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Roaring Thunder
Chapter 3
"More than meets the eye."
It had to have taken at least fifteen minutes to get Sesshomaru off their tails. Then again, if he really wanted to catch the two he could have easily. Luck had to of been on their side, not many people got away from him as in as good of condition they were in.
But everything wasn't going that well.
Kagome tried to hold in her anger. She was doing her best, just trying to relax and enjoy the fact that she was still alive. Hiten, obviously, wasn't feeling the same way.
"You ruined my chance."
She rolled her eyes. "Do you think he would have told you anyway?"
"Hnn." He turned his head. He was sitting a few feet away from her, refusing to even look at her.
"So stop whining." She wrapped her arms around her legs and pulled them up to her chest.
"Maybe I would have got something out of him if you didn't decide to run away." He wasn't going to let her go that easy.
"First of all, you didn't resist coming with me. It's your fault just as much as mine," she shot back. In all honesty, she really wasn't in the mood to bicker with him.
"Hnn."
"Case closed." Refusing to argue about this subject any longer, she left the crabby youkai to go find a lake or pond to go wash off in. It wasn't like she didn't understand where he was coming from, but he just had this air about him.
He didn't question her as she walked off, but she did feel a pair of eyes weighing her down until she was out of sight.
Not too far there was a small pond. She took a quick glance around before stripping of her clothes completely and jumping in. The cool water felt good on her skin.
In the past twenty four hours, her situation went from being captured by Hiten, to Sesshomaru wanting her, to escaping with said capturer. She still didn't understand why he took her in the first place. The only plausible reason she could come up with was because Inyuasha ended up killing them in the past. But what did that have to do with her? If he thought as using her as bait to lure Inuyasha, he was mistaken. Like he'd come looking for me anyway. That is, if he was even capable of moving. Whoever attacked them before she got captured had to of a done on number on her friends. Of course, she could only imagine who it was now that she thought about it.
She sighed inwardly. All she could do for now was follow Hiten around until she found her friends. That was her safest bet.
She took a deep breath and went underwater, reappearing seconds later to take another breath before going under once more.
"This is so relaxing," she said to no one after she emerged from the water.
"I bet."
She turned around quickly to hear who spoke. It was none other than Hiten. He sat by a tree, his eyes elsewhere, but his attention solely on her.
"What are you doing?" She quickly covered herself and emerged most of her body in the water. "You pervert!" She grabbed a rock from the edge of the pond and shot it at him.
"Watch what you're doing, girl!" He fought back. "I was just," he paused for a second, as if thinking of how to say his next words. "Watching over you."
She started at him blankly. "What, why?"
He look dumbfounded. "Hnn. Not any of your business."
"If it's about me, it is my business." She argued back.
"No, it's not."
"Yes, yes it is!"
"Really, it's not."
He was arrogant, she'd give him that. And annoying. "You know, I think it is."
"No."
"That's it? That's your comeback?" She snorted.
He looked aggravated, his piercing eyes glaring at her from across the area. "Get dressed. I have something to talk to you about."
"Sure, sure, great one," she mumbled under her breath.
He shot her a death glare before leaving.
Once he was gone from sight she quickly dressed and made her way back to their campsite. He was being awfully quiet when she got back, like there was something big on his mind. Maybe he saw something. His eyes kept darting from one part of the woods to another. Then, finally, his eyes set on her.
He finally spoke up. "I don't want to be with you any more than you want to be with me."
She tried not to laugh at that.
He ignored her and kept going. "But I need to find my brother, and you need to find that dumb mutt."
She looked at him quizzically. "So you're saying we should stay together."
"Not exactly that-"
"It sounds exactly like that."
"Whatever you want to believe, girl." She grinned. He needed her help, that'd what she wanted to believe. But it was safer to travel with him than travel alone. He had a good point.
"Deal. But under one condition."
Hiten didn't like the sound of that. "What?" he asked dryly.
"No peeking on me when I bathe!"
That was it? "Haha! Like there's anything to see-"
She threw another rock at him.
"You dumb-"
"Enough." She quickly changed the subject. She did not want to make this thunder brother mad. "So, do you even know where to start looking for your brother? We need some kind of lead so were not just wandering around aimlessly." The breeze around them started to pick up, whipping her wet hair around behind her. Shivers started to roll down her back.
He seemed to have noticed something too. He grabbed for his Raijekin. "We're not alone."
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