InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ To live for you. ❯ Wenches! Keh! ( Chapter 4 )

Disclaimer: It doesn't, ok?! InuYasha belongs to R. Takahashi! Are you happy now? You've ruined my illusions! I'm gonna sue you for that. *looks at the sword point between her eyes* Eh… he-he I said it, didn't I? You don't belong to me *nervous laughter*

 

A/N: Very sorry for the long update! We've just moved and I didn't have internet until after yesterday night. So sorry! Anyway, here goes!

 

Chapter 4

 

~Wenches! Keh!~

 

“Kohaku! Kohaku! Look at these flowers! Aren't they pretty?” A short girl with in a yellow yukata cheered as she showed a young exterminator a bunch of common daisies. “Do you think Lord Sesshomaru will like them?”

 

“Eh… Yes, of course, Rin.” `Not that you would be able tell by his expression or anything' Kohaku thought skeptically to himself.

 

It had already been a while since he'd joined the small group. Kohaku had grown to know the Lord of the Western Lands as a cold, impassive being, that either never showed any emotions or simply had none at all. He doubted the latter, though. The boy could feel the grief that had overtaken Sesshomaru when Rin `died'. He may not wear his heart in his sleeve, but it didn't mean he lacked it.

 

Still, for some reason, Kohaku doubted that the Tai-youkai would be thrilled with the present that awaited him.

 

It was, in fact, very ironic how such a sweet, innocent girl would choose such a cold, fierce creature as her master. Every time that Rin would run to her Lord with some knick-knack in her hands, every time that Sesshomaru would briefly glance over his shoulder and tell Jaken to take care of whatever it was that the restless girl had chosen to bestow upon the Lord that day, every single time Kohaku had to use his fingers to pinch his lips together in order to prevent them spreading into a smile that would inevitably erupt into a belly-shaking laughter. The boy knew that should Sesshomaru hear it, the youkai would make him regret it.

 

So Kohaku kept whichever amusing thought entered his mind to himself. Tough deep inside, he figured that even Sesshomaru understood the absurdity of the situation. The boy liked it that way. Those were the moments he allowed himself to forget about everything that had happened to him in the past two years. Forget, how he killed his parents, almost killed his sister, how he was Naraku's puppet…

 

Naraku.

 

They were now hunting the hanyou down. Kohaku didn't have any hopes to survive all this. He knew that the only thing that kept him alive was the shard embedded in his back. Should anyone take it, and the boy would fall dead. No, his goal wasn't surviving - his goal was making Naraku pay for the horror he had cast upon his family and him. When everything was over he would gladly rip the shard from his back with his own hands. After all, his life should have ended long time ago, along with those of his family and comrades. Yes, he would die, but he will take that bastard with him.

 

Something tugging at his belt made Kohaku snap out of his dark thoughts. He looked down to see Rin's clear chocolate eyes.

 

“Don't worry, Kohaku,” She began “Lord Sesshomaru will be back soon. I know he will. He always does. Rin believes in Lord Sesshomaru.”

 

`Rin believes, huh? It seems that she has even taken on his manner of talking. I wonder how she ended up with him. And why does he keep her by his side? Why does he keep me by his side, for that matter?' Kohaku lifted his gaze to watch the lazy clouds slowly cross the crystalline-blue sky. `Sesshomaru tells nothing and I'm not about to ask him. I don't even know what grudge he holds against Naraku, unless he wants the hanyou's life to avenge the Rin's abduction, that is…'

 

Again his thoughts concentrated on the little girl, who was now back to running around the daisy-filled field picking up even more flowers and adding them to the already enormous bunch, which was threatening to end up twice as big as her, if her Lord wasn't to show up soon.

 

Kohaku sighed. Whichever motives were leading Sesshomaru, it didn't matter. Kohaku had nowhere to go, and no other way to chose. But the boy caught himself on the thought that he actually didn't feel out of place in this peculiar troop.

 

“I'm beginning to do too."

 

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

 

“Yes!”

 

“No!”

 

“Yes!”

 

“Come wench!”

 

“Let me go! You big jerk! I'm staying and that's final.”

 

“No, you're not! We have stuff to do in there, you are NOT staying!”

 

“InuYasha, you have no say in this!”

 

“What do you mean I have no say in this?! I have ALL the say in this! So stop being stubborn and come before I drag you there myself!”

 

Mrs. Higurashi sighed. They had been at it for an hour already. It was about eight when InuYasha came to retrieve her daughter to his time, but it seemed that Kagome wasn't all happy about that. Mrs. Higurashi decided not to ask the already angry hanyou why he was holding her daughter's yellow backpack in one hand and her sleeping bag in another, when he had burst into the shrine. She wisely assumed that it probably was some very sore topic, so she let it slip.

