InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Lifetime Loving You Part 2; The Path to Osaka ❯ What Five Years Can Bring ( Chapter 1 )

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A Lifetime Loving You

NOTE! This is Part 2 of A Lifetime Loving You. Inorder for any of this to make sense, I would ask that you please read "A Lifetime Part 1; Seasons in Owari" which is the story's beginning.

If you have any questions about the story, please do not hesitate to contact me. My e-mail is on my profile.

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Character Profile-Part 2; The Path to Osaka

Inu-yasha - Now in an ageing process to catch up with his body's correct age (120), our favorite dog demon has matured into a handsome adult dog hanyo. Keeping to his word, he has never left Kagome's side since the birth of Kitsumi. Nor has he stopped protecting the tiny single parent family.

Harboring feelings for Kagome, he openly spends as much time with her daughter and playing the activity she loves to do the most; riding Inu-yasha's back as he leaps and glides through the air. He is also usually the first one on the scene when Kitsumi causes trouble.

Kagome - Now a single mother for five years, Kitsumi has become a prime subject in her life. Her feelings for Inu-yasha have been hidden from her daughter in order to be strong around her, while also making sure she doesn't get into trouble with her friends.

Yet, Kagome doesn't know that Kitsumi is not a blind child when it comes to seeing the look in her mother's eyes and Inu-yasha's when they meet.

Miroku and Sango - Unknown to Kagome and Inu-yasha while in Owari during Kagome's pregnancy, Miroku and Sango also became pregnant………with twins! Though Kara and Kohaku can be a handful, there are still plenty of quirks in the relationship that need some adjustments; like Miroku's wandering eye.

Shippo - Now somewhat older, the fox demon has become Kitsumi's playmate and prime subject when it comes to keeping Kitsumi out of trouble most of the time.

Kitsumi - Now five years old, Kitsumi has adopted her own characteristics as a clever and daring child. Still in her human form, she has no idea that she is a hanyo since her demon blood snapped in to give her a hanyo appearance. Because of this, not a soul has told her that she is the daughter of Sesshoumaru.

But most importantly, all have sworn to silence, never to reveal the existence of Naraku to her.

Kara and Kohaku - The twins of Miroku and Sango, both children take after one of their parents. Kara unfortunately is cursed with her father's bloodline; the curse of a wandering eye; and Kohaku whose nobility and honorable mention come from his mother.

Both, however, have a weakness for following Kitsumi into trouble in town when she's feeling a bit too adventurous.

Tai - A royal samurai from the west, Tai has lost his way after sustaining an injury in which Kagome heals him from, thus causing him to have feelings of compassion for the single mother. Yet, no matter how much he tries to win Kagome's heart or get close to her, Kitsumi's presence always gets in the way. Not to mention the little girl knows how to scare the samurai to the point he soils himself.

Yet, he isn't blind when he slowly begins to discover that Kagome's feeling are directed toward the only man she trusts when is comes to recovering from icy river waters and getting warm.

Welcome, to the second part of "A Lifetime Loving You"! Let the story continue!

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Part 2; The Path to Osaka

Chapter 1; What Five Years Can Bring

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(Kitsumi)

Girls play with dolls………girls play dress up………girls play marriage………girls help their mother in the kitchen………girls do the cleaning, the cooking, the washing………Boring!

Well, out of all the things everyone said I should have been, I wasn't. In fact my joys lied far beyond what any planed out future held for me. WAY beyond!

It was late winter around the time when we spent our last few days in Edo. I still remember it perfectly in my mind; the countless rice fields that were frozen over and the snow that blanketed the ground. Each tiny hut looked like they were tiny houses with white rice poured all over their roofs. The paths were dark and muddy because of the snow and ice that melted during the warmer days.

The villagers would take their sons and daughters with them to go and do chores around town and the little ones would ask questions about different little things. Things that I didn't think mattered.

My mother would say that I was a dreamer and should concern myself with smaller scaled things. I guess she didn't expect her five year old daughter to be asking questions like, "What are the stars made of?" "Where do babies come from?" or the greatest of questions I asked at my young age, "Why are we so weird?"

It's true! My mother had built our tiny hut on the outskirts of town by this old dead tree that was in the woods opposite of the fabled "Forest of Inu-yasha". We had a filter for our water made of stones, pebbles, and sand which my mother told me made the water healthier to drink. An object called a thermometer to see if meat was cooked all the way and that it was safe to eat. All these gizmos and object that I never saw in the village were in our house.

The only thing that felt normal was the jars of herbs and bandages.

Yet there was one last thing that made us weird, well, at least in the eyes of the village boys that teased me because I wasn't like "normal" girls………whatever that meant was the question in my head during those last few days.

And the days before………I found out how different I really was.

