I
don't own Inuyasha, I don't own Kagome, and I don't own the rest of
the stuff in here. They come from other people and have just been put
into my imagination right now. Therefore, I make no profit off of
this. Except reviews, but I don't think they count.
Minutes
of Eternity
By:Msmelanie
Sango watched Inuyasha argue
with Kagome again about some random subject. 'Probably Shippou...yep,
it was Shippou. She just sat him.' She watched uninterested as Kagome
scolded Inuyasha and he just yelled and cursed back.'
Then,
was the thing she knew was going to come again.
"Yeah,
well I don't give a rat's ass what the hell you think of me bitch!
Even Kikyou, who was waaay more powerful than you couldn't stop
me!"
That was it. The one thing that always drove Kagome
nuts. Comparing her to Kikyou.
Kagome just stared at him
angrily as she sat him again.
Sango looked sadly at her
friend. It was the same routine, over and over again.
'Why
does he have to compare them? He knows how much it hurts Kagome.'
Sango frowned. Sometimes, she seriously hated the hanyou, but she
knew her friend had her faults too.
And to name all of the
things she did wrong to have this stupid routine continue would take
at least an hour to think about.
She watched Inuyasha huff and
get back up. "Stupid bitch."
Sango couldn't take it
anymore. This stupid going-nowhere routine had to stop!
She
looked up to the stars. It was time. Whether Inuyasha needed Kikyou
or Kagome would reveal itself. 'It's gonna be hard on him.' she
sighed whimsically. 'Hard nothing, from what I've heard it'll be like
he's in hell itself.'
That was if she was right. And even
though Sango knew she was not the smartest person in the world, she
had an almost undeniable belief she knew how it would end. 'Now, how
am I-Houshi?!'
Sango slapped Miroku's hand quickly away from
her.
Miroku looked at her, looking quite concerned. "You
seemed like you were in another world."
Sango glared at
him. 'Trying to hide his pleasure at succeeding with concern.' She
looked deeper into his eyes. 'Or maybe not.' She looked over at
Kagome and Inuyasha arguing again. 'Perhaps Inuyasha and Kagome
aren't the only ones who have fallen into a useless routine.'
Even
later that night...
"Another fucking bath?!"
Inuyasha shouted at Sango. "She already took one today,
dammit!"
Sango stared at him. "I want to take a
bath. And Kagome said she'd keep me company. Alright?"
Inuyasha
growled. "It's stupid."
Kagome didn't reply. She
wasn't opposed to talking with Sango while they bathed in a hot
spring. 'Besides, it's night time. We aren't 'stopping' to take a
bath, so I don't see why he should even be informed.'
As
Inuyasha complained about stupid wenches taking baths, Kagome and
Sango took off.
At the spring...
Kagome looked unsurely
at the ground. Was Sango really serious? Sango had just told her that
instead of leaving for just a month to visit her great grandmother,
she should take two.
"Sango, it was hard enough to get
Inuyasha to give me even one." Kagome replied.
"It
wasn't, once you told him how much she meant to you and that she
wouldn't be around for much longer." Sango answered. "And
you don't want to tell him. Just do it."
Kagome fidgeted
with her hands. "Sango, I...I don't want to lie to
Inuyasha."
"I know." Sango said with empathy.
"But I need you to trust me. Have you ever wondered whether or
not Inuyasha really does have feelings for you or Kikyou?"
Kagome
started to back away. "I DON'T want to talk about
her."
"Kagome." Sango said gently grabbing her
friends hand and scooting her closer. "I would never do anything
to hurt you or Inuyasha. But, if you just give him TWO months instead
of one...you'll have an answer to that question."
"What
question?" Kagome asked.
"How Inuyasha really
feels." Sango replied. "I know it sounds bizarre, and I
really don't want to tell you what's going to happen. But know this."
Sango said seriously. "One way or another, that question WILL be
answered."
Kagome remained silent.
"Do you
trust me?" Sango asked.
Kagome shook her head yes.
"Then
do it." Sango said firmly.
"He'd be so mad at me."
Kagome said as she gently bit her lip. "Not to mention
worried."
"Kagome, please." Sango answered, not
intending to take no as an answer. She held her friends hand firmly.
"He's a big boy. I know you have never left him alone more than
14 days, and even THEN you are always there when he has to change.
But don't worry. I will tell him after seven days that you'll be gone
for 49 more days. But that's it. No more after that."
Kagome
started to use her other hand to move the water around. "Kikyou
will come."
"Maybe, maybe not." Sango said a
little angry. "That is not the focus! Listen to me, whether
Kikyou visits him or not, the answer will be the same. Besides,
Inuyasha won't leave to hell when you are far away. He cares too
much."
"How are you so sure?!" Kagome yelled.
"I know what the-!"
"Kagome!" Sango yelled
back. "Quiet!" She made her voice lower. "However he
feels will not change. Whether 2 months go by or 2 centuries. It's
all the same to a demon until..." she decided not to finish that
statement. "... So, quit the useless heartbreaking routine you
go through constantly." She let go of her friends hand. "If
Inuyasha truly loves Kikyou, then he will lose his possessive spirit
for you. If he doesn't, then trust me." She smiled. "You'll
know."
