InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Soiled ❯ Short Fuse ( Chapter 2 )
[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]
By: Inuyasha_SIT 
Sorry it's so late in the day. Thursdays are my "update" days. You all should expect a new chapter every Thursday. Thanks so much to everyone who read chapter one, and I hope you liked it and continue to like it. Have a great Easter!
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Angst | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 03.20.2008 | Pages: 2 | Words: 1.8K | Visits: 617 | Status: Work In Progress
Sorry it's so late in the day. Thursdays are my "update" days. You all should expect a new chapter every Thursday. Thanks so much to everyone who read chapter one, and I hope you liked it and continue to like it. Have a great Easter!
Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Angst | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 03.20.2008 | Pages: 2 | Words: 1.8K | Visits: 617 | Status: Work In Progress
Kagome was tired. It was a warm day, and she could still feel a few sweat beads trickle down her face. She had spent a hard day training with Kaede and Miroku, and she could definitely feel it as they walked back to the village. The walk was long, her breath was short, her feet tired, her body sore and her energy low, but she was happy. She felt somewhat surreal as she talked with her companions on the way back.
Three years ago, she would have never guessed that she would end up here. How could she? She had been dragged into this world through a waterless well by a demonic centipede. She had to smile at the journey she had taken to arrive where she was now. It had been hard, but she had made friends. They had become closer than even her friends at home. To her right, Lady Kaede walked beside her. She had been one of the first people Kagome had met when she arrived in the feudal era. Over time, she had become like a grandmother to Kagome.
To her right, Miroku. When she first met the houshi, she couldn't believe his brazen advances towards her, but as she had come to know him, and their friendship grew, his lechery ceased to extend to her, and he had become like a brother to her. On the other side of that, as they headed into Kaede's village, they were talking and laughing about moments remembered shared with the companions they had left in the village. Songo, a taijiya, had become like a sister to Kagome, and Miroku's fiancé. Then there was Shippo. He was a small kitsune orphan who she had come to love as if he were his own son.
Last, but Kagome knew he was certainly far from least, was Inuyasha. He had been the first person she met when she arrived in feudal Japan, although he hadn't been awake during their meeting. She had to smile when she remembered tugging on his ears as he slept pinned to the sacred tree. She had been afraid of him at first, and with good reason. However, with help from Kaede, he had let her join him on a quest to find all the shards of the Shikon no Tama.
Of course, the shattering of the jewel had been her fault, and he had been none too pleased about it. He was rude and arrogant and selfish and a two-timing jerk, but she knew that it was all a façade he had learned to put up since he was a child to survive. She had come to love him, even if he did not return that love. She had chosen to stay by him, even though she knew in the end, he would go to hell with another.
These thoughts had been plaguing her the last month. Ever since she had announced that she wanted to increase and control her miko powers, he had become distant with her. The only other times he ever did that was when Kikyo, the woman he was going to hell for, had come into the picture. She wondered if this was why he was distant now. She knew that she already reminded him of his ex-love. She was Kikyo's reincarnation after all.
“He's probably upset with me because I'm trying to become a better miko, like Kikyo,” she thought while glancing up at the tree he often slept in, “I'm reminding him that I'm no where near Kikyo, and he hates me for it.”
Kagome followed Miroku and Kaede into the hut and pulled Shippo into her lap as she joined the rest in sitting around the fire. She was just wondering where Inuyasha had gotten off to when she heard a soft thump outside the hut.
“Hey,” she heard him snarl from outside. And as he came in through the bamboo “door” he asked, “What's your problem?”
“What are ye talking about Inuyasha?”
“Not you baba, Kagome.”
“If ye have a question for Lady Kagome, ye should simply ask her. There is no need to be rude to the rest of us.”
“That's what I'm trying to do you old hag! Kagome, just answer the question.”
“Inuyasha, don't be so rude. There's nothing wrong with me.” Honestly, if anyone should be asking that, it's me! She hoped he would drop the subject, but obviously he had other ideas in his head as he pushed the subject.
Kagome rolled her eyes, although she doubted anyone could see as it was dark, “What makes you think I'm upset?”
“I saw you. You were all happy and annoying with the houshi and baba, then you looked up and got all sad.”
“Wha- no I didn't,” Kagome's heart froze.
“I. saw. you. You looked right at me. Now what the hell did I do to make you mad at me?”
Coming alive just long enough to die, Kagome felt her heart sink. “I didn't know you were up there,” she whispered, looking at the ground.
“Ha! See, you are mad at me,” Inuyasha said as though he had won some kind of point, which annoyed her.
“I didn't say that! I just said I didn't know you were up there!”
Inuyasha looked slightly taken aback by her exclamation. She was lying, but she hoped that he would just buy it and let it go. Their faces were inches apart now, and Inuyasha's eyes bored into Kagome's as though trying to see the secrets kept hidden behind them. Kagome held his gaze, screaming in her head for him to look away. She didn't know how long she could look into those pools of gold and not melt into them. Finally though, he slumped back onto the floor and shoved his hands in the sleeves of his haori with nothing more than a, “Keh!”
