InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Love, What About It? ❯ Kelei's Story ( Chapter 3 )

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Continuing on with the story!

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Chapter 4: Kelei’s Story

“Kagome, my woman.” Kouga said running in front of Kagome and grabbing Kagome’s hand. “I must return to my pack, but I’ll come back and see you again!” Kouga smiled slyly glanced at Kelei and took off in a whirl of wind.

Kelei blinked and looked at Kagome. “Are you two mates?” She asked as Inuyasha caught up with the group. Inuyasha growled at what Kelei said and Sango and Miroku started to laugh. “No, no, Kouga thinks we are but we’re not.” Kagome laughed.

Kelei smiled and the group continued to walk to Kaede’s. Upon reaching and entering Kagome asked, “So where exactly do you live?”

“Just north of here, in a small village.” She replied. They were all sitting in Kaede’s hut. “I don’t recall knowing of a village being so near to here.” Kaede exclaimed.

“We haven’t been here long, we came from-“ Kelei started but quickly realized what she was saying and shut her mouth. “Don’t worry Kelei, we’re no one to be afraid of.” Sango smiled. Inuyasha snorted from the corner of the hut.

Kelei nodded and continued. “We’ve come from across the great waters in hope of establishing a new village. Our old village was destroyed by a horde of demons for no particular reason. They kept coming back to try and finish off anyone that survived. That’s when the leader of the village and my father, they’re friends, realized we would have to flee.” Kelei sighed and finished the explanation. “That’s how we come to be here, but just earlier that youkai crushed our newly made town.”

Guilt flashed in Inuyasha’s eyes both he kept it hidden.

“You said you were the head priest’s daughter. Doesn’t that make you a priestess?” Kagome asked excitedly.

Kelei looked down sadly and sighed. “You would think that, but I wasn’t born with any Miko powers.”

“Oh, I’m sorry to have brought it up.”

“No, it’s fine.” Kelei looked back up. My mother was one of the finest swordsmen and she taught me everything I know.”

There was silence until Inuyasha cleared his throat and looked towards Kelei with his amber eyes. “You said was when you were referring to your mother, so she’s dead?” He asked bluntly.

Sadness showed in Kelei’s face as she answered, “Yes.”

“Was she a hanyou?”

Kelei gasped and held her hand to her mouth surprisingly. “How did you know?!”

“Your scent isn’t the same as humans, but its not as define as a direct hanyou. So that must mean your father was human.”

“Mm-yes, my mo… my mother, was murdered by her own pack.” Kelei struggled out. Everyone gasped, except for Inuyasha, he didn’t seemed too surprised. Kagome nudged her on to tell the whole story. “My mother was a cheetah hanyou. She specialized in swords and spears. One day upon hunting my mother spotted a small caravan of people being attacked by demons. Abandoning her hunting she ran to their aide and assisted in slaying the youkai. My mother and father saw each other and instantly fell in love.” Kelei smiled at her words. “But my mother was the adoptive daughter of the head of the pack. Her parents died when she was a baby the lion pack came upon her and decided to raise her as one of their own. Unfortunately her adoptive father forbade her from seeing my father, for that fact that he was human. She was already a hanyou as it was and he didn’t want the generation weakening. My mother wouldn’t listen to him and he grew angrier until finally she ran away with my father. They settled into a village but knew that someday her old pack would find her. A few years passed and my mother gave birth to me, about a decade after though the lion pack found them and the head ordered for my father to be killed. Defending him my mother was killed in the process. My father and I fled once again but the lion pack didn’t pursue us.” Kelei finished, she rubbed her head and pulled out her hair-tie in the process letting her shoulder blade length hair fall down.

Miroku straightened up at the sight and made a noise as if to say something about Kelei, but noticed Sango’s death glare and he slumped back down. “So does everyone in your village have that color of hair and eyes?” Shippo asked referring to her light blonde hair and blue eyes, “I’ve never seen anyone with those colors here.”

“Well it actually just comes from my mother. She was the only one within the lion pack to have the same hair color and eyes as me. Everyone else in my village has black hair and brown eyes.” Kelei said with a little laugh.

“Well I think-“ Miroku started, ignoring Sango’s warning look, “that your hair is just radiant. I haven’t seen anyone either with such beautiful hair, if I do say so myself.”

