Chapter 5: Go fish!
Trees and bushes whipping by like lightening, Inuyasha ran as fast as his legs would take him. He didn't know where to look for her first. Questions were running through his head a mile a minute.
Is she ok? Is she still alive? Is she being held captive by some gross demon and being used to be a – Inuyasha closed his eyes for a second and shook his head of all thoughts, Kagome wouldn't let herself get into that much danger would she? …
With all the rain the area has had a couple weeks ago, it made his quest even harder, for it washed out the scents in the air. With no scent it made it hard to even try to pinpoint a location to start his search. So he ran, and he could run until he caught something, even if it was the slightest scent.
Walking for what seemed like hours; Kagome huffed and plopped on the ground, kicked her shoes off and started to rub her feet. Stopping Sesshoumaru looked over his shoulder to see that the miko has decided to stop their travels.
He narrowed his eyes at her form, who was she to decide when they stopped? He was the alpha and as such made decisions for his pack. Thought the miko wasn't any pack of his; over the years he came to see her as an ally, but because she was currently traveling with him, he would consider her temporary pack… That is until he made his decision of weather or not she would be traveling with him permanently…
Turning to face her he looked down at her. 'Pathetic human.' he thought as he watched her rub her feet... Feeling like she was getting holes burned into her flesh, Kagome looked up to see a rather annoyed looking Sesshoumaru. "Something wrong?" she asked still rubbing her sore foot.
"This Sesshoumaru is your alpha for the time being and as such makes the decisions." He stated coldly glaring at her. Kagome wanted to roll her eyes at his 'superior' attitude. 'He can be such a jerk.' She thought pursing her lips tightly together. "Well I'm sorry Mister Almighty, we've been walking for hours nonstop and my feet are starting to hurt." She said in a snippy tone.
Sesshoumaru looked at her face boredly. He internally grinned, for some reason aggravating the miko excited him. Putting that thought aside he then walked over to a tree and sat underneath it. Not wanting to argue with her at for the time being.
No, he would let her slide this one time. They have been walking for sometime. He had to say he was impressed; most humans would've started complaining that they were tired and hungry.
But not the miko, no, she grabbed berries as they passed by berry bushes while they walked and he never heard a peep out of her that she was tired and needed rest. Though she would talk some kind of nonsense and expect him to answer her, but he never did. He guessed that dealing with his half brother all this time made her just keep her mouth shut about complaining and go along till he thought it was best to stop.
Sesshoumaru snorted lightly through his nose, his pathetic brother was no leader that was for sure. I mean sure he protected his pack the best he could, but as for providing for them and making sure they were taken care of, he was worthless.
Kagome looked at Sesshoumaru, she just didn't get it. Sometimes he would just stand thee and argue with her till she was blue in the face and gave up. Then other times, such as this one, he would just go with the flow.
She shook her head, though an ass sometimes he can be very confusing… Sighing Kagome started rubbing her other foot, boy were they sore, especially the right one since she stepped on a sharp edged rock.
Kagome glared at nothing in particular, remembering the rock that caused her poor little foot pain… She didn't say anything though, figuring that she would just be a burden to the demon lord. So she kept her mouth shut and walked it off.
She then looked back at the demon by the tree, she knew he could sense her pain and he still didn't stop. 'What a jerk!' she thought with a spike of anger. Looking down at her foot she could see a slight bruise forming on the bottom.
Sesshoumaru looked at the miko; he raised his eyebrow when he felt her anger spike. He could only wonder what she could be angry at, he didn't make her get up and continue traveling. So what could she possibly be mad at?
Shifting his gaze from her face to her foot, he now understood her anger. He knew she was in pain a few hours back but he didn't know from what. He would've asked her but he didn't feel like getting his ear talked off, like she was doing since they started walking back to the palace.
So instead of wondering why she was in pain he kept walking, he thought that if it was bad enough that she would say something eventually... But to his surprise, she said nothing. Seeing the bruise on her foot told him that she must've stepped on something with a high point on it.
Now he understood her anger, and it was probably towards him, though he didn't care. Many fear him and many hate him, so why would it bother him if one more were added to the list…
High up in a tree, the woman had to shake her head. She watched as the two traveled and saw the miko step on the rock. 'He's gonna be a lot of work.' She thought slightly smiling.
Looking upon the two once again, she wondered how much effort it would take to get the great lord to see that deep down in his heart that he loves the little miko… She guessed that she would have to see what Sesshoumaru will decide as far as the miko traveling with him.
But until then she will stick around and watch the two and play with them a little as time goes by.
Slipping her shoes back on Kagome stood and walked over to the taiyoukai. "So how long till we get to your palace?" she asked standing a few feet from him, Sesshoumaru looked at her.
Gracefully standing keeping eye contact with her the whole time, he straightened his haori, "It will be a couple days travel… but if we keep the pace we walked today we should be there in just a day." He stated still looking at her with a bored expression.
