A/N: Ok, I'm still stuck between two people saving Kagome. I don't know which one to choose, so I'm just going to let my fingers do its work and see which one my unconsciousness wants Kagome saved. I know I'm not making much sense right now, because I'm talking to myself. So, here's the next chapter.
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Love is Pathetic
Chapter 4
Kagome's Talent
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Kagome gulped.
"Nothing personal, little girl. I'm being commanded to do this." Sesshomaru said slowly, flexing him claw, which was glowing a poisonous shade of green. He was just a few feet away from Kagome now. With one lash of his claw, he could finish Kagome off for good.
'No,' Kagome thought desperately. 'I don't want to die. It's not time for that yet. I still have to prove to Mother that I should have my own life. I still have so many things I want to do in life. I'm not ready for death yet. I'M NOT GOING TO DIE!'
Kagome's mind was set. She was not going to give in. No matter what, she was going to have one last struggle to escape being killed by the elegant youkai in front of her. She raised up her bow and arrow, and aimed it at Sesshomaru's heart. She strung the bow as far as her arms would allow, concentrating every bit of energy she had on the arrow.
"You just don't know when to give up, do you?" Sesshomaru looked bored. (When doesn't he look bored?) He stopped moving and looked at the arrow the girl was holding.
Kagome heard Sesshomaru's comment. It sounded as if he knew what Kagome's fate was going to be. Kagome was scared by that, unnerved by this demon's calmness, even facing an arrow. 'No,' she told herself firmly. 'He scare me. He does not control my fate. I do.' Her finger slipped, and the arrow shot out of the bow faster than she had ever shot it. She watched in horror, as the arrow began to zoom out. She was sure it was not going to even touch its target, considering how bad it had been off target.
Then, to everyone's surprise, the arrow began to glow in a purple light. The light surrounded the arrow, and started to bring it back to its target. Kagome watched closely as the arrow flew into Sesshomaru's heart, not even cracking like the previous two arrows shot at him. It just embedded itself in the youkai's body.
Sesshomaru had the look of slight shock on his face. "Miko," he muttered, and ran out of sight in the matter of seconds.
Kagome just stood there in shock. She still couldn't believe that she had chased the most powerful youkai she had ever met off. She looked at the bow in her hand, wondering what had happened to the arrow that made it glow purple. So many questions were going into her head, she could not shake them off.
"Oi, a little help here?" Someone called to Kagome. Kagome turned, to see the silver-haired boy who had fought the demon earlier trying to get up. She went up to him, and began to help him up.
"Who are you? Why did that youkai call you his half-brother?" Kagome asked bluntly, without even thinking.
Inuyasha went stiff. "You've never heard of me?" He wiggle his ears a little.
Kagome shook her head.
Inuyasha stared at her, not believing his eyes. "You don't know about the hanyou bastard born into a noble family?"
Kagome shook her head once again.
"Anymore and you'll be giving her your life story." Miroku's oily voice cut in before Inuyasha could say anything else. He got up painfully, and turned to Kagome. "Your Royal Highness, this is Inuyasha of the Keitaro house, and this unworthy monk is called--"
"I know your name, Miorku. You are that perverted monk. Sango is always talking about you." Kagome said before Miroku could finish.
"Does she?" Miroku said, smiling at Sango's direction.
Kagome ignored him. "And you are called Inuyasha? Kagome Higurashi, nice to meet you." Kagome extended out her hand towards Inuyasha.
Inuyasha just looked at the hand. He did not know what this girl wanted him to do. He had grown up all alone, without companions other than Miroku. And now, all of a sudden, a girl, more, the princess of the country, was being nice to him. She knew her attacker was his brother, but she was still being friendly. What did she want?
"You are supposed to shake her hand." Miroku suddenly appeared beside Inuyasha with a slap mark on his face. (We all know what he was doing.)
Kagome looked curiously from Inuyasha to Miroku. Didn't this boy know how to be friendly? Didn't he know to shake her hand? Why did he need the lech explaining what he was supposed to do? Kagome wondered what Inuyasha's past was like. Then her eyes fell on Inuyasha's dog ears, twitching in every direction.
Inuyasha slowly reached out his hand towards Kagome's. But before the two hands touched, Kagome's hand suddenly disappeared. Inuyasha did not need to wait long to know where her hands when. Seconds later, he felt a pair of hands stroking his ears gently. He saw Kagome laughing pleasantly.
