I love this story. He he. Though, the deadlines for it are sometimes hard to keep up with. See, I never really outlined the story. Oh well. I'll do as Rumiko Takahashi does, and wing it! At least I have all the basic ideas. I'm gonna have to start outlining this today or something. And early September (the 9th to be precise) I won't be able to update around then, because it's my birthday. Just thought I'd give you a head's up. I'll remind you all later, too. Anyway, time for the chapter!
Save Me From Myself
Chapter Nine: Explaining the Unexplainable
After transforming the first time, I could tell when I was going to transform, even though I don't remember anything that happened after it. It was vicious. I never knew when I was going to transform next, and my mind was constantly being put under stress. If only I could have known what caused it back then...
- - -
InuYasha ran through the city, jumping on top of buildings to try and see Kagome. He saw flashes of black wings every so often, but he would lose sight of them as quickly as he found them. He scowled. "Dammit! What the hell is going on?" InuYasha yelled, mostly to himself.
His fist clenched at his side as he tried to sift through all the different scents. There were almost too many, but every so often, he would catch Kagome's scent, though now it was different.
"Where would she go?" InuYasha asked, stopping on top of a village and looking around, the wind whipping his hair to the side. Wouldn't she go somewhere familiar?
InuYasha suddenly realized where she was, or at least the best guess to where she could be. The hanyou darted towards Kagome's school.
As soon as he heard screaming, InuYasha knew that he had found her.
He jumped down and landed in front of the school, noticing all the people huddled near the front of the building. They were muttering things like "What is it?" and "Does she go to our school?" Kagome took a step towards them, grinning in pleasure. They were too afraid to move away from Kagome as she neared them.
InuYasha growled and his knuckles cracked. "Kagome!" he shouted, making Kagome stop and all the students turn to look at him.
"Kagome?" some people asked, and others said things like "Higurashi Kagome? The one who goes to this school?"
Kagome didn't turn around to look at InuYasha. Actually, she just ignored him.
"Kagome, look at me!" InuYasha yelled, walking forward.
The miko growled. "Stop." InuYasha took a step forward. Kagome growled more. "Stop!" The daring hanyou started to walk towards her, but slowly.
"I SAID STOP!" Kagome yelled, turning around and slashing through the air, causing three long gashes to appear on InuYasha's face. He winced was the blood started to trickle down to his chin, but he walked forward.
"She didn't even touch him!" a student whispered, his voice shaking a little bit.
InuYasha paid no attention to the blood that was now falling onto the ground; the corners of the wounds were starting to heal anyway.
Kagome took a step back, and held her claws towards the students, her wings flaring out a bit. "If you come any closer, I'll kill them all," Kagome said, just loud enough for the humans to hear. The students gasped and a couple screamed, but none of them moved, in fear that they would be killed sooner.
"You wouldn't do that, Kagome," InuYasha said stepping forward. Kagome's hand went closer to the humans, but she made no move to kill them.
Kagome glared. "How would you know? How do you know that I won't kill them, hanyou?"
"Because you're not a youkai! You're a human! You wouldn't kill your friends, Kagome! You've had enough strength to stop yourself from killing me plenty of times! This is no different!" InuYasha stood his ground and looked angry, but Kagome's face was starting to soften.
"I have no idea what you're talking about, hanyou! Being half human must have given you half a brain!" shouted Kagome, though you could tell her heart wasn't in it.
The students listened carefully, trying to understand if they heard right. The man with white hair, a hanyou? Kagome Higurashi thought she was a youkai, and had tried to kill the hanyou before? What was Kagome really doing while she was 'sick?' And were those real ears on top of the boy's head?
InuYasha seemed unaffected by the insult, but in reality it hurt. Especially coming from Kagome.
"You don't mean that," InuYasha said lowly.
Kagome didn't answer, but took a step closer to the students.
"Kagome!" InuYasha yelled, glaring. He was having a much harder time trying to get Kagome back to normal this time. InuYasha's face softened a little bit, and he sighed. He started walking normally towards Kagome, stopping whenever she took a step back. But then he would start walking again.
