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 19 – The Calm before the Stance
All the humans in the group woke up to find the winds restless and Inuyasha alert and aware with what was going on.
'What's going on?' Kagome asked him when she noticed that his ears were alerted, standing straight.
'Something's in the wind.'
This caused many to calm.
'It's like the calm before the storm.' Kagome observed.
'The calm before the what?' Inuyasha asked clearly not understanding.
'You know, how it's always calm before a big, big storm?'
'Um… no…?'
Kagome shrugged.
'Come on, we gotta keep going.'
That was when Kagome realized that Inuyasha didn't like where there was one pit. Nor did he like how the winds, that were just restless, suddenly became calm. It wasn't right. It reminded him of the Kyapucha. And he didn't like that thought either.
They kept walking. Everything was still. Even the clouds were still. Kagome was now becoming a little more alarmed, so she kept closer to Inuyasha. Shippo, too not liking the nature events, kept to Miroku's shoulder, the same as Kilala who kept to her owner's arms.
They eventually stopped, on the account of everyone being hungry. Unpacking the fish they kept from the river they set up camp by some nights ago, they lit a fire then waited for the fish to cook.
'If you think about it, it's just like camping outdoors…' to the odd looks she got she quickly added, 'if you don't add all the things wrong…'
Inuyasha looked at her with one eyebrow raised. After last night, he could understand why she was trying not to think about it, and think of it in a different way. Though, the others in the group did not.
'Hey, Inuyasha?' a voice pierced his thoughts a little while
later.
'Hn?'
'Can I got look for some
berries? With Shippo? If he wants to come?'
'…Be careful…'
Kagome lit up and smiled then nodded.
'Shippo, wanna come
berry hunting with me?'
The kitsune, eager to go somewhere, quickly went to her side as she went to where she put her bow and arrows down. She put them on her shoulder, then set off with Shippo, who hopped onto the other arm.
As soon as Inuyasha knew she was out of her earshot of them, he called Miroku and Sango over to him and then proceeded to tell them about what had happened to the jewel.
When he was finished, their astonished faces were expected. Though,
hearing Shippo laughing and Kagome's feet snapping twigs, he
quickly said to them,
'Don't tell her you know, she
might have wanted to tell you in her own time.'
They both nodded, telling him in silent words that they wouldn't tell her.
'Yasha! Look we got a load!' her voice came from the side of him; he looked to see Shippo carrying a small bag towards him, and Kagome with a larger one. He frowned.
'Where'd ya get the bags from?'
'Found them, on the side of the road, up there.'
'There's a road?'
Kagome nodded. 'Yep. Though there are no cars. It's a dirt road, by the looks of the tracks there hasn't been a car on it for awhile.'
All of them blinked at her.
'How do you know about tracking?'
'… Miko…'
Inuyasha nearly kicked himself. However, Sango and Miroku were still looking confused.
'I forgot about the tracking thing,' Inuyasha said truthfully.
'Knew you did, because you asked about it.'
'Shut it.'
Kagome laughed at him.
They came to the road that Kagome mentioned. On the other side of the road, in the far distance they could see what looked like a house… though it was large enough to be called something else entirely. They started following the road. The road soon came to a cross road and they saw that the forest finished – so they would have found the road anyway.
Suddenly the sky went black. And Inuyasha stiffened.
'I
don't like this.'
Apparently neither did any of the
others.
They saw lightening, though it wasn't raining.
'It's too early to be nightfall.' Miroku observed.
'Oh,
really, never would have guessed.'
The lightening was coming closer to them. It suddenly struck near them. All yelping they leapt away from where the lightening struck.
'Not cool!'
Then a laugh came from somewhere.
'Well, hello Miko.'