The entire trip to the east, Kagome ignored me. I tried everything to get her to talk to me but I got nothing.
Of course she won't talk, you betrayed her trust idiot.
But not talking to me is one thing. The entire time, Kagome barely said two words to anyone, including Sango, which was odd in itself. Sango tried to get her to speak her mind but Kagome just brushed it off, lying and saying it was nothing. I knew it was more than just my mistake on her mind.
"Okay, lets rest here," Sango said. Her and Kagome jumped down from Kirara's back and Kagome went off on her own. Before I could go after her, Sango grabbed my hair and pulled me down to eye level with her.
"Ow ow ow! What the hell?"
"What exactly did you do this time?"
"What I did? It has nothing to do with you so back off!"
"Kagome is my friend! You may have known her longer but I've known her long enough to know when you did something! Was it Kikyo? Did you sneak off with her?"
"I didn't do anything, okay? I turned her down. I just wanted to see for myself if she was still alive."
"So you did sneak after her then." I growled and smacked her hand off me before going after Kagome.
When I found her I saw her looking out at an open field, tears falling from her eyes.
Did I hurt her this badly?
I walked over to her and stood beside her. She noticed me and quickly dried her face.
"What do you want, now?"
"I want to talk to you." She looked away from me and hid her face in her lap.
"Kagome, I apologized already and explained what happened. What else do you want from me!"
"Can you tell me, honestly that you don't have residing feelings for Kikyo? That she has no influence over you at all? Can you tell me you love me without seeing her?" Kagome didn't look at me when she said all this.
Can I say this honestly?
"Kagome..."
"Just go away, InuYasha."
I was going to say something but rustling in the bushes beside us stopped me. The others were in the bushes behind us so who was this. I walked over and caught the person just as they turned to leave.
"What are you doing here, brat," I asked Rin.
"Rin," Kagome said. Rin bit my hand and ran to Kagome when I let her go.
Why that little...
"Rin, why are you here?"
"Well, I wanted to come with you and knew you'd say no so I followed you."
"Of course I'd say no," Kagome said softly, "its dangerous."
"I know but still..." Kagome sighed and took Rin's hand and, for a moment, I could see my mother. I shook my head though and followed them back towards the camp sight.
Kagome
We all sat by the fire and talked about what to do with Rin.
"I say we just let her stay," InuYasha said laying in a tree, "we're already here after all and we're kinda far out."
"But this could just be a trap," Sango reasoned, "if it is then Rin could get hurt."
"I'll stay out of your way," Rin said, "I won't slow you guys down. Kagome has been teaching me how to use this thing too." She pulled out the sling shot I made her when I first got back to this era. She was actually a good shot too.
"Rin, a few pebbles won't be enough to hurt a demon," Sango said.
"Pebbles? These aren't pebbles. Its blessed metal."
"Blessed metal?" Sango sent me a dark look and I got nervous and explained myself.
"In my defense I did it because she showed promise with the thing!"
"You still could have sticked with normal pebbles. What is blessed metal anyway?"
"Its pebble sized metal that I recycled from old swords and armor I found. I asked the black smith to make it. I used them to practice blessing objects and train her. Killing two birds with one stone."
"So I can help! I won't be a burden to anyone!"
"You heard the brat," InuYasha said, "besides its not like we can't protect her if things get out of hand."
"Yeah but-" I stopped talking when Rin grabbed my hand.
"I'll be fine, Kagome, I promise." I sighed and gave in.
"Fine, just stay close to one of us at all times okay?" She nodded and gave me a smile. I decided, then to roll out my sleeping bag and prepare to sleep. When I crawled in, Rin crawled in with me and snuggled into me. I hugged her close and drifted off to sleep.
The next morning I woke up to see a pair of golden eyes glaring at me.
"Sesshomaru? What are you doing here?"
"Where is Rin?"
"Rin?" I looked beside me and saw that she was, indeed, gone. I looked around frantically and noticed that everyone was gone but their things and Kirara were still here.
"I- I don't know," I said.
"Why would you bring her with you? This could be dangerous and you decided to be foolish."
"Now wait just a minute," I exclaimed. I stood face to face with the demon before me and gave him a glare of my own.
"Rin decided to come here on her own. I wouldn't put her in danger like that, but you knew that already, didn't you? And second of all Rin isn't that weak!"
"If she has been trained by you then she may die before any of you even realize it."
"Why you-"
"Lord Sesshomaru." We both looked over and saw Rin with Sango and Kohaku with a few fish. She ran over to us and showed him what she caught but he ignored that and took her hand.
