Disclaimer: I do not own ANY character from Inuyasha, however much I wish I did, I don't so I must go on with my life!
Also warning, I think maybe this chapter is a little wordy and too much description not enough action. I will fix that problem with the next chapter so please bare with me and keep reading and I'll do my best to make it more action packed and less boring! THANX I APPRECIATE YOU GUYS SO MUCH!
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'Shit, you'd think that I could have a night of peace, but no I just had to run in the Wolves.' Kagome pushed her way through a clutter of branches and leaves slashing, in half, a tree top that had the audacity to be in her way.
"Go find your food somewhere else you ugly no good son of a whore!" Leaping up over the tree tops Kagome focused her sights on the nearest body of water and grabbed onto the next tree, using the momentum to force her onward. Meanwhile the remaining wolf following at her heals, was making increasingly annoying growling and snapping sounds. He was catching her up.
The sun had set barely more then an hour ago, and already the wolf clan was spread out looking for any lowly and alone pray they could find. Kagome, Shocked to think they'd actually be out this early during a new moon, had been caught off guard while feeding. 'Damn, don't they usually regroup during the new moon.."
Kagome, who was so focused on making her way to the body of water, missed a thick branch sticking out into the open and ran square into it. It snapped off at the hilt, but not before forcing every last molecule of air to leave her lungs. Giving the wolf the precious seconds it needed to grab at a fold of fabric at her ankle and yank her out of the air.
Stunned, Kagome flailed out her limbs in order to detach her attacker from her leg. Her arms she used to try and grab on to anything she touched. Her strategy had been to keep to the air until she reached a body of water, wolves were known to be far weaker in the water, but on land they were fierce.
Not a second past before Kagome collided with solid ground, sending surprisingly sharp and familiar pains through her ribs and head. Given no time to regain her composer, the wolf maliciously yanked on her hair dragging her centimeters from where she had landed.
Kagome bit her tongue to keep from screaming out, nobody ever wanted visitors in this kind of situation it only made matters worse. She rolled onto her back and grabbed at the wolfs face, dragging open its's muzzle of razor sharp, pointed teeth and whipped her hair free of its entrapment. Once her hair was loose Kagome flung the wolfs face into the ground and jumped to her feet, bringing one foot down upon the wolfs neck.
"You bastard! You stupid wolf, did you think I'd be easy pray for you. Never ever underestimate the power of inu female!" With that Kagome stepped down on the wolf's neck until she heard the satisfying crack she was waiting for. She then kicked the body away from where she stood, and flicked her hair out of her face. This was turning out to be a really rotten day. First Naraku, then the wolf clan. Both encounters left her wounded and shaky, she could always deal with physical wounds but emotional wounds were the tricky ones. Shaking Naraku from her head, she sat down to steady her fuzzy vision.
The wolf clan had really done a number on her. There had been six of them in the beginning. They had surrounded her with ease and attacked in one fowl swoop. The first three went down easier then water, but the next two got in some fairly hard hits before they too joined their comrades. It was that last one that had caused Kagome the most problems, he must have been the leader in that particular group. He left his greeting card all right, in the shape of a freely bleeding wound in her ankle, where he took her out of the sky, and what felt like broken ribs and a nasty headache.
Kagome sighed and got to her feet cringing at the pain in her body and the sight of all the blood she was losing from her ankle. 'Damn, if I don't clean this out quick im gonna have a whole hoard of youkai and wild animals on my tail.'
She made her way to the big mass of open water, which she had intended to go in the first place, and stripped off her blood soaked ruined pants and slipped her ankle in. The water felt cool and good on her wound, but the blood was filling the water around it, making sick pictures that Kagome didn't have the strength to look at.
No matter how independent she was, Kagome knew when she needed proper care and now was the time. Usually she'd do it herself, being a inu hanyou really helped in the super healing area of her life, but with mating season approaching within the next couple of hours, she would make easy pray for any number of stupid strong youkai.
