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IllusionaryExistence - I completely agree. I dislike all who interferes with Kagome and Inuyasha's relationship.
Draga - Yes, I can imagine him doing this stuff as well. He has always been a bit weird in the anime, in my opinion. Sorry, but I don't think I'll get to explaining what's in the bullet until next chapter! But, I do already know what's in there. I'm just not sure how I'm going to have it explained. Hope you're going to like the idea, though. ^_^
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InuLover12 - Thanks Inu! It's people like you that motivate me to write more. I appreciate it.
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Hopefully this chapter isn't TOO short. But I really felt like I needed to end it there. On with the chapter!
~~*~~ Chapter Three ~~*~~
After promising Inuyasha that he could come visit her late tonight she managed to go back to her time. She climbed out of the well and jogged to the door after seeing her Mom was already home. She burst through the door, "Mama!"
"Kagome! Oh, Kagome. Are you all right? I was so worried when your Aunt told me what had happened," her mom said, worry obvious in her face.
"I'm fine Mama, really." She pried her mother's arms off of her, to let her lungs breath again. Mrs. Higurashi looked over her daughter and traced the cut on her face with her finger.
"I'll go find some ointment for that right away," she said heading toward the stairs.
After following her mother for a moment she asked, "Where is Aunt Yukishi?"
"Oh, she is in the kitchen helping with dinner."
"She said it was Inuyasha, didn't she?" Kagome said, with a lowered voice.
"It wasn't him Mama, I promise. It was-"
"Kagome, listen." She said unscrewing the cap that belonged to a red tube. "I want you to rest, I don't want to upset you but there is a 50% chance that Inuyasha did in fact do this to you."
Kagome couldn't believe her ears, her eyes widened with surprise. "You.you actually think Inuyasha would hurt me!"
"Kagome, please! The doctor said not to let you get upset. You'll wind up back in the hospital," she said with a quiet voice, rubbing a clear cream on her daughter's cut.
"I saw Hojo, what more proof would you need than that. And I know Yukishi is in on it. She said Hojo was over there at her house! I've only-"
"From all the stories you have told me from your adventures, it seems the feudal era consists of much magic," she interrupted, putting the red tube back in the cabinet. "Inuyasha could have easily disguised himself as Hojo. You told me once that he despised him. Besides, last week I told your Aunt to invite Hojo over to her house. His family has been having problems so he asked if he could stay over at our house. And I wouldn't allow him to be here with only you two alone, so I told him to go over to Yukishi's house. Then when I came home I'd pick him up. Though, he wasn't there when I arrived. After I came home, him and Yukishi filled me in on the story. When you were unconscious on the kitchen floor, Yukishi saw a brown-headed boy turn into a white haired man and then go toward the well-house. Your Aunt doesn't even know about the bone-eaters well. So, how would she make something like that up? See, your Aunt isn't the bad guy."
Kagome ran her fingers thru her soft hair in anger. 'That's true...how would she know about the well?' "But, I don't understand. Are you saying that Hojo is coming over here to stay?" she plunged onto her mother's bed.
"Yes, your doctor told me not to let you strain. But please, trust me, it isn't Hojo. I'll tell you the rest as soon as you get better, I promise. And if you still don't trust me now. I promise I wont let Hojo get anywhere near you. I'll stay up all night if I have to while you sleep."
Her mother gave Kagome a sweet smile. The smile that always made Kagome feel better made her sick. 'How could she do this? Did she care at all what had happened the past couple of days? Why was she acting as if it were no big deal?'
Her mother turned back around, before leaving the room. "Oh and honey, I really think you should stay away from Inuyasha for a while...just to be on the safe side."
"But Mama, I can't do that. It's not Inuyasha!" 'Is that why she was acting so calm, because she thinks she caught the culprit?'
Mrs. Higurashi squinted her eyes with inner pain. "I know how you are feeling right now Kagome, just for the next couple of days. Please, please trust me. Come down to dinner, you don't even have to talk to Hojo. I'll tell him your not feeling well, at least come down long enough to eat."
Her mother shut the door. "Hojo is the one who hurt me," she said under her breath. She gave herself a few moments to push down her emotions.
'This isn't right at all. Is there something that Aunt Yukishi told my mother to make her act this way? She's trusting Hojo more than she is me. She won't even let me get near Inuyasha.'
Her stomach growled loudly, interrupting her thoughts, "Well, he won't hurt me while my whole family is in there. I'll just hurry up and eat, then I'll be able to stay in my room for the rest of the night without getting hungry and I can figure this out."
