InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Precarious Relationships ❯ The Truth ( Chapter 6 )

Disclaimer: I am not Rumiko Takashi…I cannot draw nor did I create the plot for the INUYASHA series…I wish I did…*sigh*

Precarious Relationships

Chapter 6- The Truth

The next morning Inuyasha woke up. He had slept outside.

Kagome ran outside of the cabin nearly falling over him.

"Inuyasha! I sense a jewel shard nearby. I'm sorry I didn't wake you up earlier." Kagome said. She was holding her bow and arrows and she had her backpack on.

"Kagome…I-I don't want you to come…" Inuyasha said quietly.

"What? Why not?" She asked.

"You won't know where the jewel shard is if I don't. Besides, I can really help." She argued.

"No. You're not coming. Point the direction and I'll go get the jewel shard."

Kagome crossed her arms.

"Fine. Feh. I'll go find it myself." Inuyasha yelled at Kagome as he took off into the woods.

Kagome sank down, her knees touching the wet grass.

'What's wrong with him? Does he hate me?' she asked herself.

Inuyasha came to a clearing.

He sniffed the air and picked up the scent of many demons. He had no idea which one carried the jewel shard.

'This would a be a lot easier with Kagome here…but I couldn't risk her safety.' He thought.

Miroku, Sango, and Shippo ran up behind Inuyasha.

"I left Kilala behind to protect Kagome. Why couldn't she come with us?" Sango asked.

"Cause." Inuyasha muttered, not wanting to share the details.

"There's an evil presence lurking nearby." Miroku warned.

"Nah duh. There's ALWAYS an 'evil presence' lurking around." Inuyasha snapped irritably.

"I say we split up." Sango suggested.

"Good idea." Shippo said.

"Fine. Sango, you come with me. Miroku and Shippo, you go the other way." Inuyasha instructed.

Miroku started to object but Sango gave him a condoning nod and he turned the other way, Shippo at his heels.

"Inuyasha. I'd like to know what's going on between you and Kagome." Sango said when they had gotten deeper into the woods.

Inuyasha stopped dead in his tracks and turned around to face Sango.

"You wanna know what's wrong? You REALLY wanna know what's wrong?!" Inuyasha said, his voice rising as he clenched his fist at his side.

Sango nodded hesitantly.

"What's WRONG is that I got Kagome pregnant."

Sango's eyes widened.

"You did WHAT?!"

"I know. I know. Don't yet at me. It's not as if I don't feel bad about it already." Inuyasha confessed.

"But…she's only--"

"15. I know. Sango. I'm worried about her all right?! That's why I couldn't let her come with us." he explained.

"Inuyasha…I'm so sorry. I didn't mean…Does Kagome know?" Sango asked, though the answer was obvious.

"Of course not. I couldn't tell her. Not while she was all happy and stuff the other night."

Sango sighed, not knowing what to say.

Inuyasha turned his heel and started running again.

"C'mon." he muttered.

Sango followed.

~*~*~

Back at the Cabin Kagome had gotten up and gone inside, Kilala right behind her.

She sat directly across from Kaede on the other side of the cabin.

"Ye is upset…are ye not?" Kaede asked.

Kagome nodded slowly.

"Come here child." She said, Kagome obeying hesitantly. She scooted over crawling on the floor and stopping directly in front of her.

"Ye must not worry of Inuyasha's feelings towards you. When my sister Kikyo died and Inuyasha was awoken from his 50-year slumber, ye were the first one he saw. Ever since, ye two have grown closer. Part of Inuyasha has long since forgotten Kikyo. That part of his heart is where his feelings for you lie and are waiting to bloom into their fullest." Kaede explained.

A tear slipped down Kagome's cheek.

"I-if that's true…then why…why wouldn't he allow me to come with him to find the jewel shards?"

"That…is something I would advise you to ask Inuyasha himself. Perhaps it is something he would like to tell you on his own time."

Kaede set her hand on Kagome's back. Kagome was now crying tears onto the wood floor. She rubbed her back lightly, trying to calm Kagome and stop her from hiccuping.

"Ye must not cry child. Shhhh…."

Kagome calmed down a bit, choking back her tears. Inuyasha was hiding something from her and that didn't make her feel any better.

~*~*~

Miroku and Shippo come to a hot spring.

'If only Sango were here…' Miroku thought lecherously.

Shippo tugged on Miroku's robes.

"Where do we go now? We can't just walk through the spring."

Miroku nodded.

"We'll have to find some alternate route." He suggested. They turned to the left and walked around the hotspring coming into a clearing.

Miroku stopped short, Shippo running into his leg.

"We're…we're back where we started…" he muttered.

They were staring at Kaede's cabin.

"Miroku. I think we should just stay here and wait. Maybe Sango and Inuyasha found the demon." Shippo inquired, jumping onto Miroku's shoulder.

Miroku nodded and walked inside.

Kagome had fallen asleep; her head was now in Kaede's lap.

Miroku started to say something but was hushed as Kaede put her finger to her lips.

He nodded and took a seat on the floor.