Kagome gasped as she jerked her head up at him. Her eyes were wide with amazement. 'How does he know that? Not even Naraku knows about that!' She smiles awkwardly and laughs slightly. "I don't know what you are talking about. No one can go through time. I wish I could sometimes but I know that there is no such thing."
Itachi sighed. He had hoped that she wouldn't have this personality. But he was obviously out of luck on that one. He closed his eyes as he crossed his arms. "I know better than that. You see unlike you, someone who can go from your time to this at the drop of a hat. I was thrust into this world and time by force. I can't just go home like you can."
Kagome covered her mouth as she gasped again. This time her eyes were pleading. "How did you know about me? Who told you? As far as I know my friends, someone named Kikyo and Kaede are the only ones who know what I can do."
Itachi held out the envelope that held the letter and her picture in it. "There is someone from my time that goes by the name Orochimaru and can use the same power I have. He is the one that sent me here."
Kagome took the note and with a shaky hand opened it. Her throat went dry and constricted on her when she saw the picture. And her head began to swim when she read that his life force and her own were now bound to each other. 'Doesn't sound like a good thing.' She looked up at him this time with tear filled worried eyes. "What does it mean that our life forces are bound together?"
Itachi looked down into her eyes. The tears did nothing to him. But he would act like it bothered him. She needed to trust him. He dropped his arms and sighed. "There are two ways that he could of done this. The first one is just like it sounds. Only if one dies will the other die at the same moment. But with no other side effects."
"Side effects?"
"With the first one, if I am stabbed in the leg, it only happens to me. The other one, your leg would be wounded too. What happens to one, no matter how minor happens to the other. Even a bruise."
"Oh great just my luck. More bad luck."
"It is imperative that we find out what one it is. If it is the first one, it will be simple. If it is the second one it will make things more difficult."
Kagome had gone pale by now. She was trying to wrap her head around what was going on but in one hand it seemed so unreal to be real. She glanced at Inuyasha and then back to Itachi. "So how do we figure out what one is the one we are stuck with?"
Itachi slowly reached behind him and pulled a senbon out of his pack. He didn't want to alarm her or her friends and cause an even bigger scene that what was already made. "The best way is to see what happens when one of us is injured."
"Injured?"
"Hai. I will prick the tip of one of my fingers. If yours bleed then it is the first kind. If not it was the second kind."
"Oh man I just know that with my luck it will be the first kind."
"Shall we?"
"Sure why not."
"Okay."
Kagome held up her left first finger and closed one eye as she waited for the pain to come. "This will also be the best way to prove it to the others as well."
"Prove?"
"Oh yeah. There is no way that they are going to believe this one."
Itachi only nodded. He never took his eyes off of her face as he quickly pricked his own left first finger. A sense of hate and hope flooded him as her finger showed a small spot of blood just like his own. "That settles it. I am not leaving your side now."
Kagome was still in shock as she tried her hardest to wrap her mind around the fact that he was telling the truth. They were bound in a rather personal way and she didn't know what to do to make it go away. Then what he said sank in and she turned infuriated eyes to him. "Why do you have to stay with me from now on? We can figure it out without having to travel together. I won't die, I am not as weak as you must think that I am ya know."
Itachi smiled as he crossed his arms. Some of the scariest people he knew in his own time were women. Flashes of Tsunade and Sakura flying through his mind. He was ready for her on that one. "It is not so much because of my opinion of how strong you are or not. More for the peace of mind of both of us."
"How so?"
"So that you will know that I am not taking needless risks as we figure out how to get this thing released. And I will know the same about you. It has nothing to do with whether or not I see you as weak."
"So you don't see me as weak?"
"No. In fact some of the strongest people from the time and place I come from are women."
Kagome could only stare up at him in shock. She couldn't believe that he really didn't see her as weak just cause she was a girl. And though they still looked more evil then Sesshomaru's eyes they also told her that he was telling the truth.
Hearing an annoyed growl she half smiled as she looked over at Inuyasha. "I don't think Inuyasha is going to like this the least little bit. If I know him he is going to act like a brat kid."
Itachi raised an eyebrow as he too looked at Inuyasha. "What is he? I have never seen a human with the ears of an dog before. Interesting."
Kagome laughed as she looked up and saw his face and the question he asked her. She wondered the very same thing when she first met Inuyasha. "Well you see, it is a totally different time than your time. So there are a lot of things that I will need to explain to you."
Itachi never took his eyes off of Inuyasha. "I have no doubts on that. You may start with him."
Kagome giggled again. "Inuyasha is a hanyoukai. His father was a full blooded inu youkai lord, and his mother a beautiful human princess. That is why he has the ears and stuff. Stick around long enough I am sure that you will meet his older full youkai brother Sesshomaru too."
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Inuyasha glared at the guy talking to Kagome. "I don't like him."
Miroku sighed. "You don't know him Inuyasha."
"I don't care there is something about him that I just flat out don't like."
"He can't be all that bad. He did come to the rescue of Kagome and Sango you know."
"What is your point monk?"
"My point is that he can't be all that bad if he saved them."
Inuyasha growled at him. "I don't care about any of that. I just flat out don't like him and I don't trust him."
Shippo smiled as he jumped up on Sango's shoulder. He pointed at Inuyasha and laughed a little. "I bet he is scared."
Inuyasha turned a growl on him. "What do I have to be scared of you shrimp?"
Shippo smiled. "You are scared that Kagome will like him better and leave you for him. That is what."
Inuyasha turned all the way to go after Shippo when he heard Kagome say his name with a growl to her voice. Before he could turn to say that he started it, he found himself face down in the dirt. "Why me?"
Kagome crossed her arms as she glared down at him. "I swear you are just like a child! How many times to I have to tell you that Shippo REALLY is a kid still and to leave him alone! You can't just charge after him like you do Naraku just cause he says something that you don't like."
Kagome then turned softer eyes to Shippo as he jumped into her arms. "And would you please not say things you know will upset Inuyasha. He is a big enough headache without it."
Inuyasha sat up and that was when he noticed that the guy was standing behind Kagome. He flew up to his feet and pointed over at him. "What the hell is he doing here still?"
Kagome glared over at him. "If you would sit down and shut up long enough I'll tell you why he is here and going to be going with us from now on."
"No way! I won't have it! Send him packing!"
Kagome glared right back not budging at all. "I won't. And if you would just shut your mouth for once and listen when I ask you too I will tell you why that is."
"Kagome he is bad news! Get rid of him!"
"Are you going to listen or not?"
"I want him gone."
"I don't."
"I don't care."
Kagome gasped then glared at the ground. "You don't care huh."
"Not in the least." Then he turned to Itachi. "Take a hike you bastard. You aren't welcome here."
Itachi raised an eyebrow. "I do believe that Kagome has said that I stay."
"I don't give a damn what she says I don't want you here. Now get going before I have to slice you in two."
"Inuyasha."
Inuyasha knew that tone of voice and jumped. But turned a glare on her. "What?"
Kagome looked up with eyes that were as cold as Sesshomaru's and crossed her arms. "SIT, SIT, SIT, SIT, SIT, SIT, SIT, SIT! And listen for once in your damn life!"
She then turned her back to him and looked at Sango and Miroku with softer eyes. "We have something to tell you all and it isn't all that great either."
