InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Not Forever ❯ Chapter 2 Issues ( Chapter 2 )

Not Forever

by Lor

First Fan Fic

This fic is getting a MAJOR make over. I'm slowly changing the format of every chapter. It'll probably seem like a first fic still since I can't change things too much otherwise the entire fic would be changed. Which creates quite a challenge, hopefully I'll have all the chapters changed over in format by Thanksgiving. All the new chapters will be in the new, normal format due to the reason I haven't been working on this fic as much as I should because the format annoys me.

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' .... ' thoughts

" ..... " dialogue

~ ...... ~ flashback

Chapter 2

Issues

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The sun is setting by the time Sango and Kagome get back to camp. Shippo was lying on his stomach on top of Kagome's sleeping bag as he chucked small sticks onto the fire. Every time the fire sparked he would giggle happily. Miroku still hadn't returned from the river, the girls figured he was still in the mud, dazed. Inuyasha was sitting on his haunches looking into the fire ignoring those around him. The fire's light reflected on his hair and eyes.

`Wow! I can't believe how cute Inuyasha looks tonight! Beside the fire....its light.....' Kagome though as she smiled to herself as she eyes moved over his body. Then her eyes suddenly got wide in shock, `I can't believe I just thought that!' She quickly shook her head trying to get rid of her thoughts. `You know it's true...you've been around him for years....stop denying the truth....' She smacked herself upside the head, `Shut up in there!'

Sango noticed the looks that had crossed Kagome's face and started to become worried. "What's wrong Kagome-chan?" she asked. Inuyasha looked over at the sound of Sango's voice, his hair swung close to the fire but paid no attention. A slight look of worry appeared on his face when he looks at Kagome, but it quickly disappeared when he turned back to look into the fire. "Huh? Nothing is wrong. No need to worry about me. I....I....uh..." Kagome hesitated as she tried to come up with a believable fib. "I just can't believe what a lecher Miroku still is after traveling with him for all these years. You think he would have changed by now," she said quickly content with her cover up story, also embarrassed about what had gone through her mind just a few moment earlier.

Inuyasha just shook his head with a slight laugh, "Miroku the lecherous priest for now and forever!" Kagome and Sango began to laugh as Inuyasha pretended to be Miroku asking a tree to bear his child. He sat back on his haunches before he said, "Miroku was like that when we met him and he'll never change. He had kidnapped Kagome and started to grope her. But of course I saved her......," his voice began to tail off, "Feh." A look of shock appeared on Kagome's face, `Wow...Inuyasha is acting different, and he's normally more distant." The shock on her face disappeared instantly when Inuyasha turned to look at her and Sango.

"So where is the lecher anyway?" he asked, "I don't want to have to go waste time rescuing him from some weak youkai." "He's probably still at the river, lying in the mud," Sango said with a laugh/ " Unless he regained consciousness," she smirked before continuing, "He deserved it for staring at Kagome...when she was completely soaked...in the river...." her voice trailed off when she noticed the angry look appear on Inuyasha's face. "HE DID WHAT!?!?!" he yelled as he quickly jumped to his feet, "I'll kill that fucking yarou!!" Inuyasha put a clawed hand on the hilt of the Tetsusiaga.

"Why does he care so much now? He never has before," Kagome whispered to herself while looking at the ground, "I've always just been the baka jewel shard detector to him....nothing more....." She looked up to see Inuyasha looking at her, his mouth hung open, staring at her. Kagome's felt a soft pink blush appear on her face and looked away.

"You're not just a shard detector to me!" Kagome began to get angry and glared at him, "Then what am I?! You act like that's all I am....so what am I if I'm not a just a shard detector!" Inuyasha felt his face heat up as a slight blush appeared on his cheeks, "You....I....ummm.....Kagome....I.......um.....un," he garbled out before he ran off to disappear in Inuyasha forest.

