When You're Feeling Down

Night of the New Moon

CONTINUATION OF A ONE SHOT

I don't own Inuyasha. Or anyone else. I'm still working on Tessaiga, so hide.

READ: This will have Kikyou bashing, just not the humorous kind like where Sesshoumaru killed her with a frying pan.

"Inuyasha, thank you!" Kagome was excited, to put it lightly; she had always hoped Inuyasha would do something like this for her. "You probably don't realize how much this means to me." Inuyasha just stared up into the beautiful day sky. It too reminded him of Kagome, it looked to nice... wait a minute! What am I thinking? This was not normal. I don't usually realize the beauty of things.

"Seems like you guys got a pretty good fire going," Inuyasha told her as they broke the hug Kagome had put him in. "Where will we sleep? You didn't bring anything with you this time."

"I was in a rush this morning," she told him. "Sorry. but I guess we'll just have to sleep on the ground..." She started to head back to the group, Inuyasha following, and she was still holding the flowers in front of her. This sucks... I don't have anything to put them in. They'll die like this!

"Ah, Lady Kagome has flowers." Miroku stated.

"No, really?" Sango asked in a sarcastic tone (insert anime style glare face here) "Where'd you get them, Kagome-chan?" Kagome started to blush just slightly, and Inuyasha had a strange feeling in his stomach.

"I-Inuy-y-asha..." said Kagome as she walked over to Sango and decided to sit next to her.

"Really?" Sango questioned, sort of a surprise, but not entirely; they had all expected Inuyasha to do something for her eventually. "That's nice of him."

"That's something new." Shippou said. Inuyasha charged right at him and picked him up by his tail.

"YOU- LITTLE-"

"Kaaaagooooomeeeeeee! He's hittttttiinngg meeeeee!"

"Osuwari! be nice to Shippou!"

"(I don't cuss, but let's just say Inuyasha used lots of colorful words right here)!"

"DON'T SAY THAT NEAR SHIPPOU!"

"I've gotten used to it. He can't spend a day without swearing," Shippou stated, since he really didn't care; so far, there seemed to be not a day that Inuyasha hadn't cussed. "If I were to keep track I'd probably know every word in the universe, and more." Inuyasha climbed out of his hole, exchanged death glares with Shippou, and then sat next to Kagome. It seemed as if the world was ignoring Miroku at this point, since Sango and Kirara sat on the opposite side of him; Shippou sat next to Sango, knowing Kagome would probably sit next to her; and now Inuyasha had sat down next to her.

"Are you guys afraid of me or something?" Inuyasha gave a look somewhat like "What are you, retarded?"

"No, we aren't afraid of you, but we're afraid of your-" Kagome was cut off by Sango, who apparently wanted to get on Miroku's case.

"- you're lecherous hand!"

"He's always got his hand in places it shouldn't be," Shippou calmly said, not realizing his mistake, and after a long pause continued, "Did I say something wrong?" Kagome just had to laugh a little, and finally told him the error of his ways.

"Shippou, you may not realize it, but that is wrong on so many levels." She told him, trying to get him to understand without saying anything about it.

"Huh... OoOoOoh... I didn't mean it that way!" He turned to look at Miroku. "But that does sound like him."

"Sooooo..." Kagome said quickly, trying to change the subject as fast as possible. "Do we really want to stay here, or find a village? It is still daytime after all."

Inuyasha was first to tell her what they would do (of course), "We can go try and find a better spot, but if we don't find something by the time it starts to get dark, we're setting up camp. Tonight's the new moon, and I don't want any of us to be killed." Kagome didn't realize it was the new moon, and was actually kind of surprised to hear that! Usually she'd check the calendar, but today she was in such a hurry because Inuyasha was blabbing about "YOU broke the jewel, YOU can sense them, and YOU need to help us!"

"You broke the jewel in the first place!"

"It won't kill you to wait two seconds!"

"You're the one who can find them!"

"Why don't you get KIKYOU to do it for you?"

"Because..."

"You want her to, don't you?"

"No, no of course not, I want yo-"

"Right! Why don't you just let me die one of these days and get her to do it for you!"

"I couldn't let you die!"

"Well, you sure do seem to want Kikyou!"

"Maybe I will let you die, then!"

"OSUWARI!"

It was another reason he had gotten her flowers. To make up with her. He hated it when she cried, but most of all, when she hated him. He wasn't the kind of guy who wanted everyone to love him or anything, he called people colorful names almost all the time, but what bothered him was that it was Kagome who hated him. He just couldn't tolerate it! He never really made her mad at him on purpose, he just seemed to always say the wrong thing... he had lived most of his life picked on for being a hanyou, and the habits of yelling at people and calling them colorful names became a habit, it seemed.

"Let's go," he simply stated, trying to work his thoughts off of Kagome and things he did not like. "We'll have to find a village or something. Maybe we'll get lucky and there'll be a demon we can kill and get rewarded for."

"Why not go back to Kaede's?" Sango asked, it was easy to do, and they hadn't traveled far, she was sure they could get there before night!

"That sounds like a good idea," Kagome told her. "We weren't able to get far away today, we could get back by tonight."

"Keh. Let's shut up and go then." Inuyasha said. He stood up, bent over, and then watched Kagome stand up and climb onto his back. Kirara - who was lying on Sango's lap - awakened when Sango started to stand up, then almost immediately surrounded herself in flames and became her youkai form once they cleared. Sango got on first, Miroku got on behind her, and Shippou climbed onto Miroku's shoulder. They didn't even have to say anything when Sango saw his hand go towards her.

"You lecher! PERVERT!" She hit him hard in the face.

"He deserved that one."

"He always deserves it," Said Kagome, then Inuyasha started to run, and Kirara took off into the sky. "Hey, Inuyasha..."

"What is it now?"

"Quit the tough guy act, we're together now," Kagome could see right though him; every time they were alone his soft side came out, human or hanyou. "I can see right through you."

He just ignored her and said, "Do you still have the flowers?"

"Of course!" She was holding them close to her, careful to not let the wind hit them so hard and have the petals break off. "I'll keep them forever, even after they die."

"Why would you do that? They'd just look ugly after they died."

"Because you gave them to me, of course!" He was beyond happy that she couldn't see his face right now, because it was too red for words. He was happy inside, knowing that she wasn't still upset, and that she would keep something that looked horrible, just because he gave it to her...

"You'd keep them just because I got them for you? Even though they'd look like crap?"

"Well, since they were from you they wouldn't look like crap to me."

"That's stupid."

"What's stupid?"

"That you'd keep the flowers even after they die!"

"Why? They're from you! I wouldn't keep flowers that die from just ANYBODY!" This had struck a nerve. There they went again, arguing, even though he knew that he was happy because she would want to keep his dead flowers. Just because they were from him. He did not know this now, but those flowers would never die, never wilt away, never start to look any worse as each day passed; because true love can bring magic. Magic that can do almost anything.