InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Attempted Fouls ❯ Those Who Ponder ( Chapter 4 )

Attempted Fouls

by: Chibi-Suiko

A/N: The fourth installation is finally here! Wow, I haven't worked on this fic in awhile. I've thought about it, and told myself that I was going to but... Things happened. So I pushed it to the back of my mind... But now it's here so get those angry thoughts gone and then read and review! Chibi will be ever-grateful if you don't count the time-span between updates against me!

Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha, Kagome, Sango, Miroku, Shippou, Naraku, Kikyou, Kagura, Kouga... Yeah, you can finish their names. The point is, I don't own any of 'em.

Summary: Kagome, tired of InuYasha's less-than-friendly behavior towards her, has crafted a plan of deceitful marriage in order to get him to admit how he really feels. Will be Inu/Kag and possibly Mir/San.

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Ages are as follows:

Kagome: 19

InuYasha: 23

Miroku 24

Sango: 21

Shippou: 09

(A/N: I know those aren't very accurate but I wanted to mess with them anyway so the plot would fit in better.)

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About a month later and plans were being made all ready. She had told him that it wasn't going to happen for about a year so why was she posting small notes about it now?! She had plenty of time to get that whole thing under way! Right now their group needed her for the Shikon hunt and she was busy filling her little mind with simple day dreams about something called the 'honeymoon'.

Feh. He would never understand women.

InuYasha was currently closing in on a dimensional Youkai, which was using some distortional prowess to suck their group, not to mention the entire village, into different spaces. Kagome had gone back to her time and so InuYasha was forced to fend off the beast by himself after the kitsune, the tajiya, and the monk had all vanished from reality.

"Kuso... Shimatta!" He shouted angrily. Where the Hell was that girl when he needed her?! Well, it wasn't exactly a need... But this would just be a lot easier if he wasn't working alone!

"InuYasha!" A voice rang out and he turned to see her flying freely on that 'bicycle' thing that she always muttered about, "What's going on?!" She shouted as he defended himself from the enemy with his Kaze no Kizu. He scoffed and slashed at the masses body, slitting an arm.

"So glad you could join us, WENCH! The beast just appeared and I have fair reason to believe that he has a jewel shard! He made the whole damned party disappear!" He ranted and they turned to see the youkai laughing with heightened charisma.

"FOOLS! Roujugai does not bow to any! You will soon be swept away with your little friends! There is no way, after all, to defeat a shard of the Shikon no Tama! Fight me if you dare!" And he opened his mouth and spewed a gaping darkness out. InuYasha jumped but Kagome couldn't move fast enough and was caught in the center.

"InuYa--" She was cut off as the dimensional tunnel swallowed her up. InuYasha turned and growled lowly. The bastard dared to eat HIS woman?!

"KUSO! NO ONE--" His eyes flared threateningly, "--AND I MEAN NO ONE MESSES WITH MY KAGOME!" He soared into the air and swept the blade of the Tetsusaiga through the demons head, "KAZE NO KIZU!" Two seconds later, blackened crimson blood fell freely from the shattered skull and dampened the dry dirt ground. There was a stab of a sword and InuYasha's blade fell through the newly-muddy ground.

Kagome, Miroku, Sango, Kirara, nor Shippou... None had been returned... At least, not yet. Two moments later and groans were heard from around him. He turned to see the entire group sitting up from under the bloody earth. All of them were looking dazed, maybe even a little... deathly.

Though shaken, there were no long-lasting wounds... Which made InuYasha feel more than a little ticked, "Are you telling me that you're all okay?" He shouted in anger.

Sango nodded and Kagome stared at his face, "Why InuYasha? Were you actually afraid for our safety?"

"Feh. Not at all. I'm just pissed off that I had to waste my time saving you humans when you were perfectly healthy. There was no need to worry over useless things." And he re-sheathed the Tetsusaiga and began to wander off, "At least... Not all of you." He muttered to himself.

He shouldn't be caring this much for the girl. It was a dramatic change from that time ago... But time was running out for their group. Kagome would be leaving them forever in under a year and he was just discovering that there might be something under his casual care for her... It was that something that he'd always tried to ignore.

He scoffed. Things definitely had changed. Since when did he let such ignorant, feminine thoughts get to him and take him over? He didn't know... All he knew was that the vast change in the packs' behavior was pulling him in and he had been acting differently, thinking differently... He had become a different hanyou all together. It was like all the past with Kikyou had really finally just become a memory.

But how could he let that happen? It was as if he'd lost a purpose to fight... Why did he always battle after Naraku, after all? To revenge Kikyou... But, if the fact of Kikyou's death and half-life had finally gotten to him, then what did he have left besides himself?

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"Houshi-sama... Have you noticed a change in InuYasha's behavior?" Sango approached the monk from behind as he stared into the river, washing his hands from the blood that had started to dry on his ceremonial robes after their last battle, "It's almost as if, after hearing that Kagome will have no way of coming back, he's finally let it count that he loves her. And I'm slightly... confused at this sudden awareness."

Miroku turned to her with one of those 'charming' smiles of his, almost making her blush, but she shook those thoughts from her mind, "If Sango-san would join me, I'd gladly explain." She was hesitant but then sat beside him, slightly eager to hear more of his words of wisdom, "You see... InuYasha has lost one woman to the powers of time and unfairness. Kikyou vanished just as they were finally experiencing the peak of their love for each other. Kagome is now being stolen by the same thing. The fact that she is from the futuristic society of where we are unknown to many is what will keep her from coming back. InuYasha is being forced to realize that time in itself is truly of the essence. He always believed that Kagome would wait around with him forever and it's taken him this long to learn that that isn't the case." He broke off and let the tajiya digest this information.

"If that is true then... Is knowing that Kagome-san won't be there forever really admitting to himself that his feelings for her have changed? Possibly into love?" She questioned.

"It's more along the lines of our relationship. If you were to leave, I wouldn't know what to do. I'd be lost to everlasting grief. But that doesn't necessarily mean that I would love you. It just means that I care for you more than others." Miroku flashed another grin and made a move to sit closer to Sango, who was slightly distracted by his last words.

...However she was not distracted enough to ignore that creeping hand that was slipping over her backside.

The sound of a slap wrung out through the air as she flushed red and hit him over the head for his peeping hand. She got up and began to walk away, almost stomping in anger.

"Someone should really amputate that cursed hand of his..." She muttered to herself but found herself turning red in memory, "Why does Houshi-sama always go for me..?!"

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A/N: All right, how was that? I know this is moving slow but at least I'm still working on it! Stay tuned for the next part which I'll hopefully be working on after I finish my other in-progress fic (which has about two chapters left). After I've finally finished that one, I'll be working on some of my older ones, including Attempted Fouls. Like I said, STAY TUNED!

And also, thankies to all those brave enough to R & R! You are all so very special to me! You have my gratitude!

--Chibi ending transmission.