"Let's go Rin," he said coldly.
"What? But I don't want to go," she said.
"Its too dangerous. You might end up dying." She ripped her arm away from him and pouted.
"I'm not the same kid you found in the forest, Lord Sesshomaru! Kagome taught me how to use this and even charmed them for me! I practiced every day with it and I've gotten good at it! I even hit two demons with it myself."
"You did what," I exclaimed. She froze and turned to meet my dark look.
"I know you told me not to but I just wanted to try it on my own! I didn't get hurt, I swear!"
"Honestly, Rin, your digging a hole for the both of us." We looked back at Sesshomaru and saw the dark look he was giving.
"Miko," he growled out and I hid behind Rin.
"Se- Sesshomaru I-"
He disappear and before I knew it he had thrown me over his shoulder.
"We need to have a talk."
"Hey put me down! I can walk ya know! Sesshomaru!"
Sesshomaru put me down and I saw we were in the forest. I glared up at him while fixing my cloths.
"You didn't have to rough house me! I could have walked."
"Why didn't you tell me about You and Rin's side training?"
"Because it was none of your business! We both knew you'd act like this so we kept it a secret."
"Did the old woman know as well?"
"Old woman? If you're referring to Kaede then no, she doesn't know either."
"I see."
"Sesshomaru, she needs to learn how to protect herself when things get hard. I admit, this stunt she pulled coming here was stupid but there is nothing we can do unless you take her back by force. Besides InuYasha, Sango, Kohaku, Kirara, and I won't let anything happen to her if this turns out bad."
"Miko-"
"And like I said before, she's good with a sling shot! It will all be fine!"
"Miko-"
"She needs to learn how to protect herself here. When I first got here I almost died countless times because I had to teach myself things while gathering the jewel shards-"
"Kagome," Sesshomaru said putting a hand over my mouth.
"Just be quiet," he glared down at me and I backed away from him in slight fear. He sighed before looking away from me.
"If any harm comes to Rin because of your incompetence, there will be consequences."
"I already told you, Sango, InuYasha and Kohaku are with me so nothing will hurt her at all." He huffed before walking back towards the group.
"Hey, wait for me! You can't just drag me somewhere and leave!"
"Then don't lag behind, incompetent woman."
Kirara sored through the sky with Sango, Kohaku, and I while Rin was on Sesshomaru's back.
"I still don't know why he has to come. He can just take the brat back to the village kicking and screaming."
"Its because Rin wants to go," I started, "Not only that, Sesshomaru doesn't think that we can protect her properly so there you have it so just drop it already."
InuYasha grumbled under his breath but left the matter alone. Rin giggled and I looked to her with confusion.
"Huh? Whats so funny, Rin," I asked.
"Maybe you two aren't meant to be with each other," She said. I was more confused than anything until I remembered the conversation from the other day and blushes. I saw Sesshomaru watching my reaction before he looked foreward and smirked.
"Whatever," I said looking forward and saw Sango, Kohaku, and Kirara giving me sly looks themselves and whispering.
Not you guys too!
I chose to ignore all of it and look to InuYasha who had ignored us completely.
He's such an idiot most if the time its not even funny anymore, but still...
We finally arrived to the nobleman's home and I immediately felt something was wrong.
"Do you feel that," I asked Sango.
"Yes, just keep your guard up." I nodded and walked to the front of the palace where we were greeted immediately.
"Welcome, you all must be the one's that the young lord summoned."
Kohaku went in fron of us and spoke.
"I'm Kohaku, the one that he spoke with before."
"Yes, I remember you. Please come in, he's expecting you."
We met with the Lord of the house and he showed us to the one he wanted exorcised, which was his daughter. I tried reading her to see the problem detected nothing.
"Thats weird," I said before turning to the father, " are you sure it was a demon and not an illness?"
"Yes," He said, "my son, the one that recommended you and summoned you here, said he saw a demon that looked human hovering over her late at night." I looked back at the girl and sensed something was off but felt nothing from her, not even life; though she was clearly breathing.
"What do you think," Sango asked me. I sat and thought for a moment before the answer came to me.
"Everyone get back," I said before placing a hand over the girls head. Instantly, demonic energy pour from the body and I slowly removed a soul orb from her chest. The body slowly rotted before becoming nothing but an unrecognizable corpse.
"What have you done," the man shouted at me and went into hysteria.
"This isn't your daughter," I said to him, "this is another girls body."