Hanyou : Half-human Half-Demon
Miko: Loosely translated as a priestess
Hai: yes or acknowledgment
Goshinboku:God Tree the one inuyasha was pinned to for 50 years
Sama: lord or lady basically means Mr. Ms. or Mrs.
Chan: a suffix used when taking to someone who is of equal status
Kitsune: fox demon
hoshi:Buddhist monk trained to fight (miroku)
Shikon no Tama: jewel of four souls
Ohayao: Good Morning
Oi: Hey
Kami: god or gods
yukata:undergarment worn under a kimono
Haori: male kimono top much like a jacket
Harikatsu: Large boomerang made of demon bones ( sango weapon)
Kaze no Kizu: wound of the wind or wind scar a powerful attack of the tetsusiga
Tetsusiga: inuyasha sword made of his fathers fang
Neko: Cat
Koishi: Dear or beloved on
Tatta hitori no watashi: My one and only
Okaa-san: Mother or mom
Morning came all too soon for the travelers, warm sun reaching their faces. Inuyasha cracked an eye open, and looked down below. Sango and Miroku were starting to wake up. Also it appeard that kagome was waking up too, he felt her shift in his arms and looked down to see her beautiful deep blue eyes looking into his amber gold ones.
"Morning sleepy head" he stated
It was only now she realized where she was, she was in inuyasha's lap, in a tree, how did she get here, what happened last night. Then it hit her, her dream, she could remember everything. She could even remember the sent of his blood. Inuyasha felt her tense in his arms, he could see the look of fright in her eyes. He decided he had to know what had happened last night, so he lept from the tree with kagome still in his arms, landed below and placed her back on her sleeping bag. Miroku and sango exchanged confused glances and then turned there head to the miko and hanyou. Sango held an expression of concern while the hoshi had a lecherous smirk on his face.
"I take it you and kagome-sama...." WHACK, "hentai!!" sango yelled. Miroku found him self face down on the ground, a large lump on his head from harikatsu. Inuyasha glared daggers at the monk. Miroku seemed to shrink back a bit. Returning his attention to kagome, he asked is she would walk with him to the stream near the camp. He said he was going to catch some fish for breakfast and wanted her to come along with him. She however knew what he was going to do and dreaded it imencely. After glarring more daggers to the leacherous monk and sango give her nod of approval, they made there way to the stream, It was only a 5 minute walk but it allowed them enough privacy. Upon reaching the stream, inuyasha looked to kagome and she nodded. She new what he was going to ask and braced her self for it.
"Kagome what happened last night. You were tossing and sweat was pouring off of you"
Kagome bit her lower lip at the memories of her dream, inuyasha could smell the fear and tears forming in her eyes. He closed the distance and loosly wrapped his arm around her shoulders.
"It was a dream, but unlike any i have ever had before, it felt so real, i could feel the wind, i could smell the forest around me. I saw you pinned to the goshinboku just like i found you 2 years ago, only this time the arrow was thru your heart, you had blood on your face and all in your hair, when i approached you, you begain to speak. In my dream you...you..died...died in my arms" by now the tears were flowing freely from her eyes
should i tell him what he said in the dream " The last thing you said to me was...was that...you...loved me.... but never could find a way to tell me" Inuyasha stood there stunned, he didnt know what to say, what to do. Was this a premonition, is this how things were to be, and if in her dream he told her he loved her and died and she cried for him, then did that mean....that she loved him too. After arguing with himself for a moment, he wrapped both arms around kagome and pulled her close to him, kagome froze for a minute and wrapped her arms around him also.
