Explanations
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, I only own this cute little Shippo mouse pad ^-^ Kawaii!
I know, I know, I'm sorry, I haven't updated in a while, my internet's been down, but I decided that I might just continue, well actually, you guys decided for me :D, thanks for all the support, it's greatly appreciated. I wont make you wait any longer, here's your story!
"...and then Inuyasha surprised us and Kagome jumped, causing me to cut off a lot of her hair. We ran away, and here we are now." Sango finished.
"I see, and I suspect Kagome did not take it too well." Miroku asked.
"Nope, she was heartbroken."
"I'm also guessing Inuyasha didn't apologize."
"Didn't have a chance to, she...Well we, ran away before he would say a thing."
"I see," Miroku replied, and gave Sango a knowing look.
"Don't give me that look." Sango growled.
"What look?" Miroku asked innocently, still keeping that same look on his face.
"That look! You know very well what you're doing!" Sango whined.
Miroku remained silent.
"Okay, okay, I guess it wasn't completely his fault that he surprised us, and we ran before he could apologize." Sango admitted quietly, but paused and looked up at Miroku." But if he just looked at Kagome normally in the first place, none of this would have happened. You saw the way he treated her!"
Miroku sighed, and nodded in agreement. He moved to Sango's side, and smiled at her.
"Now that that's over, we can concentrate on the important things." Miroku said slyly.
~*~*~*~
Inuyasha and Kagome stayed like that for what seemed like eternity, but was only a few moments. It was Sango's voice that shocked them back to reality.
"HENTAI!!!!" echoed through the trees, followed by a loud slap.
Kagome shook her head in realization of what Miroku had done. 'He never learns.' She thought to herself.
"Kagome..." Inuyasha started quietly.
"Hai Inuyasha?"
"You look...nice." he stated quietly.
Kagome blushed lightly, nodding slowly in appreciation. She was glad he was able to look at her again, the past year had been brutal. Kagome learned the price she had to pay for the man she cared for, and, dare she say, loved.
Kagome had realized she loved Inuyasha for quite a while now, and she knew he loved her too, but not nearly as much as he loved Kikyou. He cared for her dearly, and risked his own life repeatedly, but if he had to choose between Kagome and Kikyou, the answer was obvious, he wanted Kikyou.
Kagome forced the thoughts out of her mind, this was a joyous occasion, Inuyasha was back, why ruin it with her troublesome thoughts?
"Guess we should get back to Sango and the hentai." Kagome said.
Inuyasha nodded, and bent down so Kagome could get on his back. Kagome jumped on, and Inuyasha raced off.
"I guess I should go home and show my mom..." Kagome thought aloud.
"No." Inuyasha replied simply.
"What do you mean 'no'?!"
"We have to defeat Naraku."
"Inuyasha, I don't think it'll matter if I take a few days off."
"You said that since you graduated your school thing you'd go back less."
"Inuyasha, I have a family!"
"So do I, but you don't see me chasing after Sesshoumaru ever two seconds." Inuyasha replied jokingly.
"It doesn't matter what you do or say, I'm going home today." Kagome pouted.
"Feh, that's what you think." Inuyasha replied as he came to a halt in front of Sango.
"Where's Miroku?" Kagome asked as she jumped of Inuyasha's back.
Sango eyed Inuyasha suspiciously before turning to Kagome with a look of confusion.
Kagome ignored Sango's looks, and noticed Miroku. Not only was he on the ground, but he had a huge red hand print on his cheek.
"Kagome?" Sango asked when she noticed Kagome's wasn't paying attention to her.
"Sango, would you mind helping me with my things? I need to go back home and it seems all my things are scattered around." Kagome replied and motioned for her to go inside the hut. Sango obliged and Kagome followed her in so that they could have some privacy.
"What just happened?" Sango started.
"We, well, he looked at me Sango. He looked at ME. Don't you get it? The haircut did it, he's back to normal." Kagome squealed.
"But at what price? Kagome, have you forgotten already?" Sango said as she wrapped her hand around some of Kagome's now short hair.