She walked down the stairs slowly, obviously in a bad mood. She stepped into the crowded kitchen. After seeing Hojo at the sink washing some vegetables, she stood there shocked. She still couldn't believe her mother would actually let him in the house after all of this. Even if she was 100% positive it wasn't him, she still should have not let him stay here if Kagome didn't feel comfortable with it. She grabbed a plate from the counter and quickly tossed food on it, and ran to the table. She sat down on the empty table and began eating hurriedly, before anyone else started eating as well.
Kagome looked at her plate throughout most of her meal; suddenly she looked up from the table to find Hojo on the other side. She began choking on her tofu. Hojo flashed an amused smile, "Kagome, I know you think it's me. But I promise I have no idea what's going on. I wouldn't hurt you, but if you're in disbelief I'll stay away from you until I leave." His eyes turned into arches as a huge grin plastered across his face.
"Good," she said touching her throat, still trying to get the stuck tofu down. As she began forcing food quicker into her mouth, she found herself choking once more as a screechy voice sounded from the other room.
"Look! I told you Kagome would overcome thinking it was Hojo, look they're eating together right now! How adorable." It was her Aunt, she pointed at the table while her mother from behind flashed a reassuring smile.
Kagome was horrified. "I didn't ask for him to sit with me, I just wanted to eat! I still think he's a lunatic!" But no one heard, except Hojo. Her mother and Aunt had gone back to gossiping about something or the other, completely oblivious to her feeling.
"It's okay, Kagome. I understand you need time to heal. Trust me, if someone who looked like you came in and attacked me, then was invited as a guest to my house afterwards I surely wouldn't take it lightly." He laughed loudly, expecting her to join in.
"It's not funny," She slammed her palm on the table. "I'm not that thick, I know it was you. I don't care if no one believes me. I will find a way to prove myself." She stood up quickly from the table and walked out of the room fuming. She walked upstairs as tears stained the brims of her eyes. Stepping in her room she slammed the door behind her and leaned against it.
"Kagome?"
Kagome gasped and snapped her eyes open. "Oh, Inuyasha. I wasn't expecting you to come this early." She lifted her head up slightly, hoping he wouldn't notice the few tears in her eyes.
He sat cross-legged in the middle of her bed, "something wrong?"
She went over to her desk and sat down on the wooden chair, "Mama doesn't want you to come over anymore. She doesn't want me having any company for a while."
"Your Mom doesn't trust me anymore? What the hell is she thinking? I've always protected you in my era," he shrugged as if he could care less what her mother thought; nothing would stop him from coming over to check on her.
Kagome set her elbow on her desk and buried her forehead in her palms. "I don't know what her problem is." She stood up from her chair and went toward the door, and locked it. "We'll have to be quiet. I don't want her to know you've been coming over here."
"But what about you coming over to my era, and the jewel shards?"
Kagome had forgotten about the shards. She put her back against the door in thought. "I'll pretend I'm going to school, then make my way to the well tomorrow. Okay?"
"Yeah, sure. Whatever."
Kagome rolled her eyes. Skipping school without a parent's permission could have major consequences, if only Inuyasha could see that. If only he could see how much she went through just to help him recover the shards. She placed herself back in front of her desk. "Why don't you go ahead and go back? I'll see you tomorrow, besides I'm really tired tonight."
Inuyasha stood up and headed toward the window. After remembering that Hojo was still in the house, she added "-And if you want, you can come back and check on me later. I mean, if you want to."
He had planned to sit outside the window on a tree for the rest of the night anyways, even without her permission. He opened the window and stepped out.
"Night Inuyasha."
He jumped down, and walked away from her house, he turned around to see her window shut. He jumped back up into the tree and nestled himself into a comfortable spot, so he could watch over her for the rest of the night.
Kagome opened up her diary and began scribbling everything that had happened the past couple of days, hoping if she wrote down everything she would come up with some sort of conclusion. After she finished, she closed the book and fell into a trance while staring deep into her velvet-covered diary. A tug at her stomach pulled her out of her thoughts. "Ouch," She clutched her stomach only to find out that made it worse. She lifted up her shirt a few inches to check on the wound, the white bandages that were wrapped around her stomach was stained with purple. "What is that?" she asked herself.
She rose from her desk and headed toward the bathroom. Looking into the mirror above the sink she began unwrapping the bandages, to clean off the purple ointment. Though, when she unraveled the last strip, she was shocked. The purple wasn't something the doctor had put on; it was coming out from inside of her, "Oh gross!" Quickly, she bandaged herself back up unable to look at it any longer.
