Hello! Chapter 3 is now officialy up!
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Chapter 3: Secrets, Secrets
"Do we really have to do this stupid canoeing? Can't we do something more fun? It's really boring canoeing down this stupid river! And why'd we have to go down this one? Couldn't we have followed Miroku? Then I'd at least have someone I like to talk to."
Kagome sighed and put down her oar. She turned to face Inuyasha who was sitting in the back. "You want me to start at the beginning? Fine: Yes we do. This is fun. This river isn't stupid. Yes, we do have to go down this one. No, we couldn't have followed Miroku. And I didn't know you felt that way about him."
Inuyasha's face flared at her last comment! "Not like that! He's just my friend!"
"One more comment out of you, and you're going over board." Kagome growled and turned back around.
At this time, the groups were canoeing down rivers that came off of the lake. Ayame and Kouga, and Sango and Miroku took one of the two rivers while Kagome and Inuyasha took the other.
Inuyasha huffed. "I still don't see why we had to go down the other river."
Kagome shrugged. "It's my favorite. Don't you think the scenery is beautiful?"
Inuyasha's eyes widened. 'Oh my God, it's happening already!' He was annoyed by Kagome but decided to make it into a joke. He smirked. "Oh really? 'Cause if I didn't know any better, I'd say you just wanted to get me alone."
In reaction, Kagome swung her oar around and whacked Inuyasha in the head, sending him overboard. He landed in the water with a satisfying splash! It was Kagome's turn to smirk.
"Have fun swimming back to camp!" she called. Inuyasha sputtered in response, trying to keep above the water.
* * *
After 15 nice, relaxing, Inuyasha-free minutes of cruising along the beautiful river, it eventually emptied out into a small lagoon where the other groups where waiting. Kagome paddled to the shore and docked her canoe. She got out and joined her friends in the shade.
"Hey Kagome!" Sango greeted. The teen looked around. "Where's Inuyasha?"
Kagome shrugged. "I don't know. He was being really annoying so I knocked him overboard."
Sango gaped, Ayame snickered, Miroku widened his eyes in shock, and Kouga burst out laughing.
"Serves him right!" Kouga managed out between laughs. "That idiot!"
"What's all this talk about Inuyasha being knocked overboard?" Ai strides up to the group, skirt flowing, bells jingling. "Tell Ai."
"Well, Inuyasha annoyed me so I warned him that I'd knock him overboard if he didn't shut up. He continued to talk and I went through with my threat. He had it coming."
Mitsuya, the boys' counselor, came up behind Ai. He ran a hand through his deep black hair. "You really shouldn't do that, Kagome." Mitsuya's a young man and very tall and skinny. He's timid and a sort of coward and apologizes a lot when he doesn't need too, but he's very sweet.
"Ka-go-me!" said a very low, and very, very scary, voice. The group turned to see Inuyasha emerging from the forest, soaked and thirsty for revenge. Inuyasha walked right up to the guilty girl.
"What the hell did you do that for?!" he snarled.
"Please, Inuyasha," Mitsuya pleaded. "L-let's not swear!" Though Mitsuya was right next to the feuding teens, he was not heard.
"I gave you fair warning!" Kagome pointed out. "You chose not to listen!"
"Oh, so you think that just because your grandmother runs this stupid camp means that you can just do what ever you want?"
"I told you, you had fair warning, and no I don't think that, though it does come in handy."
Before the argument could progress, Ai clamped a long-nailed hand on Inuyasha's shoulder. "1:00," she said. "Time for lunch." She turned around and took the lead with Mitsuya.
Kagome and Sango followed with Ayame and Kouga a few steps behind. Miroku lagged back with Inuyasha.
"Damn, that woman scares me!" Inuyasha whispered. If there was one thing he learned about Ai, it was that she had ears like a hawk. Inuyasha squeezed the excess water out of his hair.
"Who, Ai?" asked Miroku.
Inuyasha nodded. "Yeah, Ai! The way she dyes her hair that color and keeps on 'speaking' with the gods, asking for signs and all that crap!"
Miroku shrugged. "I don't know I kinda like her."
Inuyasha slugged Miroku in the shoulder. "You just like her c-cups!"
"Ai didn't know you were so interested in her bra size!" Ai called to the boys from the head of the group. The group snickered and Inuyasha's face flushed while Miroku had a glint in his eye.
Inuyasha punched Miroku in the shoulder again.
"Ouch!" he snapped. "Stop that!"
"I'll stop hitting you when you stop being a pervert." Inuyasha reasoned. He hit him again.
