After many viruses, crashes, and anguished sighs I have finally updated!
YES I UPDATED! I AM GOD BOW DOWN BE FOR ME MORTALS! MUAHAHA!
Disclaimer: If I owned InuYasha would play the new season everyday and play the new episode for this week (Farewell Days of My Youth) before I leave for my aunt's house! I might not see it and that's the one episode I have been looking forward to since the start of the fourth season! Grrr....
Concrete Angel
Chapter Three: Reunion of the Lost
She let the warm water from the waterfall wash over her body. She loved the feel of the clean water on her skin and cherished every minute of it. That was one of the things that she loved about traveling alone, she could stop when ever she wanted and just take a bath without anyone to yell at her or tell her not to be too long. The little indoor spring was steamy with the warmth of the water. It was full of pleasurable scents of some wild flowers here and there. It was so peaceful and calming. It so-
"Kouga! Tell me where the fuck she is or I'll rip your fucking tongue out of your damn mouth!" [a/n: I wonder who that peaceful soul could be...]
-quiet.
Just what she needed: a visit from the one she ran away from. Kagome sank down in the water until only the top of her head could barely be seen. She held her breath for as long as she could before she popped back up again. She ducked under water one more time to make sure she had gotten all the soap out of her hair before she reluctantly climbed out of the small pool.
"InuYasha calm down!" she heard Miroku scold InuYasha. A year later and he still had a temper of a two year old. Kagome gentle dried off her legs as she sensed them coming.
"Calm down? Calm down! You want me to calm down after year of searching for her and she is only ten feet away!" he screamed back.
"I know you want to see her, dog shit, but like Miroku said 'calm down' and don't just go barging in there. That's were the hot springs are and I'm sure she wouldn't like it if you just run on her taking a bath!" Kouga said. She pulled he pants over her hips as she heard there footsteps coming closer.
"Kouga is right. Why don't you let me go in there and talk to her first?" Sango suggested. Kagome straightened out her top before putting her boots on. They were now only five feet away and Kagome quickly dried her hair off with the cloth. She ran a brush one of the demon cubs had given her. She folded the cloth and gently put the brush on top of it. She stood up as the door opened up just enough to let a body slip through. She saw Sango's shadow on the wall close the door and stand still. Kagome turned around to see her best friend with tears streaming down her face.
"Hey Sango." She said softly. Guilt washed over her as she saw her choke on a sob. Before she new what was happening, Sango was running at her. Kagome moved forward as well and wrapped her arms around her. Tears started in Kagome's eyes but she stopped them from falling and pushed them back. After a few silent minutes the two reunited friends pulled away. Sango laughed lightly as wiped away the tears. Kagome laughed too. Soon the once quiet room was filled with laughter.
"What-what are we even laughing about?" Kagome asked as she tried to catch her breath.
"I don't know!" laughed Sango and then they broke into a fit of giggles. Their second fit of laughter was short lived though when a knock on the door was heard. Kagome and Sango looked at the door.
'It's now or never.' Kagome thought as she went to open the door. Sango went behind her and put a hand on her shoulder. Kagome looked over at her and smiled. 'Ready or not here I come.'
Kagome turned the golden handle on the door [a/n: yes it is gold. Just because Kouga lives in cave doesn't mean he can't have some bling- bling!] and opened it slowly. When the door was fully open a small brown ball of fur landed on her knocking her back a bit. She looked down and saw a teary-eyed Shippo. She smiled sweetly at the little fox demon and hugged him to her. If she ever had to make an exception to her 'Love is just in fairy tales' rule it would be for him. He was like her son. She had to love him it was like an unwritten law that she had to love him.
"Momma! I thought you were gone for ever!" he cried into her neck. She pulled him away from here so he could look her in the eye.
"Well, I'm here aren't I? There is no need to worry I didn't leave you. I came to check up on you every now and then." His eye widened,
"Really?" he asked in awe. She giggled at the look on his face.
