Painful Beginning
Chapter 2
Sessho's Lady
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Kagome and Sota slowly climbed out of the well. Inuyasha was waiting at the top. He was about to start off his usually barrage a complaints, curses, insults, and names, but decided to keep his shut when he took notice of Sota's tears and Kagome's blood spattered clothes. Unfortunately for him, his resolve didn't last long.
"What the hell happened!"
Kagome turned to face him and met his gaze with lifeless eyes. Her face looked so empty that Inuyasha took a step back out of shock.
"Not now."
Short, sweet, and to the point. Though she spoke to him with a dead tone, but Inuyasha could sense more emotion in her words now than he had during their most heated arguments.
Sota ran forward and attached himself to Inuyasha's leg. He didn't speak a word, but the tear continued to pour down his face. Kagome stared at her little brother for a moment before turning her back and walking to the village. Inuyasha stayed by the well, with Sota hugging his leg.
"Kid."
Sota looked up at him with scared eyes but he dried up the remaining tears and fought the rest back down.
"What happened back there?"
Tears began to roll down Sota's face, but he continued to look Inuyasha in the eye.
"Are you gonna answer me or not?"
Sota released Inuyasha's leg, shook his head, and ran off in the direction Kagome had taken.
When Kagome reached the village, Shippo immediately jumped into her arms. He hugged her as tights as his tiny arms could.
"Welcome back, Kagome!"
When he didn't get a response, Shippo looked up at Kagome's face. He was shocked, to say the least.
"Moma, what's wrong?"
Kagome kissed Shippo's forehead and set him on the ground.
"I don't want to talk about it. Ever."
Shippo nodded and ran off to tell Sango and Miroku. He didn't want anyone else to ask Kagome anything about her visit home.
It made a look of utter pain contort her face. Not just the type of pain one gets from a severe injury; She looked as if she had been torn apart, inside and out.
A shout was heard coming from the forest. Sota ran into the village and clung to Kagome. She sighed and gently pried him off her.
"See that hut there?"
Sota nodded.
"Go inside. Show the old woman this necklace. She'll let you stay. And what ev r you do, don't come outside."
Though she was concerned, Kagome's voice still held no emotions. She took off the necklace attached to the Shikon jewel and handed it to Sota. She watched him enter the hut before she returned to the forest.
When she reached the source of the shout, she found Inuyasha fighting a giant demon. She had brought her bow and quiver with her just in case he needed help. Although she could plainly see he was doing fine, Kagome didn't want to see the bloodshed that was sure to come if she let Inuyasha finish the jobbed. She readied an arrow and aimed and the demon's heart.
"Sit."
Inuyasha crashed to the ground just seconds before the arrow shot past him, hitting its target. The demon instantly shattered into millions of pieces of pink dust.
Inuyasha Got up with steam coming out of his ears.
"Why the hell did you do that for, wench! I had everything under control!"
Kagome glared at him, efficiently silencing the hanyou.
"I will watch no more bloodshed, Inuyasha, and if you try to force me to, it'll be you who gets purified next. And from now on you will not call me anything except Kagome. The next time you turn to name calling, you will regret it."
Inuyasha took a step back and 'feh'ed. He hated taking orders, but he wasn't about to challenge Kagome in her current state.
Kagome looked up at the sky and sighed.
Inuyasha studied her, trying to find some clue to the reason of her sudden change. As he studied her face, he became even more shocked. Glistening in her eyes, were unshed ears. He assumed she was thinking about something because her eyes had that far away look as the tears began to fall freely.
Suddenly, Kagome snapped back to reality.
"Let's go. It's getting dark," she said, evenly.
The tears stopped falling, but Kagome didn't bother to dry the ones remaining on her cheeks. Inuyasha followed her back to the village
A set of eyes watched Kagome from the trees outside the hut. He watched as Kagome readied for bed. She approached everything in a cold and distant manner, as if everything would hurt her otherwise, until it came time to ready the to young boys.
"So, my little miko has a weakness for these two kids. How very unwise of her to show it."
The man chuckled.
Kagome awoke the next morning with the sun beating down on her face. At first, she thought it was all a bad dream, but she looked over and saw Sota's small bag.
'It was all for real.'
Kagome sat up in her sleeping bag and looked around the room. It all seemed so peaceful with everyone asleep, but she had this feeling that something just wasn't right. She lay back down and was about to g to sleep again, when she suddenly realized what was missing. A quick look around confirmed her fears. Sota and Shippo were no where in sight.
She ran outside, searching the entire village and constantly calling for the two boys. When she returned to the hut without finding them, the others in the grup were awaking. She ran through the door.
"My kids are gone!"
END CHAPTER
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