InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Hanyou and Miko ❯ Hanyou’s Plea ( Chapter 21 )

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Chapter 21: Hanyou's Plea

 

InuYasha accepted the bowl of stew Sango handed him, barley eating half of it before laying it down at his side.

 

“InuYasha, you've got to eat.”

 

“Keh. I'm fine.”

 

“No you're not.”

 

InuYasha sneered. “How do you know? I said I'm fine.” He sighed. “It's been too long. Eight days, EIGHT days! Kaede said the virus was gone after Miroku made the beads for her. She doesn't have a `fever', there's absolutely NOTHING WRONG with her!”

 

“I know, but…”

 

“Then why isn't she awake?!”

 

“Ah. I thought I heard the yells of a disgruntled hanyou.” Miroku entered the hut, followed by a very worried looking Shippou.

 

“Keh!” he turned his back and crossed his arms under his haori.

 

“I see. Well, I would much appreciate it if you wouldn't take out your frustration on my future and pregnant wife.”

 

“InuYasha?” the kitsune cautiously approached him.

 

“Whadda want, runt?” his voice was solemn.

 

“Is Kagome going to be okay? I mean… she's not going to die,… is she?”

 

“What kind of talk is that!? I aught to thump you for that!” InuYasha turned to face the kitsune. Shippou instinctively ran to hide behind Miroku and Sango, whimpering as he took off.

 

“InuYasha, he's just worried about Kagome. We all are, including you. None of us knows what is wrong with her, and we all feel bad that we cannot do anything more for her. What you are doing is not going to help anybody.”

 

“Keh.” InuYasha turned back to Kagome, ignoring the others as they silently left him in the hut. He knew what he was doing wasn't going to help Kagome. He knew it didn't matter if he was asleep, or awake, if he ate or not, that was his choice. He had messed up. He was supposed to protect Kagome, but he wasn't strong enough. InuYasha wasn't strong enough to keep his promise.

 

Everything that happened was all his fault. First by letting his guard down and letting Suoh sneak up on him. Secondly for being too weak to save Kagome from being captured, too weak to save Kikyou. It's true she was leaving anyway, but not like that. Not at the hands of someone like Suoh. He vaguely remembered turning full youkai, despite Tetsusaiga's protest. What happened after that came in only mixed pictures. Killing Suoh was the most vivid. InuYasha guessed his youkai and human blood wanted to remember the revenge he received. He also remembered holding Kagome, nipping at her to wake. The rest of his memories were just blurs, until he woke the next day.

 

He could only hope that what Miroku said was the truth, that he didn't harm Kagome when he was transformed. The only physical marks were on the front of her wrists, where Suoh had cut her to allow his blood to enter her. InuYasha allowed his fingers to toy with the prayer beads that now covered one of the scars. He sensed his own blood coursing through the device. It seemed strange to him, linking him to her, making him part of her. InuYasha figured it was the side effect, as Miroku had said. He once again sat in a corner of the hut, pulling Kagome into his lap.

 

“You've gotta wake up now.” He said confidently. “You gotta `sit' me for thumping the kit. Keh. You NEVER let me get away with thumping `em. Yelled at Sango and Miroku too. Guess that gives you enough reason to `sit' me for eternity, but you can't until you wake up, you know.”

 

Miroku, Sango, Kaede, and Shippou stood outside the hut listening to the hanyou's desperate attempts of stirring Kagome.

 

“He's actually asking her to `sit' him?” Shippou asked.

 

“So it seems. Poor InuYasha.” Miroku looked over to Sango. She had been getting a little emotional with her pregnancy. He could only hope Kagome woke up soon, for all their sakes.

 

“Ai. He'll kill himself if he keeps on like he is.”

 

“But she'll wake up soon, won't she?” Shippou snuggled up in Sango's arms.

 

“We don't know, Shippou.” The exterminator and kitsune both started to cry. Miroku put his arms around them to calm them.

 

“Lady Kaede is there anything else we can do?” he asked.

 

“Nei. It's up to Kagome to wake.”

 

InuYasha heard every word the others said outside the hut, and he really didn't care, not anymore. He held on to the only thing that meant anything to him, holding her, talking to her, nuzzling his face into her raven hair. The silky locks tickled at his nose making him nuzzle deeper. He ran his hand up and down her arm, just wanting to touch her, to be as close to her at this point as he could. As his hand reached the prayer beads at Kagome's wrist once again, a sudden drowsiness came over him. Without thinking, his eyelids slowly closed shut, falling asleep for the first time in days.

 

“InuYasha…” someone was calling him. “InuYasha…”

 

“Kagome?”

 

“InuYasha, is that you?”

 

“I'm here, Kagome! Where are you?”

 

“I'm over here. I need your help.”

 

InuYasha began to panic. “Kagome, where are you? Are you okay? I can't see you, Kagome!”

