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Chapter 4- Reminisce, Remember.
She hadn't eaten, she hadn't drank and she hadn't slept except for the time that she had been passed out from a major amount of blood loss, but even that had been 3 days. It didn't matter what they tried to tell her, she couldn't hear them. Her once lively, golden eyes, were now deep pools of coldness the golden almost dripping out of them.
'Why'd you do what you did?' Iria asked her demon side for the forth time that morning.
'You were going to die, that means that we were all going to die.' Her demon replied.
'But still, did you see the look on that young mans face the look of pure hatred. We've only ever seen the look of disgust because of what we make up. But… now we have him to worry about too.'
Hanyou Iria sighed. 'This is even more depressing. I need to pull myself together or we're going to stay like this forever and besides that fact, I'm getting sick.' Iria sighed again, pulling everything into herself in that one big breath. 'I'm going to go and find Inuyasha.' she thought absently.
Jumping from the tree, she landed on both feet before sniffing the air and taking off in the direction Inuyasha's scent was the strongest.
"Hey… Inuyasha." She asked quietly, her voice was weak even to her own ears.
"Hey kid." His automatic reply was. "I'm up here."
Taking the reply as an invitation, she jumped again to sit across from him on the same branch. Inuyasha opened his eyes slightly to look at the young girl who sat in front of him looking tired, sickly and determined.
"What's up?" He asked slightly interested as to why the girl was out of the tree she had called home for the past three days, the last time he had seen her she didn't look like she was moving.
"You, when you were my age didn't… I mean… help." She had a desperate sound in her voice. He could sense the confusion waving off of her.
"When I was your age, I wasn't in as bad of a situation as you, but I was close to the same boat your in…" he sighed.
"What do you mean?"
"When I was 4 before my mother had passed away… the villagers used to throw rocks at me and make me chase after balls while they walked away, I asked my mother one time what 'half-breed' meant and it was the first time I saw mothers tears. I guess then I knew just how awful a thing I really was."
"You mother, she couldn't have been that old, and your father was Inu-no-tashio so… wait… if you don't mind me asking… how'd your mother die?" She asked quietly.
"a bunch of men swarmed the house we were staying at, my mother hid me in a cupboard in a failed attempt to make it so I didn't see anything." He drew in his breath.
"Failed… oh my god." Her hand went up to her mouth. "you… that's why you… that's why you wanted to get stronger, in a naïve attempt to become strong enough a hanyou to have a name for yourself… that way, in your mind, you thought people would actually start respecting us…" Iria pondered out loud.
"Yeah, I guess in a way."
"I see." She sighed rolling her shoulders.
"You look tired." He pointed out.
"I am." Iria replied. Hopping off of the branch and onto one arm lengths away she settled down before fixating her gaze on Inuyasha for a minute.
"You know… you did do what you wanted… you're a strong hanyou… impressively powerful. You have friends and people who love you, your mother and father would both be very proud today, they probably are wherever they lay." Her voice was soft before settling in and closing her eyes, the scents and sounds of the forest lulling her to sleep. Incoherently Inuyasha heard her mumble a 'thank you' a small smile gracing her lips as she fell into a complete slumber.
"Your welcome Iria." He sighed, the sun was down already and he was getting tired. He could smell their friends not that far in the distance seeing the small fire they had going so that they could cook their supper before heading off to bed themselves.
Closing his eyes he fell into a light sleep keeping his ears trained on the surroundings.
-.- 3:00am -.-
Iria opened her eyes slowly. It was slightly chilly but she shrugged it off and got up. Stretching a bit she looked over at the sleeping figure in the tree next to her.
"I'm sorry, I'll catch up with you guys in a few days. I have something I have to do." She smiled slightly before taking off towards the North.
"Be careful Iria." Inuyasha sighed.
-.- Later that morning -.-
"Iria!" Kagome yelled. "where could she be."
For the whole morning they had all been looking for the golden eyes girl.
"Hey Inuyasha, have you seen Iria this morning?"
