Whoo! I just finished the second chapter! I hope you all enjoy, and I did try to make it a tad bit longer but I think I failed. I'll try to get Chapter 3 started soon, and thanks to everyone who's reading!
"Shinjo! You've returned!" A woman exclaimed as she exited her hut, and embraced the man before her.
"Papa! I missed you!" A 7 year old girl called out. Her long brown hair was tied in a bun, and her deep honey eyes sparkled with happiness. She ran up to Shinjo as he picked her up and placed her on his shoulder.
"You haven't been up all this time have you Nalanie?" He asked the bundle of joy that was hugging his neck.
"Mama said I could! She said I could!" The little child explained.
"Now why would Mama say something like that?" He smiled and gave a glance to the woman next to him. Her usual luscious dark hair was messily put in a ponytail, while her dark brown eyes looked worn out.
"I said she could stay up until you've come home. She missed you too much." She gave out a small giggle.
"Well in that case, I think it's time to go to sleep now isn't it?" He asked Nalanie, as they entered their home.
"But, but you've just come home!" Nalanie cried.
"If you go to sleep now, tomorrow we'll go play in the field together. Sounds good?" He suggested as he bent down to her level.
"Really! And pick flowers for Mama and play with the animals?" She asked too impatient to hear his answer.
"Yes, we'll do anything you want." He smiled, and sent the excited child off to bed.
As Shinjo returned to his wife, Jin, he noticed that she was fixing up her tangled hair and ready to go to sleep. She turned around and smiled when she saw him enter.
"Jin, I'm so sorry that I was late, it was a really hectic night." Shinjo explained.
"Did you tell her?" She asked.
"No… I didn't get the chance to."
"What happened? Did you have trouble finding her?"
"No I found her. She was traveling with Inuyasha and the rest of her friends. I led them away for a while with a snake demon I released, and since she was riding on that weird contraption of hers and was way behind, I was hopping to jump in front of her and ask her to stop for a minute." He explained.
"So what happened?"
"Well she stumbled over a tree branch, hurt her ankle and when I finally mentioned her father, she got defensive and was about to shoot me with her arrow no matter what I said." He continued. "Her friends came back for her, and I left realizing there wasn't anything I could do…"
"What are you going to do now?" She spoke gently leaning her head on his shoulder.
"I'm at a loss… Thinking about it will only confuse me even more… Maybe tomorrow when I go out with Nalanie I'll figure something out." He explained.
"I know you'll figure something out, you always do." She yawned.
"You should sleep now, you've been working hard today." He gently picked her up and laid her on her futon. She immediately fell asleep.
Shinjo stepped outside and looked up at the half-filled moon. His short brown hair glistened in the moonlight, and his dark eyes sparkled.
'Poor Kagome… Maybe I was too blunt in mentioning her father so quickly… Her reaction was understandable. Even if I did get a chance to talk to her, what would I have said?' He paused in his thought to smell the fresh air.
'How will I ever tell her… That her father was involved with Naraku?'
DUN DUN DUNNNNN! Hokay, I'm good. XP Right now I bet that they're many questions flooding all your minds, like, "How'd he have anything to do with Naraku" or "How can he travel through the well" and "Just who is this Shinjo guy in relation to the story.." And yeah.
In case you're confused and don't understand, Shinjo is the guy who tried to talk to Kagome in the last chapter, but ran away when Inuyasha came back. It'll get clearer as the story evolves. :)
