InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Heart Says in Silence, What it Fears to Say Aloud ❯ Promise Me ( Chapter 10 )

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

Chapter Ten: Promise Me

"What do you mean by that wench?" the hanyou took a defensive stance before making his way toward the powerful miko, and when he was barely two inches away Kagome answered him, "I don't want to do this anymore, we fight and get upset with each other and I run away."

"Well maybe you should just stay here where you belong." He grit out.

The miko put a hand on his chest and pushed him away, "I don't belong here, you said so yourself."

"That was a long time ago, wench, things were…different then."

"Are you saying I belong here?" the young girl looked to the ground with her long dark tresses covering her face.

The half-demon sighed and scratched his forehead, "Don't go thinking that you can leave us anytime you want, not because you can detect the shards of the Shikon No Tama-" because I need to have you with me, forever. If you're gone then there's nothing left for me, don't see? Its' more than you belonging…you were meant for me. "You ain't so bad to have around."

"Not so bad?"

"Yeah, `cause ya find the damned need to `sit' me." His words were hard but his voice carried some sense of compassion.

The sun began to set slowly and the sky was painted with soothing, warm touches. Kagome looked to see that Shippo was alright and that he hadn't decided to play another trick on the wolf-demon.

"Will you tell me something, Inu-yasha?"

"Depen- - yeah."

"Do you still love Kikyo?" she whispered.

The hanyou could hear the underlying hope in her words; her prayer that he didn't feel for the dead priestess. Her need for the answer wasn't in vain and he knew ever since he met Kagome that his love or adoration for Kikyo would never be the same as it once had been. Now all that could be seen in his mind was the engraved image of the girl who had freed him from the God tree. Yet, he couldn't say that Kikyo wasn't in his heart any longer, there were still traces of their love in his spirit.

"It's not the same anymore." His words true to his emotions it still didn't make her feel any better, knowing that he'd given her his truest answer.

His gruff response had been more than she could've hoped for in the longest time but the fact that it hadn't been the answer she craved hurt her still. It was childish to go after his affections in such a way that she had before. Kagome had even gone to Koga partly because at least when she did the hanyou would let her know that he cared even if it was through estranged fits of jealousy.

I tried to make you go away, Inu-yasha. I really did but you won't ever leave will you?

"If I stay with him, you won't let me be…will you?"

"Can you tell me that you love him more than m- - anything, wench?"

A slight sensation of curiosity melded with sheer terror that would come should she say "yes" made him listen carefully to her response.

"I don't love Koga, not in the way he wants me to, but may someday…."

The half-demon had no care for the way her reply was going, it would break him should the miko say that one day she could learn to fall in love with that sad excuse for a demon, but more importantly for someone who wasn't him, it didn't matter what they said and hadn't, the things his heart whispered to her in the dead of night were still there.

"Don't say that you wished you loved him wench." He spoke angrily.

Kagome walked back to the cave, looking at Shippo play with the member of the wolf-tribe, a smile lit up her face, for Shippo she'd do anything to make him happy. The miko could imagine herself with the hanyou and see the kitsune playing around them; they were so content, at peace and nothing bad could touch them. Then the reality that Kagome could never have her heart's purest desire made her spirit cry.

"I'm just saying that I wish things were different."

The lot of them stood in the back of the cave, Koga's section, and Kagome explained that she was to go back with the hanyou.

"I'm sorry that we have to leave so soon, Koga-kun."

The hanyou winced at the use of his rival's name but said nothing, only bit the inside of his cheek and clenched his fists.

"That's alright Kagome, mutt-face probably put you up to it anyway, eh Kagome?"

Inu-yasha came up to the wolf-demon that he so desperately wanted to cut into tiny pieces wit the fang of destruction, Tetsusaiga.

"I didn't make Kagome do anything, ya mangy wolf!"

The leader of the wolf-demon tribe ignored the half-demon and went over to the miko.

"I'll be seeing you later Kagome?" Koga said as he reached for the girl's hand and took it into his own, "I wouldn't want to completely leave your safety to such an incompetent fool like dog-breath here."

"You've got two seconds to get your damned paws off of Kagome!"

"She's my woman!"

"Keh, like hell she is!"

Kagome decided it was time to speak up when she saw Inu-yasha reaching for his weapon, "Inu-yasha, sit boy!"

The half-demon hit the stone floor and rose with an extremely pissed off look on his face. He watched as Kagome told the wolf that they would be leaving and as she made her way out with the kitsune in her arms.

"I would watch her if I were in your position mutt, Kagome's getting really tired of you."

"Like fucking hell she is, you just want to get sliced by my sword."

"I wouldn't lie when it comes to my Kagome's happiness. The next time she leaves you might not be able to make her come back.

"Yeah thanks for that." The half-demon called over his shoulder as he made his way out of the cave to meet Kagome.

The three of them, Inu-yasha, Kagome, and Shippo, were around half-way to the village by the time the kitsune had fallen asleep. Both Shippo and Kagome were atop the hanyou's back and the miko wasn't far from slumber herself.

"You awake wench?"

"What?" she managed groggily.

It took the half-demon awhile for him to get the words to come out and he sighed heavily as though it took a great deal for him to somehow let the words slip from his lips.

"Promise that you won't run away anymore,…not to that wolf."

The miko yawned before idly running her hands through his hair for a brief moment.

"Why not?"

"Just promise me, wench."

She nodded into his hair before closing her eyes and succumbing to the beckoning call of slumber.

"Ok."

A/N:

I wasn't so sure about this chapter but after three revisions I'm hoping this makes the public along with me happy. There may be revisions like some of you know occurred with chapter five which was originally called "What Can You Do, What Can You Say."

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Here a random quote for thought: "A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love."- W.B. Yeats