"I didn't even say anything!" Miroku shouted in protest.
"Hard to tell with you. I can't read minds." Inuyasha said, and picked up his pace when they fell too far behind.
* * *
"Ayame, slow down! You'll choke, inhaling that food!" Sango said with a laugh.
Ayame looked up at her friend. "I can't help it; I over slept and missed breakfast."
Kagome looked at her and snickered. "Even after I tried to wake you five times? You responded each time."
Ayame scrunched up her eyebrows. "Really? I don't remember that." The three girls cracked up.
Inuyasha leaned toward Miroku. "Why did we have to sit here again?"
"They're our friends, why wouldn't we?" Miroku whispered back.
Inuyasha scoffed. "Correction; they're your friends, not my friends." He returned to pushing his food around on his plate with his fork. Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain strike his shin. Glaring eyes shot at the girl sitting in across from him. Kagome was just sitting, innocently eating her pizza. "What was that for?!" he snapped.
Kagome looked up from her plate. "Your gloomy attitude is chasing the happiness away."
Inuyasha snorted. "What happiness? I'll be happy at 7:00 when we get our free time—away from you." Kagome answered with another sharp kick to his shin. "Ow." He muttered. As if nothing happened, Kagome got up and refilled her glass with water.
Midoriko burst through the door, looking very frantic. She stepped up to the podium, usually reserved for making announcements during breakfast. "May I have your attention, please?" her voice boomed through the mike. The Hall continued to talk. "Please, this is very important." The urgency in her voice quieted everyone down. "I need all the counselors to meet with me in the meeting room." Her eyes caught Kagome's. "Kagome, you come too." On that note, she turned around and out through the door.
"Wonder what's up." Kagome got up and followed the counselors through the door.
* * *
After six, long, grueling hours, 7:00 rolled around. Inuyasha collapsed on his bed. Ever since Midoriko called all the counselors and Kagome into the meeting room, he'd been filled with anxiety. He was probably jumping to conclusions, but every time he tried to guess what it was that happened, his mind always returned to the odd feeling he got on his first day here. Kagome had promised to tell him at 7:00 when they could all be alone, but having to spend every minute with her after that wasn't helping much. And her vexed attitude toward it all was causing Inuyasha to suspect the worst. It also led to a huge fight.
Inuyasha shook his head as he recalled the event.
Flashback
Inuyasha had long given up on trying to catch a fish, so he decided to try and poke them with the pole. When that attempt failed, he just plopped down on the sand and watched the others fish. Ayame and Kouga were reeling in fish left and right, partially due to their demon instincts telling them where all the large clusters were. Miroku was gingerly picking a hook out of his skin where Sango had whacked him with the pole when he got too 'familiar' with her body, while Sango was trying to figure out how to attach another hook onto her reel. He got bored and directed his attention to Kagome.
Kagome was standing silently on the dock, holding her fishing rod. Her eyes were dead, and she hadn't even realized she had a catch. She was just staring out at the horizon.
Inuyasha looked away. He wasn't worried. 'Eventually, either Sango or Ayame will notice her melancholy state, and with one wave of their Best-Friend-Wand, everything will be back to normal.' He told himself.
5 minutes…..
10 minutes…..
15 minutes…..
'God dammit!' Inuyasha shouted in his mind. 'They're too preoccupied with those damn idiots to notice her!' Inuyasha groaned inwardly as he stood up, and headed toward Kagome. A bunch of sirens went off in his head, telling him to stop. He knew that once he tried to pry out what she was hiding, she'd snap shut and scream at him. But his left foot followed his right foot, and before he knew it, he was walking down the wooden pathway.
"Hey," he said. Kagome's shoulder hitched up, and turned around startled. "You know you got a bite."
"Oh!" she gasped, and reeled in the fish. She held up her catch and inspected it. "How long was it there?"
Inuyasha shrugged. "How should I know? It's not like I keep tabs on you."
Kagome huffed and turned away. "Well, excuse me."
Inuyasha mentally kicked himself. He didn't want a fight, and the way things were starting out, there's a pretty slim chance he won't get away without his ear chewed out.
"Hey," he said again. Kagome didn't budge. "What's wrong with you?"
Kagome turned around, eyebrows scrunched together. "What do you mean?"
Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "I mean how you're just standing there, looking half-dead."
Kagome huffed again. "And I thought you didn't keep tabs on me." She set down her rod and sat on the docks.
Inuyasha's faced flushed. "I don't! Usually you're running around, screaming in that stupid voice of yours!"
