Chapter 19.
Kagura came in silently with Kotarie. She dumped her on the floor at his feet.
"What now?" she spat at him.
"Leave me Kagura, my fuse grows short, fueled by your arrogance." He growled
"ARROGANCE?! Fool! You have not yet seen arrogance!" she opened her fan.
"LEAVE ME I SAY!" His hand flicked out of his robe and Kagura flew out of the room. The screen snapped behind her. Kotarie's body glided down, picked up by his excess energy. He held her face in his hand and fingered her smooth white hair.
"Black tips." He mumbled holding one strand.
"Her hair looks as if it has been dipped in ink." He put her down and looked out of the purple blinds surrounding him.
"What shall I do with you Kotarie dear? Wind, Void, Matter. You are my illusion, my trap, my puppet, and my daughter more then anyone's. He sat next to her and pulled her into his lap. He hugged her tightly as a child would hug a teddy bear. She grew smaller.
"Do you want to know something Kotarie?" He whispered in her unhearing ear. "I know Kikyo does not love me, I know she is using me." He paused, biting his lip. "But if to have her, she must use me, then I will be her slave, I will be her fool, I will let her hate me." A tear no one saw slid down his cheek. He gasped, surprised, stood quickly and dropped her on the floor as if she was diseased. He wiped away the evidence of his sin and made his way to the opposite side of the room. As far away as he could get. He looked at her. He was afraid that she would rise and tell. Yell out to the world and show everyone that he was weak. He wanted to destroy her right now. Burn all the evidence.
Don't be foolish, he told himself, but even then, as he left the room, he muttered to her lifeless form.
"Please don't tell anyone Kotarie, please don't tell."...
**meanwhile**
"Kikyo? I'm sorry, we have not seen Kikyo in months. She left us to-"
"Find her cure?" Myroku interrupted.
"Yes." The man nodded.
"All right." he paused "Thank you for your help kind sir."
"No, thank you! That demon was huge!"
Myroku smiled at the old mans amazement.
"You will stay for the night!" Myroku smiled nervously.
"Heh, well that's very kind of you but-" Inuyasha smirked
"Scared Myroku?" He narrowed his eyes.
"No." he looked at the men. "That would be wonderful thank you." he looked over at Inuyasha's smug face.
"There, I'm not scared."
"Ha, now that I told you."
Kagome and Shippo watched as the two men try to regain their pride.
"I'm going to go for a walk Shippo."
"All right! I want to play with Kelala over there!" He pointed
"All right." she walked away. She wanted to get a feel of her surroundings. This village was like every other village. Children, elders, animals....It felt good outside. She stopped. Were should I go? She wondered.
Inuyasha stopped.
"Were is Kagome?"
"I think she went for a walk. Don't worry about her." but he was already gone.
"KAGOME!" she turned around.
"YES?"
"Oh." he slowed down and stopped by her side. Now that he was here he didn't know what to say.
"Were are you going?"
"Oh, I don't know...around." She waved her hand in emphasis.
He nodded.
"Can I come with you?" she was surprised.
"Yes." she smiled widely at him. "Sure you can." They made their way through the village. People stared in wonderment. A little girl stopped them.
"What is your name?" She said pointing at Inuyasha.
"What do you care?"
She stayed were she was.
"I just wanted to know, I like you ears." She giggled ^^*
"You're like a big puppy!" She hugged his leg and skipped away. "Bye PUPPY!" she said gleefully.
Inuyasha stared in amazement at the little girl skipping away. Kagome couldn't hold it in any longer. She started laughing, she buried her head in his shoulder laughing as hard as she could.
"Oh shut up." Inuyasha said blushing.
"Stupid kid..."
"I'm not.....I'm not laughing at.......at......at you Inuyasha." She said giggling.
"Its just, I like your ears too." He blushed even harder.
"Yea...well..."
"Lets go." She said chuckling, grabing his hand. "Before little girls start attacking you and steal you from me." He smiled to himself. He liked her hand in his. He felt the sudden urge to bend over and kiss her on the forehead, but he held himself back.
"Are you ever worried about Sango?" she asked frowning. Sango? He thought. I do worry. But I worry more about you. He thought.
"Naw, Sango will heal, that girl with the medicine didn't lie, I would have felt it if she did."
"Maybe she just really believed what she was saying..." Her eyes widened, realizing what she had just said. They stopped.
"Why would you say that?" he asked.
"I don't know." She answered, concerned.
"Are you saying that maybe Naraku put memoires in her head, like he took them out of Kohaku?"
"I don't know." She answered, frantically. "We shouldn't have left her!" She bit her lip.
"Well, it's a very complicated situation." Stated Shippo. They stared at him just noticing he was there.
"Sense we left, Sango might die, but if we hadn't of left, Kagome would have died with Kikyo. Plus, it would probably be one of those slow, painful, blood-curtailing screams, kind of death. I mean your soul is being ripped from your very body. That has to be painful."
Kagome and Inuyasha stared at him. Inuyasha raised his fist and plonked him into the ground.
"OWWWWW What was that for??"
"We didn't need all the details stupid! We understand the situation." Inuyasha yelled standing over him.
"WELL I'M SORRY FOR STATING A FACT!" he yelled back rubbing his sore head.
"All I'm saying is that we didn't need to be reminded of the obvious!"
"Kagome!" Shippo ran over to Kagome. "He hit me! Did you see it? He hit me!"
Inuyasha panicked.
"Yea, but he deserved it!" Kagome smiled at Shippo.
"You did kinda deserve it." Shippo's face fell.
"HA!" Inuyasha pointed at Shippo.
"But you don't need to get cocky, SIT!"
"AHGRRFLUNK! ahhhhhh"
Shippo pointed at him. "see? See what happens!"
"Stupid girl! Stupid fox! Damn it to hell." he got up and walked away. Kagome sighed.
"What's wrong Kagome?" Shippo asked.
"I'm gonna miss days like these Shippo."
"Kagome, I just want everyone to be happy."
"Yea...me too."