InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ To live for you. ❯ Let me finish dammit! ( Chapter 3 )

Disclaimer: *Looks through her `documents' folder* Where is this thing?! I'm sure I had had it! How in hell could I have lost the InuYasha copyright owner paper?! Ahhh! I definitely need to clean my table… Oh, well. He's still Rumiko Takahashi's. Pity.

 

A/N: Ok, I'm SO sorry for the long update but, you know, real life happens once in a while.. I wish it didn't, actually… Anyway, here you have it. Some plot development here. `Yay' for the plot bunnies!

 

Thanks to all, who left reviews! They really made my day!

 

Some things you need to know. I will repeat what I said, but I did NOT read the entire manga. My information on Byakuya… (*falls over laughing* I still can't believe that that's the guy's name! You have no idea how funny it sounds in Russian) Anyway, my info on him is based strictly on what I read in Wikipeadia.org so if he seems a bit OOC I'm very sorry, but I'm just only at the beginning of the manga, so there's pretty much nothing I can do about it. Bear with me)) In following chaps there might be some plot twists that may contradict something that had been mentioned in the manga, if that happens you already know why.

 

Anyway, I hope you enjoy it!

 

 

Chapter 3

 

~Let me finish, dammit!~

 

The sun was lazily rising in the sky, its rays slowly tracing down her face. She cringed her nose and slid lower so that the light wouldn't fall on her eyes. But soon enough the stubborn rays reached below her brows once more and this time she huffed when something didn't allow her to move. That wasn't nice. Kagome squirmed but to no avail - the hold on her only got tighter. The girl tried opening her eyes but that didn't bring her any luck either, the light was too bright to get accustomed to it so quickly. She let a half whine half moan slip past her lips and in return earned a soft snort from somewhere above. Only then did she finally take in the situation she woke up in. Her eyes snapped open despite the discomfort and slight pain.

 

`Roofs? Why do I see roofs?' Something firm pressed slightly tighter against her back as if stretching but a second later pulled back just as softly and she felt a small puff on her hair.

 

“InuYasha?” She whispered.

 

In response the hanyou behind her yawned widely but surprisingly didn't wake up.

 

`That's right, I fell asleep here yesterday.' She blushed a bit `Asleep in his embrace…Oh, my god! What if the others see us here!? I'm not gonna live it down, that's for sure!' She smiled slightly `Neither is he, for that matter… I need to get out of here before he wakes up!'

 

“Kagome?!”

 

“Lady Kagome!”

 

`Oh, shoot! Too late now…' She felt the hanyou stiffen behind her. `So, he's awake… what now?' “InuYasha” she tried carefully...

 

“Morning.” Was his gruff reply. `Damn the fucking pervert and Sango!'

 

“Kagome! Where are you?” The demon slayer yelled as if on cue.

 

`Ok, now what do I do?!' The reply came as a sudden whoosh of wind around her and the familiar butterfly feeling in her stomach along with the blurry sight of swiftly changing scenario before her eyes. Soon everything returned to normal and Kagome registered that she was no longer on top of the roof nor was she sitting. It seemed that InuYasha had brought them to the opposite side of the hut where Sango and Miroku couldn't see them in one effortless leap. He hadn't, however, removed his hands from around her waist.

 

“Um… InuYasha… You can let me go now” Kagome offered lifting and turning her head to see the hanyou behind her. He was staring somewhere into space, as if considering something.

 

“No”

 

“No?” The girl practically squeaked. What was happening to him?! He was acting stranger than usual. Way stranger. “Inu…”

 

But before Kagome could continue he cut her off by snatching her behind him and crouching in front of the stunned girl.

 

“Climb up!” When she hesitated he snapped again “Come on, wench! We don't have all day!” She then reacted and easily climbed up his back, wrapping her legs around his waist and clutching her hands to the fire rat cloth on his shoulders.

 

InuYasha ran. The hanyou was jumping swiftly from branch to branch through the thick forest. Sometimes he landed easily on the ground, so softly that it seemed that he actually made a step instead of a twenty foot leap, he then, continued running on the ground. It amazed Kagome that even after more than two years of traveling with him, or rather on him, the peculiar feeling in the pit of her belly didn't cease to appear every time he carried her that way. It instead only increased with time as she didn't feel as self-conscious at his closeness but welcomed it.

