DISCLAIMER: I don't own Inuyasha. However I do know a place that sells pocky, Inu t-shirts, and Inu hats… does that count for anything?
AN: Well, at least I'm still hanging in there. I'm slowly getting this finished. Only one more chapter to go. Though if any of you have read The Lady and The Tiger, it's sorta one of those endings. To those who haven't. Well your in for one wild ride…..
A Silver Heart
Before the Storm (Part 11/12)
By Wyltk
Inuyasha stood slowly, picking up Kagome as he went. After making sure she was tucked safely and comfortably against his chest, he turned towards the well house, carefully walking over the debris that still littered the once peaceful shrine grounds.
"My home, my family…." She buried her head into his coat.
"Come on Kagome, you can come back home with me. Everything is going to be alright." He whispered softly rubbing her back as he readied to jump in the well, "I'll be your family now."
He jumped down the well quickly, letting her sob into his fire rat as he jumped out of the well and continued back towards his pack. He walked far and fast careful not to hurt the bundle in his arms. He only stopped when he made it to a small hot spring. He bent down next to the waters edge wetting the corner of his sleeve and dabbing at her eyes.
"It'll be alright."
"No, no it won't!" Kagome screamed suddenly hitting against his chest weakly.
"Yes, it will. You'll be alright. And soon it won't hurt so much." He hugged her, rocking lightly back an forth. Shortly she started to hiccup and slowly her breathing leveled out and he was able to move over to lean against a tree. Carefully he positioned her on his lap taking Tetsusaiga out and placing it protectively in front of them.
The sun was only slightly lower when he awoke fully from the half asleep state her scent had lulled him to. And he guessed only an hour or two had passed. He laid Tetsusaiga down beside him and began to examine the girl lying in his lap. Her head was resting on his shoulder exposing a rather lengthy view of neck, and consequently, her necklace.
He examined the small necklace taking in the heart shaped silver metal with the Kanji word "friend" engraved on it. He turned it over watching as the back of the heart as it switched from a picture of an engraved duck demon to an Inu-youkai in demon formed showed on the necklace and stopped.
A hand closed softly over his as he ran his hands over the metal. A small face looked up into his with a small, weak smile. "My necklace, I've had it since I was very little."
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"Stop it, leave it alone!" a small girl shouted running at two squirrels who seemed to be pestering a smaller animal. She waved her arms around in an attempt to scare the animals, only succeeding when she was two feet from them. She knelt next to where the animals had been, smiling brightly until she noticed it seemed to be a very small man with one to many arms. She scuttled backwards with a scream.
The thing gave a long suffering sigh and shook his head its little arms wiggling in annoyance. Curiosity finally getting the better of the small child she moved forward and experimentally poked the creature. When she tried to pull back, however, she found it had clung to her hand refusing to get off. After a few seconds of shaking the creature dizzy she set it down on her other hand.
"What are you?" she asked softly, her fingers making him turn around, ignoring his muffled arguments.
"I'm Myouga a Flea Demon, vassal to a great dog demon. I'm here to complete his final mission! Oh that reminds me, you don't happen to know a girl named Kagome, do you?"
"I'm Kagome!" the girl giggled poking the strange little flea again.
"Mistress Kagome! I'm sorry I did not recognize you."
"That's alright!" Kagome giggled again and Myouga jumped out of her hands and onto the forest floor.
"I have a present for you."
"A gift! For me!" the small child clapped her hands watching the flea as he did a small backwards flip and a long silver necklace appeared out of no where. She smiled and picked it up placing it easily around her neck.
"Never take it off Kagome, promise me. It's very important to keep it on."
"I promise!"
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"Did you know that's why you can understand our howling so well? Your necklace allows you to understand any demon language, protects you from most Youkai who keep with the old code."
"This necklace?" Kagome whispered her fingers reaching up to touch the silver heart charm. She looked up at him and he nodded slightly. She sighed and leaned further against him her arms moving around his neck.
"Inuyasha?"
He mumbled into her hair, sniffing deeply. He mumbled again nudging against her head as he waited for her to continue.
"Those demons, the one's we met last night in the cottage, were they the demons that killed Yasaon'a and Ikatsui?"
"Yes, their punishment being lived out. They have been exiled from us, their clan. They have been marked for life as disgraced in the sight of demons. Our clan allows them to live in the most barren part of our territory. They are allowed to go where they like but when they come into our village they are treated with disrespect and often have things thrown at them, or they are entirely ignored. But if they venture away from our territory it is very likely the next demon to meet them with be their death. Your story was also a punishment to them."
She gave a sigh and winced as he stood up helping her up as he went. He rubbed her back softly before releasing her allowing her to wipe her eyes and splash water on her face.
"We should get back." He whispered hesitantly.
"No! I'm not going back." She yelled harshly turning at him, fire in her eyes.
"You're going to leave Shippo all alone in this world? Leave him to fend for himself?"
"He has you and Sesshoumaru and Rin! He'll be fine!"
"No, he won't! A pup forms a bond with their mother from the moment they first meet eyes. Your pup did the same and when his own mother died he made a bond with you. It is possible he will make another bond with another woman, but it is doubtful. Demon children rarely form bonds with more the one mother, two is rare, but three is unheard of. You leave him now he will turn as wild as the Youkai who organized the brutal killing of the Kitsune's. His mother abandoned him, and look what he became. Is that what you want for Shippo? For him to grow up wild, killing mass amount of humans for no reason!"
"What life could I give him, Inuyasha? I'm always running! I can't stop for fear a demon might decide to suddenly kill me! I have more then enough chasing me!"
"So you're just going to leave him!" Inuyasha snarled almost unconsciously.
"What other choice do I have?!"
Inuyasha snarled grasping her face in his hands. He pulled her small face up to his pressing his lips against hers. Her arms slowly lifted to in circle his neck and he gave a small growl of pleasure against her lips. She kissed him back lightly and he all but jumped out of his skin as her hands traveled from his neck to tangle near his sensitive ears. Slowly he pulled back from the kiss.
"Me."
AN: I'm working on the rest. I do honestly have a lot of one shots, not only do I have a lot of one shots I also have some other chapter fics I'm trying to work on. MASH got to love that show!
And the wolf behowls the moon –Shakespeare
Megaera Wyltk
