Chapter lV: Hey, it's you!
"Damnit!"
Inuyasha cursed out loud as he saw the sun finally set below the trees, leaving behind a pinkish-orange color where it had once been.
"KAGOME!" He yelled out, again and again as he hopped from tree to tree trying to catch her, her scent, anything!
He knew for sure that she hadn't gone back to the well yet because he had sniffed in that direction and she hadn't gone that way.
Besides, her stuff was all at Kaede's house and she wouldn't leave without it, right?
Then, he caught a whiff of Kagome's blood. It was unmistakable. Kagome was hurt! Not badly from the smell of things but still, she was hurt and that was probably why she hadn't shown up at the hut!
Inuyasha hopped down to the ground and started sniffing the air for her..
"Hrm..She's gone this way.." And he took off through the woods as fast as he could go, following her scent.
He was very close to finding her now!
Then from out of nowhere, it just began to pour down rain.
"I KNEW IT!" He yelled out. "DAMNIT!"
The rain washed away Kagome's scent that he had been following. And now he was ticked off, and actually, he was scared.
His heart was pounding so hard in his chest, he had to find Kagome!
She was all alone out here in these woods, but what worried him most was the scent of demons all around him, and not just that, now Kagome was hurt and bleeding and if he had smelled her scent earlier, then they would have smelled it too.
And just to put the icing on the cake he would be turning human at any fucking minute now.
He fisted his hands and gritted his teeth.
He hated the rain, it got everywhere, his nose, his ears, plus it was loud and cold.
The only good thing about this rain though was that the demons were probably all hiding from it, and their sences would have been dulled by it too.
He flattened his ears down against his head and growled.
"Kagome..where are you?"
He tried sniffing the air again, but it was useless. The rain-water had already gotten into his nose.
One of his ears twitched.
There was something in those bushes behind him,and it was big, because they were rustling alot!
He flexed his hand and curved it into his usual fighting position.
"Might as well go ahead and kill this one!"
Kagome sat on the other side of the bushes, as tence as she could be. Something big, from the sounds of his footsteps, was walking around on just the other side of them.
She picked up a rock and held it up high, despite the pain in her broken wrist...She had to take the pain, if she didn't want to die that is.
"SANKON-TESSOU!" Inuyasha yelled as he shredded the bushes and, he suddenly saw Kagome's head! Inuyasha stopped using his attack just in time to miss her...but he couldn't make himself stop coming at her...
He saw her eyes get very wide, and she slammed something down against the top of his head. Hard.
He managed to fall away from her, he skidded across the ground, and ended up covered in mudd. His hand autamatically reached up to the spot on top of his head where she had clobbered him.
"Mrrgh!" He groaned. He brought his hand down from his head, and there was blood on it. His eyes were wide as he looked at his hand.
"Oh Inuyasha! I thought you were a demon-! I'm so sorry!" Kagome gasped out.
She stared at him for a moment...he really was alive.
She couldn't believe that he was right here! He should have been dead! She couldn't contain herself for a minute longer. "W-what happened to Kikyou?"
"We- uh- I-" He had been caught off-guard for a second.
Wait, why was she asking about Kikyou! It made him automatically angry, especially since she was hurt, and she was acting like everything was ok!
"Kagome. Kikyou's been..laid to rest...but it's you that i'm worried about! Your hurt!" He snapped at her.
She was shocked. Despite the tone in his voice, he basically had just told her that he was worrying over her more than he was Kikyou... she replayed what she had just heard him say in her head...
"But it's you i'm worried about!"
"Inuyasha!" She gasped. She stared at him with wide eyes for a few seconds. Just stared.
"What!" He finally yelled at her. He was still very irritable from all the things that had been going on today, and now she was just staring at him.
"It's just that...I thought you...left with her.." Kagome's eyes watered up.
"Nyah! No Kagome! I-" He saw tears begin to fall down her cheeks. "Why are you crying? Did you want me to leave-!" He asked in a panick.
"No!" She answered. "I'm so- relieved that your alive!" She choked out.
Inuyasha just stared at her wide-eyed. Didn't people cry when they were sad? Damn women were confusing!