 

Kagome recognized the path he was following as the one that led to Bone Eater's Well. It then occurred to her that he was taking her home.

 

`Ok, that I can understand. He feels embarrassed that Miroku and Sango had almost caught us sleeping together… Oh, no! That does not sound right! Oh my god, what am I thinking?!' Kagome blinked a couple of times to get rid of the images forming in her head. `A-n-y-way, taking me home will be a great excuse to explain why I wasn't in my sleeping bag when they woke up. Speaking of which…'

 

“InuYasha, you forgot…” her words got lost in the whoosh of air escaping her lungs when the said hanyou landed near the well and put her in front of him using his hands to `un-attach' her from his back.

 

“I'm going back for you tonight, Kagome. One day. Only one” InuYasha extended his index finger in front of her eyes to make his point. But the girl, rather than convinced, seemed very annoyed. He didn't even take notice of the fact. From now on things were going to be done his way or not done at all. He was tired of careless wenches putting themselves in dangers he couldn't protect them from. “And no being late!” With that he gave her a little push towards the well.

 

“Why you! S-I…” And yet again he cut her off lifting her of the ground and throwing her inside the time link.

 

When Kagome appeared in her time, she let out a frustrated growl. `Why that little jerk! I'm gonna sit him into next month when her gets here. He won't be able to walk for a week!!' She climbed up the ladder out of the well and made her way to the shrine. `One day!? No way! I'm staying for three at least, and there's nothing the insensitive baka can do about it.'

 

Fuming she entered her room threw her clothes off, took he towel and went to take a bath. `At least some things are relaxing! God bless running water! I'll deal with the baka later… Oh, that's heaven!'

 

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

 

 

“InuYasha, where is Kagome?” That was the third time he was asked that in the last two seconds. The only thing that varied was the form and the actions that followed them. Take Shippou for example. The little had brat climbed up InuYasha's back and was yanking at his ears, something that wasn't pleasant in the least. The youkai exterminator stood right in front of him. Her face inches from his. He could tell she wasn't happy.

 

Miroku, thankfully, kept his distance standing a few feet away and leaning on his staff, probably because he knew that his involvement would add some bumps on his head. That, however, didn't stop the monk from grinning stupidly and lifting a suggesting eyebrow at the hanyou.

 

“You made her mad again! Didn't you, you big meanie!!”

 

“InuYasha WHAT. DID. YOU. DO. NOW?!”

 

“How come her sleeping bag is still here?”

 

Silence.

 

InuYasha blinked.

 

Once.

 

Twice.

 

“It is all your fault, you jerk. Kagome loves me best because I don't make her mad!”

 

“You have to go apologize to her now! We're leaving soon!!!”

 

“She went back without her back pack too… I wonder what else she forgot here…”

 

Silence.

 

Blink.

 

Blink.

 

However, this time before the three had the time to open their mouths again and bombard him with another attack of shouted-at-the-same-time-annoying-the-hell-out-of-him questions InuYasha snarled:

 

“Kagome went home on her own, runt! I had nothing to do with it, I only carried her to the well and she's coming back tonight.” He reached for the kit, who was straddling his neck “So stuff it, and leave me alone, whelp!” With that InuYasha threw the little kitsune at Miroku, who, unfortunately for Shippou, didn't catch him in time, so the kit fell flat on his face on the wooden floor of the hut. “That goes for you too, Sango!”

 

The hanyou turned his back to them and was about to leave, when a voice reached his ears.

 

“InuYasha, you didn't say why Kagome's back pack is still here.” It was obvious even without looking that Miroku's face would to splitting from the wide grin he was wearing.

 

Strange, how you can always say if someone is smiling or frowning when they speak to you.

 

InuYasha's ears tweaked.

 

The monk knew he was playing with fire. But it was just too amusing to watch the oh-so-tactful hanyou try to dig his way out of such absurd situation. Plus, it actually was strange that the girl left her things here, when it was obvious that she would be needing them to bring the staff from the future. After all, it was the reason she went there, in the first place.

 

“What was that?” The question was voiced through gritted teeth. Not a good sign.

