InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Hanyou and Miko ❯ Home ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter 2: Home

 

Kagome woke early in the morning in a cold sweat. She took her time in remembering the dream. It was of the battle with Naraku.

 

InuYasha drew Tetsusaiga and lunged for Naraku. “Wind Scar!” Miroku closed his wind tunnel because of the poison wasps while Sango attacked with Hiraikotsu and Kagome readied another arrow in her bow. InuYasha's attack made contact, but not before Naraku got a hit in on InuYasha. He skidded to a stop on one knee and a hand on the floor while the other held on tight to Tetsusaiga. Blood gushed from the new formed wound on his chest and the claws marks across his face.

 

“InuYasha!” she screamed and started to run to his side. His eyes were also streaming with blood from a wound on his head.

 

“Stay back, wench!” she stopped where she stood. Naraku came around again drawing his claws and slashing at the hanyou. While InuYasha concentrated on Naraku's claws, Naraku edged one of his tentacles toward Kagome. She backed away hurriedly trying to fit another arrow on the bow, but Naraku was faster. His tentacle grazed across her forehead, and after discovering it had broken into her flesh, it raised and struck again, this time coming down on her right arm.

 

“Kagome!” yelled the exterminator running to slash the tentacle away. She tore a piece of cloth from her clothes and wrapped Kagome's wound to stop the bleeding and was off again to help in the fight. Kagome reached for her bow and again aimed for Naraku. InuYasha was in bad shape. He had received more wounds in the time it took Kagome to regain her composure. His haori was soaking in his own blood.

 

“Kagome! Under his arm, shoot it!” she heard InuYasha yell.

 

She saw it. The bit of shard was under Naraku's arm. She raised her bow with a wince at the sharp pain moving through her arm. Ignoring the pain, she put all her purifying energy into that one shot and let it fly.

 

She had made the shot, but it hadn't killed Naraku. InuYasha came in for the last blow, but Kagome had already passed out from exhaustion. When she had woken InuYasha had yelled at her for using up so much of her energy in that one shot, but she could tell he wasn't really angry. He was just worried. With a sigh she got out of her bed, changed her clothes, and went down stairs.

 

“Good morning, Kagome.” Her grandpa greeted.

 

“Good morning.”

 

“Hi sis!” Souta came trudging into the kitchen. “Where's InuYasha?” Kagome rolled her eyes.

 

“Back in his time waiting for me to bring ramen. I don't know what he ate before I came along.” Her mother smiled.

 

“Well, it is Saturday. How about I take you out shopping for a few things, hum?”

 

“Sounds great.”

 

“Good. Eat your breakfast and we'll go.”

 

“Shippou would love this!” Kagome exclaimed, picking up a bag of Gummi Bears and a few lollypops with `new flavor' written on the wrappings.

 

“Get these too.” Mrs. Higurashi grabbed a bag of chocolate. “You're only young once.”

“You're going to spoil him, moma.”

 

“I think you're doing that enough on your own.”

 

Kagome giggled. “You're probably right.” She put a few more things into the cart; including orange flavored soda for Miroku, a few new soaps for Sango, and of course several flavors of ramen for the hanyou.

 

“Why don't you get something for yourself, Kagome?”

 

Kagome thought. It was starting to get a little chilly in the feudal era, and she had outgrown most of last year's winter clothes. “I do need some new clothes.”

 

Her mother nodded and led her to the clothes, picking out a few outfits and handing them to Kagome to try on. After fitting together three outfits they left the store, tons of bags in hand.

 

The rest of the day went by slow, and she was happy after dinner when she decided it was time for her to head back. After all, she had told InuYasha she would be back sometime that afternoon.

 

“I going back now, moma.” Kagome grabbed the items her mother had brought back from the store and shoved them into her backpack.

 

“Alright Kagome. Don't be gone for so long this time. And tell InuYasha to come see us too.”

 

“Okay, moma. Bye!” she ran to the well house and jumped through. The time stream zipped around her and soon she landed on the other side.

 

She felt it immediately. The dead miko's aura surrounded InuYasha's Forrest like a dark cloud. When she looked around, sure enough, she saw InuYasha in the arms of Kikyo. Kagome's eyes were bright with tears she tried to hold back. She didn't know why seeing InuYasha with the dead miko always upset her, it was probably because she didn't think she could ever compete with Kikyo.

 

Kikyo was InuYasha's first love, and Kagome couldn't change that no matter how hard she tried. He belonged with her, and she with him. Kagome didn't even belong in this time. She was a visitor to their world, just a small part of their lives. When the jewel was complete it would be as if she were never there, just a faded memory.

 

I can't go back now. He's probably already sensed me as soon as I came through the well. I can't believe him. I just can't…

 

Not wanting to dwell on the sight, Kagome jumped back through the well, up the stairs to the shrine, and into her bedroom.

