2: Truth of It All!

I was in a village of where I was taken as I was a part of the group now. I didn't expect for InuYasha to be so kind to me. It was weird yet I liked it, I wasn't alone anymore. I wasn't hungry or scared or cold anymore, I was with friends. And I liked having the feeling with me. I got to sleep in peace now without demons chasing me and I got food without angry hesitations from villagers or other demons. It was nice having good friends like these. Except... Kagome was different from every girl in this village yet she was nice and kind.

"Bye you guys! I'm going now." I blinked at Kagome on top of the roof of this old lady named Kaede, her hut was pretty comfy. "Where is Kagome going?" I asked Shippo who was fixing his fox toys. "Kagome? Kagome is going back to her home, she travels between this era and the present. That what she says, I'm still too little to understand. Ask Sango or Miroku or InuYasha. InuYasha knows more than Sango and Miroku. Because he can go on the other side of the well where Kagome goes to go back to her home!" Shippo said happily and then he got back to his work.

I frowned and then I jumped off the roof. Suddenly lady Kaede came out of the hut, she spooked me. "Ah!" I said with a fright. "Would you like something to eat while you're here?" she asked me with a gentle smile. I sighed and then I said, "No thank you. I'm not really hungry right now..." I lied, I hadn't eaten anything since this morning, which was a piece of candy or something and a piece of noodles, that's what InuYasha and Kagome called it.

Those were good and I wanted some now. But I was still curious. I just hope the sentence doesn't happen, 'Curiousity killed the cat.' So I wanted to ask with politeness so I wouldn't get in trouble like I always do. I went to Miroku and then he was happy to answer my question, "Miroku, why did Kagome leave?" I asked him curiously.

Miroku smiled and then he said, "Well, see, Kagome, she travels through time to get back home. She has to take a well home to get there, she's from a different time. She's not from this age, and when she's back at home, InuYasha sometimes visits her. Now, that your question has been answered by me, would you like to join me in the woods for a walk?" he asked me, handing out his hand.

I frowned and then I said, "Sango told me... That you're lecturous? Monk?" I said angrily, suddenly Miroku got a bit intimidated, She resembles Sango! Ah, no way... now... he thought with a nervous look. Then I was off on him and behind him, Sango took charge. "You dirty Monk, I saw you. You're being pretty rude to that poor girl! Leave her alone!" Sango beated Miroku down again for his rude behavior.

Miroku frowned and was sadden again. "Love does hurt."

I followed to where InuYasha and Kagome was. It led me to a forest, where there was a well, I thought it was full of water, but that may not be true. I looked in it and then I saw no water, only but ground and bones engraved there. I frowned and then I looked back. "What you doing?" InuYasha's voice. I looked at him and then I smiled, "Does Kagome go through here?" I asked him. InuYasha was guarding Kagome, he still didn't know me too well.

InuYasha came up to me and then he said, "What do you want from her? Kitty?" he teased me. I frowned and then I said, "I'm just asking you, is that where Kagome's home is? Down the well? I'm not rude like some people here..." I knew he had an attitude from this morning. InuYasha frowned and his eyebrow twitched, "Listen, I'm just trying to protect Kagome from people like you... You may be a demon and depressed, but that doesn't mean that you know Naraku." I blinked my eyes at him, "Naraku? Who's this Naraku person you're talking about?" I asked him.

InuYasha completely fell apart, "You don't know Naraku?" he asked me. "Who is he?" I asked again, always so curious. The sentence was starting to take place again. "Do you know of a spider demon who has two servants with him named Kagura and Kanna and has a human servant named Kohaku?" he asked me. I blinked my eyes again at him, "No. I use to know a boy named Kohaku but he was just a short chubby little kid, always got on my nerves... He always use to go, Blehahahaha!" I made a face in front of him.

Then I saw that InuYasha was looking at me funny. "Oh, I'm sorry. It's just that you reminded me of that kid... Hehe. Not funny right?" I asked him, InuYasha smiled and then he snickered a bit. "Tch. Funny? You've got humor in you. I've never met a demon girl like you, usually they were dull when I was a kid... Some of the half breeds were all dull and just talk. You on the other hand, you've got a sense of it. You're probably full of these things right?" he asked me. I looked at him with a look, "You like my jokes? Most people don't like them, 'cause they're just boring." I told him with my hand on my arm.