Relief washed over Kagome as she shifted her gaze to the fire. She knew the others were holding their breaths, waiting to see if everything was really alright between the two. Suddenly Kagome heard a loud smack and jerked her head up.
“Hentai!”
“But my dear Songo, the tension in the air was so thick that I could not stay afloat. I had to hold on to something!”
Songo opened her mouth as if to retort, but then suddenly tried to stifle a laugh. Kagome quickly followed suit, but as the girls looked at each other, they couldn't hold it in any longer. Their laughter erupted and the rest of the hut quickly followed. Soon though, the laughter died down and Miroku spoke once again.
“I have to say, Kagome, I'm very impressed with your level of improvement since the last time I came to train with you and Lady Kaede.”
“I agree. Kagome, ye have been learning very well and very quickly.”
Kagome blushed at their praise, “Oh, um, thank you.”
“Keh! I don't know why you wanna bother with this stuff. I said I'd protect you didn't I?”
“And that makes me a distraction doesn't it? How many times to I have to watch you get hurt while you are distracted by me. I love you Inuyasha, and I hate seeing you hurt, especially when it's all my fault. Well I don't want to be. You, Miroku, Songo, Kirara and even Shippo all try so hard to fight, while I just have to sit in the background, point out shards and hope not to get killed. I want to be able to fight too.”
“I don't see what good it's gonna do. Kikyo's the only miko strong enough to stand up to Naraku, and you're no where near as strong as her so it looks like I'm still gonna have to protect you doesn't it?”
Kagome didn't know what to say. She knew he felt this way, she had been thinking about it just a little while ago. But the hurt she felt when he actually said it out loud was more than she could take, it was all she could do to squeak out a small, “Oh.”
She could feel tears start to burn the insides of her eyes, “Um, I'm really tired, so I'm gonna go take a bath before I go to bed.”
“Do you want me to go with you,” she heard Sango ask.
“No, it's ok.”
Kagome scooped up her backpack and left. Almost immediately those left in the hut exploded into different versions of, “Inuyasha, you idiot! How could you say something like that?” Kagome felt grateful that her friends were all behind her, but she wasn't in the mood to stick around, so she took off at a run. It wasn't long, though, until Inuyasha caught up to her.
“Hey! This isn't the way to the hot spring!”
“Inuyasha, what are you doing here?”
“Well I was gonna follow you to make sure you got there and back alright, but now that I tracked your scent here, I'm trying to find out just what the hell you think you're doing.”
“I'm going home, Inuyasha.”
“Like hell you are.”
“SIT!” Kagome heard her voice crack as she screamed the word, and in that brief instant while Inuyasha's bead glowed pink, she saw a strange look cross his face. It wasn't anger, like she would have expected from him before the slam she knew was coming, it was something completely unexpected. She thought she saw sadness and confusion and concern as he looked at her. But she didn't stick around long enough to find out, as he cratered the earth like never before, she took off at a run toward the well.
Three years ago, she would have never guessed that she would end up here. How could she? She had been dragged into this world through a waterless well by a demonic centipede. She had to smile at the journey she had taken to arrive where she was now. It had been hard, but she had made friends. They had become closer than even her friends at home. To her right, Lady Kaede walked beside her. She had been one of the first people Kagome had met when she arrived in the feudal era. Over time, she had become like a grandmother to Kagome.
To her right, Miroku. When she first met the houshi, she couldn't believe his brazen advances towards her, but as she had come to know him, and their friendship grew, his lechery ceased to extend to her, and he had become like a brother to her. On the other side of that, as they headed into Kaede's village, they were talking and laughing about moments remembered shared with the companions they had left in the village. Songo, a taijiya, had become like a sister to Kagome, and Miroku's fiancé. Then there was Shippo. He was a small kitsune orphan who she had come to love as if he were his own son.
Last, but Kagome knew he was certainly far from least, was Inuyasha. He had been the first person she met when she arrived in feudal Japan, although he hadn't been awake during their meeting. She had to smile when she remembered tugging on his ears as he slept pinned to the sacred tree. She had been afraid of him at first, and with good reason. However, with help from Kaede, he had let her join him on a quest to find all the shards of the Shikon no Tama.
Of course, the shattering of the jewel had been her fault, and he had been none too pleased about it. He was rude and arrogant and selfish and a two-timing jerk, but she knew that it was all a façade he had learned to put up since he was a child to survive. She had come to love him, even if he did not return that love. She had chosen to stay by him, even though she knew in the end, he would go to hell with another.
These thoughts had been plaguing her the last month. Ever since she had announced that she wanted to increase and control her miko powers, he had become distant with her. The only other times he ever did that was when Kikyo, the woman he was going to hell for, had come into the picture. She wondered if this was why he was distant now. She knew that she already reminded him of his ex-love. She was Kikyo's reincarnation after all.
