InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Deep within lies the truth ❯ We're made of stars ( Chapter 2 )

For the first time in Kagome's life, Inu-yasha was the first one to fall asleep. His grip loosened on her waist and his breathing became deep and even as his eye closed. His ears twitched lightly, picking up the soft sounds of the forest as his hands slipped off Kagome.

Kagome smiled and stood up softly, not wanting to wake him up and walked towards the village. He'd be fine where he was, and he just looked too cute to wake up, anyway.

She turned slightly and blew a kiss at her sleeping hanyou before walking the path to the village, humming a tune she didn't even know. She felt lighter than air, lighter than the lightest air imaginable, she felt like she was floating, like her life was perfect.

Birds sang happily in the trees around her, as if they too understood her mood and were singing just for her. The sun was high and the no clouds plagued the Feudal Era's sky. She jumped over a log in the middle of the road with the grace of a demon and continued her humming, the bids adding a soft melody in the background.

Entering the hut she was bombarded by a little kitsune. She hugged the child softly before setting him down and patting his head, "Hello, Shippou!"

Shippou smiled, "Hi Kagome!" Shippou paused and sniffed Kagome, "Why is Inu- yasha all over you?"

Kagome blushed softly and giggled, "It's nothing important, Shippou-Chan."

Shippou pouted, sighed and nodded before perking up again, "Can I have some chocolate?"

Kagome laughed and dug around in her pack, moving around endless contents as she searched for the treat Shippou had requested. Pulling out the sweet she gave Shippou a look and giggled. "What do you say, Shippou-Chan?"

Shippou sulked and Kagome waved the chocolate in his face, making noises of approval as she examined the wrapper of the sweet, almost like she was the one going to eat it.

Finally Shippou had to give into temptation, "May I PLEASE have the chocolate, Kagome?"

Kagome smiled, "Oh course Shippou-Chan."

She tossed the chocolate to him and turned to leave, "I'll be going now."

"Were are you going, Kagome-Chan?" Shippou asked, blinking up at Kagome.

"I just want to go for a walk," Kagome waved, "I'll be back later, enjoy the chocolate Shippou-Chan!"

"Bye Kagome!"

***

Inu-yasha awoke suddenly and reached out for Kagome only to discover she was gone. Snapping open his eyes he searched around blindly for her. She was nowhere, panicking he smelt the air for her scent, it was heading towards the village.

Standing up and running for all he was worth he tripped over a log in the middle of the path, causing birds to fly away in fright. Growling he picked up the log and tossed it aside like it was a twig and continued his search for his future mate.

Jumping over the trees he descended and landed perfectly in front of the hut, taking a huge intake of breath, Kagome's sweet scent lingered in the air and he ran after it.

Kagome was walking a little ways down the road and was soon scooped up into someone's clawed arms, she let out an 'eep' of surprise as she was launched into the air and over the tree lines, like those carnival rides that bring you to the top of the tower then release you to go freefalling. Yeah.

She felt a weird feeling in the pit of her stomach as Inu-yasha touched down; she turned around to look at him, "Inu-yasha?"

"Don't do that ever again!" Inu-yasha snapped, his eyes pained, "I didn't know where you went, I was so scared."

Kagome smiled softly, when she'd heard his snapping at her, she was afraid that he'd converted back to his old self, but she could tell that normally inu-yasha wouldn't have said that.

"I'm sorry, Inu-yasha, you were so cute sleeping like that, though," Kagome giggled and tweaked his ear.

Inu-yasha's eyes softened and he sighed, leaning into her touch, "Yeah whatever."

Kagome giggled and rested her head on his shoulder as he set her down, hugging her to him. Villagers passing by chuckled about young love before continuing on their way.

Kagome seemed oblivious to what the villagers were saying, but Inu-yasha heard it bright as day and was blushing at the thought. He was still a little shaken at the possibility that Kagome had jumped down the well or something without his consent.

He hugged her tighter to him and kissed the top of her head before nuzzling his head to hers, "Never do that again?"

Kagome shivered at the nuzzling and nodded, "I promise."

Inu-yasha smirked, "Good."

