GOMEN-NASAI! I know I haven't updated in a whole month and I feel terrible for it, really especially for leaving you at that cliffhanger that made you all mad at me! School had me sooo frustrated and due to all that frustration I couldn't think straight enough to write the chapter! But I finally got it finished after a few ideas popped in my head and I was once again able to pick up a pencil. Also, I don't really like this chapter, school was still a force to be reckoned with while I wrote it --.
Don't worry YoruStellaMaris , I'm not dead, I've just got two brain cells left and one's searching for the other. Lol -.
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Chapter 15: Encounters of the Inuyasha Kind
Sango was awaoken suddenly by the hastening sound of loud footprints stomping on the wooden floor. Her eyes lazily fluttered open but she could not see the object that had been making to sound. She could still hear the steps but they were fastly fading and now being muffled by scuffles of grass.
Taking a short glance around the hut, the tajiya noted that the perverted monk was nowhere to be seen, all that was in the hut with here were Kaede, who must have been deaf not to hear the noise, and Shippou, who was just slightly shifting in his sleep.
Sango's face turned into a scowl as she began to grumble as she made to lay her head down to sleep again, "stupid monk. Tells me to sleep and then when I finally do, what does he go and do, make a huge fucking rack-"
"NO INUYASHA!"
Sango's complaints had been cut short when she heard Miroku's voice cut through the silence of the night.
Her head jumped up once more, except this time more alert and her face no longer bore an angry scowl but was now evidently bearing wide-eyed, ghost white shock. Inuyasha was no longer in the room, occupying the far upper left corner. With an "Oh shit!", Sango jolted right out of her futon, sending the curled up Shippou flying across the room.
"Hey! What was that for?!", Shippou pouted, quite flustered from being awoken from his comfy slumber.
The girl spared no time for small talk and grabbed the huge boomerang, strapping it behind her back as she ran with cheetah speed out the doorway of the hut, leaving Shippou in her dust.
The kitsune crossed his arms and huffed in annoyance at her lack of answers. He was getting ready to go back to sleep with Kaede, who still seemed as dead as a fallen log, she seemd to be the only person in the room.
Wait a second...Kaede was the only person in the room? Shippou squeaked in horrified realization, "He's LOOSE!", he screamed a bit over dramatically as he scampered out of the hut as fast as his little furry feet could carry him. As he scurried over the grass, you could have sworn that his feet weren't even touching the ground. He whimpered a small chant that seemed to only consist of "oh no's". Inuyasha broke loose and was now after Kagome...well...probably more Kouga than Kagome, but Shippou still knew that the hanyou would be yelling at his beloved surrogate mother.
Sango had finally reached the field that consisted of the Bone Eater's Well and a certain dark-haired monk looming over the lip of it, staring into the dark depths.
"Too late", Miroku sighed with a bit of disappointed present in his tone.
The tajiya began to slow down her pace when she heard him and began to simply walk up to the well next to him and joined in the staring. She gave the well a sympathizing look, "Poor Kagome", she whispered lightly to herself. Their hanyou friend wasn't going to be too kind to the situation, if only Kagome had been smart enough to bring Kouga back. Did the girl even think of the consequences of it when Inuyasha found out?
"Well all we can do now is go back to the hut and wait", Sango was snapped from her thought by the interruption of the monk's voice.
He began to walk away to the hut, when Sango's hand grabbed his shoulder with a grip that rendered him to stand still in fear that if he took another step, he would risk leaving his shoulder behind.
"You can't just brush this off as if nothings happening right now! We have to do something, not just lat around and wait for them to kill each other on the other side of the well! What about Kagome?!", her voice echoed out with pure, raw emotion and concern.
"Sango", Miroku turned around to stare her straight in the eye, cathching all the attention of her indigo eyes as he had anticipated. He looked over to the well and sighed once more, "I understand your concern, but there's nothing we can do now. We've tried out best to keep everything from Inuyasha until Kagome's return and we failed. Now it's up to Kagome, Kouga and Inuyashato settle the situation on their own"
Sango's grip loosened on his shoulder and instead scrunched up the material of his robe into her fist. A small frown appeared across her face, Sango knew Miroku was right, there was nothing more they could do.
This was the time Shippou decided to make an appearance, plenty out of breath and panting, "S-Sango, Miroku, why'd you huff leave me behind?". He stopped at their feet and plopped down on his tiny bottom and for a second, glanced up to the well. He jumped up immediately when he remembered why he had run all this way, "AH! Where's Inuyasha? He got loose! He didn't get through the well did he?!". His big green eyes were wide with angst. He knew the answer, it was after all only the inevitable. He had to make sure though, jumping up onto the lip of the well, he peared into the dark hole.
