A wish upon a star
Most of you can guess, by the chapter's title that something (s) is/are going to be introduced in this chapter...about time too.
Yes – the feather from the last chapter was Kagura's feather.
And some of you noticed – Kouga isn't a Love sick fool in my story – well, he's not in love with Kagome at least...
Wondering why the quick updates? Its March break and I have absolutely nothing else to do.
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Chapter Thirteen
Unforgotten Evilness
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"Well, no need to be embarrassed, nothing could be bad as what happened to me in my life" Kagome spoke, she waited for Inu-Yasha to reply to her statement, but he said nothing, obviously giving Kagome the silent treatment.
She rolled her eyes and rattled on with what she had to say "You know how, when you're little, all your aunts and uncles pinch your cheeks, and tell you how adorable you are?"
She paused and sighed when he didn't say anything "Well, I was around the age of five, and... my aunt and uncle arrived to stay over at our castle, I was sick and tired of people pinching my cheeks and saying how adorable I am, giving me big, wet, and sloppy kisses..." she shuddered. "...It was just horrible, anyway, when they decided to do all that to me I kind of went ballistic, I slapped their hands away, bit into their arms, did a head but to their stomach, and I ripped my aunts clothes...and she was standing nude in front of everybody"
Inu-Yasha chuckled to himself, but not loud enough for Kagome to hear, he didn't want her to stop now.
"I was grounded, my aunt and uncle were furious...they decided never to meet our family again, I obviously had no idea what was wrong with what I did so I just screamed at everybody and attacked them when they tried to reason with me"
Inu-Yasha smiled, he could imagine a mini – Kagome screaming and acting like boss.
Kagome, sitting on the other side of the trunk where Inu-Yasha was sitting, didn't see him smile, so she babbled on with her misfortunate past.
"...and there was this other time, my other aunt was getting married, I was only four, I had never been to a wedding before. So after the commitments were done, he picked her up bridal style and started to run out of the hall. I thought he was kidnapping her and I started to scream and yell"
Inu-Yasha tried to suppress his laugh but that just got him in a coughing fit. Kagome pouted, here she is, telling him some pretty embarrassing situations, and he's laughing at her?
As soon as Inu-Yasha stopped coughing, Kagome continued. "When she left the hall, I was crying like hell, I thought he was going to take her away, and murder her, and I thought I was never going to see my aunt again"
She cleared her throat "And I was so confused because no one else was chasing after – as I thought – the kidnapper, and they actually looked happy, so I started to run after her and my sister was pulling me back...and after the whole thing ended they told me what really happened and you have no idea how embarrassed I felt"
Inu-Yasha chuckled, "That's just like the time I saw my uncles wedding, I didn't get the whole thing of a wedding, and I just thought parents came out of no where, like, when my mom told me babies came from chimneys..."
Kagome giggled, "I can't believe I believed that, I used to ask my mom if we moved away and the baby got delivered in the wrong chimney, what would happen and all sorts of questions"
Inu-Yasha grinned "Did you ever believe in the tooth fairy?"
Kagome nodded fervently "I caught my dad sneaking money underneath my pillow and since then I found out about the truth, I was seven anyway"
Inu-Yasha laughed, forgetting he was supposed to be mad at her "That's sooner than I stopped believing in her, I was nine, I was home-schooled so I had no friends to tell me it was all fake, apart from Miroku that is, but he didn't know any better, Sesshomuru was the one who told me it was all gibberish, so one night we hid under the bed and waited for my mom to come, when she did, we jumped out from underneath the bed and scared her shitless, I didn't talk to her for weeks but I forgave her sooner or later"
Kagome giggled, "You were nine?"
"Yep, that's just two years after I stopped believing in the boogey man" He murmured out loud, obviously remembering what Kagome had done.
She sighed annoyingly "Oh, forget it already, its not as bad as people thinking that you have horse manure over you're dress!"
He laughed "That was hilarious; you should have seen your face!"
Anger boiled up in Kagome's throat, here she was trying to be nice to him and he was making fun of her? "I don't know why I even bother with you!"
"Yeah, so don't even-." He stopped dead in his tracks. Kagome raised an eyebrow, why the sudden stop?
She leaned over to see Inu-Yasha. He had leaned over and was now peering closely into the forest in the castles direction.
"Uh... Inu-Yasha? What happened?" She asked cocking her head towards him. He glanced at her and quickly grabbed her arm and pulled her close.
"Eek! What are you doing?" She asked but she stopped her questioning when Inu-Yasha shot her a worried glance.
"Do you feel that?" He asked, his voice had turned to a whisper.
She shook her head "I don't feel anything; I don't have demon blood remember?" She assured him, raising a confused eyebrow at him, the sudden change in mood surprising her, but what concerned her most was the panic she heard in his voice.
"It's in the castle" His grip on her tightening even more. She winced; she could feel his claws grazing her arm, and if he didn't loosen his grip on her arm she was sure.
"What's in the castle?" She tugged on her arm, but he didn't let go. She shot him a worried glance; this was starting to freak her out.
"Be quiet, it's coming closer" He whispered to her, looking at the sky. Kagome could feel her stomach going queasy, she wasn't the one who liked this suspenseful situations, if she could choose, she would rather live in a place with no action whatsoever than be stuck waiting for something or someone to appear.
If this was a joke, she would murder Inu-Yasha in his sleep, but something in his voice told Kagome that he was very, very serious.
"GET OUT OF THE WAY!"
Kagome didn't know what happened in the next few moments. One moment she heard Inu-Yasha's voice telling her to get out of the way, the next moment she was being scrambled to the ground with Inu-Yasha on top of her. There was a loud explosion behind her, and she could feel the ground a few feet away from her crumble and fall into the water below them.
She choked as she smelt smoke rush up her nose, something was on fire. She winced as she felt hot bark hit her left arm.
A trickle of blood was running down her arm. Her eyes were shut tight, and she didn't dare to open them.
"Kagome you okay?" Inu-Yasha scrambled to her side so she could get up. She opened her eyes slowly and her eyes opened wide in shock as she saw the site in front of her. The tree she had been leaning on was blown to bits and so had the cliff she had been sitting on.
