InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Mind Reader ❯ Can We Leave Now? How bout now? ( Chapter 11 )

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Mind Reader

Chapter 8: "Can we leave now?…How bout now?"

When Kagome awoke the next morning she walked outside and ran into Inuyasha. Well fell over Inuyasha was more like it as he was sprawled out in front of Kaede's door. She managed to catch herself before she fell on her face, and as she sat up she came face to face with Inuyasha. "Inuyasha, why were you laying in front of the door?"

Inuyasha crossed his arms as he sat up and returned Kagome's glare. "Hmph, I was making sure you and Sesshoumaru didn't try and sneak off this morning."

"What? Why would we sneak off? We are going to find info on Akki. Plus Sango is coming with us. So don't worry, me and Sesshoumaru will not hook up while we are gone." Kagome teased.

"Feh, why would I care what you do?"

~ Dammit, I will not lose you to my half brother! Oh but that means you like her. What! Whoever said anything like that? Oh come off it already, you love Kagome, just admit it. No I don't I love Kikyo! You are lying to yourself. No I'm not. Yes you are. No I'm not. Yes you are. No I'm not, and shut up already! What if I don't want to? I can make you, you are in my mind after all. You couldn't shut me up, after all I am you. No you're not, and yes I could shut you up! Yes I am you, and try it! Ok, I will. Alright then go for it. Shut up. Nope, didn't work, I'm still here. Get the hell out of my mind. Umm, nope, still here, I told you, I'm you. No you're not. Yes I am. No you're not…~

Kagome was getting a headache from listening to Inuyasha's inner struggle. Even she was having a hard time keeping track of what part of Inuyasha's mind was saying what. Before it could go any further she decided to cut off his thoughts. "Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha looked at Kagome, his inner battle momentarily paused. "What?"

"Uhh…," she stammered, `crap, I don't know what I wanted to tell him! He's gonna think I'm crazy!' "Never mind."

"Huh?"

~ Yup, she's lost her mind. But it's all right, cuz you still love her. I don't love her! ~

This time Kagome was saved when Sango came walking out of Kaede's hut, and stepped directly on Inuyasha's hand. The two girls were then treated to a very entertaining sight as Inuyasha hopped around screaming in pain.

"OW!! My hand! Stupid Sango, watch where you put your stupid bony feet. They hurt!"

Sesshoumaru suddenly appeared out of nowhere. "What's going on over here?"

Inuyasha immediately stopped hopping, hoping to every god imaginable that Sesshoumaru didn't see or hear him acting like girl.

Kagome managed to gasp out between fits of laughter, "oh…nothing…at all…Inuyasha's…just…in pain…from…umph!" Kagome started squirming, trying to get away from the clawed hand that held her mouth shut.

"Hmm? What was that wench?" prodded Sesshoumaru.

"It was nothing!" cut in Inuyasha, "right Kagome?"

~ Damn my brother. Damn Kagome. And most of all, damn Sango's pointy, bony feet!~

When Kagome didn't respond, as she was too busy trying to restrain her laughter, Inuyasha took the liberty of answering for her. He very prominently shook her head up and down. "See Sesshoumaru? Kagome agrees with me, it was nothing." However, he shook her hear a little harder than he should have and soon Kagome was seeing stars. Sango noticed Kagome's eyes go a little weird so she came to her friend's rescue.

"Inuyasha, let go of Kagome, you're shaking her head too hard."

Of course the last thing Inuyasha wanted to do was to hurt Kagome so he quickly let go of Kagome. This proved to be one of his least logical moves, for as soon as he left go of Kagome she plummeted to the ground.

~ Oops. ~

Luckily for Inuyasha Kagome was still dazed, so all she did was lay there while looking around stupidly.

`Wow, look at all the pretty stars. No, why are they going away? Come back pretty stars…came back…please?…Huh? Why am I on the ground? And why does Inuyasha look so guilty? Waaaiiit a minute.' Kagome slowly regained her composure and stood up. "Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha nervously gulped and backed away from the girl.

Kagome got an evil glint in her eye before she continued. "You look a little lightheaded. Does your poor little hand still hurt from Sango stepping on it? You may want to SIT down." Kagome watched in sadistic pleasure as Inuyasha flew to the ground in a blur of red and white. She then looked at the other 2 people. "So, shall we get ready to go?"

Sesshoumaru stared at the insane girl until something clicked in his mind. "Wait, did you just say that Inuyasha's hand hurt?"

"Hm? Oh yeah, he complained cuz Sango stepped on his hand," replied Kagome, throwing all of her stuff into her backpack.

