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The Colors of Emotions
Chapter 20
We Need To Talk
"Where the hell is she!" Inuyasha growled.
"She left with Sango to the hot spring, Inuyasha." Miroku answered.
"She woke up?! Why didn't anyone tell me?"
"Inuyasha, she apparently was awoken by a nightmare. She forced herself awake before her body was ready, and it seems she is too stubborn to go back to sleep."
"A nightmare?"
"She didn't tell me much."
"What did she say?"
"That is not up to me to tell."
"Listen Bouzu, I am in no mood to listen to all of your little evasive comments. Is the wench okay?" Inuyasha was grumpy that morning due to the exhausting night of running through the forest trying not to dwell too much on how guilty he felt about Kagome being injured. And then he returned to check up on her to find her missing! Kirara was with her along with Sango, but he wasn't notified of her leaving.
He had come up with some new rules for her protection that she would have to follow. Rule one: No going anywhere without telling him. She was a walking time bomb, no telling when she might explode. He would have to have a talk with that girl and tell her just who was in charge.
"I am unaware of who this wench is that you speak of." Miroku calmly commented. He wasn't planning on giving the hanyou a straight answer until Inuyasha was a little more polite about it. True, Kagome went off without him knowing, but she needed to have a little time just to relax from her nightmare. Inuyasha hovering around would do her no good if her nightmare was after all, as Miroku assumed, about that certain hanyou.
"I'm going to find her."
"Inuyasha, wait!" Miroku called. But the hanyou ignored him, already speeding off towards where the two girls were bathing.
"He's gonna get 'sat' big time for this one." Shippou commented.
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"Sesshoumaru found me!?" Kagome tried really hard to keep her jaw from gaping open. Sango nodded. The exterminator had just retold the events of the previous day, and Kagome was still having trouble registering what had happened.
"So the little girl was fine?" Kagome asked.
"Yea, you completely demolished that demon."
"So it worked!" Kagome murmured.
"What worked?" Sango questioned. The two girls were both bathing in the wonderfully warm water of the spring. Sango had thankfully remembered Kagome's bath bag, and she was again marveled by the conveniences of Kagome's time as they washed their hair free of dirt and grime with a bubbly lotion that Kagome called 'shampoo'. The two young women were now merely soaking in the water enjoying the feel of being clean.
"Kaede told me how to attack if I needed to. I put my hands together to form a ball of light and threw it at the demon." Kagome didn't mention how much pain it had caused her.
"Miroku and I figured you knew what you were doing. I mean, at first I wondered if it was like the times you had attacked Inuyasha. The power just shot from you without you realizing it. But you were under control this time."
"Yes, I was. I know it wasn't safe for me to attack but--."
"You could have died!" A voice growled from behind Kagome. She whirled around with a scream to see Inuyasha staring angrily at her.
Kagome quickly realized she had given Inuyasha quite a show and turned away from him with a very loud 'SIT'!
The hanyou hit the ground. Sango had grabbed two towels from Kagome's bag, and the two girls quickly wrapped themselves up and got out of the hot spring. The exterminator glared at the hanyou as he picked himself off the ground. "Inuyasha, since when have you acted like Miroku!?"
"Shut up. I'm not a pervert like him." Though Inuyasha had trouble keeping the blush from his cheeks.
"What do you want Inuyasha?" Kagome snapped while struggling to her feet. Her legs still felt like jelly when she put too much weight on them. Inuyasha was immediately at her side holding her steady. She grumbled a thank you and quickly grabbed her slightly slipping towel.
"I came to make sure you were okay. Miroku was right, you haven't regained your energy at all."
"I'm fine!" Kagome retorted angrily. She hated all this attention towards how weak she was.
Sango looked on at the two. She was interested to see how this little argument would turn out.
"Listen wench, we need to talk."
"About what?"
Inuyasha looked past Kagome and gave a glare to Sango to give her the hint that this was private. She scowled and made it clear that she wasn't going to leave. With a sigh, the hanyou asked, "Kagome, where's your clothes?"
Kagome turned with a 'humph' and picked up his red haori that was lying on the ground behind her. She slipped it on and tightened it. "Hope you don't mind that it's wet." She grumbled.
"Don't care." Inuyasha suddenly grabbed Kagome, swung her over his shoulder, and ran off in the opposite direction of camp.
"Inuyasha!" Both Kagome and Sango shrieked. But the hanyou didn't stop, and Kagome didn't have the strength to make him put her down. Sango knew Inuyasha wouldn't hurt the distressed miko, but that was completely uncalled for. She figured Inuyasha was only going to lecture Kagome anyway. Why couldn't Sango hear that?
With a sigh, the demon exterminator turned to get dressed. But the sound of a twig snapping caught her attention, and she whirled around immediately. "HOUSHI!" She yelled, anger very evident.
Miroku stepped cautiously into the clearing. He nervously laughed and prepared for Sango's wrath.
"What was that about not peeking!?"
Another nervous laugh escaped the monk. A boomerang met his skull a few moments later.
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"Master, did it work?"
"Yes. I was able to contact the little miko when she was asleep."
"Did she believe the dream image that Kanna made?"
"I am not sure. She hasn't accepted her nightmare as reality yet. The dream scared her, that much I am sure of." Naraku held a small sliver of the jewel in front of him and smiled maliciously.
"I do not understand why you are able to contact her."
"It really isn't any of your concern. But I suppose I can explain it to you. All of the shards are connected. So if I were to focus this shard with energy, it would have some sort of affect on all of the other shards. Because Inuyasha's wench is the jewel's protector, her soul and the jewel of four souls are intertwined. I can contact her through the jewel.
I can corrupt her to all of my needs. All I need is for her to willingly come to me, and if she accepts whatever I send through the jewel, then she will be under my control. But in the mean time, because I own part of the jewel, I can contact her when she is weak. I can corrupt her pure little heart." Naraku let out a cruel laugh, and Kagura quietly walked away.
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