Miroku laid his hand on the kit's back and patted it half-heartedly, "everything will be fine Shippou, Kagome knows how to handle Inuyasha better than anyone I know, she can take care of herself", when Shippou looked up at the young man he just gave him a re-assuring smile.
As Miroku was unconsciously rubbing Shippou's back, he couldn't help but think to himself and realize the role he had suddenly taken. He was almost acting like a mother to the pair he was being accompanied by, well...maybe a father, not a mother. He was glad he was able to mask his emotions and be able to calm people down during situations like these. Not that this had ever happened before.
What was he thinking?!
His angelic services at the moment were probably earning him the role of a much better man in the eyes of Sango, 'children could be on their way soon Miroku'.
Miroku was brought out of his reverie by a hard smack over the head, when he looked to see the source of the blow, he saw Sango with her arms crossed and blushing profusely. It seemed that his instincts had mingled with his thoughts and had taken action. Shippou giggled silently to himself and shook his head at the lack of a lesson Miroku always failed to learn. That small action seemed to change the atmosphere surroundling the small group.
Miroku began to rub the small bump beginning to form on his head as he stared into the well, "I wonder if we could actually pass through the well without a Shikon shard or Inuyasha and Kagome", the thought seemed to just float through his mouth and into the air.
The other two both looked down into the well simuntaneously in awe for a second, but Sango soon lost the idea and a frown appeared on her face yet once more, "What are you talking about monk, Kaede already told us that the only reason Kouga could go through the well was because he had been holding onto Kagome when they went through, not to mention we don't even have jewel shards".
"Ah, but my dear Sango", Miroku quirked up a finger in fact as he interrupted her speech, "Is it not true that Inuyasha can pass through the well without jewel shards? So why not us? Plus Kaede knows nothing more about the well than we oursleves. Her claim on Kouga holding onto Kagome was a wild guess more than likely, I'm sure I could have come up with that idea myself"
"But what about that time I fell down the well after that fight with Sesshoumaru, why didn't I pass through?", Shippou inquired.
"Don't forget, there was also a tree stuffed down the wel also, I doubt the well would also let an inanimate object through the well", he replied matter-of-factly.
"so now your saying that the well is alive and can decifer a living being from a non-living object?", Sango asked with a deadpan look at the monk's sudden 'knowledge' of the well.
"Pricisely", he smiled.
"Oh please Miroku, you said yourslef that you know nothing more about the well than we do", Sango scoffed with a wave of her hand.
"Yes. But maybe we could go through the well without them", he stroked his chin in wonder.
Sango's eyes widened when she noticed that determined look in his eyes as he peared down the well, before she could protest about his ludacris idea, Miroku laid a hand on the lip of the well and heaved himself over the edge and began to fall into the dark abyss. "Miroku!", she jolted forward and watched him sink down into the darkness. For a moment, Sango thought that she saw a familiar bright blue light flash from the bottom of the well. But she was brought out of the illusion when the small 'aw' escaping from Miroku's mouth as he fell, faded and was soon replaced with a loud-
"OOOMF!"
Well, she knew now that she was definitely hallucinating. She let out a loud annoyed sigh which was accomanied by the disappointed shake of Shippou's head. Then Sango realized that there was no sound emmitting from Miroku since the 'ooomf'. She began to panic slightly and out of instint of not knowing what to do she yelled, "Miroku!?"
"What?", a pained voiced echoed up through the dark verticle length.
She let out a breath of relief wen she heard his voice as she grasp a hand to her chest. Then her eyebrows narrowed, "you stupid monk, you could have gotten yourself killed!", she yelled, her tone filled with every ounce of anger she had, but didn't manage to hide all the worry.
"Im fine. Thanks for asking", Miroku yelled back up, his voice dripping with sarcasim, "do you think you could send me down a rope to climb back up?"
"NO! Find your own way up!", with another angry scoff she stomped back through the clearing, heading towards the hut. At the time being, Kagome had been completely forgetten.
Miroku sighed, "Shippou, are you still there?"
"Yup!"
"Do you think you could find me a rope?"
"Sure no problem, Miroku"
After a good ten minutes of searching, Shippou finally came back, "sorry Miroku, I couldn't find any rope and Sango wouldn't help"
"Well I guess, left to my own devices, I'll have to climp up the vines", he grabbed one of the said plants and began to hoist himslef up. When he reached the top of the well, much out of breath mind you, Shippou was still there to greet him.
