Mistaking and Misunderstanding

Grave Mistake

She felt warm inviting light fall into her face as she came back to consiousness. Fluttering her eyes, she slowly adjusted to the brightness that fell on her eyes as she felt a slight headache waking her up completely. As she started sitting up she felt something warm on her hand and when she looked down she saw a hand clamping hers. A clothed, beaded hand which she soon found out belonged to a certain monk that laid sleeping in a sitting position besides her. She blushed at the tenderness of his action and tried to remember what had landed her there in the first place. She remembered a battle and as she looked down at herself she knew she most have gotten hit pretty bad. What was left of her slayer suit which where mostly her pants as the torso area seemed to have been ripped in order to bandage what she thought must have been pretty big injuries, clung shredded in pieces, covering only her thights. Her legs where bandaged too but not as heavily as her torso which she discovered was covered by non other than Inuyasha’s Haori.

“What the hell happened to me?” she mumbled to herself as she took a look at her surroundings.

She was in Kagome’s soft and comfy sleeping bag thingy, her body was covered in bandages yet she didn’t feel no pain or injuries, and to top it off, she was half naked, well Inuyasha’s Haori although held open covered most of her, but still not enough to be within at least 10 feet from the leacherous monk. And here she was, sitting besides him and making skin contact, as far as touching hands went. She tried slowly scuttling away but the soft movement seemed to trigger something on the monk as his eyes fluttered open. He glanced at her and sat up so fast she thought she heard bones cracking.

“S-Sango y-you are awake.”

“Ehe, Houshi-sama...” but before she could ask what happened, the houshi was on his feet yelling on the door frame.

“Inuyasha, Kagome, she’s awake! Come quick!”

Within seconds an alerted hanyou and a flustered miko entered the cabin. As soon as the young girl laid eyes on the stunned Taiyija, she flung herself to her giving her the tightest bear hug she ever got.

“Oh Sango-chan, you’re alright. I was so worried and when you didn’t breath-then the grave-then...then....Oh I am so glad you are alright”

The miko hugged her even tighter if it was possible as the exterminator tried to look for answers in her friends. She turned from the suddenly somber Houshi to the rigid Hanyou and woth her stare demanded answer as to this weird no-breathing-grave stuff. But when the Hanyou was about to explain a darting blur of orange tackled the sitting taiyija, forcing her to lay back down into the sleeping back.

“Sango-chan, you woke up. What happened? Inuyasha and the others wouldn’t tell me” an exited kitsune cub squeaked while wrapping his tiny arms around one of Sango’s arm and shoulder.

“Well Shippo, I think we are on the same terms. So Inua, wa, what happened? All I remember was battling the fake Naraku and then I don’t know more”

A pang of guilt seemed to have hit Inuyasha as he lowered his face to look at his sword. The sword that almost killed one of his friends. Inuyasha was going to tell Sango about the ‘for a moment you were dead’ thing but now that Shippo was present he ’t d’t dare mentioned death. The kitsune had been asleep during the whole thing and he didn’t want to give him such a terrible memory to his already parentless ones. He took a look at the still waiting Taiyija and forced a smile.

“Not much happened really. I’ll tell you later. I’m going to fetch some water. Miroku wanna come?”

“Not really, I would prefer staying by the lovely Sango”

“I said want to come?”

The monk saw the command in the Hanyou’s eyes and sighte
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“I never get to stay with the women” mumbled the monk while standip yep yet again “Coming”

As the two men left the cabin only to come back yet again.

“You too you brat” barked Inuyasha while grabbing the kitsune by the back of his tiny shirt.

“Why do I have to go? It’s Miroku the one with the pervert hands”

“Kagome has something to say to Sango. In private”

The small youkai looked from Inuyasha’s glowering amber eyes to Kagome’s brown kind ones as she nodded to the Kitsune. With an air of dissapointment he stopped kicking his little feet and let himself be carried out of the cabin. Now when only the to girls remained, Sango yet again asked her question.

