Disclaimer: No, Inuyasha is not mine! (But PEP is! Hee hee!) NE way, I don't own Inuyasha, so, no suing allowed.
So, last chapter was a swing from the expected? What do you expect from Inuyasha. *hint hint* (He's naïve! He can't move THAT quick…)
TourniquetI tried to kill the pain. / But only brought more. / I lay dying/ and I'm pouring crimson regret and betrayal. / I'm dying, praying, bleeding, and screaming/ am I too lost to be saved? / Am I too lost? / My God, my tourniquet/ return to me salvation/ My God, my tourniquet/ return to me salvation…
Evanescence
Chapter 4
Angel standing by
Kagome turns to face Inuyasha. She crawls toward him until she is only inches from his face. He blushes then stares at the red and white blanket.
"What's wrong with you today Inuyasha?" She asks serenely.
"Keh!" He continues to look to the ground. She crosses her arms angrily.
"OSWARI!" Inuyasha takes a hard trip into the blanket, but he doesn't get up like he usually did. He sighs and just turns his head to one side.
Miroku, Sango and Shippo's jaws drop. They were all amazed that he hadn't got angry with her. Shippo slowly hopped toward him to see if he was hurt, which he wasn't. He then went back to sit on Sango's lap and shrugged toward the two's questioning glances.
Kagome suddenly became worried. This wasn't the reaction she'd expected. 'He's supposed to get up and yell at me! Why didn't he do it? What's wrong with him?!' She slowly walks to sit next to him. After she placed herself beside the fallen Inuyasha, she sighs.
"Inuyasha. Did something happen yesterday?" She asks calmly. He sits up and crosses his legs, soon after, crossing his arms. He looks to the ground, but his sullen reaction led her to believe that something had.
"And if it did?" He grunts.
"What was it?" She looks into his downfall eyes pleadingly. He turned his gaze away. 'She doesn't even realize that she didn't reply.'
"You should know woman!" He shouts while storming off to his tree.
Kagome sits looking toward where he had been seated. She wasn't sure what he meant by that. "I should know…was it something I said yesterday?" She looks toward the hut, then down to the ground. Kaede slowly totters toward her.
"Or maybe it was something ye didn't say." She states while walking by to go into the hut. Kagome thinks back to the past day.
***~Flashback~***
"I wished that you were still alive because…I wanted to…I wanted to be with you."
"You wanted to be with me?"
"I wanted to be with you forever!" He shouts. Kagome had suddenly become speechless. Everything comes together, why she was alive, why she was a hanyou, and why she couldn't find the jewel. But, this couldn't really be happening.
"You want to be with me because I look like Kikyo." She had stated angrily. Inuyasha suddenly becomes angry.
"No! That's not it!"………
"You want to be with me?" She states almost as though she was in a trance.
"YES!" Inuyasha shouted. Kagome starts to smile as she stands up.
"Then you gotta catch me first!"
***~End Flashback~***
She gasps, then places her hand over her mouth. "I didn't reply!" She runs off in the direction of Inuyasha's scent. Minutes later, she stands beneath the tree looking up at him.
"Please come down Inuyasha!" She begs. Inuyasha looks down.
"Keh!"
"Please! I'd like to talk to you!" Kagome asks. Inuyasha jumps down out of the tree. He takes her hand and heads for the woods.
"I wonder where he's taking her." Miroku whispers, while watching the two walk off into the woods from behind a bush. Sango slaps him and walks away. Shippo looks up at them, then toward Kagome and Inuyasha.
"Adults are weird."
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Inuyasha reaches an open field in the center of the woods. He places Tetsusaiga on the ground and places himself in a defensive stance.
"We need to see how good your fighting abilities are with your enhanced skills." He utters. Kagome's eyes grow wide.
"Ok?" She places herself in a defensive stance.
"Just try to stay standing. Try to get a punch through." He taunts, chuckling.
Kagome becomes angry, so she charges toward him holding a hand above her head. Inuyasha dodges it, then kicks her down. She looks back up at him, then jumps toward him, she lands, then tries to kick him. He grabs her foot and throws her over his shoulder. Kagome stays fallen for a moment.
"Are you done already? Just try to get one shot through." He smiles warmly. Kagome sits up then jumps toward him, trying to hit him with her fist. Inuyasha blocks it and just lets her land. He charges toward her.
"Sankon Tetsu!" He shouts while trying to hit her with his claws. She is able to dodge it. She finds the opening on his side, so she goes for it.
"I got you!" She kicks him in the side. He flies over and crashes into a tree. He tries to get up but can't, so Kagome hurries over to him. She sits him up and looks into his eyes. "Are you ok?"
He smiles and nods. "You did it!" He stands up, painfully gripping his side. Kagome smiles, but then it quickly turns upside down.
"Are you hurt?" She cries.
"It's feeling better already." He lies. Kagome sits him back down. "I told you I had something to talk to you about."
Inuyasha looks up at her with questioning eyes. She sits down next to him and lays her hand on his knee. He blushes slightly because she touched him.
"I'm sorry about yesterday."
Inuyasha gives her a strange look. 'I'm going to see if she says it on her own.'
"You were so sweet, and I just left without saying a word about it."
"…" He blushes an even darker shade of red.
"Inuyasha, I want-"
"Don't worry Kagome we're here to…save…you?" Miroku shouts, while charging toward them with his staff above his head. He turns to Shippo as flames erupt around him. "You said she was in trouble." He growls evilly.
"She was! Inuyasha was beating her up!" Shippo accuses. Miroku turns his track and charges toward the tiny kitsune. Shippo runs screaming toward Kaede's hut. Kagome sighs then turns to face Inuyasha again, but he is gone. So she slowly treads back to the hut.
Not to far away, Inuyasha looks to the ground. "At least she understood why I was upset."
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"Have you guys seen Inuyasha?" Kagome asks after she reaches the hut. Sango looks toward her and shakes her head, as does Kaede. Shippo and Miroku were busy yelling at each other still. "Oh…thanks anyway." She walks into the hut and lies down. Soon she's fast asleep. She was tired and not sure why. A few hours later, everyone else joins her. They all lay in different corners. All except Shippo, who lay beside Kagome.
Inuyasha finally came into the hut some time after every one else had fallen asleep. He sits down beside Kagome and smiles. 'She's so beautiful when she sleeps. She holds Shippo as though he was her pup. She would be such a good mother…and a beautiful one at that. I'd be proud to have her be the mother of my pups!' Inuyasha smiles at the thought. Miroku had awoke when he heard the door swish. He had seen the expressions on Inuyasha's face, so the perverted hoshi smiled. Inuyasha looked over, hearing someone awake. When he sees Miroku with a smile on his face, he blushes then walks away from Kagome to sleep away from everyone.
Miroku lay back down and wiped the smile off of his face. 'I wonder if Sango would like be if I wasn't so perverted. I should try it…sometime.' Then he falls asleep.
****The end…of the chapter! There's much more! What do you think? Send in reviews!****
***Time for questions…1) should I bring Naraku back? 2) should Miroku try to be a "good boy?" 3) Should Sango start to make some moves? 4) if yes, how should Miroku react? Any ideas are greatly appreciated! Thanks and enjoy the next chapter!***
****Japanese tutorial time!****
Sankon Tetsu – Iron Reaver
Hoshi- priest