InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Decrepit ❯ Chapter 9 ( Chapter 9 )

Title: Decrepit

 

Author: Anonymous Fangirl

Summary: Because they have no other choice.

 

Pairings: Sesshoumaru Kagome

 

Rating: Mature

 

Genre: Angst Romance.

 

Dedicated: Noacat

 

Disclaimer: I can't stop typing!

 

Etc: Now, I feel you should all know that since I got home from school on May 2, 2006, I have been typing non stop - namely, since chapter 6. So, I should let you all know that this chapter was written on 5-2-2006. That's all. My fingers are about to fall off, but here's chapter nine.

 

 

Chapter Nine

 

 

Kagome rode on Kirere's back over the grassy knolls of Japan alone. The sun was rising, and Kagome mused for a moment that Inuyasha might be normal again when dawn broke. But she knew the truth. Inuyasha was out for blood. . . her blood.

 

Miroku, Sango, and Shippo had stayed behind in the village with Kaede. They had hog tied Inuyasha in his concussion induced sleep, and locked him in an abondoned hut. They had then covered the hut with specfic wards, each guranteed to allow no one with a demonic heritage entrance. Or exit.

 

And Kagome had left, with only her bag and her best friend's fire cat, off in search of the man who had snubbed her less than a week earlier.

 

As she rode, she pondered Inuyasha's statements to pass the time. Kikyo hadn't cared about the story. . . why should she have? Kagome's anger was quickly rekindled. And for that matter, just because Kagome was Kikyo's reincarnation didn't mean that they had to share the same view points on things! In fact, in her opinion, it made it even less likely that they would agree on anything at all.

 

“Kagome!” Came a call from high above her. “Kagome!”

 

Kagome squinted her eyes and saw a rapidly approaching - shooting star? No . . . no star could call out her name. . .

 

A loud moo echoed across the quiet morning right before Kirere was plowed in to by a three eyed cow and a sword forger, Totosai.

 

Kirere twisted in midair and somehow managed to keep Kagome from falling off of her back - a feat, to be sure. A loud crash was heard, and a dust cloud formed where Totosai had so gracefully landed. “Totosai!” Kagome cried out, and urged Kirere towards the spot. Kirere growled slightly, obviously still irked from the sudden tackle she had received from the rowdy heafer, but she took Kagome down none the less.

 

Totosai was just getting up when Kagome jumped the final few feet to the ground. “Totosai!” Kagome rusehd to his side, helping him to stand up. “Are you hurt? That was a rather nasty fall you took.” She voiced her concern.

 

Totosai laughed. “That was nothing! You should have seen when she landed in a lake a few days ago!” Totosai looked thoughtful. “Thought I had seen Myoga. . . But it was just a water skipper!” He laughed.

 

Kagome felt a sweatdrop go down her back. “You're getting senile, Totosai.” She informed him as she lead him over to Kirere, and then began to dig for a water bottle out of her backpack.

 

Totosai scoffed. “Senile? I'm still the best swordsman there ever was!”

“Sword maker” Kagome informed him, hand him the water bottle she had managed to surface. “And if not senile, then. . . decrepit?”

 

“I'm as healthy as an ox!” Totosai exclaimed.

 

His cow fell over, as if to show how ill it was.

 

Kagome smiled and inspected him for wounds. “But you're not as strong as you used to be. . . I worry about you sometimes. Always flying around on that cow - playing meteor whenever you think you spot something. You were bound to grow weak sometime, Totosai. Maybe you should just take it easy.” Kagome finished her inspection with a frown. It was passable, but she still wished he would stop thinking he was invincible.

 

They were ilent for a little while. . . but the silence was easy between them. It had lasted a while. . . long enough for Totosai to start a fire and for Kagome to begin cooking on it. But, after a while, Totosai's curiosty got the better of him.

 

“Why aren't you with Inuyasha?” He asked. “A demon could come out of nowhere, and you don't even have your archery set on you. Does Inuyasha know your this far out here alone?”

 

Kagome thought about that one for a second. What should she tell him? That the son of his best friend had tried to kill her? That he was evil? That she was currently on a quest to find the brother that Totosai had always thought was the truly evil one? That she, sweet and naïve Kagome had lost her virginity and her heart to said demon?

 

“Inuyasha doesn't know where I am.” Kagome answered with a steady voice. “I'm on a quest to find something on my own, and I know Inuyasha wont be happy about it, I need to do it anyways.” A fabrication of the truth, a tiny white lie to protect the old man's heart.

 

Totosai sighed. “Poor Kagome. What if you get eaten up by a demon? Then where will Inuyasha be?”

 

With a girlfriend that has a whole soul and one helluva lot happier? “I'm sure I'll be fine.” Kagome assured him, and began to serve the Ramen. “I mean, I have Kirere with me, so I can't get in too much trouble now, can I?” She asked jokingly.

 

Totosai remained adment. “Kagome, this is a dangerous time to be out and about. Especially here in this no man's land.”

 

Kagome smiled. “I'll be fine, Totosai. I'm safe.” Much safer than I would have been if I would have stayed with Inuyasha. But she kept that thought to herself.

 

Inuyasha. . . “Totosai.” Kagome began, hoping the swordsman could give her some answers. “Inuyasha said something to me. I have been hearing this story. . . a fairytale, I guess - about a Princess named Orihime and Lord Sesshoumaru. When I asked to hear the end of it, Inuyash agot angry with me and told me that Kikyo wouldn't care about it. Why would he say something like that?”

 

Totosai shook his head. “My dear Kagome, the tragedy of Princess Orihime was no Fairy Tale, I'm afraid. . . I met her once.”

 

Kagome's brows drew together. “Tragedy? But. . . she was so happy.” She thought about it for a moment. “Wait. . . Kaede said something like that too. A sad fate.” Kagome looked at Totosai. “You said that you met her. When?”

 

Totosai shrugged. “It was a few hundred years ago. . . Lord Sesshoumaru was still very nearly a pup, and Princess Orihime must have been ten years old.” Totosai paused here. “I went to her funeral too. . . But I don't think that should count as seeing her.” Totosai shook his head. “Such a sad, sad day.”

 

Kagome grabbed Totosai's shoulders, frantic for being so close to the truth. “Why?! What happened to her!? Why does Inuyasha think that it makes a differnce whether or not I care?” Kagome shook him twice, lightly, in her dumbfounded state. “What is so damned important about Orihime?!”

 

“I wonder if you're truly ready to know.” Said a nearly transparent Sesshoumaru as he stepped seemingly out of the thin morning mists.

 

 

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