Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Feelings for a Fox ❯ Chapter 5

Kagomi's POV

~~~Chapter 4~~~

Another day of boring classes with the added spice of trying to avoid my new 'friends' if you can call them that. I got up a whole hour later so that I could get to school late, hopefully I'll miss everyone on my walk there. Naturally walk out my front door and guess what? They're all fucking camped out in front of my house.

Great.

Maybe I should have shown up early to school? I wonder who the little guy in black is? It's too late to slip back inside, the group has already noticed me and they're waving me over. As I approached the group there was generalized round of greetings from everyone present. Except for the dark guy who was just watching me closely.

"Hey Kagome! I was worried about you, are you feeling better now?" This was from Keiko who looked at me with concerned eyes.

"Yeah I'm fine. After I woke up on Shuuichi's couch I went home. I told you all I needed was some rest. "

"And no one was worried about you? What happened when you got home?" Kuwabara asked, eyeing me as if I was going to topple over right here on the side walk. Sigh.

"Who is this?" I gesture to the cute lil' demon standing with them.

"Oh this is our friend, Hiei. Hiei, this is Kagome."

"Hn."

"I'll wager he knows that already," I drawl sarcastically as I stare into his unusual ruby eyes. He was youkai and the same one who was shadowing me last night. Remembering the question I had been asked I shift back to it. I think I startled poor Kuwabara, as he seemed to have forgotten I didn't answer him.

"They all took it surprisingly well. I got in, let everyone know I was alive, took a shower, and watched the Escaflowne movie with my son since he was the only one who needed a little reassurance."

"You have a son?!" Yusuke asked. The little guy was staring at me speculatively. Everyone else were in various states of surprise. Although I was a little concerned about Kurama since he suddenly seemed to freeze and he started flickering like crazy.

"He's already at school if you were wanting to meet him ," I started walking towards school myself, fully expecting everyone to follow. Whoa, can I call them or what?

"Hey how old is he? Isn't Escaflowne a bit much for a little kid?" Keiko was at my side. It seemed by unspoken agreement the guys had decided to find out what they wanted to know by letting the curious girl ask the questions they wanted answers to.

"There is nothing that can be added to that anime that is bloody, or gruesome enough to revive it within my mind. That movie is dead! And being such I have deemed it ok for my Shippou to watch. After all if I can't take it seriously he is definitely not gonna."

"What are you talking about?! That movie was awesome! A lot better than the series! And come on, the plotline was too dark for a little kid, what kinda mother are you anyways?!" the guy seemed horrified at the thought of letting a small child watch that show. I admit, I might have agreed with him, if it were anybody but Shippou. What on earth is he going off about, something about a code? Who knows.

I guess I should explain since Escaflowne really is supposed to be a slightly darker plotline than the series. Ok the movie is great and all, better animation, Allen looks a lot hotter in this one, Millerna's not such a weenie. Over all it was better than the series, it really was. The problem is about half way through Van goes and saves Hitomi and gets her to safety and then he passes out from the wound he received while doing so. Then Hitomi just says something at that point that is probably supposed to be deep and meaningful. Deep and meaningful is good but not if it just makes her seem stupid. "Van, why are you so… hurt?" I mean it couldn't be because the poor guy was laying there bleeding to death at her feet now could it? How can you take that seriously? So the ending credits rolled around and all I can think as I'm sitting there watching it is "Van, why are you so… hurt?" That line just killed the entire movie!

"Kuwabara," I interrupt his dark muttering, "I'm going to ignore all that on the grounds that you've never met my son. But just to give you an idea of how 'scared' he was by this movie let me say now that his response was pretty much the same as mine had been when I watched it the first time. Shippou was actually laughing by the time it was finished."

By this time we were about even with Shuuichi's house and there was a lady standing there waiting patiently for us. I pulled up short as I recognized her face. It was little Shiori! I can't believe it! I haven't seen her since she was a kid! She's all grown up now.

"Shiori!" I said happily, "it's been quite a while hasn't it?"

"Wait you guys know each other?" We both ignored that statement. Really it was too obvious to need a reply. She gave me a faint smile, and stared at me, her eyes tracing over my face almost hungrily as she searched for the changes that we both knew wouldn't be there. When she was finished she gave a quiet laugh.

"I almost don't believe it. You haven't changed a bit have you?"

"Nope," I responded cheerfully, "And before you say it, you are not old so don't give me any of that!"

"How did you know that seeing you again like this would make me feel old?"

"Call it a hunch," I laughed at her startled amusement. Then she grew more serious.

"I was worried when you showed up yesterday looking like that."

"Meh! Don't worry about it! I'm frightfully resilient."

"I know. But still I wanted to talk to you. I'm glad I managed to catch you before you go to school," her face pulled into a worried frown. Hm, Shiori was never the kind to worry without good reason. I straightened up, and felt myself go on guard as I waited for her to tell me what was so important. "When I was walking home from work last night I found something unusual. I thought you would want to know about it." She handed me a small pouch. "They were fresh."

I felt it as soon as my fingers closed around it. The instant I realized what was in the bag I pushed through the group and began running, my pounding feet almost keeping time with my racing heart . There was only one thing in my mind at that point.

Shippou.

I had to save my kit!