It seemed even at the age of five I had a very small circle of friends, friends that I still have in my life today.

Kara, who was the daughter of my mother's friends, Lord Miroku and his wife, Sango, was the one who tried to but me to reason most of the time. Yet it was me who kept her out of the way of the teenage boys that smiled at her. Yet, keeping this duty of young love at a minimum required the aid of her twin brother, Kohaku. He was rather more like his mother, noble and realistic. My mother told me Kara certainly took after her father, but when I asked why she never answered.

Shippo you could say added some of the weirdness too. When you looked at him you'd think he was three years older than you, when in fact Shippo was only ten years older than me. He was a fox demon that taught me the skills I needed to get into trouble all of the time with the village boys that teased me.

Yet, above all of these friends, there was one that I treasured the most when I was five. He was no ordinary friend mind you, he wasn't demon or human. He was both, which made him the coolest person to hang out with at my age; at least to me it was around that point.

Inu-yasha was the only one you could say that I could trust and the only one who would tell me stories about adventures and teach me things about the fascinating demon world. I found demons captivating at my age for no real reason at all I guess. I had just become familiar with them ever since I was born.

Inu-yasha was the only other person besides my mother that I had known my whole life. He was just always there, I never really do remember the day I really met him he was just there. He was the one whom my mother left we with when I annoyed her while she was busy doing the wash.

Well, she never really left me with him; I just waited until she would tell me to go play and then find my chance to wander down the path heading toward the village.

That morning my mother was doing the wash in the wooden tub when I snuck out of the hut with a fruit in my mouth trying to eat my small breakfast while I pulled a skin kimono over my shoulders and pulled my black hair out of my eyes with my hands at the same time. I jumped my quickly freezing feet into my leather booties and made my way down the path into town. I skipped and hummed a little tune my mother sang to herself; I never really knew the words only the chorus's first line.

"I want to spend my lifetime loving you………hmmhmm da de da de dade dum………"

Needless to say it was always my favorite song because the music was different and it was more romantic.

I hummed my little song as I threw the fruit into the wood and skipped along the frozen mud. The game was played the same every morning. There would be a rustle in the trees, I would stop and look in the direction of the noise with a gasp. I'd look around waiting in the morning silence and wait until I heard the sound of a growl dangerously close to my ears. "I've got you know, little girl!" the raspy voice would say once a clawed hand touched my shoulder.

I would grin and turn around. "Oh no you don't!" I would cry and the next thing you'd know, Inu-yasha would fling himself into the snow and he would let me playfully wrestle with him in the snow until I rolled over to his side as he laughed heartily. I would grab the end of his silver hair and jump up and down in the snow waving it up and down. "I win again! I win again!" I would chant until the half dog played dead for a few seconds before I would lean over his face to see if he was okay.

"Oh, my chest………I think (gasp, cough)………I think I'm gonna………" and the next thing you knew he was on his back. I'd wait a moment and giggle, "You faker!" I'd giggle and wait for him to get up. "Inu-yasha?" and being a child, you'd fear hurting anyone.

As always I made my way to his face, and would look at the closed eyes, tongue hanging out expression. "Inu-yasha?"

He'd wait a moment, and then turn his head up to my face and say a quiet, "Boo!" and it worked every time as I would gasp and fall on my rump in the snow. He'd laugh and turn over on his hands and knees in the snow.

"Why do I always fall for that?" I asked him that morning.

Inu-yasha got to his knees and brushed the snow from his shoulders and red vest. "You're still young. One day you won't fall for it anymore."

I sat up right and hugged my legs as he sat like a dog to shake the snow from his mane briskly before yawning, bearing his adult fangs that had finally grown down a little more since the first time I saw them.

I crawled up to his knees and looked at him as his golden eyes fell on me. "What's up, Squirt?"

Squirt is the nickname only he gave me and had the right to call me. The story behind it is quite funny. When I was still in cloth diapers, my mother had decided to let him learn to change me when she had to run an errand in the winter cold before I was one. Needless to say, his first attempt on his own ended up with me peeing on him while the he put me in his arm to lay out the new diaper. Thus the name "Squirt" was born, since he really had no other way to explain it. You could say it was because of my size too, but that story was the motivating force behind it.

"Mother's doing the clothing wash again. I was told to go play," I lied, knowing that my mother needed my held when it came to the clothing being washed during the winter, but I wasn't up to having Inu-yasha drag me all the way back to ask permission if I could get out of it just this once, knowing the answer would be "no".

He grinned as he looked to his home in the forest, then turning back to the hut in the distance with a distant look in his eyes. "Go play, huh? What do you want to do?"

I sat back into the snow and looked up into the shy in thought. "Ummmm………"

Inu-yasha snorted in amusement, "Don't hurt yourself, Squirt!"