Kagome only nodded at the information, "Well then… my feet feel better if were ready to go." She said smiling a little.
Sesshoumaru looked down into the face of the smiling girl. Her smile… for some reason he like to see that dazzling smile of hers… he didn't know why, but it made him relax inside.
Blinking once he looked straight ahead and started walking, Kagome stopped smiling and sighed. She wished that he would at least do something when she smiled at him. She would even take him telling her not to smile at him.
Anything would do for her, looking at the back of the demon and slowly started to follow.
Nose picking up a very slight scent, Inuyasha made a beeline for a little hut just outside of a major village. 'Kagome…'
Inuyasha burst into the hut and started searching, completely oblivious to the presence of the man and son whom resided in the hut.
Picking up a piece of wood the man started to swing at him, but stopped when Inuyasha quickly turned and caught his wrist. "Just what the hell do you think your doing!" he spat in the man's face.
"What am I doing? What are you doing? You just barge in here uninvited and un welcomed and start sniffing around." The man pulled his wrist free. "Just what are you looking for, to come barging in here like you did?" he demanded furrowing his brow in anger.
Inuyasha became hot headed quickly; he could smell Kagome all over this place. When he looked to the young man sitting on his bed, he could smell her there the most… Grabbing the older man by the collar of his haori he demanded answers. "Where's Kagome? I know she was here, I can smell her all over the place! So where is she?" he shouted.
The boy looked at the hanyou, remembering the conversation he had with Kagome before she left. 'This must be the half demon Kagome was speaking of.' He thought; with that in mind he stood and walked towards Inuyasha.
"Kagome isn't here… she left some time ago." He said making Inuyasha turn his head to face him. "How do you know?" Inuyasha asked raising an eyebrow at him.
The boy sighed "if you release my father we can take a walk outside and I'll tell you." he said, he knew this one was the half demon Kagome talked about for sure, he could tell by his stupidity and block headedness.
Inuyasha narrowed his eyes at him and thought about what he said for a minute before letting go of the man. He straightened his fire rat robe and followed the boy out of the hut.
"So what do you know about Kagome? Where is she?" questioned Inuyasha as soon as he got outside.
The boy turned around and hit Inuyasha up side the head. Inuyasha looked dumfounded for a minute before shaking his head and glaring at the boy. "And what the hell was that for?" he shouted
"That's for hurting Kagome the way you did!" He shouted back. "How anyone could hurt such a sweet, kind, gentle woman is beyond me…" He squared his shoulders and looked at Inuyasha with a serious face. "My name is Taro, and my father and I took care of Kagome. We were walking back home from the village and saw her collapsed form in the rain. Obviously running from you!" he said with an angered tone, which only made Inuyasha's ears flatten to his head.
"We took her in and took care of her, she fell ill and we nursed her back to health… She's told me about you, Inuyasha." Taro looked at him hard. "Now my question to you is after everything you've done to the poor girl, what could you possibly want with her?" he balled his fists at his side "haven't you done enough to her!" Taro shouted.
Inuyasha could only look away from him; he knew the boy was right. He knew he had hurt Kagome and he knew there was no fixing the damage he had done now. But that wasn't going to stop him from looking for her.
In that moment anger started to set in. this idiot let her go out on her own! Let her leave without any protection! And he's got the nerve to stand there and scold him! Inuyasha glared dangerously at Taro, his words as dark as his face. "Heh! You've got some nerve scolding me like you are, when you let a poor defenseless girl like Kagome run off in the middle of the night without and protection to face kami knows what." his eyes flashed a dangerous red.
Taro gulped at his tone and stepped back once, even for a half demon Taro could feel the demon that lurked in the dark shadows of Inuyasha start to surface. 'He is no ordinary half demon.' He thought taking another step back. "Inuyasha I know you miss Kagome but what you did hurt her deeply in her heart." He tried to reason.
"Yes, you may want to find her to apologies but that isn't going to fix what you've done… you asked Kagome to do something special with you and then literally crushed any hope she thought she had with you." Inuyasha started to take deep breaths to try and calm down.
"I know what it's like to love a demon for I was once with one." Taro walked up to Inuyasha and put a friendly hand on his shoulder. "I lost her to another because she was royal… Trust me the pain hurts." He said with much emotion in his voice. Inuyasha looked at Taro and sighed.
"I understand… But I still have to find her. I'll never forgive myself if I don't apologies to her." He said more to himself than Taro, but he only nodded his head. "She left some time ago. I don't know where or which direction she went." He said and patted Inuyasha's shoulder lightly, then started to leave to check on his father.
"If I had to take a guess, I would say she headed further into the woods off west." With that said he left Inuyasha to ponder on his decisions. Inuyasha's eyes got wide as soon as the word 'west' passed his ears with only one name coming to mind… 'Sesshoumaru…' He thought then sprinted off into the woods going westward.