Taking a think strip of fabric from her ruined pants she bandaged the wound and got to her feet again. This time with less dizziness and more throbbing pain. "Ok Kagome where too." She whispered to herself hating the sound of silence in the air. "Naraku I'm sure would love to hear from me, but safe to say I'd rather die then go to him.. Shit I really gotta start making some friends."
Kagome looked around searching for some hidden sign, noting that the blood in the water had dispersed to new areas and was barely visible. "This water must lead to a village, or a small town of some kind." Kagome cringed at the thought of going into any village, personally she had nothing against humans, her father had been one in any case and he had been very kind. Or at least that was how she remembered him, she was not more then six years old when he died. However, humans tended to have a problem with her, they were often mean and treated her as though she were some sort of child gobbling monster. She was a hanyou, but she was not a monster. Chances are if she were to walk into the village looking like she did, they'd still come after her with pitchforks and other farming equipment as such. "Do I really have a choice, if I don't at least try I'll be stuck out here all night and in the morning find myself in the hands of something disgusting, like Naraku." Kagome ran a blood caked finger over the red gash underneath her left eye, and shuddered. No She definitely did not have a choice.
After nearly a half an hour of walking, or skillful hobbling some might say, Kagome managed to find a small village. It stood only meters away from the small plush forest, where she was at the moment, trying to gather the courage to go onwards. Ever so slowly she took one step after another until she was steadily making her way towards the village. Completely missing the sound of something heavy drop down unto the dewy grass from above.
Entering the perimeter of the village Kagome felt sure that she had entered unnoticed, so preceded to the center, hoping to meet with the village miko or healer, before she met up with any frightened villagers. A sleepiness was dulling her senses, while the pain in her ankle, chest and head seemed to seep out into the rest of her body causing the throbbing to increase by ten. She stumbled over a dip in the ground but quickly regained her balance. It was then that her ears perked up and heard the rumbling of someone talking in a low but seething voice.
"Well now, here I was trying to catch up on some sleep when I see a dark shadow lurking below my tree and making its way towards the village. You wimpy wolves will never learn will you!" Kagome spun on her heel and dropped to the side just as a punch landed in the spot where she had previously stood. "Who the hell do you think you are passing out insults like that! I should make you eat your words you bastard!" Kagome leapt out towards the man with the hopes of knocking him over but succeeded in only causing stabbing pains to pass through her ribs and ankle. Taking that advantage the man encircled Kagome's wrist and maneuvered it behind her back, pushing her to the ground. "For a youkai you're pathetically weak, even if you are a bitch!" Growling Kagome ignored her body's screams of mercy and used her legs to push upwards, with all her might, flinging her captor into a wall. He held strong and gripped her wrists even harder.
"Didn't your mother ever tell you that insulting a women like me, will only cause you a whole lot of pain!" Kagome slammed him back into the wall a second and third time, but his grip never weakened. Her strength was being sucked out of her every time she moved, and yet his grip never seemed to slacken. "Let go, dammit, you stupid human if you don't let me go I'll.." Kagome let the words hang in the air for effect, she really had no idea what she would do to him, she'd never hurt a human. Finally after a short while, she felt completely drained and sunk down on her knees no longer able to stand, panting, trying hard to regain her strength.
"You're nothing but a weak pathetic fool, using empty threats like that on me. I have no remorse for a female asking for trouble." The man preceded to pull Kagome to her feet, surprising her by how very gently he went about it. Kagome looked at him closely and for the first time noticed how young and handsome he was. His black hair was thick and shiny, putting her own to shame. She could not make out his eye color yet but his figure was very appealing. He wore a deep red colored pair of pants, that if she wasn't mistaken looked to be made out of the same fire rat pelt as her own favorite jacket. He wore no shirt, and his chest was pure masculine muscle. Not bulk, but lean strong muscle.
As he moved he did it gracefully with a long straight back, making her eyes follow him, tracing the lines of his spine and shoulders. "Dammit.." Kagome muttered in disgust, "what am I a hormone driven slut." all the blood she had lost must be affecting her mind she decided. The man ignored her and stopped at a door and knocked. They waited not long before it was answered and a blinding light forced Kagome to shut her eyes and turn her head away. "Keade baba I find this roaming around, I don't think you'll need to worry about her she's pretty weak and pathetic."
