Chapter 13

You're not my life but you're the person I wanna spend it with,

You're not my world but you're the best thing in it

You know that feeling you get when you know some thing, and your're afraid of some one finding out? That the mere knowledge of that person knowing you know what you shouldn't know, would be enough to make worlds come crashing down. A slight slip of a tongue or wrong choice of word could give the secret away. And they couldn't risk that.

Kagome and Inuyasha were on edge. Neither of them had slept much the night before and every time some one moved or made a noise, they were on immediate self-defense-mode.

Every one was asleep, while Kagome and Inuyasha sat on opposite sides, looking at each other. The feeling of being so close to the one you wanted and not being able to touch them was hard to bare. But they waited.

Sango started to stir, and without any other warning, Inuyasha ran over to her side, covered her mouth with his hand, through her over his shoulder and motioned to Kagome to follow him. Kagome quickly stood up and followed behind them, closing over the blind when they left.

Sango mumbled as her voice faught against Inuyasha's hand. "Feh." Inuyasha sighed, "Will you knock it off? I'll put you down in a minute."

She looked over to Kagome while laying over Inuyasha's shoulder, Kagome shrugged her shoulders and Sango rolled her eyes, wondering what this was all about.

Inuyasha stopped and let Sango down when they made it to the edge of the forest, being half covered by the trees. Sango yawned and crossed her arms. "What's going on?" she knew them too well to ask stupid filler questions; instead of asking why they took her it was easier and quicker just to know what was wrong.

Kagome grinned, looked over her shoulder, and then returned her attention back to Sango. "Paige is up to some thing," she was stopped mid breath by Sango.

"Kagome, she isn't after Inuyasha, they are just be-"

Inuyasha grabbed Sango's shoulder, as if to stop her from telling Kagome about the arranged marriage side of things. It wasn't the time for it, yet. "No. She is Sango," Inuyasha paused as he looked over to Kagome.

Kagome nodded. "A new student at my school had a note from her saying for him to deal with me," as Inuyasha pretended to hand himself with his long hair, Kagome pushed him out of the way and continued. "And that she would handle things with Inuyasha and make sure he loses his Time of Jikar."

She was too tired for this. Sango rubbed her eyes and rested his hands on her hips, narrowing her eyes. "But why would they do this?" she asked for retorically. "Neither of you have done anything to them, have you?"

They both shook their heads.

"Then why would they want to kill you guys?" She thought, and then an idea came to her. "Maybe they are working for Naraku."

Kagome shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know why they are doing this but all I know is that we have to be careful. This is why I came back." Inuyasha shot her a look out of the corner of his eyes from that comment, but rolled it off.

Inuyasha scratched the back of his head, and then checked his nails. "Well, instead of all this wondering, I could just kill the bitch and we wouldn't have to worry about anything."

Kagome punched him in the arm. "No! We need to figure out what is going on first." He lightly rubbed his arm, making faces at her. She laughed at him and he nudged her playfully.

"Something going on, you two?"

And they suddenly froze; like two kids getting caught doing something they werent suppose to do. Kagome and Inuyasha exchanged a quick look, and the vibe between them decided that they wouldn't tell Sango about their little meeting last night. "No." Kagome said quickly, trying to sound realistic. She cleared her throat. "If you see her doing anything strange, you know what to do?"

Sango came them a slight nod, yawned, and turned around with out another word from either of them as she headed back up to the hut to return to her dreams.

Kagome looked at Inuyasha, she could feel the tension starting to build between them after only a few short hours, the secret was going to be hard to keep being near each other all the time. Inuyasha broke the silence between them. "I think I'm going to get more fire wood, it was a bit cold last night."

She crossed her arms and thought it was a good idea. She didn't offer to come with him because she didn't want it looking suspicious. He brushed her arm with his hand and ran it down to her fingers, tracing them until he reached the end of them and turned to leave. And then they heard his name being called.

"Inuyasha, wait up!"

Paige came running down from the hut, smiling and looking as if she just had the best sleep of her life. "Kagome." She managed to grind threw her teeth and exchanged dangerous looks with her as she made her way beside Inuyasha. "Going some where?"

Kagome rolled her eyes. She smiled at Inuyasha and walked away; each step made her wonder what would happen if she left him alone with her. Inuyasha watched as she walked away, not looking back as she went. He knew it was killing her to not lead on about them, and it was killing him too. But he had to make it look like nothing had changed and make sure Paige believed that she had complete control over him. If she didn't, they could be in trouble, at least until they figured out what was going on.

"I'm going to get more fire food," he said, pointing behind his shoulder. "Do you want to help?"

Her lips pulled back in to a small grin, as she looked him up and down. She bit her lip as she walked past him, running her hand over his shoulders and down to his waist. "You want some help, do you?"

Inuyasha looked down at her hands resting on his waist, he didn't feel comfortable pretending to do this but he also didn't like the fact that she was a threat to him and mostly Kagome. So he played along. His hand weaved his way in to her hair, cupping the back on her neck, the other came up to her face, as he brushed his thumb over her bottom lip. "Kagome can't give me what you can." he whispered to her.

