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Chapter 5
"Its a beautiful day..." Kagome told everyone with a smile.
Kohaku had woken up with out much of a memory. He didn't remember anything that had to do with Naraku, he didn't remember killing his own family, but he did remember them, that including Sango, and that he was a demon slayer. Kagome believed that, eventualy, he would get those memories back, and hopped he was able to handle them.
Kagome took a second to look at the sun shining on Inuyasha's face, and she remembered him kissing her that night. If Kikyo hadn't seen it, would she still be in their lives? Since then, nothing had happened. He was just more protective of her, staying closer to her, and not to mention, she would constantly catch him looking at her for no reason.
She wondered if, like Miroku and Sango, they had finally broken through some invisable barrier that had been between them. That barrier had no doubt been Kikyo.
"Hey, Kohaku! Come look at these!" Shippo yelled and all the adults, even Inuyasha, smiled.
The two boys had bonded right away, becoming quick friends, which was good for both of them.
The sun was bright, and there was a small breeze. With no clouds in the sky, the stream of sunlight was neverending and it warmed the whole group. It really was a beautiful day.
"Inuyasha, are we gaining on Naraku?" Miroku asked as he sat next to Sango while finishing the bag of chips Kagome had given him and Sango.
"Yeah, there's no way I could miss him. This time we're going to kill him."
"I hope so... we'll finally get to avenge all the innocent people he's killed..." Kagome commented quietly, looking at Inuyasha who looked away quickly.
"Inuyasha, why do you keep staring at me?" Yelled Kagome as the breeze blew her hair in her face.
As Inuyasha watched her, he couldn't understand how he hadn't noticed it before. She really was beautiful, except for when she was mad at him.
She didn't really look mad, just annoyed, but he couldn't help it. It was like he didn't have any control of where his eyes went.
Trying to come up with an insult to throw at her and not finding one, he faced away from her with and angry look and crossed his arms.
As Sango watched on, she covered her mouth to stiffle her laughter.
Their antics were amusing, even if Kagome and Inuyasha didn't realize it themselves.
Neither would admit to the other how much they cared about them, and when one tried, they only seemed to argue, which was highly amusing to Miroku. They seemed to show their love for eachother when they argued.
'Oh, Inuyasha, just tell her already,' Miroku sighed to himself, wondering if it would ever happen.
Miroku had finally found the woman he wanted, and now he had to be careful not to lose her, because there were plenty of rich men that would gladly be her husband, but Sango had agreed to be HIS wife, as soon as they defeated Naraku.
They would tell the group eventualy, although Sango was sure Kagome already suspected something. Inuyasha on the other hand, would never guess.
"Shippo, Kohaku, do you want a chocolate bar?" Kagome asked while digging through her bag.
"Yeah!" Shippo yelled estaticly.
Kohaku stared at the chocolate in her hand and asked, "What's chocolate?"
"Oh, yeah, its candy from my time. Here, try some," She explained, handing it to him.
"Thank you, Lady Kagome."
Everyone watched as he ate and smiled, "Its very good, thank you. Sango, do you want some?"
The older slayer smiled at her little brother and declined, "No thank you, Kohaku. You can have it."
"Hey, Inuyasha...hasn't Myoga come back yet?" Kagome asked as she turned towards him, but his back was still to her.
'Damn, what do I say?'
Inuyasha wasn't sure he wanted to tell them the bad news, at least not on a day where they all seemed to be enjoying themselves.
"Help! Please, help us!"
Towards them ran two little girls, one with red hair and the other with black, who both fell to the ground at Kagome's feet.
Inuyasha watched her do her thing, switching into mother mode, comforting the children as they spoke.
It turned out that a band of theives were tormenting the women of their village, whose men were fighting in some battle.
"Lets go then. Kagome, come with me, the rest of you stay here out of danger. If its just a few lousy humans, Kagome and I can handle them."
Kagome couldn't believe he wanted her to come with him, but she wouldn't complain. He'd been acting like this since they had kissed.
"You two stay here were its safe, okay?" Kagome told the two little girls and they nodded, then she turned to Miroku, Sango, and Shippo, "We won't be gone long."
Inuyasha gave one of his confident smiles before telling Kagome, "Get on my back and lets go."
They took off, Inuyasha landing about twenty feet from the center of the little village, where the theives had most of the poor woman huddled in a group.
Kagome counted ten men that sat on straw mats on the ground, frightened women bringing trays of food to them. One of the men grabbed a younger girls arm and whispered something in her ear, which made her sob, then he threw her to the ground.
"Thats disgusting," Inuyasha growled without realizing Kagome had already walked ahead, fists at her sides, a sure sign she was very angry.
Inuyasha actually prayed for the fools as he followed close behind her, practicly ignored by the men.
"How dare you!" Kagome yelled at all the men and it was fair to say that the majority of them were shocked, "Attacking a defenceless village of women! Its disguesting!"
"And who are you?" The biggest one who was bald asked her with an evil grin that Inuyasha didn't like in the least bit.
"My name is Kagome, and I order you leave this village right now!"
Inuyasha's ear twitched as he watched the leader of the group take a couple steps toward Kagome.
'He takes another step and I'll tear him limb from limb,' He growled silently while glaring.
"Whose your friend?" Baldy asked Kagome, looking her over in a way that made Inuyasha growl loud enough for the men to hear.
"Baldy, you look at her like that again, I'll rip your eyeballs out, understand?"
