Littleolmee: Yeah, it leads somewhere.
inuyashashun: Well, it'll be like the show, but since IY and Kago spend more time together we'll more IY/Kago moments than IY/Kik moments. As for the final out come.. I'm not telling.
Amanda: Yeah, Uni's cool with me stealing the guitar in tree idea. Well she hasn't killed me for it, so I assume shes cool with it.
Everyone else who popped into to say you liked it: Thank you, you rock.
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Kagome walked out of the general store after she had bought the last of the food and various other supplies she thought they needed. Which was alot. But InuYasha had given her more money than he could earn legally, and she hadn't asked questions.
InuYasha was off getting gas. He usually kept one saddle bag full of gas cans, and he was most likely filling those up too. And not paying for them. Kagome scowled.
Kagome walked through the early morning silence toward the gas station. InuYasha claimed he liked leaving early so they had as much daylight as possible to travel, but Kagome suspected he just liked waking people up with that damned suicide machine.
As she walked, Kagome couldn't help but enjoy the fresh air. Not like the smog of her city.
InuYasha was resting against the bike as she approached. She waved as she drew near. InuYasha just let out a "Feh." in response. He finished fillng the tank as she start loading supplies into one of the saddlebags.
"Ready to leave?" Kagome asked. "No, one thing I gotta do. Stay here." InuYasha replied emotionlessly and walked off.
InuYasha walked across the street to the whiskey store. He walked in, picked him self up a bottle, and left before anyone stopped him.
InuYasha returned to the bike, dropped the bottle in one of the saddlebags none too gently. "What's that for?" Kagome asked. "A special occasion." InuYasha replied just as emotoinlessly as before.
'If I can't find my woman, I'm gonna sit down and drink my wine.' InuYasha thought as he started the Electra Glide. Kagome leaned back in the seat and said good bye to feeling in her ass for the rest of the day.
The air had grown muggy as the day drew on. The sky had filled with dark gray clouds, which made the grass seem a darker shade of green. The road seemed about a foot below the rest of the ground.
Kagome watched the grass blow in the wind. The wind seemed strong, and a slight chill made Kagome rub her arms. She scootched forward ever so slightly in the hope that InuYasha would break some of the wind.
The sky continued to darken and the wind continued to howl as Kagome smelt the negatively charged air. It was eerie. There wasn't a sound except the roar of the bike. The world seemed dead. They were alone in the world.
There was a flash of light in a cloud, followed by a low rumble. "It's gonna rain.." Kagome observed. InuYasha raised his head and sniffed the air. "Not for a couple hours, we're moving slightly away from it too.." "So where are we gonna stop?" "Stop?" "Well yeah, I mean it's gonna rain." "So? I can drive in the rain." "But we'll get wet!" "And later we'll dry off!" "I'm not getting soaked! Stop somewhere! 'Sides, I'm cold.." She finished quietly, rubbing her arms again.
Kagome was about to make her normal sit threat when InuYasha spoke. "Alright, fine. Next town we'll stop." Kagome stared at his back in surprise.
They had managed to out run the storm slightly when they reached the next town. "You're only getting a poncho, then we're leaving again!" InuYasha warned angrily as he pulled to a stop in front of a general store. 'Okay, thanks!" Kagome said instinctively as she jumped off the bike. She was gone before InuYasha, once again with a bandanna over his ears, could mutter "Wha?" in confusion.
Kagome still had some money left from earlier and bought a clear plastic poncho with no incident. She walked out of the store and back to the bike. InuYasha was about to leave when Kagome noticed a group of police and spectators gathered farther into town.
"Hold on!" She cried, leaping off and running toward the group. "What? No dammit!" InuYasha yelled after her. He sighed and reached for a smoke. 'Damn girl. Damn her and her soul.'
By the time InuYasha had finished his smoke, the girl was still talking. "Oh Godamn it.." He muttered getting off the Harely.
"What the hell's the hold up?" InuYasha yelled before he reached them. Kagome ran to him and explained what had happened.