Now, there was nothing but air in the place she had previously been talking to Inu-Yasha on. There were pieces of bark and dirt where she had been sitting but mostly everything was in remains.
"What just happened?" She gasped out loud. Inu-Yasha looked at her and got up but regretted it as he felt something stab his back. He sat down immediately and looked at Kagome as if deciding to tell her.
"Someone tried to kill us" He said quickly and quietly, hoping Kagome wouldn't hear him but she heard his words loud and clear.
She opened her mouth once and twice to say something but no words came out; at last she came up with something to say. "How?"
"Look" He nudged his head towards the sight of the explosion. Kagome turned her and she raised a confused eyebrow at the one feather floating in front of her. "That feather, it explodes whenever it touches something solid, and it was supposed to explode on us"
Kagome shook her head and flinched at the thought of her body exploding into little pieces "How did it travel so fast from the castle to us?"
"It didn't, whatever I sensed in the castle is still there" He replied slowly. Kagome looked at his face, he wasn't showing at expression, nothing, not even fear.
"You mean there are two of them?" She asked.
He shook his head "No, three"
She tried to process the information "Why did it try to..." She stopped mid way in her sentence as she thought of what she was about to say, she shook her head, she just couldn't say it "...I mean, why us?"
He shook his head and then slammed his fist down on the earth "I don't know..." He closed his eyes and stayed there for a while, as if he was trying to think up of something.
Kagome looked at him; something told her he wasn't telling the whole truth. "We should go and help the people in the castle!"
He shook his head "They can take care of themselves, lets get out of here" He sighed and got up. He flinched at his wound on his back but he tried to ignore it. Kagome who noticed this got up immediately and rushed up to him.
"You're hurt"
He shook his head "Forget it, its nothing, you're bleeding"
She shook her head "Forget it, its nothing, just a cut, you sure you're okay?"
He nodded "You sure you're okay?" He asked her, trying to ask normally, only showing a little bit of concern.
She smiled and nodded "Yeah, you want to go back to the castle?" She asked him, even though she was scared shitless by now from what Inu-Yasha had told her, if he could act normal about this, so could she.
He nodded, "I'll go to my room"
"Which one?" She asked him, they had started to walk back towards the castle, but this time, taking Inu-Yasha's route from between the forest.
"The one in the library"
She nodded "I'll come"
He shrugged, not really caring if she came along with him, he might need some help with the wound on his back anyway. Remembering the attack he glanced at the castle, what would 'It' need in the castle? Wasn't it only after him?
He lowered his gaze to the ground, obviously not. Somehow, Kagome and whoever was in the castle had gotten included in this too.
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Kikyou shifted her position on her bed. She had fallen asleep an hour ago and she was having a pleasant dream.
All this humidity had made her sleepy and all the food she had eaten at lunch hadn't helped in keeping her awake. She sighed as she slept; it had been such a long time since she had eaten such a healthy meal.
Kouga had been pretty nice to her, and had asked her to help him around the castle, but then afterwards, he had seen Sango and had gone after her.
She mentally shrugged; who cared...at least he had bothered talking to her. Everyone else in the castle hadn't even bothered to ask why she wasn't coming down for breakfast or dinner.
Everyone apart from the King, Queen and Miroku. She flinched, she hated that pervert. She snuggled in the cozy warmth of the bed but was disturbed from her sleep as she heard a voice.
"Wake up Kikyou dear, I don't like to be kept waiting" A cold and sinister voice drawled out to her.
Kikyou's eyes shot wide open, hoping it had just been a dream but as she saw the figure standing in front of her she shrieked.
"Hush now; you don't want everyone coming into your room"
"I'll scream until the whole kingdom is in here" She spat out, starting to crawl backward into the corner of her bed.
He shook his head and sighed, seeing a chair walked over to it and picked it up. Thinking he was about to hit her with the chair Kikyou raised her arms to protect her face but lowered them as she saw him take the chair and place it in front of her bed.
He sat down on the chair and shook his head again. "You don't want to do such a thing like that, if you do, I'll just tell them what you did when you were fourteen" The figure smiled.
"Get out of my room Naraku" She drawled at him.
"Now, now...you don't want your secret going around the whole castle do you now Kikyou?"
Kikyou closed her mouth and narrowed her eyes, she had reached the corner of the bed and she was now pressing herself on the wall. "I didn't know what I was doing, you forced me, and you told me lies..." Her tough talk started to quiver as she felt tears force up her throat "...I hate you..."
He smiled "Well, you haven't helped yourself by what you did"
She shook her head violently "I haven't done anything! Now leave me alone! You've already ruined my life!"
He sighed nonchalantly "Don't worry, I can't hurt you..." He narrowed his eyes "...with this barrier you've put onto yourself"
He flicked a whip at her but it was whipped right back at him as the barrier protected Kikyou.
"You made your little sister promise to protect you, now, she has put a barrier on you" He shook his head "I never knew she had miko powers, but now, I have to kill her first to kill you"
Kikyou's eyes widened in shock "You wouldn't, she hasn't done a thing, leave her out of this!"
Naraku shook his head "I can't do that now, now I'm just warning you now, stay out of my way or I'll kill the boy first"
Kikyou clasped her hands together "I beg of you, don't hurt her"
Naraku shook his head "You should have thought of that first"
Panic rushed through Kikyou like a thunder bolt "Please! I'm begging you! Please don't kill her! Please..." Kikyou looked up, he had already gone. She buried her head into her hands, what had she done?
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Sango laughed nervously as Kouga told her another lame joke. She had been listening feebly to him for the past hour and whenever she tried to make an excuse to leave he would just pull her back and tell 'whatever had to be done could be done later'
Miroku had stormed out of the room, looking extremely pissed and had come back in after a while only to storm out again, this time yelling out something like "I'll get you back for that!"
Sango turned her attention back to Kouga who was currently telling her something about his life in the wolf army...everything that he was saying was only coming into her mind in forms of 'blah blah blah'
Miroku stepped into the room again, this time looking extremely calm. Kouga turned around and smiled when he saw Miroku. Sango looked at Miroku desperately, hoping he got the message to help her out of the situation.