“Thanks.” She replied blushing. Miroku made way to crawl closer to Kelei but Sango knocked him in the head with her Hiratsu. “I didn’t even do anything yet!” Miroku wined. Glancing out the window Kagome noted that the sun was going down. “It’s getting late.”

Kelei’s eyes widened in shock. “Oh no! I must get back to the village my father will be worried sick! And not to mention they need help. Ah!” She started to get up but Kaede told her. “Ye’ll do no such thing, nightfall is almost upon us and demons will start to come out.”

Kelei hesitated but got up anyway. “No I really must go, I can handle myself.” Kagome looked to Inuyasha and said “Why don’t you take her Inuyasha?”

“Not a chance!”

“Sit!”

“AGHhh!”

“Well that settles it.” Kaede said. “You’ll stay for the night.”

“You can sleep with me!” Miroku said gleefully to Kelei as he rubbed his hands together. Sango pushed him so he fell over. “Keep dreaming hentai.”

Everyone got situated and Kagome noticed Kelei still looked worried. She would lay down, sit back up, take out a sword, put it back, lay back down, sit back up, and finger the teeth on her vest.

“What’s getting you so worked up?” Kagome asked.

“Well it’s mainly my father he’s getting old and he’s very ill. I just feel I should be with him right now.” Kelei responded.

Kelei’s response confused Kagome, if she had healing abilities then who did she learn them from? “Who taught you to heal? Or was it a hereditary thing?”

“Seeing that I’m a priest’s daughter I should have Miko powers but I don’t. A healer from the village that was friends with my parents taught me a little bit. But I didn’t learn much because the demons started attacking around the same time. Here I’ll show you.” With that Kelei put her palms above Kagome’s and a silvery-purple light that looked like electricity formed between their hands. Kelei gently touched Kagome’s palms and with a little shock all of the scrapes that Kagome got from rolling around on the ground earlier vanished. Kagome’s eyes widened and she flexed her hands as Kelei retreated her hands.

“Wow that’s really amazing!”

“Yes, but I can only heal minor injuries. Anything more serious than a sword wound is too much for me. But I’ve been working on it, healing every chance I get.”

Miroku who was listening in on the conversation said, “Hey Kelei, I have something I need you to heal, it’s a really nasty cut right on my-“ Sango threw Miroku’s staff at him but he dodged. “Do you ever let me finish my sentence?!”

Sango only crossed her arms.

“As I was saying, I have a really nasty cut on my shoulder and since you need to heal continuously this will help both you and I.”

Kelei nodded and Miroku pulled his Kimono to show his injured shoulder. It looked as though something clawed at him. Kagome looked from Miroku’s cut to Inuyasha and snickered, there was no doubt Miroku must have done something to bug Inuyasha. “Sit!” she said just loud enough for Inuyasha to hear.

THUNK!

“What the hell did you just do that for?!” Inuyasha yelled.

“For using Miroku as your scratching post!” Kagome yelled back hotly.

Inuyasha shut his mouth and murmured something about mind reading and psychic women. But Kagome interrupted his mutterings by saying “It doesn’t take a psychic to tell who that scrape was from. Inuyasha simply replied “Keh.”

Meanwhile Kelei moved her way to Miroku and held her palms above his shoulder, the silver-purple electricity formed as it did before and Kelei put her hands onto Miroku’s shoulder. It took a longer time to heal than it did with Kagome, about 30 seconds, but it was indeed healed when Kelei withdrew her hands. Miroku rotated his arm and smiled at the results. “Much better, you sure have a way with your hands!” He said.

“Does anyone else need healing?” Kelei questioned, hiding a blush. Sango said, “I don’t want to be a burden but do you mind healing my neck? Some branches snagged it while we were in the woods.”

Shippo jumped up and pouted, “And what about my head? Inuyasha keeps hitting it and it has bruises all over it!”

So Kelei healed both Sango and Shippo and even Kirara (some of her claws were broken). Who would have known they were hurt? Everyone except Kaede (who was snoozing in the corner) and Inuyasha were healed by Kelei. Kagome moved next to Inuyasha and gave him playful push towards Kelei. “Come on I know some part of you is damaged.”

“Nothing is wrong with me! And besides I heal on my own so I don’t need her help.” He informed. Kagome opened her mouth to protest but Kelei held up her hand. “That’s all right I’m feeling exhausted anyway.” Kelei gingerly propped herself on the wall. She was breathing as though she ran for miles. “Using my healing powers is like using my physical powers, the more I do the more tired I get.”

