bTitle/b: "Claws".br
b Author /b: The Chibi Hime. br
b Author's notes: /b Yet another of my "beautiful" works, go ahead, awe in my glory! Muwhahaha! For you have seen the longest of my chapters yet! Cower. Cower I say, cower and read!!! *ahem* please?^_^'' br
b Disclaimer /b: I do not own InuYasha Kagome or any of the charactors having anything to do with InuYasha, BUT if Rumiko stops by, I have no idea where InuYasha "Disappeared" off to. br
b Chapter six /bbr
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pKagome sat on her knees in the same spot she was before, in all the excitement, she had nearly forgotten about her wounds all together. She listened as InuYasha sat acrossed from her, trying to explain to them what happened.
p"It was like som,ething came over me.." He said almost in a whisper, as if he were unsure of himself.
Miroku glanced from the cross legged Hanyou to Tetsusaiga on the floor next to him, and back again quickly. InuYasha knew what he was going to say.
p"I Know...how did I transform?" He shifted uncomfortably " I had Tetsusaiga with me..at least I think."
pKagome looked away, deep in thought.
pi'Had he had Tetsusaiga?'/i She pondered I'There wouldn't be any other reasonable explanation.'/i
pTry as she might, however, she couldn't remember if he had it with him. After all, it wasn't exactly what she was concentrating on at the time.
Sango sat peacefully next to Kagome, Listening politely and stroking the tiny Kirara's back.
InuYasha looked up suddenly, curiosity shining in his eyes.
p"hmm?" Kagome focused back on InuYasha "What's that matter, InuYasha?"
p"Youkai" He stood up and scanned the area carefully through the doorway.
pSango stood up, startling the sleeping Kirara.
"How many are there do you suppose?"
p" Just one " He replied, placing his right hand on the hilt of Tetsusaiga.
pKagome looked around.
' Funny..I don't see anything' Kagome stretched to see past InuYasha, but his figure blocked the door and any hope of looking outside to see anything useful. At Last InuYasha moved, but it was toward something, something that sent a shiver down her spine.
p"What Is that?" Kagome gasped. It was extremely tall and worm-like. Its head-well..what she thought was its head was jet black, while the rest of it was dark purple, except the very end of it, which looked exactly like the front.
Kagome screamed.
p"InuYasha! Look out!!"
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pInuYasha stood in the doorway of Kaede's hut, staring out at the large Youkai. It didn't seem to be up to anything until it charged with little warning.
p"I'll teach it to challenge ME!" He growled under his breath, and drew his sword. When Tetsusaiga fully transformed, and without another thought, InuYasha shot towards the youkai, Sword raised. The large worm-like youkai opened up its mouth, revealing thousands of tiny sharp teeth, it intended to eat him! Or so he thought, little did he know that behind him also shot another mouth of razor blades, the first was only a distraction.
pInuYasha heard Kagome scream and turned his head sharply to see what was the matter. He saw the mouth but before he had time to react, he was smashed into from the back, sending him flying forwards, and landing hard on his stomach.
The hanyou lifted himself onto his knees and carefully inspected the great monster from afar. One of the mouths was an illusion, but unless he figured out which one and had some way to mark it, there would be no way to tell.
pInuYasha shifted his eyes towards the hut where he saw Miroku start to remove the prayer beads wrapped tightly around his right hand, revealing the wind tunnell. However, before he had time to use it, he quickly withdrew his arm and fastened the beads back to their previous spot.
p'Huh?' InuYasha strained his eyes, he saw it now. Behind the Youkai were poison Insects. 'So Naraku is responsible for this.'
pInuYasha shot up from his spot on the ground, Tetsusaiga raised.
p"Guess I'll just have to do it myself!!" InuYasha bounded towards the worm, unsure where to attack, and if its beady little eyes caught him yet. It really was a rather unpredictable creature.
p"InuYasha!" Kagome cried out to him " Be careful, he has two jewel shards!" she paused for a moment. "One is on his...well there is a jewel shard on each of his ends!"
p"Is that so?" He scoffed "Well no amount is going to stop me. And when we are finished here, we will have two more jewel shards!"
pInuYasha looked from right to left. On either side was an end of the creature, the illusion and the deadly mouth which contained the razor sharp teeth. Which? He couldn't tell.
