InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ InuYasha ❯ Scroll Three: Miroku's Confession, A Fatal Attack ( Chapter 3 )
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By: acraftuser3 
Kagome goes home... Shippou aggrivates.. Miroku confesses.. and an attack.. what will happen next..? Stay tuned to find out!
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 10.28.2004 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.6K | Visits: 250 | Status: Completed
Kagome goes home... Shippou aggrivates.. Miroku confesses.. and an attack.. what will happen next..? Stay tuned to find out!
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 10.28.2004 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.6K | Visits: 250 | Status: Completed
Disclaimer: I own no part of InuYasha, just the characters I create myself. Okay. Here's the thing, I had this chapter almost completely typed up, then the disk that I had it on, got erased, so it's taken me longer than I liked to get this finished, and I'm so sorry that it's taken me this long to do. And it happend TWICE!!! Everything's been so hectic too. First graduation and possible surgery. -.- I'd also like to thank everyone for their support on wanting me to continue, it's comments like that , that really inspire me to write more chapters, including to make them longer for your enjoyment. ^^;; So.. please.. enjoy! Just incase anyone wanted to know. ^^;; I'd also like to thank everyone for all of their great comments and let you all know it really inspires me to write more. And I'm glad you like the story.
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~~Scroll Three: Miroku's Confession, A Fatal Attack~~
---Three weeks later: Kaede's village---
It had been three weeks since Kikyou had "warned" Kagome and since she tried to leave, alone with the demon attack. The wound on Kagome's neck had already healed and there was barely even a hit of a scar. The shoulder wound however still hurt her a lot though the wound was almost healed. Whenever she used the arm InuYasha would yell at her and Shippou would scold her. Kagome was still sleeping fast asleep in Kaede's hut, as well was Shippou.
Sango and Miroku on the other hand were in the village off seeing if any of the villagers needed help ith any of their daily chores, Kirara was with them and was helping cart things around for the elderly villagers. InuYasha just happened to be down at the river with Kaede-baba and was watching as she washed clothes and he was complaining to her as usual.
Shippou slowly awoke to find that Kagome-Chan was still asleep. Rubbing his eyes Shippou went over to Kagome and made sure that she was really asleep before he left the hut and then went to the river to get a bit to drink since his throat was a bit parched. As he approached the river he saw Kaede and InuYasha, InuYasha was barking at Kaede about if she had any information about that village and any on the Shikon no Tama shards.
'Poor Kaede' Shippou thought as he leaned down and cupped some water in his hands then the next thing he knew he was in the water with a knot on his head and was looking up at InuYasha.
"Hey!" Shippou said angrily. "What was that for!? I didn't do anything to you!"
"You idiot!" InuYasha yelled. "You left Kagome in the hut alone!"
"I'm not an idiot! And when I left she was still sleeping!" Shippou yelled in turn.
"You still shouldn't have left her there alone!" He barked at Shippou.
Shippou pouted as he sat in the water and muttered. "Well if your so concerned about her why don't you go check on her."
"You brat!" He yelled and hit Shippou on the head again then marched off toward Kaede's hut.
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Kagome's eyes slowly opened as she woke up. She sighed softly and rolled over onto her back. For the past three weeks her thoughts had been on the incident and the kiss she gave InuYasha. He acted as if nothing had changed. 'I guess he was right. The kiss really had changed nothing.' Even though she had told him she understood she wished she didn't. Her heart was aching. Slowly sitting up she winced as her shoulder throbbed with a twinge of pain.
She wondered when the pain would stop. She reached for her bag with her uninjured arm and stood. It was time for her to go home for a bit. She carefully strapped on her back pack and then left the hut heading toward the bone eaters well.
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InuYasha mumbled to himself as he walked back to Kaede's hut. Finally reaching his destination he walked into the hut. "Kaggome are you up--" he broke off seeing that Kagome wasn't there. 'Where could she have gone?' he thought and then it hit him. The well! With that in mind he turned and ran out of the hut quickly to the bone eaters well.
