InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Impossible Love ❯ Chapter 7 ( Chapter 7 )

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Impossible Love

Chapter 7

Hi everyone. Its me!! I'm sorry for taking so long. I had written the next chapter and by the time I got around to posting it, I had forgotten my login!! But now I'm back and hopefully things will progress rather quickly. Also I have this story posted on Fanfiction.net again too, but only the first four chaps. Anyway, here is the long awaited Chapter 7!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Inuyasha stepped outside. He looked around at his home and his brethren. The clan, who had gathered outside the castle awaiting news, all froze at the sight of him. Tension crackled in the air.

Inuyasha rose his hands and called, "Inu Clan! The Wolves have done us a great wrong! They attacked us at our own front door! They have killed some of our brethren! They have taken one of our number back to their den!" His voice broke into a snarl as he said this. "Are we to take that lying down? Are we?"

"No!" They cried together.

"Are you ready to avenge your clan?" He yelled.

"Yes!"

He looked around at them all and lowered his hands, grinning. "Good. 'Cause I sure as hell can't do it alone."

They all laughed and the tension in the air broke, exactly what he'd been intending to do. He rose his hands again to silence them. " I want everyone who is of age, besides the elders and females pregnant or nursing pups, to be ready to go within the hour!" He spun on a group of slender athletic-looking youkai. The trackers of the Inu Clan. " I want the two fastest of you to leave in half that time. Get your things and go."

Two females broke from the group, bowed to Inuyasha, and ran for their dens. He looked around at the bustling activity of his clan. His gaze fell on the lake and his thoughts turned to Kagome. Please, Kagome. Hold on. Be strong. I'm coming for you.


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Kagome awoke to pain. I really hope this isn't going to become a lifestyle, she thought. A few moments later, she realized that Sango and the others were talking in hushed tones a little ways away. More importantly, they were talking about her.

"I just want to know who she is." Miroku was saying.

"She saved my life." Sango said heatedly. "That's enough for me."

"Exactly. If Kouga had struck you as hard as he hit her, you would have died. And yet, this girl, who was already seriously wounded, survived. She's only been asleep for a day and a half and her injuries are healing as if they were a week old, at least. I'm almost positive that she's not entirley human."

"So you don't trust things that aren't human?" Shippo piped up in a hurt voice. Killala hissed, backing up his question.

"Of course I do-"

Sango cut him off. "And are you questioning my tajai abilities?" Sango snapped.

"I am not questioning your abilities, Sango. " Miroku said placidly. " I only mean to caution you."

Kagome pushed herself up on her knees with all the strength she could muster, ignoring the painful protests of her battered body. "He's right you know." Kagome hissed through clenched teeth, leaning back against the stone wall. " You can't trust me." She opened her eyes and glared at the shocked looks on their faces. "And you almost certainly shouldn't try to befreind me."

Miroku had the sense to look abashed. Shippo made as if to dash towards her, but something in her look must have stopped him. Sango, however, stood and walked to her. She kneeled down in front of Kagaome and touched her forehead to the stone floor.

"Arigato for saving my life. I can never fully repay you for what you have done, Kagome." She spoke to the floor.

Kagome was shocked. She blushed in embarassment. " Sango, don't . . . I'm not . . get up."

The older woman lifted her head. " But you saved my life."

"I did what I had to do. I don't need your thanks. Now please, get up. Don't bow to me. No one bows to me." Her voice dropped to a whisper.

Sango looked confused, but did as Kagome asked. Miroku stepped forward. " I appoligize, Lady Kagome. I didn't mean to offend you. I too am grateful that you saved Sango. But you must understand my misgivings."

Kagome looked up at him. "And I said that you were right." She looked around, meeting their eyes. "My name is Kagome Higurashi." They gasped, even Shippo.

"So that means . . ." Shippo began.

"The Maiden from the Bone-Eater's Well!" Sango and Miroku said in unison.

"I thought that you had returned to your home through the well! We never knew that you had come back!"

