InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Just a Litte Luv Story ❯ Her Eyes ( Chapter 2 )

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I know I said I wouldn't update until I got ten reviews, but I promised a friend to get the next Chappie out, so here it is, but this time, I really wont update until ten reviews! On that happy note ^.^ here's the next chapter...

[sigh] re-editing is tough… anyway…

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Chappie 2 Her Eyes

"Kagome," the lady said, startling Kagome, "I am the wife of the demon lord," she let that information sink in as she slid open the doors, revealing a pale, sweating, rasping young boy, about Kagome's age, laying on a simple bed. "And this is my son, the half demon prince, Inuyasha."

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What?! Kagome thought. The Lady turned to give Kagome a weak smile from her position over her son's weak body. "Can you heal him?" she asked, tearfully.

Kagome walked over to him. His breathing was raspy and shallow; his skin was almost white and slick with sweat. Looking him over, Kagome felt an aura around him. As if something was pulsing in his body in tremors. Kagome knew this feeling; Keade had to treat someone with a similar disease. The symptoms are the same too. The only difference is that the illness was much stronger in this boy, and since he is also a half demon, the aura felt a little different, but not much. She can heal him.

The lady saw the look of confidence in Kagome's face and visibly relaxed. But she also noticed her confused look as well. "I'll explain everything later, I promise." Then she smiled, and took one last look at her son, then exited the room, looking back once, with eyes that said that she's entrusting him to her care, and that she wished she could stay, too. Kagome offered her a confident smile, then turned to look at the mysterious, half demon, boy.

Kagome frowned, for some reason, his breathing was already starting to even out and the rasping wasn't as loud as it used to be. I wonder why, she thought briefly, before setting to work.

Normal sicknesses can only be healed by herbs, with very little help from miko powers, mostly charms and such. And likewise, magical illnesses can only be healed by miko powers, and perhaps a few magical herbs, usually obtained from a demon. Kagome remembered when Keade brought her to the house of the girl that was sick with this illness. The cause was a leaf, dropped by a forest demon, perhaps a squirrel demon or something like that. It had a poison in it that leeched strength out of its victim. It slowed down the body's processes, leading to a drastic drop in body temperature.

So, the first thing Kagome had to do was get this guy warmed up. For a temporary solution, she blanketed him with some of her powers, and then she got up to ask for a heating pad from a servant. While waiting for the pad to arrive, Kagome found the bathroom and got a basin of hot water and a towel, then proceeded to wipe the sweat from this boy's face. Supposedly, the purpose of the poisoned leaf was either a self protection, or a way a catching prey. The sweating was also poison triggered, another way of lowering body heat, and causing dehydration as well. His covers were completely soaked, he needed to drink something.

When the heating pad arrived, Kagome asked for a pitcher of clean lukewarm water, and the servant scurried off, once again leaving Kagome alone with the demon boy. His breathing was still pretty shallow and rasping, he was still sweating, but his body was at least heating up. Kagome felt for his pulse, her eyes widening when she found it beating irregularly, first very weak and soft, then a few heaving pumps that even showed through his chest, before almost completely vanishing again. This was bad. His body was starting to give out. She was slowly stabilizing his condition; that was all she can do at the moment. She managed to get him to drink a few glasses of water that the servant brought into the room. But his lips were still cracked and bleeding. Kagome was on the edge of panic, what could she do? She'd been putting little spells into the water and none of it seemed to be working. She gently toyed with the half demon's sweaty, snow-white puppy ears, thinking.

((flashback))

"Look Kagome, see this leaf on yon girl's back?" Keade pointed a small, red leaf out to the little miko, "it is sucking away the life of this girl."

"Then why don't you just pull it off?" Kagome asked.

The elder miko just smiled, "If ye force it off, it will kill the girl, if ye leave if there, it will kill her as well."

The ten year old sighed, "Then isn't it hopeless?"

Keade laughed, "Not quite, ye see that stem? Connected to it are roots, they reach into the body and suck it dry of life. They also secrete a poison that affects both the body and mind. Only a strong person can fight off the poison."