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Kagome sat down on the well and thought back to a few nights ago when InuYasha had finally demanded to know who had done this to her. She couldn't tell him. She didn't have the heart to tell him it had been Kikyou. She didn't want to see him sad, or worse pitying her. She shook her head and stood, turning around ready to jump into the well until her eyes met InuYasha's.
"When were you planning on telling me you were going back home?" he said emotions swirling in his eyes.
"I didn't." she said softly her own eyes filling with emotions. "I need sometime at home InuYasha. I'll be back, I promse. I have to go catch up on my school work. Besides I haven't been home in three weeks. I'm sure my family is worried about me. "She wanted to go to him. Hug him. But she knew she shouldn't. She musn't.
InuYasha watched her. "I see." he replied emotionless. "Go then."
Kagome nodded and leaped into the well. 'I'll be back, InuYasha.' She thought. 'I promise.'
InuYasha watched as Kagome leaped through the well his heart aching. "You had better come back, Kagome!" he shouted. With that he turned and went to talk to Kaede again.
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"That must be heavy for you Sango, why don't you let me carry that?" Miroku said smoothly.
Sango sweat dropped and her eyes grew beaddy as her eyebrow twitched. "No. It's fine. I can carry it myself." she replied and set the large basket of vegetables down near the hut. "There." she said and wiped the sweat from her forehead. "That's the last of them." She let out a sigh and whistled for Kirara not long later Kirara came running to Sango and she smiled. Then looking at Houshi-Sama she said. "Why don't we go back to the hut and see if Kaede-Sama has fixed lunch, shall we, Houshi-Sama?"
Miroku nodded his head. "Yes lets. I'm sure it will taste wonderful. Expecially after a hard days work." he replied.
With that Miroku, Sango, and Kirara headed off to the hut.
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Kaede sighed softly at hearing InuYasha tell her that Kagome had went back to her own time and figured that something had transpired between the two Kaede shook her head and continued to stir the pot of stew. "Stop ye complaining, InuYasha."
"I'm not complaining." he growled.
Just before InuYasha could really get into it with Kaede Shippou ran into the hut looked around and asked. "Where's Kagome?"
InuYasha settled himself back on the floor and said. "She went back to her own time."
"She... she went back to her own time?" Shippou exclaimed. "Why? What did you do to make her go back?"
InuYasha's eyebrow twitched slightly. "I didn't do or say anything to make her go back. She said she needed time to catch up on things back in her own time."
Shippou finally took a good look at InuYasha and calmed down. InuYasha didn't seem like his usual self. It seemed like he was more subdued than usual. Looking at InuYasha with a sympathy Shippou walked over to Kaede and sat down.
"What in the hell? Why are you looking at me like that!?" InuYasha burst out.
"Oh nothing." Shippoou said and adverted his gaze. Just then Kirara daared into the hut, followed by Sango and Miroku.
"Kirara!" Shippou said and smiled as Kirara ran over to him and laid down beside hiim mewing softly.
"Where... is Kagome?" Miroku questioned as he and Sango sat down.
InuYasha's eyebrow twitched again. He was really getting tired of that question and snapped. "She went back to her own time, now stop asking!"
Both Sango and Miroku blinked at him and Miroku whispered to Shippou. "What's his problem?"
Shippou shok his head. "Who knows?"
I can still hear you, you know!" InuYasha yelled and shook his fist at them.
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--Kagome's Time--
Kagome sighed softly and winced as she crawled out of the well. 'I hope that the time away... is good for me and him.' she thought and shook her head and then slipped out of the well house and walked silently toward her house. Kagome slid the door open stepped in and closed it. "Hi, I'm home." her voice lacking the usual eneergy. She was just so tired. Her wounds hadn't completely healed and were aching slightly. Suddenly she heard a meow and looked down to see Buuyo.
"Hey, where is everyone, Buuyo?" Suddenly she heard feet on the stairs and glanced up just as her little brother Souta darted into the room.
"Kagome!" he yelled and launched himself at his sister hugging her tightly. "Where have you been? We were so worried about you!"
