InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Prisoner ❯ On The Road ( Chapter 15 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

"To my summer house?" Kagome shook her head "But I don't understand why he'd want to go there. It's an empty place--"

"A hide out?" Miroku suggested mounting on his horse "Somewhere to poke his head in and out while looking for babies to eat"

"Well it's a lead" Sango called from her horse, giving Miroku a dry look "I say we take it"

Inuyasha rolled his eyes at the clatter of humans. For the life of him he couldn't see why the all had to prate along. In the end it was he who would take the bastard down. He wanted to take away Kagome's suffering single handedly. Though it wasn't much use stopping the two.

Kagome seemed attached to them and he didn't want to crush for her the only friends she had since his acquaintance. Wasn't that what Naraku had done to her in the first place?

"Alright" he announced lifting Kagome up on the horse to his side "I got these things as loans, we have to drop them at some town, so we'll see how far it'll take us. Exterminator girl will lead us"

"Supplies?" Sango questioned

"Covered, lovely Sango" Miroku smiled at her glare and pointed to the attached items that held storage on his animal.

Inuyasha rolled his eyes and mounted the horse, settling himself in front of Kagome. He hated riding animals like this, depending on someone or something else for strength but with the rest of these humans along the option seemed minimal.

Sango looked to him as he nodded, then geared her horse in the direction by starting out on a run. Miroku glanced briefly to the two before following after Sango's path.

"Inuyasha?" Kagome questioned "Do you think it's safe for them to...?"

"No" he stated honestly "But hell if I could stop them. I've crushed too many souls in my life time. If they want to be killed, that's there choice"

"Well that makes me feel good" she replied hardly "You always know just what to say"

Kami he hated when she got that tone. It sounded mad but about to crack to tears at the same time. She had just picked it up, from hell knows what, but it was eating away at him.

He hated it!

Kagome wasn't supposed to be worried about other's lives. No one gave her them to hold and no one would hold her accountable, but she felt it. He took on this himself, but she worried about him anyways.

"Hold on tight Kagome" he announced drawing the reins tight. Around him her arms clasped around him as her face leaned against his back "We need to catch up"


"Tree. Tree. Tree"

"Mind doing something else?" he asked wearily "You've been repeating that for the last hour. It's driving my nerves women!"

"Well, what I'm I supposed to do?" she defended giving him a good smack on the head "Not much when you're on a horse"

"Sleep" he shrugged "It'd make my life easier"

She stuck her tongue out giving him a very child like look

"I saw that"

"How....?"

Sango glanced at the two briefly from the side. It was hard determining what kind of a relationship the two held. Through traveling and words all she could figure was it was and interesting one. She figured that Kagome had been with him since she had 'died.' Inuyasha didn't seem like the type who'd scoop up a human, so Kagome must have escaped somehow.

Still the young girl seemed slightly perturbed at the man sharing her horse now. He seemed so damn protective! He didn't even let the girl have her own transpiration!

On the other side of the couple her eyes briefly met with Miroku's before looking out before them once more. Before them lay open land. Awhile back the forest had thinned out to the side. The animals were tired from the first brisk pace, and in much need of a slow down so the three wheelers had taken to a slow gallop. Side by side they continued to Kagome's summer spot.

Inuyasha seemed in the worst of moods, not that he was any better before that. But he nearly bitched his head off when his animal started slowing down, wanting to take off in a run before them. Though Kagome had stopped him, probably the only one who could, he still seemed unsettled. Cursing under his breath from time to time at his "stupid slow bastard of a creature."

"Say, Kagome" she called, getting the bored girl's attention instantly "Remember when we used to go swim in the creek with the other children of the kingdom? You mother would get so mad for being with the villagers..."

"But we did it anyway" Kagome finished "I liked it too. The people were a lot nicer, less stuck up. And despite the money my father spent, their creek was a lot cleaner than the man made one"

"Your father built one?" whistled Miroku "Rich are we?"

"Was" she corrected with a smile "Inuyasha's the only one with money now" she squeezed him tightly "He's such a good provider"

"And I love every damned second of it" he muttered under his breath in bitter sarcasm.

Sango smiled, not failing to catch the red that tinted the otherwise impermeable hanyou.

To think a small human had such an effect to him, it was cute and sweet in a way. Odd and almost unimaginable in another.