 

However, all that yelling was getting on her nerves. Momentary hesitating on whose side should she take - thankfully for Kagome, her mother was devoted enough to not to be bribed by some cute little doggie ears - Mrs. Higurashi joined the heated conversation.

 

She knew that InuYasha felt somewhat uncomfortable around her. He couldn't call her `wench' nor be rude to her. From what she knew, even old Kaede was called `baba' which wasn't actually nice. Mrs. Higurashi didn't know why she was spared, but it seemed that the boy had to do some serious thinking before talking to her at all, in order not to sound too harsh, nor lose his image at the same time. Mrs. Higurashi knew exactly where to find a crack in the half-demon's shield.

 

“InuYasha, please put my daughter down, I don't think she likes being carried that way” Kagome's mother was smiling sweetly.

 

`Keh! Of course, she doesn't! If she'd only listened to me, we wouldn't be having this problem now. Wenches!' The hanyou was fuming to himself. However, he let out a simple “Keh” before easing Kagome off his shoulder.

 

No sooner had she been freed than Kagome huffed and stomped towards the shrine. InuYasha tried to stop her, yelling a few choice insults but Mrs. Higurashi stopped him before he could run and grab the girl again.

 

“Why are you in such a hurry, InuYasha?” She asked softly. “Kagome told me that you had no direction of where you should go exactly…” The hanyou was about to say something but Kagome's mother was faster “And she also said that you couldn't…smell…that foe of yours.”

 

InuYasha snapped his jaw closed and Mrs. Higurashi heard a low rumble eluding past his lips. `Oh, he's growling…He is a dog! He probably doesn't like people to be aware of his weaknesses. I wonder if he knows that Kagome told me about his human night…' Deciding not to tempt the half-demon anymore she quickly added.

 

“All I'm saying is that you might want to take a short break. It's bound to be tiring traveling that much!”

 

“Keh! I'm a demon! I don't tire nearly as easily as stup… as humans.” To emphasize his point InuYasha crossed his hands over his chest, straightened his back and pulled his bottom lip a bit out. All in all, his pose could have been defined as a powerful, kick-ass one… if it weren't for the whole situation in general.

 

Mrs. Higurashi fought hard to prevent a smile from twisting her lips, but it was too much. InuYasha's grim face looked pouting rather than anything else, beautifully complied with a set of furry puppy-ears that sat proudly on top of his head.

 

So maybe he was a couple of centuries old, maybe he was her senior, but he did still look like an eighteen-year-old kid, and his character sure corresponded to it. Mrs. Higurashi couldn't help but cock her head to one side and let out a fond smile at him. She then proceeded.

 

“Ok, so then my daughter needs a break from hunting demons. She has to go to school sometime. Since she decided to keep going there it is only fair that you give her some time to catch up with her studies.” Mrs. Higurashi sighed and lowered her eyes. “It's amazing how she manages to live two lives at once. Granted, her marks are not as good as they used to be, but she copes. You have to help her too” At that InuYasha scoffed. “Sooner or later your quest will be over and she will have to decide how to live. Kagome will need school to be able to survive here.”

 

“She doesn't need to survive here! She can stay there!!” The hanyou protested loudly.

 

“Do you want her to stay there?” InuYasha panicked. He had just said more than he had dared to admit even to himself. And what's worse it was Kagome's mother that heard him.

 

“Keh!” No, it might not have shown on her face, but Mrs. Higurashi was all but beaming inside.

 

“Anyway, you can stay with her here if you want. I'm sure she won't mind.” Something flickered in Mrs. Higurashi's eyes that InuYasha didn't quite appreciate. “I know you don't like to be apart from her.”

 

There.

 

Open strike. No traps. Nothing. Just smack-dab in the open. He wasn't good at dodging any kind of verbal attacks - unless, of course, he could send someone off to go fuck themselves…that wasn't the case, though. That comment was entirely his fault. He had it coming thanks to his blabbering mouth. That was impossible to avoid or escape… that was just plain unfair! Ah, wenches! Grrr!

 

“I… No… not… Kagom… me, NO! Keh!” `Dammit all!'

 

“O---k, anyway, I have to run some errands now. You know where the Ramen is. Grandpa is sleeping, so you can watch the TV, if you want. But not too loud please.” With that Mrs. Higurashi threw another warm smile at him and left for the shrine.

 

InuYasha stood there for a couple of seconds.

 

`Keh! Wenches!' He thought to himself as he leaped up and landed right beside Kagome's window. InuYasha easily opened it and stepped inside. He saw Kagome.

 

She was lying dressed on her bed, apparently sleeping. Her backpack was lying on the floor beside the bed. The light in the room was still on and so, even if outside it was already getting dark, he was able to see the girl perfectly.

