Disclaimer: Don't own Inuyasha, yadda, yadda, yadda...
(A/N: I've been thinking lately about why people hate Kikyo and love Kag/Inu pairings, and there are also those who like Kikyo too. And I have to say that I didn't used to like Kikyo very much... I still don't... but I think I have a little more respect for her situation now after watching my past boyfriend replace ME with someone NEW. Of course I hate the new girlfriend, and so I can understand why Kikyo might dislike Kagome. So I can understand how some people say that Kikyo is dead and gone and evil, therefore Kagome should be with Inuyasha, and I can also understand how people can say that Kikyo got there first and had a right to Inuyasha.
After analysing this for a while last night face down on my bed when I was thinking about my ex, I decided that the ex-girlfriend really needs to move on ie. KIKYO and ME need to move on and stop stressing. After all, it's very unlikely that the first girlfriend you have is necessarily going to be your true love - you have to work your way around to find that person. So for now, I still vouch for Inu-Kag pairings. But just so Kikyo fans know, I sympathise with her situation and I don't really hate her after all.
So there's my precious little view of how I am not going to abuse Kikyo in this fic this time. But that still won't effect my decision of whether or not she is to die.)
Two Faced:
Peer Pressure
Kagome ended up being the only one sat on her behind on Inuyasha's log, watching the rest of the group set about fetching gear and supplies from the plane wreck and set up sleeping arrangements for the night. She was glad that Inuyasha had decided to stop being a lazy toad and get up on his hind legs and do something. He was the one who had sliced through the wreckage that remained of the plane to retrieve luggage and personal items along with most of the necessities they needed to survive the jungle for a few days.
For some reason he refused to bring out Kagome's five-piece luggage suit - for which, she was very pissed off about.
How was she supposed to survive the humidity of the jungle without her styling blow drier?
There were three tents in total, all quite spacious and sturdy with all the sleeping bags and blankets supplied as well. Miroku, being the guy in charge, was the one who designated the sleeping arrangements.
"Ok... girls - Sango, Rin and Kikyo go in the end tents, all men go in the middle and Kagome goes in the end." Miroku pointed to each tent as he spoke.
Kagome seemed fairly happy with the arrangements. Every man grumbled - since there were a hell of a lot more men than women in this crew, and Sango and Kikyo slanted wary looks at one another - they didn't know each other very well yet.
"Hey, how come Kagome gets a tent to herself?" Inuyasha scowled.
Miroku blinked at him. "Because... she's Kagome."
"So?"
"So... we shouldn't really sleep around her or touch her." Miroku shrugged as if it was really obvious.
Kagome folded her one good arm carefully into the other and gave Inuyasha a cocky look.
Roughly ten men, including Inuyasha and Miroku headed for their designated tent and peeped inside. Inuyasha suddenly snorted. "No way am I sleeping with so many men in fatigues."
"Ok then - since you're Kagome's bodyguard you can sleep with her." Miroku said without hesitation and found himself the best spot, slap bang in the middle of the tent where it would be warmest.
Inuyasha ground his teeth irritably and clenched his fists. But he wasn't going to argue and make them suspicious that he didn't like Kagome (as if it wasn't obvious anyway). So instead of protesting he just stomped away and sat on his favourite rotting log at the edge of the clearing and hugged himself for warmth.
Pah... he'd rather be cold than sleep with Kagome or a bunch of humans. He'd manage... and no one could assume he wasn't doing his job to Kagome because now he was acting as lookout.
"Boo!"
"Shit!" Inuyasha slipped off the log and scowled. "Will you STOP doing that?!"
Kikyo smiled and clasped her hands behind her back. "Don't want to sleep with your ward?"
"I'm lookout."
"Pull the other one."
Inuyasha rolled his eyes and looked away from Kikyo. "Don't think I'm not onto you bitch." He glanced back at her. "I'm watching you every minute of the day. You'll never harm a hair on her head."
"Nice act... I might believe you if you were more human than you are now. But I know you hate her just as much as me." Kikyo watched him sit back down on his log and arrange his sword so it lay against his chest and shoulder. "Possibly even more."
"Whatever signals you are getting from me, they're mixed up. Why do you want her dead?" he eyed Kikyo suspiciously.
"Maybe not dead precisely." Kikyo's eyes hardened, just like they had done earlier when she'd been talking about Kagome. "Because of her my father is dead... because of her my mother sold me to her father...because of her I have nothing."
Inuyasha stared at her. "Then why are you working for him?"
