In Thy Orisons

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Inu Yasha and
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Chapter
3: Waiting

style='mso-bidi-font-style:italic'>Previously:

Mouth close to her ear, he whispered something to the miko, idly cupping her
delicate throat with his palm as his fingers slid through her hair. And then he
was gone.

Just gone.

“Kagome?! Are you alright? What did that bastard do to
you, huh? What did he say? Kagome? Kagome!”

The pallor of the miko’s face and the visible trembling of her body as she
placed a hand over her heart reduced the hanyou’s snarled questions to
something that came suspiciously close to whimpering.

“Kagome?”

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It was very rare for Kagome to wake up screaming.  No matter how bad
things got, no matter how terrifying her life in the past became, she was not
prone to waking to the sound of her own fear.  But she did now. 
Breathless, sweaty, and a little disoriented, Kagome returned to consciousness
with a shout, barely managing to avoid falling off her bed and careening into
her night stand.

 

Leaning back against her headboard, Kagome retrieved the covers that she had
shoved away in her panicked sleep.  Bringing the linen to her waist, she
clung to it as she took calming deep breaths.  Her nightmare was loosing
ground in her mind; she could recall nothing explicit.  But what it lacked
in detail, it made up for in fear.  A feeling of helplessness had been
predominant, due mostly to the inescapable presence that had haunted her
dream.  She didn’t know what or who it was but it had been unmistakably
intent upon her.  Then she had screamed…

 

She was thankful that her family wasn’t present to hear her scream, having left
that morning to visit relatives, leaving Kagome alone to enjoy her time home, a
pleasure she hadn’t had for a while.  Inu class=SpellE>Yasha was usually so insistent that she stay with him on
the other side of the well to hunt for shards.  She would always argue
that after four years of searching for the blasted jewel fragments, returning
to her own time for a few days couldn’t hinder them any worse than one of class=SpellE>Naraku’s latest sabotage attempts.  She usually got
her way.

 

Ironically, it was Inu Yasha
who had pushed her to return.  Just for a little while, he’d said.  class=GramE>Until he could figure things out.  Like what his
half-brother was up to.

 

Climbing out of bed, Kagome padded her way to the kitchen.  She went
through the motions of preparing tea, knowing that sleep would be a little
harder to come by than usual.  Sitting down at the table, she placed her
head in her hands and thought.

 

What could Sesshoumaru be intending that would provoke Inu
Yasha to send her not only out of his reach, but the
hanyou’s sight as well?  The youkai had never focused on her before so
what might her friend be thinking?  Or was that it?  The fact that
Kagome had exclusively held his brother’s attention at all was probably what
disturbed Inu Yasha.

 

I mean, the guy does seem to have a
fratricide fixation.  It’s always ‘Die, hanyou’ this and ‘Die, hanyou’
that.  Get a hobby.



 

Unfortunately, it seemed that the demon lord had.  If frightening bathing
mikos was how Sesshoumaru got his jollies, he had picked the wrong woman.

 

Kagome couldn’t hide forever.  Nor would she. 
The next time Sesshoumaru reared his psychotic head, she’d be ready.  She
would.

 

He would.

 

He’d promised.

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For most of the night, Inu Yasha
was in a tree.  It was a familiar spot where he had often sat in
anticipation of his futuristic friend's return, his eyes always on the well,
ears alert for any danger that may catch her by surprise as she surfaced.
 

Though he had been the one to insist that Kagome return to her own time, he
could not help but wait for her to come back.  It was not the first time
that she had left because of him, nor would it be the last.  

Not that he minded.  No, it was the introduction of a new player that he
resented.  His brother.  Fuck.

So Inu Yasha continued to
wait for his friend, as he always waited.  Not that she knew that. 

class=GramE>to be continued…

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A/N:
This is me.  This is me updating.

^_^;

This
is another short one, I know.  But I just
had to get it out there.  I intend to
make the next one longer, so don’t worry.  
You’re requests, demands, threats, and puppy eyes have been noted.style='mso-spacerun:yes'> 

Thanks
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cap on.  Fun.