Misfortune Followed Us Home

Misfortune Followed Us Home ch.6

 

Kagome made her way as fast as she could out of the village and headed towards the Goshinboku.  If Inuyasha wasn’t there, then she could not begin to know where else to look.  She was understandably angry.  He had the nerve to come into her hut this morning, destroy her property, rudely awaken her, and then act like a great injustice had been done to him.  Going off to sulk, “Ha,” she thought, “I’ll give him something to sulk about. When he comes back all he’s going to do is complain about our lack of progress.”  At this thought her aura swelled, flaring dangerously and sending any small animal who felt it running for cover.  She stopped, taking a deep breath, in and out until her aura settled.  “I just need to not let him get to me,” she said to herself.  After expelling her anger she calmly continued on her way. 

Arriving at the sacred tree she slowly released her aura, directing it to the high branches that she could not see with her eyes.  Just as she was about to give up, she felt the slightest brush of the hanyou’s aura.  She sighed and tapped at him lightly with her aura.

“Go away Kagome!”

“Inuyasha come down, we have to get ready to leave,” she yelled up into the branches.

“Why do you care about leaving,” he yelled down.  “You don’t care about collecting the shikon no kakera.  No, you just want to lie around and sleep all day!  And then, when I’m trying to help, you sit me for no reason!  Nope, you don’t want to go anywhere, I’m not going, I’m staying right here!”

“You’re acting like a child!”

The statement was met with silence and Kagome could imagine him up there with his arms crossed and his nose in the air, ignoring her. She sighed, she didn’t have time for this, and everyone else was ready.  “Fine,” she thought, “I’ll give him one more chance.”

“Inuyasha,” she called. “Inuyasha,” she questioned this time, though her words had some bite to them.  “Inuyasha,” she warned finally, still he did not come down.  “Oh well,” she thought unapologetically.  She sighed, “Osuwari.”

 The loud crashing sound made her wince.  “Kami that had to hurt,” she thought.  She looked down into the pit formed from force and gravity.  “Inuyasha,” she called warily.  No sound emerged from the hole and so she reached down and proceeded to slowly drag the heavy hanyou out.  Good Kami he was unconscious, his head lolled to the side.   Kagome lifted one of his eyelids and looked into his eyes.  They were unfocused but he seemed to be undamaged.  She grabbed him underneath his arms and making sure she had a good hold began dragging him in the direction of the village.  She didn’t get very far before she grew tired and had to rest.  She sat next to her comatose friend and sighed tapping his nose with her index finger.  “You are quite a bit of trouble Inu,” she told him.  She decided to stretch out her aura and see if she could find Shippo.  It spread out, racing along the ground with a light, nearly white, pink shimmer. Finally, after five minutes of searching, her aura touched his.  He was with Miroku and Sango outside of the rice fields, probably waiting on her and Inuyasha.  She wrapped her aura around his and tugged slightly in her direction.  She had to do this a few more times before he got the hint and began to move in her direction, bringing the rest of the tachi with him.  A couple minutes later, Shippo broke the tree line followed by Miroku and Sango on Kirara.   The fire cat roared before landing and lying down to allow them to get off.

“Hey guys,” Kagome greeted while scratching at her head.  “I found him,” she said laughing nervously.  “But,” she paused, “I kinda knocked him out.”

“Am I to assume Kagome-sama, that he refused to leave the sacred tree,” asked Miroku.

“Yep.”

“Well then, I am of a mind to believe he probably deserved it.  Here, let’s get him on Kirara.  We’ll walk until he wakes up.” 

With that statement, the tachi carefully lifted the limp hanyou onto Kirara’s back and proceeded to walk back to the village borders.  There they found the south-western path and proceed to head in that direction.  Kagome and Shippo first followed by Miroku, then Kirara with Inuyasha, and finally Sango in the rear.  It was going to be a long day.