Back? Again? Well, kiddies, it's a new story. I always seem to come up with these ideas in the oddest of places. Came up with this one earlier today at Mackenzie's house. (SpottedLionHanyou) So, we'll see where it goes.
Blanket Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. However, I do own the plot and idea of this story.
"Speaking."
Thinking.
The wind softly blew across the smooth pasture, the moshy rice fields stood silently. The village was at perfect peace, for its protectors were near. A mismatched group of a female demon slayer, said to be the last of her line, a lecherous monk, who was cursed with an air void in his right hand that sucked anything in that got near it, a young fox demon who had been orphaned, but taken in by the group, an oddly dressed priestess, known as reincarnation of Kikyo, and a short-tempered dog hanyou, son of Inu No Tashio were all tucked away safely inside the hut of their hostess, Kaede, the village's priestess. Kagome, however, was still awake, thinking. She hadn't slept at all that night, and didn't expect to. The fact that she would soon be required to chose between her two families, who were ironically five hundred years apart, had been bothering her lately. She had graduated with full honors, and had even had some offers to universities as far away as America, and had been heart broken, along with her mother, to turn them down. Kagome had held a lengthy conversation with both her mother and Inuyasha, and was now spending months at a time in the Feudal Era without seeing her family. However, she was growing closer and closer to another family. Shippo was not accidentally calling her 'mom' and 'momma' when he was tired, or when he just plain slipped up. She and Sango had grown closer, if it were possible.
Now, standing at age eighteen, Kagome Higurashi was more experienced in many fields than many adults twice her age in her own time, and most in the Feudal Era. She had fallen in love, had her heart broken, her life had been threatened countless times. Kagome Higurashi had saved lives, had her life saved by multiple people on many occasions, she had been kidnapped, and had even fought many battles, both physically and mentally. Soon, however, the end of what the entire group had waited for would finally come. Naraku would pay for all of those whom he had hurt, and suffer for all the damage he had caused. All the deaths Naraku had caused would be avenged. Soon enough…
As dawn finally broke, the dog-eared hanyou was first, aside from Kagome, to rise. Over the course of the night, Kagome had reduced herself to silent tears at her thoughts, and the remaining salty fragrance struck Inuyasha with a vengeance. His golden eyes fell upon Kagome's blood struck chocolate ones, as the two secretly mixed their souls. Both stared in awe at the other, completely oblivious that they both shared the same level of feelings for each other.
Finally, after roughly an hour of silence and serenity, a young fox awoke, and found his way out of his mountain of blankets. Though it was the middle of summer, a freak cold front had taken over feudal Japan, and only Kagome understood what a cold front was. After about an hour of trying to explain it to the others, she gave up after only Inuyasha understood, partly because he had watched the news so much in Kagome's time.
"Kagome! Why are you and Inuyasha staring at each other like that?" The young fox asked, smiling, as both Kagome and Inuyasha jerked out of their peaceful stare, a small shriek in surprise escaping from the girl.
"We were having a staring contest, runt." Inuyasha angrily bit out, as Kagome and a newly awoken Sango rolled their eyes.
"OOOOOOooooooOOOOOOOhhhhh! I wanna play!" Shouted Shippo as Inuyasha's triangle white ears twitched and he groaned in pain.
As everyone smiled in Kagome's direction, she stirred the ramen in the pot that hung loosely over the flame, as she continued her thinking. She had become a much deeper person, and had turned from the little girl who first fell into the well to the woman she was now, living five hundred years before her birth. As Sango walked over to help Kagome scoop the ramen into the bowls, the room fell silent once again. The group sipped their ramen slowly, the silence interrupted by a few clearings of throats and coughs. Finally, Miroku decided that he had endured enough of the annoying silence, as he shifted in his seat comfortably near Sango.
"While Kagome was in the future," He started, sitting the bowl of ramen down on the ground, grabbing for his staff, fingering the golden rings, each one fell from his hand with a soft 'clink!', "Sango and I were informed of a recent sighting of Naraku. I thought we might want to go check that out later on." He said knowingly, as Inuyasha's ears perked up, his golden eyes sparkling.
"Why the hell did you hold this from us for so long, ya damned monk!" He asked loudly, as began to Sango to chuckle, leaning her back against Miroku's arm. Kagome simply smiled, slurping her ramen. They would be heading out today, and she would be running on the previous day's small amount of sleep. Greaaaaaat. She thought to herself, sitting down the bowl of ramen, closing her eyes for a brief second…
Opening her eyes, Kagome snuggled herself down deeper into the soft, white pillow…wait. She wasn't laying down, and she was dramatically rising and dropping. What's going on…Kagome finally opened her eyes, finding head buried in a long, mane of silver. She lifted her head so see herself flying up into the air, then dropping back down. Soon, everything factored in, including gravity, and she sighed.
"Finally decided to wake up, wench?" An agrivated voice asked, as Kagome laid her head back on the shoulder cloaked in fire rat's fur.
"How long was I asleep?" Kagome asked wearily, rubbing her eyes, clinging to Inuyasha, as if he were going to drop her. He must have read her thoughts, because the boy simply took a better grasp at her legs which dangled at his side, and ran on.
"You went to sleep about…oh I'll say an hour or two ago. And I'm not going to drop you, so you can relax. Sango and Miroku took off about an hour before us, so I'm trying to catch up with them. Sango made me stay behind and let you sleep, and the kid went with 'em." Inuyasha said, keeping his stare straight forward, randomly sniffing the air.
Kagome groaned softly. "I feel like I've been hit with a ton of bricks." She murmured, closing her eyes, her head still laying on his shoulder.
"Well, you don't look so great either. Why the fuck were you crying last night?" Inuyasha asked, looking at her eyelids.
"I…it's nothing Inuyasha. Just something that I can't decide on." Kagome said quietly, knowing that she would only anger Inuyasha if she told him that she couldn't decide whether to stay here, where she knew she belonged, or go back to the future. Inuyasha groaned, pausing before lifting the two off of the ground.
"Well, wench, if we're battling Naraku today, I want you awake. You might actually help us a little. Go back to sleep, would'ja?" Inuyasha requested softly, and Kagome nodded, falling asleep right then at his shoulder. That wasn't so hard, was it wench?
After around another hour of sprinting through the air, Inuyasha finally managed to catch up with the rest of the group. Miroku smirked lecherously at the sleeping Kagome, receiving a small warning growl, as not to wake her, mouthing the words 'You are lucky.' Before looking to Kirara, who was curled up in her small kitten form, and nodding. The hell-cat stood up, quickly transforming into her full demon form, as Miroku, Sango and Shippo took it as a sign as Inuyasha wanted to leave. Soon later, the group was back on the run.
Yesh, I know, it's a little short. I just kind of wanted to get this out. Anyways, please review. I'm going to try and balance this one and Far From Serene, which I've gotten a few reviews on. Just know, that the fiction that I get the most reviews on is the one that I'll most likely work on first. Remember, though, there's only a week until my birthday! (May 3rd) Reviews would be great presents.
Amanda
