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Chapter Four In the Night

The night was cool and quiet. A few dark fluffy clouds floated through the moonless sky on a calm breeze.

Kagome watched from under the trees waiting for him to show up. It had been three months since the first time she had met him in the forest. Just as he had promised that first night, he'd shown up again four weeks later.

The first month had been hard. She focussed on things to keep her attention off the persistent voices and slowly she began to fight back. Pushing the monsters to the brink of her mind. Miroku and Sota were baffled by her sudden change. She'd started eating more again. Talking to people. Even going out into the yard and the garden by herself. Fighting the demons made her tired and she slept a lot. The voices and screams still plagued her dreams at night even worse then they had before. Almost as if they were trying to punish her for driving them off. But when she was awake the pain had no control over her anymore. Kagome wanted to tell her friends about the boy in the woods but he made her promise not to tell.

Their second meeting had been more relaxed and longer then the first. They still sat apart, separated by the darkness. They continued their game of twenty questions. He was less hostile then before when question were directed at him. Kagome suspected many of his answers were made up just to satisfy her but she didn't really care. As the night had come to an end, Kagome wanted to ask if he was going to come back again but before she could he said,

"So um ... I'll see you same time next month?"

Now here she sat waiting for him. A smile crept across her face as she felt him approach. He never made a sound, he always seemed to moved like a ghost amongst the trees.

"You're late" she said as he sat down on the opposite side of the tree.

"How did you know I was here?" he said sounding surprised.

"I felt you coming!" Kagome laughed.

"What does that mean ... you can feel me coming?" he asked.

"I dunno how to describe it."

"Try!"

"It's like you're a shadow moving about and I can see you moving but in my head. I can't see what you look like or what you're wearing or anything like that ... just your presence."

"Ya ... you know you are weird right?" he replied. Kagome laughed,

"You should talk. You're the one sitting in the forest in the middle of the night with the crazy girl!" Kagome spun her fingers around at the sides of her head and made a silly face.

"You have no idea Kagome!" he responded.

"Actually I've always had a sixth sense that way. I can always feel when demons and spirits are near. I feel their auras. I can feel humans sometimes but usually but not as strong."

"Can I ask you a question?" asked Kagome.

"Maybe" he responded.

"Why won't you let me see you?"

He remained quiet. Kagome could somehow feel the question had made him feel uncomfortable.

"It's just better this way ... ok?" he said after a moment.

Kagome didn't answer. Instead he heard a quiet ripping sound. A moment later Kagome came around the tree. She had her arms stretched out before her as she felt her way around. A piece of cloth was wrapped around her eyes so she couldn't see. The boy looked down at her pj's and saw the bottom of one of her pant legs was shorter then the other. Suddenly Kagome's foot caught on a root and she fell. The boy jumped up and caught her from falling face first into the trunk.

"Thanks" Kagome muttered embarrassed.

"Here sit down before you kill yourself." he said helping her down.

"You know Kagome you really are crazy!"

Kagome blushed a little. They sat together for a while just listening to the wind in the trees.

"So how have the dreams been?" he asked after a while.

"Better then before. I don't wake up with head aches anymore. But he's still there when I sleep. It's the one place I still can't escape from him ... from that place."

"You will." he said reassuringly.

"The last few night were really bad though. Almost like he knew I really wanted to see you and he was punishing me." Kagome answered.

"You can't keep talking like that ... he's not here. He's not real remember? The only power he has is what ever you let him have." he stated firmly.

Another silence passed between them.

"I've decided to go back to school ... my friends don't know yet. I want to surprise them tomorrow ..." Kagome finished with a yawn.

"You're going to sleep through your first day if you don't go to sleep soon." he laughed.

"Will you stay if I fall asleep?" Kagome asked. She turned her head to look at him forgetting she couldn't see through the cloth over her eyes.

"Ya. I'll stay." he answered.

Kagome smiled,

"I never thanked you ..." said Kagome.

"For what?" he asked.

"You inspired me to fight when no one else could. You made the monsters go away long enough for me to see what was worth fighting for." she said as she yawned again.

"You don't need to thank me ..." he answered quietly,

"If anything I should be thanking you." his voice was almost a whisper but Kagome still heard him.

"Why ... what have I done to help you ...?" she asked.

"More then you'll ever know Kagome." he said

Kagome didn't understand but she didn't push the matter. Instead she leaned her head so it rested on his shoulder. She knew that with him around her dreams would be peaceful and quiet.

The boy didn't say anything as Kagome slowly drifted off next to him. He listened as her breathing slowed and her body relaxed. A cool breeze picked up and blew through the trees. Kagome shivered next to him. Having nothing else, he put his arm carefully around Kagome's shoulders to keep her warm.

He wanted to tell her the truth. He wanted to tell her who he was and he wanted to thank her but he knew that she would not understand. He scolded himself for being so weak and being drawn into this situation when the only possible outcome for him was loneliness and pain. Not to mention if anyone ever found out about their nights together both their lives would be in danger.

End of Chapter Four!

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