InuYasha blushed and then he sat down. I sat down with him, "Did you use to have many friends as a child?" he asked me. I sighed and then I said, "I use to have some, but then they were all just plain. They were all demons, and their mothers and fathers would say, 'You get away from that half-breed!' or, 'Don't play with that half-demon who'll never become human or demon!' or sometimes, 'If you keep with that half-breed, you'll catch the disease!' I never liked being a child, I would always dream of growing up and being a full demon or human, my mother... She use to care for me a lot, she would always depend on me to go and set a goal, marry a demon or human or whatever and have kids and have a life, a good one... Yet, I'm all grown up and I don't have a husband or kids... I'm just a loner... With no friends..." I confessed out to him.

InuYasha had thought he met a double, except a girl double of him. He thought back to the time when he was chased by the demons and he had to hide under the cliff, where no demon would find him so he couldn't get in trouble. He always hated those villagers who mistreated him and his mother. Sometimes his father and his brother, Sesshomaru. He never wanted to become human, but when he saw his mother dead, he wanted to become human for her. And his first love, Kikyou. He wondered where Kikyou was right now...

"Kikyou..." he whispered. I looked at him and then I said, "What? What'd you say?" I asked him. InuYasha didn't want to tell her, what he was thinking of right now. He wanted to keep that secret from her and so he did. I then sighed and then I said, "True love. What is it? Where is it? Why hasn't it come to me? Why is running away from me? Why hasn't the one come for me?" I asked, being so wise and accurate was right. InuYasha was thinking of one girl, yet he had the two stored there in his mind.

Kikyou or Kagome? That was the question. He cared about Kikyou... but she didn't like him because she thought he betrayed her and Kagome, she was just too caring and kind, to InuYasha, he would want Kagome with him for the rest of his life, but it didn't seem that way now. I had opened his heart, who would be the girl to be with him forever? Have kids? Die together? Kikyou and Kagome could never die with him at the same time, since they were both just humans and one was dead and the other wasn't.

It was a hard decision for InuYasha but he wasn't ready to choose now. I glanced at him and then I stood up. "What are you going to do now?" I asked him, he looked at me and then he said, "What are you gonna do? I'm suppose to watch you..." he said, "Is that so... Who told you that?" I asked him, just to be sure.

InuYasha frowned, "None of your business..." he told me.

"Liar. You just want to because you want to and you made to do it yourself!" I told him.

InuYasha backed away his head and then he said, "I'm going to Kagome's era... You stay with the others and don't do anything stupid when I come back..." he told me. InuYasha suddenly jumped into the well and I went to see. Then I saw him disappear with my own eyes, "Wow! The well does work! I wonder if it does for me!" I just wanted to see if I could go in... I jumped in and then I hit the ground with a thud. "Ouchie..." I groaned, "It didn't work... Shoot..." I said with a daze.

Suddenly I felt the bones, I looked beside me and I saw the bones. I got up and then I shouted, "Ah! Bones of a demon, that is so gross!" I said with worry and then I jumped up to get out of the well. I then headed back to the village.

Meanwhile, in the other era, Kagome was out in the city on a date, with Houjo-kun. "Hi Houjo! Sorry I'm late, it's just" "Your bunnions? I bought these for you, thought you might them for your back ache, sorry about the arthritis..." he whispered. Grandpa... I thought with a smile. Houjo handed her a pack of hot back pain reliever pads. She chuckled and then she said, "Thank you very much, Houjo. Now, where are going out for our date?" she asked with a smile, she wore the usual. A white t-shirt that said, Kawaii, a blue cap with her hair in pigtails, like a little kid, and blue Denim jeans that sparkled. She was the usual girl for a day with a boy on a date.

Kagome liked her new look and she was getting sick and tired of going out everytime like a High school girl, so this time, she was just herself! Just a normal fifteen yeared old girl going out on a date with a cool and charming and cute guy. "So, Houjo, how have you been?" she asked him drinking out of a straw of her smoothie.

Houjo frowned, "Kagome, are you yourself lately? I heard Yuka talking about your abusive boyfriend who is very stubborn and selfish, are you yourself today? You're dressing like a normal Japanese girl..." Houjo wasn't impressed by the threads that Kagome had on, Kagome took the pigtails away and then she said, "How's this?" she asked, the pigtails were gone and then she had her normal stright black hair.

