InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Dashed Hopes ❯ Home Again ( Chapter 19 )
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By: Fay-of-Faerie 
Is Naraku really gone? Is Kagome really dead? And who's home do I mean in the title? Sorry, can't give much of a summary without giving away the chapter...
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure / Drama / Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 08.16.2004 | Pages: 7 | Words: 3.6K | Visits: 668 | Status: Completed
Is Naraku really gone? Is Kagome really dead? And who's home do I mean in the title? Sorry, can't give much of a summary without giving away the chapter...
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure / Drama / Romance | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 08.16.2004 | Pages: 7 | Words: 3.6K | Visits: 668 | Status: Completed
I think I should get on with the story before someone decides to hurt me... ::looks pleading:: Don’t you guys trust me? ::looks over to see Catty and Ev discreetly shaking their heads:: Darn.
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Disclaimer: I swear on the grave of my late guinea pig, Snow White, that I do not own Inuyasha.
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Dashed Hopes
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--- Last Chapter ---
The cry still echoed in Inu’s ears, the death cry of a dying man. One so sadly sung out that any that heard it would be forever marked by the notes of death.
And Naraku, the cause of all of Kagome’s pain, was no more.
--- End of Last Chapter ---
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Chapter 19: Home Again
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Time came crashing back to its normal speed. The chilly Fall breeze swept charcoal hair around Inu’s young face as he stared with open horror, and slight curiosity, at where Naraku had just disappeared.
The flashing red lights could barely make an impression so high up but the wailing of the sirens brought him back to reality.
A rather happy smirk flitted across his face.
But something was wrong and a scowl replaced his slight look of triumph.
A rather annoying, painful tug in his chest insisted that not all was well. Glancing around, mind still on victory, his gaze landed on the solitary pink jewel behind him on the gravel.
Suddenly his eyes widened in realization.
‘Kagome.’
“Kagome!”
“KAGOME!”
Inuyasha openly shouted at the cloudy, dark heavens, his head thrown back as he screamed his lungs out.
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“YO! Inu no baka?” A rather irritated voice broke through his ranting.
Inu blinked. He must seriously be losing it. He could swear he’d just heard Kagome.
Getting no response, the person tried again. “INUYASHA, YOU JACKASS! HELP ME OR I SWEAR TO RAMAN THAT I WILL SMACK YOU UPSIDE THE HEAD!”
‘Raman?’ Inu thought mildly, lifting an eyebrow.
Cautiously he made his way over to the ledge and peered downward, trying to keep a good head on his shoulders at the dizzying sight.
“Inuyasha?!” The young woman cried frantically looking up at him.
Kagome stood, a good five feet down from the edge, her toes barely steadying herself on an inch wide ledge and her fingers grasping a few cracks in the building. Her knuckles were white, and she was shaking badly.
“Bitch! You had me scared! Wait- never mind. I don’t get scared, I just got kind of worried...” Inuyasha scowled down at his friend whom he thought had just plummeted to a rather bloody death.
Reaching down her gently clasped one hand around her wrist and yanked her up.
Kagome stood pale and panting in front of him as he eyed her up and down to make sure she was unharmed.
Her azure gaze left the gravel and it lifted up to his lavender one. It was...
...Odd, to say the least. It felt as if his entire stomach was filled with desperately struggling butterflies when they looked into each other’s gaze.
His experience of a new, weird emotion was short lived however.
Kagome drew back a hand and slapped him sharply across the face.
“Shit, woman! I just saved your sorry ass, why’d you hit me?”
Kagome scrunched up her nose to keep from yelling at the wide-eyed man. “You idiot! Took you long enough to get me up! I could have- would have...” she trailed off and began to worry her lip.
Inuyasha shoved the urge to go ‘eep’ at her new attitude deep down inside. He also pushed aside the want to start yelling at her for making him think she was gone.
“Uh...Kagome?”
“What?” she snapped.
Grumbling something about her being emotionally unstable again he took off his brown jacket and draped it over her slim form.
“You’re shivering.”
Kagome eyed the jacket, then him, then the jacket again. And then she did something that made Inu want to run as far away as possible.
She cried again.
Only not about watching her high ex go plummeting off a building or said ex nearly causing her to have the same experience, which would both be perfectly acceptable, but about...
