InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Sleep Paralysis ❯ At Odds and Ends ( Chapter 41 )

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

A/n: Chacha! *looks around at the lack of reviews and replies, then looks down* ;-;... Everyone ran off to 'Silence the Fairytale' XD! Lol. Did everyone get fed up with Kagome? *laughs* I'm sure they did! Oh well.

And I just got a random thought... has anyone every done a pairing with Rin/Inu 0.o? Wouldn't that be strange, yet oddly satisfying? (As long as Rin was much, much older o~o!)

TriNeyce: Oooh, clever name. I LOVE CONSTANTINE! I, too, am a sucker for that genre... if you couldn't tell by this story ^^;. "Nyu"... Look up "Elfen Lied" on Wikipedia.com and you'll see. Nyu is awesome, if not a rather sad character... kinda insane, too >>;;... but I am definitely not referencing you in that way XD. And fear not on the moving! I have moved... *counts*... 7 times in the past two and a half years. I'm a nomad... an expert. But, hopefully, this will be a residency of a couple of years. Can't be moving around with a baby a whole lot :>. I'm so happy though... I don't need a home. A home is wherever my baby and hubby are :D! ...only, I would like a nice permanent fixture for my little bundle of joy. Happiness. And I also love the banter too. I had to show they were still at least human if nothing else... plus a little insight on their relationship :3!

Lol, I liked the last chapter when I reread it. Came out the funneh. ^_^.

*pouts* Puu. This poor story. :p.

Luna-





"...they always do say that a pet dog always remember its first owner," Shippou nodded sagely, just in time for Inuyasha to overhear what garbage the little runt had been spewing while he was gone.

Inuyasha cranked his leg back and kicked the kit, sending him flying over the treetops in punishment for his wisecracks.

"Who the hell you callin' a pet?" Inuyasha spat angrily.

The antics were ignored by all present, having been used to his mistreatment of the younger youkai, and Kagome looked up at him in askance.

"So, what did you talk about?"

He knew she was referring to Kikyou.

"We didn't talk. She wasn't there."

He was a bit dismal about it, and he had really searched for her, but was unable to find Kikyou.

"You can tell me the truth, you know."

Inuyasha was caught off guard by Kagome's statement, one of his ears twitching in confusion. "Huh?"

How could she doubt him like that? Of course he was telling the truth! He always told her the truth...

"Why wouldn't I tell you the truth, Kagome? Quit being so stupid."

Her eyes pierced his in melancholy, and she said the dreaded command.

"Sit boy."

That telltale pulling around his neck brought him face first to lick the ground, and he groaned upon the impact.

Clawing at the ground, he tried to peel himself off of it, and he threw an accusing glare at Kagome who happily returned it right back.

"Why you..."

"Sit boy."

She stood, towering above him, obviously ready to give him a piece of her mind.

"Look, I was nice enough to let you go off by yourself. Sit boy!"

Again, Inuyasha was forming a crater into the earth around him, and he let out a small shout of pain.

"So at least let me know what you talked about! Sit boy!"

"Aaagh!"

She was flushed red, seething, throwing her arms down in a show of hurt.

"Why do I bother having any consideration for you at all?! SIT BOY!"

"AAAAGH!"

Miroku's voice drifted to him above the well of pain that was currently residing in every place of his body.

"It would appear she wasn't taking it all in stride after all..."

...of course, they side with her again, despite the injustice of him creating a new grave for some poor person...

Sango's voice came after, followed by the pain-in-the-ass Shippou.

"I can't really blame her."

"Poor Kagome must really be hurting."

He lifted himself off the ground forcefully, and cast a disbelieving stare at all present.

"She's hurting?"

After he had been face-planted into the ground by an angry, jealous, teenage, hormonal Kagome?

...perhaps...

...but he doubted it was anything compared to the fact that she thought he was lying...

...

"HEY KAGOME!"

He shouted for her, jumping over the roof of her house from the well to see her early that morning. Luckily, he had caught her before she had gone off to that 'skool' thing of hers...

He came from the sky and landed on the first avalible object, perching himself on it.

Unfortunately, it crunched beneath the force of his impact, but he doubted it was anything serious. Though, little alarm bells were going off in his head by the way Kagome was looking at him...

As usual, he ignored it...

"Eh... uh... Inu-no-nii-chan! Have you come to play?" her younger brother, Souta, asked him. The kid was cute, and somewhat lovable by his 'hero' syndrome with Inuyasha, but his main interest at that moment was Kagome...

