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This is Wednesday, March. 23. Tomorrow will be my last day of school before Easter holidays. So that means that I will have TEN DAYS to update my fics and add on chapters for each one of my fics for all of you. YAY!
Here is chapter 21.. please R&R.
Chapter 21: remembering the past..
They walked in silence, Kagome looking one way, Inuyasha looking the other.
"So.. what exactly..you know.. happened last night? All I remember was the sun setting and then I went blank." He asked, she could sense his agitation.
"You.." She closed her eyes tightly together, trying to think up an answer. "..fell asleep. I tried to wake you up, but it was like you died. Isn't that funny!" She started laughing hysterically, trying to make it sound like it actually happened and it was funny. She stopped forcing the laugh and coughed uncomfortably as a sweat drop formed at the back of her head.
"O...k, Anyway, back to more important matters, sense a Jewel shard anywhere?" He snapped without looking at her. She felt her face burn up with anger. But thought of the plan she and 'her' Inuyasha had thought up last night, she had to stay cool until after she could figure out a way to make it happen.
"When I sense something, I'll tell you." She replied, trying to sound as nice as she could.
"Fine, Baka. Could you at least point us in the right direction? I'd like to have some kind of clue as to where we're heading. Or is that too hard for you, Kagome?" He said her name rather sarcastically, which threw her over the top.
"What the hell is your problem! Why can't you be serious for one moment and STOP acting so immature? I mean seriously, Treat me like a human and stop treating me like some Jewel detector!" She screamed at him, he was a little taken aback.
"Don't yell at me, wench, I should teach you some manners!" He went to grab her arm when his eyes flashed brown for a moment and he stopped.
"Feh, let's go." he walked away from her.
'What happened to him.?' she thought to herself, then it hit her, She smiled after him.. 'That must have been my Inuyasha...protecting me. At least I know I can still count on him for protection.. even if 'he' isn't always here by my side.' She sighed thoughtfully and followed the crabby Hanyou to the place she was secretly leading him to.
– Two hours later –
They came to a dull, cold, wet cave. Inuyasha scratched his head. "Hmm, seems like we hit a dead end?" He stated, turning around and starting to leave. Kagome had to think of something, and fast. They needed to enter that cave!
"I, uh.. Sense a Jewel shard, Inuyasha!" He stopped in his tracks and turned around.
"Really? Where?" he looked around in every direction but the caves. He looked towards Kagome, seeing she was walking into the Cave.
"Hey! Wait for me!" He ran and caught up to her, scolding her for leaving him behind. They walked for what seemed like hours, Then, a jolt of happiness coursed through her body when she gazed upon the object in the near distance.
"A mirror?" Inuyasha said.
"A Mirror!" Kagome squealed, running towards it. When she was arms length from it she bent down and stared at her reflection.
"Such beauty.. wasted on a hanyou like you." a voice sounded from the mirror, Kagome jumped back, seeing a face that was not her own forming in the mirror.
"Who are you?" Inuyasha asked, placing his hand on Tetsuaiga.
"No need for violence." the woman said, looking at his hand. "Hmm..another hanyou I see. This era must be a fine place to live when it's filled with dirty half-breeds such as yourselves." Inuyasha and Kagome both growled.
"As you asked, I am Princess Kaguya." she averted her eyes towards Kagome, looking deep within them.
"You, girl, have come to ask a favor." she smiled, "and I can grant it, at a cost."
Kagome frowned and crossed her arms. "Just what kind of 'cost' are we talking about?"
Kaguya sighed deeply, fighting back her frustration with Kagome. "Give me what shards you have now.. so I may be freed from this cursed mirror and then.. and only then.. will I grant your wish."
"No chance!" Inuyasha yelled.
"Shut-up, Inuyasha, Nobody asked you!" Kagome screamed at him, her want for her old inuyasha back over-powered everything else. He stared at her, blinking a couple of times before plopping down to the ground to sit cross-legged.
"Keh, fine, do whatever you want, however the next time you need help, don't count on me, I'll be here 'shutting-up'!" He yelled back, Thoughts poured into his mind after the words spilled out of his mouth.
'Why do I always feel a need to protect this wench? I know I have no feelings for her, and I have no true reason to protect her, I could find the shards by myself, having her around just makes it easier is all...but why is this nagging voice in the back of my head always changing my mind about leaving her?'
He looked towards Kagome, remembering memories that he had never shared with her, yet he could see himself with her, Like the two of them swimming or walking down pathways, strangely dressed, both of them holding a cone-shaped object, licking it every couple of seconds.
He could feel his hand becoming slightly cold just thinking about it.. he wondered what it was.
'Ice...cream?...What the hell is Ice-cream!' He thought to himself. 'And why the hell am I thinking about these things.. They didn't happen? There are no strange objects like I see in my mind here?' When thinking of those objects, more words came into his mind.
'Buildings...Cars...school...Pizza? Man, I think I'm going crazy!' He looked around, becoming more paranoid by the minute. "I need to get out of here!" He yelled, running out of the cave.
Kagome stared after him. "Inuyasha! Where do you think you're going?" She started to run after him, but turned quickly back to the mirror. Princess Kaguya smiled sinisterly and tilted her head, waiting for Kagome's response.
"Hai... I'll get the things you asked for. I'll be back soon. Just get the potion ready, And it better work, for your sake." she threatened, running after the hysterical Hanyou.
Kaguya laughed to herself. "Rest assured, Kagome. This potion will certainly work on Inuyasha.."