Okay, yet another chapter. I recently got a review saying that the person didn't want Moyuru and Inuyasha to be together. . . I know that I wrote in my summary that it was an InuKag thing, and that is what it will ultimately be, but what's a good story without a little bit of turbulance? Besides, it only makes a relationship stronger in the end when all is conquered. Also, besides that, this is my fic and I can do what I want with it. . . so long as I don't get anyone out of character, that is. Anyway, thanks to those of you that have reviewed and I hope you enjoy my next chapter.
Mayu Kitsune
Kagome's Suspicions, A Misunderstanding
Moyuru let out a sigh of contentment as she slipped into the warm water of the hot spring.
"Oh yeah, this is great isn't it?" Kagome asked, thoroughly satisfied by still being able to have her "girl's night out" as she called it.
"We deserve the treat. That was a big fight earlier today." Sango stated.
"Speaking of which. Moyuru, you're okay right? I mean, you've been kind of quiet lately." Kagome said, sounding a bit concerned.
Moyuru didn't avert her gaze from the darkening sky, "Yeah, I'm fine. Just a little sore, that's all." she answered nonchalantly. The truth was that she wasn't okay. What Suzushi had said to her had been echoing in her head and still was.
His voice still whispered to her, "Seiya died because he was weak and you made him that way, no matter how you look at it you were the one who killed him." it said.
Moyuru tried desperately to shove it to the back of her mind.
"Who was that that attacked earlier today?" Sango asked, having not ever seen him before.
"Suzushi." Moyuru answered simply.
"Suzushi?" Sango echoed.
Moyuru just nodded her response, "I understand that there were a few deaths because of him. . . I'm sorry. . . I-I should have left earlier." she stated in apology.
"It wasn't your fault." Kagome insisted.
"Yes it is. . ." Moyuru argued quietly, "they aren't the first people to die because of me." she said, turning away from them and falling silent.
"What do you mean?" Sango questioned.
"Nothing. . . just forget I said anything. . ." Moyuru answered nearly inaudibly.
Sango and Kagome exchanged concerned glances.
Moyuru looked to the sky as she felt changes begin. As the full moon rose into the night sky her fox ears disappeared and human ears replaced them. Her tail vanished and her hair changed from red to black. Her claws and tail vanished as well and her eyes turned from vibrant blue to sepia brown.
Moyuru sighed heavily, sounding as though she were beginning to cry. Damn these human emotions. she thought as the tears began to fall, running down her cheeks and falling with a dull drip into the hot spring.
So that's why she didn't leave today, tonight's the night she turns human. Kagome thought to herself.
After a moment or two Moyuru managed to calm herself down.
"Are you sure you're okay?" Kagome asked, concerned.
"Fine." Moyuru replied, trying to take her mind off of her troubles by thinking only of relaxing in the warm water. She leaned up against the rocks, laying her head back on it and closing her eyes. Her weapons lay atop a rock next to her, she felt more secure having them near.
Sango and Kagome began to chat a bit, knowing that Moyuru wanted to be left alone at the current moment. They seemed not to have too much of a care in the world. They didn't hear the rustling in the bushes near them.
Moyuru's hand slowly moved towards one of her weapons. The rustling was slight and could have been a breeze, but the scent she had picked up before she changed told her different. Without much warning, she hurled the sai and it streaked into the bushes.
There was a loud cry of surprise and a thud as Miroku fell out of the brush into view, a nice lump now on his head having been hit by the handle of Moyuru's weapon. That pervert! Had he been spying on them?
Kagome froze before turning completely red and screaming, making the scene that much more comical as the girls scrambled for cover.
Sango and Moyuru both reached for towels, Moyuru throwing one to Kagome and Sango cursing the perverted monk to hell and back all the while.
Footsteps could be heard nearing them. Inuyasha appeared only a few moments later. He had come in a hurry having heard Kagome's scream, "What's wrong!" he asked frantically before freezing a feint flush coming to his cheeks as there was a few moment's pause. . .
"Sit!" Kagome screamed in panic.
The necklace around Inuyasha's neck began to glow. . . oh no, not again. It drug him down, slamming him face-first into the ground.
Moyuru stared at him a moment, but didn't ask. That was the strangest thing she had ever seen! What was his problem? She knew he was half dog demon, but that was a bit to the extreme!
All three girls wrapped up in towels, gathering up their clothing and beginning to a more secluded area to dress.
Moyuru walked to Miroku to pick up her weapon. "Pervert." she muttered as she did to, storming off after the others.
"Thanks a lot Miroku." Inuyasha grumbled, picking himself up off the ground and going back to the hut where he had been before. That stupid perverted moron of a monk obviously didn't learn from his first encounter with Moyuru. Then again, would he ever learn? Inuyasha grumbled to himself as he walked away, brushing himself off moodily all the way back to the hut.
When they got back to Kaede's hut, the stew had already been warmed over the fire and Naomi was already eating. Shippo sat beside her, talking and carrying on as he ate as well. Inuyasha and Miroku had waited for them to get back.
Naomi stared at Moyuru after catching sight of her. "Moyuru chan?" she asked.