whats he doing, what is he thinking right now
She felt him pull back a bit from there embrace, and looked up some into his eyes, his amber gold eyes, she could get lost in those eyes, then she saw something different, for a moment his face softened and she could see something there, something she never saw before.....love.... he loved her, she could see it plain on his face, had it always been there, was she just too blind to see it. No words were spoken then, but all that needed to be said was held in their eyes. She knew now how he felt and he knew how she felt. After gathering some fish for breakfast they returned to their camp. After their meal they set out, waking towards their destination. They stopped around noon for a lunch of ramen, which inuyasha had no complaints with. During their lunch, they noticed dark storm clouds coming toward their path and made a decision to increase their pace to avoid the coming storm. Sango asked kirara to change into her demon form and kagome climbed onto inuyasha's back. Once everyone was settled, inuyasha glanced over to sango who gave a nod. He started running and lept into the nearest tree. Leaping from branch to branch with kirara close behind they made quick work of the distance between them and the village. They arrived that evening ahead of the storm. Once inside the village, the elder immediately recognized miroku and ushered them into his home. He told them the story of the neko who had been terrorizing a neighboring village and that he had attacked their village also 2 days ago. Inuyasha informed him of the girl that had made it to kaide's 2 days earlier and of what she had told them. He immediately took on a look of fright and shock. It was soon to be realized who exactly the girl was.
"you say she was dressed in a green kimono with sukura blossoms on it, and she looked to be around 12 years old with dark hair" the elder asked
"Yes she told us of what had happened, its amazing the girl made it that far, we arranged a proper burial for her" miroku told him
"She was my niece, tsuka, my brother and his wife lived in that village" the elder whispered
"Do not worry we shall seek out this demon and put an end to its killing spree, we will avenge your family and friend" miroku assured him.
"Come let me at least offer you a warm meal and a bed for the night, you may begin your hunt tomorrow" offered the elder
After their meal, they retired to their room, the were given the largest room in the house. Outside they could hear the storm raging on with howling winds and beating rain. Soon they decided it best to get some sleep as they would need their strength for tomorrow. Morning arrived much to earily for the travelers, Miroku slit an eye open as the sun poured thru the windows in the room they had bed down for the night. He groaned and he relented and roused the others. They joined the village elder for breakfast. They were all happy eating their meal when inuyasha saw kagome visibly stiffen.
"kagome what is it" inuyasha asked
"I sense jewel shards, 3 of them and there near, very near"
As soon as the sentence had fell from her lips, everyone was up and grabbing their weapons and heading for the door. Once outside they saw several villagers running towards them, their clothes sprayed with blood.
"Whats happening" miroku inquired
"a neko demon is attacking the outer huts in the village" the villagers huffed out
The villagers pointed the way and the group left to investigate, however none of them were prepared for the sight that was to befall their eyes. In the middle of several houses bodies were piled up, blood ran like streams in the summer. As they moved futher on they rounded a corner and came face to face with the demon they had originally sought out. His fur was stained a deep crimson red, his claws extened also covered in the warm sticky liquid. It was all inuyasha could do not to retch at the smell of all the blood.
"Bastard you'll pay for this" He screamed as he lunged forward, bringing tetsusiga down in an arc, slicing into the beasts sholder. It howled in pain and retalitated with his razor sharp claws. Due to the demons shear size and physical strenth all inuyasha could manage to do was defend himself from being ripped to pieces by the demons claws.
"Damn! He's faster than i thought, keh figures he's a damn neko"
Kagome and sango looked to each other and nodded.
"we have to slow him down, he is too fast for inuyasha" sango voiced to kagome.
Sango knew that her Harikatsu was useless in this battle, he was way to fast, but her poison powder just may work.
"Inuyasha get out of there now" Sango screamed as she ran forward, drawing a small pouch from her battle armor. Inuyasa heard her scream, put two and two together, he made one more defencive parry and lept backwards, going high into the air. Sango also lept into the air as inuyasha lept backwards, he grabbed her extended foot and tossed her higher into the air, she threw her poison sack to the ground about 2 feet in front of the demon, a purple cloud rose from the ground. Two things happened in the next few seconds, the neko demon saw the poison but couldnt move completely out of the way, he had inhaled some of the posion and could feel its effects almost as soon as the breath left his lungs.
"Bitch you will pay for that" he yelled gasping with a mighty leap he took to the air as sango was coming back down, he bared his claws and ran one straight up sangos back as she came down, she let out a ferral scream. Inuyasha saw this and managed to catch her before he hit the ground. He took a mighty leap and landed several dozed yards from the battle field, placed sango on the ground and returned to the battle. By now the poison had taken full effect on the neko and his speed was drasticly reduced. However the demon wasnt as stupid as they thought, he made a quick dash for kagome, grabbing her by the throat and placing his razor sharp claws aginst her bare neck.