Both Shot towards him at a lightning fast speed. InuYasha shot upwards with all the strength he had in his legs, but was snagged by one of its teeth, splattering the actual head with blood from the wound.
He cried out in pain and landed a little farther away from the creature. His right arm had an extremely deep gash on it, extending from his shoulder , almost to his wrist.
pInuYasha covered it with the sleeve of his haori and glared at Kouga who sat next to Kagome like an Idiot, pretending as if Nothing were happening.
pi'Weak moron'/i InuYasha thought to himself before returning his gaze on the blood thirsty worm.
p"InuYasha!" Kagome called out again. "Do you think you can still fight?"
p"huh? Of course I can still fight!" He called back to her, with a roll of his eyes.
p"Then stop gloating and LOOK!" She growled back, agitated. " You can tell which one is its head now!"
pInuYasha looked to where Kagome pointed. She was right, his blood marked its real face.
He nodded and with the remaining strength in his right arm, raised Tetsusaiga.
p"Say your Prayers!" InuYasha growled and grasped the hilt with his left hand. "It's all over now."
pWith tremendous speed, InuYasha shot towards the beast, a cocky grin on his face and Tetsusaiga raised high above his head. With one swift swing, he slit the monster down the middle, starting at it's forhead. With a loud eerie, pig-like squeal, the beast fell to the ground, now in two halves. Within seconds, the beast's flesh disappeared, revealing the fallen Jewel shards and its bones.
he landed lightly on the ground next to the rubble of the fallen youkai, and quickly snatched up the two Jewel shards.There was a huge gasp from the hut and when he turned his head to see where the sound had come from, he saw Kagome limping hurriedly toward him.
p"Kagome?" He asked, raising both eyebrows in surprise "What do you think your doing? Your not even supposed to be standing!" He rushed over to her to save her the walk and let her climb onto his back.
p"You really are dumb sometimes Kagome, Your going to make it worse." He told her flatly and began to walk as swiftly and as gently as possible back to Kaede's hut.
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pKagome sat in the hut watching, fear filling her from head to toe. She watched As InuYasha Glared coldly at Kouga before returning his gaze to the disgusting worm creature. She looked at his deeply wounded arm with concern.
pi'It must really hurt'/i she thought to herself with a small grimace. Just then, a thought came to mind. After all, it was a rather large wound, and maybe it would prevent him from being able to defeat the youkai! Also, the dark red blood that gushed from his wound was now on the worm's face! iOf course/i!
p"InuYasha!" Kagome called out "Do you think you can still fight?"
p"huh? Of course I can still fight!" He shouted back with what looked like a roll of his golden eyes.
p"Well than stop gloating and LOOK!" She growled back, agitated. "You can tell which one is the head now!" she pointed towards the beast's head and watched as InuYasha followed her finger, a light bulb seeming to go off in his head as he nodded quickly back at her.
pShe watched as he lifted the Tetsusaiga in the air with his right hand.
p"Say your prayers!" InuYasha growled. Kagome watched as he gripped the hilt of Tetsusaiga with his left hand as he said this.
p"It's all over now!" He charged the beast, the same cocky i"I'm better than you, so praise me"/i Look on his face that Kagome had recognized, with one swift swing, Tetsusaiga sliced through the flesh of the beast until it was nothing but two halves, soon just bones as the skin quickly disappeared.
pKagome saw the glow of the jewel shards and watched as InuYasha snatched them up. She sighed heavily with relief, before she had realized InuYasha's wounds, which sent an unexpected and unintentional gasp from her lips. Kagome startled herself and looked around quickly, realizing it was her, she waved it off. she quickly brought herself to her feet to the best of her ability, which proved extremely painful. As fast as she could manage, she limped towards the hanyou, trying to ignore the pain.
p"Kagome?" He asked, raising both eyebrows in surprise "What do you think you are doing?" He rushed over to her and let her climb onto his back, which came as quite the relief to Kagome.
p"You really are dumb sometimes Kagome, You're going to make it worse" He said flatly.
pKagome was currently concentrating on trying not to eat InuYasha's hair that was brushing gently against her cheeks and threatening to fly into her mouth at any moment. The silver strands got so annoying, Kagome had to let go of one of InuYasha's shoulders and risk falling off to cover her face, at the same time trying not to touch InuYasha's cut. This, however, made it quite difficult for herself, as well as InuYasha.