She began mentally questioning the eerie liquid as she dressed for bed. 'I'm sure it's no big deal, probably just something the doctor inserted into me to ease the pain,' brushing off any further inquires she left the bathroom, turned out all the lights that occupied her room and flopped down on her bed to get some much needed rest.
"Kagome."
"What?" she grunted.
"Kagome, wake up"
Kagome opened her eyes into slits, until she saw the man who was hovering over her. She forced her hands upwards to push the man away, but they didn't make contact.
Just as her mouth opened to scream for help, Hojo's hand slapped across her lips to prevent any noise from escaping.
"Shut up and come with me."
Hojo only heard a mumbled response so he lifted up his hands.
"Inu-!"
Hojo placed his hands back on her mouth, "Don't waste you breath, there's no use in calling for that fool."
"Huh?"
"He's dead."
Kagome's eyes widened with fear as Hojo let go of her mouth and he stepped away from the bed, pointing at something on the floor, "See, I killed him."
Kagome followed where he was pointing at, only to find a dead body on the floor. The body that belonged to Inuyasha. His eyes were closed and mouth slightly open, his kimono was torn in several places, and through his heart was a knife stained with the hanyou's blood.
"No.no, Inuyasha!" tears fell down her eyes, "Inuyasha." She reached out toward his body.
"Bam!"
She fell off her bed, and knocked the ground hard while trying to reach out to her dead friend. Her eyes opened and nothing was there.no dead body, no Hojo, 'A dream? I was dreaming?' she put a hand against her chest. Her heart was in pain, the type of pain that's caused from losing a loved one. Whipping the sweat from her forehead she freed herself from the sheets that clasped her body, and went downstairs for a glass of water.
Sleep still filling her eyes, and her brain in a daze she reached for a glass and instantly filled it with cool water. Drinking it as she ascended the stairs back to her room a thought crossed her mind.
'What if it wasn't a dream?'
'It had to have been a dream. I didn't see Inuyasha when I woke up, nor Hojo.'
'But what if it wasn't a dream, Maybe it was real and when I reached for him I passed out, or hit my head and knocked out. Then he hid the body and- " Kagome stopped herself. She laughed slightly at the conclusions she was coming up with due to lack of sleep. 'I'm being stupid, everything is fine.'
She laid her hand on the doorknob and began to walk inside, as she saw a corpse she dropped her water and screamed. She reached over to turn on the lights, her heart banging roughly against her chest. The lights quickly illuminated that the 'corpse' was nothing more than her sheets and pillow that had scattered on the floor when she fell off the bed. She put her hands against he chest and took in a deep breath. "Okay, Kagome stop being stupid," turning back off the lights she returned to her bed, unable to go back to sleep.
*Inuyasha POV on the dream* I know this isn't much, but I felt I needed to write something about Inuyasha.
Inuyasha rested on his branch. He felt more at peace being only feet away from Kagome versus hundreds of years. Being able to keep track of her heartbeat in his ears relaxed him. His eyes fluttered before finally closing. His head titled downwards onto his chest and he drifted into a light sleep.
Not long afterwards, the slow paced heartbeat that was in his hears changed and began to over power his senses. The beats began to come louder and quicker. His eyes shot open and his claws fell to his side, ready to unsheathe the Tetsusiaga at any moment if needed. The eyes of the hanyou strained, he focused on the Kagome's body that lay on the bed. Nothing appeared to be wrong. He moved closer to the house, determined to figure out the problem. He peered closely into the window, trying to find any sign of movement.
Kagome darted upwards on her bed, shocking Inuyasha so much that he almost fell from his branch. Regaining his balance he sat back up and peered back into her room to see what had disturbed her, but she wasn't there.
"Shit!" I take my eyes off her one second and I lose her."
He eased up carefully toward the house, gripping the bark on the tree so he wouldn't lose his balance again. He cracked the window a few inches, and stuck his cold nose inside the warm room, trying to get any scent of Kagome from afar. But, the scent that already resided inside the room overpowered him too much.
Her door flew open and a scream came. Inuyasha slammed the window shut and backed away hurriedly, thinking she was screaming at him. But as lights illuminated the room he realized her eyes were on the floor, where a pile of sheets lay bundled up.
'What was that all about? Did she think a person had snuck in?' He thought about crawling into the room and making sure everything was all right. But had second thoughts, once seeing her all ready crawling in bed.
