Disclaimer: I don't own Inu Yasha or any of the characters. They all belong
to Rumiko Takahashi.
Sara: Well, I have decided to review again. I hope you like this chapter. I don't know how well it will turn out. I know what I want to say, but am not quite sure how to put it all together. * nervous laugh; scratches behind head *
Inu: Good afternoon, Mate. Another story, eh? Well, don't worry. Even if it is crappy, I'll still be here.
Sara: Aw, Inu Yasha! That was so sweet of you to say, considering what you are usually saying...
Rikora= Yes, he did! I was getting fed up with the fact that he wasn't here to clean it. Sorry I had to take him on such short notice, but Sesshy needed to take his dirty kimonos to the laundry room ^_^ Descriptive... they should have a better word then that....
Meiling= Thank you for the review! And, upon request, I have updated. I fear you wrath...
~~= Dreams
~*~= Scene change
'...'= Thoughts
"..."= Talking
~*~Chapter Three: An Untimely Visit~*~
The warm spring wind played on her face, making her stray hairs dance. She stood in the schoolyard, wrapped in her thoughts. Kagome had decided to come to school today. She had gotten home a little after six that morning, and felt like she needed to distract her mind from Inu Yasha. Although that was the original plan, Inu Yasha seemed more of a distraction then school. She wanted to help him, to get his mind free of the entire nightmare scheme of things. Kagome wanted Inu Yasha back. The confident, never scared, always-ignorant Inu Yasha. Her Inu Yasha.
"Yo! Kagome!" Eri called, waving her hand as she jogged up to Kagome with her fellow senior friends. "I didn't think you'd be here today! Your grandfather said that you were going to be in the hospital for treatment for at least a month. I still can't believe you had those bumps all over."
Kagome sweat dropped. 'Leave it to Grandpa to make things worse then they really are.' "Nope!" she replied, a cheesy grin plastered on her face. "All better! The doctors said that I was healing nicely and I could go home," She walked with Eri through the schoolyard. Her friends decided to sit in the sun to eat their lunches, although Kagome's mind was in a completely different time and place.
"You know," Ayumi said, pulling Kagome back to the here and now, a smile playing on her lips. "Tomorrow's Saturday. And Saturday is the spring dance."
Kagome sighed and placed her chin in her palm. She knew where this was going. It always led to one particular boy when they were all talking. "I don't think I'll go. I mean, I've been in the hospital all this time and I don't thin-"
"Higurashi!" Hojo said, standing before them all at their table. Speak of the devil. 'Ah, the clueless boy who's been chasing me for three years,' she thought, forcing a smile on her lips.
"Hey Hojo. What's up?" She asked, half-heartedly. Kagome knew all too well what was going to happen. 'He's gonna give me a gift...'
"I heard you were back and I didn't want your condition to get in the way of graduation, so I decided to bring something to help." He pulled out a small, baby blue pouch with her name written on the front. She thanked him. '...And then an invitation for a date.' "I was also wandering, since you seem to be doing better, if you would like to go to the dance with me tomorrow."
She was full set on going back to the Sengoku-jidai for a while, maybe a few weeks. She just wanted to finish today to get any homework. "Well, actually-" Kagome started. When she was about to finish her sentence, she was cut off.
"She'd love to go! Eight-thirty tomorrow!" Ayumi butted in, fixing plans to make Kagome go, against her will, to the dance with the clueless pretty boy before them. Hojo smiled his trademark innocent smile and said good-bye. Kagome was red with frustration and realization. Her friends had just set her up, and Inu Yasha was not going to be happy. How was she supposed to explain to him that she was going somewhere –anywhere, it didn't matter with Inu Yasha- with Hojo?
~*~
"No," the inu hanyou replied simply. It was Saturday morning, around ten a.m., and the sun was beaming down on the village. Kagome had come to find and talk to him, seeing as how he was just aimlessly walking around. She had searched all morning and finally found him. Inu Yasha seemed happy enough to see her, but the second she said 'home,' his expression went sour.
