KYM-Okay well to anyone who has bothered to read the first chapter I bring
you a second chapter. Truly I don't think anyone is reading this. Hello
anyone out there? ::cricket noises:: Alas I write for no one. Oh well
someone will read this someday I suppose. Laura! Come and disclaim again
would you?
Laura- Must I always do this?
KYM- ::nods::
Laura- All right... Sarah does not own InuYasha or any characters related to
him. Oh but I own Shippo!
KYN- LAURA!
Laura- All right all right... I don't own anything either. Um... on with the
fic I suppose.
11:34 PM Kagome's Room
Little did they know it but both had been awake for awhile. After falling asleep Kagome woke up staring at the ceiling. She rolled over... several times... but just couldn't fall back into sleep. So she lay thinking. InuYasha too had woken minutes later.
"Damn", Kagome hissed rolling over. She didn't want to wake InuYasha with music or a light so she could read a book that would put her to sleep.
"You awake", InuYasha half whispered thinking he'd heard Kagome's voice.
"Yeah", she replied slipping onto the floor next to him. "I can't sleep. Did I wake you?"
"Feh. I've been awake for a while."
Kagome twisted her fingers around. "So..."
"Well I'm bored."
"Well then go to sleep!"
"I can't sleep wench!"
"Well then I guess you're going to stay bored."
"Feh."
"All right since we both can't sleep you wanna play a game?" She leaned forward onto her elbows peering at InuYasha through the darkness.
"What kind of 'game'?" He rolled his eyes. 'Great another one of these damned future games.'
"Um... Go Fish?"
"What in the seven hells? No I don't wanna go fish!"
"No silly it's a card game." Kagome breezed through the rules and pulled out a deck of cards. They began playing. It continued through several games. 34 Minutes Later
"Got any 7's", InuYasha asked dully.
"Go fish", Kagome sighed.
InuYasha picked up the next card. 'A 4.' He just about bit it in half. "This game is stupid. I wanna play something else."
'Gee he's almost as whiney as Souta.' "All right. Do you remember how to play War?"
"Yeah." Kagome shuffled the deck and the game began. Soon they were talking casually and laughing. 3:02 AM Game of WAR in Kagome's Room
InuYasha put down a king as did Kagome. "WAR", they yelled. Each put down three cards the third face up. InuYasha had the deformed queen card. (A/N: It was bitten by Buyou okay?) Kagome giggled putting down an Ace.
"What's so funny wench", InuYasha asked as Kagome took the cards.
She put the deformed queen down. "It looks like Kikyo will someday", she laughed shutting her eyes. Then as if running into a pole a look of horror crossed her face and she stopped. "I'm sorry InuYasha." She turned pink. In the darkness no one could tell.
InuYasha picked up the card and tore it in pieces letting them flit out the window. "Kikyo isn't that important."
Kagome perked up though in the dark you couldn't really tell. "Really? You mean it?"
"Oy wench don't make me repeat myself."
"Well then you could at least laugh about it."
He scowled. She saw it even through the shadows engulfing them. "I'm not allowed to have fun", he quoted himself from previous times. "I... Kikyo... I owe her my life. She died for me."
Kagome clenched a fist mad at Kikyo for all of the suffering InuYasha went through for her and for taking InuYasha's heart. "She didn't die for you she died because of you. Don't you see? InuYasha she's already dead. She's kept alive by how much she hates you. You don't owe her anything." She pleaded. She was trying to convince herself of this all more than anybody else.
InuYasha twisted. "It's not right." He muttered this several times over before clenching his teeth and fists. What hatred she carried for him... how the weight of it all burdened him.
Kagome grabbed his wrists before he could slam his closed hands into the floor. "InuYasha?" His face untwisted as his eyes heavily sunk. He peered off into nothingness. "She... she never loved me."
Kagome freed his wrists. "InuYasha... she did love you. Just because she hates you now doesn't mean..."
"It doesn't matter any more", he cut her off in a sharp tone. "I don't love her."
