A Girl's Reassurence
By: Umi
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Author'z Note: Back so soon? Hi all. This chapter is...well I don't know 'cuz I write as I go. I'm listening to Destiny's Child as I type. I wanna do a song fic. I know so many different songs that match, or can match if I make them.
Diclaimer: Nope...I don't own anybody. Well, if I create a character just for this story then I own that character. But I haven't yet, and I'll tell you if I do. I do own the plot. Yep, made it up myself. I'm soo grown up. Now all I gotta do is kill someone and the plot is complete. But who to kill? hmmm...
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Determined to Stay Away
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"...so Shippo, you can stop crying because Kagome is coming back." Sango said, trying to comfort Kagome's foster son. He had been crying for 3 days straight. Ever since they found out Kikyou was gonna help them with the shards.
"Shippo, be a man, you can go a month without Lady Kagome, i'm sure we all can" Miroku said. Building confidence for himself as well as the others around him.
"So baba, what do you think of this?" Inuyasha asked as the old woman stirred the ashes from the fire with a stick, trying to get her mind off things. That wouldn't work as long as they kept asking her questions though.
"child, it matters not, my opinion, but the opinion of those who tracel with my sister" She answered.
"so what 'do' you think Inuyasha, it is the first brilliant idea that child has had as of yet, yes" That was more of a statement tahn a question coming from Kagome's replacement.
'I think it's her worst idea yet' he thought. But he didn't dare say it.
" I think it's her worst idea, how could she just leave! What could Inuyasha have done that was so bad she had to stop journeying with us?!" Shippo said, as he finally stopped crying, if only to say that.
"Yes Inuyasha what happened, was it what I think?" Miroku said, suprisingly, not sounding like a pervert.
"If what you have to think has something to do wtih the river then yes, that's it" He said. Not sounding angry at all. More like sad and regretfull.
"Well, what is that?" Sango said, getting imatient with these 'men' and their 'secrets'.
"I did something stupid" Inuyasha said, not shame to admit that for once.
"Well, of course, but how stupid?" Sango asked again, thinking this question might get some answers.
"We were having a question about the--" Miroku was cut off by a rather malice looking stare from his friend.
"Well then Inuyasha, would you like to tell us what happened then? Sango said rather adgitated.
"Fine, you want to know so bad...I...I called Kikyou the most beautiful woman i've ever seen" He said, hardly above a whisper.
Kikyou face didn't change expression because she wasn't suprised.
"INUYASHA, YOU'RE A FUCKING ASSHOLE!!!!" Shippo screamed, to the suprise of everyone who knew him well, that means excluding Kikyou. She was just insulted.
"Shippo you--" Sango was cut off.
"What are you saying young one?" Kikyou asked him.
"I'm saying he's stupid for saying that, he hurt Kagome's feelings..."
"I see" Kikyou said.
"and it's not true!"
"hmm...you have tenacity. But 'tis true, right Inuyasha?" She asked.
"uh... actually I took it back" Inuyasha said, barely above a whisper again.
"Then why is she still mad?" Shippo asked calming down a bit.
"I guess she didn't hear that part, and the we--'she' didn't give me time to explain" He got mad a bit, but calmed down, remembering it was still his fault.
"So you took it back Inuyasha?" Kikyou asked, you would think she would be shocked but still no expression. It was like she didn't have any expression's to show.
"yes, I did." There was no point in lying now.
'hmph, well see about that, now won't we' Kikyou thought.
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Meanwhile, Kagome was at school, being bored.
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"Higurashi, pay attention" the teacher said, calling back her attention.
She was looking out the window, hoping Inuyasha would be there. But he wasn't. She wanted him to come back, to apologize. She was just overreacting. It wasn't her place to decide who he thought was prettiest. She shouldn't even care.
'But still yet, he shouldn't toy with my feelings, if he felt that way, he shouldn't have done that. What a jerk. I did say some pretty mean things though, I could have just left. I didn't need to say that.' Her thoughts had been like this during the whole 3 days that had passed.
