InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Big Apple ❯ One Little Drop of Poison ( Chapter 1 )

Disclaimer: I own Inuyasha!! Mwuakakakaka! Yes, I own him! (Laughs as she runs away from men in law suits)

 

Author's note: Ok, so here it is my very first story to be shown to the public eye via fanfiction.net. I got to tell ya, I am damn excited! I have been reading and reading and writing and writing fanfics for more than umm... five years of my fifteen years on Earth. My friend, DEKI-CHAN, and I have been working on this for what seems forever (really two years) and I think it's ready for others to see and comment. Please read and then review! I am an open person. I like to hear constructive criticism. I would like to hear what you guys think of the story so far, if the characters are in character, if the relationships are good. Or, if you wanna, you can leave random comments like “I think Brutus should've killed Mark Antony.” You know, have fun.

 

So, here you go(faints)! Enjoy (laughs nervously)! (Runs and hides in a closet)

 

Chapter one: How it All Began...

The people were about there business on a crisp summer morning in the small village. The sun was shining bright in the sky as the moon had fallen behind until the night came. It was hot to say the least and everyone groaned inwardly when they saw a red clad figure run past them with a miko dressed in strange clothing hot on the teenage boy's tracks.

 

“Inuyasha! Get back here!”

 

Yup, they were at it again no doubt. Some of the old men and women simply shook their heads wondering what in the world the hanyou had done to upset her this time.

 

“Hell no! You stay away from me!” He jabbed a finger in her direction.

He cursed under his breath when he saw a new light of determination set into her eyes as she pushed faster, gaining up to him.

 

Though, Kagome knew very well that Inuyasha wasn't going his normal speed. He was weaker with the poison from the last youkai. Kagome made a mental shake of her head as she recalled the events that had led up to this chase.

 

It had been a snake youkai. They had gotten two shards; though they received more than enough injuries. Miroku had a badly broken wrist (his Kazaana hand) with some cuts and bruises here and there.

 

Sango had been unconscious for about two days after being smashed into the wall of the cave by the tail of the snake (which had also caught Kagome) with a broken collarbone and broken ribs. Shippou had taken a few hits, mainly because he had tried to protect Kagome (adorable, I know!). The snake youkai had three heads and one other brother making it difficult for Shippou to hide.

 

Kagome had tried her best to shoot at the constantly moving heads but had gotten a hit to the head, not too seriously though and some scratches and bruises and to Inuyasha's dismay, a few cracked ribs.

 

As for Inuyasha, being the stubborn fool that he is, after getting bitten on the shoulder, beaten down several times, thrown into his own holes in the cave walls and last but not least practically ripped apart he still fought till there was nothing left of the youkai.

 

He had proudly walked out of the fight with Kagome safely at his side and Miroku with Sango and Shippou on Kirara who in the end had some scratches and bruises from hits from the tails.

 

Of course, Inuyasha let Kagome treat to his wounds after she had been treated.

But when Kagome came anywhere near his shoulder, he scoffed and said, “Treat he others, they're weaker” And left the hut.

 

But poor, stubborn and quiet stupid (according to Kagome) Inuyasha was not alright. The poison hadn't affected him until about a week after. He didn't tell Kagome or anyone and just pretended to be a little tired. Kagome had offered to take him back to her time to get some sleep but he refused saying, “Keh! I don't think so, wench! I ain't going anywhere near your gramps and his stupid pieces of paper.”

 

That had been about four weeks ago. Everyone had basically repaired their bodies with the exception of the broken wrist, but it getting much better that Miroku could move and do other daily activities without much pain, especially thanks to Kagome's miracle working herbs from her time. Only, it took Kagome a good portion of a week to convince Inuyasha that she could continue her miko training with Kaede.

 

Inuyasha hadn't believed that it was possible for a human to heal that quickly; especially when the bone had been broken. It took a lot of patience on more Kagome's part than Inuyasha's though as she had to explain how she had gone to a `doctor' (a person who was a `professional' healer in her time as she explained it) and how the doctor gave her `prescription' medicine to help her body heal. Kagome just handed him a dictionary for the other words (which he ended up tearing it up in frustration).