Kagome winced as her brother launched himself at her causing her to stumble and jar her injuries and then said without thinking. "I got hurt and needed sometime to heal before I came back." 'Oh no!" she thought. 'What was am I doing? why did I tell him that?' Now all they were going to do when she was in the Sengoku Jidi was worry about her. Souta's eyes widened. "What? You were hurt?"
Kagome nodded. "Yes but I'm okay, just don't jolt me too much. Where's mom and grandpa?" she said looking around.
"Oh. Mom's out grocery shopping and I haven't seen grandpa all day. Who knows where he could be, all I know is he's been having a lot of fun making up illnesses for you. Hey sis, are you sure you're okay? You sure are looking pale..."
She nodded again. "Yeah I'm okay, I'm just going to go up and sleep for a while. Oh yeah! I don't have any big tests comming up anytime soon do I?"
Souta shook his head. "Not that I know of, sis. Go on and get some sleep. I'll tell mom and grandpa your home, what happened, and that your getting some much needed rest."
Kagome just nodded again wondering when her brother became so responsible. "Thank you, Souta." she hugged him. "I really appreciate this."
Souta smiled and hugged her back. "You're welcome, sis." 'Good thing it's Friday' he thought.
Kagome smiled too and tiredly left the room and went upstairs to her own room and promptly tossed her bag onto the floor beside her bed. "Ugh. I'm so tired..." with that she shed her clothes, dressed in her pajamas and slipped under the covers, falling fast asleep.
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"She was what?!" Souta's grandpa exclaimed.
"She got hurt. But she's okay now, she's upstairs getting some sleep. She looked like she needed it."
"She needs to go to the hospital!" he yelled.
"Now, now, grandfather, calm yourself. How would we wxplain her injuries to anyone? I'll just have a look at them later when Kagome wakes up." His mother said.
Souta just shook his head and looked at his grandpa. "Shh. Don't wake Kagome up."
"Oh. that's right. She's asleep." Grandpa said.
"Let's go put the groceries up Souta, and then maybe you can help me cook dinner after you do your homework. If you have any." His mother said.
"Okay!" He said and followed his mother into the kitchen.
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InuYasha sighed deeply as he gazed out over the land in his usual tree outside the village, his thoughts on Kagome. He hoped she was okay. It had been night for sometime now, an dhe had thoguht to go see her but then he remembered the look Kagome had on her face right before she left.
He shook his head. He'd give her space. After all he was the cause of her pain. He sighed again.
"Are you going to sit up there and mope the intire time Kagome's gone?" Shippou asked.
Hearing the Kitsune InuYasha growled and then yelled down at him. "That's none of your business."
Shippou shook his head. "You sure do get sulky and cranky when Kagome isn't around, unlike when Kikyou's around. It's like you'd prefer to be in the company of Kag-" That's as far as Shippou got because at that moment InuYasha had had enough and jumped down out of the tree his teeth bared at Shippou. He shook his fist at him as well.
"It's none of your damn business! Now leave me the hell alone and go bug Miroku or Sango before I get really angry!" he growled at the little Kitsune.
Shippou sweat dropped and stuttered. "I.. I... bye!" with that he took off running.
'Oh no!' InuYasha thought. 'He wasn't getting away with it that easily.' Without another thought he took off running after Shippou. "Get back here you little brat!"
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Miroku shook his head as he stepped out of Kaede's hut having heard the yelling, he wanted to know what those two were up to. Again. When he saw Shippou being chased by InuYasha he just shook his head and muttered. "You'd think that Shippou would learn not to aggrivate InuYasha when Kagome-Sama is gone."
Shaking his head again Miroku stepped away from the hut and headed toward the bone eaters well, needing peace and quiet. 'It was so peaceful when he wasn't near InuYasha.' he thought and then grinned a bit. 'Though it never was borning.'
Miroku inhailed the wonderfully crisp and clear night air as he approached the well. The place where Kagome and InuYasha could travel to each others times. Every once in a while he wondered what it would be like to see that future, but he knew it wasn't for him. Hell. He didn't even know if he really had a future at all.