Kagome sighed, and slowly pushed Sango's hand away. "Sango, I haven't forgotten, but can't you see what's happening? Why must you make everything so negative, why can't you be happy for me?"
Sango let out a loud sigh and nodded her head. Sango looked at Kagome and smiled. In the few short years Kagome had stayed in this realm, the two had become closest of friends. Telling each other everything and anything, hiding nothing.
"So has he said he loved you yet?"
"Sango!" Kagome exclaimed.
"Well? Did he?" Sango asked in amusement.
Kagome opened her mouth to reply with the obvious no, when Inuyasha came through the door.
"Oi, Kaede's asking for you, it has to do with the Shikon No Tama." Inuyasha said, but paused as he noticed Kagome's slight blush when he came through the door. He raised his eyebrow in confusion, and Kagome hid her face to cover up the blush.
"Hai, hai." Kagome said in desperation as she ran past him.
Inuyasha looked at Sango for an answer, but Sango gave him a dangerous look.
She whispered low enough so she knew only he could hear. "You're the reason she's in so much pain, Inuyasha, but Kagome is once again happy, I thank you for that."
Inuyasha nodded, understanding her words. Just as he was about to turn around to leave the hut, he smelled a familiar scent, a loud growl erupted in the back of his throat.
"Him." Was all Inuyasha muttered.
He ran outside, and grabbed Kagome. She shrieked in shock, but calmed down when she saw it was Inuyasha.
"What's wrong?" Kagome asked.
"He's here." Inuyasha said as he dropped Kagome and stood in front of her in protective gesture.
"Naraku?" Kagome whispered.
"No, the wimpy wolf." Inuyasha replied, and Kagome fell over anime style.
"What's wrong with Kouga-kun?" Kagome asked.
"He's gonna start a fight, and run away before I get a chance to rip his fucking head off."
"Ha, like you could even touch me." A voice said from inside a wind tunnel spinning towards the two.
"Wolf" Inuyasha growled.
"Give me back my woman dog shit." Kouga said as the wind slowly came to a complete halt.
"Kouga-kun." Kagome said with a lecturing tone.
"My fair Kagome, is that you?" Kouga asked as he began sniffing her.
Kagome nodded solemnly.
"What has the half breed done to you?"
Kagome tensed at his question, but remained calm.
"No matter, you're still as radiant as always." Kouga replied, and lifted Kagome's hand to his lips.
"Enough with your pointless talk wimp, are you just going to stand there, or are you going to fight me?" Inuyasha asked.
Kouga smirked and turned towards him, crouching down in a defensive stance.
Inuyasha grasped the hilt of the Tetsiega, and pulled out the sword. He lifted it, and Kouga came running towards him. Inuyasha got out of the way, but was too slow, and lost his balance, Kouga took the opportunity to get another attack, and raced towards him, his claws outstretched and ready to attack. Inuyasha expected this, and brought the Tetseiga down on Kouga, Kouga barely managed to miss it, but was fast enough so the Tetseiga only managed to get a skin deep cut into his left arm.
Kouga looked at the wound, and smirked.
"You've gotten quicker..."Kouga stated with amusement, and looked at Inuyasha. "But not fast enough." He said as he ran to Inuyasha and kicked him in the stomach.
Inuyasha bent down in pain, but recovered quickly. He raised the sword and was about to bring it down on Kouga when a familiar sound rang through the forest.
"SIT!" Kagome screamed before Inuyasha had a chance to touch Kouga. Inuyasha plummeted to the ground, and Kagome ran to Kouga, Sango and Miroku running right behind her.
She checked his arm, and was relieved to see it was completely healed.
"Kouga-kun! Are you okay?" Kagome asked with worry.
Kouga smiled, and gave Inuyasha a look of victory. Sango sighed, and rolled her eyes, it was the same story every time Kouga ran into them.
"I'm fine, he hardly touched me." Kouga smirked.
The paralyzing hold of the necklace wore off, and Inuyasha jumped to his feet. He cleared his throat loudly. Kagome turned his attention to him, and after making sure that he was fine, she turned back to Kouga.
"I'm not done with you." Inuyasha growled.
"But I am. Unlike you, I protect people. My pack needs me, goodbye my fair Kagome." Kouga said and sped away.