"These ear are so cute!" She was giggling uncontrollably. "I didn't know hanyous can be so cute."
Inuyasha went stiff again. 'What is that? She knew I'm a hanyou, and is still talking to me? No, Sesshomaru must have put some kind of spell on her, making her loose her mind.' He looked at Kagome, who was looking back at him with a pair of the most sincere eyes he had ever seen. His theory of Sesshomaru bewitching her instantly disappeared from his mind.
"Kagome!"
Kagome took her hands away from Inuyasha's ears and turned to see her mother running at her, half crying. Mrs. Higurashi went up to Kagome and embraced her in a big hug. "Oh, thank heavens you are all right. I thought that demon got you. How on earth did you escape with all your defenders down?"
Kagome just struggled to breath under her mother's crushing hug. "Mom...can't...breathe..."
"Oh, sorry." Mrs. Higurashi tore herself away from her daughter. Now she looked more serious. "What happened here?" Her glance fell on Inuyasha, and instantly, her eyes were filled with disapproval. "What is -he- doing here?"
Inuyasha sighed in his mind. He knew this was coming. The queen would find out that the attacker was his half-brother, then he would be even more rejected, and even Kagome, who was about he only one other than Miroku who had been nice to him, would be ordered to never see him again.
"He tried to save me, Mother." Kagome explained quickly. She did not want her mother to get the wrong idea when she foudn out that the attacker was related to Inuyasha. Kagome did not know why she trusted Inuyasha, but the fact that he had tried to battle with Sesshomaru gave her reassurance.
Kagome's mother still didn't trust Inuyasha. However, she just smiled at the hanyou. "Tell me everything that happened."
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Sango was sitting in Kagome's room with Kagome. The two of them had been quiet for a very long time. After they had explained everything that happened, except for the fact that the attacker was Inuyasha'f half brother, to Mrs. Higurashi, they had been sent to this room to wait, while the other important officials of the country decide what's going to happen to Kagome.
"I should at least have a say in it." Kagome muttered, angry that she was not even allowed to hear what the others were going to do to her. Sango was still silent. Kagome suspected that she was wondering why Miroku had been spying on her. Slowly, a trace of smile appeared on her face.
"Kagome," Sango said, trying to keep the amusement in her voice to the minumum. "What do you think of Inuyasha?"
Kagome eyed Sango sharply. 'So this is what she was thinking about.' "He's all right, I guess. At least he's better than that Hojo guy I had to spend a whole day with."
"Well, would you actually consider adding him into your list of eligible young men if your mother allowed you to?"
Kagome glared at her friend. "You know perfectly well that it is not my list. It's my mother's. I don't want to add anyone to it. I just want to take people away from it."
Sango sighed. "Well, it was worth a try."
Right then, someone knocked on Kagome's door. "Come in." Kagome's mother and a couple of other men stepped into her room.
"We have decided what's going to happen." Kagome's mom announced importantly. "From our research on this demon that attacked you, we have found out several interesting things. The demon's name is Sesshomaru. He is the son of the demon lord of the west, InuTaisho. He is responsible for most of the human killings at the forest behind our palace, and--"
Kagome took a sharp breath. 'This is it. They found out that he is Inuyasha's half brother. Now, they would probably execute him for something he hasn't even done.'
"We found out that our attacker is the hanyou, Inuyasha's half brother." Kagome's mom finished with her eyes locked on her daughter. "Did you know about that?"
"No," Kagome lied. She hated lying to her mother, but if it meant that she would save a innocent life, she would do it.
Mrs. Higurashi was still looking at her. "Ok, I suppose you didn't know. We have decided that from now on, you will not leave your room without at least three guards. You will start taking archery lessons from our appointed teacher. You will not see anyone without my permission. And you will stay away from the forest."
Kagome just stared at her mother. "No. That's not fair! Why should I be locked in with no freedom just because an attack happened? I can't even see my friends without your permission? I can't ever leave my room without having my freedom and privacy taking away from me? And I can't go to the forest? Those are not fair, mother. I should be able to at least walk around in the palace alone. You don't have the right to put me through--"
"You have no objection with the archery lessons then?" The queen said calmly.
Kagome shook her head. She had always wanted some kind of archery lessons from Sango, but her mother would never allow her, saying fighting is for men and degrading women. Now, finally, she was allowed. Of course she had no objections.
