InuYasha Fan Fiction / Fan Fiction ❯ Adventures in Sunnydale ❯ Exposition ( Chapter 5 )

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Chapter 5: Exposition

InuYasha tore through the cage door and bolted for the library. To the humans it was like he simply appeared at the library door.

Willow gasped and Buffy took off after InuYasha. Desperate to get him before he caused a scene in the high school.

InuYasha, meanwhile, had thrown open the door and paused, "Kagome!" he shouted. He wouldn't believe his nose or his ears, but add to that his eyes and he had to believe. It was her!

"InuYasha!" came the desperate reply.

InuYasha darted from the doorway just as Buffy reached it. She stopped and blinked several times. The others were just behind her and had a similar reaction to the scene before them.

"I guess this solves that problem." Willow laughed nervously.

Sara stared wide-eyed at her cousin, who was caught up in a deep hug and nearly in tears, as a strange albino buried his face in her hair.

"I take it you know each other?" Buffy approached the joyful scene carefully.

InuYasha and Kagome's eyes flew open at being observed, and they hopped away from each other.

"Ah…*yes, sorry*" Kagome turned to her cousin, "This is my friend. InuYasha…"

"Is this the one that you've been so worried about? How'd he get here? You never told me he was an albino Kagome." Sara spilled.

"Albino?" the scoobies choirest.

Kagome looked confused, then brightened considerately. With a large smile she jumped to confirm her cousins' suspicions. "Yes! He is an albino, but he is sensitive about it. I met him in the hospital. He is too brash and gets hurt a lot." `*At least that's true.*' she thought.

"Oh…" Sara exclaimed, "I was wondering about that, since your mother said that it wasn't any of your school friends. And you were so sick all the time."

"*Hey, Kagome, what's going on?*" InuYasha questioned.

Kagome turned back to InuYasha, "*InuYasha, this is my cousin Sara, I've been staying with her for two days now, s-since you didn't come back…I…we couldn't find you…*" she started to tear up again, "*we thought…we thought…*" she was actually crying now and ran back into InuYasha arms.

"*Stop crying stupid, I'm right here.*" InuYasha put his arms around her.

"How did he get here, Kagome?" Sara repeated.

Buffy to the rescue, "Was that the bell?"

"Oh NO! I can't be late again! See ya later Kagome. Bye." Sara waved as she bolted out the door.

"The bell is ten minutes away." Willow glanced at her watch.

"Oh, well, now that she's gone, we can get some answers." Buffy said innocently.

They all turned to look at Kagome and InuYasha. Kagome still had her face buried in his "shirt" and InuYasha was absently petting her hair.

"That's so sweet." Willow cooed quietly.

"She does know he's a demon," Xander asked, "and a dog?"

At the sudden attention the couple once again sprang apart, this time blushing vibrantly and staring at the floor.

"And that's so cute!" Willow exclaimed.

"NO! It's not like that! He… we…." Kagome sputtered, then shouted, "WE JUST HAVE THIS STUPID QUEST!"

InuYasha looked at Willow suspiciously. What had she said that upset Kagome?

"Anyway…." Buffy turned to Kagome, "Why don't you tell us about yourself and your…friend?"

Kagome blinked, "Like I told my cousin-" she started.

Buffy shook her head and waved her arms in a negative gesture to silence Kagome, "No, no. Let's try this again." She approached Kagome with a big cheerful smile on her face, "Hi! My name is Buffy, that is Willow, Xander and Giles." Each one waved in turn, "I am a Vampire slayer, though I have expanded to slaying demons lately." Buffy paused for effect. "Your friend here is a demon. I know. I know you know, and now you know I know you know. So maybe you could find out what he is up to so I know wither or not I have to slay him."

Kagome's eyes went wide and she jumped between Buffy and InuYasha, who gave her a curious look. "No! InuYasha is good!"

Buffy crossed her arms, "If he's so good then why did he attack me?"

Kagome's eyes narrowed dangerously and she spun to face InuYasha, "*InuYasha, Did you attack this girl?*"

InuYasha took a step back, his hands lifted in a pacifying gesture, "*S-she started it! She wouldn't back down! She's a youkai exterminator! L-look she isn't even hurt!*"

The Americans didn't miss the humor in seeing this bad ass demon warrior intimidated by a small girl.

