InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Silence the Fairytale ❯ I Blame This Solely On You ( Chapter 14 )

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

Inuyasha was yet again withdrawn into himself as he glared suspiciously at the back of Kagome's head. It had been three days since they have visited the village. And she had barely spoken a word.

Not one.

So, feeling naturally uncomfortable after the first hour, he said a comment that usually ignited a heated arguement.

He insulted her cat's weight.

She barely bothered with a reply, only saying it wasn't his fault, and that he walked a lot to make sure of that.

That had been that.

And that scared him out of his wits.

No yelling, no cursing... nothing. Nothing.

So after a bit of time, he began to wonder... was it his fault, actually? Had his inital guess been wrong? Their arguement hadn't been anything spectacular, from his point of view.

But any ammunition he had sent her way had been shot down with unenthusiastic comments.

His mind after the first day took a turn for the worse.

She's plotting against me, I know it.

It had to be something downright evil, malicious. She had to only be waiting for the right time to excecute it. Right now, he deemed it rather safe because she had her very limited attention span on her cat at the moment. He laid lazily in her arms as she walked, and she rubbed his stomach as his little cat paws were raised in the air and swatted at all those little invisible bugs that only the insane cat could see...

They're in on it together.

Inuyasha's ears flattened straight down into his hair when the unbidden image of Kagome feeding her cat his ears popped into his mind. The cat ate everything else... why not that? He shuddered at the mental image.

Especially if she was as mad as he guessed she was with her half-hearted silent treatment.

She must be seething, muderous.

And by the way her glazed eyes stared out into space before her, he knew it must be a carefully laid out and masterful plan.

The anticipation of when she might strike was making him feel on edge, absolutely jittery to the point of paranoid insanity.

He wasn't sure how many more hours of this he could take.

Slowing his pace juuust a bit further, making sure he was well out of her reach, he continued to attempt to guess at what must be there, but in reality was absolutely not.

Kagome, on the other hand, never even noticed his discomfort (especially to the degree it had become). She was too busy in her own mind, wondering... wondering...

Where do I belong?

The same question was the same thing that had been plaguing her mind for days. She very suddenly felt out of place with Inuyasha, feeling as if she was dragging him down and had been for over a year now. She never before realized how he cared for her, spoiled her, gave her absolutely anything her heart desired... Always without a second thought.

Where was the pure miko she had been taught to be?

She knew the answer. That girl was long gone, gone after what humans had done to her.

She felt that those morals were taught by liars. She had had difficulty establishing her own set of principals, the difference between right and wrong, and she didn't think she'd be able to ever define it correctly. It's wasn't as black and white as she once though it was.

Her beliefs had changed so drastically, and it left Kagome wondering...

Who am I...?

Part of her wished she could talk to Inuyasha about it. But how could he ever understand? Wouldn't he call her simple minded and weak?

Would he just 'keh!' her?

That seemed to be his answer for everything...

Kagome frowned.

It really, actually was, wasn't it?

It had so many different meanings...

That simple word had as many layers as an onion.

I never thought about that before...

It was a strange epiphany really.

She made a mental note to seriously investiage and record how many possible meanings that one word had.

Slowly, she turned around to ask Inuyasha a question about their next meal, but was taken aback by the clear glower that was set on his face as he stared intently at her.

Blinking, she stared right back.

Inuyasha felt himself go on high panic alert when she turned around to face him, every instinct in his body screaming his muscles taut to freeze, adrenaline kicking up as he was nearly set in fight or flight mode.

She's going to do it! She's going to attack!

The longer she stared, the more his muscles strained. Fight or flight, fight or flight, fight or flight... make a decision... survive, SURVIVE!

"What the hell are you staring at me like that for, Inuyasha?"

At the sound of her voice, Inuyasha bolted up into a tree, and glared down at her through the leaves in surprise.

Kagome gaped at him like a fish out of water, wondering why he was behaving the way he was, while it took a moment for her question to register.

He felt very stupid quite suddenly.

"What the hell do you mean?!" he barked, though he did not come down from the safety of the tree quite yet. Part of him still anticipated the end of the world to come down upon him at any moment.

Stomping her foot which earned her a quite obvious shudder of leaves, she snapped at him, "You were staring at me like you were angry, Inuyasha!"

"...no I wasn't..." was the lame reply that came from the tree.

Huffing with impatience, Kagome just stated, "Okay, Inuyasha, whatever. You know what? You can not be angry in that tree while I go look for food because I'm starving and you're not being any help!"

Dumping Buyo on the ground without much thought, the cat let out a large mewl in protest as his back legs flailed to try and correct himself.

He was like a hair ball that had been spat up on the forest floor. Only, much cuter.

Noting the cat's difficulty, Inuyasha jumped from his perch and took pity on the damn thing.

Fat fur ball...

Knocking the cat right with his foot, the cat's legs lay out in all directions as he mewled weakly yet again. Sighing, he bent down and grabbed the cat like he was a bag of trash by the scruff of the neck and brought the thing up to eye level.

"I blame this entirely on you," he growled, tossing the cat over his shoulder, all previous sympathy totally gone.

Sighing, he began to walk off to find Kagome, and the poor cat could only stumble after his retreating form.



"Baka Inuyasha... how did I ever feel sorry....?" Kagome grumbled.

She knew she was much more angry than was granted... but she couldn't help it. He was so obnoxious, and it was just so easy... especially if she was trying to forget a certain something from before that made her feel too horrible.

Kagome wasn't paying much attention where she was going, which always lead to impending doom some part of her mind mentioned, but she swatted it away fiercly with an iron fist.

In fact, she had lost most of her appetite, considering she was particularly angry with one said hanyou and feeling somewhat sorry for herself, though not admittedly.

Stopping to sit down after a decent amount of wandering, she plopped on what she deemed a good log and sighed heavily.

"...baka Inuyasha..."

The enthusiasm to be mad was simply not there. Her mind was making too much sense today, and today it was telling her she should just knock it off and that she was being a bitch.

Since when did I argue with myself? This is annoying.

She couldn't be left in peace, ever. Not even alone. Her mind wouldn't shut up to give her the silence she wanted to think.

Sighing, she glared at the closest and most immediate inanimate object to her right.

"It's all your fault, you stupid stick. I blame this on you."

The poor thing didn't even have a way to defend itself as she stepped on it to break it in half. She imagined its little screams of fear and futility as she terrorized and mutilated it.

And afterward, she felt guilty for doing it.

And then she felt damn idiotic for feeling bad about breaking the stick.

Then again, it really didn't deserve to die such a gruesome death...

"Ah hell! What the heck is wrong with me?!" she yelled at nothing and no one, with nobody for an audience. At least, so she thought.

So it's probably quite obvious her reaction when she got an answer to the question she didn't really want a reply for. It was rhetorical.

Rhetorical questions are not meant to have an answer.

"It does not matter much, does it, when you're going to be dinner for me anyway, little human?" Kagome gulped at the deep voice and looked behind her to note a very large ogre-like youkai standing behind her.

All Kagome could do was whisper the words, "Oh, shit..."


Inuyasha's ear stood on alert when an all too familiar scream vibrated through the air.

"INUYASHAA!"

He didn't even need to guess who it was.

"Kagome!"

He bolted off towards the sound of her voice, leaving poor Buyo behind to wonder what to do on his own.