Houjo-kun was a bit happy now, but her attitude wasn't going like usual. "So, Kagome, what else have you been doing? Not that I'm saying that back ache and those bunnions have been doing to you lately..." he said. Grandpa is getting a beating when I get home... For once, InuYasha's not here bugging me and I get the chance to have some time with Houjo... Could this get any worser? she asked herself not feeling too good. Houjo then spilled the beans out, "How's your diarrhea?" he asked me.

That blew her lid, and then she said without spilling the smoothie all over the table, "Houjo, why don't we just walk to the park?" she asked him with a nervous look. Meanwhile, Kagome's friends were up to no good. "There they are! Houjo and Kagome are still together! We can still save Kagome from that wretched, evil boyfriend of hers!" Also, InuYasha was following Kagome. "Why is she with another guy?" InuYasha was in an alley trying not to be seen, he had a white cap on, with the Nike symbol, that Kagome's mother had given him.

"Who is that bastard?" he asked himself. "Kagome never told me about another guy... Damn her!" he said pissed, then he jumped onto a tree nearby. Without her watching, Kagome held hands with Houjo. "Come on, Houjo! I'm feeling pretty good right now!" she cheered dragging Houjo wherever. Behind their trail, Kagome's other friends were following. "We've got her now! She's dragging Houjo everywhere like a toy!" Yuka laughed and the other two did too.

InuYasha groaned and then he said, "That idiot Kagome rushed off with another guy!" He growled with anger. He then jumped after her with no time to spare. Kagome who was having fun, sat down on a bench with Houjo-kun. She was happy and perky, her hat still hang on to her head and Kagome was comfortable. "So Houjo, what are you doing this Saturday?" she asked him for once. Houjo was surprised and blushed, "Well, I'm off for Saturday, so wanna go to the movies? We can watch a pic you want." He smiled.

Kagome was thrilled and then she answered, "Okay! I'm up for grabs, I'll meet you at the end of the stairs of my house okay?" she asked him as she got up with joy. Houjo stood up and then he took the pleasure, "Well, you want me to walk with you? Those bunnions must be a toughie for you..." he said. Kagome sighed and then she said, "Okay!" she said with a cheer.

The friends behind a post smiled, "Yay! Kagome likes Houjo! Houjo seems interested and now we got Kagome to like him! Now she doesn't have to date or worry about that stupid boyfriend of hers anymore!" Yuka smiled, yet the other shy one wasn't happy. "But maybe Kagome still likes the other one!" She added, making it hard for the two other ones to keep up. "So? That other guy's a jerk, so Kagome doesn't have to worry about him anymore..." The other skinny one said.

Yuka agreed with her. "Yeah, that jerk can't be hanging around Kagome anymore!" The other one who suggested it, sighed and was sad. InuYasha in the tree, saw the girls leave and then InuYasha questioned with a sad and depressed look on his face, "Jerk? She thinks I'm a jerk?" InuYasha suddenly rushed off to Kagome's house.

Kagome and Houjo made it up the stairs and then Houjo stopped from there. "So, did you have a good time with me today? Did you like the gifts?" he added in with a grin. Kagome smiled and giggled, "Thank you Houjo. I mean not just for the gifts, but for the date. I'm happy again." she said as her day went out as plan. Kagome liked Houjo more a lot than before now. She wasn't too worried about InuYasha since he didn't know.

But he was listening and he knew that Kagome thought he was a jerk. He was watching quietly from the tree of the shrine just above his head. "I'm really glad I got time to spend with you, it was fun today." She said as she had her hands behind her with Houjo's gifts in her hands. Houjo smiled and then he rubbed his head, "Well, I'll meet you here on Saturday okay? Don't forget, we're going to the movies." He said and then he left.

Kagome waved at him and Houjo waved back and then he continued on home. Kagome smiled and then she stopped, she grinned and sighed. "That was good for one day, this is the first time I actually spend more than just thirty minutes with Houjo! Hm hm! That was fun." she said and then she walked towards her house but someone stepped in. InuYasha jumped down from the tree and then Kagome jumped a bit.