"Miroku. Are you okay?!", Shippou began to question with his arms flailing in the air.
"I'm fine, just knocked the wind out of me, that's all"
"Well that's good! You had Sango worried!"
Miroku raised a delicate eyebrow, "Worried you say?", he was rewarded with a quick little nod from Shippou, 'hmm', he mentally hummed as he began to walk towards the direction of the hut, limping slightly from a rolled ankle.
All time seemed to stand still and the soft whisper of the wind was blowing into the room.
Kagome had immediately turned her head to the source of cold air that was cooling the heat on her skin, almost making a shiver run down her spine at the sudden temperature change. An inaudible gasp was released and her hands seemed to clench onto the bed sheets with a force all their own. Her brown orbs met with two glowing pools of molten gold.
Those pools didn't show any emotion whatsoever as they burrowed deep within her soul, almost as if they were unable to see her, yet, all they could do was stare at her. The breeze was blowing white strands of hair across the bearer of the eyes, giving an illusion of a statue, unable to move or control it's surroundings. But there was no movement taking place in his surroundings either.
"Inuyasha", Kagome managed to whisper out softly, but the room was so silent that a person would have to be deaf not to hear it.
The bearer of the golden orbs didn't seem to hear her, or if he did, he was trying to ignore it. His eyes finally began to flicker with some sign of emotion, an undescribable emotion. His eyes began to move away from her own, giving Kagome freedom as she let out a breath that she hadn't even noticed she was holding in, they began to narrow as they moved up to meet icy blue, that were clearly settled on him in return.
Inuyasha began to digest the sight before him. This couldn't really be happening could it, maybe it's just a bad dream. Kagome would never be with the wolf! Unless he was forcing himself on her. That's when his nose picked up the scent of arousel, first Kouga's then...Kagome's. His body literally began to temble with angry as his teeth were forced to grind together due to the surpressed rage.
"What the FUCK is going on?!", he bellowed as loud as he possibly could at the moment, his voice was at the brink of cracking if had reached any higher notes actually.
Kagome was speechless. She wanted to tell Inuyasha that nothing happened, but it would have been utterly idiotic due to the position she and Kouga were still in. As coherant thoughts finally began to process through her head, her eyes began to widen, Inuyasha had caught them, her and Kouga, in an all too friendly azimuth( no spelling mistake, it's a word -) on her bed. Her face flushed as she thought about her recent activities with the wolf prince.
Al these thoughts were swimming through her subconscious as the intense gaze of the sun met with the icy gaze of the sky as a stretched silence occupied the room once more as Inuyasha's question, if you could call it that, was left unanswered.
Inuyasha's breath began to hasten as did Kouga's. Inuyasha, because he had found Kouga with what was his. And Kouga, because he had been rudely interrupted and it didn't make it any better that it had been the hanyou, who he despised.
"What the fuck do you think your doing with Kagome you fuckin' wolf?!", Inuyasha seethed as his claws began to twitch with agitation as they were just itching to dig themselves deep into the fleash of the wolf youkai.
"Something you could never do ya stupid Mutt! Why don't you back off and run to that dead bitch of yours, you lost your chance with Kagome, she's mine now!", Koua snapped back and began to remove himslef off of Kagome so that he could prepare himself for any attacks heading his way.
'How dare he! Kagome isn't his!', Inuyasha growled mentally to himself, "Kagome isn't yours! You treat her like a possession!"
"She's not a possession, she's my woman!", Kouga was now in a fighting stance, "why don't you leave her alone, you took her for grated anyway, I won't allow you to hurt her anymore!"
Granted! Inuyasha was taken aback by that statement, he would never, had never, taken Kagome for granted! Why wasn't she defending him! The girl seemed to be in a daze of worry and fear on her bed. And why the fuck was he just standing there taking the wolf's shit?! Without a second thought, Inuyasha's body, as if on it's own will, in one swift leap was hurdling towards the wolf.
Luckily, Kouga had been prepared for such an attack, in instinct to stop them from falling back on the Kagome on the bed behind them, he grabbed the hanyou around the chest and flipped them both over to the floor, just skimming the bed. Unfortunately, it was a bad move for himself, since he was the one to get the air knocked out of his lungs after colliding with the floor, causing the rough texture of the carpet to burn his skin as he skidded along the floor for a short distance.
Once Inuyasha had registered in his thoughts that he had gotten Kouga in a vulnerable position, he let a sadistic smirk grace his face. He was definitely going to enjoy ripping the wolf to shreads,leaving his head for a souvenir. Yes, the wolf would pay for laying it's filthy hands on his Kagome. His Kagome? Yes, she was his and no other was permitted to touch her.