"You just wait until I'm up to par, you spoiled jack ass! Then we'll see who's the weak and pathetic one!" Kagome growled.
The Keade baba women took one long searching look at Kagome and stood aside to allow them to enter, "Hmm bring her in please, perhaps ye meant no harm my child?" Kagome blinked and looked at the old women, and she was very old, her face was sagging in every direction and she was very small. Granted she had hair but it was more grey then Kagome's ears were white. She seemed kind, but the kind ones, in Kagome's opinion, were often the more dangerous.
"Ye are badly injured my child, Inuyasha, did ye have to beat her like this. Could ye not have just brought her to me?" The man pushed Kagome into the room, and walked around to sit against the wall. He crossed his arms and closed his eyes. "I barely touched her, she wore herself out, Kami Sama my head's already pounding from her pushing me into the wall. Anyway it's like I told you she's weak and useless." The women named Keade baba shook her head and walked towards Kagome, "are ye injured my child?" Kagome looked towards the man that Keade baba had called Inuyasha, it was a very odd name for a human but she found it oddly fitting. She had never met a human who was quite as strong as he obviously was.
"I'm not a wolf demon, like he seems to think, however, they are what caused my injuries. I was attacked about an hour from here not long after sunset." Kagome pulled up her pant leg to show the blood soaked bandage. "I came here looking for care, believe me I didn't want to, but I had no choice." The last statement was pointed towards Inuyasha, he knew it too, for he opened his eyes and mumbled something that oddly sounded like 'Feh'.
Kagome stared at him, completely struck dumb by his gaze. In her own opinion she wasn't a romantic but his eyes sent poetry up her spin. They were deep, soulful, kind, violet eyes. She had never seen eyes like his before. They held a gentleness, unlike everything else about him, but still there was something very strange about them. She couldn't stop staring at him, she had never felt anything like this before. Deep down inside her a funny feeling was surfacing, there was something wrong and strange about him, he couldn't be real. It was as though what she was seeing was some sort of lie. He smelt human, there was no magic around him, and he was beautiful. 'What is it about you, what are you?' Kagome thought to herself.
"A hem.. Poor child, ye must be in a world of pain. I shall bandage the wounds for ye, and ye are welcome to stay the night to heal." Kagome started and snapped her head away from the man named Inuyasha, embarrassment flooding her cheeks."Uh, thank you, uh Keade baba." She stammered, lowering her face to hide her blush. The old women smiled warmly, and slowly left the room, leaving Kagome alone with the disturbing yet haunting Inuyasha.
When Kagome was convinced of the disappearance of her blush, she raised her head and glanced towards the wall. The man named Inuyasha sat there, staring openly at her, Kagome blushed and lifted her face to the ceiling. When she looked down again he was still there, though this time with a self satisfactory grin on his face. Kagome cursed him, letting a low pitched growl escape from her throat. Try as she might to make it sound threatening, the only reaction given to her was his laughter, louder this time with a hint of mockery.
'I have a feeling that meeting him is going to change my life for the worst.' Kagome thought, as she rolled her eyes up into her head and stuck her tongue out at him. This action gained the desired affect and his laughing stopped, he looked as though he were about to burst. It was Kagome's turn to laugh now, and she did maliciously. 'But On the other hand, maybe this won't be so bad after all.'
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Ok, you can't say that, that was sort.... Well it wasn't really long but it was long enough. Anyway sorry this took so long but I've busy with exams and then rearranging my life around my new courses! Anyway I've noticed in this chapter that I got awfully wordy and there was maybe to much description.... hmm I dunno there was something in there that was kinda throwing my off a little. I want to mention that I hope the chapters from now on will have more talking and action and less well boringness (I PROMISE). For the next chapter I have big plans for Kagome and Inuyasha. You know fighting, talking, more action, all around fun funness. Also if anyone knows a good *Beta* please recommend them so I can get some insight on my writing I'd really appreciate it! THANX FOR READING!
