InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The lost puppy ❯ 5 ( Chapter 5 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

By: Barra

'Okay', Kagome thought to herself. She was going to go home for a few days to stock up on her food supply and get a spare set of clothes and a knitted sweater for Rin, and Jaken so that they wouldn't freeze in the fast approaching winter. Kagome looked down at her small companion and couldn't help but grin at him. He was turning out to be a bigger help than she realized he could be. With his protection, she could leave while Inuyasha was still in the village, something that she previously wasn't able to do, and that fall morning, she felt a feeling of elation wash over her. She looked back at the beautiful scenery that surrounded her, and she thought about the beauty that always was in the feudal era. Even in the wars and bloodbaths there was still beauty, although it was of a different kind. It was the beauty of being able to die for what you believe in, the beauty of victory and anguish... Almost like a sad love song.

But she continued to walk through the forest toward her pathway home, and she soon found herself at the clearing in which contained the well and she couldn't help but smile happily, even if her thoughts were less than such. She slowly cut her vision away from the well to look at the Goshinboku and her eyes focused in on the scar that marred it.

"The spot in which Inuyasha was stuck for fifty years" She whispered quietly, but continued on walking after she said this.

She lifted up the quickly growing Gin and hefted him up into her her arms to place him upon her breast. She held him close to her and jumped down the well, she jumped down the well and let the feeling of resoluteness fill her as she sank to the future. She would think of the bad in her friends lives not as if it were meant to haunt her for her whole life, so she vowed in the well.

Pulling her body up and out of the well, she felt herself feel a feeling of doing this same thing before and felt a smile grace her lips. She placed the small puppy down and motioned for him to follow her. She walked to the back door of the shrine and she looked inside to see her mother cooking on the stove and her brother watching her as he learned how to cook slowly but surely. Kagome leaned in the doorway and smiled at the sight of her little brother and her mother cooking and she couldn't help but remember when she was in her brother's place. She stood there for a moment longer before disturbing the small peace that surrounded her home like a security blanket, like a warm loving embrace. She sighed and walked forward and she looked over Souta's shoulder and she slowly inched closer to him, before swooping down on his small form and smothering him in a love saturated hug and a short noogie to the head. Her mother looked up long enough to see Kagome, and her meal long forgotten, she rounded on her daughter and gave her a love filled hug that only a mother is ever able to give.

"Hey sis!" Shouted her mother.

"Kagome! You're home!" Her mother cried.

And on it continued until they started hearing small growls and Souta got a sharp bite to his ankle.

"Ouch!" He exclaimed as the pain from the small but very sharp fangs dug into his skin.

Kagome swooped down to pick up the small puppy and she wagged her finger in front of his face, in which drooped like a small child's face when it hears the same lecture one too many times. She couldn't help but smile, but she still wanted to punish him for biting her brother.

"Bad dogie... Have fun walking for the rest of today." Kagome said, and immediately you could see the small dogs eyes grow large and his tail drop from its proud vantage point in the air.

She smiled down at him... He is going to have to get his shots soon, she couldn't help but think. But she could handle that task after she was finished shopping for food.

"Souta?"

"Yea sis?"

"Would you mind watching Gin while I am gone shopping?"Kagome asked her younger brother.

He nodded his head crazily and then continued to haul up the small puppy and run to the long halls of the Sunset Shrine. Kagome smiled kindly at his efforts to not disappoint her and she couldn't help but think of her when she was younger. She would find wounded squirrels and nurse them back to health. Kagome looked to her mother and smiled so huge a smile and she couldn't help but laugh a short bought of laughter. After her laughs died down to giggles and then ceased all together. Finally, she wiped her eyes and looked again to her mother and grinned.

"Wanna do our past time?"Kagome asked, leaning against the counter.

"And that would be?"

"The one and only best past time for us... Shopping!"

The girls giggled as Kagome's mother pulled the food off the eye of the stove and they left for the shrine steps.

Kagome and her mother walked down the aisles of the market, looking through the winter ware and the camping section, and most importantly, the aisle that had all the ramen. She passed down the pet aisle and she saw the one thing she might need. She grabbed the item and ran to catch her mother before she went to check out of the store.