"She said she had something to do on her own and that she'd catch up with us in a couple of days."
"You let her go on her own?" Kagome demanded, crossing her arms over her chest ands tapping her foot impatiently.
"She needed to do this for herself, on her own. She's confused now, she needed time to think, be on her own, figure things out for herself. So yeah I let her go on her own." Inuyasha replied.
"Fine. But you could have told us before we started looking for her!" Kagome huffed before turning on her heal and heading back to the small search party.
Iria cut the sleeves off of her long sleeved shirt leaving only 3 inched straps on the top to cover her shoulders. Her silver hair was up in a pony-tail at the top of her head. Her pants had been left the same.
Taking in a deep breath she walked into the foreign village and walked around. It was getting late in the day and she had a bad feeling about the village. She could sense the presence of a demon in and around the area.
Walking up to the head masters house she saw 4 guard stationed outside.
"There is no trespassing on these lands." One of them spoke.
"I'd like to speak with the head master please." Iria replied.
"Well you are not allowed." Another spoke this time.
"Gentleman, gentleman… what does this young lady want?" An older man came around a corner of the houses surrounding wall.
"She wants to speak with you my lord."
"What about?" His question was directed to Iria.
"I sensed a demon when I was walking by your village and wanted to know if my senses were correct."
"Are you a priestess of some sort?"
"If that is what you want to call me…" Iria replied.
"Yes your assumptions were correct. We have a demon running around at night. It is taking women and children and in the morning we find their corpses in front of the village gate laid out naked and a cross deeply imbedded in their bodies."
"I see."
"We are very fearful for our women and children and we will pay you greatly if you can kill it." The elderly man said.
"Very well." She nodded. "I'll do my best."
"Please stay here tonight, it's the least we can do."
"Thank you, sir, your very kind." Iria smiled tenderly at the older man.
"Your very welcome dear, may I ask your name?"
"It's Iria." She replied.
"Alright, Miss. Iria, you may sleep here, I will send someone up here with your dinner in a little bit. The demon doesn't come out for a few more hours so you have time to prepare."
"Thank you very much." She replied sweetly bowing in respect as the old man turned and headed towards the main building.
When the man was out of sight she went into her room. Setting the small bundle that held her things down in a corner she sat down on the single futon. Setting her weapons out in front of her she sighed.
2 daggers, 2 swords, 1 bow and 3 dozen arrows and poison powder is what she had on her at the moment. Both of the swords were concealed the daggers were tucked in pouches on her ankles. Her bow and arrows were strapped on her back carefully.
'This should be interesting.' She thought, 'I cant use my demonic powers either or they'll either purify me, kill me, or kick me out of the village so, I've got to do this like a human… or priestess'
"Miss. Iria, may I come in, I have your dinner."
"Sure c'mon in." she replied, putting the 2 swords back under concealment spells and the bow and arrows off to the side.
A young woman, not much older then Iria herself, brought in a simple meal of rice and water as well as rabbit hide. She bowed and left.
Iria ate all of the food and drank all the water, finally realizing that she hadn't eaten anything since 4 days before that.
Grabbing her bow and arrows and clipping the 2 swords to her waist before walking out of her room. Coming around the corner of the headmasters houses' wall she saw the 4 guards from before standing there.
"And where do you think your going?" one asked.
"I was going to go and look around at the merchandise… why?"
"Just don't go out and steal anything."
"I don't steal things… I don't have a reason too. I'm here to help you guys, not take away from you." Her smile turned into a thoughtful frown. "Why do you think that I'd steal something from you anyways?"
"Not that long ago someone came to our village and stole almost everything we had, we're just getting by now as it is." One sighed.
Iria sighed. "My names Iria, what's your guys' names?"
"Nobodies ever asked us what our names were."
"Well I just did now didn't I."
"My names Jinko, this is, Junko, Janko and Jenko. We're all brothers." Jinko replied.
"It's a pleasure to meet you all." Iria smiled again. "I'm going out to look around and talk to a few of the villagers, I promise you that I'm not going to steal anything, and I've never broken a promise."
