InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Heart Can Only Take So Much ❯ Irritable Hanyou’s and Nosey Monks ( Chapter 2 )

A/N: I know you're looking at this extremely long authors note and getting ready to scroll down to the chapter you've been waiting so long to read but could you please just sit tight for a mo' while I explain some stuff. Thank you very much. And if you're just going to scroll down anyway then you're going to miss out. `Nuff said.

I am finally back with another chapter! I am so happy with all of the reviews I received and starting next chapter I will respond to all of them. Okay now for everyone's favorite part: EXCUSE TIME!

(That Random Announcer Dude from Pokemon appears suddenly)

That Random Announcer Dude from Pokemon© We now join our heroes as they make the Journey toward Pacifilog Town…

Me: Hey um, this isn't the set of Pokemon©

TRADFP (That Random Announcer Dude from Pokemon): Aww crap I knew I screwed up. This is studio 6 right?

Me: Yep. (Notices upside down direction in his hand) I think your directions are upside down

TRADFP: Oh, I think you're right! That why it looked so funny, you know I knew 6 oiduts just couldn't be right… (Flips it over) Ah, I'm supposed to be in studio 9, and merciful kami I'm late! (Waves arms franticly in anime-like fashion)

Me: First time on the job?

TRADFP: (stops waving arms franticly in anime-like fashion) Am I really that obvious?

Me: Yes

TRADFP: Oh well I better get going then. Knowing Ash and May they probably ate all the food on the set. (Pulls out microphone out of mid air) And join us next time for…

Me: (very annoyed) Just leave!

TRADFP: Sorry (leaves)

 

 

Ok. I do have a valid reason for updating so late. Are you guys ready? Okay there are two versions the short and to the point one and the whole shebang version. If you want the short version the next sentence will suffice, (but I think you should read the whole thing anyway) Alright, just recently a massive lighting storm hit where I and knocked out my power for a whole week. (The whole shebang continues from here on out. If you really don't want to read it go to next paragraph of A/n. You have been properly warned) Yes that's right, a WHOLE WEEK. It was like living in the dark ages. And not only that, I was just getting out of school when the storm hit and a tornado warning was issued, so they made EVERYONE GO BACK INSIDE just as everyone was getting ready to go home, and down to the basement. Just FYI, the basement is were the athletes train and the whole football team was down there practicing for the game the next day so it reeked of B.O. Not to mention it was a HUNDRED DRGREES DOWN THERE. So when I finally got out of there, dying from heat exhaustion I waited in the front for TWO HOURS for a ride since the transit buses weren't running, just to find out that traffic was backed up massively due to fallen trees and power lines which caused traffic lights to go out and fires all over the place, and it would take about an hour just to travel 3 miles and my ride happened to be more that five miles away. So by 5, there was ANOTHER tornado sighted in the area and everyone left in the building (which was a lot) had to go back down to the basement. Let's just say I got home reeeaaalllly late. So of course they canceled school the next day but I was stuck at home with no power so it really, really sucked. And I was going to update that night too, so it sucked even more. And when I got my power back on, the Internet wasn't working which had me loathing Mother Nature all over again. I still have no internet, but I decided to go to the public library (which took me a while since I have no car) and get this chapter up.

 

If you think I'm making this up then so be it. I not the kind of person who spends their time coming up with crap excuses for why I didn't update “on time”, I have better things to do, believe me. Just be glad I am giving you a sincere reason. I have seen my share of pretty lame excuses; I know when to spot one, like for example: “I um, have a mice problem at home and a mouse chewed my internet connection, so yeah.” Duh. Even I know that you do not have a “mouse problem” and you are in fact covering up the fact that you were suffering from sheer laziness or it just slipped your mind to update. It happens to the best of us, so don't be ashamed to say you were contributing to the obesity problem by being a couch potato, or you completely forgot. And if you really do have a mice problem, then I apologize. Go invest your money in some good rat poison.

