01-13-10: Okay now this chapter could be considered as another filler.. but.. come on it's Jeninji!! It's a whole chapter of just Kaori and Inuyasha and I think this chapter in the original was very sweet.

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You're Kinda, Sorta, Basically, Pretty Much, Always On My Mind.

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I Don't Own Inuyasha

"Talking"

46. Jinenji

The little cream colour neko trembled, as she curled herself tighter into a ball. She was in pain. Before we had arrived, Kirara had tried to best to protect Sango from harm, but Naraku's poison had gotten to her and still coursed through her veins. Sango pulled her hand from under the covers and stroked the small fluffy tail.

"Does it hurt, Kirara?" She whispered.

I frowned, and quietly left the hut to join the others. I.. couldn't be in there.. It was too sad. I sighed mournfully and plopped myself into the snow beside Inuyasha.

"What's your problem?" He asked, his voice loud and harsh.

"I have nothing that can cure Kirara." I explained. "And I feel horrible because of it."

"Don't beat yourself up over it, Kaori-sama." A tiny voice exclaimed. I looked down at Inuyasha's shoulder. Sure enough Meoga was there, sitting calmly as if he'd been there forever. I frowned.

"And where have you been?" I asked, my eyes narrowing.

"Er.." The flea trailed off glancing around nervously. "That's not the point right now. You want to save Kirara don't you?"

"Yes.. of course."

"Well I know a place where you can find antidote herbs that will cure her almost instantly. However, I heard the field of herbs is protected by a youkai.. so maybe they won't be so easy to get a hold of.."

"Well I think Inuyasha and I can manage." I replied, glancing up at the silver haired boy.

Shippo nodded in agreement. "They can just beat up the demon and get the whole field of herbs!"

Inuyasha smirked, crossing his arms over his chest. "Kirara actually took a bite out of Naraku. Unlike Meoga, Kirara has spunk! It's the least we can do for her."

"Unlike Meoga, we can count on Kirara's strength in battle." Shippo added, folding his arms over his chest as well. "She must make a full recovery!"

They both nodded twice.

I blinked and looked back and forth between the two. Change the size, hair colour, eye colour, and species and we got ourselves two Inuyasha's on our hands. I smirked as I watched the two continue to rant about the flea and wondered how much Shippo actually looked up to the hanyou before me. It was obviously a lot.

"H-hey!" Meoga squeaked. "I let you guys do the talking and all you do is decide that I'm useless and weak! Physical proness isn't the only criteria for achievement! Give me some credit for having intelligence!"

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Inuyasha sighed. "I think it would have been faster if I went by myself."

I pressed my lips together. "And you bring this up now?"

We trudged through the snow. I refused to run. I refused to go any faster.. I knew we needed the herbs for Kirara, but.. well.. I wanted some alone time with him.. It's been so long.. call me selfish.. but it's how I felt.. besides.. Kirara could last a few more hours couldn't she..?

"Besides," I added, looking up at the cloudy grey sky. "I'm the one who grew up with priestess. I was taught how to decider the good from the bad. You need me for this."

"Oh well then.." He trailed off. "I'm counting on ya."

I wasn't convinced. "And.. It's been so long since it was just the two of us.. In fact we've just about never really been alone since right after.. I broke the jewel. Remember..? We met Shippo right after that. That was.. almost three months ago."

"Really..?" His paced slowed and he ended up behind me.

"Mhmn."

"Well.. why can't we go faster?" He whined. I felt his head rest on my shoulder from behind and I stopped my face burning red.

"Because.. your.. tired?" Wow.. that was kinda pathetic..

"Mmm..." He groaned. I stood there waiting for him to get off me, so we could 'go faster'. But he didn't. I waited 5 minutes.. still nothing. What the hell? I heard a soft snore.

"OH MY GOD! DON'T SLEEP ON ME!!" I shouted, pulling myself out from under him.

That seemed to wake him up. He fell into the snow with a loud thud and glared up at me. "What the hell!!?"

"What!!? You were the one sleeping on me!"

"I was not!"

"Were too!"

"Was not!"

"Oh yeah, and I'm sure it wasn't you who was snoring either. If you were tired why didn't you go to sleep before we left?"