 

“It's alright, InuYasha, I'm fine… I'm just… a little tired. I need your help to get back.”

 

“I'm coming. I can't see you, so keep talking to me Kagome, I'll find you. Why are you here? What is this place?”

 

“Midoriku came to me, in Suoh's castle. I think I passed out. She told me I needed to train with her.”

 

“Train?” he was getting closer to Kagome's voice.

 

“Uh hum.” She fell silent.

 

“Kagome?... Kagome?!”

 

“…hum?”

 

“Keep talking or I won't be able to find you.”

 

“I'm tired, InuYasha…”

 

“I know, Kagome, but please, you've got to help me. Now, where is this place?”

 

“…Not really sure. I was in my mind… training. Midoriku said my training was finished, so she sent me back. But I'm too tired… I can't go any further.” She went quiet again.

 

“Kagome, keep talking wench.”

 

“…ugh… you usually want me to shut up.”

 

“Keh, you usually won't shut up.” He was almost there, but Kagome was still out of his sight. “Wench…”

 

“Quit calling me that.”

 

“Nope. What kind of training did you do?”

 

“Mind, sensing, feelings… miko stuff…”

 

He waited for her to continue. “Kagome?” he waited again. She wasn't answering, and InuYasha had no way of finding her. “Kagome!”

 

“…stop.”

 

“Stop what?”

 

“Stop…yelling.”

 

“Keep talking and I won't have to yell.”

 

“InuYasha…hurry.” She pleaded.

 

InuYasha could tell by her voice that she was serious. She wouldn't be able to stay conscious for very much longer, and then he would never be able to find her. He had to keep her talking. “I'm coming, Kagome. Just keep talking.”

 

“I'll never hear you say that agai- eeek!” InuYasha wrapped his arms around Kagome, pulling her close. She slapped at the hanyou. “Don't do that, InuYasha! You scared me.” She wrapped her own arms around InuYasha's neck, laying her head on his shoulder. “I was afraid you wouldn't hear.”

 

“Come on. I'm getting you out of here.” Kagome nodded.

 

InuYasha woke, Kagome still in his lap.

 

“Was it… a dream?” he asked himself. He looked down at the girl, all signs saying she was still asleep. But the images, the sounds, they were all so real.

 

“Inu…yasha?” Kagome's eyes fluttered open.

 

“I'm here, Kagome. Are you alright?”

 

She nodded. “Um hm. Tired.” Her eyes closed again.

 

“Go on to sleep, I'll be here when you wake up.”

 

“You sleep too. And don't tell me you don't need to sleep, because I know you do.” InuYasha didn't protest or deny her accusations. Instead, he placed them both on Kagome's futon, wrapping them with his haori, just as he had after they defeated Naraku. He sighed, snuggling into her hair.

 

“Happy now, wench?”

 

“Uh huh.”

 

“Good. Now sleep.”

 

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“Kagome!” Shippou jumped at her, only to be stopped half way by InuYasha's fist.

 

“Quit that, runt! You just can't go jumping on her!”

 

“InuYasha!”

 

“What?!” Kagome glared at him “Well, he can't.”

 

“Oh, Kagome! We were all so worried about you.” Sango pulled her friend in a hug, InuYasha lowly growling. Sango pulled away.

 

“InuYasha, what's gotten into you?” she elbowed him in the gut.

 

“Ooof!”

 

“Ah. That's a sound we all missed.”

 

“Monk…”

 

“InuYasha…” His ears flattened at Kagome's mocking tone. Kagome's eyelids started to droop. She and InuYasha had woken sometime in the afternoon only to be met by a series of questions and `glad you're okay's'. Kagome was still exhausted and was in a daze the whole evening, but she felt bad for worrying her friends so she answered their questions about her training and Midoriku and told them over and over again that she was fine. Even Kaede had asked her numerous questions about purifying the jewel.

 

“When ye wished InuYasha to life, ye were surrounded by a barrier?”

 

“Yes. Midoriku created it around just us two. Kouga and Ayame couldn't even see us.”

 

“Did the barrier give off an aura of any kind?”

 

“I'm not sure, but…” she yawned, “but I did feel something strong there.” InuYasha stood up, taking Kagome with him back to the futon.

 

“That's enough! She's tired enough without all of you bugging her every second with stupid questions.”

 

“InuYasha!” This time InuYasha's low growl was focused at Kagome. She gasped at his gesture, looking at him questioningly.

 

“Don't look at me like that, I know as well as you do that you're still worn out.” She nodded.

 

“Well, my dear Sango, I believe it is time we made our leave.” He helped her to her feet. “You too, Shippou.”

 

“I don't wanna go. I want to stay with Kagome!” A glance from InuYasha sent the kitsune scrambling out the hut with a quick, “I'll see you tomorrow, Kagome!”