"What are you doing?" Kagome shouted, taking another step back. He was about a foot away from her now.
"This isn't you. You're not really a youkai, and you're not going to kill these people. You're a miko," InuYasha said, ignoring the clawed hand threatening to hurt him.
"No I'm n--!" Kagome's protests were cut off by InuYasha embracing her tightly. She glared and struck him through the stomach with her claws, but he grasped her tighter.
Slowly her wings shrunk back to nothing and Kagome's eyes changed from red to brown. The claws vanished, and she fell limp. Before falling into unconsciousness, Kagome muttered, "InuYasha..."
InuYasha fell to his knees at the sudden weight that Kagome had made him support, and once she was comfortably resting in his arms he sighed. InuYasha couldn't help but notice the sticky warm blood that covered her right hand... it was his own, but the wound didn't really heart much. He was just glad that Kagome was back to normal.
Once everyone decided that Kagome wasn't going to pop back to life with the urge to kill them, the students surrounded InuYasha. They made sure to keep a good distance between InuYasha and themselves, but soon enough, a few were brave enough to walk up to him.
InuYasha was broken out of his thoughts by someone rubbing his ear. His eyes snapped towards his left ear and he smacked the hand away that was rubbing the tiny triangle.
"Don't touch my ears," InuYasha said, turning towards the offender. It was a boy with brown hair.
He held up his hands and said, "Sorry... They're just so..." He stood there, searching for the right word.
"Cute!" a younger girl finished for him.
"Yeah. Cute," the boy said, looking at the constantly twitching ears.
InuYasha growled and stood up, Kagome laying in his arms. "Cute?" InuYasha asked, his eyebrow twitching.
The boy looked at Kagome, battered and with InuYasha's blood on his hands. "Will she be okay?" he asked.
"Why do you care? Who are you anyway?" InuYasha asked, glaring at the kid.
"I'm Hojo," he said, blushing and obviously ignoring the first question.
InuYasha raised an eyebrow and turned to see one of Kagome's friends walking up to him. Eri was followed by Yuka and Ayumi, both of them glaring.
"I think we need to go what's going on," Eri said, her hands on her hips.
InuYasha groaned, not wanting to deal with this at the moment. "Fine. But only you guys. Kagome seems to like you. Can't see why," InuYasha said, adding the last part silently. Kagome wouldn't like it if she heard him talking about her friends like that. He turned to the girls and said, "Come to Kagome's home, then. Her family could probably explain it better."
"Okay," Eri said, watching InuYasha turn around to leave.
InuYasha started to run forward, but then he jumped, leaping above the buildings. The students gasped and started talking about the white haired boy that had just saved them from a possessed girl.
- - -
Eri sighed, rubbing her forehead and said to her friends, "We're almost there. Can you stop trying to figure out what's happening?"
"But it's sort of fun... And it keeps our mind off what happened today," Ayumi explained.
Yuka nodded. "I think that Kagome was replaced by an actor and they're trying to shoot a monster movie, like the old ones that they used to do all the time," she suggested.
Hojo shook his head. "I don't think so. I think something is seriously wrong." Hojo turned to Eri and asked, "Do you really think it's all right for me to come? That white haired guy seemed a bit mean."
Eri nodded. "We've met him before. He's an all right guy. I think he was just really worried about Kagome..."
"But it doesn't explain what happened with her," Yuka finished.
"Right," Eri said, nodding.
"We're here," Ayumi said, looking at the huge mass of stairs that stood in front of them, making their way up to the shrine.
Hojo sighed and looked at the basket in his hands. "I hope that Kagome will like this stuff," he said, staring at the healthy and organic fruits sitting in the basket.
"I hope that Kagome doesn't try to kill us," Eri said dryly.
"Don't talk like that, Eri," Ayumi said, leading the way up the stairs.
They reached the top and walked towards the house on the edge of the shrine, all of them glancing at the God Tree at least once. They reached the door and Eri knocked.
