Hey! I'm soooo sorry for updating so late. I guess I can't blame school, so I blame my writer's block. -smiles-
Anyways, here's the new chapter. I dunno if you think it's good, if it got better, or worse. But, you can tell me what you think.
Anyways... on with the story!
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Chapter Ten- Training the Dog
"I won't stand by and watch Kagome get hurt like Kikyo."
"She won't!"
"If you meet Kagome's reincarnation… will you fall in love with her and leave Kagome like you left Kikyo?" InuYasha was silent with a scowl meant to scare on his face.
"Just as I thought. You would, InuYasha, wouldn't you?"
"I wouldn't!" InuYasha growled.
"Then why did you leave Kikyo?"
"She died… and I found Kagome." Kyoisei rolled his eyes.
"So if Kagome were to die, you would stop loving her too? It seems like the most possible thing for you to do."
"Shut. Up. You know nothing about this." Kyoisei's eyes narrowed.
"Does it matter if I know anything?" InuYasha stayed silent again. He seemed to choose the worst times to stay quiet, and the worst times to say something aloud…
"It's just a simple question, InuYasha. If you met Kagome's reincarnation, would you, or would you not leave Kagome?"
"…"
"Pathetic."
"…"
"You don't really love Kagome. You just love Kikyo's soul. Wherever it goes, you'll go with it."
"…"
"To be loved, and then thrown aside and forgotten once dead."
"…"
"To not be loved anymore, just because you're not alive." At this point, InuYasha punched Kyoisei square in the jaw. Kyoisei fell backwards and bumped into Goshinboku.
"Shut up." InuYasha spat. "If you think I'm stupid enough to make a mistake like Kikyo again, you're wrong. I love Kagome, and I won't be an idiot and let her get killed and reincarnated while I'm alive." Kyoisei stood up touching his cheek where InuYasha had socked him.
"Why haven't you told Kagome that, then?"
That's right…InuYasha thought. I haven't told her that I loved her… He quickly ran back to the hut, leaving Kyoisei behind and forgotten.
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"Who's 'she'?" Sango asked. Kagome shrugged.
"I don't know…"
"Do you think they're talking about you, Kagome-Sama?" Miroku asked. Kagome thought about it.
"I really have no idea…" Kagome replied truthfully. But for some reason, she had a feeling that they were talking about Kikyo.
InuYasha's not going to Kikyo…is he?
Even if he doesn't love me… he knows I love him… he wouldn't hurt me like that, would he?
But maybe I'm hurting him myself. Now he has another burden… because he does still love Kikyo…
He said he wouldn't see her anymore, but that's not possible for someone like him…
And I don't want to force him to not love her.
Kagome felt tears about to come, but she held them back.
InuYasha…
Night was falling in the feudal era.
"Kagome-Sama… are you alright?" Miroku asked. Kagome nodded and lifted her head.
"I'm fine, Miroku."
"Are you sure Kagome?" Sango asked. Kagome smiled at Sango.
"Yeah. Nothing to worry about Sango… I'm fine." She strained to get up, and did with Sango's help.
"Thanks Sango."
"Where are you going, Kagome-Sama?"
"I'm just going to get some fresh air." Sango and Miroku exchanged looks but said nothing. Kagome sighed as she walked out of the hut and away from the village, opposite of the forest.
Maybe I should leave InuYasha alone? He loves Kikyo, and then I was so stupid to make things harder for him and say that I love him… how could I have done that?
Kagome reached the river where InuYasha gave Kyoisei a bath, and also where Miroku pulled Sango into the water. The sun was setting in the horizon, so Kagome sat down on the wooden board that went across the bank.
The sunset looks lovely… you barely notice all these colors back in my time… all the building block it, and everything else is covered by the pollution. She sighed, and smiled at the same time.
I just noticed how stupid I can be sometimes… InuYasha…
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InuYasha ran to Kaede's hut and threw the bamboo door aside.
"Kagome…" He said, but then he didn't see her. He only saw everyone glaring at him.
"Where's Kagome?" He asked. Miroku spoke up first.
"Who is 'she' InuYasha?"
"Where's she?" He asked again. Miroku sighed, and Sango spoke up.