Kagome looked at Buffy. She didn't appear injured. She sighed, "InuYasha has many misunderstandings. He had a … difficult childhood and does not always react well. And he does like to fight." She added quietly.

"His childhood," Willow stepped up, "is that because he is a hanyou?"

InuYasha jumped and gave Willow a menacing glare. Kagome nodded, "Yes, his parents died and no one, human or youkai, wanted to take him in. Most wanted to kill him." She added quietly.

"I was right! Yay me!" Willow bounced before returning to reality, "I mean, that's sad about the horribly scarring childhood and all. How old was he when his parents died?"

"Young," Kagome shrugged, "young enough to learn to deal with people by intimidation and fear. Or avoid them all together."

InuYasha had been patient. More than patient really, since he had a suspicion that they were discussing him in those sad tones. "*Kagome, what's going on? What are you saying about me*" he crossed his arms and scowled.

"Ok, so I guess he isn't evil, exactly." Buffy acquiesced, "But we need to know how he got here. And what he is doing here. It's important."

Kagome asked InuYasha, he responded, "*How the hell should I know? I'm jumping down the fucking well to get you, and the fucking thing sends me to this fucking place, where no one fucking talks right or acts right! They don't even fucking see me!*"

Kagome turned her gaze to the Americans, "He says he doesn't know."

There was a brief pause before Buffy ventured, "Is that it? Cause it sounded like there was more."

When Kagome looked reluctant Giles added, "It is very important that we know everything about his experience to determine why he was brought here and if anything else may have made it through."

Kagome frowned, they weren't going to let this go so she said in a loud voice, "He says he doesn't fucking know, that he was jumping down the fucking well to get me and the fucking thing sent him here, where people don't fucking react to him at all!"

Kagome fumed, Buffy and co. blinked, InuYasha smirked. He knew what had just happened, and it gave him no small pleasure to hear Kagome talk like that. Of course he didn't know exactly what the often and passionately repeated word meant, but he could guess.

"A demon with a potty mouth, who'd a guessed." Buffy finally broke the silence.

"He's just upset." Kagome was calming down.

"What about this well?" Giles continued the investigation. "Does it have something to do with that quest you mentioned earlier?"

Kagome bit her lip. This would make InuYasha angry but it there didn't seem to be anyway around it. They would need help getting InuYasha back home. "InuYasha and I travel back and forth between the warring states era and modern day Japan. The well is our connection to each others time. We are the only ones that have been able to use it so far."

"A time traveling well?" Xander asked incredulously. Kagome nodded.

"What about this quest of yours?" Giles prodded.

Kagome sighed, "I am the reincarnation of a powerful miko. I had a jewel, which can give tremendous power to youkai, hidden in my body without my knowledge. I knew nothing about … anything. One day I was pulled through the well and … long story short, the jewel was forcefully extracted, and later, while trying to retrieve it from a youkai that had stolen it from me I … kind of shattered it. Now I must gather all the shards and keep them out of the hands of youkai."

"And what is his part in this?" Buffy asked.

"…He wants the jewel, but he can't see the shards," Kagome answered reluctantly, "I can see the shards, but I can't fight the battles."

"So you team up. What about after you get the shards back? Then what will you do when he comes after them?" Buffy continued.

Kagome paused and thought, "I guess we will have to deal with that at that time. But that is only if we both survive that long."

"Hey Giles," Buffy piped up after another long pause, "What is it with fate messing with the life of nice normal untrained teenage girls huh? Why can't it go bother some twenty something Marine with all this crap?"

No one seemed to have an answer to this, and the bells sudden ringing stopped anyone who might want to try.

InuYasha and Kagome decided to stay put as the rest of the group headed for classes. Kagome filled InuYasha in on what had been said and Giles did what ever it is that he does when the scoobies aren't around.

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A/N: So there you go, an extra chapter this week and answers.

As for why Kagome would leave Japan with InuYasha still missing… It's hinted at here and will probably be discussed later as well.