"I get paid at least...but you can't exactly put a price on my father's life." Kikyo glared off towards Kagome's tent. "Sorry, but you shouldn't trust her. She causes pain and destruction wherever she goes."
"Maybe that's because people like YOU follow her wherever she goes." Inuyasha pointed out and stood. "If you were looking for my sympathy, I can't give it. But I can offer pity if that's any help?"
"I'd rather you hate me." Kikyo turned her face away in disgust.
"As you wish." He smirked at her when she shot a glare at him.
They both parted ways and Inuyasha headed for Kagome's tent. Truth was, he would rather be in her tent than out in the open with Kikyo. He probably felt safer with Kagome anyway.
He brushed past the flap with little warning and waited to have various make-up boxes and indignant insults thrown at him. Surprisingly Kagome just looked up from where she'd been fiddling with her bandaged arm. She gave an embarrassed sort of smile.
"What are you so happy about?" Inuyasha said grumpily as he sat down and unrolled another sleeping bag. "The plane crashed, three men are dead, and we're in a forest with demons. I suppose it could be worse though... add Brittany Speares into the mix and we definitely would be in hell..."
"I... I wanted to apologise for earlier when I hit you." Kagome said meekly.
"What?" Inuyasha gave her a blank look. "You're sorry for that?"
"Yeah." Kagome nodded. "I forgot to really thank you for saving my life. Though you sure took your sweet time about it."
"Was that a thank you...? It sounded like criticism to me." He cocked an eyebrow at her.
"Ok... ok... sorry." Kagome looked down. "I was just stressed, you can understand that, right?"
"Right."
"Hung upside down with a broken arm and squished foot..." Kagome tried off with a distant look. "And then you..."
She had stopped when Inuyasha's hand had shot to his heart again. "Another heart attack? Didn't want to shock you too much by apologising..."
Inuyasha wished it had been... he fished his hand into his breast pocket and pulled out his phone. "Just a message..."
"You have a phone?!" Kagome half cried. "Why didn't you say so earlier! Call someone and get help out here! Tell them we crashed but we're alive!"
"Can't... it was a gift from my... bro-friend, it can only receive messages, it can't send stuff out." Inuyasha quickly tried to catch himself before he said brother...
"Did you just say... boyfriend?" Kagome was giving him a disturbed look.
"What - NO!" Inuyasha pulled a face. "I swing straight."
"Oh... I thought the monkey might have swung on both branches there..." Kagome looked visibly relieved.
Inuyasha was just about to ask if she was homophobic when someone slapped against the side of the tent. "Lights out! Get some sleep and stop talking unless you want demons to come!" Miroku called.
Inuyasha gave him the finger even though the Major wouldn't be able to see it and Kagome grinned slightly. "You better be going back to your tent then."
"What are you blabbering on about? This is my tent." Inuyasha started to settle himself down.
"I'll pretend you're joking." The grin slipped from her face completely.
"Yeah, if it was a joke you'd be laughing." He gave her a dry smile as he flapped out his blankets with an exaggerated motion and plopped down onto the sleeping bag.
"You can't sleep in here!" Kagome protested.
"Why not?"
"Because... we're in the same room..." she looked desperate. "It's not decent to sleep so close if you're a boy and a girl."
Inuyasha stared at her a moment, the flickering light of the gas lantern making her features flicker orange and make her appear scared. He sighed. "Didn't your parents ever tell you about the birds and the bees."
"No. Just about sex, they never sugar-coated it." Kagome scowled. "I know enough to not let you stay in here!"
"And what would you do if a demon came barging in here? Who would protect you?" Inuyasha pointed out.
"Um..." Kagome looked around for someone. Surprisingly there was no one.
"See my point?"
"Ish..."
"So stop squealing piggy and let my do my job." He was just about to get on and read his message when one of Kagome's shoes hit his head again. "Ow!"
"Oops - I'm sorry." She smiled sarcastically before sliding slowly back onto her back to sleep. "Turn off the light."
Inuyasha ignored her as he read the message.
'Good job with the plane crash, if you're still alive call back when you reach the Southern Territory. Make sure you don't leave any witnesses'
He stared at the words a moment before frowning. It was likely that a lot of people back home knew about the crash now... and his brother's cell assumed that he'd killed Kagome...
Did this buy him some time to work up the courage to do it for real?
"Inuyasha?" Kagome lifted her head. "Turn the light off?"
In the distance Miroku had probably seen the light was still on too. "Lights out Love Birds!"