"I get the poison and root thing, but that still doesn't make it anymore possible to get it out!" Kagome cried, she couldn't understand why this woman was laughing when someone was dying.

Keade laughed again, "Yon girl really has nothing to worry about, the disease will pass like the cold, and the leaf will shrivel and die by itself, that's actually the only way to get rid of the disease."

Kagome looked confused, the old miko still didn't really tell how... "Lady Keade! Why would the leaf die by itself! You still haven't answered me!"

"All right child, I'll tell ye. Remember this well, ye may need it for the National Miko Competition coming up. Now listen carefully. All I need to do for this girl is use a very small portion of my power to reverse the poison's effect on the body daily, and give her water and heat to keep her alive. That is only half the battle, the other half is already won-"

"How?"

"I'm telling ye, be patient! The other half is in the mind. The poison triggers the feelings loneliness and helplessness in the mind. But this girl has a family who loves her, and I know that she knows. They also support and protect her, and I know that she knows that too. So, there's nothing I have to do, besides keep her body alive, for ye see, child, yon girl's spirit will not give in to the poison, and all I must do is keep her body alive, which requires very little power, just food, water and heat."

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Well, Kagome thought, that's all well and good, but how do I get this guy to fight and win the battle in his mind? He wasn't even awake yet. No matter what Kagome did, if he gave in to the poison in his mind, he won't survive.

Kagome gently brushed a stray lock of silver hair from his cheeks, wincing at the clammy, pale skin. His body was stabilizing considerably, but she was unsure why. It couldn't have been just because of the heating pad or the spells in the water. What's making him breathe easier? Suddenly, his breathing is much more normal. Why? It looks like he stopped sweating. Kagome quickly started to wipe as much away as possible, in order to prevent his body from losing heat to his sweat. And she continually kept slipping him water and healing spells.

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It was that scent again, the one that he smelled by his tree. But, for some reason, it didn't anger him; after all, he probably won't wake up again. The scent of his mother started to fade away, but he was vaguely aware of it. Soft padding footsteps approached his bed, but he took no notice. It would probably be better if he died anyway. Nobody wanted him to live; he'd never ever had a real friend in all his seventeen years alive. And he was never strong enough to satisfy other full demons to accept him. Lets face it, he thought with a final sigh, I'm too weak...

But that scent... it filled his nose and crawled into his unconsciousness. It was the scent of wildflowers, honey, sweet herbs and sunshine. It grabbed onto his life and refused to let it slip away. Inuyasha remembered his exhausting visit to the miko's room. Her face, so like the one who hated him so much, and her scent was vaguely similar to the one that loved him so much. He remembered looking at her sleeping eyelids, remembered wanting to see her eyes, to just see her eyes...

Numbness was starting to ebb; he could feel his body warming up. Water. Sweet spring water was wetting his cracking lips. He sighed in his sleep, there must be an angel watching over him... wait a minute. What is this?! He was feeling... happy?! Hopeful?! Why? Just in this girl's scent alone, he was finding strength. Why? Was it because she brought with her the scent of his beloved tree? That must be it. His wonderful, strong tree. But, then again, he never felt this way, thinking of his tree before. Perhaps, it's the kindness he smelled on her, that gave him something, something to hope for. But who was he kidding; she'd never want to be his friend, who would? Who'd want to be a friend to a freak? But still, he wanted to see her eyes... that was something he could keep fighting for, for a chance to find acceptance in them.

Inuyasha sighed again, this time, into sleep...

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(((There's a song that's inside of my soul.

It's the one that I've tried to write over, and over again.

I'm awake in the infinite cold.

But you sing to me over, and over, and over again.)))

That melody... he'd heard it before...

(((So I lay my head back down.

And I lift my hands and pray.

To be only yours I pray.

To be only yours.

I know now, you're my only hope.)))

Mmmm... Inuyasha moaned softly in his sleep, letting himself get carried away in the music.

(((Sing to me the song of the stars.

Of your galaxy dancing and laughing, and laughing again.

When it feels like my dreams are so far.

Sing to me of the plans that you have for me over again.)))

Inuyasha's ears twitched, listening. The soothing song and the scent were working their way into him, relaxing him and soothing him.

