A wish upon a star
Note: I'm itching to tell you guyz the secret, but believe me – some *stuff* have to happen first.
I've replied to a few reviews –
ANgirl: Yep, this is an Inu/Kag... I know it's pretty confusing because Kagome is getting engaged to Sesshomuru – but... come on... Inu-Yasha and Kagome just look perfect for each other don't they?
Cyberdemon: Sorry to burst your bubble...nothing like that happened to her ^. ^
MoonGodess2: Yep, She's at Sesshomuru's castle...not exactly his...but his families...and the font size of my story is 12...I guess that's what the game's called – I really have no idea.
Emily: Thanks for the info; I'll keep that in mind! Now I know how weird it must have looked when I wrote he took of his kimono *blushes with stupidity*
Kahara: If you see any grammar mistakes please mail me and point them out! Thankx for telling me!
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No – I am not a depressed freak writing Inu-Yasha stories on fanfiction.net, its just 11.10 pm. And I tend to get a little –hyper- at night.
Yay! -^.^-
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Chapter Ten
Lock of a Secret
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Kagome practically devoured down breakfast. She hadn't had anything to eat at the ball and now she was starving. Sango watched her reproachfully – she hadn't caught the habit of Inu-Yasha had she?
"What's with you this morning?" She asked putting down her mug. Kagome looked up from her bacon and eggs and looked at Sango like a madman. Just realizing how un-mannered she might have looked she took a napkin and wiped her mouth with it.
"Sorry, I'm just starving; I didn't have anything to eat last night!" She looked at the jug of milk hungrily.
"Well, slow down, the foods not going to disappear" Sango picked up her mug and took a sip of her milk.
Kagome nodded and continued eating her breakfast – a little less savagely this time. She was eating her breakfast normally until someone barged through the dining room halls and rushed over to the table. Kagome looked up from her crescents too see Inu-Yasha taking a place beside her on the table.
She gave a quick glance to Sango who also noticed this and gave Kagome a confused expression. Kagome turned back to Inu-Yasha.
"Good morning"
He huffed back casually and snatched the jug of milk and a mug and poured himself milk, not even noticing the confused stares of the servants and new arrivals at the table.
As the queen took her spot on the table she gave a warm smile to Inu-Yasha . "It's nice to see you here today"
He shrugged and gulped down the milk he had poured himself. Kagome looked back from him and started to eat her crescents again when Inu-Yasha nudged her sharply in the waist.
She dropped the fork instantly at the pain, receiving a worried expression from Sango, "You okay?"
"Yeah...I'm fine...just...I'm fine" She kicked Inu-Yasha angrily under the table who slapped her wrist in reply. Not wanting to get triple bruises on her body she turned an angry face at Inu-Yasha and mouthed a 'what?'
He looked around to check if anyone was watching and unluckily, Sesshomuru seemed to be watching them with a raised eyebrow. Wondering whether he was staring at him because he had actually come for breakfast this morning or because he was trying to communicate with Kagome without anyone noticing he quickly looked away and started to play with his fork.
Kagome looked at him strangely, but then shrugged and continued eating her breakfast. As she picked up her fork Inu-Yasha gave him another shark nudge in the ribs making her drop her fork on her plate again, this time review three worried looks – one from Sango, Miroku (who had just arrived) and the king.
"My hands really slippery..." They all nodded, half believing her white lie and continued eating their breakfast. Kagome turned and gave Inu-Yasha an angry glare. He pointed to an unlit candle on the table. Kagome turned to it and looked back at Inu-Yasha, raising an eyebrow.
He rolled his eyes and pointed to it again, Kagome looked back at it and examined it, she looked back at him.
"There's nothing wrong with it"
He sighed, he turned to her again and mouthed 'library'
She stared at him before fitting one and one together. "Oh! Um...okay"
He shook his head and continued eating his breakfast.
Kagome looked back at her breakfast, finally feeling full. She decided to leave but then again, she gave a quick glance at the boy sitting beside her and a will in her body told her to stay...she shrugged and decided she'll just hang around until he's finished, it wasn't every day he came to breakfast.
She looked down at her empty plate and pondered on her thoughts...why the heck would he want to meet her in his secret room? Maybe he wanted to apologize for last night? That would be nice...but then again, Inu-Yasha apologizing? She scoffed. As she sat there her thoughts traveled to Kikyou.
