The second chapter of this fanfic...the names too long and I don't feel like
writing it! I'm a lazy ass!!
^-^ LOVE ME!!! I'm home sick, so I decided to work on this one...I
will update Beach Daze and the last chapter of Fear
Factor...soon...mmmyes...soon, soon...*looks left, looks right*
sooooon...
P.S. NORMA (a.k.a. inuhime13) STOP GIVING ME DEATH THREATS!! I
sit next to you on the bus...you don't want me to...punish
you...(LOL!!!!) and I also apologize for the spelling mistakes for
the last chapter...I didn't even realize I made spelling
mistakes...hmmm...maybe I'll look at it again and change them and
put up that chapter again...WILL THAT MAKE YOU BASTARDS HAPPY?!?!
(lol) oooh I keed.
Chapter 2: The Wisdom Tree
Inuyasha tried as hard as he could to try and stay awake as much as he could. He didn't need much sleep in the first place sense he was part demon but the human in him called for that sweet unconsciousness that sweeps over us every night. His eyes began to slip slowly shut.
*NO! I don't want to have the freakin dream anymore!* Inuyasha thought determinedly as he shook his head.
Kagome stirred a little and Inuyasha froze. *Damn it...I hope I didn't wake her up...* Inuyasha just stared over at Kagome who moved around in her sleeping bag with a grunt.
Inuyasha gave a little sigh of relief when she stopped moving but noticed the reason why she stopped. She was awake and starring at him. He almost yelped out of surprised but remembered that everyone else were still asleep and he didn't want to have to deal with them fussing at him for waking them up...he already had to listen to Kagome now...
"Inuyasha?" Kagome asked rubbing sleep from her eyes. "Why are you awake?"
Inuyasha hesitated, trying to figure out an excuse. "I'm...uh...I'm not tired!" He said with a feh and turned his head to the side. Kagome sweat dropped.
*Yeah, as if...* She looked at him with a curious expression. "Why are you awake?" Kagome asked again with a more forceful tone to her voice.
Inuyasha just ignored her.
Kagome started to shiver with anger. She didn't like being ignored and when Inuyasha did it, oh...he was in for a world of sit...
"I'm sorta afraid..."
Kagome blinked in amazement; at the fact he actually answered and that he was afraid. "Nani?"
"Of my nightmares...BUT DON'T TELL MIROKU AND THE OTHERS!" Inuyasha said, worried about his rep.
Kagome's stare turned into a concerned gaze. "Why? What are your dreams about?"
Inuyasha looked away, too embarrassed to talk about it. "Feh, why should you care?"
Kagome blinked again then with an angry tone to her voice she answered back "Because I do! NOW TEL ME, INUYASHA! For once, don't be such a jerk!"
Inuyasha gave a snort and looked away. Kagome's icy cold stare wouldn't leave his face and he was getting nervous that she would say "the word".
Kagome just kept staring at Inuyasha, waiting for an answer yet non came. So she decided this was sweet sleep she was missing and rolled over to go back asleep when Inuyasha said "rats..."
Kagome looked at Inuyasha in confusion. "Rats what?" She asked with a tilt of the head.
Inuyasha looked away for a second then back at Kagome. "Never mind...I'm keeping you awake, go back to bed...you need rest." With that, Inuyasha jumped into the tree he was sitting under.
"But..." Kagome tried to protest but Miroku stopped her.
"Kagome-sama...Let it go; Inuyasha will tell you when he's good and ready...don't worry. Now, you need your sleep." Miroku said looking at Kagome before he too, turned away to fall back inot unconsciousness.
Kagome just stared up at Inuyasha who still hadn't even made an effort to fall asleep. She sighed in defeat and snuggled back up in her sleeping bag.
Kagome woke up to the sense of a Shikon shard near by. "OH!" She sat up in her sleeping bag and looked around, trying to pin- point the source a energy the Shikon shard was giving off, that she could read.
Inuyasha quickly jumped from his tree and landed in front of Kagome looking her right in the eye. "What is it?" He asked.
"Shikon shard..." She said, glancing around a little trying to find it's whereabouts.
Inuyasha was getting impatient. "Well?"
Kagome glared up at him before answering him. "I'm not sure...but I think it's over there somewhere..." Kagome pointed in a direction of a path that led in the woods.
Shippo jumped on Inuyasha's shoulder. "Are-Are you sure? It's scary in there!" Inuyasha smirked.
"Are ya scared, Shippo?" He chuckled at Shippo's face.
"HMPH! I am not!" Shippo said with a pout.
