InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ I'm Still Here ❯ Cold ( Chapter 3 )

Chapter 3

Cold

Three more days.

Three more days of Hell. Where the fuck was he? Kagome was starting to panic. He'd been gone for five days already. She was officially worried. Maybe something had happened to him. What would she do if something had happened to him? How would she ever live with the fact that he had died without knowing how she really felt about him?

Even Sango was starting to show signs of worry; she had stopped trying to comfort Kagome. Not to mention Shippo, who kept crying for his father. Miroku was the only one who kept calm, and didn't add on to Kagome's worrying. He might have been biting his nails on the inside, but he kept it well hidden.

Kagome spent her time walking around in the woods, wanting nothing more than to crawl in a corner and die. Her journal was being filled with depressive entries; in all of them she was blaming herself if ever anything had happened to Inuyasha.

She had cried so much that she believed it was impossible for her body to produce new tears. She was at that numb stage, the one where you focus on your pain, and on nothing else. All she thought about was him, and Sango was seriously starting to worry about her friend.

It was the morning of the fifth day that Koga came around… He had sniffed his way to Kagome, and had immediately taken her hands in his. “You've been crying,” he'd said. “What has that dog done to you this time?!” He had left Kagome unprotected, and she was crying… When he would get his hands on him…

Kagome had just stared at him, and whispered, “He did nothing to me. I'm the one who hurt him.”

This time, Koga hadn't been cocky about them fighting. For once, he had understood that it was serious, and that teasing Kagome about it, or that professing his undying love for her and asking her to become his mate (for the millionth time) wasn't the good thing to do.

And then he had pulled her into a hug, and breathed her scent in deeply.

And this was when Kagome had realized something very smart.

“Koga!” she exclaimed. “Could you do me a favor?”

“Anything, Kagome,” the wolf responded, believing this was going to his favor.

“I'd like you to try and find Inuyasha… Since you have a sharp sense of smell, it shouldn't be too hard for you, right?”

Koga frowned. No, it wouldn't take him long to track down the mutt. Why had he left, anyway? As painful as it was for Koga, even a blind person could see the attraction between the hanyou and the miko. Thoughts began to form themselves in Koga's mind. Why had Inuyasha left so suddenly? Had something went wrong in their `relationship'? Was he coming back?

By the looks of it, Kagome was very upset, and Inuyasha was probably gone… for a while, at least. This was a very good thing for him… He could take advantage of Inuyasha's absence and Kagome's vulnerability to get close to her. And if finally Inuyasha came back, Kagome would have fallen in love with Koga and forgotten about the hanyou completely.

“Of course, Kagome,” the wolf answered, not even trying to hide the hypocrisy in his tone. But Kagome hadn't even noticed, as a surge of relief flooded her senses. She was finally going to see Inuyasha again!

“Thank you, Koga!” She grinned, giving him a kiss on the cheek. “I owe you, big time!”

“Anytime, beautiful.” He could really get used to this, he thought. “But you have to come with me. I wouldn't want you staying here all by yourself.”

“Of course!” Kagome chirped. “I'll be very happy to come with you!” Nothing could begin to express the joy Kagome felt at the moment. She smiled at the wolf demon. “Can we leave yet?”

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Sango worried her bottom lip as she stared at Kagome. “I think we should go with you.”

“You'll just make it take longer!” Koga whined, yet again.

This had been going on for about thirty minutes already. Kagome had explained to Sango what they were going to do, and Sango had insisted to go with them. She thought everyone should. Kouga, who only wanted to spend alone time with Kagome, thought they were going to slow them down.

“Kouga's right, Sango…” Kagome said shyly. She wanted to find Inuyasha as quickly as possible, and if Sango was going to slow them down, she figured she'd rather go alone with Kouga.

Sango stared at Kagome for a moment, and opened her mouth to speak, but was interrupted by Miroku. “I don't think so, Kagome. I can help track down Inuyasha's youki with my spiritual powers - ”

“So can I,” countered the miko.

The wind was blowing through the autumn leaves on the floor, the only sound breaking the crushing silence. “Listen, Kagome…” Sango started. “We don't want you on your own… And besides, we're wasting time, already.”

Kagome gaped at her and then sighed, casting a pleading look to Kouga. “Alright, alright,” he blurted out in desperation. “Let's just go, for the love of Kami.”

“Yes, let's go!” Kagome answered with a meaningful look. She wanted to get to Inuyasha as fast as possible.

And so Sango, Miroku and Shippo settled on Kirara, Kouga held Kagome on his back like Inuyasha usually did, which made Kagome's eyes tear, and they all left. The whole time, Kagome felt her heart pounding: she would finally get to see her hanyou again.

She made up a bunch of scenarios in her mind - she would run up to him, kiss him, apologize, kiss him again, and then see where that would lead. Just thinking about it made her stomach coil and Kouga was surprised to smell her arousal. `Already,' he thought. He was persuaded that she was turned on because she was on his back.

They flew through the forest, Kagome questioning Kouga about his nose every now and then.

“Are we close?” she asked when she started to see water.

“Yeah, I think he's around here.”

Kagome felt her heart pounding harder and harder. Her throat was tightening and her insides twisting. She wanted to see him so bad! They'd been looking for him all day already, and Kagome thought the last few minutes were the worst.

Sango, Miroku and Shippo were watching her carefully, each feeling relieved. They could hear their conversations, and Sango was thankful to know they were getting close to Inuyasha.

“We can stop here,” Kouga said, and they all stopped. Kirara got back into her cat size and Sango held her tightly.

“Thank you,” she said with a smile. Then she added, turning to Kouga, “See? We kept up with you.”

Kouga nodded in response, asking Kagome to follow him. They all walked behind him for a few minutes, until he got to the end of a cliff, and looked down. “The smell is coming from down there,” he said.

Kagome looked down, and then frowned. “But all I see is water…”

“Maybe he went for a swim,” Shippo suggested.

Kagome ignored him, and started jumping down on rocks that were stuck to the cliff.

“What the hell are you doing, woman?!” Kouga yelled. “This isn't the time for mountain climbing.”

But Kagome wasn't listening. She grabbed on to rocks and tried to settle herself on the bigger ones. There was sort of a platform lower, and she saw something red… She stared down; tears in her eyes as she hurried down the cliff. She scraped her leg twice, heard Kouga protesting, and Sango begging him to leave her alone.

She felt the blood trickle down her knee, but couldn't care less. She jumped onto the platform and felt her heart skip a beat.

There was Inuyasha's haori.

Inuyasha's bloody haori.

She let out a little scream, before everything went black, and she collapsed.

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Oii chicas :: smiles ::

Don't kill me for updating late!! (It's my birthday today so I guess that can be my gift from you all?)

Soo sorry though… I had a major block.

And I know this chapter is really short, but it was such a great place to stop.. Lol.

IK / InusMistress