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The Forest That Bore His Name	By : Raithea Category: InuYasha > Yaoi - Male/Male > InuYasha/Sessh?maru > InuYasha/Sessh?maru Views: 17701 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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~~Chapter Five~~
Saving Graces
Inuyasha awoke just as the sun’s rays managed to venture into the valley. It was still quite dim in his small refuge and he considered staying right where he was for a few more hours. His wounds seemed to be healing much slower then normal and he was as comfortable as he was gonna get. The leaves and his own layers were keeping him warm, and not moving definitely beat out moving when it came to his back. He settled his head once more on his arms and just as the world became pleasantly fuzzy he heard a light thump scant feet from his haven followed by the voice of a women.
“Hello. Is somebody there?”
Inuyasha remained still.
There was an exasperated sigh, “Alright, I already know you’re there.”
Inuyasha stayed quiet, hoping they would get bored and fuck off. He knew there were at least two of them out there, a youkai and a human, and at the moment he wasn’t in much shape for a fight. And if it did come to a fight he was much better off guarding a tiny entrance then trying to do open battle.
“Right then, in five seconds I’m gonna move one of those boulders and you better not be naked.”
Fuck! She’d definitely have him then, “Alright! Alright! Dammit bitch, give me a minute.” Well at least the night’s rest had nurtured one thing - his temper. Before Sesshomaru had shown up he’d almost thought he’d lost it forever.
He quickly scrambled for his supplies, shoving everything back into his makeshift sack; his back shrieking at him for his haste, but it would do no good to be caught in here by an unknown - particularly cornered and exposed if one of the boulders was moved. He shoved the pack out ahead of him before taking more care as he climbed out after it, his body still bitching at him for jerking it around. Once out he looked towards where the voice had come from and just as he stood up the two came round the edge of the boulder.
Inuyasha immediately backed up several paces, trying to put some distance between them, wobbling a bit but managing to stay on his feet. The two figures blurred slightly form two to four for a second before going back to a proper pair. Inuyasha saw that the woman, scratch that, girl appeared to be barely older then he was, maybe 18 or so; dressed in a well-worn sweater over loose jeans, looking like a typical hiker, except of course for the strung longbow in her hand and the quiver full of arrows at her back. Both of which fairly buzzed with the amount of miko power this girl was packing. Yeah, that was bad enough but more trouble came winding its way alongside the girl in the form of a large nekomata.
Fuckin’ perfect.
Meanwhile, Inuyasha’s body was still on protest against him. Another wave of exhaustion swamped him causing the pair to triple this time before it settled back down. He tried shaking his head to clear it, but promptly stopped as everything went sideways. He lurched to the left to stop himself from falling but had to jerk back when everything was suddenly right side up and he was the one tipping. He focused on the hiker again; annoyed that merely staying upright was causing him to pant.
“Are you okay?”
Inuyasha noticed she had managed to close some of the distance; he backed up again, “Yeah, I’m peachy, why?
“Really?” she said, disbelief clear, “Cause it looks to me like you’re about to fall over.”
Inuyasha stood up a little straighter, wincing again from the marks, “Well, you can’t always trust what your weak ass human eyes tell you.” She raised a disbelieving eyebrow at that, but Inuyasha was done with the idle chatter. He was wasting time and energy. “Look, I need to get movin’ so nice meetin’ you or whatever.” He turned and started to head towards the path that cut through the valley, but the damn cat jumped in the way.
“Oh, I can’t let you just leave. You’re on private lands.”
Inuyasha growled, pivoting back around to face her. He fucking knew that, he just didn’t want to meet the damn owner. And speaking of what was a human, who wasn't Kaede, doing on Sesshomaru's lands? He'd have thought the prick would have chewed glass before he'd let a new miko take over the temple.
“Look I just want to get to the other side, then I’m gone. Okay?”
She ignored him, “My name’s Kagome; what’s yours?”
“None of your damn business.” What the hell was wrong with this girl?
“Well, we’re certainly not going to get anywhere with that attitude. What happened to you?”
Gods, she changed gears fast. “I got in a fight.”
Again the skeptical eyebrow, “Really?”
“Yeah,” and in a moment of bravado, “the other guy’s worse.”
“You were beaten.” It wasn’t a question.
Inuyasha flushed in embarrassment, his head jerking up. “What the fuck, I just told you I was in a fight,” he shouted
Her eyes were narrowed now, going over every inch of him. It made him want to fidget, but he settled for simply not looking at her. How had she known?! He didn’t want anyone else to ever know what had happened before. He shuddered. Well at least she didn’t know about the other stuff.