"I don't snore." He growled. His face resembled that of a pouting child and I laughed, walking away from him.

"Hey you stupid bitch don't leave!"

"Why should I stick around someone who is upset with me over nothing?" I called back.

He appeared beside me. "I'm not angry!

"Hmm.. your tone says differently."

"I said I'm not!" He snapped!

I pressed my lips together again and looked up at him. He blinked, any sign of irritation gone. "What?"

"You don't enjoy being around me do you?" I asked. I felt my ears droop and my tail fall limp. I was probably right.

"Eh..? What are you going on about?" Inuyasha's face grew confused and panicky and I stepped ahead of him.

"Well.. you seem all irritated." I sighed.

"You idiot! I was born like this!" He snapped. "...Er.. wait..."

I felt a smile grow on my face as he quickly backtracked, realizing being born irritated might not have been the best thing. A small laugh escaped my lips and he came up beside me looking all confused again.

"Jeez and now you're happy again. I don't get you."

"I don't get you either." I replied. I looked ahead and stopped instantly. A group of village men were walking towards us, each carrying the weight of a long wooden board. I smelt human blood and noticed a limp hand fall from under the straw mat placed over it.

"That makes the third one." One of the men sighed. "The bowels were eaten out again."

"Maybe it's Jinenji after all." The oldest one said. He was almost bald except for a small silver pony tail at the back of his head.

"It's obviously him, isn't it?" The first one replied.

"That monster, we won't forgive him for this!" Another growled.

"Bu, but what'll we do?" A thin faced man stuttered. "Even if everyone in the village attacked as a group.."

"Yeah.." A rounder man agreed at his side.

"Well." I chirped. "You obviously have a problem."

The men stopped muttering amongst themselves and looked at us.

"This 'Jinenji' guy, is a youkai?" Inuyasha asked, stepping in front of me as if these old villagers were dangerous. So much for me being the most amazing of them all.

"Wh.. Who're you?" One squeaked.

"Youkais..?"

"Er..." I pulled on the end of my tail. "Sort of.."

The flinched, slowly backing away.

"But we wont hurt you!" I quickly added. "We came to get some medicinal herbs."

"From Jinenji's field?"

"Eh..?" I blinked. Wasn't Jinenji the monster?

"Jinenji, lives with his mother, at the edge of the village." They explained. "They have a field of herbs that work well.. Well, even we use those herbs on occasion, but.. but it seems that these days, that Jinenji.. has gone back to remembering the taste of human flesh."

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The field was large. Larger than the small home garden I'd been imagining this whole time. Small bitter smelling leafy green plants grew in long thin rows around a small wooden shack. In the middle of the field a giant worked, pulling out small weeds with his hands.

"That's Jinenji." The villager whispered.

"Dreadful isn't he?"

"Bah!" Inuyasha scoffed.

I looked over this Jinenji over once more. "I wouldn't say dreadful." He wasn't. His skin was kissed by the sun but covered in many dark scars all over his legs and arms. Bulging eyes, that were one of the most beautiful shades of blue I had ever seen, watched where his steps carefully. Shoulder length slightly curly black hair was pulled back into a pony tail and a kimono of dark blue and grey covered his enormous body. An average person would only reach maybe to the height of his knees. He wasn't dreadful. Just big..

"Will you really be able to exterminate this demon for us?" One of them asked. I took notice to the kimono patterns. This one was a sun pattern.

"We just came to take the herbs." Inuyasha said, his tone uninterested and bored. "Kaori wait here, this'll be easy."

"Alright then."I watched as he hopped over the bush we'd been hiding behind and stalked up to the youkai, pulling Tetsusaiga out as he went.

"I wonder if that brat is strong enough.." Thin face whispered to sun pattern.

"Well who cares?" Sun pattered replied.

"It's a fight between youkai." The oldest explained crouching down beside me as if I weren't there.

"Which ever dies it's okay.." Sun pattern added.

My tail twitched in irritation. Hmph.

"So you're the cannibalistic youkai bastard." Inuyasha called, as he approached Jinenji. "Prepare to die!"

I sniffed the air for a sign of any immediate danger as the giant turned around. Hmm.. that was strange. If he was the youkai to attack he'd reak of human blood.. but he didn't.