Inuyasha grumbled something incoherent and turned the lamp off at the foot of the tent before pulling the blankets up to his chin and setting his sword underneath his pillow.
There was a long silence, in which he could tell Kagome was definitely far from sleeping. Her breathing was a little too speedy for her to be relaxed and her thumb was rubbing intermittently against her finger in a fidgety motion. Why was she nervous... it confused him, just like her earlier statement had...
"Why were you relieved when I said I was straight?" he asked out of the blue.
Her heard Kagome splutter suddenly and suddenly go very still. "Huh?"
Not the most intelligent answer she could have come up with right then.
"Why were you relieved I like girls?"
"Um..." She raced for some excuse before just answering truthfully. "I don't know... I just... probably came off as sounding relieved. Sorry."
"Oh..."
There was a long silence that stretched on and on for quite some time. Kagome still wasn't relaxing, and her tenseness was just making Inuyasha restless.
Kagome suddenly turned her head back towards him. "Thanks again for saving me again... if you hadn't protected me in the plane... I'm not sure I would have survived it..."
And Inuyasha wasn't sure if it was a good idea to do it at the time. It had all been completely on impulse.
"And thanks again for getting me down without having to take off my foot... that was scaring me spitless..." Kagome sounded a little sheepish now.
"It was nothing." Inuyasha shifted uncomfortably - only uncomfortable because she was acting nice.
"I was scared." She suddenly blurted. "I mean REALLY scared..."
"Ok..."
"It's all my fault - the plane wouldn't have been sabotaged if I weren't on board. I risked everyone's life by trying to find dad and all..." she said quickly.
She felt guilty and she wanted it off her chest. Inuyasha just frowned as she rambled on.
"I mean... everywhere I go... they delay everything just for me. The plane was delayed to search for sabotage. They didn't find any - but even then something slipped past security - three people are dead because of me!"
"It's ok..." It was more his fault than hers, and it was definitely NOT ok in his case.
"And my dad and his crew could be dead because of me..." Kagome continued, her voice beginning to shake. "And I was so cold to him when he left... I was angry... but I didn't want that..."
"You'll find him." Inuyasha didn't elaborate whether she would find him dead or alive, however.
"Dead or alive?" Kagome whispered.
"Um..." Inuyasha didn't dare say.
"What if he'd dead...?" Kagome blinked away the approaching tears. "The last thing I ever would have said to him was something cold... I could never f-forgive myself..."
Inuyasha sighed and propped himself up on an elbow. "Look... if your father's dead... he's dead."
"Oh thanks for cheering my up." Kagome remarked flatly.
"I'm not finished yet." He rolled his eyes. "Do you really think your father would hold one argument against you in his afterlife? You think he'll forget how close you two were just for the sake of holding a grudge?"
Kagome was quiet.
"You said you two were close. So that means all the happy times you two shared outweighed the number of arguments, right? That's more important than having one last fight with him."
Kagome watched him through the darkness as he settled back down. "that is scarily enlightened of you to say that."
"I know what it's like to lose a parent after having an argument." Inuyasha sighed. "Two parents actually... that's the best excuse I could come up with to get over my guilt."
"I'm sorry..."
"Well... we're not even sure if your dad is dead anyway. Don't get your hopes up too high just yet, he could still be out there in a nice cushy cave with an open fire..." Inuyasha griped.
"Thank you..." Kagome let out a sigh of air that she'd been holding in.
"No problem." He reached over and patted her good arm.
Kagome stiffened and inched away. "What did I say about touching?"
"It's the best thing besides chocolate fudge?"
"No touching." She heard him sigh and thought back over what he'd said. She suddenly had a revelation. "Were we... just... having a normal conversation?"
"Hmm..." Inuyasha hummed.
"Goodnight, Inuyasha." Kagome whispered softly, before finally relaxing.
She'd finally gotten a load off her chest, so now Inuyasha understood why she hadn't been able to relax and sleep. So it wasn't long before she fell asleep. Was she really that trusting that Inuyasha could protect her?
Now was his perfect chance. He could just reach over and snap her neck and he'd get a meddle for his bravely... even though it was a cowardly way out of this mess. Of course, then he'd have to kill everyone else to get rid of any suspicions and witnesses. When he got back everyone would assume the entire crew was killed by the crash, and him, being half-demon, had been strong enough to survive and make it out of the forest.
It was a good alibi and scenario...
Nah... maybe he could do it tomorrow night...