...Being rude and mean to him.
Mentally slamming his head against a nice sturdy wall, Inu gently pulled the sobbing Kagome into his just as sturdy arms and tried to make soothing statements and movements.
The key word here being ‘tried’.
Inuyasha basically lost his sanity to nervousness and uncomfortable-ism when near a crying woman.
Kagome melted into the hug still mumbling about trying to be nicer.
Inu patted her gently on the head.
“Shhh, Kag, its alright. I might have deserved it,” he whispered to her raven head.
Kagome snorted. “‘Might’? You definitely deserved it!” her face appeared and she gently whipped the tears away.
Keeping a comforting and strong arm around her slim shoulder, he guided her to the roof’s door.
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Several bulletproof cops burst through the door just as the subdued couple was reaching it.
They pointed their black handguns and large riffles in random directions at random things trying to look threatening.
As though his life depended on it, a young cop slunk over to the jewel, looking everywhere as though expecting something, like a baboon, would jump out and attack. Using a gloved hand, he slipped the item into a thin manila folder.
The two promptly ignored this and headed for the exit, Kagome leaning into Inu’s arm, not trusting her legs to hold.
An aging detective, mouth set in a grim line, clambered ahead of them, leading the way down.
Kagome looked downwards with an odd expression on her face.
The clomping of their booted feet rung in her ears as she ignored the cop’s ‘you have a lot of explaining to do’ and ‘this will take quite awhile to clear up’.
They crawled through the slim door at the base of the stairs and set out into the chilly night towards one of the loud cars.
“Here,” the detective commanded roughly as he prepared to duck Kagome into the back seat like he would a criminal.
“I’ll do it,” Inuyasha snarled at the huffy cop and gently handed Kagome into the back before climbing in behind her.
Outside, just within her eyesight, Kagome eyed a lump on the cold concrete as the car drove past.
A lumpy looking lump of white clothe...
...Speckled with blood and other disturbing liquids.
“Naraku,” Kagome breathed.
Swinging his head up, the charcoal haired man swung his lavender gaze from Kagome to what she had her sights on.
“Kagome...
...Just....
...Don’t look at it.”
He tugged her head downwards and into his shoulder. Keeping his own eyes off the horrifying scene, Inu watched the passing scenery as they drew closer to the station.
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The man glanced warily at his female companion that sat next to him.
Scrunching his nose up, Inu eyed Kagome’s serious profile.
Her eyes were empty and calculating as she watched the air in front of her and her lips thinned in an identifiable frown.
His lavender gaze switched back to in front of him as he decided not to interrupt her thoughts.
She could be, after all, making a life altering decision at that very moment. She looked serious enough for it.
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Kagome starred intently at the vending machine just a few feet away from her.
‘I wonder if they have diet coke caffeine free?’
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With no more Naraku, there wasn’t any threat back in Kyoto, which meant there were no more ties keeping Kagome in Tokyo.
Except for her friendship with the three people. But she had her family and old friends back home.
Inu felt like slamming an angry fist into the nearby wall to get rid of his frustration.
Kagome would leave them, he just knew it.
Without Kagome...
...He’d be...
...A third wheel. No matter how thickheaded people took him for, he wasn’t all that much. He had noticed the increasing closeness of his two best friends. They were a lot closer.
Inuyasha snorted and the on duty cop eyed him strangely.
Cheeks reddening in embarrassment, he turned his head away from the inquisitive glare to continue his thoughts.
‘Took those two long enough. Idiots, didn’t even realize the other was insane over them...
...I hate it when an answer is right in front of a person and they don’t even notice. If I was ever falling for someone and they me, I’d pick it up in an instant...’
Kagome had told him once, not too long ago, that she never talked to anyone about Naraku.
But that had been a lie.
She’d talked to him, several times.
It was their only real connection. The whole him listening while she ranted about Naraku thing was the closest they had to common interest.
Sango had had an instant connection to Kagome. They both needed female companionship and they understood one another well enough.
Even Miroku had been closer to Kagome then him. Probably something to do with his ‘natural’ women sense...
Without Naraku, would he and Kagome have nothing left to talk about? They had, however, been through the night’s experience together, maybe that'd get them to be better friends.
Inuyasha leaned back.