Unluckily, Miroku walked over and sat right beside Kouga and listened intently to what he was saying.
Sango rolled her eyes.
He could be so stupid in times of need. As she listened to Kouga's gibberish Rin stepped into the room. Sango looked at her longingly.
Rin looked back at her and giggled when she noticed the situation she was in. She nodded as if understanding and Sango brightened up immediately. After five minutes of cleaning up, Rin stepped out of the room and came back in.
"Lady Sango? Lady Kagome is calling you" She told her politely. Sango smiled, a little too merrily.
"Okay, sorry Kouga, I would LOVE to hear more about your stories, but I have to go now, why don't you catch me later and tell me then?" She silently agreed to avoid him at all costs.
"Of course, now hurry up; I don't want to keep your time"
She rolled her eyes as she left; 'now he says that'. Sango stepped out of the room and headed straight for her room. It was too late to go to the sea now and she knew Kagome wasn't really looking for her.
As she stepped into her room an angry Miroku glared at her. He was standing right in front of her. Sango stared at him, hadn't he just been talking with Kouga downstairs? "How did you get here so fast?"
"I took the shortcut to your room" He replied as he crossed his arms over his chest. Sango opened her eyes as she said this.
"You know a shortcut to my room?" She asked, this didn't sound good. Miroku knowing a shortcut to her room, without her knowing? Gosh, he could've stepped in her room when she was changing for god's sake!
He nodded and then shrugged, "I've known it since before you even came here" He smiled as if reading her mind "I come into your room every night and admire you every night"
Sango glared at him "Miroku! How dare you!" She looked around frantically in her room "Where's the shortcut?"
"You'll block it up if I tell you" He replied innocently.
"Exactly!" She yelled at him and started to pace around her room. "Where – Is – It?!?" He sighed, "I just ran to your room faster than you did, from another way that is"
She sighed at her stupidity, "You don't really come in here every night?"
He shrugged and smiled, but then, remembering what he really had come in here for her pointed a finger accursedly at Sango "You were flirting with him!"
Sango raised an eyebrow "Flirting with whom?"
"With that Kouga guy! I saw your face, you think he's hot!" He steamed off, and then pouted.
Sango rolled her eyes and then laughed "So? Why do you care?"
"Because..." He pondered on what he was about to say "...You're not supposed to think other guys are hot"
She rolled her eyes and then walked up to her bed and sat down on it. She looked and Miroku and shook her head "Who says?"
"I do" He replied with such an arrogant face that it gave Sango the image that he thought that he was the boss of her.
"You're not my fiancé, and neither is any other guy here, I don't have a fiancé, so in my case, its fine with me who I think is hot or not, and I can stay around Kouga and flirt with him as much as I want, even though if it means that I have to listen to his boring talk and lame jokes all day long" She replied back and flipped her hair over her shoulders.
Miroku stared at her, blood rushing to his face making Sango wonder why the heck he even cared which guy she went for. He went around groping every woman's derrière and she didn't say anything about it, even though she did get a mad bubbly feeling in her stomach.
After glaring at her for which seemed like five whole minutes he turned around and stormed out of the room. Sango shrugged, it wasn't like Miroku to get jealous over her, well – that's what it seemed like he was doing.
She rested her head down on her pillow. There was no use in getting close to Miroku; he would always run after another girl with a better rear end even if they both got married. She sighed, why was she thinking about this anyway? It wasn't like she had true feelings for him anyway.
He was just a pass time friend.
Nothing else.
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Kagome played with the roll of bandage in her hand as she sat in Inu- Yasha's secret room while he tried to figure out what all the adults were talking about outside in the library.
She had bandaged up his wound which healed almost immediately and she had finished bandaging her arm after Inu-Yasha had gruffly finished cleaning up her blood. She had made up an excuse of fainting when she got to close to someone's blood and had Inu-Yasha do the dirty work for her.
She smiled, everything was going great until Inu-Yasha's parents had come exactly to the left wing of the library and had started talking secretively to each other. There were definitely other adults too, but their identities seemed unfamiliar with both Kagome and Inu-Yasha.
She had asked Inu-Yasha again if he knew anything about the explosion and he had just replied it was because she was full of bad luck and that it was just an ordinary demon.
When she asked about the other two 'demons' he had mentioned, he replied casually with an excuse that it was the demon which had attacked them partners and they were just looking with for a prey with extremely dirty blood and thus one of them had attacked her but mistakably attacked him as well.
After his little explanation, Kagome had straddled him to the floor and had started beating the crap out of him but they all had stopped when they heard the voices outside.
Inu-Yasha had immediately pressed his ears onto the wall and Kagome was waiting impatiently behind him for further news.
"What if they see the candle?" She asked nervously. He shot her an annoyed glance. She had been asking this for the last five minutes but he had ignored her completely, the thought seemed too horrible to think about.
"Let's hope not!" He shot back at her. Kagome moved closer to the entrance and strained her ears, hoping she could hear as much Inu-Yasha could hear. She sighed frustratingly, all she could hear was laughing and some murmuring.
She turned a face to Inu-Yasha "What are they saying?"
He didn't reply to her question so she asked again. Thinking Inu-Yasha hadn't heard him she brought her mouth close to her ear and this time, yelled in his ear. "What are they talking about?!?!"
He jumped back immediately and started rubbing his ear "Damnit woman, you plan to make me deaf?"
She shrugged innocently, putting on a puppy pout "I didn't mean to..."
She lowered her gaze to the floor; somehow the blood loss from her arm was making her feel extremely silly.
He rolled his eyes "Just shut up so I can concentrate on what they're saying"
She sniffled and nodded her head as if being told to go to her room by her mother. She moved over so Inu-Yasha could take his previous position and waited intently.
He pressed his ears against the wall and strained his face into concentration. While doing this, Kagome peered onto his face with great interest.
She continued doing this for a minute while Inu-Yasha snapped his eyes to her direction, catching her gaze immediately.
"Will you stop staring at me?" He snapped at her.
