InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Bits and Pieces ❯ Identity Theft ( Chapter 5 )

AN: As you can see, I've been running out of ideas… the last one wasn't really funny, nor the one before that…Ah! It's starting to fall down by the way side! Well, I'm hoping that this one will be an improvement!

 

Disclaimer: Inuyasha is in no way, shape form or dimension, mine in any sense of the word. (I have a feeling I've said that before, in that exact wording, before somewhere… Oh, the unoriginality of it!)

 

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Bits And Pieces

 

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Number Five: Identity Theft

 

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"-and you're not gonna stop me!" Kagome said fiercely. "I'm going home!" She stomped into the forest, anger burning in her brown gaze and flushing her cheeks.

 

"Good!" Inuyasha shouted after her. "See if I care!" He snorted and looked down at his feet, arms crossed stubbornly across his chest. Miroku and Sango shook their respective heads in despair. "That fool…" Inuyasha grumbled to himself.

 

"Inuyasha…" Miroku said after a moment's pause. "What happened this time?" He looked at the half-demon with thinly veiled exasperation, Sango's expression matching his own.

 

"None of your business, monk!" Inuyasha growled sharply, his bad mood clearly apparent. Shippo peered at the dog demon from Miroku's shoulder, a plan slowly forming itself in his mind. He leaped off the purple-eyed man's shoulder and scurried off into the forest.

 

"It looks as if we'll be spending a while in Kaede's village," Sango murmured to her companion. Miroku nodded in agreement and headed back in the direction of the village, Sango following closely behind after sending the pouting Inuyasha a final exasperated glance.

 

White ears twitched on Inuyasha's head as he made sure no one was still around. Good. He headed down to the well, sending furtive glances over his shoulder as he went. He jumped in surprise as Shippo popped out of the bushes in front of him, a handful of flowers in his small grasp. "Girls melt over flowers." He wisely advised the half demon, holding out his weedy bouquet.

 

"So?" Inuyasha asked belligerently. "Why would I care? It's not like I'm going to go down the well and visit her." Of course not… He wasn't heading down the path to the well at that moment, shooting glances over his shoulder to make sure no one was the wiser. Of course not.

 

Shippo looked slightly downcast as he glanced at his handful. "Well, could you go and give them to her for me?" He asked hopefully. "You can say that they're from me, not you." He suggested, holding his flowers up to the irate Inuyasha. He backed away, hands out in front of him.

 

"No way! I don't care about your flowers." Inuyasha shook his head fervently. "I'm not going back there!" He headed back down the path deliberately, away from his original destination.

 

"Fine!" Shippo yelled at his retreating back. "Be mean!" Inuyasha snorted as he walked away. Shippo sat down on the ground with a sigh. Well, there went one plan…

 

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Whenever Kagome was gone, the well was like a magnet for Inuyasha. He kept wandering over towards it, then he'd change his mind and abruptly change direction, a stubborn expression on his face. Miroku shook his head as Inuyasha demonstrated this interesting occurrence for the seventh time in ten minutes. It almost looked as if he'd developed some sort of twitch.

 

Casually, Miroku walked away, leaving Inuyasha alone in the clearing. As soon as the half demon assumed that Miroku was out of sight he headed towards the well. The purple-eyed monk shook his head. Typical Inuyasha behavior. He smiled ruefully and headed back to the village.

 

Inuyasha crept down the path to the well, keeping an eye out for anyone he knew, be it Kirara or Kaede. He seemed to be in luck today. No one was watching. He stopped abruptly at the clearing and stared with surprise. "Kagome?" He asked.

 

She nodded and smiled. "Hi, Inuyasha." She sat at the lip of the well and looked slightly embarrassed. "I came back to… apologize." She admitted. Inuyasha stared at her incredulously and moved to sit down next to her. "It's just… I couldn't stay away from you." She said softly, staring hard at the ground and a small smile breaking out on her face.

 

"Kagome…?" The half-demon asked uncertainly. She looked up at him, brown eyes bright and nervous. She fingered the lip of the well tightly, her entire body tense as she spoke.

 

"I love you." She said simply, a grin breaking out on her face. Inuyasha stared at her in shock. He hadn't been expecting that… The grass waved gently around the well, the sun breaking through the trees to light the small meadow in a soft golden light.

 

"I…" He began softly, an arm tentatively making it's way around her shoulders. Kagome didn't move an inch.

"I..." He stopped abruptly and stared, then frowned angrily.

 

Since when had Kagome had a puffy orange tail coming out of her skirt?

 

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Back at the village, Miroku reclined under the shade of a tree, the rough bark pressing into his back. What a perfect, calm day… The sky was a beautiful, intense, blue, soft white clouds blowing across it and partially shadowing the warm golden rays of sun. A hawk circled lazily in the sky, a small black dot high in the air. Miroku sat up suddenly, startled, as an outraged shout echoed across the forest, startling drowsy birds from their perches in a fluttering brown cloud, twittering madly.

 

"SHIPPO! YOU'RE DEAD!"