InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ InuYasha: Legend of the Record Keeper ❯ Hurt ( Chapter 7 )

A/N: I dun own InuYasha!

 

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Sally: Hey don't bring me into this! *Covers Alex's mouth before she can say anything else* On with the chapter, it's titled hurt because it depicts so many kinds of the word….actually we couldn't figure out what to title it!

 

Chapter 6:

Hurt

 

Kagome sighed as she entered the well house a slightly peeved half demon behind her, she had stayed a day later than she said she would and she was paying for it. He had practically kidnapped her off of the street and drug her home and if her friends hadn't been focused on Hojo they would have seen InuYasha jump onto the rooftops with her.

 

“Jeeze InuYasha I only stayed a day later, the girls invited me to a party and I couldn't miss it!” she pouted over her shoulder at him, he only let out a huff of angry breath.

 

“We have to find Naraku stupid! We don't have time for parties!” Kagome put on the breaks digging her heels into the dirt floor at his biting tone. She turned and glared up at him, he constantly drug her away from her time all the while griping about the search for Naraku and the Sacred Jewel.

 

 

“I don't have time for parties but you have plenty of time to run to Kikyo every chance you get!” at the guilty look on his face her anger grew, “I knew it, you saw her while I was here didn't you!?” hurt crept in with the anger. She felt tears sting her eyes and turned away from him back towards the well, “I'm glad I'm so important to you InuYasha.” There was a fair amount of scorn in her tone and she heard InuYasha stammer behind her.

 

“K..Kagome, that's not true and you know it!” he dropped the backpack in his hand and grabbed hold of her shoulders forcibly turning her back to face him, she wouldn't lift her head to look him in the eyes, she was hiding the tears in her eyes. What surprised her was that he shook her just slightly, “You are an idiot, I saw Kikyo yes but only to ask what she knew of this Record Keeper person. She knew little except that Naraku will probably want to absorb her for the dragon eye and the power to read that book.”

She blinked up at him the tears clinging to her lashes finally fell down her cheeks, InuYasha blinked then looked panicked. He quickly let go of her his face pale, “Kagome please don't cry!” he caught her up in a hug, “Please don't cry, I'll do anything just don't cry!” Kagome blinked a few times as he held her close his strong arms wrapped around her shoulders, slowly her arms raised to wrap around his waist lightly, she rested her forehead on his shoulder.

 

“InuYasha, I'm sorry, I'm not crying anymore you can let go, I'm fine.” A bold faced lie but she wasn't going to put him through anymore of a public display of affection than she had to. However he didn't let go, instead he rested his cheek against the top of her head causing her to freeze her heart stalling in her chest before it started beating twice its normal speed.

 

“Don't ever think that you don't mean anything to me Kagome.” She felt a clawed hand sink into her hair, “Kagome, how could you ever think that you're not important, if the party is that important...” she pulled away from him just slightly to peer up into his face with wide dark eyes.

 

“I miss my friends from this time InuYasha, but it's not all that important.” InuYasha stared down at her his mind was in chaos, his heart was beating as if he had just finished a fight with Sesshomaru. His chest was too tight and his head was foggy as he took in the fruity scent of Kagome's shampoo he wanted to tighten his arms around her to draw her closer, his hand itched to tighten in her hair and bring her face up to his so that he could press his lips to hers. The memory of her lips against his as she brought him out of Kaguya's spell, `I want to kiss her again, this time for just our reasons not because of some spell.' He watched her eyes widen slightly as he pulled her closer, something buried deep inside him roared to life demanding, he recognized it as his demon half. It was fighting against the Tetsiga for control, it wanted Kagome.

 

Kagome felt her stomach drop away as he drew her nearer using the hand buried in her hair to tilt her head back slightly to draw her face closer to his, she watched his golden eyes mist into a darker shade. His breath fanned over her lips and a shiver worked its way down her spine, `He's going to kiss me!' she let her eyes begin to drift closed, his lips were a hairbreadth away from hers when someone shouted her name.

 

“Kagome! Kagome, have you left yet!?” Grandpa's voice was just outside the well house door, they sprang apart just as the door slid open, both of their faces flushed bright red, “Oh good your still here, I meant to give you this.” he held up his wrinkled old hands that supported a long loop of black beads mixed with what looked to be small silver carved fang shaped beads, “It's a special rosary meant to hold demons.” InuYasha let out a sound between a yelp and a gasp and slid behind Kagome as he watched the rosary with weary eyes.

 

“InuYasha?” Kagome blinked back at the almost cowering person behind her.

 

“It's a black rosary.” He growled the words, “You need to destroy it Kagome, those things are bad news, they're cruel and used by only dark priests and priestesses.” He glared at her grandfather.

