A wish upon a star
To everyone who told me their guesses for the secret... well... you'll be happy to know, you'll all know if you were right or wrong, in this chapter. But no fear, just because... uh... something will be revealed does not mean the story is at its end --laughs out loud—this story is no where near its end!
I've responded to a few reviews:
Ashe Nightingale (bloodhuntressseries73yahoo.com): I kept on forgetting to reply to you! Lol, I'm sorry – but that was sadly... neither of the swords.
Princess Krystal01: Well... I had explained about the brothers in my earlier notes, but I'll tell you quickly. The both are full brothers – same mom and same dad. Inu-Yasha just had an accident, causing half of his blood to go human.
Aacire: He he he... oops I guess?
Ami Kuroneko: Oh – you naughty, naughty girl (I love saying that)... what got you to get grounded?
Dark Lady 69: Wow... you're good
Ks-Starshine: Lol – thanks!
That's it for now – okay, on with the story!
Chapter Twenty – Two
A Tale to be told
Kagome opened her eyes to stare up to see a hazy ceiling. Not focused at where her station was, she rubbed her eyes with numb fingers to direct her eye sight. Her back was throbbing painfully as she sat up and got feeling into her fingers. She blinked her eyes and then looked around where she was placed at.
She seemed to be in a very large cage, the ones where you keep parrots – though this one was much, much larger. She pondered on why she was here – then everything which had happened in the last few hours passed in her memory like a flash.
She stood up and grasped the iron bars and pulled. No use, they were embedded to the ground firmly, trapping her in a small, circle like cage. She looked around in the darkness and then she screamed when she saw a girl staring at her from not so far away.
She walked back and immediately banged her head on the bars and shut her eyes in pain. A second after, she felt a gust of wind and she opened her eyes to see the cause of it. In front of her, on the other side of the bars was standing a girl who looked a few years older than her, holding a fan, her eyes were bloodshot red and she was wearing a kimono with flowers drawn elegantly over it.
"Recognize me?" She drawled out and shot Kagome a wicked smile, terrifying the wits out of the trapped girl.
"No" she said back boldly, not wanting to crumble on the feet of her... whoever she was.
"I see, so you did not see me when I tried to kill you and Inu-Yasha with my feather" she said, grinning an icy cold grin.
Kagome widened her eyes, not wanting to believe what had just swept into her ears "Why?"
"Well... why don't you ask Naraku that question, he's the one ordering us to kill you – I mean Kanna and I of course, and when he found out that whenever we tried to kill you, Inu-Yasha always seemed to come in the way so we brought you here, where we could wipe you clean without any interference" Kagura smiled at her though it seemed evil and sent a shiver down Kagome's spine.
Kagura looked down at Kagome who had withered down to her knees and was shivering on the floor. "I'll let Naraku deal with you"
Kagome looked up from her spot and shuddered, somehow the temperature in the room had dropped numerous degrees. "You don't scare me" she breathed out, not letting them get the best of her.
Kagura laughed. "Believe in what you want to"
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It seemed like what – hours till Naraku came, and it got colder every minute. Were they planning to freeze her in this cage? The fact that she was wearing a summer dress which had its left sleeve torn off wasn't helping a bit. As Kagome heard footsteps, she looked up to see the 'oh so familiar' face grinning down at her.
"Nice to see you again, my oh so sweet Kagome – my apologies for taking so dear long, I had some business to take care of" Naraku drawled out to her, grinning as he said it. Kagome pressed her back to the bars of the cage, trying to further herself away from him as if he were a poisonous snake out to get her.
Kagome didn't speak, mostly because she didn't have the nerve to. Her teeth felt like they were frozen shut and her body had become so pale that she didn't feel like losing her stamina just to snap a comment at him.
He smirked at her actions and afterwards, sighed. "Well, like I said before, I had some business to take care of, like to see what?"
Kagome moved her pupils up again to see her predator motioning up ahead in the dark. She strained her eyes to see but the darkness didn't allow her to see what was being held in front of her.
Naraku pointed his index finger towards where she was looking at and at once a faint though rather dim light appeared in front of her. She widened her eyes as she processed the sight in front of her.