"Inuyasha you should be ashamed of yourself. You're such a weakling."

Inuyasha glared daggers at his brother while sitting back up. "Feh, it's not my fault, Sango has bony feet."

~ I DO NOT HAVE BONY FEET! ~

And soon poor Inuyasha was in the dirt again, this time at the hands of Sango. When Sango got done beating Inuyasha into the ground she brushed off her hands and went to go grab hiraikotsu. She returned a minute later with the addition of a giant boomerang and one sad kitsune. When Shippo saw Kagome he launched himself into her arms.

"Kagome! Don't leave me again. Or if you have to at least take Inuyasha with you!"

Kagome hugged Shippo before setting him down. "Sorry Shippo, but both of you guys have to stay here. At least you'll have Rin to play with again."

"Ok Kagome," replied Shippo, completely crestfallen, "if you want to leave me to be abused by a hanyou go right ahead. I will hopefully be here when you get back. Or at least hopefully still in one piece."

"Stupid runt, quit being melodramatic," growled Inuyasha, once again sitting up. "Or maybe you're right, maybe this is really just a giant ploy to get rid of you."

Shippo turned to Kagome, his eyes huge. "Kagome, he's lying right?"

"Sit."

And for the third time in less than 5 minutes Inuyasha found himself facing his newest obsession, the ground.

"Shippo, you'll be fine. If I come back and find out that Inuyasha did anything mean to you then he will find himself not being to get up for several days."

"Ok."

"Alright guys, let's go," Kagome cheerily said, slinging her pack over her shoulders.

"Hmph, about time. We wasted enough as it is already. It's almost afternoon already," growled Sesshoumaru.

~ Dammit, the morning's over already. Now we'll have to do most of our walking in the afternoon when it's hot. I'm going to get all sweaty! ~

Kagome sidled up to Sesshoumaru and whispered under her breath, "it's ok, I'm sure there will be plenty of hot springs for you take a bath in."

Sesshoumaru sent a death glare her way before stalking off.

"Ok, I'm ready, let's go." Sango had hiraikotsu attached to her back and her katana on her waist. Inuyasha saw all this and before he could stop himself he had opened his mouth.

"Hey Sango, I thought you said this would be a stealth mission. So why are you taking your giant boomerang, which is anything but quiet?"

Sango replied by slamming Inuyasha in the skull with said boomerang. "I have your brother with me, I may need it for him."

Kagome knelt down to the knocked out Inuyasha and patted his back. "Inuyasha, maybe you should try and not say anything else this morning. Every time you do someone winds up hitting you."

~ Only stupid girls with even stupider temper problems. ~

Kagome chose to ignore that thought and stood back up. "Ok, can we finally go now? No more distractions?"

Sango nodded, but as soon as she did Miroku came walking up. Two very audible groans could be heard as he reached them.

"My lady Sango! You didn't plan on leaving without saying goodbye to me, did you?"

"Umm, actually that's exactly what I was planning."

"That's quite alright. After all it's only to be expected, it is probably very painful to be going on this trip without me. You were probably avoiding saying goodbye so that you wouldn't get depressed. But it's alright, you will be back in a few days, so let me say goodbye to you now."

"Right, painful goodbye…" mumbled Sango, before being taken by surprise when Miroku hugged her. The hug wasn't surprising, after all Miroku was always trying to find a way to touch her, but what was surprising was that he didn't try anything else. Sango decided it wouldn't hurt to return the hug since he was being good. She was even more surprised that when she hugged him back he still didn't try anything. For the first time since she knew him the lech wasn't being a lech. When the hug was over Sango stared at Miroku in awe.

Miroku noticed Sango staring at him. "Sango, whatever is the matter?"

"You…you didn't try anything. You didn't grope me or anything!"

"I'm sorry Sango, I didn't realize that. Here, let me make that up to you now." Miroku quickly grabbed her butt and was immediately rewarded with a slap.

"You pervert, I didn't say that was a bad thing! Come on Kagome, let's go!" huffed Sango.

"Ok…hold on, where did Sesshoumaru go?"

"Not another postponement! Where did that stupid demon go off to?" yelled Sango, stomping off to find a certain demon. When Sango left Miroku promptly grabbed Shippo and followed her. Soon Inuyasha and Kagome were alone. Kagome turned to Inuyasha.

"Inuyasha, promise me that you will stay here no matter what."

"What? Why would I do that?"

"Because it's imperative to our survival and ability to defeat Akki and Naraku. We have to remain hidden, but if you suddenly appear by yourself Naraku will know something is up."

"But what if you need help?"

