Me: WE ARE BACK!
Inuyasha: -looks at me warily- Are you going to make me eat anything retarded in THIS chapter?
Kouga: Say yes. SAY YES.
Me: -shrugs- I don't know. I won't if you say the disclaimer.
Kouga and Inuyasha: akumaokami has nothing to do with Inuyasha and this story is purely fan made.
Inuyasha: I SAID IT FIRST.
Kouga: Then how come she wrote my name first?
Me: What ever, let's get STARTED!
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"It's so nice to see you again, Shesshi!" Yuki said, hugging her old friend. Inuyasha almost laughed at the surprised look on Shesshomaru's face, until the look dimmed into a small smile.
"Nice to see you as well, Yuki," He said quietly, patting her on the head. He was a good three inches taller than her.
Yuki pulled away and sighed. Inuyasha had a strange flash back of seeing the two together once, when they were still kids. Shesshomaru had always been taller than her by a couple of inches, but Yuki was more devious, much more active than he ever could be. Inuyasha could still remember the first day the two met.
Shesshomaru had been sitting alone outside of their estate, glaring at the kids playing across the road in the forest, when Yuki had come up the dirt road, bouncing a ball on her nose. When she asked the kids if she could play with them, they had all laughed at her and called her a freak. Instead of crying, like Inuyasha had (though he would never admit to that), she had kicked their ball so far into the forest that they were afraid to go get it. When they started complaining and getting angry at her, she continued the game they had been playing- by herself, with the ball she had. And, if he remembered correctly, she was damn good at it. They had wanted her to let them have the ball and were already arguing over who's team she would be on, when she grabbed her ball and walked across the street.
"Hi," she said, her voice smiling though her face wasn't, to Shesshomaru. She tilted her head and bounced the ball on her nose once more. "Would you like to play with me? The humans don't seem to like you anymore than they like me."
Shesshomaru glared down at her, coldly looking her over. "I don't care what the humans think of me- I don't want to play with YOU, either." He looked her over once more and laughed. "You look like a human, anyway. Go take up their offer."
The girl, instead of rejecting him, growled low in her throat. "I am no human." She closed her eyes and mumbled something under her breath, but cut herself off last minute. Opening one eye, she said, "Your brother seems sad."
Shesshomaru's eyes narrowed. "How would you know how my brother feels?"
The girl walked around to behind a tree and slammed her fist into it's trunk- and out tumbled Inuyasha. His face was tear streaked and his fists clenched in both fear and anger, resentment and sorrow. She helped him up carefully and licked his face, a thing that made Inuyasha gag. "That's how," she said, pulling him back with her. "He smells and tastes of tears."
Shesshomaru looked at her, disgusted that she had just licked his little brothers face. "Is that a new human tradition?"
The girl rolled her eyes. "No, it's an old Wolf tradition."
Shesshomaru slid down from where he was and looked her over once again. "You can't be-"
"The heir to the Head Wolf clan?" she said casually, her tone almost bored. "As a matter of fact, I can be."
Shesshomaru took the ball and bounced it carefully. "I'm Shesshomaru," he said slowly, as if afraid she might walk away if he said it too quickly, or gave her her ball back. "And you are-?"
"Yuki," she said, stealing the ball back and bouncing it on her nose again. "I'm Yuki."
Yuki, at the moment was trailing her hands over his fur, laughing at how he was growling and threatening her. "You would never hit me, Shesshi," she laughed, petting the fur a little more. Inuyasha laughed out loud at the look on Shesshomaru's face- they both knew it was true. He would never hit someone as close to him as Yuki, no matter how long they had been apart.
"Lord Shesshomaru?" A small girl pushed her way through the trees, looking frightened. Inuyasha raised an eyebrow at his brother, who scowled and looked at him coldly.
"You're too cute!" Yuki laughed, sweeping Rin into her arms like she was a baby. She turned to look at Shesshomaru, beaming. "Is this little girl with you, Shesshi?"
Shessomaru grabbed Rin back and placed her gently down. "Yes," he said quietly. "It was impulsive and odd for me to take her away with me when I did." He looked up at Yuki, his eyes piercing. "It was something you taught me."
Yuki smiled, walked back around to Rin and swept her into her arms once again, smiling down at her. "Rin, huh? That's a pretty name." She pulled something out of her pocket and gave it to her, setting her down. "Here, Rin," she said, holding out an amulet with her family crest set into it. "Consider it a lets-be-friends gesture."
Rin smiled up at Yuki and shyly took the necklace. "Lord Shesshomaru, how come you never mentioned this girl?"
Yuki smirked over at her old friend, forging a look of hurt. "You never mentioned me, Shesshi? I'm hurt. I'm so deeply hurt."
Shesshomaru rolled his eyes, but grinned none the less. "You'd corrupt the young girl."
Yuki smirked mischievously. "You mean like I did you and Nunu for a while?"
Inuyasha and Shesshomaru answered at the same time. "Yes. Exactly like that."
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Kagome shouldered her backpack once again and hugged Sango and Miroku good bye. "See you guys tomorrow," she said brightly. As soon as they were out of sight, however, she felt herself break down mentally.
Inuyasha was gone. Inuyasha was gone. Inuyasha was gone.
It was the only thing repeating itself in her head, drowning out her other thoughts. Suffocating her.
Why did he go? she thought, tearing up again. Why did he have to leave? She sank down next to the well and sighed, leaning back against it. She closed her eyes and was planning on staying there until she could get enough energy to pull herself up when a raccoon bumped into her leg.
Kegome's eyes flew open and she jumped up, terrified. When she saw it was a raccon, though, she laughed. "Hey there, little guy," she said brightly. "Want to keep me company for a while?" And when the little raccoon scurried off, she followed it, deciding that she was not ready to leave the world Inuyasha had left behind just yet.
Once she was deep into the forest, the raccoon scurried up a tree. Kagome sighed and was about to turn back when she heard a farmiliar, heart breaking voice: "Yuyu, you will never change, will you?"
Not daring to believe her luck in this, Kagome pushed through the trees to see if what she had heard was right- once she broke through the last round of trees, she was about to scream in joy at seeing Inuyasha when she notice something- he was hugging some other girl. Shesshomaru was in the back ground with Rin, but that was all she could see- Inuyasha left for another girl.
She snapped.
"INUYASHA!" she cried. Inuyasha turned around just in time to say her name, before she started running, not caring where she went.
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Me: W E L L, the cast is off somewhere, I think watching Inuyasha and Kouga have a major smack down, so I'm going too. SEE YA! Tune in next time to see what happens!