Hi again, sorry it took so long to update, and I aren't getting along very well. Anyway, before I start this chapter I would like to express my gratitude to all of you who reviewed and showed your support. Thanks, it's a big help. Anyway, here it is; Sweet Dreams Inuyasha chapter 3! Please R&R, and enjoy! - - Lady Silver wind-I did my best on your advice, now there's more than just 4 paragraphs. Thanks!
Inuyasha watched Kagome as she walked off into the forest, and tried to think of something he could say to her to calm her down a little, at least. Because he knew that every time Kagome got mad at him, everyone suffered; particularly him. No thanks of course to a non-stop flow of sit commands. 'Cursed prayer beads.' he thought to himself. Inuyasha folded his arms in his Kimono and started to mumble to himself as he walked over to retrieve Tetsaiga; which would be rather difficult seeing how it was roughly 3 o clock in the morning and not exactly the brightest time during the day. He retraced his steps and tried to remember exactly what happened when Sesshomaru thrust it from his grasp, but he could not recall the incident exactly; and relying on his nose at the moment would do him no good, because the fresh scent of blood was still far too thick to smell anything but that.
Miroku and Sango watched observantly from afar and chuckled to themselves every now and then as they observed Inuyasha's futile attempt to retrieve his fabled sword. And each time he picked up a stick only to find that it was not Tetsaiga, their laughter more than doubled. Inuyasha became annoyed at the fact that he was entertaining his comrades in a not so respectful way, and he let them know it. "Hey what's so funny ya stupid jackass! I'd like to see you do better at finding a rusted old katana in pitch-black darkness. He said to Miroku who diligently turned down the offer. "Oh, of course not, Inuyasha. Sango and I were merely laughing at a trifle matter." Inuyasha squinted his eyes and keh'd as he returned to his inevitable search for his sword.
While he was walking, he noticed about a four-foot object laying in the grass, possibly his sword, so he picked it up. And as he did, he heard the laughter of a certain youkai exterminator and monk approach a climax. Sango looked at Miroku, and spoke to him in between giggles. "Miroku, you really should give it back to him." she whispered, in fear that Inuyasha's superior hearing ability would catch her red handed. And even though she said it as quietly as possible, Inuyasha heard it and hopped up to Miroku from where he was anyway. The hanyou looked at the purple garmentted monk, obviously not in the best mood. "Give WHAT back to me, 'lady Sango'?" he asked in a sarcastic tone, as he clearly knew what it was he had. Miroku grinned and put his left hand behind his head, pretending not to understand. "Wah, what ever do you speak of, my lady?" Inuyasha was positive that it was Tetsaiga at this point, and was getting really angry. He cracked his knuckles and bopped Miroku right in the back of his head, as a vein popped out on his fist. Miroku reached into his cloak and pulled out Tetsaiga, as Inuyasha suspected he would. "Gee thanks." commented an irritated hanyou as he took the sword from his 'ally's' hand and began to walk off towards the forest. Sango looked at Miroku, who had another newly formed knot on his head. "I told you you should have gave it to him sooner." She said as she laughed, and Shippo nodded in agreement. Miroku just stood and thought to himself. 'It was worth the pain.'
After collecting an unnecessarily difficult to obtain Tetsaiga, Inuyasha too made his way to the tent through the forest. As he walked, he thought about what had just happened between him and Kagome. "Mabey I did like it!" he grumbled to himself, feeling irritated that she was probably just messing with his head. He thought more and more about it, and each time he did, he felt a little more nervous about the whole thing. So, he tried to get his mind off it, and came up with the perfect solution. 'Who cares about what she does!' he thought with a grin. 'I just beat my older brother, Sesshomaru, for the first time in my life!' He puffed out his chest with pride as he continued his thought. 'And it was a snap at that!' Inuyasha considered if Sesshomaru had possibly gotten weaker over the past few months, but quickly decided that that was not very likely, in fact very UNLIKELY. The hanyou continued thinking to himself as he walked and tried to forget about what ever it was he was forgetting, when, suddenly, he remembered the incident he and Kagome were in a mere two hours ago, and became rather angry. "BLAST IT!" he yelled without thinking, and let just about everything in the forest know where he was. He let out a moan, and decided to simply think about it in the morning.