Shuffling could be heard and then the door slid open to reveal a pale and unsmiling Ms. Higurashi. Her face slightly brightened a little when she saw Kagome's friends. She had thought it was more bad news. "Oh, hello. Kagome's resting in her room upstairs. InuYasha-kun is there with her," Ms. Higurashi explained, letting the four inside. They took their shoes off and went upstairs.
Ms. Higurashi could hardly believe what she saw when InuYasha came home.
- - -
InuYasha managed to open the door to the house and walked through, closing the door behind him. Ms. Higurashi walked to the front to see what was going on. Kagome and InuYasha had been gone for a while, and the family was getting worried.
Ms. Higurashi gasped at what she saw. InuYasha stood at the entry way with Kagome in his arms, her shirt torn and hand bloody. She was unconscious, but she didn't look like she was suffering from any injuries. InuYasha, on the other hand, had long cuts on his face that had scabbed over and were starting to heal, but his stomach was bleeding.
"Oh!" Ms. Higurashi said, taking a step back.
InuYasha hadn't really planned on what would happen if Kagome's family had seen her like this.
"Uh..." InuYasha started, glancing at Kagome quickly. "I'll bring her to her room. Then I'll explain everything."
InuYasha walked upstairs and put Kagome on her bed, the bloody hand hanging over the edge. The hanyou went back downstairs and explained everything while Souta cleaned and bandaged InuYasha's wound. To say the least, everyone was shocked when they heard the story about the Bachiatari Jewel and how it transformed Kagome into a vicious youkai.
"Inu nii-chan... Will Kagome be all right?" Souta asked InuYasha.
He didn't answer.
- - -
Eri, Yuka, Ayumi, and Hojo walked into Kagome's pink room and saw InuYasha sitting on Kagome's bed, watching Kagome sleep with droopy eyes.
"Uh... Hello... um... I don't know your name," Ayumi said.
"Didn't Ms. Higurashi say his name?" asked Yuka.
"I didn't catch it," Eri stated.
"It's InuYasha," said the hanyou, his gaze not shifting from Kagome.
Hojo was still shocked from seeing InuYasha sitting on the same bed with Kagome.
"InuYasha? Well, hello then," said Ayumi, smiling softly.
Eri, tired of waiting, asked, "What's going on here? I want you to explain everything."
InuYasha finally looked at them, and with a quick glare towards Hojo, he started to speak. "I can't tell you the whole story, because only Kagome knows that. I can tell you what I remember, though."
"Kagome fell through the well in the well-house, and she got transported to my time... Which is apparently the past. Then, she met me and through a strange twist of fate, we got stuck together to gather the pieces of the Shikon Jewel," InuYasha said.
"Is that why Kagome has been missing school?" Yuka asked.
"What's a Shikon Jewel?" questioned Hojo.
InuYasha growled and said, "Will you just shut up? I'm getting to that!"
"Anyway, the Shikon Jewel gives huge amounts of power to whoever has it, youkai or human." Seeing the looks on their faces, InuYasha sighed. "In my time, there is youkai everywhere. Kagome and I have been traveling to collect the shattered Shikon Jewel from youkai and restore the jewel. Well, a hanyou who has most of the jewel decided that it was gonna be really fun to stick the Bachiatari Jewel in Kagome. Apparently, the Bachiatari Jewel transforms humans into demons, but we don't know what causes the transformations or how to get rid of that jewel..."
"Kagome hasn't hurt anyone yet, besides me and another girl, Sango, but unless we get rid of it, I think she might hurt more," InuYasha finished, watching Kagome again as she slept.
"You mean, all this time Kagome has been traveling to the past and fighting demons and she has still managed to keep up with school?" Eri asked.
InuYasha almost fell over.
"Who cares? Kagome has almost killed people because of this stupid ass jewel, and you're asking about your dumb school?" InuYasha shouted.
"What's with those ears?" Hojo asked.
"I'm a youkai," InuYasha said.
"WHAT?" the four of them shouted, backing up into the wall.
"Just don't get on my nerves. I've got a bunch of claws that can cut through metal, and I don't have much patience for humans," InuYasha said, smirking.
The four humans looked as if they'd seen a ghost.
End Chapter