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'..' thinking

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Welcome to my humble abode- part 2

The night shimmered as it bathed in the soothing moonlight, its radiance calming every entity it touched. The crickets hummed nature to a peaceful sleep as a silhouette of a figure appeared to be sitting on a branch of a tree that stood tall and proud as if guarding the land from any foreign threat alongside hiding several unraveled mysteries within its aged yet pristine bark.
The figure sighed, his eyes looking at everything yet seeing nothing, his ears twitching at every sound yet being deaf to even the loudest of noises. He sighed again as he reminisced about something he hated...no feared to remember.

'At least I am at peace for now...' the said figure mused.

"INUYASHA!" a shrill scream pulled him out of thoughts, causing him to almost lose his balance.

'...or maybe not' his eyebrow twitched.

"What is it Kagome?" he grumbled. He was definitely not in a mood for a verbal spat at the moment.
'Whatever happened to priva-' his trail of thought came to a sudden halt when he realised his slight slip.
'Perhaps she missed it...' he silently prayed.
Kagome gasped. His eyes widened.
'- or maybe not.'

"You...you said my name..? You said my name!" she squealed.
Inuyasha winced as he caught her starry eyes which were once boring holes...no craters into his back.
'Dammit! All kamis are conspiring against me. I need to come up with an intelligent reply pronto!'
And intelligently reply he did.
"Keh!"

The once so murderous aura of the female (after learning about the little 'prank' pulled by Inuyasha from Kaede) soon died out as her eyes softened to meet the amber orbs of the now blushing hanyou.

"Inuyasha?"

"What!" he growled.

"Can you come down-"
The growl died in his chest as he heard her "-please?"

The next second Inuyasha found himself crouching beside Kagome.
Her eyes were covered under her bangs while he patiently waited for her to continue.

"Inuyasha-" she began as she now fully turned towards her companion, her cerulean eyes focused on his, "...where am I?"

The question seemed to catch him off guard as he narrowed his eyes, trying to find some sort of twisted joke behind it.

"...I thought of asking Kaede first but she went off to somewhere early this afternoon, before I could approach her." she continued.

"What is this place, Inuyasha? Please tell me. Everything seems so od… different out here. First, the deformed crab. Then you -"

'She finds me odd too! So she is no different from the rest.' he scoffed. 'But then why would she be any different anyway?' he reprimanded himself.

"- saved me from that...creature. By the way, I never got the chance to thank you for coming to my aid. Thank you so much, Inuyasha."

Inuyasha chose not to pass a sarcastic comment as he regarded the seriousness in her voice.

'So she is different from the others.' A growl threatened to erupt from his throat as he realised that he liked this new discovery.

"Honestly, I have never seen anything like that before. It literally scared the living daylights out of me."

'She has never seen a demon before? She must have hit her head too in that incident.' Inuyasha wondered.

Her eyes suddenly widened. "Father! I completely forgot about him..and the crew. Di..did they manage to survive the storm? Hachi didn't even know how to swim! Inuyasha, they survived right? Please tell me they did!"
Inuyasha stiffened as tears slowly weld up in her eyes. 'Damn women and their tears!' Inuyasha gritted.

If anything the 'oh so mighty' Inuyasha couldn't handle, that was a crying female. He felt helpless in such dire situations.

'Now what is she blabbering about? I didn't think that the injury in her head would be this critical. Who in their right mind would go swimming in the midst of the sea? Humph! Crazy humans!'

"Ye…yes wench your…companions managed to survive the waves…without even breaking a sweat." he finished confidently. 'Yeah! That ought to stop her moping. Way to go me!' Inuyasha almost reached out to pat his shoulder when the dam broke and Kagome started wailing.

'Wh...what the hell happened! I did just as she asked me to. I even improvised..!? Stupid confused wench.' he scowled. 'I guess there is only one way left to stop her from bawling her eyes out...' he sighed.

"Kagome.." he began. Kagome stiffened.

'Kami, please don't make me regret this.'

"-about what happened this morning, I..I am sorry."

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He let out a soft growl as the said female gasped for the second time.

Confused, much?

Why did Inuyasha seem to be surprised when Kagome questioned where she was or why did he think her father and the others went swimming in the sea and not out sailing !?

Lol its not because he is that much of a blockhead; he has got his reasons…. ;P

Find out for yourselves in the following chapters.

A/N : Ah the joy of reviewing! Guys you shouldn't deny yourselves such a pleasure. All you need to do is to click on that blue button, yes yes the one down there, and shower me with your feedbacks! Lol xD

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