InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Forgotten Memories ❯ Chapter 30 ( Chapter 30 )

 

Ch. 30

 

-------------------------------------------

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two Days Later…

 

 

 

 

“Say, Sakura?”, InuYasha says, glancing over at the teen as she examines the map from her location next to the waterfall-spring, “How long do you figure it'll take to get to that village we're heading to?”

 

“If I'm reading the map right, we're almost there”, she replies, looking up from the map to observe their surroundings, “We just have to climb that mountain and we'll be there”, she adds, pointing towards a peak to her left.

 

“Alright, let's get going!”, he exclaims.

 

“There is no need to rush, I still need to refill the bottles first”, she states, as she rolls the map back up, before walking over to the pool with the empty-containers.

 

“Well, hurry it up then!”, he scoffs, “I've been waiting over 60-years for the Shikon-jewel”

 

“Yeah, yeah…”, she sighs, `Seriously, is that all he thinks about?'

 

“Actually, another hour longer wouldn't hurt…”, he recants.

 

“Huh…?”, she gasps, not entirely sure she heard him right.

 

“I'm sure you're tired from the all the walking, so let's take a little break”

 

“Wha…?”, she blinks in confusion, `What the hell? Where the hell is this coming from?', she thinks.

 

“I mean, you shouldn't push yourself too hard, considering you're still recovering from your fight with Ruya”, he explains, causing her to glance down at her clothed right-arm and then her bandaged left-hand.

 

“I'm fine, my spiritual-energy has already recovered and the injuries aren't as bad as they look”, she reassures with a smile.

 

“Yeah, but you're still a mortal…”

 

“SIT!”, she growls.

 

“What the hell was that for?!”

 

“What did I say about calling me weak?”

 

“You're not as hardy as me, remember?”, he snaps.

 

“Don't you think I know that already?!”

 

“Look… I'm sorry if I offended you…”, he mutters, “I just want to get this over with as soon as possible...”

 

“I'm sorry too. I guess I'm a little edgy about `hopefully' being able to go home”, she returns, as she helps him out of the mini-crater, “Let's get going then”

 

“Right…”, he nods.

 

 

 

 

----------------

 

 

 

 

 

A Few Hours Later…

 

 

 

 

“How much longer do you think it'll take before we're there?”, Sakura questions, from her location on his back.

 

“Not much longer, I can smell a human-establishment nearby”, he replies, after sniffing the air, “Besides that, how is your ankle?”

 

“It's still tender”, she regards, slightly moving her foot, “I can't believe I stepped into a gopher-hole”

 

“It happens…”

 

“After this is over, I'll be going home…”, she sighs.

 

“Yeah…”

 

“You'll get the jewel…”

 

“Yeah…”

 

“And you'll finally get your wish to become a full-demon…”

 

“…”

 

`It's strange, why am I feeling so depressed? I'm going to be able go home, but parting ways with InuYasha is making me sad…', she thinks, staring at his ears as they twitch; trying to pick up any sound of a predator, “Say, InuYasha…?”

 

“Shh!”, he interrupts, as he stops walking.

 

“What is it…?”, she quietly asks.

 

“We're not alone…”, he whispers, just before he leaps out of the path of a flying kusari-gama.

 

As they land, Sakura ends up rolling off of InuYasha's back and falls to the ground behind him, she quickly pushes herself into a seated position and pulls out one of her daggers while InuYasha started to reach for the Tetsusaiga.

 

“What do you want with this village, hanyou?!”, a female's voice threateningly questions.

 

Sakura follows the path that the chain of the kusari-gama had flown from and spots two female teens, both of them had dark-brown hair; one was holding aforementioned weapon and the other held a giant-sword, and both were wearing skin-tight one-piece cloth-suits with pieces of armor.

 

“If you so much as come any closer, we won't hesitate to slay you!”, the second girl warns.

 

“What are we going to do? Isn't this the village where my mother's friends reside…?”, Sakura whispers.

 

“I don't know… Perhaps you should try approaching them, you're more or less a miko…”

 

“Thanks a lot…”, she grumbles, as she puts away her knife before stumbling to her feet and slowly walks towards them, “I assure you, we're not here to cause trouble. We are only here to talk with two certain-people”

 

“Stay right where you are, young man!”

 

“Y-young man…?”, she giggles in amusement, “You girls really need to learn the difference”

 

“Don't move you kitsune-witch!”, a male's voice orders, as the sound of fluttering papers as they flew through the air and attached themselves to her sleeve.

 

“What are you suppose to be?”, Sakura asks, as she turns to address the younger-male teen with brown-hair wearing black-robes now standing next to the two girls, “A Monk?”, she sneers, as she peels off the useless pieces of paper.

 

“What are you?!”, the boy fearfully shouts.

 

“Rest assure, I'm human”, she honestly answers.

 

“If you're truly a human, why do you travel with a hanyou?”

 

“Sometimes a girl needs a bodyguard…”, she shrugs.

 

“Hey!”, InuYasha protests.

 

Suddenly the sound of a large angry cat roaring echoes through the air, followed by the creature that made the noise landing in between the two groups.

 

“Whoa! That is a huge cat…”, she gasps, staring at the cream-colored two-tailed feline with black-striping and red-eyes.

 

The cat slowly walks up to Sakura and starts to sniff at her clothes & skin while they circled around her, before rubbing against her and starts purring and tilting it's head towards her hand, as if begging to be scratched behind the ears.

 

“Kirara…?”, one of the teens whispers.

 

“I-I guess the cat approves of me”, she blinks, watching and the cat simply walks up to InuYasha and tilts it's head to him expecting to be petted, “And of you as well…”

 

“Hitomi, Yuki, Kei, what is going on out here?”, they heard a woman's voice question, right before she rounds the gate.

 

She was an older woman with long dark-brown hair and warm brown-eyes dressed in a pink & white stripped kimono; probably the mother of the three teens, who stops walking as soon as her eyes land onto the two visitors, “I-Inu…Yasha…?”

 

“Sango, what's wrong?”, a man asks, walking through the gate.

 

He looked about the same age of the woman; possibly the father, he had short black-hair that was long enough to tie back in a small low-ponytail and dark-blue eyes, he was wearing black-robes of a monk with a strip of purple cloth tied across his chest.

 

“Miroku… Look”, the woman called; Sango, states, as she points.

 

“Wha…?”, he gasps, turning his head to where she was pointing, “InuYasha… Is that…?”

 

`Apparently these are the two I'm suppose to meet with…', Sakura thinks, noting their reaction the her traveling-companion, “Excuse me…?”

 

“Huh…?”, they respond, acknowledging the young teen.

 

“Is-is that you…?”, the male began.

 

`Here it comes, I'm probably going to be called by my mother's name again', she mentally groans.

 

“Is that really you, Sakura-chan?”, Sango finishes.

 

“Huh?!”, she blinks, visibly stunned, `H-how does she know my name?!'

 

 

 

 

 

-------------------------------------------------------------