p"Kagome, InuYasha are you alright?" Miroku and Sango chorused together.
p"Yes..I'm fine" Kagome replied "But InuYasha is hurt".
pi'what else is new?/i' Kagome thought silently to herself. i'He always manages to get hurt'/i
p"Kagome!" A much deeper, older woman's voice came from afar. It was Kaede. Kagome had begun to wonder where she had gotten off to. "What has happened here?" She began to ask, but didn't quite finish the sentence when seeing InuYasha. Apparently, from Miroku's story the night before, she hadn't expected to see him there.
p"Kaede-baba" InuYasha sighed "There you are. You'd think you would be here, you live here don't you? What the hell were you doing?"
p"Calm yourself, InuYasha" Kaede said calmly "I'm high priestess here, I have things to do, and you know that"
Kaede turned to Miroku, her arms full of various herbs and plants from the forest. "Now, can you tell me what happened here?"
p" There was a Youkai attack, Kaede-sama" Miroku replied politely " There were poison insects, meaning Naraku had something to do with it."
p"Which also means he is brewing something up wherever he is" Sango added "We'd better leave the village as soon as Kagome is well. We don't want to endanger the villagers anymore than we already have"
pKaede nodded, showing that she understood. She looked at InuYasha, from the tips of his fingers on his right hand all the way up his arm. The wound had stopped bleeding some, but his sleeve was still wet and caked with dried blood.
p"We had better treat that" Kagome said timidly, Climbing off InuYasha's back reluctantly. She looked around the hut eagerly for her backpack, and within moments of spotting it, she had returned with the same large medical box she had forced upon him before. InuYasha recognized it. Kagome withdrew a long string of white cloth from the box, and looked at InuYasha. He knew why. After all, it happened often enough that it seemed to be quite the routine. With the familiar roll of his eyes, InuYasha removed both of his shirts and allowed Kagome to try and wipe the dirt from his wound, wincing all the while.
p"There is so much dirt" Kagome sighed "Are you sure you didn't roll around in the mud before you came back, like a bad puppy." Kagome laughed at her own remark and InuYasha's dog ears twitched like mad in his growing anger.
p"Puppy?" InuYasha growled.
p"Oh, have a sense of Humor" Kagome said, agitatedly.
pInuYasha's frown deepened. " Your the one with the humor Problem" He sneered "Besides, I wouldn't of had time even if I had wanted to"
pKagome's anger started to rise slowly.
p"InuYasha, InuYasha come help me walk because I'm impaired!" He mocked
p"WHY YOU!" her voice began to rise "WELL, Excuse me for caring!"
p"Caring?" He scoffed "So is THAT what you call it?"
pInuYasha cried out in pain, catching everyone's attention who hadn't already been watching the heated argument. Kagome hadn't been paying attention, and in her anger had pulled the bandage far to tight. She quickly released it, letting it loosen and the normal color return to InuYahsha's arm.
p"Serves you right anyhow" she mumbled.
pInuYasha glared at her. How silly of her to think that he wouldn't hear her. After a moment or two, she decided that it was better that way, he DID deserve it after all.
pi'What a Jerk'/i She thought to herself angrily amongst other heated ramblings. i'but then again...'/i
pKagome quickly tied a bow at the end of the bandage, making sure it was just tight enough to prevent anymore damage to InuYasha's wound.
p"Thanks" He said quietly, even though it didn't sound much like he was very thankful at all.
pi'He can be sweet...'/i
p"Maybe next time you'll pay attention to what your doing." He added.
pi'WHEN HE'S ASLEEP!!'/i
pKagome turned around coldly, her back facing InuYasha In fear she may hit him or sit him...of course..sitting him wouldn't be such a bad idea...
pKagome turned her head slowly to see InuYasha to find that he was staring straight at her.
p"What do you want?" He asked " Another ride?"
pKagome shot up from the ground, fists clenched.
p"OUSWARI!!" She screamed.
pInuYasha shot face first into the dirt floor, eating quite his share of mud and stones..alot more than he probobly would have preferred.