"One move and she dies" he ground out, kagome looked to inuyasha pleadingly
"You bastard, put her down, don't you dare touch her" inuyasha bellowed
"Hehehe so this is your weakness, and you thought you could beat me, your nothing but a discusting half breed" the neko spat.
"One thing ill say is i like your sword, i think i want to keep it, throw it to me now or she dies slowly" the demon hissed
Inuyasha just smirked, he knew what would happen if a full youkai attempted to take the tetsusiga
"Alright, here, take it, and let her go you bastard" inuyasha tossed the now untransformed tetsusiga towards the demon. He walked forward, slowly, claws still placed dangerously close to kagomes neck. He reached a clawed hand down to take hold of tetsusiga's hilt and but retracted his hand at the last second, feeling the energy pulsing in the blade.
"It seems i am unable to weild this sword but i will take this girl as a prize, her blood is pure and shall taste so nice"
As if to back up his words he used one of his razor sharp claws to cut a small gash along kagome's shoulder, she hissed as the pain increase until she could no longer contain the scream.
"Inuyasha!!!"
It was at this point that kagomes fear and pain wracked brain started working again and she knew what would happen next if the demon didnt release her. Inuyasha didnt have tetsusiga anymore, "Oh..no!" she thought. As if on cue she looked up to inuyasha to see his eyes flashing between gold and red, he was transforming into his full youkai state ("No Inuyasha!"
"(posesed evil voice here) Hehehe, i shall enjoy killing you" the demon inuyasha sneered out.
"your sent has changed, what is going on here you smell of a full youkai now" the neko hissed
"Its the last thing you will ever smell aside from your own blood!" inuyasha growled out. And in a flash so fast no one present could even see, kagome was on the ground and inuyasha's now 6 inch claws were protruding out of the neko's back. Inuyasha smirked as he let out a grugled moan and fell limp on his arm. Inuyasha pulled his arm and claws from the demon and turned to miroku, licking the blood from his fingers he begain a slow advance towards the now terified monk but stopped as he heard kagome call out to him.
"Inuyasha! Get the tetsusiga, you must get it, please" She cried out, he glared at her and began making his way towards her, he let out a ferral growl as he approached her. Kagome began backing up on the ground using her hands and feet, moving much like a crab would.
"Inuyasha you must get the tetsusiga, please" She begged but he just kept coming closer
"Inuyasha...is me, Kagome, you remember, i know you do, you wouldn't hurt me"
Inuyasha brought his hands up to clutch his head as he fell to his knees, she could see the red in his eyes flash gold, Inuyasha im sorry about this "Sit"
Miroku placed the tetsusiga in inuyasha's hand and his eyes started returning to their normal gold color. Of course he didnt remember what happened but found himself in the
'sat' position and responed with his usual intellegence
"What the hell was that for, damn it that hurt like hell" He said thru a mouthfull of dirt and grass.
"You transformed inuyasha" kagomes voice came out so soft but he instantly paled a ghost white
"No...What...what happened, did i hurt you?!" he asked in a shaky voiced
"No you didnt though you scared the hell out of me though, thats why i had to si- i mean s-i-t you.
They returned to the elders house where kagome treated the wounds sango had received from their battle, the wounds weren't too deep, but sango hissed at the pain of kagome applying the antibotic cream and bandages. They spend the night in the village and left the next morning for kiade's. During the trip back kagome noticed that inuyasha was not moving at his usual pace, something was wrong and she intended to find out what. That night she had managed to convince inuyasha to walk with her. It was a full moon and beautiful night, the stars shown with perfection in the sky above. They found a small stream surrounded by trees and decided to sit for awhile and just admire the night sky.
"inuyasha what's wrong and don't tell me nothing" kagome inquired
"kagome I need to ask you something, something I may regret asking but I have to know" inuyasha told her.