 

Alright, down to business. Just so you know future chapters are going to be shorter than the first chapter. The first one was so long because I wanted to bring Kagome and InuYasha's feelings out in the open. As for “bringing on the fluff” there will be a sort of angsty/fluffy moment between Miroku and Sango coming up in a few chapters, but for Inu/Kag fluff you're going to wait for a little longer. I know it feels like I'm cranking out the angst but its all leading to a fluffy/angsty climax so it's all good. Besides I believe you have to have some conflict in order to make those fluffy moments even more rewarding. I mean come on, don't you just hate stories were the guy and the girl get together and nothing bad ever happens?! You just sit there waiting for something bad to happen like one of them getting struck by lightning or something and when it doesn't it makes you just want to rip out your hair in frustration! It's like reading a friggin' Dick and Jane book `cause it's so predictable.

 

Ok about story length. I plan on making this a good sized one (at least for me) so maybe 20ish to 30ish chapters? I don't know for sure but my guesstimate is around 26 chapters. But I'll keep you posted when those finer details are confirmed.

 

Anyway, it's not like I'm against stories that give you that WAFF, no way, but more so stories that have no plot and have just have one good thing happen after another. But maybe one in a while I'll read one…but only if it's funny and really good. I may a firm believer in angst = eventual fluff, but even I sometimes need succumb to the urge of having a heavy dose of saccharine sweetness.

 

All I saying is you will get that WAFF in due time, my friends. In due time.

But enough of my ramblings. You guys have waited long enough, lets get on with the chapter!

 

Chapter 2: Irritable Hanyou's and Nosey Monks

 

It was a beautiful day. The sun was out and its warm rays lit up the blue skies of feudal Japan. Not a cloud could be seen for miles. It seemed like it could be a perfect day; that is, if it weren't for the heavy silence that surrounded InuYasha and company.

That morning when everyone woke up to get ready to depart once again on their journey, they could feel it; the tension that hung over their heads like a heavy fog. Sango and Shippo had immediately noticed Kagome's lack of cheerfulness that morning, as she trudged through the morning preparations without as much as a good morning uttered in any one's direction, even young Shippo. InuYasha had been away from the campsite that morning when every one arose that morning and when he came back he soon left again to go hunt. Well that wasn't too unusual.

 

But as the day continued not a word was uttered. Even when Kagome tripped over a rock and fell, slowing down the group, InuYasha continued to walk on with not so much as a “stupid wench” in her direction.

 

So the group continued on in silence and as young Shippo observed, the silence was indeed deafening.

 

It was now afternoon and after going the entire morning without a word spoken amongst them,

Miroku decided that he had had enough and that he was going to get to the bottom of this. He didn't know what had happened last night between InuYasha and Kagome while he and the others were asleep, but he knew that it must have been bad because they were completely avoiding each other.

 

Sick off all the silence Miroku decided to take matters into his own hands.

`Step one. Provoke irritable hanyou.' He approached his target, hastening his steps. Said target was hunched in his I'm-pissed-at-the-world stance with arms folded and his face held a mixture a scowl and a pout.

 

`This should be easy.'

 

“InuYasha, pardon me for being crude,” Miroku began, noticing that InuYasha's ears swiveled in his direction.

 

“But who pissed in your ramen this morning?” he asked, borrowing one of Kagome's coined phrases. InuYasha let out a low, menacing growl, and Miroku could tell by the way his eye was twitching, that he was restraining himself from removing the one thing that would enable him to have kids. Miroku wasn't that concerned, but just in case he lowered his staff to better able him to protect his baby maker, should the situation arise where he would have to do so. Fortunately his fears were unfounded, as InuYasha made no move to castrate him.

 

“GRRR! Fuck off, bozou!” he snarled as he hastened his steps. Miroku let out the breath he had been holding.

 

`Well at least it's not as quiet anymore.' He mused.

 

Kagome, who was purposely walking at a slower pace, witnessed the entire exchange.