All she knew was that Kikyou didn't mean to do something she was forced to do and that she made someone kill someone and that the someone she had forced to kill someone was a boy...and that he was here.
The person who had forced her to do something was here or the person she had forced to kill was here?
For all her knowledge they both could be the same person.
And now she knew that she had gotten herself mixed in it by promising she was going to protect her big sister...wasn't it always the other way around?
One word for it - confusing. She sighed, now she had two things to figure out...what the hell happened with Kikyou, and what the heck is this family secret.
'Gosh...if they both could be related then I bet I could put two and two together and figure it out...but then again, how could they be? Kikyou's never met any one from here before...so her secret couldn't have something to do with them...'
She sighed and rested her head on the back of the chair, her thoughts traveled to the second night of staying at the palace. Inu-Yasha had told her not to trust anyone...not even him, why?
Maybe if she asked him he would tell her? She mentally shook her head...she knew better than to get her hopes up.
Thinking about Inu-Yasha, her thoughts traveled up to the night where she had sneaked into his room. She strained her mind as she tried to think up different ways tears may have dropped on his pillow...but then again, it could have been water.
She sighed; she was going to hurt her head if she didn't figure out the ends to all these mysteries.
"'Gomay – you gonna eat that?"
She snapped her eyes to Inu-Yasha who was eyeing her crescents hungrily. She shook her head "Go ahead"
He snatched her plate and devoured her crescents. She sighed. "I'll see you guys later"
"Okay" Sango gave her a bright smile, accompanied by one enthusiastic smile and nod from Miroku, one glance from Sesshomuru and a grunt from Inu-Yasha.
She left the table, wondering if Sesshomuru had been mute in his past life.
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Kagome walked through the gardens, dancing to a song that had gotten into her head somehow and wouldn't leave. As she got to the bridge she smiled as she remembered the secret pathway that she had discovered to the sea.
Wanting to visit the sea again she took of her shoes, and hid them behind a ledge on the bridge.
She ran into the forest and started to run around in circles in the opening of the forest, enjoying the feel of her long yellow dress flow up and twirl around her. She was in the middle of her 'freedom' dance as she liked to call it when she was rudely interrupted.
"Oi, 'Gomay!" The now – so called familiar voice reached her ears. She stopped swirling immediately and looked {with an extremely embarrassed face which was due to the fact if her dress had gone so high that he might have seen under it} at Inu-Yasha.
"I was going to meet you in the room but this place is just fine...I guess" He shrugged nonchalantly and walked a few steps backwards in a hopeless attempt to catch a dragonfly.
She nodded and spotted a butterfly. She hadn't seen that kind before, green wings with dabs of purple, orange and yellow. Wanting to hold it she started to chase after it like a little child, pouting when the butterfly went out of reach.
When the butterfly finally flew out of reach, she sighed unhappily and stared after it.
"You'll be better off with a flower"
She turned around and stared at the hanyou who seemed to be fiddling with something in his right hand, "What do you mean by that?"
He looked up from his right hand and glanced at her before looking down at the path which led down deeper into the forest. "They are a lot of flowers with the same color pattern on them if you travel further down the path," He stopped for a minute and strained his head before continuing "Those butterflies rest there, so...if you want to go and take a peek...I'm just filling you in"
She smiled at him for the information "Thanks," just remembering that he had called to meet her she added "So, what did you want to see me about?"
He walked towards her and stopped only a few good feet away. "This" he opened his right palm which had currently been shut tight and revealed a golden necklace with the letters 'P.K' hanging off from the middle of it.
Kagome stared at it for a while before turning an exclaimed face at Inu- Yasha. "How the – heck – did you get that?"
He chuckled at her choice of words "You dropped it at the ball last night; I thought I'd return it to you"
Kagome reached out her hand and picked up her necklace from his opened palm carefully. "If I lost this..." she didn't finish off her sentence "Oh god, thank you so so much!"
Her fears of last nights started to feel silly to her; Kagome looked back at him, smiling broadly.
He shrugged "I don't really care," He kicked the dirt on the ground, sending sprays of soil onto Kagome's dress.
