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When Did Things Get Complicated

Chapter X

She jerked her head up and squinted into the darkness, trying to see who it was between tear blurred eyes. Her eyes weren't adjusted to the dark since her head had been buried in her arms. She thought she recognized the voice but she couldn't be too sure. She jumped up and whipped out her sword.

"Who's there? I'm armed and if you take one step towards me I'll slice you in half. I do know how to use it," she said threateningly.

"Kagome?" Inu-Yasha said again, walking closer so that she might see him.

She wiped her tears away and tried to see who it was again. That voice…She knew it…But it couldn't be him. His white hair would stick out like a tropical bird in a coop of house sparrows.

"Inu-Yasha?" she asked uncertainly, squinting as her eyes began to adjust to the darkness. Then she saw him…But it wasn't him. He had black hair…But it was him. "Inu-Yasha? What happened?"

He reached up and scratched his head awkwardly. "Well, I know I should've told you…But…I turn human once every month when there's no moon. I'm sorry I didn't tell you. I meant to really…I just-"

"Inu-Yasha!" Kagome cried, letting her sword fall to the ground. Then she ran over and threw her arms around him, sobbing.

Getting over his surprise, he wrapped his arms around her and buried his face into her hair.

Then, as if remembering something, Kagome pulled back and glared at him. "What are you doing here?"

Inu-Yasha smirked and then looked around the clearing as if examining it. "Nope, not there…"

"What's not there?" Kagome snapped.

"Your name. It doesn't say 'Kagome's clearing' so doesn't that make it everyone's?" he asked.

A smile tugged at her lips for the briefest of moments but then it was gone, replaced once again by the glare. Then she turned and started to make her way out of the clearing.

"No, no come back," Inu-Yasha called, running after her and grabbing her arm.

She wrenched it out of his grasp, which wasn't too hard to do when he was human because he didn't have his demon strength.

"Why should I?" she asked coldly.

That stung. He wasn't about to pretend it didn't. His face fell, but he went on determinedly. "Listen to me Kagome!" he called as she began to leave again.

Again she asked, "Why should I?"

"Why won't you just listen to me?" he asked, running after her again.

She stopped as she remembered herself saying those words to her brother and how he still wouldn't listen. She didn't want to be like her brother. She wanted to do everything possible to be the exact opposite of her brother. She sighed and turned. "Talk fast."

"You think I helped kill your father don't you?" Inu-Yasha asked.

"I don't think, I know!" Kagome told him, eyes flashing dangerously.

He grabbed her shoulders and made her look at him. "Well then you know wrong! I didn't do anything! That day that I was late coming to the clearing….My father scheduled extra lessons for me and I didn't even know about it until the late afternoon. You've got to believe me!"

"Why should I?" she asked quietly, looking away, tears welling up in her eyes again.

"I came to the clearing and you were gone. I was going to tell you the next day but you didn't come. I didn't even find out that your father was…dead until I got home from coming here and finding you gone," Inu-Yasha told her, trying to make her believe him. "I had nothing to do with it! I tried to tell you. I came to the clearing everyday for two weeks trying to find the chance to tell you!"

Kagome pressed her lips together in a thin line and then looked up at him, shoving him, hard. "You had nothing to do with it? Nothing to do with it?!" she cried, shoving him again and again to emphasize her words. "You told them! You liar! You told them! I trusted you and you told them!" she shouted, jabbing her finger into his chest, punctuating key words. "Human aren't the liars. Demons are the wicked," jab in the chest, "evil," another jab in the chest, "backstabbers," two more jabs in the chest. "I can't believe you! You have some nerve just talking to me right now when I made it quite clear last time that I wanted nothing more to do with you!"

Inu-Yasha shoved her back, getting angry now. "I don't know what you're talking about! What did I tell them?"

Kagome shoved him back. "You know what you told them!"

Inu-Yasha shoved her again. "Enlighten me because I don't know what I told them but you seem to know exactly what I said."

"You told them," she said, spitting out the word 'them,' "how to get into the castle!"

"How am I supposed to know how to get into your castle?" he asked.

"I told you, that's how! I know I did because I remember it! I was up in that tree," she said, stabbing her finger into the air towards a tree not too far off, "and you said I smelled like oranges and then I told you that I had to hurry out of the castle before my mother stopped me. Then you asked if I had to sneak out and I said yes. You asked how. I answered, 'climbing the wall' and you seemed to be so amazed that I could scale so large a wall and I told you there was ivy towards the back where the kitchens are, where there aren't many guards!" Kagome shouted, her eyes tearing up again. "I told you everything. I trusted you and now I don't even now you!"

"You remembered all that?" Inu-Yasha asked quietly.

Kagome turned away. "Of course I do."

"Kagome, I didn't tell them anything. They still don't even know I'm friends with you. My father and my brother think I've meeting some demon noble's daughter in the woods. I never told them anything. I still never tell them anything! Did you really think I would do something like that?" he asked, hurt that she would think something so low of him.

"But…" Kagome said, blinking. She was torn with indecision. Was he telling the truth? She wanted to say that he was but she still couldn't be sure. "Then how'd they know?"

Inu-Yasha shrugged. "I have no idea. The only thing I remember of that day after leaving the forest was that man."

"What man?"

"A really creepy man actually, now that I remember it. I never did figure out what he was doing there but I didn't like him," Inu-Yasha recalled.

