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~Yasha's Sis
Circumstance
Book 2: Land of Grass
Chapter 3:
Live
"InuYasha?"
The former hanyou twitched, more at hearing her say his name than being startled. Crazy bitch never called him by name. At any other time, wariness would be an appropriate response but he couldn't think past the feeling of certainty he received here. Here in the place where he woke to find himself very much alive and very much alone.
This is where we left you.
InuYasha froze at the not voice of the jewel, that unsettling surge of knowledge, sorrow, and power that lulled lesser men to their deaths. The eerie whisper honestly creeped him out because Kagome had the jewel last and it never once spoke to him of anything other than changing his demon status. It didn't offer knowledge that wouldn't poison you into madness or greed.
This is where we left you, and this is where you will belong.
No. He snarled back, hands shaking, even as a corner of his mind wondered at we. He belonged in Edo. He belonged with his friends.
Amusement, condescension and mockery swept through the small copse of trees and InuYasha's lips curled reflexively at its answer.
The wish was made.
Bullshit! He never wished for anything! Kagome was the one who had to make the wish. It had to be selfless and InuYasha was nothing but a selfish creature. He wanted his pack safe and Naraku dead: two things that had everything to do with desire and nothing to do with selfless sacrifice.
More amusement. Few would give anything to see such a thing done. To save a people with no thought for one's self.
Because few people had spine enough to suffer themselves, InuYasha thought acidly. None of this mattered though. He didn't care where it got the idiotic notion that he wished to be sent to some freaky world where demons where little more than fairytales and youki mutated into something called chakra. He needed to know his people were safe. He had to see them!
Send me back!
The wind swung back at him abruptly, hard enough to make his eyes sting, almost like a slap.
A hand touched his shoulder and InuYasha jerked away, sword half out the sheath before that same hand disarmed him just as the other tugged him forward. Heat crushed against his face and InuYasha struggled violently as he was restrained, swearing and spitting curses to no effect.
The tone held a sneer as it answered.
There is no back, it decreed, the words choking in their finality, The wish was made.
The fabric smashed against his face grew wet and InuYasha only fought harder to be released. He couldn't be weak. He couldn't sit here and take that thing's word for it. There had to be a way home! There had to be.
What else would he do here? He didn't know a thing about this world outside what he learned with the Samurai and he had no one to turn to.
He was alone, again, but worse because even back then he could rely on his shit of a brother dropping in every decade or so to win Brother of the year.
Kagome, Shippo, Sango, Miroku, Kaede, Rin, Jaken, Ayame, fucking Koga and Sesshomaru (bastards)-
They needed him to be there to protect them. He needed them (most of them).
InuYasha never realized how alone he was until he found people that eased the ache hadn't remembered existed. His mother had been dead for so long, loneliness wasn't even a factor in his daily living. It only hit him on his worst human nights.
InuYasha was used to standing against the tide for fucking centuries. He would survive, he would always survive, despite all the shit Kami told him to eat with a smile, but InuYasha could admit to himself in private at least that he was tired of just surviving.
Trembling by this point, because the stupid red headed bitch was too strong and he couldn't make her let go, and she was fucking waterboarding him with her soggy clothes, and he just-fucking- couldn't!
Kagome, he pled in a moment of desperation that he would later be furious about. I could use a little bit of your optimism right now. I … I can't do this.
And for one horrible, horrible, moment, he could smell Kagome. For an instant he could feel the phantom caress of her fingers stroking his once dog like ears, and a bright laugh, soft and warming, trailed after.
[Of course you can, silly.]
InuYasha stilled, disbelief warring with giddy relief. Kagome?
Another laugh. Another caress.
[You can.] She promised with that same tone of conviction she always had when she felt she was right. [I wouldn't have wished for it otherwise.]
You... you... wouldn't... have… what?!
Betrayal surged through InuYasha more powerful than anything he'd ever felt. It hurt worse than Sesshomaru gutting him with poison, worse than Kikyo's arrows.
Because Kagome had always been different. Even when he deserved it, she always stood by him, always.
"No…" InuYasha wheezed out, head spinning because- How could she?!
The phantom hand hesitated at his grief, trailing one last time through his hair apologetically.
[I've no right to ask but it's not like you'd have gone without us. The wish could only be made for one.]
A kiss brushed against his forehead and InuYasha gasped out a sob.
[You don't have to forgive me, but please, do what you've never done, InuYasha.]
Her touch faded and the voice softened to a pleading whisper.
[Live.]
(A/N): So... who saw that coming?
I meant to ask if anyone had any ideas as to why InuYasha came into the Naruto verse but the cat's outta the bag: Kagome wished it so! *GASP*BETRAYER! The next paragraph explains a bit on the aftermath. This is something InuYasha will never be privy to. If you don't particularly care, feel free to skip.
**** Things InuYasha will never learn due to dimension hopping****
InuYasha could very well have died when he took Naraku's attack head on. Kagome decided bump that and wanted him to have another chance at a good life, even if that meant not seeing him again and being trapped in the past. (Yes, she is trapped in the past; she'll never see her family again; never finish school; never be more than a shrine maiden). Doubt she would have wanted the brutal world of the Elemental Nations for our doggy friend if she had a choice but the Jewel is a Bitchy thing who's all about taking your wish and twisting it. InuYasha's a tough cookie though. He may never forgive Kagome for the choice, but he has the chance to be cared for in this world. That's completely worth it to her.
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~Yasha's Sis