***

Inu-yasha carried Kagome to the god tree a few hours later, after they'd eaten in the hut and Inu-yasha had more ramen prepared by Kaede. He held Kagome gingerly in a bridal-style hold and her arms were wrapped around his neck. He smiled softly down at her whom she readily returned with her own sweet smile that sent his heart melting.

Sitting at the base of the god tree, they stared off into space. The tree was in a clearing after all, and the soft grass growing around it swayed in the evening breeze. Kagome giggled as inu-yasha waved a piece in front of her face, tickling her nose with it.

She leaned into his warm chest and he leaned into the god tree. Her hands fiddled with three strands of grass, tying them into a small braid only big enough to fit around a wrist. Turning in his hold around her, Kagome took his right hand and tied the grass bracelet to him. He blinked in confusion as he looked at the bracelet.

He smiled gently as Kagome intertwined her fingers with him, his thumb lightly brushing over the smooth skin of her hand. Her hand was so tiny. Smooth, and delicate compared to his large and rough hands.

Kagome seemed to notice as well because she brought her other hand and closed his in-between her own. He leaned down and rested his head on her shoulder, staring at her profile. She examined his hand for a while before releasing it rather reluctantly and sighed.

Standing up, Kagome dusted off bits of grass off her skirt and turned to look at Inu-yasha. She gasped as he knocked her legs out from underneath her and she fell onto the ground staring up at him.

He sighed and rested his head on her stomach, "Where you going?"

"Well, it was getting late, I wanted to go back to the hut," Kagome said, her voice quivering from his closeness.

"Stay out here with me," he whispered, as he nuzzled her chest with the side of his head, making Kagome gasp and quiver at the sensations. He looked up at her with seemingly innocent eyes and she smiled, sitting up against the tree and allowing Inu-yasha to lean his head into her lap.

She stared up at the sky and watched as one by one the stars of the night appeared, forming constellations that were so hard to make out with all the stars she normally would never see.

Inu-yasha looked up as well, watching the stars with little interest. Kagome, however, had always been fascinated with space and her eyes widened in wonder.

Inu-yasha looked up at her, loving the way the stars reflected in her eyes, causing them to look rounder and more innocent than ever before. He loved Kagome's innocence; it was so sweet, especially at times like these.

"Aren't they amazing?" Kagome whispered.

Inu-yasha gazed at the stars again, surrounding the crescent moon, making the whole sky light up, "I don't know..."

"We barely never see this many in my time," she whispered in awe.

"What's so great about the fireflies in the sky?" Inu-yasha asked, genuinely confused as Kagome giggled at his naïveté of the things around him.

"They aren't fireflies, Inu-yasha," Kagome whispered, leaning down and kissing his nose playfully as he growled weakly, "They're stars."

"Stars?" Inu-yasha looked up at her again, still loving the stars reflecting in her blue pools, "Like those weird five pointed things on that one shirt you wore once?"

"Well, no, those are called stars, too. A long time ago, people thought that's what they looked like, but then they discovered that the stars are like the sun."

"The sun?" Inu-yasha asked, his ears twitching curiously.

"Yes, the sun is really a star."

"So...the stars are suns and the sun is a star?" Inu-yasha asked.

Kagome had to resist the urge to crack up at his confused face, one eyebrow raised and his hears turned towards her, perked up to full alert.

"No, silly." Kagome paused, realizing how much she was confusing the hanyou. "The sun and stars are the same. They're big balls of gas and fire burning billions and billions of light-years away."

"Light years?" Inu-yasha asked, this whole lecture on stars confusing him.

"How far light can travel in one year, Inu-Chan. Light can travel really fast. Remember my flashlight?" Inu-yasha nodded. "Well, if I were to shine that light all the way around the world without it being intercepted, it would take fourteen seconds to get back to me."

Inu-yasha's eyes were wide with curiosity and Kagome chuckled again. "How big is the world Kagome?"

Kagome kissed his forehead and then his nose again, his eyes closed in contentment as Kagome thought about his question. "It's a lot bigger than here, Inu-Chan, its over one hundred times bigger."

Inu-yasha's eyes were wider now.

