InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ For the Love of Another ❯ Confused Emotions ( Chapter 1 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]
By: Jin Ryu
On a night like any other night for the group, confusing emotions start to turn. When comments lead to anger, what will be the result? (Yes, I've watched too many of those darn Gundam Seed previews)

Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Adventure / Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 04.03.2005 | Updated On: 04.06.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 3.3K | Visits: 320 | Status: Completed


For the Love of Another
by Jin Ryu

Confused Emotions
 
“Ah! Look what the dog dragged in!” exclaimed Miroku gleefully. He got up and walked over to InuYasha to help him drag the buck into camp. As he approached, however, the hanyou suddenly gave a low warning growl. Startled, Miroku dropped the kill and backed away.
InuYasha, also startled, though at his own ferocity, stood uncertainly at the edge of camp. Sensing the tense atmosphere, Kagome stood up quickly and walked over to InuYasha.
Strangely, as the girl approached, InuYasha felt no defensiveness, no threat to his kill. When the monk had approached, he had suddenly felt a sense of protectiveness over it.
`Where the heck did that come from?' InuYasha wondered. `It's not like the monk was going to steal it from me.' Shaking his head, he moved to help Kagome drag it to the fire.
Kagome gave one last heave to the huge carcass. “ Good grief, InuYasha! You sure got a big one this time!”
“Keh. What did you expect? I'm not a weakling like some people.” InuYasha turned and gave a pointed glare at Miroku,
“What?” Miroku asked, annoyed. “It's not like it's my fault! First you wouldn't let me hunt with you, which I offered to do, then, when I try to help you with your overzealous kill, you start growling at me and would only let Lady Kagome help you. No offense to you, of course, Lady Kagome,” he said, turning to the miko. “So I'm sorry InuYasha, but I refuse to feel guilty.”
“Keh! You'd just pollute the meet with those tainted hands of yours,” sneered the hanyou. “ Speaking of which…”
“Hentai!” The exclamation was followed by a resounding slap.
Shaking her head in sympathy, Kagome started to work on skinning and gutting the deer, as gruesome as the job was. It was in fine condition; the skin was tough and thick.
After another fruitless attack with the knife, Kagome sat back with a sigh, glaring at the animal. `Stupid thing,' she growled in her head. `I can't even get through the skin! Grrr, we just had to run out of Ramen in the middle of nowhere.'
They had been on the hunt for shards for almost a month straight now. InuYasha had been pushing them relentlessly to gather the shards before Naraku did, and they were exhausted. Sango and Miroku walked most of the time, so they were foot-sore and weary: Sango from carrying her weapon and Miroku from walking and getting whacked by Sango. Kirara, despite her demon stamina, was also close to exhaustion from carrying alternating human members of the group as well as supplies. Even Shippou, who got a ride most of the time, was begging to go back to the village they had come to call home. InuYasha was also tired, but Shippou would refuse chocolate before he said anything about it. Kagome had it the worst. She hadn't been able to go back to her time for an entire month and was completely out of the essentials. Unlike the rest of the gang, she was raised in comfort and, while she wasn't lazy, was almost spent from carrying Shippou, walking/riding her bike, and using her Miko energy to sense the Shikon shards. On top of all that, Kagome had opened her bag a week ago to find all of the Ramen gone. InuYasha had been inconsolable for days.
Kagome groaned at the memory, the turned back to her rather large, meaty problem. `Goody.'
InuYasha, meanwhile, was looking thoughtfully at the miko while she worked. `Why is it that whenever I'm around her I feel so…calm? Like everything in the world is somehow right?
`Gah! What am I thinking all soft and fluffy like this! Stupid Kagome, this is all her fault. I don't even like the bitch!' InuYasha growled, shaking his head wildly. Suddenly he stopped and glared suspiciously at the girl in front of him.
`I bet she's doing this on purpose! After all, no girl is that perfect unless they're trying to seduce someone.
`Hmph, thinks she can control me that easily does she? Well, looks like I'll just have to show her who's boss!
“Oi! Bitch! Why isn't dinner done yet?”
Kagome visibly stiffened at the sound of his “pet name” for her, but let it slide. “Mou, InuYasha. What do you want me to do, stick the whole thing on a stick to roast?” Kagome whined, frustrated.
InuYasha gave an exaggerated sigh and came forward, complaining loudly about “pathetic humans.” Secretly, though, he was pleased to see she needed his help. I asserted that he was the leader of the pack, the bitchs came to him when they had a problem. It also showed Kagome that he would be a good mate, caring for her and their pups.
`NANI!' he thought, startled at his own thoughts. `Since when did I think of Kagome as my mate!'
`Since you fell in love with her the day you met,' replied a smug voice in his head.
`Shut up you! I don't love that pathetic bitch!'
`Stop lying to yourself. You know you want to take her as your mate.'
`Shut the hell up!'
Shoving his suspiciously Miroku-sounding conscience aside, the disgruntled hanyou plopped down beside Kagome and proceeded to tear into the deer's carcass in a ferocious manner, venting his frustration.
Totally oblivious to her companion's internal conflict, Kagome watched him with a thoughtful expression.
