IS: Yay! What kind of crazy things can I make these people do in
Kagome's time... ::snickers evilly::
Inu: .... again, who said you could speak? ::knuckles crack::
IS: Meep! ::runs away::
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'Where You Go I'll Follow'
Chapter 3
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Her scent was disappearing and it was leaving quickly. He had to move.
"Oh, look Miroku! Look at how that hut has been built!"
"Yes, truly amazing! The thought and precision that were put towards it-"
"Enough of this damn talk, she's leaving!"
Inuyasha took off for the front yard, red sleeves billowing at his sides and froze
on the front steps of the property. One of those strange 'ma-sheens' was taking
away his Kagome, fast.
Damnit, why did he keep thinking 'his'?!
Inuyasha's eyes narrowed in on the back of Kagome's head, clearly visible through
the sparkling glass of the taxi's rear window.
She doesn't SEEM to be hurt.. maybe this is one of those good 'ma-sheens' she
was telling me about. There ARE good ones, right?!
"Inuyasha, wait up!"
The other three rushed to Inuyasha's side. looking around, confused.
Sango looked to Inuyasha. "Where's Kagome?"
All Inuyasha could do was point. "We're following her."
Before anyone could protest, he had practically thrown Miroku, Sango and Shippou
onto his back and taken flight, leaping from building to building with such speed,
he was never spotted. Although, if one could hear over the din of the city, a sharp
slap could be heard as Miroku took advantage of the tight space in the situation.
When Inuyasha would be asked later where he had received such strength and stamina
over such a long distance, he would shrug, make some sarcastic remark and
immediately change the subject. However, it wasn't too hard to guess, because while
the three on his back gazed around at this new world with amazement, Inuyasha kept
his eyes fixated on the small yellow taxi below, never wavering.
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Ok, this is just WEIRD.
Kagome sat in a hard, plastic orange chair at the airport, waiting with her
mother and Souta for their flight number to be called, and thought. She couldn't
place it, but this feeling had been nagging at her ever since they had left the
house... like something wasn't quite right, something had been misplaced.
But, I'm positive I didn't forget to pack something. I made a list, and I
crossed everything out... so, why...??
Frustrated, Kagome rose from her chair.
"I'm going to get a soda, Mama. Can I get you or Souta anything?"
"Souta might like a soda."
"Ok, I'll just be a sec."
She walked to the row of brightly lit soda machines, glad to feel the numbness
begin to leave her body. This airport really wasn't so bad, except for it's choice
in seating. It had a nice restaurant, a gift shop, and even a clothing store. Not
anything new, but Kagome guessed these were convenient to frequent travelers.. not
that she would know about that, unless you counted the trips to the well..
No use thinking of that now, it was beside the point.
Kagome gave her head a shake as her eyes drifted over the choices of drinks before
her, but stopped for no particular reason at all, and she looked up.
A man had darted out of her line of vision a few feet to her right, but not before
she got a glimpse of his face. She knew that face and she knew it well. She leaned
out into the crowd to get a second look, but too many people prevented her a better
view.
There's just no way. No way. A lot of guys have black hair.. SHORT black hair at
that! I'm just being stupid, Miroku's not here. Miroku's back down the well, with
Inuya-
Kagome shook her head again, angrily. She had to stop reminding herself that she
missed them all desperately, for sanity's sake.
She deposited her money, picked up the cans and went back to her plastic orange
chair.
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"Baka baka baka baka BAKA!!"
"I'm sorry, Inuyasha, I only wanted to be sure..."
Inuyasha set fiery gold eyes on Miroku, a sharp look of warning in the blaze. "I'm
already positive it's her, so stay away from her, or she'll know we're here!"
"But, Inuyasha," Sango looked at him curiously. "Would it be so bad for Kagome to know
that we are here? We are total strangers in this new world. We have no ideas on
currency, dress, how to act, anything. We're blind and conspicuous, Inuyasha, it is
impossible for us to blend in. She could show us around, and we wouldn't get lost-"
"No! She can't know that we're here!" She can't know that I came after her...
Sango fumed, she was used to his pig-headedness.