His gaze riveted back to her again when, out of nowhere, he felt a pulse of power from her. It was there and gone in a flash but it wasn’t miko or youkai; it was just power. Was she about to attack? Inuyasha crouched down and stared hard at her waiting for it to happen again.
There was a tense silence and then the girl’s expression was suddenly relaxed, “I’ll make you a deal. If you come with us to our shrine and rest up for a couple of days I’ll let you pass through these lands.”
“I don’t need your damn charity and why the hell would you want to give me a place to stay?” Inuyasha wasn’t helpless. He didn’t need any help, dammit.
She shrugged, “Well at the shrine I look after several hanyou orphans so it wouldn’t be much trouble to put you up for a few nights,” she replied calmly.
Inuyasha’s ears went flat and he bared his fangs, “No way am I goin’ to a fuck’in orphanage!” he shouted. Going to an orphanage is what landed him in this mess in the first place. No chance in hell!
She looked surprised and affronted for a moment and he even heard a growl from the youkai behind him, but then a look of understanding dawned on her face. “It isn’t a government institution, you know.”
Inuyasha thought back to the ‘business’ his father has propositioned to Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru had said he wasn’t interested in going into business with Naraku. Did that mean he had already started something on his own? “I don’t fucking care who runs it, there’s no way I’m going.” He barked, crouching down further and bringing his claws out in front of him. “Now get out of the fucking way!”
Kagome raised her hands in a placating gesture, alarm showing clearly on her face, “Wait you don’t understand,” she said hurriedly. “The reason we mainly house hanyou children is because of how they are treated at other orphanages. Kaede-sama wanted to give them a safe home.”
Inuyasha was so surprised that he dropped his hands and stood straighter, curiosity overriding suspicion, “How do you know Kaede-obachan?” She must have been gone for over fifty years before this girl came along.
Kagome shrugged, “She was the one who turned the shrine into a home for hanyou. From what I’ve gathered she did it because she felt she had failed someone she cared about.” Kagome paused, “And we’re not concerned with finding new homes for them either,” she clarified, her voice taking on a reassuring quality, “I mean it’s great if they do, but as far as we’re concerned they’ve already found one when they arrive at our doorstep.”
Inuyasha didn’t know what to think. If it was true that Kaede-obachan had been the founder of the orphanage then this shrine probably had nothing to do with Sesshomaru. He had always avoided the place whenever he’d been on these lands and Inuyasha had a suspicion the only reason the place was still standing was because of tradition. It might not be such a bad place to rest up after all, if Sesshomaru still avoided the place.
And Kaede-obachan had remembered him, had tried to save him. He hadn’t been forgotten, but his father had gotten to him first. White hot anger suddenly flared at that thought. No! He wasn’t his fucking father! He was his goddamn rapist! It was true that Naraku had been Inuyasha’s caretaker for a while, but after that night he had become his monster. The rage was so sudden and overwhelming that his fists clenched together in an effort to squelch it, piercing his palms with his own claws. Maybe he had deserved what had happened to him, but Kaede-obachan had tried to change it, so for her he would hold onto his anger. He would not let it melt away or feed it to the despair as he had done the last twenty years. He would use it to keep going.
And he would fucking survive.
Well, what the hell has got his panties in a twist, Kagome wondered. He had gone all rigid at the mention of Kaede-sama, so could it have something to do with her; but why on earth would this hanyou hate her? This hanyou who still hadn’t given her his damn name.
“Look,” she said, putting her hands on her hips, “We can stand here all day and have what I’m sure would be a fascinating study of history or we can head back to the shrine and get some food. Oh and your name wouldn’t be amiss now either,” she added
Inuyasha’s attention snapped back to Kagome, glaring at her for a moment before crossing his arms, looking positively mulish. “Call me whatever the hell you want, I still won’t go with you.”
Again with the damned eyebrow, it reminded Inuyasha of Sesshomaru. Did she know him? “You think you can take both of us on?”
“A puny human and a trumped up housecat. Heh, easy.” He yelled out in surprised pain as the neko youkai suddenly dashed forward and butted its head into his back, causing him to come crashing down, face first into the dirt. Inuyasha yelled out as the pain raced along his spine, curling in against it. Dammit an attack like that shouldn’t have taken him down so easily. Inuyasha took a calming breath and raised himself back up only to come face to face with the miko’s weapon.
“Still think you could take us?” she asked.
He growled in embarrassed anger, his face flushing once more, “Well,” he demanded, “where does this get us?”
Kagome let out an exasperated noise and lowered her weapon. “I’ve had enough of this. Look we can’t leave you here to wander around these lands, so you’re going to have to come with us one way or another.” She looked around as if searching for the answer, before looking to him once more, “I give you my word that nothing bad will happen to you while you’re in our care and you’ll be free to go your own way in a few days.”
