InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ InuYasha: The Journey Continues ❯ Chapter 6: Exchanges and Delays ( Chapter 6 )

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Chapter 6: Exchanges and Delays

 

~* Christmas Eve *~

 

The sun was shining brightly and there was no cloud in sight. InuYasha woke to hear the bustle of the villagers as they began their day. He climbed down from his tree and drew a deep breath.

 

“Today is the day.” He thought to himself, “All my planning will pay off.”

 

He smiled thinking about what Kagome would look like when she opened her presents. InuYasha had no doubt in his mind that she would enjoy them, but, before he would think of anything else her herd all of his companions begin to wake. Shippo was the first to become audible. “Morning InuYasha.” He said through a yawn.

 

“What's so good about it?” InuYasha snapped back.

 

Shippo stared at the seemingly angry hanyou and became very defensive, “You don't have to bite my head off.” He said, “Besides, aren't you excited about Christmas and the gift exchange tonight?”

 

“”This gift exchange thing that Kagome suggests, it is just a big waist of time if you ask me.” InuYasha declared angrily. “We should be going after Naraku and completing the Shikon no Tama, not wasting time and giving gifts.”

 

“You might want to keep that sentiment to yourself.” Miroku said as he stepped into the conversation. “Kagome will get pretty upset if she hears you talking about her holiday like that. Besides she is really looking forward to it.”

 

“Feh.” InuYasha huffed. “I still think we should be hunting Naraku.”

 

“We can leave him be for now. We came awful close to destroying Akano last time, so he is probably more concerned with hiding him than us right now. Miroku stated as he walked up to InuYasha. “Besides, don't you have something to give Kagome tonight?”

 

InuYasha was taken aback by this question, and quickly responded, “What do you think?”

The others soon emerged from their slumber and spent time talking about nothing in particular until lunch time rolled around. For some reason when it was time for lunch InuYasha abruptly stood up and proceed to walk away.

 

“Where are you going InuYasha?” Kagome asked, curious to know why the hanyou got up without saying anything.

 

“I'm going out for a while. Since you guys don't seem to care about our Naraku problem, I am going to see if I can find some leads.”

 

“Do you really have to do that right now?” Kagome asked, “Can't it wait?”

 

“We've waited long enough,” InuYasha replied, “I can't stand waiting around for another second.”

 

“Well just be sure to be back by six o'clock,' Kagome responded, feeling somewhat hurt that he wasn't going to hang around, “That's when we will be exchanging gifts.”

 

“Fine, I'll try to be back by then,” He sighed and ran off. `This is perfect. No one would ever guess he was going to get the last present that he had made for Kagome.”

 

 

~* Outside the Village @ 6 o'clock *~

 

“Where is he?” Kagome asked, beginning to get worried.

 

“I am sure he is on his way, he knows how important this is to you.” Songo said reassuringly.

 

“I agree, InuYasha wouldn't do anything more to get himself into trouble.” Miroku stated.

 

“It's probably because he didn't' get Kagome a present. After all he did say that giving gifts was a waist of time.” The honest kitsune blurted out.

 

Songo and Miroku couldn't help, but, give the kitsune an evil look.

 

Kagome clinched her chest, she felt as though her heart had leapt into her throat.

 

`He didn't get me anything.' She thought, `but he was acting so different the other day. I thought that he actually cared about me.'

 

~* Several Miles Away @ 6 o'clock *~

 

“Damn it, I am late!” InuYasha swore as he flew through the trees. “I didn't think it would take long to get Kagome's present form Totosai.”

 

~Flashback~

 

“What's taking so long old man?” InuYasha grumbled to the old sword smith.

 

“You can't rush perfection, just wait a few seconds more.” Totosai responded. “I'm a sword smith not a jeweler.”

A few more minuets passed and Totosai's creation was finally completed. “There it's finally finished.”

 

“Let me see.” InuYasha asked as he snatched the creation from his hand. “Not bad for an old geezer.” InuYasha admitted as he put the item in a small hand carved box. “She'll love it.”

 

With the parcel secured he headed back to the village. InuYasha had noticed the sun was beginning to set.

 

~ End of Flashback ~

 

Just as InuYasha finished reveling in his thoughts he caught a wiff of something…. melting flesh! And another soon followed, Naraku!

 

Okay that's it for this chapter! They talked about the exchange and he was delayed. But what happens if InuYasha doesn't make it to the gift exchange at all? Next chapter: Chapter 7: The Battle Begins!

Authors Note: Chapters 7-9 will be broken up in the following order. 7: The beginning of InuYasha's battle and quite possibly a little bit of ass kicking'. 8: The gang exchange gifts because they are tired of waiting on InuYasha, Kagome gets pissed. Chapter 9: The exciting conclusion of InuYasha's battle. Sorry to leave you on a cliff like that, but, it always makes people want more.