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Before I start the next chapter, I've something to say to all who read my stories: I may not update as often as everyone would like, but I have a busy life, and I write fanfiction for my pleasure and to hone my writing skills. I'll update when I can, but it may be awhile, and I am sorry. For those who find me not updating on a weekly basis, well, they don't have to read the story now do they? To everyone who understands....thanks. A lot.
Last time: -The miko will become a hanyou to save her life--And you must become a human- "You cannot best me now little brother.""Look at me! I'm a weak human! I can't fight off youkai in this body!""I am not blind Inuyasha." "Because......I love you Kagome."
Chapter 3: Second Chances
"W...what?" Kagome gasped.
"I....love you Kagome." Inuyasha repeated, he looked at Kagome, who was more than lost for words.
"I....I..." Kagome stuttered.
"That's why I traded my youkai blood for your life. I didn't want to lose you." Inuyasha said. "I couldn't express my feelings before....for some reason....but....I'm sorry I hurt you so many times....you know....with...Kikyo...." The once hanyou turned away from Kagome, just a bit scared on what she would say.
"Inu..Inuyasha...I...I'm not sure....what to say....but...." Kagome really didn't know what to say, never before had this happened to her. She wasn't sure what to do.
"Kagome....I hope you can forgive me for all the foolish things I've done in the past. Because I don't want to lose you again." Inuyasha said.
Suddenly Kagome tackled him to the ground and hugged him.
"Oh Inuyasha! Of course I can forgive you! And....I love you too." Kagome said, hugging her friend again. Inuyasha blinked, trying to clear the little red spots in front of his eyes. But once the little red spots were gone the once hanyou Inuyasha hugged Kagome back.
"Thank you Kagome." Inuyasha said.
"Does this mean there's another hanyou in the family?" Sesshoumaru asked, sighing. Kagome blushed while Inuyasha rolled his eyes. They had come back from the river holding hands and Sesshoumaru was the first one to greet them.
"Shove it Sesshoumaru." Inuyasha growled, Kagome giggled at Inuyasha's new growl and even Sesshoumaru smirked.
"Your new growl is less than threanting now little brother." Sesshoumaru commented.
"Kagome-chan!" Suddenly Sango and Miroku ran up to their friend.
"It is good to see that you are well." Miroku said, bringing the miko into an embrace. Inuyasha growled when his hand wandered too far, and Kagome and Sango quickly took care of the monk, beating him to the ground with many large and painful looking lumps on his head.
"Kagome-chan, are you alright?" Sango asked, giving her friend a hug.
"I'm fine Sango-chan, don't worry." Kagome said.
"Mama!" Suddenly Kagome was attacked by a little fox kit, who happily buried himself within the female hanyou's hair.
"Shippou-chan. Where are you Shippou-chan?" A little girl said, coming out from the bushes. Rin looked around and then spotted the young fox hiding in Kagome's hair.
"Rin, find Ah-Un, we leave." Sesshoumaru said. Rin looked crestfallen but nodded and went in search of the two-headed dragon...thing.
"Aw, but Mama, I wanna play with Rin-chan some more." Shippou said, also crestfallen.
"Let the pups play." Inuyasha said, looking at his older brother. Sesshoumaru glared.
"As much as I loved your company Inuyasha," Sesshoumaru said sracastily, "I have rid my villages of stray youkai." The Taiyoukai finished, glaring at his now human brother.
Shippou and Rin said good-bye, and then the Taiyoukai and the girl flew off, Rin on Ah-Un, and Sesshoumaru flying on his cloud...thing.
"I'm hungry." Inuyasha complained, Shippou nodded in agreement.
"Alright, I'll find us some food, there's a river nearby so I could-" Kagome was interrupted by Sango and Miroku.
"Nonscense Kagome-chan, you should be resting. Miroku and I can catch some fish...isn't that right?" Sango said, elbowing the monk, who nodded.
"Are you sure it's alright to send them off alone?" Kagome asked, watching Sango and Miroku crash through the woods in search of the river.
"Sango can take care of herself." Inuyasha said, the world seemed so dull to him now; his eyes weren't as good, his hearing was feble, along with his nose. However, Kagome's world seemed bright and colorful now; her eyes were now seeing colors that were dull as a human, and her ears could pick up the sound of Sango slapping Miroku far away. Plus her nose was as good as a bloodhound's.
"I can't wait to show Mom and Grandpa and Souta." Kagome said, smiling and showing off little fangs. While they were talking, Kagome started a fire to cook whatever Sango and Miroku brought back.
"Do you think they'll take it well?" Inuyasha asked.
"I'm sure they will, but Grandpa might try to banish me." Kagome replied, giggling at her Grandpa's antics and his fake youkai-banishing spells. Inuyasha smiled and looked at Kagome, then suddenly tackled her to the ground.
"My Kagome." Inuyasha purred, hugged the giggling miko.
"You guys are squishing me!" Shippou squealed, the fox kit had been sandwhiched between Kagome and Inuyasha.
"Sorry Shippou." Kagome said when Inuyasha finally stopped his hugging. Shippou launched his counter-attack at Inuyasha by jumping on the once hanyou's head and chewing on his hair.
"Kagome-chan! We caught some fish." Sango and Miroku came back, carrying eight fish on string. Kagome noticed that Miroku had a couple red hand-prints on his face where Sango slapped him.
"Finally." Inuyasha said, grabbing a fish and impaling it on a stick, then putting the stick by the fire to cook the fish.
"Inuyasha, I have a question for you." Miroku stated, then continued, "Now that you're human, you cannot use Tetsusiga, how do you plan on keeping Kagome-sama safe?"