He gave a harsh laugh, “What the hell good does that do, I don’t even freakin’ know you.”
Kagome sighed, “True enough,” she agreed. “So what would be good enough?”
Inuyasha regarded her skeptically, “You saying that I could demand anything and you’d try for it?”
“Well, I’d try for it. Yes.”
"And the youkai who owns these lands, he a frequent guest of yours as well?"
"Sesshomaru. No, not particularly. Why?" Did he know Sesshomaru? Should she call Sesshomaru once they were settled in the shrine? She hadn't lied - Sesshomaru very rarely came to the shrine, but Kagome herself spoke with him often and was a regular visitor to his estate.
But he ignored her question, looking her and Kirara up and down once more, before letting out a tired sigh and climbing to his feet. “Alright, I’ll go along with you.”
She blinked, “That’s it?” she demanded incredulous, stomping her foot in indignation.
“Yeah, you were actually honest.” He stared down at the ground for a moment before suddenly looking up and staring her straight in the eye. Kagome’s breath stopped in her throat. “That’s gotta be worth something, right?” At that Kagome’s face broke into a truly beautiful smile.
“You really are quite something.” She moved forward and extended her hand. Inuyasha simply stared at it; he didn’t want to touch anybody. He felt that they would know everything he’d done just by touching him or maybe that he’d somehow get them dirty, so instead he offered an awkward bow, but she didn’t miss the wince as he did so. Kagome returned the gesture, “Let’s try again, my name is Higurashi Kagome; miko and caretaker of the Anzen no Chi shrine.”
“And it’s still none of you damn business,” he replied, stone faced.
Kagome scowled for a moment before breaking into laughter. “Asagi’ll like you. If she doesn’t kill you first,” she amended. The neko youkai moved to her side, “Oh and by the way this is Kirara, guardian of the shrine.” Kirara gave a small bow of her head that Inuyasha returned.
Inuyasha’s muscles were now shrieking and the energy from his anger, which had been keeping him going up until now, was quickly being replaced by exhaustion. Kirara sidled up to him but he didn’t want to be anywhere near her either and Inuyasha automatically backed away from the offered help. “So where’s this damn shrine anyway?”
Kagome pointed to the next valley over, “Just on the other side of that mountain. Kirara can fly us there in no time.” Kagome came round to Kirara’s other side, “Can you manage?”
Inuyasha gave her a filthy look but didn’t get on. He doesn’t want to be touched, she realized. “It’ll get us there a lot faster,” Kagome explained climbing onto Kirara herself but Inuyasha continued to simply look at her. “Seriously, I’m tired and we already know that I can’t leave you here to make your own way, so hop on and let’s go.” She patted the spot behind her and he backed up a pace.
Kagome watched him a minute more and when all he did was sway there, she gave a sigh before hoping off on Inuyasha’s side. He stumbled back another step, but she didn’t try to approach him. Instead she moved off to his left and to Inuyasha’s total surprise she said, “You’re right, Kirara is too tired to carry two people.” Kagome ignored the indignant scowl Kirara gave her, “It’s better if you go first and then Kirara can come back and collect me. That way we both get there and I know where you are.” Kagome knew, however little she had known him, that this boy’s pride in himself was nearing its end and if all she had to do was wait a couple minutes while Kirara made two trips to give it a much needed boost then that was fine.
Inuyasha remained still a moment more before giving a reluctant nod and cautiously approaching Kirara, skirting around Kagome; while Kagome pulled out a small notebook from her supplies. She quickly jotted down a note to Asagi, instructing her to make Inuyasha comfortable in one of the guest quarters, till she got there. Inuyasha was already astride Kirara, by the time she was done.
“Just ask for Asagi when you get there,” Kagome said as she ripped the note out, handing it to Inuyasha. He gave her a quick nod before burying his fingers in Kirara’s thick mane. The next second they were both air born with Kagome waving from the ground.
As they made their way to the central valley Inuyasha was eternally grateful that Sesshomaru hated that old shrine. He could rest and be gone without Sesshomaru ever knowing he’d been there.
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Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha and the little man in my finger says I never will.
A/N: Just for those who are wondering, yes Inuaysha personality has taken a sharp turn but this is how I picture Inuyasha dealing with such a situation; though a victim’s reactions differ quite a lot in these situations, anger is a common response. Also many get into the mentatlity of living in the now with little planning for the future. Inuyasha does some planning so he’s is not an example of an extreme case. His return to his own lands and his encounter with Kagome (and the details surrounding that meeting which shall be revealed later) are both catalysts for his bad manners as well. His emotional responses are gonna be chaotic for a while.
Dracavia: Lots of love, you have done a fantabulous job yet again as my beta. Woohoo.
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