'Should I go back, I wonder how Shippo is taking this, I wonder if bringing in Kikyou was a good idea? I hope no one will be mad at me when I go back to visit. I don't want them to be. But they have good reason.'
It was no use being in school if she wasn't going to pay attention anyway. By now her whole life had centered in the past with Inuyasha and her friends.
'ah, what if they come across a village that needs aid. Would Kikyou stop them from helping. No, she wouldn't. The other's won't let her...would they? What if she refuses to let them help' Kagome hadn't thought about this part.
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"We should get going, you want to collect shards, do you not Inuyasha?" Kikyou asked. Growing impatient while the group tried to 'overcome' Kagome's absence.
"I guess, you said a month right?" He asked, not really all there.
"Yes a month, so we should get going now" She said.
They were all still in Kaede's hut. Shippo had stopped his crying and now looked angry. Sango looked dissapointed. She was dissapointed that Kagome was trying to run from her problem's, she would never expect her to do such a thing. Miroku was also dissapointed at Kagome's actions. She was the type to overcome problem's, not run from them. Kaede still had a neutral look, trying to stay out of things.
"Master Inuyasha, where might Lady Kagome be?" Myoga asked, just arriving at the rather gloomy looking scene.
"She left" was his short answer.
"Inuyasha, what is that 'thing' you are talking to?" Kikyou asked.
"uh...Kikyou?" Myoga said. He didn't understand the situation.
"You seem to know me, but I have no knowledge of you" She said.
"this is Myoga-jiji. He was one of my father's vassel's." Inuyasha said with disinterest.
"um...Master Inuyasha?" Myoga asked.
"I'll explain later, don't feel up to it right now" Inuyasha answered. He didn't feel like reliving the experience, just yet.
"well then, I guess we shall not be going after the jewel shard until Lady Kagome's return" Myoga said as he shrugged.
"we will leave now, how do you know where the jewel shard is?" Kikyou asked.
"but--" Myoga started.
"I am taking Kagome's palce in the journey, it is by her request" She interrupted the little flea.
"Master Inuyasha what is going on?" Now Myoga really wanted some answers.
"go ask someone else about it" Inuyasha said as he stood and headed for the Goshimboku to think.
"Inuyasha" Kikyou called out, but he just ignored her and went anyway.
Myoga went up to the other's, but they too were too wrapped up in their own things to explain anything. Finally Shippo decided to tell Miroku what had happened and the two Youkai went outside to talk.
"So, tell me Shippo, what happened to Lady Kagome?"
"well, she and Inuyasha sort of fought, and sort of didn't" Shippo tried his best to explain.
"wait...so they, explain again"
"well, Kagome heard Inuyasha say that Kikyou was the most beautiful he had ever seen. Then later she didn't let him explain that he took it back, so she left, yelling some rather colorful words."
"hmm, Lady Kagome is not the type that would get jelous...maybe there is more to this."
"well if there is, I don't know about it, why don't you go ask Miroku. Seems like he would be the type to know about love"
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It was after school and kagome was up in her room studying. Every now and then she would glnce at the window. She still hoped Inuyasha would come get her. But she was determined to stay away.
'I can't go back so soon after, I won't. He'll think I was too weak to stay away for long.'
"Kagome" her mother said through the door.
"yeah mom?" Kagome asked, having been brought back to the real world.
"may I come in?"
"Yeah"
Her mother came in and stood by the door.
"Dinner's Ready"
"uh...sorry, I have to study"
"well, okay. How long are you here for?"
"well, i'll be home a lot more, i'm going back in 1 month"
"hmm, well that's fine, try to catch up with your work now"
"yeah mom, I will"
Then Kagome's mother left the room. Kagome was very close to tears, so she walked outside and down to the well house. She was about to jump in, but then remembered what she thought earlier.
'No, I won't go back so soon. I won't be so weak. But what about Shippo. He can't--' she thought as she looked down into the well. But something caught her eye. It was sticking out of the side of the well. She took off the shards and jumped in. She removed it and saw it was a scroll, a cloth scroll.