Kagome sighed. "He won't think of me as 'his'
anymore?"
Sango smiled sadly. "You'll be free from
his mockery. One way or another."
Kagome splashed the
water. "I don't understand this, Sango. I don't get what another
month will do except make Inuyasha more angry. And Shippou-"
"Don't
worry about Shippou." Sango said firmly. "When I tell him
the truth of why you are gone, he'll be fine."
"But
he cried when I told him-"
"-told him you were
leaving for a whole month." Sango finished. "Yes. Listen
Kagome. I hunt demons for a living. I had to come to understand how a
demon thinks, acts, moves, breathes,...trust me. He'll be fine."
She crossed her arms. "Now, are you going or am I going to have
to drag you away for that long?"
Kagome looked down at
the water. "I don't want to. But you are right. If this
will...settle things once and for all between me and...him..."
she said softly. "...then it's what I have to do."
Sango
sighed. "Good. Don't worry Kagome, you just enjoy yourself.
Alright?"
Kagome shook her head, hoping that Sango really
did know what she was talking about.
One week
later...
'Stupid bitch. I don't know why I let her go.'
Inuyasha growled.
Sango looked up in the tree at Inuyasha,
moping. "It's only been seven days. Do you miss her that
much?"
"I don't miss her." Inuyasha insisted.
"She's just delaying us from finding any jewel shards."
'Sure.'
Sango thought as she saw Miroku standing next to her. Then, she saw
Shippou at her feet. 'I knew it.' she smiled.
Shippou looked
up at Inuyasha. 'I'm a big demon. I don't want Kagome to be gone for
so long, but if it will really make Inuyasha quit making her so sad-'
"I'm a big demon." he said aloud, trying to instill some
courage in himself.
Inuyasha looked down at Shippou. 'Why the
hell's he muttering that?'
"Inuyasha, there is something
I must tell you." Sango said firmly, making sure Inuyasha heard
quite clear. "Kagome will not be back in 21 days."
Inuyasha's
ears immediately went up. "What?!"
"She will be
gone for 49."
Inuyasha stood still. "Why?!"
"I
told her to." Sango replied.
Inuyasha growled. "You
have just delayed our hunt for jewel shards?! Why the hell did you do
that?!"
She smiled. "You will just have to
wait."
Inuyasha pointed at her as rudely as he could. "I
know what you are up to!" he accused. "You think you know
me! You think I'm just a demon who relies only on my instincts! I
don't!"
Sango remained silent.
Inuyasha jumped
down from his tree. "You just THINK you know! You don't!"
he said as he started to stomp off.
No stupid instinct was
going to affect him.
Even if she was gone for 49 more days,
he'd still treat her the same. He would!
He really would. He
would. Wouldn't he?
Day 21...
Inuyasha kept beating his
head on his tree. "This is too long! This is way too long!"
he looked coldly at Sango. "It's been longer, I know it! You are
using trickery to confuse my mind!"
Sango shook her head
from down below. About a week ago, Inuyasha literally glued himself
to his tree. He hadn't once come down, so they all stayed underneath,
waiting for him.
"It has not been more than 21 days
Inuyasha." Miroku said, defending Sango. "No trickery has
been used."
"Has so!" Inuyasha accused as he
dug his claws into the wood. "It's been at least three fucking
months!"
Sango coughed. "Inuyasha, how many times
have you changed so far?"
Inuyasha growled. Okay, he had
only changed once but- "I don't care! I KNOW it hasn't JUST been
21 days! Don't lie to me!"
Sango held Shippou tightly. He
was acting like the big demon she told him he needed to be.
Well,
he was trying to be.
'I miss Kagome.' he thought through
bleary eyes. 'After this, Kagome will be much happier, so I have to
do this. But still, I want Kagome!' "Kagome." Shippou
whined softly.
Sango just rubbed his head affectionately.
"She'll be back in 28 days. Don't worry."
Inuyasha
jumped out of the tree and went straight to the well. "I don't
care what the hell she's doing, she's coming back!"
Sango
just shook her head, knowing what the outcome would be....
1/2
an hour later...
"She wasn't there." Inuyasha
grumbled. "Where is she?"
"At her
grandmother's, who lives across the ocean, remember?" Sango
answered.
Inuyasha kicked a rock. "Well, she better come
back soon! Those shards are waiting on her!"
On the 35th
night...
Inuyasha had stopped coming down from the tree. He
refused to eat, he wouldn't sleep, he wouldn't talk, and he wouldn't
even growl. He just lied on his favorite branch on his stomach.
He
never said a word.
A few minutes before the sun came up he had
a horrible fantasy. He couldn't call it a dream since he never slept
that night.
He looked around and saw himself sitting on
Kagome's front porch, out in the open. He quickly thought Kagome
would sit him for an eternity if anyone saw him sitting there. He
went inside and proceeded to her room. He quickly stopped and let out
a viscious growl as he smelled an unknown male in her room.