"What about you Miroku?" Sango questioned "Did you swim when you were little?"

"I guess" he stated "There was a pond me and father went to. Barely though, he was banned after an incident with the other females in the area"

The girls gave each other a look knowing very well what his father might have done.

"Why ask?"

Sango smiled "There's a pond up ahead. Maybe we could stop for a dip" Catching the look of protest in the hanyou's eyes she added "While camping there of course, it'll be convenient and on the way!"

Kagome withdrew her hold from the man in front of her and clapped in glee "Ohh! I haven't swam for so long!" Grabbing the fabric on his back once more, she shook the hanyou a bit "Isn't it exciting?!"

"No"

Sango smiled, happy to bring Kagome at least out of something that looked like it was killing her. Miroku too seemed to be happy about the upcoming arrangement, though she narrowed her eyebrows questioning the look in his eye.

In many ways Kagome was the same before she had been taken under Naraku's evil grasp. She had the same smile, and same laugh, the same personality. And that's what was bothering her. It was too much like how she had been. Like Naraku had cut her life, then escaping, she had just picked up where she had left off.

Sango had matured but Kagome acted the same. Naraku had done more wrongs to the girl then just abuse. He had taken from her years of her life that she could never get back. Taken part of her soul that could never be returned.

That bastard

The sand around her toes gushed and squished beneath the water. Wiggling them, she kicked them up a bit to see the sand dust the clear image in a flurry of brown.

The water up to her ankle felt so good it was unimaginably cruel to just stand at the edge looking out to the clear water like this. But a certain hanyou had his hold to it and wasn't about to budge.

"The hell she is!" he screamed "What else is she going to change into, huh? We have no other change of clothing!"

"She doesn't have to put anything---"

"Shut up Miroku!" the exterminator and hanyou yelled together.

Kagome shook her head and walked silently to approach the fighting companions. Sango was set that Kagome deserved a break and swimming would do it, where Inuyasha didn't want her in there from lack of clothing. The two were basically in each other's face screaming at the top of their lungs.

Sighing, she shrugged her shoulders "It's fine Sango" she announced claiming the attention of the three "I don't have to swim. It's late and it is a bit cold, they'll be other lakes...."

Sango glared at the hanyou, but turned to her friend with a soft look "Kagome...you don't have to listen to him..."

"And you don't have to defend me" she offered with a smile "You've been calling on my part and I appreciate it, but I'm a big girl" she shrugged "I know I don't act it most time but, deep down I am...thank you, but I'd rather just sleep"

Sango shook her head with a groan but offered the young girl a smile "Sorry"

"Do you think Sango sees me as a little kid?"

"I know I do" he replied casually "Don't see why she wouldn't"

She hit his arm, not liking the answer very much but instead of drawing away she leaned against him as the two stared into the flames.

Around them he could hear the soft breaths the two humans gave out, indicating they were alive, healthy, and very deep into their unconscious abyss. Having them out together like this one would suppose it would be better security, but to him it was a bigger task. More people to protect. More worthless humans......

Kagome shifted beside him "Am I really that immature?"

He just groaned not liking the direction the conversation was going. He was tired and above all moody. Kagome hadn't experienced him in these stages before. When they had been together he hadn't felt that way for awhile, but now the emotions were ebbing there way back to him.

He didn't want to inflict more pain on the young girl so, for once he bit his tongue. He'd have to think somewhat on a response before he answered.

Was she immature?

She laughed a lot, smiled, talked alot and did things that in a way reminded him of an over grown child. But that's who she was. She was full of energy and he much preferred her like that opposed to her breaking down in tears, or sitting lifelessly while staring off into space.

Was she immature? No

Happy and energetic? Yes

"Sango's just trying to make things easy on you" he stated with a yawn "She just want to see that you're happy"

"Oh"

He smirked at the blunt response but shook his head and grabbed her waist, surprising not only her but himself as the two fell backward on each other. Inuyasha blushed trying to think where that had come from, but Kagome didn't seem to mind all that much.

Her head dropped habitually to his chest as her eyes closed in a dormant fashion upon her face. She looked relaxed and at perfect ease with the situation and herself. Peaceful and calm. And even as he watched a tiny smile grew across her face as she snuggled her head under his chin.

He blushed more so at that but closed his eyes instead.

Kagome he thought in more than question What have you done to me?