"Noone but the Inu Clan of the West knew I was here. Until Kouga discovered my secret."

"How did the Inu clan know?" Shippo asked, moving to her side.

In answer, Kagome pulled down the collar of her filthy shirt, to show the mark on her neck. Sango and Miroku gasped again. Sango moved closer.

"A mating mark?" Miroku asked. Kagome noded

"This mark . . it's not a normal inu mating mark." Sango whispered.

Kagome was confused. "What do you mean?"

"I mean that a normal inu mating mark is a silvery blue cresent moon. Yours is red."

Miroku looked down at her. "How do you know that, Sango?" He asked.

Sango looked up at him. "I'm a tajai. I have to know these things." She looked back at the mark. "I've never heard of this kind of mark before." She glanced up at Kagome. "Would you mind telling us who gave you that mark?"

Kagome took a deep breath. "Prince Inuyasha of the Inu Clan of the West." She said his name in the formal way it was meant to be said. Another round of gasps. Kagome sighed in frustration. " Can you all stop doing that please?"

Sango and Miroku appeared to be having a coversation, but neither of them were saying a word. "You know what this means don't you?" Miroku asked aloud.

Sango nodded. "When the time comes, we will have to be ready to move."

Miroku shook his head. "Remember. They stored them in the main den. We won't have a chance."

"Killila is very fast."

"What are you two talking about?" Kagome burst out.

They jumped and Sango looked around. "Sorry." She said to Kagome.

"What we were saying was, if you are the mate of Prince Inuyasha, then the Inu Clan will be coming for you. They will wage a war with the wolves."

"And?" Kagome asked. She had already worked that much out for herself.

"And," Sango continued, "The wolves will not give us a chance to escape and fight alonside the Inu Clan. We will be killed the moment a battle is imminent, here at the wolves' den."

"However, Sango and I have the ability to sense demonic auras. We will be able to sense the Inu clan when they get close."

"And when that time comes, we will be able to escape, just before the Inu Clan gets here. They won't worry about chasing prisoners when their den is in danger."

Kagome shook her head. "I wouldn't get your hopes up." She said quietly, looking down.

Sango looked down at her, confused. "Why?"

Kagome took a deep breath. " Because I told Inuyasha, I never wanted to see him again. We hadn't talked for a week before I was taken." She fought to swallow a lump in her throat. She continued, not realizing she was speaking aloud. "I was looking for him to appoligize when Kouga showed up-"

A loud howl outside, interupted her. They all looked up to the crack high in the cave wall. Voices were floating into the cave, loud and numerous.

"Kouga has called another meeting." Miroku observed aloud.

"A meeting for what?" Shippo asked.

"Let's listen and see. The meetings are held right on the other side of this wall, so we're able to hear them. " Sango said to Kagome, shifting to sit against the cave wall beside her.

As if on cue, Kouga's voice cut through the cave. "Wolves! Hear me! I have been to the Western Lands and do you know what I found there?! The Maiden from the Bone-Eaters Well!" The air was suddenly full of shocked cries and howls. "Yes! It is true. The Inu Clan has been hiding her all these years. Well not anymore! We have her! And when I have mated her, the wolves will rise above all others! We will reign supreme over all the land! The Hour of the Wolf has come, at last!" Howls and cheers almost drowned out his last words.

Kagome, who had frozen at the words 'When I have mated her . .', was totally oblivious to Miroku and Sango's shocked stares. I can't mate him, she thought wildly. I'm mated to Inuyasha. Iya-Yuma's voice sounded in her head, 'You do realize that until she is fully mated, she is still in danger . .'. Oh, no, she thought.

Her hand came up to the mark on her neck. Inuyasha's mark. "Inuyasha . . ."

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I know that some of that seemed a little weird but it will all be explained next time

I know it's shorter than the older chapters, but thats all I can do for now. I'll have a new chapter up by next week. I promise. It will be longer than this one by far. And thank you all for the reveiws and support. Tell me what you think.