"Yep. I saw the time you put a slug in InuYasha's dinner." She stated. Sango and Miroku stifled a laugh.
"It wasn't that funny." InuYasha pouted quietly.
"No, I thought it was very funny." Miroku said.
"Yeah it was." Sango chirped in. Kagome looked over at InuYasha as the others laughed and recapped on the event. InuYasha looked at her never breaking eye contact. She shifted Shippo so he was on her hip, giving him a good view of some of her scars. He eyed them all, hurt dancing in his eyes as he tried to figure out how he she got each one and blaming himself for her having to get hurt.
"Where did you get all those scars." He dared to ask. Kagome's eyes hardened for a few seconds when he addressed her and he flinched.
"I got them from demons. The big one is from a human though. He was possessed by a snake demon." She informed him coldly. Kagome was about to say something about Kikyou when she suddenly felt a familiar hand on her butt. Her left eyebrow twitched before she back handed him.
"Pervert!" Miroku stood up, sporting a lovely red hand print on his right check. "You call yourself a monk." She muttered. 'Seems like some things never change.' She thought darkly.
"Kagome, I am shocked that you would accuse me of such acts!" Miroku put a hand on his heart in mock shame. "I am nothing but a humble monk who serves the House of God!"
"The only thing you do as a monk is tell some rich guy that there is a dark cloud hovering over their house and tell them that you will get rid of it if they let us spend the night!" declared Sango.
"Or ask some woman to bare your child." Kouga added.
"Or grab women's butts!" Shippo piped in.
"Why is everyone picking on me?" The group started in on a loud conversation about the difference between what a real monk should do and what Miroku does. InuYasha stayed quiet and took this chance to talk to Kagome alone since Shippo finally jumped off her shoulder to get into the conversation. InuYasha carefully walked over to Kagome.
"Can we talk?" She sees the pleading look in his eye and nodded her head. She lead him out of the hall way to another one that would lead them outside. Kouga watched her retreating back and went to go follow them just incase.
Kagome and InuYasha stood outside in the cold night air. Kagome looked up at the clear night sky and smiled up at the stars. "So what did you want to talk about?" she asked softly. InuYasha shifted on his feet and Kouga put himself up against the wall so neither of them could see him. Her smile was placed by a scowl and her aura shifted from calm to rage.
"You of all people should know why I left." she said in a voice so icy it made the winter air seem hot. He took a step back when her aura pulsed, making known that he was to close for comfort.
"Well Sango and Miroku said that it was because of Kikyou." He said after a few minutes of silence. She smiled bitterly.
"Where is Kikyou anyway? Shouldn't she be here with you?"
"She couldn't come with us, I'm not even sure she would want to have come if she could, she had to collect more souls." InuYasha waited for a few seconds before a thought hit him. "You were jealous of her, weren't you? Is that why you left? Was it because I was going to bring her with us on the quest and you didn't want to have her with us because she could sense the jewel shards too and she was a better miko? Is that it?" Kagome turned to look at him.
"I'm not jealous of her." She defended herself. He shook his head.
"No you are, why else would you have left? It's okay to admit that someone is better than you. [a/n: maybe he should take his own advice.] You can't help it that you aren't as good at being a miko as her, you could always work on your shooting too, but I would have still have protected you. There was-" Flesh hitting flesh echoed off the stone and into the night. InuYasha felt a light pain run up the side of his face.
"Shut the hell up! You don't know anything about me so don't you dare judge me like that." She whispered dangerously. He turned to look at her, hurt and pity in his eyes. She looked away, not wanting to see his face. "Just go InuYasha. I don't feel like talking any more."
"Doesn't matter, I'll see you tomorrow." He turned and walked away. Kouga hid his scent as InuYasha passed and pushed himself up against the wall.