Suddenly his train of thought went to Sango as he sat down and leaned against the well. He'd never really let anyone know this... but he did care for Sango. Deeply, but he wouldn't ever be able to tell her much less show it. He couldn't offer her anything... not right now. Not until he himself was sure he even had a future.
It wouldn't be fair to Sango if she fell in love with him only to lose him to the hole in his right hand... He glanced down at his hand then lifted it up looking at his palm. 'Damn you, Naraku.' He thought. 'We will destroy you. I will have a future. I won't let you take it away from me like you did my father and grandfather.' His eyes grew hard and cold. "You will die for all the pain you caused. For Sango, InuYasha, me, Kagome, and Shippou." Miroku said aloud.
"Houshi-Sama." a familar voice said.
Miroku lowered his hand and looked toward Sango. "Yes, Sango? Is something wrong?" he blinked at her.
Sango shook her head and sat down on the opposite side of the well and leaned back against it. "So... why did you come all the way out here?"
"To be alone." he said. "To think."
"Oh. I'll leave you alone then." Sango started to get up but stopped at the tone of Houshi-Sama's words rather than the words themselves. It.. was as if he needed her there..
"No. Don't go." he said with a tone in his voice even he's never heard.
Sango's eyes shook with emotion as she tried to say as calmly as possible. "Okay. I'll stay."
"Hey Sango?" Miroku said.
Sango looked up at the sky, only three more days until a new moon, she thought, Houshi-sama's voice breaking her thoughts. "Yes, Houshi-Sama?"
Miroku stared out infront of himself and then finally said to her. "When we finally destroy Naraku... how are you going to handle your brother? I mean... with the Shikon no Tama shard in his back and everything.."
Sango was silent for a long while and then replied. "I'm not ready to let my little brother go yet, Houshi-Sama... I don't know if I ever will be... but I'll do whatever I have to do... in the end."
"Well with whatever you decide... I'll be here for you, Sango. No matter what." He said and felt like his heart was open wide..
Sango blinked tears from her eyes and cleared her throat. "Will you Houshi-sama? I'd rather think you'd be off womanizing, asking every woman in sight to bare your children..."
"Sango..." he whispered softly. "You know I don't have much of a future... and nothing to offer... but if I did... I would offer for yo--" he didn't get a chance to finish because at that moment he sensed a demon comming from the side where Sango was sitting.
Knowing even if he called out to her she wouldn't be able to move quickly enough so instead he quickly and stealthy moved infront of Sango so he'd get the brunt of the attack.
Just as he moved infront of her a giant snake-demon came crashing through the trees releasing a lot of snakes from the palms of it's hands, right at Miroku's back. As soon as they were released they immediately sank their fangs into his back injecting poison.
Miroku winced and uttered painfully, the snakes disappearing as their job was done. "Sango... go find Inuyasha."
Sango's eyes trembled with emotions at what he did. "Houshi-sama..." she cried. "Why?" she said fiercely. "I won't leave you alone! I refuse to!"
Ignoring her question Miroku yelled. "Yes you can, now go!" He looked her straight in the eyes and as quickly as possible got up, dug in his sleeve grabbing a couple of sutras, then turning quickly threw them at the snake-demon.
"Go Sango!" he said harshly, knowing she was defenseless, her weapons back in the village.
Torn between staying, with Houshi-sama and going to find InuYasha she froze, but then suddenly it was as if her heart had taken over her body, and she ran as quickly as possible yelling. "InuYasha!"
Suddenly out of no where InuYasha appeared. Sango's katana in one hand and her Hiraikotsu in the other and over his shoulder.
"Where's the demon?" he said, his eyes cold and hard, as the scent of it filled his nostils.
Shippou hurridly caught up to InuYasha and Sango. "What's... going on..?" he said breathlessly.
Sango tried to catch her breath as she said. "At the bone-eaters-well. Houshi-Sama is there. He's injured badly. We've got to hurry."
InuYasha gave Sango her weapons and then took of running for the bone-eaters-well.