 

He watched her intently. He watched the way her hair was spread around her head, the way her tresses glimmered in the yellow light. So peaceful and innocent. If he hadn't known better he would have never guessed that that girl could kill demons or so slam his face into the ground… well maybe not coldheartedly… rather furiously, actually. Something akin to a smile touched the hanyou's lips, but disappeared rapidly as more serious thoughts entered his mind.

 

`Kagome…' This name echoed in his head repeatedly. This girl was staying with him for his sake. She was risking her life to help him to kill someone in his time. This perfect in every aspect creature was giving up her future to stay by his side. But for him it wasn't enough. He would never admit it to anyone, but he knew why he hated her school the most. Yes, apart from despising not being beside her, apart from not actually enjoying all that much that there were other males in his class… apart from all that there was something that made him fight her on this topic every time it came up, that made him `accidentally' rip her textbooks in little pieces in more that one occasion.

 

The fear of loosing her.

 

That feeling was the most terrifying that had ever crossed his soul. Just the idea of her leaving him for good after the mission was completed made him sick. He would probably kill himself. No sense in living when there was no one who could make him want to do it. She asked him to live for himself, not for her, not for anyone else. And it made him want to do it. Years ago he wouldn't mind if there was no one who cared for him, but having tasted friendship and love InuYasha knew that he would never be able to come back to what he used to be before he met Kikyo, before he met Kagome…

 

So no matter what it cost him he would still fight this foe. Even it was selfish as hell, even it meant being `sat' in a hole that he wouldn't be able to crawl from. It absolutely meant nothing! He would keep the girl by his side just because he was that much of a jerk. Just because his life without this sneaky wench would be so very much simpler, and it was his royal whim to make his own existence as complicated as it could get.

 

Meanwhile the girl in question stirred a bit and opened her eyes.

 

“Ugh, should've switched off the light before falling asleep, oh, and undressed myself too…” she looked up and saw InuYasha seated in her window frame with a strange expression on his face. “Hey, dog-boy, if you came here to take me back, you've got another thing coming! So you might as well go back.”

 

“Kagome…”

 

“Eh? InuYasha, are you okay? You look… um… thoughtful” Kagome asked a bit worried.

 

“You have until tomorrow! And just because your mother insisted on it!” The hanyou snorted in response.

 

Kagome tilted her head to one side and smiled to herself `Go mom!' “Ok, but now let me sleep. I've school tomorrow and I can't be late.” She stood up from the bed and started taking off her socks, but then looked up at the strangely silent hanyou and frowned “Well?!”

 

“Well, what?”

 

“Aren't you going to let me change?”

 

“Oh.”

 

“Out. You can come back when I'm finished.” InuYasha jumped up to the roof and waited patiently until the rustling of clothes had subsided. He then entered through the window once more. Kagome was already under covers.

 

“If you want…” Huge yawn “I can bring you an extra futon to lie down” The girl was rather sure that the hanyou would refuse. He very rarely slept in a horizontal position, InuYasha instead preferred to sit cross-legged on the floor leaning his back on a wall. Kagome always wondered if he was comfortable sleeping like that. It was a matter of habit, she supposed, or in his case, more likely a matter of past need. InuYasha used to sleep on trees (he even did it now once in a while) in order to protect himself, that explained the unusual pose.

 

Rather than answering Kagome, the half-demon climbed on her bed and seated himself beside her feet. Letting out a soft “Keh!” he shrugged off his haori and started pulling on the blanket that was covering the now sunned girl.

 

“Eh? Inu…Yasha? What are you doing?” No response was given as hanyou shrugged off his haori and covered Kagome's upper half with it. Then he used the blanket to make up for the shortness of the garment and tucked her legs in it. During this weird act the girl just stared at him mutely. What was one to say in a situation like this?

 

“Wha…?”

 

“Kagome, why to you have to go to school?”

 

“What? We've been through this, InuYasha! In THIS world you have to study to get a decent job! How do expect me to live here?!”

 

“I don't.”

 

“Eh?'

 

“You won't be living here.”

 

“Wh… What do you mean by that?” Kagome was starting to really freak out. What in the world was happening to him? She almost preferred the silent and sulky hanyou that had accompanied her for the last two weeks. Almost. “Don't just look at me like that, what did you mean?”

 

“I'm coming for you tomorrow at midday, I don't care if you're in school, I'm gonna get you back! `Night.” With that he was out of the window.

 

Kagome stared some time at the waving curtains then her pride and stubbornness hit her. “Oh no, you DON'T!” Putting on the first pair of shoes that she came across the girl ran down the stairs, out of the door and towards the well house. `His ears are gonna get it! He'll remember that sit for a long time!'

 

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