He backed up into his perch as thoughts flooded his mind. Keeping a closer eye on Kagome than before.
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Kagome sat at the table that morning, yet with her thoughts still on the events last night.
"Don't you think so Kagome?"
"Oh, I'm sorry. What was that Mama?" she asked for the second time, fiddling with her breakfast.
"Are you okay, dear? You look sick."
'What do you think is wrong with me? You've banned me to see Inuyasha, two people whom I hate almost as much as Naraku are living in my house. Should I be happy about that?'
"Kagome, I asked you a question. Are you sick?" her mother repeated, as Aunt Yukishi settled beside Mrs. Higurashi for breakfast.
"I think I'm going to be now," she said under her breath.
"Kagome! When you see Inuyasha today can you give him this?" Sota asked bursting into the room, carrying a piece of paper in his hand.
Sota handed her the piece of paper and she looked at it with surprise. It was a drawing of Inuyasha, colored with crayons and Sota's name on the bottom corner. "Wow Sota! This is great!"
"But, Kagome isn't allowed to see Inuyasha," Yukishi said grabbing the paper from Kagome's hand and folding it up.
"I'm not allowed to see Inuyasha for a while. But that doesn't mean forever," she grabbed the paper from her Aunt's grip, her glanced changed back to Sota. "I'll give it to him as soon as I can."
"Thanks Kagome." Sota said, a little confused, "What do you mean you can't see him?"
Knowing an argument was about to erupt, Mrs. Higurashi interrupted, "Sota, go on and get changed."
Kagome glanced at the time. 'Oh no. I have to hurry and leave before Hojo so he won't see me skip school.' "Mama, I better go ahead and leave. I want to be early for school."
Mrs. Higurashi smiled, and her eyes softened. "Oh my dear, wanting to go to school early? I haven't heard that in such a long time!"
Kagome flashed a false smile and began to walk toward the door before guilt began to set in. "Bye!"
Kagome rushed outside a good distance away from the door, shaking in the process from the freezing wind that whipped her bare skin. Looking over her shoulder to make sure no one was around she darted toward the well-house.
"Kagome!" She stopped dead in her tracks as she heard her mom's voice from afar.
'Oh no!' She crouched lower, hoping not to be recognized. She couldn't determine where the voice came from.
"Don't worry about it Mrs. Higurashi. I'll take her coat to her."
There was a moment of hesitation from Mrs. Higurashi.
"Don't worry, I'll just give it to her and walk away. I won't even say anything to her."
"Oh no, I didn't mean it like that. But here, thanks. Have a nice day Hojo."
"Thanks Mrs. Higurashi! You too!"
"Great, now he's going to look for me. Maybe this wasn't such a good idea," she took a step back and began to turn around. "No, I have to go. I promised Inuyasha." Feeling disobedient toward her mother, she hastily approached the well-house before another rejecting thought could cross her mind.
Kagome knew she would face consequences that night when she returned and Hojo asked her why he couldn't find her in class. Yet, deep down she knew she still had to go, this was more important, finding jewel shard were more important, seeing Inuyasha was more important.
With that final thought she quietly closed the doors, and approached the well. She picked up her yellow pack from the corner and tossed it on her shoulders. Placing her hands on the cool wooden surface she peered deep down in to the darkness, 'Here I go.'
After the normal routine of engulfing lights, she looked up out of the well and was greeted by a blinding sun. As she climbed out of the well she peered around. There was no sign of Inuyasha around, "I would of thought he'd be waiting for me."
Kagome began to approach the path toward the village, until she heard a rustle of leaves behind her. Turning around, her eyes searched for reason of the movement and found no one. She drew her hands closer to her body and shivered at the cold atmosphere.
"Kagome."
"Huh?" she whipped around quickly, scared. She knew that voice..but how? As she turned around her eyes met the ones of deep, dark brown ones. There, Hojo stood only a few feet away from her.
"You forgot your coat," he said holding out her brown jacket in front of him, with a bone-chilling smile.
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Okay, hope you enjoyed this chapter. I know Hojo shouldn't be allowed to go down the well but I figured it wasn't too big of a deal. I'm going to work hard on the fourth chapter so as soon as I get 25 reviews I'm promising to upload it! (And next chapter will be much longer!) Now, that I'm out of school I have plenty of time to work on it, at least I hope. Any suggestions on my writing would be greatly appreciated. Or if you have any ideas of something you think would fit good with my story let me hear them! Creative criticism is always welcomed. Well, goodbye for now.
