InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Silence the Fairytale ❯ Shoving Down the Pride ( Chapter 7 )

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Chapter Seven: Shoving Down the Pride

Inuyasha kicked at the rubble with his foot, growling angrily.

He knew this time he had gone too far, and seriously hurt Kagome with his blatant accusations. He had never really been good with people, and that's why he had always been alone... Regardless, he knew she was under his care, and that it was his responsibility not to hurt her so cruelly.

Kicking at thegroundsullenly again, he sulked abitand looked toward thecave. The smell ofsalt waterpermeated the air around it, and he knew she had stopped crying a while ago. Currently, she was sleeping, and he knew that. That was the only reason he felt all right skulking around in front of it. He refused to use the word pouting… men didn't pout. “Tch, man!” he hissed to himself with disgust again, hardly able to believe he hurt someone so young who had been nothing but sweet to him.

If a bit manipulative…

Staring blankly at the ground, his brows furrowed as he thought about it. The girl knew she could get whatever she wanted out of him, and she used it to her advantage. He couldn't really blame her, because most of the things she wanted were harmless.

Like my time, or my attention…

It really rather bugged him she could do it, but they were on a level of understanding it seemed, and he supposed that it was all right. He was just being paranoid anyway, it wasn't like she was going to demand his life or anything, like a maniacal tyrant.

That's where I draw the line, anyway.

Startled by the random thought, he blinked a few times and sighed. He turned around andrubbedhis eye with the back of one clawed hand, careful not to cut his forehead with them. That was a pretty far fetched line, and if she could have everything up until there, he wasn't sure how comfortable he was with that.

Could she even?

He really didn't feel like testing that theory.

Tilting his head to both sides, he cracked his neck and squatted on his haunches a few times to stretch. He had determined a little while ago that he wasn't going to apologize to her… verbally. She did deserve one, so he was hell-bent on getting her something to show his sincerity. It was the least he could do for the little girl that smiled for him.

Shaking his head, he turned around and launched in to the air, sure that he needed to make this quick if she was going to remain relatively safe where she was.

He had put Tetsusaiga at the entrance a while ago, but he wasn't sure how long it would last if something serious came around.

Then again, all he needed was a little time

You're getting soft, old man…

Inuyasha frowned at himself, and mentally smacked himself and told his brain to shut the fuck up.

It wasn't any of its business what he wanted to do.

Then again, arguing with himselfwaspretty pathetic.

All Inuyasha could just do was sigh… he was turning in to his father.

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Inuyasha cursed lightly, walking through the forest with a disappointed air. He hadn't found anything of interest at the local village, and nothing caught his eye on the way there... just nothing said it. He didn't even know why he was walking back. Perhaps he wanted to prolong feeling like a failure, yet again.

Growling at himself, a small pang of self-loathing hit him again.

It was pathetic.

Hewas pathetic.

He couldn't even find something fucking simple like that, a sorry-for-screwing-up-here's-a-present present. He couldn't protect a fourteen year old girl, he couldn't care for her properly, and he couldn't even shut his big fat fucking mouth. Hell, what kind of low-life bastard yelled at a child for self-gratification?

Apparently me.

His brow sunk further, a scowl settling deeply on to his features. So caught up in brooding was he that he just about tripped over a small ball of fur.

“Brrrow?” two wide yellow eyes turned to look at him, and he stared back in slight horror.

It was perfect.

You have to be kidding me…

“Brrrow…” it seemed to reply to him, knowing what he was thinking. The small ball languidly stretched and went up to him, rubbing up against his leg. Then, sealing the deal, it proceeded topurr.

“…no… no, you're joking…”

The eyes flicked up to him, lookingalltoo cute and innocent for Inuyasha's liking. But it was so obvious, so painfully obvious. It was too perfect, too wonderful… too good to pass up. And it was the very last thing Inuyasha wanted.

A cat.

Growling in a deep tenor, he picked up the kitten which proceeded to loll about in his arms, apparently unaffected by his growling. “Mrow.”

Inuyasha glared at the thing, more than sure now that the Fates and the Heavens were conspiring against him. The whole universe hated him, and it was epitomized by this one single creature.

“Mew?”

Dropping his head in defeat, he tucked the thing under one arm the way one might a football, and proceeded to walk in a pace slower than before to the cave.

“C'mon you stupid thing, let's go…”

“Meeeow!”

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Kagome's bright eyes looked at the kitten in wonder as she held it away from her, and she thoroughly examined it, as if unsure it was real. She frowned up at Inuyasha, and spoke quietly, “Neko?”

Inuyasha nodded and sighed, waving his hand in dismiss trying to appear uninterested. “Yeah… yeah, cat…”

Kagome had proceeded onto simple words not to long ago, and apparently she remembered this one…

Her eyes lit up, and Inuyasha knew that the cat was accepted as an apology and was now a permanent fixture in the group. She coddled the thing, bringing it to her chest and crying out in delight, “BUYO!” Inuyasha's ears flattened to his head, and he looked slowly over his shoulder from where he lounged on the ground in slight mortification. That small white and brown ball of fur was now a `Buyo…?' What the hell?

Too...cute...

“What the fuck is a Buyo?”

Kagome just shrugged at him, twirling around with the cat in the air, and it gave a contented, “Brrrow…” It drawled it out, seeming uncaring about everything the girl did to it, despite the fact it was being dragged halfway around the cave.

Of course, the gift was too perfect.

Giving a self-suffering sigh, Inuyasha just shook his head and leaned his head in to his hand and grumbled as the sounds of giddy laughter echoed in the cave behind him.