(((So I lay my head back down.

And I lift my hands and pray.

To be only yours I pray.

To be only yours.

I know now, you're my only hope.)))

Inuyasha cracked his eyes open, through his lashes, he could see. He could see her, her eyes closed and singing...

(((I give you my destiny.

I'm givin' you all of me.

I want your symphony, singing in all that I am.

At the top of my lungs, I'm givin' it back.)))

She was beautiful, forehead creased in concentration, and the song...it was the song his mother used to sing to him. He also finally got to look at her eyes. They were a stormy gray... His eyelids were still heavy with sleep, and so he let the miko's voice lull him back to dreamland.

(((So I lay my head back down.

And I lift my hand and pray.

To be only yours I pray.

To be only yours I pray.

To be only yours.

I know now, you're my only hope.)))

Kagome turned to gaze at her patient. She smiled and suppressed a giggle. He looked so cute, sleeping like that, mouth open a crack. He looked much better, cheeks flushed, lips smooth. Kagome smiled, she felt very proud of herself.

Inuyasha sighed in his sleep, he felt happy, for some reason. He saw something in her eyes, something, not even his mother had... he wanted to look into them again.

(((Hmm. Mmmm. Ooooo)))

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The next time Inuyasha woke up, he heard morning birds twittering, instead of that angelic voice, still echoing in his mind. He felt refreshed, cleansed. Glancing at his clock, he noticed that it was almost breakfast time. Obeying his growling stomach, he dressed quickly, in loose, cargo khakis and dark red t-shirt, and then headed downstairs.

The girl did a good job, Inuyasha thought; I don't feel sick at all... Not that I couldn't have done it by myself. He skidded to a halt in from of his dinning room. Damn, she was still here. Slowly turning around, he started to tip toe bask upstairs, but it was too late.

"Inuyasha! Come in!" the happy breezy voice of his mother drifted through the door. He hadn't heard her this happy for a long time. His eyes became soft, but quickly hardened as he collected himself and stomped in. At the table, his mother was happily chatting away to that girl, who was happily chatting away back to his mother. The younger female started to turn around to face him. Everything seemed to be in slow motion, Inuyasha's heart sped up, till you couldn't hear individual heartbeats, just buzzing. His muscles started to twitch and sweat seeped onto his back. What the heck?! What was going on? Was he really this nervous about meeting a girl?! A puny weak human girl? Was he that desperate? Before she could meet his eyes, he dashed back out the door in a red blur. Leaving the two females sitting at the table, blinking.

"Umm, I'll be right back, I think he's just nervous." Inuyasha's mother said. Kagome watched the woman leave. She was dumbfounded. She really just didn't have anything to say, or do for that matter. How are you supposed to react to that? Oh well, the rest of her stay will be very interesting, with a host like that.

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Back in the hallway...

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"Inuyasha! What was that about?! That was no way to act in front of the girl who saved your life!" She wasn't angry; Inuyasha could smell that, just amused.

"I just don't like her! She smells weird and looks just like..." Inuyasha stopped; he couldn't even say her name.

"Son, you can't keep doing this, hiding-"

"I'm not hiding!"

"Fine, living so isolated, it's time you learn how to get along with people. Now, I want you to go in there and be nice, after breakfast, you are going to give her a tour of this wing. You hear me?"

Inuyasha growled and nodded, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't say no to his mother. The lady smiled, "I've got to go, and your father would want to know how you've been doing." And she left, before Inuyasha could protest.

He took a deep breath. Now what, genius? Inuyasha asked himself. `go on!' half of him said, `it's a chance to make a new friend, after all, if she was really that cruel, she could of just let you die.' Clawed digits reached for the door. `but what if she didn't realize it at the moment, or if she was forced to heal you?' his other half reasoned back, `you know you can't take another rejection.' His hand hesitated, then taking a deep breathe, he pushed the door open.

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The door slowly slid open and a young boy grudgingly shuffled in. stormy gray met golden amber in a deadlock. Amazing eyes! Kagome thought, they're so sharp and piercing, it's like he can see into my soul! It's so hard to look away...

