When We Were Young –chap. 2

BY: Kumiko Ikachi

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"Huh, watta you mean we can't stay here?! We only need it for one night, and look we have the money right here!" The innkeeper was unmoved by the weight of gold in his hand.

"I'm sorry" he began, though he didn't sound sorry. "We don't allow demons in our village. You'll just have to look elsewhere." The door was all most slammed in their faces if not for Inuyasha's foot.

"No" he snarled, pulling the door fully open. "Look at her! She can barely stand! She needs a warm comfortable bed to rest in. And this is the only village for three days! Damn it look at her!" A quick look at the sleepy child the hanyou held by the hand moved the inn keeper and he felt a pang of sympathy for her. Indeed she DID look quite exhausted. But one stern look form the poor mans wife was all it took to set him straight.

"No! No youkai trick can fool me! I told you no and I meant it!" And with that the inn keeper slammed the door, leaving the pair to look for shelter somewhere else.

"Inu-chan?" muttered drowsily "why was that man so mean to us?"

"You'll understand when you're older Kagome." Silently she nodded and trotted along after Inuyasha ready to spend yet another night in a tree. Originally she had been frightened of falling. The first night she didn't sleep at all, she was worried about rolling over the narrow branch and falling to her death.

Now she practically looked forward to the nights where she could be tightly held in Inuyasha's small yet strong arms. She looked up at his young face; a face marred to early in life with troubles no 10 year old should have to deal with. Sighing with contentment she laid her head on his arm as he guided her to their tree for the night.

It was that night that Inuyasha knew that he could never give up the young girl that over the past 5 days he had become so attached to. That night wrapped snugly in his haori and cuddled against him for warmth, half asleep and all ready dreaming she whispered.

"I love you Inuyasha"

He was so shocked that he all most knocked both of them out of the tree. Inuyasha "feh'd" and wrote it off to be the drowsy babbling of a young girl then quickly fell asleep himself. Yet subconsciously Inuyasha smiled dreaming of a certain little hanyou cuddled in his arms. a/I- HE IS NOT A PETAFILE just thought I should clear that up for ya!

"Demon...damn you demon! Answer me! Where are yo-"

"What" Inuyasha's snarl interrupted the man so he stopped where he was and looked up. It was the very same inn keeper that had denied them lodging's for the night. Inuyasha's nose wrinkled in disgust. The man reeked of sweat, blood, and his own piss.

"I answered you. Is that all you wanted or was there a purpose to your late night wandering?" As if suddenly remembering what had possessed him to go searching for this hanyou, the man began stuttering at Inuyasha, obviously trying to say everything at once.

"P—please—please youkai! De—demon –the village—please help us..."only sparing a small glance at the inn keeper Inuyasha gazed at the sleeping face of Kagome. This youkai would not take that long. It was only a weak one. He could smell him from here. Killing it would be easy. But why should he? These humans have done nothing for him...they deserve what they get.

"Feh, why should I? I have better things to do and what threat are they to me?" With a single trembling finger the old man pointed at Inuyasha. Yet not at Inuyasha, rather the bundle he held in his arms.

"They are looking for her."

"Damn it! I know Koga was reckless but this is where I draw the line! How is it that we can't track one of our own pups, much less five of them? I taught Koga myself...but the other four?"

"If I may Kasa, Koga has grown into quite the leader...he may be only 12 but when he gives orders my son's obey."

"All right all right fine but where could he have gone? Where would he want to go?" Kasa, leader of the youkai wolf pack, rubbed his temples in frustration. It has been three days sense his pup and most of the packs youth had turned up missing.

"Kasa dear, what were that last words between you and Koga-chan? It might help..."

"Sadako, don't you think I've thought about that! They were of nothing simply that his new future mate would be Ayame and then he-"The male looked sheepishly at his mate before continuing.

"Then he was angry and told me he would have no other than Kagome." Sadako smiled knowingly and gave her love a gentle push out of the cave before slapping herself in the forehead.

"I swear sometimes that man..."

"Boys" Kasa bellowed to be sure the whole of the pack heard him.

"Change course! Track Kagome!" After recovering form the initial shock the males in the clan gave a howl and began the hunt.

"What gave you that impression old man?"

"Humph, I may be old but I'm not senile! Thanks to you I got a good look at that girl. That youkai is looking for a hanyou. A female hanyou, with ebony hair and piercing green eyes so she has to be her." Inuyasha leapt carefully from his perch, trying not to waken Kagome. After wrapping her in his red outer shirt he placed her gingerly in the old inn keeper's care.

"Guard her with your life." He growled. Inu traced a claw down her cheek before disappearing into the darkness of the forest. The man shuffled towards the sleeping form of Kagome with a greedy glint in his eye and a malicious sneer on his lips.

"Your companion and you may pay well for room and board, but those youkai will pay much more for you."

"Damn it all," Inuyasha thought bitterly. "What in the hells would anyone want with Kagome?"

ok ok ok I'm srry damn it! I just have no idea where I'm going wih this at tme moment.......maby if some of you review this chapter and give me ideas I'll update a hell of a lot faster kze well......update?

kumiko