While the number of fallows and favorites outweighed the number of reviews more than I liked, I've decided to put the next installment of A Kitten found. Before you read the story I'd like to address on review about the pairing of the story. I have not decided if there will be any romantic pairing at all... but I have taken in consideration of a Rime (Rick/Kagome) or a Darome (Daryl/Kagome) and yes I those names are ones I've been calling the pairings.
I do not own the Series of Inuyasha or The Walking Dead. Only my own overly emotional feelings and need for a happier ending for Sophia.
Chapter 2: A new kitten in the pack
Souta and Rin had just finished setting up their camp for the night, while Kagome had gone off to patrol the area for Ningyō. They had found a large enough tree to sleep in and made the beds for the night.
Rin had seen that it was getting late in the afternoon and that her Mama had return yet. Bring this to the attention of her new uncle. Souta had agreed that it was unlike his sister to spend so much time away or far from them, even if she left with them with Kiara and some weapons.
"Let's go look for her," he said trying to keep the uneasy expression off his face for Rin's sake as the younger girl nodded. The small girl grabbed her twin daggers and hooked them to her pretty handmade checkered kimono's obi and stood next to the older boy with his own weapon in hand. They began to search close by with a cream colored kitten at their heels.
They had search for about an hour before Rin began to worry for the young woman who had taken her in after Sesshomaru and the rest of their demon friends had vanished,leaving the girl no place to go after that.
"Uncle, where is Mama?" Rin was scared, what if something happened to her!
Souta offered a boyish smile, "Don't worry Rin, Neechan is the most stubborn person alive remember? She'll be fine."
Because she is, and much to their relief she was. The twin tailed cream kitten, Kiara had meowed to get their attention before running off in a sprint. They followed her, as she stopped every now and then for them to catch up. Souta had guessed that Kiara had caught the scent of his sister and was leading them to her as she has done many times before in this crazy new life of theirs.
They had finally reached Kagome, standing there with a Ningyō at her feet and two unnoticed arms wrapped around her waist.
Souta shouted, "Neechan, and Rin yelled out after him, "Mama"
Kagome had turned around to reveal to them a dirty blond haired girl. She was a bit younger than Souta but older than Rin. This girl was shaking like a terrified kitten in his sister's arms.
"Souta, Rin, come here. Meet Koneko-chan," Kagome said smiling warmly still petting the girl soothingly.
The blond girl left out a hiccup and a sniffle as they came near, tears still welled up at the corners of her eyes.
"Koneko this is Souta, my younger brother and this is Rin, my daughter," Kagome had pointed to them in that order.
"I-I'm S-sophia," she said. It seemed to Souta that the girl had been attacked by the Ningyō that was currently dead (once and for all) with one of his sister's arrows through its head.
"So you do have a name Koneko-chan! Sophia? Well, my name is Kagome."
And then Souta's eye twitched. This was a lot like the time Kagome had gotten Bouyo, and then all the other animals she brought home after finding them on the street...
"Sophia, what were you doing out here?" Kagome had tried to ask her gently as possible but Sophia began to tear up again.
"W-we-e...h-herd..out-t..." the she began to cry again at the thought of the herd and of her missing group, her mother.
When she felt the warmth of a two people hugging her. Sophia was being hugged by two people. One she recognized as the young woman that saved her earlier, Kagome, was hugging her from behind. The other was a smaller girl that was hugging her in the front, the newly introduce Rin.
"No crying," Rin told her in thick accented English.
"We'll help you out," Souta answered smiling at the younger girl. Rin smiled as well nodding and gripping the girl tighter, saying things in excitement in her native tongue.
Hope you all enjoyed it.
-TLS