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So.. what'd you think.. was it any good? Was it promising? Do you want more? o.o;; And I again apologize for it being so long to make this chapter. But it got deleted twice and it was so hard to rewrite it all with new ideas. So enjoy! I apologize for having the first part of every sentence cut off. I didn't know how to fix it, so I manually spacebar'd it from the side.
Definitions:
Kaede-baba: Kaede, old hag, hag, Kaede-hag. Things like that.
Houshi-Sama: Miroku
Sengoku Jidi: The Warring States
Kitsune: Fox; Shippou
Shikon no Tama: Sacred Jewel
Scroll Four, hopefully comming soon!
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~~Scroll Three: Miroku's Confession, A Fatal Attack~~
---Three weeks later: Kaede's village---
It had been three weeks since Kikyou had "warned" Kagome and since she tried to leave, alone with the demon attack. The wound on Kagome's neck had already healed and there was barely even a hit of a scar. The shoulder wound however still hurt her a lot though the wound was almost healed. Whenever she used the arm InuYasha would yell at her and Shippou would scold her. Kagome was still sleeping fast asleep in Kaede's hut, as well was Shippou.
Sango and Miroku on the other hand were in the village off seeing if any of the villagers needed help ith any of their daily chores, Kirara was with them and was helping cart things around for the elderly villagers. InuYasha just happened to be down at the river with Kaede-baba and was watching as she washed clothes and he was complaining to her as usual.
Shippou slowly awoke to find that Kagome-Chan was still asleep. Rubbing his eyes Shippou went over to Kagome and made sure that she was really asleep before he left the hut and then went to the river to get a bit to drink since his throat was a bit parched. As he approached the river he saw Kaede and InuYasha, InuYasha was barking at Kaede about if she had any information about that village and any on the Shikon no Tama shards.
'Poor Kaede' Shippou thought as he leaned down and cupped some water in his hands then the next thing he knew he was in the water with a knot on his head and was looking up at InuYasha.
"Hey!" Shippou said angrily. "What was that for!? I didn't do anything to you!"
"You idiot!" InuYasha yelled. "You left Kagome in the hut alone!"
"I'm not an idiot! And when I left she was still sleeping!" Shippou yelled in turn.
"You still shouldn't have left her there alone!" He barked at Shippou.
Shippou pouted as he sat in the water and muttered. "Well if your so concerned about her why don't you go check on her."
"You brat!" He yelled and hit Shippou on the head again then marched off toward Kaede's hut.
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Kagome's eyes slowly opened as she woke up. She sighed softly and rolled over onto her back. For the past three weeks her thoughts had been on the incident and the kiss she gave InuYasha. He acted as if nothing had changed. 'I guess he was right. The kiss really had changed nothing.' Even though she had told him she understood she wished she didn't. Her heart was aching. Slowly sitting up she winced as her shoulder throbbed with a twinge of pain.
She wondered when the pain would stop. She reached for her bag with her uninjured arm and stood. It was time for her to go home for a bit. She carefully strapped on her back pack and then left the hut heading toward the bone eaters well.
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InuYasha mumbled to himself as he walked back to Kaede's hut. Finally reaching his destination he walked into the hut. "Kaggome are you up--" he broke off seeing that Kagome wasn't there. 'Where could she have gone?' he thought and then it hit him. The well! With that in mind he turned and ran out of the hut quickly to the bone eaters well.
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Kagome sat down on the well and thought back to a few nights ago when InuYasha had finally demanded to know who had done this to her. She couldn't tell him. She didn't have the heart to tell him it had been Kikyou. She didn't want to see him sad, or worse pitying her. She shook her head and stood, turning around ready to jump into the well until her eyes met InuYasha's.
"When were you planning on telling me you were going back home?" he said emotions swirling in his eyes.
"I didn't." she said softly her own eyes filling with emotions. "I need sometime at home InuYasha. I'll be back, I promse. I have to go catch up on my school work. Besides I haven't been home in three weeks. I'm sure my family is worried about me. "She wanted to go to him. Hug him. But she knew she shouldn't. She musn't.
