Every Heart

Kagome was mad.  No, not just mad…she was furious!  She stalked away from her startled travel companions across the bloody field that had just been the site of a horrendous battle.  Not that all the battles she had witnessed over the last several months hadn’t been horrendous but this one had bothered her for reasons beyond the violence and death that surrounded it.  She was so upset her hands were shaking and her ears ringing.  So much that she barely heard the angry and somewhat confused sounding voice calling after her.

“Kagome!  Just where the hell do you think you’re going?  Hey!  Come on, get back here.  This is no time to be fooling around.  What are you so mad about?  KAGOME!”

Kagome paid no heed to the increasingly distant sounding voice behind her.  She didn’t even look back.  She was so absorbed in her own anger and hurt feelings that she didn’t notice the large rock sticking out of the ground.   Her foot struck it and down she fell, flat on her face.  It took her a moment to figure out why she was lying on the ground with a skinned knee and a dirty face and when she did, she burst into tears.  Not so much from the pain but because the tears had been threatening for a while now and this last humiliation was too much.  She just couldn’t hold them back any longer.  She pulled herself into a sitting position, pulled her bruised and bloody knees to her bruised face and neck and just cried.

Inuyasha just stood there, in the middle of what had moments before been another huge demon intent on destroying him and his friends.  He watched as Kagome practically ran away from him with what he could have sworn were tears in her eyes.  Part of him wanted to comfort her but the other part of him, the stubborn, obstinate part that he showed more often, was angry.  He knew she was mad at him…again.  He just didn’t understand why.  Well, that wasn’t exactly true.  He knew it had something to do with what had happened between he and Kikyo but didn’t see why she should be so upset about it.  He had taken care of it.