Sango turned to look at Kagome, confusion written all over her face, "What just happened here? Why's Inuyasha acting so strange? He's never acted like that before." In a soft voice Kagome responded, "I don't know," she looked off in the direction that Inuyasha had gone. A gentle breeze blew at the grass around their feet, "I just don't know." She got up and sat down beside the fire, in the same spot and position Inuyasha had been. "Kagome?" Sango asked as she moved to beside her friend and put a hand on her shoulder to comfort her. "I think I should just go home for a couple days...." Kagome stood up and brushed the grass from her green pleated skirt:: "Say good-bye to Miroku and Inuyasha for me, will you Sango?" Sango nodded as she watched her. Kagome walked over and picked up Shippo to give him a hug, "Bye Shippo-chan." Shippo pouted as he tried to return the hug with his small arms, "Do you have ta go?" "Yes Shippo I'll be back soon. I'll leave some ramen here with Sango." She set Shippo back down before she gave Sango a quick hug, "Bye." With that she gathered up her enormous yellow backpack and her yellow sleeping bag, and headed away from the camp site, to head in the direction of the well.

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In the forest Inuyasha's sat on a branch high in the Sacred Tree sorting through his thoughts. `What the hell is wrong with me! It's just Kagome!' he dug his claws into the branch he was balanced on. `What the fuck should I care if Miroku is being a lecher to Kagome?!.... He's like that all the time with Sango and I don't get ticked that much.' He let his thoughts pause for a moment as he banged a fist into the trunk of the ancient tree, `I can't believe I was so close to admitting my feeling for her!!.....wait......I have feelings for her.......' With a soft sigh he continued to mop in the tree as the sounds of nature surrounded him.

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Roughly ten minutes after Kagome had left camp, Miroku finally stumbled his way back with his hair all disheveled and muddy. Sango looked up when she heard his foot steps approaching, "What took you so long?" she asked her voice dripped with mock concern.

"Maybe it's because you knocked me out, left me there and I ended up having trouble remembering the way back!" he lightly snapped at her. A look of concern appeared on her face, "Oh sorry!" She quickly stood to help Miroku walk over to the fire so he could sit down. A large snore echoed through the nearby trees, Shippo lied asleep snoring on top of Sango's sleeping bag. "Are you hungry Miroku? Kagome left some ramen" Sango looked over to notice that Miroku was already asleep on top of his sleeping bag. "For once he's not being a lecher, I'm surprised." A tender smile graced her lips as she watched him sleep. "He almost looks...." her left eyebrow rose, "Why am I talking to myself?" After a quick shake of her head, she grabbed a dish and started to eat some of the cooked ramen she had heating over the fire. Shippo woke up just minutes from the smell, "I want some ramen!!" he chanted as he quickly bounced over to Sango. "All you think about is your stomach Shippo," she replied with a laugh while she handed the young kitsune a bowl of ramen, along with a set of chop sticks.

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Inuyasha wandered around on the forest's edge trying to figure out what his feelings were for Kagome and how he could ever possibly tell her. His ears began to twitch when he heard someone step on a twig not even 20 feet away. The sound was soon followed by a familiar scent of lavender. "Kagome?" he whispered as he followed the scent to see Kagome struggling to carry her heavy backpack towards the direction of the well. `Where does she think she's going? And she's alone! How stupid is she? She could get attacked, kidnapped or even killed!' Kagome stopped for a moment, she had sensed a youkai aura nearby. "Who's there!?" she yelled her voice slightly panicked. She quickly looked around and decided to hurry faster toward the well to return her own time period. `She's leaving!' Inuyasha thought angrily. He jumped out from behind the trees to block Kagome's path, "Where are you going? And going alone! You could have been attacked!" Kagome's eyes went wide for a second before they narrowed to glare at him,

"Shut up Inuyasha!" She tried and failed to pick up her heavy backpack but it hits the ground right after she had been able to lift it a few inches from the ground.

"If you have to go home I'm not going to let you hurt yourself trying to carry that," Inuyasha pointed at her backpack, "All the way to the well." Kagome tilted her head ever so slightly as she started to become confused, "Inuyasha?" He left her inquiry unanswered, he just picked her up along with her backpack and carried her to the well. Inuyasha stopped along the side of the well to set her down on the lip of the well, setting down her pack on the ground next to Kagome's feet. In an angry tone he grumbled, "There now I don't have to watch you hurt yourself." Kagome smiled, "I didn't know you cared Inu-chan." Inuyasha looked at her surprised. Kagome leaned over and kissed Inuyasha's cheek. Then she picked up her pack and jumped into the well, leaving a very confused, and red faced hanyou behind.

Inuyasha stood beside the well in shock for a few moments before he raised a hand to touch his cheek as he uttered a soft word, "Kagome?"

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