InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Seal ❯ When you slay a village ( Chapter 6 )

Aloha!! (Yes I know I don't speak Hawaiian)

Ah yes, another chapter. Good for me!! (No really. Good for me. Now I won't have to worry about being lynched!!)

I'm still amazed that I haven't been told off for writing so much dialogue. I'm not complaining though *grin*

This chapter is more focused on Inuyasha (again, I'm surprised I've gotten no complaints), and I hope I haven't slaughtered your view of him entirely…

There's not much more to say before the chapter, so:

Now on with the show!!!

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters in this story (if I did I'd be rich, filthy stinkin rich. I'd be off to the Bahamas and… and… and I better come back down to earth as they aren't mine) ; Inuyasha and co all belong to Miss Rumiko Takahashi. Just having plain fun writing about them. ;-P

The Seal

Part 6: When you slay a village…

When they were spotted, returning in the morning after sleeping in the goshinbuki, the villagers were alarmed to learn that Kagome had freed Inuyasha. The village men hastily gathered weapons to protect themselves with, certain of a bloody fight. Instead they found two teenagers quietly walking down the path, Kagome trying to convince the grouchy hanyou into staying at Kaede's place with her.

When they reached the mob, Kagome simply grabbed hold of Inuyasha's hand, continuing like she didn't see them. Her actions left both the mob and Inuyasha quite flustered.

"Oi, bitch, what'cha up to?" "Hn?" Kagome turned around, when he refused to follow her, not understanding, "What?" "Take a fucking look," Inuyasha pointedly glared at the armed mob. Sticking her tongue out and jabbing him in the ribs, and acting otherwise very unladylike for a supposedly reborn miko, Kagome waved the villagers unconcerned off, "Baka. Scared of 'mere mortals' are we?" "Fuck no! You should worry about them." Kagome merely giggled. It was so easy to rile up the boy. Winking at the village men, who at this point were inching away from this strange scene, Kagome made a sign of peace, "Aaah… Inuyasha's just being grouchy. You wouldn't hurt him, would you?" Spinning around, she continued towards the village.

Inuyasha remained, still uncertain, as the armed villagers still hadn't lowered their weapons and having seen the miko leave were gaining courage to approach the growling hanyou. The miko had left. Was not that the same as giving them her blessing?

'I guess they still remember me trashing their homes,' Inuyasha thought wearily as they closed in on him. Getting ready to fight for his life, not that they posed a real threat, it was the principle of the thing, he grew angry, 'Fuck it! They started it this time!' He hadn't done anything this time. As they charged him, he brought his claws out ready to bring them down. It looked like more blood would be shed this morning. A pity.

It never happened. One minute they were charging him, bellowing war-cries while aiming arrows at him, the next they stood frozen. Kagome was standing in front of them, hands out to protect Inuyasha, fury evident upon her once beautiful face.

At the sudden appearance of their beloved miko, and her obvious displeasure with them, the villagers came to an abrupt halt.

When the villagers stopped their foolish actions, though reluctantly, Kagome slowly lowered her arms down, the need for protecting her hanyou over. Schooling her face into showing no emotion, she fought to regain control over herself and her anger, betraying none of the emotions raging within her.

"You worship me, you claim I am Kikyo, yet you will not obey me?" her voice was low, emotionless and she exhibited no viewable power, but her stern gaze, yet the villagers cringed in her wake, ashamed. "You will not harm Inuyasha." It was NOT a request. The villagers fled before her.

Inuyasha wasn't quite sure how to handle her himself. Would she turn on him now? Breathing out she smiled sadly up at him, all Kikyo-likeness gone like it was never there, "I'm sorry." Grabbing his hand once again, and he let her do it without arguing this time, they walked on in silence.

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"WHAT HAVE YE DONE CHILD?!!"

Obviously Kaede didn't take too well to seeing Inuyasha unleashed either.

Inuyasha was standing next to her, arms crossed, stoically ignoring the old miko's outburst. "I said I freed him. He isn't trying to kill me anymore, so keeping him leashed wouldn't be fair," Kagome ignored the disbelief showing on Kaede's face, making shushing noises at Inuyasha who at this point had started snickering at the quivering old crone.

Inuyasha was having the time of his life. He was alive, he was free, and that crazy girl that looked like Kikyo but wasn't was protecting him, yelling at all that spoke ill of him. First the villagers, then the local women that dared show their appreciation of him with their numerous fruits and vegetables, and now the old bat Kaede was getting her share of the girls crusade for hanyou's rights. It… felt… good. The girl was… nice. There was something weird about her, and he didn't trust her as far as he could throw her (actually he could throw her quite far, but that wasn't the point), but she treated him like a person. She talked to him kindly. She… she trusted him. Him. He didn't know why, but for now he'd honour that trust.