"Umm Kagome..." Sango said as she pointed behind Kagome.
Kagome turned on her heel to meet a very steamed Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha?" Kagome asked unsteadily.
Inuyasha didn't answer, only growled louder. Kagome knew he was trying extremely hard to remain calm, usually by now he was exploding.
Kagome suppressed a laugh as Inuyasha's face reddened from his rage that was obviously took much effort to hold in.
Kagome moved her hand towards him cautiously, afraid he might explode at her touch. She gently laid her hand on his shoulder, and he slowly relaxed under her touch.
"Are you okay?" Kagome asked in amusement.
Inuyasha took a deep breath, and nodded calmly.
"Let's go." Sango said as she began to walk back to the Kaede's hut. "Kaede still needs to talk to Kagome."
Kagome nodded, and they all headed back.
When they got to Kaede, she was mixing some herbs with Shippo's help.
"Kaede, you wanted to talk about the Shikon No Tama?" Kagome asked as she stepped to Kaede's side.
"Hai." Kaede said, not shifting her gaze from the herbs. "As you know, the youkai attacks have been at a minimum. In fact, if it wasn't for the youkai that attacked Sango and yourself, it would've been months since we had an attack dealing with a shard.
Kaede stopped mixing her herbs, and turned to Kagome. She stood in shock for a moment as she realized Kagome's hair was quite a bit shorter.
"What happened?" Kaede asked curiously.
Kagome sighed, she was beginning to get tired of hearing that.
"It doesn't matter. Now, Kaede you were saying...?" Kagome replied quickly.
"Oh, yes, well, it seems to me that the many, if not all of the Shikon shards now belong to either you or Naraku."
"Meaning?" Sango asked.
"To get the rest of 'em, we gotta fight Naraku, and defeat him." Inuyasha answered.
"Exactly." Kaede whispered.
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Wow, this has got to be the longest Chapter I have ever written, yet I am greatly disappointed. It seems this story is turning into my other stories. Simplistic and full of poor vocabulary. My apologies for taking so long to update.
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, I only own this cute little Shippo mouse pad ^-^ Kawaii!
I know, I know, I'm sorry, I haven't updated in a while, my internet's been down, but I decided that I might just continue, well actually, you guys decided for me :D, thanks for all the support, it's greatly appreciated. I wont make you wait any longer, here's your story!
"...and then Inuyasha surprised us and Kagome jumped, causing me to cut off a lot of her hair. We ran away, and here we are now." Sango finished.
"I see, and I suspect Kagome did not take it too well." Miroku asked.
"Nope, she was heartbroken."
"I'm also guessing Inuyasha didn't apologize."
"Didn't have a chance to, she...Well we, ran away before he would say a thing."
"I see," Miroku replied, and gave Sango a knowing look.
"Don't give me that look." Sango growled.
"What look?" Miroku asked innocently, still keeping that same look on his face.
"That look! You know very well what you're doing!" Sango whined.
Miroku remained silent.
"Okay, okay, I guess it wasn't completely his fault that he surprised us, and we ran before he could apologize." Sango admitted quietly, but paused and looked up at Miroku." But if he just looked at Kagome normally in the first place, none of this would have happened. You saw the way he treated her!"
Miroku sighed, and nodded in agreement. He moved to Sango's side, and smiled at her.
"Now that that's over, we can concentrate on the important things." Miroku said slyly.
~*~*~*~
Inuyasha and Kagome stayed like that for what seemed like eternity, but was only a few moments. It was Sango's voice that shocked them back to reality.
"HENTAI!!!!" echoed through the trees, followed by a loud slap.
Kagome shook her head in realization of what Miroku had done. 'He never learns.' She thought to herself.
"Kagome..." Inuyasha started quietly.
"Hai Inuyasha?"
"You look...nice." he stated quietly.
Kagome blushed lightly, nodding slowly in appreciation. She was glad he was able to look at her again, the past year had been brutal. Kagome learned the price she had to pay for the man she cared for, and, dare she say, loved.
