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Last Chapter
Inuyasha looked at Kagome, his eyes desperately pleading with her to go back to "normal" and wake up.
"Kagome!"
"Why are we yelling?" Kagome asked as shed opened her eyes.
Inuyasha's breath caught in his throat as he noticed normal temperature was back and her breathing was even, like she wasn't just having a seizure of sorts.
"Kagome?" Inuyasha asked.
"What?"
"Do you have a fetish of getting hurt or something?" He asked. Kagome gave him a gentle smile, and then quickly stood up, avoiding everyone's eyes as she went and picked up the parchment. Apparently, everyone had been standing over them and left it on the floor.
She picked it up and held it between her hands.
"What is it Kagome?" Sango asked as she stepped closer to Kagome.
"Boy...I have some things to tell you guys..."
Chapter 10: Running To Trouble
"Feel free to talk anytime you guys want."
Kagome looked around at her fish-look-alike friends. They had been sitting there, eyes wide, mouths agape and only twitching every so often. Kagome had time to tell them her "dream", walk over to the wall and lean against it, and was now picking at old nail polish on her finger nails. It had been 10 minutes and counting.
Finally coming out of his stupor, Inuyasha slowly stood up, wiping the drool on his chin. Kagome looked up at him and was shocked to see something akin to a scared look in his eyes which he quickly masked.
"Kagome, how can you just stand there calm? Do you realize what she is asking of you?"
Kagome looked at him with a look that clearly said "Duh".
"Of course, Inuyasha. I guess it just hasn't completely sunk in is all."
"So the ideas of all this shit like pulling apart a medallion and suicide doesn't sink in?" He asked, his anger rising.
Inuyasha's eyebrow rose when Kagome gave a light cringe at the word suicide but brushed it off and kept his anger over concern. Kagome seemed determined to do the same.
"Well Inuyasha, I am not going to go and whine about it. And watch your language, Shippo is still in the here!" She quietly spoke the last part.
"I don't care, Kagome! This is some serious shit; he can learn to deal with it!" He yelled.
Kagome's glare held daggers and flames. Sango and Miroku, catching the hint, guided Kirala, Shippo and Kaede outside the hut. Kagome pushed herself off the wall.
"Well you need to start caring Inuyasha. Everyone has to care about everyone if we intend to pull this off!" Kagome yelled back.
"Who said anything about pulling this off?! We aren't even going through with it!" Inuyasha yelled back, his posture now standing his full 6'2" length, and a glare matching hers.
"WHAT?!"
"You heard me." He replied.
"And who put you in charge? Inuyasha, whether or not you like it, we have to do this!"
"We? No, no. I believe it was placed on your shoulders, Kagome."
"You are so…so…ugh you are such a jerk! You can stay here and not come help, I don't care, but I am going. , whether or not the rest of you are!"
With that, Kagome stormed out of the hut, leaving a trail of smoke. Inuyasha stared off at her, his stubbornness keeping him where he was.
'I'm not going to follow her. I'm not going to follow her.'
'What if she gets hurt?'
'She won't, she's strong.'
'But what if she gets cornered?'
'Sh…she won't. She's probably just bluffing anyway.'
Inuyasha, taking a break from his self-fight, he gave a sniff. Kagome's scent was retreating. Sango was with her, as was Kirara.
'I…she's.'
'What if she gets hurt?'
'No…she can't.'
'What if she needs you when you aren't around?'
Inuyasha felt the protective need over Kagome grow with each step she was taking. 'Damn mind.'
Inuyasha bounded out of the hut, quickly following Kagome's scent. They moved fast. On his way into the forest where she had went, he noticed Miroku running after him, Shippo with him and Kaede sitting against the hut.
"Inuyasha, hey wait! Wait for us!" Miroku yelled after him.
Inuyasha kept going until he landed in front of Sango and Kagome. They gave a slight gasp, jumping a little in shock. Miroku came up panting.
"Jeeze, Miroku. You need to lose some weight." Shippo said as he got down from Miroku's shoulder.
Miroku just glared up at him and continued panting.
Inuyasha avoided Kagome's gaze, whose he felt boring into the side of his head.
"Let's go." He said as he turned and walked in the direction Kagome and Sango were headed.
Sango looked over at Kagome who just smiled slightly. They walked silently for a couple hours, with the exception of Miroku's panting and Shippo's nonsense talking. By sunrise they had made it to the outskirts of Tokina village. Inuyasha stopped, and everyone else decided to do the same, sitting and resting.
