuyasha's ears like a bullet and his head pounded, throbbing more as thin rays of light made their way through his squinted eyelids. He put a clawed hand over his face as he tried to remember what had happened. Uhg, it felt like one of Kikyo's arrows had hit him in the head. The young pup jumped on Inuyasha's chest and looked at him with a puzzled expression. "What'cha doing out here Inuyasha, why were you sleeping outside and where is Kagome I can't find her. Did you say some thing to get her mad again?"
"Kagome!" Inuyasha sat up in a flash regretting his automatic response as it made his head feel like it was splitting in to as many pieces as the broken jewel. He asked Shippo for water to steady his exploding head and after sniffing if first for any thing funny drank it and let the recollection of that evening come back. He had watched Kagome sleep and then she had woken up, they had tea and then ...it was fuzzy .... The tea she had drugged the tea. What had she said again?
You must know that now it isn't about you any more it is about me and shards.....I won't have any one else hurt because they came between me and him. And some thing about always, always what? Ggggggggrrrrrrr, How dare she drug him, why when he got hold of her he'd... his thoughts were interrupted as more people came out on to the porch area where had been laying.
"Inuyasha," Now it was Sango and Miroku who had come out to ask questions to the hanyou."Kagome-sama she is gone with all her things. Where did she go?"
" Did you two get in a fight again last night?"asked a suspicious Sango. His thoughts snapped together for a second, Kagome was gone w/ her things? Again his mind raced back to her words. it is about me and shards.....I won't have any one else hurt The wench must have gone off on her own after Naraku. Being finally able to stand on his own with out any pain in his head, Inuyasha stood and sniffed the air.
"This way she went this way." He pointed in a direction and began to go after her. The others fallowed looking confused, he would explain everything on the way, but first he had to find Kagome before Naraku did.
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Kagome thanked the woman again for her kindness and began her traveling again. It was not going to be easy keeping Inuyasha off her trail but she knew she could if she tried; at least through him off the trail long enough to loose him.
'I hope he isn't too mad about what I did to him.' she thought. Who was she kidding he would be. But it wasn't her fault, Kagome knew Inuyasha and how stubborn and persistent he could be. Ever since making his promise to never leave her again, there was no way he would ever have let her go off after Naraku all on her own. There had been other things se could have done like giving him a very powerful 'SIT' but it wouldn't have given her enough time to make the clean and time consuming break that she had needed. First swimming up river for a few meters to wash her scent off for a while and then running through the woods most of the night. And when she felt that her scent had returned to her things she had switched clothes with a farmer woman on the road going in the opposite direction as her, knowing the mix of smells would surly get Inuyasha mixed up long enough for her to be long gone.
Stopping after traveling more down the road she fixed her self lunch and found her self famished, not surprising since she had forgotten to eat in her haste to run away. Letting her mind wonder she thought of the friends she had left behind. Poor Shippo wold be heart broken and Sango and Miroku.... Miroku would no doubt try to lend some physical comfort to Sango which would result in another slap across his cheek. How would Inuyasha react? One day they would meet up again, hopefully. Maybe by then the jewel would be completed and maybe then Inuyasha would have found some peace to losing Kikyo. A smile graced her lips as she pondered how nice that would be, assuming she wasn't killed by Naraku. She needed not of that thought, putting away her lunch supplies the very alone Kagome continued her journey. Of all the things she thought of how odd that she should not think of how the road side was getting familiar and how she was gong to one place with out knowing where she was going at all. How odd that in her head she knew she had to turn left at the road when her thoughts told she was going no wear particular, but seeing as how everything was going to Naraku's plan one could suppose it was not that strange at all.
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"Inuyasha this is pointless you can't even get a strong read on her scent any more. We would have better luck randomly going around looking for her then this." Sango blurted out, more from her own frustration and tiredness then any thing else. It had been over a day now and it had been a over a day of long exhausted searches in the woods, of only a few hours sleep and hardly any food. When Inuyasha figured out that Kagome had not just crossed the river but swam in it to temporarily loose her scent he had been livid with worry knowing that such a delay like hunting her track down again could cost them to loose her trail completely. He had pushed the whole group of them at an inhuman pace, which was fine for him but was fast taking it's toll on everyone else.
