InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Brother's Keeper ❯ Can You Keep Me? ( Chapter 5 )

Brother's Keeper

 

Chapter 5

“Can You Keep Me?”

 

After having about an hour to think about what happened, Kagome put Sota on her sleeping bag so that he could sleep peacefully. “What's wrong, Kagome? Why do you look so sad?” Shippo asked. Kagome chose not to answer that question as she just walked on by. Miroku tried to break through to Kagome, but it was completely ignored. “Did you get to explain the deal?” Miroku insisted. This time, Kagome stopped, turned around, and shook her head. She then said softly, “Try not to make loud noises. He's sleeping. I'm gonna try to clear my head, so I want to be left alone for a while.” Shippo and Miroku then became depressed as well.

 

Kagome found a tranquil spot right next to a pond. She fell backwards onto the grass, and even tried to cheer herself up.

Wow! This place is so peaceful. Wait a minute! That's not why I came here! She tried to shake those thoughts out of her head. I guess I'm still shocked to find out Sota finally made it. Maybe I should cut him some slack. I'd probably be just as excited as he is right now.

 

“Kagome,” a mysterious voice said as it snapped Kagome out of her nearly hypnotized state. She sat up and turned around to see who it was, and sighed when she realized that it was just Sota. “What is it, Sota?” she asked. Sota sat down along side of Kagome.

“I just wanted to say that I'm sorry. I'm sorry for stealing the shard, for disobeying you, and for bothering you.”

“It's alright. I'm sorry for being so harsh on you earlier. It's a good you're here right now because I want to have a talk with you.” Sota had a perplexed look on his face when she said that.

“While it's too dangerous for someone as young as you to be here, I know how much you adore Inuyasha. Which is why I'm letting you stay here for the rest of the day.” Sota's face lit up with joy. He had a smile from ear-to-ear. He jumped onto Kagome, and hugged her with all his might.

“Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!” Sota said.

“But Sota, you're going back home first thing tomorrow morning,” Kagome tried to explain, but Sota didn't care. He was too happy to care.

 

Sota started skipping out of the forest in celebration as Kagome followed him. When they returned to camp, Inuyasha showed a very confused face. “What the hell are you so happy about, kid?” Inuyasha asked.

“Kagome is letting me stay with you guys!” Sota replied. Shippo jumped as high as he could in joy, as Sota ran off to play with him.

“Are you crazy? Why the hell did you let him stay?” Inuyasha demanded.

“Would you relax? It's only for the rest of the day. He's going back home first thing tomorrow,” Kagome explained.

“But that's at least another half day! Besides, with how whiny you are, he's gotta be at least ten times worse, even worse than Shippo!”

“Hey! I heard that!” Shippo screamed.

“INUYASHA, OSUWARI!” A HUGE thud followed.

 

After eating lunch, the group decides to head out and continue searching for more shards. But it wouldn't take long before problems arose.

“Kagome, my feet are killing me! Can we stop soon?” Sota whined

“Sota, we practically just left,” Kagome responded.

“So, what's your point?”

“Just shut up and try to toughen it out.”

“Have you ever thought about putting a rosary on him?” Inuyasha retorted. Kagome gave him the `evil eye.' Suddenly a figure was seen out in the distance. “Is that Sango up there?” Kagome asked. Everyone stopped to lift their heads and squint their eyes. “It is Sango!” Miroku exclaimed. “Hey! Sango! Down here!” Kirara then came down for a landing in front of them. “Hi, everyone! It's nice to see you all again,” she said. She then notices Sota standing in the back. “Who's the new guy back there?”

“That's my little brother, Sota,” Kagome answered.

“It's a pleasure to meet you, Sota”

“The pleasure is all mine,” Sota said

“How old are you?”

“I'm eight years old”

“Wow! You know, you're more polite than people I know who are three times you're age,” she said as she gave the `evil eye' to Miroku. Everyone else could do nothing else but laugh.

 

“Well, why don't we all hop on Kirara and…” Sango was interrupted as a huge demon came up from behind her and surprised everyone, except Inuyasha, of course. Sota looked up with the biggest scared look on his face. Now I know why Kagome never wanted my to come here.

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