 

“Um… well, I was just thinking, that Kagome had to decide to go home when she wasn't in the hut” Miroku began smoothly “Otherwise she would have taken the back pack with her.” His eyes were now gleaming mischievously. Fortunately InuYasha missed it since he was facing the entrance of the hut, but the next comment did interest him more “And so I asked myself, where the young girl could have gone so early in the mourning where she could have met you and so hastily decided to go home…”

 

“What are you implying, bouzu?!” While InuYasha was stepping forward towards the soon-to-be-dead monk, Miroku was instead backing to the wall.

 

“I'm merely suggesting that, you and lady Kagome might have…”

 

No, InuYasha didn't get the chance to sharpen his claws at his perverted friend; a giant boomerang's side reached its favorite spot on Miroku's head, effectively knocking him down.

 

“Keh!”

 

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

 

 

 

The shallow light that peered from the small window in the room he was in caressed his soft black locks. His eyes, slightly opened and fixed in the wall in front of him, were eerily glowing. His standing form was well visible in the contrast of the milky paper-cloth door behind him. The whole room was surrounded by an ominous aura that would have anyone running away without turning back.

 

But Byakuya didn't even flinch when a long scally appendage crushed inched from his head on the wall behind him. This was his master. He was his flesh and blood. He knew better than to dodge his `father's' attacs. He didn't fancy dying just yet and ageeing with Master was the best way to avoid the pitiful fate that his siblings had shared. He had no side goals other that staying alive… yet.

 

However, Byakuya knew that he would have to drop dead if his Master was to wish it. And not only because Master could arrange a much more horrible fate for him with a simple thought if he didn't. No! Just because it was his Master's will. Naraku's will.

 

Looking fearlessly at the hanyou's face, Byakuya patiently awaited the new orders.

 

“She failed me.”

 

“Kanna was weak, Master”

 

“The half-breed still lives”

 

“I can kill him for you, Master.”

 

“No, you can't!” Naraku fixed his gaze on his incarnation “What makes you think that you are better than your deceased brothers and sisters? What makes you think you could do it?”

 

“Because it would be your will, Master”

 

Naraku's lips twisted in an almost invisible smile. `My will, huh? Is he as devoted as I thought he would be? I may be in luck with him, then.'

 

“Forget, the mutt for now, we have more pressing issues at hand.” The dark hanyou ceased talking for a moment to observe Byakuya's reaction. To his satisfaction no emotions crossed the boy's face. “You are first to find that brat, Kohaku. He has the last fragment of the Jewel. When you find him you need to taint the shard in his back. Use the Shikon no Tama for that.” Naraku tossed the almost completed Jewel at Byakuya.

 

A hand went up.

 

An instant later the same hand went down, now holding the most precious of possessions in its palm.

 

Naraku knew he was putting too much at stake. If the brat failed, he would lose the Shikon no Tama. But right now the hanyou preferred to conceal himself behind the powerful barrier around his castle. He was well aware that should the leave the faintest hint of his presence or scent out of the protection on the barriers as he will have a horde of anxious enemies fighting for the right to be the one to behead him.

 

As powerful as he might be he knew he wouldn't stand a chance against all of them at the same time. If the Jewel were to be completed though…

 

Yes, there was a big chance that he could lose the Shikon no Kakera but at least is life would be intact. He could always collect it again. Naraku was willing to take the chances. There was no possibility for him just to seat here for too long. Sooner or later the half-breed or that horrible brother of his, were bound to find him. Naraku preferred to be ready for their visit.

 

“Go!” The hanyou roared. The boy turned on his heals and started to exit the room. “And, Byakuya…” A small smirk was playing on Naraku's lips, and that made his further threat ever more ponderable “Should you fail me, you will be very sorry that you didn't join Kanna”

 

A second later Naraku was left alone in the almost completely dark room. His eyes slowly followed the patterns that were so skillfully drawn on its walls by some unknown artist. When his gaze reached the top shelves of a side wall he intently watched the basin placed on the higher one. Watched the way it pulsed, the way it glowed crimson red in the darkness of the corner it was situated in. He watched and the small smile on his lips grew in an evil grin and eventually transformed in a full blown laughter.

 

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