In a cage, most like hers, lay Inu-Yasha.
The condition he was in, pitched Kagome's breath in the middle of her throat.
He had been beaten up vigorously and was lying down in the cage, probably un- conscious. His chest was moving with tentativeness and cuts and bruises could be seen up his arms and face. His eyes were shut and no sound of movement could be heard coming from his direction.
Kagome stared at him for what seemed to her to be eternity.
Who was...this Naraku who could bring such pain to Inu-Yasha and torture her? For all she knew, he had appeared out of no where and had tried to commit murder to her and now he had kidnapped both Inu-Yasha and her.
"What do you want with us?" she asked timidly, all courage drained from her nerves. If he could to that to Inu-Yasha, only god knew what he could do to her.
"What I want from you is the location of the swords, what I want from him – is his dead body" he replied and miraculously stepped through the bars and crouched down to Kagome.
He grabbed her throat and pressed it, making Kagome choke for air.
"Tell me or you'll be holding your head in your hands" he said, and dug his claws in her neck.
Kagome winced in pain and she tried to remember everything the map had told her. "I don't know" she replied, remembering she had not even glanced at the drawing of where the swords were hidden.
He tightened his grip on her neck. "Tell me" he repeated.
"I swear, I don't know"
He growled in frustration and threw her down on the icy cold ground. She received shocking pain in her elbow and could have sworn that she just broke a bone.
"You're not going anywhere until you tell me where the swords are. You're going to stay in this cage, no food, no water and I'm going to let you go, only if you tell me where the swords are" he said and he took her wrist and twisted it slowly.
"But, I don't know where they are – I'm not lying" Kagome whimpered out, hoping he got the point she was telling the truth.
"Listen little girl, the only way you're getting out here alive is if you tell me where the swords are –" he stopped and looked over at Inu-Yasha "Though that doesn't mean he's going anywhere"
Kagome glanced at Inu-Yasha who still lay motionless and then looked back at Naraku. This was a lose or lose situation. If she had studied the map closer, she would have told Naraku where the swords would be however, if she was set free – Inu-Yasha would remain captive and would be soon killed, and now – because she hadn't studied the map, she wasn't going to be set free, neither was Inu-Yasha and both were going to be killed.
She didn't reply to his comment and tried to ignore the incinerating pain that he was causing from twisting her wrist.
"You know, you're not as much as fun as Kikyou was"
Kagome took a sharp breath and looked directly towards Naraku. How in the world did he know about her sister, and what did he mean by 'she wasn't as much fun as Kikyou'?
"What did you do to her?" She asked, feeling as if he had suddenly pulled a string, gathering up her courage once more.
"Oh – why don't you ask Inu-Yasha that?"
She bit her lip, "You ruined my sister's life, didn't you?"
"Oh, so you seem to be familiar with this topic, I see" he replied, smiling all at once.
"You're a pathetic bastard" she drawled out making him frown.
"Oh, let's not say such nasty things, shan't us" and after a minute, he dropped her wrist to the ground and left her alone on the icy ground.
She lay there again, solemnly on cold ground in the small cage. She shut her eyes and took a deep breath. Her stomach was ravaging with nervousness, fear and worry. Was she actually going to die now and her sister, what had he done with her?
Her life was going to end painfully, slowly and most depressingly, she would have to watch Inu-Yasha suffer in front of her.
She shut her eyes and tried to calm her nerves but it didn't do any help. All she wanted to do now was cry but surprisingly, no tears came.
She breathed in and out... in and out, trying to make sense of it all.
She was sure now, that Naraku had murdered Inu-Yasha's mom and now she knew that this was all connected with her sister as well. She looked back at Inu- Yasha and for the first time in her life, like nothing ever before, had a strong desire to cuddle up in that strong toned body of his, receiving nothing but his warmth and care in return.
She frowned and bit her lip as she stared at the motionless body in front of her. She hated him for making her hate him one minute, and fuss over him the next. Stupid, stupid Inu-Yasha... what was so special about him that she had started feeling depressed at the thought of no longer hearing his... annoying voice in her ears?
