Theme 16: Questioning
"Lord, you seem at ease?"
Sesshomaru had stolen away from the group as the Monk had taken them to a Human Tavern. He found the way the Monk mysteriously 'found' a dark cloud hovering over the best inn in the village extremely amusing, especially as in return for the exorcism, they received food and bored. But he would not lower himself to reside in a human settlement, even if this useless body needed human food; he would catch it on his own.
After the rock incident, and the 'sitting', Kagome for some reason started laughing.
She laughed so much that the entire group began to look at her strangely and Sesshomaru wondered if he had broken her.
Then she stopped and said "So there is a sense of humour under all of that, it came out weird but at least it's there. We'll have the old Inuyasha back in no time!"
The strange thing was the feeling of satisfaction at seeing her happy again after spending so long wishing for her to be silent.
"Aya, what are these dreams I keep having, of Inuyasha?"
'Not dreams mi 'lord, memories"
'Memories?"
'That was a memory of Lord Inuyasha's'
So, he was experiencing memories of the half breed. So those events, the vow of protection, the human night in her lap, they happened? But what of the emotion that accompanied the memories?
"Lady Inuko was not able to completely remove Lord Inuyasha's soul from his body" Aya answered, reading his thoughts "His desire to stay was too strong, so some of his heart remains within this body I suspect that is what you felt mi 'lord"
"And those dreams, am I to understand those were his… thoughts."
"Not just that mi 'lord, you reside within Lord Inuyasha's body. Lord Inuyasha is half human, unlike most Youkai, he cannot separate feeling and thought, what you are feeling now is cause by his human emotions."
His human emotions?
Was this was he was feeling, human?
"These memories and feelings are fragments of Inuyasha's heart"
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"Hey Kagome, how come Inuyasha isn't using Tetsaiga?"
Kagome paused in the middle of her meal "Huh?"
Miroku was in the middle of his 'exorcism' and Sango was staking out the premises, as Kagome's leg was still injured, so she didn't need to do much. She was surprised and a little hurt Inuyasha hadn't asked about it once.
But with so much to worry about, she supposed it wasn't that important.
"I don't know" she said, contemplating it. Now that she was thinking about it, Inuyasha wasn't using Tetsaiga at all and he had such pride in his sword, could it be that that part of him changed as well?
"Maybe he doesn't know how to use it anymore?" Shippo commented, picking up a shrimp.
Kagome stood "Of course!" she said clapping her hands, surprising Shippo into dropping it.
Tetsaiga, the cause for the very first time the two of them connected. She turned and ran out of the house.
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She found him sitting under a tree, his arm propped on a knee, staring up at the moon. For a moment she stopped.
He looked like someone else, not Inuyasha, but she couldn't put her foot on it. He looked so noble, calm and focused, so unlike the brash Inuyasha she loved it made her heart hurt.
He noticed her and turned to her, the moon reflected on his silver hair, his expression so cool "Miko, what is it?"
He still wasn't calling her Kagome, it wasn't wench, but she almost missed it. She didn't know how Sango and Miroku were holding up, it was the stupid Inuyasha they had all come to follow, this wasn't him.
But she smiled "Hey Inuyasha, you're not in your tree?"
He frowned "Why would I be?"
"Well, you did say you preferred it. What changed?"
He turned his head away from her "I know not what you mean"
Kagome stepped closer and crouched down in front of him with a bright smile "Hey Inuyasha, do you want me to remind you, you know, how you can use the Tetsaiga?"
At that she had his attention "You will tell me what you know Girl" he demanded.
Kagome smiled. The first time Inuyasha ever used Tetsaiga, to was to protect her. Because the Tetsaiga was a sword forged to protect Inuyasha's mother. A sword that gave Inuyasha the power he needed to keep safe all he cared about.
But the Inuyasha right now, protected no one and cared only for his own interests.
"You remember what you told me, back then when you cut Sesshomaru's arm of with the Tetsaiga?"
For some reason, Inuyasha looked angry, but he contained himself "Your point?"
She sighed "Well, do you promise you'll protect me with it, forever and ever?"
He scoffed "Such a foolish thing. I have no time to spent watching over the life of one insignificant mortal. Now tell me the secrets of the fang"
Kagome frowned "Sit boy" and Inuyasha plunged to the ground.
She turned and murmured "I guess some things never change" she said, smiling.
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