He
started to run to her room and opened the door wide open.
His
mouth and ears both dropped as he felt his heart shatter in a million
pieces.
Kagome and some unknown disgusting male were kissing!
And that wasn't just any male!
He had firey red eyes with long
black hair. He was well built and wore some rugged looking
clothes.
He smelled like a human, but his appearance was so
rough that he was more like a demon.
Inuyasha raised the
Tetsusaiga, forgetting that it wouldn't hurt a human. "You
asshole! You touched my Kagome! I am going to hurt you so bad, you'll
beg for death!!" he shouted.
Then, he stopped as he
realized Kagome had never stopped kissing this strange man.
Inuyasha
wanted to yell at her! Instead, he roughly pulled her away from the
human male.
Kagome looked at Inuyasha, with a gigantic smile
on her face. She wiped her mouth and blushed. "Oh, I'm sorry
Inuyasha. I didn't even know you were there."
When
Inuyasha came out of his fantasy, he realized he had fallen out of
his tree.
His friends who had gotten up with the rising sun
surrounded him. Unable to perceive the fact that the great mighty
hanyou Inuyasha-had fallen out of a tree?
"Are we awake?"
Miroku questioned Sango as he looked at her.
Sango didn't
reply as she watched Inuyasha climb back up into his tree.
'She
was touching another male.'
'He wasn't a friend.'
'He
wanted her as his.'
'She was willing to be his.'
Inuyasha's
thoughts would not leave him alone. He couldn't stop thinking about
the fantasy, no matter how hard he tried.
'Another males ARMS
were around Kagome.'
'Another males MOUTH was on Kagome.'
He
growled, trying not to pay attention to the hardest part of
all.
'She hadn't even seen me there! She never sensed me! She
just wanted that other male!'
Inuyasha scratched his claws on
his tree. 'Why is this bothering me so much? Why am I thinking about
this? And when the fuck is that stupid girl gonna get her ass back
here?!'
On the 39th night...
Sango had told Miroku that
from now on, they should wait at an Inn. Somewhere nice and calm,
until Kagome almost came back. And somewhere away from
Inuyasha.
"Why?" Miroku questioned.
"Even
though Kagome will be back in a little over a week, Inuyasha will
not- " she paused.
"Will not?" Miroku
questioned.
Sango sighed. "Miroku, there is something I
need to explain. Youkai's can only stand a limited amount of time
away from their true mates." she explained. "Most demons
can last up to one century without them. But the more dangerous, more
human-like youkai, cannot go much longer than 60 days. I have spotted
many who have literally gone insane over 80. They will stay by their
passed on mates grave, no matter what the danger. Always making it
easier to kill them."
Miroku looked at Sango
questioningly. "Kagome is not Inuyasha's mate though."
"No."
Sango agreed. "But she might be the one destined to be. If she
is, then it makes no difference whether they have tooken the steps to
a mating or not. He will react the same way."
Miroku
looked at her wearily. "What if Inuyasha doesn't make
it?"
Sango raised a finger. "He will. His human side
should make the demon need settle slower. Truthfully, it would
probably be around 3 months to make him go insane."
Miroku's
expression did not change. "What if you are wrong?"
Sango
gulped. "I know that there is a chance I could be. But if I did
not take this..." She looked at Miroku. "Imagine what would
happen if we collect the entire shikon jewel and defeat Naraku.
Kagome goes back down the well. And, even though I don't want to
believe it, I know she will probably seal it." She glanced down
at the ground. "Inuyasha would not stand a fighting chance."
She looked back up at Miroku. "Even if he doesn't love her, it's
best to know. For his sake and for Kagome's."
Miroku
didn't reply but you could see the understanding on his face. He
looked at the two little demons trying to sleep on Sango's lap. 'This
must be done.'
Back at the Goshinboku.
Inuyasha
screamed, trying not to see the images in his head. "Quit it!
Fucking stop it!" he yelled out to the night.
Kouga
was holding Kagome in his arms, who in turn were holding two small
wolf cubs, while others played around the cave.
"Oh, hey
Inuyasha!" he smiled in a friendly manner. "Come to visit
me and my pack?" he nuzzled Kagome. "Can you believe it's
only been two years and we already have 6 cubs?" Kagome nuzzled
against Kouga's neck.
"Time flies when you are with the
one you love." Kagome smiled at him. "And minutes are
eternity when you are not. Right, Inuyasha?"
"SHUTTUUUUUPPPP!!!"
Inuyasha screamed to the top of his lungs. "Shutup, Shutup,
SHUTUUUUUUUPPPP!!!!"
"Inuyasha!" Kagome
shouted as she jumped up in glee. "Guess what? I scored
a-"
Inuyasha watched in horror as she was pierced in her
heart. Her breath was sharp and short, but stopped. She hit the
ground, her eyes left wide open.
"NNNNOOOOOOOOO!!
KAGOOOOOMEEEEE!!!"
His dreams just went from bad to
worse. And the most horrible part of them all.
