InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Impediment Between You and Me ❯ Destined to Meet You, My Dear ( Chapter 6 )

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Jaken is in trouble, he got ambushed in the forest and a stranger comes and saves him at the last second. However, this person notices an unconscious girl beside the toad and decides to take her back to his home.

Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Romance / Drama | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 10.12.2003 | Updated On: 12.29.2005 | Pages: 5 | Words: 7.5K | Visits: 543 | Status: Completed

Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Inuyasha nor do I have anything that has to do with this wonderful animation. It solely belongs to Rumiko Takahashi.

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The Impediment Between You and Me

Chapter 5 : Destined to Meet You, My Dear

"You are..." Jaken looked suspiciously at a young man whose cheeks were scattered with freckles and his black hair was tied up into a strand. "Aren't you the brat who was under the control of Naraku ten years ago?"

Kohaku nodded and he placed his katana back to the side of his waist. He decided to leave but stopped when he saw a fainted girl laying on a two-headed creature, perplexed by the sight.

To clear his uncertainty, he started his way towards the girl before him, "Is...is that you? Rin...?" Captivated by the girl's angelic features, he had a sudden urge to feel the smoothness of her skin.

"What are you doing!" Jaken yelled at him when his hand touched Rin's cheek. The young man was startled by both the toad's sudden outburst and the girl's burning skin.

"She needs to be taken care of right now!" Plain anxiety was exposed in his tone.

"I know! That's why I'm out here in......"

While Jaken was complaining, Kohaku took no note of what he was babbling about. And on instinct, he referred back to his years of experiences. If his judgment call was correct, he noticed time was critical for Rin's condition. Without a second thought, he grabbed the girl with one arm under her knees and the other around the back of her shoulders.

"Rin! Hang on!" and he started running with the unconscious girl in his arms.

Jaken's grumbling got interrupted and his jaw dropped as he stared at the form of the two retreating into the woods. He blinked for a few seconds before he could figure out what was happening.

"Hey! Wait! Where are you taking Rin? HEY!"

'Oh...this is bad...first she fell ill, then she got abducted...Sesshoumaru-sama IS going to kill me for sure...' That thought kicked Jaken hard in the head. He finally got up on his feet and climbed on Ah-Un, following Kohaku.

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After awhile, Kohaku arrived at a small village with four tall towers that were built around the corners of the territory. Then he started his way towards one of the houses......

"How many times do I have to tell you that nine times five equals forty-five which is the same as five times nine. If you can't even get this right, how are you supposed to survive in this complicated world!" Kagome shouted at Inuyasha whose mind was currently muddled with numbers.

"Who cares about these stupid mathematics! I don't need it anyways! It's not like I'm going to use it or anything! Although it is important in your world, it doesn't mean that it is also necessary in this time!" Inuyasha snapped in return.

"No matter what world you live in, it is always important and useful. Also if you are able to learn the concepts of math, it gets your brain working!" Kagome remarked as she stared at the guy standing before her and pulled on his doggy ears. Inuyasha shirked away and jolted down with a grumpy look, crossing his legs and arms. A very faint blush rested on his cheeks during the whole time.

"Wha...What do you mean by getting my brain working? My brain works 24/7 and it is working perfectly fine!" He raised his voice a little, feeling this is not going right, well to him at least.

"If your brain is working properly, then explain to me the reasons to your lack of common sense!" She sat down beside him, never breaking the eye contact and Inuyasha's ears twitched at her attack.

"Just what are you getting at! First you were picking on my mental functioning, and now you are saying that I'm stupid? What? Are you trying to provoke me or something?" He countered and his veins are now twitching on his temple.

"No I'm not trying to provoke you! I'm just telling you why you need to learn and practice using math!"

"What? Oh, so you are explaining to me that I need math because I am a baka?" ( JV : Baka - Fool )

While this was happening, Miroku, Sango and Shippo were looking at the two like watching a movie.

"Inuyasha just doesn't seem to get the main point of Kagome's advice. Even I am able to memorize the multiplication list and not to mention that Miroku and Sango memorized it in about three days. But Inuyasha started memorizing from a month ago...yet he still doesn't seem to get a grasp of it," Shippo said boringly, who was hanging on Miroku's shoulder.

"Well, once you get the conception of mathematics as a whole and apply them into a situation, then it would turn out to be fairly easy, which is similar to the theory of how to deal with women," Miroku explained, sitting beside her wife.

Sango sent her husband a glare and said, "I wonder when this is going to end. I'm getting tired because it's almost midnight. Oh! And by the way, is Kohaku back yet?"