“Well Sango.....it’s king of hard to explain.....you sort off.....died?”

“Eh?” was the confused answer out of the slayer’s mouth.

“I don’t see why I couldn’t stay with fair Sango and Kagome”

“Because I would never let someone like you alone with two women in a secluded cabin. Even less if one of them was injured «Or was she? She sure didn’t smell like blood» Must be the transformation”

“What? What transformation?”

“Eh? Oh, nothing. Just talking to myself” responded the Hanyou as he looked at himself to make sure he had really returned to Hanyou after the night. As they neared a spring ready to fill the barrels with clear water, Inuyasha gave a sudden stop, making Shippo slammed to his leg.

“Watcha do that for?” sounding more like Inuyasha after an ‘Osuwari’.

“Shut up twerp. Something’s coming. I recognize that stink even if I had a defective human nose”

“Who is it Inuyasha?” the monk askes as he readied his shakujo for battle.

“That dirty mutt”


The wolf prince could smell his dear Kagome nearer and nearer by the seconds. His amazing speed only left a dust cloud wherever he went. As he neared a clearing with a cabin not so far away, he sensed danger. He rapidly moved to the side just in time to dodge a barrel full of water that was thrown at him. He chuckled at the poor attempt he imagined came from the stupid hanyou but as he turned his face to see his attacker, a foot collided with his face, smashing right in the middle of his nose. A faint *crack* was heared and seconds later Kouga was clutching his clawed hands to his nose, as blood seeped out of it and into his lips.

“That’s what you get for even aproaching this place wolf breath” the cocky hanyou said while smirking at his work as he landed.

The youroukozu leader glared with anger at the inu-hanyou smirking before him, taunting him.

“We’ll see who laughs after this. I’ve come to take my Kagome. My instincs told me that it was time for her to be with a real man. I may no longer have a good nose but any fool can guess she must be at that cabin over there”

The wolf prince wiped the back of his hand over his bloddied up nose as he stretch his limbs to prepare himself for a long run.

“Oh no you won’t mutt face” Inuyasha started unsheating Tetsaiga “If you think am just going to stand here and—“ But then, the hanyou felt a fist connect with his gut.

“D-Damn t-those cheats of yours. If it weren’t for them I’d cruch you like a bug”

“Don’t be a sore loser dog turd and accept defeat”

The wolf prince swiped his fast legs under Inuyasha’s but the hanyou jumped back. Kouga growled and with a fast thump of feets he was infront of the hanyou swinging a powerful fist at his face. Inuyasha side stepped and hit Kouga on the ribs with the hilt of Tetsaiga. The wolf prince howled in pain and jumped back in retreat.

“Got enough mongrel. You are not going to runaway from this time” and as the hanyou approached the crouched figure of Kouga, the wolf youkai grinned under his bangs. When Inuyasha came within attacking distance, he called for his strenght as he raised Tetsaiga above his head but the wolf youkai shifted his feet and kicked at the ground to raise a cloud of dust which fell mostly on Inuyasha’s face.

“*cough* *cough* You dirty wolf *h*” h*” Inuyasha managed to cough out of the cloud of dust hanging around his face.

“I don’t have time for you dog turd. I’m taking my woman” and as he finished this words he leapt to the cabin, barging inside it and provoking a gasp and then screams.

“Kagomeee!”

The Hanyou started running blindly to the cabin as Miroku, with Shippo on his shoulder, catched up to him.

“What happened? Where’s Kouga?”

“He’s taking Kagome! I’ve got to stop that dirty mutt”

“Not Kagome!” the little kitsune clamped his little claws even tighter on Miroku’s shoulder

“Agh, Shippo!”

“Stop fooling around you two—“

But a scream made him looked towards the now near cabin as one of the wooden walls bursted into pieces, and out of it came the strong figure of Kouga with a lump with legs sticking out, over his shoulder. Another grunt-scream was heard from the lump Kouga carried and when the wolf made eye contact with Inuyasha, a smirk was played on his mouth.

