Chapter 10-Tears
Inuyasha and Sota sat in the room, once again, in thick, awkward silence.
Inuyasha sighed heavily, and slowly got out of the comfy couch chair and looked at Sota sadly. Sota looked up at him with worry.
"What's the matter, Inuyasha?" Sota asked with worry.
"I'm becoming paranoid." Inuyasha replied, shaking his head.
"What? Why do you say that?" A confused Sota questioned, eager to know what the cause of this seemingly random statement was.
"Well…." Inuyasha answered shyly. "I just caught Kagome's scent."
Sota started. "I'm sorry…what?" He asked blankly.
Inuyasha shook his head. "Never mind. Look, I'll be back tomorrow to check if there is any news of Kagome? Alright?"
Sota nodded, and was left alone as Inuyasha leaped out of the opened living room window and disappeared from sight.
"That's not likely though." Sota whispered under his breath into the still house. "It's not likely that Kagome will suddenly appear…she is gone…forever."
And with this, a single tear ran down Sota's cheek. He stubbornly wiped it away. No one must know that he was crying…no one.
I must be strong, He told himself. I mustn't cry.
He hadn't let a single tear escape, until today, when he found out that his sister was not with them, nor Inuyasha. Until today, he had held back the overflowing dam of tears of despair and fright. Where was Kagome? Where was his beloved sister? He wanted her back.
Suddenly, his dam of tears failed him, and a rush of tears broke free, he vainly tried to stop them, but it was useless. He finally accepted defeat and let the seemingly never-ending flow of tears stream down his face and then dive off his chin.
He curled up into a little ball on the couch and let the tears gush free, dripping down the side of his face, and onto the couch cushions. He sobbed and sobbed and sobbed quietly until his eyes were red and puffy, which is how his mother found him when she returned from work.
"Sota!" she exclaimed. "Sota! What ever is the matter?" She rushed up to him, wrapping her arms around him in a tight embrace. He kept quiet, the tears still leaking from his eyes.
"Nothing." He lied. Though his mother, being like all the other mothers of the world, knew that he was lying. For mothers know all, and it is impossible to keep a secret from them. She knew that he was lying and sighed. She knew that this had something to do with his sister. She felt helpless and wept because of this.
She kept her arms tightly wrapped around him, and together they cried, they cried for Kagome, and they cried for the emptiness inside them, but most of all, they cried for not knowing what happened to her. Not knowing if she had disappeared on her own free will, or if something else might have happened.
They cried because they missed her.
Inuyasha returned to bear the depressing news to Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Kaedae.
When they spotted him, they all raced over to greet him, but their jolly faces turned frighteningly dark and gloomy and heart-broken as Inuyasha delivered the news.
"I knew you would regret." Miroku muttered under his breath.
"I do." Inuyasha replied truthfully. "But I would still have regretted if I stayed."
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