At the force Inuyasha had been holding onto Kouga's arms as they were falling to the floor, the pressure of his claws digging deep in the skin had drawn blood, causing Kouga to wince in pain at the suddenly known injury after his back had cooled down and gone numb.
The half breed's golden gaze gleamed ruthlessly as he saw Kouga in agony beneath him, he shoved his nails a bit deeper before he sharpely removed them. Seeing the fresh, slick blood on his appendages only made the barbaric grin on his face grow wider. It was right then and there that he decided that he would finally end the wolf's petty life. He brang one bloody hand up over his head and twitched his claws so that they would be at the perfect angle to strike.
Kouga got himsel under enough control to see what was about to happen, in his position at the moment, it would be hard to defend himself, but before the hanyou's claws could come down towards his neck, he managed to bring his knee up towards Inuyasha's back, knocking him slightly off balance; giving him enough time to roll over and send Inuyasha falling sidelong onto a small, narrow stack of books.
"Fuck", Inuyasha cursed under his breath to himself for loosing his perfect shot as he held onto his side in which one of the book corners had dug into and created a sharpe pang. Inuyasha was soon up on his feet once again and he began to walk back over to the fallen wolf, who was still trying to catch his breath and get a hold of himself.
Looming over him, Inuyasha tilted his head and made a feign pout of sympathy at the wolf, "What's wrong Kouga?", he gave the wolf a wide grin, "Are you in pain?"
Kouga just glared at the hanyou and made a small grunt as he began to start the task of getting up to feet.
"Oh you are?", Inuyasha rose his blooodied claws once again to claim the wolf's life and his mocking tone picked up speed, "Then let me help you by putting you out of your misery!"
Inuyasha was fast, but Kouga was faster as he managed to jump up, balancing on one hand and kicking Inuyasha with as much force as possible into a nearby wall with a deep threatening growl.
As Inuyasha slammed into the hard surface, his back arched at the sudden jolt of pain that coursed through his body, then he was rendered to slump to the floor.
Kouga began to limp over to Inuyasha, his back was still killing him, he slowly began to reach for his katana to find that it wasn't there and in it's place rested a belt hoop, "shit! Well I guess I'll just have to kill you with my bare hands", Kouga was the one to grin now, he had the upper hand.
Kagome snapped out of her stupor when she heard the sound of someone cracking teir knuckles. Her gaze travelled over to the two other forms that were also occupying the room. Kouga was now standing over Inuyasha. The hanyou began to growl at the approaching wolf as he tried to bring himself up again, 'Oh! They're fighting...over me?', Kagome began to mentally converse with herself as she watched the scene playing in front of her, she seemed unabe to move at the moment. They couldn't fight here! Not that she wanted them to fight in the first place, but there was the risk of her family coming in and getting caught in the crossfire, 'I have to stop this!'
The girl finally found movement in her legs and scrambled of the bed andonto her feet and began to walk over to the quarrelling pair.
Inuyasha found strength once again and lept at Kouga, this time they both managed to keep their balance as they exchanged pucnhes and blows, every now and then their claws digging into the fleash of the other. Then Inuyasha brought Kouga down to the floor once again.
He was about to make the fatal blow one last time, not intending to fail, but his view was blocked by the pair of bright chocolate brown eyes that clashed with his own. They were beginning to well up with tears until one single droplet rolled down the girl's cheek. He narrowed his eyes at her. Why not? She had practically betrayed him! She had brought the dirty wolf with her to this era and never bothered to tell him! How long did she even plan on keeping him here?
"Oi Wench! Get outta the way!", he all but howled out.
His words made Kagome flinch slightly, but she didn't really expect him to suddenly soften just because she had tried to stop him either. Especially after he had walked in when he did, but it's not like he loved her in the sense to actually care. She heard the sound of Tetsusaiga being removed from it's sheath, "STOP INUYASHA! Stop this now!"
Inuyasha was taken aback by the sudden force of her voice, but he quickly posturized himself, "What! Fuck no! You expect me to let this horny wolf go after he practically forced himself on you?!", he began to grab for the hilt of his sword again.
Kagome felt a sudden boost of strength within her body. She wasn't going to take that, how dare he practically say that she was weak and would actually let any guy just take advantage of her! "He didn't force himself on me, Inuyasha", she looked over her shoulder towards the mentioned wolf prince, ignoring Inuyasha's disbelieving face, "I allowed him to do everything he did, I started it"
Kouga got himself back up and glared at the hanyou in front of him, blocked off by the girl, "see Mutt-Face, she doesn't want to be with you!"
