Disclaimer: I still don't own Inuyasha...
"..." regualr speech
'...' thoughts
italics flashback/memory
Chap.2-Time to Move On
It had been almost a week since Kagome and the others' disappearance and Inuyasha had become worse than he was when it happened. His skin had formed into a ghost-like pallor, the dark bags under his eyes contrasting with his skin. Kouga had become concerned about Inuyasha's condition not to long after the incident.
Kouga had just gotten back from hunting in a forest not to far from the deserted town that they were camping in. He walked into the hut they shared and threw the scaly, still flopping bodies of trout on the mat along with a couple of carefully picked wild grasses and fruit. He had thought it best to get a variety of things since he didn't know what the half-breed liked.
"Oi mutt, I brought you somethin to eat. You can take as much as you like, I already ate."
The demon went to a corner on the opposite side of the room and looked at Inuyasha. He hadn't reached for any of the foods Kouga had brought him, the fish slowly dying in vain. Kouga disregarded the hanyou's actions (or lack of) as a sign that he didn't like any of the things. He frowned and walked back over to him.
"You ok there half-breed?" He nudged Inuyasha a little with his foot. "Ya know, if you don't like any of it, you could just say so..."
Inuyasha just stared ahead with blank, amber eyes, no longer sparkling with the excitement and determination to keep living that resided there. Kouga bent down and looked into his eyes and reached out for the other's shoulder before having his hand smacked away.
"I know what you're thinking. I don't need or want your pity wolf. Just take your food and go. I don't need you...I don't need anyone...I didn't before...I don't need anyone now!" With that he ran out of the hut, not returning until the next morning.
Remembering this, Kouga decided to do something. It's not like he actually wanted the dog to live, but that Kagome would have wanted him to. He looked ahead at the half-demon walking, slouched over, down the road. Kouga furrowed his eyebrows and walked faster until he was alongside Inuyasha. He grabbed the other's shoulder and turned him around. Inuyasha had his head bent over, his messy, silver bangs hiding his eyes from the wolf's view. After a few minutes, he looked up and stared blankly into Kouga's pale blue eyes waiting for some sort of answer as to why he was disturbed. Kouga began to open his mouth, but hesitated. Now that he had Inuyasha's attention, what was he going to say? If it was someone else, he would have tried to encourage them to keep going with kind words, but this was Inuyasha. His former rival for Kagome's heart. He can't just start saying how much people need the other without sounding fake so he did the only thing he knew of to get Inuyasha active.
"Oi dog breath, you're really pathetic. Ya know that?" Inuyasha continued staring so Kouga kept going. "If you were a real man, you would've gotten over this already. It's a shame Kagome died loving someone li---" He was cut off by Inuyasha grabbing his neck, claws scraping against the skin, but not drawing blood.
"Watch what you say wolf."
Inuyasha eyes changing from a look of deep pain and sorrow into one of anger and tenacity, the same look that he had before whenever his and Kouga's paths crossed. Kouga smirked and cocked his head to the side.
"That's better. I was wondering when you were going to return back to normal."
He removed Inuyasha's hand from around his neck as easy as if he was tearing paper and walked off down the road leaving a very confused and still mad hanyou.
Sorry for the shortness. Let me know what you think!