(A/N: See? I'm trying to be less mean to Kikyo than usual.)
(A/N: I've been thinking lately about why people hate Kikyo and love Kag/Inu pairings, and there are also those who like Kikyo too. And I have to say that I didn't used to like Kikyo very much... I still don't... but I think I have a little more respect for her situation now after watching my past boyfriend replace ME with someone NEW. Of course I hate the new girlfriend, and so I can understand why Kikyo might dislike Kagome. So I can understand how some people say that Kikyo is dead and gone and evil, therefore Kagome should be with Inuyasha, and I can also understand how people can say that Kikyo got there first and had a right to Inuyasha.
After analysing this for a while last night face down on my bed when I was thinking about my ex, I decided that the ex-girlfriend really needs to move on ie. KIKYO and ME need to move on and stop stressing. After all, it's very unlikely that the first girlfriend you have is necessarily going to be your true love - you have to work your way around to find that person. So for now, I still vouch for Inu-Kag pairings. But just so Kikyo fans know, I sympathise with her situation and I don't really hate her after all.
So there's my precious little view of how I am not going to abuse Kikyo in this fic this time. But that still won't effect my decision of whether or not she is to die.)
Two Faced:
Peer Pressure
Kagome ended up being the only one sat on her behind on Inuyasha's log, watching the rest of the group set about fetching gear and supplies from the plane wreck and set up sleeping arrangements for the night. She was glad that Inuyasha had decided to stop being a lazy toad and get up on his hind legs and do something. He was the one who had sliced through the wreckage that remained of the plane to retrieve luggage and personal items along with most of the necessities they needed to survive the jungle for a few days.
For some reason he refused to bring out Kagome's five-piece luggage suit - for which, she was very pissed off about.
How was she supposed to survive the humidity of the jungle without her styling blow drier?
There were three tents in total, all quite spacious and sturdy with all the sleeping bags and blankets supplied as well. Miroku, being the guy in charge, was the one who designated the sleeping arrangements.
"Ok... girls - Sango, Rin and Kikyo go in the end tents, all men go in the middle and Kagome goes in the end." Miroku pointed to each tent as he spoke.
Kagome seemed fairly happy with the arrangements. Every man grumbled - since there were a hell of a lot more men than women in this crew, and Sango and Kikyo slanted wary looks at one another - they didn't know each other very well yet.
"Hey, how come Kagome gets a tent to herself?" Inuyasha scowled.
Miroku blinked at him. "Because... she's Kagome."
"So?"
"So... we shouldn't really sleep around her or touch her." Miroku shrugged as if it was really obvious.
Kagome folded her one good arm carefully into the other and gave Inuyasha a cocky look.
Roughly ten men, including Inuyasha and Miroku headed for their designated tent and peeped inside. Inuyasha suddenly snorted. "No way am I sleeping with so many men in fatigues."
"Ok then - since you're Kagome's bodyguard you can sleep with her." Miroku said without hesitation and found himself the best spot, slap bang in the middle of the tent where it would be warmest.
Inuyasha ground his teeth irritably and clenched his fists. But he wasn't going to argue and make them suspicious that he didn't like Kagome (as if it wasn't obvious anyway). So instead of protesting he just stomped away and sat on his favourite rotting log at the edge of the clearing and hugged himself for warmth.
Pah... he'd rather be cold than sleep with Kagome or a bunch of humans. He'd manage... and no one could assume he wasn't doing his job to Kagome because now he was acting as lookout.
"Boo!"
"Shit!" Inuyasha slipped off the log and scowled. "Will you STOP doing that?!"
Kikyo smiled and clasped her hands behind her back. "Don't want to sleep with your ward?"
"I'm lookout."
"Pull the other one."
Inuyasha rolled his eyes and looked away from Kikyo. "Don't think I'm not onto you bitch." He glanced back at her. "I'm watching you every minute of the day. You'll never harm a hair on her head."
"Nice act... I might believe you if you were more human than you are now. But I know you hate her just as much as me." Kikyo watched him sit back down on his log and arrange his sword so it lay against his chest and shoulder. "Possibly even more."
"Whatever signals you are getting from me, they're mixed up. Why do you want her dead?" he eyed Kikyo suspiciously.
"Maybe not dead precisely." Kikyo's eyes hardened, just like they had done earlier when she'd been talking about Kagome. "Because of her my father is dead... because of her my mother sold me to her father...because of her I have nothing."
Inuyasha stared at her. "Then why are you working for him?"
