InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Fire Bearer ❯ Chapter 11

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

Kagome made it to the village just as the sun rose over the mountains and smiled lightly, welcoming the warming feeling of the light against her skin as she stood outside the hut. She closed her eyes and breathed in the smell of the early morning, the bittersweet smell of fires from the awakening villagers reaching her nose.

"Kagome?" came a gruff voice from behind her, sounding a bit sleepy.

She turned around to see a blinking InuYasha and noticed that his eyes were squinting a bit. She smiled as she recognized his eyes were adjusting to the sunlight. "Hey, InuYasha," she said quietly as she looked down at the ground lightly, remembering her comments last night.

He looked at her as his eyes stopped blinking as much, finally getting used to the light. He noticed her eyes were tired and her shoulders slumped lightly. "Are you just getting in?" he asked her quietly and she nodded. "Why were you out all night?"

She sighed lightly and shrugged. "I ran into someone," she told him quietly as she went back over the night. Okay, so she had run into a few people... but it was basically the truth.

"Who?" InuYasha asked confused and then saw the cut across her shoulder, his eyes widening lightly. "What happened?" he asked her as he made his way over to her cautiously. "Are you alright?"

She nodded her head slowly and looked up at him with a tired smile. "I'm fine," she told him. "I just want some rest."

He nodded, his mouth open a bit. She slowly turned to head inside but his voice stopped her. "What happened... earlier, I mean?" he asked her quietly, looking out at the trees away from her.

She sighed and closed her eyes, shaking her head. "Not now InuYasha," she told him quietly, her voice weary and strained a bit.

"Then when?" he asked as he snapped his head back over to her. "We have to talk about... this... whatever it is," he told her. "So why not now?"

"Because I'm tired!" she yelled as she turned back to him, looking at him with sarcastic amazement. "I'm tired, and I'm wounded, and I just want to sleep," she told him. "Don't you get that? Just... just let it go for now," she said exasperatedly and turned back to the hut, continuing along as her fists clenched lightly.

"Just let it go?" he persisted. "How do expect me to just... just let it go!" he walked in front of her, blocking her path. "I bared my soul to you earlier Kagome, and then all I get is cruel comments and snide remarks!"

"Well now you know how it feels!" she yelled back as she looked up at him. "Rude comments, snide little sayings, muttered words. Get over it InuYasha! Okay? Besides, you gave me a REASON earlier. Not some heartfelt, soul lifting explanation. So why want to talk now? You've never... NEVER wanted to talk before. So why now, huh? Why now InuYasha?" her voice kept raising with every sentence she said, looking up at him with hurt and confusion. "I had to wait an extremely long time for you InuYasha. I think you can wait a little longer for me," she told him and moved around him.
Right before she got to the door he asked, "How long?", not even bothering to look at her.

She opened her mouth but closed it again and sighed, her eyes closing. "We'll see," was all she said before entering the hut.

As she walked into the hut, she saw Sango, Miroku, and Keada already up, but Shippo was still asleep. Miroku was struggling to start a fire as Sango and Keada worked on breakfast. All three stopped and looked up at her with confused and concerned looks on their faces. She gave no answer, simply waved her hand in Miroku's direction, starting the fire and made her way to the back of the room. She slowly crawled under the blankets and rolled over away from all of them.

She lay there for a while, keeping her eyes opened as she thought over everything again. The conversation with the four spirits kept flooding her mind and she couldn’t help but remember what was said about never being able to love him again. She finally closed her eyes as they began to fill with tears and shook her head a bit, finally falling asleep.

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Okay, so there was this princess. She lived up in an extremely high tower. She had everything she could ever need, but what she wanted was outside, because outside was where she was free. Outside she could be her old self, before she had been locked up in this tower by an evil woman. Well, four evil women, actually.

So, at some point along the story, a prince had come by. But as it were, he was not there to save her. Honestly... she wasn’t sure why he was there. A person from before she got locked up, probably. They talked for a while, and were getting along really well. She felt like her old self again, free, and happy... basically.

But then, they got in a fight, they yelled, and he left. She didn’t know what happened, but she cried and cried. The four evil women showed up again, and told her that she could leave if she figured out how to escape and kill the dragon. The girl was confused but when she looked out the window, there, in all its glory, was a giant dragon. It was black and purple, and instead of fire, a deadly gas seemed to come out of its mouth. But that’s not the weirdest part. It turned around, and on its back, lay a scar in the shape of a spider.
When she went to ask the evil women who kept her locked in the tower, they were gone. But something miraculous happened. Her body felt weird and started to tremble, slowly her body changed. Fire engulfed her body, but she did not burn. She grew a beak, but didn’t squawk like a normal bird. And then finally, wings replaced her arms.

She realized this was it, her chance to the outside world, back to her old self again. She ran for the window, she spread her wings wide... and jumped.