I jumped to my feet and grabbed the sleeve of his white nagajugan to begin tugging in excitement. "I want to fly on your back!"

Course it wasn't flying, but at five you don't really care for the technical terms like gliding and leaping.

"Again? But we did that yesterday………and the day after that, and the day before, and the day before that………man you like this riding thing more than your mother did I think," he mumbled incomprehensively in the end.

I climbed up his back and wrapped my little arms around his neck and to steady myself and then when he leaned forward I gripped his vest in my tiny hands. "Please?" I whimpered with the biggest eyes I could give him.

He grinned and rolled his eyes with a smile as he rose to his feet and took hold of my little legs. "Alright, one run through and then we're coming back."

I jumped a little, "Make a stop at the stone top hill. I want to see the mountains in the west again."

He smirked, "Fine, but only for a while, I don't want you're mother to worry about you for too long."

"Don't worry! She has a lot of laundry to do!" "Mostly because I'm not there to help, but…'

Inu-yasha smiled and looked down the path to the village as he stepped out to the path. He let out a sigh and bent down. I grinned as I looked down the path. In a moment, Inu-yasha sped down the path in a dash.

"Is it time?" I asked like always.

"Not yet?"

I'd wait until we were further down and ask my question again.

"Is it time?" I asked again.

"Not yet?"

I held my breath as the village got closer and villagers began to turn and gasp. Inu-yasha kept speeding up.

"Now?" I asked as my grip tightened.

"Now!" Inu-yasha called out as his feet left the ground, bounced between two trees and he took off into the air. I opened my eyes after the shifting movements were over and looked over his silver head and two ears as my hair pulled back and my blue eyes looked at the beautiful momentary view. "Wee!" I squealed in delight as I felt Inu-yasha's laugh vibrate through my legs.

In a moment we were descending and in a short dash again before he pushed off his feet into a smaller leap. With a few leaps and my voice chanting, "Faster, faster, Inu-yasha!" we were up in the air again flying over the rice fields below us heading toward the forest.

We came down again in the trees as he leapt between then weaving his way through the trees of the forest. I giggled as I watched and waited until the clearing came again in the middle of the forest, and when it came into view I gripped the red cloth again as Inu-yasha leapt into the air again and dashed across the snow.

Once in the air, I opened my arms when the wind wasn't too strong to feel like I was flying all on my own. I loved to fly, but more to the point, I loved flying with Inu-yasha. It just felt right to be with him and to have fun with him. I couldn't see my life without him in it.

When we came to the stone hill, I jumped off Inu-yasha's back as the wind blew in my hair and looked out at the mountains. The wind wasn't strong to pick me off the ground, but it did make my hair a pain to work with.

Inu-yasha sat down with his arms in front of him like always and I pointed to the mountains as I looked at him. "What's that mountain farthest away?"

Inu-yasha grinned as I came to him to shield myself from the wind's chill. "That's the mountain that leads us to Owari, the place where you were born."

"I was born on a mountain?" I said in astonishment.

Inu-yasha laughed and shook his head. "No, Silly-head, you were born in the land owned by Polaris and her sisters, that's on the other side of the mountain."

I looked up at him with my mouth open and then back out to the mountain. "Oh………well why didn't you say so?" I asked a little aggravated and disappointed. He sighed and looked out at the view.

"You really are more like your mother………it's not just the looks."

I sat down between his hands making circles with my finger on my knees. "Actually, Mother says I have your egotism, whatever that means?"

He snorted with a smirk and bowed his head letting his silver bangs cover his eyes. "We should head back before the winds pick up. I can get gusty up here really fast."

I nodded with one last look out at the mountains as I waited for Inu-yasha's back to come to my level.

"Inu-yasha, do you think I'll ever get to go to Osar-Owas-Oarw--"

"Owari?" he said.

"Yeah, Owari!" I said stretching out the "owar" part in order to say it correctly.

Inu-yasha sighed as he turned to look at the mountains. The look in his face seemed to show worry and fear, something I had never seen in his face before.

"I hope not, Kitsumi! If we have to go to Owari, chances are we'll never be coming back to Edo ever again."

Inu-yasha turned back down the hill and began his dash. "Why? Why would we never be coming back to Edo if we went to Owas………to that place?"

I waited for Inu-yasha to answer me like always, but this time he didn't.

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A/N Well there you have it! Chapter 1 of part 2! Hope it was fun cuz this is how Inu-yasha and Kitsumi's relationship develop.

As you now know, Inu has grown a little so his voice has changed a little. I've pictured it around Matt Daemon's tone now. Kitsumi at the age of five I would have to say would be close to the little Pepsi girl's voice. Her name escapes me right now, but yeah these are the voices in my head.

Chapter 2 "The Trouble Team"

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