While InuYasha still lay Face first in the dirt, Kagome stormed out of the hut. She waited until she was a good distance away, before sitting herself back down underneath a large tree. The long slender branches provided much cool shade, although the sun was beginning to set, and it wasn't much needed, Kagome didn't care.
pi' He is acting worse today'/i she thought, trying to calm herself by changing the subject slightly. i'There must be something bugging him..'/I
pi'You mean something more than usual?'/i The other voice in her head joined in. i'He is always so rude'./i
pKagome nodded to herself and continued in deep conversation with herself, nodding every now and again when she came in agreeance with herself, and shaking her head violently when she thought something that did not please her. If someone else were watching, she would look pretty crazy.
pAfter what seemed like a half an hour, the area around her was pitch black, and night had long since begun. Kagome decided that she would finally go back to the hut, since she had finally calmed down. When she looked towards the hut, she noticed that there was no light from a fire nor any movement from within. Slowly, Kagome stood up, still trying to see if there was anyone in the hut at all. It was hard for her to believe that they had all fallen alseep already. Cautiously, she crept towards the hut. The only noise that could be heard in the dark forest was the soft crunch every now and then as Kagome stepped on a twig lying in the shadows.
Kagome had finally arrived at the motionless hut after what seemed like an hour and slowly peeked inside. The hut was empty, and not even Kaede sat within. she started to panic slowly, her breathing became more rapid.
p"They left me" She said quietly, almost in tears. "They left me, without even one arrow for my protection!"
pShe whipped around to look at the eerie forest behind her. In her panic, she began to run as fast as her legs could take her, she noticed something warm touching her skin below her neck, but she was far too scared to look. She had run for quite some time but as she was ready to turn sharply around another tree she found herself face first on the ground. She had tripped over her own pants. Kagome had already gotten up and began to run again before realizing that this was very odd, since she wasn't wearing pants. It took her a few moments to think about it before slowing down and stopping completely in the middle of a clearing. Slowly, she looked down. She recognized her outfit. It was the very outfit that Kikyou, had worn. She remembered how strange it felt to wear such clothing when she had worn it once before, back when InuYasha was very unfriendly towards her.
pSlowly, she took a step forward, and then another until she was going at a rather steady pace. From behind, she heard the faint patting of feet coming, they were moving too fast to be human. Before she could turn she felt a sharp pain in her right shoulder. When she looked down in horror she saw blood, and tons of it. She could feel it, the warm ooze dripping down and trickling off her long once white but now bloodstained sleeves. She no longer felt the small warmth below her neck and her wound made her extremely dizzy, making her fall to the ground. She looked up, hopefully for help. What she saw sent a gasp straight from her lips. It was InuYasha, he had the Shikon no tama, and it was full! She couldn't believe it, the warmth must have been the jewel! Now that they had it, InuYasha was going to leave her there and let her die!! The pain blocked his words , but she saw him trot off. She shot up from the ground, her anger the only thing allowing her to do so. She pulled an arrow (That was not there before) out and picked up her fallen bow on the ground, before racing towards the hanyou. When she finally at caught up with him, she stood her distance. Within a few moments, she had notched her arrow, taken careful aim and shot it. She never got to see if it hit or not, by then, she had awoken.
pKagome frantically looked around her, it was dark but she still felt the familiar warmth on her neck. She looked down, fearing it would be the jewel and found that it had been InuYasha's nose! She giggled nervously at the thought. InuYasha had apparently felt sorry and came out to see if she were alright. He must have found her asleep and sat next to her, soon falling asleep himself. It looked as if he had tipped over in his sleep and he was now practically in her lap which made her feel a bit uncomfortable, but he was so peaceful looking she didn't want to disturb him. So, instead she sat there for hours, thinking about her dream. It was a strange one.