"Then you can lead the way!" Inuyasha said plucking Shippo off of his shoulder and plopping him on the ground. "Go..."
Sango had her tijiya outfit on already. "OK...lets go!"
Inuyasha gave the terrified Shippo a little nudge to make him move. He started off at a slow wobble, but picked up the pace as Inuyasha kept glaring at him. Shippo gave a shiver and turned around and jumped on Kagome's shoulder. "OK I'M TOO SCARED!!!"
Inuyasha smirked. "That's more like it..."
They headed into the woods. Kagome glanced here and there occasionally...trying to find the exact source of which the energy of the Shikon shard was reaching Kagome's miko senses.
Kirara started growling when they ran into a tree that had grown in the middle of the path. Sango slowly reached for her boomerang as everyone else went on their guard. Kagome gasped as she realized the energy from the Shikon shard she sensed was coming from that tree.
"The tree...it has a Shikon shard...in...it's in its trunk!" Kagome said moving behind Inuyasha who had his Tetsusaiga out and ready to fight.
For a while, everything was quiet. The tree didn't seem like a threat but Kagome had sworn the Shikon shard was in it.
After a few moments, the tree spoke. It wasn't a surprise to anyone except Kagome sense talking trees weren't uncommon in the age where Shikon shards were everywhere.
"You are the half demon, Inuyasha...am I correct?" The tree said in a weak and husky voice. Everyone relaxed there tense nerves a little. The tree didn't sound like it wanted to do any harm.
Inuyasha twitched. "Who wants to know?"
The tree slowly formed a face in the middle of the trunk. The face gave a feeble smile "I've been waiting for you..."
Kagome stepped behind Inuyasha a little more and whispered "Inuyasha, be careful...I think he might want more shards or something..."
Inuyasha glanced at Kagome and with a feh, he replied "Sshh! Wench! It'll hear you...!" Inuyasha then asked the tree "What do you want?!"
The tree was silent for a moment "Inuyasha, you have been having nightmares, am I right?"
Inuyasha twitched again. *How in all the hells does he know that?*
Kagome looked concerned. "Inuyasha..."
Inuyasha quickly hushed her. He didn't know how this was going to end so he wanted to be as careful as possible.
The tree continued. "Inuyasha, I know more about you that you don't even know yourself. I know your deepest secrets to the memories of times ling pasted."
Miroku and Sango watched in confusion as Inuyasha and the tree talked.
"How the hell do you know so much about me when we jut met?!" Inuyasha barked back. Kagome backed up.
"Inuyasha...please...you could be a little nicer...he doesn't seem like a threat." Kagome said.
Inuyasha ignored her. The tree smiled at Kagome "Very good...she is right, Inuyasha...I am not here to fight you...only to help you with your troubles. You may lower your defenses." The tree said. Inuyasha didn't listen. He still had the Tetsusaiga out and ready to attack if the tree decided to attack them.
Shippo jumped on Inuyasha's shoulder "What do mean 'help'?" Shippo asked.
The tree smiled at the little kitsune. "Little one...I told you...help Inuyasha...he is having some trouble and I am only here for his service...do not fret..." the tree said with a smile. The kit thought for a second.
Kagome stepped up, in front of Inuyasha. "What do you-?" Inuyasha began but was cut off by Kagome.
"Um...tree...sir? What can you do to help Inuyasha with those nightmares?"
The tree smiled down at Kagome. "That, I'm afraid, is my little secret...yet I will keep no other from you. Do not worry, little girl...I will help your companion..."
Kagome smiled, knowing he was not lying and really was going to help Inuyasha. She looked back at Inuyasha "He's gonna help, Inuyasha...I trust him..."
With that, Inuyasha put is great sword back in its protective scabbard. Miroku decided he wanted some questions answered. "Um...Great tree, how exactly do you know Inuyasha?"
The tree looked down at Miroku who had just walked up. "Houshi- sama...I see you want answers too...well, it's a long story...but I can tell you the short part..."
Inuyasha was really confused now...which was inevitable.
"I have been around for a long, long time, as you can see. The reason why I know about Inuyasha is because I was an advisor, if you will, for InuTaishu..."
Kagome gasped "Inuyasha's dad?!"
The tree continued "Yes. Anyway, InuTaishu trusted me with babysitting little Inuyasha when him and his wife were busy."
Miroku pondered out loud. "So, you must have spent a lot of time with Inuyasha, then?"
The tree made what looked like a nod. "I was there from when he was just an infant...to the time his father was killed...to the time his mother passed away...I know all about his troubles, with Sesshomaru...and all of his fears."