"I don't understand it, it is like she mixed scents and split in two." He looked down each way of the road and smelled but it was almost impossible to tell which one was hers. Damn , if they should fallow the wrong one by the time they came back the other trail would be cold and gone. How could Kagome do this to him ..uuhh... THEM. She must have known how much he..THEY would worry and how heart broken he... uhhh...
'Ok, how heart broken it would make ME!' he admitted to only himself. 'Selfish wench doesn't she realize her life is not her own any more, it is apart of me too?'
"Inuyasha I think perhaps Sango has a point." came the opinion of the monk Miroku."There is no way of knowing now where Kagome went. We would better suit finding her if we set down for the night got rested and then split up come morning. You could take to the right with Shippo and I to the left with the lovely Sango here." He said pinching a hold of her butt before caressing it a bit. A pleased happy look went over the face of the monk but Sango's face began to glow a very scary fiery red as Miroku did not move his wondering hand as he continued to talk.
"We could.... OCH!OCH! No wait I was ...OCH!" Sango had taken to hitting Miroku with her Hiraikotsu attempting to wack the perverted thoughts out of his head. Inuyasha ignored their antics and did nothing to aid the beaten up monk. He began thinking and muttering to himself.
"If only I could get a strong smell of her again. Her hair her clothes her ..." Her clothes that was it!. He reached in his kimono and pulled out the locket and opened it. Folded up and sandwiched in-between their two pictures was the swatch of fabric he had stolen from her uniform. For the first time ever he did not feel silly about having been so sentimental about keeping it. He took a deep sniff of the fabric , not as strong as the smell had once been but it was still there and enough. He smelled the air again and pointed to the left and then turned back to the fighting accomplices. "To the left that is the way which she headed."
By: ParisOutlaw
Disclaimer: I own Inuyasha and how could you doubt that as it was also I who painted the Mona Lisa, built the Sears Tower and invented post-it-notes. In fact when God was creating earth I said hey God ya know what it is kinda dark, what ya should do is put a glowy orb thing up in the sky there to brighten things up ... yeah that was my idea too. My doctors say I am a pathological liar but you believe me right?
*Inuyasha wakes from the drug and Kagome falls in a trap
*(A/N)* : words here = flashback
'words here' = thoughts
"words here" = talking but did I really need to tell you that?
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Chapter 3: Tracking and Trapping
"Inuyasha, Inuyasha...." The annoying voice of Shippo shot through Inuyasha's ears like a bullet and his head pounded, throbbing more as thin rays of light made their way through his squinted eyelids. He put a clawed hand over his face as he tried to remember what had happened. Uhg, it felt like one of Kikyo's arrows had hit him in the head. The young pup jumped on Inuyasha's chest and looked at him with a puzzled expression. "What'cha doing out here Inuyasha, why were you sleeping outside and where is Kagome I can't find her. Did you say some thing to get her mad again?"
"Kagome!" Inuyasha sat up in a flash regretting his automatic response as it made his head feel like it was splitting in to as many pieces as the broken jewel. He asked Shippo for water to steady his exploding head and after sniffing if first for any thing funny drank it and let the recollection of that evening come back. He had watched Kagome sleep and then she had woken up, they had tea and then ...it was fuzzy .... The tea she had drugged the tea. What had she said again?
You must know that now it isn't about you any more it is about me and shards.....I won't have any one else hurt because they came between me and him. And some thing about always, always what? Ggggggggrrrrrrr, How dare she drug him, why when he got hold of her he'd... his thoughts were interrupted as more people came out on to the porch area where had been laying.
"Inuyasha," Now it was Sango and Miroku who had come out to ask questions to the hanyou."Kagome-sama she is gone with all her things. Where did she go?"
" Did you two get in a fight again last night?"asked a suspicious Sango. His thoughts snapped together for a second, Kagome was gone w/ her things? Again his mind raced back to her words. it is about me and shards.....I won't have any one else hurt The wench must have gone off on her own after Naraku. Being finally able to stand on his own with out any pain in his head, Inuyasha stood and sniffed the air.
"This way she went this way." He pointed in a direction and began to go after her. The others fallowed looking confused, he would explain everything on the way, but first he had to find Kagome before Naraku did.