"But Inu Yasha, There's something I have to do at home!" Sure, she didn't want to do it, but she had blown him off too many times. She found it an obligation to go to the dance with Hojo.
"There is nothing more important then our current task, and you know it," he shot back, continuing with his walk. He wasn't entirely talking only about the Shikon no Tama, but he wanted her to stay with him tonight. That was his task: keeping her here. He wanted her to stay, and here she was trying to leave.
"Inu Yasha," she begged. 'He's right. Hojo isn't that important and you wanna stay with Inu Yasha. You like him and you know it.' "Hojo invite-"
"HOJO?!?!" He screamed, turning to stand in front of her; arms at his side, fists clenched and nails drawing blood from his own palms. "You wanna leave me to be with HOJO?" He turned away from her. "Go. Go then and come back before you've mated. I wanna kill Naraku before then." He spat pout, walking away before she could protest. Boy, had she done it this time.
'Shit,' she mentally cursed. 'Now he thinks I have a thing for Hojo and that I am gonna mate with him.' She hung her head and started back to the well. Kagome didn't wanna go, but at the moment she needed to let the hanyou cool off and she needed to think of how she could make him see she didn't love Hojo. Why was her life so complicated?
~*~
Inu Yasha stomped through the forest approaching on the Goshinboku. His hand was on the hilt of his sword, calming his boiling blood. He reached the tree and leapt onto a branch. His rage was subsiding, and he took a deep breath.
"Hojo my ass," he said, letting go of his breath. "How dare she leave me when I actually was her to stay? I want her to stay and not just for the jewel. Wait..." He restated his question to him self. 'Why would I want her to stay?' He leaned his head on the rough bark. 'Naraku's the only one with shards, so why do I need her anymore? I can kill him, so what's the point in having her here anymore?'
'Because you love her.'
~*~
On the other side of the well, Kagome was in her room, silent tears staining her face. She was so mad at herself that she hadn't moved since she arrived three hours ago. Her head was in her arms as she lay on her stomach on her bed. The comforter that dressed her mattress was being drenched with the amount of tears. Why was she crying? What had happened that could have caused the abundance of water seeping from her eyes?
Inu Yasha. She had hurt him. He wanted her to stay. He said he didn't want her to leave him. Wait... he didn't want her to leave him? Did it mean something deeper then the shards? It did, from what she had gathered from his happiness of seeing her. And that means that she had hurt him even more. He was saying he liked her and she was leaving to be with another. She started crying harder, becoming audible with her gasps of breath. How could she? After she had promised to stay with him, she was leaving. She always left.
The house had been silent because her mom and Sota had left to go to town. Grandpa was at a meeting for Japan's history and myth seekers. So, with all the silence, she nearly jumped out of her skin when she heard a familiar ringing. She made her way down the hallway and picked up the phone. "Hi?" she said uncertainly as she leaned against the doorframe of the kitchen. "Hi Yuka...yes, I plan on keeping the date," she sighed heavily. She didn't want to, but she had no choice but to go. "What do you mean 'are you ready yet'?" Her gaze went to the clock on the wall and her eyes bugged out of her head. It was seven-thirty, leaving her with less then an hour to take a shower and get ready. "Gosh, thanks for calling Yuka! I woulda missed it if you hadn't called!" Kagome faked her surprise and devastation of finding out the time. "Ja ne." She placed the phone on the receiver.
She headed upstairs, grabbed a nice pair of pants, shirt, and change of underwear, and went to the bathroom for a quick shower.
~*~
It was seven o'clock when the sun snaked behind the horizon. It was a little while, not ten minutes, after that Sango and Miroku decided to search for their friend. They walked together, a safe distance apart, to the well, hoping to find a sulky Inu Yasha waiting for them. What they found instead was a flea demon who was considerably out of breath on the lip of the well. Miroku walked to him, crouching to see him better.
"Myoga, what are you doing here?" He asked after squishing the youkai for sucking his blood.
"Where is Lord Inu Yasha? I must speak with him. It is a matter of life and death." The flea demon spoke with urgency dripping from his words.
