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I STILL DO NOT OWN INU-TACHI BUT... I DO own Kaori! Him and all his spiffyness. CRAZY ENOUGH: I will let you use Kaori for your fanfiction, if you want. Just credit me for coming up with him and all his cuteness :3 (in case you didn't see this the last chapters)
If you see someone using Kaori and doesn't credit me, tell me in a review PLEASE. I need to know these things to I can totally destroy them for doing crap like that.
going to be here for the next ten chapters: OMG I AM LIKE GETTING A WEBSITE (ok, its an MSN group, but it will be a website because I will not have members... I AM ONLY ACCEPTING MY REVIEWERS AS MEMBERS, so if you sign up for MSN to join the group make your name the same one as on here, so I know who you are) it's under construction, but... it's...
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Without the spaces.
"Here's our catch of the day, Kagome." Inuyasha said.
"I realize that, thanks." Came her uttered reply. Sango and Miroku went off by themselves, but Shippou and Kirara went by themselves also.. Inuyasha and Kagome had gone off alone. If they all split up into those three groups they could slay the youkai faster. Shippou had thought of it, and he figured if Kirara went with him they'd do fine alone.
Now Inuyasha and Kagome were alone together in the middle of what at first sight seemed to be a deserted area. But not a thing could fool or miss Inuyasha's nose. It was coming.
"Get your arrows ready," Inuyasha advised, watching Kagome get an arrow ready. Then he got out Tessaiga for himself... but something was wrong again. He waved it around a bit, but nothing happened. The Tessaiga... refused to transform?
"Inuyasha! It's not working, and it's getting- yeee!" There was rumbling beneath them, like a light earthquake. The youkai threw down trees as it got to them, and it resembled something like a cross between maybe a scorpion and some kind of ugly beetle. "I guess it's up to me..." Kagome muttered under her breath, as she aimed for the youkai's head. "Okay, you can do this. For Inuyasha!"
"Girl, what the heck are you doing!" Inuyasha shouted, as she let her arrow go. It was surrounded by the purifying blue light as always. "I'm not weak or anything... Sankontessou!" Inuyasha jumped and scratched the youkai after quickly sheathing Tessaiga. "Well, that was easy." Inuyasha stated, landing on the ground as the youkai lay dead.
"But... what about the others we'll face? Tessaiga won't work, and I don't mean to be rude, but you aren't exactly the best with your claws."
"Then I'll use force!"
"The point is I don't want you getting hurt!" Kagome shouted. "But I guess we have no choice, if Tessaiga won't work... oh, here comes another one..."
"Let me handle it, I'll take it down."
"Fine, be stubborn then. Just don't get yourself- eh?" Inuyasha had already left. With a jump into the sky and an explosion he was face to face with the youkai, which looked the same as the last. "Inuyasha... you can do... oh... no, no, no..." Kagome got one of her arrows out. This was not good. This youkai was just a trick. Made to look easy... but it's aura was a different story. Why wasn't Inuyasha noticing? Was he too wrapped up in his time of victory and destruction to notice? "Inuyasha, look out!"
"What? I can take him dow-!" With a blast of wind from the horrid thing he made a violent hole in the ground as his landing, and Kagome's bow and arrow were blew out of her hand. She was thrown back by the power.
"You baka, you're too wrapped up in your victory to notice his aura!" The youkai took the advantage of Inuyasha being down to go after Kagome. It took it's instincts of the girl being his mate. Kill hanyou mate. Hanyou mate must die. Hanyou will be too sad to kill. Kill hanyou mate.
"Kagome! You ugly stupid looking creature, you'll die if you even so much as touch her!" Inuyasha jumped up and out of his hole with great strength. He didn't even think before pulling out Tessaiga and going right for the youkai. "I'll kill you!"
"Inuyasha, Tess-!" Kagome stopped herself in her tracks. It transformed this time...?
"Kaaggoommee! Stupid little- Kaze no Kizu!" Before the cuts in the wind could even get anywhere near the giant youkai, it seemed to fade away and disappear. "Feh. Killed 'im."
"Try again," Kagome worriedly said, standing up. "He was an illusion, or he got away. All I know is he wasn't there to get hit."
"Aw, crap, so now what do we do?"
"Well... we can't exactly tell the villagers they are illusion and except them to have tea when they attack, especially since not all of them are illusions. So how do you get rid of illusions?"
"You have to kill their source,"
"Source?"
"Their leader! Their master, leader, lord, whatever! Once you kill that, they're all dead."
"Oh, no. It's Naraku all over again."
"Oh, it so better not be Naraku all over again! One Naraku was bad enough!" Inuyasha shouted angrily. "I will not let anyone do anything-"
"Let's just go... maybe it wasn't an illusion, after all. I don't know. Let's just go. The faster it's all done, the faster..."
"The faster...?" Inuyasha pressed, urging Kagome to go on.
"Nothing," Kagome responded, with a kind of hurt tone to her voice.
Inuyasha's expression, however, was more than hurt. She can't tell me...?
"Kagome-chan, are you up for what I have planned?" Sango asked. She didn't really except an answer, though. Inuyasha and her must've gotten into a fight, because she hadn't seen them make eye contact for... who knows how long. She didn't want to press it, but if her plan succeeded... then...
"Okay, Sango-chan, I will go," Kagome replied. Sango seemed sort of shocked to get an answer. "Inuyasha, are you coming?" Sango secretly prayed he'd come along. Or else it wouldn't work out.
"Keh, fine, I'll go... it just better not be anything horrid!" They'd ended up slaying all the youkai in the end. The illusions were still mysteries... but they'd gotten rid of everything else. The illusion mystery would solve itself in time.
