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The voice was right in her ear, and arms, strong and warm and solid, tight around her boddy...

"What the hell do you think you're doing?"

Kagome's eyes flew open. Inuyasha's face was just inches from her own, his body stretched out beneath hers.

"I...that man was chasing me.." Kagome struggled in his grasp, but Inuyasha's arms were like steel. With one heave he pushed her away, and she scrambled up. "I slipped..that man.."

"Dont you know you could have been killed!" He was positively seething, and Kagome stepped back, tripping over her own feet. "Nobody climbs on those rocks, you understand? Nobody! If anything bad happened to you, there wouldn't have been anyone around to help you!"

"Well..well, you were here!"

Inuyasha was fighting for control. "There's no telling what could happen this far from the main beach..you could have broken something or speared yourself on the rocks. Not to mention drowning. Or sharks."

"Sharks! But..the waters to shallow.."

"How do you know? Have you been in?"

Well..no..but..I just thought..."

"You just thought," he glowered at her. "Sharks dont need deep water to rip you apart..three feet would do them just fine."

Kaogme flushed with embarrassment. "But that man..he was coming after me and.." She was babbling and pointing at the same time, and as Inuyasha followed the direction of her arm his eyes grew even darker.

"You were up there? You went to the lighthouse?" He was incredulous. "How the hell did you get up there?"

"Through...up the road.."

"The road! Whats the matter with you, cant you read?"

"Read what?" His anger was frightening her again, and she grew defensive. "I dont know what you're talking about.." She broke off, eyes widening, as he grabbed her and began pulling her around the side of the cliff. When they finally reached the road, he pushed her so roughly towards the gate that she nearly went sprawling.

"Read it," he ordered.

Kagome looked where he pointed, and she gasped.

The gate was shut. And locked.

The sign posted on it had big, bold letters that could have been seen half a mile away.

PRIVATE ROAD:DANGER:POSITIVELY NO TRESSPASSING

"I..." Her lips moved, the color draining from her face. "I..that wasnt there before."

"Its always there. Its been there for the whole summer. And the summer before this one."

"Look, Im not lying! You can think what you want, but that sign wasn't there! I swear it! Someone must have.."

"What?" The dark eyes challenged her.

"Must have moved it," she finished lamely. "Look, I know it sounds stupid, but.."

"You're right. It sound's stupid."

"The sign wasn't there," Kagome snapped. "And what about that crazy old man up there who tried to chase me down the cliff? What about him spying on me, what about that? He probably took down the sign..I felt him watching me even before i went up the road."

"What crazy old man? Inuyasha sighed.

"Dont tell me im making him up, too." Kagome jerked her chin towards the lighthouse. "He was hiding up there and tried to scare me with that disgusting eye patch.."

"Oh," Inuyasha noddded, shrugging his shoulders. "Old Totosai. Sleeping off another hangover probably. You should have been scared..Maybe that'll put some sense into you."

"Dont talk to me like that," Kagome said hands clenching at her sides. "That old man could have taken down the sign, and you know it. Anyone could have taken it down."

Inuyasha went over to the sign and grabbed the legth of chain woven neatly betwent the metal rails. "See this? This is to keep nosy people like you out of here. The gate stays locked all the time. Only lifeguards have keys to it." He pulled the ring from his pocket, separating one heavy blue key from all the others.

Kagome stared at him, at the padlock anchoring the chain, at the empty road on the other side of the gate. "It wasn't locked," she mumbled. "I didnt imagine it.."

"Okay. A mirage, right? Or you walked right through it , maybe?" For several long moments Inuyasha stared at her, a muscle working in his jaw. "Okay," he said at last. "Come with me."

Kagome shrank away as he grabbed her arm again and began dragging her back around the cliff. When they reached the overhang where the beach disappeared, Inuyasha ducked under, leaving her no choice but to go with him. There was a brief moment of darkness as they wound through a low stone tunnel, but almost immediately they went up an incline out into the sun.

They were on a smaller beach, penned by towering cliffs on three sides, the ocean on the other. Only this beach was different from the one she had seen that morning, Kagome stared at the jagged rocks sticking out of the water along the shore, at the spikes of stone edging her in all around, all black and coated with lime. The wind screamed around them, beating the low tide into a frenzied boil. And those awful, razor edged rocks . As black as death.

Kagome's stomack tightened with some sense of imminent danger. The water was too close here..to wild..and those boats, racing slowly on the waves beyond the first outpost of sawtoothed rocks..those boats just heaving up and down..up and down..

"What are they doing out there?" Kagome wanted to run from them. "There to close to the rocks. Shouldnt you warn them?"

Inuyasha looked down at her, his face hard. "They're looking for Rin. They found her things on that ledge over there."

Kagome didnt want to look, yet felt her eyes following the point of his finger,. The ledge was only partway up the cliff, easily accessible, and surrounded by water that appeared fairly shallow.

"Its not so deep now," Inuyasha went on, and Kagome jumped as if he had read her mind. "You could wade in it as long as the current deosnt slam you up against those rocks. But later..when the tide comes in..." His voice dropped , and Kagome stepped away from him. "Should I go on?" He asked in mock politeness.

"I dont like it here," Kagome forced some authority into her voice that she didnt feel. "Im going back."

"Suit yourself. Its not fun to think about. Being trapped here."

Kagome turned on her heel and fought down the urge to run. Inuyasha had done this to her on purpose, and she didnt know what he was trying to prove anyway. He didnt seem to be taking his sisters death very hard, and he certrainly didnt seem to like her. Kagome wondered if Inuyasha cared about anything. She ducked through the tunnel, falling gratefully out into the daylight at the other end. She didnt know if he was following or not as she hurried back along the beach. To her relief there were other people out now, the sounds of distant shouting and laughter. Kagome quickened her pace. She wouldn't let Inuyasha upset her; she'd just try to stay out of his way and...

"Look out!"

The dog came out of nowhere and as it leaned its huge paws on Kagome's shoulders, she heard shouting from all directions.

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