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Anubaka - If you hate her now, you'll probably hate her even more in future chapters.
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IllusionaryExistence - I completely agree. I dislike all who interferes with Kagome and Inuyasha's relationship.
Draga - Yes, I can imagine him doing this stuff as well. He has always been a bit weird in the anime, in my opinion. Sorry, but I don't think I'll get to explaining what's in the bullet until next chapter! But, I do already know what's in there. I'm just not sure how I'm going to have it explained. Hope you're going to like the idea, though. ^_^
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Hopefully this chapter isn't TOO short. But I really felt like I needed to end it there. On with the chapter!
~~*~~ Chapter Three ~~*~~
After promising Inuyasha that he could come visit her late tonight she managed to go back to her time. She climbed out of the well and jogged to the door after seeing her Mom was already home. She burst through the door, "Mama!"
"Kagome! Oh, Kagome. Are you all right? I was so worried when your Aunt told me what had happened," her mom said, worry obvious in her face.
"I'm fine Mama, really." She pried her mother's arms off of her, to let her lungs breath again. Mrs. Higurashi looked over her daughter and traced the cut on her face with her finger.
"I'll go find some ointment for that right away," she said heading toward the stairs.
After following her mother for a moment she asked, "Where is Aunt Yukishi?"
"Oh, she is in the kitchen helping with dinner."
"She said it was Inuyasha, didn't she?" Kagome said, with a lowered voice.
"It wasn't him Mama, I promise. It was-"
"Kagome, listen." She said unscrewing the cap that belonged to a red tube. "I want you to rest, I don't want to upset you but there is a 50% chance that Inuyasha did in fact do this to you."
Kagome couldn't believe her ears, her eyes widened with surprise. "You.you actually think Inuyasha would hurt me!"
"Kagome, please! The doctor said not to let you get upset. You'll wind up back in the hospital," she said with a quiet voice, rubbing a clear cream on her daughter's cut.
"I saw Hojo, what more proof would you need than that. And I know Yukishi is in on it. She said Hojo was over there at her house! I've only-"
"From all the stories you have told me from your adventures, it seems the feudal era consists of much magic," she interrupted, putting the red tube back in the cabinet. "Inuyasha could have easily disguised himself as Hojo. You told me once that he despised him. Besides, last week I told your Aunt to invite Hojo over to her house. His family has been having problems so he asked if he could stay over at our house. And I wouldn't allow him to be here with only you two alone, so I told him to go over to Yukishi's house. Then when I came home I'd pick him up. Though, he wasn't there when I arrived. After I came home, him and Yukishi filled me in on the story. When you were unconscious on the kitchen floor, Yukishi saw a brown-headed boy turn into a white haired man and then go toward the well-house. Your Aunt doesn't even know about the bone-eaters well. So, how would she make something like that up? See, your Aunt isn't the bad guy."
Kagome ran her fingers thru her soft hair in anger. 'That's true...how would she know about the well?' "But, I don't understand. Are you saying that Hojo is coming over here to stay?" she plunged onto her mother's bed.
"Yes, your doctor told me not to let you strain. But please, trust me, it isn't Hojo. I'll tell you the rest as soon as you get better, I promise. And if you still don't trust me now. I promise I wont let Hojo get anywhere near you. I'll stay up all night if I have to while you sleep."
Her mother gave Kagome a sweet smile. The smile that always made Kagome feel better made her sick. 'How could she do this? Did she care at all what had happened the past couple of days? Why was she acting as if it were no big deal?'
Her mother turned back around, before leaving the room. "Oh and honey, I really think you should stay away from Inuyasha for a while...just to be on the safe side."
"But Mama, I can't do that. It's not Inuyasha!" 'Is that why she was acting so calm, because she thinks she caught the culprit?'
Mrs. Higurashi squinted her eyes with inner pain. "I know how you are feeling right now Kagome, just for the next couple of days. Please, please trust me. Come down to dinner, you don't even have to talk to Hojo. I'll tell him your not feeling well, at least come down long enough to eat."
Her mother shut the door. "Hojo is the one who hurt me," she said under her breath. She gave herself a few moments to push down her emotions.
'This isn't right at all. Is there something that Aunt Yukishi told my mother to make her act this way? She's trusting Hojo more than she is me. She won't even let me get near Inuyasha.'
Her stomach growled loudly, interrupting her thoughts, "Well, he won't hurt me while my whole family is in there. I'll just hurry up and eat, then I'll be able to stay in my room for the rest of the night without getting hungry and I can figure this out."