He was the one, who probably got her into this whole tangle web of pain and suffering in the first place.
And she didn't feel any hate for him right now?
Kagome groaned silently as she tried to sort her priorities out. She hated Inu-Yasha, of course she did – they were sword enemies right?
Well... they hadn't told each other they were sworn enemies, but... it had been a silent agreement between the two hadn't it?
And... all those times where he had embarrassed her, he hadn't said sorry to her – once! He had shouted at her, yelled at her, insulted her, and bossed her around... and even though she was filling her mind with all the rude things he had done to her, she still wasn't feeling anger towards him?
But why?
She sighed and tried to force the subject to the bottomless pits near the very back of her mind and looked hopelessly around for a way out. As she looked in the darkness, she saw different objects looming around – scaring the air straight out of lungs.
She resisted the urge of staring at the looming figures and tried to find something interesting in Inu-Yasha to look at, but the urgent state he was in wasn't at all pleasant to be looking at.
She bit her lip and shuffled closer towards his cage, and when she pressing her body against the bars she reached out and tried to touch his arm.
He winced at the touch but didn't open his eyes or move when she placed her hand on his bruised arm.
Kagome frowned again and moved lower to hold his hand.
"Inu-Yasha, can you hear me?"
Kagome stifled what to seem to be tears when she neither felt nor heard any reply from Inu-Yasha. This isn't the time to cry. Kagome closed her eyes and tried in a desperate attempt to shut out everything from the world.
Kagome's eyes shot open when she felt Inu-Yasha's hand close over hers. She looked over to Inu-Yasha and saw him opening his eyes, though with a stagger.
He looked at Kagome and seemed to be lost at his surroundings.
"Kagome, is that you?" came his weak voice.
Kagome immediately let go of his hand and withdrew it back to her chest. She sighed in relief though the relief was soon washed away when she remembered that he was injured very, very badly.
She turned back to Inu-Yasha.
"What happened to you?" she asked, feeling a sob in her throat though she swallowed it down.
He winced in pain when he saw everything which happened in the last few hours flash before his eyes.
"Please... don't hate me" he asked her, more of a plead than a command. He turned his body so he could face her and opened his eyes again to look at Kagome.
She blinked. "I... uh... why would I hate you?"
There went the thought of them being sworn enemies.
He groaned as he felt pain in his right arm and clutched it, hoping the pain would go away. "Because I've gotten you into this mess"
"No you haven't" she replied back and then looked at him, and then a question popped in her mind, though she silently cussed herself for getting such a bizarre question at such a... depressing time.
"Inu-Yasha?" She asked, hoping he wouldn't faint on her.
He opened his closed his eyes and looked at her, though he looked he would faint any second. "Whaddayaneed?"
Kagome smiled even though she felt like she was going to burst into tears any second. "I want to ask you something"
He opened his eyes again and this time, he tried to keep them open "Don't ask me if were going to die, because – I really don't know"
Kagome felt her heart drop into her stomach at that moment... ask Inu-Yasha to say something so negative.
Apparently, Inu-Yasha noticed and then he sighed. "Well, I'm just stating the exact situation were in"
"Stop trying to act all smart!" she snapped at him, and then softened. "Listen, what's going on?"
He sighed and forced his eyes to remain open. "Truth be told here, I'm not sure"
"You must have a clue"
"...I..." he sighed and then closed his eyes for a minute then opened them again, looking straight into her eyes. "I guess I can't keep it from you any longer"
She furrowed her eyebrows "What do you mean?"
"You want to know about... this... secret don't you?"
She widened her eyes, understanding what he was asking. Now, she felt as if she didn't want to know it any more – knowing that the secret wasn't anything you would laugh about.
"I'm not pressuring you" she replied, finding that that was the only reasonable answer she could find.
"Well, you won't be mad if I told you would you?"
"I guess not" she replied.
He sighed "It all started when I was fourteen, I met this girl – I forgot her name, but she was really nice and had the brightest eyes I had ever seen"
Kagome nodded.