He froze as did Kagome. The revelation startled them both. InuYasha merely sat in a warped state. Kagome trembled biting her lip and grabbing the leg of her night stand to steady herself. "You... don't love Kikyo?"
InuYasha released from his trance as he seized Kagome by her wrists pulling her up face to face with him. His eyes glowed even in the pools of dark surrounding them. Everything he couldn't say his eyes spoke for him. "I don't love her", he whispered.
Kagome unhooked her wrists sinking back to the floor. Her breathing was ragged as she tried to take in what she had just heard. Kagome looked up met by his gaze. A finger slipped under her chin tilting it slightly.
"There's only one person I love", InuYasha said leaning closer to Kagome. Her eyes sparkled in anticipation. The seconds ticked slowly away as they leaned in closer and closer just waiting.
Click! The light in Kagome's room switched on. InuYasha and Kagome flew away from each other in a matter of nano-seconds.
"Kagome when did you get home", he mother asked groggily rubbing her eyes. "Oh good evening InuYasha. Dear were you planning on leaving again? Back to the Feudal Era."
Kagome shook her head not trusting her voice. 'I don't want to blurt everything out. Hold it together Higurashi. You can do this.' "We were just playing cards mom. Right InuYasha? InuYasha? InuYasha!" She elbowed his upper arm.
"Yea", he said not knowing what was going on. He rubbed his arm and muttered just loud enough for he and Kagome to hear. "Wench."
A worried look passed over her mother's face. "You really should get some sleep Kagome", her mother said. "And if you're going to play cards at all hours of the night turn a light on and keep your voices down please." She glanced at InuYasha and then back to the floor. "Goodnight you two", she said slowly closing the door behind her and scampering back to bed (A/N: -- If anybody sees the word bed and thinks hentai I'll hunt them down and slaughter them for thinking such evil dirty things... at least at this point in the fic...).
Kagome let out a soft sigh relieved her mother had left. Then... pain. "Ow", she hissed turning to InuYasha.
"You're gonna punch me and I'm gonna get revenge."
"Oh are you now?" She stood up knocking over her glass off water onto him. "Well I won't rest until the last trick is mine!" She opened the door and ran out.
InuYasha sat wet and puzzled until he heard Kagome running out the door. He jumped out the window in front of her. "Don't think you're getting the last trick in wench."
She dodged past him running and laughing playfully. She ran barefoot over the stones and in front of the Goshinboku tree where she tripped on a root flying forward several feet. "Ah!"
"Got you now!" InuYasha ran towards her missing the tree root by centimeters and pinning Kagome to the ground. He glared at her. Then his countenance softened as he tickled her.
"Stop stop!" She begged for mercy between fits of laughter.
"Say mercy."
"N-never!" She kept laughing and yelling stop. "Mercy! Heh heh Mercy!"
InuYasha stopped tickling her falling down next to her laughing. There they were moonlight pouring over them laying laughing hysterically in the early hours of the morning. About 3:30AM Feudal Era
"This is so annoying", Sango said leaning away from the smoke venting from the flames.
"Well Lady Sango all you need do is lay back down and go to sleep", Miroku said smiling a devious smile.
"Not with you awake", Sango replied sighing. 'I hope Kagome comes back soon', she thought. 'I hope InuYasha comes back too.' She sighed again setting her weight on her haunches.
Miroku slid closer to Sango... who in turn slid further away. Miroku scooted to the place where Sango had been. Sango scooted again getting closer and nearly running over Shippo.
"Gah", the little kitsune cried pushing Sango back over. "I was almost asleep there for a minute Sango. Why ja gotta hit me!?"
Sango stared, or glared is more accurate a word, at the monk grinning innocently at her left. "Sorry Shippo. If certain people would learn to respect other certain people's space..." She glared again at Miroku.
"What", he asked as if squishing Sango between him and the young fox was 100% normal and a-okay.
