InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Prophecy ❯ Just Another Day... ( Chapter 2 )

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The Prophecy

By: mshutts

WARNING: incest

A/N: In regards to Inuyasha’s personality: Most of this chapter takes place inside Inuyasha’s thoughts. Based on the fact that he has lived alone as long as he has and the way in which he fights demons, I think that Inuyasha is most likely very intelligent. I think the ‘dumbness’ is probably more from that being what everyone has always expected of him and him not wanting to be bothered with changing people’s opinions than that he actually is ‘dumb’. In other words, he acts dumb for the sake of his audience, not because he actually is dumb. Besides, if your enemy thinks you’re an idiot, they won’t think to look for a more complex fighting style. Sorry, just trying to nip flames in the bud.

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any other characters here-in

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Chapter 2: Just Another Day with the Shard Hunters

Inuyasha was feeling more irritable than usual. It seemed like every time they started making progress, something else came up. So far today: Shippo had tripped and scraped his knee, Sango had knocked Miroku unconscious (again), Kirara still couldn’t fly because of an injury in their last battle so they were all stuck walking, and now Kagome was going on about some test she had to take back home in a day or two.

Inuyasha crossed his arms with a huff. Kagome, of course, took this as an insult to whatever she had been babbling about and sat him. Given how his day had been going, Inuyasha gave serious consideration to just staying in the hole made by that ‘sit’ for the rest of the day.

Apparently he had given it a little too much consideration for he now had Kagome standing worriedly over top of him. He heard the tentative, “Inuyasha, are you alright?” and knew he had to get up fast before she got into full ‘mother hen’ mode.

Not wasting another moment, he shoved himself into an upright position with his hands. “Damn it, wench, I’m fine,” he stated, going around Kagome. He knew that saying anything else would only get him sat again and he really wasn’t in the mood for it.

However, in his head, he continued to rant. ‘How dare she do that to me? So I don’t want to listen to her talk about her school. So what? It’s not like what she does there has any impact on me or our hunt, except for constantly dragging her away.’

He forcibly closed off the avenue to those thoughts with a sigh. He wasn’t really all that mad at Kagome or even any of the others. It wasn’t their fault he was feeling irritable. Shippo was, after all, just a runt. He had tripped and fallen just as much when he was his age. Kirara had gotten injured protecting Sango because he couldn’t get over there fast enough. If Kirara’s injured state was anyone’s fault, it was his own.

As for Kagome, he was pissed that she kept jumping back and forth to her world, but on one level, he understood the reason for it. She was, after all, still under the rule of her mother and grandfather. If she did not return for these tests of hers, he was not entirely sure that her mother would continue to allow her to come through the well, but just because he understood the reason, didn’t mean he was going to stop trying to keep her here.

By his line of reasoning, the only thing allowing her mother and grandfather to keep charge over her was the continuing presence of the well. Currently, the only thing stopping him from just going ahead and destroying it was the sure knowledge that Kagome would be completely miserable for weeks, months, or even years afterward. There were few things in this world worse than a miserable Kagome.

He supposed that he could try and blame it all on Miroku. After all, he should have been able to help himself and not touched Sango, thereby, not getting knocked unconscious. Then again, for as annoying as it was to constantly have to stop and pick him up from the ground, it was also damn funny to watch Sango take him out.

Inuyasha mentally shook his head. He knew the real reason he was irritated actually had nothing to do with his companions. It had to do with the fact that mating season was coming up in a few days. He hated mating season.

For an entire moon cycle his body and everything around him would be calling out for him to find and take a mate. While his demon blood may not have cared who his mate was, his human blood was a bit pickier. If he was going to spend the rest of his life with someone, he wanted it to be someone he cared for. And, given his current situation, he knew that this was just going to be one more mating season where he would be without a mate.

It wasn’t as if he had never considered taking someone as a mate, but he wanted a willing mate or none at all. He had considered asking Kikyo for all of about 5 minutes. He knew she was completely against his demon heritage, always had been. She never would have even considered the idea.

He had also considered Kagome. In all honesty, he had taken the thought of asking her to be his mate quite seriously. However, in the end, he had decided against it for a number of reasons, the main one being that while in his world she was an adult, in her world, she was still just a child. She was also not exactly mature enough yet to handle the responsibility of being a mate and mother to his pups. All he had to do was look at how she was around Shippo to come to that conclusion. He would be damned if he was going to allow his children to be raised in such a manner. No, Kagome was definitely not mate material. Not yet anyway, maybe in another 5 or so years, but that would be of no help to him now.

He had tried to find a mate before he had met Kikyo, but no one had wanted to even talk to a lowly hanyou, let alone consider mating one. It wasn’t so very long ago that he had been completely despondent about the idea of ever finding a mate. At least now he had a possible option in a handful of years when Kagome was a little more mature. Assuming she hadn’t left them all by then.

While Inuyasha was musing, the sun had begun to set and he could hear his companions making noises about stopping for the night. With a “Keh,” he jumped up onto a tree branch and let them finish their business. Watching them go about their self-appointed tasks, Inuyasha idly wondered to himself if Sesshoumaru was having any better luck in finding a mate. Somehow, he seriously doubted it.

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