He FELT like he
was actually there. He could smell the air, smell Kagome, feel the
hard forest floor, the wind whipping through his hair, the dryness in
his mouth.
He couldn't even tell real life from his dreams
anymore.
He tore through the forest, cutting down anything
that got in his way. 'I have to get away!' his mind screamed. 'These
nightmares are driving me crazy!'
Five minutes
later...
Inuyasha panted as his eyes grew wide and stared at
the ground. He had never realized all the horrible things that could
happen to just one small girl.
Just his Kagome.
He
yelled with all his might to the night sky as he started to pull at
his hair. Another nightmare already?!
Inuyasha glanced over
at Kagome as he watched her grandchildren play. "They're really
growing up."
Kagome nodded. "Yeah. I can't believe
I'm 48 now." she laughed as she looked at Inuyasha. "Time
just kinda got away, didn't it?"
Inuyasha shrugged.
"Demons don't recognize time too much." he replied as he
watched Kagome's granddaughter playing with some kind of
blocks.
Kagome laughed. "Yeah, I guess you wouldn't."
She looked down at her hands. "I was so lucky to find someone
who didn't mind the way I looked back then." She looked down at
the ground. "You hated the smell and look of my young body so
much, I don't know how you can stand to be near me now."
Inuyasha
didn't reply.
"You get your fights and I get my
wrinkles." Kagome smiled. "Who ever decided that was
fair."
Inuyasha muttered something softly.
Kagome
looked at him. "What did you say?"
"I said, you
really aren't that bad." Inuyasha replied a little
uncomfortably.
Kagome shook her head. "Even if that's
true, I'll look like a monster to you soon enough."
Nightmare
upon nightmare. Regrets after regrets. Shame after shame. Bloodshed
after bloodshed. Tragedy after Tragedy.
The nightmares
suddenly decided that Inuyasha didn't need to confuse reality with
them anymore.
So, his journeys back to reality had
become....erased.
Inuyasha walked hand in hand with Kikyou.
Kikyou looked at him with her sweet amazing eyes he had known 50
years before. "Inuyasha, I want you to stay and love me forever.
Can you do that?"
Inuyasha was about to answer her, when
he felt a sudden pain in his heart. Something was wrong. He looked
back at Kikyou. Everything seemed right with her. So, what was the
problem?
Then, he saw her. Kagome held a dagger right in front
of her heart.
Inuyasha didn't understand. "Kagome, what
the hell are you doing?!"
A tear slipped down her cheek.
"Giving you what you want." Kagome choked as she started to
pierce her skin slightly. "I love you so much, that if my death
can bring you happiness, so be it!"
Inuyasha screamed as
he ran out to her, but it was too late. She had aimed straight for
her heart.
"STOP IT!" Inuyasha cried out as he
dropped to his knees. "FUCKING STOP IT, I CAN'T TAKE IT
ANYMORE!!"
Kagome coughed as she moaned in her bed.
She was almost 100 years old, and didn't have much fight left in her.
Inuyasha stood next to her, looking exactly the same as he did
now.
"What are you doing here?" she asked weakly.
"You shouldn't be here. You should be with Kikyou."
Inuyasha
quickly grabbed her hands. "I was wrong! I messed up all those
years ago!" he cried. "Kagome, everything will be
okay!"
Kagome tried to look away from him. "Please,
don't look at me."
Inuyasha made no motion to follow her
order.
Kagome moaned a bit, before looking back at her bed.
"Please, stop it. I know I must look like a horrible, disgusting
old woman now."
Inuyasha seethed. "You think I care
about that?!" Then, he softened. "You still look fine to
me, Kagome."
Kagome merely moaned and moved her head
slightly. "Don't lie. Please don't lie to a woman on her
deathbed."
"What makes you think I'm lying?!"
Inuyasha barked.
"Inuyasha..." She breathed a little
harder. "If you didn't like my body when I was in my teens, then
how could you ever even stand it now?" She coughed.
Inuyasha
swallowed. "I've come to see you once every month for the last
85 years, Kagome! If I couldn't stand you, then I wouldn't have ever
done that!"
Kagome coughed again a little harder. "Idiot.
You are my friend. It was sweet of you, but I know you must have
wanted to gag so many times." She coughed again.
Inuyasha
looked down at the ground. He wasn't going to spend this valuable
time fighting with her.
Kagome looked around at her
surroundings, then back at Inuyasha."What are you doing here?"
she asked weakly. "You shouldn't be here. You should be with
Kikyou."
Inuyasha quickly grabbed her hands. He wasn't
going to allow them to go down the wrong road again just because she
had a memory relapse. This time, he would say what he really wanted
to say. He was getting a second chance, his last chance, to say what
he wanted before it was too late. "I was wrong! I messed up all
those years ago!" he cried. "Kagome, if only I had chosen
you! You would be with me still! You wouldn't be here!"
Kagome
shook her head no back and forth as much as she could manage at her
age. "Silly puppy. You could ...never do that. You loved...
Kik...you, so... you had ...to... be with ...her."
"I
didn't love Kikyou!" Inuyasha screamed. "I never loved
Kikyou! Not the way that I love you!!"