Kagome walked over to Inuyasha. She placed her hand inside his, curling her fingers with his. Inuyasha tensed, looking down at her. She smiled, her eyes shining with genuine gratitude. He relaxed and squeezed her hand a little. He couldn't bring himself to smile back and Kagome understood. He was still shaken up about what could happen and she would give him time.
Not too much though. A girl could only hold out for so long.
"You're adorable when you are tough." Kagome said as she rested her head on his shoulder.
Inuyasha's cheeks tinted red and he gave a little cough. Kagome laughed at his embarrassed antics.
"So…um, how do you know where to find him?" He asked, trying hard to get back on track.
Kagome sighed, her demeanor obviously dropping slightly. "The parchment. Turns out that it updates each hundred years or so and it tells where to find him. She said the job was hard but finding it was easy apparently."
He nodded, looking over the village just a few hundred yards away.
Kagome released Inuyasha's hand and walked over to Sango. Miroku came up to Inuyasha and stood there. After a brief silence, Inuyasha spoke.
"Miroku?"
"Yes?"
"Why didn't you go with Sango and Kagome when they left?"
His tone was mono but Miroku could tell he wasn't going to walk away from this talk without a bump on his head.
"W…well you see dear friend. I had been waiting for you because-"
"Because I am not a half demon and they are two women in a woods looking for a psychopath on their own?!" Inuyasha asked sarcastically and angrily.
He turned his piercing gaze at Miroku and in response, Miroku held up his hands.
"Now…Inuyasha. You wouldn't want to hurt your friend would y-"
Miroku was quickly silenced by the harsh hit to the head. Inuyasha casually walked away, head high. Miroku rubbed his head, the feeling of nausea and the sight of little fire headed Inuyashas' circling his head with the rainbow colored stars.
'I knew that was coming.'
'So why didn't you duck?'
'I...well you see it's…'
'Oh Buddha, half of me is an idiot.'
'Hey!'
Miroku sat on the ground, mumbling to himself. Sango, Kagome and Inuyasha sat around the base of a tree, looking over the parchment. Kirara and Shippo walked over to Miroku.
"Think he'll be alright?"
"Meow"
Kagome looked carefully over the parchment, forehead scrunched and a headache slowly forming.
"This guy is so hard to find…where the hell is lake?" Inuyasha asked as he pointed at a good sized lake near where the old village used to be.
Sango looked carefully at the map.
"That lake…is about 200 yards that way." Sango said, pointing to the left of her, in the forest.
Kagome looked confusedly at Sango.
"It's what? You mean that…Naraku has been right under our noses this whole time!?"
Inuyasha stood up.
"No. He's been watching us this whole time."
"So you imbeciles finally get it."
Everyone stood up at the eerie voice. No once could exactly identify if it was Nibori or Naraku that was talking, but he was coming from inside the forest. Taking the hint of smoke and blood, they moved over to where Miroku was still sitting, and Shippo hiding behind him.
The figure slowly emerged from the forest, smoke filling their senses.
"It's gotta be Nibori right? Fire?" Sango whispered as she watched the ugly creature emerge.
"No, it's Naraku. He is wearing that stupid baboon thing." Inuyasha said, pulling out his tetsiga.
"No…it's both." Kagome whispered as she reached for her bow and arrow only to bet with air.
Kagome looked around…"Shit." She whispered.
Inuyasha looked back. "What's wrong?"
Kagome looked at him sheepishly.
"Well…in my rush to prove to you I didn't care if you came along, I uh…sort of…forgot my bag and weapons."
"What!!?"
"Well it's not like I meant to! It just…happened."
"Ugh!"
Inuyasha and Kagome watched as Nibori/Naraku emerged from the forest. Sango tried to get Miroku to stand up, who was currently singing a song to himself.
"So, you annoying pieces of shit ready to die? Because you know you won't pull this off."
"Why don't you worry about your slow moving entrance and we will take care of the rest." Inuyasha replied, tightening his grip on the fang in his hand.
"Cocky bastard. Guess we will just have to show you who is really going to be winning this."
A dark light emerged from the center of him, and it began grow. After dark blindness, something happened.
"Oh my god." Kagome whispered, clutching Inuyasha's shoulder.
"Oh boy." Sango said as she slapped Miroku's face slightly to snap him from his daze.
Inuyasha felt his eyebrows rise. "This makes things a little more complicated."
"LOOK OUT!"
A/N- Okay, There is chapter 10. Sorry about the evil cliffy. I didn't much care to right this chapter because it's basically just a stepping point for the next few chapters and it was just needed. So...to make it at least a little interesting.added the cliffy. Sorry! I don't know how long the next chapter will take but hopefully, not to long. Next chapter is the fight scene…only….not cheesy. I hope. Please let me know what you thought! Love you guys/girls.