It was taking the damn detective long enough! Inu didn’t see why they needed to be questioned, but the old man had argued and Kag had half- heartily agreed.
Waiting was a real pain...
Kagome’s hand crept out from under the fold of the brown cloth of his jacket that she was still wearing. It limply grasped his and Inu gave a reassuring squeeze.
Maybe this wait wouldn’t be too bad...?
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“I have come to a decision,” the old detective, now dubbed ‘The Billy Goat’, told the two in front of him while steepling his fingers.
Inuyasha snorted, “Took you long en- OW! Kagome!” Kagome had swiftly elbowed him to keep him silent.
Looks like it worked.
“Yes,” she asked quietly.
“With your eyewitness account, and a few eagle-eyed pedestrians ::snort:: on the street below, it has been determined that Naraku was at the ledge alone.”
“A~nd?” Inuyasha drawled dryly.
“And, we can’t arrest you for suspicion of the murder of Naraku. Even if you had shoved him, I doubt you, Mr. Youkai, could have gotten into a lot of trouble. For one, he was a murderer, for another he was a thief.”
“What does that have to do with getting me off?”
“Nothing really, but when Naraku shoved Ms. Higurashi off the ledge, you attacking him would have been in *her* self defense.” The Billy Goat humored the bored ebony locked man.
“Good, can we go now?” Inu whined.
Kagome glared out of the corner of her eye. ‘He sure can sound like a child!’
“Yes, but I want to keep contact with you, Ms. Higurashi, for further questioning.”
Kagome nodded before pulling Inuyasha off his lazy ass and dragged him to the door of the creepy questioning room.
“Good bye Detective-,” here she cracked a small grim grin, “-Yagi!” and gave a little wave.
“His last name (A/N: Which would be the ‘Yagi’) meant goat?”
“Don’t you ever pay attention, Inuyasha? It said so right on his tags!” Kagome scolded.
“Oh, well, it works for him,” Inu gave a boyish smirk.
Rolling her eyes Kag dragged the chuckling Inuyasha to the front of the station.
“KAGOME!”
Said young woman turned to her left just in time to watch as Sango finished her screech, shrug off Miroku’s arm (which was wrapped around her shoulders), and come racing over to her.
“Sango?!”
The magenta-eyed woman swept the younger female in a bear hug and continued to worry over the ‘poor dear’.
Miroku came over and crushed Kagome into another backbreaking hug. “She was worried.”
“So were you,” Sango snarled. Miroku simply smirked at her and her scowl turned into a small smile.
‘Ah, young love,’ Kagome mentally cooed at the couple starring deeply into each other’s eyes.
“How, in all the hells, did you figure to find us here?” Inuyasha demanded, always the blunt one.
Sango jumped guiltily and pried her gaze off of violet. “Some woman called and told us we might want to hurry here...” she trailed off and shrugged.
“A woman...?” Kagome raised an eyebrow as her own question trailed off.
“I bet it was that scarlet eyed woman.” Inuyasha put in helpfully.
“‘A scarlet-eyed woman’, Inuyasha?”
Inuyasha scowled at Miroku’s perverted grin.
“Oh! Scarlet?! I bet it was Kagura! I really owe her...” Kagome looked sheepishly at the ever so interesting carpet. “It took me awhile, but I finally figured it out. Kagura called me the night of the –incident- and tried to warn me to stay away. I kinda,” gulp, “Didn’t listen.”
“Really? Never could tell,” Inu stated dryly.
Kagome glowered at him before yawning hugely behind a hand. Sneaking a sly glance around she told them, “I’m gone. Need sleep.”
“Hn.” Inuyasha agreed. “You look like shit. Large black bags under your eyes and- oof!”
Out of nowhere a large black handbag was slammed into his gut.
Looking around quickly, Inuyasha eyed the huffy Kagome...
...Who was currently handing something big and dark back to a nearby woman.
The blue eyed woman then stormed out of the station, a giggling Sango and chuckling Miroku on her heels.
“What’d I say?” Inu wondered as he followed, slowly, behind.
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“Um...?” Kagome asked gently from the backseat of Miroku’s car.
“Yeah?” Sango, who sat next to her, looked at her friend.
“Did Kagura say anything...about what would happen to her...?” Kagome asked gently as she looked back out the window.