Sesshomaru, who was still badly injured from his fight with Inuyasha, found himself wandering around towards the opposite exit of the forest where of he had left Rin and Jaken. He had tried several times to contemplate what had just recently happened to him because of Inuyasha, but he still couldn't quite understand how he had obtained so much more control over his new found power than he had not too long ago needed so much of. 'How?' was the word that he repeated in his mind over and over again. He recalled that the last time he fought with his younger brother, Inuyasha had completely lost his senses and went rampant- not even listening to the wise advice from his friends. And much like Inuyasha's thoughts, each time he went over what it was he was thinking about it became more and more bizarre. Sesshomaru compared in his mind Inuyasha's two almost completely different attack strategies both times he transformed. 'During my first confrontation with his youkai state, all Inuyasha did was charge at me blindly with no apparent type of strategy other than that. But the second time I met up with his transformation, he made sure that I wouldn't go anywhere by sticking me in the ground and attacking my vital spots.' He went over it again and again and again until. 'Wait! I remember now that THIS time around he listened to that Kagome girl. Last time he paid almost no attention to her what so ever!' that seemed to click with Sesshomaru, because he knows that a female can be a BIG influence to a youkai; especially one who relies almost completely on instinct to survive and do, well, everything else. He contemplated that she probably DID have an influence on him. Sesshomaru smirked in the most Sesshomaru way he could, and felt a boost of pride. "At least I know I might have been able to beat him were it not for that girl. He felt content, and would probably not bother Inuyasha or his friends ever again; or at least for a while.
Inuyasha, who finally made it back to the tent, was greeted by Kirara, and growled back in a similar youkai language acknowledging the two-tailed neko. "Yeah, I walked." He said, and was responded to by a low-pitched grunt. The silver haired hanyou walked over to the tent and looked inside only to find that no one had been courteous enough to save some room for him, so he hopped into a nearby tree and fell asleep after a long, long night.
The next morning, Kagome awoke and sat up in her blanket, and yawned as she pondering on the previous night's events. She felt sorry for Inuyasha, and felt bad because she knew it must be hard to not be able to control something the way Inuyasha couldn't. Although it DID surprise her that her cries and pleas for mercy on Sesshomaru's behalf got through to him. 'I remember the last couple of times he transformed, I thought that I lost him forever and felt that my life was in danger; and I had to sit him. But this time.' she continued. 'he listened to me.' Kagome was still a bit confused about what it all meant, especially on that last thought; because LAST time Inuyasha transformed he paid no attention to her whatsoever. So she decided to go and wake him up to have a few questions answered. And as she did what she intended to do she removed the leathery doorway from her destination to go outside and breath the fresh morning air, and looked at the nearest tree in an attempt to find Inuyasha. "Inuyasha! Inuyasha!" she called, but was to her disappointment unresponded to because Inuyasha was no where to be found. She tried a few more times, but to no avail. She shrugged at the fact that he wasn't currently available and went on to plan B: go inside to get her bathing supplies to take a bath instead. Kagome jogged down towards the spring after retrieving her supplies, and hopped on in; after which deciding that she would talk to Inuyasha later.
She so loved a nice bath, even though the water was as freezing as ever. She didn't mind, because she knew that it couldn't be helped; Inuyasha had done his best to locate their campsite near some water just SO Kagome could take a daily bath. And that seemed nice enough, for Inuyasha's personality anyway.
After dipping and diving around the spring, Kagome became irritated with the swimsuit. (It was a bit on the small side.) Her mom had bought it for her and she appreciated the thought, but it was way, WAY too tight in some areas that don't need to be discussed. So, she considered removing it. 'Well, no one is really around, and Miroku is asleep.' she thought, and after a bit of more debating, got out of the water and took it off. Even though Inuyasha made it clear to Miroku and Shippo NEVER to go to the lake unless Sango and Kagome were at the tent, the young miko felt nervous anyway and quickly jumped back into the water.
She sighed as she continued to swim around in the much-appreciated lake, and took her thoughts back to the previous night. So much confusion filled her mind as she wondered about how mysterious Inuyasha had become lately. The first thing Kagome decided to consider, was 'What was he dreaming about anyway!' the ideas that popped into her mind really bugged her, but she managed to calm herself and think clearly. 'I really wish I hadn't heard him say that last night.' she moaned. 'But, I'm glad I did, for some reason.' Kagome continued her trait of thought, when she heard a splash over on the other side of a marsh. Fear filled her for a moment, but a short moment it was. There was absolutely nothing to worry about, except mabey a mountain lion, the only problem with that idea was the fact that Inuyasha had thoroughly explained that there were no such beasts in this section of the woods. 'Mabey it's a youkai?' she wondered. None the less, what ever it was she would never know until she went over to the other side to see.