"If my voice is so stupid, then why are you talking to me?" she snapped at him.
"'Cause you're acting really stupid now and it's getting on my nerves!"
"Oh, just shut up!" she grumbled.
Inuyasha stepped closer to her, his feet hit the ground in loud steps. He bent over her. "What happened in there?" he asked.
Kagome looked up at him. He was blocking the sun, and the light outlining his figure accented his dark hair, and brought out his eyes. A faint blush hit Kagome's face and she looked away.
"Are you going to answer?" he growled.
Kagome looked up again. "No." she answered simply.
"Why not?"
"'Cause Grandma told me not too."
"Well, whatever the hell she said has made you like this. So just get the hell off your high horse and just tell me!"
"No."
Inuyasha threw his hands in the air and ran them threw his hair. "Why are you so damn stubborn?!"
"'Cause my father was." Kagome whispered.
Inuyasha looked at her. "'Was'? What do you mean 'was'?"
"What do you think?" Kagome snapped. Soon she was on her feet and tears were threatening to spill over. "Look, if I tell you what happened, will it shut you up?"
"Yes." Inuyasha answered, a little relieved to be getting somewhere.
"Fine. At 7, during free-hour." She turned around.
Inuyasha caught her arm and spun her around. "No, you'll tell me now. That way, I won't have to spend the next four and a half hours with you like this."
Kagome wrenched her arm free. "I said 7! That way the others won't over hear!"
"God dammit you're stubborn! I'm sick of it!"
That was when Kagome snapped. "Well if you have a problem with it, why don't you go complain to my parents! Although that might be kinda hard considering they're both dead!" she shouted. By that time, Sango, Miroku, Kouga, Ayame, Ai and Mitsuya had stopped what they were doing to watch the scene unfold. A single tear had escaped from Kagome's eyes and she swiped at it.
"You probably have no idea how I feel right now! Your life's been perfect! Nothing bad has ever happened in your pampered life! You have everything! A huge house, expensive clothes and electronics, fancy cars and elaborate schools! You think nothing of us who are less fortunate than you are, and you couldn't care less about those of us whose lives are even worse! And that is why I just can't stand you!" At the end of her outburst, Kagome's tears were flowing freely and she not only caught the attention of her fellow cabin mates and their partners, but she caught the attention of half the camp. All eyes were on Inuyasha and Kagome. Kagome shoved Inuyasha out of the way and sprinted up to her cabin.
End Flashback
Inuyasha shook his head again. After that argument, there was no way Kagome would ever even speak to him. He exhaled slowly. After everything that had happened, he was exausted.
'I wonder if it would be alright if I just went to sleep now…?' he thought.
A light tapping noise sounded on the door, followed by the low creak. Silently, Kagome slipped in the cabin and shut the door behind her. She turned around and looked up at Inuyasha from the floor.
Inuyasha leaped over the side and hit the floor with a thud. "I thought you weren't going to come after…you know."
"I told you that I would. I always keep my promises." Kagome looked down. "It's how I was raised." Silence passed between them.
Finally Kagome looked up. "So I guess I should tell, huh?" Inuyasha nodded and they took a seat on the rocks by the fire place. Kagome shifted uncomfortably on hers. Inuyasha did the same.
"Why do they even have these?" Inuyasha grumbled.
"I don't know, 'cause you're guys? Stupid idea if you ask me." Kagome replied. Soon they both gave up on sitting on the rocks and retired to the floor, their backs against the rocks.
"Hmph. Maybe I oughta push Kouga and hope he'd fall onto the rocks. Then they'd take them away 'cause they're so hazardous." Inuyasha mused. Kagome laughed.
"Well you can push him; just make sure he falls next to the rocks….Unless you want us to get sued." Kagome joked.
"Kill joy."
Kagome laughed again. That's when it hit them.
'Omigosh! Am I actually having a real conversation with him?!' Kagome shrieked in her head.
'Holy shit! I'm talking to her and she isn't yelling! And neither am I!'
Kagome broke the silence. "So, about what happened." She altered her position slightly so she was angled toward him. "I'm sure you've heard of the recent serial killer in Tokyo, right?"
"He's killed several people. Everybody's heard of him." Inuyasha answered.
Kagome nodded. "Right, well, Grandma heard on the news this morning that he attacked in an area that's…..close to the …camp" She whispered the last part so low it was barely inaudible.
Inuyasha absorbed this information. 'So the camp's in danger of being hit.' he thought.