She raised a frustrated eyebrow at him "Excuse me, I have nothing else to do" She snapped her mouth shut after saying this. It wasn't exactly the best comeback she could say but she couldn't exactly think straight for some reason.
"Inu-Yasha?" She called out to him as everything started to become dizzy. He glanced at her quickly and mouthed an annoyed 'what?'
"I think that the bandage is so tight that it's stopping the blood flow into my brain..." She raised a hand to her head
"Blood doesn't flow from your arm into your brain" He told her, starting to feel really annoyed with her company, maybe it wasn't such a good idea to bring her here after all.
She yawned and raised a hand to her head "But in my case, it does" and with that, she collapsed onto the floor.
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Kagome smiled innocently, she was having a dream about her favorite fairy tale 'Beauty and the beast'. She was beauty and someone she couldn't figure out who was the beast. He had silver hair, she frowned, she couldn't possible be dreaming about Sesshomuru could she?
She mentally shook her head, but Sesshomuru had stripes on his face and this beast didn't. She shrugged, who cared anyway? It was time she found out about that the beast was dying...She picked up the mirror and stared in it but as soon as she did, an earthquake started.
Her eyes opened up groggily, she blinked when she saw a pair of golden eyes staring down at her.
Thinking she was still dreaming she opened her mouth to talk.
"I think it's suppose to be the other way around, you're the one supposed to be dying and I'm the one who's supposed to start crying" She murmured out and tried to get up but was pushed down instantly.
"Damnit, is your head still bleeding?" He sighed and shook his head and picked up the roll of bandage.
Kagome eyed it wearily. "Huh?" Feeling something wrapped around her forehead she raised her hand and touched her forehead. It was wrapped in bandage and she could swear she felt blood on her temples.
"You had bumped your head at the explosion, it was bleeding, but your hair was covering it" He tugged her hair lightly and hit her head gently with frustration. "God, why do women have such long hair?"
She rolled her eyes "You have long hair too you know" she told him in a matter of fact tone.
"At least I don't cover my wounds with them" He replied with just the same tone she was using.
"Well, how come you didn't smell the blood dummy?" She asked him, her comebacks starting to reappear in her mind.
He stared at her for a while, almost innocently before replying "The scent of dead rats and peanuts which was coming from your hair was covering the evenly horrible scent of your blood"
Kagome gaped at him "My hair – does not – smell like dead rats and peanuts!"
"Try telling me that when you get a demonic nose" He got up and lit the candle which had blown off as a wind carried into the room from the tunnel.
"That was so mean" She looked around the room. She had only been here once after dark, and that was when she had fallen asleep, and that didn't count because she had left almost immediately.
But now, when she had Inu-Yasha with her, the room seemed to give a warm, inviting fiery glow, she pulled a blanket which was set a few feet away from her and placed it over herself.
"I'll ask Sesshomuru if you're telling the truth" She told him in her defense. He looked back at her from lighting the extra candles and shrugged. He had of course been lying to her, and the only reason he had moved away from her to light extra candles was to hide the blush that had appeared in his face.
He couldn't tell her that he was enjoying her scent that he had completely missed the scent of her evenly sweet blood, but as worst came to worst, annoying her with the thought of exactly the opposite was just as enjoyable.
"Talking about Sesshomuru..." Feeling the blood drain out of his cheeks he turned back to her, she had snuggled into a blanket and was now peering at him out of the blanket. "...I figured out what the adults outside were talking about"
She perked up on this "Really? Tell me!"
He cracked his knuckles and shook his head and sighed before answering her "It's not something you're going to like"
She raised an eyebrow "Try me"
"They noticed that... we... uh... I mean... all us four..." He struggled with his words as he tried to put what he had heard into proper sentences.
"You mean, you, me, Sesshomuru and Kikyou?" She continued off for him. He nodded.
"Yeah, well they noticed that none of us were spending times with our fiancés..." He gulped as Kagome dreaded what he was about to say next "...So they're going to send us off to Totosai Island to... uh... spend time... with each other..."
Kagome gaped at him, not even caring about the blush on his cheeks as the blood rushed to her own cheeks "Only us four? What about Sango or Miroku? What about Kouga?"
He shrugged and started to slam his fist into his palm "This bites"
She nodded "How long exactly are we going to stay there?"
He shrugged "I have no idea, I guess around a week or so" His ears flattened against his ears as he crossed his legs and crossed his arms over his chest. Kagome giggled at the sight in front of him.
"They can't really be doing this, are you sure you heard right?" She asked him, hoping that this wasn't true. Spending a week with her sister seemed like the worst idea anyone could have gotten, and trying to get along with Sesshomuru, she gulped...come on.
If they weren't getting along here, what made them think that she was going to get along with him there?
And with Kikyou there too...
She frowned as she thought of Inu-Yasha and Kikyou having fun together, the thought just didn't seem fair.
She shrugged and was snapped back to reality as Inu-Yasha started to talk.
"You should spend the night here, if you walk or try to move, you're head will start bleeding again, you got hit right at the temples" He walked over to the basket and pulled out one fluffy pillow. "Here, take two pillows, better than one"
She nodded and took the pillow, the thought of spending the night here alone starting to creep her out. "What about Sango?"
He rolled his eyes "You want her to sleep with you?"
She shook her head "It's not that, what she will think? I mean, I have been disappearing a lot lately"
He shrugged and afterwards smirked "If I meet her I'll tell her that you're sleeping with Sesshomuru"
"No! Don't tell her that! Just say that I'm spending the night with Kikyou...because I want some quality time with her"
He nodded and started to move towards the entrance when Kagome called out to him "You're leaving me alone here?"
He turned around and raised a confused eyebrow at Kagome, he opened his mouth twice to say something but after the third try something came out.
"You want me to stay here?" he asked, sarcasm evident in his voice.
Thinking about it, Kagome shook her head "Forget it, I'll be fine"
With that, he left, as dizziness started to take Kagome over again she collapsed into another deep slumber.
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Yay!! I'm done...sorry it was really long – I kinda couldn't stop writing ^,^
The chapter was really dramatic, Naraku was introduced and I guess Kagura was too.
Hope you enjoyed it!
