InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Unforeseen Hero ❯ What Is Love Anyway? ( Chapter 12 )

Chapter 12

~ What is love anyway? ~

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Kagome sighed dreamily after she exited the bathroom and tossed her hair while walking down the hall. "Inuyasha?" He hopped through the window at the beginning of his name. "Oh."

"Just out on the roof," he reported as he sat down on the floor, leaning his back against her western version of a futon. She blinked in shock, she had never expected him to just come out and say something like that. I guess we've gotten to know each other better then I thought. She smiled at him, seating herself next to him on her bed and admired the comforter. It's not the same anymore, all the things I thought I couldn't live without…like my bed and electricity, I find I don't really miss. Nothing else matters when I'm with Inuyasha. She blushed and felt silly about basing her whole existence around a boy but she was at her happiest when near him. And love's supposed to be like that isn't it? "Kagome?"

"Huh?" she blinked and refocused her eyes then looked at him.

"Of course I have to finish before I notice you're not paying attention."

"Oh sorry, I totally spaced," she laughed nervously. He turned around, kneeling in front of her and placed his arms on either side of her thighs while laying his head on her lap. His eyes stared out the window until she started running her fingers through his hair and then they unfocused, gradually closing altogether. I wonder what he had been saying. However she didn't want to ruin the moment with talk and decided that it wasn't important since he hadn't repeated it.

"Kagome," came a squeal then something slammed into her.

"Morning Shippo." She smiled down at him and started to follow Inuyasha to the village.

"I miss you so much when you leave and I don't have Inuyasha around to mope - it always entertains me." The dog demon growled and the demonic pup burrowed into the priestess' chest, "don't let him hurt me," came a muffled cry.

"Then perhaps you should watch what you say." He whimpered and pouted, "I'm just saying why mention something that you know will piss him off, that's like teasing an untamed bear with honey." Inuyasha tripped over a small rock and fell flat on his face.

"Haha - Inuyasha sat himself."

"Laugh it up fuzz ball but there ain't no spell holding me down." The canine dropped the packs he was carrying and ripped the fox from Kagome's arms.

"Sit." Inuyasha went face first into the dirt again and Shippo flew up in the air but was caught by Kagome then he began to snicker. "He'll get up soon, I only did it to give you a head start."

"But - "

"You kind of deserve it this time." The cub gathered a look of horror on his face and the half-demon began an evil laugh. "Sit! Now run, hurry go!" She bent down and pushed him toward the village, he took of running as soon as he was on all fours. He cleared the forest in record time, she giggled, "he seems plenty terrified."

"Well he should be, I'm going to skin him alive! You hear me you little rat?!"

"Inuyasha." She knelt down in front of him as he began to pick himself up, "I think he's been punished enough."

"Like hell he has - and what the hell is up with all the sit commands?! Break my fucking back!" She leaned forward and wrapped her arms around his neck, "Think you can stop me? I carry you around all the time, you weigh nothing. And this doesn't make up for the spells either!" Kagome pulled back with a smile. "Go ahead and say it, you'll be on the bottom," her grinned turned evil and his blood began to pump faster within his veins. "Fine I'll let him go - just this once," she licked her lips, "but - "

"I know, I know." The priestess gave him a kiss on the cheek, "next time he won't get off."

"What the hell was that?" he growled playfully pushing her to the ground, "I want something more like this." His mouth dove down to seize hers and as he started to pull back, she followed. She giggled against his mouth and he smiled, a few short kisses followed. "That was better." Kagome blinked, Kikyo? She pulled away from him and he grunted in disapproval, his arms came around her retreating form forcing her to stay. "Where do you think you're going?"

"Inuyasha?" His face went pale and his ears flattened down against his head.

"Kikyo?" his eyes darted up to the direction his name had sounded from. The dead priestess turned away and disappeared into the forest.

"Go after her," Kagome said with a solemn expression.

"What?!"

"You should talk to her, hurry go before she gets to far away." She picked up the beaten yellow back pack and a duffle, before heading towards Kaede's place, "I have to help with the festival so it's not like you have to hurry back either." He could sense it broke her heart to be telling him this but he understood that it was coming from her aristocratic side. If the tables were turned, she'd appreciate the jester.

"Kikyo?"

"Why have you betrayed me Inuyasha?"

"I haven't, I just come to some conclusions."

"That'll you replace me with her?"

"You two are nothing alike."

"She wears my face - how can you say that?!"

"It's similar but not exactly alike, I know this for a fact. I've studied both."

"What do you love us equally?"

"No!"

"Then come with me!"

"I can't."

"Why?!"

"Because I don't want to die and I'm in - " His eyes widened in horror at his bluntness and he looked at his feet in shame.

"Love?" she finished for him, "with that?" she sniped. "What about me?"

"I'm going to avenge you, I will kill Naraku." His eyes darted around trying to find her but failed.

"Avenge me or protect her?" Inuyasha blinked and remained quiet. "I will kill Naraku and I'll kill you too."

"No!" He stated firmly, "you will not. We weren't meant for each other can't you see that now. Fate tore us apart for a reason." His voice lowered to soft a tone but was still audible for her to hear, "we would have been miserable had our plans worked out. I can't stand being human for one night, I was crazy to think I could ever do it for a life time - it's just not in my nature."

"So everything was a lie."

"Kikyo we were two lonely outsiders who took comfort in one another's loneliness - in the familiarity of being outcasts and the idea of being normal - that doesn't mean we were in love or right for each other."

"Inuyasha don't abandon me."

"I should of when you told me to back when we first met, it's my fault you died and if I hadn't had stayed you probably would have found the right person - who would have loved you like you needed to be loved. A person worthy of you - my weakness took all that possibility away from you and I'll never forgive myself for it. However, you have to move on, this isn't right and people are suffering because of you. The Kikyo I know - "

"Shut up. Shut up! I will have my way!" he blinked. She sounds like a lunatic woman. His nose twitched, her scent was gone; she left. His heart ached a bit for the deceased woman but not as much as it did for Kagome, who was always hurt by his relationship with the dead priestess but tried to never let it interfere with their mission. I do love you, Kagome.