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When Did Things Get Complicated?

By ChaChaChica

Chapter III

"Where is Kagome?" Kikyo asked when the family was seated around the huge dining table at breakfast. "Send for Kagome-hime," she told a servant standing nearby, who, after receiving the request, curtsied and left the dining hall.

A few minutes later, the servant hurried back into the room without Kagome. She curtsied as she neared the table and said, "Kagome-hime is not in her room, nor in the library. She wasn't in the study either."

"Did you check the gardens?"

"Yes, your majesty."

Kikyo sighed. "Kagome, what are we going to do with you?"

"Kagome! You're alive!" one of Kagome's friends, Sango, called as she walked into the village.

"Of course I'm alive you ninny," Kagome said, laughing.

"I'm so glad! I'm sorry but I can't play today. I have to help mama in the garden," Sango said, hurrying back towards her mother's garden and calling over her shoulder, "I'll be able to play later though!"

Kagome turned and looked into the forest. She wondered whether Inu-Yasha would be in that clearing again. Yesterday, from the way he looked so comfortable in the clearing, he seemed to visit there often. Kagome walked to the edge of the forest, which was called the 'Between Forest' because it was between the demon realm and the human realm, and peered in, almost afraid to enter. When she had walked through the forest the day before, she had walked straight the direction Inu-Yasha had pointed, so if she walked straight in, not turning at all, she figured she should come to the clearing.

So many things could go wrong with that plan…but Kagome shrugged. If she had planned on having a safe life with no danger in it whatsoever, she would've stayed in the castle and endured her lessons, but she hadn't, so she stepped into the forest. Besides, he seemed like fun and he needed a friend. Kagome was determined for him to have a friend. She had never met a demon before and she found herself suddenly curious. Why did everyone fear them? Inu-Yasha didn't seem dangerous at all. He seemed just like her. A little kid who liked to have fun and get out of lessons.

This time, she didn't wander around. She walked in as straight a line as possible. Kagome thought that if she strayed from the straight line even a little bit, she would get lost again and most likely this time, no half-demon boy would point the way back home.

After what felt like an eternity to Kagome, even though it had really only been maybe half an hour, and she was just feeling like turning back around and walking straight out of the forest, she came upon a clearing. At first she couldn't tell whether it was the same clearing or not, but then she saw the rock she had sat upon when she had been just on the verge of giving up hope of ever getting out of the forest, and then she saw the tree Inu-Yasha had been laying in and knew that it was indeed the same clearing.

She looked around and found that he wasn't there, so she climbed up into the tree he had been laying in the day before and decided to wait and see if he would come.

Inu-Yasha sighed as he entered the forest, carrying a ball. He felt relieved to be outside. His father wouldn't care if he left. He probably wouldn't even notice. He and Sesshoumaru, Inu-Yasha's older half-brother, were always talking in his father's study. He didn't know what they talked about, only that he wasn't allowed to come and bother them. Not that he wanted to know what they talked about anyway. He was only eight. Whatever they talked about was probably not going to be something he would be interested in hearing. He would be in trouble with his tutor though, but he'd deal with that later.

Then Inu-Yasha stopped as he remembered the girl, Kagome. He wondered whether she was going to be there again. Then he shook his head and continued walking. She had been lost. She wouldn't wander into the forest again after being lost. She'd just get lost again. He did wonder vaguely if she got home okay though. 

His father had always told him that humans weren't to be trusted. They were deceitful and full of artifice (A/N-Bonus points for me for using an English vocab word!) and Sesshoumaru told him, in his less watered-down-by-pretty-words-description, that they were filthy back stabbers. Inu-Yasha frowned. Kagome didn't seem like a back stabber and she certainly didn't seem deceitful. But he couldn't be around her anyway. Sesshoumaru would laugh at him and make fun of the fact that he was a hanyou who liked to hang around humans. Inu-Yasha already got enough of that as it was and he didn't want to give Sesshoumaru something more to make fun of him about.

He soon found the clearing in the forest he went to just about everyday (needless to say, his tutor was getting very angry but he always came back in time for another three hours of lessons so it wasn't like he wasn't learning at all). He immediately looked at the other side of the clearing. There was no human girl sitting on the rock or entering the clearing from the other side. Inu-Yasha couldn't tell if he was glad or disappointed, but he decided not to think about it anymore.

He was just heading over towards the tree he usually sat in when he caught a weird scent. He tried to figure out what it was but it was something he had never smelled before…Wait! He had smelled it once before. He had smelled it yesterday when Kagome was in the clearing. He looked around. Where was she then?

Then he continued to walk to his tree, this time walking backwards so that he could keep his eyes on the other side of the clearing as he walked.

"Why are you walking like that?" a voice asked from above him.

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