"Hey!" She wiped the soil of, but a visible stain remained plastered on. She sent him an annoyed look. "I got this dress yesterday!"
"From who? A maid? I've seen them wear better clothes..." He smirked as he watched Kagome gape at him, she closed her mouth immediately.
"And to think I thought you actually might have a nicer side under all this..." she pinched his shoulder "...tough layer you put on"
He snorted "Right..." He raised his eyebrows and sent Kagome a look that made her blood boil...he was staring at her as if she were some pathetic piece of trash.
"Well, at least I don't...run away from my fiancé!" She smiled him a smile that vanished away instantly.
"Well, what can you do? He saw you naked on you're first stay here" He snorted and then immediately after – started to laugh.
Kagome opened her mouth, thinking up of a comeback but got none. All she could do was clench her fists and send him glares of 'never ending un- forgiveness'
"You know, now I remember WHY I hated you so much!" She started to turn around but turned around once again to face him "Because you're an arrogant, nonchalant, rude, un- respectful, unsophisticated, you're NOT urbane, anyone can figure out by looking at you that you're naïve..." She took in much needed air "And you're ego is bigger than the universe all stashed together in one ball!"
He blinked at her, Kagome glared at him...he probably didn't understand a word that she said – she hoped he had the sense to figure out she was screaming at him. Not wanting to stand around him any longer she turned around and started to storm back to the bridge, but she didn't run fast enough to miss his reply.
"Princess Kagy!"
She stopped dead in her tracks and turned around slowly, her face was turning bright red. How in – hell – did he figure THAT out?
The necklace had the symbols on it and they could stand for anything ... Kagome flinched, oh – yeah ... Kikyou knew about it... she must have told him.
"You better not say that name-." she started off but was cut of mid-way.
"Or what – you're going to hit me with your shoe?"
Kagome smirked "Nice idea" She ran to the bridge and picked up her high heels, looked back to secure he was standing where he was she flung her shoe at him. He dodged it easily but wasn't fast enough to miss the second flight.
It hit him straight on the back of his head.
"I hope that hurts!" She smirked and turned around...what goes around comes around...
'Note to myself...must thank whoever made that saying...'
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Miroku sighed contently as he finished sculpting his sculpture. Sango looked over from the ovens and raised an eyebrow at Miroku.
"What's that supposed to be?" She asked eyeing is sculpture.
"It's supposed to be a bird...see – the beak – the feathers..." He looked at it "...You're right, it sucks"
She giggled and nodded. "Why don't you just make a pot?" She motioned towards her well made pot which was currently drying off in the ovens
"I don't know how, maybe you can show me?" He smirked at her.
Sango rolled her eyes "There's going to be no physical touching though"
"Forget it"
"Thought so"
Miroku slumped his shoulders and threw out the used up clay. He looked in the brick casket and dived his hands in it, engulfing out a chunk of fresh new clay.
He walked over to the potters' wheel, stashed his clay onto it, poured some water on it to make it moist and started to sculpt a pot. His sleeves started to drift down and interfere with the in-the making sculpture "Hey, Sango, could you pull up my sleeves?"
Sango eyed him carefully to make sure he wasn't going to play some foul trick on her. His face seemed innocent enough. She giggled to herself as she watched him try to concentrate on making his pot...which wasn't turning out to be...pretty.
She walked over to him and kneeled down; she slowly pulled up his sleeves, making sure both of his hands were on the clay and not wandering off anywhere else. Luckily, they were still in their place so Sango reached over and started to pull up his other sleeve.
Everything was going normal until Miroku pulled back his hand smeared wet clay on Sango's right cheek and on her mouth.
"Miroku!!!" She shrieked. "How could you!?!" She instantly pulled back and touched her wet clay smeared cheek "Ugh, this is disgusting!"
Miroku smiled innocently at Sango "Sorry...I just couldn't figure out any other way to touch your skin"
Sango dipped her hands into the pot of water set beside Miroku and flipped some water onto Miroku's face. "Agh, Sango – that water is dirty"
"So is your mind" She sighed and turned back to the oven.
"Your pot's not going to dry up faster if you stare at the oven" Miroku pointed out in a matter-of-factly way, noticing that she had gone back to her normal position.