She walked down the stairs slowly, obviously in a bad mood. She stepped into the crowded kitchen. After seeing Hojo at the sink washing some vegetables, she stood there shocked. She still couldn't believe her mother would actually let him in the house after all of this. Even if she was 100% positive it wasn't him, she still should have not let him stay here if Kagome didn't feel comfortable with it. She grabbed a plate from the counter and quickly tossed food on it, and ran to the table. She sat down on the empty table and began eating hurriedly, before anyone else started eating as well.
Kagome looked at her plate throughout most of her meal; suddenly she looked up from the table to find Hojo on the other side. She began choking on her tofu. Hojo flashed an amused smile, "Kagome, I know you think it's me. But I promise I have no idea what's going on. I wouldn't hurt you, but if you're in disbelief I'll stay away from you until I leave." His eyes turned into arches as a huge grin plastered across his face.
"Good," she said touching her throat, still trying to get the stuck tofu down. As she began forcing food quicker into her mouth, she found herself choking once more as a screechy voice sounded from the other room.
"Look! I told you Kagome would overcome thinking it was Hojo, look they're eating together right now! How adorable." It was her Aunt, she pointed at the table while her mother from behind flashed a reassuring smile.
Kagome was horrified. "I didn't ask for him to sit with me, I just wanted to eat! I still think he's a lunatic!" But no one heard, except Hojo. Her mother and Aunt had gone back to gossiping about something or the other, completely oblivious to her feeling.
"It's okay, Kagome. I understand you need time to heal. Trust me, if someone who looked like you came in and attacked me, then was invited as a guest to my house afterwards I surely wouldn't take it lightly." He laughed loudly, expecting her to join in.
"It's not funny," She slammed her palm on the table. "I'm not that thick, I know it was you. I don't care if no one believes me. I will find a way to prove myself." She stood up quickly from the table and walked out of the room fuming. She walked upstairs as tears stained the brims of her eyes. Stepping in her room she slammed the door behind her and leaned against it.
"Kagome?"
Kagome gasped and snapped her eyes open. "Oh, Inuyasha. I wasn't expecting you to come this early." She lifted her head up slightly, hoping he wouldn't notice the few tears in her eyes.
He sat cross-legged in the middle of her bed, "something wrong?"
She went over to her desk and sat down on the wooden chair, "Mama doesn't want you to come over anymore. She doesn't want me having any company for a while."
"Your Mom doesn't trust me anymore? What the hell is she thinking? I've always protected you in my era," he shrugged as if he could care less what her mother thought; nothing would stop him from coming over to check on her.
Kagome set her elbow on her desk and buried her forehead in her palms. "I don't know what her problem is." She stood up from her chair and went toward the door, and locked it. "We'll have to be quiet. I don't want her to know you've been coming over here."
"But what about you coming over to my era, and the jewel shards?"
Kagome had forgotten about the shards. She put her back against the door in thought. "I'll pretend I'm going to school, then make my way to the well tomorrow. Okay?"
"Yeah, sure. Whatever."
Kagome rolled her eyes. Skipping school without a parent's permission could have major consequences, if only Inuyasha could see that. If only he could see how much she went through just to help him recover the shards. She placed herself back in front of her desk. "Why don't you go ahead and go back? I'll see you tomorrow, besides I'm really tired tonight."
Inuyasha stood up and headed toward the window. After remembering that Hojo was still in the house, she added "-And if you want, you can come back and check on me later. I mean, if you want to."
He had planned to sit outside the window on a tree for the rest of the night anyways, even without her permission. He opened the window and stepped out.
"Night Inuyasha."
He jumped down, and walked away from her house, he turned around to see her window shut. He jumped back up into the tree and nestled himself into a comfortable spot, so he could watch over her for the rest of the night.
Kagome opened up her diary and began scribbling everything that had happened the past couple of days, hoping if she wrote down everything she would come up with some sort of conclusion. After she finished, she closed the book and fell into a trance while staring deep into her velvet-covered diary. A tug at her stomach pulled her out of her thoughts. "Ouch," She clutched her stomach only to find out that made it worse. She lifted up her shirt a few inches to check on the wound, the white bandages that were wrapped around her stomach was stained with purple. "What is that?" she asked herself.
She rose from her desk and headed toward the bathroom. Looking into the mirror above the sink she began unwrapping the bandages, to clean off the purple ointment. Though, when she unraveled the last strip, she was shocked. The purple wasn't something the doctor had put on; it was coming out from inside of her, "Oh gross!" Quickly, she bandaged herself back up unable to look at it any longer.
