Yo! Folks! I'm not dead just yet! Have had quite a busy week, with Christmas and change of course in school and... well, other stuff. But I have really tried to write when I could (I got a loooot of time for that last week. Did I mention our electricity in my house got broken? Or however you explain it in english -.-').
AND! Believe it or not, from now on I'm going to let le chapters be at least 2000 words! Am I gonna survive?
InuYasha characters belong to Rumiko Takahashi. I'm mainly borrowing them for my weird thoughts of cute/sexy/manly harem of boys. Which doesn't exist in real life here, it seems...
Sango let out a breath she hadn't realized she had hold, before turning to InuYasha. "Tell us what you didn't tell Kouga."
InuYasha smirked evilly. "Ya noticed that?"
"Of course," she sniffed," you would never behave as if these things actually hurt you." She slapped the hanyou on his shoulder. Which, in InuYasha's case, did hurt like hell. Nonetheless, he didn't utter a sound as hot tears smeared behind his closed eyelids.
"Now, you tell us the real thing, starting with this 'abused Kagome' thing." Sango leaned back with her arms crossed over her chest in a way that reminded the audience of a mother scolding a naughty child.
"Sango, my dear, have I asked you yet?" the monk said with such a seriousness to his tone that the taijiya couldn't turn away. He pried one of her hands from her – quite lovely – figure and while absentmindedly rubbing her knuckles he asked:
"Will you bea-"
"No, damn houshi pervert!" the young woman yelled angrily, dragging her hand out of his grasp and then hitting her other in a well-practiced swing at his face. Shippo and InuYasha flinched slightly at the sound, but Miroku seemed to have wandered off to Dream-a-la-Koko-land. This land supposedly filled with young girls who were more than willing to do anything for the monk.
"Damn masochist," Sango muttered shakily, feeling her skin crawl over her in waves.
"What's a masochist?" the kitsune asked cheekily.
"InuYasha! Please!" Sango pleaded for the hanyou to hurry, before anyone could explain such a word to the small kitsune. Kagome would kill her if Shippo learned anymore words other than swearing from InuYasha, and embarrassing pervert words from Miroku. The least they needed were a trickster that swore with a good vocabulary and a sense of snaring women when he grew up.
These thoughts must have shone through her eyes as InuYasha snickered, but it was a sad and a not so little angry sound. "Well. She did scream at Hebi and she had tried to roast him a couple of times, but that didn't work because of those bracelets of hers. Anyway, she got paid for it with a few slaps." InuYasha chuckled darkly.
"You think it's funny that they're hurting Kagome?" Shippo bounced up and down in fury. "You… you… twerp!" he cried and attempted to hit InuYasha, when the hanyou gave him a painful jab on the forehead. "Why did you do that for? I'm just a little kid!"
"Shut up, will ya? Kagome was really brave; even though mister Scale and Tail hit her she recoiled with more screaming, hitting and swearing." The hanyou murmured.
Miroku coughed slightly. "Was it a… very colorful swearing young Kagome had?"
InuYasha grinned. "Hell yeah! You should have been there! She used these words that I had never heard before. I think they are from her time; they sounded like-"
"Okay! Guys? There is a kid here, it isn't necessary to feed him with both swearing," Sango glared at InuYasha," and pervertness." She shot a scowl at the monk. "So she wasn't… used in any other way by the creep?"
The hanyou startled slightly but continued. "Nah, nothing other than hits." He narrowed his eyebrows. "Although I don't entirely like the way that Ha Jinsoku is looking at her."
"Please, describe how." InuYasha looked dumbfounded at Sango, his eyebrows sticking out from the shaved head. If he had had any hair left, Sango thought sadly, those would have vanished under it.
"Why should I describe it?"
Sango sighed heavily at his dumbness, while shooing Shippo out of the hut and pointing at Miroku. "Because, this baka monk knows a lot about perverseness and looks; surely he knows what this 'look' means."
Miroku grinned happily and clasped his hands once again over Sango's. "My dearest, are you finally finding me useful to you? Maybe then you will b-"
"No!"
Another slap echoed in the hut, this time the onlookers ready for it. Shippo wondered lightly if Miroku were one of those 'love-struck' youngsters his Pa had told him about once. When other kitsune had nuzzled each other or giving sneaky comments to the other, the kit had found it strange to insult one another. But his Pa had reassured him that this was how kitsune's courted each other; by being madly in love they were driven to do the meanest of tricks against the desired one.
Now as Shippo sighed and shook his head he realized that was exactly what these two were doing; courting each other.
"Are ya quite done yet? This is getting tiresome." InuYasha yawned to make his point. "As I was about to say, Ha Jinsoku kept having this weird look; like, looking at her with soft eyes or something. Something like Kagome use to have when looking at Shippo." InuYasha moodily plucked at an invisible thread in his thick blanket. "When he looked at me however, I could have sworn he was burning to kill me."
"Hmm…" Miroku contemplated this new information for a moment, a red hand mark blushing angrily at both of his cheeks. "That is, indeed, quite a look. If it was a normal soldier or some other person, I would say they had fallen for her. However, this snake demon is not a 'normal' person, correct?"
"Yeah. No matter what I said or screamed or spat for that matter, he would just smile at me and talk as if we were talking about the weather. Not even Sesshomaru would be able to force such a creepy smile for such a long time." The humans, demon and hanyou shuddered in unison at the horrifying thought.