Kagome looked back at Inuyasha and saw the look of rage on his face. It was that angry smile that he got before he killed someone.
"You've got one chance to get out of here before I start killing you. You're lucky you get that chance, now get lost..." Inuyasha's voice was low and dangerous and within seconds, every man but the bald one had gotten on his horse and rode away as fast as he could.
Inuyasha's fingers cracked as he flexed them and then he hissed, "I guess you want to die today."
The man yelled and ran for his horse.
"Are all of you alright?" Kagome asked, helping up the girl who had been thrown to the ground.
An older woman approached Kagome and Inuyasha with a low bow, "I am, Kimiko, the head woman of this village. How can we thank you for your help?"
Inuyasha lifted Kagome onto his back, and she gasped in surprise, but he replied to the woman, "Don't worry about it."
"Two little girls came and asked us for help. Their safe with our friends," Kagome told the older woman.
"You are travelers then? Please, as a sign of our thanks, you and your friends stay the night and rest," She insisted genuinly.
Kagome smiled at the kind woman and declined, "Thank you for the offer, but we're use to sleeping out doors in the fresh air. It should be a beautiful night."
"You're sure?" She asked and Kagome gave a nod.
"We'll send the children back," Kagome said with another kind smile.
"Wait...I've got just the thing..."
'The old womans as stuborn as Kaede,' Inuyasha thought to himself with a smile.
She disapeared into a hut, and while she was gone, some of the other women approached and gave their thanks, offering a room for them to spend the night, but when the old woman, Kimiko, came back out carrying a small box, all the villagers went silant.
"You will take this, young priestess. I was also a priestess once, but never found use for it. For generations, it has been passed down in my family, without ever being used."
Inuyasha looked at Kagome over his shoulder, and she looked horrified, "I couldn't do that, Lady Kimiko."
"Yes you can. I believe it will be more useful to you than it ever would have been for me," With the last sentence, she gave a glance to Inuyasha.
"But-"
"You shouldn't argue with your elders. You will take this and make good use out of it, now, get back to your friends."
Kagome took the box without arguing further, wondering what she had meant by her being able to get better use out of it.
"Thank you. Good-bye."
Inuyasha leaped through the air with amazing speed and Kagome smiled, holding onto him just a little tighter.
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"The woman gave you a box? Whats in it?" Miroku asked, sounding intrigued.
Kagome shrugged. She wasn't sure if she should open it just yet, "I'm going to wait for a little while."
She had stuck it in her backpack before the sun had started to go down.
Inuyasha's curiosity was driving him crazy, but he ignored it. It had been given to Kagome, not him, plus he had Kagome on his mind yet again. It was like he couldn't get her out of his thoughts. He could still feel her arms hugging him tight when he had started to run faster.
He had decided he would tell them tomorrow about what Myoga had told him.
All of them ate, Inuyasha being the one to go catch food, and by the time they were finished, it was night and with the sky as cloudless as it had been all day, Kagome laid down and looked up at them with a smile.
"I'll never get over how pretty they are," Kagome whispered to Inuyasha who was sitting crosslegged beside her.
Everyone else had gone to sleep, but having gotten so much sleep lately, Kagome decided to stay up with Inuyasha.
"I don't see whats so special about them," Was Inuyasha's reply, as he looked up at them with a straight face.
He really didn't. They were just there, every night, wether you could see them or not. There really was nothing special about them.
'What is special, is someone you can look at and know they'll never betray you, Kagome.'
"Lay down," Kagome ordered, pulling his sleeve.
With a surprised look, Inuyasha yelled, "What for!"
Luckily, the others didn't wake up, and Kagome smiled and whispered, "So you can look at it differently..."
Rolling his eyes, he also laid on his back next to Kagome, his head right beside hers.
"See?"
"It looks the same to me..."
"Look right there, do you see that? I think thats Mars."
He gave her a confused look and asked, "Whats mars?"
"Its another planet, just like earth, but its closer to the sun, so no one lives on it."
Inuyasha didn't care about the stars, or 'planets'. He was happy to be with Kagome, like he always had been. He wasn't sure if she knew he had always liked to have her with him, and wanted her to stay with him forever, but thats where the problem was. She had her family back in her own time.
"Hey, Inuyasha, are you listening to me?" Kagome asked.
"Uh..."
She laguhed quietly and moved closer to him, resting her head on his shoulder and closing her eyes, "Inuyasha, can you primise me something?"
"What?"
"Don't change for anyone. Just be who you are. I think your perfect as Inuyasha, no matter if you make me mad or not..."
Inuyasha looked at her face, "Ok..."
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"Hikari, have you finished yet?"
Hikari sent a glare at her father, "I'm trying, but with you constantly bothering me, its diffucult!"
Amaya sat on the hard dirt, calm, "Sister, lets go have fun tonight...maybe slaughter some villages, I don't know."
"Oh...lets go toy with Inuyasha...that sounds wonderful..." Hikari giggled to herself, "What do you say, Amaya?"
Akakios gave his daughters a warning look, "No. You will not interfer with the plans. Ruin some villages, whatever you want to do, but stay AWAY from Inuyasha,"
With that, he went off on his own, the two sisters guessing he was going to finalize his work.
They smiled at one another, a gleam in their eyes, "Father said to stay away from Inuyasha..." Hikari spoke first.
Amaya giggle cruelly, "But he said nothing about Inuyasha's friends..."
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