"Good. You will still meet the young men I chose for you and select a husband. You will just not be allowed to go anywhere alone, especially the forest." Kagome's mother walked out of her room before she could protest even more.
"How dare she? How dare she do that to me?" Kagome's voice was threatening. "She doesn't have the right to take away my freedom. She doesn't have the right to just tell me what to do. And I still have to meet with the men even though I'm put through this?" Kagome muttered on, absolutely furious about what had happened to her.
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Inuyasha was back home once again. Miroku was sitting on his bed while he sat on the floor like a dog. His mother had told him that a jury in the palace will decide what will happen to him. The most likely punishment would be death, considering that every bit of evidence was against him when other people look at the case. He just hoped that Kagome would not backstab him and tell the other people anything bad about him.
"You scared?" Miroku asked Inuyasha.
"Feh, not one bit." Inuyasha lied, pretending to be tough.
"What if they do give you the death sentence?"
"Then I'll just run into the forest. My father is the lord there, remember?"
"Your brother is also going to be there, you know?"
"Good," Inuyasha snarled. "I can get my revenge then."
The two of them were silent a bit longer. Then, Inuyasha's mother called his name. Inuyasha practically leaped off the floor and charged downstairs. "What is it?" He asked.
"The jury people are here." Inuyasha's mother answered heavily. Inuyasha groaned. "Don't worry. I don't think it's anything bad." She lead him into the living room, where two men were standing rigidly.
"Inuyasha of the Keitaro house?" One of the men asked regally. Inuyasha nodded. "We have reached an agreement on your punishment for attempting murder of Princess Kagome."
"But I wasn't trying to kill her!" Inuyasha defended, but the man just held a hand up to silence him.
"From our evidence," the other man said. "of that you were present during your brother's attack without other authorities knowing. The attacker was a close relative of yours. And that you tried to manipulate Princess Kagome when you saw your brother fail. We have decided that the most suitable punishment for your attempted murder of royalty, is death."
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A cliffhanger once again. I really don't want this here, but this chapter is getting a bit too long, so I have to cut it off here. Don't worry, Inuyasha won't die, and Kagome will meet him later. But first, she has to meet Shippo, maybe Kikyo too. I don't know yet, but you will see in the next chapter. Chiao.
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Love is Pathetic
Chapter 4
Kagome's Talent
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Kagome gulped.
"Nothing personal, little girl. I'm being commanded to do this." Sesshomaru said slowly, flexing him claw, which was glowing a poisonous shade of green. He was just a few feet away from Kagome now. With one lash of his claw, he could finish Kagome off for good.
'No,' Kagome thought desperately. 'I don't want to die. It's not time for that yet. I still have to prove to Mother that I should have my own life. I still have so many things I want to do in life. I'm not ready for death yet. I'M NOT GOING TO DIE!'
Kagome's mind was set. She was not going to give in. No matter what, she was going to have one last struggle to escape being killed by the elegant youkai in front of her. She raised up her bow and arrow, and aimed it at Sesshomaru's heart. She strung the bow as far as her arms would allow, concentrating every bit of energy she had on the arrow.
"You just don't know when to give up, do you?" Sesshomaru looked bored. (When doesn't he look bored?) He stopped moving and looked at the arrow the girl was holding.
Kagome heard Sesshomaru's comment. It sounded as if he knew what Kagome's fate was going to be. Kagome was scared by that, unnerved by this demon's calmness, even facing an arrow. 'No,' she told herself firmly. 'He scare me. He does not control my fate. I do.' Her finger slipped, and the arrow shot out of the bow faster than she had ever shot it. She watched in horror, as the arrow began to zoom out. She was sure it was not going to even touch its target, considering how bad it had been off target.
Then, to everyone's surprise, the arrow began to glow in a purple light. The light surrounded the arrow, and started to bring it back to its target. Kagome watched closely as the arrow flew into Sesshomaru's heart, not even cracking like the previous two arrows shot at him. It just embedded itself in the youkai's body.
Sesshomaru had the look of slight shock on his face. "Miko," he muttered, and ran out of sight in the matter of seconds.
Kagome just stood there in shock. She still couldn't believe that she had chased the most powerful youkai she had ever met off. She looked at the bow in her hand, wondering what had happened to the arrow that made it glow purple. So many questions were going into her head, she could not shake them off.