 

Miroku chuckled. “You do have a way with children. And, Kagome, I too will see you in the morning.”

 

“Bye, Kagome.” Sango followed Miroku and Shippou out the hut. Kaede preoccupied herself by sipping on herbal tea on the other side of the hut. InuYasha non-too-gracefully laid Kagome on the futon, covering her with his haori, and edged off to the closest side of the wall, leaning against it, eyes fixed on her.

 

“You're not going to sleep?”

 

“Later.” She was too tired to argue with him. She closed her eyes as was soon fast asleep.

 

 

Kagome was tossed about, the ground moving under her feet causing her to slip over and over again. She couldn't find her footing, running and sliding down a stone hallway, Suoh's castle within the cave. Clawed hands reached for her beyond the barred doors, ripping at her shirt. The further along she got the darker and harder to walk it became. She skidded to a halt at the end of the hallway, using her hands to feel along the stone wall for some type of door.

 

“I'm not done with you miko.” Suoh's mocking laughter was amplified, bouncing off the walls. Kagome panicked, running her fingers down until she found what seemed to be a large hole coming from the floor. Hands grabbed her wrists as she jumped into the hole, she dug her nails into the hand, clawing and wiggling until Suoh's loosened grasp allowed her to fall through the hole.

 

On the other side a light was shinning through. Kagome was surprised to find a ladder at the bottom, grabbing hold and pulling herself up. She was in the well house, in her own time. Stepping out of the well house, she was greeted by a warm, welcoming sunlight. She smiled as familiar faces stepped out of the shrine.

 

“Kagome! I didn't expect you back so soon!” her mother greeted her with a hug.

 

“Hey sis! Did InuYasha come with you?”

 

“Not this time.” She rubbed her hand on her little brothers head.

 

“And good riddance to that foul creature!” her grandpa made his way to the well house, pulling out various ofudas and sticking them to the entrance. Kagome rolled her eyes at her grandpa's attempts to seal the well.

 

“Oi, wench!”

 

“InuYasha!” he stood at the base of Goshinboku smiling. Kagome started walking toward him, only to be stopped by an evil aura. “Inuyasha…?” He fell to the ground, in obvious pain. It was then that the entire world seemed to grow dark. The sun was covered with storm clouds, lighting striking the ground all around the shrine. She ran toward him, only to be stopped by Sango.

 

“It's too late, Kagome, he's gone.”

 

Kagome reached out, she could see him, he was still alive. “No, he needs me, let me go!”

 

“Kagome, he's dead. You can't help him now.”

 

“Sango, he's still alive! Please, let me go!” Sango's grip tightened until it was actually hurting her. Kagome turned to face Sango, but Sango wasn't there. “Suoh!”

 

“Come with me miko, you do not belong here anymore.”

 

“Mama! Grandpa!” she glanced over her shoulder, her family waving to her as she was led back to the well.

 

“See you in a few days, Kagome, and be careful.” Her mother replied with a smile across her face.

 

“No, mama! InuYasha! InuYasha!” she struggled against the force of the dragon-youkai. Now in the well house, Suoh slung her around, gripping both wrists. Now she was face to face with him.

 

“You can never come back here again.” He growled. And with that, she was pushed over the side of the well, falling through the darkness.

 

“Kagome… wake up.” InuYasha shook her shoulders. Kagome slowly opened her eyes, focusing on the hanyou.

 

“InuYasha.” she sighed, wrapping her arms around his neck. “I couldn't do it. I couldn't stop the dreams.”

 

“Don't worry about it. Suoh is dead, He ain't coming back.” He looked down at her, the morning sun shining down on her. “You hungry?” she nodded. InuYasha stood heading out of the hut. “Stay here, I'll be back.”

 

Kagome sat up on her futon shivering. The hut was kept warm with the fire, but the dream still left her feeling cold and scared. Her new powers didn't work in ordinary dreams, since it was her mind that created the dreams in the first place. She couldn't let dreams get to her like this, and she knew it.

 

The well. How many more times was she going to dream about her family on the other side of the well? Midoriku had told her the well was sealed. And when she had awakened, Kaede had been the one to tell her too. The others faces looked so grave, so solemn. She put up a good front to keep them from worrying even more. Kagome told them it was okay, that she expected as much, but it was really ripping her apart. She couldn't help it; in less than one day she lost her mother, grandfather, and brother; not to mention losing InuYasha, though he was back with her now.

 

She stood and steadied herself on her feet. They were shaky from not being used in days. Then she made her way to the well. She knew it was sealed, she trusted the ones who told her, but she just had to try it once more. She had to make absolutely sure there was no way back to her family. Kagome put her hands on the side of the well, swinging her feet over the side, letting go and falling only to hit solid ground at the bottom and tumbled into the stone walls. She pulled her knees up and hid her face.

 

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Coming soon in Chapter 22: FLUFFYNESS!!!!