"Very well. Be careful while slaying the demon, and good luck to you." Jenko said.
"I will be, and thank you." Waving good bye to the small party she headed towards the main part of the village.
"Inuyasha, do you think she'll be alright?"
"For the last time, yes I think she'll be fine!" Inuyasha replied in exasperation, throwing his hands in the air. "I wouldn't have let her gone if I didn't think she was going to be alright!"
"Are you sure?" Kagome asked her blue eyes looking up at him in silent question.
"Yes, I'm sure Kagome." He said softly this time.
"Alright." She answered him, leaning against him slightly as they walked. He put an arm around her shoulders to keep her steady.
They had been walking for a while, Miroku and Sango already having set up camp before they had left. The sun was setting off in the distance and Inuyasha smiled and picked up a half asleep Kagome bridal style jumping into one of the highest branches in a tall tree.
Holding onto her, Inuyasha smiled as Kagome leaned back into his chest and yawned, a small smile on her beautiful features and her eyes half closed as she watched the sun set with him.
The children laughed and giggled as they played hide and seek.
"1… 2… 3… 4… 5… 6… 7… 8… 9… 10, ready or not, here I come!" Iria laughed as she turned around to see no one. Most of the kids that were playing the game were between 5 and 8 so it wasn't that hard to find them. Although some of them were easier then others.
Sniffing the air carefully she was able to sneak up on one of the younger children. Grinning slightly she tapped him on the shoulder.
"Found you Omaru!" She smiled.
"Awe! No fair." The young 6 year old pouted before heading back to the tree where they were supposed to go when they were found. She watched him go and drop to the ground and couldn't help but giggle at the soft pout that lay on his face.
"Don't be a sour sport kiddo!" She yelled to him before going to find the other 11 kids.
"You've been caught Shino!"
"But I had the best hiding spot ever! How'd you find me!" The young girl cried.
"your kimono dresses' sash was hanging out of the tree." Iria smiled.
"Kai! C'mon out, found you." The 10 year old boy was in a tree on the outskirts of the village.
"You've been caught little hanyou." A deep voice from behind her made her gasp in surprise and turn around.
"Not expecting me?" The demon was in human form.
"Lady Iria! What's taking you so long?" A little girl, named Machi, called.
"Machi! Find everyone and take them into the village! Make sure to get everyone there's 4 people left!"
"Why aren't you going to play with us anymore?" Her voice sounded hurt.
"It's important Machi! Just please, we'll play some more in a little bit, but you've got to get everyone in the village borders. You've got 2 minutes Machi, think you can do it!" Iria yelled, her eyes trained on the demon not 4 feet in front of her.
"Alright, but you better promise to play with us later!" Machi yelled, climbing out of the tree.
"I promise Machi!"
"Smart move half-breed. Although its not going to save those kids." It grinned.
"The names Iria, although its not going to matter by the time we finish this fight, your not going to need to remember it." She glared at the demon in front of her, taking out the two swords from their hidden sheaths.
"oh I'm scared."
"You should be fuck face." She smirked at his taken aback expression.
"Little girls shouldn't be using language like that."
"I'll use whatever language I damned well please."
She lunged at him, one sword aimed for the knees and the other aimed for his chest. He jumped out of the way a split second before the blades hit him. Using her momentum to his advantage he swung his fist towards the back of her head.
Iria quickly did a back flip out of the way of danger realizing her back was turned to her opponent. Her hair brushed against his fist as she landed on his broad shoulders before bringing one of the swords gracefully across his shoulders and past his head.
What shocked her first was the fact that the head wasn't there and neither was the body and it finally registered that there was a hand on her stomach and she was being thrown through the air. Smashing into a tree not that far behind her as the air rushed out of her lungs she saw two fist coming at her head. Clutching the only sword she had in her possession she swung it around and down on the offending hand.
Her fluffy white dog ears flattened to her head as the other demon clasped his wrist tightly as the blood gushed out of the extensive wound. You could see the bone and the skin his hand was only on by the small piece of skin that was tearing.