"InuYasha!" she said with a relief, "Gosh, you scared me there for a second. What's up?" she asked him. InuYasha had a face, "What you mean what's up? What the hell were you doing with that guy? I don't even know him!" he said enraged. Kagome stood up and then she tried to calm him down, "Chill out, InuYasha. He's just a friend from school..." she made a point.

"Yeah, but what about that date?" he asked her with a blushing coming up. Kagome wasn't angry, she was just relaxed, and then she said, "That date is just to know Houjo-kun a little better, it's nothing big." "Oh and I suppose you don't call me a jerk behind my back with your friends..." he said with his back turned. Kagome gasped and then she said, "My friends were spying on me? Those traitors... They said they'd leave me alone..." she muttered to herself.

With a fist up, she then turned back to InuYasha, "Listen InuYasha, I'm sorry to think that you were looking at everything and hearing everything that went on today, I'm sorry. It's just that Houjo came first before you... He's a really nice boy. Okay?" she told him, InuYasha was quiet and then he said, "Whatever..."

Kagome sighed and smiled, she thought it was over. But then InuYasha backfired, "But... You call me a jerk behind my back... Is that what you think about me?" he turned to her. Kagome gulped and then she said, "No. Don't listen to my friends!" she said with an angry face.

InuYasha wasn't a bit intimidated, "Pff..." he said. Kagome frowned and then she said, "We should see other people... InuYasha." she told him. InuYasha gasped and then he stopped, "What?" he said almost chuckling, he thought it was a joke. Then Kagome put her head down, it was almost getting dark since the sun was setting down. She tried to make it quick by saying, "I'm not joking InuYasha." InuYasha got serious now.

"I'm not joking. I want to see Houjo more than you! I meanYou're always just so exhausting!" she said with a cry. "You're always making such a fuss in front of me. Like front of other guys, like Kouga! And Sesshomaru too!" She said her tone getting higher and angrier. "You're such a selfish and stubborn goat at times.. Why do you do this in front of me? It's everyday that you can't stay out of trouble, you do it with everyone. Even me! Well Houjo's not like that and that's why I should see him! My friends are right, you are a jerk!" InuYasha was stunned, he had his head down and said nothing more.

He felt like he was being treated like a puppy. One who was being told, 'Go home dog!' Or... 'I don't want you here!' And maybe, 'I'm sick and tired of you! You just... just make me mad!' Something like that, InuYasha didn't want anymore so he just took a step back and jumped back to the shed where the well was. Kagome then stopped and sighed, she ran after him. "InuYasha!" she cried, feeling guilty about what she said.

"InuYasha!" InuYasha heard her but he just looked back at the door and then he jumped in to the well. Kagome made it just seconds away, she opened the door to the well and then she panted. Looking at no one. He was gone. Kagome panted and then her sweat stopped, she sighed and left the shrine.

On the other side, I was on a tree with flowers in my hand. I looked at them and sniffed them. I always thought I was different from other cats, cats never mostly used their smell. But I did, to smell good, I had to sniff good, like a dog. I wish I was a dog instead of a cat, a dog would just hurt a cat, so to not be hurt from one, I would want to be one. But that wasn't even the case.

I was by a spring and that's when I happened to sniff out InuYasha's scent. "I recognize that scent! He's come back from Kagome's time portal!" I cheered and jumped down making flips towards InuYasha. InuYasha was on top of a tree when I spotted him. I sensed a feeling of sadness in him, when I got near him. I frowned and then I gulped making my way up the tree with one jump. I was a few inches from him on the branch he was on, I sat in front of him, staring at him.

InuYasha had his face down and he had a gloomy look on his face. I then pondered to either bother him or not. He'd might bark at me or tell me to get out of his face. But he said nothing. Most dogs would tell me to get out of their way and leave them alone. But this one was too stubborn and maybe even too lazy to answer.

I don't know who this dog was so, I just left him alone. But I hummed as I looked at the ground and the branch. InuYasha smiled and then he looked up. "Why are you still here? Aren't you scared that I'm gonna hurt you or tell you something bad?" he asked, trying to be cheered up. My claws got back to my chest and my feet with the toenails sharp, I looked at him with my green eyes. "Usually, the dog demons would just bark at me and tell me to go away..." I said sadly. Looking at the ground, I then peered at the moon.