Until the next chapter!
Most of you can guess, by the chapter's title that something (s) is/are going to be introduced in this chapter...about time too.
Yes – the feather from the last chapter was Kagura's feather.
And some of you noticed – Kouga isn't a Love sick fool in my story – well, he's not in love with Kagome at least...
Wondering why the quick updates? Its March break and I have absolutely nothing else to do.
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Chapter Thirteen
Unforgotten Evilness
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"Well, no need to be embarrassed, nothing could be bad as what happened to me in my life" Kagome spoke, she waited for Inu-Yasha to reply to her statement, but he said nothing, obviously giving Kagome the silent treatment.
She rolled her eyes and rattled on with what she had to say "You know how, when you're little, all your aunts and uncles pinch your cheeks, and tell you how adorable you are?"
She paused and sighed when he didn't say anything "Well, I was around the age of five, and... my aunt and uncle arrived to stay over at our castle, I was sick and tired of people pinching my cheeks and saying how adorable I am, giving me big, wet, and sloppy kisses..." she shuddered. "...It was just horrible, anyway, when they decided to do all that to me I kind of went ballistic, I slapped their hands away, bit into their arms, did a head but to their stomach, and I ripped my aunts clothes...and she was standing nude in front of everybody"
Inu-Yasha chuckled to himself, but not loud enough for Kagome to hear, he didn't want her to stop now.
"I was grounded, my aunt and uncle were furious...they decided never to meet our family again, I obviously had no idea what was wrong with what I did so I just screamed at everybody and attacked them when they tried to reason with me"
Inu-Yasha smiled, he could imagine a mini – Kagome screaming and acting like boss.
Kagome, sitting on the other side of the trunk where Inu-Yasha was sitting, didn't see him smile, so she babbled on with her misfortunate past.
"...and there was this other time, my other aunt was getting married, I was only four, I had never been to a wedding before. So after the commitments were done, he picked her up bridal style and started to run out of the hall. I thought he was kidnapping her and I started to scream and yell"
Inu-Yasha tried to suppress his laugh but that just got him in a coughing fit. Kagome pouted, here she is, telling him some pretty embarrassing situations, and he's laughing at her?
As soon as Inu-Yasha stopped coughing, Kagome continued. "When she left the hall, I was crying like hell, I thought he was going to take her away, and murder her, and I thought I was never going to see my aunt again"
She cleared her throat "And I was so confused because no one else was chasing after – as I thought – the kidnapper, and they actually looked happy, so I started to run after her and my sister was pulling me back...and after the whole thing ended they told me what really happened and you have no idea how embarrassed I felt"
Inu-Yasha chuckled, "That's just like the time I saw my uncles wedding, I didn't get the whole thing of a wedding, and I just thought parents came out of no where, like, when my mom told me babies came from chimneys..."
Kagome giggled, "I can't believe I believed that, I used to ask my mom if we moved away and the baby got delivered in the wrong chimney, what would happen and all sorts of questions"
Inu-Yasha grinned "Did you ever believe in the tooth fairy?"
Kagome nodded fervently "I caught my dad sneaking money underneath my pillow and since then I found out about the truth, I was seven anyway"
Inu-Yasha laughed, forgetting he was supposed to be mad at her "That's sooner than I stopped believing in her, I was nine, I was home-schooled so I had no friends to tell me it was all fake, apart from Miroku that is, but he didn't know any better, Sesshomuru was the one who told me it was all gibberish, so one night we hid under the bed and waited for my mom to come, when she did, we jumped out from underneath the bed and scared her shitless, I didn't talk to her for weeks but I forgave her sooner or later"
Kagome giggled, "You were nine?"
"Yep, that's just two years after I stopped believing in the boogey man" He murmured out loud, obviously remembering what Kagome had done.
She sighed annoyingly "Oh, forget it already, its not as bad as people thinking that you have horse manure over you're dress!"
He laughed "That was hilarious; you should have seen your face!"
Anger boiled up in Kagome's throat, here she was trying to be nice to him and he was making fun of her? "I don't know why I even bother with you!"
"Yeah, so don't even-." He stopped dead in his tracks. Kagome raised an eyebrow, why the sudden stop?
She leaned over to see Inu-Yasha. He had leaned over and was now peering closely into the forest in the castles direction.
"Uh... Inu-Yasha? What happened?" She asked cocking her head towards him. He glanced at her and quickly grabbed her arm and pulled her close.
"Eek! What are you doing?" She asked but she stopped her questioning when Inu-Yasha shot her a worried glance.
"Do you feel that?" He asked, his voice had turned to a whisper.
She shook her head "I don't feel anything; I don't have demon blood remember?" She assured him, raising a confused eyebrow at him, the sudden change in mood surprising her, but what concerned her most was the panic she heard in his voice.
"It's in the castle" His grip on her tightening even more. She winced; she could feel his claws grazing her arm, and if he didn't loosen his grip on her arm she was sure.
"What's in the castle?" She tugged on her arm, but he didn't let go. She shot him a worried glance; this was starting to freak her out.
"Be quiet, it's coming closer" He whispered to her, looking at the sky. Kagome could feel her stomach going queasy, she wasn't the one who liked this suspenseful situations, if she could choose, she would rather live in a place with no action whatsoever than be stuck waiting for something or someone to appear.
If this was a joke, she would murder Inu-Yasha in his sleep, but something in his voice told Kagome that he was very, very serious.
"GET OUT OF THE WAY!"
Kagome didn't know what happened in the next few moments. One moment she heard Inu-Yasha's voice telling her to get out of the way, the next moment she was being scrambled to the ground with Inu-Yasha on top of her. There was a loud explosion behind her, and she could feel the ground a few feet away from her crumble and fall into the water below them.
She choked as she smelt smoke rush up her nose, something was on fire. She winced as she felt hot bark hit her left arm.
A trickle of blood was running down her arm. Her eyes were shut tight, and she didn't dare to open them.
"Kagome you okay?" Inu-Yasha scrambled to her side so she could get up. She opened her eyes slowly and her eyes opened wide in shock as she saw the site in front of her. The tree she had been leaning on was blown to bits and so had the cliff she had been sitting on.
