The Breakdown: Life After Death Chapter 6
Author's note: I'm sorry the last chapter was so short, but this one's a little longer so I hope it'll make up for the shortness of the last one. Anyway I'm going to try to cram all the updates in that I can this week so that I can finish this before my birthday which is on the 16th. Cuz after my birthday I have to start thinking about going back to school -shudders-
Disclaimer : I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho or InuYasha
Last Time:
Kikyo died (yay) and InuYasha decided to join everyone. Now they're going to see if they can get Kouga and his clan to join them.
Now:
Two days later they had finally reached Kouga's home in the mountains. Everyone stood outside the waterfall for a moment. "Well are you gonna do in or do you need a kick in the ass?" Yusuke asked InuYasha. InuYasha didn't respond but he looked at Kagome indicating that she should go first. Kagome sighed. Kouga was a nice guy and all but he was a little annoying. Kagome walked through the waterfall and then was immediately greeted by Kouga who grabbed her hands.
"Kagome, it's been so long!" Kouga said. Kagome sweatdropped remembering that it had only been around two weeks since the last time she had seen Kouga.
"Yeah, it has." She responded still sweatdropping. Kagome pulled her hands back to her and Hiei glared at Kouga. Kouga noticed the koorime for the first time.
"Hey! What's this shorty doin here?" Kouga asked looking at Kagome for answers.
"He's with me." Kagome responded.
"With you? Like, with you, with you?" Kouga asked. Kagome blinked at him in a confused way for a moment before she understood what he was asking.
"Yes, he's with me, with me." Kagome answered.
"What? Your going out with this half-pint?" InuYasha asked.
"Well it's not like she'd like a worthless half-demon like you!" Kouga shouted angrily at InuYasha.
"Oh and I suppose being a smelly wolf is so much better!"
"Who you callin' smelly?" Kouga said leaping at InuYasha. The two of them fought in one of those typical dust clouds for awhile while everyone sweat dropped in the background. Yusuke looked from Kagome to Hiei and back to Kagome again.
"So Kagome, you really have a thing for old short stack over here, huh?" Yusuke asked.
"Yes." Kagome answered blushing slightly. Yusuke snickered a little and then turned to Hiei and then put his arm around him. (A/N: Not in a gay way, just in a friendly way)
"So not even the great Hiei could resist falling in love. Congratulations, man!" Yusuke said before breaking into a fit of hysterical laughter. It wasn't that he didn't think Kagome was a nice girl or anything, but Hiei being in love was just too much for him to handle. Hiei silenced him with a death glare.
"Umm guys?" Kagome said turning to InuYasha and Kouga. As soon as she addressed them they stopped in mid-fight.
"Yes?" Kouga asked.
"Well, we came here to ask you and your band of wolves to join us in our fight against Naraku. You see, he killed some of my friends and it would really mean a lot to me if you helped us defeat him." Kagome said hoping that this would be enough to convince Kouga to join them.
"Well what do you say guys?" Kouga asked turning to his clan. The clan regarded Kagome as a sister and would do anything to help her out. They all nodded.
"Well then it's settled. We're going with you." Kouga said. With that said they all walked out of the cave and headed down the mountain. Once they had reached the bottom of the mountain InuYasha asked,
"So how are we supposed to find Naraku? Do you guys have any idea where he might be hiding?"
"Hn, no." Hiei answered.
"Yusuke, do you think that you could use your compac- er, I mean, your super manly, not at all girly looking, communication device to ask George if he can track down Naraku for us?" Kagome asked remembering how sensitive Yusuke was about the fact that his communication device looked like a compact.
"Sure." Yusuke answered and he took out the communicator and it was Koenma who responded on the other line.
"What is it, Yusuke? I'm very busy right now." Koenma stated in an annoyed tone.
"Can you get George to track down a spider demon by the name of Naraku for us?" Yusuke asked. Koenma didn't respond right away but Yusuke could hear him yelling in the background.
"Ogre!" Koenma yelled.
"What is it Koenma-sir?" George asked.
"I need you to track down a demon by the name of Naraku for Yusuke and the others!" Koenma demanded.
"Right away, sir!" George said.
"He's working on it right now. Good-bye, Yusuke." Koenma said and then he turned off his communicator.
"So?" InuYasha asked.
"George is working on it right now." Yusuke answered.
"Sometimes I almost feel bad for George." Kurama said thoughtfully.
"Yeah, almost." Yusuke answered. A few moments later Yusuke's communicator rung. (A/N: I have no idea if his communicator actually rings or not but in my fic it does lol)
"So where's Naraku at?" Yusuke asked.
"He's in a village about 70 miles north of where you are." George answered.
"Thanks, George, your hard work is appreciated." Kurama said giving the ogre a warm smile.
"Why thank you, Kurama!" George said happy to be receiving real, appreciative thanks for the first time in a long while. Yusuke closed his communicator and turned to Kurama.
"Always the nice guy, aren't ya?"
"Well how would you like to have to take orders from Koenma constantly day and night?" Kurama asked.
"Point taken." Yusuke responded.
"Are we gonna stand here and talk all day or are we gonna go find Naraku and kick his ass?" InuYasha asked impatiently. Kagome hopped onto her bike while everyone started running beside her. They traveled North until night fell and they made camp in the woods near a hotspring. Kouga and his clan offered to go find some fire wood and Yusuke went along with them. He had become pretty good friends with Kouga the last time they were in the Feudal Era and he wanted to see what had happened with the wolf demon and his clan since he had been gone. Kurama went off to go look at some of the plants in the woods and Hiei climbed up into a tree saying that he wasn't hungry and he drifted off to sleep. This left Kagome and InuYasha alone. There was an awkward silence between the two of them and Kagome could tell that something was bothering InuYasha.
"Something wrong, InuYasha?" Kagome asked.
"I'm fine, I just...I'm still kind of getting over Kikyo's death. I mean, I know she wasn't the same person that I fell in love with so long ago, but it's still just weird to think that she's truly dead and never coming back now." InuYasha said.
"Oh." was Kagome's response.
"But what makes me even more sad, is that your just like the Kikyo that I fell in love with fifty years ago, but that I can't have you, either." InuYasha said sadly.
"InuYasha..." Kagome said giving him a sympathetic look. They sat in silence for a moment until InuYasha turned to Kagome.
"Do you still have feelings for me, Kagome?" He asked. Kagome was stunned slightly by his question. Her first reaction was to say no, but then she gazed into his golden eyes and remembered when she had kissed him because Kaguya had almost turned him into a full demon and her kiss was the only way to bring him back. She found herself wanting to kiss him again. "No, what am I thinking? InuYasha had his chance and he blew it, besides, I have Hiei now." But Kagome didn't try to stop InuYasha as his face got closer to hers and then-
Thursday: CLIFFY! MWHAHAHAHAHAHA! What will Kagome do? Will she let InuYasha kiss her? Will she kiss him back? Or will she remain loyal to Hiei? I'll try to update this very soon because I really want to finish it before summer ends and there aren't that many chapters left so expect the next chapter to be up sometime very soon! Or else Jessica will kill me!