Kagome looked at
him as she started to tighten her hand against her bed covers. "Then
why...did you ...always..." She took a sharp breath.
"...say....you ...you diiiiii-"
Her heart had
stopped beating, the smell of death clung to her, unable to ever be
washed away.
Inuyasha let a small tear roll down his cheek as
he sank onto his knees.
She hadn't finished, but he knew what
she had said.
Inuyasha banged his head repeatedly against
the biggest rock he could find as he howled and whimpered. "That
can't happen! That can never happen! NEVER!!" he shouted as loud
as he could to the forest surrounding him.
He whimpered as he
slid down the side of the rock. "Kagome! Come back! When are you
coming back?!!"
Night turned into Day. Day turned into
night. To the four travelers, time moved accordingly.
But to
one hanyou, out in the darkness...
Day 47...
Moments
had been years. Seconds had become centuries...and minutes...were
eternity.
It seemed as if the two months would never be up.
One day would take forever, the night would be even longer, and the
next day would be even longer than the previous day and night put
together.
The group slowly walked back to Inuyasha, to check
up on him.
Miroku gawked at all the destroyed rocks, trees,
and anything else that had been in the hanyou's way.
Sango had
not been surprised. It was the reason she said they would have to
leave for awhile. Inuyasha's mind was in a rage.
She sighed
again, so thankful that Kagome had made Inuyasha promise not to take
off the Tetsusaiga or let Kikyou deceive him and take him back to
hell. Because even though youkai's could go seriously crazy without
their mates...
they never broke a promise. Even the simple
ones.
Everyone looked up at the tree at the hanyou.
His
fire rat fur had fallen to the ground, while his white shirt and
baggy bottoms were torn to almost shreds. They looked as if he moved
one inch, they would fall to the ground.
But he never moved.
His eyes stared, dead to the world, straight ahead. At
nothingness.
He had not even sensed the others come back. He
didn't care to smell, to eat, to talk. He didn't even want to breath
anymore.
Over and over, Kagome's words in his nightmares
haunted him.
Sango looked up as she heard small muttering,
being spoken from him. She frowned. 'We came back too late? Is he
already losing his mind?' She looked over at Shippou. "Do you
understand what is being said?"
Shippou listened
intently. "Time flies.....one you love....minutes become
eternity...I can barely hear him. He's so out of it." Shippou
frowned sadly. "Dog boy is so out of it."
Sango
shook her head in understanding. "I know. But Kagome will be
back soon. I told her right before she left to be gone ONLY 49 days.
No more." she looked up at the hanyou that was dead on the
inside. "I wish I had said 47."
She looked over at
Miroku. "We will have to stand guard over him. If he is
attacked, he won't care. He'll probably let them kill him."
Miroku
agreed. It hurt to see his friend in such pain, but there was nothing
he could do.
It was either this, or let him die when the real
day she left for good came.
...Night 48.
"Inuyasha,
Kagome will be here soon!" Miroku called out, trying to reach
his friend. "This is the last night!"
Inuyasha did
not recognize his words of encouragement. He latched onto the word
Kagome, but that was all. That was it.
Shippou tried
desperately to get the hanyou to react to him. He'd chewed on his
ears, called him some deplorable stuff, told him his hair was on
fire, anything he could think of.
But still, no response.
The
young demon pushed his ear onto his friends heart. He could still
hear his heart, but it had no more spirit in it. It was just a light
thump here and there.
"Inuyasha." Shippou said
softly. "Please come back soon."
Inuyasha just gave
a light twitch. "Need you...I need back
to me....Kagome......"
...Early on day 49, in Kagome's
Time...
Kagome looked at the well. It was 6:48 and the sun had
just come up. She knew everyone was probably expecting her around
noon, but she just couldn't wait.
She had just felt so
horrible for staying away from Inuyasha and her friends and Shippou.
She missed them all so much and later that day she'd try and make up
as much as she could buy bringing as much food as she could.
But
that would be later. She just had this gut feeling that she just had
to go now. She looked over at the side of the well.
She'd come
back and tell her mom when she woke up.
She smiled as she got
on the side of the well.
It was going to be so great to see
Inuyasha and all her friends again!
To the Feudal Era
again...
Inuyasha's heart skipped a beat as he suddenly jerked
his head up. He smelled her! He smelled HER?! 'She's back! She's
back! She's back! She's back!-' was the only thing his mind could
comprehend.
He moved so swiftly down and off that tree, no one
had even seen him move.
He ran as fast as he could. He wasn't
getting there fast enough! Time moved so slow, it felt like it had
been hundreds of years since he last saw her, heard her, walked with
her, protected her,laughed with her-
'Faster!Faster!Faster!Faster!'
his mind screamed. He should have been there by now! He always moved
so fast, why couldn't he move faster?!
Kagome slowly climbed
out of the well when she felt a rush come to her. It felt like a
demon running very VERY fast! Even faster than Kouga it seemed.
