Beads
Inuyasha thinks about the rosary around his neck. At first, it enrages him. They thought they could capture him, cage him, tame him? He may have dog ears, but he is no pet.
After a while, he comes to accept their reasoning. After all, he had tried to kill her when they first met. Kagome had reasons not to trust him.
Finally, after he saves her skin enough times, she says she does. She trusts him. She knows he won't hurt her.
Then why won't you take this damn thing off? he thinks bitterly, but does not say.
It is there for her protection, so he can't stop her from going home when she needs to, not so she can take out all of her issues and aggressions and do him more damage with five words than Sesshomaru has managed to do in nearly two hundred years.
And he is so grateful his brother hasn't seen the miracle of the rosary. He's never seen Sesshomaru laugh, or even smile, but there's a first time for everything, right?
He knows – sometimes he can be a real ass, and sometimes he deserves it, because, really, it is the only way she can retaliate. He's stronger, and faster, and she can't hurt him.
He reaches up and strokes the beads, wishing they were gone, wishing he was free. Not free to leave them, but able to retaliate against Shippo without being sat until he was black and blue from head to toe. Gods, can't she see the little shit deserves it sometimes?
Mostly, however, he wishes he could believe she trusts him. He wishes she knew she didn't have to keep him chained to keep him by her side.
He knows the reasons why, but he hates those beads all the same.
End
A/N – OK, this one really is for Kat. Hasn't anyone else ever wondered what he really thinks about that damn thing? And come on, Kagome can be seriously unfair about it. Just like Miroku, Shippo, and Sango can be seriously unfair about the whole Kikyo thing.