PI'Was I remembering the incident from Kikyou's life?'/i she asked herself i' or is it my worries shining through that InuYasha will betray me..no..us...if we get the jewel back together again..to become..a full blooded Youkai'/i
pi'Perhaps it is both'/i She decided, before staring transfixedly at the moon in the mid night sky.i ' It doesn't matter'/I
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b Now, wasn't that great? I told you, didn't I? Despite all the reading, it was worth it..now don't forget to cower on your way out!br
For those who do not know, I figure I would clear this up for you. In the sentence where InuYasha refers to Kaede as as "Kaede-baba", i Baba /i is pretty much the equivalent to "Old hag", Which is what he often refers to her as, in the Japanese episodes in the Anime/b
b Author /b: The Chibi Hime. br
b Author's notes: /b Yet another of my "beautiful" works, go ahead, awe in my glory! Muwhahaha! For you have seen the longest of my chapters yet! Cower. Cower I say, cower and read!!! *ahem* please?^_^'' br
b Disclaimer /b: I do not own InuYasha Kagome or any of the charactors having anything to do with InuYasha, BUT if Rumiko stops by, I have no idea where InuYasha "Disappeared" off to. br
b Chapter six /bbr
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pKagome sat on her knees in the same spot she was before, in all the excitement, she had nearly forgotten about her wounds all together. She listened as InuYasha sat acrossed from her, trying to explain to them what happened.
p"It was like som,ething came over me.." He said almost in a whisper, as if he were unsure of himself.
Miroku glanced from the cross legged Hanyou to Tetsusaiga on the floor next to him, and back again quickly. InuYasha knew what he was going to say.
p"I Know...how did I transform?" He shifted uncomfortably " I had Tetsusaiga with me..at least I think."
pKagome looked away, deep in thought.
pi'Had he had Tetsusaiga?'/i She pondered I'There wouldn't be any other reasonable explanation.'/i
pTry as she might, however, she couldn't remember if he had it with him. After all, it wasn't exactly what she was concentrating on at the time.
Sango sat peacefully next to Kagome, Listening politely and stroking the tiny Kirara's back.
InuYasha looked up suddenly, curiosity shining in his eyes.
p"hmm?" Kagome focused back on InuYasha "What's that matter, InuYasha?"
p"Youkai" He stood up and scanned the area carefully through the doorway.
pSango stood up, startling the sleeping Kirara.
"How many are there do you suppose?"
p" Just one " He replied, placing his right hand on the hilt of Tetsusaiga.
pKagome looked around.
' Funny..I don't see anything' Kagome stretched to see past InuYasha, but his figure blocked the door and any hope of looking outside to see anything useful. At Last InuYasha moved, but it was toward something, something that sent a shiver down her spine.
p"What Is that?" Kagome gasped. It was extremely tall and worm-like. Its head-well..what she thought was its head was jet black, while the rest of it was dark purple, except the very end of it, which looked exactly like the front.
Kagome screamed.
p"InuYasha! Look out!!"
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pInuYasha stood in the doorway of Kaede's hut, staring out at the large Youkai. It didn't seem to be up to anything until it charged with little warning.
p"I'll teach it to challenge ME!" He growled under his breath, and drew his sword. When Tetsusaiga fully transformed, and without another thought, InuYasha shot towards the youkai, Sword raised. The large worm-like youkai opened up its mouth, revealing thousands of tiny sharp teeth, it intended to eat him! Or so he thought, little did he know that behind him also shot another mouth of razor blades, the first was only a distraction.
pInuYasha heard Kagome scream and turned his head sharply to see what was the matter. He saw the mouth but before he had time to react, he was smashed into from the back, sending him flying forwards, and landing hard on his stomach.
The hanyou lifted himself onto his knees and carefully inspected the great monster from afar. One of the mouths was an illusion, but unless he figured out which one and had some way to mark it, there would be no way to tell.
pInuYasha shifted his eyes towards the hut where he saw Miroku start to remove the prayer beads wrapped tightly around his right hand, revealing the wind tunnell. However, before he had time to use it, he quickly withdrew his arm and fastened the beads back to their previous spot.
p'Huh?' InuYasha strained his eyes, he saw it now. Behind the Youkai were poison Insects. 'So Naraku is responsible for this.'
pInuYasha shot up from his spot on the ground, Tetsusaiga raised.
p"Guess I'll just have to do it myself!!" InuYasha bounded towards the worm, unsure where to attack, and if its beady little eyes caught him yet. It really was a rather unpredictable creature.
p"InuYasha!" Kagome cried out to him " Be careful, he has two jewel shards!" she paused for a moment. "One is on his...well there is a jewel shard on each of his ends!"
p"Is that so?" He scoffed "Well no amount is going to stop me. And when we are finished here, we will have two more jewel shards!"
pInuYasha looked from right to left. On either side was an end of the creature, the illusion and the deadly mouth which contained the razor sharp teeth. Which? He couldn't tell.