"I've had quite a hard life yet it's come to my closer fate that I'm gonna die by being killed by a terrible and powerful demon. My worst nightmare is being killed by a dog demon..." I frowned as I looked at the grass down on the ground. InuYasha listened to me. He wasn't being rude of interrupting me, and he was very attentive. But when I stopped then he told me, "Well, I'm not that kind of dog demon to kill a helpless cat demon who hasn't done anything wrong." He told me.

I blushed and then I said, "You would never kill a cat demon if they've been nice to you?" I asked him. "Most dog demons and I mean real dog demons would just kill me, I've heard stories." I said, "That's why I don't want to be a full cat demon, if you use the power of the jewel for power, you'd lose your soul... I don't want that... I just want to be happy as a human..." InuYasha's hair waved gently in the wind and I smiled as my hair in a ponytail waved gently too.

I dreamed of my hair being its normal human color, that dark brownish mahogany. And my eyes that dark green pine, not dark green forest. And my cat ears being human ears, instead of that furry texture feel. I had a collar that always showed a bit, but it was mostly hidden of the time by my white hair, it was a black collar with a golden amulet in the middle. It had never been removed before, I've always had it ever since I was a little kid.

I never wanted to see what was being my skin, it may stinky under there, or maybe a scar when I was born, or a disfiguration. Something like that would scare me and yet I never wanted to know, because I didn't want to know. So I just left it alone. Then InuYasha who noticed my collar asked me a question, "Why do you have that collar around your neck?" he asked me. I blushed and then I said, "You noticed it, I wouldn't think that you would ask me about it..." I said embarrassed.

InuYasha blinked his eyes at me and then he said, "Is there a scar behind it or something?" he asked me, I was totally red in his eyes. But he didn't say anything about it. I then said, "I don't know. I have never taken it off... I never washed behind my neck there..." My tail wagged and then he said, "Why do you have a tail anyway?" he asked me. He was very curious like me, always like me.

I then said, "I could take it off if you want, I've always been curious what's behind here... I just hope it's nothing bad..." I said. InuYasha shrugged his shoulders and said, "Do whatever you want." I smiled and then I said "Okay!" I smiled and then I took it off. I rubbed the spot of my neck and saw that my neck was a bit dirty, "I could wash that off, heheheheh..." I joked and then I rubbed a hard spot on my neck. I gasped.

InuYasha frowned, "What's the matter?" he said concerned a bit. "What is there on my neck?" I asked him. InuYasha looked closely at my neck and then he answered, "Just dirt, oh wait." "What?" I said a little bit worried. InuYasha stared at the thing on my neck, he then spoke out, "Two scars." I cried, "I knew there was a scar on my neck!" I sobbed with my arm on my eyes.

InuYasha then pointed out something else, he looked at it. He touched it and then it hurt me, "Ow! Why'd you do that?" I asked him, InuYasha got back. "I'm sorry." he said with a jolt, "I didn't mean to do anything!" he told me with red going across his nose. I smiled and then I said, "Maybe that's why the collar was put on me. I told him as my ears twitched. InuYasha's ears did too. I then smiled and giggled and looked into InuYasha's eyes. "Hello." I told him.

InuYasha gulped and then he blushed. I blushed too and looked away looking like a little girl who was about to put her finger back in her mouth. InuYasha then thought, What have I done? Butwhat is this feeling that I'm so sweaty right now! Why don't I have the feeling that I don't like Kagome anymore! he thought with panic and then he thought again with strict, this was the most thinking he had ever done in his life.

Why don't I care about Kagome like I use to a few minutes ago? he thought rash. Then I got up to him and then I said, "Half-breed." I told him and then InuYasha reacted to that, "What! Don't you dare ever call me a half-breed again, do you hear me! I told youare you listening?" I felt the urge to do it. I did. I kissed him.

InuYasha was too hard to resist. He was the first dog demon hybrid to kiss me, and I to kiss him. He had actually kissed a half-breed now! And with a cat! I took his saliva and then he took mine then he let go. I smiled and then I dropped onto the ground. With a sigh, I hit the ground hard and then InuYasha had his hand like, You need help? I just needed to be tamed down. With a strap holder one of those villagers have. I fell in love for the first time, with a half-breed dog.