Kagome continued. "Grandma's contacted the police and they said that the attack was only a week ago and not to worry unless he came closer. She's already contacted the camper's parents and informed them about the situation. Some parents are letting their kids stay while some are withdrawing theirs from the camp."
Inuyasha nodded. "But that doesn't explain why you acted the way you did."
Kagome's face hardened and her eyes darkened. "When I was younger, my parents were murdered. Right. In front. Of me." She growled. "I wish I could've seen what the murderer looked like."
Another wave of silence passed between the two. Inuyasha was the one who broke the silence.
"I'm sorry." he said.
Kagome waited for him to burst into laughter, or follow up with a joke that made her furious, but there was nothing. Kagome searched his face for any signs of mockery—a mouth twitch or even a twinkle in his eye. There wasn't anything. Inuyasha was 100% sincere.
Kagome shrugged. "It's okay, you don't have to apologize."
Inuyasha leaned back against the rock and looked up at the ceiling. His eyes were filled with confusion, as if he was debating whether he was going to tell her something and how much of the story to tell. Finally he sighed and looked back at Kagome. "You know my parents….died too."
Kagome's eyes widened. "Really?" she asked as if she couldn't believe it.
"Yeah. My father got into a fight the night of my birth with a gang leader and they both died when that cowardly gang set fire to the building they were in. My mother died when I was still a kid from sickness." Inuyasha clenched his fists. "And since then I've had to live with my bastard of a brother, who hates me."
"You've lived with Sesshomaru that long?" Kagome asked.
Fear welled up inside Inuyasha when he realized the mistake of his choice of words. 'Dammit! I let it slip! Stupidstupidstupidstupidstupidstupid! Gotta cover it up! But how? Rin never said anything about if I told anyone about how my parents died! DAMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!'
"Inuyasha?" Kagome asked. "Are you okay?"
Inuyasha jumped to his feet. "No!" he said a little too quickly. "N-not really! I just…don't like talking about my past much."
Kagome stood up next to him. "I guess we all have dark memories and secrets." she said quietly.
"Yeah." Inuyasha agreed, knowing all too well about secrets.
"I'm sorry."
Inuyasha shook his head. "Don't be."
"No, I'm sorry for what I said earlier, about you life being perfect and nothing bad ever happening. Of course bad things have happened."
Another wave of silence passed between the two. They both stood there, thinking about different things with similar meanings.
Scene Change
"So, you don't know where she is either?" Sango asked.
Kikyo shook her head. "I haven't seen her since dinner."
Sango sighed and ran a hand threw her hair. She sat down on Kikyo's bed. "I'm just worried about her. What do you think Midoriko said to her and the counselors? Even Ai is acting weird."
Kikyo shrugged and sat next to her friend. "I don't know. I wish I could help you find her, but my strict counselor has ordered me to stay with my partner or stay here, and since my partner is the definition of 'creep'…"
Sango smiled. Kikyo's attempt at being funny was very poor, but it made her smile anyway. She stood up. "I'm gonna find Miroku or Kouga. Maybe they know where she went."
Sango found Miroku sitting on a lone rock near the lake, playing with something in his hands. She approached him from the side. "What'cha working on?" she asked.
Miroku's shoulders hitched up and he whirled around, hiding what he was working on. He exhaled at the sight of Sango. "Well, don't you have soft shoes." he commented.
"Sorry," Sango said. "So, before I scared you—"
"You didn't scare me!" Miroku interrupted. "I was simply startled, that's all."
"Okay, so before I startled you, what were you doing? You seemed really into it."
Slowly, Miroku revealed a wooden carving of a fox. "It's a hobby of mine; wood carving." He gave a weak smile. "You wanna see it?" he asked, handing it to her.
Sango took the carving from him and brought it closer to her and inspected it. She was at a loss for words. The carving was so intricate and well sculpted. You could see every hair on it. Gently, she ran her fingers along the fox's body. Not one splinter. "It's beautiful." she whispered. "How did you learn to do this?"
Miroku shrugged. "Self-taught, mostly. I didn't grow up in a neighborhood with many kids my age and I was home schooled. I gotta have something to keep me busy."
Sango turned the carving over in her hand. "That's pretty impressive. I certainly couldn't do something like this."
"It's nothing, really. Just a selfish little hobby."
Sango smacked him on the shoulder. "It's not selfish! You've got talent here. Not many people can do this." She looked back at the fox in her hands. "It really is beautiful"
Miroku held out his hand and Sango returned the carving. "Thank you." he said, and returned his attention to his carving.