"You know that could get infected," she smiled slightly before touching her hand to the now bloody sword watching as it heated up. 'What the fuck is going on!' Iria yelled at herself. "You should let me fix it." Her eyes turned red for a split second before going back to their original color.
She was up and moving towards the pained demon as she watched herself bring the now red blade swiftly across his shoulders and neck, cleanly cutting off his head as his wide eyes watched her.
Iria came back to her senses, looking at the demon and at the blade. Rolling her eyes she sarcastically remarked. "Oh great, now I can fucking burn things."
Picking up the other discarded sword she sheathed both of them and started towards the village gates.
"Three cheers for Lady Iria!" The village men, woman and children all cheered for her. Smiling again she looked down at herself and then at them as they all gathered around her.
"Are you alright?" "You sure did a number on him." "Thank you." "We are forever in your debt." And so on and so on were some of the many things that they said to her.
Iria smiled brightly at them all.
"I'm find and it was no trouble at all. Did Machi and the other children come back?"
"Yes Lady Iria, we did, thank you very much!" Machi came up to her and hugged her leg.
Looking down at the girl and smiling she got down on both her knees and hugged the younger girl closely. "Your very welcome, now, how's about I get another pair of clothes and you go ask your parents if you and some of the other children if they'd like to come to the hot spring with me." Iria purposed.
"Alright!" Machi smiled brilliantly before racing through the crowd to the other children and her parents.
The people left around her, back to their houses as she got her clothes and a towel.
A small group of children were awaiting her when she came out. Giggling to herself when she saw them all she started talking to them as they walked to the water.
-.- the next day -.-
"Hello is the headmaster home?"
"Yes. But no one is allowed to trespass on his land."
"Listen buddy! We heard there was demon around this village and we came to help, so if you don't mind, we'd like to talk to the headmaster, now where is he?" Inuyasha yelled out of frustration.
"A young girl with silver hair came by and killed it for us just yesterday." Jinko replied. "And frankly she was a lot nicer then you. Now if you don't mind, please get out of our village or we'll have to arrest you on the grounds of disturbing the peace."
""I'm sorry for my friends behavior. But what was her name?"
"She said for us to call her Iria." Jenko answered. "I'm sorry but we'll have to ask you to leave."
"It's alright, thank you."
"Hey Iria, there gone." Junko said quietly to the silver haired teenager.
"Thank you guys." Iria sighed from around the corner of the village headmasters houses' wall.
"Why didn't you want those people to know where you were." Janko asked her.
"Because I'm not ready to face them yet." She smiled at them sadly.
"Very well. Will you be on your way now?" Jinko asked.
"Yeah I should go."
"As you wish, have a safe journey." The head master came out from around the corner of his houses' wall.
"Thank you for everything sir. It was all very much appreciated, and if you ever have a problem again with a demon, feel free to seek me out and ask me for help, I'd be more then happy to do it for free." Iria bowed low and turned leaving the house.
"We'll do that!" The headmaster called.
"Do you have to go Lady Iria?" Machi asked/wined with the other kids.
"Yeah unfortunately I do, but I'll miss you guys a whole bunch and I'll come back in a little while." Iria promised the now sobbing girl.
"Alright." Machi said.
"Alright." She nodded before getting up and walking away. "See you guys later!" Iria waved as she walked away.
When Iria sniffed she smelt that her friends had split up and gone two different ways…
Sango, Miroku and Shippo were backtracking and then going East, while Kagome and Inuyasha were heading to the North, as they had been before.
'Are they following me?' She thought.
Sighing she headed out. North was the way she had to go too. If she did happen to meet up with either group then that would be alright, she could always leave.
'I'll need to wait until night before I'll be able to pass them, if I go off the trail to far then the demons will gang up on me.' She stratagized in her head.
-.- Later that day -.-
It was 2 in the morning and Iria had just woken up again, Kagome and Inuyasha having stopped for the night, neither of them had realized they were being followed.