InuYasha watched her. "I see." he replied emotionless. "Go then."
Kagome nodded and leaped into the well. 'I'll be back, InuYasha.' She thought. 'I promise.'
InuYasha watched as Kagome leaped through the well his heart aching. "You had better come back, Kagome!" he shouted. With that he turned and went to talk to Kaede again.
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"That must be heavy for you Sango, why don't you let me carry that?" Miroku said smoothly.
Sango sweat dropped and her eyes grew beaddy as her eyebrow twitched. "No. It's fine. I can carry it myself." she replied and set the large basket of vegetables down near the hut. "There." she said and wiped the sweat from her forehead. "That's the last of them." She let out a sigh and whistled for Kirara not long later Kirara came running to Sango and she smiled. Then looking at Houshi-Sama she said. "Why don't we go back to the hut and see if Kaede-Sama has fixed lunch, shall we, Houshi-Sama?"
Miroku nodded his head. "Yes lets. I'm sure it will taste wonderful. Expecially after a hard days work." he replied.
With that Miroku, Sango, and Kirara headed off to the hut.
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Kaede sighed softly at hearing InuYasha tell her that Kagome had went back to her own time and figured that something had transpired between the two Kaede shook her head and continued to stir the pot of stew. "Stop ye complaining, InuYasha."
"I'm not complaining." he growled.
Just before InuYasha could really get into it with Kaede Shippou ran into the hut looked around and asked. "Where's Kagome?"
InuYasha settled himself back on the floor and said. "She went back to her own time."
"She... she went back to her own time?" Shippou exclaimed. "Why? What did you do to make her go back?"
InuYasha's eyebrow twitched slightly. "I didn't do or say anything to make her go back. She said she needed time to catch up on things back in her own time."
Shippou finally took a good look at InuYasha and calmed down. InuYasha didn't seem like his usual self. It seemed like he was more subdued than usual. Looking at InuYasha with a sympathy Shippou walked over to Kaede and sat down.
"What in the hell? Why are you looking at me like that!?" InuYasha burst out.
"Oh nothing." Shippoou said and adverted his gaze. Just then Kirara daared into the hut, followed by Sango and Miroku.
"Kirara!" Shippou said and smiled as Kirara ran over to him and laid down beside hiim mewing softly.
"Where... is Kagome?" Miroku questioned as he and Sango sat down.
InuYasha's eyebrow twitched again. He was really getting tired of that question and snapped. "She went back to her own time, now stop asking!"
Both Sango and Miroku blinked at him and Miroku whispered to Shippou. "What's his problem?"
Shippou shok his head. "Who knows?"
I can still hear you, you know!" InuYasha yelled and shook his fist at them.
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--Kagome's Time--
Kagome sighed softly and winced as she crawled out of the well. 'I hope that the time away... is good for me and him.' she thought and shook her head and then slipped out of the well house and walked silently toward her house. Kagome slid the door open stepped in and closed it. "Hi, I'm home." her voice lacking the usual eneergy. She was just so tired. Her wounds hadn't completely healed and were aching slightly. Suddenly she heard a meow and looked down to see Buuyo.
"Hey, where is everyone, Buuyo?" Suddenly she heard feet on the stairs and glanced up just as her little brother Souta darted into the room.
"Kagome!" he yelled and launched himself at his sister hugging her tightly. "Where have you been? We were so worried about you!"
Kagome winced as her brother launched himself at her causing her to stumble and jar her injuries and then said without thinking. "I got hurt and needed sometime to heal before I came back." 'Oh no!" she thought. 'What was am I doing? why did I tell him that?' Now all they were going to do when she was in the Sengoku Jidi was worry about her. Souta's eyes widened. "What? You were hurt?"
Kagome nodded. "Yes but I'm okay, just don't jolt me too much. Where's mom and grandpa?" she said looking around.
"Oh. Mom's out grocery shopping and I haven't seen grandpa all day. Who knows where he could be, all I know is he's been having a lot of fun making up illnesses for you. Hey sis, are you sure you're okay? You sure are looking pale..."
