InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Redemption ❯ redemption5 ( Chapter 5 )

"Inuyasha!" Called Miroku, "What? Find anything?" "Kagome came here for a good long while," "Alright, so then...where the hell..." "Theres a spring not far from here!" "Stupid girl! Leaving in te middle of the night just to find a spring!" Inuyasha dashed towards where Sango had pointed.

Inuyasha and the group had headed out first thing that morning, after he'd found out that Kagome was not in her sleeping bag, or anywhere around the camp.

"Why would she go off in the middle of the night anyway? She knows its dangerous!" "Perhaps she's run away and wont return." "Shut up! She's coming back and she didn't run away!" "Truthfully I don't know how she was able to not run away," "Hm?" "Indeed Sango, such a strong heart she has." "Hmph, she'd have to have a heart thats strong, look who she has for a 'like' interest." "True, so true." "Would you three shut up!" Inuyasha shouted as they reached the spring.

"Kagome! Kagome!" Inuyasha sniffed around. "She was here, right here..." He lifted his head to scan the area, but saw no sign of Kagome.

"Inuyasha!" "Hm?" Inuyasha lept over to Shippo, who held a few pieces of cloth. He sniffed at the cloths. "This...this was Kagome's uniform thing!" "It's been torn as if..." "As if some soon to be dead asshole had his way with her!" Inuyasha crumpled the pieces of Kagome's clothes in his fist. It was then that another scent caught his attention.

"Inuyasha?" His friends looked at him as he went somewhat pale. "What is it?" "There was another here with Kagome...I can smell his scent on these pieces of cloth." Inuyasha growled angrily, and felt a pang of guilt in his chest. "Inuyasha..." "It...it was Naraku." He said then jumped into the trees and distanced himself from the others.

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Kagome walked slightly with Naraku, and slightly not with him. She couldn't believe that she'd just agreed to find some way for this man of all men to redeam himself and possibly get him a passage to the heavens. She kept thinking that if Inuyasha ever caught up with her he'd think that she had betrayed him and hate her, but she was a girl that stuck to her word and if she said she'd assist Naraku in redeaming himself, then she was just going to have to see it through.

Naraku turned out to be as bad as Inuyasha when it came to walking. He'd suggested the dark cloud her normally traveled on, but Kagome had shook her head. "If you want to be redeamed, you must do so like any normal person, and that means we walk." "What if I said I did not care about redemption and was just saying I do to lure you into a false security?" Kagome had to stifle a giggle. "What is so funny?" "You sounded just like Inuyasha, on the second day I spoke with him...sorry."

They had not spoken since that scene, and truthfully, Kagome could careless, she just wanted to see if this lump of evil flesh was even able to do something nice. She looked up when she noticed a village.

"Alright, this is your second test." "What was the first?" "Keeping your hands off me last night." "Ah...what do you expect me to do?" Kagome scanned the village. "Well, for starters, I've walked through many villages that you'd made ruins of," "Evil makes that happen." "True enough, now, there is a young boy right there, see." "So?" Kagome sighed she'd need to have a lot of tolerance for this guy.

"Lets make up a senario," "A sen what o?" "Senario, this one will be, that the boy's family were destroyed by bandits, his little sister stolen and him being beat up each day for no reason." "Alright," "What advice would you give to the boy, if he was hungry for revenge?" "Ah, well...revenge is good at a moment like that." "Wrong." "Wrong! You happen to travel with a hanyou who is seeking revenge for his dead lover!" "Maybe so, but I have never liked what he seeks." "Hm?" "The boy, is only the age of 10, possibly 11, my own brother's age, he's far too young to worry about revenge." "You also have a younger sibling?" "I do, now try again. Think about his age and how he is too young to seek revenge."

Naraku sighed, "Then should I tell him not to hunt down the bandits that killed his family? The one who stole his sister?" "Along time ago, another boys life was turned upside down when he lost the only one who loved him for who he was." "Oh?" "Mhm, his mother had been killed by someone who'd sought revenge upon her for giving her heart to the boy's father instead of the killer himself." "Hm..." "He'd sought revenge for no really good reason, for in the end the killer realized that the woman he had loved, that he had ended the life of, he realized that she'd only sent him away from her home, to protect him from the boy's father." "Hm..." "That man, he'd gone through life planning his revenge and when he'd finally got it, he was no more happy then when he'd found out she'd loved another and was giving the other man a child." "I see." Kagome, hoped she'd gotten the story right, she said a silent sorry to Inuyasha's parents, incase that was not the way it happened. "If you don't mind, who was this boy?" Kagome shook her head. "I'm sorry, but his name shall ramain secret." "Very well."