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The Breakup
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"Alrighty, you're officially rehabilitated," the bubbly woman grinned as she finished filling out the remaining paperwork, "You've met all the basic requirements and I see no evidence of any long-term behavioral abnormalities. I'll just send this report right over and then you'll never have to see me ever again."
Nodding excitedly, Inuyasha could hardly contain his excitement before a curious look came over his face. Leaning back to make sure Ms. Higuarashi wasn't eavesdropping, he whispered quietly, "So you're a girl…"
The woman's head shot up as she gave him an amused look and nodded. Swallowing thickly, Inuyasha added quickly, "What do girls like? Like what types of things should I do if I wanted to court a girl?"
"Oh, like a date? Dinner and a movie, I guess," Asora snorted before snorting lightly as she continued to scribble on the paperwork, "I thought you were already dating Kagome. You haven't even asked her out yet? That's…that's really sad actually."
Sighing, Inuyasha slouched down in the chair and frowned, "I mean, I thought we'd be together now that I'm here but…but she isn't acting all that interested anymore."
"Sometimes thing don't turn out like you expect," Asora opined sagely as she finished the last section and began to neatly even out the pages, "Maybe it's for the best. Maybe you'll find someone who is better for you and she'll find someone who's better for her. Who knows? Life never works out quite like you think it will."
Grimacing, Inuyasha wasn't sure he liked that response at all. There were two of him, after all, and only one could end up with her now that he thought about it. From the get go, he'd just assumed Kagome would naturally pick this side of him but he wasn't sure about that anymore. In fact, she hadn't acted like he was anything more than a friend to him since he changed – the realization of which hit him like a ton of bricks and made him pale considerably under the woman's sympathetic soft gaze.
"Do you have any friends outside of her? Maybe someone closer to your age would be better to ask than me," she asked before adding kindly, "I'm meeting my cousins is an hour or so to grab dinner if you want to join me. They're about your age, maybe a year or two older. They might know what to tell you."
Grimacing, Inuyasha rolled his eyes and shook his head. Unperturbed by his attitude, Asora continued on, "I won't tell them how I know you, silly goose. Just that you're new to the area and I was showing you around. I think you'll really like them. As a matter of fact…" Asora smirked as she placed the paperwork back into her satchel, "I'm not going to turn these in unless you come with me."
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It wasn't a pretty sight and it wasn't one that Inuyasha truly wanted Shiori to see but it was one that he knew was unavoidable. He knew she must've smelt the blood. As the reached the small cliff overlooking the small village, Kagome gasped in horror as she surveyed the scene. The village lay in ruins, and countless bodies were strewn about mutilated almost beyond recognition. With a shuddering breath, Kagome knelt down before the small girl who was clearly in shock as Inuyasha rushed through the village in search of survivors.
Her pale violet eyes were frozen over like the surface of a winter puddle, robbing them of their usual warmth. Shiori was still in there, Kagome knew she must be, but her violet eyes looked straight through the miko to the ruins of the village she once called home. For a moment her face remained mostly stoic until, suddenly, it cracked when Inuyasha began slowly making his way back up the cliff carrying a limp body in his arms.
Grief surged with every expelled breath, always reaching higher peaks, never sufficiently soothed by her long intakes of the damp sea air. Tears began to spill from her helpless eyes onto the sandy gravel at her feet as Shiori looked upon the lifeless face of her mother.
Sinking onto her knees, Shirori's fragile looking fingers dug deeply into the earth before her eyes flashed red when she whipped an anguished gaze at the demon as he lowered her mother's body to the ground.
"You're going to teach me everything I need to know to kill the ones who did this."
Nodding once, the demon spared a stern glance at a torn looking Kagome that made it clear she was not to interfere.
