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Author: not much excitement from the last chapter but oh well at least I know that you guys aren't dead ^_~
Everyone: ::zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz::
Author: note to self: don't provide chocolate covered cherries to a fox......they get WAY to hyper
Anywho here are your reviews!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh and HAPPY BELATED V-DAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Alright I know im a week late but hey ::shrugs:: ^_~ *~*~*
*=receives a cookie
Salior Sayian: yea Erica's much better now and not so mopey ^____^ and about the demon thing ^__________~*
Aries Greymon: thanks ^_^ and don't worry about the way you type your reviews its sorta fun to read them like that ^_~ and im glad your soul is pleased ^__^*
ssp51201: thanks...ya know I've been pondering about her family for awhile and I got that idea in "Back/return to where we first met" ^_^. Im sorry about your grandfather and happy that you shared many a pleasant time with him ::Beams:: really I lost my grandpa before I was born ((on my ma's side)) but if you don't mind I think that's a great idea on sharing that with my friend just e-m it to me and I'll e-m it to her ::beams more. And for the trunk......^_~*
*~*~* wow guys this is the ultimate low -___- but that's ok!!!!!! ^__________^
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A golden sun peeked over the high mountain ridge and shed early morning light over the small village called Ooyama. Kagome wasn't in her usual place; inside her warm sleeping bag, a pillow separating her head from the hard wooden floor of Kaede's hut, she was outside on a steep cliff that overlooked the village and was watching the sunrise. She fidgeted slightly under her sleeping bag which was unceremoniously draped over her shoulders keeping her safe from mornings chill.
After her and Sango returned from the near-by hot springs dusk had turned into night and a clear full moon was lighting the path from the springs to the village. After she tucked Shippo in next to her and settled down in her bag she fell into a restless sleep. She dreamt that she was in a fog filled cave with only a torch in front of her, she was following a small glint of silver throughout the cave and on the way she was stabbed by sharp rocks peering form the cave walls and tripping over stalagmites ((A/n: those are the ones on the floor right? ^_^*)). She didn't feel any pain but her entire outfit was covered with stains of dark red blood and was starting to stick to her skin and the blood dried. She felt her heart racing and aching as she crept closer and closer to the glint of silver and then she reached it. It turned out to be InuYasha glaring at her in the dark. "Wench" the dream half-dog demon said to her angrily "you ruined my sorry excuse of a life with that goddamned piece of parchment! Rot in hell". His claws came out with a "ching" sound and pieced her where her heart should have been.
After her nightmare Kagome woke up and found it to still be nighttime, around three by the position of the large orb hanging in the sky. Kagome gently got out of her sleeping bag and settled a dead asleep Shippo with Sango trying her best not to disturb the little fox and crept out with her sleeping bag, walking silently so she wouldn't wake InuYasha who was sleeping peacefully in her usual tree.
Currently Kagome had been sitting on the cliff for over and hour......maybe two, she couldn't keep count. She was still groggy but her nightmare scared her to death, it was almost telling her that if she tried to tell him that she would ruin his chance at life but it seemed impossible right?
She wrapped the sleeping bag tighter around her and stared at the cliff slowly being alit with the pureness of the unpolluted light. She shifted a bit more and sighed with defeat when she felt something odd in her sleeping bag.
'Huh?'
She reached into it and pulled out a slightly rumpled scroll and sighed again 'how did my family tree get in there?'.
She gently took off the ribbon and unrolled just a few inches so that she could look at her first ancestors. She couldn't help but smile at her fate and curiosity struck her and looked at the line that was connected to the marriage line, showing how many children that the couple had. She rolled up a bit so that the heading was gone and was disappointed, 'there must have been some water or liquid exposed to this' she thought as she saw one blotchy line across the scroll which would have had the names of her first ancestors children been.
"How long have you been here?" said a deep voice that soothed only Kagome.
"a while and good morning to you too" Kagome replied slightly turning to face the half dog demon.
"Feh" he replied almost teasingly as she finished walking next to her and flopped down on the soft, long, slightly dewy grass.
Kagome quickly tried to hide the scroll within the warm folds of her sleeping bag but it caught the dog-eared boy automatically.
"What's that?" he asked not beating around the bush at all.
"N-Nothing at a-all" Kagome said a little shakily.
"Yeah right" he replied snorting and turning his gaze to the view of the village.
Kagome automatically felt a little guilty at his attitude but scooted closer to him and laid her head down gently on his shoulder, wrapping her arm around his.