Also warning, I think maybe this chapter is a little wordy and too much description not enough action. I will fix that problem with the next chapter so please bare with me and keep reading and I'll do my best to make it more action packed and less boring! THANX I APPRECIATE YOU GUYS SO MUCH!
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'Shit, you'd think that I could have a night of peace, but no I just had to run in the Wolves.' Kagome pushed her way through a clutter of branches and leaves slashing, in half, a tree top that had the audacity to be in her way.
"Go find your food somewhere else you ugly no good son of a whore!" Leaping up over the tree tops Kagome focused her sights on the nearest body of water and grabbed onto the next tree, using the momentum to force her onward. Meanwhile the remaining wolf following at her heals, was making increasingly annoying growling and snapping sounds. He was catching her up.
The sun had set barely more then an hour ago, and already the wolf clan was spread out looking for any lowly and alone pray they could find. Kagome, Shocked to think they'd actually be out this early during a new moon, had been caught off guard while feeding. 'Damn, don't they usually regroup during the new moon.."
Kagome, who was so focused on making her way to the body of water, missed a thick branch sticking out into the open and ran square into it. It snapped off at the hilt, but not before forcing every last molecule of air to leave her lungs. Giving the wolf the precious seconds it needed to grab at a fold of fabric at her ankle and yank her out of the air.
Stunned, Kagome flailed out her limbs in order to detach her attacker from her leg. Her arms she used to try and grab on to anything she touched. Her strategy had been to keep to the air until she reached a body of water, wolves were known to be far weaker in the water, but on land they were fierce.
Not a second past before Kagome collided with solid ground, sending surprisingly sharp and familiar pains through her ribs and head. Given no time to regain her composer, the wolf maliciously yanked on her hair dragging her centimeters from where she had landed.
Kagome bit her tongue to keep from screaming out, nobody ever wanted visitors in this kind of situation it only made matters worse. She rolled onto her back and grabbed at the wolfs face, dragging open its's muzzle of razor sharp, pointed teeth and whipped her hair free of its entrapment. Once her hair was loose Kagome flung the wolfs face into the ground and jumped to her feet, bringing one foot down upon the wolfs neck.
"You bastard! You stupid wolf, did you think I'd be easy pray for you. Never ever underestimate the power of inu female!" With that Kagome stepped down on the wolf's neck until she heard the satisfying crack she was waiting for. She then kicked the body away from where she stood, and flicked her hair out of her face. This was turning out to be a really rotten day. First Naraku, then the wolf clan. Both encounters left her wounded and shaky, she could always deal with physical wounds but emotional wounds were the tricky ones. Shaking Naraku from her head, she sat down to steady her fuzzy vision.
The wolf clan had really done a number on her. There had been six of them in the beginning. They had surrounded her with ease and attacked in one fowl swoop. The first three went down easier then water, but the next two got in some fairly hard hits before they too joined their comrades. It was that last one that had caused Kagome the most problems, he must have been the leader in that particular group. He left his greeting card all right, in the shape of a freely bleeding wound in her ankle, where he took her out of the sky, and what felt like broken ribs and a nasty headache.
Kagome sighed and got to her feet cringing at the pain in her body and the sight of all the blood she was losing from her ankle. 'Damn, if I don't clean this out quick im gonna have a whole hoard of youkai and wild animals on my tail.'
She made her way to the big mass of open water, which she had intended to go in the first place, and stripped off her blood soaked ruined pants and slipped her ankle in. The water felt cool and good on her wound, but the blood was filling the water around it, making sick pictures that Kagome didn't have the strength to look at.
No matter how independent she was, Kagome knew when she needed proper care and now was the time. Usually she'd do it herself, being a inu hanyou really helped in the super healing area of her life, but with mating season approaching within the next couple of hours, she would make easy pray for any number of stupid strong youkai.