Inuyasha walked right up to the tree "OK...so you know me...and my family...but how can you help?"
The tree smiled and continued "Inuyasha, you know as well as I do that I can only help you verbally... You must help yourself as well..."
Inuyasha gave a growl of confusion. Kagome decided that he needed to cool off. "Uhm...Thank you, Mr. Tree...If we need any help with Inuyasha, or advice with anything, we'll come back...but we should get going."
Miroku and Sango looked at Kagome quizzically. Why was she in such a rush to leave? They could actually get somewhere with why Inuyasha had that dream that Kagome had told them about that before Inuyasha had woken up.
The tree smiled down at Kagome "Very well, I can see that I might have given him too much information..."
Inuyasha snapped "WHAT?! What's that suppose to mean?!" Inuyasha growled loudly at Kagome and the tree.
Kagome backed up "Inuyasha, calm down!"
"Why should I?! I want to know these things but you want to go already!" Inuyasha fumed.
Miroku stepped in "Inuyasha, look, we'll come back tomorrow...we should go back to Kaede's village and get some food and rest and we'll come back tomorrow." Miroku walked up to Inuyasha and patted him on the shoulder.
Inuyasha glared for a moment then turned to walk back out of the woods. Kagome, Sango, and Shippo and Kirara ran to catch up. Kagome turned back to the tree to thank him "Thank you, Wise Tree!"
The tree smiled to acknowledge her. He watched as they ran around the bend and out of sight. "Poor Inuyasha...he has no idea what he's done unleashing these dreams..." The tree sighed "Well, I have a feeling that young girl is going to play a huge role in saving our little hanyou..."
Kagome was silent as they walked home. She was too deep in thought to listen to Miroku who was thinking out loud. *I wonder what happened to Inuyasha when he was young...did something traumatizing happen to him?* Kagome gasped at the visions materialized in her head. Inuyasha turned to look at her when he saw her face in pity and fear.
"Wench, why you making faces at me!?" Inuyasha yelled, snapping Kagome out of it...which wasn't the best idea.
"Inuyasha...OSWARI!!" Inuyasha flew right, face first into the ground, mumbling incoherent things. Kagome huffed and stomped back towards Kaede's village.
Miroku and Sango both sighed heavily. "Inuyasha, when will you learn?" Miroku asked walking right past the flattened Inuyasha.
"Wh-why you...?!"
~~~~~~~~~~end-o-chapter~~~
HOW YOU LIKE ME NOW?! BITCH?!
O.k. I'm done with the second chapter...and there was much rejoicing... yeah... I'll start the 3rd chapter...shortly...GOOD DAY!
Chapter 2: The Wisdom Tree
Inuyasha tried as hard as he could to try and stay awake as much as he could. He didn't need much sleep in the first place sense he was part demon but the human in him called for that sweet unconsciousness that sweeps over us every night. His eyes began to slip slowly shut.
*NO! I don't want to have the freakin dream anymore!* Inuyasha thought determinedly as he shook his head.
Kagome stirred a little and Inuyasha froze. *Damn it...I hope I didn't wake her up...* Inuyasha just stared over at Kagome who moved around in her sleeping bag with a grunt.
Inuyasha gave a little sigh of relief when she stopped moving but noticed the reason why she stopped. She was awake and starring at him. He almost yelped out of surprised but remembered that everyone else were still asleep and he didn't want to have to deal with them fussing at him for waking them up...he already had to listen to Kagome now...
"Inuyasha?" Kagome asked rubbing sleep from her eyes. "Why are you awake?"
Inuyasha hesitated, trying to figure out an excuse. "I'm...uh...I'm not tired!" He said with a feh and turned his head to the side. Kagome sweat dropped.
*Yeah, as if...* She looked at him with a curious expression. "Why are you awake?" Kagome asked again with a more forceful tone to her voice.
Inuyasha just ignored her.
Kagome started to shiver with anger. She didn't like being ignored and when Inuyasha did it, oh...he was in for a world of sit...
"I'm sorta afraid..."
Kagome blinked in amazement; at the fact he actually answered and that he was afraid. "Nani?"
"Of my nightmares...BUT DON'T TELL MIROKU AND THE OTHERS!" Inuyasha said, worried about his rep.
Kagome's stare turned into a concerned gaze. "Why? What are your dreams about?"
Inuyasha looked away, too embarrassed to talk about it. "Feh, why should you care?"
Kagome blinked again then with an angry tone to her voice she answered back "Because I do! NOW TEL ME, INUYASHA! For once, don't be such a jerk!"