Miroku frowned slightly. “Before hanging up, she mentioned something about Mexico...”
Kag turned wide eyes at the other three passengers. “Mexico,” she echoed.
Inu turned around from the front seat and Miroku eyed her in the rearview mirror. “Don’t worry, I’m sure she’ll be fine, Kagome,” Sango soothed.
Kagome snorted. “Why Mexico? Sure, nice weather, but I’d go to France or some other European country.”
Inu openly gaped at the young blue-eyed female. “Kagome? You’ve actually thought about where you’d go if you were on the run from the cops?”
Kagome shifted a little under his lavender gaze. “Heh heh. It came up, once...or twice.”
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“OH, OH!”
“Yes, Souta?” Inuyasha smirked.
Kagome could tell the ‘men folk’ were really enjoying this.
Really, really, really enjoying this.
“Was there whistling while he was falling-?!”
“-And did he go splat when he hit the street?” Shippou quickly added.
Inuyasha chuckled darkly.
“More like a ‘squish’ sound.”
Kagome groaned. She felt a headache coming.
Bring on the aspirin.
Standing up, she padded out of the dining room and away from the special effect sounds of her ex’s death.
“Um...Kagome?”
Souta’s softened voice stopped her and she glanced over her shoulder. “Mm?”
“Is he really gone?”
“Yeah, Souta, he’s really gone.”
And with that, the black haired boy’s sister was gone.
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The dull ding of chopsticks connecting with porcelain bowls rang through the kitchen the next afternoon.
The day had been pretty boring.
Kagome and Inuyasha had slept in from exhaustion and Sesshoumaru had gone to the company to aid the swarms of detectives and cops with their investigation.
Sango and Miroku, along with Kohaku, had come by to keep everything under control.
Now everyone, including the prideful Miko, was sitting down to an uncomfortably silent dinner.
Kagome shifted on her stool for the umpteenth time, which caused the two males eating beside her, Inu and Souta, to eye her warily.
Kag had been quiet since she woke up and starring off into space, like she was in deep thought.
That scared everyone.
Gently clearing her throat again, the blue eyed woman glanced around at the others at the table.
“Okaa-san?”
“Yeah Shippou?”
“You’re not eating your oden, can I have it?” the redheaded child asked innocently.
Not eating her oden also scared everyone.
“Sure...I guess...”
Flashing an extremely cute grin the boy dug in, spraying bits and pieces of the food all over his face.
“Er...Kagome?”
“Yes Souta?”
“Can I have your rice cakes?”
“Go...ahead...”
By this time the female had her head propped up on a hand and was watching the air with interest.
“Kagome-?”
“Yes, Miroku, you can have my sake.”
“Thanks!”
“Uh huh...any time...”
“Ms...Higurashi, may I be granted the permission to have-?”
“THAT’S IT!”
Startled, eight pairs of eyes turned to the young ebony haired man.
“What is she? A buffet table?” Inuyasha growled.
“A table? Not with that figure...” Miroku grumbled under his breath and Sango elbowed him.
“Inuyasha? You can have my rice pudding if you want,” Kagome told him.
“...Feh...”
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Worrying her lip, Kagome glanced at the chatting people in the living room.
“Um...guys?”
Her quiet voice, surprisingly, grabbed everyone’s attention.
“I...kinda...was thinking...” She turned to glance wistfully out the window at the twilight.
“Yes?” Sango prodded, eyebrow arched.
But one person wasn’t watching Kagome.
His lavender gaze was glaring at his fists in his laps.
It was coming...
...Inuyasha knew what to expect.
Kagome was going to say those three words, and then disappear forever, and life would go back to normal.
As normal as it could get excluding a great secretary, best friend, mother figure, and grade-A arguer.
And...
...Inuyasha...
...Was right.
“I’m going home.”
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OMG! CATTY! I owe you so much! HAHA! I’m sorry for all the mean things I tell you all the time (well...at least *most* of them -_-*)! YOU WERE THE 100th REVIEWER! You freaking were WAITING to do it too! You tricky little vixen! You’ve been reading these damn chapters before anyone else (BEFORE they’re proofread, you others) and this is the FIRST time you reviewed! But I luv you anyway! Jeeze, just like one of my best friends to be the one to do it! ::is currently freaking out while Catty and Dia try to frantically calm her down::
AND THE THREATENING TO HURT ME! You jerk! You should have trusted me not to shove kag-chan off the building and not survive! ::smacks Catty then realizes other people are reading this:: Anywho-
Well? Did I keep everyone happy? No more Naraku, Kagome’s still alive, Inuyasha was a hero, and Miroku and Sango are starting to become a couple. The story will end with 22 chapters, and there IS a sequal.