Taking a think strip of fabric from her ruined pants she bandaged the wound and got to her feet again. This time with less dizziness and more throbbing pain. "Ok Kagome where too." She whispered to herself hating the sound of silence in the air. "Naraku I'm sure would love to hear from me, but safe to say I'd rather die then go to him.. Shit I really gotta start making some friends."
Kagome looked around searching for some hidden sign, noting that the blood in the water had dispersed to new areas and was barely visible. "This water must lead to a village, or a small town of some kind." Kagome cringed at the thought of going into any village, personally she had nothing against humans, her father had been one in any case and he had been very kind. Or at least that was how she remembered him, she was not more then six years old when he died. However, humans tended to have a problem with her, they were often mean and treated her as though she were some sort of child gobbling monster. She was a hanyou, but she was not a monster. Chances are if she were to walk into the village looking like she did, they'd still come after her with pitchforks and other farming equipment as such. "Do I really have a choice, if I don't at least try I'll be stuck out here all night and in the morning find myself in the hands of something disgusting, like Naraku." Kagome ran a blood caked finger over the red gash underneath her left eye, and shuddered. No She definitely did not have a choice.
After nearly a half an hour of walking, or skillful hobbling some might say, Kagome managed to find a small village. It stood only meters away from the small plush forest, where she was at the moment, trying to gather the courage to go onwards. Ever so slowly she took one step after another until she was steadily making her way towards the village. Completely missing the sound of something heavy drop down unto the dewy grass from above.
Entering the perimeter of the village Kagome felt sure that she had entered unnoticed, so preceded to the center, hoping to meet with the village miko or healer, before she met up with any frightened villagers. A sleepiness was dulling her senses, while the pain in her ankle, chest and head seemed to seep out into the rest of her body causing the throbbing to increase by ten. She stumbled over a dip in the ground but quickly regained her balance. It was then that her ears perked up and heard the rumbling of someone talking in a low but seething voice.
"Well now, here I was trying to catch up on some sleep when I see a dark shadow lurking below my tree and making its way towards the village. You wimpy wolves will never learn will you!" Kagome spun on her heel and dropped to the side just as a punch landed in the spot where she had previously stood. "Who the hell do you think you are passing out insults like that! I should make you eat your words you bastard!" Kagome leapt out towards the man with the hopes of knocking him over but succeeded in only causing stabbing pains to pass through her ribs and ankle. Taking that advantage the man encircled Kagome's wrist and maneuvered it behind her back, pushing her to the ground. "For a youkai you're pathetically weak, even if you are a bitch!" Growling Kagome ignored her body's screams of mercy and used her legs to push upwards, with all her might, flinging her captor into a wall. He held strong and gripped her wrists even harder.
"Didn't your mother ever tell you that insulting a women like me, will only cause you a whole lot of pain!" Kagome slammed him back into the wall a second and third time, but his grip never weakened. Her strength was being sucked out of her every time she moved, and yet his grip never seemed to slacken. "Let go, dammit, you stupid human if you don't let me go I'll.." Kagome let the words hang in the air for effect, she really had no idea what she would do to him, she'd never hurt a human. Finally after a short while, she felt completely drained and sunk down on her knees no longer able to stand, panting, trying hard to regain her strength.
"You're nothing but a weak pathetic fool, using empty threats like that on me. I have no remorse for a female asking for trouble." The man preceded to pull Kagome to her feet, surprising her by how very gently he went about it. Kagome looked at him closely and for the first time noticed how young and handsome he was. His black hair was thick and shiny, putting her own to shame. She could not make out his eye color yet but his figure was very appealing. He wore a deep red colored pair of pants, that if she wasn't mistaken looked to be made out of the same fire rat pelt as her own favorite jacket. He wore no shirt, and his chest was pure masculine muscle. Not bulk, but lean strong muscle.
As he moved he did it gracefully with a long straight back, making her eyes follow him, tracing the lines of his spine and shoulders. "Dammit.." Kagome muttered in disgust, "what am I a hormone driven slut." all the blood she had lost must be affecting her mind she decided. The man ignored her and stopped at a door and knocked. They waited not long before it was answered and a blinding light forced Kagome to shut her eyes and turn her head away. "Keade baba I find this roaming around, I don't think you'll need to worry about her she's pretty weak and pathetic."