What was most suprising was that it had her name on it. She climbed back up with the scroll and put the shards back on. The scroll looked very old. Like it had been there for a while. But she had never seen it there before.
She opened it up and was shocked at what it read...
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After his talk with Myoga Shippo ventured over to the well. He had a scroll that he had written on earlier. It was for Kagome. He had used a cloth scroll because a paper one would probably deteriorate. He wanted kagome to know how he felt, how everone felt.
He walked to the well and jumped down.
Meanwhile Inuyasha was in the Goshimboku, not too far away. He had scene Shippo jump in, but decided not to bother with him. He just thought that Shippo was trying to pass through the well. But he had seen Shippo carrying something, and decided to watch what he did from a far.
Shippo was in the well and was digging a small hole in the wall. He didn't want to completely cover the scroll, so he let it be deep enough into the wall that half the scroll would stick out. Before he put it in he decided to re-read it and make sure he didn't miss everything.
Kagome,
We are all sad that you left, but we know it was Inuyasha's fault. Everyone is a little down right now but you'll come back right?
Kikyou's boring. It's like a 'dark omonous cloud hangs over us' to quote Miroku. Inuyasha seems like he's been shot dead.(with an arrow). He said you didn't know that he--
Sorry Myoga needs my help, i'll explain in another scroll. Don't forget to keep checking for them.
Love Shippo .
After reading and rolling it back up, he put it in the hole and started to climb up the well. On his way up he was grabbed and came face to face with Inuyasha.
"oi, Shippo what were you doing in there. You took a while"
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Author's note'z: Wow! i'm impressed. This chapter came out pretty good. The idea at the end is cool. How'd I come up with that? Oh well. I kinda screwed up my next chapter's idea now. I gotta fix that. But I wanted Kagome to get the scroll. I was gonna make her go into the well house, then faint, but wasn't the scroll a better idea.
I should start the next chapter while I have the idea in my head. So it shouldn't be long until I get it out. thanks for stickin' with me this long. Or thanks for reading the story and keep checking back.
Umi.
By: Umi
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Author'z Note: Back so soon? Hi all. This chapter is...well I don't know 'cuz I write as I go. I'm listening to Destiny's Child as I type. I wanna do a song fic. I know so many different songs that match, or can match if I make them.
Diclaimer: Nope...I don't own anybody. Well, if I create a character just for this story then I own that character. But I haven't yet, and I'll tell you if I do. I do own the plot. Yep, made it up myself. I'm soo grown up. Now all I gotta do is kill someone and the plot is complete. But who to kill? hmmm...
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Determined to Stay Away
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"...so Shippo, you can stop crying because Kagome is coming back." Sango said, trying to comfort Kagome's foster son. He had been crying for 3 days straight. Ever since they found out Kikyou was gonna help them with the shards.
"Shippo, be a man, you can go a month without Lady Kagome, i'm sure we all can" Miroku said. Building confidence for himself as well as the others around him.
"So baba, what do you think of this?" Inuyasha asked as the old woman stirred the ashes from the fire with a stick, trying to get her mind off things. That wouldn't work as long as they kept asking her questions though.
"child, it matters not, my opinion, but the opinion of those who tracel with my sister" She answered.
"so what 'do' you think Inuyasha, it is the first brilliant idea that child has had as of yet, yes" That was more of a statement tahn a question coming from Kagome's replacement.
'I think it's her worst idea yet' he thought. But he didn't dare say it.
" I think it's her worst idea, how could she just leave! What could Inuyasha have done that was so bad she had to stop journeying with us?!" Shippo said, as he finally stopped crying, if only to say that.
"Yes Inuyasha what happened, was it what I think?" Miroku said, suprisingly, not sounding like a pervert.
"If what you have to think has something to do wtih the river then yes, that's it" He said. Not sounding angry at all. More like sad and regretfull.
"Well, what is that?" Sango said, getting imatient with these 'men' and their 'secrets'.
"I did something stupid" Inuyasha said, not shame to admit that for once.