Both Shot towards him at a lightning fast speed. InuYasha shot upwards with all the strength he had in his legs, but was snagged by one of its teeth, splattering the actual head with blood from the wound.
He cried out in pain and landed a little farther away from the creature. His right arm had an extremely deep gash on it, extending from his shoulder , almost to his wrist.
pInuYasha covered it with the sleeve of his haori and glared at Kouga who sat next to Kagome like an Idiot, pretending as if Nothing were happening.
pi'Weak moron'/i InuYasha thought to himself before returning his gaze on the blood thirsty worm.
p"InuYasha!" Kagome called out again. "Do you think you can still fight?"
p"huh? Of course I can still fight!" He called back to her, with a roll of his eyes.
p"Then stop gloating and LOOK!" She growled back, agitated. " You can tell which one is its head now!"
pInuYasha looked to where Kagome pointed. She was right, his blood marked its real face.
He nodded and with the remaining strength in his right arm, raised Tetsusaiga.
p"Say your Prayers!" InuYasha growled and grasped the hilt with his left hand. "It's all over now."
pWith tremendous speed, InuYasha shot towards the beast, a cocky grin on his face and Tetsusaiga raised high above his head. With one swift swing, he slit the monster down the middle, starting at it's forhead. With a loud eerie, pig-like squeal, the beast fell to the ground, now in two halves. Within seconds, the beast's flesh disappeared, revealing the fallen Jewel shards and its bones.
he landed lightly on the ground next to the rubble of the fallen youkai, and quickly snatched up the two Jewel shards.There was a huge gasp from the hut and when he turned his head to see where the sound had come from, he saw Kagome limping hurriedly toward him.
p"Kagome?" He asked, raising both eyebrows in surprise "What do you think your doing? Your not even supposed to be standing!" He rushed over to her to save her the walk and let her climb onto his back.
p"You really are dumb sometimes Kagome, Your going to make it worse." He told her flatly and began to walk as swiftly and as gently as possible back to Kaede's hut.
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pKagome sat in the hut watching, fear filling her from head to toe. She watched As InuYasha Glared coldly at Kouga before returning his gaze to the disgusting worm creature. She looked at his deeply wounded arm with concern.
pi'It must really hurt'/i she thought to herself with a small grimace. Just then, a thought came to mind. After all, it was a rather large wound, and maybe it would prevent him from being able to defeat the youkai! Also, the dark red blood that gushed from his wound was now on the worm's face! iOf course/i!
p"InuYasha!" Kagome called out "Do you think you can still fight?"
p"huh? Of course I can still fight!" He shouted back with what looked like a roll of his golden eyes.
p"Well than stop gloating and LOOK!" She growled back, agitated. "You can tell which one is the head now!" she pointed towards the beast's head and watched as InuYasha followed her finger, a light bulb seeming to go off in his head as he nodded quickly back at her.
pShe watched as he lifted the Tetsusaiga in the air with his right hand.
p"Say your prayers!" InuYasha growled. Kagome watched as he gripped the hilt of Tetsusaiga with his left hand as he said this.
p"It's all over now!" He charged the beast, the same cocky i"I'm better than you, so praise me"/i Look on his face that Kagome had recognized, with one swift swing, Tetsusaiga sliced through the flesh of the beast until it was nothing but two halves, soon just bones as the skin quickly disappeared.
pKagome saw the glow of the jewel shards and watched as InuYasha snatched them up. She sighed heavily with relief, before she had realized InuYasha's wounds, which sent an unexpected and unintentional gasp from her lips. Kagome startled herself and looked around quickly, realizing it was her, she waved it off. she quickly brought herself to her feet to the best of her ability, which proved extremely painful. As fast as she could manage, she limped towards the hanyou, trying to ignore the pain.
p"Kagome?" He asked, raising both eyebrows in surprise "What do you think you are doing?" He rushed over to her and let her climb onto his back, which came as quite the relief to Kagome.
p"You really are dumb sometimes Kagome, You're going to make it worse" He said flatly.
pKagome was currently concentrating on trying not to eat InuYasha's hair that was brushing gently against her cheeks and threatening to fly into her mouth at any moment. The silver strands got so annoying, Kagome had to let go of one of InuYasha's shoulders and risk falling off to cover her face, at the same time trying not to touch InuYasha's cut. This, however, made it quite difficult for herself, as well as InuYasha.