"Kouga, you can come out now." Kagome called to him. He stepped out into the cold air and shivered at the change of temperature. He walked slowly up behind her. Looked up at the sky and closed her eyes. "I'm sorry you had to see and hear all that." She muttered.
"I shouldn't have been listening in the first place."
"But you were and I thank you for that." He looked up at the sky too, hoping that they would help him some how.
"Why is that?"
"Cause if you weren't there then I don't know what I would have done to him right then. I changed a lot Kouga. More than what you think. I've become stronger in my fighting abilities and my miko powers. In some levels I even surpass Kikyou, but of course that would be hard for anyone to believe since I am 'only a copy' and we all know that copies are never as good as the originals." Again Kouga was at a lose for words.
A heavy breeze blew over them. Kouga shivered as the cold wind hit his skin as he looked over at Kagome. She had her arms out and smiled greeting the wind. He watched as the wind blew her long hair behind her. He walked up to the right of her but stayed back.
"Aren't you cold?" She shook her head with a large smile on her face.
"I love the winter. The snow looks so beautiful."
"I have to agree with you there, but I could do without the cold."
"You know why I love this weather?" she asked totally ignoring his hints to go inside.
"Why?"
"Because it's nature's way of saying something is coming; something new." He looked out over the cliff when another blast of wind came. He noticed Kagome shiver violently and wrapped his arms around her. She stiffened for a few moments but relaxed a bit.
"Maybe we should go inside." He hinted. He could have sworn it dropped twenty degrees since they came out here.
"Just a few more minutes please." She said tenderly. "I want to see the moon before we go in." He looked over to where the moon should be to see it covered by a large cloud. He sighed heavily; he really wanted to go in soon.
"Okay, but if my tail freezes off then there is going to be hell to pay." They stayed in silence for awhile; the moon was half way covered by the clouds. Kagome's body started to shake in Kouga's arms.
"You are cold aren't you?" She shook her head no and brought her hand up to her mouth. That's when he realized she was laughing. "What are you laughing about?"
"You with your tail frozen off."
Sorry about not updating in like one million trillion zillion billion light years but I do have an excuse!! Since it happens that when you get 42 viruses on your computer it makes it run slower which makes mommy dearest have to bring it to work so some guy can fix it. But when I got it back that meant that I have no internet access on my computer. So I went on my mom's computer and I downloaded AIM...along with 56 viruses that turned a Grade A computer to a piece of shit so ...yea. Well I promise that the next chapter wont take as long and I will try and make it a bit longer.
I also tried to give Kagome her old character back but mixed it a bit with her cold self that I tried to create. So let me know if some parts were too mushy for the beginning of the story.
And too the person (I can't check my email so I don't know who sent me that reviews) who said that Kagome needed to get laid... I totally agree, but we will all have to wait for that. sigh Damn, why can't I write faster? hits head against the wall Think faster! Grrrr!
Well until next chapter.... Ja Ne!
Tenshi
Thank you for all your wonderful reviews! I just got them all today cause I just got my email to work! Now I think the story is getting some where and since I don't have to work this week I will try to get the fourth chapter in! Well until the next chapter! Reviews would be nice since I just broke up with my boyfriend today! (for anyone out there who went out with the guy you've known since kindergarten and finally went out with them, them broke up with them cause it was like going out with your brother you know how I feel!) sigh why are men such pains in the ass? (no offense to any guys out there, but you probably say that about us to!)
InuYasha: Women are always a pain in the ass.
Kouga: So I guess that makes you one too?
InuYasha: I'm not a girl!
Me: Could of fooled me...
Sango: Yea, I mean you do sort of have long hair.
Miroku: And you PMS worse than Kagome or Sango.
Girls: Hey!
InuYasha: Why is everyone picking on me?
Shippo: Now guys I all know it is fun to pry, poke, torment, mock, tease, and ridicule InuYasha, but you have to remember that he has a insubstantial child physic and should be try to remember that when we pry, poke, torment, mock, tease and/or ridicule this gentle creature.