"Somebody was shot. He was found in an alley with a knife and ski mask. It looks like self defense, but they wanna question the shooter to be sure. Problem is they can't find her." "Her?" "Yeah, a witness said she was a little taller than me, black hair, was wearing a white T shirt and jeans.."
'No. It couldn't be. There must be hundreds of black haired women who dress like that.' InuYasha thought sniffing the air. He weeded out a familiar scent. 'Oh God. It is.'
Kagome stared in shock as InuYasha frantically sniffed the air. 'What the hell is he doing?' she wondered. There was a wild frenzied look in his eyes. 'Oh right, he can track the scent, but why does he want to help?'
InuYasha stared in one direction leading out of town into the hills. Without a second glance he set off running. Kagome yelled after him and tried to keep up., but it was hopeless. The half demon was at the first hill before she left town.
InuYasha stopped and bent down. The scent was harder to track here. He'd have to go slow. He glared up the clouds. If it started to rain the scent would be lost. 'Damn it all!' He sniffed the air again. The girl was following him. 'Fuck! I can't let her run through the hills alone, she'd be eaten in a second. And I sure as hell ain't waiting for her!'
Kagome saw InuYasha move, blinked, and found herself on the hill. InuYasha was already moving down the hill, sniffing the air as he walked. At the crest of the next hill he stared at the gathering storm. "Fuck, I don't have long.. It's going to be a big one too.." He said, running off again.
Flashes appeared in the clouds. The low rumble grew constant. The wind howled. InuYasha got careless in his search. He'd sniff, run a few meters and sniff again. Kagome struggled to keep up and put on her poncho at the same time.
A rain drop fell. InuYasha believed real hard that it hadn't. A fork of lightning split the sky in front of him. The following explosion of thunder deafened him. Kagome shrieked behind him as the ground shook.
Another rain drop hit him in the face. InuYasha ran faster. He only checked the scent on the hill tops now. Grass and dirt flew to the heavens in front of him as lighting came down. Two drops hit him in the face.
The scent was growing slightly stronger. He was moving faster than Kikyo had been when she had left the scent; maybe a day ago. The sky split open and it began to pour.
Rain blasted InuYasha in the face. Somewhere behind him he had started leaping from hilltop to hilltop. The scent was already beginning to fade. He crouched forward to smell it better. 'Jesus, Kikyo has a great scent..'
He kept running. It kept raining. Lightning continued to strike at him. Thunder continued to shake the ground. Hilltop after hilltop flew beneath him.
He lost the scent somewhere. He stopped and dropped to the ground. 'There!' he found it again. He crawled forward, nose to the Earth, rain pelting his back, soaking him to the bone.
'Gone. I fucking lost it.' InuYasha stopped when he realized there was nothing for him to smell anymore. Nothing but rain. Rain and grass.
The hill he was on was particularly high. He stood up and stared out across the landscape. At the lighting and thunder raging against the earth, the rolling hills covered in grass being whipped around by the wind, at the dark storming clouds and driving rain.
He let himself fall down backwards on his ass. A shaking hand stuck a cigarette in his mouth. The same shaking hand tried desperately to work a lighter.
"GOD DAMN IT!" He raged at the heavens and tossed the lighter into the storm.
Kagome stared at the half demon. She gave him a couple minutes, then began walking towards him.
She sat down next to him silently. She knew better than to ask. She noticed he had a flask in his hand. "Are you okay InuYasha?" She asked quietly. "Yeah. Fine." He answered. He held the flask out to her. "Here. It'll keep ya warm." He said in way that almost sounded friendly. Kagome looked at him in confusion. He looked fine, but his eyes.. his eyes were in turmoil. "You said you were cold." Kagome nodded and took the flask.
She took a swig and coughed. What ever it was, it burned her throat. InuYasha chuckled and turned his eyes back to the storm. 'Angel, sweet angel of my youth, where have ya gone? Ya flew away too soon...'