Now, there was nothing but air in the place she had previously been talking to Inu-Yasha on. There were pieces of bark and dirt where she had been sitting but mostly everything was in remains.
"What just happened?" She gasped out loud. Inu-Yasha looked at her and got up but regretted it as he felt something stab his back. He sat down immediately and looked at Kagome as if deciding to tell her.
"Someone tried to kill us" He said quickly and quietly, hoping Kagome wouldn't hear him but she heard his words loud and clear.
She opened her mouth once and twice to say something but no words came out; at last she came up with something to say. "How?"
"Look" He nudged his head towards the sight of the explosion. Kagome turned her and she raised a confused eyebrow at the one feather floating in front of her. "That feather, it explodes whenever it touches something solid, and it was supposed to explode on us"
Kagome shook her head and flinched at the thought of her body exploding into little pieces "How did it travel so fast from the castle to us?"
"It didn't, whatever I sensed in the castle is still there" He replied slowly. Kagome looked at his face, he wasn't showing at expression, nothing, not even fear.
"You mean there are two of them?" She asked.
He shook his head "No, three"
She tried to process the information "Why did it try to..." She stopped mid way in her sentence as she thought of what she was about to say, she shook her head, she just couldn't say it "...I mean, why us?"
He shook his head and then slammed his fist down on the earth "I don't know..." He closed his eyes and stayed there for a while, as if he was trying to think up of something.
Kagome looked at him; something told her he wasn't telling the whole truth. "We should go and help the people in the castle!"
He shook his head "They can take care of themselves, lets get out of here" He sighed and got up. He flinched at his wound on his back but he tried to ignore it. Kagome who noticed this got up immediately and rushed up to him.
"You're hurt"
He shook his head "Forget it, its nothing, you're bleeding"
She shook her head "Forget it, its nothing, just a cut, you sure you're okay?"
He nodded "You sure you're okay?" He asked her, trying to ask normally, only showing a little bit of concern.
She smiled and nodded "Yeah, you want to go back to the castle?" She asked him, even though she was scared shitless by now from what Inu-Yasha had told her, if he could act normal about this, so could she.
He nodded, "I'll go to my room"
"Which one?" She asked him, they had started to walk back towards the castle, but this time, taking Inu-Yasha's route from between the forest.
"The one in the library"
She nodded "I'll come"
He shrugged, not really caring if she came along with him, he might need some help with the wound on his back anyway. Remembering the attack he glanced at the castle, what would 'It' need in the castle? Wasn't it only after him?
He lowered his gaze to the ground, obviously not. Somehow, Kagome and whoever was in the castle had gotten included in this too.
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Kikyou shifted her position on her bed. She had fallen asleep an hour ago and she was having a pleasant dream.
All this humidity had made her sleepy and all the food she had eaten at lunch hadn't helped in keeping her awake. She sighed as she slept; it had been such a long time since she had eaten such a healthy meal.
Kouga had been pretty nice to her, and had asked her to help him around the castle, but then afterwards, he had seen Sango and had gone after her.
She mentally shrugged; who cared...at least he had bothered talking to her. Everyone else in the castle hadn't even bothered to ask why she wasn't coming down for breakfast or dinner.
Everyone apart from the King, Queen and Miroku. She flinched, she hated that pervert. She snuggled in the cozy warmth of the bed but was disturbed from her sleep as she heard a voice.
"Wake up Kikyou dear, I don't like to be kept waiting" A cold and sinister voice drawled out to her.
Kikyou's eyes shot wide open, hoping it had just been a dream but as she saw the figure standing in front of her she shrieked.
"Hush now; you don't want everyone coming into your room"
"I'll scream until the whole kingdom is in here" She spat out, starting to crawl backward into the corner of her bed.
He shook his head and sighed, seeing a chair walked over to it and picked it up. Thinking he was about to hit her with the chair Kikyou raised her arms to protect her face but lowered them as she saw him take the chair and place it in front of her bed.
He sat down on the chair and shook his head again. "You don't want to do such a thing like that, if you do, I'll just tell them what you did when you were fourteen" The figure smiled.
"Get out of my room Naraku" She drawled at him.
"Now, now...you don't want your secret going around the whole castle do you now Kikyou?"
Kikyou closed her mouth and narrowed her eyes, she had reached the corner of the bed and she was now pressing herself on the wall. "I didn't know what I was doing, you forced me, and you told me lies..." Her tough talk started to quiver as she felt tears force up her throat "...I hate you..."
He smiled "Well, you haven't helped yourself by what you did"
She shook her head violently "I haven't done anything! Now leave me alone! You've already ruined my life!"
He sighed nonchalantly "Don't worry, I can't hurt you..." He narrowed his eyes "...with this barrier you've put onto yourself"
He flicked a whip at her but it was whipped right back at him as the barrier protected Kikyou.
"You made your little sister promise to protect you, now, she has put a barrier on you" He shook his head "I never knew she had miko powers, but now, I have to kill her first to kill you"
Kikyou's eyes widened in shock "You wouldn't, she hasn't done a thing, leave her out of this!"
Naraku shook his head "I can't do that now, now I'm just warning you now, stay out of my way or I'll kill the boy first"
Kikyou clasped her hands together "I beg of you, don't hurt her"
Naraku shook his head "You should have thought of that first"
Panic rushed through Kikyou like a thunder bolt "Please! I'm begging you! Please don't kill her! Please..." Kikyou looked up, he had already gone. She buried her head into her hands, what had she done?
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Sango laughed nervously as Kouga told her another lame joke. She had been listening feebly to him for the past hour and whenever she tried to make an excuse to leave he would just pull her back and tell 'whatever had to be done could be done later'
Miroku had stormed out of the room, looking extremely pissed and had come back in after a while only to storm out again, this time yelling out something like "I'll get you back for that!"
Sango turned her attention back to Kouga who was currently telling her something about his life in the wolf army...everything that he was saying was only coming into her mind in forms of 'blah blah blah'
Miroku stepped into the room again, this time looking extremely calm. Kouga turned around and smiled when he saw Miroku. Sango looked at Miroku desperately, hoping he got the message to help her out of the situation.