"Should I stare at you then?" Sango replied dryly, not very amused by the idea.
"I wouldn't mind" Came Miroku's high spirited voice. Sango scoffed "Please spare me"
"Sango, how do you like my pot?" Miroku questioned from behind Sango. Sango turned around and a tinge of pink hit her cheeks as she read what he had written on the pot.
She gulped "Me + You = 4Ever?"
Miroku blinked at her "Yeah, I thought of giving it to this really hot maid I saw sweeping the west wing yesterday"
Sango mentally slapped herself...of coarse, this was Miroku she was talking about here...she rolled her eyes at her stupidity...why the heck did she get so tensed when she saw that? It wasn't like he was actually going to say something like that to her...
"Um, it looks great, anyone will love that" She gave him a weak smile.
"You think?"
She nodded and opened the steaming hot oven for him "Place it in"
"'Kay" He got up and carefully placed his pot beside Sango's almost dried up one. After placing it he got up and wiped his forehead at the heat he had just received from the oven. Sango closed it after and looked back at Miroku.
"Sango, you've still got clay on your cheek"
Sango suddenly jumped up...she mentally cursed herself; she was getting so worked up for no exact reason "I- I do?"
He nodded, "Here" He pulled down his sleeve so it covered his hand and started to rub the clay off her cheek. Sango gulped down a lump in her throat as she watched him examine her cheek closely; rubbing off parts he had missed. "Done"
She pulled back before he even lifted his hand off her cheek "T-Thanks" Sango hoped all the heat she was feeling on her face wasn't showing, and that the sudden relief that passed over her as he let go wasn't too obvious.
Miroku shrugged "No problem, wouldn't want to ruin that skin of yours" He smiled at her.
She nodded and looked away...somehow feeling awkward.
"Hey, let's go get some fresh air – it's going to be some hours until the pots dry up and I don't think you want to be left here alone"
She shook her head, silently thanking him in her head for breaking the short silence "Okay, I'm going to go do something with Kagome...hang around with her in the castle, I'll meet you at lunch"
He nodded, and with that he leapt up the stairs leaving Sango alone in the pottery room. Sango stayed there for a while before flumping back down on the stool she was sitting on, somehow not wanting to go anywhere for a while.
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A dark figure loomed over Kagome's bed. It sighed and shook its head as it stared down at the innocent girl's belongings. It walked over to the little pack Kagome had brought to the palace.
It opened it, not caring about intruding into her private property. It got grasp of her diary and pulled it out.
It fiddled with the lock, after un-successful tries of opening the lock it just pointed its finger and blew off the lock.
"You really shouldn't use those pathetic little locks..." It sighed again and flipped through her diary. It mused out its thoughts as it read her recent entries. "...you know, Kagome dear..."
It walked over to her balcony and sat down on her rocking chair, "...you've just put yourself into something that shouldn't include you in the least..."
As it heard movement from the room beside Kagome's it got up from the rocking chair and swiftly walked inside Kagome's room. It closed her diary shut and threw it on her bed. It eyed the broken lock on the floor and sighed. "...Just so you don't mess yourself into more trouble than you already are..."
With one swift wave of its hand the lock rose up and settled itself on its previous place on the diary.
The dark figure sighed once again "...you really shouldn't have made that promise to Kikyou...you're just going to waste my time you know..."
"...Too many people too kill ...cant have you and that barrier you've put around Kikyou...you've just been added on to my list"
And with that it disappeared in a wave of purple smoke.
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{Short chapter, forgive me}
Muahahahaha
And so the plot begins...
-Blinks innocently-
T_T
What?
*hides behind trashcan as flames get sent*
* Trashcan bursts in flames*
Oh come on...didn't I promise you there'z gonna be no angst in the story?
You trust me, right?
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Don't worry...you'll figure out whom - IT – is sooner or later...way sooner than you think – maybe in the thirteenth chapter?
*coughs* did I say thirteenth? I meant fourteenth...or fifteenth... *Looks frantically for another trashcan*
Though I bet you pretty much have a good idea on who it is.
*yells in a squeaky voice "Remember to Review!"*
One more thing – chapter eleven will come out on Sunday, March 14th.
Note: I'm itching to tell you guyz the secret, but believe me – some *stuff* have to happen first.