He smirked to himself and pulled his arm out of her grip only to wrap it around her waist and pull her closer to him and letting his own head rest on top of her head.
Kagome smiled a small smile, her free hand gently fingering the paper which was her family tree and gently bit her lip in thought of showing him the paper.
'But what if he pushes me away!' a voice said within the depths of her thoughts.
'He won't and you know that....if he was to push you away at all he would have already or did you forget the night in the clearing' another voice teased back.
'Still shouldn't she be more careful?'
Careful was the word that intrigued her from her insane conversation with herself.
'Do it...' both voices whispered.
Kagome mentally shook herself and sighed wondering if she was going insane or if the stress was starting to get to her.
Kagome gently nuzzled her head a little deeper into his shoulder and lowered her eyes to a half close before taking out the scroll slowly and passing it into her free clawed hand.
"That roll that the Bouzo and Sango were staring at yesterday?" he asked uncertainly as he eyed and sniffed the weird document.
"Yea....." Kagome said softly closing her eyes as she saw his clawed hands start to take the string off the scroll and bit her lip as she heard him un- roll it and she bit her lip harder as she anticipated the long silence.
"Kagome.....?" he said in a whispery voice, she could hear the confusion and the question with his reply.
She opened her eyes to see the long document all the way unrolled and bit her lip and felt his arm pull her even closer to himself.
"What does this mean?" he asked just as softly while staring at his name connected to Kagome's.
"What do you think-?" she replied in a loud whisper before she felt him quickly place his clawed forefinger under her chin forcing her to look into his unsure amber eyes.
"I know....." he replied to her half answer and slowly lowered his face to hers and capturing her lips in a sweet, gentle, kiss.
Kagome slowly eased into the kiss and placed her hands on his shoulders pulling him closer. She expected him to shun her or run away or even slap her but I guess she was wrong....but something didn't feel right to her as she felt him pull her into his lap so he could deepen the kiss.
He broke the kiss gently and she rested her head on his chest and gripped the fire-rat robe top. She felt her heart ache and powerful pain at the back of her mind she whimpered slightly causing InuYasha to go back a little bit to look at her face.
"Kagome?" he asked worryingly.
"InuYasha....." she whispered deathly back before she collapsed against him in a dead faint.
'Damn' his mind yelled as he scooped her up, sleeping bag scroll and all, into his arms and ran to Kaede's hut.
*~*~*
"Where's Kagome?" Shippo asked groggily as he lifted his red haired head from Kirara's soft demon cat body.
"We where hoping you would tell us" Miroku replied as he stoked the fire while Kaede went and grabbed some fish to fry from her small storage shed. Sango got up immediately and started digging through Kagome's Trunk and noticed the scroll was gone.
"Has anyone seen InuYasha?" she asked the group, eyes still scanning the trunk.
"Nope" Miroku replied as Shippo yawned and shook his head 'no' at the same time.
"The scroll is gone with them" she said while smirking and closing the trunk with a happy "smack".
"KAEDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" yelled a distraught voice that startled the members within the hut.
Kaede walked as quickly as she could out eh hut as she heard her name being called while throwing the raw fish at Miroku's face. She came back in but a moment later with InuYasha right behind her worry sketched into his usual 'tough' features, carrying Kagome bridal style.
"What happened InuYasha?" she asked quickly before showing him to a separate room in which Kaede put deadly ill patients in before they where examined.
He rapidly told her what he and Kagome discussed on the cliff while gently depositing her onto the futon and placed her sleeping bag, which was warmer than any of Kaede's blankets, over her.
"Ah, InuYasha why don't you wait with everyone else and have some breakfast while I examine her" she said in more of a statement than a question right before shutting the reed mat in his face.
InuYasha sat worriedly next to Miroku and refused the fried fish that he offered to her.
"So she told you?" Sango asked kindly to the distressed half dog demon.
"Yeah....." he replied a pink tinge added already to his distressed face.
Everyone but Shippo, who sat confused and about to cry, beamed at him obviously not worried for Kagome knowing that she would pull through.
*~*~*
InuYasha sat fidgeting his eyes closed and concentrating on the motions that he heard in the other room. Miroku laid his head in Sango's lap and was starting to drift off; Sango was watching Miroku's hands and making sure that they wouldn't wander too close to her bottom.
"Damn what is taking so long?!" InuYasha muttered loud enough for everyone to hear.
"Be patient InuYasha" Miroku said repeating himself for the one hundredth time.