Inuyasha gave a snort and looked away. Kagome's icy cold stare wouldn't leave his face and he was getting nervous that she would say "the word".
Kagome just kept staring at Inuyasha, waiting for an answer yet non came. So she decided this was sweet sleep she was missing and rolled over to go back asleep when Inuyasha said "rats..."
Kagome looked at Inuyasha in confusion. "Rats what?" She asked with a tilt of the head.
Inuyasha looked away for a second then back at Kagome. "Never mind...I'm keeping you awake, go back to bed...you need rest." With that, Inuyasha jumped into the tree he was sitting under.
"But..." Kagome tried to protest but Miroku stopped her.
"Kagome-sama...Let it go; Inuyasha will tell you when he's good and ready...don't worry. Now, you need your sleep." Miroku said looking at Kagome before he too, turned away to fall back inot unconsciousness.
Kagome just stared up at Inuyasha who still hadn't even made an effort to fall asleep. She sighed in defeat and snuggled back up in her sleeping bag.
Kagome woke up to the sense of a Shikon shard near by. "OH!" She sat up in her sleeping bag and looked around, trying to pin- point the source a energy the Shikon shard was giving off, that she could read.
Inuyasha quickly jumped from his tree and landed in front of Kagome looking her right in the eye. "What is it?" He asked.
"Shikon shard..." She said, glancing around a little trying to find it's whereabouts.
Inuyasha was getting impatient. "Well?"
Kagome glared up at him before answering him. "I'm not sure...but I think it's over there somewhere..." Kagome pointed in a direction of a path that led in the woods.
Shippo jumped on Inuyasha's shoulder. "Are-Are you sure? It's scary in there!" Inuyasha smirked.
"Are ya scared, Shippo?" He chuckled at Shippo's face.
"HMPH! I am not!" Shippo said with a pout.
"Then you can lead the way!" Inuyasha said plucking Shippo off of his shoulder and plopping him on the ground. "Go..."
Sango had her tijiya outfit on already. "OK...lets go!"
Inuyasha gave the terrified Shippo a little nudge to make him move. He started off at a slow wobble, but picked up the pace as Inuyasha kept glaring at him. Shippo gave a shiver and turned around and jumped on Kagome's shoulder. "OK I'M TOO SCARED!!!"
Inuyasha smirked. "That's more like it..."
They headed into the woods. Kagome glanced here and there occasionally...trying to find the exact source of which the energy of the Shikon shard was reaching Kagome's miko senses.
Kirara started growling when they ran into a tree that had grown in the middle of the path. Sango slowly reached for her boomerang as everyone else went on their guard. Kagome gasped as she realized the energy from the Shikon shard she sensed was coming from that tree.
"The tree...it has a Shikon shard...in...it's in its trunk!" Kagome said moving behind Inuyasha who had his Tetsusaiga out and ready to fight.
For a while, everything was quiet. The tree didn't seem like a threat but Kagome had sworn the Shikon shard was in it.
After a few moments, the tree spoke. It wasn't a surprise to anyone except Kagome sense talking trees weren't uncommon in the age where Shikon shards were everywhere.
"You are the half demon, Inuyasha...am I correct?" The tree said in a weak and husky voice. Everyone relaxed there tense nerves a little. The tree didn't sound like it wanted to do any harm.
Inuyasha twitched. "Who wants to know?"
The tree slowly formed a face in the middle of the trunk. The face gave a feeble smile "I've been waiting for you..."
Kagome stepped behind Inuyasha a little more and whispered "Inuyasha, be careful...I think he might want more shards or something..."
Inuyasha glanced at Kagome and with a feh, he replied "Sshh! Wench! It'll hear you...!" Inuyasha then asked the tree "What do you want?!"
The tree was silent for a moment "Inuyasha, you have been having nightmares, am I right?"
Inuyasha twitched again. *How in all the hells does he know that?*
Kagome looked concerned. "Inuyasha..."
Inuyasha quickly hushed her. He didn't know how this was going to end so he wanted to be as careful as possible.
The tree continued. "Inuyasha, I know more about you that you don't even know yourself. I know your deepest secrets to the memories of times ling pasted."
Miroku and Sango watched in confusion as Inuyasha and the tree talked.
"How the hell do you know so much about me when we jut met?!" Inuyasha barked back. Kagome backed up.
"Inuyasha...please...you could be a little nicer...he doesn't seem like a threat." Kagome said.