"Well, of course, but how stupid?" Sango asked again, thinking this question might get some answers.
"We were having a question about the--" Miroku was cut off by a rather malice looking stare from his friend.
"Well then Inuyasha, would you like to tell us what happened then? Sango said rather adgitated.
"Fine, you want to know so bad...I...I called Kikyou the most beautiful woman i've ever seen" He said, hardly above a whisper.
Kikyou face didn't change expression because she wasn't suprised.
"INUYASHA, YOU'RE A FUCKING ASSHOLE!!!!" Shippo screamed, to the suprise of everyone who knew him well, that means excluding Kikyou. She was just insulted.
"Shippo you--" Sango was cut off.
"What are you saying young one?" Kikyou asked him.
"I'm saying he's stupid for saying that, he hurt Kagome's feelings..."
"I see" Kikyou said.
"and it's not true!"
"hmm...you have tenacity. But 'tis true, right Inuyasha?" She asked.
"uh... actually I took it back" Inuyasha said, barely above a whisper again.
"Then why is she still mad?" Shippo asked calming down a bit.
"I guess she didn't hear that part, and the we--'she' didn't give me time to explain" He got mad a bit, but calmed down, remembering it was still his fault.
"So you took it back Inuyasha?" Kikyou asked, you would think she would be shocked but still no expression. It was like she didn't have any expression's to show.
"yes, I did." There was no point in lying now.
'hmph, well see about that, now won't we' Kikyou thought.
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Meanwhile, Kagome was at school, being bored.
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"Higurashi, pay attention" the teacher said, calling back her attention.
She was looking out the window, hoping Inuyasha would be there. But he wasn't. She wanted him to come back, to apologize. She was just overreacting. It wasn't her place to decide who he thought was prettiest. She shouldn't even care.
'But still yet, he shouldn't toy with my feelings, if he felt that way, he shouldn't have done that. What a jerk. I did say some pretty mean things though, I could have just left. I didn't need to say that.' Her thoughts had been like this during the whole 3 days that had passed.
'Should I go back, I wonder how Shippo is taking this, I wonder if bringing in Kikyou was a good idea? I hope no one will be mad at me when I go back to visit. I don't want them to be. But they have good reason.'
It was no use being in school if she wasn't going to pay attention anyway. By now her whole life had centered in the past with Inuyasha and her friends.
'ah, what if they come across a village that needs aid. Would Kikyou stop them from helping. No, she wouldn't. The other's won't let her...would they? What if she refuses to let them help' Kagome hadn't thought about this part.
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"We should get going, you want to collect shards, do you not Inuyasha?" Kikyou asked. Growing impatient while the group tried to 'overcome' Kagome's absence.
"I guess, you said a month right?" He asked, not really all there.
"Yes a month, so we should get going now" She said.
They were all still in Kaede's hut. Shippo had stopped his crying and now looked angry. Sango looked dissapointed. She was dissapointed that Kagome was trying to run from her problem's, she would never expect her to do such a thing. Miroku was also dissapointed at Kagome's actions. She was the type to overcome problem's, not run from them. Kaede still had a neutral look, trying to stay out of things.
"Master Inuyasha, where might Lady Kagome be?" Myoga asked, just arriving at the rather gloomy looking scene.
"She left" was his short answer.
"Inuyasha, what is that 'thing' you are talking to?" Kikyou asked.
"uh...Kikyou?" Myoga said. He didn't understand the situation.
"You seem to know me, but I have no knowledge of you" She said.
"this is Myoga-jiji. He was one of my father's vassel's." Inuyasha said with disinterest.
"um...Master Inuyasha?" Myoga asked.
"I'll explain later, don't feel up to it right now" Inuyasha answered. He didn't feel like reliving the experience, just yet.
"well then, I guess we shall not be going after the jewel shard until Lady Kagome's return" Myoga said as he shrugged.
"we will leave now, how do you know where the jewel shard is?" Kikyou asked.
"but--" Myoga started.
"I am taking Kagome's palce in the journey, it is by her request" She interrupted the little flea.