The whole gang lolled about in Kaede's hut right outside the door of which Kaede herself was examining Kagome. Currently Kaede was examining for over three hours.
A sound of rustling dried reeds was a sound of relief to the half dog demon's ears as Kaede stepped out of her examining room and sighed obviously a little tired. InuYasha jumped up and walked immediately into the examining room which now only held Kagome.
"What's wrong with her" Sango asked immediately as Shippo jumped into the elders lap looking up at her anxiously.
"Well, Kagome shant be dieing on us that is for sure, but through this old woman's examinations I found something interesting is happening to this child"
"What's wrong with her?" Shippo asked relieved yet worried at the same time if that was possible.
"I'm not sure if I can explain it as well as I have it played in my mind but of course I shall for thy friend's sake, may I see Kagome's scroll?" Kaede asked peering at Sango and Miroku through her kind yet observing eye.
"Of course, InuYasha threw it around here somewhere....." Sango said craning this way and that looking for the scroll.
Shippo reached into his skinny looking sleeves and pulled the scroll and held it out to Kaede.
"Thanks Shippo" Kaede said gently to the fox before taking the scroll and handing the beginning of the scroll to Sango and scooting backwards letting the scroll be all the way undone.
"Alright, see up there in the heading where Kagome's name is written, well down here the same Kagome, as I expected is written down again here" she started "now since she happens to be her own ancestor and starts her own family, as ye see there, the demon blood from InuYasha has traveled its merry way through the whole entire line"
"So you're saying that Kagome has dog demon blood within her veins?" Miroku asked from Sango's lap.
"Aye monk" Kaede replied "even but a little blood within her veins doesn't classify her as a human, but its her blood battling inside her trying to be let loose and the normal blood of her is loosing" Kaede replied sighing sadly.
"What will happen to Kagome?" Shippo asked fearfully.
'That my child, is not known to me....InuYasha may know and probably does little one I am a thinking that ye should not disturb them for the longest of whiles...." Kaede said while smiling secretly to herself.
"Ok" Shippo replied jumping out of Kaede's lap and into Kagome's backpack pulling out his coloring book and crayons that Kagome always had handy for him.
*~*~*
Author: I'm pretty sure I didn't leave a cliff hanger this time ::blink blink::
Everyone: ::Still sleeping::
Author: ^_^*
Author: not much excitement from the last chapter but oh well at least I know that you guys aren't dead ^_~
Everyone: ::zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz::
Author: note to self: don't provide chocolate covered cherries to a fox......they get WAY to hyper
Anywho here are your reviews!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh and HAPPY BELATED V-DAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Alright I know im a week late but hey ::shrugs:: ^_~ *~*~*
*=receives a cookie
Salior Sayian: yea Erica's much better now and not so mopey ^____^ and about the demon thing ^__________~*
Aries Greymon: thanks ^_^ and don't worry about the way you type your reviews its sorta fun to read them like that ^_~ and im glad your soul is pleased ^__^*
ssp51201: thanks...ya know I've been pondering about her family for awhile and I got that idea in "Back/return to where we first met" ^_^. Im sorry about your grandfather and happy that you shared many a pleasant time with him ::Beams:: really I lost my grandpa before I was born ((on my ma's side)) but if you don't mind I think that's a great idea on sharing that with my friend just e-m it to me and I'll e-m it to her ::beams more. And for the trunk......^_~*
*~*~* wow guys this is the ultimate low -___- but that's ok!!!!!! ^__________^
*~*~*
A golden sun peeked over the high mountain ridge and shed early morning light over the small village called Ooyama. Kagome wasn't in her usual place; inside her warm sleeping bag, a pillow separating her head from the hard wooden floor of Kaede's hut, she was outside on a steep cliff that overlooked the village and was watching the sunrise. She fidgeted slightly under her sleeping bag which was unceremoniously draped over her shoulders keeping her safe from mornings chill.
After her and Sango returned from the near-by hot springs dusk had turned into night and a clear full moon was lighting the path from the springs to the village. After she tucked Shippo in next to her and settled down in her bag she fell into a restless sleep. She dreamt that she was in a fog filled cave with only a torch in front of her, she was following a small glint of silver throughout the cave and on the way she was stabbed by sharp rocks peering form the cave walls and tripping over stalagmites ((A/n: those are the ones on the floor right? ^_^*)). She didn't feel any pain but her entire outfit was covered with stains of dark red blood and was starting to stick to her skin and the blood dried. She felt her heart racing and aching as she crept closer and closer to the glint of silver and then she reached it. It turned out to be InuYasha glaring at her in the dark. "Wench" the dream half-dog demon said to her angrily "you ruined my sorry excuse of a life with that goddamned piece of parchment! Rot in hell". His claws came out with a "ching" sound and pieced her where her heart should have been.
