Heart's Perplexity
Disclaimer: I did not make the characters, nor do I own them, from this series. I simply made a fanfic of my favourite yaoi couple from Inuyasha. Thank you. ^^ Enjoy!
NOTE: I'm really having fun with this fanfic. I know some of you are probably not used to seeing an IY/Naraku yaoi story like this, but hopefully I'll make this story better and better. Here's chapter 2! ^^
Chapter 2
The morning was a bit cold, and the sun was just over the horizon. Shippo lay asleep again on Kagome's knapsack as she carried it. Miroku stared at nothing else except of what was ahead of them, ready for anything. Sango looked constantly gazed as if thinking of other things, but that was normal for her. Inuyasha was the only one who wasn't feeling normal in the group, nor did he look like it. He kept his head tucked in and not looking at the path ahead, his thoughts took over all his senses. Nothing else was in his mind except that dream. Not even about killing youkais or getting the Shikon no Tama to become a full youkai… just the dream…
Inuyasha tried his best to forget about that stupid nightmare. That's all it was. A nightmare. A fake. Nothing more. He knew the difference between dreams and reality. But, what did the word dream actually mean? What was its definition………?
The group finally stopped walking when the sun reached its highest in the sky. They found a nice area of grass where they would settle on for a little while to regain their energy from all the walking. All those hours of walking and nothing youkai-ish came near them. It was a little bit suspicious almost.
Miroku went to find some wood to make a fire for food. Sango and Kagome took a few buckets and made their way to the stream to gather some water. Sango went first, but Kagome stood there for a little while, staring at Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha……," she began to speak.
"Uh…what?" Inuyasha turned around from staring at the dirt on the ground.
"Is there something wrong Inuyasha? You've been quieter than usual today. Are you… thinking about that dream you had last night?"
Inuyasha paused for a second. "What? The dream? Feh…" He stood up with a grin and laughed. "Why would I be sitting here thinking about that stupid dream? I don't care. It's not real right?"
Kagome opened her mouth about to say something, but then closed it and ran after Sango.
Inuyasha sat back down. He was hearing snoring from behind him. He turned around and saw Shippo still asleep on a flat rock. Inuyasha shook his head. Then something else caught his eye. Kagome's knapsack. He looked around, then at Shippo, and then back to the bag. He made his way towards it. He picked it up by the handle with on hand. It was quite heavy. He recalled Kagome saying she had to carry a lot of books to study so she can be ready for school every time she went back to her world.
Inuyasha sniffed the bag twice and started opening it. Hmmm… maybe one of these things can tell me about what a dream is…
Kagome had in her bag five large textbooks. Inuyasha sniffed each one and made his way to the fourth one. Three words were engraved on the cover. Inuyasha couldn't understand the first two words. The characters looked a bit different than he ever saw, but he tried his best to say out the third word.
di…ku…shon…ar…ii………..
It was a dictionary. Inuyasha never saw a book like this before. In that matter, he never saw books in his life. The only things he saw ever written were in the past when he was a child. At his home he would find scrolls that belonged to his mother. He always had fun reading those. The characters looked so interesting…
Inuyasha opened the book. He almost choked with surprise. He never saw that many japanese characters in his entire life. Hardly a third of them looked familiar to him. How would he ever find what he was looking for?
It didn't take long before Inuyasha realized the book was alphabetized. He flipped the pages quickly. A few ripped at the bottom but he didn't notice.
Let's see……… dream……… dream…………
After ripping another twenty pages, it looked like he found it. Dream. He began to read the strange characters the best he ever could.
"Dream. A se..ries of pic..tures…… thoughts…… and emo…tions……ex……expe…experien…ced… in the… mind when… sl…… sleepi…ng…
He thought out the words for a bit. It took a while to think about the word experienced for some reason. It looked like such a big word. Then, a different word from that definition stumbled in his thoughts. Emotions.
Emotions…
What did it mean by emotions? What kind of emotions?
Before he could turn another page, he heard rustling of branches from far off. Miroku was coming back. Another rustle from the other direction signaled that Kagome and Sango were returning as well. Inuyasha, in a complete struggle, stuffed the heavy and thick book back into the bag and shoved the rest of the books in as well. He closed the back and sat back where he did before, beside the snoring Shippo. It was only luck that at that time Shippo made his way out of his nap and sat up scratching his eyes.
Everyone carefully munched whatever was made in the pot over the fire. Although everyone seemed silent at that time, in their eyes they were dying to start up a conversation. Anything.
"Hey," Kagome started. "Anyone want to read something from my textbook? Well, since you probably don't know the characters, they are quite different from the ones here, so I'll read you something."
As Kagome was opening her knapsack, Inuyasha felt a cold shiver go down his spine. Would if she found out what I did? What will she think?
Kagome reached out for her books. That was when she made a confused face. "Something is not right here. I'm sure I didn't put these books in this order. Did someone…-"
"AHHHHHHHHH! LOOK OUT!!!!! IT'S A YOUKAIIII!!" Inuyasha screamed. He brought out Tetsusaiga to make the lie look more believable. It worked. Everyone got up in a fright and looked around.
"Where? Where's the youkai??" Sango shouted, one hand on her Hiraikotsu (her boomerang weapon) ready to shoot it. Kirara stood behind her ready to transform.
Oh great… Inuyasha thought. I got their minds off the books, but what am I supposed to do now???
"Oh… uh… sorry… false alarm. Hehe…"
Everyone stared at Inuyasha, their eyes so wide as if ready to blast red lasers from them at Inuyasha. Inuyasha actually felt a little frightened by them. Miroku got really furious.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN FALSE ALARM??" Miroku grabbed Inuyasha by the neck and started strangling him like a rag doll. Shippo told him to calm down, and he dropped his grip on Inuyasha making him fall on the ground.
"Come on guys, it was a mistake ok? I thought I saw something in the bushes but it was probably a small animal or something okay? Feh…" Inuyasha put Tetsusaiga back, sat down and ate the rest of his food. He kept his head down the whole time knowing that the others were still staring at him. I've been such a baka today. Look at them. They think so too. Why am I acting like this? I wish I never had that dream.
Inuyasha closed his eyes for a bit, then opened them and got up. "Okay guys, let's keep going."
The trail seemed so long and at this time Inuyasha was dying for a youkai to pop out from the top of the trees. Even a huge one will do. Anything to get his mind off last night, or even most of today. Most of his thoughts were on that one word, emotions. He started thinking about the kinds of emotions he felt. He remembered the emotions he had in the past when he was in love with Kikyou. He had emotions when being around others, like friends or family. He also had emotions when fighting youkai and Naraku. Yet… something felt different about that.
That dream…
What emotions did I feel that night? What emotions did I feel when Naraku put his hand on my face? It can't be what I think it is… It can't be…-
His thoughts were interrupted by a punch on the shoulder by Miroku. He turned around and saw Miroku smiling at him. "Cheer up Inuyasha. You seem down in your thoughts today, it's not like you. We need that little idiot to start up something again."
"NANII?!?!?!" Inuyasha shouted and started to choke Miroku. Everyone was laughing. Inuyasha laughed too. He wanted to thank Miroku then for making him forget what he was thinking. He wanted to thank him a lot...
End of Chapter 2
Eeeee, how do you like this so far? Not TOO much is happening, but it's only the second chapter so MUCH more will be happening really soon. I will soon write something in Naraku's point, which will definitely change things. Hehehe… please review! I want to know your opinions! ^^