"I...I guess I hadn't thought about that." Inuyasha answered, looking at the sword tied to his waist.
"Well, I guess I could learn to use Tetsusiga." Kagome said, interrupting the silence that had fallen over the fire. There was another uncomfortable moment of silence, then Inuyasha started laughing.
"What's so funny Inuyasha?" Kagome growled.
"Nothing, nothing, just the thought of you yelling 'Kaze no Kizu' was amusing." Inuyasha said, still snickering. All the others, including Kagome, giggled at the thought as well.
"But I think Kagome-chan should learn how to use Tetsusiga." Sango said once everyone had settled down, Miroku and Shippou nodded in agreement with Sango. Inuyasha didn't seem to keen on the idea however.
After much talking and debating, Inuyasha finally gave in to everyone else and would try and teach Kagome how to use Tetsusiga the next day.
The next dawn brought a new morning and new hopes for the group. Inuyasha was up first, then Sango and Miroku, all three of them started cooking breakfast while Shippou and Kagome continued sleeping peacefully.
"Inuyasha, are you worried?" Miroku asked the once hanyou.
"About what monk?" Inuyasha countered, trying to start a fire with this 'lighter' Kagome brought from her time.
"There are a lot of youkai that would love to harm you or Kagome-sama, you can't use Tetsusiga, and Kagome-sama can only use her bow." Miroku said, Inuyasha sighed, the had thought about these things late into the night.
"Well, hopefully we won't meet up with anything to deadly." Inuyasha answered. Meanwhile, Kagome's ear twitched towards the now human Inuyasha and the worry in his voice. She decided to train extra hard with Tetsusiga, so that if they did meet up with something really bad, she could at least try and defend them.
"Come on Inuyasha, let's go see what my mom thinks of my new look." Kagome said, almost dragging Inuyasha to the well.
"Hold up Kagome, something's not right." Kagome instantly stopped and looked at her friend.
"What do you mean Inuyasha?"
"Use your nose."
Before Kagome could even try to sort out all the smells that were coming her way, something orange and white latched onto Kagome's leg.
"Kagome-chan! Sesshoumaru-sama said that we had to leave but Rin left so Rin could play with Shippou-chan!" Kagome looked down at Rin, who was un-attaching herself from the female hanyou's leg and tagging Shippou.
"Rin! Where are you? You stupid human girl, where are you?" From the same bush that Rin had popped out of came Jaken.
"Jaken-sama! Rin didn't want to leave, Rin wants to play with Shippou-chan." The seven year old whined, looking at Jaken once and then chasing Shippou around again.
"I don't care what you want Rin, Sesshoumaru-sama said we have to leave. I don't see why Sesshoumaru-sama keeps you around anyway you stupid little girl-" Jaken was cut short by a well aimed rock to his thick head.
Sesshoumaru walked out, Ah-Un following the Taiyoukai, another rock was ready in Sesshoumaru's hand, just in case Jaken said something else stupid. Looking around, Sesshoumaru found quite an odd scene before him.
Rin and Shippou where playing tag while Jaken was twitching on the ground, Sango and Miroku were cleaning up breakfast, at ease with Rin running around them. Kagome was just about to jump into that old well, still dragging Inuyasha behind.
"Sess-Sesshoumaru? What are you doing here?" Inuyasha growled, his brother smirked at his less than normal growl.
"Trying to keep Rin out of trouble, however, it seems there is no danger." The Taiyoukai replied, watching Rin and Shippou run around his feet.
"Good, then you can go." Inuyasha growled, hand on Tetsusiga.
"Why little brother, you don't enjoy my company?" Sesshoumaru asked, smirking.
"You two can fight, I'm going home to get some supples." Kagome said, watching the two brother argue. She jumped over the edge of the well and instead of the blue colored magic that took her home-
Kagome landed with a THUMP! at the bottom of the well. She could also hear the voices of the still arguing brothers. 'What's going on, why can't I get through?' Kagome thought, looking around. She jumped up and down, trying to get the well to work, but to no luck.
'I can't get back? Why can't I get back? What's wrong with the well?' Kagome asked herself. Slowly, and sadly, she climbed out of the well with a tear in her eye. When she finally pulled herself from the well, she was met by Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru fighting.
"Sesshoumaru, you bastard." Inuyasha growled, Sesshoumaru was holding him back by placing his one hand on Inuyasha's forehead. Inuyasha was trying to claw at the arm that held him back with his human finger nails, which, wasn't do very much to harm the Taiyoukai.
"Come on little brother, it's all to easy to beat you. Your miko would be more of a challenge." Sesshoumaru said, fueling Inuyasha's temper. But then the human Inuyasha saw Kagome pull herself from the well and even from where he stood, Inuyasha could see something was wrong.
"Kagome....what...what's the matter?" Inuyasha asked, instantly forgetting about his older brother and rushing to Kagome's side.
"I...I can't get back! The well....it stopped working!" Kagome cried out, then the tears started flowing and Kagome wept on Inuyasha's fire rat coat, not caring who saw.
"It's alright Kagome....we'll find someway...don't worry." Inuyasha said, trying to comfort her, he was all new at this, and unsure of what to do.
End Chapter
WD: Yay! Another chapter done. Yay! The plot's moving along!
Reviews
Hitomi Fanel: I know, isn't it though? Hopefully there will be some more fluff when I get around to typing it up.
InuChessieChan: Sorry, Inu's a human now. But for the other questions, well, you'll just have to wait and see.
NefCanuck: I'll try to continue it, but my favorite pairing isn't InuxKag, I like SessxKag a lot more. But I'll try.
Mystic Hanyou: Yay! Glad you enjoyed it.