Inuyasha was in the tree above Kagome and Kagome was sleeping at the base of the tree in one of them 'sleeping bag' things.
"Iria, you can come out now you know, I know your not going to stay, and I'm not going to force you too." Inuyasha told her as she moved from tree to tree.
"Hey." Iria said sitting on the branch across from him once again.
"Hey, what the hell are you doing anyways?" Inuyasha asked her, leaning forward slightly so that he didn't have to yell.
"Like I said, I have to do a couple things and I have to do them on my own." Iria replied, shrugging. "Where are Sango and Miroku?" She asked.
"They went to Sango's village because Sango wanted to go and Miroku didn't want to let her go alone so he went with her and Shippo didn't think that she'd be 'safe' by herself with Miroku and so he went with them."
"I see." She replied. "So, where are you guys going anyways?"
"Don't really know. I guess we're following you in a way."
"If you were trying to catch up with me then why don't you just tell Kagome where I am?"
"Because you want to do this by yourself and I trust that whatever your doing you'll be fine when you decide to come back."
"Alright…" Iria sighed. "So… do you guys need any money? Cause that old guy gave me more then enough."
"I don't know, where am I supposed to say I got the money?"
"Just say that you killed a demon while she was away at her home."
"keh." He replied.
"I should probably get going. Oh and Inuyasha, thank you." She smiled at him. "And here some money."
"Thanks kid, and be careful. Kagome with kill me if you get hurt. I'll delay our start in the morning so you can get some sleep. We'll leave at noon."
Iria nodded before taking off.
Inuyasha closed his eyes again before drifting off in a light slumber.
Iria sighed as she fell into the tree branch. It was late probably around 4, she had wanted to get a good enough head start even though she was going to get a good anyways.
-.- Late that morning (10) -.-
"Shit, shit, shit!" Iria cried out loud. Throwing everything together she jumped out of the tree and took off at a dead sprint.
It would only take her a little while to get where she was going, but she would have to wait for what she was going for. Besides she had wanted to look around at the other merchandise they had gathered in the while she had been away.
'I haven't seem Tam for a really long time, I can't wait.' She thought excitedly. It was only a hour before she stopped. There was a village sitting in front of her. A small fire was coming up from the middle of it and smoke was high above the clouds themselves.
'there's so much blood.'
"Inuyasha, is there something wrong?"
"huh?"
"I asked you if there was something bothering you, you don't look so good." Kagome walked over to him and brushed his bangs away from his forehead before resting a cool palm on his forehead, one already on her own, comparing temperatures. "Hmm, no fever."
By this time Inuyasha was almost as red as his hario.
"I just smell a lot of blood coming from the direction of where Ir… I mean we're going."
"Inuyasha, what were you going to say before, in the direction Ir…?" Kagome asked him suspiciously.
"Nothing, I'm just thinking about Iria, that's all."
"Awe… your worried about her aren't you! I knew it!" Kagome smiled.
"Yeah." Inuyasha wasn't really paying attention to her, he couldn't smell anything that was around them… almost like it was a… trap.
"Kagome, grab your stuff." He told her quickly.
"Huh?"
"Don't question just do it!" He demanded, helping her put everything into the backpack before letting her on his back and taking off.
"Inuyasha! what's going on?"
"Iria, she, she came and talked to me last night and she's up ahead of us, and she's where all the blood shed is coming from alright?"
"That's why you got me up late this morning, that's why you didn't want to go until after lunch!" She replied.
"You can patronize me about it later, she might be in trouble and we've got to find her and find out.
Coming to a small village he smelled Iria hiding not that far off.
"Where is she huh? If she was here, then you'd smell her… you've been able to smell her the whole goddamned time we've been out here haven't you Inuyasha!" She yelled at him.
"Now is not the time! She isn't here and she's already left, she'll find us in a couple of days."
"Where is she going Inuyasha! I bet you know, don't you, what else have you been hiding from me, huh!"
Then he did the most unexpected thing that anyone in the surrounding area though that he would do, he kissed her, it was a soft, unexpected kiss, and it took her breath away.
