InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Wandering Souls ❯ Adjusting ( Chapter 7 )

Later that night Lea had explained everything to Inuyasha and his friends Sango, Miroku, and Shippo, while Kaeda worked over Marie. When she was down they all questioned her in turn learning all they could. Once done Inuyasha had returned to the bone-eaters well to wait for Kagome's return.

Lea sighed watching him go and turned back to her sister, who slept on.

Three days passed as Marie slept on. By the time she awoke, Lea had begun to form a sort of friendship with Sango and Shippo. Once Kagome had learned that Marie was also a miko, she suggested that the sisters join their group. Helping them find the jewel shards was not what Lea had hoped to do but it gave her an excuse to study Inuyasha better. Lea wanted to learn all she could of the Hanyou. They were so much alike, she thought, both having difficult older siblings and demon fathers.

Jealousy reared its ugly head every time Inuyasha paid more attention to Marie; at least it did till Marie told her that Inuyasha had been asking about her. Lea felt overjoyed at hearing that he was interested in her, but suspicion sank in making her wonder exactly why he wanted to know.

The following weeks became a blur as Marie and Lea helped the others collect the jewel shards. Along the way Marie had been delighted to find out that she too could detect the shards along with Kagome, sometimes even before the younger Miko could.

Lea had also felt a touch of resentment toward the amount of time that Marie spent with the younger girl. Lea felt as though Marie were almost abandoning her for her new friends but Lea suspected that Marie had longed for human companionship while in Noratu's castle, so she kept silent about her feelings. She did not want to hurt her sister; Marie had already been though enough. Lea still could not help but feel some sort of resentment towards the others, as Marie slowly seemed to pull away from her.

At first everyone had been more cautious toward Marie because of Noratu's mark, but the trusting Kagome. It was because of her that the others started to accept the demon enhanced human.

Much to Lea's dismay, Marie still remained distant and emotionless though going through the motions of friendliness. She hung back, traveling behind the others while they traveled, but when danger threatened Marie was quick to join the battle. Lea and Inuyasha fought side by side on many occasions, leaving both feeling a deep companionship and understanding toward one another.

One such occasion Marie had caught an angry Kagome glaring at the two hanyous. The first time Marie had witnessed the young Miko's sit command had been just after one of the battles. Lea and Inuyasha had been just finished off a rather large bird-demon and stood talking about it and how it all fell into place, when Kagome had asked Inuyasha something. When he had blatantly ignored her, Kagome "sat" him angrily and stormed off.

Marie had been retrieving a rather small fragment from the creature's body; the messy jobs always seemed to fall to her now, when Kagome stormed past.

"What was that for, wench?" demanded a confused hanyou pulling himself from the ground.

"Why'd you do that?" demanded Lea going to go after the girl only to be intercepted by Sango and Miroku.

"She's mad about something," Shippo replied from his perch on Sango's shoulder.

"Inuyasha should not ignore her like that," Miroku had chimed in.

"I think she's jealous," Sango replied, "After all first she deals with Kikyuo's shadow and now Lea is a hanyou also, something Kagome could never be."

Inuyasha had taken off after the angry girl after hearing what his friends had said, while Lea looked on confused.

How could Kagome be jealous of me?" Lea wondered just exactly what it was that made Kagome jealous in the first place after all they had only been discussing the recent battle.

Inuyasha had caught up to Kagome easily and a huge argument erupted with Inuyasha getting sat a number of times and Kagome going home to her time. When he had recovered, Inuyasha had moped about snapping at everyone.

That was how they ended up back at Kaeda's on the night of the mew moon. There, Sango and Miroku explained all about Kikyou to the sisters and the ill feelings toward the undead Miko.

As they waited, the curse of all hanyous made its claim on Lea and Inuyasha. Both hanyous reverting to their human form while they sulked and complained hating their weaker sides.