"Kouga will never be able to find him, even if he uses my brother's nose." InuYasha said suddenly, startling the other's into dumbfounded expressions. He snorted loudly at them. "Come on, already. I'm half dog demon – I can pick up that bastards smell even if my sense of smell isn't as good as his."
The hanyou shock his head and smiled, a big grin plastered on his face. A smile that didn't reach his eyes, didn't twinkle them like a happy persons would. But then again, what did InuYasha have to be happy for? The Gods mercy over his life? Or that Kouga now where on his way to save Kagome – however he would never be able to reach her. And why would he be happy if the scrawny wolf saved Kagome? It should be InuYasha who saved her, as it always was! And she would be happy as she always was when he came.
'But do I have the right to remain by her side, even after what I did? Whatever I did?'
Only answer this for me, InuYasha. Will you stay with me, after all of this? Kagome's tears, filling his vision. Kagome's sweet voice, swirling in his assaulted ears with her voice. Kagome's dejected smile, breaking his heart.
Throwing the blanket from him he sat up, her voice and tears urging him on. Grimacing as his new skin stretched over his healed wounds he put his feet on the cold floor, hissing slightly as his blisters burned painfully. Even so he stood up, leaning heavily against the wall and starting for the door.
InuYasha, are you insane? You aren't healed yet! Don't make me say it!
He grinned as Kagome's voice scolded him. "I dare you, wench," he said out loud.
Then, InuYasha… He flinched and closed his eyes. SIT!
When he didn't thud into a painful heap on the ground he opened his eyes slowly. Looking around the only thing he saw were the village outside and his friends shocked expressions inside the hut.
"InuYasha… are you alright?" Shippo took a few cautiously steps toward him, before stopping and glancing anxiously at the hanyou.
"Never been better," he mumbled. Straightening into his combat-posture he shoot a glare at the other three. "What are ya' standing around for? We have to save Kagome!"
"But," Sango stammered, running out after him," your wounds-"
"-are healed." InuYasha glared over his shoulder before noticing the tajiya's worry. "Keh, I've been worse. Just a flesh wound by now anyway. So are you coming with me or not? Since I'm the only one who will be able to find the place after all."
"Damn!"
Kouga hit a huge rock with all his might, splitting it in two in his burning rage. Whirling around with his impossible speed he kicked at a nearby tree, sending it flying through the forest before it landed with a huge splash in across a river. The Lord of the Western Lands stared with mild amusement at the wolf's foolishness. Finally, the wolf had lost it, it seemed.
"Damn, damn, damn! Baka mutt, walking here of all places!" the wolf howled while whirling around, hitting and kicking every living and nonliving thing within range. Thankfully, and foremost lucky, for him Kouga had yet to attack Sesshomaru with any of his pesky rage filled despair. The wolf jumped into the river in an attempt to cool himself off, but instead he started assaulting the very water.
"Wolf, if you dare making a fool of yourself even more, and therefore me as your companion, I see no reason for this companionship to last any longer." The dog demon sighed, finally feed up with the pup behavior. Really, Sesshomaru had held his share of the deal; lead the wolf for as far as Sesshomaru's sense of smell could, which was here. Clearly, his mutt brother had been wading, or rather running, through this water stream for quite some time since he, Sesshomaru, could not pick up the disgusting stink of his half-brother neither on the other side of it, nor farer downstream. Clever for leaving ones foe's with sharp noses behind. Stupid if you wanted to get back. Of course, his brother was not clever – only stupid and impulsive.
"Oh, I'm so sorry that I make a fool of myself when I can't find her!" the wolf yelled from the water stream, catching a huge fish in its gills before throwing it higher upstreams," I'm oh so sorry that I can't control my emotions over my loss, and I'm so goddamn sorry you have to be caught up in this!"
Panting heavily, Kouga let his arms fall down, his hands plowing through the streaming water before stilling and starting to cool. He stared down into the stream, stared at nothing as water playfully tugged at his body, letting him know that the elements didn't care how heartbroken and haunted he was.
"At least you have the brains to know what you have to be sorry for."
Kouga didn't care to glare at Sesshomaru as the older demon folded his legs gracefully under him and sat down next to a cherry tree. Replacing his swords Sesshomaru closed his eyes. "When you find it necessary to become sensible again, you are welcome to do so. Until then, do not bother me with troublesome things such as assaulting animals and plants."
Resisting the urge to make a face at the dog demon, Kouga simply stood in the waist high water and blinked. Hollow inside out, he felt as if his heart and very soul had left him along with his high hopes of getting his Kagome back again.
Kouga-kun, are you feeling alright?
Scary, how he could imagine how her voice sounded like, even when she wasn't even there. He did just love her that much. Then why couldn't his love be enough when it was needed the most? Why couldn't his love lead him to where she was? Why couldn't his love be enough for her?
He blinked again, this time to hold back the tears that threatened to fall. If he let them, he could as well drown himself in this river, since his knees would give way along with the first tears.
"Cry, and you will be left where you are, wolf." The drawled voice made his insides churn with misdirected rage. It would be bad if he tried to attack the lord, and worse if he tried to dig out said lord's eyes. "Allies who cannot contain themselves are more annoying than ones foes."
"You don't say…"