Sango stood up and moved to the other side of Shippo. "There you go Shippo. If you need to scoot to your left again... you can hit Miroku." She lay her head down on her pillow pretending to drift off into sleep. The reality was they had all been hit with insomnia. 4:00 Goshinboku Tree
Moon light filtered through the leaves casting a silver glow on the two companions sitting beneath the bows of the mighty Goshinboku tree. For a half an hour they had sat first laughing, then talking, then making small talk, and now just silent. The wind rustled the leaves overhead as a cool night breeze blew over them.
Kagome trembled from the cold that seemed to not phase InuYasha. "You wanna go inside", she asked him standing up.
"Feh", he said standing next to her. They walked silently to the front door. Kagome turned the knob.
"It's locked", she whispered. "Now what?"
InuYasha grabbed her around the waist and leapt up to her window. He yanked it open spilling them both onto the floor. InuYasha did a flip and landed by Kagome bed. Kagome slid several feet and managed to land among a pile of stuffed animals and spare blankets.
She dug herself out dusting off. "Well that sort of worked", she said standing to un-kink her legs.
"Well it was the only way in", InuYasha said tiredly.
"Are you finally sleepy", Kagome asked sliding onto her bed.
"Feh I don't get tired", InuYasha replied smugly.
"Well I do. Good night InuYasha", Kagome sighed yawning and slipping under her covers. "I'll see you... in... the morning..." After hours of struggling to fall asleep she slipped into the silent shadows.
"Kagome", InuYasha crept up and peered at her face through the darkness. It was relaxed her mouth curved into a smile. He swiped a strand of hair away from her eyes. She flinched squeezing her eyes slightly and then she relaxed again slipping further under her covers. "Feh stupid wench", InuYasha said smiling at her. Within a few minutes he lay his head down on the edge of her bed and fell asleep. About 5:00 AM Feudal Japan
"Sango", the small kitsune said. "Are you awake Sango?"
The tajiya turned over. "Yes. I cannot fall asleep. Insomnia."
"Inso-wha", Shippo asked propping himself up.
"Insomnia", Miroku said peering up over him. "It's when you are unable to fall asleep."
Sango glared at the monk.
"So we all have in-somn-somnia?" Shippo asked a simple enough question. The houshi and the tajiya nodded sitting upright and throwing some logs on the fire. 'InuYasha and Kagome better get back soon. We need them. I think I can't sleep because I'm uneasy when things aren't normal like this.'
Little did they know it but both had been awake for awhile. After falling asleep Kagome woke up staring at the ceiling. She rolled over... several times... but just couldn't fall back into sleep. So she lay thinking. InuYasha too had woken minutes later.
"Damn", Kagome hissed rolling over. She didn't want to wake InuYasha with music or a light so she could read a book that would put her to sleep.
"You awake", InuYasha half whispered thinking he'd heard Kagome's voice.
"Yeah", she replied slipping onto the floor next to him. "I can't sleep. Did I wake you?"
"Feh. I've been awake for a while."
Kagome twisted her fingers around. "So..."
"Well I'm bored."
"Well then go to sleep!"
"I can't sleep wench!"
"Well then I guess you're going to stay bored."
"Feh."
"All right since we both can't sleep you wanna play a game?" She leaned forward onto her elbows peering at InuYasha through the darkness.
"What kind of 'game'?" He rolled his eyes. 'Great another one of these damned future games.'
"Um... Go Fish?"
"What in the seven hells? No I don't wanna go fish!"
"No silly it's a card game." Kagome breezed through the rules and pulled out a deck of cards. They began playing. It continued through several games. 34 Minutes Later
"Got any 7's", InuYasha asked dully.
"Go fish", Kagome sighed.
InuYasha picked up the next card. 'A 4.' He just about bit it in half. "This game is stupid. I wanna play something else."
'Gee he's almost as whiney as Souta.' "All right. Do you remember how to play War?"
"Yeah." Kagome shuffled the deck and the game began. Soon they were talking casually and laughing. 3:02 AM Game of WAR in Kagome's Room
InuYasha put down a king as did Kagome. "WAR", they yelled. Each put down three cards the third face up. InuYasha had the deformed queen card. (A/N: It was bitten by Buyou okay?) Kagome giggled putting down an Ace.