She began mentally questioning the eerie liquid as she dressed for bed. 'I'm sure it's no big deal, probably just something the doctor inserted into me to ease the pain,' brushing off any further inquires she left the bathroom, turned out all the lights that occupied her room and flopped down on her bed to get some much needed rest.
"Kagome."
"What?" she grunted.
"Kagome, wake up"
Kagome opened her eyes into slits, until she saw the man who was hovering over her. She forced her hands upwards to push the man away, but they didn't make contact.
Just as her mouth opened to scream for help, Hojo's hand slapped across her lips to prevent any noise from escaping.
"Shut up and come with me."
Hojo only heard a mumbled response so he lifted up his hands.
"Inu-!"
Hojo placed his hands back on her mouth, "Don't waste you breath, there's no use in calling for that fool."
"Huh?"
"He's dead."
Kagome's eyes widened with fear as Hojo let go of her mouth and he stepped away from the bed, pointing at something on the floor, "See, I killed him."
Kagome followed where he was pointing at, only to find a dead body on the floor. The body that belonged to Inuyasha. His eyes were closed and mouth slightly open, his kimono was torn in several places, and through his heart was a knife stained with the hanyou's blood.
"No.no, Inuyasha!" tears fell down her eyes, "Inuyasha." She reached out toward his body.
"Bam!"
She fell off her bed, and knocked the ground hard while trying to reach out to her dead friend. Her eyes opened and nothing was there.no dead body, no Hojo, 'A dream? I was dreaming?' she put a hand against her chest. Her heart was in pain, the type of pain that's caused from losing a loved one. Whipping the sweat from her forehead she freed herself from the sheets that clasped her body, and went downstairs for a glass of water.
Sleep still filling her eyes, and her brain in a daze she reached for a glass and instantly filled it with cool water. Drinking it as she ascended the stairs back to her room a thought crossed her mind.
'What if it wasn't a dream?'
'It had to have been a dream. I didn't see Inuyasha when I woke up, nor Hojo.'
'But what if it wasn't a dream, Maybe it was real and when I reached for him I passed out, or hit my head and knocked out. Then he hid the body and- " Kagome stopped herself. She laughed slightly at the conclusions she was coming up with due to lack of sleep. 'I'm being stupid, everything is fine.'
She laid her hand on the doorknob and began to walk inside, as she saw a corpse she dropped her water and screamed. She reached over to turn on the lights, her heart banging roughly against her chest. The lights quickly illuminated that the 'corpse' was nothing more than her sheets and pillow that had scattered on the floor when she fell off the bed. She put her hands against he chest and took in a deep breath. "Okay, Kagome stop being stupid," turning back off the lights she returned to her bed, unable to go back to sleep.
*Inuyasha POV on the dream* I know this isn't much, but I felt I needed to write something about Inuyasha.
Inuyasha rested on his branch. He felt more at peace being only feet away from Kagome versus hundreds of years. Being able to keep track of her heartbeat in his ears relaxed him. His eyes fluttered before finally closing. His head titled downwards onto his chest and he drifted into a light sleep.
Not long afterwards, the slow paced heartbeat that was in his hears changed and began to over power his senses. The beats began to come louder and quicker. His eyes shot open and his claws fell to his side, ready to unsheathe the Tetsusiaga at any moment if needed. The eyes of the hanyou strained, he focused on the Kagome's body that lay on the bed. Nothing appeared to be wrong. He moved closer to the house, determined to figure out the problem. He peered closely into the window, trying to find any sign of movement.
Kagome darted upwards on her bed, shocking Inuyasha so much that he almost fell from his branch. Regaining his balance he sat back up and peered back into her room to see what had disturbed her, but she wasn't there.
"Shit!" I take my eyes off her one second and I lose her."
He eased up carefully toward the house, gripping the bark on the tree so he wouldn't lose his balance again. He cracked the window a few inches, and stuck his cold nose inside the warm room, trying to get any scent of Kagome from afar. But, the scent that already resided inside the room overpowered him too much.
Her door flew open and a scream came. Inuyasha slammed the window shut and backed away hurriedly, thinking she was screaming at him. But as lights illuminated the room he realized her eyes were on the floor, where a pile of sheets lay bundled up.
'What was that all about? Did she think a person had snuck in?' He thought about crawling into the room and making sure everything was all right. But had second thoughts, once seeing her all ready crawling in bed.
