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When Did Things Get Complicated?

By ChaChaChica

Chapter II

"What are you doing here?" the boy asked before Kagome could even say anything. She frowned. She thought she had been very quiet, but apparently not quiet enough.

"I'm lost," Kagome admitted to the boy, who still hadn't opened his eyes. "I was playing with my friends and the ball rolled into the forest but I got lost when I was looking for it."

"You sure have a bad sense of direction. You went the wrong way," the boy commented indifferently.

"Don't you think I know that?" Kagome exclaimed indignantly, placing her hands on her hips as best she could with a ball in her hands.

"You have some friends," the boy said sarcastically, his eyes still closed.

"I have great friends!" Kagome retorted.

"They're not here with you," the boy pointed out. "They just let you go in by yourself and didn't even offer to help? I would get better friends if I were you."

"They were afraid to go into the forest. They feared being eaten by demons. Had it been any other forest besides this one, they would have gladly come with me," Kagome replied matter-of-factly.

The boy opened his eyes now and looked down at her. Kagome saw that he had very nice amber-colored eyes.

"I don't see your friends here with you," Kagome said, looking around and seeing that he was alone.

"I don't have friends," the boy replied nonchalantly, closing his eyes again.

Kagome felt a bit sorry now. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be rude. Will you come down from there?"

The boy opened his eyes and Kagome saw him consider her request for a moment before he hopped off of the branch he had been laying on to land in front of Kagome.

That was when she noticed his ears. They weren't human ears. They were the ears of a dog demon.

Kagome gasped. "Your ears…"

He turned pink and reached up subconsciously to touch one of his ears.

"You're a demon," Kagome stated, though he and she both already knew that. She peered closely at him. "You don't look very dangerous or frightening…"

Then he made a face that she guessed was supposed to scare her, but only made her giggle.

He crossed his arms indignantly. "When I grow up, I'll be the most feared demon alive!"

"I won't be afraid of you," Kagome declared.

"Why not?" the boy asked, a little put out. Everyone was supposed to fear him if he said so.

"Because I'll look at you when you're all grown up and I'll remember that face you just pulled and I'll laugh," Kagome said, smiling.

The boy smiled as well. "Fine. You won't get eaten then."

"So what does your demon form look like?" Kagome asked eagerly for her father had told her that some demons had a more human-looking form, and then their demon form. She was guessing that this boy was in his human form right now since he looked very human except for his ears.

The boy turned pink. "I don't really have a demon form. I'm only half demon."

Then Kagome remembered the lord's daughter that had acted as a peace treaty between the two kingdoms ten years ago but she had died after giving birth to a child. "Was your mother mortal?"

The boy nodded.

"Are you the son of the king of the demon lands?" Kagome asked.

The boy hesitated a moment but then nodded again. "I'm Inu-Yasha. Who are you?"

"Kagome."

Inu-Yasha scratched his head. "Have I met you before? I've heard that name before. I know I have."

Kagome just shrugged. If he didn't know that she was a princess, she wasn't going to tell him.

Inu-Yasha still thought, trying to remember. Then he looked up at her. "You're Shinraisei's daughter aren't you?" he asked, saying the name of her father.

Kagome nodded.

"I've got to get home," Inu-Yasha said suddenly, turning around and running towards the other side of the clearing.

"No wait! Come back!" Kagome called. "At least tell me which way I have to go to get home!"

Inu-Yasha pointed towards the opposite direction he was going and then disappeared.

Kagome didn't know whether to trust his directions or not. For all she knew, he could have been pointing her towards the wrong way, but she went that way anyway, seeing as she had no better plans.

After some minutes of walking, she began to think he really had pointed in the wrong direction and she was getting very tired, but just as she was thinking this, she came out of the forest and saw the village. Kagome breathed a sigh of relief and ran for home.

As soon as both of her feet were inside the gates of the castle, her mother, Kikyo, came hurrying out of the great wooden double doors. That was when Kagome noticed that the sky was pink and the sun was setting. Kagome had spent a good part of the day wandering in the forest.

"Where have you been Kagome-hime?" Kikyo cried, pulling Kagome into an embrace. "You had me worried sick! Where have you been all day?"

"I…" Kagome began to tell her, but then decided against telling her about getting lost in the forest and talking to a demon, even if he was a half demon. If she told her that, her mother would either faint or go into hysterics and post guards around every inch of the castle so Kagome couldn't ever go into the forest again, though Kagome felt that once in the forest was more than enough for her, and, unless told to go in there, she would most likely not be wandering around that forest ever again. But, her mother wouldn't believe her and would post guards so that Kagome couldn't even go into the village anymore, so Kagome just told her she had been in the village, which wasn't all a lie. She had been in the village for a time.

"Kagome," Kikyo said, letting out an exasperated sigh. "You can't just go wandering around the villages!"

"Why not?" Kagome asked, pouting a little bit (She was seven years old after all, and didn't like being told she couldn't do something).

"What if you get kidnapped or injured or, worse yet, eaten or killed by a demon?" her mother answered briskly, leading Kagome back into the castle.

"Demons aren't all bad are they?" Kagome asked as her mother rushed her inside.

"Of course they are," Kikyo answered as if it were the easiest question in the world.

"But what if a demon is half and half?"

"Half and half of what dear?"

"Half demon and half human."

"There's no such thing. No sensible person in their right mind would ever marry or mate with a demon, and, even if there was such a thing and the person were insane, the child is still half demon," Kikyo answered.

"But what if-" Kagome began but was cut off by her mother.

"Why such curiosity about demons all of a sudden?" her mother asked, though she wasn't expecting an answer. "Enough talk of demons. They are no concern of yours. Now, go tell your father you're home safely."

"But-" Kagome protested.

"Don't tarry! He's been very worried about you," Kikyo scolded lightly, making shooing motions with her hands.

Kagome sighed in resignation. No one ever told her anything, just because she was seven. Her parents had never told her much about demons, only that they were dangerous and wicked and that she should stay away from them, but Inu-Yasha hadn't been dangerous or wicked. He had helped her get home when she would have most certainly wandered around that forest until she met some untimely end. And he didn't have any friends. Everyone should have friends.

After telling her father that she was back home (She had had to interrupt a meeting between him and a few important lords to tell him) her mother sent her to her room to finish her sewing. Her parents were hosting a banquet and dancing that night for some lords and ladies and, fortunately, Kagome was only required to put in a short appearance before she was able to slip back up into her room. She didn't sew like her mother told her to though. Instead she read and looked out the window until she grew tired and went to bed.

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