p"Kagome, InuYasha are you alright?" Miroku and Sango chorused together.
p"Yes..I'm fine" Kagome replied "But InuYasha is hurt".
pi'what else is new?/i' Kagome thought silently to herself. i'He always manages to get hurt'/i
p"Kagome!" A much deeper, older woman's voice came from afar. It was Kaede. Kagome had begun to wonder where she had gotten off to. "What has happened here?" She began to ask, but didn't quite finish the sentence when seeing InuYasha. Apparently, from Miroku's story the night before, she hadn't expected to see him there.
p"Kaede-baba" InuYasha sighed "There you are. You'd think you would be here, you live here don't you? What the hell were you doing?"
p"Calm yourself, InuYasha" Kaede said calmly "I'm high priestess here, I have things to do, and you know that"
Kaede turned to Miroku, her arms full of various herbs and plants from the forest. "Now, can you tell me what happened here?"
p" There was a Youkai attack, Kaede-sama" Miroku replied politely " There were poison insects, meaning Naraku had something to do with it."
p"Which also means he is brewing something up wherever he is" Sango added "We'd better leave the village as soon as Kagome is well. We don't want to endanger the villagers anymore than we already have"
pKaede nodded, showing that she understood. She looked at InuYasha, from the tips of his fingers on his right hand all the way up his arm. The wound had stopped bleeding some, but his sleeve was still wet and caked with dried blood.
p"We had better treat that" Kagome said timidly, Climbing off InuYasha's back reluctantly. She looked around the hut eagerly for her backpack, and within moments of spotting it, she had returned with the same large medical box she had forced upon him before. InuYasha recognized it. Kagome withdrew a long string of white cloth from the box, and looked at InuYasha. He knew why. After all, it happened often enough that it seemed to be quite the routine. With the familiar roll of his eyes, InuYasha removed both of his shirts and allowed Kagome to try and wipe the dirt from his wound, wincing all the while.
p"There is so much dirt" Kagome sighed "Are you sure you didn't roll around in the mud before you came back, like a bad puppy." Kagome laughed at her own remark and InuYasha's dog ears twitched like mad in his growing anger.
p"Puppy?" InuYasha growled.
p"Oh, have a sense of Humor" Kagome said, agitatedly.
pInuYasha's frown deepened. " Your the one with the humor Problem" He sneered "Besides, I wouldn't of had time even if I had wanted to"
pKagome's anger started to rise slowly.
p"InuYasha, InuYasha come help me walk because I'm impaired!" He mocked
p"WHY YOU!" her voice began to rise "WELL, Excuse me for caring!"
p"Caring?" He scoffed "So is THAT what you call it?"
pInuYasha cried out in pain, catching everyone's attention who hadn't already been watching the heated argument. Kagome hadn't been paying attention, and in her anger had pulled the bandage far to tight. She quickly released it, letting it loosen and the normal color return to InuYahsha's arm.
p"Serves you right anyhow" she mumbled.
pInuYasha glared at her. How silly of her to think that he wouldn't hear her. After a moment or two, she decided that it was better that way, he DID deserve it after all.
pi'What a Jerk'/i She thought to herself angrily amongst other heated ramblings. i'but then again...'/i
pKagome quickly tied a bow at the end of the bandage, making sure it was just tight enough to prevent anymore damage to InuYasha's wound.
p"Thanks" He said quietly, even though it didn't sound much like he was very thankful at all.
pi'He can be sweet...'/i
p"Maybe next time you'll pay attention to what your doing." He added.
pi'WHEN HE'S ASLEEP!!'/i
pKagome turned around coldly, her back facing InuYasha In fear she may hit him or sit him...of course..sitting him wouldn't be such a bad idea...
pKagome turned her head slowly to see InuYasha to find that he was staring straight at her.
p"What do you want?" He asked " Another ride?"
pKagome shot up from the ground, fists clenched.
p"OUSWARI!!" She screamed.
pInuYasha shot face first into the dirt floor, eating quite his share of mud and stones..alot more than he probobly would have preferred.