 

`I cant believe he's still angry from last night! I didn't even say anything that warranted him being angry about, just something that we both know to be true, because after all, he's told me countless of times that I'm his shard detector. I don't know what his problem is; if anything I should be the one upset!' she silently fumed, her anger spiking once more. Shippo with his youkai senses picked up on this. The little fox youkai was really starting to get concerned. All morning she had been extremely distant and had not uttered a word except for a few nods of acknowledgement when she was spoken to. When she had even ignored him for the most morning he had been a little hurt and confused at to why his surrogate mother was acting this way. Also he noticed InuYasha was unusually sullen today as well. His figured that Kagome and InuYasha probably had a spar last night by the way they were avoiding each other. But what he couldn't figure was that fact that Sango and Miroku weren't saying anything either. What had happened last night?

 

Unable to take it any more he ran up beside her.

 

“Hey Kagome, what's the matter?” he asked in his annoying little voice, wincing at the sound of grinding teeth coming from Kagome. Kagome continued walking with glazed over eyes, completely oblivious to Shippo walking beside her.

 

“K-Kagome?” he asked a little louder, his voice quivering as he tugged on her sock. His voice reached Kagome in her semi conscious state, breaking her from her angry haze. She looked down at the kit, who had tears forming in his eyes, and immediately felt guilty. Kagome had neglected poor Shippo all morning because she had been so focused on her inner ramblings. He must now be thinking that she was angry at him for some reason. She had forgotten how sensitive he was to those sorts of things. She bent down and picked up the teary eyed kit. Shippo immediately attached himself to her chest, his tears leaking through Kagome's blouse.

 

“Kagooommeeee! Are you okay?! I was so scared when you didn't make me breakfast this morning!” he wailed as he looked up at her with blurry eyes. Kagome inwardly smiled. That Shippo was just too adorable for his own good. Especially when he had those big, bulbous, green eyes focused on her.

 

“I'm fine Shippo, really. I was just doing a lot of thinking this morning.” She assured the little kitsune.

 

`Which is more than I can say for our hanyou friend' she groused, the object of her thoughts currently cursing up a storm after stumbling over a rock. She sent a well aimed glare to the back of his head before turning her attention back to Shippo.

 

“I'm sorry about breakfast this morning Shippo, my focus was somewhere else. But I promise you I'm fine now and that from now on you have my undivided attention.” she then plastered on a fake smile to show him that she was indeed fine, despite how she truly felt at the moment.

 

Shippo saw through her sad smile and could still smell traces of her previous anger and sadness, but concluded with seven year old logic if she was forcing a smile for his benefit, then she couldn't be feeling that badly.

 

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To say that InuYasha was merely having a bad day would have to have been the biggest understatement of the year. This day was on its way to becoming one of the worst days of his life.

 

It had all started early that morning, when he had been having another dream about Kagome that had been particularly …vivid. In fact it had felt so real, that when he fell down in his dream it had felt like was actually falling, until he had been rudely awakened by a hard impact and realized that he had indeed fallen… out of his tree that is.

 

Luckily no one had been awake to witness his embarrassing ordeal, so he had managed to slip away with some of his dignity still intact. He then had another problem to take care of. Unfortunately, the vividness of his dream had left certain parts of him more awake then usual, so he had gone off in search of a cold lake; vaguely wondering why his latest dream had affected him more than past dreams. As his luck would have it there had been no cold lakes in the area so he had to return back to the camp with his “little” problem still intact.

 

As he had entered the campsite, he was impacted with a powerful scent that with further inspection, seemed to be coming from Kagome. With a start he then had realized why his dream had been so vivid.

 

`Oh shit, not now!'

 

Apparently his youkai had been right; Kagome had gone into heat and at the worst time possible. He soon began to feel his blood temperature rise as his body reacted to her scent. He needed to get away from her now. But his body had refused to obey as he involuntarily inhaled more of her sweet scent causing his temperature to rise to dangerous levels and his arousal to increase tenfold. Luckily Shippo, who had just woken up, decided then to voice his thoughts aloud, proclaiming that he was starving and wanted breakfast, which had snapped InuYasha out of his daze. InuYasha was suddenly grateful to the kit as he had given him something to do, and immediately vacated the campsite in search of breakfast. He really needed to kill something.