Inuyasha stood up and followed Kagome and Sango out of their hut picked by the villagers without another word. Miroku was left with Shippou and Kirara to watch Kaori until they got back. Nobody even bothered asking, no matter how much of a baka Miroku could be sometimes, he was nice and did things like that.
"Uhmm..." Kagome muttered slightly under her breath. She couldn't resist... no matter how mad she ever got at Inuyasha... something had happened between them. Everything had. No matter what it was, it was good. Meeting him was not a coincidence at all. Not. Even. Close.
She reached her hand out for him and grabbed his. His warmth was good enough for her.
"Inuyasha..." she whispered it low enough to Sango didn't hear. She knew Inuyasha did, with those ears.
Idiot.
He'd let his hand slip out of hers, rejecting her offer. She didn't mutter 'baka' or ask 'why?' because it'd just cause him to do it anyway, against his will. He'd only do it because she'd make him feel guilty.
She tried not to, yet she couldn't help but let the tears fall. Something so simple as holding hands... meant so much between them. So much. To her, anyway.
Would this trip prove itself to be disaster?
How could it?
The scenery was the exact opposite of her mood. Singing little blue birds in the sky, falling leaves here and there, flowers... the sun looked bright and happy. The perfect setting for, what? A happy couple. But this was indeed not their situation.
Something in her mind wanted to osuwari him so hard he'd totally regret it. But that would only prove her to be selfish and rude. The last thing she wanted to be for him.
"Kagome, tell me what's troubling you... please," Inuyasha pleaded. "Tell me what's wrong."
"I can't," came her soft and faint - yet there - reply. Sango had taken them to a nice cliff up the mountain. Beautiful scenery, and at the right time of day. The sun showed so many colors at this time, the time for it to set. "Pink for Sango."
"What?"
"The sun, Inuyasha. The sun," Kagome replied, forcing herself not to cry or do anything romantic to him. "Orange is for Shippou's hair. Yellow is for Kirara, her fur is almost a nice shade of yellow. I guess the brown could be for my eyes. And the color that takes up the majority of the sky, is red, and it resembles you. Do you see the slight purple? It resembles the jewel."
"Kagome..."
"Tell me, Inuyasha," Kagome asked, her hair blowing just perfectly in the wind. "I've been trying to avoid making any 'special' contact to you... but... was I ever at one time Kikyou's replacement? Be... truthful."
"I'll admit... at one point, you used to be... but, I realized I was wrong."
"Was I ever just a shard detector?"
"At one point."
"Do you want me to leave you, for home?"
"Why would I want that?"
"I don't know... I don't know,"
"Well, no. Yes and no. I will always want you here with me, but if there's ever a time I can fail to protect you... just think..." Inuyasha said. "It's already happened once."
"A final question... why did you reject my hand on our way here?"
"Final?"
"Inuyasha... why'd you reject me? And be honest, please, I don't want to feel insecure around you."
"Because I was scared..."
"Scared?"
"Of a lot of things. I've screwed you over more than once. I've failed to protect you before. I've hurt your feelings. I've done just about everything, and that would bind me to you..." Inuyasha replied. "I was scared you were only doing it for me... I don't deserve a woman like you, for everything I've done."
"Inuyasha," Kagome said, with a hint of laughter in her tone, which surprised him. "That's what makes you... you. And I like it. I like it when you are your own person."
"Eh..."
"As I've said before... I can't always compare... to anyone."
"Ka-"
"I still don't know if I can always fulfill your needs and always make you happy. But out of what I do know, and want..." she turned to stare at him now, avoiding the sunset. "I want you to laugh. I want you to be happy. I want to do anything I can. I don't know everything I can do... but I will do everything I can in my power. I've always wanted it."
"I guess now would be a good time, then..."
"For what?"
Inuyasha held her close, and had her lean on him. "Ever since the beginning... it was all a big lie. I really have always liked your scent, and you, for that matter. Kikyou's being there later only confused things (This starts at the manga book 5, when he first turns human (yes, I go by the MANGA mostly!)). Then later when I met up with her again... everything I said... I guess it was directed toward you. I didn't really realize it then. I just said it without thinking... you two are so alike, yet so different."
"I..."
"And," he continued on. "I guess telling it all to Kikyou instead of saying it to your face was easier... I don't know. When I hurt you (manga book 18 / episode 48 coming up) later with her... I saw her as being you, lying there, hurt. That Naraku had gone after you. And I reacted as if it were you. I wanted to tell you... but you ran away. And after that, I couldn't say anything."
"What about... you know..."
"I saw going to hell with Kikyou as being with you, I guess... and that's when I had made my decision. It was just so hard... it was so screwed up, it looked like it was all towards Kikyou, and I couldn't exactly say 'yeah, all this time it was really for Kagome, you know, I'm just a mean moron like that and all,' and expect everyone to just go 'oh, okay, we get it now!'"
"And all those times I agreed to go out with Houjou..." Kagome started, filling in her own part. "I guess I agreed to try and get over what you'd done to me that time, but I still couldn't forget you every time. When you took the shard and I went... (manga 8 I think) I was scared. Scared to death. Your wounds... what if they hadn't healed... and..."
"It's okay. It's all over now... thankfully."
"I-I'm sorry for everything. Let's just... forget the bad... and start again."
"Of course. Just promise to stay with me..."
"I willll..." before any of them knew it, she'd fallen asleep against him.
She feels so warm.
And now I know she'll never leave me.
I got myself into most of this... and somehow...
I managed to get out.
If I hadn't of met Kagome... how would my life be right now?
If this never happened?
I'd be a lonely hanyou pinned to a tree... that's what I'd be.
This is so much better than being pinned to a tree, for sure.
And it's with Kagome.
The only one... I ever... truly loved.