She nodded again. "Yeah I'm okay, I'm just going to go up and sleep for a while. Oh yeah! I don't have any big tests comming up anytime soon do I?"
Souta shook his head. "Not that I know of, sis. Go on and get some sleep. I'll tell mom and grandpa your home, what happened, and that your getting some much needed rest."
Kagome just nodded again wondering when her brother became so responsible. "Thank you, Souta." she hugged him. "I really appreciate this."
Souta smiled and hugged her back. "You're welcome, sis." 'Good thing it's Friday' he thought.
Kagome smiled too and tiredly left the room and went upstairs to her own room and promptly tossed her bag onto the floor beside her bed. "Ugh. I'm so tired..." with that she shed her clothes, dressed in her pajamas and slipped under the covers, falling fast asleep.
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"She was what?!" Souta's grandpa exclaimed.
"She got hurt. But she's okay now, she's upstairs getting some sleep. She looked like she needed it."
"She needs to go to the hospital!" he yelled.
"Now, now, grandfather, calm yourself. How would we wxplain her injuries to anyone? I'll just have a look at them later when Kagome wakes up." His mother said.
Souta just shook his head and looked at his grandpa. "Shh. Don't wake Kagome up."
"Oh. that's right. She's asleep." Grandpa said.
"Let's go put the groceries up Souta, and then maybe you can help me cook dinner after you do your homework. If you have any." His mother said.
"Okay!" He said and followed his mother into the kitchen.
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InuYasha sighed deeply as he gazed out over the land in his usual tree outside the village, his thoughts on Kagome. He hoped she was okay. It had been night for sometime now, an dhe had thoguht to go see her but then he remembered the look Kagome had on her face right before she left.
He shook his head. He'd give her space. After all he was the cause of her pain. He sighed again.
"Are you going to sit up there and mope the intire time Kagome's gone?" Shippou asked.
Hearing the Kitsune InuYasha growled and then yelled down at him. "That's none of your business."
Shippou shook his head. "You sure do get sulky and cranky when Kagome isn't around, unlike when Kikyou's around. It's like you'd prefer to be in the company of Kag-" That's as far as Shippou got because at that moment InuYasha had had enough and jumped down out of the tree his teeth bared at Shippou. He shook his fist at him as well.
"It's none of your damn business! Now leave me the hell alone and go bug Miroku or Sango before I get really angry!" he growled at the little Kitsune.
Shippou sweat dropped and stuttered. "I.. I... bye!" with that he took off running.
'Oh no!' InuYasha thought. 'He wasn't getting away with it that easily.' Without another thought he took off running after Shippou. "Get back here you little brat!"
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Miroku shook his head as he stepped out of Kaede's hut having heard the yelling, he wanted to know what those two were up to. Again. When he saw Shippou being chased by InuYasha he just shook his head and muttered. "You'd think that Shippou would learn not to aggrivate InuYasha when Kagome-Sama is gone."
Shaking his head again Miroku stepped away from the hut and headed toward the bone eaters well, needing peace and quiet. 'It was so peaceful when he wasn't near InuYasha.' he thought and then grinned a bit. 'Though it never was borning.'
Miroku inhailed the wonderfully crisp and clear night air as he approached the well. The place where Kagome and InuYasha could travel to each others times. Every once in a while he wondered what it would be like to see that future, but he knew it wasn't for him. Hell. He didn't even know if he really had a future at all.
Suddenly his train of thought went to Sango as he sat down and leaned against the well. He'd never really let anyone know this... but he did care for Sango. Deeply, but he wouldn't ever be able to tell her much less show it. He couldn't offer her anything... not right now. Not until he himself was sure he even had a future.
It wouldn't be fair to Sango if she fell in love with him only to lose him to the hole in his right hand... He glanced down at his hand then lifted it up looking at his palm. 'Damn you, Naraku.' He thought. 'We will destroy you. I will have a future. I won't let you take it away from me like you did my father and grandfather.' His eyes grew hard and cold. "You will die for all the pain you caused. For Sango, InuYasha, me, Kagome, and Shippou." Miroku said aloud.
