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Naraku did, indeed, return in the twilight hours. InuYasha and Shippo had actually been getting along quite well, being that all they had left was each other and the ragged old teddy bear.
"Hello, pet," Naraku announced when entering the room. InuYasha gave a low growl and Shippo cowered and hid behind InuYasha. "Don't be afraid, little one, all I'm here for is your friend," Naraku hissed at the cowering fox-demon. He walked over to where InuYasha was standing and forcefully pushed him onto the bed.
"Don't hurt him!" Shippo cried and hopped up on the bed by InuYasha. Naraku smirked and kissed InuYasha deeply, and Shippo only watched in perplexity.
"See, I'm not hurting him. In fact, he likes this, don't you, pet?" Naraku said and nipped at InuYasha's ear. InuYasha growled and struggled to break free, but in turn got his wrists pinned above his head. Shippo could only watch and speculate what Naraku was doing to his friend.
Shippo's eyes widened when Naraku removed his friend's haori and especially when he bit InuYasha. InuYasha whimpered only to receive yet another fanatical kiss. "What are you doing to him?" Shippo inquired nervously.
Naraku looked up from what he was doing to respond to the worrisome fox -demon. "All I'm doing to him is this…" Naraku evilly chuckled and removed his garments and the rest of InuYasha's as well. He then leaned in for a final kiss before flipping the hanyou onto his stomach, like he always did.
Shippo wondered exactly what was going on, and had no way of knowing that his modest mind, so young and innocent, would be blemished in a matter of minutes by one being's actions towards another.
"Why are you doing that to him?" Shippo ingenuously asked but with a troubled voice. "Why?" Shippo cringed when he heard InuYasha yelp at Naraku's plunge into his body.
"Because," Naraku maliciously smiled, his crimson eyes shining in the setting sun's rays, "I can, and he has no power to stop me."
Shippo whimpered at the sight before him, not knowing what was going on, not wanting it to continue, figuring it wasn't supposed to be happening, and only understanding that it caused his friend superfluous pain.
When Naraku had finished the act of filthy degradation, he changed and left the hanyou panting and the fox-demon wide-eyed with fear and worry.
Shippo sniffed at his friend's pained form, not knowing what to do or how to react. He watched as InuYasha weakly sat up and clothed himself. "Are…you…okay?" Shippo asked, pulling on the sleeve of InuYasha's haori with big, watery eyes.
InuYasha grunted at him and turned away, only to have the fox-demon hop in front of him. "What!" he weakly spat, trying to keep his fierce appearance. Shippo only sighed and leaned against the hanyou.
There was a long period of silence, InuYasha recovering, at least physically, from the rape, and Shippo worrying about his friend. Many wouldn't be able to see through InuYasha's hard outer shell into the weeping child inside, but Shippo could see it clear as day and felt sorrow for his friend.
"You look like you're going to cry," Shippo softly stated, staring at the hanyou's eyes, glazed over with pain and misery. InuYasha only shot a death glare at the fox-demon, trying to faze him, but Shippo knew this was only InuYasha's way of dealing with what just happened and looked past it. "You should cry if you're sad or hurt," Shippo sighed, receiving yet another death glare from InuYasha, who was desperately trying to hold back tears and ignore the fox-demon.
"I'm not gonna cry, okay!" InuYasha snapped, trying to convince himself that he wouldn't. Shippo only stared at him and cocked his head, trying to comprehend why Naraku would do that to him and what exactly he did to him. Another long period of silence swept over the room.
"If you want to cry," Shippo began, receiving a growl from InuYasha, "you could put your head on my shoulder, so you can have a shoulder to cry on."
"Well, I'm not gonna cry, I'm not weak," InuYasha spat as a single tear rolled down his face. He hoped it would go unseen, but Shippo had smelled the salt and stood on his tip-toes to gently wipe it away and then hugged InuYasha, who completely ignored the whole scene, only slightly growling.
"It's okay to cry, everyone needs to sometimes…" Shippo whispered in the shaky voice one gets before crying. "I'll cry with you," Shippo sniffed, still holding the hanyou with his tiny hands. "And I'll stay awake so you wont cry because you're lonely, too," Shippo said, doing all in his power to comfort the hanyou, who swallowed to foil the salty water's plan to be released. But, in the end, the salty water won and InuYasha let fall another tear that should never have been born.
Shippo wiped away the tear again with his small hand, and InuYasha only grumbled and shook off the hand in order to keep his tough outer shell thriving. Shippo knew that obstructed inside, InuYasha wanted to cry and let all his sorrows and pain flood out, but would never admit to it. "Don't worry…I'll be right here, so if you want to cry, you won't be alone…" Shippo yawned, and curled up next to InuYasha.
The hanyou could only stare and imagine how all of that kindness dwelled inside the young fox-demon and wonder why he was so determined to let him be able to cry. InuYasha pulled the blanket over Shippo, and leaned against the wall in his usual sleeping position, and drifted off the sleep to await yet another day.
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