I've replied to a few reviews –
ANgirl: Yep, this is an Inu/Kag... I know it's pretty confusing because Kagome is getting engaged to Sesshomuru – but... come on... Inu-Yasha and Kagome just look perfect for each other don't they?
Cyberdemon: Sorry to burst your bubble...nothing like that happened to her ^. ^
MoonGodess2: Yep, She's at Sesshomuru's castle...not exactly his...but his families...and the font size of my story is 12...I guess that's what the game's called – I really have no idea.
Emily: Thanks for the info; I'll keep that in mind! Now I know how weird it must have looked when I wrote he took of his kimono *blushes with stupidity*
Kahara: If you see any grammar mistakes please mail me and point them out! Thankx for telling me!
And last but no least: Thankx to EVERYONE who took a minute of their time and reviewed! Believe it not- I have read EVERY SINGLE review sent -_- ))
No – I am not a depressed freak writing Inu-Yasha stories on fanfiction.net, its just 11.10 pm. And I tend to get a little –hyper- at night.
Yay! -^.^-
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Chapter Ten
Lock of a Secret
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Kagome practically devoured down breakfast. She hadn't had anything to eat at the ball and now she was starving. Sango watched her reproachfully – she hadn't caught the habit of Inu-Yasha had she?
"What's with you this morning?" She asked putting down her mug. Kagome looked up from her bacon and eggs and looked at Sango like a madman. Just realizing how un-mannered she might have looked she took a napkin and wiped her mouth with it.
"Sorry, I'm just starving; I didn't have anything to eat last night!" She looked at the jug of milk hungrily.
"Well, slow down, the foods not going to disappear" Sango picked up her mug and took a sip of her milk.
Kagome nodded and continued eating her breakfast – a little less savagely this time. She was eating her breakfast normally until someone barged through the dining room halls and rushed over to the table. Kagome looked up from her crescents too see Inu-Yasha taking a place beside her on the table.
She gave a quick glance to Sango who also noticed this and gave Kagome a confused expression. Kagome turned back to Inu-Yasha.
"Good morning"
He huffed back casually and snatched the jug of milk and a mug and poured himself milk, not even noticing the confused stares of the servants and new arrivals at the table.
As the queen took her spot on the table she gave a warm smile to Inu-Yasha . "It's nice to see you here today"
He shrugged and gulped down the milk he had poured himself. Kagome looked back from him and started to eat her crescents again when Inu-Yasha nudged her sharply in the waist.
She dropped the fork instantly at the pain, receiving a worried expression from Sango, "You okay?"
"Yeah...I'm fine...just...I'm fine" She kicked Inu-Yasha angrily under the table who slapped her wrist in reply. Not wanting to get triple bruises on her body she turned an angry face at Inu-Yasha and mouthed a 'what?'
He looked around to check if anyone was watching and unluckily, Sesshomuru seemed to be watching them with a raised eyebrow. Wondering whether he was staring at him because he had actually come for breakfast this morning or because he was trying to communicate with Kagome without anyone noticing he quickly looked away and started to play with his fork.
Kagome looked at him strangely, but then shrugged and continued eating her breakfast. As she picked up her fork Inu-Yasha gave him another shark nudge in the ribs making her drop her fork on her plate again, this time review three worried looks – one from Sango, Miroku (who had just arrived) and the king.
"My hands really slippery..." They all nodded, half believing her white lie and continued eating their breakfast. Kagome turned and gave Inu-Yasha an angry glare. He pointed to an unlit candle on the table. Kagome turned to it and looked back at Inu-Yasha, raising an eyebrow.
He rolled his eyes and pointed to it again, Kagome looked back at it and examined it, she looked back at him.
"There's nothing wrong with it"
He sighed, he turned to her again and mouthed 'library'
She stared at him before fitting one and one together. "Oh! Um...okay"
He shook his head and continued eating his breakfast.
Kagome looked back at her breakfast, finally feeling full. She decided to leave but then again, she gave a quick glance at the boy sitting beside her and a will in her body told her to stay...she shrugged and decided she'll just hang around until he's finished, it wasn't every day he came to breakfast.