From her hand dropped some sort of cloth, and she stared directly at him like a blank slate, full of disbelief, but he still felt the anger of her leaving without telling him where she was going.

"I don't have time for that. Listen, Kagome, why the hell did you just leave without-----KEEE!"

He leaned backward as she gave him that wrathful, scary face that meant hell was about to descend on his fragile little puppy ears.

They flattened in anticipation of the coming onslaught.

She charged right up to him, and he took a few steps back as she shouted angrily at him.

"What's wrong with you?!" she pointed one finger accusingly at the spot he had just been sitting on. "You broke it, BAKA!"

He sputtered, his eyes wide at her sudden rage, "Wh-what are you talking about?"

She rolled her eyes and sighed, "Man..." moving away from him and going toward the object that laid prone of the ground.

Lifting it up, she revealed it was an iron cart like the one that had broken back in his time.

"Damnit! It's all bent and twisted!"

Inuyasha cringed back farther, hoping not to be the direct attention of her malice.

Souta seemed to sympathize with her even, commenting, "Sis polished it until it was shining, too."

Wanting to prove them both wrong, and that it really wasn't as big a deal as they were making it out to be, Inuyasha stepped up to the plate to take a swing.

"Keh! If you just do this..." he grabbed the handlebars of the iron cart and tried to move it back into its original place, "it'll go right back to normal!"

Unforunately, he turned it the wrong way.

"Uh..."

. . . .

The iron cart fell over, and Kagome gave him a clear threat, "Now look here..."

He felt Kagome's heated stare on the side of his head, and the compelling urge to just fix the situation still remained.

She was damn scary when she was mad...

...he could have sworn there was even a vein popping out of her forehead.

Reaching down and putting it back straight up, he murmured dismally, "I-I just need to fix it, right...?"

But when he moved to try and repair his mistake once more, Kagome admonished him, "Don't touch it anymore!"

"But..."

"Just leave it," her voice... was dark and thick and scary...

...Kagome seemed like a mononoke...

"You're mad about it!"

"It's okay."

"It's not okay!"

"Osuwari!"

"Geh!" he kissed the ground, the iron cart falling on top of him in the process, and he watched as Kagome stomped her foot and stormed off in a huff.

All he could do was simply twitch in agony.

"Eeeehhh..."

...

Kagome's mother came and put a plate of onigiri and tea next to him, while he rattled the iron cart, attempting the right the damn thing that had caused so much trouble in the first place earlier that morning.

"Please have some if you like," she offered to him kindly.

When she stood, she smiled affectionately down at him, as a mother might her son, and asked him, "Does it look like it can be fixed?"

Inuyasha shook it a bit, trying to align the wheel and the handlebars, and offered a, "Guess so."

His concentration still solely on the bike, he mentioned something Kagome had said, "I heard that she got this one from somewhere to replace the one that broke."

Kagome's mother smiled bright, confirming his suspicions, "Yes! The neighbor was kind enough to give it to her."

Inuyasha gave a soft sigh and said, "I'm...sorry."

"Hm? What for?"

"...for breaking it."

"But you're going to fix it, right?"

Inuyasha lifted his eyes to her, blinking, "Eh? Yea."

She smiled at him, brightly, "Do your best!" and offered him an encouraging wink.

As she walked away, Inuyasha felt his chest puff up, feeling rather invincible at this point.

Ah, the superpowers of the mother figure...

He pushed up his haori sleeve, rolling his shoulder joints to work out the kinks. Grabbing one onigiri, he stuffed it in his mouth, downing the delicious riceball.

Licking his fingers, and swallowing the food, he was prepared.

He lifted his hands, ready for battle, declaring loudly, "This little thing! All I have to do is..." Placing his hands on the wheel, he went to move it, but his claws accidentally punctured the soft rubber.

"Uuwaa!"

Panic came over him, accompanied by flashbacks of Kagome's angry face.

"It collapsed!"

He grabbed the wheel again, accidentally smushing it together. In a rush to repair his mistake, he grabbed the bars and twisted them around in terror, blurting out angrily, "Why isn't this working?!"

And when he put his hand on the wires connecting inside the wheel, the iron cart finally decided to fight back. It had him trapped, and he could not remove his fingers.

"What the...?!" he flailed his arm, attempting to throw the thing off of his person. "Let go of me!"

When it refused, he lifted his arm above his head and threw the thing down with force. "I said, let go!"

Which it finally did.

It needed to be punished for its crimes against him. "Don't make fun of me! You wanna go?!"

