InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Heart Says in Silence, What it Fears to Say Aloud ❯ The Calm Before the Storm ( Chapter 6 )

Title: The Heart Says in Silence, What it Fears to Say Aloud

Chapter Six: The Calm before the Storm

Inu-yasha and Kagome sat next to each other watching their friends sleep through the night, their back against a fallen tree.

"I'm going to be tired `morrow."

A smug grin lit his face under the heavenly glow the stars.

"You shouldn't have fallen asleep."

"You could've woken me up sometime before we set up camp." She snipped back at the aggravating yet enthralling hanyou.

Time slipped passed them as the reveled in the comfort that being with one another offered. Thoughts drifting between them and colliding more often than not, yet neither knew what went on through the other's mind.

"What do you think about Inu-yasha?"

Startled slightly by her question the hanyou turned to her with an arched brow.

"What do you mean, wench?"

"I mean exactly what I said."

"Keh, stuff's what I think about."

The powerful and youthful miko gave him a pointed glance and he gave an irritated sigh.

"Defeating Naraku, finding the rest of the jewel shards, my transformations, I don't know Kagome."

"What about Kikyo?"

She'd said it and she couldn't take it back, he knew what she was thinking about.

He leaned forward so that his silver bangs covered his eyes and bit at his lower lip.

I can't believe she'd ask that! Doesn't this wench know that I can only think about her now?....No of course she thinks it's Kikyo, because it always has to be her.

Inu-yasha couldn't tell her that he always thought about the dead miko and the hanyou couldn't say "no," to her either because that would be a lie.

"Sometimes"

It seemed that the brunette took that as a sufficient answer because she just nodded and look towards the young kitsune who was sleeping with Kirara.

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It was early dawn now, the colors of the sky were innumerable and everything was as it should be.

The young miko had fallen asleep about thirty minutes before and Inu-yasha thought it better to let her sleep than wake her knowing she wouldn't be of any use to anyone and she would've probably `sat' him for waking her.

"Where are we off to today Inu-yasha?" the amorous monk questioned, while making sure that his robes were on appropriately.

"Keh, we'll just go through the next two villages and look for any jewel shards or signs of Naraku."

Once Sango and Shippo along with the two-tail, Kirara, had woken up Inu-yasha cradled Kagome in his arms like a young child and she clung to him desperately as though needing him more than anything else.

Kagome woke up startled to find her face buried in the fabric of Inu-yasha's haori.

"Inu-yasha" she mumbled.

"What wench?"

"Why are you holding me?"

A tinge of pink rushed to his cheeks and he continued walking, letting her know that he didn't take what she said as a means to let go.

"You were complaining last night about how you were going to be tired so I saved myself the agony of having to hear you complain."

I didn't have the heart to wake you, so I carried you.

She smiled at his meaning and nodded, "Thank you."

"Feh!"

"Can you stop so I can get on your back?"

The honey-eyed hanyou did as the miko had requested and let her settle herself upon his back before continuing on to catch up with the monk and youkai exterminator who had Shippou with them.

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"Are you going to be going back home when we arrive at Kaede's hut, Kagome?" called Miroku from his seat upon the cat-demon Kirara.

"Yeah, I have some tests to study for houshi-sama, but I'll come back soon." She yelled back to him as they neared the village.

Once they'd stopped in front of the old woman's hut Kagome demounted from the hanyou and walked over to the young fix kitsune.

"All that time and we didn't even find a fucking jewel shard!" Inu-yasha huffed.

"Don't pout Inu-yasha, it's not becoming." The older priestess called as she stepped out of her hut.

"I ain't pouting old hag." He grumbled.

Kaede neared Kagome and pat the young girl on the shoulder and looked toward the platinum-haired boy, "The word please."

"Sit boy"

"Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhh damn it to hell will you stop doing that Kagome?!"

Shippou did nothing but smile at the sight of Inu-yasha picking dirt from his silver tresses, a quiet laugh passed his lips and he looked up at Kagome.

"Do you think you'll ever not have to use the word Kagome?"

"I doubt it Shippou."

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A/N:

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