If Destiny Will Allow
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Note- I hope that the last chapter was quite enjoyable and that this one will be as well. Please review after you read and tell me what you think!
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2 -- We Meet Again
The sun was up high in the sky and birds were singing gleefully as Kagome walked down the trail very cautiously. Well, after the incident two days before, she wanted to be careful. She did not enjoy have a bear stab her in the back. It took her a whole day to recover from it and that recover was not simple. She had to keep it a secret from her mother so she would be able to venture out into the woods again. And plus, she did not want her mother to worry.
Kagome was just glad that her mother had not found out or had found the red bandage -- well, kimono sleeve -- that was on her back and chest. If she had, Kagome would have had to tell her mother that a dog demon had saved her life and had nursed her wounds.
And her mother -- as well as the rest of her clan -- did not approve of dog demons.
She had walked for quite a while before stopping at the very same place where she had been attacked and where she had met that dog demon named Inuyasha. She crept through the bushes and stopped at the edge of the stream where she had been injured and saw -- as well as smelt -- the blood. Her blood was still remaining.
She sighed and knelt down and began to drink water, cupping her hands and sipping the liquid from them. She kept a sharp eye -- and ear -- out for any kind of intruder or danger lurking nearby. And she suddenly smelt something. She knew what it was before it even spoke.
"You're just asking to be attacked. Drinking in the very same spot where you were nearly killed at last time."
Kagome swallowed the water in her mouth before replying, "Hello, Inuyasha." She then stood up and turned to face him. He was quiet, for a dog. He had snuck up in that same tree and was sitting in the same limb that he was in two days earlier. The only thing that had given him away was his scent.
"Damn," He cursed, "How'd you catch me?"
"Your scent." Kagome answered, climbing up the tree next to his, "Other than that, you were pretty sneaky."
Inuyasha grinned, "I try to be."
"So…" Kagome said, not sure of how to start a conversation. All she wanted to do was get to know him because he saved her life and maybe she could repay the debt somehow. "What's it like in your clan?"
"Why do you wanna know?" Inuyasha asked instead of answered.
"I just want to start a conversation." Kagome responded truthfully. She protracted her very sharp claws -- which she had spent the day before sharpening -- and began to scratch against the tree out of boredom.
"It's hell, that's what it's like." Inuyasha answered after a while. He was sitting with his hands tucked behind his head and his eyes closed tight.
"Aw, come on," Kagome said softly, retracting her claws and looking over at the dog, "It can't be that bad."
Inuyasha scoffed, "Keh, yeah right."
"It's that bad?" Kagome asked softly.
"Yeah. My mom died. She was a human." He said the last part with disgust and hatefulness.
"Oh, I'm sorry about your mother." She murmured. There was an uneasy silence. But Kagome dissipated the noiselessness, "Why do you hate the fact she was human?"
"Because I'm a half breed." Inuyasha answered, his eyes still closed.
Kagome took no offense to that remark. Instead, she calmly replied, "Well, it looks as if you're the only one who hates being a half breed around here."
Inuyasha's golden eyes snapped open, "You're a half demon?" It was as if he hadn't smelt it in her.
Kagome nodded solemnly. "My father was human…but he's gone now. I don't know where to, but it doesn't really matter. I do not care, actually."
Inuyasha said nothing. Instead, he looked elsewhere. He had just practically insulted Kagome -- a cat demon of whom he had just met two days prior and who seemed nice. Nicer than any other person -- or demon -- that he had ever met. After another silence, he said, "I didn't mean anything about you, you know."
"I know." Kagome informed him, looking straight ahead at the stream. "Even if you did," She said, "it would not have bothered me any. I'm used to it."
Inuyasha looked over at the cat. Normally he was arrogant and mean. But, for some reason, he did not feel like being mean and inconsiderate. "What do you mean?"
"Never mind," Kagome said, shaking her head, "It's not important." Inuyasha decided that she must have hated talking about whatever it was that she meant. So he let the subject drop. "What's it like, being a cat?" He inquired.
"Oh, it's pretty fun, I guess." Kagome replied, looking at him, into his golden eyes, "What's it like being a dog?"
"It's cool. I have a really good sense of smell and hearing." Inuyasha described.
"Can you bark?" Kagome asked jokingly.
"Ha, ha, very funny." Inuyasha answered sarcastically. But he grinned, nonetheless. "Can you meow?"
"Me-ow." Kagome joked, "No. But I can hiss." She then hissed in order to show him.
Inuyasha laughed light-heartedly. But after that laugh, the very same uneasy silence loomed around them. It was as if neither one of them had anything to say. It felt strange, himself being in a tree next to a tree that had a cat demon in it. A cat that he, a dog demon, had rescued two days earlier. He had even nursed her wounds with his own kimono! And he knew that the dog demon clan disliked the cats, but he only saved her because she was a girl and he hated it when they were hurt.
They had no idea how long they sat there, not talking or even moving, for that matter.
"I better be getting home. Maybe we'll see each other again sometime." Kagome said, leaping down from the tree limb gracefully and turning toward the path through the weeds. "Bye Inuyasha." She called before stepping onto the path that headed home.
"Yeah, maybe we'll run into one another later!" She heard the dog demon call, "See you."
After that, Kagome turned and sprinted home.
How was it? Please review and tell me what you think! And yes, I know it was short. Maybe the next one will be longer! -Natalie.