“See ya, sucker”

And kicking dust yet again into Inuyasha’s stunned face, the wolf set out to the north with a whirlwind of dust surrounding him. Inuyasha tried vainly to catch up with dust and all but the Shikon no kaeras in Kouga’s legs were a force of speed non reachable. And when he saw the wolf was long gone, he collapsed knee first in the dirt with his face facing the sky, brought all the events to his mind and screamed.

“Kagomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!”

“What do you want Inuyasha?”
“Uh?”

The hanyou turned his face fast towards the voice that answered him, and there she was. The young miko, Kagome, had a confused annoyed face as she was staring at the hanyou while holding some cloths in her hands.

“K-Kagom-me.....but.....what the hell where you doing outside the cabin?!”

“I was looking for Sango’s Kimono, back at the battlefield. She wasn’t going to wear that shirt of yours all day just because you felt guilty you slashed her with your sword”

“But...but...”

“Wait...if Kagome-san is here then....Oh gods, no!” the suddenly nervous monk ran to the cabin as a confused Kagome stared at his action. There was a silent in which Inuyasha thought the monk had entered some kind of shock but it was later broken by the sad screams of a man.

“S-Sangooooo”

As Kouga made his way through the grassy fields, he felt his Kagome nearly kick his groin for like the third time. Her struggled punches on his back were starting to hurt as he saw a nearby clearing with a cliff secluded by threes and made for it with the intentions of settling down.

“Relax Kagome, you are no longer with that stupid Hanyou. You are to become my wo—uhh!”

The wolf prince felt the need to stop fast as this time, her leck did connected with his groin, and having only a skimpy skirt to protect that sacred area didn’t help.

“For the last time you stupid youkai, I am not Kagome!”

It was then that the youroukozu prince widened his eyes as he let the woman in his arms fall from his shoulder and twisted her body to come face to face with.....the demon exterminator?!”

“Aghh! You’re not my Kagome!”

“That’s bright of you to notice”

“But why are you wearing that mutt’s shirt?”

“That its a long story which I am not willing to share with you”

The wolf prince looked striken as he yet again realized his big mistake. He then looked from the woman to the south where he came from.

“Argh, now I have to go back and get her”

The wolf youkai started shifting his feet and was about to spring to the place where he his his great mistake when suddenly a thick three branch was thrown at his feet, tangling in them and making him trip to fall face first in the dirt. The youroukozu leader raised himself from the dirt in the floor, spitting dirt from his mouth while cursing.

“Now what was that for woman!” he growled at her but her steadied face never faultered.

“ I won’t let you put a finger on Kagome-chan, youkai”

Kouga cracked his knuckles as he looked with impatience from the exterminator to the place where his Kagome was.

“I don’t have time for this, wench” and he turned south to yet again spring to the cabin place. He didn’t take two steps before a large three branch, about his size, landed centimiter in front of him.

“Then you’ll make time” was the simple yet challenging answer of the angered Taiyija.

Kouga growled deeply as he turned to face his opponent. An evil grin played on his face as he slowly neared the exterminator.

“You’ll regreat the day you crossed path with me, girl” and with a sudden leaped, he was launching himself at the Tayija.

The slayer simply side stepped the attack, and elbowed him deep, right where Inuyasha had clobered him with the Tetsaiga. His sore ribs reacted to the hit, sending waves of new pain to his nerves and brain, and making him back track with his hands on the right side of his rib cage.

“Pfft, you’re moves are so predictable youkai. I’ve seen them far too many times each time you attack Inuyasha. You always leave your right side uncovered. I’d advice you to give up now and go home”

The wolf’s angry snarls were heard throughout the clearing as he lifted his claws, branding them for the youkai taiyija to see.