"She went out to get some fresh air."
"I told you to keep an eye on her damn it!" InuYasha snarled. The memory of earlier that day reappeared in his mind.
"I'm just going to get some water from the village well." Kagome said, and headed out the hut.
He winced at the thought that Kagome might get hurt again. Instantly, he left the hut, and started searching for Kagome.
Damn… my sense of smell is already failing on me…
He looked down at his claws… or what would be his claws, but were now just regular fingernails.
Kagome better be alright… I can't protect her right now even if she isn't…
InuYasha ran behind the village and frantically searched for her, cursing the new moon along the way.
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Kagome continued to sit down as the sky grew dark. She let her thoughts occupy her mind as the river's water played music in her ears. She looked up at the sky, predicting to see a moon, but saw none.
That's right… it's the new moon tonight… I wonder if InuYasha's okay…
She sighed and hugged her knees.
"He'll be fine." Kagome muttered silently to herself. She slowly pulled herself up. Taking one last look at her reflection upon the ripples in the water, she walked off the echoing wooden board, and then onto the rustling grass, back to the village.
They might be worried about me. I've been gone for quite a while…
She continued walking, until she felt a demonic aura.
Kagome sighed, and continued walking, until something along the ground caught her eyes.
Inu…Yasha………?
Kagome took a careful step forward. Indeed, it was a half-dead human InuYasha drowned in his own dark red pool of blood. Her eyes widened as she reached a hand out.
"InuYasha…" She whispered. There was no sign of anything… anyone… any demon.
How did this happen? She thought frantically as she knelt beside him. She didn't need InuYasha's keen sense of smell to get the metallic scented blood in her nose.
"InuYasha…" A few worried drops of tears fell down.
"Ka'ome…" Kagome opened her eyes and looked down at InuYasha's blood-stained face.
"InuYasha…" He lifted a hand and held hers.
"It's alright. I trust you…" Kagome was confused now.
What is he talking about?
"What happened fifty years ago won't happen again. I trust you InuYasha…"
"What happened here?" Kagome asked. InuYasha gave a soft smirk, and Kagome felt a bit better.
At least I know he's alright, if he's smiling like that…
"What might have happened to you at the well today… if I didn't come for you." Kagome swallowed.
Naraku posed as me?
InuYasha sat up and pulled Kagome in for a hug. She let out a small gasp, but hugged him back.
"Naraku's tricks are getting old… don't you think?" He joked. Kagome didn't reply, but InuYasha knew that she heard.
"I never told you this Kagome…" InuYasha whispered. Kagome paid close attention to what he was about to say.
"I know I was too busy going to Kikyo to tell you this…" Her heart filled up with sadness and a hint of guilt at the name.
"But even if you don't believe me, it's true." Kagome blinked, and they pulled away. InuYasha's violet eyes looked into Kagome's confused brown ones.
"I don't blame you if you don't believe me either… and I'm sorry I kept you waiting."
What is he going to say?
"Kagome… I love you."
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The sun shone bright in the hut, and Kagome's eyes reacted to the light with bitter distaste.
This is not how I like to wake up in the morning…
She sat up and stretched, then looked around. There were blood stains on her clothes, and a few on the wooden floor next to her, and she remembered what had happened.
That's right… InuYasha loves me…
That made her smile, and a shadow loomed over her.
"Something amusing?" A cocky voice asked. Kagome stood up and looked at InuYasha, still with the smile. They had walked back to the hut and Kagome tended to InuYasha's wounds. She saw a hint of bandaging under his red and white haori.
"Hi, InuYasha…" Kagome greeted. He walked in, a hand still tucked behind him. Kagome noticed it, and immediately became curious.
"What're you hiding?" She asked. InuYasha grin became a smirk.
"I have a surprise." Kagome was about to say what… when she remembered that's what she had said a few days ago when she came back.
"I have a surprise!" InuYasha looked at her. He sniffed the air to guess what it was.
"What's that stench?" He asked. Kagome just giggled as she reached into her backpack. InuYasha leaned over to see what she was pulling out. He couldn't see but he could hear her talk.
"Come on now… don't be shy!"
"What are you talking to?"