"What's so funny wench", InuYasha asked as Kagome took the cards.
She put the deformed queen down. "It looks like Kikyo will someday", she laughed shutting her eyes. Then as if running into a pole a look of horror crossed her face and she stopped. "I'm sorry InuYasha." She turned pink. In the darkness no one could tell.
InuYasha picked up the card and tore it in pieces letting them flit out the window. "Kikyo isn't that important."
Kagome perked up though in the dark you couldn't really tell. "Really? You mean it?"
"Oy wench don't make me repeat myself."
"Well then you could at least laugh about it."
He scowled. She saw it even through the shadows engulfing them. "I'm not allowed to have fun", he quoted himself from previous times. "I... Kikyo... I owe her my life. She died for me."
Kagome clenched a fist mad at Kikyo for all of the suffering InuYasha went through for her and for taking InuYasha's heart. "She didn't die for you she died because of you. Don't you see? InuYasha she's already dead. She's kept alive by how much she hates you. You don't owe her anything." She pleaded. She was trying to convince herself of this all more than anybody else.
InuYasha twisted. "It's not right." He muttered this several times over before clenching his teeth and fists. What hatred she carried for him... how the weight of it all burdened him.
Kagome grabbed his wrists before he could slam his closed hands into the floor. "InuYasha?" His face untwisted as his eyes heavily sunk. He peered off into nothingness. "She... she never loved me."
Kagome freed his wrists. "InuYasha... she did love you. Just because she hates you now doesn't mean..."
"It doesn't matter any more", he cut her off in a sharp tone. "I don't love her."
He froze as did Kagome. The revelation startled them both. InuYasha merely sat in a warped state. Kagome trembled biting her lip and grabbing the leg of her night stand to steady herself. "You... don't love Kikyo?"
InuYasha released from his trance as he seized Kagome by her wrists pulling her up face to face with him. His eyes glowed even in the pools of dark surrounding them. Everything he couldn't say his eyes spoke for him. "I don't love her", he whispered.
Kagome unhooked her wrists sinking back to the floor. Her breathing was ragged as she tried to take in what she had just heard. Kagome looked up met by his gaze. A finger slipped under her chin tilting it slightly.
"There's only one person I love", InuYasha said leaning closer to Kagome. Her eyes sparkled in anticipation. The seconds ticked slowly away as they leaned in closer and closer just waiting.
Click! The light in Kagome's room switched on. InuYasha and Kagome flew away from each other in a matter of nano-seconds.
"Kagome when did you get home", he mother asked groggily rubbing her eyes. "Oh good evening InuYasha. Dear were you planning on leaving again? Back to the Feudal Era."
Kagome shook her head not trusting her voice. 'I don't want to blurt everything out. Hold it together Higurashi. You can do this.' "We were just playing cards mom. Right InuYasha? InuYasha? InuYasha!" She elbowed his upper arm.
"Yea", he said not knowing what was going on. He rubbed his arm and muttered just loud enough for he and Kagome to hear. "Wench."
A worried look passed over her mother's face. "You really should get some sleep Kagome", her mother said. "And if you're going to play cards at all hours of the night turn a light on and keep your voices down please." She glanced at InuYasha and then back to the floor. "Goodnight you two", she said slowly closing the door behind her and scampering back to bed (A/N: -- If anybody sees the word bed and thinks hentai I'll hunt them down and slaughter them for thinking such evil dirty things... at least at this point in the fic...).
Kagome let out a soft sigh relieved her mother had left. Then... pain. "Ow", she hissed turning to InuYasha.
"You're gonna punch me and I'm gonna get revenge."
"Oh are you now?" She stood up knocking over her glass off water onto him. "Well I won't rest until the last trick is mine!" She opened the door and ran out.
InuYasha sat wet and puzzled until he heard Kagome running out the door. He jumped out the window in front of her. "Don't think you're getting the last trick in wench."