"I get paid at least...but you can't exactly put a price on my father's life." Kikyo glared off towards Kagome's tent. "Sorry, but you shouldn't trust her. She causes pain and destruction wherever she goes."
"Maybe that's because people like YOU follow her wherever she goes." Inuyasha pointed out and stood. "If you were looking for my sympathy, I can't give it. But I can offer pity if that's any help?"
"I'd rather you hate me." Kikyo turned her face away in disgust.
"As you wish." He smirked at her when she shot a glare at him.
They both parted ways and Inuyasha headed for Kagome's tent. Truth was, he would rather be in her tent than out in the open with Kikyo. He probably felt safer with Kagome anyway.
He brushed past the flap with little warning and waited to have various make-up boxes and indignant insults thrown at him. Surprisingly Kagome just looked up from where she'd been fiddling with her bandaged arm. She gave an embarrassed sort of smile.
"What are you so happy about?" Inuyasha said grumpily as he sat down and unrolled another sleeping bag. "The plane crashed, three men are dead, and we're in a forest with demons. I suppose it could be worse though... add Brittany Speares into the mix and we definitely would be in hell..."
"I... I wanted to apologise for earlier when I hit you." Kagome said meekly.
"What?" Inuyasha gave her a blank look. "You're sorry for that?"
"Yeah." Kagome nodded. "I forgot to really thank you for saving my life. Though you sure took your sweet time about it."
"Was that a thank you...? It sounded like criticism to me." He cocked an eyebrow at her.
"Ok... ok... sorry." Kagome looked down. "I was just stressed, you can understand that, right?"
"Right."
"Hung upside down with a broken arm and squished foot..." Kagome tried off with a distant look. "And then you..."
She had stopped when Inuyasha's hand had shot to his heart again. "Another heart attack? Didn't want to shock you too much by apologising..."
Inuyasha wished it had been... he fished his hand into his breast pocket and pulled out his phone. "Just a message..."
"You have a phone?!" Kagome half cried. "Why didn't you say so earlier! Call someone and get help out here! Tell them we crashed but we're alive!"
"Can't... it was a gift from my... bro-friend, it can only receive messages, it can't send stuff out." Inuyasha quickly tried to catch himself before he said brother...
"Did you just say... boyfriend?" Kagome was giving him a disturbed look.
"What - NO!" Inuyasha pulled a face. "I swing straight."
"Oh... I thought the monkey might have swung on both branches there..." Kagome looked visibly relieved.
Inuyasha was just about to ask if she was homophobic when someone slapped against the side of the tent. "Lights out! Get some sleep and stop talking unless you want demons to come!" Miroku called.
Inuyasha gave him the finger even though the Major wouldn't be able to see it and Kagome grinned slightly. "You better be going back to your tent then."
"What are you blabbering on about? This is my tent." Inuyasha started to settle himself down.
"I'll pretend you're joking." The grin slipped from her face completely.
"Yeah, if it was a joke you'd be laughing." He gave her a dry smile as he flapped out his blankets with an exaggerated motion and plopped down onto the sleeping bag.
"You can't sleep in here!" Kagome protested.
"Why not?"
"Because... we're in the same room..." she looked desperate. "It's not decent to sleep so close if you're a boy and a girl."
Inuyasha stared at her a moment, the flickering light of the gas lantern making her features flicker orange and make her appear scared. He sighed. "Didn't your parents ever tell you about the birds and the bees."
"No. Just about sex, they never sugar-coated it." Kagome scowled. "I know enough to not let you stay in here!"
"And what would you do if a demon came barging in here? Who would protect you?" Inuyasha pointed out.
"Um..." Kagome looked around for someone. Surprisingly there was no one.
"See my point?"
"Ish..."
"So stop squealing piggy and let my do my job." He was just about to get on and read his message when one of Kagome's shoes hit his head again. "Ow!"
"Oops - I'm sorry." She smiled sarcastically before sliding slowly back onto her back to sleep. "Turn off the light."
Inuyasha ignored her as he read the message.
'Good job with the plane crash, if you're still alive call back when you reach the Southern Territory. Make sure you don't leave any witnesses'
He stared at the words a moment before frowning. It was likely that a lot of people back home knew about the crash now... and his brother's cell assumed that he'd killed Kagome...
Did this buy him some time to work up the courage to do it for real?
"Inuyasha?" Kagome lifted her head. "Turn the light off?"
In the distance Miroku had probably seen the light was still on too. "Lights out Love Birds!"