She looked down at her empty plate and pondered on her thoughts...why the heck would he want to meet her in his secret room? Maybe he wanted to apologize for last night? That would be nice...but then again, Inu-Yasha apologizing? She scoffed. As she sat there her thoughts traveled to Kikyou.
All she knew was that Kikyou didn't mean to do something she was forced to do and that she made someone kill someone and that the someone she had forced to kill someone was a boy...and that he was here.
The person who had forced her to do something was here or the person she had forced to kill was here?
For all her knowledge they both could be the same person.
And now she knew that she had gotten herself mixed in it by promising she was going to protect her big sister...wasn't it always the other way around?
One word for it - confusing. She sighed, now she had two things to figure out...what the hell happened with Kikyou, and what the heck is this family secret.
'Gosh...if they both could be related then I bet I could put two and two together and figure it out...but then again, how could they be? Kikyou's never met any one from here before...so her secret couldn't have something to do with them...'
She sighed and rested her head on the back of the chair, her thoughts traveled to the second night of staying at the palace. Inu-Yasha had told her not to trust anyone...not even him, why?
Maybe if she asked him he would tell her? She mentally shook her head...she knew better than to get her hopes up.
Thinking about Inu-Yasha, her thoughts traveled up to the night where she had sneaked into his room. She strained her mind as she tried to think up different ways tears may have dropped on his pillow...but then again, it could have been water.
She sighed; she was going to hurt her head if she didn't figure out the ends to all these mysteries.
"'Gomay – you gonna eat that?"
She snapped her eyes to Inu-Yasha who was eyeing her crescents hungrily. She shook her head "Go ahead"
He snatched her plate and devoured her crescents. She sighed. "I'll see you guys later"
"Okay" Sango gave her a bright smile, accompanied by one enthusiastic smile and nod from Miroku, one glance from Sesshomuru and a grunt from Inu-Yasha.
She left the table, wondering if Sesshomuru had been mute in his past life.
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Kagome walked through the gardens, dancing to a song that had gotten into her head somehow and wouldn't leave. As she got to the bridge she smiled as she remembered the secret pathway that she had discovered to the sea.
Wanting to visit the sea again she took of her shoes, and hid them behind a ledge on the bridge.
She ran into the forest and started to run around in circles in the opening of the forest, enjoying the feel of her long yellow dress flow up and twirl around her. She was in the middle of her 'freedom' dance as she liked to call it when she was rudely interrupted.
"Oi, 'Gomay!" The now – so called familiar voice reached her ears. She stopped swirling immediately and looked {with an extremely embarrassed face which was due to the fact if her dress had gone so high that he might have seen under it} at Inu-Yasha.
"I was going to meet you in the room but this place is just fine...I guess" He shrugged nonchalantly and walked a few steps backwards in a hopeless attempt to catch a dragonfly.
She nodded and spotted a butterfly. She hadn't seen that kind before, green wings with dabs of purple, orange and yellow. Wanting to hold it she started to chase after it like a little child, pouting when the butterfly went out of reach.
When the butterfly finally flew out of reach, she sighed unhappily and stared after it.
"You'll be better off with a flower"
She turned around and stared at the hanyou who seemed to be fiddling with something in his right hand, "What do you mean by that?"
He looked up from his right hand and glanced at her before looking down at the path which led down deeper into the forest. "They are a lot of flowers with the same color pattern on them if you travel further down the path," He stopped for a minute and strained his head before continuing "Those butterflies rest there, so...if you want to go and take a peek...I'm just filling you in"
She smiled at him for the information "Thanks," just remembering that he had called to meet her she added "So, what did you want to see me about?"
He walked towards her and stopped only a few good feet away. "This" he opened his right palm which had currently been shut tight and revealed a golden necklace with the letters 'P.K' hanging off from the middle of it.
Kagome stared at it for a while before turning an exclaimed face at Inu- Yasha. "How the – heck – did you get that?"
He chuckled at her choice of words "You dropped it at the ball last night; I thought I'd return it to you"
Kagome reached out her hand and picked up her necklace from his opened palm carefully. "If I lost this..." she didn't finish off her sentence "Oh god, thank you so so much!"
Her fears of last nights started to feel silly to her; Kagome looked back at him, smiling broadly.