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Disclaimer: I swear on the grave of my late guinea pig, Snow White, that I do not own Inuyasha.
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Dashed Hopes
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--- Last Chapter ---
The cry still echoed in Inu’s ears, the death cry of a dying man. One so sadly sung out that any that heard it would be forever marked by the notes of death.
And Naraku, the cause of all of Kagome’s pain, was no more.
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Chapter 19: Home Again
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Time came crashing back to its normal speed. The chilly Fall breeze swept charcoal hair around Inu’s young face as he stared with open horror, and slight curiosity, at where Naraku had just disappeared.
The flashing red lights could barely make an impression so high up but the wailing of the sirens brought him back to reality.
A rather happy smirk flitted across his face.
But something was wrong and a scowl replaced his slight look of triumph.
A rather annoying, painful tug in his chest insisted that not all was well. Glancing around, mind still on victory, his gaze landed on the solitary pink jewel behind him on the gravel.
Suddenly his eyes widened in realization.
‘Kagome.’
“Kagome!”
“KAGOME!”
Inuyasha openly shouted at the cloudy, dark heavens, his head thrown back as he screamed his lungs out.
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“YO! Inu no baka?” A rather irritated voice broke through his ranting.
Inu blinked. He must seriously be losing it. He could swear he’d just heard Kagome.
Getting no response, the person tried again. “INUYASHA, YOU JACKASS! HELP ME OR I SWEAR TO RAMAN THAT I WILL SMACK YOU UPSIDE THE HEAD!”
‘Raman?’ Inu thought mildly, lifting an eyebrow.
Cautiously he made his way over to the ledge and peered downward, trying to keep a good head on his shoulders at the dizzying sight.
“Inuyasha?!” The young woman cried frantically looking up at him.
Kagome stood, a good five feet down from the edge, her toes barely steadying herself on an inch wide ledge and her fingers grasping a few cracks in the building. Her knuckles were white, and she was shaking badly.
“Bitch! You had me scared! Wait- never mind. I don’t get scared, I just got kind of worried...” Inuyasha scowled down at his friend whom he thought had just plummeted to a rather bloody death.
Reaching down her gently clasped one hand around her wrist and yanked her up.
Kagome stood pale and panting in front of him as he eyed her up and down to make sure she was unharmed.
Her azure gaze left the gravel and it lifted up to his lavender one. It was...
...Odd, to say the least. It felt as if his entire stomach was filled with desperately struggling butterflies when they looked into each other’s gaze.
His experience of a new, weird emotion was short lived however.
Kagome drew back a hand and slapped him sharply across the face.
“Shit, woman! I just saved your sorry ass, why’d you hit me?”
Kagome scrunched up her nose to keep from yelling at the wide-eyed man. “You idiot! Took you long enough to get me up! I could have- would have...” she trailed off and began to worry her lip.
Inuyasha shoved the urge to go ‘eep’ at her new attitude deep down inside. He also pushed aside the want to start yelling at her for making him think she was gone.
“Uh...Kagome?”
“What?” she snapped.
Grumbling something about her being emotionally unstable again he took off his brown jacket and draped it over her slim form.
“You’re shivering.”
Kagome eyed the jacket, then him, then the jacket again. And then she did something that made Inu want to run as far away as possible.
She cried again.
Only not about watching her high ex go plummeting off a building or said ex nearly causing her to have the same experience, which would both be perfectly acceptable, but about...
...Being rude and mean to him.
Mentally slamming his head against a nice sturdy wall, Inu gently pulled the sobbing Kagome into his just as sturdy arms and tried to make soothing statements and movements.
The key word here being ‘tried’.
Inuyasha basically lost his sanity to nervousness and uncomfortable-ism when near a crying woman.
Kagome melted into the hug still mumbling about trying to be nicer.
Inu patted her gently on the head.