After her nightmare Kagome woke up and found it to still be nighttime, around three by the position of the large orb hanging in the sky. Kagome gently got out of her sleeping bag and settled a dead asleep Shippo with Sango trying her best not to disturb the little fox and crept out with her sleeping bag, walking silently so she wouldn't wake InuYasha who was sleeping peacefully in her usual tree.
Currently Kagome had been sitting on the cliff for over and hour......maybe two, she couldn't keep count. She was still groggy but her nightmare scared her to death, it was almost telling her that if she tried to tell him that she would ruin his chance at life but it seemed impossible right?
She wrapped the sleeping bag tighter around her and stared at the cliff slowly being alit with the pureness of the unpolluted light. She shifted a bit more and sighed with defeat when she felt something odd in her sleeping bag.
'Huh?'
She reached into it and pulled out a slightly rumpled scroll and sighed again 'how did my family tree get in there?'.
She gently took off the ribbon and unrolled just a few inches so that she could look at her first ancestors. She couldn't help but smile at her fate and curiosity struck her and looked at the line that was connected to the marriage line, showing how many children that the couple had. She rolled up a bit so that the heading was gone and was disappointed, 'there must have been some water or liquid exposed to this' she thought as she saw one blotchy line across the scroll which would have had the names of her first ancestors children been.
"How long have you been here?" said a deep voice that soothed only Kagome.
"a while and good morning to you too" Kagome replied slightly turning to face the half dog demon.
"Feh" he replied almost teasingly as she finished walking next to her and flopped down on the soft, long, slightly dewy grass.
Kagome quickly tried to hide the scroll within the warm folds of her sleeping bag but it caught the dog-eared boy automatically.
"What's that?" he asked not beating around the bush at all.
"N-Nothing at a-all" Kagome said a little shakily.
"Yeah right" he replied snorting and turning his gaze to the view of the village.
Kagome automatically felt a little guilty at his attitude but scooted closer to him and laid her head down gently on his shoulder, wrapping her arm around his.
He smirked to himself and pulled his arm out of her grip only to wrap it around her waist and pull her closer to him and letting his own head rest on top of her head.
Kagome smiled a small smile, her free hand gently fingering the paper which was her family tree and gently bit her lip in thought of showing him the paper.
'But what if he pushes me away!' a voice said within the depths of her thoughts.
'He won't and you know that....if he was to push you away at all he would have already or did you forget the night in the clearing' another voice teased back.
'Still shouldn't she be more careful?'
Careful was the word that intrigued her from her insane conversation with herself.
'Do it...' both voices whispered.
Kagome mentally shook herself and sighed wondering if she was going insane or if the stress was starting to get to her.
Kagome gently nuzzled her head a little deeper into his shoulder and lowered her eyes to a half close before taking out the scroll slowly and passing it into her free clawed hand.
"That roll that the Bouzo and Sango were staring at yesterday?" he asked uncertainly as he eyed and sniffed the weird document.
"Yea....." Kagome said softly closing her eyes as she saw his clawed hands start to take the string off the scroll and bit her lip as she heard him un- roll it and she bit her lip harder as she anticipated the long silence.
"Kagome.....?" he said in a whispery voice, she could hear the confusion and the question with his reply.
She opened her eyes to see the long document all the way unrolled and bit her lip and felt his arm pull her even closer to himself.
"What does this mean?" he asked just as softly while staring at his name connected to Kagome's.
"What do you think-?" she replied in a loud whisper before she felt him quickly place his clawed forefinger under her chin forcing her to look into his unsure amber eyes.
"I know....." he replied to her half answer and slowly lowered his face to hers and capturing her lips in a sweet, gentle, kiss.
Kagome slowly eased into the kiss and placed her hands on his shoulders pulling him closer. She expected him to shun her or run away or even slap her but I guess she was wrong....but something didn't feel right to her as she felt him pull her into his lap so he could deepen the kiss.
He broke the kiss gently and she rested her head on his chest and gripped the fire-rat robe top. She felt her heart ache and powerful pain at the back of her mind she whimpered slightly causing InuYasha to go back a little bit to look at her face.
"Kagome?" he asked worryingly.
"InuYasha....." she whispered deathly back before she collapsed against him in a dead faint.