"Where's Kyoisei?" She asked. InuYasha's smirk grew dim.
"I wanted to surprise you, damn it." He pulled out his hand, and along came Kyoisei with a wagging tail, back into a little puppy. Kagome's eyes widened and took the puppy in her arms. Around Kyoisei's neck was the little glass vile with two jewel shards.
"InuYasha! How'd you get them out?" InuYasha walked and stood next to Kagome.
"He let them fall out, once he decided he didn't want them anymore." Kagome looked that the vile.
"Oh?" Kagome looked up, and was right away met with InuYasha's lips. She kissed back, and they were 'in the moment' until Kyoisei barked. They pulled away, and looked down at the puppy.
"I guess Kyoisei's still disgusted…" Kagome said. InuYasha frowned.
"Doesn't mean he has to bark all over the place…" Kagome smiled.
Everything's back to normal…
InuYasha looked down at Kyoisei for a moment, and felt… pity.
"Kagome… why don't you go out and spend some time with Kyoisei?" Kagome raised a brow.
"What?" She asked.
Did I hear that right?
"I think Kyoisei would like that." He said. Kagome looked at him, filled with curiosity.
"Naraku?" InuYasha blinked.
"Huh?"
"You're Naraku… aren't you?" Kagome concluded.
"What the—where the hell did that come from Kagome?"
"InuYasha's not this nice…" Kagome joked. InuYasha's ears twitched.
"Very funny, Kagome." He crossed his arms in his sleeves, just like he always does, and turned around, back facing her. Kagome giggled and walked out the hut. After a while, InuYasha went onto the roof and watched Kagome teaching the dog how to fetch. He smiled again as the wind blew his hair.
I guess I should feel better… that Kagome loves me… He still felt a bit of jealousy, but not really as much as before. He saw Kagome pat him on the head, and Kyoisei wagging his tail. Not long after, his neck started glowing. Before he could respond, he fell onto the roof.
Owwwwww…
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Kagome patted Kyoisei on the head.
"Good boy. You fetch so well!" Kagome smiled. Kyoisei wagged his tail, and barked happily. She put the stick down.
"Okay Kyoisei… osuwari boy." Kyoisei wagged his tail. Kagome frowned.
InuYasha listens when I tell him to sit…
"Osuwari…" Kagome said again, but Kyoisei's tail only wagged harder.
"Osuwari." Kagome pushed Kyoisei's behind down on the floor.
"Good. Osuwari." Kyoisei stood back up and continued wagging his tail.
What's he so happy about?
"Osuwari boy!"
"Osuwari."
"Osuwari!"
"O-Su-Wa-Ri!"
"OSUWARI!" Kyoisei barked, and finally sat down. Kagome blinked.
"Good boy?" Kagome said. She wasn't sure how… but Kyoisei obeyed after Kagome yelled 'osuwari' to the world. Kyoisei stood up again, and barked, but not at Kagome, but at something behind her. Kagome turned around, and saw the hut with a broken roof. Immediately, she picked up Kyoisei and ran back.
"InuYasha!" She called when she arrived. The debris cleared, and there was a gigantic hole in the roof. The wooden floor was cratered, and InuYasha was in it.
"InuYasha…" Kyoisei's tail wagged again as everyone else came.
"Kagome-Sama…" Miroku said. "What happened?"
"Yeah, Kagome. What did InuYasha do?" Sango asked.
"He must have done something bad for you to sit him like this…" Shippo concluded. Kagome swallowed and sweat-dropped.
"Oops…" She whispered. "Gomen, gomen… InuYasha." Slowly, InuYasha picked up his head while wincing. His face was red and splintered, and he glared at Kagome and the dog.
"Chikushou, you damn dog." He managed to mutter out.
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Heh. If that didn't really make sense, Kyoisei still has his memories from when he was a demon. So, the whole 'osuwari' thing was just his little prank on InuYasha.
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NEXT TIME: Thank Kami, Only Two More Days
InuYasha's really mad at Kyoisei for that osuwari prank, but he feels a bit happier when he realizes that there are only two more days until the week's over, and then Kyoisei's gone. But, a lot of things can happen in two days.
Ja...
Lizzy