Inuyasha imagined that he had two, very different people beside him. They just happened
to look exactly like him, act exactly like him, and, oh yes, they just happened to be
the two sides of his concious. They continually yanked him in different directions and
yelled at him about what he should have said or done. And they got into a very heated
discussion when Kagome happened to cross his mind.
----
(Baka! Don't call her names! What, are you TRYING to make Kagome hate you?!)
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(Shut up, Inuyasha, of course he is. Kagome has the wrong idea about us. We're a demon,
a soon to be full demon, and a powerful one at that. Kagome is only useful in finding
the shards of the sacred Shikon Jewel, and that's all. She needs to stop trying to
change us into something we're not. Hell, she's just a human!)
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(A human who's changed us in a good way, Inuyasha. You know this, look at how gentle
you've become with her. Look at your time at the lake with her, look-)
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(Look at how foolish and careless she's made you! Kikyou was the only one for you,
because she was powerful and she possessed the Shikon no Tama. How can you be so
disloyal to her?!)
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(Kikyou is dead, she is NOT the Kikyou we once knew. Inuyasha and Kikyou were not
meant to be, but, look at how Kagome came to be here. Do you think her arrival was by
pure coincidence? It wasn't. It was meant to happen.)
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-Silence-
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(Maybe it WAS meant to happen, but what if we hurt-kill her one day? Is that meant to be?)
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After Kagome first arrived was when Inuyasha began to notice that one of them had
black hair.
Sometimes he liked that one more.
But, the one with the flashing red eyes wasn't stupid.
Inuyasha was jerked out of his daydreams by a group of teenagers in front of him.
Damn, but did they look like demons!
There were four of them, two guys and two girls, he assumed. The all had strange body
paint on their arms in weird, black designs, the effect heightened by their shiny
black coverings that instantly reminded Inuyasha of some of the more scaly demons
from back home. He winced visibly when he looked at their faces. Silver! Why, they
had silver protruding from their nostrils, their ears, their eyebrows, their lips..
he thought he even saw silver on one of their tongues! He tried to imagine it on
Kagome and shuddered.
Must be painful.
They all had bizarre hair.. no normal colors. One man had bright green, the other
yellow. One girl had purple and the other a startingly bright shade of pink. They
hurt to look at, but...
They were smiling at him?!
"Hey man, great costume! How'd ya get your hair so long?"
"Yeah dude, and the gold contacts are sweet."
Miroku jumped back several steps as the pink-haired girl touched the beads on his
hand. Sango hid behind Miroku, and Shippou hid behind her. These were the scariest
demons she'd ever seen!
Inuyasha glanced at each of them in turn, but could not detect any form of power at
all. His eyes grew large.
Could these be... normal humans?!
"Uh.. dude, you ok?"
"I think we disturbed them, Shinji." The purple-haired girl bowed to Inuyasha.
"We'll leave you alone now, so sorry to disturb you!"
And they left.
Sango, Miroku and Shippou let out sighs of relief.
"Those had to have been the scariest demons I've ever laid eyes on," Sango sighed.
"I second that."
"I third that!"
Inuyasha just shrugged. "You know what?"
"What?"
"What?"
"What?!"
"We're too conspicuous, we stand out too much. We're supposed to be blending in."
Sango resisted the urge to deck him. "But how can we blend in? No clothes, no
currency.."
Shippou coughed and three pairs of eyes flew to him and the small wad of greenish
paper in his little hands.
"Shippou, you didn't!"
"It was with a bunch of others! I only took a few to look at!"
Sango shook her head. "You stole that Shippou, that's wrong!"
"Well..."
All eyes shifted again to our situation, and that there were more of these forms of currency
from whomever Shippou took them from, I think we should use them to 'blend in'."
A moment of silence...
"Still, he STOLE them! We're supposed to return them!"
Miroku looked from Sango to Inuyasha. "Well?"
"If we use them to help us protect Kagome, I agree to keeping it."
"It's three to one, sorry Sango."
Sango looked away in disgust. "Fine, do what you want with it. See if I care."
The three boys looked towards the clothing store that the large airport housed.
Miroku blinked. "The.... Gap?"
Inuyasha shrugged and led the way inside, Miroku, Shippou, and a reluctant Sango
following behind.
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