 

From there the day had gotten steadily worse. Throughout the morning Kagome's scent had fluctuated until it stayed at anger and combined with her heat scent it nearly drove him to the brink of insanity. And the comment Miroku had made on his current predicament ha d just made matters worse. So now he was hot, bothered and pissed off as hell.

He sighed. This was going to be a long day.

 

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“Miroku! Miroku, can you hear me?” whispered Sango from a few feet away. Miroku did not hear her as he lost in his thoughts. He had felt it again just a little while ago, that small twinge he felt whenever his wind tunnel got bigger. Immediately he had become concerned, as he hadn't felt it widen in a long time, due to the potion that he had drank allowed him not to feel any pain.

 

He wondered what this meant, him being able to feel it this time.

 

“Miroku?” she asked again, her voice closer this time snapping him of his reverie. He looked up to see his lovely Sango looking at him with a hint of concern on her face.

 

“Oh Sango, I apologize. I did not see you there.” He said as he acknowledged her presence beside him. Sango picked up her pace so she was walking astride with him.

 

“Are you okay? I called you several times and you didn't answer.” She stated.

Miroku glanced at her for a moment before proceeding to answer her.

 

“I'm fine. I was just… thinking” he replied.

 

“About what?”

 

Miroku turned to face her once more. Her deep brown eyes held genuine worry for him. No way was he going to tell her that he had been thinking about his widening wind tunnel and he feared that he didn't have much time before it consumed him; no, he didn't want her to worry. Not for him.

 

“I was…” he started searching the recesses of his mind for an unloaded topic, or at least one not as loaded.

 

“Thinking about Kagome sama's condition” he finally got out, knowing there was no need to elaborate any further. He and the others knew of Kagome's current disposition as of late. It was a topic that remained mostly unspoken them, but were all aware of… that is except for Kagome.

 

“Well she seemed kind of distant as usual, but today it seems that she's just flat out avoiding InuYasha,” she concluded. Miroku nodded as well. While the two seemed to be more distant since Kikyo died, they never really avoided each other per say, like they used to after an argument, which Miroku was assuming had occurred last night.

 

“Yes, I had noticed that. But for some reason Kagome seems unusually angry at InuYasha.” He figured out loud.

 

“Does she need a reason?” she retorted sardonically. Miroku allowed the briefest of smiles on his face.

 

“ I must admit I agree Sango, with your mode of thinking; I mean this is InuYasha we're talking about, but in all seriousness I do believe something severe occurred between the two last night, in turn resulting in their current avoidance of each other” he finished. Sango snorted.

 

“Well that much is obvious. I haven't seen Kagome this angry since the time InuYasha threatened to rip off Koga's tail after touching Kagome.”

 

Miroku mentally shuddered at the mental picture of an beyond pissed off Kagome getting ready to sit InuYasha, inky locks flailing around her from heightened spiritual power.

 

“Yes, and that is one sight I never do wish to see again.” Miroku remarked. He chuckled as he remembered how scared InuYasha and Koga had been when they had seen the pissed off Kagome, with the object of InuYasha's threats currently being tucked in between Koga's legs like a chastised puppy's.

 

“Miroku,” Sango began, once again solemn. He cocked his head in her direction, indicating that he was listening.

 

“I'm really concerned about Kagome-chan. She just seems so…broken. ” Miroku sighed.

 

“I'm concerned about her too. It's just so disheartening to see her like this.”

 

“Ever since Kikyo died, he's been avoiding her like a plague, and I can tell it's breaking her heart” Sango lamented sadly. Miroku soberly nodded in agreement. He was well aware of Kagome's feelings for InuYasha and how his recent treatment of her affected her. His heart went out to Kagome; he could only imagine how it felt to have the person that he loved, completely avoiding him because the person he thought she loved had died.

