Stuck In-between

Chapter Two

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha.

Secret Crush

Days had past since Kagome left, Inuyasha didn't speak to anyone about it. Nobody would speak to him about it, anytime they tried to, he would come up with an excuse like she was hiding somewhere as a joke. He would secretly be dying inside, just because he couldn't see her.

When Inuyasha was sitting under a tree looking for her nearby, he yelled. "DAMNIT KAGOME COME ON!" Shippo was hiding behind him, and he wasn't caught for a while until he yelled and Shippo jumped.

Inuyasha heard him, "You little brat! I don't know why I didn't smell you! What are you doing snooping around here? Go on! Run off to Sango and Miroku!" Inuyasha was waiting for him to run off, but he didn't.

He stared Shippo down, waiting for him to run off. When Shippo didn't move, he got even angrier. "Shippo aren't you going to run like the wuss you are?"

Shippo shook his head in disagreement, as if he couldn't speak. Inuyasha was angry with him, and didn't understand why he was acting so different toward him now, and not any other time.

"Look, if you aren't going to speak up, you're coming to look for Kagome with me." Now Inuyasha was grinning, expecting Shippo to run off in boredom. But he didn't.

Shippo grinned too, "Fine with me. I want to go!" He jumped up and down, bouncing around. "I can be a big help, you know! Let's go!" He almost began to laugh, excited out of no where.

He grimaced and almost growled at Shippo, but he didn't do anything, still in confusion. He would figure out sooner or later why Shippo was acting like he was, "Alright. What's up with you?"

The Fox Demon almost screamed it, proudly. "I love Kagome!" He smiled, showing off his teeth. "She is the greatest thing that's ever happened to me. I don't see why she hangs around you; all you ever do is make fun of her!"

"You're ¼ the size she is! And she's mine! So you can leave us alone!" Inuyasha was ready to attack Shippo for even saying Kagome's name in such a way. This was Shippo's queue to run off, and finally, he did.

Searching went on for hours, nothing could be found. How far could she have gone? Inuyasha was worrying, and he was getting hungry himself. He was determined to find her, and he wasn't going to eat until he did.

He smelled something in the air after a while, and followed its trail. This reminded him of Kagome's scent, the way she always had a few selections of perfumes or body sprays, but she usually had on she same one. Inuyasha loved the way it smelled on her, and it was one of the things he loved most about her.

When he found the source to the smell, it was a small village. Inuyasha spotted someone, and before they could yell, "Demon!" Inuyasha grabbed the villager by the collar of his shirt. "Seen any girls around here? Wearing odd looking clothes, with a skirt that comes up to about…here?" Inuyasha put his hands to where the skirt would measure, demonstrating.

The man nodded, rubbing his chin where the red marks from Inuyasha's hands were. "Yeah, she passed by a few days 'go, but shouldn't you of been lookin' for your wife then?" He had an odd look on his face, like they were married and in some sort of fight. Inuyasha ignored the comment as he walked of, smiling. Wife, eh? His smile grew wider, but faded when he saw something familiar in a distance.

It was a basket of lemons, filled to the rim. Inuyasha recognized the basket for Kagome's, not only since he'd seen it before but because across the blue outside was written in pink letters "KAGOME". He almost called out for her, but he immediately knew where she was when he saw the hole.

His first thought was, who did this to her? He didn't care how it happened; he just wanted to help her. He looked around for something that he could throw down to her, and saw a long strong vine coming from a tree. He tugged at this a few times, and after a large object coming out of no where and knocking Inuyasha into the hole, he was knocked unconscious.

Kagome was startled by the figure coming out of no where, and she slowly crept closer to it once she was sure whatever it was, it was unconscious. She recognized him immediately, "Inuyasha…you were knocked in, too." She placed a hand on his cheek, caressing it with her thumb.

She brushed the mud away from his cheeks, thinking to herself. He should really be more careful, and he came all this way just to save me…She remembered at that moment why she was so upset with him in the first place. Thinking about it, she went back to her corner of the cave with her knees to her chin, waiting for him to move. Is he dead? She was confused, Inuyasha was never unconscious this long…he was never even unconscious!

Bringing her hands to her stomach as she felt it growl, she whispered aloud, "I haven't eaten in days…" She then laid herself down in the dirt, not worrying about getting dirty. Her eyes drifted shut, into a sleep.


Sango and Miroku sat curiously in the fields in front of Kaede's hut, waiting for Inuyasha to arrive with Kagome kicking and screaming over his shoulder. "I wonder where Inuyasha could be…" Miroku broke their silence, as he watched Sango come back from her gaze off in the woods.

"Probably tormenting Shippo…" Sango sighed; she was upset that her best friend was gone. That and she was tired. She was worried about both Inuyasha and Kagome by now, as she yawned and stretched, startled by Shippo coming up behind her.

"No, he's not. I decided not to go with him, because if I went alone with him than he would probably kill me!" Shippo began to whisper, "I accidentally told him."

Miroku jumped up, "What do you mean?" He turned around, facing the Fox Demon.

Sango, too, looked to the short one and gave off a look that suggested confusion. Shippo's face began to turn a thousand different colors of pink and red. "I told him that I l…love Kagome."

Both, Miroku and Sango, were completely surprised to hear this. They weren't sure if they were hearing it correctly or not, so Sango chimed in, "Loving her as in…wanting to be with her as your mate…er…wife?"

At this point Shippo was now able to talk to them about it, since he had gotten through with the main obstacle. "Of course!" He was smiling, but then it was washed away by a look of disappointment, "But it hurts. Is love supposed to hurt? Caus' if it does, I don't wanna love no more."

Sango continued to try to explain things to Shippo, "its okay, Shippo…it's just that she's…well, older than you…much. And even more importantly, Inuyasha is just very protective over his mate…well…er…it's just that she's- she's-…"

Miroku finished off the sentence for her, "Taken."

The Fox Demon nodded in agreement to this, still disappointed. "I guess you're right…but will he still hurt me?"

They shook their head in disagreement, "He's just always like that, because he doesn't know any other way of expressing his feelings toward you."


Hmm, I'm glad I'm finally able to go through these chapters and re-do them. I just wanted the story to be viewed as better than the most chapters toward the beginning look like…and since I love the plot and the reviews to the story, I didn't want to delete it. So, I'm redoing it! Well, enjoy! 11.23.05