He shrugged "I don't really care," He kicked the dirt on the ground, sending sprays of soil onto Kagome's dress.
"Hey!" She wiped the soil of, but a visible stain remained plastered on. She sent him an annoyed look. "I got this dress yesterday!"
"From who? A maid? I've seen them wear better clothes..." He smirked as he watched Kagome gape at him, she closed her mouth immediately.
"And to think I thought you actually might have a nicer side under all this..." she pinched his shoulder "...tough layer you put on"
He snorted "Right..." He raised his eyebrows and sent Kagome a look that made her blood boil...he was staring at her as if she were some pathetic piece of trash.
"Well, at least I don't...run away from my fiancé!" She smiled him a smile that vanished away instantly.
"Well, what can you do? He saw you naked on you're first stay here" He snorted and then immediately after – started to laugh.
Kagome opened her mouth, thinking up of a comeback but got none. All she could do was clench her fists and send him glares of 'never ending un- forgiveness'
"You know, now I remember WHY I hated you so much!" She started to turn around but turned around once again to face him "Because you're an arrogant, nonchalant, rude, un- respectful, unsophisticated, you're NOT urbane, anyone can figure out by looking at you that you're naïve..." She took in much needed air "And you're ego is bigger than the universe all stashed together in one ball!"
He blinked at her, Kagome glared at him...he probably didn't understand a word that she said – she hoped he had the sense to figure out she was screaming at him. Not wanting to stand around him any longer she turned around and started to storm back to the bridge, but she didn't run fast enough to miss his reply.
"Princess Kagy!"
She stopped dead in her tracks and turned around slowly, her face was turning bright red. How in – hell – did he figure THAT out?
The necklace had the symbols on it and they could stand for anything ... Kagome flinched, oh – yeah ... Kikyou knew about it... she must have told him.
"You better not say that name-." she started off but was cut of mid-way.
"Or what – you're going to hit me with your shoe?"
Kagome smirked "Nice idea" She ran to the bridge and picked up her high heels, looked back to secure he was standing where he was she flung her shoe at him. He dodged it easily but wasn't fast enough to miss the second flight.
It hit him straight on the back of his head.
"I hope that hurts!" She smirked and turned around...what goes around comes around...
'Note to myself...must thank whoever made that saying...'
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Miroku sighed contently as he finished sculpting his sculpture. Sango looked over from the ovens and raised an eyebrow at Miroku.
"What's that supposed to be?" She asked eyeing is sculpture.
"It's supposed to be a bird...see – the beak – the feathers..." He looked at it "...You're right, it sucks"
She giggled and nodded. "Why don't you just make a pot?" She motioned towards her well made pot which was currently drying off in the ovens
"I don't know how, maybe you can show me?" He smirked at her.
Sango rolled her eyes "There's going to be no physical touching though"
"Forget it"
"Thought so"
Miroku slumped his shoulders and threw out the used up clay. He looked in the brick casket and dived his hands in it, engulfing out a chunk of fresh new clay.
He walked over to the potters' wheel, stashed his clay onto it, poured some water on it to make it moist and started to sculpt a pot. His sleeves started to drift down and interfere with the in-the making sculpture "Hey, Sango, could you pull up my sleeves?"
Sango eyed him carefully to make sure he wasn't going to play some foul trick on her. His face seemed innocent enough. She giggled to herself as she watched him try to concentrate on making his pot...which wasn't turning out to be...pretty.
She walked over to him and kneeled down; she slowly pulled up his sleeves, making sure both of his hands were on the clay and not wandering off anywhere else. Luckily, they were still in their place so Sango reached over and started to pull up his other sleeve.
Everything was going normal until Miroku pulled back his hand smeared wet clay on Sango's right cheek and on her mouth.
"Miroku!!!" She shrieked. "How could you!?!" She instantly pulled back and touched her wet clay smeared cheek "Ugh, this is disgusting!"
Miroku smiled innocently at Sango "Sorry...I just couldn't figure out any other way to touch your skin"
Sango dipped her hands into the pot of water set beside Miroku and flipped some water onto Miroku's face. "Agh, Sango – that water is dirty"
"So is your mind" She sighed and turned back to the oven.
"Your pot's not going to dry up faster if you stare at the oven" Miroku pointed out in a matter-of-factly way, noticing that she had gone back to her normal position.