"That is what Lady Sango and I have come to figure out. He has been missing all afternoon since he woke up and found Kagome still gone. She went to her time after Inu Yasha had a nightmare yesterday morning."
"Nightmare? Please, tell me more." Myoga had a bad feeling. If he was correct, then they needed to act fast.
"Apparently," Sango said, coming into the conversation, "he didn't sleep well that night. He had transformed to his full youkai state, killing an enemy we encountered that held the last jewel shards that we needed that Naraku didn't have. He must have had a horrible nightmare because he woke up screaming and, from what Kagome told me, he was afraid she was dead. She had a feeling that it had something to do with his transformation, but none of us know."
Myoga sighed heavily. "I am afraid she is correct in her assumption. If I am correct about Lord Inu Yasha, then his nightmare was about his demon half. That half of him wants control of his body, so it is attempting to devour his human heart. If his heart can overcome the evil, then Inu Yasha's life is safe. However, if his human heart is destroyed, then that in itself will kill him. He, being a hanyou, cannot handle the power and intensity of his demonic side. I am afraid there is only one choice in saving him, although we must get him to submit."
"What must we do, Myoga?" Miroku asked, sitting cross-legged in the grass. "What can we do to help him?"
"It isn't so much us, as it is she. Miss Kagome must understand her feelings toward Lord Inu Yasha. Love is the only thing that can save a human heart and make it stronger. Inu Yasha has lost love in the past and is afraid that the young girl doesn't feel for him. If she knows and tells him that she does, then his heart will grow stronger. If she stays with him, then his demon side will be suppressed. The love of Lady Kagome is all that can save him."
As their talk ended, Inu Yasha came to the clearing. Upon seeing his friends, he sat beside them. They all watched him as his human form approached them. Yes, tonight was his night as a mere human; his weakness had surrounded him, creating nothing but a mortal. They all sat around the well, not speaking. Sango and Miroku were soaking in what Myoga had told them, Inu Yasha was coming to the realization that Kagome had left, and Myoga decided to keep his big mouth shut for now.
The wind suddenly picked up and blew chills down every spine. Above them, a large feather descended from the sky and the wind demon jumped off. She smirked. The Hanyou's weakness was sniffed out by her senses, making it all the more easier to kill him. Now that he was nothing but a human, he couldn't pull out the blasted Kaze no Kizu. Her fan in front of her, Kagura stepped before the group.
"Ah, Inu Yasha. The night of a full moon is the night of your weakness. How surprising. And how ironic that it will also be the night of your death. Hand over the shards!" She closed her fan, ever so slightly, and wind blades cut across to Inu Yasha, avoiding the others.
The blades pierced his skin, spattering his blood all over the soft, green grass. He clenched his wounds in pain. This human body was not made for high magnitudes of pain. He tried to stand, but doubled over. 'Damn,' he cursed, glancing up at Kagura. 'Damn this human body.'
Before Inu Yasha could attack her, Miroku and Sango stepped before him. Miroku's staff in defense position and Sango's Hiraikotsu, mended courtesy of the villagers, in her right had, ready to be hurled at the incarnation.
"Inu Yasha!" Miroku yelled over his shoulder, " You must go to a safer place! You are not protected properly here!" Inu Yasha looked for the only plausible place to go. This untimely enemy had caught him in a lurch. He didn't HAVE anywhere to run to. The village would endanger the inhabitants and he would be at a dead end if he ran to the forest. His eyes landed on the well. He couldn't think about it any longer. He jumped in.
The pink and blue haze surrounded him, making him feel drowsy with the pain of his wounds. He didn't know how much longer he would stay awake. Finally, his feet hit the bottom of the well. Inu Yasha pulled himself on the ladder and climbed out. He eased the door open, pausing a while on the doorframe, and hobbled down the steps toward the Higurashi Shrine. Out of all his pain and misery, he yelled out the one name that brought happiness to his heart, hoping she would hear him.
"Kagome!"
~*~End Chapter~*~
Sara: I hope you guys are satisfied with this. I am up and it is well past midnight. I really wanted to get this out before I went to bed. I was in a writing mood this evening.