“Shhh, Kag, its alright. I might have deserved it,” he whispered to her raven head.
Kagome snorted. “‘Might’? You definitely deserved it!” her face appeared and she gently whipped the tears away.
Keeping a comforting and strong arm around her slim shoulder, he guided her to the roof’s door.
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Several bulletproof cops burst through the door just as the subdued couple was reaching it.
They pointed their black handguns and large riffles in random directions at random things trying to look threatening.
As though his life depended on it, a young cop slunk over to the jewel, looking everywhere as though expecting something, like a baboon, would jump out and attack. Using a gloved hand, he slipped the item into a thin manila folder.
The two promptly ignored this and headed for the exit, Kagome leaning into Inu’s arm, not trusting her legs to hold.
An aging detective, mouth set in a grim line, clambered ahead of them, leading the way down.
Kagome looked downwards with an odd expression on her face.
The clomping of their booted feet rung in her ears as she ignored the cop’s ‘you have a lot of explaining to do’ and ‘this will take quite awhile to clear up’.
They crawled through the slim door at the base of the stairs and set out into the chilly night towards one of the loud cars.
“Here,” the detective commanded roughly as he prepared to duck Kagome into the back seat like he would a criminal.
“I’ll do it,” Inuyasha snarled at the huffy cop and gently handed Kagome into the back before climbing in behind her.
Outside, just within her eyesight, Kagome eyed a lump on the cold concrete as the car drove past.
A lumpy looking lump of white clothe...
...Speckled with blood and other disturbing liquids.
“Naraku,” Kagome breathed.
Swinging his head up, the charcoal haired man swung his lavender gaze from Kagome to what she had her sights on.
“Kagome...
...Just....
...Don’t look at it.”
He tugged her head downwards and into his shoulder. Keeping his own eyes off the horrifying scene, Inu watched the passing scenery as they drew closer to the station.
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The man glanced warily at his female companion that sat next to him.
Scrunching his nose up, Inu eyed Kagome’s serious profile.
Her eyes were empty and calculating as she watched the air in front of her and her lips thinned in an identifiable frown.
His lavender gaze switched back to in front of him as he decided not to interrupt her thoughts.
She could be, after all, making a life altering decision at that very moment. She looked serious enough for it.
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Kagome starred intently at the vending machine just a few feet away from her.
‘I wonder if they have diet coke caffeine free?’
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With no more Naraku, there wasn’t any threat back in Kyoto, which meant there were no more ties keeping Kagome in Tokyo.
Except for her friendship with the three people. But she had her family and old friends back home.
Inu felt like slamming an angry fist into the nearby wall to get rid of his frustration.
Kagome would leave them, he just knew it.
Without Kagome...
...He’d be...
...A third wheel. No matter how thickheaded people took him for, he wasn’t all that much. He had noticed the increasing closeness of his two best friends. They were a lot closer.
Inuyasha snorted and the on duty cop eyed him strangely.
Cheeks reddening in embarrassment, he turned his head away from the inquisitive glare to continue his thoughts.
‘Took those two long enough. Idiots, didn’t even realize the other was insane over them...
...I hate it when an answer is right in front of a person and they don’t even notice. If I was ever falling for someone and they me, I’d pick it up in an instant...’
Kagome had told him once, not too long ago, that she never talked to anyone about Naraku.
But that had been a lie.
She’d talked to him, several times.
It was their only real connection. The whole him listening while she ranted about Naraku thing was the closest they had to common interest.
Sango had had an instant connection to Kagome. They both needed female companionship and they understood one another well enough.
Even Miroku had been closer to Kagome then him. Probably something to do with his ‘natural’ women sense...
Without Naraku, would he and Kagome have nothing left to talk about? They had, however, been through the night’s experience together, maybe that'd get them to be better friends.
Inuyasha leaned back.
It was taking the damn detective long enough! Inu didn’t see why they needed to be questioned, but the old man had argued and Kag had half- heartily agreed.
Waiting was a real pain...
Kagome’s hand crept out from under the fold of the brown cloth of his jacket that she was still wearing. It limply grasped his and Inu gave a reassuring squeeze.
Maybe this wait wouldn’t be too bad...?
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“I have come to a decision,” the old detective, now dubbed ‘The Billy Goat’, told the two in front of him while steepling his fingers.