While InuYasha still lay Face first in the dirt, Kagome stormed out of the hut. She waited until she was a good distance away, before sitting herself back down underneath a large tree. The long slender branches provided much cool shade, although the sun was beginning to set, and it wasn't much needed, Kagome didn't care.
pi' He is acting worse today'/i she thought, trying to calm herself by changing the subject slightly. i'There must be something bugging him..'/I
pi'You mean something more than usual?'/i The other voice in her head joined in. i'He is always so rude'./i
pKagome nodded to herself and continued in deep conversation with herself, nodding every now and again when she came in agreeance with herself, and shaking her head violently when she thought something that did not please her. If someone else were watching, she would look pretty crazy.
pAfter what seemed like a half an hour, the area around her was pitch black, and night had long since begun. Kagome decided that she would finally go back to the hut, since she had finally calmed down. When she looked towards the hut, she noticed that there was no light from a fire nor any movement from within. Slowly, Kagome stood up, still trying to see if there was anyone in the hut at all. It was hard for her to believe that they had all fallen alseep already. Cautiously, she crept towards the hut. The only noise that could be heard in the dark forest was the soft crunch every now and then as Kagome stepped on a twig lying in the shadows.
Kagome had finally arrived at the motionless hut after what seemed like an hour and slowly peeked inside. The hut was empty, and not even Kaede sat within. she started to panic slowly, her breathing became more rapid.
p"They left me" She said quietly, almost in tears. "They left me, without even one arrow for my protection!"
pShe whipped around to look at the eerie forest behind her. In her panic, she began to run as fast as her legs could take her, she noticed something warm touching her skin below her neck, but she was far too scared to look. She had run for quite some time but as she was ready to turn sharply around another tree she found herself face first on the ground. She had tripped over her own pants. Kagome had already gotten up and began to run again before realizing that this was very odd, since she wasn't wearing pants. It took her a few moments to think about it before slowing down and stopping completely in the middle of a clearing. Slowly, she looked down. She recognized her outfit. It was the very outfit that Kikyou, had worn. She remembered how strange it felt to wear such clothing when she had worn it once before, back when InuYasha was very unfriendly towards her.
pSlowly, she took a step forward, and then another until she was going at a rather steady pace. From behind, she heard the faint patting of feet coming, they were moving too fast to be human. Before she could turn she felt a sharp pain in her right shoulder. When she looked down in horror she saw blood, and tons of it. She could feel it, the warm ooze dripping down and trickling off her long once white but now bloodstained sleeves. She no longer felt the small warmth below her neck and her wound made her extremely dizzy, making her fall to the ground. She looked up, hopefully for help. What she saw sent a gasp straight from her lips. It was InuYasha, he had the Shikon no tama, and it was full! She couldn't believe it, the warmth must have been the jewel! Now that they had it, InuYasha was going to leave her there and let her die!! The pain blocked his words , but she saw him trot off. She shot up from the ground, her anger the only thing allowing her to do so. She pulled an arrow (That was not there before) out and picked up her fallen bow on the ground, before racing towards the hanyou. When she finally at caught up with him, she stood her distance. Within a few moments, she had notched her arrow, taken careful aim and shot it. She never got to see if it hit or not, by then, she had awoken.
pKagome frantically looked around her, it was dark but she still felt the familiar warmth on her neck. She looked down, fearing it would be the jewel and found that it had been InuYasha's nose! She giggled nervously at the thought. InuYasha had apparently felt sorry and came out to see if she were alright. He must have found her asleep and sat next to her, soon falling asleep himself. It looked as if he had tipped over in his sleep and he was now practically in her lap which made her feel a bit uncomfortable, but he was so peaceful looking she didn't want to disturb him. So, instead she sat there for hours, thinking about her dream. It was a strange one.
PI'Was I remembering the incident from Kikyou's life?'/i she asked herself i' or is it my worries shining through that InuYasha will betray me..no..us...if we get the jewel back together again..to become..a full blooded Youkai'/i
pi'Perhaps it is both'/i She decided, before staring transfixedly at the moon in the mid night sky.i ' It doesn't matter'/I
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b Now, wasn't that great? I told you, didn't I? Despite all the reading, it was worth it..now don't forget to cower on your way out!br
For those who do not know, I figure I would clear this up for you. In the sentence where InuYasha refers to Kaede as as "Kaede-baba", i Baba /i is pretty much the equivalent to "Old hag", Which is what he often refers to her as, in the Japanese episodes in the Anime/b