They're bluish gray, they're wide and innocent, they're confused and searching, they're friendly and open, there's something in there that he couldn't define. That something that he noticed while she was singing. He was losing himself in the cloudy, yet clear, twin pools, and he suddenly wanted to never find a way out of them.

It was Kagome who broke the silence, with a childish giggle. Inuyasha frowned and his ears twitched, making the girl laugh harder.

"What's so frickin funny?" Inuyasha demanded, a little ticked off.

"I'm sorry, it's just, I can never hold a stare without cracking up!" was the ... strange ... reply. Actually, Kagome thought in her head, you just looked so adorable with your doggy ears; I wonder what you looked like when you were little.

Inuyasha's frown deepened, what the heck was this girl blabbering about? That was so stupid. And, at a loss for an answer, he "fehed" and plunked down at the farthest seat and proceeded to gorge himself.

Kagome frowned a little, tilting her head in a cute little way, then picked up her dish and sat down so that they were sitting across from each other, making Inuyasha nervous.

"I'm really sorry, I just couldn't help myself," she began, "But anyway, where's your mother?"

"Mmnff."

"Um, alright then, so, what are we going to be doing, your mother said that she was going to have you show me around. She said that you have a whole Olympic sized pool! A game room, a grand piano..." Kagome stopped listing and turned to face him directly.

"Erm, what?!" He asked annoyingly.

"How big is your music room? Your mom said you have six guitars! Would it be ok if I fiddled around with them? And do you really have a whole set of string instruments? And a set of drums? How big is your piano? I love playing piano! Would it be ok if I played around on that too...?"

Kagome stopped; he wasn't even listening to her. She frowned. Apparently, he doesn't have much for manners, but then, she promised to be patient and give him a chance.

Gods! What an annoying scrawny wench! She didn't even stop for breath! Inuyasha thought angrily, all I want is to eat my frickin food here! But Inuyasha also noticed her energy, the spark that was in her eyes. Maybe, he'll give her that tour, and he'll save the music room for last.

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"... and this is my living room," Inuyasha gestured around him. It was very simple, a rectangular room with a rug, a fireplace, 4 doors, one on each wall, and a stairway in the corner, leading upstairs to Kagome's rooms, Inuyasha's rooms (bedroom, bathroom, misc. room and a second living room).

They'd already gone through the first floor, which had no rooms what so ever, just big open floor, obviously very unused. Kagome thought it would be a great place to dance; she was just aching to stretch her legs and leap around in that room. The next room he showed her was the dining room, which they were already at, Inuyasha stayed in that room the longest, hoping to annoy her. He did, but Kagome had made a promise to his mother, Asune, that she'd be patient (her mother warned her of Inuyasha's exhausting tendencies). He then took her into the game room, the library, the pool, making her sprint all the way the flights of stairs (the pool is on the third floor outside right next to the bedrooms). The whole time, he kept making snide remarks about this weakness or that "stench", poking fun at her looks and everything else. Finally, here they were, in the main living room, which Inuyasha and Kagome walked through at least five times on their way to the different rooms.

Kagome's temper was ready to explode. She was panting, sweaty, tired, and had already seen this room over five times before. Why on earth would this jerk make her race around the building three times before finally taking her here?!

"You look tired, would you like something to drink?" he sneered, "Maybe you should lie down, you weak humans shouldn't push yourselves too hard; you might pass out."

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Imagine a Mt. Vesuvius blowing up

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"YOU ARROGANT JERK!" Inuyasha twitched, ooh, he must have gotten her mad. o.O [A/N: duh, nice work Inuyasha] "You're doing this on purpose aren't you!"

"Well duh." Inuyasha replied nonchalantly.

Kagome stared at the half demon. The audacity! "Listen, you egotistical hoodlum! I came here, I was forced here, to SAVE YOUR LIFE! AND I DID! it drained over HALF my energy and took everything I knew to get you better. I stayed up all night and the whole next day, wiping your clammy face, forcing water down your scrawny throat and pumping MY miko energy into you!" Kagome panted, she was beginning to feel faint. In addition to lack of sleep, severe draining of her miko energy and running around this cursed place three+ times, she was building up stress and ready to scream.