"What is it, you can ask me anything" kagome told him
"First I need to know how you feel about me I know we are friends at least I think so but its that it" he sounded very nervous asking this
"Inuyasha you know were are friends, we have been for a while now and I trust you completely" she told him
"Is that it, are we just friends" his voice sounded sad and his ears were flat against his head
"No, its not it. Inuyasha I don't know how to say this so I'm going to be blunt, I..I love you, I have for a long time now, but I understand you cant love me back" now it was her turn to sound sad
"You…You do" his ears stood straight up on his head, "But how, how can you love a hanyou like me, I'm just a half breed, I'm neither demon nor human"
"Oh inuyasha it don't matter to me what you are, I love you for you"
"Kagome I ... I..love you too" for a moment kagome froze, remembering the words of her dream but quickly got over it. He lowered his head and flattened his ears, this was the first time in his life he had told someone other than his okaa-san he loved them. Moments later he found arms around him, he looked up to see her face and it had tears on it. "Oh no.. what did I do, I've made her cry, shit now I'm gonna get sat" "Shhh kagome don't cry, I'm sorry"
"I'm not crying because I'm sad, I'm happy, oh so very happy" now this just confused him, she was crying because she was happy, he would never understand a woman. He felt her tighten her hold on him and he pulled her into his lap. They stared into each others eyes and he felt compelled to kiss her, going against everything his mind told him he closed the distance between their faces.
'he's gonna kiss me, Oh gods what do I do, what if he don't like it, what if…..'
before that thought could get finished she found his lips pressed against hers. He was kissing her, it took a moment but she began kissing back. After a moment he decieded to deepen the kiss and licked her bottom lip as if asking permission which she gladly granted. Their tounges begain an age old battle for dominance as he explored the depts of her mouth. She was also exploring on her own, he felt her tounge glide over one of his fangs then return to their battle. He felt her moan into his mouth and it made it all taste sweeter, he was kissing her and she was kissing him back. 'Oh kami what ever gods are above thank you'
they continued their kiss until they finally had to break apart for air. They sat there staring into each others eyes, it was as if gazing into their souls, in his amber gold eyes she could see love, protection and happiness. In her deep blue eyes he could see love, acceptance and belonging. He had told her he loved her and she loved him, how was this possible. However it was, and he felt things for this girl he didn't know existed. They decided to return to the camp before the others came looking for them, they knew that things between them had been irrevrabley changed and life would be much different from this day on.
They returned to the camp to find their friends asleep, the fire had died down some, so kagome threw another log into the blaze to keep it going until morning. Then she turned to inuyasha, and smiled. He returned her smile and walked over to her, placing one arm across her back and the other under the bend of her knees he lifted her up bridal style and lept into the trees, finding a branch that was thick enough to support their weight he layed back and placed kagome in his lap and wrapped his haori over her like a blanket. From their pearch in the trees they had a great view of the moon. It seemed to bath everything in a blueish white glow. He turned kagome to face him, seeing her face in the moonlight, gods she was beautiful. Her skin seemed to absorb the rays of light and reflect them back into his eyes. Kagome had also noticed how inuyasha looked in the moonlight, she had never been able to just gaze at him without fear of being caught, but now, here, with him, she could see how handsome he was, the moonlight sparkled off of his sliver hair and reflected in his gold eyes and painted his face in a blue hue, she placed her hands on his chest and could feel the rock hard muscles under his haori, his silver hair blowing in the wind, gods she could just melt into him and stay there forever. She felt him place a clawed finger on her cheek and turn her gaze upon his eyes, he leaned forward and placed his lips aginst her ears and wispered "Kagome...Tatta hitori no watashi" Feeling his warm breath against her face sent shivers through out her body. She leaned forward, wrapping her arms around him and placing her lips against his cheek and whispered "Inuyasha...Tatta hitori no watashi" She could feel him shudder as her warm breath washed over his skin. He brought them closer and nuzzled his face into her hair, inhaling her sent of lavender and vanilla, and lowered his lips to meet hers, it was a kiss of love and passion, both fighting for dominance and neither winning. They kissed until their bodies screamed for air, but it didnt matter, if this was the way they were to go then both would have been happy. Inuyasha leaned back aginst the trunk of the tree and drew kagome closer to him, she placed her head on his strong chest, nuzzling her face into his yukata.
"Rest now my koishi, morning will come soon" inuyasha whispered into her ear. She fell asleep listening to his heartbeat.