Kagome's eye twitched in annoyance, "stop it Kouga!", she purposely ignored his surprised expression. Sure, she had some kind of feelings for him, feelings that she had just discovered, but he didn't have to push it.
"Kagom-", Kouga started.
Kagome let out and exasperated huff, she should have been more anxious than she was, they were clearly trying to kill each other! "Can we please just go back to the Sengoku Jidai and talk it out?!"
Inuyasha just stood there in a slight daze listening to everything, she was preventing him from hurting the wolf, but she didn't really seem to be on the wolf's side either. All this was confusing and highly irritating. "Get out of my way Kagome, I'm going to finish this!"
"SIT!"
The hanyou's face was smaashed into the floor. It was a surprise that through all the commotion that had dispersed from her room, none of Kagome's family had yet to come into the room.
"We're leaving right now! And if you try to attack Kouga anymore Inuyasha, I swear I'll sit you into oblivion!" With a mention of the magic word, Inuyasha was sent down to the floor once more when he was already half way up. Kagome felt proud of herself for taking charge. She looked over to Kouga, "you better not try anything either or I'll make sure that pencil in your pocket will never properly sharpen again!", with a triumphant huff, Kagome waltzed over to grab her big yellow napsack and walked through her bedroom door, "COME ON!"
Inuyasha got up and with one last glare at the wolf began to follow suit.
Kouga looked down at his baggy pants and raised an eyebrow, "pencil?", he's eyes wandered around the material on his legs, 'what the fuck's a pencil?', he would have to ask Kagome about this, it would be more advantageous if he knew what exactly was being threatened. Then noticing he was the only one in the room and not wanting to leave Kagome alone with the hanyou, he exited the room.
Dun Dun Dun......Okay, so there you have it chapter 15! Was it even worth waiting for? The whole pencil thing and Miroku jumping down the well was added for comedy --, so I wrote a small action sequence, if you could call it that, don't flame me for it, I know it wasn't good.
I had a lot of lovely yet threatening reviews last chapter -, so I think I'll take sometime to reply.
Inuyasha-luva-4 – Yes, I miss the conversations also --, at least you can't hear them complaining about being confined in a small space with a perverted monk lol. Poor dears. You know, I've never actually thought of putting myself in Kagome's place while writing my stories, I wish I could have done that for chapter 14 lol. Yes, I'm a bit of a hentai lol. But you know I think I'll try that from now on. Thanks -.
darkwarriorgirl – blushes wow, that's so nice, but I don't think I'm even nearly good enough to become a writer. Well you know I don't mind that you don't like Kouga, as long as you like my story I'm fine lol. Whatever floats your boat! -- I have to think of better quotes. Lol
Playful Kagome – I'm soo glad you enjoyed the last chapter and my story! Your one of my all time fav reviewers and it's always great to hear from ya. It's too bad your not going to continue your story for a while --, but you know, summer's coming up so I'd better see a new chappie at the end of June! Lol j/k, but I really hope you continue it!
Saiyan-legacy102 – Sorry, I would stuff you in the closet with them but there's no room --, and think about it, would you really like to be stuffed in a closet with a practically blind pervert of a monk? Lol, I mean look a poor Sesshy in the last chapter --. And to answer your question, no, Kagome didn't think it was still a dream.
I love inuyasha forever- Oh yeah go me! Lol. I always love your reviews! -.
Oh my so many, sorry I can't make big responses to everybody, it would be too long, but here's a big thanks to the rest of you!: Kawaii Youkai, Empress-of-the-shadow (- glad you liked it, and I agree it was about time Kagome did something!), heather, kogafan (course I remember you! I'm so glad that my story's still your favorite! huggles), DarkVixen (- thanks), DemonFireGirlHotaru (Oh no! You found out my secret! shhh Now you have to promise not to tell anyone!), Kin103, Fushigi Wolf (yes, K/K are always great! -), sweetcece (no worries, this is a K/K fic!), balletanimerose (please don't hate me! Is your sanity back yet?) Puffin (I try, lol, well I didn't mean to drag the time for this chapter that long though --), Hinoke (I'm sorry, I'll not to be too sinister anymore! -), Japanime-01, JY (of course this is a K/K fic! I wouldn't have it any other way for this story!), BCL, Dragon of Sesshoumaru, haruka726(don't break your head! You don't have to worry about the cliffhanger anymore!), YoruStellaMaris (to assure you I will not abandon this story! It shall be finished!)
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