Well, Ja Ne.
Inu Face
Sara: Well, I have decided to review again. I hope you like this chapter. I don't know how well it will turn out. I know what I want to say, but am not quite sure how to put it all together. * nervous laugh; scratches behind head *
Inu: Good afternoon, Mate. Another story, eh? Well, don't worry. Even if it is crappy, I'll still be here.
Sara: Aw, Inu Yasha! That was so sweet of you to say, considering what you are usually saying...
Rikora= Yes, he did! I was getting fed up with the fact that he wasn't here to clean it. Sorry I had to take him on such short notice, but Sesshy needed to take his dirty kimonos to the laundry room ^_^ Descriptive... they should have a better word then that....
Meiling= Thank you for the review! And, upon request, I have updated. I fear you wrath...
~~= Dreams
~*~= Scene change
'...'= Thoughts
"..."= Talking
~*~Chapter Three: An Untimely Visit~*~
The warm spring wind played on her face, making her stray hairs dance. She stood in the schoolyard, wrapped in her thoughts. Kagome had decided to come to school today. She had gotten home a little after six that morning, and felt like she needed to distract her mind from Inu Yasha. Although that was the original plan, Inu Yasha seemed more of a distraction then school. She wanted to help him, to get his mind free of the entire nightmare scheme of things. Kagome wanted Inu Yasha back. The confident, never scared, always-ignorant Inu Yasha. Her Inu Yasha.
"Yo! Kagome!" Eri called, waving her hand as she jogged up to Kagome with her fellow senior friends. "I didn't think you'd be here today! Your grandfather said that you were going to be in the hospital for treatment for at least a month. I still can't believe you had those bumps all over."
Kagome sweat dropped. 'Leave it to Grandpa to make things worse then they really are.' "Nope!" she replied, a cheesy grin plastered on her face. "All better! The doctors said that I was healing nicely and I could go home," She walked with Eri through the schoolyard. Her friends decided to sit in the sun to eat their lunches, although Kagome's mind was in a completely different time and place.
"You know," Ayumi said, pulling Kagome back to the here and now, a smile playing on her lips. "Tomorrow's Saturday. And Saturday is the spring dance."
Kagome sighed and placed her chin in her palm. She knew where this was going. It always led to one particular boy when they were all talking. "I don't think I'll go. I mean, I've been in the hospital all this time and I don't thin-"
"Higurashi!" Hojo said, standing before them all at their table. Speak of the devil. 'Ah, the clueless boy who's been chasing me for three years,' she thought, forcing a smile on her lips.
"Hey Hojo. What's up?" She asked, half-heartedly. Kagome knew all too well what was going to happen. 'He's gonna give me a gift...'
"I heard you were back and I didn't want your condition to get in the way of graduation, so I decided to bring something to help." He pulled out a small, baby blue pouch with her name written on the front. She thanked him. '...And then an invitation for a date.' "I was also wandering, since you seem to be doing better, if you would like to go to the dance with me tomorrow."
She was full set on going back to the Sengoku-jidai for a while, maybe a few weeks. She just wanted to finish today to get any homework. "Well, actually-" Kagome started. When she was about to finish her sentence, she was cut off.
"She'd love to go! Eight-thirty tomorrow!" Ayumi butted in, fixing plans to make Kagome go, against her will, to the dance with the clueless pretty boy before them. Hojo smiled his trademark innocent smile and said good-bye. Kagome was red with frustration and realization. Her friends had just set her up, and Inu Yasha was not going to be happy. How was she supposed to explain to him that she was going somewhere –anywhere, it didn't matter with Inu Yasha- with Hojo?
~*~
"No," the inu hanyou replied simply. It was Saturday morning, around ten a.m., and the sun was beaming down on the village. Kagome had come to find and talk to him, seeing as how he was just aimlessly walking around. She had searched all morning and finally found him. Inu Yasha seemed happy enough to see her, but the second she said 'home,' his expression went sour.
"But Inu Yasha, There's something I have to do at home!" Sure, she didn't want to do it, but she had blown him off too many times. She found it an obligation to go to the dance with Hojo.
