Ok… I lost my flash drive with this file on it, and that is why it took me so long to update. Don't be too mad. I didn't loose it on purpose. It just kinda ran away from me. Sorry.
Rallying her mental troops, Kagome stared blankly at the forest background while Gin carried her along with her group, (who wondered at Kagome's melancholy mood) sending waves of hate toward the little hero-worshiping, brain-dead, blubbering idiot that we call Jaken for short.
Kagome wanted to cry. Yeah. Curl up, cry like an idiot, beat up Jaken, cry some more, and eat all of her freshly obtained pokey. And as inviting as that sounded, she couldn't. Why? Because Jaken is an idiot. He always will be an idiot, and always has been and idiot. No exceptions.
So, in addition to keeping her group together, and collecting fragments of the damned jewel of the four souls, she also had to make an attempt at keeping all the Cardinal lords from draining Sesshomaru's wealth white. And, as hard as the first two were, the last was just the icing on the "my-life-sucks-majorly-and-there-is-no-way-in-hell-that-these-things-can-be-done" cake. How was she supposed to go and command the idiot lords to leave Sesshomaru's stuff alone?
"Excuse me, could you kindly not steal every coin and priceless artifact that Sesshomaru has? Oh, and clean up on your way out. Thank you." Kagome said, mocking herself and her horrible luck. Then she snorted. Fat chance, she mentally chided herself.
After they stopped for the night, Kagome approached Inuyasha, considering a way to get the stubborn human-dog hybrid to listen to her. Sucking in a deep breath, Kagome walked all the way up to her dog eared companion, and smiled her too-sweet smile, that only meant one of two things, either A.) She wanted something or B.) She was going to punish Inuyasha. Heck, looking at their track record, it was most likely going to amount to both.
"Inuyasha. So… uh, how about that weather, huh?" Kagome started awkwardly.
"Feh. What ya want, wench?"
"Um… I was just thinking, ya know, and I think we should head toward the West. We've never even headed toward there. I can only imagine how many pieces of the jewel there are there. I even sensed one in that direction not too long ago" She was lying. Not even a glimmer of truth was concealed in her words. But they rang with the pitch of truth and her lie was well hidden. You had to learn to lie well to get past the puppy crusade.
"There's a shard! Where? Wench, why didn't you tell us earlier? Point in the direction of the sad, sad bastard who has it!" Inyasha screamed, turning quite pink in excitement.
"Um…" Kagome looked down at Gin carefully, who nodded to his left. Smiling down at the little pup, Kagome pointed in that direction. And away they were swept, the crazy half-dog leading the way and barking orders. Kagome smiled a secret smile shared with only her doggie friend. She still wanted to cry and scream, because her life sucked major butt, but she only groaned and cursed her convoluted plan.
Inuyasha is soooooooooo going to kill me… Kagome leaned forward, hugging Gin's flanks, and fell into an awkward sleep.
Groaning, Kagome opened her eyes to find herself smothering in a sea of white. She snuggled into the fur, but sat up shock straight because she just realized that the only one who has silver fur is…
"Gin! I can't breathe!" She hollered into the dense, smooth, white fur.
Suddenly the fur around her slackened, and she could see the entire camp staring at her owlishly. The blush that stained her cheeks was unmistakable, and she rolled over to avoid all the sniggering. Gin growled at her friends before curling back around her, so only her face was uncovered.
And so she hid, unwilling to be made fun of. She tumbled back into the realm of sleep.
Kagome was surrounded by whiteness, but she could still see herself, so she knew that she wasn't tangled in Gin's shaggy locks. Looking around her, she saw Inuyasha telling her she was his best friend, and that he loved her. Then the picture faded out, and Inuyasha was sucking face with Kikyo. It stung. Really, really badly. But it was like a train wreck, and she couldn't look away, no matter how much it hurt, and no matter how much she still wanted him to be with her.
She had had problems with her self esteem ever since she saw this image, because Inuyasha had chosen a dead woman who was still trying to kill him at the time over herself. There's nothing like losing to a corpse to kill your hopes.
But then the picture faded out again, and it was her. She was in the arms of another, being cuddled and shushed. It occurred to her that she was sobbing. She couldn't see the face, or very much of him at all, but she knew one thing…
He wasn't Inuyasha.
So… Like it? Hate it? Want to rip off all of my fingers so that I may never type again? Lemme know. Also, some constructive criticism and may be a beta would help. Caio~