InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Strange Faces Meet in Strange Places ❯ Inu Yasha's Lonliness ( Chapter 6 )

Disclaimer: If I owned Inuyasha I'd be in heaven, but I don't…so I'm not

Chapter Six: Inuyasha's Loneliness

The small group trudged through the forest stopping occasionally for snacks or bathroom breaks. Kagome didn't push the point to Inuyasha that she was getting exhausted because he was still in a foul mood. Wrapped in his thoughts Inuyasha didn't even notice anybody else becoming weary, his mind was still in an awful disposition. Finally after hiking all day his puppy dog nose picked up scents of a village and his ears perked up at the sounds of people milling around about a mile away and he's feet stopped. Kagome looked up and almost ran her bike into the silver haired boy.

"Why have we stopped?" Kagome wanted to know.

"Because stupid, there's a village just up ahead, I though maybe you guys were tired and wanted to eat. Besides, the sun is going to set in an hour or so." Inuyasha gruffly responded.

"Well then," Kagome started sounded rejuvenated, "let's get going!" The stubborn boy didn't move an inch.

"Come on Inuyasha! Me and Kagome are hungry and tired! Will you just get going?" Shippo yelled at him.

"I'm not going in the village with you, ya little jerk! I'll be just outside it if you need me though." Kagome decided not to press why Inuyasha didn't want to stay in the village with them. It's to bad Inuyasha despises me so much, he would've stayed with us then.

"Well Shippo, let's go find somewhere to stay for the night." Kagome started to pedal and swerved a little to avoid hitting her disagreeable friend and headed toward the village. Inuyasha watched the green skirt disappear into the distance with a blur of pink underneath. He lifted his head to search for an extension of a tree that had a homey appearance to it. Picking one, he leaped up to the ruff brown surface and decided it would be fine for now.

"Lord Inuyasha, why do you always have a need to be alone?" Myoga questioned. The dog boy landed on his hunches and crossed his legs into a lotus position. "Lord Inuyasha?" Myoga tried to get him talking again. The amber eyes that flew shut after the half-demon plopped down opened slightly.

"I remember as a young child," Inuyasha started, "that I had tried to play with other kids, all of them, but…" his sentence drifted off into the wind. The wise and patient flea jumped down from his master's shoulder and landed in front of desolate boy. His too-big-eyes-for-his-little-head intensely gazed at the silver haired emotional disaster. "My mother, she accepted me, she loved me the best she could. The other people who lived around us, they didn't ever want to be around me. Me and my mom were made to eat in solitude; we weren't ever invited to celebrations for anything."

Back in the village the leader lent Kagome and Shippo a small hut. The abode needed to be dusted and swept, but other than that it would be perfect. Kagome thanked the leader and with Shippo's help, cleaned the one-roomed residence. The wooden floors shone brightly and the shelves returned to their deep red wood color. A grin grew upon Kagome's face that made Shippo giggle in delight.

"Shippo, will you get out what we'll need for bed while I make dinner?" Kagome requested to the fluffy-tailed child.

"No problem Kagome! You can count on me!" he replied in glee, he already started to love helping this happy woman, she was contagious with her ecstatic mood that she always seemed to be in. Now, I'm super hungry and I bet Shippo and Inuyasha are too, what is the fastest thing I can make? she pondered while rummaging through her back pack, RAMEN!!! Taking out her self-heating pot and timer she made heaps of ramen at the speed of light while the little helper made a bed, gathered a bit of wood, and started a fire for the night.

"Shippo, come on, let's go and bring Inuyasha his supper and we'll eat with him." The cook enthusiastically exclaimed. They gathered the ramen into bowls, Inuyasha's the biggest of all, and started down the path to their forlorn escort. Cantering down the road they began to reduce speed when they caught the sound of Inuyasha's voice.

"…they made her feel dirty for being with a demon, and since I was his son they treated me worse. Do you really blame me for not wanting to go to the village with them? I would probably be thrown out the minute I stepped foot on their land." The ears of the dark-haired girl heard the sadness in his voice and understood now why poor Inuyasha didn't want to come to the village with them. So it wasn't because he despises me, it's because all anyone has ever done is be mean to him! She waited for him to go on, but for some reason he didn't.

"Kagome, I can smell you there." Crap!!! I was so into what I was telling Myoga that I just now caught her scent. I wonder how long she's been there. Blushing profusely because she had been busted Kagome stepped from behind the bushes and yelled up to her friend in the tree.

"INUYASHA!!! We have food! Will you please come down and eat with us?" He decided he would ignore the fact that her ears had heard anything he said and hurdled his body to the ground to enjoy dinner. He took his unusually large bowl from the girl who cooked and tasted the chow. Wow! This stuff is great, even if it does come from the future! I hope she'll bring some back next time too. She better have more of it in her back pack!!!

The famished dog boy inhaled his meal so fast that Kagome could see were the invention of the vacuum cleaner came from. After their meal the three satisfied group members lazily laid on their backs and watched the clouds. Soon night would sweep the stars over the sky and Kagome and Shippo would return to the hut in the village.