"And it only takes fourteen of these seconds," Inu-yasha blinked, "For it to go around the world?"

"Fourteen seconds is this long. From now," Kagome said and then fell silent for fourteen seconds, "To now."

"Wow," Inu-yasha said amazed. "Light can go really fast, faster than me!"

Kagome tweaked his ears, "faster than you, Inu-Chan."

Inu-yasha turned his gaze to the stars again, "So what I'm looking at now, is what the stars looked like billions of years ago?"

"Yes," Kagome smiled at his cuteness, it was so cute when he was curious about something, his eyes grew wider with childishness almost, and his ears perked up, making them look bigger and his voice was always so soft, as if in the case he talked louder Kagome would be mad and not tell him.

"That's weird," Inu-yasha decided and he shifted in her lap to get a better view of Kagome, "isn't weird?"

"Yes, but you know what's even weirder?" Inu-yasha shook his head; not thinking anything could be weirder than looking back in history.

"The stars are made of nuclear fusion, that means they combined to become one-"

"Like Naraku?"

"In a way," Kagome said, "so all these different substances are part of the star right?" Inu-yasha nodded though he still seemed a little confused. "There's carbon, helium, hydrogen in some, and others different substances in some cases there's sodium and calcium and mercury."

Inu-yasha looked at her.

"Half of those things are inside us," she placed a hand on his heart, "what's inside us is what's inside the star, without stars and they're nuclear fusion, we wouldn't exist."

Kagome looked at the sky gazing at the stars, "when stars explode a lot of space junk goes into space, the place that's outside the earth, beyond the sky," she said saying it in a way he'd understand somewhat. "The dust of the stars goes everywhere in the universe, and forms life.

"So in the end, Inu-yasha," Kagome whispered in fascination, "we're all stardust."

"So, we're made up of the stuff the stars are?" Inu-yasha asked.

Kagome nodded. "We're part of the old dead stars."

Inu-yasha gazed at the sky and the two sat in silence contemplating the newly processed information.

***

"What's that star, Kagome?" Inu-yasha asked pointing to a red star.

Kagome looked were he was pointing, and smiled, "That's a planet, Inu- yasha, not a star."

Inu-yasha's eyes made a lovely saucer impression, "there are other realms then this one?"

Kagome giggled, "Of course silly! They're not realms, they're planets. That one there is Mars. It's ground is all red, so that's why it looks red, the light from the sun reflects off it so we can see it."

"But the sun went away, Kagome."

"No, silly, the sun's still out, just we're pointed away from it, we'll be near the sun again in about six hours or so, when the sun rises."

"Oh." Inu-yasha paused to think about this before pointing again, "What's that?"

"That's the North star, it points north so if we're ever separated, we can find our way home," Kagome said.

"Find my way home..."

Kagome realized what she'd just said, Inu-yasha lived in trees, and he really didn't have a home.

"I'll have a home someday," Inu-yasha said softly, "And I'm hoping you'll share it with me?"

Kagome blinked in surprise, and squealed in delight before hugging her hanyou's head to her chest, "Oh course, Inu-Chan, I'll share a home with you, always."

"I'll have the house near the god tree and the bone eater's well, that way you can visit your family," Inu-yasha said, getting excited and Kagome's heart warmed.

She felt warm tears in the corners of her eyes. Inu-yasha was-more or less- asking her to marry him, and it warmed her to her core, made her want to leap for joy, wanted her to be part of him, closer to him.

"Inu-yasha, do you know any constellations?" she whispered, changing the subject back to the stars.

"Constant what?" Inu-yasha asked.

"No, silly, constellations, shapes in the sky?"

"Like the drinking spoon?" Inu-yasha asked and pointed the big dipper.

"Yeah, like the drinking spoon?" Kagome giggled at his child like demeanor. It was just too cute, so unlike the inu-yasha she knew. She wondered what happened to him to make him so open with her, so sweet, so cute, so non-inu- yasha like. She missed the old inu-yasha, but didn't mind the new one, she'd always love inu-yasha, no matter who much he changed, appearance wise or personality wise.

She'd love him all the same.

She wondered if he knew that.

***

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