Kagome had realized she loved Inuyasha for quite a while now, and she knew he loved her too, but not nearly as much as he loved Kikyou. He cared for her dearly, and risked his own life repeatedly, but if he had to choose between Kagome and Kikyou, the answer was obvious, he wanted Kikyou.
Kagome forced the thoughts out of her mind, this was a joyous occasion, Inuyasha was back, why ruin it with her troublesome thoughts?
"Guess we should get back to Sango and the hentai." Kagome said.
Inuyasha nodded, and bent down so Kagome could get on his back. Kagome jumped on, and Inuyasha raced off.
"I guess I should go home and show my mom..." Kagome thought aloud.
"No." Inuyasha replied simply.
"What do you mean 'no'?!"
"We have to defeat Naraku."
"Inuyasha, I don't think it'll matter if I take a few days off."
"You said that since you graduated your school thing you'd go back less."
"Inuyasha, I have a family!"
"So do I, but you don't see me chasing after Sesshoumaru ever two seconds." Inuyasha replied jokingly.
"It doesn't matter what you do or say, I'm going home today." Kagome pouted.
"Feh, that's what you think." Inuyasha replied as he came to a halt in front of Sango.
"Where's Miroku?" Kagome asked as she jumped of Inuyasha's back.
Sango eyed Inuyasha suspiciously before turning to Kagome with a look of confusion.
Kagome ignored Sango's looks, and noticed Miroku. Not only was he on the ground, but he had a huge red hand print on his cheek.
"Kagome?" Sango asked when she noticed Kagome's wasn't paying attention to her.
"Sango, would you mind helping me with my things? I need to go back home and it seems all my things are scattered around." Kagome replied and motioned for her to go inside the hut. Sango obliged and Kagome followed her in so that they could have some privacy.
"What just happened?" Sango started.
"We, well, he looked at me Sango. He looked at ME. Don't you get it? The haircut did it, he's back to normal." Kagome squealed.
"But at what price? Kagome, have you forgotten already?" Sango said as she wrapped her hand around some of Kagome's now short hair.
Kagome sighed, and slowly pushed Sango's hand away. "Sango, I haven't forgotten, but can't you see what's happening? Why must you make everything so negative, why can't you be happy for me?"
Sango let out a loud sigh and nodded her head. Sango looked at Kagome and smiled. In the few short years Kagome had stayed in this realm, the two had become closest of friends. Telling each other everything and anything, hiding nothing.
"So has he said he loved you yet?"
"Sango!" Kagome exclaimed.
"Well? Did he?" Sango asked in amusement.
Kagome opened her mouth to reply with the obvious no, when Inuyasha came through the door.
"Oi, Kaede's asking for you, it has to do with the Shikon No Tama." Inuyasha said, but paused as he noticed Kagome's slight blush when he came through the door. He raised his eyebrow in confusion, and Kagome hid her face to cover up the blush.
"Hai, hai." Kagome said in desperation as she ran past him.
Inuyasha looked at Sango for an answer, but Sango gave him a dangerous look.
She whispered low enough so she knew only he could hear. "You're the reason she's in so much pain, Inuyasha, but Kagome is once again happy, I thank you for that."
Inuyasha nodded, understanding her words. Just as he was about to turn around to leave the hut, he smelled a familiar scent, a loud growl erupted in the back of his throat.
"Him." Was all Inuyasha muttered.
He ran outside, and grabbed Kagome. She shrieked in shock, but calmed down when she saw it was Inuyasha.
"What's wrong?" Kagome asked.
"He's here." Inuyasha said as he dropped Kagome and stood in front of her in protective gesture.
"Naraku?" Kagome whispered.
"No, the wimpy wolf." Inuyasha replied, and Kagome fell over anime style.
"What's wrong with Kouga-kun?" Kagome asked.
"He's gonna start a fight, and run away before I get a chance to rip his fucking head off."
"Ha, like you could even touch me." A voice said from inside a wind tunnel spinning towards the two.
"Wolf" Inuyasha growled.
"Give me back my woman dog shit." Kouga said as the wind slowly came to a complete halt.
"Kouga-kun." Kagome said with a lecturing tone.
"My fair Kagome, is that you?" Kouga asked as he began sniffing her.