Inuyasha snorted, “Took you long en- OW! Kagome!” Kagome had swiftly elbowed him to keep him silent.
Looks like it worked.
“Yes,” she asked quietly.
“With your eyewitness account, and a few eagle-eyed pedestrians ::snort:: on the street below, it has been determined that Naraku was at the ledge alone.”
“A~nd?” Inuyasha drawled dryly.
“And, we can’t arrest you for suspicion of the murder of Naraku. Even if you had shoved him, I doubt you, Mr. Youkai, could have gotten into a lot of trouble. For one, he was a murderer, for another he was a thief.”
“What does that have to do with getting me off?”
“Nothing really, but when Naraku shoved Ms. Higurashi off the ledge, you attacking him would have been in *her* self defense.” The Billy Goat humored the bored ebony locked man.
“Good, can we go now?” Inu whined.
Kagome glared out of the corner of her eye. ‘He sure can sound like a child!’
“Yes, but I want to keep contact with you, Ms. Higurashi, for further questioning.”
Kagome nodded before pulling Inuyasha off his lazy ass and dragged him to the door of the creepy questioning room.
“Good bye Detective-,” here she cracked a small grim grin, “-Yagi!” and gave a little wave.
“His last name (A/N: Which would be the ‘Yagi’) meant goat?”
“Don’t you ever pay attention, Inuyasha? It said so right on his tags!” Kagome scolded.
“Oh, well, it works for him,” Inu gave a boyish smirk.
Rolling her eyes Kag dragged the chuckling Inuyasha to the front of the station.
“KAGOME!”
Said young woman turned to her left just in time to watch as Sango finished her screech, shrug off Miroku’s arm (which was wrapped around her shoulders), and come racing over to her.
“Sango?!”
The magenta-eyed woman swept the younger female in a bear hug and continued to worry over the ‘poor dear’.
Miroku came over and crushed Kagome into another backbreaking hug. “She was worried.”
“So were you,” Sango snarled. Miroku simply smirked at her and her scowl turned into a small smile.
‘Ah, young love,’ Kagome mentally cooed at the couple starring deeply into each other’s eyes.
“How, in all the hells, did you figure to find us here?” Inuyasha demanded, always the blunt one.
Sango jumped guiltily and pried her gaze off of violet. “Some woman called and told us we might want to hurry here...” she trailed off and shrugged.
“A woman...?” Kagome raised an eyebrow as her own question trailed off.
“I bet it was that scarlet eyed woman.” Inuyasha put in helpfully.
“‘A scarlet-eyed woman’, Inuyasha?”
Inuyasha scowled at Miroku’s perverted grin.
“Oh! Scarlet?! I bet it was Kagura! I really owe her...” Kagome looked sheepishly at the ever so interesting carpet. “It took me awhile, but I finally figured it out. Kagura called me the night of the –incident- and tried to warn me to stay away. I kinda,” gulp, “Didn’t listen.”
“Really? Never could tell,” Inu stated dryly.
Kagome glowered at him before yawning hugely behind a hand. Sneaking a sly glance around she told them, “I’m gone. Need sleep.”
“Hn.” Inuyasha agreed. “You look like shit. Large black bags under your eyes and- oof!”
Out of nowhere a large black handbag was slammed into his gut.
Looking around quickly, Inuyasha eyed the huffy Kagome...
...Who was currently handing something big and dark back to a nearby woman.
The blue eyed woman then stormed out of the station, a giggling Sango and chuckling Miroku on her heels.
“What’d I say?” Inu wondered as he followed, slowly, behind.
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“Um...?” Kagome asked gently from the backseat of Miroku’s car.
“Yeah?” Sango, who sat next to her, looked at her friend.
“Did Kagura say anything...about what would happen to her...?” Kagome asked gently as she looked back out the window.
Miroku frowned slightly. “Before hanging up, she mentioned something about Mexico...”
Kag turned wide eyes at the other three passengers. “Mexico,” she echoed.
Inu turned around from the front seat and Miroku eyed her in the rearview mirror. “Don’t worry, I’m sure she’ll be fine, Kagome,” Sango soothed.
Kagome snorted. “Why Mexico? Sure, nice weather, but I’d go to France or some other European country.”