`He's always so lonesome, so self-contained. I feel sorry for him; he's never been taught to laugh, only how to cry. I wish I could do something for him…' Kagome tilted her head to one side. `Wait, why should I care? I mean, all he ever does is insult me and berate be!'
`Don't kid yourself,' a voice whispered in her head. Was that Sango's voice? `You're in love with him, that's why.'
`I love…InuYasha? How can that be?'
`Well, it's quite simple really,' the voice replied. `You me him on your fifteenth birthday, you thought he was stupid and arrogant, but really cute, then you shattered the jewel and traveled with him, slowly starting to like him and now you love him and want to be his wife and…'
`OK, OK! I get the picture! Sheesh.' Kagome blushed, glancing at InuYasha to see if he saw. `Now be quiet; maybe I do love him, but I'm not going to tell him that. It'll just embarrass us both. After all, he's…he's still in love with Kikyou.'
Kagome's thoughts trailed off as her eyes wandered over to InuYasha's project. And stared.
The meat had been cut up into good-sized steaks and was now skewered on a wooden spit to roast. The fat was sizzling on the browning meat. Steam hissed up from the fire as droplets of delicious fat fell into the flames. It smelled delicious!
As Kagome stared at the meal she no longer had to make, InuYasha came back from the brook where he had been washing up. He plopped down next to her with a grunt, making her jump.
“Oh, InuYasha! Thanks so much for cooking the steaks for me! You're the best!” Kagome beamed. Suddenly, she reached over on impulse and gave him a hug. Then, realizing what she'd done, she pulled away and laughed nervously. “Heh, heh. Sorry `bout that…umm...” She looked down at her hands, embarrassed.
InuYasha sat rigid from shock, not being able to believe that she actually hugged him on purpose. Then he jerked his head away, blushing madly. “Yeah, well, whatever.”
Kagome glanced at him again, embarrassed that she showed her feelings like that, then also turned away. “Come on guys, dinner!” she called, trying to break the tension.
“Oooh! Real food!” Shippou squealed. He scampered over to the fire and snuggled into Kagome's lap, earning him a jealous glare from InuYasha.
“Finally,” grumbled Miroku, his stomach agreeing loudly. He was stilled ticked about InuYasha calling him weak in front of the lady he loved. “Sango my dear! Come sit by me and eat!” he called.
Sango swung her boomerang hard into the ground and came over as well. “Stuff it Miroku,” she said as she sat down deliberately beside Kagome.
Once they had all assembled, Kagome took the roasted meat off the spit and passed it around, giving InuYasha two instead of everyone else's one.
“What's this?” InuYasha inquired. “This one's yours.”
“Oh, I'm not really that hungry. Besides, you caught it. You must be starved!” Kagome smiled. “You deserve it.”
“Oohh no. You're not getting off that easily; you're eating.”
“What's the problem? I'm just not hungry.”
“I don't care! You need the meat. You're a bitch!”
Kagome turned bright red. “Wha-what's that supposed to mean!” You jerk! Osuwari!”
Wham!
Kagome stomped off in huff. `I can't believe him! Here I am, trying to be nice, and then out of the blue, he calls me a-a… Ohh! I can't even say it! Jerk!'
Back at camp, InuYasha was already struggling against the spell. “Crap, what did I say!” InuYasha mumbled into the dirt. “She's such a touchy bitch.”
Miroku crouched beside the newly formed InuYasha crater. “Oh, reeeaally smooth InuYasha. Tell me, do you like getting sat?”
“Shut up Miroku.” InuYasha jerked himself up and stomped off in the direction of Kagome's scent. “I'm going to look for Kagome. Don't eat the whole deer before we get back.”
The demon slayer watched the hanyou stomp off. “ Despite his attitude, he really does care about her, doesn't he?”
Miroku smiled. “Yes, I believe he does. Sometimes he just needs a push in the right direction.”
InuYasha stomped down Kagome's scent trail. “What is her problem!” he grumbled to himself. “ I was just, well, I was concerned damnit!” She doesn't eat enough as it is and, especially at this time of month, she needs meat! Why doesn't she get that!” He wasn't exactly sure why he was so determined to get her to eat the meat, but his instincts were telling him that's what she needed and, damnit, he was going to give it to her! (A.N. If you don't get it, here's a hint. Why do we girls get cranky once a month?)
Sighing, InuYasha shook his head and sped up his pace. He needed to get her before the nocturnal youkai did.
Sitting by the brook InuYasha had used earlier, Kagome felt a hot, salty tear run down her cheek. `All I want is for him to be happy, but every time I try to do something nice for him, he just throws it in my face and insults me.' Kagome pulled her knees up to her chest and buried her face in them, letting out a soft sob. `I care about him so much…but who am I kidding. I'll never have I place in his heart without Kikyou's shadow. None…'
The bushes rustled quietly to her right. Sitting up quickly, Kagome scrubbed at her eyes. `Just great,' she thought. `All I need right now is for another “pathetic human” comment. I can't let him see me crying!
Clearing her throat, she called out. “InuYasha? You can come out now.” No response. “InuYasha?” `Something's not right…' “ InuYasha, please come out now! You're starting to scare me!” Kagome began to get agitated. She stretched out her miko senses, trying to “see” him. A demonic aura came from directly behind her. She whirled around. That was not InuYasha.

Hmmm, now what was I going to say? Oh yeah! I DON'T OWN INUYASHA! Get over it, sheesh...