Sorry for the wait guys. But great news, I just got a total inspiration last night, so the next few chapters should come pretty quickly.
The part in italics is a flashback to right before Inuyasha attained his sword. It's slightly similar to what happened in the anime, right after Myoga comes in and tells Inuyasha about Sesshoumoru(sp?) trying to break into his father's grave and right before Sesshoumoru comes in with a giant demon and a fake Inuyasha's mom. The chapter I happened to skip out of non-inspiration.
Ch. 12
"You're not going!"
"Yes I am!"
"No you're not, we need to find the jewel shards!"
"Everybody needs a break once in a while. I'm sure Sango and Miroku are dying to take a break and rest for a few days, right guys?"
"We'd appreciate it if you guys could keep us out of this argument please," Sango asked.
"I'm still going!"
"No you're not!"
Kameko huffed and crossed her arms. "Fine."
Inuyasha turned to the rest of the group. "See, that wasn't so hard. I told you guys I'd get her to stay."
"Uh, don't look now Inuyasha, but her staying is going. All the way down to the well."
"What?!" Inuyasha to turned to find nothing but Kameko's dust. "DangflabbitthatannoyingaggravitinglittlemonkeyofhumanIswearI'mgonna-"
Inuyasha continued his muttering as her ran ahead to stop her.
"I swear this happens every time," Miroku said with a loud sigh, "It's like Inuyasha just can't be without Kameko for more than a day."
"I HEARD THAT!" shouted Inuyasha from a distance.
Kameko ran through the woods to a small clearing. Up ahead she saw the well. Almost there, she thought, just a few more feet.
"I don't think so."
Kameko felt a clawed hand grab her arm just as she was about to jump into the well. Drat, so close.
"Come on Inuyasha, let go, it's just for a few days," Kameko pleaded.
"Why the heck do you need to go so badly? What could possibly be more important that finding those jewels?"
Kameko started listing the reasons, "Well, let's see. I have a test in biology tomorrow. After that I have another Tai Quan Do tournament on Saturday. Then on Sunday-" Kameko's tone of voice drastically changed to a sudden sadness, "It's visiting hours at the hospital."
Inuyasha said nothing. His grip just barely loosened, enough for Kameko to free herself and hop down the well.
"It doesn't matter," Inuyasha said as he headed out the door, "She died a long time ago."
After leaving Kaede's hut Inuyasha found himself sitting in his favorite tree. It was big and tall and had many thick protruding branches from which one could sit. Inuyasha sat and stared intently at the full moon, memories overflowing his mind.
"Inuyasha!"
Inuyasha gave a small growl as he found that annoying girl climbing up the tree. What made her think she had the authority to barge in on his thoughts like that?
"I thought I'd find you up here," she said as she climbed up to the branch above him. She sat down facing away from him, and with a quick swing, swooped down backwards. Hanging upside down, her black hair and purple streak flowed down under her.
"What are you doing?" Inuyasha raised an eyebrow.
"Huh? Oh right, well, I just think better in this position. My brain just fits together like a puzzle. I tell you, if I took all my tests at school upside down I might actually end up with a few "A"s in some of my subjects. Wait, nevermind, you probably have no idea what I'm talking about do you?"
"No, now could you please go away? Why are you even up here?"
Kameko frowned and scrunched her eyebrows as if it was obvious. "I was worried, you just stomped off like that. It's not good for people to be sad alone too much you know."
Inuyasha snickered. "How stupid. I'm not sad. How could you possibly understand anyway? You have no idea what I've been through. I bet you're mother is waiting for you happily at home isn't she?"
"I never said I understood. I probably don't. I don't even know what you've been through, how could I possibly come close to understanding?"
Inuyasha didn't respond, she'd stolen the words right out of his mouth.
"But if it makes you feel any better, my mom's not happily waiting for me. She's been in the hospital for almost a year now. That's why I have all the Tai Quan Do tournaments back at home. I need the prize money for my mother's operations, otherwise she has no chance of surviving."
Inuyasha said nothing. No words of comforting. Nobody had ever comforted him about his mother, not even his own brother. Still...
Deep down, this girl was suffering a lot too.
"Grandpa I'm home!" I shouted as I slipped off my shoes and threw my coat on the hook.
"Kameko, how was you're mother? Is she doing alright?" grandfather asked gently.
"Yeah, she's doing okay. I hope that Tai Quan Do contest I won yesterday will help pay for her next operation."
"Oh I'm sure it will, you worked so hard for it after all," he ensured.
I just nodded and put up a smile.
Up in my room I stared for ten minutes at my empty canvas with my elbows resting on the back of my chair. Then I stared at it for another ten minutes with my chair laying back down on the floor and me sitting in it, my head bending back. Finally I just groaned and stared up at my ceiling. The entire ceiling had a giant painting of the inside of a beautiful roselike flower. It's petals burst with yellow, red, and oranges hues, as if the flower were on fire itself. It had taken an entire year to paint, from outlining it out in pencil to painting the outermost edges of the petals. The day after it was done was the day my mother was sent to the hospital.
"So this is what you do when you come back to your time? Just lay here lazily on your back all day?"
I lifted up my head suddenly to see Inuyasha sitting at my windowsill. Normally, I would have been mad, but today I just lay my head back down and let out a long sigh. Inuyasha seemed to notice and hopped off the windowsill.
"What's up Kameko? You don't seem to be yourself today."
I sighed again, "I don't know. It's something in the air. Something feels different. Not right. Or maybe it's all in my head. Oh, I don't know!"
My words were coming out in a jumble, not remotely able to express the small feeling of dread in the pit of my stomach.
"Well, okay then, if you say so,"
Not knowing what else to say, Inuyasha glanced nonchalantly around Kameko's room. Her walls were completely painted in a random splash of colors, though they were hard to see behind all the paintings hung and all the pieces of paper tacked up there against it. Her desk was a mess of papers and colored pencils were strewn everywhere. On a small table the was a collection of spilled and mixed paints. Not one thing seemed to be organized. Or maybe it was, just in a way that Kameko saw as organized, not everybody else. The only neat and tidy thing in the room was her made bed(her grandfather's pathetic attempt to try and clean her room, he gave up after the bed) and the empty white canvas that lay on her wooden stilts. Inuyasha glanced at some paintings and saw pictures of trees and flowers and things that probably didn't exist. Her sketches consisted of anime characters(Inuyasha doesn't know this of course, he just sees cartoon people) and remarkably realistic faces. But what really took Inuyasha's breath away was when he looked up. He felt as if somebody had shrunken him and dropped him on top of a flower.
"So, when do you wanna leave?"
"Huh?" Inuyasha quickly averted his gaze from the ceiling and to the girl sitting upside down on the now upright chair. How did she change positions so fast?
"You came here so that I'd go back right? So when do you want to go?"
"Soon as possible I guess," Inuyasha suddenly felt all awkward.
Kameko grabbed her large backpack, "Ok, let's go. I already packed up all the medical supplies and instant ramen. I'll pick up a back of chips for you on the way out. Oh yeah, and some pocky for me of course."
Outside Kameko ran ahead to the well. She lingered at the door for a second, but quickly shook her head before smiling and jumping in with Inuyasha.
Still, Kameko couldn't shake off her feeling of dread.
Hope you enjoyed, this chapter was mainly so that you and Inuyasha both learn a bit more about Kameko. Kameko likes stuff like art, the Tai Quan Do she learned against her will. It's too show that she's not just some hyped up tough girl.