"Are you done yet?" Inuyasha asked annoyingly and annoyed, rubbing his ringing ears.

"YES!" Kagome all but screamed and stomped upstairs to her bedroom. Inuyasha wasn't sure why, but he suddenly regretted getting her so riled up.

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What was his problem? She just saved his life! For crying out loud!!! Why on earth was he being to so rude? Kagome suddenly found the strength in her exhausted and sore muscles to pound her way upstairs and back into her room. Jeeze! She was already dead tired after spending, or in this case wasting, so much of her energy and effort getting him better, and this is how he thanks her?!

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"Damn bitch practically deafened me!" Inuyasha muttered to himself, before going into the music room, the one he'd been planning to save to show her last. [A/N: tisk tisk Inuyasha, you shouldn't have gotten her so mad] He then picked up his favorite guitar, it was acoustic, made with light- colored wood and the best of the best strings.

Absently, he fiddled with chords. His fingers started moving by themselves, slowly picking out a familiar melody. Softly, he hummed it to himself. Then, gradually, he started singing. [A/N: I know I'm kinda repeating songs, but I really like this one!!!]

(((There's a song that inside of my soul.

It's the one that I've tried to write over and over again.

I'm awake in the infinite cold,

but you sing to me over and over and over again.)))

Hard, amber pools soften into molten gold. His eyes became cloudy as he thought about the day. She had pent up a lot. Then she just exploded. It's so easy to read her eyes. Every time he tried to annoy her, he saw a little flicker in her eyes, that was pushed back with a look of determination. She had a strong will.

(((So I lay my head back down,

and I lift my hands and pray

to be only yours I pray

to be only yours.

I know now you're my only hope.)))

There was something else in her eyes. Something he was unconsciously reaching for, yet pushing away at the same time. What was it? He really wanted to get rid of her. She'd only reject him anyway. But, he also wanted her to stay. Why? She was just an annoyance to him. A flea. But, she had something in her eyes. It was something that gave him hope and strength. Her eyes were so innocent, confused, and also, something in them made Inuyasha feel that she might accept him. But it was that feeling that made it dire that she leaves as soon as possible. Because, if he let himself believe that they could be friends, it will only mean heartbreak in the end. But, he wanted so badly...

(((Sing to me the song of the stars.

Of your galaxy dancing and laughing and laughing again.

When it feels like my dreams are so far,

sing to me of the plans that you have for me over again. )))

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"Stupid, stupid, stupid incessant jerk!" Kagome cried into her pillow. She'd worked so hard, and tried so hard, and he spitted all back into her face. Kagome squeezed her eyes shut, frustrated tears dampening her soft pillow. "Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid..." she continued chanting, she pulled her stuffed dog into a tight embrace.

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(((So I lay my head back down,

and I lift my hands and pray

to be only yours, I pray

to be only yours.

I know now you're my only hope.)))

He remembered, a long time ago, his mother used to sing this song to him at night. It always gave him hope that the next day would be better. It was usually worse. At that time, Sesshomaru liked visiting to taunt and bully his younger half brother. The servants openly expressed their dislike to him, calling him a freak, and a selfish half breed. Actually, he was surprised to see that the girl acted as if he were human, she didn't smell afraid of his demon side. And she only got angry and upset because he tried to run her to death around his wing. Well, surprised was an understatement, he was astounded that this girl treated him like she would treat any other human. And he worked her way over her limit. A little pang of guilt touched his heart.

(((I give you my destiny.

I'm giving you all of me.

I want your symphony.

Singing in all that I am.

At the top of my lungs,

I'm giving it back.)))

Suddenly, he remembered the spark in those bluish stormy eyes. The spark lit up her entire face, and even his dark heart. She sounded so excited when she heard there was a piano. He was planning on making her leave tomorrow, but maybe, maybe he'd show her the music room instead...

(((So I lay my head back down,

and I lift my hands and pray

to be only yours I pray

to be only yours.

I know now you're my only hope.)))

The pick swung downward in his clawed grasp as her let his arm swing carelessly over the side of his guitar. He wanted to see the light inside her gray storm again, inside her eyes.

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