Kagome continued to ignore the miko's pleas of putting the leash back on the "vicious, bloodthirsty, childslaying" demon, more important things on her mind… like how to get back home. If she stayed here in the feudal era more monsters would surely come for her jewel. That was NOT acceptable. 'There must be a way that I could get back home.' Obviously the well wasn't willing to let her through at this point. Maybe tomorrow? Kagome sighed, the odds were against her, 'Someone must really hate me up there…'

Turning back to Inuyasha, who was also tuning out Kaede's rant, she nudged him lightly to gain his attention. "You hungry?" she smiled up at him, walking towards her stash of food left beneath a tree from yesterday. "Keh!" was his only reply, but he followed her anyway. Kaede was left behind, shaking her head at the folly of youth.

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Back at the tree, where their first, if not most successful, conversation had taken place, Kagome and Inuyasha settled down to eat again, though they were more civilised this time. Well, Inuyasha was more civilised, Kagome was ALWAYS civilised.

After eating in silence for a while, Kagome's curiosity piqued. She'd been thinking about how the village men had attacked Inuyasha without reason for some time now. Since her scolding them, they had been left to themselves for now. The villagers had not been openly rude, probably because she was there to keep watch, but they were ignoring them, avoiding them even, whispering about him behind their backs. Was it always like this for him?

"You wanna tell me why they're scared of you?" Inuyasha simply snorted, munching on his part of the loot, "I'm a demon, isn't that enough?" "No." He did a doubletake at that answer, but she looked completely serious. 'Alright, this is new.' "Where I come from you don't judge a book by its cover. You seem nice, why should they be scared?" she claimed matter of factly. He scoffed at her, 'Shows what she knows.' "I trashed their village when I stole the jewel. Not so nice, eh?" He grinned at her. She shrugged casually, "People make mistakes." "What? I torched the bleeding place, smashed their puny houses, slaughtered their fucking livestock, and all you have to say is PEOPLE MAKE MISTAKES?!!" 'Is she fucking stupid or what? "People make mistakes," indeed. What is she thinking?!'

By now they had of course the whole villages attention. How could they not, with the spectacle Inuyasha was making of them.

Kagome glanced down at her fingers, unperturbed by Inuyasha's foulmouthed ranting. "So I suppose that that means you don't regret it, huh?" she sighed, sounding mildly disappointed. "REGRET IT?! REGRET IT?! OF COURSE I FUCKING REGRET IT, BUT THAT DOESN'T CHANGE THE FACT THAT *I* *TORCHED* *THE* *VILLAGE*, and Kikyo killed me for it."

He wanted to smack himself. He hadn't meant to say all that. Especially to her. It made him seem weak. If Sesshoumaru found out… hell, if ANYONE found out… Oh, he was sooo screwed!!!

A soft hand squeezed his shoulder, reassuring him. The girl (Kagome?) was looking at him seriously, but with a soft smile, "But that is why it was a mistake," and eyeing the eavesdropping villagers spoke to them directly, "and why you should be forgiven."

Looking off into the distance, Kagome sighed, letting go of his shoulder now that she had made her point. "It's been a hard life for you, hasn't it Inuyasha? The way people treat you, I bet you were lonely, and then Kikyo… but she died didn't she? One should not speak ill of the dead."

Inuyasha eyed her silently, 'She was there?' It was rather unnerving how she seemed to know him so well, while he didn't know anything about her. "You're a good person, Inuyasha, deep down," she stated, looking him straight in the eyes. He almost believed her… "Demons aren't good," he retorted. "Whoever told you that?" "Who hasn't?" He snarled, turning away. A hand, yet again on his shoulder, stopped him, making him glance back at her. She was smiling, albeit sadly, "*I* have."

And yet again Inuyasha was speechless.

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Praeceps:

I think this chapter brought some insight, maybe not much, but then again we know very little about mister Inuyasha's past. Still, I think we all agree that handsome here is a decent hanyou.

There should be ca. one more chapter, maybe two, before some action starts coming into the picture. We're still in the 'getting to know eachother stage'… although they are behaving like good little kiddies, aren't they?!

Oh! And any spelling mistakes can be blamed on incompetent English teachers, and/or my spell-check program, because I, myself, am PERFECT!!! ;-P

If you have any questions about the story that you find unclear, I will do my best to answer them, as long as I deem them of no harm to my present plot-line. I really appreciate all your ramblings (not in anyway meant as insulting, just clearing that up), and might use some for inspiration if permitted, but for now I have my own agenda.

Thanks to all you reviewers, especially Lirael who has reviewed all my chapters (see I really do read them), I'll do my best not to disappoint you all.

PS. Is nobody going to read and review my other story, soon to be stories?

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Well that was all, for today at least, toodles!! ;-D