Unluckily, Miroku walked over and sat right beside Kouga and listened intently to what he was saying.
Sango rolled her eyes.
He could be so stupid in times of need. As she listened to Kouga's gibberish Rin stepped into the room. Sango looked at her longingly.
Rin looked back at her and giggled when she noticed the situation she was in. She nodded as if understanding and Sango brightened up immediately. After five minutes of cleaning up, Rin stepped out of the room and came back in.
"Lady Sango? Lady Kagome is calling you" She told her politely. Sango smiled, a little too merrily.
"Okay, sorry Kouga, I would LOVE to hear more about your stories, but I have to go now, why don't you catch me later and tell me then?" She silently agreed to avoid him at all costs.
"Of course, now hurry up; I don't want to keep your time"
She rolled her eyes as she left; 'now he says that'. Sango stepped out of the room and headed straight for her room. It was too late to go to the sea now and she knew Kagome wasn't really looking for her.
As she stepped into her room an angry Miroku glared at her. He was standing right in front of her. Sango stared at him, hadn't he just been talking with Kouga downstairs? "How did you get here so fast?"
"I took the shortcut to your room" He replied as he crossed his arms over his chest. Sango opened her eyes as she said this.
"You know a shortcut to my room?" She asked, this didn't sound good. Miroku knowing a shortcut to her room, without her knowing? Gosh, he could've stepped in her room when she was changing for god's sake!
He nodded and then shrugged, "I've known it since before you even came here" He smiled as if reading her mind "I come into your room every night and admire you every night"
Sango glared at him "Miroku! How dare you!" She looked around frantically in her room "Where's the shortcut?"
"You'll block it up if I tell you" He replied innocently.
"Exactly!" She yelled at him and started to pace around her room. "Where – Is – It?!?" He sighed, "I just ran to your room faster than you did, from another way that is"
She sighed at her stupidity, "You don't really come in here every night?"
He shrugged and smiled, but then, remembering what he really had come in here for her pointed a finger accursedly at Sango "You were flirting with him!"
Sango raised an eyebrow "Flirting with whom?"
"With that Kouga guy! I saw your face, you think he's hot!" He steamed off, and then pouted.
Sango rolled her eyes and then laughed "So? Why do you care?"
"Because..." He pondered on what he was about to say "...You're not supposed to think other guys are hot"
She rolled her eyes and then walked up to her bed and sat down on it. She looked and Miroku and shook her head "Who says?"
"I do" He replied with such an arrogant face that it gave Sango the image that he thought that he was the boss of her.
"You're not my fiancé, and neither is any other guy here, I don't have a fiancé, so in my case, its fine with me who I think is hot or not, and I can stay around Kouga and flirt with him as much as I want, even though if it means that I have to listen to his boring talk and lame jokes all day long" She replied back and flipped her hair over her shoulders.
Miroku stared at her, blood rushing to his face making Sango wonder why the heck he even cared which guy she went for. He went around groping every woman's derrière and she didn't say anything about it, even though she did get a mad bubbly feeling in her stomach.
After glaring at her for which seemed like five whole minutes he turned around and stormed out of the room. Sango shrugged, it wasn't like Miroku to get jealous over her, well – that's what it seemed like he was doing.
She rested her head down on her pillow. There was no use in getting close to Miroku; he would always run after another girl with a better rear end even if they both got married. She sighed, why was she thinking about this anyway? It wasn't like she had true feelings for him anyway.
He was just a pass time friend.
Nothing else.
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Kagome played with the roll of bandage in her hand as she sat in Inu- Yasha's secret room while he tried to figure out what all the adults were talking about outside in the library.
She had bandaged up his wound which healed almost immediately and she had finished bandaging her arm after Inu-Yasha had gruffly finished cleaning up her blood. She had made up an excuse of fainting when she got to close to someone's blood and had Inu-Yasha do the dirty work for her.
She smiled, everything was going great until Inu-Yasha's parents had come exactly to the left wing of the library and had started talking secretively to each other. There were definitely other adults too, but their identities seemed unfamiliar with both Kagome and Inu-Yasha.
She had asked Inu-Yasha again if he knew anything about the explosion and he had just replied it was because she was full of bad luck and that it was just an ordinary demon.
When she asked about the other two 'demons' he had mentioned, he replied casually with an excuse that it was the demon which had attacked them partners and they were just looking with for a prey with extremely dirty blood and thus one of them had attacked her but mistakably attacked him as well.
After his little explanation, Kagome had straddled him to the floor and had started beating the crap out of him but they all had stopped when they heard the voices outside.
Inu-Yasha had immediately pressed his ears onto the wall and Kagome was waiting impatiently behind him for further news.
"What if they see the candle?" She asked nervously. He shot her an annoyed glance. She had been asking this for the last five minutes but he had ignored her completely, the thought seemed too horrible to think about.
"Let's hope not!" He shot back at her. Kagome moved closer to the entrance and strained her ears, hoping she could hear as much Inu-Yasha could hear. She sighed frustratingly, all she could hear was laughing and some murmuring.
She turned a face to Inu-Yasha "What are they saying?"
He didn't reply to her question so she asked again. Thinking Inu-Yasha hadn't heard him she brought her mouth close to her ear and this time, yelled in his ear. "What are they talking about?!?!"
He jumped back immediately and started rubbing his ear "Damnit woman, you plan to make me deaf?"
She shrugged innocently, putting on a puppy pout "I didn't mean to..."
She lowered her gaze to the floor; somehow the blood loss from her arm was making her feel extremely silly.
He rolled his eyes "Just shut up so I can concentrate on what they're saying"
She sniffled and nodded her head as if being told to go to her room by her mother. She moved over so Inu-Yasha could take his previous position and waited intently.
He pressed his ears against the wall and strained his face into concentration. While doing this, Kagome peered onto his face with great interest.
She continued doing this for a minute while Inu-Yasha snapped his eyes to her direction, catching her gaze immediately.
"Will you stop staring at me?" He snapped at her.