"Nani?" Moyuru prompted.
"What happened to your ears, and your tail. . . and your hair?" Naomi questioned.
"Um. . . uh. . . they uh. . . went away, but just for tonight." Moyuru said, not really sure that she could explain something like that to a little six year old girl.
Naomi seemed to take this as an answer. She had more questions, but didn't ask them.
Moyuru and the others got seated. Moyuru was just beginning to eat when Naomi looked to her "Moyuru chan? When am I going to get to see Chichi? I haven't seen him all day and. . . and well, he might be worried about me." she said.
Naomi's statement was innocent enough, but Moyuru had visibly flinched at it, falling silent and looking to the ground.
"Moyuru chan? What's wrong?" the little girl asked.
"Nothing." Moyuru answered as she sat down her bowl of untouched food and wandered outside.
How was she supposed to tell her? How was anyone supposed to tell a little girl who had so recently lost her mother that her father was now gone as well? At the moment, Naomi was blissfully unaware that her father had died in the mayhem Suzushi had created to get Moyuru's attention. How could she tell her?
Moyuru walked, her head lowered and her bangs covering her eyes as though trying to hide the tears that streamed from them.
Inuyasha hesitated a few moments before setting his bowl down as well and going out after her.
Kagome looked to him in question, What's he doing? she wondered. It's probably nothing. she thought to herself, trying to erase any silly suspicions from her mind.
Inuyasha found Moyuru seated in the same spot she had been in the night before, on top of the hill overlooking the field of flowers. The moon was full and bright overhead. She sat with her knees pulled up to her chest. Her human emotions had taken hold of her and she was crying into them.
Inuyasha seated himself next to her, "You're going to have to tell her sooner or later." he stated.
"I can't. . ." Moyuru whispered.
"Yes you can--"
"How?" Moyuru prompted, cutting him off. Her tone reflecting the agony she felt inside. "I can't. . ." she repeated quietly, "It's my fault." she cried.
"What do you mean it's your fault?" Inuyasha questioned.
"Suzushi was after me. If it weren't for me, her father would still be alive, along with a few more of the villagers. I never could do anything but screw things up and cause tragedy!"
Inuyasha sighed heavily, staying silent for a few moments. Even he couldn't help but to feel sympathy for her, he knew how it felt to feel at fault for everything.
"Who's going to take care of her now that her father's gone? It's too dangerous for her around me, I'm the cause of all this! I'm supposed to be leaving tomorrow, but who'll take care of her if I don't? I don't know what to do!" she exclaimed, taking in a sharp breath, trying her hardest to hold back the tears that were streaming freely down her face. "All this is my fault. . ." she murmured quietly, burying her face in her arms atop her knees again.
Everything hurtful said to her that she had shoved to the back of her mind began to resurface.
"You're nothing but a mistake." her father's voice said to her, "Nothing but a worthless, mistake." Her father's voice echoed over and over in her head, "You're a mistake. . ."
His voice was replaced by Suzushi's as her mind seemed to change channels, "If it weren't for you, Seiya would still be alive. He died because he was weak and you made him that way. It was your fault. . . Your fault. . ." his voice said.
"It's my fault, I'm worthless. . ." another voice murmured. She froze, realizing that the voice was her own. She was repeating what they had said about her. Repeating what she didn't want to believe. What she had refused to believe.
Inuyasha felt for her. He knew how she felt, but how to comfort her?
She continued to cry quietly.
Inuyasha hesitantly moved closer to her, wondering what exactly it was he should do. Comforting was more Kagome's thing! What could he do about it?
He thought for a few moments. What would Kagome do? Why couldn't Kagome have just come out here instead? It would have made things so much easier! He timidly put an arm around Moyuru, still not sure about his choice in comforting methods.
She leaned into him, her quiet crying turning into sobs as though his simple gesture of comfort had given her the push she needed to get all of her pent up pain out.
He seemed surprised when she began crying into his front, clinging to the cloth of his shirt as though it were her lifeline. He hugged her looking stressed and hesitant at first, but when she didn't in any way protest he hugged her to him as gently as he could trying to calm her down. What else could he do? He couldn't just shove her away and ask her what the hell she was doing. He just wanted her to stop crying!
Kagome had exited the hut. No matter how many times she had said it in the past, telling someone at dinner that you had to go to the bathroom could still be slightly embarrassing. She wandered a ways from the hut, pausing upon seeing two people at the top of the hill.
She gasped upon seeing who it was. It was Inuyasha, and he was hugging Moyuru! Why is he doing that? Kagome questioned. She stared for a few moments, not quite sure how to react.
Inuyasha had been acting a bit strange since Moyuru had come into the picture, but Kagome had never expected anything like this. As she stared, Moyuru's form held against him changed in her mind's eye to resemble Kikyo. Kagome shut her eyes tightly, shaking her head as though trying to dislodge the image from her mind.
No! No, he told me he wouldn't put me through anything like that again! she thought. Kagome tore her gaze away from the two, moping back towards the hut with a heavy heart. What if he leaves me? she questioned as she walked with her head hung low, he wouldn't, would he?