“He's probably upset with me because I'm trying to become a better miko, like Kikyo,” she thought while glancing up at the tree he often slept in, “I'm reminding him that I'm no where near Kikyo, and he hates me for it.”
Kagome followed Miroku and Kaede into the hut and pulled Shippo into her lap as she joined the rest in sitting around the fire. She was just wondering where Inuyasha had gotten off to when she heard a soft thump outside the hut.
“Hey,” she heard him snarl from outside. And as he came in through the bamboo “door” he asked, “What's your problem?”
“What are ye talking about Inuyasha?”
“Not you baba, Kagome.”
“If ye have a question for Lady Kagome, ye should simply ask her. There is no need to be rude to the rest of us.”
“That's what I'm trying to do you old hag! Kagome, just answer the question.”
“Inuyasha, don't be so rude. There's nothing wrong with me.” Honestly, if anyone should be asking that, it's me! She hoped he would drop the subject, but obviously he had other ideas in his head as he pushed the subject.
Kagome rolled her eyes, although she doubted anyone could see as it was dark, “What makes you think I'm upset?”
“I saw you. You were all happy and annoying with the houshi and baba, then you looked up and got all sad.”
“Wha- no I didn't,” Kagome's heart froze.
“I. saw. you. You looked right at me. Now what the hell did I do to make you mad at me?”
Coming alive just long enough to die, Kagome felt her heart sink. “I didn't know you were up there,” she whispered, looking at the ground.
“Ha! See, you are mad at me,” Inuyasha said as though he had won some kind of point, which annoyed her.
“I didn't say that! I just said I didn't know you were up there!”
Inuyasha looked slightly taken aback by her exclamation. She was lying, but she hoped that he would just buy it and let it go. Their faces were inches apart now, and Inuyasha's eyes bored into Kagome's as though trying to see the secrets kept hidden behind them. Kagome held his gaze, screaming in her head for him to look away. She didn't know how long she could look into those pools of gold and not melt into them. Finally though, he slumped back onto the floor and shoved his hands in the sleeves of his haori with nothing more than a, “Keh!”
Relief washed over Kagome as she shifted her gaze to the fire. She knew the others were holding their breaths, waiting to see if everything was really alright between the two. Suddenly Kagome heard a loud smack and jerked her head up.
“Hentai!”
“But my dear Songo, the tension in the air was so thick that I could not stay afloat. I had to hold on to something!”
Songo opened her mouth as if to retort, but then suddenly tried to stifle a laugh. Kagome quickly followed suit, but as the girls looked at each other, they couldn't hold it in any longer. Their laughter erupted and the rest of the hut quickly followed. Soon though, the laughter died down and Miroku spoke once again.
“I have to say, Kagome, I'm very impressed with your level of improvement since the last time I came to train with you and Lady Kaede.”
“I agree. Kagome, ye have been learning very well and very quickly.”
Kagome blushed at their praise, “Oh, um, thank you.”
“Keh! I don't know why you wanna bother with this stuff. I said I'd protect you didn't I?”
“And that makes me a distraction doesn't it? How many times to I have to watch you get hurt while you are distracted by me. I love you Inuyasha, and I hate seeing you hurt, especially when it's all my fault. Well I don't want to be. You, Miroku, Songo, Kirara and even Shippo all try so hard to fight, while I just have to sit in the background, point out shards and hope not to get killed. I want to be able to fight too.”
“I don't see what good it's gonna do. Kikyo's the only miko strong enough to stand up to Naraku, and you're no where near as strong as her so it looks like I'm still gonna have to protect you doesn't it?”
Kagome didn't know what to say. She knew he felt this way, she had been thinking about it just a little while ago. But the hurt she felt when he actually said it out loud was more than she could take, it was all she could do to squeak out a small, “Oh.”
She could feel tears start to burn the insides of her eyes, “Um, I'm really tired, so I'm gonna go take a bath before I go to bed.”
“Do you want me to go with you,” she heard Sango ask.
“No, it's ok.”
Kagome scooped up her backpack and left. Almost immediately those left in the hut exploded into different versions of, “Inuyasha, you idiot! How could you say something like that?” Kagome felt grateful that her friends were all behind her, but she wasn't in the mood to stick around, so she took off at a run. It wasn't long, though, until Inuyasha caught up to her.
“Hey! This isn't the way to the hot spring!”
“Inuyasha, what are you doing here?”
“Well I was gonna follow you to make sure you got there and back alright, but now that I tracked your scent here, I'm trying to find out just what the hell you think you're doing.”
“I'm going home, Inuyasha.”
“Like hell you are.”
“SIT!” Kagome heard her voice crack as she screamed the word, and in that brief instant while Inuyasha's bead glowed pink, she saw a strange look cross his face. It wasn't anger, like she would have expected from him before the slam she knew was coming, it was something completely unexpected. She thought she saw sadness and confusion and concern as he looked at her. But she didn't stick around long enough to find out, as he cratered the earth like never before, she took off at a run toward the well.
There you have it. Please R&R and stay tuned for chapter 3: An Intimate Conversation.