Disclaimer: *to "Mary had a little lamb"* I do not own Inuyasha, Inuyasha, Inuyasha. I do not own Inuyasha, so please do not sue me.
You Can Still Be FreeCool Breeze and autumn leaves/ slow motion day light/ a lone pair of watchful eyes over see the living/ Feel the presence all around/ a tortured soul a wound unhealing/ No regrets or promises/ the past is gone/ But you can still be free/ If time will set you free.
Savage Garden
**No, Naraku isn't coming back! But trust me, there will be a very ~interesting~ change. It isn't expected…I promise!**
Chapter 6
Angel Standing By
"So why are we going back to your time?" Inuyasha questioned while helping Kagome pack. Kagome was quickly running about, picking up her books, clothes and various other objects. She stopped to take a breath.
"I just need to. I've got an important test, it's called a "final exam" and it's very important. You don't have to come..." She smiles as she stuffs the last thing into her large yellow backpack. She takes it and flings it over her back. Inuyasha looks back at her chuckling.
"You wanna ride?" He asks while kneeling down for her to get on his back. She didn't deny his help…it was rare. Kagome smiled, then took one of his ears into her free hand and gently started to massage it. Inuyasha blushed and tried to ignore it, but she seemed to know all of the right spots to pet. Suddenly, a growl of pleasure escaped his throat. Kagome giggled, it was the first time she'd heard him make such a sound.
"So you do like it!" She giggled while continuing to rub his ear.
"Well…it's just that…uhh." He blushed as he jumped down the well.
"What is it?"
"It reminds me of my oka-san…and, uh, I do like it when you do it." He states bashfully.
"Why?"
"…" He let her off of his back and walked beside her blushing and staring at the ground. Kagome sighs then turns into her front door.
"Hello Ma ma!" She states while setting her backpack beside the door.
"Oi Higurashi!" Stated a familiar voice. Kagome flinched as she turned toward the voice. Her back slumped when she saw the brown haired teenager sitting on her couch.
"Hello Hojo-kun!" She tries to sound cheerful. A sweat drop falls from her head as Inuyasha jumps in front of the unexpecting Hojo. He glares at him then starts to sniff the air.
"Who are you?!" He roars at him. Kagome gets angry so she crosses her arms.
"Inuyasha, OSWARI!" She shouts, sending him face first into the carpet. "Gomen ne Hojo, please forgive him, he's really a nice guy." She takes of her small baseball cap, forgetting that Hojo didn't know about her recent change.
"What happened to you Kagome?!" Hojo squeals.
"You can't smell it?" Inuyasha growls. He had a bad feeling about this guy, he didn't smell anything, but his eyes…something about his eyes bothered him.
"He's human Inuyasha!" Kagome yells. "I died and Inuyasha here, brought me back as a hanyou like himself." She looks over at Inuyasha, and suddenly realizes that he is worried about something. "Um, Hojo, I need to get a few things done now, so…"
"Not a problem Kagome!" He starts to head toward the door. "Um, I was wondering, are you free tomorrow?" He questions. Kagome sighs thinking, 'He should take a clue…'
"Um, Oh No! I've got a few things that need to be done around the shrine. Gomen ne!" She lies.
"I could help you if you want!"
"Can't."
"Oh." He looks downhearted. "Well, I will see you in school tomorrow for the finals! Nice to meet you Inukasta!"
"It's INUYASHA!!!" Inuyasha screams angrily toward the idiotic boy.
"Whatever!" Hojo yells as he walks away. "Nice to meet you anyway!"
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"Sango." Miroku stated quietly while playing with a ridiculous game that Kagome had brought him. Sango turns to him and giggles.
"What is it?" She questions. (The game was a simple paddleball, but he was intrigued and amused.)
"Why don't you like me?" He asks while scooting toward her. Sango blushed at the unexpected question.
"I...!" She squealed as he gave her bottom a pat.
**SLAP!**
"Why do you have to be so perverted?!" She screamed while walking away towards the hut. Miroku stopped and took in the last seconds of his day.
"Sango."
'"What is it?"
"Why don't you like me?" He had asked while scooting toward her. Sango had blushed at the unexpected question.
"I...!"
**SLAP!**
"Why do you have to be so perverted?!"
He looks toward her then back to the ground. "I understand." He states quietly to himself. Suddenly, he jumps up and runs toward the hut. The second he reaches Sango's side, he kneels down.
"I'm sorry for my foul acts. Could you forgive me?" He pleads. Sango's eyes grow wide, then a sweat drop falls from her forehead.
"Sure. But that doesn't mean that anything will change." She turns away to sit down by her tiny cat. Sango pets the cat's ears causing a loud purr to escape from Kirara. Sango played with the cat's feet, pulling them up and down and Kirara continued to purr. (She loves attention!)
Miroku stands up and dusts himself off thinking...'Maybe things will change...just maybe...' "Sango, you should try this game. It's fun!" He hands her the paddleball then takes a seat beside her. Sango reluctantly takes the game and tries to get the ball to bounce off the paddle. Only minutes later, she has successfully got the ball to bounce off of the paddle a total of ten times in a row!
"This IS fun!" Sango chirps.
"Good job!" *Pat, pat*
**SLAP!**
"Don't touch me there!"
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"What is the matter with you Inuyasha?!" Kagome shouts. "Hojo is a perfectly sweet guy...maybe a little naive, but still a nice guy." She sits down next to the angry hanyou. He looks over at her with a look of disgust across his face.
"Sweet?? Nice??" He squeaks. "There's something strange about that guy. You shouldn't hang out with him anymore." Inuyasha turns away from her angry glare. He hated that glare. She looked much better with a smile. Kagome then started to fidget with her tail. Now, she was mad.