Then the real reason for coming out here returned to Sango. "Hey, have you seen Kagome? After dinner let out, she just kinda disappeared."
Miroku looked back up at her. "No I haven't." he paused, thinking for a minute. "Now that you mention it, I haven't seen Inuyasha around either."
"D'you think that's a bad thing?" Sango asked.
Miroku didn't respond. He just got up and headed to the boys' cabin, the last place he saw Inuyasha, with Sango following.
By the time Sango and Miroku made it to the boys' cabin, Kagome had just slipped out the door. She jumped at the sight of her friends.
"S-Sango! Miroku! You scared me!"
"Kagome," Sango stepped closer to her friend. "What were you doing in there?"
"Is Inuyasha in there too?" Miroku asked.
As if on cue, Inuyasha opened the door. He stopped dead in his tracks, his eyes wide.
"I don't recall any yelling going on in there…" Miroku pondered. "What were you doing?" he asked, suspicion in his voice.
Inuyasha whacked him over the head. "You stupid pervert! Like I would do anything with her!" One more hit over the head, and Inuyasha stormed off, fuming.
Miroku rubbed his head and followed after him. Sango turned her attention back towards Kagome. Kagome looked away.
Sango smirked. "Girl, you have got some explaining to do!"
Kagome just huffed and turned away to head back to her cabin with Sango behind her.
Scene Change
"Looks like neither Ai nor Ayame are back," Sango checked her cell phone for the time. "And curfew's coming up soon, so if you want fewer witnesses you better start explaining."
Kagome collapsed in a beanbag. "Nothing happened. He just asked me to tell him what Grandma had said to me and everyone else and I went to his cabin to tell him. End of story. Can I go now?"
Kagome got up to leave, but Sango pushed her back down. "Why would you tell him and not Ayame or me?"
"He kinda forced me too. That's what our argument from earlier today was about."
Sango raised an eyebrow.
"Look, I'll tell you two tomorrow, if Ai doesn't."
Sango sat down next to Kagome. "So why didn't I hear any fighting."
"That's because there wasn't any fighting."
Sango stared at her incredulously. "Sorry? Did you just say there wasn't any fighting?" She clapped her hands together. "A heard of pigs is taking off in flight right now!"
Kagome glared at her.
"Sorry, sorry! Okay, so what else did you talk about?"
Kagome looked up at the ceiling as if trying to recall a memory. "Well, we started off complaining about those stone seats in the boys' cabin. He said he wanted to push Kouga into them in hopes that he'll get hurt and the camp will have to take them away. We…kinda shared a laugh there." She stopped and looked at Sango. Sango signaled her to continue.
Kagome looked down, suddenly interested in the sheepskin rug that covered the floor of their cabin. "Somehow we got on the subject of how my parents died." She whispered. Sango immediately started rubbing Kagome's back. Kagome's past was a touchy subject and it almost always led to tears. But somehow she managed to hold them back.
Kagome continued. "Then, he told me that his parents died and how he came to live with Sesshomaru. He was acting kinda strange when I asked him about how long he lived with Sesshomaru….Guess he just doesn't like talking about his past."
Sango looked at Kagome with a look that Kagome couldn't quite place. Then she opened her mouth to speak. "Do you like him?"
The way she said it so bluntly almost made Kagome fall over. "WHAT?! Do I like him?!" Sango nodded. "Like him, like him or just plain like him?" Kagome stalled.
Sango tilted her head to the side in the disappointed way. "You know."
"No, I do not like him, like him. Why would you think that?"
"You've known him for only about a week and you're talking about your past."
Kagome clenched her teeth together. "He's a jerk, and I don't like him!"
Sango was about to say something else when the door creaked open and Ai and Ayame stepped in.
"Lights out in five, girls." Ai informed. "Early day tomorrow." She then turned to leave.
Neither Sango nor Kagome noticed. They continued their conversation.
"I think you do!" Sango accused. "There's no way you'd share something so secretive in only a week!"
"No I don't!" Kagome shouted. "It just sorta happened."
"Nothing just 'sorta happens', Kagome!"
Kagome jumped to her feet. "I'm not talking about this anymore. Good night!" She turned around and headed toward the closet space to get her pajamas.
Ayame looked at Sango. "Okay, there was like, a novel between those lines just now. What's up?"
Sango placed a hand on Ayame's shoulder. "Not my story to tell. Sorry." She then followed Kagome to the closet space, leaving Ayame in the dark.