"Maybe he will be back in half an hour or so. Well, you know he gets all serious when he is training that he can even forget about the time," Miroku replied.

"Kohaku is being so productive over the past ten years. He spends most of his time training and now he is a professional youkai exterminator; which is unlike Inuyasha who can't even memorize a simple list," Shippo said while staring at the dog youkai.

"Hey Shippo! I heard that loud and clear!" Inuyasha yelled with annoyance, causing the fox with orange hair crawled behind Miroku's back.

"Not only is he strong, but he also gets a lot of attention from the village girls. Well, I am quite proud of my little brother," Sango giggled at the interesting fact.

"But it seems like he isn't paying any attention to any one of them. Although most of them are not that attractive, but they are still acceptable though. What is he waiting for? I just don't quite understand him..." the pervert houshi added and he emphasized on the appearance of the girls which again caused Sango to send him yet another glare. ( JV : Houshi -Monk )

"I was worried about him too but we can't do anything about it because it's his decision to make. So it is better for us to have faith in him," the female youkai exterminator averted her gaze from Miroku and smiled.

"Yeah, we don't have to worry about him too much. He is an adult now and is capable of dealing such matters by himself, which is unlike Inuyasha who can become quite oblivious when it comes to deal with relationships," Shippo added as a matter of fact.

"Shippo! I said I can hear you loud and clear!" Inuyasha started chasing after the little fox around the room.

"Kagome! Help!" Shippo cried.

"Inuyasha! Osuawari!" Kagome called loudly and Inuyasha fell on his face with a bang. ( JV : Osuawari - Sit )

"Kagome..." feeling irritated, Inuyasha muttered.

Then the group's conversation was interrupted and their attentions were drawn to the doorway when Kohaku appeared with an unconscious girl in his arms. Everyone was surprised by the unexpected scene.

"...Kohaku? ...What's wrong? ...What happened?" Sango was extremely confused and Miroku snapped his fingers.

"Oh! I know! He has finally decided to find himself a little girl!" Miroku said excitedly while looking at Kohaku who was in an intimate position with an unfamiliar girl. Well, that's what it seems only to the pervert houshi.

"NO!...She...She needs...help!" Kohaku defended, taking deep breaths in between, obviously ran back in a hurry.

"Oh no...Then hurry up and lay her over here first!" Kagome instructed, who was pointing at a bed near her.

While everyone was busy trying to help, Inuyasha just sat there and voiced naturally, "What? Did you kill her by accident while you were fighting a youkai?"

"Inuyasha that's rude!" Kagome yelled as she laid Rin on the soft layer.

"Oh! Poor girl! What happened to her? She is feeling awful!" Sango questioned while touching Rin's forehead.

"Really? Here! Let me see and figure out..." Miroku was coming over and trying to feel how terrible Rin's situation was.

"No, houshi keep your hands to yourself!" Sango glared at him and Miroku just stopped mid-way and returned her wife a vain smile.

"So, Kohaku who's this? What happened and where did you find her?" Shippo asked, staring the strange girl.

"We'll ask questions later. Now we have to deal with her condition first!" Kagome was feeling worried.

"She is burning hot...is she having a ...what you call a fever Kagome-chan?" Sango asked, looking a bit uncertain.

"Yes, and I think it is quite severe that she even fainted," Kagome replied and was trying to find a clue as to what might have happened to the girl.

"I should get the medicine ready for her," Sango got up and walked towards the entrance of the kitchen.

"But that means she has to wait another forty-five minutes, because the herbs need that much time to be simmered," Miroku added and his logic put his wife's movement to a pause.

"Is there another better method? It seems she is suffering badly right now," Kohaku was really worried about Rin. He desperately hoped she would get better as soon as possible. It hurt when he saw Rin laying there weakly and he felt so useless that he couldn't do anything to help her.

"There is another way. And it would definitely help lower her temperature but I'm not sure if she will fully recover though...Sango-chan, can you please give me a cup of hot water and a wet towel?" Kagome said calmly while searching for something in her large backpack.

"Okay!" Sango replied and she disappeared from the room.

"Oh here! I found it!" Kagome was holding a small white plastic jar which seemed to be a container for pills.

Inuyasha stared at the jar with an odd look, "What are you planning to do with it? Don't tell me she is going to eat that," mockery in his tone.

"No, she is not going to eat this. She is going to eat the medicine that's in it. OKAY?" Kagome sent Inuyasha a creepy glare. Then Sango reappeared with one hand holding a cup and a white towel with the other.

"Here, Kagome-chan," Sango handed the things in her hands to Kagome.

"Arigato. Sango-chan can you please give me a hand? Just hold her so I can feed her with the medicine," Kagome asked as she was trying to open the lid of the jar.