Lifting one arm up, he growled, "You asked for it! SANKONTESSOU!"

Bringing down his formiable attack upon the iron cart, he made sure it paid its price...

...and dearly.

"You think I'd be defeated?!"

He grabbed the bike, amused by its pathetic attempts.

"By one or two of these hoops?!" and he mangled it in treason, letting out a fierce battlecry.

"RAAAAAH!"

...


"INUUUYAAASHAAAA! "

He froze to the spot, his ears covered by his bandana, as he tried to remain immobile in the shed with Kagome's ojii-san sitting near him.

He had tried to work part time to pay for the iron cart he had destroyed oh-so-thoroughly.

"COME OUT, I KNOW YOU'RE HERE! INU-YASHA!"

He twitched in fear, knowing he was doomed.

Done for.

He was going to be neutered...

"Sounds like Kagome is calling for you."

Trembling, he stuttered, "I d-didn't hear anything..."

"No? You sure?"

Despite the fact his hearing was more than ten times better than a normal human, and the old man was even able to hear her fanatical screaming, he was sure.

"Well, then, bring that jar over here," the old man pointed his duster to a shelf above Inuyasha's head.

Inuyasha grabbed the large clay pot and looked over at him, "This one?"

"Yes. And don't you dare break it, etiher. That jar has a long and colorful history. So be extremely careful."

Kagome's voice rang through the yard just then.

"INUYASHA! Osuwari."

And down, down he went...

...down on top of the old jar with the colorful history, priceless family heirloom, treasure to their heritage...

The old man cried out in disdain.

"Aaaah! Inuyasha!"

"It wasn't my fault!!"

And regardless, whether it was or wasn't his fault, he knew he had to escape--and quickly.

Which he did, of course.

Who would be stupid enough to stick around and face Kagome's full blown wrath?

Not him.

Nope.

He wanted to live at least another couple hundred years.

....

Inuyasha was more than just a little annoyed.

He was confused.

So, he did what he sometimes did when he needed a little advice.

He asked the perverted houshi what was up... he seemed to understand women better than Inuyasha did.

"Hey Miroku, why do you think Kagome is riding with Sango?"

He, of course, was referring to the fact she was riding on Kirara.

"Probably because she doesn't want to be carried by you," he stated the obvious, and rather sarcasitcally at that.

Inuyasha guessed it was a rather mundane question, but that wasn't the asnwer he was looking for.

"But what the hell did I do?"

And his given answer was the very reason why he asked Miroku his opinion in times like these. He wondered if the houshi had read some manual on how to understand women...

"What you did or didn't do doesn't really matter at this point. Kagome feels betrayed. Women are very sensitive, and Kagome is hurt because she thinks you may still have feelings for Kikyou."

Inuyasha took this bit of information in... it made sense. And therefore, Inuyasha knew he had to fix it.

He had to get Kagome to talk to him.

He made up his mind.

He was going to go after her.

So, when Miroku said, "You should leave her alone for a little while. It would not be particularly wise to provoke her unnecessarily," of course he didn't listen.

Inuyasha raced ahead of him, disregarding every word Miroku had said, and went to catch up with Kagome and Sango on Kirara.

"Hey, Kagome!"

"Inuyasha!" he heard Miroku protest behind him, but he could have cared less. Though, he didn't miss Shippou's little off-handed comment. "Idiot..."

Sango appeared annoyed, but did not say anything. Kagome hand her face turned away from him, ignoring the fact he was right next to her.

"Hey, c'mon, answer me alreday! Why the heck are you ignoring me?! Hey, Kagome!"

And when she turned to him, she gave him a look. A look that chilled him to the bone, and shook him to the core. A look of hurt, and coldness, and obscure calmness.

"What?"

Completely freaked out by her uncharacteristically frosty attitude, Inuyasha fell back and went to hide behind Miroku.

"Eep!"

He was wise enough to stay away from her while they travelled, but when they stopped to rest it was a different story.

He just had to get her to talk.

He couldn't stand it when she was mad like this.

"If you have something to say, then let's hear it, okay?" he was gruff, annoyed, but simply because of her continued silence.

When was she the kind of person not to yell?

"Don't bother."

She blew him off.

"C'mon, I know you're angry."

He was trying to provoke her, to get her to just be... well, honest.

"No, I'm not angry," she sighed heavily, as if burdened, and turned her face away from him.

He growled in annoyance, knowing she wasn't going to open up then, and just said testily, "Anyway, you realize this is no time for us to argue, don't you?"

