InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Perfect Standoff ❯ Chapter 1 ( Chapter 1 )

Note to reader this story begins at the end of episode 167 of Inuyasha.

I don't own Inuyasha or Other Characters either excluding the ones I create.

 

 

 

Chapter 1: Orientation

The sun slowly sank behind the darkening mountains making it look as if the lush, green mountains were being consumed by a monstrous wall of flames. Reds yellows blacks and blues streaked the sky over feudal Japan. This was passing largely to the locals of a small village near present day Tokyo, except for a young couple sitting in a sparsely leafed tree out on the rice fields. One of the inhabitants of this tree was Kagome Higarashi, a typical 15 year-old high school student at first glance. There is just so much more to her than you can see. Thought the tree's other occupant, a young hanyou (half-demon) called Inuyasha; I wonder what she's thinking about now? Probably some test that she has coming up…again. He sighed as he rested his head on her shoulder.

 

“What's the matter Inuyasha?” Kagome asked.

 

He looked startled and his dog-ears swiveled to point at her. “Its nothing,” he said a bit too quickly. She looked at him. “Its just that we're so close to finally knocking off Naraku, and you must have some kind of test coming up really soon huh?”

 

She looked at him noticing the white triangular dog-ears on his head, the long silvery-white hair, and his gold-amber eyes. For the jerk he is most of the time he is so caring every once in a while, She thought. She had loved him since she had met him almost a year ago near the tree of ages after she had been pulled through the well. Upon remembering this she snuggled up to him pulling his red kimono around her self to fend off the first evening chills. “No, not for a couple of weeks, but hey! They are the finals after all.”

 

“Finals?” he asked, “you make it sound like they're the last ones.”

 

“They are though,” she replied. “For this year any way.” She added after a moment. She didn't want to surprise him with them again when the next school year started. Freshman year didn't last to long, especially when I'm always here instead of at school studying. Her grades had suffered quite a bit. Her former trademark A+'s had dropped to high C's and low B's. Even in history.

 

The two sat there in the tree and watched as the last rays of sun grazed the tops of the tallest mountains. The clouds looked truly spectacular as reds and yellows softly shifted in a vain attempt to hold off the purples blacks and blues of the fast approaching night. As the last strip of dull red faded from sight Kagome sighed “Inuyasha?”

 

“Yeah, what?” as he turned to face he noticed how close she was only when their noses brushed each other. Startled he jumped to another branch throwing her into the flooded rice field. She landed with a splash. He laughed, “what'd you do that for?” he gasped doubled over in hysterics.

 

“You threw me stupid!” she shrieked at him.

 

“No I didn't!” he choked trying to get a hold on him self, “you jumped in.”

 

“Why would I do that?” she half yelled half asked when she had clawed her way up onto the dirt walk way. She eyed the branch he sat on. It held him over a large scum patch that had most likely been blown there by the wind. “SIT!”

 

He flipped over the branch digging his claws in time to keep him out of the water. At the sound of the word `SIT' half of the village turned out to watch the fight out on the rice fields including a monk, Miroku; a demon-slayer, Sango; a young fox demon, Shippo; Sango's demon companion, Kirara; and an elderly priestess, Kaede. The villagers had begun betting on how long it would last before Inuyasha plummeted off the tree into the water, who would `win', and which would break first, Inuyasha's grip or the tree branch.

 

Then it started the near endless barrage of sits characteristic of her anger with Inuyasha. “SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT!!!” Kagome shouted. And with each sit the rosary around his neck glowed and tried to pull him down into the water. Kagome had finally run out of breath and sat down hard panting for breath. Inuyasha pulled him self-back up onto the branch also panting. Kagome giggled.

 

“What?” he voiced.

 

“Ok, you win.” She smiled innocently at him.

 

At these words he puffed him self up as he stood on the branch, pleased he hadn't been face planted after her `Sit barrage' and jumped toward the path. He grinned as he flew off the branch. “Sit,” Kagome said sweetly as soon as he left the branch. He paled as the rosary glowed pulling him face first down into the muck. As he pulled him self out of the rice field the hanyou saw Kagome laughing openly at him. The villagers were in troughs of laughter, some hardly able to make it back to their homes.

 

“It wasn't that funny,” Inuyasha growled as Kagome, Miroku, and Sango, Shippo, all collapsed.

 

“Come ye two, lets clean ye two up,” Kaede offered.

 

“Feh.” Inuyasha snorted as he ran off to find a creek while Kagome went off with Kaede.