Inuyasha grumbled something incoherent and turned the lamp off at the foot of the tent before pulling the blankets up to his chin and setting his sword underneath his pillow.
There was a long silence, in which he could tell Kagome was definitely far from sleeping. Her breathing was a little too speedy for her to be relaxed and her thumb was rubbing intermittently against her finger in a fidgety motion. Why was she nervous... it confused him, just like her earlier statement had...
"Why were you relieved when I said I was straight?" he asked out of the blue.
Her heard Kagome splutter suddenly and suddenly go very still. "Huh?"
Not the most intelligent answer she could have come up with right then.
"Why were you relieved I like girls?"
"Um..." She raced for some excuse before just answering truthfully. "I don't know... I just... probably came off as sounding relieved. Sorry."
"Oh..."
There was a long silence that stretched on and on for quite some time. Kagome still wasn't relaxing, and her tenseness was just making Inuyasha restless.
Kagome suddenly turned her head back towards him. "Thanks again for saving me again... if you hadn't protected me in the plane... I'm not sure I would have survived it..."
And Inuyasha wasn't sure if it was a good idea to do it at the time. It had all been completely on impulse.
"And thanks again for getting me down without having to take off my foot... that was scaring me spitless..." Kagome sounded a little sheepish now.
"It was nothing." Inuyasha shifted uncomfortably - only uncomfortable because she was acting nice.
"I was scared." She suddenly blurted. "I mean REALLY scared..."
"Ok..."
"It's all my fault - the plane wouldn't have been sabotaged if I weren't on board. I risked everyone's life by trying to find dad and all..." she said quickly.
She felt guilty and she wanted it off her chest. Inuyasha just frowned as she rambled on.
"I mean... everywhere I go... they delay everything just for me. The plane was delayed to search for sabotage. They didn't find any - but even then something slipped past security - three people are dead because of me!"
"It's ok..." It was more his fault than hers, and it was definitely NOT ok in his case.
"And my dad and his crew could be dead because of me..." Kagome continued, her voice beginning to shake. "And I was so cold to him when he left... I was angry... but I didn't want that..."
"You'll find him." Inuyasha didn't elaborate whether she would find him dead or alive, however.
"Dead or alive?" Kagome whispered.
"Um..." Inuyasha didn't dare say.
"What if he'd dead...?" Kagome blinked away the approaching tears. "The last thing I ever would have said to him was something cold... I could never f-forgive myself..."
Inuyasha sighed and propped himself up on an elbow. "Look... if your father's dead... he's dead."
"Oh thanks for cheering my up." Kagome remarked flatly.
"I'm not finished yet." He rolled his eyes. "Do you really think your father would hold one argument against you in his afterlife? You think he'll forget how close you two were just for the sake of holding a grudge?"
Kagome was quiet.
"You said you two were close. So that means all the happy times you two shared outweighed the number of arguments, right? That's more important than having one last fight with him."
Kagome watched him through the darkness as he settled back down. "that is scarily enlightened of you to say that."
"I know what it's like to lose a parent after having an argument." Inuyasha sighed. "Two parents actually... that's the best excuse I could come up with to get over my guilt."
"I'm sorry..."
"Well... we're not even sure if your dad is dead anyway. Don't get your hopes up too high just yet, he could still be out there in a nice cushy cave with an open fire..." Inuyasha griped.
"Thank you..." Kagome let out a sigh of air that she'd been holding in.
"No problem." He reached over and patted her good arm.
Kagome stiffened and inched away. "What did I say about touching?"
"It's the best thing besides chocolate fudge?"
"No touching." She heard him sigh and thought back over what he'd said. She suddenly had a revelation. "Were we... just... having a normal conversation?"
"Hmm..." Inuyasha hummed.
"Goodnight, Inuyasha." Kagome whispered softly, before finally relaxing.
She'd finally gotten a load off her chest, so now Inuyasha understood why she hadn't been able to relax and sleep. So it wasn't long before she fell asleep. Was she really that trusting that Inuyasha could protect her?
Now was his perfect chance. He could just reach over and snap her neck and he'd get a meddle for his bravely... even though it was a cowardly way out of this mess. Of course, then he'd have to kill everyone else to get rid of any suspicions and witnesses. When he got back everyone would assume the entire crew was killed by the crash, and him, being half-demon, had been strong enough to survive and make it out of the forest.
It was a good alibi and scenario...
Nah... maybe he could do it tomorrow night...
(A/N: See? I'm trying to be less mean to Kikyo than usual.)