Kagome nodded solemnly.
"What has the half breed done to you?"
Kagome tensed at his question, but remained calm.
"No matter, you're still as radiant as always." Kouga replied, and lifted Kagome's hand to his lips.
"Enough with your pointless talk wimp, are you just going to stand there, or are you going to fight me?" Inuyasha asked.
Kouga smirked and turned towards him, crouching down in a defensive stance.
Inuyasha grasped the hilt of the Tetsiega, and pulled out the sword. He lifted it, and Kouga came running towards him. Inuyasha got out of the way, but was too slow, and lost his balance, Kouga took the opportunity to get another attack, and raced towards him, his claws outstretched and ready to attack. Inuyasha expected this, and brought the Tetseiga down on Kouga, Kouga barely managed to miss it, but was fast enough so the Tetseiga only managed to get a skin deep cut into his left arm.
Kouga looked at the wound, and smirked.
"You've gotten quicker..."Kouga stated with amusement, and looked at Inuyasha. "But not fast enough." He said as he ran to Inuyasha and kicked him in the stomach.
Inuyasha bent down in pain, but recovered quickly. He raised the sword and was about to bring it down on Kouga when a familiar sound rang through the forest.
"SIT!" Kagome screamed before Inuyasha had a chance to touch Kouga. Inuyasha plummeted to the ground, and Kagome ran to Kouga, Sango and Miroku running right behind her.
She checked his arm, and was relieved to see it was completely healed.
"Kouga-kun! Are you okay?" Kagome asked with worry.
Kouga smiled, and gave Inuyasha a look of victory. Sango sighed, and rolled her eyes, it was the same story every time Kouga ran into them.
"I'm fine, he hardly touched me." Kouga smirked.
The paralyzing hold of the necklace wore off, and Inuyasha jumped to his feet. He cleared his throat loudly. Kagome turned his attention to him, and after making sure that he was fine, she turned back to Kouga.
"I'm not done with you." Inuyasha growled.
"But I am. Unlike you, I protect people. My pack needs me, goodbye my fair Kagome." Kouga said and sped away.
"Umm Kagome..." Sango said as she pointed behind Kagome.
Kagome turned on her heel to meet a very steamed Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha?" Kagome asked unsteadily.
Inuyasha didn't answer, only growled louder. Kagome knew he was trying extremely hard to remain calm, usually by now he was exploding.
Kagome suppressed a laugh as Inuyasha's face reddened from his rage that was obviously took much effort to hold in.
Kagome moved her hand towards him cautiously, afraid he might explode at her touch. She gently laid her hand on his shoulder, and he slowly relaxed under her touch.
"Are you okay?" Kagome asked in amusement.
Inuyasha took a deep breath, and nodded calmly.
"Let's go." Sango said as she began to walk back to the Kaede's hut. "Kaede still needs to talk to Kagome."
Kagome nodded, and they all headed back.
When they got to Kaede, she was mixing some herbs with Shippo's help.
"Kaede, you wanted to talk about the Shikon No Tama?" Kagome asked as she stepped to Kaede's side.
"Hai." Kaede said, not shifting her gaze from the herbs. "As you know, the youkai attacks have been at a minimum. In fact, if it wasn't for the youkai that attacked Sango and yourself, it would've been months since we had an attack dealing with a shard.
Kaede stopped mixing her herbs, and turned to Kagome. She stood in shock for a moment as she realized Kagome's hair was quite a bit shorter.
"What happened?" Kaede asked curiously.
Kagome sighed, she was beginning to get tired of hearing that.
"It doesn't matter. Now, Kaede you were saying...?" Kagome replied quickly.
"Oh, yes, well, it seems to me that the many, if not all of the Shikon shards now belong to either you or Naraku."
"Meaning?" Sango asked.
"To get the rest of 'em, we gotta fight Naraku, and defeat him." Inuyasha answered.
"Exactly." Kaede whispered.
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Wow, this has got to be the longest Chapter I have ever written, yet I am greatly disappointed. It seems this story is turning into my other stories. Simplistic and full of poor vocabulary. My apologies for taking so long to update.