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Meet My MakerChapter 2: A Hand In The Water
They arrived in ancient Japan around noon that day. They had argued themselves horse at Kagome's house and so now they remained quiet as they walked toward Kaede's village. Shippou was the first person to see them as they came out of the trees and ran to Kagome who stretched her arms out.
"Kagome-chan!" the tiny kitsune said as he jumped into Kagome's arms. She began to stroke him when he said, "I am so glad that- OUCH!"
"What is it?"
"You cut me!" he said showing her a cut on his right arm where blood oozed out.
"How did I do that?"
Inu-Yasha turned to Kagome and grabbed her hands. "What…" he brushed his thumb over her left hand then to her index finger. Kagome felt her self blush and looked at his face. 'What is he doing? Why is he…' her thoughts were interrupted by his next words.
"Damn wench your claws are longer then mine!" he left her hands fall to her sides. 'And to think… wait what did he say?' She looked at her nails to see that he was right! And boy had they grown since last night; a good inch above her skin was all ten of her, once stubby, glossy nails.
"But how?" she whispered.
Shippou seeing his chance to break in cried, "Kagome it hurts!"
"Oh, I'm sorry Shippou. Here wait a sec…" she left her pack fall to the ground and began to search through it until she found a Band-Aid. Kagome placed it over the cut and kissed it lightly. "There you go. All better!"
"You wimp. Always asking Kagome to make things better." Snarled Inu-Yasha.
"You're just mad because she kissed me and not you!" At this Inu-Yasha blushed a little and soon was in hot pursuit of the little demon.
Kagome was about to 'sit' Inu-Yasha when Miroku, Sango, and Kaede came out of a nearby hut.
"Kagome!" waved Sango as she ran up to meet her friend. "Why didn't you come yesterday? Is everything alright?"
"Oh yeah, every thing is fine. A bad storm just hit and blocked my way to the well."
Inu-Yasha slunk up besides with a smile on his face. They turned around to see Shippou rubbing a bump on his head.
"Inu-Yasha!" he couldn't react fast enough to stop it, "SIT!" WHAM! His face hit the dirt. Content with that Shippou went over to the silver-haired dog-demon and started laughing and then kicked him. Inu-Yasha grabbed the unsuspecting fox demon and began shaking him.
"K…A…GOO…MMM…EEEE…"
"Sorry Shippou but you shouldn't have done that."
Inu-Yasha felt himself smile as he let the boy go. 'Well at least she didn't 'sit' me again.'
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They decide to have a picnic on account of Kagome couldn't sense any Jewel shards anywhere near, but just in case she pulled the Ramen out. That coaxed a certain hanyou. So now they sat in an open area next to the river eating and talking merrily. (Despite a few rude comments from Inu-Yasha and a move made on Sango by Miroku.) Kagome and Sango sat on one side of the baby fire that they had made while Inu-Yasha and Miroku sat on the other side, Kirara and Shippou chased each other around. It was nice just to sit there, they all thought at one time or the other, even the dog-demon smiled once. (Well when Sango hit the advancing monk with her Boomerang.)
The two girls talked amongst them selves as Miroku petted Kirara, and Inu-Yasha slept against a tree. Shippou soon came up to them and waited for a break in their conversation.
He finally got it and asked, "Kagome when are you going home again?" She looked at Inu-Yasha through the corner of her eye to see his ears stand at attention. 'So he is pretending to be asleep, how childish.' But she smiled anyway. 'Well if Inu-Yasha is doing it than it must be manly. I'll bet he will like my answer.'
"Well my mom told me before I left this morning that the storm did some real damage to the roads and schools. And so I probably can stay here for about three weeks, but I might need to check in with my mom sometime." She stopped and looked at the hanyou but then looked back at the smiling Shippou.
"Well that's wonderful news!" exclaimed the monk, "Hey let's spend the rest of the day relaxing." At that they all looked at Inu-Yasha waiting for an answer.
Finally he spoke, "Only for today and we will leave at dawn tomorrow."
"Thanks, Inu-Yasha." She said in a soothing voice.
"Don't get used to it, understand?" They nodded in unison. And Inu-Yasha gave one of his triumphant smiles. "Good." He leaned back against the tree and fell asleep almost immediately. Miroku followed suit, but asked the girls what they were going to do before he dozed off.
"We are going to go to one of the hot springs. Don't even think about peeking at us!" Miroku agreed, although very sadly, and watched the girls leave. 'They always think I am going to do something.' 'Because you always do.' Piped a tiny voice in his head. 'Hm… well maybe if I cut back they'll start to trust me…' at that he slumped back and closed his eyes.
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The two girls reached the hot spring just as a layer of sun covered the water. Afraid of Miroku going back on his word, and also because they were clean, Kagome changed into her blue bikini with white ruffles and gave a white and black striped bikini to Sango.
"I got it for you last week but forgot to bring it. You are supposed to swim in it, and the guys can see you in it without them being perverted." Kagome smiled and Sango thanked her for it and put it on. 'Wow this is comfortable.' She thought as the two slipped into the warm water.
The water went up to under their chests, just enough depth for Kagome to teach the demon slayer how to float on her back. They had a blast. They laughed, talked, and splashed around leaving the boys bored and grumpy. Speaking about the boys:
"So you and Inu-Yasha… are you… do you, you know…" Sango put her hands together.
"Me and Inu-Yasha?" Kagome wrung her hands in frustration, "He's so mean to me, and he never gives me a break. He only cares about the Jewel shards… and Kikyou. I'm just a shard collector to him." She looked down into the water tears threatened to over flow but only two escaped and made a ripple into the water.
