A/N: Sorry for the long break. On a camping trip I got more than 30 mosquito stings and two bee stings. I'm normally not allergic to any of these insects, but as they say on the news, this year these insects are more aggressive and toxic than the years before – and my mom drove me to the hospital when my lymphs in my neck swelled and the doctors kept me there for a day for safety. After I got home I didn't fell like sitting on my pc and typing, so I watched some Animes on tv.
I hope I will find the time and the will to write in the next days. (Reviews would help here)
Crying CrystalTeardrops: Thanks for the review. Here is the next chapter.
Rezol: I'm happy you liked it. No that is not the officially version how Inu's mom died, only my own fantasy. The first two movies doesn't tell anything about Inu's past. Other the third one: But there we only get to know what happened on the day of Inu's birth. If you want to have the movies you should have a look at Ebay. I got the first two from there. If the American ebay doesn't have it, try one of the European as or ebay.de (most sellers have their descriptions in English and world wide shpping).
earthy876: Thanks for the translation and the review. I hope this chappie makes everything a bit clearer.
Whisper on the Wind: Thanks for the review.
Tankbbg: Thanks for the review. As for how to get the movies: Just look at what I wrote to Rezol. (ebay and so) I really like your fanfic 'almost human'.
LOTRwolf: Thanks for the review.
Chapter 5
The sun was high in the sky and Kagome put all the leftovers from their breakfast away. InuYasha and Miroku were at the river that flow not too far away from the hut and fetched some water. The little kitsune sat next to Inu-chan and was drawing with his crayons, Kagome had brought him from her era.
After a while he looked up to the sleeping form next to him. "How long will Inu-chan sleep?" The small hanyou was still fast asleep and had missed breakfast, when he wouldn't wake soon, he would also miss lunch. Shippou on the other hand wanted to play with the child. Though he made fast friends in all the villages they stopped by, he really wanted to have a friend at his age, who was always with him.
Sango's gaze fell upon the hanyou, while petting Kirara. She remembered his exhaust expression the night before. "I don't think he slept very well outside always on the run. Just let him sleep."
"K." 'But I wanna play with him. Drawing is boring.'
Kagome walked to the door and turned to Sango before leaving the hut. "Sango-chan, would help me with the laundry please?"
"Hai." She followed the miko to the outside and left the two boys and the fire-cat-demon alone.
Shippou's eyes followed the two girls and as soon as they were gone, he jumped to his little fox-feet and ran over to Kagome's yellow bag. He opened the zipper of the front bag, not very quiet, and dug in all the strange things until he found his plastic bag with all the red and white goodies in it. Kirara had followed him and sat now curious next to the boy and meowed. The kitsune hold the bag in his hands and began to rustle it. After some moments he walked over to the sleeping boy and held the bag to one of his dog ears and … rustled. A second later he rushed to his drawing paper and sat down, pretending to eat the sweets. When he didn't hear anything from Inu-chan's place he turned his eyes slowly and carefully towards the child. "Huh?!" 'He sleeps like a stone!'
Then he took one of his sharpest crayons, lifted the blanket at the feet-side and stuck the pen at the hanyou's toes. Kirara saw this and took Sippou's sleeve into her mouth, signalling him to stop. But when the hanyou began to kick against the irritating sensation a bright smile appeared on Shippou's face. He stopped abruptly and pretended to draw, but after some minutes had past by and the other boy still seemed to be asleep he started another try.
Slowly Shippou approached the child's face and reached his hand to the hanyou's nose. Kirara meowed furiously and jumped on the kitsune's shoulder in order to stop him. But her action startled Shippou and he lost his balance and fell onto his behind. But Kirara wasn't that lucky and landed on all four feet on the sleeping boy's stomach.
"Whaaa?!" Inu-chan pushed himself into a sitting position and looked with fearful and confused eyes on the cat-demon on his body. He slowly recognized the place and the animal, but still the fear didn't leave him. After all a REAL demon sat on his belly and a kitsune child next to him. But before he could react, Kagome and Sango came running into the hut.
Kagome rushed to his side and petted his head. "Everything is fine. What happened?"
Inu-chan's big golden eyes met hers and immediately his fear vanished. "Em…"
The exterminator crouched between the boys' bodies and took Kirara into her arms while looking at Shippou. The little kitsune tried his best to make a puppy-face but he knew that wouldn't work. "Shippou, I told you to let him sleep!"