"Oi, a little help here?" Someone called to Kagome. Kagome turned, to see the silver-haired boy who had fought the demon earlier trying to get up. She went up to him, and began to help him up.
"Who are you? Why did that youkai call you his half-brother?" Kagome asked bluntly, without even thinking.
Inuyasha went stiff. "You've never heard of me?" He wiggle his ears a little.
Kagome shook her head.
Inuyasha stared at her, not believing his eyes. "You don't know about the hanyou bastard born into a noble family?"
Kagome shook her head once again.
"Anymore and you'll be giving her your life story." Miroku's oily voice cut in before Inuyasha could say anything else. He got up painfully, and turned to Kagome. "Your Royal Highness, this is Inuyasha of the Keitaro house, and this unworthy monk is called--"
"I know your name, Miorku. You are that perverted monk. Sango is always talking about you." Kagome said before Miroku could finish.
"Does she?" Miroku said, smiling at Sango's direction.
Kagome ignored him. "And you are called Inuyasha? Kagome Higurashi, nice to meet you." Kagome extended out her hand towards Inuyasha.
Inuyasha just looked at the hand. He did not know what this girl wanted him to do. He had grown up all alone, without companions other than Miroku. And now, all of a sudden, a girl, more, the princess of the country, was being nice to him. She knew her attacker was his brother, but she was still being friendly. What did she want?
"You are supposed to shake her hand." Miroku suddenly appeared beside Inuyasha with a slap mark on his face. (We all know what he was doing.)
Kagome looked curiously from Inuyasha to Miroku. Didn't this boy know how to be friendly? Didn't he know to shake her hand? Why did he need the lech explaining what he was supposed to do? Kagome wondered what Inuyasha's past was like. Then her eyes fell on Inuyasha's dog ears, twitching in every direction.
Inuyasha slowly reached out his hand towards Kagome's. But before the two hands touched, Kagome's hand suddenly disappeared. Inuyasha did not need to wait long to know where her hands when. Seconds later, he felt a pair of hands stroking his ears gently. He saw Kagome laughing pleasantly.
"These ear are so cute!" She was giggling uncontrollably. "I didn't know hanyous can be so cute."
Inuyasha went stiff again. 'What is that? She knew I'm a hanyou, and is still talking to me? No, Sesshomaru must have put some kind of spell on her, making her loose her mind.' He looked at Kagome, who was looking back at him with a pair of the most sincere eyes he had ever seen. His theory of Sesshomaru bewitching her instantly disappeared from his mind.
"Kagome!"
Kagome took her hands away from Inuyasha's ears and turned to see her mother running at her, half crying. Mrs. Higurashi went up to Kagome and embraced her in a big hug. "Oh, thank heavens you are all right. I thought that demon got you. How on earth did you escape with all your defenders down?"
Kagome just struggled to breath under her mother's crushing hug. "Mom...can't...breathe..."
"Oh, sorry." Mrs. Higurashi tore herself away from her daughter. Now she looked more serious. "What happened here?" Her glance fell on Inuyasha, and instantly, her eyes were filled with disapproval. "What is -he- doing here?"
Inuyasha sighed in his mind. He knew this was coming. The queen would find out that the attacker was his half-brother, then he would be even more rejected, and even Kagome, who was about he only one other than Miroku who had been nice to him, would be ordered to never see him again.
"He tried to save me, Mother." Kagome explained quickly. She did not want her mother to get the wrong idea when she foudn out that the attacker was related to Inuyasha. Kagome did not know why she trusted Inuyasha, but the fact that he had tried to battle with Sesshomaru gave her reassurance.
Kagome's mother still didn't trust Inuyasha. However, she just smiled at the hanyou. "Tell me everything that happened."
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Sango was sitting in Kagome's room with Kagome. The two of them had been quiet for a very long time. After they had explained everything that happened, except for the fact that the attacker was Inuyasha'f half brother, to Mrs. Higurashi, they had been sent to this room to wait, while the other important officials of the country decide what's going to happen to Kagome.
"I should at least have a say in it." Kagome muttered, angry that she was not even allowed to hear what the others were going to do to her. Sango was still silent. Kagome suspected that she was wondering why Miroku had been spying on her. Slowly, a trace of smile appeared on her face.
"Kagome," Sango said, trying to keep the amusement in her voice to the minumum. "What do you think of Inuyasha?"