Suddenly rocks started flying over my head and I ducked to the ground, out of the range of fire. "Hey Jinenji!" The men were shouting. "Prepare to die!! Quickly!! Kill him!!"

The giant's blue eyes flashed red for a second, and his body started to tremble. Inuyasha braced himself.

"Maaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Jinenji cried, tears streaming down his face. "Maa!! Sa-a-ave me-e!!" He spun around and dissappared into the small wooden shack.

"Wa..Wait!" Inuyasha shouted. His face was confused, just as maybe mine was, and I leaped towards him. "Wait I said! Damn you!"

"You bastards!" An elderly, sickly thin woman raced from the cabin, holding a large wooden plank over her shoulders. "I've said it again and again, stop coming after our damn field!"

She raised and then thrust the log over Inuyasha's head. A loud crack pierced my hears and the wood splintered into a hundred pieces. Inuyasha just stood there, his face just as confused as a few moments ago. He seemed unharmed.

"Whaa!! Those brats are done for!" The oldest man cried.

"He's weak!" Sun pattern gasped.

A moment later they were on their feet, racing back into the forest toward their village.

"Woooow" I said rocking back and forth on the balls of my feet. "They're soooo brave."

Inuyasha looked at me, his face unamused. "What's with them?"

"Hey you," The woman's said between laboured breaths. "I don't know what rubbish those damn villagers have you told. But this child could never eat someone's bowels. Don't let them fool you, he's just a hanyou!"

I blinked. Hanyou?

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"You're called.. Inuyasha and Kaori right?"

We were now sitting in the shack. It had looked smaller from the outside. Inside the walls were a dark ocean blue, and green herbs were strung along the walls. But these were not bitter smelling as the ones outside. They smelled sweet, filling the room with their intoxicating scent.

The old woman sat in front of us, carefully poking a small fire, and the hanyou Jinenji was curled up on the side watching me with those piercing blue eyes.

"Now that I look , you're both hanyou too, aren't you?" The woman muttered.

"Mm.."

"You got that right, babaa." Inuyasha and I nodded.

"I thought so.. because while you may have a pretty face for a half-youkai.." Her dark beady eyes stared us down. "Your shape, however you look at is, it's half transformed."

"'Half transformed'?" I echoed. I pinched one of Inuyasha's silver ears and tugged gently. "You mean these things, right?"

He growled, and grabbed mine. But pulled harder than I had. I yelped. "Let go!"

"No you let go!"

I growled and our small bickering some how became more pshycial. By the time the woman cut in his hand was on my tail, the other holding back my arm, and one of my hands were grasping his ears, while the other was being held up in the air.

"That would be a good guess with you." She said as I started to lean back from his obvious physical dominance. We froze and turned our attention back to her. "Just because Jinenji here is called 'half-youkai, you can see how those villagers have come to treat us.."

"Bullied right?" I asked.

"Humph.. More like they seemed to be trying to kill him several times."

"I'm sorry, Ma.." Jinenji whispered. His voice was deep, slow, and soothing the ears. "It's my fault you get picked on."

The woman looked up at him her eyes worried and sad. "What are you saying Jinenji? We haven't done anything wrong. Your Oyaji-dono was, such a magnificent and find youkai.."

She sighed and closed her eyes, losing herself in a memory. Her face resembled that of a young woman just newly wed.. without a care in the world. "Now nostalgic. This was all.." Her eyes opened and she looked at me. "Maybe when I was about your age.. A time when I was in difficulty with a sprained ankle on the mountain, and it was your oyaji-dono who saved me. He had the appearance of a beautiful man, but I soon realized he was a youkai. The glowing light around him have it away."

She touched her hand to her cheek and stared at nothing in particular, the soft wrinkles slowly turning into a light shade of pink. "And the two of us.. shard a burning love together."

My face burned and I stared at the floor. I felt as thought I had just walking in on a couple.. sharing a more than merely intimate moment..

"Just a sec, Babaa." Inuyasha said, his eyes falling to an accusing glare. "That means that you are the human parent?"

I gasped shoved him onto the floor. "Inuyasha that's mean!"

End Of Chapter 46.

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~ Hm.. I had at first decided to make this part in the story just one full chapter but.. I think I'll make it two :]