Hi everyone welcome back to another chapter for Giving up or moving on. I hope you will like this chapter. I do not own Inuyasha or Inuyasha characters but I own Shadow and Sugar.


Giving up or Moving on?

Ch 8 out on the Trail

Inuyasha and Kagome got ready to go and were in the car in less then 15 minutes. Kagome had never been on a horse before so she was a little nervous but she was sure Inuyasha would be ok with it. There were a lot of things that she had never done but he seemed to understand. "Inuyasha you do know I have never been on a horse right. I will just come out and admit that I am a little nervous about it," Kagome said while her and Inuyasha were sitting in the car.

Inuyasha looked over at her and smiled, "Don't worry Kagome I won't let anything happen to you. I have two horses there so you can ride the calmer one of the two. You will have sugar." Kagome smiled, she knew it would be ok, that he would just understand.

A little while later they pulled up at the stables. There were a lot of horses around and Kagome could smell it. Inuyasha didn't seem to mind that the smell though. They walked up to the barn and Inuyasha opened the door, he smiled at Kagome and walked through it. When Kagome walked through she saw beautiful horses. There were paints, Arabian, palominos, a few Clydesdales, and every other kind of horse you could think of.

She followed Inuyasha to a stall towards the back of the barn. When she got there she could see a beautiful while horse with little patches of black spots scattered through her body. "That's sugar you will be riding her. And the guy next to her is Shadow, I will ride him," Inuyasha told her, which made her shift her gaze to the horse in the next stall.

The other horse was a proud looking black horse, except it had a star of its forehead. "Wow Inuyasha they are both beautiful." Kagome told him. He seemed to be happy that she approved. Inuyasha opened the gate for Sugar and led her out of the stall. He tied her to a post across the walkway from her stall and brushed her a little, just enough so her coat shined and he could put the saddle on. The saddle was a regular brown, western style saddle, and the easiest kind for new learners to ride on. "Come here Kagome, get up on her back so I can check the length of the stirrups." Kagome walked over to him and stood by the horse. "Just put your left foot in the stirrup, then straighten your leg out and swing the other one over the back of the horse," Inuyasha told her.

Kagome slowly put her foot up in the stirrup and tried to straighten her leg. She couldn't do it as well as she thought and fell back, the next time she tried Inuyasha grabbed her waist and helped her up onto the horse. Once she was on she smiled down at him. He readjusted the stirrup for her legs and started working on Shadows saddle. About 5 minutes later Inuyasha was up on Shadow and they were ready to go.

"Ok Kagome to get her to move, just squeeze your legs together gently and she will start a walk," Inuyasha told her. Kagome was really nervous but squeezed her legs together anyway. Slowly the horse started to walk. She was really happy that the horse was a calm one because she knew she wouldn't be able to control a lively one. Inuyasha came up next to her and started showing her how to control the horse.

"Just take the reins and pull then to the side, to get the horse to go left pull left, to get the gorse to go right pull right, simple," he said while he demonstrated with his horse. Kagome tried it and she was starting to get the hang of the horse. "Are you ready to go out on the trail?" Inuyasha asked her. She nodded but was still not sure.

Inuyasha led the way out of the barn to the street, "We have to cross the street to get to the trail." Inuyasha told her. She nodded but that made her nervous. She didn't like the idea of having to cross the street but she knew Inuyasha would never let anything happen to her. Slowly Inuyasha led her over to the street and they waited for a break in the traffic to cross. (A.N. I hate it when people never let the people on the horses get past. I grrrrr at them all)

Slowly Inuyasha led her across the street and they went down a small hill on the other side. Kagome was still uneasy on the horse so Inuyasha made sure to go slow. When they were on the other side Inuyasha led her around a bunch of trees and onto the trail.

When Kagome saw the trail it looked beautiful. Because it was mid October (A.N. idk if it was but it is now.) there were lots of brightly colored leaves littering the trail, as well as filling the canopy of trees above them. "Wow Inuyasha it is beautiful," Kagome said while she was looking up at what was all around her. Inuyasha smiled, he was happy that she was enjoying herself, 'Why does having her happy make me so happy?' he thought to himself. 'Sometimes even I surprise myself.'

The two of them rode for about 20 minutes and Shadow was starting to get restless. "Hey Kagome, do you want to try to trot for a few minutes? Shadow is getting kind of antsy and I got to get him to run out a little of his energy." Kagome looked a little nervous but nodded her head anyway. Inuyasha came over right next to her and showed her how to stand while the horse was trotting so she didn't hurt her butt.

When the two horses started trotting Inuyasha was keeping a close watch on Kagome. She seemed to be enjoying it and she was a natural rider. While Inuyasha was looking back the horse he was on got spooked. "What the hell is wrong with you?" Inuyasha yelling while the horse started to buck and was trying to throw him off. Kagome's horse started to whine when she saw that Shadow was distressed. Kagome was getting really nervous because Sugar was getting rough.

Inuyasha was trying to get Shadow under control but he wouldn't. The horse would rear up and come back down hard before kicking his back legs. Inuyasha could only hold on for so long before ha was thrown off. He landed in the mud a few feet away but because the mud was so soft he didn't get hurt.

Kagome was working on calming down Sugar, one rear and Kagome would bee off and on the ground. Sugar started to try and run after Shadow but Kagome pulled on the rains and made her stop. When Kagome pulled on the rains her horse reared and Kagome fell. She was not over the mud so she knew if she fell it would hurt. She screamed, "Inuyasha" as she was falling. She braced herself for the ground but never hit. She looked up and saw that Inuyasha was holding her; he caught her right before she hit the ground. Kagome looked up at him and smiled.

Inuyasha was looking at her with concern. "Are you ok Kagome? I'm sorry I never thought Sugar would rear like that," Inuyasha told her. He pulled her close and held her tight. After a few seconds he noticed what he was doing and broke away fast.

"Yes Inuyasha in fine, thanks to you," Kagome said with a laugh after he pulled away. 'Why did he half to pull back? I felt so safe while he held me.' Inuyasha smiled at her and got up to go look for his horses. He was covered in mud but neither of them seemed to mind. It only took them a few minutes to find the horses. They were both in the field around the bend eating grass. Inuyasha walked up to the horses and could tell that something was wrong. Shadow was standing with his front left led up high, he had never done that before.

Inuyasha went over to the horse and looked at his leg. "He must have twisted something his knee is all swollen," Inuyasha told Kagome. "Now I can't ride him..." Kagome could see the big problem there.

"Well is sugar strong enough to carry both of us?" Kagome asked. Inuyasha looked up at her and said. "Yeah I think she would be but are you comfortable with that? Me riding with you." Kagome just nodded, she didn't see any big deal with it.

Inuyasha walked over to Shadow and pulled the rains over his head so it was more like a leading rope. He helped Kagome get on Sugars back and then climbed on behind her. Kagome leaned back onto his chest, she didn't know why but it just felt right.

When they got back to the barn and put the horses in their stall Inuyasha called the vet. She said that she would come out and look later that day. After Inuyasha hung up the phone him and Kagome got back in the car to go home.


Ok now I am done with that chapter. I am typing it at school because I basically have a free period. Instead of using one class period and making it all just bad I went slower and used TWO days. So now that's over, I hope you people like it. Thank you to the people who reviewed for the last chapter I greatly appreciate it. Now you have to go and review.