"But- but it was an accident. I was playing with Kirara and she fell on him … accidentally." It wasn't a lie at all, only the half of it. He hadn't planned to be caught.
"How late is it?"
Sango answered the hanyou's question. "Almost noon. You overslept breakfast."
"Oh."
"That's fine. Are you still tired?"
Inu-chan shook his head and his silver bangs fell into his face. He watched the black-haired girl leave the room and return some moments later. In her hand she carried white and red clothes – his haori.
Before she helped him to put it on she renewed his bandages on his chest. The boy looked at the cloth for a minute, then he hold his sleeve to his nose and sniffed at it. "It smells like flowers?! Why does it smell like flowers?" He couldn't imagine how this strange clothed girl could have made his haori smell like a meadow with flowers … and that it was really clean. Even if his mother had washed his clothes, they always stayed a bit dirty.
"I used detergent."
"Huh?!" His eyes went wide.
"I'll show you later. 'k?"
He nodded and looked up at her again. "Thank you."
These simple words made Kagome smile and hug him. "You are welcome." She mumbled into his ear.
Just then the rug door was lifted and InuYasha and Miroku carried in some strange looking containers. They were transparent and you could even see the water inside the vessel, but it didn't leek out. The bigger hanyou approached the group and held one of the water vessels to his younger version. "Here take the bottle."
The boy obeyed. This 'bottle' felt strange. The material was smooth, yet firm you could bend and squeeze it, but it didn't brake. And you could see how much water was left while drinking.
When he had finished he gave the vessel back to InuYasha and looked into his lap shyly. "What are you going to do with me?"
"We will keep you, unless you don't want to stay with us." Answered the monk and let himself drop next to the exterminator who saddled away a bit.
"I don't have anywhere else to go." He replied sadly. After a moment he looked up to his older self. "But when I stay, I won't become you one day. I mean since you and I are the same."
"I know, I kinda had the same idea, but Kagome has her own theory about this." InuYasha's eyes fell upon the miko and all the others followed his example.
"Em, Inu-chan, how shall I explain this. It's like you are InuYasha and at the same time you are not."
"Huh?!"
"Explain that with the different demanshons, wench."
"Dimensions. Image this: Every time you make a decision the 'road' of your existence splits up to a fork, separated by invisible walls. On every fork-road you live your life, it's like you have also split up or copied yourself – with the only difference being your decision. For example you decided 'yes' on something and on the other fork-road you decided 'no'. Image that in InuYasha's past he wasn't hit by that lightning and stayed in his time. So he was on the one fork-road. But when Inu-chan got hit by the thunder, then the road split up and Inu-chan was on the other fork-road that also brought him more than sixty years into his future."
"I slowly get what Kagome-sama tries to explain."
But Shippou contradicted Miroku shaking his little head. "I totally didn't understand."
"No wonder, kid. Go play with your sweets."
Shippou was jumping up and down angrily. "Don't pretend that you understood everything, InuYasha!"
"Wha-" The big hanyou was interrupted by himself.
"You mean that there is the possibility that on one of these fork-roads my oka-san is still alive?" Inu-chan looked deep into the nice girl's warm eyes.
She thought a second. "Yeah. You really got it." She smiled happy, but this faded abruptly as soon as she saw tears well up in his golden orbs. The miko hugged him and stroked his back.
InuYasha watched the breakable little boy that was once him. He remember how lost he felt when his mother had died. Then he had lost his only place in to world. This wasn't true anymore. Not his only – he had before that village in which Kikyo and her sister lived and which he still calls 'home'. And now he had his friends and this wonderful girl, Kagome, that made his heart melt. He felt compassion with this boy, him. He touched the boy's head and ruffled his hair. "C'mon, kid. It's lunchtime soon and we still don't have any fishes. Will you help, me to catch some?"
The boy looked up from Kagome's shoulder, his eyes teary and red. He slowly nodded, but after a moment panic came back into his features. "The river belongs to the villagers. We aren't allowed to fish there."
"Nani. Who told you that crap."
"The villagers. They caught me once near the river and forbid me to fish in their river ever again."
"The river belongs to no one. Everybody can fish in it. "
"But I'm not so good at hunting."
"It isn't like I wouldn't remember. I'll teach you." InuYasha took the boy in his arms and put him down next to him. He began to walk out and the child followed. Before he reached the door he turned to the other little boy. "Shippou, come. It's time you learn to hunt for yourself. You aren't a baby any more."
The kitsune jumped smiling to his feet and ran outside in front of the two half-demons.
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