Inuyasha ignored her. The tree smiled at Kagome "Very good...she is right, Inuyasha...I am not here to fight you...only to help you with your troubles. You may lower your defenses." The tree said. Inuyasha didn't listen. He still had the Tetsusaiga out and ready to attack if the tree decided to attack them.
Shippo jumped on Inuyasha's shoulder "What do mean 'help'?" Shippo asked.
The tree smiled at the little kitsune. "Little one...I told you...help Inuyasha...he is having some trouble and I am only here for his service...do not fret..." the tree said with a smile. The kit thought for a second.
Kagome stepped up, in front of Inuyasha. "What do you-?" Inuyasha began but was cut off by Kagome.
"Um...tree...sir? What can you do to help Inuyasha with those nightmares?"
The tree smiled down at Kagome. "That, I'm afraid, is my little secret...yet I will keep no other from you. Do not worry, little girl...I will help your companion..."
Kagome smiled, knowing he was not lying and really was going to help Inuyasha. She looked back at Inuyasha "He's gonna help, Inuyasha...I trust him..."
With that, Inuyasha put is great sword back in its protective scabbard. Miroku decided he wanted some questions answered. "Um...Great tree, how exactly do you know Inuyasha?"
The tree looked down at Miroku who had just walked up. "Houshi- sama...I see you want answers too...well, it's a long story...but I can tell you the short part..."
Inuyasha was really confused now...which was inevitable.
"I have been around for a long, long time, as you can see. The reason why I know about Inuyasha is because I was an advisor, if you will, for InuTaishu..."
Kagome gasped "Inuyasha's dad?!"
The tree continued "Yes. Anyway, InuTaishu trusted me with babysitting little Inuyasha when him and his wife were busy."
Miroku pondered out loud. "So, you must have spent a lot of time with Inuyasha, then?"
The tree made what looked like a nod. "I was there from when he was just an infant...to the time his father was killed...to the time his mother passed away...I know all about his troubles, with Sesshomaru...and all of his fears."
Inuyasha walked right up to the tree "OK...so you know me...and my family...but how can you help?"
The tree smiled and continued "Inuyasha, you know as well as I do that I can only help you verbally... You must help yourself as well..."
Inuyasha gave a growl of confusion. Kagome decided that he needed to cool off. "Uhm...Thank you, Mr. Tree...If we need any help with Inuyasha, or advice with anything, we'll come back...but we should get going."
Miroku and Sango looked at Kagome quizzically. Why was she in such a rush to leave? They could actually get somewhere with why Inuyasha had that dream that Kagome had told them about that before Inuyasha had woken up.
The tree smiled down at Kagome "Very well, I can see that I might have given him too much information..."
Inuyasha snapped "WHAT?! What's that suppose to mean?!" Inuyasha growled loudly at Kagome and the tree.
Kagome backed up "Inuyasha, calm down!"
"Why should I?! I want to know these things but you want to go already!" Inuyasha fumed.
Miroku stepped in "Inuyasha, look, we'll come back tomorrow...we should go back to Kaede's village and get some food and rest and we'll come back tomorrow." Miroku walked up to Inuyasha and patted him on the shoulder.
Inuyasha glared for a moment then turned to walk back out of the woods. Kagome, Sango, and Shippo and Kirara ran to catch up. Kagome turned back to the tree to thank him "Thank you, Wise Tree!"
The tree smiled to acknowledge her. He watched as they ran around the bend and out of sight. "Poor Inuyasha...he has no idea what he's done unleashing these dreams..." The tree sighed "Well, I have a feeling that young girl is going to play a huge role in saving our little hanyou..."
Kagome was silent as they walked home. She was too deep in thought to listen to Miroku who was thinking out loud. *I wonder what happened to Inuyasha when he was young...did something traumatizing happen to him?* Kagome gasped at the visions materialized in her head. Inuyasha turned to look at her when he saw her face in pity and fear.
"Wench, why you making faces at me!?" Inuyasha yelled, snapping Kagome out of it...which wasn't the best idea.
"Inuyasha...OSWARI!!" Inuyasha flew right, face first into the ground, mumbling incoherent things. Kagome huffed and stomped back towards Kaede's village.
Miroku and Sango both sighed heavily. "Inuyasha, when will you learn?" Miroku asked walking right past the flattened Inuyasha.
"Wh-why you...?!"
~~~~~~~~~~end-o-chapter~~~
HOW YOU LIKE ME NOW?! BITCH?!
O.k. I'm done with the second chapter...and there was much rejoicing... yeah... I'll start the 3rd chapter...shortly...GOOD DAY!