Contentment and Purity
Me: Oh yeah! Chapter 2! I'm so good!
Inuyasha: Sure.
Me: We've been looking all over for you! Where've you been!
Inuyasha: With Sango and Miroku.
Me: Oh? They weren't here…? Oh well. They soon will be! Once their cue comes on! Let's roll chapter 2!
Chapter 2: If This is How Dates Always Go…
Josh and I headed out the door and onto the sidewalk. I had no idea where we were going, but I didn't really care. There was no reason to really care about anything right now.
The sun was beginning to set by this time. It was the best sunset all year. There were no clouds to cover the orange ball of light, and the reddish-orange hues were spread across the sky like a canvas.
I heard something that caused me to stop walking. It was sort of like a squeak. Josh noticed this and looked over, uttering the first words heard all night.
"Something wrong?" I nodded and turned around. There were some people headed our way. Two, in fact, and a little cat was perched on one of their shoulders. It took me a second to notice that the animal had two tails.
I shivered. A cat with two tails! Was the world visibly corrupted or what! I blinked a few times to make sure I was seeing right. A woman with a cat on her shoulder- what weird clothes!- and a man carrying a staff with a bunch of rings attached.
Josh turned to face the same way as me. He saw the approaching people and shrugged "They aren't following us. If they are… Well, who cares?"
"I care." I retorted. I grabbed hold of his arm and dragged him along with me as I walked the opposite way. "Let's go somewhere. Maybe they'll lose sight of us!"
Josh tried to twist his arm free. He barely pulled, and my muscles were strained as I tried to keep hold of his arm. When he finally got free, he contemplated my sentence. "You're getting hyper… again."
"Be quiet. Wanna see if we can meet Kayla, or Kevin, or JP? Maybe I can call them… Do you have Kevin's phone number?"
I felt something pull the back of my shirt. I faced the person who had done so, and, to my surprise, the two 'stalkers' were behind me. They didn't look so mean; sure, they looked weird, but not mean.
"Hello. Are you Akaya?" I nodded, creeping behind Josh for both protection and ease of mind. He just stood there, not seeming to care what happened. The both of us, however, kept our eyes on the two. Josh kept his on the man, and I held mine on the woman.
"I'm Sango. Sorry for sneaking up on you. Inuyasha told us to come for you." The woman, Sango, continued. "He told us that his brother had said something about you. Then again, how would Sesshomaru know about you? You're in Kagome's era…"
She began to think silently. The silence was sustained by all of us, and was only broken by the man whispering in Sango's ear. She slapped him and whispered something back. He nodded and faced us.
"I'm Miroku." He held out his left hand, as if expecting Josh to shake it. However, Josh's hands were currently being occupied by mine, as I had grabbed them to stop my shaking. Meeting new people was never my best trait.
"Well, we were told to bring you back… so…" Sango turned and beckoned us to follow. I stood still, frozen in nervousnessfor being near these people. Josh began to walk, pulling me along with him.
"Are you shy?" A voice next to my ear made me release Josh's hands and turn to face the person. There stood Miroku, looking calm and oddly reassuring. "You needn't be shy around me."
I looked over to see Josh slowing down, attempting to listen to the conversation undetected. He was being extremely smart. Before I knew it, my hands were in Miroku's, and Josh was all over him, along with Sango as backup.
When we finally got back to my house, Josh had Miroku on the ropes. He looked so beaten that it seemed no hospital could heal him. Sango said it would only be a little while before the monk was fully healed and ready to take on demons.
Josh stuck around a little longer to ensure that Miroku would keep his hands to himself. Sango said that she would protect all those that needed it when around him, and Inuyasha was too busy laughing at the monk to pay attention. Kagome got right to the point, and sat everyone down in the front room.
"How did you guys get through the well? I though only Inuyasha and I could." My sister looked mildly confused.
"We hopped in after Inuyasha. It was weird, traveling between worlds." I looked over to see a little kid with fox ears and a tail. I was momentarily stunned by his appearance, but recovered quickly, as I had when I first saw Inuyasha.
"Sesshomaru said something about you." I turned to Inuyasha, who had been sitting quietly after his laughing attack. Everyone else looked at him too, curious to find out what he had to say.
"He said you're the reincarnation of his old girlfriend, Rekaiu."