Kagome eyed Sango sharply. 'So this is what she was thinking about.' "He's all right, I guess. At least he's better than that Hojo guy I had to spend a whole day with."
"Well, would you actually consider adding him into your list of eligible young men if your mother allowed you to?"
Kagome glared at her friend. "You know perfectly well that it is not my list. It's my mother's. I don't want to add anyone to it. I just want to take people away from it."
Sango sighed. "Well, it was worth a try."
Right then, someone knocked on Kagome's door. "Come in." Kagome's mother and a couple of other men stepped into her room.
"We have decided what's going to happen." Kagome's mom announced importantly. "From our research on this demon that attacked you, we have found out several interesting things. The demon's name is Sesshomaru. He is the son of the demon lord of the west, InuTaisho. He is responsible for most of the human killings at the forest behind our palace, and--"
Kagome took a sharp breath. 'This is it. They found out that he is Inuyasha's half brother. Now, they would probably execute him for something he hasn't even done.'
"We found out that our attacker is the hanyou, Inuyasha's half brother." Kagome's mom finished with her eyes locked on her daughter. "Did you know about that?"
"No," Kagome lied. She hated lying to her mother, but if it meant that she would save a innocent life, she would do it.
Mrs. Higurashi was still looking at her. "Ok, I suppose you didn't know. We have decided that from now on, you will not leave your room without at least three guards. You will start taking archery lessons from our appointed teacher. You will not see anyone without my permission. And you will stay away from the forest."
Kagome just stared at her mother. "No. That's not fair! Why should I be locked in with no freedom just because an attack happened? I can't even see my friends without your permission? I can't ever leave my room without having my freedom and privacy taking away from me? And I can't go to the forest? Those are not fair, mother. I should be able to at least walk around in the palace alone. You don't have the right to put me through--"
"You have no objection with the archery lessons then?" The queen said calmly.
Kagome shook her head. She had always wanted some kind of archery lessons from Sango, but her mother would never allow her, saying fighting is for men and degrading women. Now, finally, she was allowed. Of course she had no objections.
"Good. You will still meet the young men I chose for you and select a husband. You will just not be allowed to go anywhere alone, especially the forest." Kagome's mother walked out of her room before she could protest even more.
"How dare she? How dare she do that to me?" Kagome's voice was threatening. "She doesn't have the right to take away my freedom. She doesn't have the right to just tell me what to do. And I still have to meet with the men even though I'm put through this?" Kagome muttered on, absolutely furious about what had happened to her.
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Inuyasha was back home once again. Miroku was sitting on his bed while he sat on the floor like a dog. His mother had told him that a jury in the palace will decide what will happen to him. The most likely punishment would be death, considering that every bit of evidence was against him when other people look at the case. He just hoped that Kagome would not backstab him and tell the other people anything bad about him.
"You scared?" Miroku asked Inuyasha.
"Feh, not one bit." Inuyasha lied, pretending to be tough.
"What if they do give you the death sentence?"
"Then I'll just run into the forest. My father is the lord there, remember?"
"Your brother is also going to be there, you know?"
"Good," Inuyasha snarled. "I can get my revenge then."
The two of them were silent a bit longer. Then, Inuyasha's mother called his name. Inuyasha practically leaped off the floor and charged downstairs. "What is it?" He asked.
"The jury people are here." Inuyasha's mother answered heavily. Inuyasha groaned. "Don't worry. I don't think it's anything bad." She lead him into the living room, where two men were standing rigidly.
"Inuyasha of the Keitaro house?" One of the men asked regally. Inuyasha nodded. "We have reached an agreement on your punishment for attempting murder of Princess Kagome."
"But I wasn't trying to kill her!" Inuyasha defended, but the man just held a hand up to silence him.
"From our evidence," the other man said. "of that you were present during your brother's attack without other authorities knowing. The attacker was a close relative of yours. And that you tried to manipulate Princess Kagome when you saw your brother fail. We have decided that the most suitable punishment for your attempted murder of royalty, is death."
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A cliffhanger once again. I really don't want this here, but this chapter is getting a bit too long, so I have to cut it off here. Don't worry, Inuyasha won't die, and Kagome will meet him later. But first, she has to meet Shippo, maybe Kikyo too. I don't know yet, but you will see in the next chapter. Chiao.