* * *
After what seemed like an eternity, Ayame's breathing finally evened out. To be safe, Sango stayed in her bed a little longer. When she was sure she was safe, the young teen crept out from under her covers. Quickly, she jumped from one sheepskin rug to the next to avoid waking Kagome up. Because if she woke up, the entire point of this mission would be blown.
Finally, she reached the door. Sango gripped the knob and turned. The door instantly began creaking. She held her breath, listening for any sign of her friend waking up. At the count of five, Sango exhaled and quickly slipped outside. Now came the real hard part. She didn't know any of the boys' sleep patterns.
Sango approached the door to the boys' cabin. Her hand wrapped around the knob and she pushed to door open. An audible creak sounded. She bit her lip. No one moved. Exhaling, Sango took a step inside the cabin.
Making her way through the boys' cabin would be harder, considering the fact that there were no rugs that would mask her steps. Sango took a deep breath and made her way to where Inuyasha slept. She stood on the rim of the bottom bunk and poked her head over the railing of Inuyasha's top bunk. Slowly she raised her hand over the sleeping teen's mouth. Taking another deep breath, she thrust her hand toward his face and covered his mouth. Inuyasha's eyes snapped open suddenly, revealing two golden eyes. The golden color reverted back to violet-black as instantly as they had appeared. Inuyasha shot up in his bead.
"Dammit!" he whisper shouted. "Did Kagome send you to kill me?! The hell do you want?"
"Follow me outside and I'll tell you." Sango's head disappeared over the side. Inuyasha fell back onto his bed. Sango's voice returned. "If you don't come, I won't stop pestering you."
Inuyasha threw his blanket off himself and shimmied out of his sleeping bag, grumbling the entire time.
When the two were outside and far from the cabins, Sango turned toward Inuyasha. "What happened between you and Kagome earlier?"
Inuyasha gulped, wondering if he'd be able to come up with a good enough lie for why Kagome was with him. He had nothing. "She told me what Midoriko—" Sango cut him off.
"I know. She told you what the big issue was. I also happened to know that you got her to share a rather large secret—how her parents died. So what happened?"
Inuyasha shrunk back a bit from under the teen girl's glare. "N-nothing, we didn't even fight." He found that he still couldn't believe that small fact. They hated each other. Everything about them was enough to drive the other one insane. So…What happened back there?
Sango took a step closer to Inuyasha, her gaze still hard. "Kagome's my best friend, and if I find out that you did anything, and I mean anything, you will have to answer to me!"
Inuyasha took a step back. "I didn't do anything!" he snapped. "Why does everyone think the worst with me?!"
"I'm not thinking the worst, Inuyasha. It's just that I know how much you two despise each other and since you have to spend the entire summer with her, I'm just looking out for her best interest."
Inuyasha folded his arms and tilted his head to the side, glaring at her. "'Looking out for her best interest'?" he repeated. "What a load of crap! I know for a fact that Kagome would never choose me as her partner, and the only logical explanation is that you chose before her and chose Miroku. Now, if you were looking out for her 'best interest', why would you force her into her current position?"
Sango's face flared. "Th-that's different!" she snapped back.
"Oh yeah? How?" Inuyasha challenged.
To be honest, Sango had no idea. She couldn't explain why she would force Kagome into her worst case scenario if she knew she wouldn't like it. What was her reason?
"It…It just is! It's not like you would understand, you're too dense and self-centered to look out for the best interest of your friends!" Sango stammered.
There they go again. People automatically assuming what Inuyasha does, says, and acts. First Kagome and thinking his life was perfect and nothing bad ever happening, and now Sango thinking he doesn't look out for is friends.
He hated it here. He was sick of all the people treating him like he was a criminal wanted for first-degree murder. His eyes narrowed at Sango. "There's nothing wrong, okay? Now, just leave me the hell alone." With that said Inuyasha turned around and returned to his cabin.
Sango, on the other hand, wasn't ready to return just yet. She sank down to the ground and rested on her knees. She had to think. Inuyasha was right when he said she wasn't looking out for Kagome's best interest. Because if she was, there was no way that she would have forced her with Inuyasha for the whole summer.
Sango began drawing abstract patterns in the dirt. But when one design started to look like a dead body outlined from a murder scene, she stopped. A chill ran up her spine. Her head whipped around. Slowly she stood up and looked around. Nothing was there. She decided to write off the chill as the wind and headed back to her cabin.
Well, that's the end of it. So, the begining of the problem is starting to arise. I'm sorry if it's going a bit too slow, but I promise that there will be some action in the next chapter.
Until then! Luv you all!
Miss Saigon11