To Play Hate's Advocate

By: Fire

~Hate can be a very dangerous thing, and this is what hate did to Kagome.~

Disclaimer: I DO NOT own InuYasha and etc.

Authors note: Lots more terrible, and bad things set to happen in this short chapter, but soon to be long story. I made this chapter quickly, and there might be a little cliffhanger(starts snickering evilly) but the chapters are so short, I can update more often.

Chapter 2:

Given the Power

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Some would think it is impossible to love anything when they act so that they hate everything. Hence, Kagome didn't hate everything.

She hated the loved things, and loved the bad things.

She adored how the blade shimmered in the moonlight reflecting the faces of the sleeping, and un-expecting gang she traveled with.

'Well they aren't very much of a gang, maybe...' Taking the tip between her fingers, she lowered it down into her lap.

'I could join a real gang in my own time, get strong.....' She left the thought at on that then turned back to her friends to watch their face dance in shadows created by the fire near by.

She pulled the knife back with her arm to slide it into a hand made holder.

'What to do with them? Inu-Yasha wouldn't hurt me, and my blade is sharper then his claws.'

Kagome leaned back into a tree brushing a few annoying long sticks of tree wood out of the way.

'You should kill them all.'

'Huh?'

'Kill them, burn them, betray them.'

Kagome shivered feeling a jolt trailing up her spine at quick speeds.

"T-that didn't sound like me." She shook her head, allowing her hand to stroke hair out of her face while she thought over it briefly.

"My good and bad talking. Geez, I've REALLY lost it this time." Something was beginning to stab into her back painfully so instinctively she pulled forward.

'The sticks' The 'bad' voice rang again drawing her attention to the longer sticks spread near her.

'Burn them all, kill them in fire, you know you'd wish to.'

Kagome inhaled a shaky breath, shivering involuntary she slowly reached out to grab the stick.

A jolt ran through her fingers turning her body numb, but this went unnoticed as Kagome lifted it from the ground.

Her eyes slowly drained of color.

And that's when it happened, everything went blank.

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'Lady K?'

'Huh? Where am I?' Kagome couldn't look around, and saw nothing but darkness.

'Lady K, it is I.'

'Gee thanks, that helped.' She retorted sarcastically.

'I am your servant, fear not lady miko, you will meet me soon enough. I will help you, I will give you the power. There will be no one to bother you anymore.'

'What- what do you mean? I don't want your help!'

'You can't take it away Lady K, I've already even helped you, I've given you the power to rid yourself of them.'

'Them? Shit! You mean the gang -t-the wood-the fire! You couldn't make me kill them!!!'

'You did it for yourself miko, I just gave you the power.'

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'Ugg.' Kagome was awake, before her mind came into focus meaning the second she jumped up from the place where she rested, she fell just as fast.

It took her a few painfully long moments to get her scattered thoughts in order, and properly operate the body.

She stood up, squinting her eyes, and attempting to make out any distinct figure in the darkness.

Her efforts were more or less futile, it was like an empty black void.

Kagome would have been sure she were not some sort of dream, or other dimension if she hadn't smelt smoke.

At first reaction when it filled her lungs, she sneezed, and coughed. Soon the smoke failed to bother her, and blocked all distinct figures she at one time could see.

It was like someone was purposely blocking her from helping them.

'You could try to help them, but they would just think of you as getting in the way.' The strange voice hissed in her mind again.

Kagome thought it over, that was true... 'Fine then- screw them, they can do it themselves.'

The fog cleared up slightly, which usually would be a good thing some people would think. Yet when the smoke clears, and you see fire coming at you at high speeds, the normal reaction is to -panic- to fall.

Kagome stumbled on her own feet and crashed into the ground smacking her head into a root so hard, she wasn't sure if she were seeing double.

"Kagome! Where is Kagome!!!" She heard Sango's voice shout out in some random direction.

"Sango, if we stay here looking for her any longer there won't be anyone alive to look for her!"

Miroku's voice? Or maybe it was InuYasha.

Either way, she didn't care.

'So they would just leave without me- damn them! I'll make them pay.'

Kagome stood up clenching her fist so hard her nails dug into her skin.

'Pay~'

In a sharp shift of wind, Kagome froze. A sharpen stake of wood flew dangerously close to her head, and imbedded itself in a near by tree.

Kagome's breath was caught in her throat, and after a moment of shock, she backed up.

'They should pay, not you Kagome, kill them, kill them all.'

Her chest rose as she breathed deep breathing, futile trying to calm herself. She looked between the stake of wood, and her position now.

'Is it just me, or did that come dangerously close to killing me?' She asked, fully aware that the voice probably could hear her.

She waited for it's response, when it never came, she simply sighed and stood up.

If she was going to get them, then she might as well stay on their good side.

"Inu-Yasha? Inu-Yasha?!" She called out to the woods, picking the only direction away from the fire.

She waited for a response, none came.

"Inu-Yasha?" She started to run in a direction she could feel where the Shikon's shards were.

Passing a clearly visible tree, she peered passed it into a clearing.

"Wha-"

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Short chapter, I do know, but hey I'll update more often.

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