"You just wait until I'm up to par, you spoiled jack ass! Then we'll see who's the weak and pathetic one!" Kagome growled.
The Keade baba women took one long searching look at Kagome and stood aside to allow them to enter, "Hmm bring her in please, perhaps ye meant no harm my child?" Kagome blinked and looked at the old women, and she was very old, her face was sagging in every direction and she was very small. Granted she had hair but it was more grey then Kagome's ears were white. She seemed kind, but the kind ones, in Kagome's opinion, were often the more dangerous.
"Ye are badly injured my child, Inuyasha, did ye have to beat her like this. Could ye not have just brought her to me?" The man pushed Kagome into the room, and walked around to sit against the wall. He crossed his arms and closed his eyes. "I barely touched her, she wore herself out, Kami Sama my head's already pounding from her pushing me into the wall. Anyway it's like I told you she's weak and useless." The women named Keade baba shook her head and walked towards Kagome, "are ye injured my child?" Kagome looked towards the man that Keade baba had called Inuyasha, it was a very odd name for a human but she found it oddly fitting. She had never met a human who was quite as strong as he obviously was.
"I'm not a wolf demon, like he seems to think, however, they are what caused my injuries. I was attacked about an hour from here not long after sunset." Kagome pulled up her pant leg to show the blood soaked bandage. "I came here looking for care, believe me I didn't want to, but I had no choice." The last statement was pointed towards Inuyasha, he knew it too, for he opened his eyes and mumbled something that oddly sounded like 'Feh'.
Kagome stared at him, completely struck dumb by his gaze. In her own opinion she wasn't a romantic but his eyes sent poetry up her spin. They were deep, soulful, kind, violet eyes. She had never seen eyes like his before. They held a gentleness, unlike everything else about him, but still there was something very strange about them. She couldn't stop staring at him, she had never felt anything like this before. Deep down inside her a funny feeling was surfacing, there was something wrong and strange about him, he couldn't be real. It was as though what she was seeing was some sort of lie. He smelt human, there was no magic around him, and he was beautiful. 'What is it about you, what are you?' Kagome thought to herself.
"A hem.. Poor child, ye must be in a world of pain. I shall bandage the wounds for ye, and ye are welcome to stay the night to heal." Kagome started and snapped her head away from the man named Inuyasha, embarrassment flooding her cheeks."Uh, thank you, uh Keade baba." She stammered, lowering her face to hide her blush. The old women smiled warmly, and slowly left the room, leaving Kagome alone with the disturbing yet haunting Inuyasha.
When Kagome was convinced of the disappearance of her blush, she raised her head and glanced towards the wall. The man named Inuyasha sat there, staring openly at her, Kagome blushed and lifted her face to the ceiling. When she looked down again he was still there, though this time with a self satisfactory grin on his face. Kagome cursed him, letting a low pitched growl escape from her throat. Try as she might to make it sound threatening, the only reaction given to her was his laughter, louder this time with a hint of mockery.
'I have a feeling that meeting him is going to change my life for the worst.' Kagome thought, as she rolled her eyes up into her head and stuck her tongue out at him. This action gained the desired affect and his laughing stopped, he looked as though he were about to burst. It was Kagome's turn to laugh now, and she did maliciously. 'But On the other hand, maybe this won't be so bad after all.'
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Ok, you can't say that, that was sort.... Well it wasn't really long but it was long enough. Anyway sorry this took so long but I've busy with exams and then rearranging my life around my new courses! Anyway I've noticed in this chapter that I got awfully wordy and there was maybe to much description.... hmm I dunno there was something in there that was kinda throwing my off a little. I want to mention that I hope the chapters from now on will have more talking and action and less well boringness (I PROMISE). For the next chapter I have big plans for Kagome and Inuyasha. You know fighting, talking, more action, all around fun funness. Also if anyone knows a good *Beta* please recommend them so I can get some insight on my writing I'd really appreciate it! THANX FOR READING!