"Houshi-Sama." a familar voice said.
Miroku lowered his hand and looked toward Sango. "Yes, Sango? Is something wrong?" he blinked at her.
Sango shook her head and sat down on the opposite side of the well and leaned back against it. "So... why did you come all the way out here?"
"To be alone." he said. "To think."
"Oh. I'll leave you alone then." Sango started to get up but stopped at the tone of Houshi-Sama's words rather than the words themselves. It.. was as if he needed her there..
"No. Don't go." he said with a tone in his voice even he's never heard.
Sango's eyes shook with emotion as she tried to say as calmly as possible. "Okay. I'll stay."
"Hey Sango?" Miroku said.
Sango looked up at the sky, only three more days until a new moon, she thought, Houshi-sama's voice breaking her thoughts. "Yes, Houshi-Sama?"
Miroku stared out infront of himself and then finally said to her. "When we finally destroy Naraku... how are you going to handle your brother? I mean... with the Shikon no Tama shard in his back and everything.."
Sango was silent for a long while and then replied. "I'm not ready to let my little brother go yet, Houshi-Sama... I don't know if I ever will be... but I'll do whatever I have to do... in the end."
"Well with whatever you decide... I'll be here for you, Sango. No matter what." He said and felt like his heart was open wide..
Sango blinked tears from her eyes and cleared her throat. "Will you Houshi-sama? I'd rather think you'd be off womanizing, asking every woman in sight to bare your children..."
"Sango..." he whispered softly. "You know I don't have much of a future... and nothing to offer... but if I did... I would offer for yo--" he didn't get a chance to finish because at that moment he sensed a demon comming from the side where Sango was sitting.
Knowing even if he called out to her she wouldn't be able to move quickly enough so instead he quickly and stealthy moved infront of Sango so he'd get the brunt of the attack.
Just as he moved infront of her a giant snake-demon came crashing through the trees releasing a lot of snakes from the palms of it's hands, right at Miroku's back. As soon as they were released they immediately sank their fangs into his back injecting poison.
Miroku winced and uttered painfully, the snakes disappearing as their job was done. "Sango... go find Inuyasha."
Sango's eyes trembled with emotions at what he did. "Houshi-sama..." she cried. "Why?" she said fiercely. "I won't leave you alone! I refuse to!"
Ignoring her question Miroku yelled. "Yes you can, now go!" He looked her straight in the eyes and as quickly as possible got up, dug in his sleeve grabbing a couple of sutras, then turning quickly threw them at the snake-demon.
"Go Sango!" he said harshly, knowing she was defenseless, her weapons back in the village.
Torn between staying, with Houshi-sama and going to find InuYasha she froze, but then suddenly it was as if her heart had taken over her body, and she ran as quickly as possible yelling. "InuYasha!"
Suddenly out of no where InuYasha appeared. Sango's katana in one hand and her Hiraikotsu in the other and over his shoulder.
"Where's the demon?" he said, his eyes cold and hard, as the scent of it filled his nostils.
Shippou hurridly caught up to InuYasha and Sango. "What's... going on..?" he said breathlessly.
Sango tried to catch her breath as she said. "At the bone-eaters-well. Houshi-Sama is there. He's injured badly. We've got to hurry."
InuYasha gave Sango her weapons and then took of running for the bone-eaters-well.
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So.. what'd you think.. was it any good? Was it promising? Do you want more? o.o;; And I again apologize for it being so long to make this chapter. But it got deleted twice and it was so hard to rewrite it all with new ideas. So enjoy! I apologize for having the first part of every sentence cut off. I didn't know how to fix it, so I manually spacebar'd it from the side.
Definitions:
Kaede-baba: Kaede, old hag, hag, Kaede-hag. Things like that.
Houshi-Sama: Miroku
Sengoku Jidi: The Warring States
Kitsune: Fox; Shippou
Shikon no Tama: Sacred Jewel
Scroll Four, hopefully comming soon!