InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Please ❯ Returning Home ( Chapter 11 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

By: Nagi2

Sorry for shuch a delay in updating......my brother rebuilt my computer so i had to reformat it then the stupid word document wouldnt work so then I ended up typing this in the stupid note pad which does not have spell check so im aploigising before hand for all of my spelling errors.

Chapter 11: Returning Home

The next morning Kiri didn't come down for breakfast, she didn't even go to the garden to play with Rin.
Sesshoumaru was sitting in his study trying to do some work but it was impossible. Three words kept coming back 'I hate you' he couldn't get those three words out of his head. They just kept replaying themselves over and over like a broken record. Sesshoumaru was brought out of his thoughts by a knock on the door.

"Come in" Jaken ran into the room.

"Inuyasha is here, he has come for Kiri!" he yelled panic showing all over his face. Sesshoumaru stood up and started to walk to the front gate where Inuyasha and the group waited. Little did he know that Kiri herd the whole thing and is now following him out to the front gate.

"What do you want?" Sesshoumaru bit out

"We're here for Kiri!" Inuyasha shot back

"What makes you think that I have her?"

"Because I'm right here" Sesshoumaru turned around to see Kiri standing in the door way of the castle.

"Kiri are you ok?" Miroku called out

"Yeah, I'm fine" she replied dryly as she started walking towards the group stopping next to Sesshoumaru but still looking at her friends rather than Sesshoumaru himself. "You don't really want me here so I guess I will be leavingRin doesn't really need me right now any way" after she finished she continued walking to her friends secretly hoping that he would stop her. When she got to her friends she realized that he wasn't going to stop her.
(15 minutes later) ***

The group has been walking for a while now interrogating Kiri with questions.

"Are you sure he didn't hurt you?" Sango asked

"I think I would know if he hurt me...I'm fine really everything is fine"

"So what exactly happened? Did you fight with Naraku?" Inuyasha asked wanting to get to the point.

"Well yes, when I went for a walk right after you went to go get Kagome I ran into Naraku"

"What happened?" Shippo asked sitting on Kagome's shoulder.

"He attacked me so I fought backand I wasn't the one left standingall I remember really is getting hit in the gut, going through a tree then hitting another tree, and then everything went black" Kiri paused "But I did hear Naraku say something before I blacked out but after that I woke up in a bed in Sesshoumaru's castle"

"What did Naraku say?" Inuyasha asked

"I think he said something like: let this be a message to your friends that they are no match for mesomething like that but I'm not sure"

"So he didn't mean to kill then, he wanted us to find you but some one got to you first" Miroku summed everything up.

Inuyasha was about to ask another question when Kiri interrupted "Can we talk about this later when we get back to Keade's?"

"But we wont get back to Keade's for weeks" Inuyasha protested

"Of course we can Kiri, we will wait as long as you want" Kagome broke in rubbing Kiri's back trying to comfort her.

"What ever" Inuyasha huffed

The group traveled for about a week with more bagging on Miroku but Kiri just kept to herself. The group was about three days from getting to Keade's. They all stopped to rest from a long day of walking.

"There's a hot spring nearby so I'm going to take a bath" Kiri announced

"Do you want any company? Kagome and I could come with you" Sango offered

"No that's ok, I'll be fine" Kiri answered as she gathered her things and headed for the hot springs.waited until she was out of hearing range before she decided to speak. "Kiri has been acting strange lately, she's been so quite. She's barely said a word this whole trip and usually she's the talkative one in the group"

"Do you think something is wrong?" Kagome asked

"Something has to be, she's never been like this before, but what could it be?" Miroku spoke

"She has been through a lot, you know the whole Naraku thing then living with Sesshoumaru for weeks" Kagome tried to reason

"When we get back to the village Kagome and I will try to talk to her" Sango said

"Why just you and Kagome?" Inuyasha questioned

Because there girls and girls talk to each other better than they do to guys" Shippo finally spoke up.

"I'm afraid Shippo is right" Miroku agreed
(With Kiri) ***

'He didn't stop me, he just let me go' Kiri thought to herself 'how could he love me if he just let me go like that? I was such a fool to think that he wanted me for more that just to be Rin's mother' Kiri sighed as she sank deeper into the water. The water wasn't as relaxing as she wanted it to be, it only left her alone to be with her thoughts which were not all that good in her opinion. She didn't want to think about it any more but she couldn't help it she wanted him to stop her, confess his undying love to her and never let her leave. The truth was that she was happy whenever she was around him, all thought she had were good, never once did a single bad thought come into her mind.
wanting her friends to worry about her Kiri decided that it was time to head back to camp and rest. Inuyasha will most likely get everyone up early so they can get to the village earlier. Kiri walked into the camp to see everyone laughing and Miroku blushing. Miroku was too intent on watching Sango build a fire to see where he was going and walked into a tree only to turn around and trip over a rack and fall flat on his face. You see he wasn't really watching Sango herself but it was a part of here. Sango was leaning down building the fire and Miroku just happened to be walking in front of her and his eye just happened to land on her chest, you get the rest.

"Ah, Kiri you have returned" Miroku spoke up as he walked towards her and hid behind her looking out over her shoulder "please make them stop laughing at me"

"What ever you did to make them laugh at you I'm sure you deserved it"

"He did deserve it, he was staring at Sango in his perverted way and ran into a tree then fell over a rock" Kagome managed to stop laughing long enough to tell Kiri what had happened.

"Yep you deserved it" Kiri stated and walked over to a tree, flew up to a branch and sat down.

"Kiri I saved some food for you do you want any?" Kagome offered

"No thanks I'm not hungry"

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah I'm fine"

"Ok then" Kagome gave up noting that she hasn't been eating much since she was back with the group. 'Something is definitely wrong with her' Kagome thought.