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A/N- This is the deal people; I need a beta-reader, bad. As you've noticed I have horrible grammar, so if you excel in this subject and wish to be my beta-reader e-mail me or give me your e-mail address. If you do become my beta-reader you will receive every chapter before it comes out on Revised- partially- October 12, 2004.
Nya-chan
It Can't Be So
Chapter 4- Tied Together-
Kagome crept silently up the stairs of the old house she now called home. She smiled down at the small youkai kitsune, stroking his red fur lovingly. Shippou and her had grown quite close to each other. Usually when his mother would lave on long trips, she would take care of him. Kagome couldn't help but think of that man in the mall, though. As many times as she had been there in the past few months, she had never seen him.
Who was he? More so, what was he? She opened the door to her small bedroom, padding quietly over to her bed. She pulled the overly large jade green comforter back and placed Shippou on the soft bed. She pulled the covers up to his chin and smiled, maternal love gleaming in her eyes as she gazed down at the small boy.
She shook her head, turning and walking back out of the room. She quietly walked down the stairs, hoping to find some sort of peace outside the house. Her head hurt from thinking entirely way too much. She rubbed her head with a hand, opening the screen door to walk outside.
She looked up once she was outside in the cool evening air. The smell of forest pine and the scent of rain wafted to her nose. She smiled and closed her eyes, taking a big whiff of the comforting smell. Her headache diminished slightly.
She glanced around the dark field, a gleam of silver catching her eye. There, sitting in the lone tree that occupied the field, was Inuyasha. The moon gave him an earth real glow as she approached him.
She leaned against the tree trunk, looking up into the long boughs of the tree.
"Well, I never expected to see you here in the middle of the night, sitting in the tree none the less," she stated, raising her brows at him.
He glared down at her, growling in warning.
"Aw, what did I do Inu-chan?"
"First of all, never call me Inu-chan, it makes me feel like some demented pet, second of all you didn't do anything, I just like sitting in this tree, got a problem with it?"
"Nope not at all...but you have to let me come sit up there with you if you don't want me to call the police," she said, grinning up at him.
He glanced down, eyes narrowed, "You wouldn't dare."
"Oh yes I would," she said, gripping a tree branch, "so you can't knock me off or you'll be dead dog doo."
She clambered up the tree and settled on a branch near his.
"So, Inuyasha, what's up? You sound like you're actually thinking, and that scares me slightly," she said, grinning at him from her branch.
"Humph, shut up wench!"
Kagome rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, Inuyasha, it's perfectly normal to come out here in the middle of the night and sit in a tree, totally."
He sighed turning his head slightly to glare at her.
"I'm not gonna get any peace until I tell you, am I?"
"Nope, no peace at all, and I'll make sure of that."
He sighed again, gazing at the moon.
"Well I was thinking of what you said the other day..."
Kagome raised her brows, turning and dangling her feet off the tree branch to face him fully.
"When you said you didn't want me to get hurt..."
Kagome blushed again at the memory that one had slipped.
"Eh?"
"Well...I was wondering if you meant it..."
Kagome smiled at his blush, saying merrily, "Of course I meant it Inuyasha!"
Inuyasha looked startled and was about to question her more when she dropped out of the tree, walking silently towards her home.
She glanced behind her and saw he was standing on the branch ready to leap off and follow her.
She called behind her,
"Oh, shut up and SIT down Inuyasha before you kill yourself!"
Miraculously, he tripped on a small pommel in the tree and fell to his butt.
...
Kagome smiled as she walked into the house, walking up to her room and lying down next to Shippou. Shippou cuddled into her side, giving a content sigh.
Kagome frowned; she hadn't succeeded in clearing her head...only making it more jumbled.
Oh well. Maybe some shut-eye would do it.
....
Inuyasha unlatched the window to her bedroom quietly, jumping in gracefully and silently. He went to Kagome's bedside and gazed down at her face for a few minutes.
(WARNING- OOCness! And strange IY moment!)
He craned his neck down and kissed her forehead slightly, his long mane falling over his shoulder. Kagome smiled in her sleep, reaching a hand out to him. Inuyasha backed up and turned back to the window, muttering about turning soft.
...Morning...
Kagome blinked sleepily, grinning hysterically.
"I just had the best sleep I've ever had!" she murmured as she stretched,
Shippou gave a whimper off protest as she got off the bed, scratching around for his human pillow.
Kagome smiled down upon him before turning and walking down to the kitchen.
Suddenly her face turned beet-red.
'I dreamed Inuyasha kissed me... BAD Kagome BAD!' she thought, shaking her head as if to rid her thoughts of the arrogant, selfish, rude, inconsiderate, protective, gorgeous...
"Ah! Stop it Kags!"
She was snapped out of her thoughts as the doorbell rang. Kaede was already waddling to the door when she stopped in front of it, unlatching the door.
A strange sense of foreboding washed over her as she opened the door slowly, her eyes widening at the person who happened to land on their front door-step.
"U-um... H-h-hello M-m-mister, can I-I help you?"
There, smirking that evil smirk was the man from the mall.
"I came to introduce myself, I am your new neighbor, Ishomai, Naraku." He stated, sticking his hand out.
Kaede came up behind her, "Nice meeting you, we are the Higurashi's, but alas we must go," she said waving before shutting the door.
"That man has an evil aura around him, Kagome, do not go anywhere near him," Kaede said seriously, locking the door.
Kagome nodded, "I felt it too."
Kaede raised her brows," Only miko's are able to sense a persons aura, have you been training to become one?"
"Um...no..." she said, bringing a finger to her chin.
"Hm..." Kaede said as she wobbled to the kitchen.
'That man...there's something about him...' she thought whilst walking to the now waking Shippou.
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