"Here, please let me help," Kohaku said, wishing to be of use. So he gently held Rin while Kagome was feeding her with her pills and the cup of hot water. Then Kohaku laid Rin down on her back and pulled the cover over her while Kagome placed the cold towel on the girl's forehead.

"So she's going to get better soon?" Shippo asked, looking at the girl.

"Ya...but right now we can't do anything but to wait." Kagome nodded to the little fox.

"Are you sure those are not poisonous to her?" Inuyasha asked and everyone's attention was drawn to his direction. They were wondering why he had to bother asking such obviousness. The only possible reason might be that it was obvious to them but not to him. This brought everyone back to the mystery behind his mindset. But then again, he might just be teasing her.

"NO! They are not poisonous and why would I give her something that would harm her!" Kagome yelled at him again.

"Well I'm not so sure about that since everything you brought from your world tasted horrible. I'm not even sure if they are edible or not except for the ramen and those crunchy food," Inuyasha retorted. His mouth was getting watery even by just thinking of the yummy ramen. ( JV : Ramen - Instant Noodle )

"Inuyasha, how could you say that? Kagome spent time making them for us and I think they are delicious." Shippo looked at Kagome whose blood was boiling at the moment.

Kagome got on her feet and hollered over Inuyasha, "Those that you think are tasty are junk food! You Jerk! You shouldn't eat them too much! They are unhealthy!"

Miroku, Sango and Shippo sighed and thought, 'Here it goes again......' And Kohaku just put on a vain smile.

"Well I think the other stuff is more unhealthy that they are revolting!" The white-haired figure also got up, thinking he must be right because he never doubted the functioning of his five sensors, with the fact that he's even a half-dog youkai. Aha! Then his ego started building until......

"Osuawari! Osuawari! Osuawariiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!" The word echoed in everyone's ears and was then followed by three loud bangs. Kohaku and Shippo winced at the crashes.

Poor Inuyasha was laying face down on the floor. And a few seconds later he started getting up, peeling his face from the hardwood panel. His face looked a bit swollen from the inescapable beating and he rubbed his nose, wondering if it was broken.

"WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR?" He was getting really pissed that it was the second time she cast that spell on him on that same day. Wait, no it should be the forth time on individual counts. D'oh!

"WOULD YOU BE QUIET! THERE IS A PATIENT HERE!" Kagome yelled to the top of her lungs, almost ran out of breath.

"WELL ACTUALLY YOU ARE THE ONE WHO STARTED YELLING!" the dog youkai shouted while pointing at the girl before him.

While the commotion was happening, Sango and Shippo were watching the interesting argument as Miroku was looking suspiciously at Kohaku who was sitting beside the unconscious girl and he thought, 'Hmm... definitely there is something between the two of them...' Then he turned to look at the yelling couple, '...and of course, there is also something wrong with those two.'

"Ano...so Kohaku who's this beautiful young lady and what happened? Weren't you supposed to be training?" Miroku tried to break the tension between Inuyasha and Kagome. It actually worked that everyone was looking at Kohaku and was waiting for an answer. Well, the sudden appearance of this mysterious girl was in fact the caused of the fuss.

'They don't recognize her after all this time. Well, ten years to be precise...' Kohaku thought. "...Well...I was walking in the forest and then I saw a youkai was trying to start a fight with another. So I destroyed one to stop it and then I saw this girl and noticed she is not feeling well...then I decided to bring her here for help." He explained calmly.

"So she is not from the village then...no wonder why I don't seem to recognize this fine-looking lady..." Miroku said thoughtfully and Sango gave him a fierce look in return.

"So you don't know who this girl is then..." Kagome said to herself.

"...Well...I..." Kohaku was interrupt when a village man appeared at the doorway.

"Sango-sama, Kohaku-sama, please help! There is a youkai outside the village!" the man panicked.

"Okay, we are coming now. Tell the villagers to stay calm," Sango answered and went to grab her boomerang and Kohaku followed by grabbing his katana.

"Youkai are getting really nasty lately that they even try to disturb villages this late!" Miroku took his staff. Then the houshi and the two siblings ran out of the house quickly.

"Hey, wait! Leave some for me!" Inuyasha called out, who was taking out his Tetsusaiga and jumped out from the window.

"Inuyasha wait! Oh, Shippo-chan please stay here," said Kagome and Shippo nodded in response. Then she followed after the dog youkai.

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Japanese Vocabulary

Arigato - Thank you

Baka - Fool

Houshi- Priest

Katana - Japanese sword

Osuawari - Sit

Ramen - Instant Noodle

Youkai - Demon