She tried to hide her troubled expression when she entered the hut, but only managed a straight face. The rest of them had finished eating and had cleared the space, setting the three bowls that hadn't been eaten to the side. Kagome picked hers out, finishing it in silence before unrolling her sleeping bag and joining the others in trying to sleep.
Naomi and Shippo were already peacefully sleeping, Shippo sprawled out and Naomi curled up on an extra sleeping bag next to Moyuru's futon. Sango and Miroku were still awake, having not yet been able to get to sleep.
"Are you okay Kagome?" Sango asked.
"I'm fine, I just thought I would get ready for bed while I was already out there." Kagome lied, trying to be convincing and failing horribly.
Sango gave her a concerned look, but Kagome didn't see having had her back turned to her.
Kagome soon fell asleep, her dreams plagued by the thought of Inuyasha leaving her. Leaving her to be with someone else, someone better for him. Someone better than her. . .
A few hours later Inuyasha entered the now darkened hut, carrying a sleeping Moyuru.
She had cried herself to sleep now seeming less in turmoil than before and sleeping rather peacefully.
Inuyasha put her down on her futon before pulling the blankets up over her. She didn't even so much as stir until he tried to move to another part of the hut towards his usual spot. He paused as she moved around in her sleep, mumbling a few incomprehensible words.
A distressed look had come across her face as she found herself alone. He looked to her questioningly before he seemed to get it, Of course, she's human tonight, she won't feel safe unless someone's close to her. he thought.
She stirred around more, her muttering becoming louder and more frantic. If I don't calm her down, she's gonna wake up the others! He hesitated before backtracking, sitting against the wall closest to her.
She seemed to calm down at this, going back into a peaceful sleep.
He sighed heavily, bowing his head and beginning to fall asleep as well. It was a little change, but he was sure Kagome wouldn't be too botherd by it. It wasn't like she really had to worry about him leaving her, Moyuru was just a friend that needed a little help.
Kagome slowly opened her eyes, sitting up and rubbing at them. Once she had cleared the blur of sleep from them, she looked around.
Kaede was the only one to be awake, the rest were still peacefully sleeping. Wait, where was Inuyasha? She had seen him, but when her eyes had passed over his usual spot, he wasn't there. She scanned the room again, finding him next to Moyuru, asleep.
Kagome's eyes widened at this. Why the sudden change? Normally he slept against the wall nearest to Kagome, why was he now with her? Was this a sign that he was falling for her?
Kagome averted her stare, now looking to the ground. She didn't want to believe what she had seen, but it was right there in front of her. Crystal clear. The only problem was that she couldn't do anything but assume and infer. What if her mind was just playing tricks on her as it had done the previous night when Moyuru momentarily seemed to turn into Kikyo?
Kagome looked over to the wall again, quickly averting her gaze when she realized that they were still there. Was he really falling for Moyuru or was she just getting the wrong impression? This was definitely bothering her.
I just need some time to think. She thought to herself, getting up and beginning to pack. I'll just go home for a while, it's about that time anyway. she decided.
Sango began to stir while Kagome seemed to even be rushing her packing. Sango rubbed the sleep from her eyes, looking to Kagome in question, "Leaving already?" she asked groggily.
Kagome paused momentarily, "Yeah, I'm starting to feel a little homesick." she replied before continuing to pack.
"But you weren't supposed to be leaving for another couple of days." Sango stated.
"I know." Kagome replied simply.
"Aren't you at least going to wait for the others to wake up before leaving so they know you're gone?"
"You can tell them."
"When are you going to be back?" Sango asked.
Kagome faltered a bit, it was always a tell-tale sign that something was wrong with her when she left on such short notice. The last time she had left so suddenly was when she had seen Inuyasha with Kikyo. "Um. . . . I don't know, I haven't decided." she answered as she began to leave, glancing back to Inuyasha momentarily.
Sango picked up something in her expression, but wasn't quite sure of what it could be.
Without another word, Kagome left, her large back pack strapped on her shoulders. She seemed a lot less cheerful than usual. There was no spring in her step as she walked back to her bike.
What's wrong with Kagome? Sango questioned. She began to get up, yawning and stretching. She noticed that Inuyasha wasn't in his usual spot, instead, he was next to Moyuru. Sango blinked a few times, finding this a bit odd. "So that must be what she's so upset about." She mused aloud.
Was what Miroku had said earlier true? Is this why Kagome left so suddenly without too much of an explanation? Whatever the problem was, Sango decided that she would wait until everyone was awake to bring it up.
So, How was that? I know you must get tired of me asking, but I just want to secure the fact that I still have everyone in character. Anyway, Just here to ask you to review and give you a preview of my next chapter as always!
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Chapter 7: Trouble, Enter Michiko
After all that's been going on since Moyuru appeared, the villagers have been getting angry, this last attack sending them further into disliking and even hating the new hanyou. What will the villagers do in an attempt to chase her away if they don't kill her first? As if the villagers hating her guts and Kagome running off wasn't enough problems! Now there's another heir wanna-be after Moyuru's head! Man, will these troubles ever end?
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Mayu Kitsune
