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Sloppy Seconds	By : CutiePieHentai Category: InuYasha > General Views: 23931 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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A/N: Okay, another chapter. I�m starting to get a bit worried that you all are loosing interest. Boring? Interesting? Tedious? Too out of character? PLEASE tell me. Review, flame, something! I�m a bit disappointed by the lack of response to my last few chapters and my ego needs a boost. Come on people! Don�t make me pull out the puppy dog eyes.

Ja ne, Jen
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The stars overhead glimmered down on a sleeping figure. The sentinel paid them no mind as he too was fixated on the shape on the ground. Like a predatory animal, he moved through the camp, eyes darting lest he be spied and ears attuned to any noise around him, alert for any sign that his presence become known. Silently and with baited breath, he pulled the cover away from the form. He stopped and concentrated on the breathing of the one before him, ensuring that they slumbered on. When his actions brought no response, he continued, leaning forward on his haunches to get a closer look. A frown crossed his countenance as he spied the bandage covering a wound he knew lay beneath. Carefully, he removed the gauze and the tape, revealing the injury to the night air.

Inuyasha�s lips turned up into a small smile at the sight of his mark on Kagome�s shoulder and leaner forward again to kiss the girl on the forehead. As he retreated, he heard her stir in her sleep and paused, listening to her heartbeat. It quickened, but she remained latent. She moaned in her sleep and began thrashing about as a nightmare took her. Inuyasha returned to her side and gently nudged her, trying unsuccessfully, to rouse her. At first, she didn�t respond, so he took her into his arms and began whispering her name in her ear. To Inuyasha�s relief, she finally opened her eyes.

�Inuyasha?�

�Shhh�it�s okay, Kagome. You were having a nightmare.� He moved her hair out of her face and wiped away the solitary drop of moisture that had leaked from her eye, �Are you okay?�

Kagome drew a haggard breath and nodded, �Arigato.�

Laying her back to the ground, Inuyasha tucked her blanket firmly around her and leapt to his former perch in a nearby tree. Kagome rested with her hands behind her head and looked up at the night sky, trying to remember the cause of her nocturnal unrest. She felt the adrenaline still surging through her veins as a result of the dream, forcing away any ideas of continuing her slumber, but try as she might, she could not recall any of the images prior to waking. Realizing that it was going to be a long night, she sat up and looked around. Taking a deep breath, she cleared her mind and began exercising her miko powers. Almost instantly, she recognized the feeling of an unknown presence nearby. The third presence that she had felt in Shiori�s village. It felt neither hostile nor friendly, as if projecting a complete absence of emotion or being.

She furrowed her brow and concentrated her aura on the presence, enveloping�

�Kagome? What are you doing?�

Kagome gasped, startled, and turned to find Inuyasha again at her side, a scowl on his face but concern in his eyes. �Kagome, you should be asleep.�

�Give me your hand, Inuyasha.�

He looked at her incredulously before offering her his left palm. As she took it and intertwined his fingers with hers, he blushed, but her eyes closed at the contact and her face drew in concentration again.

�Kagome�what are you-�

She held a finger to her lips to silence him. After a moment, he heard her voice. �Inuyasha, something or someone is nearby.�

It struck him that her lips had not moved, �Kagome? How did you do that?�

�I don�t know. I just�felt like I could. You try it too. I think�we�re being watched.�

�By who?�

�Just a sec�let me see�� Inuyasha could feel Kagome push herself into the surrounding areas and when his own eyes slipped closed, he could see what Kagome saw, in her mind, as her miko�s aura explored the surrounding forest.

Trees and plants were glowing and shimmering transparent yellows and greens as the aura moved through and then past them. A family of rabbits was visible as an outline of reds and purples, though their den was below ground. The force continued onward before stopping below another tree. Mixed with the iridescent greens of the foliage, a band of black and copper pulsed. Kagome enveloped the presence and as her aura encircled it, the areas where it could not enter the form began to become a description, a negative relief, of the entity. Sliding over the figure, hair and then a face, became visible as an absence of color, grays and blacks like shadow against the white purity of Kagome�s spirit. As she pressed further, her energy slid along a smooth object the figure held. As realization of the identity of the anonymous being struck them, they each heard the other exclaim, �Kanna!�

Kagome pulled her life force back to herself, visibly shaken at the contact made with the soul stealing mirror. �Kagome, is that really how you see things with your power?�

�Yeah.� She was breathing heavily, trying to calm her nerves and recover her bearings.

�It�s�.beautiful. But�how come I didn�t catch her scent?� He growled low, still projecting his query to her mentally.

�I don�t know. But you saw how her presence is. It�s an absence of�of anything. No emotion, no true life force. That�s why I couldn�t detect her either� I think she�s following us.�

�What!?!� Kagome opened her eyes to Inuyasha�s scowl.

�I�m not positive, but I think I detected her presence in the village yesterday.�

Inuyasha glared, �Damn it! And you�re just now saying something?�

�I wasn�t sure. Just a pinprick of a feeling. I was looking for you and sensed the same thing I felt tonight. But I was in such a hurry�� Kagome shrugged.

�Well, if it was her, and she is following us, which until we know different we will assume to be the case, then it means Naraku is trying to keep tabs on us.�

Kagome nodded, �Which means something or someone is probably watching Sango, Miroku, and Shippo, too.�

�FUCK! Can�t that bastard just stay where he�s supposed to for once?� His shoulders slumped. �We need to contact them.�

Kagome rolled her eyes and pinned him with a look that clearly stated �Thank-you-Captain-Obvious!� �In the morning I can create a barrier and we can call them on the radios. Miroku should be able to do the same thing, himself, on their end.�

Although he didn�t really want to, Inuyasha relinquished his grasp on Kagome�s hand, �You should get some sleep. You�ll need your strength for that.�

�Um, Inuyasha?�

�Yeah?�

�Do you think�I mean, would it be okay if I slept closer to you tonight?�

Knowing she was probably as uncomfortable with the idea of sleeping alone with Naraku�s minions nearby as he was of leaving her to sleep unprotected, he offered, �Feh. Whatever. I�ll just stay here then.�

Worrying her lip, Kagome looked away, blushing, �Actually, I was wondering if I could go up there,� she pointed to the tree he had been occupying earlier.

�You want to sleep in the tree?� He looked at her as if she�d suddenly become possessed.

�I would feel safer up there than on the ground. And I know you�d be more comfortable.� She pulled out the final weapon in her arsenal, dropping her chin towards her chest, she looked up him through her lashes. It always worked against her mom, but she�d never tested the �doe-eyes-attack� against Inuyasha. �Pleeeaaase?�

He cracked faster than Humpty Dumpty. Even her mom would have held out longer. With a none-too-convincing shrug of indifference, he picked her up, sleeping bag and all, and leapt back into the branch.

�Now go to sleep, wench.� He gruffly whispered, settling her on his lap and tucking her head beneath his chin. Within minutes, the sound of his heartbeat lulled her to dreamland. Inuyasha relaxed as her breathing evened, and though he was unable to sleep and mindful of the threat nearby, he felt more at peace than he�d ever felt on �his� side of the well.
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