 

Kagome had brought back a `make your own cast' kit for Miroku's about two days after the fight and thought it would be fun to write on it when she finished wrapping it.

She took out a sharpie marker, much to Inuyasha's complaints on its horrible smell, and started to write on Miroku's cast. Sango and Shippou decided to write on it too. Than, much to everyone's dismay and annoyance, he walked into town and had almost every girl sign it with the strange smelly brush. At this, Inuyasha asked what the hell Kagome was thinking in giving him such a stupid idea. Kagome simply said that in her time it was tradition to do such things for the injured.

 

“Keh, I don't see how writing on a stinkin rock is tradition,” Inuyasha scoffed before heading over to the monk to drag him back to Kaede's hut before Sango decided that it wouldn't hurt to give him another cast for the girls to sign.

 

As for Inuyasha, he flat out refused to have Kagome look at his shoulder. Kagome had her suspicions for about a week about his shoulder despite Inuyasha's constant insisting of it being fine. He would just shrugged her off (mind you, with his other shoulder). It was so darn obvious that she wanted to knock him out and help him. He had been acting strangely too. Always looking off into space and looking at her strangely. Also, he didn't eat much (at least in Inuyasha's standards, he wasn't eating much). She knew something was wrong.

 

Then it happened, the day that confirmed Kagome's suspicions. Inuyasha walked into the hut in the afternoon a little too clumsily for.... well... for Inuyasha. She opened her mouth to question him when suddenly he sat down with a `plop!' and looked at her with lazy golden eyes and a goofy smile.

 

“Inuya-“ He covered her mouth with one clawed finger and said, “shhh~” If Kagome hadn't been on the receiving end of this, she concluded that she would be laughing hysterically. But of course she was the receiver today.

 

When he just kept staring at her while she was trying to finish stitching a tear in Shippou's shirt, she stopped and looked up to find his eyes droopy and his smile that had widened into a sloppy grin.

 

`WHAT THE HECK IS WITH HIS FACE!!!????' Kagome backed up about ten steps from him.

 

He started advancing towards her on all fours until she was up against the wall.

 

“Inuyasha!?” She squeaked out when he was practically on top of her.

 

She was cornered!!! She started to panic. `AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!'

 

Then the unthinkable happened. His lips met hers. She froze under him.

 

After getting over the initial shock, Kagome was alarmed to find herself kissing him back. When she realized this she broke the kiss with a jerk. Turning away, she tried her hardest to ignore the hurt look he gave her.

 

“Ack!!!” She squeaked out as she he tried to kiss her again.

 

She quickly pushed him aside and went straight for the door. He hadn't seemed to realize that she was gone because he was just sitting on his hind legs starring at the wall where she had been. Kagome stormed through the door with a mixture of embarrassment, anger, and surprisingly, wondrous joy. Her lips were burning and she could feel the heat radiating off her cheeks. Not to mention she could hear her heart pounding away in her chest and her stomach wouldn't stop doing flips. She went straight for the well and jumped in without thinking.

 

“MAMA!!!!!” She screamed at the top of her lungs the minute she opened the doors to her house.

 

“MAMA~!! INUYASHA'S GONE DELIRIOUS!!!!!!!!!!” In a matter of seconds her mother and grandfather had assembled in the living room where Kagome was standing. (Souta was at school)

 

“Kagome, what's wrong with Inuyasha-kun?” Her mother asked worried for her soon to be son-in-law.

 

Kasumi hid her smiled wisely when her daughter's face became even redder from embarrassment. Now she just had to figure out what had happened.

 

“Mama! Inuyasha's gone delirious! I need you to help me find out what sickness he has! This is serious!” Kagome practically screamed as she flopped onto the couch. Her mother sat next to her as her grandfather sat on the opposite couch listening. Maybe, if he was lucky, he would be able to put a curse on Inuyasha!