'Damn' his mind yelled as he scooped her up, sleeping bag scroll and all, into his arms and ran to Kaede's hut.
*~*~*
"Where's Kagome?" Shippo asked groggily as he lifted his red haired head from Kirara's soft demon cat body.
"We where hoping you would tell us" Miroku replied as he stoked the fire while Kaede went and grabbed some fish to fry from her small storage shed. Sango got up immediately and started digging through Kagome's Trunk and noticed the scroll was gone.
"Has anyone seen InuYasha?" she asked the group, eyes still scanning the trunk.
"Nope" Miroku replied as Shippo yawned and shook his head 'no' at the same time.
"The scroll is gone with them" she said while smirking and closing the trunk with a happy "smack".
"KAEDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" yelled a distraught voice that startled the members within the hut.
Kaede walked as quickly as she could out eh hut as she heard her name being called while throwing the raw fish at Miroku's face. She came back in but a moment later with InuYasha right behind her worry sketched into his usual 'tough' features, carrying Kagome bridal style.
"What happened InuYasha?" she asked quickly before showing him to a separate room in which Kaede put deadly ill patients in before they where examined.
He rapidly told her what he and Kagome discussed on the cliff while gently depositing her onto the futon and placed her sleeping bag, which was warmer than any of Kaede's blankets, over her.
"Ah, InuYasha why don't you wait with everyone else and have some breakfast while I examine her" she said in more of a statement than a question right before shutting the reed mat in his face.
InuYasha sat worriedly next to Miroku and refused the fried fish that he offered to her.
"So she told you?" Sango asked kindly to the distressed half dog demon.
"Yeah....." he replied a pink tinge added already to his distressed face.
Everyone but Shippo, who sat confused and about to cry, beamed at him obviously not worried for Kagome knowing that she would pull through.
*~*~*
InuYasha sat fidgeting his eyes closed and concentrating on the motions that he heard in the other room. Miroku laid his head in Sango's lap and was starting to drift off; Sango was watching Miroku's hands and making sure that they wouldn't wander too close to her bottom.
"Damn what is taking so long?!" InuYasha muttered loud enough for everyone to hear.
"Be patient InuYasha" Miroku said repeating himself for the one hundredth time.
The whole gang lolled about in Kaede's hut right outside the door of which Kaede herself was examining Kagome. Currently Kaede was examining for over three hours.
A sound of rustling dried reeds was a sound of relief to the half dog demon's ears as Kaede stepped out of her examining room and sighed obviously a little tired. InuYasha jumped up and walked immediately into the examining room which now only held Kagome.
"What's wrong with her" Sango asked immediately as Shippo jumped into the elders lap looking up at her anxiously.
"Well, Kagome shant be dieing on us that is for sure, but through this old woman's examinations I found something interesting is happening to this child"
"What's wrong with her?" Shippo asked relieved yet worried at the same time if that was possible.
"I'm not sure if I can explain it as well as I have it played in my mind but of course I shall for thy friend's sake, may I see Kagome's scroll?" Kaede asked peering at Sango and Miroku through her kind yet observing eye.
"Of course, InuYasha threw it around here somewhere....." Sango said craning this way and that looking for the scroll.
Shippo reached into his skinny looking sleeves and pulled the scroll and held it out to Kaede.
"Thanks Shippo" Kaede said gently to the fox before taking the scroll and handing the beginning of the scroll to Sango and scooting backwards letting the scroll be all the way undone.
"Alright, see up there in the heading where Kagome's name is written, well down here the same Kagome, as I expected is written down again here" she started "now since she happens to be her own ancestor and starts her own family, as ye see there, the demon blood from InuYasha has traveled its merry way through the whole entire line"
"So you're saying that Kagome has dog demon blood within her veins?" Miroku asked from Sango's lap.
"Aye monk" Kaede replied "even but a little blood within her veins doesn't classify her as a human, but its her blood battling inside her trying to be let loose and the normal blood of her is loosing" Kaede replied sighing sadly.
"What will happen to Kagome?" Shippo asked fearfully.
'That my child, is not known to me....InuYasha may know and probably does little one I am a thinking that ye should not disturb them for the longest of whiles...." Kaede said while smiling secretly to herself.
"Ok" Shippo replied jumping out of Kaede's lap and into Kagome's backpack pulling out his coloring book and crayons that Kagome always had handy for him.
*~*~*
Author: I'm pretty sure I didn't leave a cliff hanger this time ::blink blink::
Everyone: ::Still sleeping::
Author: ^_^*