"You didn't do it…?" Kagome asked softly, as if just taking all this in. "You didn't do it…" she said louder this time and with more certainty. Then she burst into tears again and threw her arms around him. "I'm so sorry Inu-Yasha. I can't believe I ever thought you'd do anything like that. I'm so sorry. I should've come back and listened to you and now I'm just as bad as my brother. He won't listen to me no matter how many times I try to tell him. He just won't listen and I'm afraid that one day, after a day of fighting, the troops will march back and my brother won't be with them. Sango has the same fears as me about her father and mother looks so tired and sad and I can't do anything about it because he won't listen to me…"

"You know, if I were ten years old again and you came crying to be, I'd call you a sissy," Inu-Yasha said, recalling a time when Kagome was crying in the clearing when he was ten years old and she was nine. She had told him that she didn't feel like she belonged anywhere because she was so different from all of the other noble ladies in her father's court. Inu-Yasha had felt like that numerous times but he had been too introvert to tell her that so he just called her a sissy. Then she just laughed and pushed him to the ground saying, "I'll show you sissy!"

Kagome let out something between a laugh and a sob. He couldn't really tell which.

"I've tried to talk to my father too and he won't listen either. I just don't understand it. He always seems to know just where your people's troops are…It seems to me like you have a traitor among your people," Inu-Yasha mused.

"What?" Kagome gasped, pulling back slightly to look up at him.

"Well, father has a map in his study that has pins where all your troops are. It looked like he knew where they all were. And that map certainly couldn't have been made by any of my father's people since none of them ever wander into the mortal lands and don't know the land enough to make a map of it," Inu-Yasha said, and, seeing he still had his arms around Kagome, he blushed and then stepped back a little bit.

Kagome frowned. A traitor? But who? That would explain the demons knowing about the ivy and the guards…Plenty of people would have seen her perhaps…But would they really sink so low as to go against their own people? Who would do such a thing?

Kagome sighed in frustration and sat with her back pressed against the rock again. "When did things get so complicated?"

Inu-Yasha shrugged. "When we grew up I suppose."

"When did that happen?" Kagome mused.

"I don't know," Inu-Yasha said, looking around the clearing. He hadn't been there for so long. This was the first night he had come there since the early fall and it was late spring now. He knew that place so well. He remembered the tree where he had first met Kagome and the tree he had found her sitting in the next day.

He turned back towards Kagome to find her studying him. He shifted nervously.

"You haven't changed a bit," Kagome remarked, smiling.

"Well let's hope I have. If I haven't changed since I was eight years old I'm in trouble," Inu-Yasha said, smirking slightly. He drew himself up. "Have I grown taller at least?"

Kagome laughed. Then she sighed. "So what now?"

Inu-Yasha said nothing. There was nothing he could really say to that. He didn't have an answer for her though he wished he did.

She sighed again. "Has your father shoved you into marriage yet?"

Inu-Yasha shook his head and leaned against a tree. "No, not to say that he didn't try. How about your mother? Did she set up meetings with all of the eligible nobles' sons?"

"Pretty much but luckily I find something wrong with all of them. My mother is getting frustrated as you can imagine," Kagome said, resting her chin on her knees. After some moments of silence, Kagome yawned (A/N-Weird…Just as I wrote that Kagome yawned, I yawned…Weird…) and stood. "Well, as much as I'd prefer to stay here for the rest of my life, I had better get some sleep tonight or I'll pass out at breakfast tomorrow."

Inu-Yasha nodded and looked at the sky, just barely tinted with purplish-pink light. "I'm glad you came," he said, still looking up at the sky.

Kagome nodded. "I am too." She walked over and gave him another hug and then looked up at him. "I've missed you so much. Winter was absolute torture. I had no one to talk to except Sango and she only came when her mother didn't need any help around the house. And, you know, even though I thought you betrayed me and I thought that it was my fault he died, I still wanted to see you."

"Well, at least you had Sango. I had no one. I never talked to my brother. I still don't, if I can help it. And my father talked to me every once in awhile, but it was always about war strategies or things to do with ruling a kingdom or some crap like that."

"I'm sorry," Kagome said again.

"You already said that."

"I know but I'm saying it again. I'm so glad I have you back," she said, leaning her head against his chest.

He pulled her back slightly and looked at her. "How can you have me back when you didn't lose me to begin with?" he asked softly.

Kagome smiled, her eyes shining. Then she leaned forward and kissed him, surprising them both. She jumped back. "Sorry…I just-"

He cut her off by pulling her back into his arms and kissing her. Her lips felt warm against his and it felt so good to hold her in his arms. He had missed her even more than he had thought. But now she was back and he was so glad that she was.

After their lips parted, Kagome opened her eyes. "Your hair…It's back to normal and your ears are back."

"Yes," he said, reaching up and feeling his ears. "Damn ears…"

"I like your ears," Kagome said, smiling and reaching up to feel them. Then she looked at the sky which was turning a light yellowish-pink color and she jumped. "Oh! I have to get home. My mother will be furious if she finds out I went outside at night."

Inu-Yasha grabbed her hand as she was turning to leave. "Meet me here later?"

"I'll come after dinner," Kagome told him and then hurriedly left the clearing.

Inu-Yasha smiled and left the clearing as well, whistling all the way home. 

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A/N-Hahaha! I'm so happy they're back together again ^_^ I love this chapter
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