by
Anaphalis
Summary: A journey of a thousand miles may start with a single step- but what happens if someone walks into you? Battousai the assassin gets transported to feudal Japan. The rest of his year isn't looking very good either. Rurouni Kenshin X Inuyasha crossover. Romance/Drama.
Chapter Summary: Kagome tries to feel sorry for herself but Sango and Kenshin keep interfering. What does a girl have to do to get some angst time?
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Sympathy is for the idiots who don't want to feel miserable.
"Inuyasha is an asshole."
Sango was completely right, but the last thing that Kagome wanted right then was pity.
When Kagome didn't speak Sango continued. "I know it must be unbelievably difficult to have to seal yourself away from your family for their own protection, to never be able to see them until we are finished."
The childish, petulant part of Kagome was screaming. 'You have no idea! Goawaygoawaygoaaway. Leave me alone.' She didn't say any of it out loud.
"Inuyasha was way out of line. I'll tell him to back off."
Kagome felt forced to speak. "Please don't. I can handle the situation."
Sango looked sympathetically at Kagome. Kagome wanted to punch Sango's knowing, pitying eyes. "Do you need help with the wood?"
"I've got everything. I'm fine."
Finally, Sango left her alone. Slowly, methodically, Kagome began to pick up the sticks. When she looked up, Kenshin was standing against the tree in front of her, completely expressionless. Without a word, he picked up half of the pile of sticks and they made their way back to the camp.
Some part of Kagome was still hurting and wanted to hurt someone else. "How old are you Kenshin?"
"Eighteen."
"You're my age." She wondered why this didn't surprise her. "You must have started as an assassin very young."
The depth of pain in his eyes shamed her into silence. "Very young."
They didn't say anything else.
There was a discussion at camp. Kagome used words like "skilled", "honorable ki" and "responsibility" to convince them to let Kenshin stay if that was what he wanted. Although Inuyasha mumbled about "Kagome's strays" they all backed down in the face of the steel in her eyes. "Besides which, Kaede may have a solution to help Kenshin return."
Kenshin stayed silent through the entire battle. When they gave him a brief history of the jewel and Naraku, he said nothing but nodded his agreement when they asked if he was staying. Working with demons and against demons didn't seem to be giving him a whole lot of logical trouble. Kagome tried to justify this craziness by recalling that some of the humans he saw as an assassin wouldn't be all that far from the youkai of the Warring States.
However, his questionable sanity was not given a boost that evening. Kagome, bringing him a blanket for the night, once again heard him talking to himself. "So the gods have literally given me a new purpose in life. Well, I was broke, hungry and purposeless before I pissed off the gods. Why do I get the feeling that I'm going to miss that?"
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