Everyone: Blinks a few times and stares
Me: Wow, big words Shippo.
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Disclaimer: If I owned InuYasha would play the new season everyday and play the new episode for this week (Farewell Days of My Youth) before I leave for my aunt's house! I might not see it and that's the one episode I have been looking forward to since the start of the fourth season! Grrr....
Concrete Angel
Chapter Three: Reunion of the Lost
She let the warm water from the waterfall wash over her body. She loved the feel of the clean water on her skin and cherished every minute of it. That was one of the things that she loved about traveling alone, she could stop when ever she wanted and just take a bath without anyone to yell at her or tell her not to be too long. The little indoor spring was steamy with the warmth of the water. It was full of pleasurable scents of some wild flowers here and there. It was so peaceful and calming. It so-
"Kouga! Tell me where the fuck she is or I'll rip your fucking tongue out of your damn mouth!" [a/n: I wonder who that peaceful soul could be...]
-quiet.
Just what she needed: a visit from the one she ran away from. Kagome sank down in the water until only the top of her head could barely be seen. She held her breath for as long as she could before she popped back up again. She ducked under water one more time to make sure she had gotten all the soap out of her hair before she reluctantly climbed out of the small pool.
"InuYasha calm down!" she heard Miroku scold InuYasha. A year later and he still had a temper of a two year old. Kagome gentle dried off her legs as she sensed them coming.
"Calm down? Calm down! You want me to calm down after year of searching for her and she is only ten feet away!" he screamed back.
"I know you want to see her, dog shit, but like Miroku said 'calm down' and don't just go barging in there. That's were the hot springs are and I'm sure she wouldn't like it if you just run on her taking a bath!" Kouga said. She pulled he pants over her hips as she heard there footsteps coming closer.
"Kouga is right. Why don't you let me go in there and talk to her first?" Sango suggested. Kagome straightened out her top before putting her boots on. They were now only five feet away and Kagome quickly dried her hair off with the cloth. She ran a brush one of the demon cubs had given her. She folded the cloth and gently put the brush on top of it. She stood up as the door opened up just enough to let a body slip through. She saw Sango's shadow on the wall close the door and stand still. Kagome turned around to see her best friend with tears streaming down her face.
"Hey Sango." She said softly. Guilt washed over her as she saw her choke on a sob. Before she new what was happening, Sango was running at her. Kagome moved forward as well and wrapped her arms around her. Tears started in Kagome's eyes but she stopped them from falling and pushed them back. After a few silent minutes the two reunited friends pulled away. Sango laughed lightly as wiped away the tears. Kagome laughed too. Soon the once quiet room was filled with laughter.
"What-what are we even laughing about?" Kagome asked as she tried to catch her breath.
"I don't know!" laughed Sango and then they broke into a fit of giggles. Their second fit of laughter was short lived though when a knock on the door was heard. Kagome and Sango looked at the door.
'It's now or never.' Kagome thought as she went to open the door. Sango went behind her and put a hand on her shoulder. Kagome looked over at her and smiled. 'Ready or not here I come.'
Kagome turned the golden handle on the door [a/n: yes it is gold. Just because Kouga lives in cave doesn't mean he can't have some bling- bling!] and opened it slowly. When the door was fully open a small brown ball of fur landed on her knocking her back a bit. She looked down and saw a teary-eyed Shippo. She smiled sweetly at the little fox demon and hugged him to her. If she ever had to make an exception to her 'Love is just in fairy tales' rule it would be for him. He was like her son. She had to love him it was like an unwritten law that she had to love him.
"Momma! I thought you were gone for ever!" he cried into her neck. She pulled him away from here so he could look her in the eye.
"Well, I'm here aren't I? There is no need to worry I didn't leave you. I came to check up on you every now and then." His eye widened,
"Really?" he asked in awe. She giggled at the look on his face.
