A/N: Ok everyone! I have the next chapter! So here it is, enjoy.
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"Kagome?" as much as the speaker tried to hide it, he was upset--probably even crying.
Kagome looked up at the speaker, getting pulled out of her memories of the night before. "Inuyasha," she whispered. He knelt down beside her and put an arm around her shoulders staring at the grave in front of him with moist eyes. He rarely cried and the few times he did, he would hide his tears. He didn't seem to care this time. Kagome buried her head in Inuyasha's shoulder and continued to sob.
"Kagome, I… Do you want to be alone?" Inuyasha managed to say after a few moments of silence. "Sango said you weren't taking… 'it' too well…"
She looked up into his golden eyes which were filled with tears that rolled down his cheek. Kagome reached a hand up to wipe them from his face, "Look who's talking," she said, managing a smile, though it was forced and didn't make Inuyasha feel any better.
"He didn't deserve it," Inuyasha said, "I hope Naraku is burning in hell for what he has done."
"Hell is too good for him," Kagome said. "I hope his spirit is forced to stay here on earth and relive that moment when he died over and over again until he can take it no longer and is forced to watch people from all around celebrate his death," she spoke with such anger that even Inuyasha was starting to get scared. She laughed at the look on his face, but again it was forced. It didn't look at all like the smile Inuyasha always enjoyed or sound like the laughter he always wanted to hear.
"How do you think he came back?" Inuyasha asked trying to change the subject.
"Well," Kagome started, "Who do we know that can bring back the dead besides Naraku himself?" she asked remembering how he brought Kohaku back to life after he had been shot full of arrows.
"Well, a better question would be who do we know that has been brought back from the dead?"
"There's Kohaku, but Naraku did that, and Kikyou, but Urasue is dead," she looked up at Inuyasha, "Who else?"
"Rin," he said coldly. Kagome was confused for a moment, but then remembered that girl that was always following Sesshomaru. Yes, Sesshomaru actually told them he gave the girl her life back after being attacked by a pack of youkai wolves.
"Do you really think Sesshomaru would do that?"
"Yes, unless it was someone we haven't met yet."
"But why?" Kagome asked, "I thought he hated Naraku."
Inuyasha shrugged, "Who knows. It might not even have been him remember"
Kagome nodded against his chest that she was still leaning on. She had soaked his kimono with her tears, but Inuyasha didn't seem to mind. Just then, Shippou walked towards them.
The kitsune, now around twenty, but still acted like a ten-year-old, said, "Miroku told me to tell you that supper is ready, if you feel like eating at all."
Kagome looked back at the grave and sighed. "I suppose so, I haven't eaten a bite since it happened."
"Or left the grave," Shippou pointed out. "You know he wouldn't like that. Besides, Ara is hysterical and I really think you should be by her side since she refuses to go anywhere near the grave; she still feels responsible."
"Why? She did nothing, it was Naraku that killed him, Not her." Kagome stated.
"Well, he was killed because he was trying to protect her from Naraku's attack," Inuyasha pointed out. "She says that if she wasn't such a coward and was just able to run, he would not be dead."
"What?! She said that?" Kagome exclaimed. She stood and began to walk towards Keade's village looking back to the grave only once as a tear rolled down her cheek.
~*~*~*~*~
"Kagome-chan, please eat something," Sango pleaded. Kagome looked down at the fish she was given. She was starving, but somehow just couldn't eat.
"Mommy, eat. It tastes good," Ara said, but she herself had only taken a tiny nibble.
No one in the room was in a good mood after the previous night's adventures… The victim of last night… Mitsu. He had jumped in front of Ara to save her from one of Naraku's attacks, but was killed as he did so.
"You should listen to your own advice, Ara-chan," Shippou joked.
"Shut up, kitsune."
"Ara! don't tell Shippou-chan to shut up," Kagome scolded. She let out a sigh of defeat as they continued to argue. That was something they both seemed to do when they were upset. Perhaps they did it to calm themselves --even if that didn't make any sense.
"I need to go for a walk," Kagome said after a long silence; well, it would have been silent if Ara and Shippou would just be quiet.
"I'll come too," Inuyasha said and walked out the door with her. He put his arm around her waist as they walked through the forest --the forest that had been named the Inuyasha Forest after he was sealed to the sacred tree there.
They walked aimlessly for around an hour in silence like that, Inuyasha's arm around her waist and Kagome leaning on his shoulder which seemed to be just the right height for her head to rest on.
"Kagome," Inuyasha said after a while.
She looked up, "Yes?"
"Maybe we should go to your time for a while; maybe you wont cry so much."
It was only then that Kagome realized she had been crying the entire time. "I guess so, but later; I kinda enjoy this," she said with a smile.
"Of course," he answered. Inuyasha was no longer the rude, obnoxious hanyou Kagome met over fifteen years ago in this very forest. He change so much during their adventures and it seemed that this was enough to almost change him all together. Kagome actually started to miss his hot-tempered self. The old Inuyasha would tell her not to be such a cry-baby and that Mitsu was probably better off now. She let out a sigh.
"What are you thinking about?"
"Just thinking of how much you have changed."
"Changed?" Inuyasha asked with a confused look.
"Yeah, you remember how you used to be: rude, mean, short-tempered, bossy--"
"Who are you calling 'short-tempered'?"