She leaned in, planting two small kisses on his jawline before resting her head on to his shoulder. "I knew you'd warm up to me," she pulled back as she looked in to his eyes. "You just needed time," she eyed the hut as Kagome looked back to see them before she went inside. "And closure."

And then he felt it again. Her eyes dug in to his soul, his limbs felt numb and it was as if he had no recollection of anything else in the world, that every part of him started and ended with her. It was such a strong pull, and as he looked in to her eyes he could see them hypnoticing him, as if she was trying to control him. "Let's go."

Before they disappeared in to the trees, Myouga and Shippo came running out of the hut screaming at them to wait.

"Master Inuyasha! We have more news for you!" Myouga yelled from his spot on Shippo's shoulder as she came up to them.

Inuyasha moved away from paige and kneeled down to eye level with Shippo. He reached his hand out, picked up Myouga between two of his nails and brought him closer to his face. "What do you got for me?"

"It seems that since you are a half-demon, the obstacles will come more quickly; instead of waiting a long period of time for the next demon, you may only wait merely days or even hours." Myouga wiggled until Inuyasha let him go and he fell in to Inuyasha's hand, crossing his legs and arms as he sat down. "You should be always on alert."

"What are you doing here?"

Inuyasha heard Kagome screaming. He looked at the hut, where Kagome stood with her arrow drawn back ready to fire, Sango with her weapon ready to swing and Miroku with him with his hands gripped tightly at his sacred beads that wrapped around his wrist. Inuyasha followed their gaze over to the lake where a tall figure stood, with hair like Inuyasha's only shorter and black, tanned skin and battle armor.

He was smiling at Kagome.

Inuyasha gripped the handle of tetsaiga as he slowly rose to his feet. "Kagome, do we have a problem?" He yelled over to her.

She heard him but didn't move, she kept her aim on him. "It's the guy I told you about, Inuyasha." she narrowed her eyes at him, almost spitting the words at him. "How dare you come here."

Paige pushed past Inuyasha, as she started to talk towards the figure. "Feng! You're ruining everything." she made her way to him, stopping only a few feet away. "I almost had him in my grasp, and you shouldn't have let her," she pointed her finger at Kagome. "come back here. Remember the plan?"

Inuyasha pulled tetsaiga out and swung it around to land on his shoulder, digging his free hand in to his pocket he began to walk over to the rest of them. "Let me guess," he called out to the two of them. "You guys are having a moment and need some time to talk, trust issues, relationship concerns, I get it. It's tough." he stopped, and looked at Kagome right quick, giving her a reassuring nod. "But you can talk about this together after I tear you both to pieces."

And as the last word escaped his breath, Inuyasha was running full force towards them, with tetsaiga ready to strike. Paige jumped out of the way and Feng pulled out his own sword, clashing blades with Inuyasha in time. The metal between them shrieked and grinded together as Feng pushed off Inuyasha and stepped back. Inuyasha lunged at him again.

Kagome took the oppertunity to aim at Paige, narrowing in on her, pulling the bow back and letting it fly through the air with amazing speed. It hit Paige in the arm, the head of the arrow digging in to her skin. She gringed in pain, before taking the arrow in hand and pulling it out and throwing it on to the ground. "That was a stupid idea."

And before they could blink, Paige was behind Kagome, had her hands locked so she couldn't get free and a knife across her throat.

Inuyasha was winning against Feng, until he seen Kagome out of the corner of his eye. "Kagome!" Getting distracted, Feng took the chance and stabbed him in the stomach. Inuyasha gave out a small moan of pain and came back swinging harder and faster than before.

"You let Feng beat you, or she's as good as dead." Paige tightened the blade at Kagome's neck.

Inuyasha took that as a challenge. He jumped above Feng, coming down with his sword straight down. Feng moved out of the way but wasn't quick enough; Inuyasha came up behind him and punched him in the stomach. He stumbles and tried to regain control but Inuyasha hits him in the face, knocking him to the ground. Inuyasha puts one foot on Feng's stomach and another on the ground as tetsaiga is above his head, waiting to come down.

Paige laughed at him, narrowing her eyes. "You don't have the guts to do it."

"You wanna beat?" He raised his eyebrow, looking down at Feng as he pressed the tip of the blade to his cheek, looking back at Paige. "Whose going to draw first?"

Miroku seen the oppertunity as Paige was caught off guard, sneaking up behind her and he hits her behind the head with his staff, knocking her out. The blade around Kagome's throat dropped to the ground and she gasped for air. Inuyasha kept tetsaiga poking Feng's head as he kneeled down to him, he was breathing heavily and looked as if he was ready to die. He waited to Inuyasha to finish him off, but he didn't. "Your tecnique could be better." He joked with him, but Feng didn't see the sarcasim. "We need to talk."