He backed up into his perch as thoughts flooded his mind. Keeping a closer eye on Kagome than before.
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Kagome sat at the table that morning, yet with her thoughts still on the events last night.
"Don't you think so Kagome?"
"Oh, I'm sorry. What was that Mama?" she asked for the second time, fiddling with her breakfast.
"Are you okay, dear? You look sick."
'What do you think is wrong with me? You've banned me to see Inuyasha, two people whom I hate almost as much as Naraku are living in my house. Should I be happy about that?'
"Kagome, I asked you a question. Are you sick?" her mother repeated, as Aunt Yukishi settled beside Mrs. Higurashi for breakfast.
"I think I'm going to be now," she said under her breath.
"Kagome! When you see Inuyasha today can you give him this?" Sota asked bursting into the room, carrying a piece of paper in his hand.
Sota handed her the piece of paper and she looked at it with surprise. It was a drawing of Inuyasha, colored with crayons and Sota's name on the bottom corner. "Wow Sota! This is great!"
"But, Kagome isn't allowed to see Inuyasha," Yukishi said grabbing the paper from Kagome's hand and folding it up.
"I'm not allowed to see Inuyasha for a while. But that doesn't mean forever," she grabbed the paper from her Aunt's grip, her glanced changed back to Sota. "I'll give it to him as soon as I can."
"Thanks Kagome." Sota said, a little confused, "What do you mean you can't see him?"
Knowing an argument was about to erupt, Mrs. Higurashi interrupted, "Sota, go on and get changed."
Kagome glanced at the time. 'Oh no. I have to hurry and leave before Hojo so he won't see me skip school.' "Mama, I better go ahead and leave. I want to be early for school."
Mrs. Higurashi smiled, and her eyes softened. "Oh my dear, wanting to go to school early? I haven't heard that in such a long time!"
Kagome flashed a false smile and began to walk toward the door before guilt began to set in. "Bye!"
Kagome rushed outside a good distance away from the door, shaking in the process from the freezing wind that whipped her bare skin. Looking over her shoulder to make sure no one was around she darted toward the well-house.
"Kagome!" She stopped dead in her tracks as she heard her mom's voice from afar.
'Oh no!' She crouched lower, hoping not to be recognized. She couldn't determine where the voice came from.
"Don't worry about it Mrs. Higurashi. I'll take her coat to her."
There was a moment of hesitation from Mrs. Higurashi.
"Don't worry, I'll just give it to her and walk away. I won't even say anything to her."
"Oh no, I didn't mean it like that. But here, thanks. Have a nice day Hojo."
"Thanks Mrs. Higurashi! You too!"
"Great, now he's going to look for me. Maybe this wasn't such a good idea," she took a step back and began to turn around. "No, I have to go. I promised Inuyasha." Feeling disobedient toward her mother, she hastily approached the well-house before another rejecting thought could cross her mind.
Kagome knew she would face consequences that night when she returned and Hojo asked her why he couldn't find her in class. Yet, deep down she knew she still had to go, this was more important, finding jewel shard were more important, seeing Inuyasha was more important.
With that final thought she quietly closed the doors, and approached the well. She picked up her yellow pack from the corner and tossed it on her shoulders. Placing her hands on the cool wooden surface she peered deep down in to the darkness, 'Here I go.'
After the normal routine of engulfing lights, she looked up out of the well and was greeted by a blinding sun. As she climbed out of the well she peered around. There was no sign of Inuyasha around, "I would of thought he'd be waiting for me."
Kagome began to approach the path toward the village, until she heard a rustle of leaves behind her. Turning around, her eyes searched for reason of the movement and found no one. She drew her hands closer to her body and shivered at the cold atmosphere.
"Kagome."
"Huh?" she whipped around quickly, scared. She knew that voice..but how? As she turned around her eyes met the ones of deep, dark brown ones. There, Hojo stood only a few feet away from her.
"You forgot your coat," he said holding out her brown jacket in front of him, with a bone-chilling smile.
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Okay, hope you enjoyed this chapter. I know Hojo shouldn't be allowed to go down the well but I figured it wasn't too big of a deal. I'm going to work hard on the fourth chapter so as soon as I get 25 reviews I'm promising to upload it! (And next chapter will be much longer!) Now, that I'm out of school I have plenty of time to work on it, at least I hope. Any suggestions on my writing would be greatly appreciated. Or if you have any ideas of something you think would fit good with my story let me hear them! Creative criticism is always welcomed. Well, goodbye for now.
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