"Yep. I saw the time you put a slug in InuYasha's dinner." She stated. Sango and Miroku stifled a laugh.
"It wasn't that funny." InuYasha pouted quietly.
"No, I thought it was very funny." Miroku said.
"Yeah it was." Sango chirped in. Kagome looked over at InuYasha as the others laughed and recapped on the event. InuYasha looked at her never breaking eye contact. She shifted Shippo so he was on her hip, giving him a good view of some of her scars. He eyed them all, hurt dancing in his eyes as he tried to figure out how he she got each one and blaming himself for her having to get hurt.
"Where did you get all those scars." He dared to ask. Kagome's eyes hardened for a few seconds when he addressed her and he flinched.
"I got them from demons. The big one is from a human though. He was possessed by a snake demon." She informed him coldly. Kagome was about to say something about Kikyou when she suddenly felt a familiar hand on her butt. Her left eyebrow twitched before she back handed him.
"Pervert!" Miroku stood up, sporting a lovely red hand print on his right check. "You call yourself a monk." She muttered. 'Seems like some things never change.' She thought darkly.
"Kagome, I am shocked that you would accuse me of such acts!" Miroku put a hand on his heart in mock shame. "I am nothing but a humble monk who serves the House of God!"
"The only thing you do as a monk is tell some rich guy that there is a dark cloud hovering over their house and tell them that you will get rid of it if they let us spend the night!" declared Sango.
"Or ask some woman to bare your child." Kouga added.
"Or grab women's butts!" Shippo piped in.
"Why is everyone picking on me?" The group started in on a loud conversation about the difference between what a real monk should do and what Miroku does. InuYasha stayed quiet and took this chance to talk to Kagome alone since Shippo finally jumped off her shoulder to get into the conversation. InuYasha carefully walked over to Kagome.
"Can we talk?" She sees the pleading look in his eye and nodded her head. She lead him out of the hall way to another one that would lead them outside. Kouga watched her retreating back and went to go follow them just incase.
Kagome and InuYasha stood outside in the cold night air. Kagome looked up at the clear night sky and smiled up at the stars. "So what did you want to talk about?" she asked softly. InuYasha shifted on his feet and Kouga put himself up against the wall so neither of them could see him. Her smile was placed by a scowl and her aura shifted from calm to rage.
"You of all people should know why I left." she said in a voice so icy it made the winter air seem hot. He took a step back when her aura pulsed, making known that he was to close for comfort.
"Well Sango and Miroku said that it was because of Kikyou." He said after a few minutes of silence. She smiled bitterly.
"Where is Kikyou anyway? Shouldn't she be here with you?"
"She couldn't come with us, I'm not even sure she would want to have come if she could, she had to collect more souls." InuYasha waited for a few seconds before a thought hit him. "You were jealous of her, weren't you? Is that why you left? Was it because I was going to bring her with us on the quest and you didn't want to have her with us because she could sense the jewel shards too and she was a better miko? Is that it?" Kagome turned to look at him.
"I'm not jealous of her." She defended herself. He shook his head.
"No you are, why else would you have left? It's okay to admit that someone is better than you. [a/n: maybe he should take his own advice.] You can't help it that you aren't as good at being a miko as her, you could always work on your shooting too, but I would have still have protected you. There was-" Flesh hitting flesh echoed off the stone and into the night. InuYasha felt a light pain run up the side of his face.
"Shut the hell up! You don't know anything about me so don't you dare judge me like that." She whispered dangerously. He turned to look at her, hurt and pity in his eyes. She looked away, not wanting to see his face. "Just go InuYasha. I don't feel like talking any more."
"Doesn't matter, I'll see you tomorrow." He turned and walked away. Kouga hid his scent as InuYasha passed and pushed himself up against the wall.
"Kouga, you can come out now." Kagome called to him. He stepped out into the cold air and shivered at the change of temperature. He walked slowly up behind her. Looked up at the sky and closed her eyes. "I'm sorry you had to see and hear all that." She muttered.