"Inuyasha, we have my purifying arrows, Sango's boomerang, and Sesshoumaru. We should be able to take care of any youkai that decide to attack us. We'll, I'll, by fine. So promise me that you will stay here with Miroku, Shippo, and Rin."

"…"

"Inuyasha?"

"Feh, I promise, alright?"

~ Stupid girl, I don't care who's with you, if I sense something is wrong nothing can stop me from going to help you. ~

"Thanks Inuyasha." Even though Kagome knew Inuyasha would still come to her aid she was still happy. `He doesn't trust anyone but himself to protect me. He's arrogant, rude, and mean, but still sweet, even if it's only in his head.'

Before either of them could say anything else Sango returned. Dragging a very unhappy demon lord by his ear. Followed by a hysterical monk and kitsune.

~ Ouchouchouchouch. Dammit! Quit pulling my ear so hard! ~

When the fuming Sango reached Kagome and Inuyasha she released the demon lord's ear, which was bright red. "Do you know what he was doing? He was EATING! We have to leave on an important mission and he was EATING! Are all men pigs? I mean how stupid could you be? Is it too much to ask that we leave at a REASONABLE TIME? HUH? IS IT?" Sango ended up her rant screaming in Sesshoumaru's face who was cautiously trying to back away from the demon exterminator.

~ Are all women this scary when they're mad? Now I know why I'm still single. ~

Kagome calmly pulled her friend back. "Calm down Sango. We can leave now. I highly doubt anymore distractions can occur."

"Sesshoumaru? Are you leaving now?" asked Rin, wiping the sleep from her eyes.

Before Sango could scream at the unsuspecting girl Sesshoumaru answered her. "Yes Rin, I am leaving now. You are going to stay here and play with Shippo again. And Inuyasha," he quickly added, successfully bringing a scowl to his brother's face.

"I am not playing with anyone!"

"Fine Inuyasha, whatever. Can we go now?" grumbled Sango, ready to pounce on whoever happened to walk up next.

"Yes, let's go before another distraction occurs," responded Kagome. They almost made it to the woods when…

"Meow?"

Sango glared down at her cat who had dared to make her presence known. "Kirara, you stay here."

"Yea!!"

~ NOOO!! Damn you Sango, telling me to stay with a psychotic kitsune! Hell, I don't need this, I'm outta here! ~

And Kirara quickly transformed and flew off.

~ I'll come back when you guys return. ~

"Aw darn, she flew away."

"Start walking, now," demanded Sango.

Fearing Sango's wrath Sesshoumaru quickly obeyed. Kagome soon followed and soon the 3 figures were fading into the distance. Before they were out of earshot Sesshoumaru stopped and turned around to face his brother.

"Inuyasha!"

"What?"

"Make sure you practice with your sword while I'm gone!"

"Feh, I always do!…wait! It's not a sword! It's a fang!"

"Haha! Too late! You called it a sword. That means you're a `coward' too!"

"I hate you!"

Sesshoumaru snickered and turned back around to meet 2 girls staring at him strangely. They then proceeded to talk as if he wasn't there.

"Kagome, did Sesshoumaru just…laugh?"

"I think so, and I also think he just made a joke. Or used sarcasm. Or did something equally disturbing."

"Scary."

"Yeah."

"Quit staring at me," ordered Sesshoumaru, managing to keep all whining out of his voice, he actually sounded like the stern, cold, and gruff person everyone was used to. The girls smiled at each other and followed the demon lord. Kagome turned around once more so wave ather friends.

"Bye Inuyasha! See you soon! Bye Shippo! Be good! Bye Miroku! Umm…just bye!"

Shippo and Miroku enthusiastically waved back and after a little hesitation Inuyasha waved as well. Kagome smiled and then joined Sango and Sesshoumaru again.

~ CHOCOLATE! ~

And neither Sango nor Sesshoumaru could figure out why Kagome fell over. Kagome picked herself up and started walking again.

~ ASS! ~

Kagome fell again in shock. For the second time she stood up and brushed off her clothes. She grinned sheepishly at her two companions and continued walking. `Stupid Shippo and Miroku, can't they just think of nothing for once? At least Inuyasha doesn't have any random thoughts.'

~ RAMEN! ~

And once again Kagome seemed to randomly fall over. As Sango helped her up Sesshoumaru inwardly groaned. `This is going to be a very long trip.'

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Ok, yes I realize that this chapter was pretty much pointless. Nothing worthwhile happened, but I had to put this chapter in. I'm sure everyone has been there before-you are ready to go on vacation or something and stuff keeps coming up to delay you. So this chapter is a tribute to all those times you just want to leave but can't.