A/N: I hope you like this chapter everyone! It's better than the last one!
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha. -whines a little- Uh… I'll stop now!
Half and Half
Chapter 12- Shippo's Feelings and Inuyasha's Memory
The two couples met again later that day.
"Hey, Sango!" Kagome called, "You, too, Miroku!"
Kagome ran up to meet her friends, with Inuyasha right beside her.
"What is it Kagome?" Sango asked once Kagome had reached them.
"Well, next week I'm turning 16, and I'm having a party at my house!"
"You mean in the future? Kagome, you know that you and Inuyasha are the only ones who can travel through the well," Miroku stated, looking at her strangely.
"Yes, but I think that if we all traveled together, it would work. You two, Inuyasha, and Shippo are all invited," Kagome then began to look around, and seemed to be searching for something.
"What are you searching for Kagome?" Sango asked coming up beside her, seeing that Kagome was looking everywhere.
"Shippo! Where's Shippo? I haven't seen him in days!" Kagome said turning around to face her friends. She had been so caught up in everything that she hadn't noticed that Shippo had been gone.
"That's right, the last time I saw Shippo was last night, and he ran off for some reason, I can't remember though…" Miroku trailed off. He knew why Shippo had ran off, but he wasn't going to mention it, and cause severe embarrassment for himself, and for Sango.
"Maybe he's back at your camp, Miroku," Sango offered, knowing that Miroku knew that they both knew why Shippo had ran off last night.
"Well, come on, let's go, you guys are always wasting time blabbing, when you could just do what needs to be done!" Inuyasha remarked getting impatient.
So they all headed off, in the direction of Miroku's camp, each couple, hand in hand.
"How could they act like that?!?" Shippo screamed punching the ground. He had already managed to whip a pile of firewood in every direction, and smashed several large stones by raising them in the air, and dropping them from an extreme amount of height.
"It's been so obvious that they care about each other, but now that they're together they have to ignore me!" Shippo continued screaming loudly, punching the ground again, "Those two are acting just like Inuyasha and Kagome, once they were together they act as if I don't even exist!"
Shippo stood up and grabbed another piece of firewood, and whipped it straight at a tree, which hit with an echoing 'thud'.
Now that Shippo had finished his temper tantrum, he sat down, by what used to be, the firepit. He then, buried his head in his arms and began to sob.
"Don't any of them care about me anymore?" Shippo thought out loud between sobs, "Or did they even care about me to begin with? Maybe… maybe they were just letting me hang around out of pity…"
Shippo's ears perked up at the sound of a girl's voice.
"Actually Shippo, all of us care about you…" Kagome walked over to Shippo placing an arm around the small kitsune's shoulders. "We overheard what you were saying Shippo, why do you think such things?"
Shippo's cheeks flamed with a deep shade of red, "I… uh…"
Sango walked over to Shippo, head bowed, it was her fault he felt like this, if she and Miroku hadn't been ignoring them the night before, he wouldn't have felt as if nobody cared. She sat down on the other side of Shippo, looking at him with sad, apologizing eyes. Miroku followed suit, and sat down on the ground in front of Shippo, but he couldn't even bring himself to look at the small kitsune.
Inuyasha didn't react like he'd be expected to, however. He looked at Shippo with pity, he knew what it was like. All of his life, until he'd met Kagome, he had felt rejected by everyone, not wanted, and not cared for. However, he knew that this was not the case with Shippo, for they all cared about him. He walked over to the group, and sat next to Miroku, directly in front of Shippo, something he normally would have never done, but in this case it was different. He looked into the boys eyes, with pity and sadness, remembering his own childhood.
Flashback
"Filthy half-breed, he lacks the brains of a youkai, and the compassion of a human!"
"He does not belong in this world, he will never fit in!"
"His name, Inuyasha, I think it means, 'Filthy Baka-headed Half-breed'."
There was a chorus of laughter at this comment, and Inuyasha looked up to this group of strangers surrounding him, not understanding a thing they said.
"What does-" Inuyasha began to ask these people, but they cut him off with another series of insults.
"See, this baka half-breed child? He lacks the brains of any beast or being!"
"Stop it!" a woman shrieked stepping into the crowd. She knelt down behind Inuyasha and wrapped her arms around him.
"Mother-" Inuyasha began, but he was yet again cut off, but this time by his mother.
"He is but a child, why must you treat him like this, he knows not of what you speak, and why must you insult him so? It is not he that made him a hanyou."
"No, woman, you filthy youkai lover, you made him what he is."
"What-" she began again, but was cut off.
"Shut up, your words are no good here, we do not care about you, or that filthy half-breed child of yours!"
Inuyasha's mother looked up to the man without a thing to say to him, she just pulled her son in closer and cried. She cried for him, and she cried for herself. They would be tormented for the rest of their life by cruel people like these men, and nobody could stop it.
Inuyasha looked up to discover the men had left, looking at he and his mother with disgust.
"Don't cry mother…" he said grabbing her hand, which rested on his shoulder.
End of Flashback
"Don't cry mother…" Inuyasha whispered grabbing the hand on his shoulder.
"Inuyasha?" Kagome asked quietly, now kneeling next to Inuyasha with her hand on his shoulder, and looking calmly into his face.
Aw! How sad, poor Inuyasha. I wrote that part just after watching the episode where Inuyasha was being picked on by the villagers and he said this exact line, "Mother!" -runs into his mother's arms- -pulls away and looks up into her face- "What's a half-breed?" It was so sad! I figured that putting something like this into the story would add some more feeling and such. Review and tell me what you think!
-Mari