"I shouldn't have been listening in the first place."
"But you were and I thank you for that." He looked up at the sky too, hoping that they would help him some how.
"Why is that?"
"Cause if you weren't there then I don't know what I would have done to him right then. I changed a lot Kouga. More than what you think. I've become stronger in my fighting abilities and my miko powers. In some levels I even surpass Kikyou, but of course that would be hard for anyone to believe since I am 'only a copy' and we all know that copies are never as good as the originals." Again Kouga was at a lose for words.
A heavy breeze blew over them. Kouga shivered as the cold wind hit his skin as he looked over at Kagome. She had her arms out and smiled greeting the wind. He watched as the wind blew her long hair behind her. He walked up to the right of her but stayed back.
"Aren't you cold?" She shook her head with a large smile on her face.
"I love the winter. The snow looks so beautiful."
"I have to agree with you there, but I could do without the cold."
"You know why I love this weather?" she asked totally ignoring his hints to go inside.
"Why?"
"Because it's nature's way of saying something is coming; something new." He looked out over the cliff when another blast of wind came. He noticed Kagome shiver violently and wrapped his arms around her. She stiffened for a few moments but relaxed a bit.
"Maybe we should go inside." He hinted. He could have sworn it dropped twenty degrees since they came out here.
"Just a few more minutes please." She said tenderly. "I want to see the moon before we go in." He looked over to where the moon should be to see it covered by a large cloud. He sighed heavily; he really wanted to go in soon.
"Okay, but if my tail freezes off then there is going to be hell to pay." They stayed in silence for awhile; the moon was half way covered by the clouds. Kagome's body started to shake in Kouga's arms.
"You are cold aren't you?" She shook her head no and brought her hand up to her mouth. That's when he realized she was laughing. "What are you laughing about?"
"You with your tail frozen off."
Sorry about not updating in like one million trillion zillion billion light years but I do have an excuse!! Since it happens that when you get 42 viruses on your computer it makes it run slower which makes mommy dearest have to bring it to work so some guy can fix it. But when I got it back that meant that I have no internet access on my computer. So I went on my mom's computer and I downloaded AIM...along with 56 viruses that turned a Grade A computer to a piece of shit so ...yea. Well I promise that the next chapter wont take as long and I will try and make it a bit longer.
I also tried to give Kagome her old character back but mixed it a bit with her cold self that I tried to create. So let me know if some parts were too mushy for the beginning of the story.
And too the person (I can't check my email so I don't know who sent me that reviews) who said that Kagome needed to get laid... I totally agree, but we will all have to wait for that. sigh Damn, why can't I write faster? hits head against the wall Think faster! Grrrr!
Well until next chapter.... Ja Ne!
Tenshi
Thank you for all your wonderful reviews! I just got them all today cause I just got my email to work! Now I think the story is getting some where and since I don't have to work this week I will try to get the fourth chapter in! Well until the next chapter! Reviews would be nice since I just broke up with my boyfriend today! (for anyone out there who went out with the guy you've known since kindergarten and finally went out with them, them broke up with them cause it was like going out with your brother you know how I feel!) sigh why are men such pains in the ass? (no offense to any guys out there, but you probably say that about us to!)
InuYasha: Women are always a pain in the ass.
Kouga: So I guess that makes you one too?
InuYasha: I'm not a girl!
Me: Could of fooled me...
Sango: Yea, I mean you do sort of have long hair.
Miroku: And you PMS worse than Kagome or Sango.
Girls: Hey!
InuYasha: Why is everyone picking on me?
Shippo: Now guys I all know it is fun to pry, poke, torment, mock, tease, and ridicule InuYasha, but you have to remember that he has a insubstantial child physic and should be try to remember that when we pry, poke, torment, mock, tease and/or ridicule this gentle creature.
Everyone: Blinks a few times and stares
Me: Wow, big words Shippo.
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