 

“Why would you think that, Kagome?” Kasumi asked. (She doesn't have a name in the series so I'm making my own! HA.)

 

Once again, Kagome's face shot in flames as she muttered something about doing the unthinkable.

 

“Kagome?” Kasumi asked innocently yet while trying to hide her amusement.

 

“He just went crazy! That's all! He was all loose and his eyes were all lazy and-“

 

“You sure he wasn't drunk?” Both mother and grandfather asked at the same time.

 

“Mama! Ji-chan!!” Kagome scolded, “Inuyasha has never drunk enough to get drunk!” Kagome looked at them, daring them to question her further on the subject.

 

“Ok, ok. Well, then what do you think is wrong?” Kasumi asked suddenly feeling like she was talking to a patient in a psychiatrists office.

 

“I- I don't know. I mean there was the poison an all but-“

 

“Poison?” Kasumi asked alarmed at her daughter's words.

 

“Yes, snake poison. He got bitten-“

 

“When?” This time it was her grandfather who asked. She was skeptical to answer knowing him and his relationship with Inuyasha. But one look at him and Kagome realized he was being very serious with the question.

 

Kagome thought back and counted the days before answering, “About a month ago.”

 

“What!? You waited a month to tell me!!??” Jii-chan jumped up and practically glared at Kagome.

 

“He wouldn't let me touch it! The stubborn jerk refused to show it to me!” Kagome exclaimed defensively feeling panic rise in her chest.

 

Kagome's grandfather stood there for a few seconds before springing into action again. He went straight to the kitchen and grabbed a notepad and pencil. He scribbled something down, went back to Kagome and shoved it into her hands and said very carefully, “You need to give this to him! If you don't he could very well go crazy.”

 

Kagome nodded her head in a panicky way and when she kept standing there her grandfather shoved her towards the door with a “GET GOING!” And she was off.

When Kagome was out the door, Kasumi looked at Jii-chan.

 

“What do you think Inuyasha did to make Kagome act that way?”

 

“Something that would make her absolutely flustered?” Amusement danced in Kasumi's eyes as she watched her father's mood darken.

 

“When do you think she will return?” Kasumi returned to the kitchen.

 

“It shouldn't take too long to find the medicine; I just hope she has enough money to buy it.”

 

“I hope Inuyasha-kun is going to be ok,” Kasumi started to prepare some tea.

 

“He should be fine, Kasumi. Don't worry.” And with that said, Jii-chan went back to sweeping the grounds outside. stove

 

Kasumi nodded and put the kettle on the and started to get dinner ready for her family.

 

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Out of breath, Kagome opened the glass door to the drug store a few blocks from the shrine.

 

“Irashaimase~!” The lady at the cashier said. Kagome bowed to her and went up to her holding out the piece of paper that her grandfather had shoved in her hands.

The cashier looked at it. She turned a little saddened and Kagome gave her a puzzled look. She handed the paper back to Kagome asking, “Is this what you really need?”

 

“My friend got bitten by a snake. I need it,” Kagome explained eagerly.

 

“Ok, well, it's down that isle and to the left,” The cashier lady explained directing with hand gestures.

 

Kagome nodded and bowed with a quick `thank you' and raced down the isle and looked for the medicine.

 

“Got it!” She picked it off the shelf and ran back to the cashier woman.

 

The lady looked to her with a smile and said, “that will be ¥25000.”

 

“WHAT!?” Kagome almost lost her balance as if her wallet suddenly weighed a ton.

 

“NONONONONONONONONO! I desperately need this medicine!!! I don't have that kind of money!!! Please! I need this med-“

 

“Miss.”

 

Kagome whipped around as the cashier lady turned her head from the troubled teenager to the tall man in the door way.

 

“... Do I know you?” Kagome asked hesitantly to the figure in the doorway.