"What's that supposed to mean?" Kagome said with her hands on her hips. They were both shouting now.
"Every time I do something small you shout 'sit'. then you act all innocent by saying 'Oh, sorry. I didn't mean it. Really!'" Inuyasha shouted imitating her voice. Kagome couldn't help but laugh at the pathetic attempt. "What's so funny?" Inuyasha demanded.
"I do not sound like that."
"You know what I mean!"
Kagome couldn't help but smile. Looks like Inuyasha is back to his old self. Good.
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"Shut up, baka!"
"You're the baka!"
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"Could you both be quiet?" Sango asked politely to Ara and Shippou. They hadn't stopped arguing since Kagome and Inuyasha left.
They completely ignored her. "Stupid kitsune!" Ara yelled.
"Dumb human!" Shippou retorted. He was currently using fox magic to make himself appear as small as he was when they first started their adventure. He always said he liked himself better like that because it reminded everyone about their past --the good and the bad.
"Hey!" Sango and Miroku shouted at the same time.
"I'm not all human!" Ara said sticking her tongue out.
"Right now you are!"
"So?"
"So ha!"
"What are you two fighting over this time?" Kagome asked stepping into the hut. Inuyasha followed soon after and the dirt on his face told everyone in the room that they had an argument.
Shippou jumped onto Kagome's shoulder, "She started it!"
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"Did not!"
"How old are you, Shippou?" Inuyasha asked, "Cuz you sure sound like a little kid."
"No I don't!"
"Yes you do," Inuyasha shouted back.
"No!"
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"No!"
"Enough!" Kagome shouted throwing her hands into the air. "Why does everyone always have to argue?!"
Inuyasha, who had started to shake Shippou, quickly put him down. "Sorry," he mumbled.
"Sorry," Shippou and Ara said at the same time.
"Ara, we're going to the well," Kagome said gesturing to Inuyasha, "you wanna come? You have been missing a lot of school," she said, but she knew after all that had happened the girl would refuse to leave the house.
Ara shrugged her shoulders, "Okay."
~*~*~*~*~
"Kagome! Ara! Inuyasha! How have you been?" Mrs. Higurashi said as they each entered the house.
"Hiya, sis," Souta said.
"Hi," Kagome responded then looked questioningly at Souta, "I thought you were going back to America this morning."
"My flight was canceled," he shrugged, "Lots of storms and stuff." Souta went to college at the University of California in America --against his mother's wishes who always said the schools in Japan were better-- and had only come for a visit, which he did every few months --another thing his mother didn't like too much due to the fact that she usually paid for the flights.
"Kagome, what's wrong?" Mrs. Higurashi asked noticing her blood-shot and swollen eyes and red cheeks.
Ara decided to leave for her room --which used to be Kagome's-- but remembered that she trashed it, so she went to the living room instead and turned on the TV.
Kagome sighed and looked at the ground, "There was an accident, Mama."
"Accident?" her mother asked. Kagome nodded.
"It was a fight with Naraku and…" she trailed off not wanting to finish the sentence. She rubbed away the tears that started to flow down her cheeks.
"Are you ok, Kagome?" Souta asked.
Kagome managed to look up at their faces, "Mitsu was killed," she announced.
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"You sure you don't need anything?" Mrs. Higurashi asked through Kagome's door later that evening.
"No thanks, Mama," she answered.
Inuyasha sat at the edge of the bed changing the channels of the TV with the remote trying to find something good.
At least he understands modern technology now, Kagome thought. She still remembered the day she first showed Inuyasha a TV. He seemed so confused and went right up to it and poked the screen asking things like, 'How did those people get in there?' or 'Where is the sound coming from?' It took Kagome hours to explain it to him, and soon it became his favorite thing, aside from ramen of course.
She laid down on the bed with a sigh. "I already miss him," she said.
"Me too," Inuyasha said giving up any hope at finding something to watch and laid down next to her.
"What do you suppose it's like?" Kagome asked.
"What what's like?" Inuyasha asked suddenly very confused.
"What do you think it's like to die?"
"Well, I was dead once."
Kagome laughed, "You weren't dead, you were under a spell."
He shrugged, "Same difference," he said using one of the phrases Kagome, Ara, and Mitsu would always use.
"Well, then, what was that like?"
"It's like being in this dark room or something, no lights, windows, or even a candle. You just stay there. You have no heat-beat and you don't even have to breath," Inuyasha sighed, "But you have to stay there without moving, because if you move, there is this pain that shoots through your whole body."
"Is that really what it was like for you?"
Inuyasha nodded, "But you're right, death and that spell I was under are probably different."
"I hope so," Kagome said. She yawned and fell asleep, but woke up several times in the night. I hope you're okay, Mitsu. I miss you so much…
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FINALLY! I got the 3rd chapter up! Yay!!! I'm not sure if I'm gonna write more, I might. Heck, I might even delete this chapter and actually write out the battle. I did try to do that, but I can't write battle scenes^^;; Please review. If I get enough good reviews, I'll write another chapter! *crickets* Umm.. Ahem, *cough* Any way, I'm working on another fanfic right now, but it doesn't have a title yet. And before I write it, none of my stories have anything to do with each other. So if you see Mitsu in one of my stories, don't call me stupid! Lol. Well, thanks for reading! ~Fala