Iria almost fell out of the tree laughing quietly.
'They'll probably mate soon and I don't want to fucking be here when they do that.' She thought to herself.
Sighing Iria got up and ran out of the woods and away from everything else. Towards another village not that far away.
"GET YOUR DIRTY FUCKING HANDS OFF OF MY WOMAN!" Came a very, pissed of voice from the woods.
"I do believe that she isn't your woman Koga." Inuyasha replied calmly surprisingly.
"Oh and how the fuck do you figure that, halfbreed?" Koga replied.
"Because I chose him Koga, I'm sorry, but I don't love you, I love Inuyasha, and you don't love me either, so stop pretending you do. Koga, if we had pups, do you have any idea what they'd be?" Kagome sighed, leaning more into Inuyasha then before.
"They'd take after me and become demons, powerful demons my dearest Kagome, powerful beautiful demons."
Kagome rolled her eyes in exasperation. "They'd be half demon half human like any other child that comes out of the bonding of a demon and a human, now I can understand Inuyasha and a few of the other hanyou's that I've come across, but with you, it would be considered rape, cause I wouldn't be willing."
"Fine you stupid bitch, enjoy the time you have with the worthless half demon, because when your children are born, I'll have the pleasure of killing them one by one." He replied before taking off in a gust of wind.
"There lies." Kagome said turning back to her beloved.
"How do you know?"
"Because your not worthless, and by the time we have children, he'll be long dead." She smiled at him holding him tightly as he held her. Snuggling into his chest.
"I love you Kagome." He said softly, taking in her scent.
"I love you too Inuyasha." She smiled, feeling as if a weight had been lifted off of her shoulders.
-.- 1 days later. -.-
"Tam!" Iria cried.
"Ri!" A young woman with long red hair with silver highlights. Blue/golden/green eyes and a soft face came out of the building embracing her good friend.
"It's been a long time Tam."
"Same to you Ri, so what can I do for you?"
"I need some new clothes." Iria smiled, "But you don't need to make them right now, I want to talk to you, catch up with you some!"
"Okay. C'mon inside, I want you to meet a couple of new people. Its been like what 3 years?" Tam led Iria inside the house. "This is my husband Naozumi, honey this is my friend Iria." Iria bowed to him.
Naozumi had shoulder length blue hair with darker hints to it. He had green eyes and wore a black long sleeved shirt with a ocean blue type vest and black pants.
"Nice to meet you Miss. Iria." He bowed.
"Iria is fine, Naozumi-sama." She replied.
A cry filled the small hut, making Iria's ears flatten to her skull.
"And this is Natumi, our son"
Natumi had his mothers eyes and his fathers hair. Iria smiled at the cute site that was held in her best friends arms.
"He's adorable Tam." Iria smiled.
"Yeah he is isn't he?" Tam smiled. "Anyways, what's been going on with you, you know what's been going on around her since you left." Tam shrugged.
"Yeah I guess I do, and I wasn't even invited to the wedding, I'm hurt." Iria said.
"Hey, when we got married rumor was going around that you were on your death bed. When I found that out, I hadn't wanted to get married and so we put the wedding off for a little while and then someone said that they knew that you were fine, and getting better, but probably never be able to be fully active again in your life."
"Whoever told you I was on my death bed was psycho and whoever said that I was 'never going to be fully active again in my life' needs to get a life to make up a bunch of bull like that. I was, injured and I was, probably headed for death, but that's besides the point, I got pulled back… anyways."
"I've been okay, I'm 15 now so yeah, turned 15 a couple days ago."
'I guess it hasn't been that long since I met up with Inuyasha and Kagome."
"Sounds like fun… happy birthday, by the way."
"Aren't you going to be 19 or 20 this year?" Iria asked.
"I'll be 19 in 4 weeks." Tam smiled. "Now, about them clothes. What do you want them made out of?"
"I need it made out of that material that's light weight a soft but rebuilds itself."