She dodged past him running and laughing playfully. She ran barefoot over the stones and in front of the Goshinboku tree where she tripped on a root flying forward several feet. "Ah!"
"Got you now!" InuYasha ran towards her missing the tree root by centimeters and pinning Kagome to the ground. He glared at her. Then his countenance softened as he tickled her.
"Stop stop!" She begged for mercy between fits of laughter.
"Say mercy."
"N-never!" She kept laughing and yelling stop. "Mercy! Heh heh Mercy!"
InuYasha stopped tickling her falling down next to her laughing. There they were moonlight pouring over them laying laughing hysterically in the early hours of the morning. About 3:30AM Feudal Era
"This is so annoying", Sango said leaning away from the smoke venting from the flames.
"Well Lady Sango all you need do is lay back down and go to sleep", Miroku said smiling a devious smile.
"Not with you awake", Sango replied sighing. 'I hope Kagome comes back soon', she thought. 'I hope InuYasha comes back too.' She sighed again setting her weight on her haunches.
Miroku slid closer to Sango... who in turn slid further away. Miroku scooted to the place where Sango had been. Sango scooted again getting closer and nearly running over Shippo.
"Gah", the little kitsune cried pushing Sango back over. "I was almost asleep there for a minute Sango. Why ja gotta hit me!?"
Sango stared, or glared is more accurate a word, at the monk grinning innocently at her left. "Sorry Shippo. If certain people would learn to respect other certain people's space..." She glared again at Miroku.
"What", he asked as if squishing Sango between him and the young fox was 100% normal and a-okay.
Sango stood up and moved to the other side of Shippo. "There you go Shippo. If you need to scoot to your left again... you can hit Miroku." She lay her head down on her pillow pretending to drift off into sleep. The reality was they had all been hit with insomnia. 4:00 Goshinboku Tree
Moon light filtered through the leaves casting a silver glow on the two companions sitting beneath the bows of the mighty Goshinboku tree. For a half an hour they had sat first laughing, then talking, then making small talk, and now just silent. The wind rustled the leaves overhead as a cool night breeze blew over them.
Kagome trembled from the cold that seemed to not phase InuYasha. "You wanna go inside", she asked him standing up.
"Feh", he said standing next to her. They walked silently to the front door. Kagome turned the knob.
"It's locked", she whispered. "Now what?"
InuYasha grabbed her around the waist and leapt up to her window. He yanked it open spilling them both onto the floor. InuYasha did a flip and landed by Kagome bed. Kagome slid several feet and managed to land among a pile of stuffed animals and spare blankets.
She dug herself out dusting off. "Well that sort of worked", she said standing to un-kink her legs.
"Well it was the only way in", InuYasha said tiredly.
"Are you finally sleepy", Kagome asked sliding onto her bed.
"Feh I don't get tired", InuYasha replied smugly.
"Well I do. Good night InuYasha", Kagome sighed yawning and slipping under her covers. "I'll see you... in... the morning..." After hours of struggling to fall asleep she slipped into the silent shadows.
"Kagome", InuYasha crept up and peered at her face through the darkness. It was relaxed her mouth curved into a smile. He swiped a strand of hair away from her eyes. She flinched squeezing her eyes slightly and then she relaxed again slipping further under her covers. "Feh stupid wench", InuYasha said smiling at her. Within a few minutes he lay his head down on the edge of her bed and fell asleep. About 5:00 AM Feudal Japan
"Sango", the small kitsune said. "Are you awake Sango?"
The tajiya turned over. "Yes. I cannot fall asleep. Insomnia."
"Inso-wha", Shippo asked propping himself up.
"Insomnia", Miroku said peering up over him. "It's when you are unable to fall asleep."
Sango glared at the monk.
"So we all have in-somn-somnia?" Shippo asked a simple enough question. The houshi and the tajiya nodded sitting upright and throwing some logs on the fire. 'InuYasha and Kagome better get back soon. We need them. I think I can't sleep because I'm uneasy when things aren't normal like this.'