Before she had time to perceive who it was, she was tossed to the
ground and had rolled on it with someone at least three times before
her back was being shoved against a hard chest. Strong arms had
wrapped around her so tight, she could barely breathe.
She was
about to yell for Inuyasha when she realized the feel, the smell, the
whimper in the person that attacked her WAS Inuyasha's.
She
didn't even know what to say. "Ummm....Hi?"
She
stayed there a second, waiting for a response. When she didn't get
one, she tried to wiggle away.
"No you fucking don't!"
Inuyasha howled as he put his arms around her tighter and pulled her
into his lap.
Kagome just stared at the hanyou. 'What's so
wrong? Sango told him I'd just be gone for two months, right?'
"Inuyasha?"
Inuyasha nuzzled his nose against
Kagome's neck, literally stunning her. "Say it again."
"What?
Inuyasha?" Kagome asked.
Inuyasha rubbed his cheek
against hers. "Yes. Inuyasha. You are Inuyasha's. Mine. From now
on." he growled dangerously. "You will NEVER pull that shit
on me again, never, Never, NEVER!!"
Kagome seeing her
friend all riled up tried to get away. Apparently, he was madder than
he had let on.
"No, no, no!" Inuyasha demanded as he
held her even more firmly. "Never leaving! Mine!"
Kagome
frowned at Inuyasha. 'His?! Sango said that leaving him alone would
make him treat me different. He's still being just as bad as before!'
"You don't have any-"
All thoughts that were
processing in Kagome's mind had suddenly stopped as she felt Inuyasha
not only hold her back but tenderly caress...
"Hey, hey,
hey!" Kagome said, trying to pull his hands away. "That is
NOT a friendly area you can just let your hand visit you
know!"
Inuyasha just grinned at her, making Kagome very
suspicious about what kind of thoughts were running through him.
If
only she had known it was a very simple concept.
'Mine, mine,
mine, mine, mine, no one else's! She's mine, all mine! No one's
taking her away! She's not leaving! Ever! Never Ever! Never Never
Ever Ever! MINE!!' he screamed in his head with delight as he rushed
Kagome over to their friends.
Sango, Shippou, Miroku, and
Kagome were all sitting on the grass in the circle.
Inuyasha
wasn't really a part of the circle though since he was holding Kagome
next to his chest.
Sango watched with mild amusement at
Inuyasha holding Kagome so close to him while she told them all about
her visit.
"And then Sota, don't touch!" Kagome said
slapping the hanyou's hand.
Inuyasha nipped at her neck
playfully. "You're soft."
Kagome pretended she
hadn't just heard that. "Where was I? Oh yeah, and so Sota and I
just-hey! Are you deaf?!"
Inuyasha just smiled.
Kagome
just looked at him as if he had just told her he really cared for the
well being of Sesshoumaru. "What is your problem? Have you been
hanging out with Miroku too long?!"
Miroku frowned. He
had been quite good, in his opinion, the last 49 days.
Inuyasha
grinned, but actually uttered a response. "Actually, I do have a
problem." He put his hands strategically on her chest. "I
want to feel you closer, but that 'bra' thing is in the
way."
Kagome's mouth fell open. Oh, he didn't just...that
was NOT Inuyasha-like at all!
She was about to argue about
what he had just said until she was blue in the face, when she saw
him grab her right bra strap and tried to drag it off her arm. "What
are you doing?!"
Sango watched in surprise as Kagome
struggled with the hanyou.
But not only was Inuyasha winning,
he was flat out enjoying it! It wasn't long before he had released
the imprisoned side, when he remembered what her bra had looked like.
'Hell, if I just cut down the middle in the back, the other side'll
be off in a breeze!'
Meanwhile, Kagome wasn't just letting him
do that to her in silence. "Hey, quit that! Dammit Inuyasha,
what's gotten into you-don't! Why you meanie, did you just cut my
bra?! Hey, hey quit that!"
Inuyasha smiled as he yanked
not only the left bra strap, but the rest of the offending object
away.
Sango didn't know what to say! 'I knew he cared deeply
for her, but he is moving waaaaaay too fast.' "Inuyasha."
Inuyasha
growled as he held Kagome closer to him. "Mine."
'Oh
kami.' Sango groaned. She had tried to help Kagome by making Inuyasha
realize who he really loved.
She had expected him to see her
and finally tell her how much he needed her.
"Don't,
don't, don't! Bad doggy!"
But holding her against her
will was NOT what she had in mind.
"What? I thought
bitches liked that kind of thing." Inuyasha said
confused.
Kagome shook his hands away from her shoulders. A
back massage from him is NOT what she needed right now. She frowned
at Sango. "What did you do to him?"
Sango coughed.
"I did nothing. I told you he'd react differently with you now,
didn't I?"
Kagome frowned deeper. "That's not what I
thought you meant!"
"Yeah!" Shippou countered,
just happy he could finally see and agree with Kagome. He didn't
really know what Sango had said to Kagome, but if it got him on
Kagome's good side, did it matter?
Besides, dog boy was
completely hogging her.
Miroku coughed, interrupting the
conversation. "Excuse me, Lady Kagome? But did you bring any of
your supplies with you today?"
