Chapter 38: Who to Turn To
Inuyasha sighs after hearing Kikyo's answer. "Basically you were just doing what he told you to because he's nothing but a coward." He speaks to her. Sango and Ayame knew immediately how it must've felt. But neither of them have been in that position in their lives. "Just how was it that Naraku made you do his bidding in the first place?" Sango asks Kikyo this time, making it more like a girl-to-girl conversation. Kikyo looks down to her own hands. "Naraku was stalking me because he was power hungry. He wanted all the powers he could get his hands on. He heard about mine from someone. Like what he said, he was about to suck out my powers. And if I were to get them back, I had to go after Kagome's spiritual powers." She tells them without looking towards them. Miroku knows for sure that wasn't the entire truth. "I think Naraku has something else that belongs to you, not just your own spiritual powers." He tells her sternly.
Inuyasha widens his eyes. "What do you mean, 'something else'?" Miroku looks up towards him. "In all my years of reading such genre of books, the antagonist would hide something else instead of the obvious so that his victims would forget about it completely. So tell us Kikyo, what is that something else?" He turns back to the girl. Kikyo looks up to them. "He promised that I'd pass the year, even if my grades are low." She confesses to them. The group would either roll their eyes or scoffs at her. "Honestly Kikyo, what kind of a person would keep his word to allow you to pass the year. Would you think your parents this is the right thing to do?" Ayame asks the next question.
"My parents are dead. I don't even have the money to pay the school. That's why Naraku offered his help if I were to do whatever he says." Kikyo glares at them for her answer. Ayame frowns at her. "Well sorry about that, but did you ever thought about telling the faculty for what they can do to help you?" Kikyo shakes her head. "The faculty doesn't want to do anything about my life, and they decided to be cruel to me because of my so called reputation." Sango crossed. "Well I find it wrong to begin with. It's hard enough to lose your parents, but for the faculty to do that stuff to you is just unacceptable. Was it your parents who kind bribed them in the first place?" She asks Kikyo.
Kikyo looks down sadly. "I'm not really sure. One time I was passing the teacher's lounge and heard one of them saying that they despised my mother. Before then, he didn't like the fact that she fell in love with my father. When they had me the teacher was aware how manipulative they were because how he loath them both. They warned him not to fail me no matter what. But ever since they passed away in that car accident, the teacher did what he always wanted. Fail me right then and there." She tells her story.
Making sure that she was telling the truth, Koga and Ayame used their high sense of hearing to see if she's lying. She wasn't. "Maybe you could tell us who that teacher was?" Koga asks her. Before Kikyo answers the question, Kagome spoke. "It was Naraku himself." The group look towards her. "What do you mean that is was Naraku?" Sango asks her. Kagome sighs, "When I first came to the school, I felt an ominous aura coming from the classroom that Kikyo was in and saw that her teacher was Naraku. He must've imposed himself as someone so that Kikyo wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the two." Kagome explains to them.
Kikyo widens her eyes. "I guess so. After Naraku sucked up my powers, he made himself into someone else. Mainly a test. But he didn't know about Kagome being the other priestess to tell." She looks up towards Kagome, even though she's lying down on her back. "That's why I wanted to come to you so that you wouldn't be suspicious about my plans on how to my powers back. And I'm truly sorry for what I had to put you through." She tells Kagome sincerely. Kagome only nods back as she accepts the apology. "You just wanted to do whatever you could to get them back." She smiles to Kikyo.
Inuyasha doesn't want to believe this scene but hearing such stuff from the two girls, he had to deal with it. "So what are we going to do now? We can't stay here for long. And there's no telling how long Sesshomaru is going to hold Naraku off for us to get out of this place." He asks them. "For now we only have Kagome's powers back, but we need to get Kikyo's powers back as well." Sango tells him as she sits by Kagome. "But how though? As far as we all know, it's going to be hard to get a hold of that jar." Ayame asks this time. Miroku holds his chin. "We just have to catch Naraku off guard in order to get the jar." He gives his idea. "But what would happen if the jar breaks?" Kagome asks him. Miroku shrugs his shoulders, proving that he doesn't have the answer. Kagome looks at everyone else and they all show the same expression.
"Let's not the answer just of yet. Our main objective is getting out of here." Kikyo tells her this time. She tries to sit up but being weak after Naraku choked her and threw her at the wall back at the dungeon room, she stayed put. "No. We need you and Kagome to recover from being weak after what Naraku did to you two." Inuyasha disagrees as he sits back to his seat by Kagome instead of Kikyo. Kikyo knew better that it's no use to convince Inuyasha otherwise to sit by her instead of Kagome's. "We just don't how long it's going to take for the both of them to be fully rested." Sango tells them in a serious tone. Everyone else agreed so they'll have to wait till either Sesshomaru is alright as well as defeated Naraku or wait for Kikyo and Kagome to be fully recovered so they can escape.