 

“Black rosary, kind of like the spell on you?” he shook his head.

 

“No, worse, these cause pain in so many ways. Any demon who is cursed with one eventually dies because it burns its way into their bodies.” He shuddered and bent to pick up her backpack his ears pinned back against his head.

 

“How do we destroy it?” her grandfather's mouth dropped open.

 

“Destroy one of the family shrine heirlooms!” Kagome snagged the rosary from his hands quickly and turned to the well jumping onto the ledge with InuYasha.

 

“Thanks grandpa, if something this bad is still around it's up to us to get rid of it!” they jumped together the blue light enveloping them, Kagome's thoughts turned back, `Was he really going to kiss me?' she blinked as she felt an arm snake around her waist and tilted her head to blink up at the half demon staring intently forward. She hid a sigh, `I must have imagined it, he'd never do that.'

 

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Kagura smirked just slightly, she floated well above the small hidden valley that the red headed woman called temporary home. She watched the red dot move around below and drifted off to one side then down to be face level with the young demon slayer almost invisible in the tree he had hidden himself in.

 

“She's here, about time those lesser demons tips paid off.” She landed on the branch beside him and placed the feather back in her hair, “She'll probably pick up on us soon, but Naraku wants her alive.” She sneered the half demons name. Kohaku only nodded and dropped silently to the forest floor and made his way towards the valley cove.

 

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Kusabana froze as a searing pain passed through her right eye; she stumbled and brought a hand up to cover it under her bangs, “Show me.” The words were whispered and another shock of pain burst through her skull as present events flooded her minds eye. Two people were headed into her valley, they were coming for her to take her to Naraku. She whirled the dark blue of her under kimono flaring around her, “Aya.” The small squirrel appeared instantly from the small shack that served as their shelter, “We have to leave, they're here.” The squirrel disappeared into the house and came back with her pink kimono, blue obi, book, and a small cloth pack clutched in her tiny teeth dragging it along the grassy ground until Kusabana stooped down to swoop all of the items into her arms.

 

She gathered her demonic aura under her and felt her feet begin to lift off of the ground, she looked forlornly at the small valley that had been her part time home over the past twenty years; she would probably never see it again. The ground fell away as she gained more air and she slipped her kimono on leaving the obi streaming from her hand along with the book and the small bag as Aya clamored onto her shoulder.

 

“Get back here!” there was a swirl of wind around her and she looked down to see a furious Kagura shooting up to meet her. She grabbed hold of the only thing she had left, the thick blue rope that held her hair up, without the pins in place she couldn't form her sword. She tugged the rope and felt it give sending her hair tumbling free as she wheeled the object filling it with her demonic aura as she lashed out with the new energy whip.

 

“Leave be wind sorceress.” She let her tone turn icy as the other woman fended off her attacks with her fan. Kusabana suppressed the gasp of surprise that threatened to escape as a cold object penetrated her demon cloud to wrap around her slender ankle, with a quick snap of the whip she severed the chain and sent herself backwards, her one thought was of escape. If Naraku ever absorbed her the demon race would be in trouble, she gritted her teeth, she knew what it would cost her. With a flare of her demonic aura her cloud formed from a mist into a comet around her that spirited her far away leaving not a trace behind. She felt the searing pain in her right arm and fought for her consciousness as her vision dimmed, when she could go no farther she let her comet disappear into a mist that gave way as her mind slipped into darkness and she dropped from the sky.

 

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The series of loud crashes that echoed through the forest caught the attention of the old woman who was pulling an herb next to a large tree, “What in the world…” she moved as quickly as her old bones would allow her over tree roots and through thick bushes. Finally she found the spot where the chaos had taken place, branches lay in a mess in shrubbery as sunlight beamed down on something laying still in the middle of the mess. Blood streaked her pale slender body and kimonos, her red hair lay around her in a tangled mess full of twigs, leaves, and even vines. Sure she was dead the old woman stepped closer only to gasp in surprise, the woman's chest still rose and fell although unevenly. It was then that the woman noted the slightly pointed ears and slight fangs peeking from the red lips of the woman, “Oh my heavens, you're a demon, and your still alive.”

 

There was an angry chattering sound and a rustle of the demon woman's clothing before a furry head appeared to hiss at the woman, “Don't you worry little one, I'm going to help your friend.” Bending with a groan she slid the woman's arm around her frail shoulders and lifted blinking in surprise when she found that the woman weight very little, the squirrel followed close behind dragging a dark blue rope, a blue obi, and a small cloth bag. The old woman sighed, “I do have my work cut out for me if I am to fix you up.”