InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Destined Souls, Part I, The Diary ❯ Going Back ( Chapter 5 )

Author's Note: Sorry it took so long to update this. I was kinda stuck on it. I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do with this chapter. Also, I'm pretty sure that this is gonna be a long fic, so… Don't worry, I've got TONS of things planned. The only hard part is getting to the planned parts! Heheheh, well, enjoy!

Chapter Five

Going Back

"KAGOME!" someone shouted, waking both the hanyou and the girl. Kagome looked around and saw in the frame of the door her mother, hands on hips, eyes narrowed to tiny slits. "How dare you sleep in the same room, let alone in the same bed, with A BOY?!"

"Mom, chill!" Kagome began her explanation, and Mrs. Higurashi calmed down. But not too much.

"Higurashi Kagome! I can't believe you would do such a thing! And after all that I've taught you!" She stomped off, muttering something about, "Kids these days… sleeping with everyone they see… just completely dishonoring…"

Kagome blushed and turned back to the hanyou sitting on her bed, slightly shaken. "Sorry about that. She just gets kinda…"

Inuyasha shook his head. "It's all right, don't worry about it." Suddenly his expression changed. "Well? Aren't you going to start packing?" he asked impatiently.

Kagome gave him a sour look and turned to her closet. Grabbing some clothes and her bag, she began to stuff all of her needs into her backpack. She stood up after she had most of her things packed, was about to walk out with Inuyasha, but stopped. Something was nagging in the back of her mind. She turned and looked back to her room, surveying it for anything she might have forgotten. When she looked at her desk, she gasped. "Oh, yeah! My diary!" She looked at Inuyasha, who was leaning against the wall.

"Go and get it."

Kagome smiled, ran into her room, and came back trying to fit her diary into her backpack. "Okay, let's go!"

As they past the dining room, Kagome waved to her family and told them she'd be back in a few days.

`Feh. Better be more than a few days.' Inuyasha's thoughts were interrupted by a hand grabbing his arm. "What?"

Kagome's face turned slightly pink as she said, "Well, uh… I just wanted to… um… thank you for coming last night and… comforting me…" She looked down at the ground to hide her embarrassment.

Inuyasha looked at her strangely. "U-uh, n-no problem," he said, his voice cracking and changing pitch slightly.

As they walked, arms linked, in complete silence to the Well House, Inuyasha's thoughts were running wild. `Why does she still have her arm on mine? …Why am I so nervous? …It's not like I lo-….WAIT A MINUTE! What am I thinking?!' As this thought ran in front of his mind's eye, Inuyasha's face turned a color slightly lighter than his haori.

Kagome noticed this and her own mind began to work. `Why is he blushing? It's not like I haven't held onto his arm before. Wait a minute… what if he's thinking about… No way. He wouldn't be thinking about me. He's probably thinking about Kikyo.' When the dead miko's image popped up, Kagome's face screwed up as she looked away from Inuyasha. `How dare he still be hung up on that stupid dead bitch?'

When they got to the well, Inuyasha looked at Kagome, but she refused to meet his gaze. `What is she doing?' He grabbed her shoulders and forced her to face him. "Kagome, what's wrong?"

She looked into his eyes, then looked toward the well. "I'll tell you later…" She closed her eyes, trying to prevent Inuyasha from catching the tears starting to well up.

She wasn't quick enough. "Kagome, don't cry… please…" Wrapping his arms around her waist, he embraced her, holding her, wishing she would just relax and return the hug. After what seemed like an eternity, he released her and helped her onto the well's lip. "Ready?" She nodded, and he jumped in with her.

"KAGOME!" Shippo cried as he pounced on Kagome, who had just walked into Kaede's hut, followed closely by Inuyasha.

Kagome, who had not expected to be "attacked," lost her balance and started to fall backwards. Before she got too far, however, Inuyasha caught her underneath the arms, and, accidentally, grabbed onto a certain unmentionable body part. She sat the small kitsune down and rounded on Inuyasha. "And just WHAT did you think you were doing?" Her face flushed, and she started to fume furiously.

`She's cute when she gets angry,' he thought, mentally smiling. He did an extremely good impression of a guilty puppy and said, "I didn't mean to."

She glared at him, then when she heard snickering, turned on Miroku, who was trying to stifle a fit of laughter. "Miroku, I bet you'd like to have been Inuyasha, wouldn't you?"

"Why not? *WHACK, WHACK!* Jeez, I was just joking!" Miroku rubbed the two glowing handprints on his cheeks, compliments of Sango and Kagome. He looked to Inuyasha for some help, but Inuyasha just smirked.

"Better you than me."

"SIT!"

"Wha-?! MRPH!! Ugh…" Inuyasha laid on the floor of the elder miko's hut, barely clinging to consciousness. When he recovered from his punishment, he glared at Kagome. "What was that for, wench?"

"Hmph!" Kagome held her head high and looked away. She smiled inwardly. `Served him right! I shoulda said it earlier.'

The rest of the day pasted uneventfully. They had stayed at Kaede's hut and discussed where and when their next move would be against Naraku. One by one, after they had their plans all made out, the group fell asleep until it was only Kagome and Inuyasha awake. Kagome sat staring into the fire, unaware of the pair of golden eyes surveying her.

`I wonder… if I should… No, I shouldn't.' He wanted to go over to Kagome and hold her while she fell asleep, but he decided against it. Turning his gaze to the fire, he let his eyes droop slowly as he fell into a light sleep.

Kagome continued to stare into the flames, her mind blank. When she heard Inuyasha fall asleep, she looked over and suddenly couldn't control herself. Crawling on her hands and knees, she scooted over beside the hanyou and sat back down. Looking into his sleeping face, she sighed and leaned into his chest.

Inuyasha woke up and felt a light weight on his chest. Looking down, he saw Kagome's raven black hair and heard her even breathing. Blushing, he placed his arm around her, drawing her closer to his torso. He smiled and fell back into a deep, peaceful sleep.

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Teaser: Inuyasha sat in his tree watching over Kaede's hut. As Kagome left, he kept his gaze on her until she was far from the hut. `'Bout time!' he thought as he hopped down. Everyone else was gone, and she'd gone to join them. As he stepped in, he looked over the room and spotted her backpack. He rummaged through it and pulled out a small pink book. `Ah, I've got it. She tried to keep her "diaree" from me, but it was a waste of time,' he thought as he opened the personal journal.

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Author's Note: Yes, I know that was a LONG teaser, but… yeah… Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and I'm SOOO sorry that it took me so long. I don't have much to say, but arigato for reading, and R&R! Ja matte ne!

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