InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Silence ❯ What's in a name? ( Chapter 2 )

I wake up cheek pressed to the floor, "Otou-san" sneering above me. A giant weight seems to be pushing on me, and I woodenly lift. Catching sight of Kagura, I see her grimace before she exits the room.

"You fainted on me..." the red-eyed male enlightens. I gulp. The look on his face is cruelly detached. "I can't use a failure..."

Here it comes, the end of my new life.

Odd, a large pressure seems to be clinging to my ribs... I guess I am.....sad... like I'm missing something...

"I'm letting you loose." Come the words of my... freedom? What?

I don't understand.... I search the face of my predecessor anxiously behind my stoic expression. Trying to decipher the cryptic words, my insides twist in panic and like Kageroumaru is down there, and he's having a snack.

"Confused?" Naraku smirks. "Wild animals shouldn't think at all. No good for their..." he pauses. "-health." With a final sneer, he commands me, "Run, Beast."

I yawn, stretching my arms as I sit down on the hard wood floor. I smile happily, and say out loud, "Yay! A roof over our heads!"

Inuyasha glares from his cross-legged position by the doorway of the high-class room. He sneers. "Meaning I always make you sleep outside?"

I blink at the sensation of deja vu. "No, of course not, Inuyasha." I soothe. His frown deepens as he turns away to watch the setting sun. He's really angry that our group didn't wake up at sunrise, had to eat breakfast, and had to stop for lunch. I sigh, turn to the bright yellow bag to get the prickly hanyou some ramen and find Shippou rummaging through it. "Shippou-chan!" He looks up in that startled way people get when they've been caught doing something bad.

"Uh....Kagome?" He scoots away from the bag, his hands behind his back.

"What'cha got there, Shippou-chan?" I gesture with my hand to his back.

"Nothing." He speaks fast, moving away quickly from my outstretched palm.

"Shippou-chan." I warn.

"Just hit the runt." I hear Inuyasha mutter.

I roll my eyes and grab the retreating kitsune. I pry the chocolate bar from the chibi's sticky palms. Ignoring the cries of, "No!" and "It's mine!", I shake my finger and pocket the candy. "You'll spoil your dinner." Shippou looks at the lump in my casual jeans with tears in his bright green eyes. I had decided not to wear my uniform today, simply because I always wear it, and it's covered with many unmentionable.... things.

As the redhead's lower lip trembles and shouts of 'KAWAII!' fill my head, I feel my resolve melting. Then I hear a low mumble of, "Who's spoiling who?"

A vein popping from my forehead, I turn to face the annoying jerk just in time to see him shoved into the wall by an angry Sango.

"That pervert!! That bastard, that.... that... That MAN!!!" she explodes, making scary strangling motions with her fingers.

"How'd the extermination go?" I ask, trying to take her attention away from the purple-eyed male who obviously couldn't control himself.

"That- ARRG!" the strong hands seem to be ripping something to pieces. "Houshi-sama just- such a pervert--- all those girls-!!!" Brown eyes the color of the chocolate I just confiscated from Shippo blaze. "Shameful!!!"

'Shameful that those girls all found him as attractive as you do, or that you're so upset about it?' I shake my head to clear it of such thoughts. That won't calm down the angry Taijiya.

"It is a shame." I agree, nodding sympathetically.

"Feh!" Inuyasha adds, picking himself up.

I sit down next to my bag and pull the fuming girl with me. "You need a girl's best friend." She lifts an eyebrow and I watch enviously. I can never get mine to do that. "Chocolate." I pronounce in a serious voice. Sango's eyes light up. Who ever said that diamonds were a girl's best friend was in denial. I reach down to pull out the candy bar from my pocket and find it empty.

"Shippou-chan!!!!"

"What are you doing here, Inuyasha?" I asked the sleepy looking male, putting down the basket of green plants and bright flowers. Sango, Shippou and I had been picking herbs for Kaede after se broke her hip trying to climb on top of the roof... only the Kami know why... Inuyasha had wandered into the clearing, a dreamy glaze over his normally bright yellow eyes.