 

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She's…crying again. Baka! It's your fault. All you ever do is hurt her. Maybe you should tell her to stay back in her time. She only gets hurt when she's around you. But… no. She won't go back, not until we finish the Shikon no tama. What am I going to do when the jewel is complete? There's only one thing I want, and she'll leave when she purifies the jewel.

 

“Where's Kagome? I thought she was coming back.” Came the kitsune's questioning gaze.

 

“Keh! She's going to be a little longer. Don't worry about it, runt, and get out of here before I thump you!” the kitsune ran back toward Kaede's hut with a whimper. InuYasha didn't mean to be so harsh on Shippou, it was really that he was mad at himself for hurting Kagome, again. His ears lay flat on his head. He had hoped that Kikyo would be gone before Kagome had come back through the well, but she had come at a really bad time. He wasn't ashamed of the manner in which he had said goodbye, it was only that he knew how that would register with Kagome. Months ago he had figured out about how Kagome felt about him.

 

InuYasha was just getting back into the cave. The hunt for Naraku wasn't going as they had planed, and running into this storm wasn't helping any. Added to that, they had ran out of food and he had no choice but to go back out into the storm to hunt. He was cold and wet, but would never admit to such. Instead, he worked on skinning and cooking the little bit of game he was able to track down in the storm. There wasn't very much dry wood to be found, but they managed to get a small blaze started with the help of some of Kagome's magazines. Miroku, Sango, and Shippou had cuddled up by the fire in one of Kagome's blankets.

 

InuYasha, being the same stubborn hanyou as always, leaned up against the entrance of the cave staring out through the rain with his ears standing up on end. He jumped slightly as a blanket was wrapped around his shoulders and the all too familiar feel of Kagome leaning up against him. She never said a word. She lay there, with him, all night just like that.

 

She had cared for him. She cared enough that she would help him even if he tried to act as if he didn't need it. InuYasha shuddered as he looked up into the sky. The sun was setting, fading slowing in another new-moon night. He sighed as the last bit of twilight faded, and with it his hanyou senses. He hated being human. He always felt as if he couldn't see, smell, or hear anything going on around him. The only thing he hated more than being human, was being alone while he was human.

 

Before he was always alone. Then, slowly, he managed to gain, friends. Kagome, Miroku, Sango, and even the little kitsune Shippou and the old miko Kaede. After that, he was never alone on his human nights, until tonight. He walked over toward Goshinboku, and nearly started to jump into it's branches until he remembered his crutch. Instead he decided best just to sit at the tree's base. Slowly he fell into a light sleep.

 

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“Kagome, is anything wrong? What are you doing back so soon?” Mrs. Higurashi asked as her daughter stormed through the door. Kagome acted as she hadn't heard and continued up the stairs to her room. She was already past the point of being sad, and was on to being mad.

 

Baka! That's why he wanted me gone, so he could be with Kikyo without his pathetic human shard detector getting in the way! I can't believe him, it's such a, such a, … baka! Baka! BAKA!

 

Her anger faded and soon once again became sadness. Kagome knew what had gone on between InuYasha a Kikyo fifty years before. She also knew that they were both getting those feelings back as soon as they figured out Naraku had tricked them both into it. Still, Kagome couldn't help what she felt for the hanyou. She threw herself face up on her bed with her arms stretched out above her. She turned her head toward her window as the last signs of light faded into the night sky. Just as she was about to close her eyes, there was a knock on her door.

 

“Kagome? Can I come in?” she didn't wait for an answer, walking in and joining her daughter on the bed. “Want to talk?”

 

She sniffled. “Not really.”

 

“Now I know something's going on. My daughter doesn't want to talk.” Kagome gave a weak smile. “Talk to me. What happened?”

 

What could Kagome say? That she was in love with a hanyou who in return rather love a dead priestess? Kagome rolled over and stuffed her face in her pillow. “Nothing happened, moma.”

 

“Oh really? Then why is InuYasha sitting outside in the tree?” Kagome shot up to the window.

 

“He's here?!”

 

“So it is about InuYasha.”

 

“That wasn't funny.” She sighed.

 

“Kagome, what is your relationship with InuYasha?”

 

She was silent while she thought. “We're just friends, I guess.”

 

“And you want him to be `just' your friend?”

 

She blushed. “Not really. But there's nothing I can do about it, he doesn't even live in my world! And,” Kagome lowered her head, swallowing at the lump gradually growing in her throat, “he has Kikyo. It's okay though, moma, so can I still go back?”

 

Her mother nodded. “As long as you feel okay about it, you can always go back. But don't feel obligated to stay gone for so long. Tell InuYasha and your other friends when you feel like taking a few days off to come home. I'm sure they would not mind.”

 

“You don't know InuYasha too well.” Her mother laughed.

 

“Well, since you're here, how about going out for the night? Girls only.”

 

“That sounds great! Thanks, moma.” She hugged her mother's neck, quickly getting up to change for their night out.