"YOU ARE SO JEALOUS!!! YOU CAN TELL HE LIKES ME SO NOW I SHOULDN'T HANG OUT WITH HIM!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU!" Kagome shouts. Inuyasha covers his sensitive ears, trying hard to hold back tears. 'She is always so angry...and defensive. I just want her to be safe and...and happy.' He looks toward her, his ears hanging slightly dejected.
"You can go with him tomorrow. I can just stay here and...and...*sigh*...play with Souta or something." Inuyasha states sadly. Kagome suddenly felt bad about what she had just done. She scoots toward him and hugs him greedily.
"Gomen ne, Inuyasha. I didn't mean to be so angry with you. Gomen ne." She releases him from the hug and looks into his eyes, seeing sadness and fear, but mainly sadness. "Gomen ne."
"It's nothing…" He trails off. Kagome gives him a questioning look. Inuyasha notices it. "I meant what I said." He slumps down into the couch. Being nice…and especially sharing his love…wasn't easy. Kagome didn't know what he meant.
"What do you mean?"
"You can go hang out with Hojo or whatever if you want to." Inuyasha sighs. 'Why am I showing her how I feel? She obviously doesn't feel the same way.' Then he gets up and heads toward the kitchen. He looks through the cabinets, then turns to Kagome. "Where do you keep your ramen?"
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Sesshomaru sat deep into the "Forest of No Return" with the young Rin and toad Jaken nearby. "Ah" and "Un," the double-headed dragon named by Rin was eating some fresh green grass. Sesshomaru was gazing up at the sky, deep in thought. Jaken was off on his own mumbling something about how no one cared about him…and how Sesshomaru-sama was becoming soft…and…(no one really does care.) Rin was trying to catch a beautiful butterfly. She was worried about her beloved Sesshomaru-sama, but tried hard not to let it bother her. He has been sitting and thinking a lot lately.
"Sesshomaru-sama." Jaken tried to awake him from the strange trance he was in. Sesshomaru didn't even hear his voice.
'I felt a change in the trees. Smelt a new hanyou, and haven't been able to smell that human girl that follows my worthless little brother.' He then sighed thinking again. 'My brother isn't really worthless, just an annoyance. I lost my arm due to him. If he were a full youkai, I wouldn't be as bothered. But hanyous are supposed to be weak, not as powerful as my brother is.'
"Sesshomaru-sama." Rin proclaims quietly, trying to gain the youkai's attention. Sesshomaru instantly awoke from his thoughts and grinned down at the little girl. Jaken turned away and cried.
"No one cares about me! Not even Sesshomaru-sama!" He runs off to mope. Rin smiles her innocent little smile. Sesshomaru picks her up and sits her on his knee. He looks down at her.
"What is it?" He asks, his voice deep and serene. Rin giggles, then hugs the tall man.
"It's nothing. I just wanted you to stop looking at the sky." She states merrily, but then she decides to ask a question. "Sesshomaru-sama…"
"Hai?"
"Are you my dad?" She questions. Sesshomaru looks to her then to the sky. A smile spread across his face. (Which is rare might I add!)
"If you want to consider me so."
"Arigato!" She hugged him again. "What were you thinking about…dad?" Rin asks. Sesshomaru looks down at her, placing her back on the ground.
"Many, many things." He hums. "JAKEN! LET'S GO!" He shouts. Jaken soon comes running toward him, nearly tripping over his own feet multiple times. Rin grabs Sesshomaru's hand.
"Where are we going?"
"To visit my brother."
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"Forgive me, Lady Sango." Miroku bows. "My mind got the best of me." He says. Sango snorts.
"Your mind?? If you think with your hormones, which sometimes I think you do, THEN your mind got the best of you." Sango huffs off. She soon turns back to him. Miroku expects more harsh words, but she simply stands there.
"Yes, Lady Sango?" He hums happily. Sango throws the paddleball at him, hitting him smack in the face. "I understand." He mumbles. Sango had begun to walk away, but turned back when she heard him mumble.
"What?"
"Oh, nothing. Just said that I understand why you are upset." Miroku states. Then he heads for the door; soon he is in front of Sango. "Well, I'm going to sit outside. Enjoy yourself!" He shouts while running off and waving happily. Sango sighs.
"Looking for girls again."
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"Umm, it's over there." Kagome stated while pointing toward a thin pantry. Inuyasha smiled then walked over to the cabinet. He grabbed one, then quickly put it in the microwave. He pressed numbers then sat watching it spin around and cook.
Kagome frowns watching him. 'For a while, I thought that he might actually have changed. He's back to himself again though.' She walks over to him, just checking to make sure he knew what he was doing. She laughs when she sees what Inuyasha had typed in on the microwave.
"So, do you really want your ramen to cook for forty-seven minutes and ten seconds?" She questions, wiping tears of laughter from her eyes.
"No?" Inuyasha stated then suddenly became angry. "I don't know how to use this thing yet!" He storms off. Kagome's eyes water. She watches him sit down on the carpet, crossing his legs angrily. His nose was in the air, which meant he was mad at her. And his arms were tightly crossed, which meant that he wouldn't talk to her.
"Yes, he's back to being himself again." Kagome sobs.
****Change? Hope so. Don't take it as a bad thing….you never know what could happen next…***
****Japanese tutorial time!!****
Oka-san=mother
Oi-hey
Gomen ne- I'm sorry (not as polite as Gomen nasi)
Sama-it's respectful to add onto names (kinda like lord)
Hai- yes