"Inuyasha?" Sango had questioned, keen brown eyes filled with alarm.

As if he just noticing we were there, the silver-haired hanyou turned his head away. A guilty expression flashed across his handsome face. "Yeah...?"

Shippou scooted over to the dark-haired female and whispered loudly, "Psst! Sango!

Inuyasha smells funny. He's all dirty and sweaty, and like incense and cla-" the battle savvy warrioress clamped strong fingers over the boy's mouth, but it was too late, obviously.

I knew by the way he couldn't look me in the eyes that he had seen Kikyou, but I wasn't about to burst into tears and run away forever. I had promised to stay with him....

"And you will, but I won't let you ruin yourself over him." Strong arms encircle my waist and I feel myself being pulled away. "By never moving on to someone new, your holding yourself and the person that you love back." The husky voice whispered. "They can't move on because they feel that it will hurt you, and you can't move one because your feelings never change."

Inuyasha's eyes bleed red and his pupils dilate into teal dots. His fangs elongate and his claws sharpen. The very air around him turns black as the evil aura spreads.

"A love that's eternal... a love that never grows.... Is that real love?" the man behind me persists, his lips brushing my ear.

"...No..." I whisper in reply, leaning back into his broad chest and sigh, looking up to see blue....

"No?"

I open my eyes to see Inuyasha glaring above me. Hiding my irritation, I smile widely. "Ohayou?" His frown increases, making him look a bit frog-ish with his mouth stretched out like that.

"No?" the hanyou persists, getting in my face. I resist the urge to roll my eyes.

What was up with that dream, though?

Shaking my head, I decide not to question the ways of my subconscious. I know dreams reflect your inner thoughts and wishes, like that one time I dreamt I passed every class with perfect scores, but.... once I had a dream I was tap-dancing in a green raincoat with Naraku and Kikyou. What does that mean?

"No, what, Inuyasha?" asks Miroku as he enters the room where Sango, Shippou and I had been sleeping.

"Shut up Houshi." The dog demon scowls in a way that made my pulse skip a beat... I guess physical attraction can't be so easily tossed away. He is so cute with his ears flopped down like that. I just wish he wasn't so petty!

'never moving on'

Speaking of pettiness.... blue eyes.... could the guy in my dreams be Kouga? No, the color was too dark. I wish I could be fantasizing about the wolf prince, though. It would save me some heartache. Well, not really... He's not much better than Inuyasha, but at least he doesn't have obligations to other women! The last time we saw the youkai, when we fought Naraku's 4th and 5th detachments, Juuroumaru and Kageroumaru. He just left me with Inuyasha and ran off!

"....so we need to find this old hag of the forest and get the shard!" Inuyasha explains, a triumphant fanged grin splitting his glare. Shippou cracks open bright green eyes.

The purple-eyed man nods. "So I am told, but how much of that is true we will find out. The servant girls said that they saw her attacking someone. There is no evidence of a Shikon shard."

"Oh!" Shippou yawns. "So that's why you were talking to all those ladies."

A drop of sweat rolls down the black-haired man's face. "Uh...."

Inuyasha opens his mouth to say something but I don't hear as I get out of my sleeping bag and grab the necessities form my pack.

I sigh and let the banter of Miroku and Inuyasha recede into the background.

A/N: This story is set a little after Juuroumaru's death, meaning Ayame hasn't shown up yet. Poor Kagome, even Kouga-kun has 'obligations'.

Confession time: I don't see much of the anime, only random episodes here and there. I'm only up to manga 17, which means I've only read the direct translation on how Juuroumaru kicks it- the very, very, very obscene version. The f-bomb can be used as an adjective, noun and a verb, dont'cha know?

Translations:

Otou-san- father. The "o" is removable (tou-san)

Haori- is the short jacket that men wore. Inuyasha and Shippo wear them.

Chibi- child

Hanyou- literally half-breed, but it's used in Inuyasha as a half-demon.

Ohayou- Good morning

Houshi- a low-ranking Buddhist monk