Inu openly gaped at the young blue-eyed female. “Kagome? You’ve actually thought about where you’d go if you were on the run from the cops?”
Kagome shifted a little under his lavender gaze. “Heh heh. It came up, once...or twice.”
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“OH, OH!”
“Yes, Souta?” Inuyasha smirked.
Kagome could tell the ‘men folk’ were really enjoying this.
Really, really, really enjoying this.
“Was there whistling while he was falling-?!”
“-And did he go splat when he hit the street?” Shippou quickly added.
Inuyasha chuckled darkly.
“More like a ‘squish’ sound.”
Kagome groaned. She felt a headache coming.
Bring on the aspirin.
Standing up, she padded out of the dining room and away from the special effect sounds of her ex’s death.
“Um...Kagome?”
Souta’s softened voice stopped her and she glanced over her shoulder. “Mm?”
“Is he really gone?”
“Yeah, Souta, he’s really gone.”
And with that, the black haired boy’s sister was gone.
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The dull ding of chopsticks connecting with porcelain bowls rang through the kitchen the next afternoon.
The day had been pretty boring.
Kagome and Inuyasha had slept in from exhaustion and Sesshoumaru had gone to the company to aid the swarms of detectives and cops with their investigation.
Sango and Miroku, along with Kohaku, had come by to keep everything under control.
Now everyone, including the prideful Miko, was sitting down to an uncomfortably silent dinner.
Kagome shifted on her stool for the umpteenth time, which caused the two males eating beside her, Inu and Souta, to eye her warily.
Kag had been quiet since she woke up and starring off into space, like she was in deep thought.
That scared everyone.
Gently clearing her throat again, the blue eyed woman glanced around at the others at the table.
“Okaa-san?”
“Yeah Shippou?”
“You’re not eating your oden, can I have it?” the redheaded child asked innocently.
Not eating her oden also scared everyone.
“Sure...I guess...”
Flashing an extremely cute grin the boy dug in, spraying bits and pieces of the food all over his face.
“Er...Kagome?”
“Yes Souta?”
“Can I have your rice cakes?”
“Go...ahead...”
By this time the female had her head propped up on a hand and was watching the air with interest.
“Kagome-?”
“Yes, Miroku, you can have my sake.”
“Thanks!”
“Uh huh...any time...”
“Ms...Higurashi, may I be granted the permission to have-?”
“THAT’S IT!”
Startled, eight pairs of eyes turned to the young ebony haired man.
“What is she? A buffet table?” Inuyasha growled.
“A table? Not with that figure...” Miroku grumbled under his breath and Sango elbowed him.
“Inuyasha? You can have my rice pudding if you want,” Kagome told him.
“...Feh...”
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Worrying her lip, Kagome glanced at the chatting people in the living room.
“Um...guys?”
Her quiet voice, surprisingly, grabbed everyone’s attention.
“I...kinda...was thinking...” She turned to glance wistfully out the window at the twilight.
“Yes?” Sango prodded, eyebrow arched.
But one person wasn’t watching Kagome.
His lavender gaze was glaring at his fists in his laps.
It was coming...
...Inuyasha knew what to expect.
Kagome was going to say those three words, and then disappear forever, and life would go back to normal.
As normal as it could get excluding a great secretary, best friend, mother figure, and grade-A arguer.
And...
...Inuyasha...
...Was right.
“I’m going home.”
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OMG! CATTY! I owe you so much! HAHA! I’m sorry for all the mean things I tell you all the time (well...at least *most* of them -_-*)! YOU WERE THE 100th REVIEWER! You freaking were WAITING to do it too! You tricky little vixen! You’ve been reading these damn chapters before anyone else (BEFORE they’re proofread, you others) and this is the FIRST time you reviewed! But I luv you anyway! Jeeze, just like one of my best friends to be the one to do it! ::is currently freaking out while Catty and Dia try to frantically calm her down::
AND THE THREATENING TO HURT ME! You jerk! You should have trusted me not to shove kag-chan off the building and not survive! ::smacks Catty then realizes other people are reading this:: Anywho-
Well? Did I keep everyone happy? No more Naraku, Kagome’s still alive, Inuyasha was a hero, and Miroku and Sango are starting to become a couple. The story will end with 22 chapters, and there IS a sequal.