"There is nothing more important then our current task, and you know it," he shot back, continuing with his walk. He wasn't entirely talking only about the Shikon no Tama, but he wanted her to stay with him tonight. That was his task: keeping her here. He wanted her to stay, and here she was trying to leave.
"Inu Yasha," she begged. 'He's right. Hojo isn't that important and you wanna stay with Inu Yasha. You like him and you know it.' "Hojo invite-"
"HOJO?!?!" He screamed, turning to stand in front of her; arms at his side, fists clenched and nails drawing blood from his own palms. "You wanna leave me to be with HOJO?" He turned away from her. "Go. Go then and come back before you've mated. I wanna kill Naraku before then." He spat pout, walking away before she could protest. Boy, had she done it this time.
'Shit,' she mentally cursed. 'Now he thinks I have a thing for Hojo and that I am gonna mate with him.' She hung her head and started back to the well. Kagome didn't wanna go, but at the moment she needed to let the hanyou cool off and she needed to think of how she could make him see she didn't love Hojo. Why was her life so complicated?
~*~
Inu Yasha stomped through the forest approaching on the Goshinboku. His hand was on the hilt of his sword, calming his boiling blood. He reached the tree and leapt onto a branch. His rage was subsiding, and he took a deep breath.
"Hojo my ass," he said, letting go of his breath. "How dare she leave me when I actually was her to stay? I want her to stay and not just for the jewel. Wait..." He restated his question to him self. 'Why would I want her to stay?' He leaned his head on the rough bark. 'Naraku's the only one with shards, so why do I need her anymore? I can kill him, so what's the point in having her here anymore?'
'Because you love her.'
~*~
On the other side of the well, Kagome was in her room, silent tears staining her face. She was so mad at herself that she hadn't moved since she arrived three hours ago. Her head was in her arms as she lay on her stomach on her bed. The comforter that dressed her mattress was being drenched with the amount of tears. Why was she crying? What had happened that could have caused the abundance of water seeping from her eyes?
Inu Yasha. She had hurt him. He wanted her to stay. He said he didn't want her to leave him. Wait... he didn't want her to leave him? Did it mean something deeper then the shards? It did, from what she had gathered from his happiness of seeing her. And that means that she had hurt him even more. He was saying he liked her and she was leaving to be with another. She started crying harder, becoming audible with her gasps of breath. How could she? After she had promised to stay with him, she was leaving. She always left.
The house had been silent because her mom and Sota had left to go to town. Grandpa was at a meeting for Japan's history and myth seekers. So, with all the silence, she nearly jumped out of her skin when she heard a familiar ringing. She made her way down the hallway and picked up the phone. "Hi?" she said uncertainly as she leaned against the doorframe of the kitchen. "Hi Yuka...yes, I plan on keeping the date," she sighed heavily. She didn't want to, but she had no choice but to go. "What do you mean 'are you ready yet'?" Her gaze went to the clock on the wall and her eyes bugged out of her head. It was seven-thirty, leaving her with less then an hour to take a shower and get ready. "Gosh, thanks for calling Yuka! I woulda missed it if you hadn't called!" Kagome faked her surprise and devastation of finding out the time. "Ja ne." She placed the phone on the receiver.
She headed upstairs, grabbed a nice pair of pants, shirt, and change of underwear, and went to the bathroom for a quick shower.
~*~
It was seven o'clock when the sun snaked behind the horizon. It was a little while, not ten minutes, after that Sango and Miroku decided to search for their friend. They walked together, a safe distance apart, to the well, hoping to find a sulky Inu Yasha waiting for them. What they found instead was a flea demon who was considerably out of breath on the lip of the well. Miroku walked to him, crouching to see him better.
"Myoga, what are you doing here?" He asked after squishing the youkai for sucking his blood.
"Where is Lord Inu Yasha? I must speak with him. It is a matter of life and death." The flea demon spoke with urgency dripping from his words.
"That is what Lady Sango and I have come to figure out. He has been missing all afternoon since he woke up and found Kagome still gone. She went to her time after Inu Yasha had a nightmare yesterday morning."