"My best cloth? Oh and your in luck cause we just got a bunch again." Tam smiled giving Natumi to Naozumi and grabbing Iria's hand dragging her to the back of another room. Picking it up she walked back over to Iria and handed her the material.
"This it?"
"Yup."
"Anything else you need."
"Do you still make scabbards?"
"Yeah." Tam nodded.
"Can I get two of them please?"
"Sure."
"How much will that be?"
"10 gold coins for you my dear." Tam said, setting to work.
"Alright." Iria nodded.
"I need 2 colors."
"dark blue and a dark black."
"shirt?"
"Tighter then the last one, I can slip around people better. Dark blue."
"Pants?"
"Tight at the top of the leg and spread out at the bottom. Dark black."
"Is there any other color for black?"
"Light black, medium and dark." Iria smiled.
Tam giggled. "This should only take a couple days, your staying here right?"
"If its not an intrusion, and Tam, if I am, tell me please, I can just as easily go to the village."
"No, no, no… of coarse we have room for you. We had a extra 3 rooms put on the side of our little hut."
"Alright, if your sure. Naozumi doesn't mind does he?"
"You're a worry wart."
"Fine, Fine. Thanks Tam." Iria smiled before giving her friend another hug.
-.- 2 days later -.-
"thank you so much Tam." Iria had on her clothes.
Her blue shirt was almost a black and brought out her eyes and hair differently then the white had. Her black pants were tighter and easier to move in. there was a leather belt around her waist that held to deep black leather sheaths.
Iria grinned before hugging her friend.
"I should go, I met a few people along the way and there probably worried sick right now. Besides, I think I've overstayed my welcome here and I don't want to intrude any more. Thanks for the clothes and everything else Tam, thanks to you to Naozumi for putting up with me. And you little guy, be a good little tyke while I'm away."
As she was walking away she heard Tam say "You'd better come back sooner then 3 years kid!"
"I will! See yah around Tam!" Waving over her shoulder she waited until she was out of their sight she took off in the direction she smelt Inuyasha and Kagome, knowing that they'd want to talk to her about 'running off'
intermingled with their scent was the smell of…
'Oh my fucking god. I think I'll wait another day, jesus Christ…' She thought almost laughingly.
"I love you, Inuyasha." Kagome smiled sleepily. Inuyasha was still licking a mark on the side of her neck that he had made. It didn't hurt anymore, which he probably knew, she heard him sigh against her neck.
"I love you too Kagome." His arm tightened around her waist.
"What's wrong?"
He laughed. "Oh Iria was going to come back, but she decided against it."
She felt him smile as realization finally dawned on her.
"She can smell that?" Kagome questioned, her face flushed a red that would make his hario look like it had faded.
"yup."
"We're having a bath when we're done sleeping."
"Comfortable?" He smirked.
"Very."
"Tired?"
"I'm not a goddamned demon, I cant go for as long as you can Inuyasha." she rolled over and snuggled into his chest.
"I love you Kagome."
"love you too Inu." She mumbled half asleep.
-.- Later that night. -.-
"Iria! You could have told us where you were going you know!" Kagome said overdramatically. "And you didn't have to go alone, we would have been more then happy to go with you."
Kagome had on Inuyasha's hario over her own clothes.
"Oh don't tell me that you wanted to go with me, the whole thing with you and Inuyasha wouldn't have happened if you were with me."
"Yes it would have." Inuyasha grinned.
"eww. Get a life."
"Is that all you went to do? Go and get more clothes?"
"No, I needed to talk to my friend. I needed some important answers."
"Important answers that your not comfortable sharing with us right now."
"Yeah… its not that I don't trust you, but now is not the time nor the place. Besides, we have more important matters to attend to."
"Like?" Kagome pried.
"Like… when you two are going to get married." Iria grinned.
Just then a scream echoed through the forest.
Getting up, the small trio ran towards the sound. They gasped at the sight before them…
A/N:
Sorry it took me so long to update… I made this one extra long.. almost 19 pages… go me… I'll try to have my next chappy up soon and I hope you enjoy… Review please!
With love;
Me.