 

Kagome sighed such fun times together she thought reflecting on how in the wrong she had been to sit him like that. He'd only been startled because I was so close to him or did he mean to do it? She thought. Oh well she sighed I wonder how long it'll be before he gets over it.

 

 

Stupid wench, Inuyasha thought, why can't she admit it when she isn't right.

Because, replied his conscience, you like her and she is a girl and as long as you have on the stupid necklace you and I are going to be doing face-plants for a long time.

He pulled off his cloths and started rubbing them in the creek to clean them off before getting in himself. Shut up, besides she didn't have to laugh at me just because I was covered in mud.

You know, his conscience wondered, sensing its loss of leverage in the argument as it changed the subject, did you really mean to jump away like that, because you did throw her into the mud first even if you didn't mean to, so why didn't you just go with it and laugh it off with the others?

 

Shut UP! His mind shouted at his conscience, besides my birthday is in three weeks, and she is the first person I've ever opened up to since mother died…its just that it stung so much and in another month it'll be the day that we've know each other for a whole year and I was going to do something that she wouldn't forget, I like her, a lot, “WHY CAN'T I UNDERSTAND YOU KAGOME!” he shouted to the night.

Its simple, piped up his conscience, you just have to…to…never mind. His conscience subsided into itself.

 

Kagome sighed as she undressed and slid into the steamy hot spring, relaxing as she averted her eyes toward the bushes where Miroku ought to be hiding. He wasn't there… or at else he was getting better at hiding his lecherous activities. “Sango, do you think Inuyasha's alright?”

 

“I'm sure that he is fine, Kagome,” Sango replied, “He's probably just got a sore ego.”

 

“Yeah, I guess.” Kagome replied somewhat hopelessly. “I probably didn't have to play dirty like that though.”

 

“Its alright, Kagome. He kinda did deserve it if you think about it.” Sango told her, “He did throw you in didn't he?”

 

“Yeah, I guess so but I don't think he meant to.” Kagome couldn't look at Sango any more. She stared down at her knees.

 

She must really like him if she feels like this after she sat him into the mud. Thought Sango. After an hour of staring at the stars Kagome got out and dried off. Sango had been thinking about Miroku, wondering if he would try to grope her in his `sleep', when she turned her head to ask her the guys in her time. Sango was shocked to find Kagome walking off toward the hut. “Hey! Wait for me Kagome!”

 

“Alright!” Kagome laughed as she waited Sango thought that her eyes looked a bit red and puffy on the way back to the hut.

 

When she and Sango made it back to the hut Miroku and Shippo were sound asleep. Miroku sitting up in the corner and Shippo on top of her pillow. Kagome crawled into her sleeping bag and lay down, shoving Shippo to the side, off of her pillow. “Sango?” Kagome paused, “can you tell me anything what Inuyasha did while everyone was laughing at us?” she asked tentatively. She wanted to go yell at him for being stupid right now but felt really bad about sitting him into the water for something that wasn't even his fault. She didn't know what to do more, cry or hug Inuyasha and apologize.

 

Sango sighed Kagome and Inuyasha had gotten so close and now…well…I just can't tell, thought Sango. How do I explain this to her right, I don't know. She looked over at the curled up ball that was Kagome, seeing it shake slightly as well muffled sobs escaped Kagome's pillow. “I don't know what he did Miroku Shippo, and I were all to laughing to hard.” she answered. Laying down she could have sworn that balled up even tighter.

 

Long after Sango had dropped off Kagome was still awake; she couldn't stop thinking about Inuyasha. Is he really that mad about being laughed at earlier, or is he just mad about falling in the mud.

 

Try upset about getting laughed at by everyone. Her conscience mumbled. That didn't really make sense though, he's been through that shouldn't affect him.

You were laughing at him to don't forget, her conscience snapped, that's why he's upset. She rolled over and quietly sobbed into her pillow.

 

Inuyasha sat in a tree not to far off from where Kagome and the others slept in Kaede's hut watching the moon slowly trek across the sky as he cursed silently. He'd been thinking about going back to the hut but he didn't want to talk or even see Kagome right now. Damn it, why does it always hurt so much when she laughs at me after I get sat. He knew the answer already and his conscience decided it was best to stay out of it and let him admit the answer to himself. Aww fuck. He thought as he ran off into the woods he needed to get some sleep before morning so he could talk to Kagome with out making things worse.

 

[A/N: I know my story is kind of weak right away but it'll get better…Hopefully. Anyway I'm going to shoot for 1000-3000 word chapters. Please R&R]