 

He knew that Kagome had the biggest heart out of every one he had ever known, but even for someone like Kagome, a heart could only take so much.

 

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After much persisting from the rest of the group, InuYasha finally caved and agreed to let the group stopped for a quick lunch break. They soon found a nice clearing with a nearby fresh water stream. Before Kagome could pull out the ramen, InuYasha fled, muttering something that resembled “I'm going hunting”. Either that or he said “ I'm good at punting”, which one could deduce that wasn't what he said due to football having not been invented yet. Kagome let out a long sigh.

 

Sango had volunteered to go fetch water from the nearby stream and Miroku had “volunteered” to go with her. With Shippo off chasing butterflies, that left a dismayed Kagome alone with Kirara, the fire cat demon.

 

“I guess it's just you and me Kirara.” Kagome sighed. Kirara mewed in response as she made her way towards Kagome's lap, before curling up. Kagome slowly stroked her fur as Kirara began to purr, and found that the action not only comforting to Kirara, but to her as well. In the time she living in, fighting in; she realized that she needed to be comforted, to feel safe. Safety, she thought, a word she had come put with InuYasha. He was her savior, her protector. He protected her mind body and spirit, but her heart; she had it laid out right in the open, where he could see, where the whole world could see. And yet he still had yet to prevent her heart from getting broken. How ironic. Her great hanyou protector couldn't even protect her heart, which she had given to him ages ago. Kirara then chose that moment to nuzzle Kagome's chin, temporarily distracting her from her darkening thoughts. Kagome giggled from the moist, tickling sensation on her chin.

 

“Hey, Kirara can I ask you a question?” she asked as a sudden thought passed through her mind. Kirara let out a small mew, and Kagome took this as an indication to continue.

“ Do you think that if your love for someone was so strong, it would in time eventually have that other person love you in return?” she blurted out. Kirara flicked up an ear as to show her confusion.

“I mean,” she began to elaborate further. “I try to show him how I feel, you know without actually saying it, but it seems that nothing has changed, not even when…” she trailed off, unable to say the words aloud. She began to feel a pricking sensation at the corners of her eyes before her vision became slightly blurred with fresh tears. She brought the fire cat in closer to her body, holding her tightly to her chest.

 

“I don't know where I stand in InuYasha's eyes anymore.” She solemnly admitted with a sniff.

 

`Ever since she died, he's been avoiding me, like I'm the one who caused her death' Kirara began to lick Kagome's chin again in an effort to cheer her up, causing Kagome to laugh and cry at the same. She hugged her closer still.

 

“Oh Kirara, it's just that *hic* I love him *hic* so much and it pains me so much to think that he might hate for what happened to Kikyo.” She finished with a small sob. Tears flowed freely now forcing Kagome to wipe them away.

 

“Oh I feel so silly, getting all worked up over one little thing.” Kirara shook her head and mewed in disagreement. Kagome looked up at the after noon sky, locks of raven hair fluttering in the fall breeze.

 

“But, I guess it's because I love him so much” she confessed with a sad smile. “And I would do anything; even give my own life if it meant his happiness.”

 

Unbeknownst to her in the nearby shrubbery a certain hanyou was watching, hearing every one of her innermost thoughts. Sango

 

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Oooo, I love cliffhangers. I promise the next chapter will be up sometime soon

 

Preview of Chapter Three:

 

Naraku's grin turned into an evil smirk.

“They say that the human heart is the strongest organ in the human body. But once it's broken it is rendered useless.” Naraku looked to see if his incarnation was paying attention.

“But the for the girl with the biggest heart…” he then scooped up a clump of dirt from the cave floor and cradled it in his hand. His smirk was now an earsplitting grin.

“What if it were to be…crushed?”

Byakuya watched as Naraku demonstrated by clenching his fist, crushing the clump of dirt as pieces of the clump tumbled down to the cave floor.

 

Until next time,

 

yurDestini (aka Marie)