"Master Inuyasha what is going on?" Now Myoga really wanted some answers.
"go ask someone else about it" Inuyasha said as he stood and headed for the Goshimboku to think.
"Inuyasha" Kikyou called out, but he just ignored her and went anyway.
Myoga went up to the other's, but they too were too wrapped up in their own things to explain anything. Finally Shippo decided to tell Miroku what had happened and the two Youkai went outside to talk.
"So, tell me Shippo, what happened to Lady Kagome?"
"well, she and Inuyasha sort of fought, and sort of didn't" Shippo tried his best to explain.
"wait...so they, explain again"
"well, Kagome heard Inuyasha say that Kikyou was the most beautiful he had ever seen. Then later she didn't let him explain that he took it back, so she left, yelling some rather colorful words."
"hmm, Lady Kagome is not the type that would get jelous...maybe there is more to this."
"well if there is, I don't know about it, why don't you go ask Miroku. Seems like he would be the type to know about love"
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It was after school and kagome was up in her room studying. Every now and then she would glnce at the window. She still hoped Inuyasha would come get her. But she was determined to stay away.
'I can't go back so soon after, I won't. He'll think I was too weak to stay away for long.'
"Kagome" her mother said through the door.
"yeah mom?" Kagome asked, having been brought back to the real world.
"may I come in?"
"Yeah"
Her mother came in and stood by the door.
"Dinner's Ready"
"uh...sorry, I have to study"
"well, okay. How long are you here for?"
"well, i'll be home a lot more, i'm going back in 1 month"
"hmm, well that's fine, try to catch up with your work now"
"yeah mom, I will"
Then Kagome's mother left the room. Kagome was very close to tears, so she walked outside and down to the well house. She was about to jump in, but then remembered what she thought earlier.
'No, I won't go back so soon. I won't be so weak. But what about Shippo. He can't--' she thought as she looked down into the well. But something caught her eye. It was sticking out of the side of the well. She took off the shards and jumped in. She removed it and saw it was a scroll, a cloth scroll.
What was most suprising was that it had her name on it. She climbed back up with the scroll and put the shards back on. The scroll looked very old. Like it had been there for a while. But she had never seen it there before.
She opened it up and was shocked at what it read...
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After his talk with Myoga Shippo ventured over to the well. He had a scroll that he had written on earlier. It was for Kagome. He had used a cloth scroll because a paper one would probably deteriorate. He wanted kagome to know how he felt, how everone felt.
He walked to the well and jumped down.
Meanwhile Inuyasha was in the Goshimboku, not too far away. He had scene Shippo jump in, but decided not to bother with him. He just thought that Shippo was trying to pass through the well. But he had seen Shippo carrying something, and decided to watch what he did from a far.
Shippo was in the well and was digging a small hole in the wall. He didn't want to completely cover the scroll, so he let it be deep enough into the wall that half the scroll would stick out. Before he put it in he decided to re-read it and make sure he didn't miss everything.
Kagome,
We are all sad that you left, but we know it was Inuyasha's fault. Everyone is a little down right now but you'll come back right?
Kikyou's boring. It's like a 'dark omonous cloud hangs over us' to quote Miroku. Inuyasha seems like he's been shot dead.(with an arrow). He said you didn't know that he--
Sorry Myoga needs my help, i'll explain in another scroll. Don't forget to keep checking for them.
Love Shippo .
After reading and rolling it back up, he put it in the hole and started to climb up the well. On his way up he was grabbed and came face to face with Inuyasha.
"oi, Shippo what were you doing in there. You took a while"
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Author's note'z: Wow! i'm impressed. This chapter came out pretty good. The idea at the end is cool. How'd I come up with that? Oh well. I kinda screwed up my next chapter's idea now. I gotta fix that. But I wanted Kagome to get the scroll. I was gonna make her go into the well house, then faint, but wasn't the scroll a better idea.
I should start the next chapter while I have the idea in my head. So it shouldn't be long until I get it out. thanks for stickin' with me this long. Or thanks for reading the story and keep checking back.
Umi.