A/N-You reviewers are complimenting my cool page break thingy more than my fic! Oh well, it is a very spiffy-looking page break thingy. I was messing around on the keyboard once and found these little symbols (I also pushed some keys that did some really weird stuff to the computer so I don't mess around on the keyboard anymore) Anyway, new chappie! And if you count Sunday as a part of last week, I updated four times this week! If you don't count it as a part of next week then it's only three ^_^ I watched six hours of anime last night and I'm SO tired. Never ever doing that again…It feels like I'm gonna fall over…

Disclaimer-Do I seem like I own the Inuyasha characters? If you answered no, you don't get a cookie but you're right. If you answered yes, you get a cookie because that is just plain flattering. ^_^

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When Did Things Get Complicated?

Chapter XIV

"How does your brother have it when mine does?" Kagome asked. "Is there more than one?"

Inu-Yasha shrugged. "I think there's only one. At least the man said there was only one."

"Man? What man?" Kagome asked.

"The same man I saw that day your father died," Inu-Yasha said. "What's that got to do wi-"

"What's his name?" Kagome asked urgently, clutching at his sleeve.

"Umm…Nuruka? Nubaku? I only heard his name once and that was a while ago but what's that got to do with any-"

"Naraku?! Is his name Naraku?!" Kagome asked frantically.

"That's it! Naraku! He…" Inu-Yasha began, but trailed off when Kagome stood and began to pace back and forth.

"What does the jewel do?" Kagome asked suddenly.

"I don't know. It's not like my brother would tell me," Inu-Yasha told her.

"Naraku…" Kagome muttered. "That bastard…He's doing something he's not supposed to be doing…I don't know what yet. Traitor…I'll bet he's responsible for my parents' deaths, and your father's too…How dare he?"

"What are you talking about?" Inu-Yasha asked, confused.

"I heard Lord Naraku and my brother talking earlier today and they talked about how the jewel was missing, and whether or not they should go into battle without it. Then, I had a sort of flashback and I my parents were talking," Kagome explained, telling him exactly what she heard.

After she was done, he was silent for a few moments, taking it all in.

"Well?!" Kagome burst out impatiently. She turned and made to storm out of the forest. "We have to go get him! I'll make sure that bastard pays for it all!" She started to stomp off but Inu-Yasha grabbed her arm.

"Oh no you don't. Listen to me alright? We have to get our thoughts collected first. We can't do anything until we figure this all out," Inu-Yasha said. (A/N-Gasp! Inuyasha's being rational!)

"He's a bastard, he killed my parents, and he's a traitor! What more do you need?!" Kagome shouted angrily.

Inu-Yasha spoke calmly. He realized that she wasn't angry with him but with Naraku. "Okay: He somehow has some sort of way to move the jewel from one kingdom to the other; he is a traitorous bastard; he may have had a hand in the deaths of your parents and my father; he's a powerful mortal lord; he has some sort of power over both my brother and yours; the jewel is dangerous and powerful, though how, we don't know."

Kagome waited until he was done and then wrenched her arm out of his grasp. "Now that the recount is over, I going to go get him," she said, turning again and stomping off.

Inu-Yasha sighed. She was usually the reasonable one of the two. He jumped up and landed in front of her. "Say you go back home and tell your brother-"

"Which I am going to do right now!" Kagome finished.

"Will he listen?" Inu-Yasha asked, looking at her pointedly.

Kagome sighed. "No…" she said in defeat, but then she straightened again and stared at him defiantly. "So I'll talk to Naraku himself!" she said, stomping around Inu-Yasha.

Inu-Yasha sighed again. He supposed he had to be the reasonable one right now. He jumped up again to land in front of her. "And what'll he do?"

Kagome looked at him for a moment in thought and then slumped in defeat. "He'll do something bad. Kill me maybe…"

"And if he is as powerful in your land as you say, no one will believe you," Inu-Yasha pointed out.

Kagome leaned against a tree for support. "So what do you propose we do then? We can't let him just get away with it!"

"I say we slowly unravel his plan ourselves. We'll just have to outsmart him. We can't beat him physically. He'll rip us apart. We'll just have to slowly plant the seed of doubt into everyone's heads," Inu-Yasha said, turning and walking towards the demon realm.

"Hey! Where're you going? We have to do something!" Kagome shouted, though he was already out of site. Kagome huffed angrily. So he wasn't going to do anything?! He was crazy!

She stomped back towards the castle, fuming. She stormed right past the guards at the front gate, taking them by surprise. She had always been bright and cheerful. By the time she had gotten inside, her temper was slightly doused. Now she only really wanted to rip off one of his arms and step on it instead of both his arms and his legs too.

She walked up the main stairs and turned down a hallway, and saw her brother walking towards her.

"Where is Lord Naraku?" Kagome demanded.

He looked down at her as if just realizing she were there. "He left. He'll join us for dinner tonight though." Then he continued to walk down the hall.

"He left?! What do you mean he left? You just let him LEAVE?!" Kagome cried, running to catch up to him.

"He has every right to leave," Shidosha answered gruffly. "Calm your temper sister. I don't know what you are so angry about, but shouting will not solve it."

"Only slicing Naraku to shreds will solve it," Kagome muttered.

"What was that?" her brother asked.

"It's just N…" Kagome began, but then remembered Inu-Yasha's words. He was right of course. "Nothing…" she sighed and turned to walk in the other direction towards her rooms.

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A/N-Naraku is evil! *Hiss hiss* Eviiiilll Naraku! Hmm…I have nothing else to say. Wow, that's a first…Or maybe a second…I dunno…I usually have something to say though. Well I don't, so review! Oh oops…forgot the review responses…

hyperchica11: It is awesome isn't it? I love it but no more messing around on the keyboard for me ^_^;;; I pushed some buttons that I don't think I was supposed to…

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Slycat: Yeah, I remembered they had samurai but samurai in shining armor just didn't sound right…

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True-Love: I have a project to do during math class! Yes!

Ame Tenshi: Yup, it was so worth it. I've still got three more hours to watch today so that I can give them back to her tomorrow. And then she'll give me more anime DVD's to watch ^_^ Wow, it really doesn't take much to make me happy does it?