Kagome blanked out. "Oh
no, I forgot! I was going to pick them up shortly after finding you.
I guess...." she looked at Inuyasha wearily. "I've just
been a little too wrapped up to remember." She started to
struggle. "Okay, Inuyasha. Let go. I need to go-"
"FUCK
NO!!" Inuyasha yelled.
Kagome looked at him in surprise.
He was becoming so aggravating! As soon as she got out of his grip
she would sit him good! 'Taking off my bra like that, growling at
Sango, and for being so damn confusing!'
Yeah, those were
reason enough.
"Come on, Inuyasha!" Kagome urged.
"I'll...let you come with me?"
Inuyasha shook his
head. "No. You aren't going anywhere."
Kagome kicked
her feet and whined. Hey, she had tried to be civil. It just didn't
work so...
"Let me go! Come on! We can't get going unless
we're properly prepared! Inuyasha! I mean it!"
Inuyasha
laughed and rubbed her neck as he suddenly got up and started to run
with her toward the well.
At the well...
Inuyasha still
held her fast, but looked down at the well.
"This thing
is so stupid. It'd be better just to get rid of it."
Kagome
didn't rise to his bait. He never did anything to harm the well, he
was all bark and no bite when it came to that.
Except she was
starting to reevalute her previous statement as he sliced through
part of the wood wall. "Inuyasha! What the heck are you
doing?!"
"Told you." he growled. "This
thing was only good for one time. When you came here the first time.
After that, I should've chopped it up for firewood. Which is exactly
what I'm gonna do."
Kagome tried to climb up to him and
pull his ear. It was one of the sensitive parts that would probably
hurt if she pulled it.
And if that didn't work, she'd just
have to go to the next sensitive part.
Unfortunately, Inuyasha
had predicted what she was about to do. "Unless we make a
deal."
Kagome stopped. "What kind of
deal?"
Inuyasha held her even closer than before and
breathed into her ear. "I want a puppy from you."
Kagome
just looked at him, confused. 'He wants a puppy? Why would he want a
puppy?' "Why? Are you lonely or something?"
Inuyasha
looked at her, insulted. "No! I'm not lonely! I just....I just
want one, alright?!" He tried to regain control of his attitude.
He breathed deeply and exhaled. "I'll treat it well." He
looked at her, his eyes expressing his happiness. "We'll both
take care of it. Please?"
Kagome sighed. She was really
beginning to wonder if maybe he had eaten some type of wild mushrooms
while she was gone. 'A puppy, huh? We both get to raise it?' She
thought to herself thoughtfully. 'It could be fun, I guess. I've
never had a puppy before. And since Inuyasha wants it so bad.'
"Okay." she agreed. "But you have to treat it with
respect and take care of it when I'm not here."
Inuyasha
felt like jumping up and down and swinging around Kagome.
So
he did.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!"
Inuyasha cried out happily.
He was so amazed she had actually
agreed! 'I thought she was just gonna sit me over and over again. But
she wants one too! We'll both do this. Not only will she become my
mate and share my life-span blood, she's going to share her first
offspring! And her second and third and all the rest of them! They
will all be ours, no one else's!'
Kagome laughed. 'Wow, he is
so happy. I never thought I'd see him so happy.' "I'll try and
get you one before the end of the day."
"Oh shit."
Inuyasha said, staring at her. She wants to start today?! 'Oh HELL
YEAH!!'
When he had finally let go, Kagome smiled. "Good.
Now give me some time to get everything, alright?"
"Don't
be gone long." Inuyasha growled.
Kagome sighed. She never
thought Inuyasha could've been any more aggressive than he had before
the last two months.
But it was like he tripled!
"I
have to do a little shopping, so an hour." Kagome said, not
wanting the hanyou to come to her time after three minutes and going
hysterical because she wasn't there.
"I want to come
then." Inuyasha barked.
Kagome coughed. "Inuyasha,
my world is different. I'm going shopping, meaning there will be LOTS
of people around and you'll look really suspicious." She looked
down the well. "Even if I got you modern clothes, you'd stick
out like a sore thumb."
Inuyasha was about to complain
when she added-
"And I don't want people investigating
and finding out about you." she said as she climbed over the lid
of the well and dropped off.
Inuyasha stared down the well the
entire time. An hour. Okay, he could handle an hour. Or maybe only
30. Heck, he was giving her fifteen and that's it!
After 13
minutes, Inuyasha was preparing to go after her when Kagome started
to come back.
"Hi." Kagome smiled as she got out of
the well.
Inuyasha looked at her a little confused. "You
said an hour. Why're you back so soon?"
Kagome sighed as
she hefted her pack off her shoulder, onto the ground. "Because
if I said I'd be back in fifteen, you would've come in three
minutes." she smiled.
Inuyasha thought about what she
said, when an unfamiliar scent hit his nostrils. He had been so ready
to go after Kagome, he hadn't realized any other scents. 'Damn, I'm
getting careless!'
Kagome watched as he sniffed. 'I knew he'd
pick it up.'
