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Chapter 8
" Did a little black cloud follow you here?" Sango asked the approaching pair. Kagome was smiling and trying to squeeze water out of her skirt and Inuyasha was pouting and trying hard not to smile, causing his face to look all twisted. They were both dripping from head to toe, not really caring that it wasn't the best of time to get wet.
" What do you mean Sango?" Kagome asked, still trying to squeeze water out of her skirt.
" I'm just trying to figure out why your both soaking wet." Sango answered with a hint of amusement in her voice, as if not wanting to laugh right at their faces.
" Well, I wouldn't be soaking wet if a little annoying wench here hadn't sat me right into the lake!" Inuyasha mumbled, loud enough for everyone to hear.
" Well, a little annoying wench wouldn't have sat a stubborn and hotheaded baby, if he hadn't thrown her into the lake!" Kagome yelled into the face of a hotheaded hanyou.
" Well, if you hadn't have sat me into the ground when I tried to help you, I wouldn't have thrown you into lake!"
" Well, if you hadn't landed right ontop of me and then teased me, I wouldn't have sat you!"
" Wait! What happened?" Sango asked, but the question fell onto deaf ears, for Inuyasha and Kagome were caught up in a heated fight, that neither wanted to lose in.
" Well, that wouldn't have happened if you hadn't have grabbed my hair!" Inuyasha humphed, as if knowing he'd just won. But Kagome wasn't finished.
" Well, I wouldn't have pulled your hair if I hadn't slept in a tree and then dropped by the same person that put me there in the first place and if he hadn't had bugged me when I wanted to be left alone!" Kagome gasped, realizing what she had just said.
" You really think, that I bugged you? Am I just someone who annoys you, Kagome?" Kagome tried to say something, but she just froze, and watched as Inuyasha looked right at her with nothing but hurt in his eyes. His shocked face showed her that he thought he was helping, not just annoying her.
" Inuyasha...I, I didn't-"
" No, it's fine Kagome. If I'm just a bother to you, then what did you come here for? If you don't want me to bug you anymore, then why don't you just leave!" Inuyasha changed his expression from shocked and hurt to angry and hurt. Kagome stepped back, as if not believing what she just heard, and then let silent tears fall down her cheeks. She let out a cry, but then put her hand to her lips.
" Fine! I'll leave! If you want me gone so badly, I'll leave you alone, but I left because you told me, so don't expect me to come crawling back to you!" Kagome gave Inuyasha another glare and then turned and ran off into the direction of the village, to gather her things.
" Kagome, wait!" A worried Shippo ran after her, wanting to comfort his adoptive mother.
" Inuyasha, how could you?" Sango asked, but didn't wait for his reply, and instead ran off, but not before giving him a long and cold stare. Mirouku stepped forward and was about to say something when Inuyasha burst out.
" Look, if your gonna give me a lecture and a stare, then your wasting your time! Cause I wasn't the one that humiliated and hurt one of my best friends!" Inuyasha crossed his arms and sat down with a sigh. Mirouku stared at the hanyou and then sat down next to him.
" You know Inuyasha, when I was a boy, and my father still lived, he used to tell me that woman can only bring pain and suffering. But of course he also told me that they brought plenty of pleasure, but that's not my point. I always believed him, because he always had his heart broken by every girl that he met. Even my mother abandoned him, but that was different." Inuyasha looked at the monk, his eyes now glazing over a bit.
" Uhh, Mirouku, you aren't gonna start crying on me, are you?" Inuyasha teased, trying in his own way to comfort his pained friend.
" Are you concerned over me, Inuyasha?" Mirouku chuckled. Here he was trying to comfort his dear friend, and it was turning out the other way around.
" No, but I don't want the girls to think that I made you cry, too!" Inuyasha covered up. Mirouku smiled and went on with his story.
" Well, as I was saying, my father fell in love with every girl he met, and then said that every single one of them broke his heart. But then one day, he said he met my mother. The most beautiful girl he said he ever saw. And he changed. He turned soft and caring and very protective of her, and never tried to be himself' around her, if you cacth my drift? Until, finally he suceeded in woeing and then marrying her. After that, he told me that she always seemed to outshine every girl, only giving him eyes for her. And then they had me. My mother died about a month after my birth, being sick from disease. My father told me that he held me and saw her shine around me, as if protecting me. Inuyasha, you only get one girl that outshines everyone else, so don't go loosing her over a little fight."
" Wait a minute, she was the one that said all those things, not me. I just gave her a push, so she wouldn't be near me, and so that I wouldn't bug her anymore, remember?" Inuyasha humphed once again, but Mirouku just smiled slyly.
" But you love her." Mirouku stated it, as if it was a fact about how trees needed sunlight to live.
" Hold up, I never said anything about loving her?" Inuyasha protested.
" You never denied it either." Mirouku fought back.
" But-" Inuyasha stared wide-eyed at Mirouku who was just smiling his head off. Inuyasha brought his knees up and rested his hands on his raised knees, extending his arms out before him. He lowered his head and fell into deep thought.
" Inuyasha, just remember, that shining somebody might not stay here long enough for you to think over it." Mirouku urged. Inuyasha's head shot straight up, and then was up on his feet in a flash. He looked down at Mirouku and then took off.
"Might as well take it. Hm." Mirouku sat there, watching the stars that were twinkling, as if winking at him. Mirouku just winked back.
" Why do I feel as if I've just been lectured?" Inuyasha just shook his head, and kept on running towards the village.
"I guess, that's as close as I'm going to get to a thank-you from Inuyasha."
Mirouku's speech wasn't the best, I know, and it might have seemed a bit corny, but hey, I'm not Mirouku, and I'm not a guy! So, just be happy with what you've got, 'kay?