InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Redemption ❯ redemption6 ( Chapter 6 )

Inuyasha sat alone up in a tree, clutching Kagome's pieces of clothes to his chest. He felt the guilt clawing at his heart and making him ache.

"Kagome...I'm sorry..." A few tears were seen in his eyes as he said his appologies to her, even though she wasn't around.

"ARGH!" He slammed his fist into the trunk of the tree and howled his frustration. "I am so fucking stupid!" He roared. He hated to admit it, but he was the reason she'd run off last night, he was the reason she'd come all the way here, and the reason Naraku had, had a chance to get what Inuyasha only dreamed she'd willingly give him, but he was always too proud and unsure of himself to hint towards that.

He slammed his fist three more times into the tree trunk and a glare crossed his face. "Kagome, I swear I'll find you!" He vowed. "Naraku, you've pissed me off for the last time! Now, no matter what I must do I shall kill you for what you've done to my Kagome..." Inuyasha stopped talking when he heard himself utter the words my Kagome. He'd never said it aloud before, but he knew that when he found her, Kagome would fully become his.

"Inuyasha?" "Hm?" "Where do we go from here?" "Follow the scent of evil, that I have a feeling that we'll find Kagome too." "Then lets head out."

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"I cannot believe that you came up with that!" "Hm?" "The advice thingy," "You didn't seem mad about it." "Cause I'm not, it was the right thing to say and you have passed your second test." "Only took several lectures from you." "You jept saying the wrong thing." "Ah, and you just had to lecture me each time!" "Mhm...oh."

The young boy, who Kagome had used for the test approached her. She knelt and smiled. "Hello there," "Hi," Said the boy. "What might your name be?" "Miyoko, miss." "Well Miyoko, my name is Kagome, and this is Na...Narau." Kagome thought that it was best that she keep Naraku's identity a secret. Kagome smiled at the boy, who looked very hungry. "Would you care to join us for dinner?" The boy nodded and smiled, "Thank you miss, sir."

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During dinner, the boy told Kagome and Naraku about his life. It shocked Kagome to learn that everything that she'd suggested in the senario, was actuallt what had happened to the boy. She felt somewhat bad.

"So you said your sister was stolen? By a demon?" "Mhm, I'd gone to the village I'd been told she was residing in and learned that a demon a taken her away with him." Kagome raised eyebrow "A male demon took her?" "Mhm, the remaining villagers said that he looked like a normal, regal lord, but that he was demon and had something following after him." "What is your sister's name?" "Her name is Rinakatia, but everyone called her Rin." Kagome's eyes went wide as she heard the name of the young girl that had become a companion to Sesshoumaru come from the boy's mouth. Kagome pulled Naraku off to the side.

"What!" "We're bringing the boy with us." "What! Why?" "I...you heard what he said about Rin," "Rin?" "The human child that you angered Sesshoumaru by taking!" "Oh, her...and why would you bring him?" Kagome sighed. "In case we run into Sesshoumaru." "I see, you will warn me will you not? Like you said he like many want me dead." "I suppose I shall."

"Miyoko," "Yes, miss?" "I know the demon who cares for your sister." "You do!" "Yes, and if you'll come with us, we may run into them, so? Will you come with us?" Miyoko nodded and embraced Kagome, who smiled, thinking about Shippo and how she'd left him with Inuyasha and started a new journey, one that she had not expected to go on.

"You're too soft!" "Thats true, but if I wasn't a softy, you maybe just a head right now." "Point taken." Kagome lifted a sleeping Miyoko into her arms, stood and laid him on a futon, covered him with a blanket, then smiled and lightly kissed his forehead. "Good-night young one." She cooed and headed back to where she'd been sitting before.

"Why'd you do that?" "Do what?" "He is not your child, why treat him like yours?" "I've done that for Shippo too, like Miyoko, his parents were killed, and he was left an orphan, so Inuyasha and I took him in and I treat him like my own son, and even though he may not like to admit it, Inuyasha thinks the same way." "Hm...a demon child being raised by a hanyou and a human, that is strange." "Hm, maybe, but I love that little guy and to me he'll alway be my little boy." "Hm."

"Have you ever loved anyone before?" "Me? Or..." "No, I mean you, I know Onigumo held desires for Kikyo, but what about you as Naraku? Anyone you love? Have loved?" "No...not yet at least." Kagome smiled. She didn't mind sitting with Naraku right now, he wasn't giving off any evil auras, and right now it seemed like he wasn't even a threat to her, though she knew that at any moment he could turn on her and kill her or do whatever he chose to. She would just have to trust that he wouldn't hurt her.

Naraku glanced at Kagome from the corner of his eye. He'd never gotten a chance to actually examine what she looked like, but now, he saw that she was actually very beautiful. 'Have you ever been in love?' He thought about the question and he'd spoken the truth, he wasn't in love with anyone, but he had the feeling that he was falling in love with someone, someone by name of Kagome.

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Inuyasha lept from the top of a tree and landed on the ground and sniffed. He caught Naraku's scent right away, but was baffled to also catch Kagome's scent in the foot prints that seemed to walk right next to Naraku's. "This doesn't make sense..." "What doesn't make sense Inuyasha?" "These are Naraku's tracks and these are Kagome's." "Hm? The distance between them, makes one think that they are walking together." "I thought so too, but wy would that be?" "Could he have captured her and is forcing her to act normal to not blow his cover?" "Thats the only possible explanation." "Well, there's a village not far from here, lets stop there and rest..." "Rest!" "Inuyasha, Shippo is already asleep and I can tell that even though you are worried, you too are also sleepy." "Yeah, but..." "It's best if we rest, if we end up in a battle with Naraku, it may not go well if we are too tired to concentrate." "ARGH! Fine! Only till first light! Then we keep going." "Fair enough." "Also it would be a good way to find out if they came through the village..." "Feh! If Naraku didn't level it that is." "True enough."