Inuyasha growled as he started to come toward
Kagome's bag. "What's in there?"
As he stuck his
nose in, something licked it.
Inuyasha pulled his head back in
a hurry. As he started to get his bearings again, he saw a small dog
sticking out his tongue.
"Woof!"
Inuyasha
just looked at it. 'What the hell?'
Kagome didn't know how to
take his look. "Don't you like him? He's a Black Collie."
She brushed his head. "I thought he was too cute."
Inuyasha
looked at her, confused. 'When the hell did she buy a mutt?' "It
got a name?"
"No." Kagome admitted. "Did
you want to name him?"
Inuyasha looked at the cute little
collie. He had never told anyone, but dog demons tended to have a
certain affection toward the human slave dogs.
And he still
never would. "Don't know. How about just Inu?"
Kagome
laughed. "A puppy called Inu?"
Inuyasha glared at
her. "What's wrong with that?!"
Kagome just smiled.
"Nothing, Inuyasha. Inu will work fine."
That night,
everyone got to know Inu. Shippou didn't like it at first, but seeing
as it was just a puppy, got pretty friendly with him.
Inuyasha
smiled, not really paying attention to Inu. He was busy thinking
about that night.
Kagome had promised to try and give him a
puppy by the end of the day.
Ka-ching! Tonight, most of his
worries were finally going to stop.
Later that
night...
Inuyasha tried to make his hair look a little civil.
He knew about the combs Kagome used and had stolen one.
He
didn't take care of it as much as those future people did, but he was
gonna appear civil for her tonight, dammit! After all, she was doing
all this for him, a little grooming and taking that bath beforehand
wasn't such a bad idea.
He took a look down at her. She wasn't
'ready' that night to have pups, but he didn't think it mattered.
They'd try the real thing later. 'Besides, the wench said by the end
of the day.' he smirked. 'Meaning she probably just wants to...enjoy
it too.'
Licking his lips he eagerly went down to Kagome. Of
course, Shippou was in the way.
Dammit.
He got behind
Kagome and whispered something in her ear.
Kagome blearily
opened her eyes as she felt Inuyasha whisper the word 'Ready?' into
her ear. She looked behind herself at him. "Huh?"
Inuyasha
nudged Shippou out of the way slightly as he scooped up Kagome and
quickly took off before the kitsune would wake up and whine.
Kagome
just looked at him in surprise. "Where are we going?"
Inuyasha
just grinned. He knew Miroku and Sango weren't going to bother them
if Shippou woke them up.
Well, they better not! After all, he
left a simple note that they could surely understand.
IN ACT
OF MAKING PUPS. YOU FOLLOW AND I'LL RIP YOU TO SHREDS!
A few
minutes later...
Inuyasha stopped at the top of the hill and
let Kagome look at the vast array of stars.
"Wow."
was the only thing she could say.
Inuyasha set her down on the
ground and made her face the stars.
Kagome smiled at Inuyasha.
Yes, definitely a split personality. Probably three at least. "This
was nice, Inuyasha. But is there a reason you brought me
here?"
Inuyasha looked back at her confused. "You
know why we're here? You are going to try to give me a
puppy."
Kagome looked at him, also confused. "But I
already did." she frowned. "I thought you really liked
Inu."
Inuyasha's head began to spin. "What?! What do
you mean, that's just a puppy dog!"
Kagome frowned.
"Well, what exactly did you expect?"
"Us!"
Inuyasha yelled, holding Kagome securely. "Dammit Kagome, you
promised WE would have a puppy, not some dog's puppy!"
"Well,
excuse me!" Kagome yelled back. "If you weren't talking
about a puppy dog, then what is it you want?!"
"Puppies!"
he yelled, trying to think of what other species called them.
Something was sure to get through. "Cubs, Brats, ducklings,
Chicks, Runts, kittens, kids!"
Kagome didn't know how to
respond. "K-kids?"
Wow, he had actually hit on a
word?
Kagome swallowed hard. "You mean, that you want
a-a..."
"A puppy." Inuyasha growled. "And
you PROMISED you'd give one to me."
Kagome gasped. "What
are you, out of your mind!" she shouted. "Inuyasha, what is
WRONG with you! Ever since I came back you've been three times as
aggressive, you keep toying with me, and now you think you want a
baby?!"
'Baby. Yeah, that was the human one.' "So,
can we get back to it now?"
Kagome tried to wiggled away.
"No way! I'm waaaay too young! In my world, you don't want to do
that stuff until you are at least out of school!"
"Well,
when do you get out of school?" He questioned.
Kagome
looked at him, debating whether she should sit him or not. "Well,
at around 18 years old."
Inuyasha crossed his arms.
"Fine, I'll wait."
Kagome looked at him, surprised
to see him smiling back.
"Two years will be nothing with
you by my side, Kagome." he answered. 'But two months without
you....is hell.'
Author's Note: Hope everyone enjoyed the
story. Don't forget, if you liked this one, you'll probably like my
others. The Feudal Fairy Tale Begins Again, and soon to come, The
Best Man Steals the Bride.