InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Love's Lessons ❯ Hissori: The Peacemaker ( Chapter 9 )

Chapter 9: Hissori: The Peacemaker

 

When Inuyasha and Hissori returned to the camp an angry Miroku came stalking over. Hissori stopped him from running over and punching Inuyasha by putting both of her hands on his shoulders. She shook her head at him and then opening and closing her fingers on her thumb tried to convey to him to talk to Inuyasha. Some of the anger left his eyes, “Alright, for you I'll talk to him.” Hissori nodded, smiled and then left to find Kagome.

 

“What were you trying to do Inuyasha?” Miroku asked stiffly. He was pretty upset that the half demon had tried to run off with his Hissori.

 

“I don't know, I wasn't thinking,” replied Inuyasha with his head bowed.

 

“Apparently.” Some of Miroku's anger was beginning to dissipate looking at his miserable friend.

 

“I've really fucked things up, Miroku, I'm sorry. Everything was just so damn confusing.” Inuyasha sighed letting out a large breath of air.

 

“You said, was confusing, have you figured things out now?” Miroku hoped that he finally had come to his senses.

 

“I think, some of it anyways.” He had come to see that Hissori liked Miroku and that maybe he had stronger feelings for Kagome than he had thought. Maybe my attraction to Hissori was because we were so alike, having gone through some bad things in our life.

 

“Well?” Miroku asked, curious as to what Inuyasha had figured out.

 

“Hissori really likes you, you know,” he replied instead. He was still uncomfortable talking about his feelings to anyone other than Hissori.

 

“Well I really like her too,” Miroku stated, looking to see how Inuyasha would react.

 

Inuyasha sighed again. “I've probably ruined things with Kagome, she'll never speak to me again,” he said morosely.

 

“She is pretty upset, but Kagome will forgive you, she loves you Inuyasha, although sometimes I can't figure out why,” he gave a small grin. He could never stay mad at anyone for long. He looked at his friend and then asked. “Do you love Kagome?”

 

“Yeah, I think I do. When I thought of all that we've been through, all that's she's helped me with. She's always stuck by me no matter what, she accepts me for me; a hanyou everyone thought was worthless. I can't think of life without her.”

 

“What of Kikyo?” Miroku knew this could be a sticking problem between Inuyasha and Kagome if things didn't change.

 

“I know I made her a promise, but I can't keep it. I want to be with Kagome.”

 

“That's the smartest thing you've ever said,” Miroku clasped his arm around Inuyasha's shoulder. “Now, go tell Kagome.”

 

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Meanwhile, Hissori had found Kagome with Sango. She could tell that her friend had been crying, her eyes were red and puffy and there were tear stains on her cheek. She sat right in front of Kagome and put her fingers on her head, her signal for puppy ears, then put her hand on her heart and pointed to Kagome.

 

“No he doesn't, he doesn't want me to be here,” she wailed, breaking out in a fresh batch of tears. Sango held her while she cried.

 

Hissori sighed loudly; these two can be so stupid! She thought to herself. She got up and putting her fingers on her head again she began to wander around from one place to the other with a confused look on her face.

 

“He's walking around?” questioned Sango, trying to figure out what Hissori was trying to tell them.

 

Hissori shook her head and then came over and rolled her eyes around in her head.

 

“He's crazy?” This time it was Kagome who tried to guess wiping the tears from her eyes.

 

Hissori thought this might be true in this instance, but that was not what she was trying to convey. She sighed again and putting her finger on her chin pretended to be thinking.

 

“He was thinking,” said Sango, smiling when Hissori put her thumb up. She then pointed to Kagome.

 

“He was thinking about me?” she asked, a bit surprised. Again Hissori put her thumb up while nodding her head. She again did the `Inuyasha loves Kagome' signs praying that the girl would catch on.

 

“How do you know this?” Kagome asked, still unsure.

 

Hissori opened and closed her fingers on her thumb in the talking gesture.

 

“He told you?” Kagome was shocked. Why won't he tell me then? She asked herself sadly.

 

Hissori nodded her head affirmatively. She then made an angry face.

 

“He was angry,” Sango correctly guessed, thinking, he is usually angry about something or another, that's normal.

 

Hissori drew her hands around her neck where Inuyasha's prayer beads were then she put her right hand above her left hand and brought her right hand down hard upon it.

 

“He was mad I sat him,” stated Kagome, at the time she thought he really deserved it but thinking now she realized she had done it out of anger. She was mad that he wouldn't talk to her and she knew he had a hard time expressing himself. Why did I do that, I should have been more understanding. Her face showed her regret.

 

Hissori nodded, finally, a breakthrough. Again Hissori drew her hands around her neck and then pointed at Kagome; she made a gesture as if she was lifting the necklace up over her head, looking at her friend with a question in her eyes.

 

“You think I should take the necklace off.”

 

Hissori nodded and Sango spoke up. “Do you really think he needs it now, Kagome? He always protects us to his best ability and he's changed, he's not like he was.” Sango agreed with Hissori on this matter. She didn't think that Inuyasha deserved to be sat half the time that he was, and that Kagome, even if she did it unknowingly, took advantage of the subjugation spell from time to time.

 

Please trust him Kagome, take it off, thought Hissori trying to push her thoughts into the other girls head. Kagome began to think of all the times she had sat Inuyasha, most were minor irritations or times when she was angry. Few were actual times when she thought he would really hurt someone. She began to cry again, this time, tears of shame and regret.

 

When she had finished, and regained control of herself, she got up, and wiping the last of her tears with a determined look on her face said, “Where is he, I want to talk to him.”

 

Said hanyou was just approaching the group of girls with Miroku by his side. He stopped in front of Kagome, not sure what to say, and embarrassed that everyone was just standing there watching. Hissori saw that he was uncomfortable and grabbed Miroku's and Sango's hands and began to drag them away, throwing a smile back across her shoulder at the couple.

 

“Kagome, I'm sorry,” Inuyasha apologized, when the others had left, lowering his head and keeping his eyes firmly affixed to the ground. “I've been a real jerk. I was just really confused.”

 

That's what Hissori was trying to say, Kagome realized. “Oh, Inuyasha,” cried out Kagome, going to him and throwing her arms around him. She buried her head into his chest and sobbed, “I'm sorry too, I should never have sat you like that.”

 

Inuyasha wrapped his arms around her and breathed in her lovely scent. How could I have been so stupid, I do love her, I could have lost her, he thought miserably.

 

Kagome then reached up, releasing herself from his embrace, and placing her hands on the beaded necklace pulled it off over his head and placed it in his hands. “I trust you Inuyasha, I love you the way you are, I don't want to force you to do anything.”

 

Inuyasha was shocked he hadn't expected this from her at all. He looked into her soft brown eyes which shone with all the love and trust she had for him. “I love you Kagome,” he said “Please stay with me.”

 

This time when Kagome embraced him, their lips came together of their own accord. The three people watching in the bushes gave a huge sigh of relief and then snuck off to give the couple privacy.