"Nightmare? Please, tell me more." Myoga had a bad feeling. If he was correct, then they needed to act fast.
"Apparently," Sango said, coming into the conversation, "he didn't sleep well that night. He had transformed to his full youkai state, killing an enemy we encountered that held the last jewel shards that we needed that Naraku didn't have. He must have had a horrible nightmare because he woke up screaming and, from what Kagome told me, he was afraid she was dead. She had a feeling that it had something to do with his transformation, but none of us know."
Myoga sighed heavily. "I am afraid she is correct in her assumption. If I am correct about Lord Inu Yasha, then his nightmare was about his demon half. That half of him wants control of his body, so it is attempting to devour his human heart. If his heart can overcome the evil, then Inu Yasha's life is safe. However, if his human heart is destroyed, then that in itself will kill him. He, being a hanyou, cannot handle the power and intensity of his demonic side. I am afraid there is only one choice in saving him, although we must get him to submit."
"What must we do, Myoga?" Miroku asked, sitting cross-legged in the grass. "What can we do to help him?"
"It isn't so much us, as it is she. Miss Kagome must understand her feelings toward Lord Inu Yasha. Love is the only thing that can save a human heart and make it stronger. Inu Yasha has lost love in the past and is afraid that the young girl doesn't feel for him. If she knows and tells him that she does, then his heart will grow stronger. If she stays with him, then his demon side will be suppressed. The love of Lady Kagome is all that can save him."
As their talk ended, Inu Yasha came to the clearing. Upon seeing his friends, he sat beside them. They all watched him as his human form approached them. Yes, tonight was his night as a mere human; his weakness had surrounded him, creating nothing but a mortal. They all sat around the well, not speaking. Sango and Miroku were soaking in what Myoga had told them, Inu Yasha was coming to the realization that Kagome had left, and Myoga decided to keep his big mouth shut for now.
The wind suddenly picked up and blew chills down every spine. Above them, a large feather descended from the sky and the wind demon jumped off. She smirked. The Hanyou's weakness was sniffed out by her senses, making it all the more easier to kill him. Now that he was nothing but a human, he couldn't pull out the blasted Kaze no Kizu. Her fan in front of her, Kagura stepped before the group.
"Ah, Inu Yasha. The night of a full moon is the night of your weakness. How surprising. And how ironic that it will also be the night of your death. Hand over the shards!" She closed her fan, ever so slightly, and wind blades cut across to Inu Yasha, avoiding the others.
The blades pierced his skin, spattering his blood all over the soft, green grass. He clenched his wounds in pain. This human body was not made for high magnitudes of pain. He tried to stand, but doubled over. 'Damn,' he cursed, glancing up at Kagura. 'Damn this human body.'
Before Inu Yasha could attack her, Miroku and Sango stepped before him. Miroku's staff in defense position and Sango's Hiraikotsu, mended courtesy of the villagers, in her right had, ready to be hurled at the incarnation.
"Inu Yasha!" Miroku yelled over his shoulder, " You must go to a safer place! You are not protected properly here!" Inu Yasha looked for the only plausible place to go. This untimely enemy had caught him in a lurch. He didn't HAVE anywhere to run to. The village would endanger the inhabitants and he would be at a dead end if he ran to the forest. His eyes landed on the well. He couldn't think about it any longer. He jumped in.
The pink and blue haze surrounded him, making him feel drowsy with the pain of his wounds. He didn't know how much longer he would stay awake. Finally, his feet hit the bottom of the well. Inu Yasha pulled himself on the ladder and climbed out. He eased the door open, pausing a while on the doorframe, and hobbled down the steps toward the Higurashi Shrine. Out of all his pain and misery, he yelled out the one name that brought happiness to his heart, hoping she would hear him.
"Kagome!"
~*~End Chapter~*~
Sara: I hope you guys are satisfied with this. I am up and it is well past midnight. I really wanted to get this out before I went to bed. I was in a writing mood this evening.
Well, Ja Ne.
Inu Face
