Kagome soshite sono Inu Doyatsu izuko Ato Hanyou
Summary: OOC. AU. Whence running from school in the rainiest day ever, ever feel like theirs something watching you? While running down an ally Kagome meets a glare from a pure white dog, hiding from the rain? T for random foul language.
Chapter 16 - The Journey that will Change them all
They just kept walking, nothing to it, right? Oh so wrong. Shippo was hunched over, tongue out, looking like he was going to drop to the ground knocked out at any second; Miroku probably had permanent red check; so probably did Sango who kept blushing before her now reddened hand smacked him again. Kagome was trying not to worry the others, she was about to collapse due to walking too much. No one seemed to notice her sudden drop in speed in walking, or her breathing increase to panting.
She was way over her limitations on walking without stopping, and it wasn't like she was going to tell anyone…
Her legs made her collapse.
….Until then.
Everyone twirled around, looking alarmed. Inuyasha jumped to her from wherever he was before.
'Are you okay…?'
Kagome looked embarrassed by it all, she looked down and nodded slowly.
'Then why are you…?'
Kagome looked up a little shyly then said in a small voice,
'My legs aren't really that strong…'
Everyone frowned confused. Kagome sighed.
'I've had it ever since I was little, my father had it before me, and he was put in hospital because of it, when he was little, it was so bad with him, he nearly died, he said that they'll get stronger with time, they have, but not much….'
'Why didn't you say something?!'
'…. I didn't want to sto-'
'Why wouldn't we stop so you can rest, lady Kagome…?'
She looked down to the ground again and shrugged. Inuyasha sighed then went over to Shippo.
'I need you to do something for us.'
Shippo looked brightly at him, a new flame grew hoping that he could help in some way.
'I need you to go to that tree over there-' Inuyasha pointed to a tree in a field over to them 'and see if you can see anywhere close by where we can stay.'
Shippo looked to the tree and back a light going on above his head.
'What if there is no-?'
'Then we sleep under the tree don't we?'
Shippo nodded then dashed off to the tree.
Inuyasha walked over to Kagome, she had a question hanging over her head. In one movement he had her on his back with her in a daze. Miroku and Sango stood there gaping. By the time they reached the tree Kagome was trying hard not to fall asleep on his back
'Shippo! Can ya see anything?!'
….
No reply from the little kitsune who Inuyasha could see clearly.
'What is it runt?!'
'Theirs nothing in sight!!' a yell of a reply came from the top of the tree, Miroku and Sango dropped to the floor. Inuyasha put Kagome down gently then hopped into the tree where Shippo was.
Shippo was right, there was nothing in sight. A building was going to be placed there in future, from the sign outside, but nothing was there. Just land, and beyond that they could see another forest.
'Do ya think we should turn back?'
'We keep going.'
'But we came from that direction!' Shippo wailed pointing the way they came.
'Shad it runt, me and Kagome need to do something, whether you come or not is up to you.'
'What are you gonna do?'
'Nothing that concerns you.' Inuyasha retorted regretting that he ever told him. Grabbing hold of the kitsune's tail Inuyasha jumped down from the tree and landed on the ground.
Inuyasha knew that they were tired; living with Kagome, he knew when she was tired. She was already asleep, probably trying to reserve her strength for the morning's walk. Now that he knew about her not being able to walk long distances he would need to have an ear to her, with the other in front of him. He wouldn't mind, her collapsing like that scared him, badly. He thought there was something wrong, but it was just her, she seemed to be used to it, but she seemed to hate it.
She mentioned her father, Inuyasha thought while frowning. I've never seen him… he looked over to Shippo, who was snoring quietly, Miroku still had his reddened cheek glowing in the dark, Sango was a way away from him, after the fact she found out even when he was asleep his hands still could wonder. Inuyasha went over to Kagome and shook her arm.
'Kagome, wake up…'
She groaned and turned to him 'huh?'
'You mentioned your father had the same thing you have, right?' he asked her while she rubbed sleep out of her eyes.
'Uh-huh…' she said sleepily.
'Where is he now?'
'…'
Inuyasha looked at her; she looked like she was going to cry.
'…He's dead isn't he?'
Kagome nodded.
'How?'
'His symptoms from the weak legs killed him…'
Inuyasha blinked as she gathered up her legs he could even smell the ever ready salt water ready to spill.
'He, was taken to hospital… a week later he died… I, didn't get to say goodbye to him!' by the time she said all this she was already crying full pall. He felt guilty for waking her bad memories, he gathered her in his arms.
'I'm sorry Kagome…'
Though she was already asleep from exestuation.
Kagome woke up to again see white and red, she immediately knew where she was
'Inuyasha?'
'You wake, huh?'
'Hmm…'
Kagome got up the courage to lean up against him, knowing he wouldn't make her fall.
'We're half way there to the other side of the forest….'
Kagome yawned and Inuyasha grinned at her, she then realized something. She lent down to one of his ears and asked,
'Did anyone of them find out your little trick at night?'
It took him awhile to realize what she was talking about.
'…No…'
She kept a laugh in but grinned as she went back to sleep.
'I'd rather carry her then, make her walk on her limits!'
She knew that voice, though it had anger in it.
'She might consider that being a limitation on her part.'
She knew that voice to, it was too calm.
'I don't care, she's alright where she is!'
Note to self, Kagome mentally told herself, never come into a conversation that is halfway through. She sighed then rolled over to see Inuyasha standing up looking rather angry, Miroku looking his calm self, Sango was sighing, looked like she was in a agreement with Inuyasha's side, and Shippo had a blank on his face.
Inuyasha looked down from the tree he was in. He was slightly worried about the girl up against the tree. She wasn't awake, she hadn't been for the entire day. Though he knew Kagome was a little lazy, she could keep herself awake, even when she was yawning and half falling asleep. He frowned towards the other two ningens and kitsune youkai, they were all asleep. Why the heck where they still hanging around? Don't they have homes or holes to go to? Shippo didn't, Inuyasha remembered, so where was he before they found him in the forest paying his respects? Unless of course he was trying to live in the forest, which Inuyasha knew from experience, wasn't easy, even if the Kyapucha- left the forest alone, their presence were still there and what they left while killing them were as well, not a new plant grew, if they did they were poisonous to youkai and hanyou. A kid youkai wasn't going to live in the forest if not even a full horde of hanyou and youkai were once slaughtered there. Too many haunts. Too many unseen feelings.
Inuyasha took his eyes away from the people below him to the sky, sighing he jumped down from the tree to where Kagome was, he knew the time and what was going to happen next, why be in a tree just to fall out of it when his hands change into paws? He saw no reason in that, he cast one look back to the others, they were still sleeping soundly (or in Shippo's case unsoundly). Inuyasha looked back to Kagome and smiled a little, without her he'd probably wouldn't have come this far. He looked back to the others and he hoped they didn't wake up.