Musings of the Night

Everyone was fast asleep around in Kagome's room…well almost everyone. Inuyasha tossed and turned in his sleep on the space on the floor next to Kagome's bed

"(ARGH! Darn it.)" The half demon growled he stood and stretched. He couldn't stop thinking about what Kagome had said before he got the blankets and pillows, before he'd come back she had already fallen asleep. "(Alright, we better get some rest. We're going back to the past to finish the jewel. The Americans will be here an extra week for vacation and to give me time to do what's needed.)" Kagome said.

At those few words Inuyasha's heart felt like it was going to completely split in two. How were He, Sango, Miroku, and Shippo going to go on with their search of the rest of the jewel? He felt around his small bag with his sword, his freshly washed, usually worn red suit, and his souvenirs from that day. He then pulled out the quarter of the Sacred Jewel he had swiped from Naraku at the last second before they had fled.

Inuyasha then started to think of Sango's reaction when she came to the realization Kagome probably not ever come back from America. He could imagine her having an especially hard time, after losing Kohaku she was devastated. '(I have a feeling she'll be just as bad, if not worse. Especially when Kagome first leaves. They have gotten to be like sisters. Shippo will miss her just as badly. Who will protect him from me?)' Inuyasha chuckled silently to himself at that.

As for Inuyasha himself, he didn't like the situation one bit. He didn't like the idea of Kagome going to this America; he knew nothing about it. Inuyasha wouldn't be about to protect her and watch over her. These X-Men seemed nice enough, but heck if he wanted them to watch her, they'd end up messing up. He was the only one who could protect her.

Over the time since he and Kagome had first began their journey to get the jewel back together he had come to a slightly disturbing realization, in his opinion. Inuyasha, the man who had sworn off love since Kikyo's betrayal half a century ago, had once again fallen in love and he had fallen hard.

Inuyasha shifted his golden-eyed gaze from the jewel fragment in his hand to Kagome's sleeping form and immediately he forgot about Kikyo. Kagome was Kikyo reincarnation, but Kagome was yet so different from his old love. Kikyo had died protecting the jewel that had gotten split into no telling how many pieces. Inuyasha felt sort of guilty for her death. It was for him she had been going to see with the jewel, he was going to become a full human to live with her. She had been struck down be the shape shifting half demon, Naraku.

Naraku had made himself look like Inuyasha and made sure to let Kikyo think it was her lover, but before that he had posed as Kikyo and shot arrows at Inuyasha to make Inuyasha think that Kikyo had double crossed him.

That's when the real Inuyasha raced to Kikyo village to take the jewel by force. Before he could make an escape the real, wounded Kikyo had gotten back to her village, after spotting him; she used the last of her strength to shoot an arrow to bind him to a tree in a clearing close to the village. She had just enough to give her little sister, Keade, final instructions to cremate her along with the cursed jewel. Kikyo must have thought it would be that simple to get rid of the jewel so no evil could get to it. How wrong she was.

That's when the girl of the twenty-first century, Kagome came in. Inuyasha stayed stuck to the tree fifty years, actually around three hundred or so years in the past to Kagome. It was her that released Inuyasha from the curse he had been under. It turned out to be the beginning of their journey through love, demons, and friendships.

Shippo was next to join the pair. The small fox demon had tried stealing the few fragments Kagome had in a small bottle, but Inuyasha quickly got them back from the runt. Then Shippo told them about wanting the jewel to gain power and get revenge for his father, who was killed by two brother demons. After a battle between the brothers, Shippo decided to stay with them and help. He had nowhere else to go, he had become an orphan.

Miroku was next to come across the three. He had been a perverted traveling monk. He often swiped things during one of his exorcisms; also often going around flirting with so many women the monk had lost count. After first coming them at a hot spring during his bath, Kagome had been there at the same time washing herself off. Being the sneak he was he slipped away without Kagome, Inuyasha, and Shippo noticing. The next morning with the help of a badger demon friend of his, Hachi, Miroku tried his hand at taking the shards from the three. In the process he had almost kidnapped, but he did get away with the jewel pieces and what made him faster was the help of Kagome's bike she had been using. However, he slipped up when he went to a close village and left the bike outside to go into a tavern for a drink. Inuyasha and Kagome found him fairly quickly. Miroku fought Inuyasha for a while, when the monk brought out his wind tunnel in his right hand, Kagome stopped by letting the wind drag her towards them. Miroku closed his tunnel just in time to keep her from getting sucked in. The monk told the three the tunnel had come from a family curse that had started with his grandfather. Conveniently enough the demon that had done it was a shape shifter, Naraku. The four decided to join forces to stop Naraku once and for all.

Last, but certainly not least the demon slayer, Sango and her pet cat demon Kilala. Sango, her father, and her younger brother, Kohaku had lived in a village of all demon slayers. She had trained just about her whole life. One fateful day she, her brother and father, along with a few of their fellow demon slayers had been called to a castle to kill a demon that had been causing trouble…the young demon hunter had no idea. During the slaying something had taken control of her brother and he killed every one of the demon slayers. Sango tried to stop him; she found out what was controlling him was another demon. Kohaku then used his bone weapon that was attached to a long chain to stab hiss sister in the back. That's when he came out of his trance. Inuyasha was sure Sango would remember that day for the rest of her life.

Inuyasha was stopped in the middle of his thinking when he heard something. He looked over at Kagome. She had turned on her side, back to him. The half demon sighed. '(It's going to be the hardest thing I've done in my life, saying good bye is sometimes never easy to do. I think it will be hard for her too.)' Inuyasha replaced the jewel back in his bag and went to sleep.

Okay, I know this was a huge chapter. Sorry to those that knows all about Inuyasha. I wanted to get everyone a better idea of what's going on so no one is confused. Until next time, stay cool and give me lots of reviews. Please review.

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