 

He looked like a tourist to her yet he had pronounced her name with a perfect Japanese accent. His bright emerald eyes looked intently at her. She knew she had seen those same eyes before.

 

“Go. He needs you right now,” the strange man said to her with a very stern look.

 

She looked at him strangely as if he had spoken to her in a different language.

 

“Go!”

 

“But miss!”

 

“It's ok, I got it. GO!” He pushed her towards the door and she only dumbly nodded and bowed while mumbling a thank you. Then Kagome dashed out the door and ran to the shrine.

“But SIR! She didn't pay for-.” The cashier insisted looking irritated but stopped when the man pulled out his wallet and handed her his credit card.

 

“Higurashi Shippou?” She looked at the signature when he signed it.

He nodded with a business-like smile.

 

“Ok… I hope she got it quick enough. Poor woman, looked near hysterics,” she commented as she handed him his recipe which he promptly stuffed in his pocket to throw out later.

 

“O she will. Thank you, and have a good night, miss,” Shippou bowed and left as she bowed back.

 

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“JII-CHAN! I got the medicine!” Kagome ran to her grandfather who was by then in doors in the kitchen with her mother setting the table.

 

“Good. Now, go to the drawer.” He pointed to a drawer which she immediately opened.

 

“Pull out the white thin box. Use that to give him the medicine.”

 

“O-ok. He wont like it though,” Kagome muttered as she turned the little bow in her hands with a frown.

 

“He'll live.”

 

Her grandfather was already shooing her out of the house as she called behind her back, “Ok! Bye Mama! Thank you, Jii-chan.”

 

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“Inuyasha~!” He was no longer in the hut where she had left him which was no surprise to her. She went straight to the next place she knew he would be.

 

“Inuyasha, come down.” Kagome stopped at the foot of the Goshinboku and looked up to see a spot of red. He was higher than usual.

 

“Inuyasha?” Kagome asked as she tried to see him better by standing on her tip toes.

 

When he didn't talk to her, she ordered with a threat of pain in her voice, “Come down, Inuyasha.”

 

“You don't love me~...” Kagome jumped at the same lazy voice from before. She felt her face burn as she fought the resist to run. She planted her feet in spot and looked up and said in a softer voice, “That's not true, Inuyasha. Now come down.”

 

“No. Go away, wench.” At least that sounded some what more like Inuyasha. Kagome sighed. She needed to help him before he truly did go crazy. She shivered at thinking of his full youkai form. Would he turn into that? With a determination like none she could remember, Kagome climber the roots and planted her hands on her hips.

 

“Inuyasha. Come down, NOW.” She said with more forceful.

 

“No.”

 

She heaved a sigh and said, “You asked for it, Inuyasha. *Takes deep breath* OSUWARI.”

 

“GYAAAAAAH~!!!!” Kagome moved out of the way when he fell from the top branches to the ground with a rather heavy sounding thud.

 

“OOOOOOO~ sorry, Inuyasha. But-.” Kagome winced as she saw the depth of the Inuyasha shaped hole.

 

“What the hell was that for, wench!? Tryin to freakin kill me!?” His yells and curses were muffled by the dirt but Kagome understood more or less.

 

“You mean…….you don't remember anything?”

 

This stopped Inuyasha from shooting her an insult. He studied her for a second with his eyes before asking, “Why?”

 

“O! Nothing! I'm just asking because you were acting... drunk.”

 

“DRUNK!?” Inuyasha hollered right in her face.

 

She winced at the volume of his voice and nodded weakly.

 

“SO~, I went home and got you medicine. Here it is.” She showed him the bottle and watched as his face lost color and he said, “No. No way.”

 

“Inuyasha~, the poison is still there and affecting you.”

 

“Hell no. No, you stay away from me with that- that needles thing Kagome!” He backed away when he saw her draw out the white box and pulled out the needle (shot).

 

“Inuyasha. Are you really that scared of this little thing? It will help you,” Kagome reasoned as she advanced, trying to corner him.