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Kagome thanked the woman again for her kindness and began her traveling again. It was not going to be easy keeping Inuyasha off her trail but she knew she could if she tried; at least through him off the trail long enough to loose him.
'I hope he isn't too mad about what I did to him.' she thought. Who was she kidding he would be. But it wasn't her fault, Kagome knew Inuyasha and how stubborn and persistent he could be. Ever since making his promise to never leave her again, there was no way he would ever have let her go off after Naraku all on her own. There had been other things se could have done like giving him a very powerful 'SIT' but it wouldn't have given her enough time to make the clean and time consuming break that she had needed. First swimming up river for a few meters to wash her scent off for a while and then running through the woods most of the night. And when she felt that her scent had returned to her things she had switched clothes with a farmer woman on the road going in the opposite direction as her, knowing the mix of smells would surly get Inuyasha mixed up long enough for her to be long gone.
Stopping after traveling more down the road she fixed her self lunch and found her self famished, not surprising since she had forgotten to eat in her haste to run away. Letting her mind wonder she thought of the friends she had left behind. Poor Shippo wold be heart broken and Sango and Miroku.... Miroku would no doubt try to lend some physical comfort to Sango which would result in another slap across his cheek. How would Inuyasha react? One day they would meet up again, hopefully. Maybe by then the jewel would be completed and maybe then Inuyasha would have found some peace to losing Kikyo. A smile graced her lips as she pondered how nice that would be, assuming she wasn't killed by Naraku. She needed not of that thought, putting away her lunch supplies the very alone Kagome continued her journey. Of all the things she thought of how odd that she should not think of how the road side was getting familiar and how she was gong to one place with out knowing where she was going at all. How odd that in her head she knew she had to turn left at the road when her thoughts told she was going no wear particular, but seeing as how everything was going to Naraku's plan one could suppose it was not that strange at all.
* * * * * * * * * *
"Inuyasha this is pointless you can't even get a strong read on her scent any more. We would have better luck randomly going around looking for her then this." Sango blurted out, more from her own frustration and tiredness then any thing else. It had been over a day now and it had been a over a day of long exhausted searches in the woods, of only a few hours sleep and hardly any food. When Inuyasha figured out that Kagome had not just crossed the river but swam in it to temporarily loose her scent he had been livid with worry knowing that such a delay like hunting her track down again could cost them to loose her trail completely. He had pushed the whole group of them at an inhuman pace, which was fine for him but was fast taking it's toll on everyone else.
"I don't understand it, it is like she mixed scents and split in two." He looked down each way of the road and smelled but it was almost impossible to tell which one was hers. Damn , if they should fallow the wrong one by the time they came back the other trail would be cold and gone. How could Kagome do this to him ..uuhh... THEM. She must have known how much he..THEY would worry and how heart broken he... uhhh...
'Ok, how heart broken it would make ME!' he admitted to only himself. 'Selfish wench doesn't she realize her life is not her own any more, it is apart of me too?'
"Inuyasha I think perhaps Sango has a point." came the opinion of the monk Miroku."There is no way of knowing now where Kagome went. We would better suit finding her if we set down for the night got rested and then split up come morning. You could take to the right with Shippo and I to the left with the lovely Sango here." He said pinching a hold of her butt before caressing it a bit. A pleased happy look went over the face of the monk but Sango's face began to glow a very scary fiery red as Miroku did not move his wondering hand as he continued to talk.
"We could.... OCH!OCH! No wait I was ...OCH!" Sango had taken to hitting Miroku with her Hiraikotsu attempting to wack the perverted thoughts out of his head. Inuyasha ignored their antics and did nothing to aid the beaten up monk. He began thinking and muttering to himself.
"If only I could get a strong smell of her again. Her hair her clothes her ..." Her clothes that was it!. He reached in his kimono and pulled out the locket and opened it. Folded up and sandwiched in-between their two pictures was the swatch of fabric he had stolen from her uniform. For the first time ever he did not feel silly about having been so sentimental about keeping it. He took a deep sniff of the fabric , not as strong as the smell had once been but it was still there and enough. He smelled the air again and pointed to the left and then turned back to the fighting accomplices. "To the left that is the way which she headed."