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Kagome's eyes snapped open later that day. She could tell by the way the sun shone in through the window that it was around noonish, give or take an hour. She looked around for a moment before the noise from the outside world hit her. In a rush, she heard screaming and shouting, and the clashing of metal against metal. She sat up straight and ran outside, looking around. She blinked furiously at the blazing sunlight, trying to clear her vision.

"WIND SCAR!" came a voice from her left, and when she looked her eyes widened and she gasped lightly. There, in the middle of the village with people and animals running in a wild muck, was InuYasha and Sesshomaru in battle. Or, rather, InuYasha in battle and Sessomaru dodging his attacks gracefully.

"InuYasha!" she screamed as she ran towards them, waving her arms around.

"Stay out of this Kagome!" he yelled and continue to attack his brother. "Stay still you bastard!" he cried out and growled as he lifted his sword above him and slashed down at Sesshomaru.

"Sesshomaru!" Kagome screamed out as she reached the battle, afraid that InuYasha might hit him.

Everyone looked at her confused, InuYasha loosing concentration on the battle and Sesshomaru hit him in the stomach, not enough to really hurt him, but to knock him back and to the ground. Sango and Miroku lost their stances for a moment and Kirara roared lightly as she transformed into her smaller forming, mewling and tilting her head to the side in confusion.

Sesshomaru brushed off his sleeves lightly and looked down at Kagome nonchalantly. "I had hoped for a more graceful entry," was all he said.

She laughed nervously and rubbed the back of her head. "Yeah, sorry bout that," she said.
"I guess I kinda forgot to tell them," she said, biting her lip as she smiled at him nervously, but all she got was another eyebrow raise. She sighed and turned back to the others just as InuYasha was reaching them. "Hey, guys," she started quietly. "Look, Sesshomaru's here 'cause i asked him to come, alright?"

The others looked at her a little shocked, not sure what to think. "What do you mean you asked him to come?" InuYasha blurted out. "Sesshomaru would never fight with us!"

"That’s just it, half-brother," Sesshomaru started, his voice dripping with distain as he said 'half-brother'. "I am not fighting with you, simply against Naraku. Don't go getting any ideas that this Sesshomaru would fight WITH a measly group of humans," he told them and slowly turned his body away and started in the other direction as though the conversation was now over.

"Well what about Kagome?" InuYasha said smugly. "You seem to be rather pally with her and she’s a-" his voice cut off and his eyes widened for a second before dropping to the ground.

"A what, half-brother?" Sesshomaru asked, turning his body just enough to look down at his brother. He smirked as he saw how his eyes were down. "That's right," he started.
"Your little friend is no longer human InuYasha... I suppose that takes the novelty from her, now doesn’t it?"

Kagome looked between the two of them as Sango and Miroku and the others looked at her. The novelty? she thought to herself quietly. What am I? Some item to show around? "Oh look, I’ve got a human! Oh yeah, I'm cool!" She thought out to herself, imagining someone gloating about it. She growled lightly and shook her head from the thoughts, but when she looked back up, both Sesshomaru and InuYasha were gone. "Where... where’d they go?" she asked as she looked around the village.

Sango pointed in one direction as Miroku pointed in the other. Kagome frowned at them and raised an eyebrow. Sango looked at Miroku and glared lightly. She sighed and looked at Kagome as he dropped his hand. "InuYasha went that way," she said, pointing in the direction she had been. "And Sesshomaru went the othe- EEEEE!" she cried out, turning and giving a sharp slap to Miroku. "PERVERT DONT DO THAT!"

Kagome sighed and shook her head as she turned in the direction that InuYasha had gone and started that way. She picked up his presence after a few steps and followed it, leaving behind the sounds of the village as she made it into the forest. She looked around tiredly, finding it almost amazing that everytime she entered the woods, she was still amazed. Back in her time, all you had was concrete and tall buildings and smog blocking out the rest of the world. I mean, sure, there were still those beatuiful and natural places, but there weren’t enough of them left. Not like this. She could never get tired of this sight.

She stopped walking for a moment as she thought over it. She never would get tired of this sight would she? Not like she easily did back in Tokyo. Everything was so generic there and all the same. Even if everything in these woods were relatively the same things, trees, bushes, animals, they would never get old. Every different one was the same and yet totally different no matter what you did. Kagome smiled and continued along, running her hands over the bark of the trees.

She stopped walking again as she made it to a spot where the sun filtered in through the trees. She closed her eyes and tilted her face up towards the sun, enjoying the light on her face. How could I be so stupid? she thought to herself. This is ho-

But her thoughts were cut off as she felt lips pressed hard against her own. Her eyes snapped open and she saw InuYasha there, kissing her hard and was too stunned to do anything. Slowly, he pulled away and looked at her, his eyes open and breathing hard.

"Anything?" he asked her and she looked at him confused. He sighed lightly and closed his eyes. "I mean... I mean did you feel anything?" he asked her.

She thought for a moment, confused about what he meant before her eyes widened. She looked up at him, her mouth opening and closing for a moment, trying to find what she was supposed to say. She took a deep breath and looked at him, straight into his eyes. "No."