"Should I stare at you then?" Sango replied dryly, not very amused by the idea.
"I wouldn't mind" Came Miroku's high spirited voice. Sango scoffed "Please spare me"
"Sango, how do you like my pot?" Miroku questioned from behind Sango. Sango turned around and a tinge of pink hit her cheeks as she read what he had written on the pot.
She gulped "Me + You = 4Ever?"
Miroku blinked at her "Yeah, I thought of giving it to this really hot maid I saw sweeping the west wing yesterday"
Sango mentally slapped herself...of coarse, this was Miroku she was talking about here...she rolled her eyes at her stupidity...why the heck did she get so tensed when she saw that? It wasn't like he was actually going to say something like that to her...
"Um, it looks great, anyone will love that" She gave him a weak smile.
"You think?"
She nodded and opened the steaming hot oven for him "Place it in"
"'Kay" He got up and carefully placed his pot beside Sango's almost dried up one. After placing it he got up and wiped his forehead at the heat he had just received from the oven. Sango closed it after and looked back at Miroku.
"Sango, you've still got clay on your cheek"
Sango suddenly jumped up...she mentally cursed herself; she was getting so worked up for no exact reason "I- I do?"
He nodded, "Here" He pulled down his sleeve so it covered his hand and started to rub the clay off her cheek. Sango gulped down a lump in her throat as she watched him examine her cheek closely; rubbing off parts he had missed. "Done"
She pulled back before he even lifted his hand off her cheek "T-Thanks" Sango hoped all the heat she was feeling on her face wasn't showing, and that the sudden relief that passed over her as he let go wasn't too obvious.
Miroku shrugged "No problem, wouldn't want to ruin that skin of yours" He smiled at her.
She nodded and looked away...somehow feeling awkward.
"Hey, let's go get some fresh air – it's going to be some hours until the pots dry up and I don't think you want to be left here alone"
She shook her head, silently thanking him in her head for breaking the short silence "Okay, I'm going to go do something with Kagome...hang around with her in the castle, I'll meet you at lunch"
He nodded, and with that he leapt up the stairs leaving Sango alone in the pottery room. Sango stayed there for a while before flumping back down on the stool she was sitting on, somehow not wanting to go anywhere for a while.
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A dark figure loomed over Kagome's bed. It sighed and shook its head as it stared down at the innocent girl's belongings. It walked over to the little pack Kagome had brought to the palace.
It opened it, not caring about intruding into her private property. It got grasp of her diary and pulled it out.
It fiddled with the lock, after un-successful tries of opening the lock it just pointed its finger and blew off the lock.
"You really shouldn't use those pathetic little locks..." It sighed again and flipped through her diary. It mused out its thoughts as it read her recent entries. "...you know, Kagome dear..."
It walked over to her balcony and sat down on her rocking chair, "...you've just put yourself into something that shouldn't include you in the least..."
As it heard movement from the room beside Kagome's it got up from the rocking chair and swiftly walked inside Kagome's room. It closed her diary shut and threw it on her bed. It eyed the broken lock on the floor and sighed. "...Just so you don't mess yourself into more trouble than you already are..."
With one swift wave of its hand the lock rose up and settled itself on its previous place on the diary.
The dark figure sighed once again "...you really shouldn't have made that promise to Kikyou...you're just going to waste my time you know..."
"...Too many people too kill ...cant have you and that barrier you've put around Kikyou...you've just been added on to my list"
And with that it disappeared in a wave of purple smoke.
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{Short chapter, forgive me}
Muahahahaha
And so the plot begins...
-Blinks innocently-
T_T
What?
*hides behind trashcan as flames get sent*
* Trashcan bursts in flames*
Oh come on...didn't I promise you there'z gonna be no angst in the story?
You trust me, right?
-_-
Don't worry...you'll figure out whom - IT – is sooner or later...way sooner than you think – maybe in the thirteenth chapter?
*coughs* did I say thirteenth? I meant fourteenth...or fifteenth... *Looks frantically for another trashcan*
Though I bet you pretty much have a good idea on who it is.
*yells in a squeaky voice "Remember to Review!"*
One more thing – chapter eleven will come out on Sunday, March 14th.