Kagome popped her head around the side of the marsh and looked upon whatever or whoever it was that had interrupted her private bath. It turns out, her guess was HALF right; she stared at the figure who was in fact, none other than Inuyasha. She became angry and called out to him. "Hey! What's the big idea! I thought you said that nobody was allowed over here when Sango and I weren't at the tent!" she yelled angrily, obviously not too happy to see the person that she was looking for only 15 minutes ago. Inuyasha's ears twitched as he turned his head to see Kagome's sticking out of the water. "Oh, you're hear." He began. "I thought you were asleep in the tent." He said, trying to give a brief explanation for his presence at the current location. Kagome felt a little bad for yelling at him, and began to apologize. "Oh, nonono!" she said in an accepting voice. "It was an honest mistake! I was just about to leave anyway!" Inuyasha swam over to where she was, growing suspicious of her sudden understanding. "Hey, wait a minute." He said as he began his interrogation. "Why are you being so nice all of a sudden?" continued an even more suspicious hanyou. Kagome was okay with him being here - it was as she said, an honest mistake. However, the fact that he was about two feet in front of her in water while she was naked was a different story. And on instinct, she exclaimed "SIT!" which wasn't the nicest thing to do to poor Inuyasha whom was just minding his own business cleaning his Kimono when his lungs were suddenly filled with water.
Kagome wasn't very happy about what she had just done, but decided to seize the moment and get dressed. So she quickly got out of the water and began to put her swimsuit back on, while Inuyasha was just surfacing and began to cough up a lot of water. She looked at him as he desperately scrambled towards shore in an attempt to breath, and yet another instinct inside of her spoke. Help him, he may die! It shouted, which was all it took for her to rush back into the water at his side. She grabbed his arm and began to help him across the water all the while feeling horrible for what she had done. "Inuyasha! Are you okay!" she asked in a panic, hoping that he was, completely forgetting that he was a hanyou.
Inuyasha lay on the shore, after coughing up the last of the water in his lungs and stared at Kagome, feeling just a TAD bit annoyed at what she had just done to him. "Geeze Kagome! You could have just TOLD me that you didn't want me around!" he exclaimed detecting a bit of rejection. She looked at him, feeling really, REALLY bad at what she did which was almost completely an accident, and apologized while she explained. "I'm so sorry! I was just, y'know. Not dressed and-" Inuyasha cut her off. "Well sheesh! Why didn't you tell me you weren't dressed! I would have gladly waited on the other side of the marsh had I known that!" He screamed, feeling even angrier but less rejected. Kagome felt even worse, but continued to apologize. "Well look, I'm SORRY, okay? I wasn't thinking straight alright!" Kagome said trying to get her point across, and Inuyasha finally accepted her apology.
He turned his head to the right and looked over his shoulder and spoke in acceptance. "It's alright, forget about it." Kagome's gaze met his as she calmed down. "Well, I'm glad you're not mad. For a minute there I thought that you-" Inuyasha cut her off once again. "Kagome, I know you well enough by now to know that you wouldn't just sit me to be mean, y'know." Kagome's heart beat just a tad bit faster. "Oh. I'm glad you understand." She said calmly, and grabbed his hand. "Thanks." Inuyasha looked at her with a faint blush on his cheeks, but couldn't find any words for the situation. He wondered what he said that could have made her do something so bold like that, it really wasn't like her. "Uh, Kagome? Why are y-" he began to ask but was cut off because Kagome decided to change the subject. "So, what were you doing here before all that?" she asked cheerfully, removing her hand from his. He looked at her blankly for a moment, then found his words. "Oh, that. I was just down here washing my Kimono from last night." He explained. "You know, all the blood from Sesshomaru." He added. Kagome just then noticed that he wasn't wearing his kimono, and took her time staring at his upper body before speaking. "Oh, I guess that explains it." she said, sounding a bit lost for words. And this very loss for words caught a certain hanyou's attention. "Hey, Kagome? You all right? You sound a bit confused." He said, wondering what she could be thinking about. Kagome was caught off guard while she sat in awe at Inuyasha's stunning figure. "Ahh, I'm sorry. I was just thinking about something unimportant." Inuyasha's suspicion grew to a higher level. "All right, spill it." He said, obviously wanting to hear an explanation.
Kagome looked at him. "Oh you should talk! I forgot all about that dream you were screaming about last night! Let's hear that too!" she said, catching him 'red handed.' The halfly dressed hanyou looked up at her in surprise, for he too had almost completely forgotten about his episode the previous night. He gulped. "Ahh, never mind that Kagome! Let's just drop the whole thing!" he said with a grin, hoping that she would. And of course she didn't, so she continued to interrogate him. "Well, why won't you tell me, anyway!" Kagome asked getting annoyed at the fact that he constantly denied her the answer. Inuyasha looked at her, and suddenly got serious. "No. I said I can't tell you." He stood up, gathered his kimono and began to walk off, while successfully worrying Kagome. She tried to stop him.
"Wait, what did I say? I'm sorry, I'll just forget about it." Inuyasha looked back at her, and asked her sincerely. "Are you sure? You'll NEVER ask me about it again?" Kagome gazed at him confused, but still granted his request. "Okay." she said meekly. "I'll just let you tell me when you're ready. Inuyasha turned back around, and began to walk off towards the tent. "Thanks."
Well, that's it! Bit of a cliffhanger but oh well. Comments, ideas, death threats, suggestions are all welcome!