“You know, I don’t usually hit females, but for you I’ll make an exception, seeing as it is hard to compare you with one”

This comment made the woman scrunch up her face and scowl. That simple move made her lose concentration and by the time she blinked, Kouga was yet again launching himself at her, claws in the air, ready to slash her to pieces. With not enough time to side step, she threw her body bacwards into the floor and when the wolf prince was right above her, she kicked him in the gut with her two feet, launching him to the cliff that she knew was located just behind her. The loud thud of a body slamming in the ground was heard followed by a yelp and then a growl, as the slayer started getting up from the ground to look behind her at a very angry Kouga. Seeing as he still wasn’t on his feet, she took the opportunity to raise herself, kick up another fallen thick branch and launch it whith all her strenght towards the fallen prince. Kouga saw the large branch coming directly to his face and without losing another second he kicked his feet in the ground to leap backwards...and land just at the edge of the cliff.

“Shit!” was the only thing before he saw the woman come at him again but this time it wasn’t that what caught his attention but rather the big crack that seemed to be expanding from the hole where the big branch lay deeply inserted. The crack widening by the second, he knew the cliff was going to collapse and now with the weight of the attacking slayer, the speed of the cracking doubled and in a matter of parseconds the cliff gave a huge jerk downwards, but it didn’t feel. The Taiyija, now aware of the situation paled and stood half crouched, half standing, trying hard not to move so the cliff wouldn’t fall completly. Kouga was in the same situation only he was at the edge, cursing like hell in his thoughts.

“Don’t...make...no...sudden...movements” the slow strangely calm voice of the exterminator reverberated in the wolf prince’s ears. An annoyed look came to his features as he glared, scoffing at the demon slayer.

“What in the hell do you think am doing woman?”

But even the small movement of his mouth seemed to affect the balance of the cliff as it gave another jerk downwards. The woman’s face paled even more at this. There was a brief pause in which they made sure not to move so as to confirm the balance was good enough to walk away from. Then the silence was broken.

“Idiot. You almost killed us” spat silently the woman while trying hard not to move. Her legs were trembling, already tired of that uncomfortable position.

“Grrr, you were the one that landed us here in the first place” the same silent yet menacing tone that the Taiyija used was replayed in Kouga’s vocal chords. “If you’d have left me seek Kagome, non of this would have happened”

“Pfft. Don’t go blaming me. If you weren’t so stupid as to believe she would have liked to come with you in the first place then I wouldn’t be—“

But she didn’t get to finish as she soon found out she was being raised by the throath, claws digging into her neck skin.

“You take that back” the calm menacing voice of Kouga surprised her as she looked down and saw him looking up at her. A mask of repressed anger on his face.

Sango didn’t have no intention on lowering herself as to obey him, and with a flexible kick, she slammed the tip of her right foot on his chin, forcing him to drop her and back away while he nursed his bruised chin. But they seemed to have forgoten about an important detail that soon came to their mind as the cliff gave off another jerk and then a fijerkjerk as it completely broke and separated from the solid land. When Sango saw they were starting to lose balance because of the crumbling ground that was giving out beneath them. As she was the closest one to the edge of the solid ground, she leapt at the last moment before falling and managed to close her hands on a jagged rock and the edge of the clearing. As she started to hoist her body to the clearing, a sudden weight on one of her legs dragged her down and made her slipped a little. As she looked down she saw the wolf prince clinging to her foot for dear life.

“Think you get away that easily”

“Let go demon. You are going to make us both fall”

She tried yet again to hoist her body and now Kouga’s unto the clearing but the weight was too much on the jagged edge as a faint crackle was heard. Sango turned her paled face to her holding support watching it slowly break and with a desperate move launched her hands even further at the grassy floor of the clearing. Small crumbles of rocks fell on Kuoga’s face as he turned his face to the side to avoid getting it more bruised than it already was.

“What the hell is happening up there woman?!”

“I’m.....slippiiiing” her strained cried could be heard as her nailed, buried in the soil, started scratching their way down, giving her a burning feeling on the tip of her fingers.

The rage of a wild river could be heard coming from just under them, as Sango took one look down at the river then at her slipping sore hands and nails, and with a gasp of air, she prepare herself for te worst.

“Kouga?”

“What?!” came his rather annoyed voice.

“Hold your breath. We’re going to fall”