Ch.12

Cast in Stone

By Zeldagurl

Authors note: Sorry about the slight delay! My okaa-san came home from work early, and took me out for some pizza. I WAS expecting to use this time for writing, but okaa-san was particularly jolly, so it took a while. Not that I'm complaining, because I love pizza. And I love my Okaa-san, for buying me pizza, and inuyasha DVDs, and stuff... .

Thank you guys! For suffering for my grammar mistakes and misspelled words, I'll definitely try to work on that for you. So, while that's in progress...

Heres the chappie!

Kagome had done everything right, she knew. She was completely ready to leave for her "quiet" meeting with kouga and sesshoumaru. Now, all she had to do was sneak out without Inuyasha noticing.

She winced, it WOULD be hard... With a nose like his, he would be able to smell her leaving, maybe even the nervous feeling in her gut. If that was at all possible...

She pulled on her coat hurriedly, taking light, quick steps, hesitating and listening for her hanyou.

She looked behind her,

"So kagome, where're you goin'?" She yelped and twisted back to see Inuyasha, now blocking the front door.

"Um... I..."

Before she could say anything more, he closed his eyes and crossed his arms across his chest.

"Wherever you go, I go." Kagome could tell that he was set in his decision, but it really wouldn't be good for him to go, considering that the two she was meeting were formerly his enemies. In love and power...

"Inuyasha, I'll only be out for a half an hour, and then I'll be back."

He opened his eyes and practically pouted, which wasn't really unusual, or out of his temperament.

She openly smiled and patted his shoulder.

"It's only with friends, I'll be fine."

She knew that he still didn't like it, but he really didn't have any choice in the matter, apparently.

She walked past the grumbling hanyou and stopped in the doorway, smiling back at him.

"Stay in the house, okay Inuyasha...?" He nodded solemnly, watching her as she went, closing the door gently behind her.

"Kagome! So glad you could make it!" She heard him before she saw him, kouga was still confident, and waved at her from a small table at a café, a good walk away from her house.

Next to him, sat the great lord of the western lands, Sesshoumaru, who blandly watched her approach.

Surprisingly, as soon as she got close enough, both of them took a sniff, one wrinkling his nose in disgust, and the other smiling slightly.

"My brother, you've found him then have you?"

Kagome nodded and sat down, folding her hands in her lap and looking down at the ground. Had she looked up, she would have seen a very quiet kouga... Which WAS unusual.

"I won't ask about him for I haven't the time, but I wish to know if you've had any attacks, or unusual occurrences lately..."

Kagome shook her head slowly at his words, but spoke up after a moment of thought.

"My mother, brother, and shippo haven't come back from dinner yet. They left last night, and I haven't heard from them at all."

Both Kouga and Sesshoumaru looked up at that, neither saying anything to comfort her, because neither of them really knew what to say. To tell the truth, neither of them knew anything about her family life anyway.

"I am sure that we will find them, should we look. Both kouga and I shall be on our guard." Kouga nodded at that, getting up at the same time Sesshoumaru did.

With a simple nod, Sesshoumaru set off walking towards a lavish black limo that was obviously his.

"Kagome... I need to say something before I go." She looked to kouga, hoping that he wasn't going to say what she thought he was going to say.

He looked away, towards the sun, rubbing the back of his head awkwardly.

"I didn't mean to lead you on or anything, but, since dog-breath is back, I want to tell you that I've already mated. With Ayame, you met her back then. I even had a few pups with her." He sighed.

"I only called you that for old times sake, because I thought that without dog-breath, you'd feel very alone."

Kagome smiled.

"I'm glad to know that you made the effort kouga, and I'm also glad that you've settled down with Ayame. It's a good match..." She glanced to the darkening skies, raising her eyebrows at the slight drizzle she was sure would ensue.

Both of them smiled warmly.

"I've got to get going, so tell Inuyasha that he ain't got any competition anymore." Kouga began to back away, waving as he did so.

Kagome did the same, sighing as she looked up at the sky.

It WAS going to rain, and she was wearing a skirt, with a light spring shirt, with no umbrella to keep her from getting wet. As if hearing her thoughts, the rain began pouring from the sky, coming down relentlessly.

She growled to herself for being so unobservant and stupid.

She gripped her small bag and held it over her head as best she could, walking fast under her circumstances. Kagome was so absorbed in her task at hand, that she didn't notice a certain someone sneaking up on her; that is, until she couldn't feel the rain anymore.

She turned around to see a very irritated hanyou towering above her...

"Stupid, you'll get a cold if you walk around like this." He glared down at her, dressed in the clothes that kagome had given him, and with a jacket in his arms that kagome had neglected to bring.

"Inuyasha..." Had he come to bring the jacket to her...? Evidently so, or else he wouldn't have come.

"C'mon." He held the coat over them both and led kagome to a sheltered alley that peeked out into the street.

Kagome shivered slightly, both from the cold, and the closeness between her and Inuyasha.

"I had a heck of a time finding you through this rain, had to sort through dozens of scents before I found yours." He looked down at her, and almost chuckled at the drowned-rat look of her.

"I'm trying to be mad at you, kagome, could you take that look of your face...?" She smirked, looking up at him, and finding some of that old fire that had been so rampant in her soul, back in the feudal era.

Chuckling to himself, he looked to the sky, and then down to the ground again.

"I missed you Inuyasha..." Looking to her in surprise, his mouth opened slightly at her confession. The miko blushed slightly, although still maintaining eye contact with the hanyou.

Getting over his surprise, Inuyasha smiled, and hugged her to him tightly. Closing his eyes and burying his nose in her raven hair to take in the scent that he had missed for 500 years.

"I missed you too kagome."

That was an understatement...

In his mind, Inuyasha remembered the simple pain and anguish that he had endured, and he knew that he had missed her, within an inch of his life.

So he thought to himself, a small sentiment, if only she knew, how much he had truly missed her.

Authors note: oi! Just a bit of side info... I got the idea for the rain scene while walking home from my friends house in the (yup! You guessed it!) rain. Don't ask, these ideas just come to me!

In fact, I might have a chapter where they go to an amusement park (just kidding) because I'm going to six flags- great America tomorrow for fright fest. Anyway, you guys tell me, if I should have a Halloween special chapter for this story. I'm leaving it up to you!

As usual, I have to recommend a few songs, since I've been doing a lot of listening...

On the album from greenday-American idiot.

Wake me up when September ends

Boulevard of broken dreams

From the best of Inuyasha album

Song of truth

Song of love

I loooove these songs, so if you have them, listen to them, okay?

Anyway, read and review.

(P.s. I'm not familiar with the concept of a beta reader, but I would like to have one!)