Sango sat in silence then said, "I'm sorry Kagome, I didn't mean to make you upset. If it is any consolation I think he hides his feelings for you and all of us for that matter. He's just got a pride issue or something…" Her friend perked up a little but still got her revenge.
Kagome grinned and asked, "So since we are talking about," she motioned her hands going together, "what about you and Miroku." Sango blushed.
"Well, he… he tries too much, but…" she blushed again and sank lower into the water. They started to giggle and began splashing each other.
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Inu-Yasha woke up to see Miroku standing over him.
"What are you doing monk?!" Miroku rolled his eyes.
"I just wanted to ask you something!" he seemed frustrated.
"What?" the hanyou growled.
"I had a dream just now that was quite peculiar. It was almost real… Kagome was there…" That got Inu-Yasha's attention.
"I was walking through the forest when it started to rain. I was about to go into a stone hut thing when I heard someone in a nearby patch of grass. It was Kagome she was older and had a beautiful whit dress on, but she lay on her side while rain poured over her. I picked her up and took her to the hut but she got out of my hands afraid, and then hugged me. That's when I saw someone on the ground in the hut; Kagome stepped forward then disappeared."
He had listened intently. The monk had had dreams before and they were not to be taken lightly, but he still said, "So."
"Do you know who that was on the floor?" Inu-Yasha shrugged. "It was you."
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The girls had now grown tired and decided to get out. But someone had other plans…
Sango got out first leaving Kagome to wade through the water. She was almost out, though, when Kagome called to Sango.
"Sango I can't move!" she shrieked. The water around her then began to ripple. Sango rushed to the edge only to get thrown against a tree by, what seemed like, nothing.
"NO! SANGO… UGH!" Kagome screamed as something wrapped around her. She tried to get out of 'its' grasp it only seemed to suffocate her even more. "AHHH!"
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Inu-Yasha and Miroku ran wildly through the trees until they reached the hot spring. Kagome stood in the water, with what looked like a very small shirt on, just staring at her reflection.
"What happened?" asked Inu-Yasha as he saw Sango sprawled out on the ground. Kagome wanted to say so bad that she couldn't move or speak and mentally yelled that they needed to keep their guard up. Miroku went to Sango's side and then looked over to Kagome. 'Why is she not saying anything?'
"Inu-Yasha…" Miroku pointed to the girl in the water. Inu-Yasha could only sense the four of them, so what was going on? He walked closer to the water.
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'No don't come closer… it will hurt you!' she mentally screamed. He came closer; she could see his reflection in the water. Whatever had her she could tell that if any one came into the water that they would be hurt. He came even closer. "Kagome?"
'NO! Leave, don't let it hurt you!' She felt like this pain was familiar, but how? It happened. Inu-Yasha was at the water's edge, and she felt it. A pulse. A pulse that ran through the water warning her and yet threatening her; she didn't know how but she managed to pull up and shake her head, hoping that that would warn him not to come into the water. But doing that caused pain to serge through her body. Tears ran freely down her cheeks and rippled into the water. More tears crashed into the water. Kagome felt weak and afraid; the grip on her loosened, too bad not for the better; the water began to move in circles around her until little waves began to rise out and slash madly around her.
Inu-Yasha retreated and unsheathed his sword, given to him by his father; Miroku did the same with his staff but stood over Sango- protecting her. Kagome smiled weakly. 'Sango would like to know that he protected her.' Her head dropped, but her eyes stayed open. 'I am weak Inu-Yasha, good thing you don't love me.'
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What was happening? Kagome head hung with her eyes open and she was smiling. 'Kagome…'
"Inu-Yasha there is something in the water!" called Miroku.
"No shit!" he said charging into the water. He was only about a foot away from Kagome when she started to shake. Her hands shot forward then hugged her chest; her whole body then straitened up. The water around her disappeared and made a type of moving circular water barrier. The water then shot up making a funnel around Kagome; her hair flew up and veil of light covered her. She then rose steadily off the ground and stopped a few feet away from the muddy terrain.
"Kagome!" shouted Inu-Yasha. He couldn't reach her- his sword was useless. And he did something he had never done before- sheathed it before the 'battle' was over.
Before he knew what happened everything stopped moving. There were no sounds, Miroku was frozen, and everything was frozen except for Kagome. She now looked down at Inu-Yasha, a haze hung over her eyes, and extended her right arm out. He inhaled and exhaled. That was all it took.
Everything unfroze and Kagome shot toward the ground, now on her back. 'She's going to hit the bottom! No, Kagome!' But she didn't; the ground opened up and swallowed her, but before she disappeared the girl managed to grab Inu-Yasha's kimono sending him into the watery depths after her.
Water rushed around them as Kagome's grip held Inu-Yasha to her. 'She won't let me go. She so strong… what's happening?' A gray shadow could be seen behind Kagome as they plunged further and further into the water. It was the bottom! 'She has to stop or she'll be crushed.' The frantic hanyou then saw something he'd never seen before- and huge claw around her stomach. Someone was pulling her to the bottom.
Inu-Yasha tired and tried, struggled, fought with all his might but could not free the girl. And then they hit bottom. Kagome's body recoiled and then stilled, her eyes closed, and the claw on her hand disappeared leaving three gashes in her stomach.
'NO!' The half-demon was let go as the girl's arms were left suspended in the water. He grabbed her by the waist and prayed that he could make it to the surface of the water. He held Kagome to his chest. 'She is still breathing…don't die Kagome. If you die I die too.'
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Author's Note: Hey I update my stories every day so check them out everyday! Puulease!
Sorry such a cliffhanger but the next chapter is going to be great!!