She raised a frustrated eyebrow at him "Excuse me, I have nothing else to do" She snapped her mouth shut after saying this. It wasn't exactly the best comeback she could say but she couldn't exactly think straight for some reason.
"Inu-Yasha?" She called out to him as everything started to become dizzy. He glanced at her quickly and mouthed an annoyed 'what?'
"I think that the bandage is so tight that it's stopping the blood flow into my brain..." She raised a hand to her head
"Blood doesn't flow from your arm into your brain" He told her, starting to feel really annoyed with her company, maybe it wasn't such a good idea to bring her here after all.
She yawned and raised a hand to her head "But in my case, it does" and with that, she collapsed onto the floor.
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Kagome smiled innocently, she was having a dream about her favorite fairy tale 'Beauty and the beast'. She was beauty and someone she couldn't figure out who was the beast. He had silver hair, she frowned, she couldn't possible be dreaming about Sesshomuru could she?
She mentally shook her head, but Sesshomuru had stripes on his face and this beast didn't. She shrugged, who cared anyway? It was time she found out about that the beast was dying...She picked up the mirror and stared in it but as soon as she did, an earthquake started.
Her eyes opened up groggily, she blinked when she saw a pair of golden eyes staring down at her.
Thinking she was still dreaming she opened her mouth to talk.
"I think it's suppose to be the other way around, you're the one supposed to be dying and I'm the one who's supposed to start crying" She murmured out and tried to get up but was pushed down instantly.
"Damnit, is your head still bleeding?" He sighed and shook his head and picked up the roll of bandage.
Kagome eyed it wearily. "Huh?" Feeling something wrapped around her forehead she raised her hand and touched her forehead. It was wrapped in bandage and she could swear she felt blood on her temples.
"You had bumped your head at the explosion, it was bleeding, but your hair was covering it" He tugged her hair lightly and hit her head gently with frustration. "God, why do women have such long hair?"
She rolled her eyes "You have long hair too you know" she told him in a matter of fact tone.
"At least I don't cover my wounds with them" He replied with just the same tone she was using.
"Well, how come you didn't smell the blood dummy?" She asked him, her comebacks starting to reappear in her mind.
He stared at her for a while, almost innocently before replying "The scent of dead rats and peanuts which was coming from your hair was covering the evenly horrible scent of your blood"
Kagome gaped at him "My hair – does not – smell like dead rats and peanuts!"
"Try telling me that when you get a demonic nose" He got up and lit the candle which had blown off as a wind carried into the room from the tunnel.
"That was so mean" She looked around the room. She had only been here once after dark, and that was when she had fallen asleep, and that didn't count because she had left almost immediately.
But now, when she had Inu-Yasha with her, the room seemed to give a warm, inviting fiery glow, she pulled a blanket which was set a few feet away from her and placed it over herself.
"I'll ask Sesshomuru if you're telling the truth" She told him in her defense. He looked back at her from lighting the extra candles and shrugged. He had of course been lying to her, and the only reason he had moved away from her to light extra candles was to hide the blush that had appeared in his face.
He couldn't tell her that he was enjoying her scent that he had completely missed the scent of her evenly sweet blood, but as worst came to worst, annoying her with the thought of exactly the opposite was just as enjoyable.
"Talking about Sesshomuru..." Feeling the blood drain out of his cheeks he turned back to her, she had snuggled into a blanket and was now peering at him out of the blanket. "...I figured out what the adults outside were talking about"
She perked up on this "Really? Tell me!"
He cracked his knuckles and shook his head and sighed before answering her "It's not something you're going to like"
She raised an eyebrow "Try me"
"They noticed that... we... uh... I mean... all us four..." He struggled with his words as he tried to put what he had heard into proper sentences.
"You mean, you, me, Sesshomuru and Kikyou?" She continued off for him. He nodded.
"Yeah, well they noticed that none of us were spending times with our fiancés..." He gulped as Kagome dreaded what he was about to say next "...So they're going to send us off to Totosai Island to... uh... spend time... with each other..."
Kagome gaped at him, not even caring about the blush on his cheeks as the blood rushed to her own cheeks "Only us four? What about Sango or Miroku? What about Kouga?"
He shrugged and started to slam his fist into his palm "This bites"
She nodded "How long exactly are we going to stay there?"
He shrugged "I have no idea, I guess around a week or so" His ears flattened against his ears as he crossed his legs and crossed his arms over his chest. Kagome giggled at the sight in front of him.
"They can't really be doing this, are you sure you heard right?" She asked him, hoping that this wasn't true. Spending a week with her sister seemed like the worst idea anyone could have gotten, and trying to get along with Sesshomuru, she gulped...come on.
If they weren't getting along here, what made them think that she was going to get along with him there?
And with Kikyou there too...
She frowned as she thought of Inu-Yasha and Kikyou having fun together, the thought just didn't seem fair.
She shrugged and was snapped back to reality as Inu-Yasha started to talk.
"You should spend the night here, if you walk or try to move, you're head will start bleeding again, you got hit right at the temples" He walked over to the basket and pulled out one fluffy pillow. "Here, take two pillows, better than one"
She nodded and took the pillow, the thought of spending the night here alone starting to creep her out. "What about Sango?"
He rolled his eyes "You want her to sleep with you?"
She shook her head "It's not that, what she will think? I mean, I have been disappearing a lot lately"
He shrugged and afterwards smirked "If I meet her I'll tell her that you're sleeping with Sesshomuru"
"No! Don't tell her that! Just say that I'm spending the night with Kikyou...because I want some quality time with her"
He nodded and started to move towards the entrance when Kagome called out to him "You're leaving me alone here?"
He turned around and raised a confused eyebrow at Kagome, he opened his mouth twice to say something but after the third try something came out.
"You want me to stay here?" he asked, sarcasm evident in his voice.
Thinking about it, Kagome shook her head "Forget it, I'll be fine"
With that, he left, as dizziness started to take Kagome over again she collapsed into another deep slumber.
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Yay!! I'm done...sorry it was really long – I kinda couldn't stop writing ^,^
The chapter was really dramatic, Naraku was introduced and I guess Kagura was too.
Hope you enjoyed it!
Until the next chapter!