She said nothing, at first. He felt awkward, looking down, trying to think of something, practically anything to say to fill that empty space.

She spoke before he had the chance.

"Inuyasha?"

He gulped and asked, "Yeah, what is it?"

He felt like a glutton for punishment, seeking out her rage.

"We've talked about it before, haven't we? About me staying with you."

He relaxed under the words, knowing then at least... at least she wasn't going to leave him...

"I know there's a bond between you and Kikyou. And I know I can't ask you to ever forget about her..."

He watched the sadness pass over her face, his heart clenching for her, touched by her loyalty to him...

"...and yet... and yet, I'm going to stand by you, Inuyasha... it's what... I know I have to do..."

Not for the first time, he was reminded why he had fallen in love with her in the first place...

"Kagome..."

She looked to the sky, a strange sort of resolution present in her voice when she spoke to him...

"So... I'm not going to worry about what happened last night..."

He was relieved... that she was so understanding.

"There's one thing though..."

His ears perked up, wanting to hear what other sentimental things she might have to say, feeling so grateful towards her at that moment...

"WHY DO YOU HAVE TO PICK A FIGHT WITH ME?! WHY CAN'T YOU JUST LEAVE ME ALONE?!"

She stood suddenly, hovering over him, breathing heavily in her supressed rage.

"THIS IS ALREADY HARD ENOUGH!"

He leaned away from her... far, far away from her, looking at her rather horrified.

"Aaaaghhh!"

He was frozen to the spot, ready to be blown away by her...

That was, until indignant anger took over his need for self-preservation.

"Hey, wait! I was right! You are angry!"

"Osuwari!!"

He was planted immediately into the ground.

"Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari! Osuwari!"

"Agh! Agh! Aggh! Agggh! Aggggh! Aggghh! Agggghhhh!"

"Baka! Baka! BAKA! OSUWARI!"

"AGGGGGH!"

Miroku's voice came from above them, followed by Shippou's once again brilliant observation.

"I told him not to provoke her unnecessarily..."

"Oh, man, that has got to hurt!"

Either way, Inuyasha had been sat enough, and he cried out pleadingly to Kagome to have mercy on his soul.

"STOOO~~~OOOOOP!"

....

Inuyasha's eyes opened slowly, the bright light of the florescents above blinding him in his groggy state. He moaned in protest against them, trying to cover his eyes with the only hand that seemed to be working at that time.

"You awake, Yash?"

He grunted in affirmative, his throat far too hoarse to even try and answer.

"You've been out a couple hours... though they said you'd be under for longer... they had to put you out because there had been some damage to the bone, and they had to stuff a rod in you and repair the muscle tissue."

Inuyasha nodded, forcing his mind to absorb the information being presented to him.

His head was still swimming with affects of the anethesia and the dreams.

...he hadn't had one of those in a while.

And they seemed to focus solely on Kagome being mad at him.

Great way to be reminded what a piece of crap he could be...

"And I have some really awful news..."

Inuyasha lifted his hand, looking at his friend straight in the eye.

He looked so serious.

...it must have been something terrible.

"Sesshomaru... he..."

"Spit it out already..."

Kami, it hurt to talk...

"...he hasn't come back with our Wacdonalds yet."

Inuyasha, as fucked up as he was, still managed to land a good whack upon Miroku's head that sent him sprawling to the ground.

"...damn idiot..."

Miroku just laughed.

"Good to see you're doing well, Yash."

"Shut up... and stop calling me that."





"Are you ready?" Sesshomaru asked, turning toward the girls who were currently finishing a cup of coffee and downing toast.

"Almost... my nose really hurts, though. Damnit," Kagome grumbled, prodding at the appendage gently, scowling in the process.

Sango laid a comforting hand on Kagome's shoulder, smiling softly. "I'm sorry, Kagome-chan..."

Kagome flushed, looking toward her friend in slight shame, "It's... really my fault. Don't worry about it."

Sango shook her head, "Kagome, it's not your fault..."

"Yeah it is, Sango-chan, I..."

Sesshomaru interrupted the two of them.

"That is a course of conversation that will not be easily settled. Regardless, Kagome, it is imperative you do not leave our sight. You need to remain with one of us at all times. There is no point in worrying about the past. Let us only worry about what to do next."

Kagome swallowed thickly, and nodded in understanding.

"Good. Let us go see Inuyasha and Miroku. Inuyasha should be awake by now."

Smiling softly, Kagome's heart fluttered.

...she couldn't wait to see Inuyasha...

She never wanted to leave his side, ever, ever again...