With that being the final word everyone laid down to fall asleep. Inuyasha went outside to watch over them in a tree. ‘I wish he would sleep inside for once.’ Kagome thought sleepily. ‘It would be nice to have healing powers, at least during battles I would be useful for something.’ She took in a deep sigh. Eventually falling into a fitful sleep.

Unknown to Kagome though, Inuyasha reentered the hut and sat down near her, watching over her. She smiled in her sleep as if she felt his presence, and proceeded into a deep, dreamless sleep.

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Kagome woke up earlier than she usually did in the morning. She yawned and made to stretch her arms but one of her hands was being held by something. Looking towards her hand she realized there was a set of hands wrapped around her own. Her heart began to beat loudly against her chest as she concluded that the hands belonged to Inuyasha. She slowly looked to his face and found he was still sleeping! ‘Maybe if I’m quiet enough I can get my hand back’ she thought to herself.

Raising her shoulder she tried slipping her hand out of Inuyasha’s grasp but he had a firm grip on her and instinctively held on tighter. Kagome felt as if the whole hut could hear her pounding heart. She had never felt this way before, especially with Inuyasha of all people! She didn’t have those types of feelings for him… ‘It’s just the situation,” Kagome reassured herself, ‘the only reason my heart is going crazy is because I’m afraid I’ll wake him and risk getting him grumpy.’ Satisfied with her conclusion she smiled, but it quickly faded because she still didn’t know what to do.

Sango had woken up around the same time Kagome did, she still laid under her blankets though, she was to tired to move around. Opening one eye she noticed Kagome, she seemed be having a mental war with herself because her face was scrunched in concentration. Inuyasha had his hands around one of Kagome’s hand. Sango smiled to herself, it was obvious to everyone else about their feelings for each other, but they were the only two that were completely oblivious.

A little brown fur-ball bounded up to Kagome and jumped on her stomach causing her to fling her arms up in surprise, breaking the grasp Inuyasha had. “KAGOME! Whatcha doin’?” It was Shippo, he was obviously hyper this morning and couldn’t wait for everyone to get up. Inuyasha snarled at being woken up and kicked Shippo across the hut, causing him to land on Kelei. “Owww.” Seeing as Kelei was woken she quickly healed the spot Shippo bruised from hitting the wall.

“Inuyasha what was that for?!” Kagome demanded waking up anyone else who was still sleeping.

“That rodent woke me up!”

“Well you wouldn’t have woken up if you weren’t squeezing Kagome’s hand like it was about to fall off!” Shippo squeaked back standing up. Both Inuyasha and Kagome blushed and Inuyasha jumped up and yelled “Why you… get over here!” And began to chase Shippo around the hut. Kagome rolled her eyes and said, “Sit!”

“Gah, damn it woman do you HAVE to do that?” Inuyasha protested.

“Yes.”

“No you don’t!”

“Yes I do.”

“No you don’t!”

“Yes I do!”

“No you DON’T!”

“SIT! SIT! SIT!”

THUMP! THUMP! THUMP! Inuyasha was pushed towards the ground breaking a few floor boards. Once the beads wore off Inuyasha flung him self out the door spewing curse words. Kagome gave a satisfied “humph” as he left.

“PERVERT!” Sango yelled.

Kagome looked around, Miroku had one hand on Sango’s backside and the other on Kelei’s. How he managed that Kagome had no idea.

SLAP!

Sango slapped him square in the face. Kelei was to embarrassed to move. So Sango gave Miroku another slap on Kelei’s behalf. Miroku ended with red hand prints on each side of his face. But he still had a satisfied grin on his face, which angered Sango further.

‘He’ll never learn.’ Kagome laughed inwardly.

Everyone made their way outside to discuss their plans. In the end they (they being everyone but Kaede) decided to take Kelei back to her village. Kagome and Shippo climbed on Inuyasha’s back and Sango, Kelei and Miroku saddled onto Kirara. Miroku gleefully sitting in the middle while Sango in the back so she would have better access to hitting the monk if he did anything wrong.

As they quickly approached the half destroyed town she began to feel her heart tingle. Shards, two… no three were coming from the left of them. ‘Yay,’ Kagome thought to herself sarcastically, “we get to start off the day fighting some youkai.’ She looked to the left and indeed three snake demons emerged from the woods slithering there way towards them.

‘What a glorious morning indeed.’

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