"You reminded me of her, really – same energetic energy – sharp comments, and same eyes – bright honey brown" he said and then sighed "She turned out nothing I thought she would be"
Kagome remained silent, urgent for him to continue on.
"I had what I used to call a friend in the palace – his name was Naraku, us three, the girl, Naraku and I used to play together everyday. Where the girl even came from, I had no clue, she just told me she came from afar and that she was allowed to stay at my palace so I didn't argue.
Naraku didn't show it, but deep down he had been jealous of my wealth, riches, caring family and of me, he played me directly into his little trap. A month or two passed and I had noticed that the girl was becoming distant from me and was becoming more attached to Naraku. And one day, I had noticed she wasn't looking my way at all but was giddy laughing with Naraku.
She came to our palace on her fourteenth birthday and gave me a cold stare whenever she passed me. Naraku had been, obviously telling her lies about me and now we all were no longer friends. The day was going well, until the clock had struck twelve...
She had come into my room and had started to pour out apologies for being such a – 'meanie' as she called it. I forgave her – how was I supposed to know that this was just Naraku's evil plans? She said Naraku had wanted to apologize and was waiting for me in the dungeons. I went and as soon as I stepped into that dungeon, Naraku came and seized me.
They dragged me to the smelliest dungeons and locked me in their. They tied me on a chair and from that day on – for two months, they kept coming to beat me every day. The only water I drank was from the sewers and the only food I ate was stale bread. Then one day, the girl came – she was no longer, her cheery self and her eyes had started to lose their honey brown color and had started to look bloodshot.
She came and taunted me, and with every word she said she slit a piece of my skin with her dagger. Then Naraku came, and they both started saying things like: "why don't you kill us? You can escape out of this dungeon in a second".
So I did the most stupid thing I had ever done in my life. I had believed them, and with my demon powers – snapped out of the chair I was tied down to and had used my demonic powers with all my will. They escaped somehow – and so did I. But the day after, I had realized – they had kept my mother prisoner there as well – and now, I had killed her with my own hands."
Everything fell into elapsed silence. Kagome bit her bottom lip; this was it – the big, large secret she had been dying to know.
She knew who that little girl was, and she hated herself for knowing so.
"Inu-Yasha?" she asked timidly, her perspective of everything changed in a second, as if she could feel his pain in her own soul.
There was no reply but she knew he was conscious and listening to her every word with earnest.
Before speaking, she withdrew her hand from her chest and once again, clutched his hand. "That little girl was Kikyou"
He didn't speak and when he did Kagome was surprised with his answer "You're going to hate me now, aren't you?"
She widened her eyes and studied him closer "Why would I hate you now?"
"Because you've found out what a filthy half breed I am, who can murder his own mother"
She tightened her grip on his hand, though it was one sided because Inu- Yasha seemed to dead to return the squeeze. She looked at him sympathetically and shook her head. "You're not a filthy half breed. You may be half demon – but that also means that your other half is human. That means..." she smiled remembering what Kikyou had said before they had even reached the castle "...half sweet, romantic and gentlemen like and half strong, protective and hot but that also does mean 100% percent arrogance, rudeness and selfishness as a true warrior"
He blinked then smirked. "So you really do think I'm hot – don't you?"
She scoffed and rolled her eyes. "Oh...come on – I was just trying to cheer you up"
"Look who's holding my hand"
She gaped at him and let go immediately. "You bastard, remind me never to say nice things about you again!"
"But aren't I... half sweet, romantic and gentlemen like and half strong, protective and hot?"
"Inu-Yasha!"
"What?"
"We're stuck in this... place – and all you can think about is trying to insult me?"
"I don't have to think to insult you, it comes naturally"
"Don't you dare talk to me again mister!"
"I'll be proud not to"
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Tadaa!!! This was short, and I know it – don't blame me, I didn't want to push anything on to you guys. The next chapter will HOPEFULLY come out next week – and that's all I can say now.
Surprised? You better be! I hope the secret was worse than you though it would be
Anywho (sorry to everyone who I got this damn word stuck in their brains)
Until next time-
Sayonara!
To everyone who told me their guesses for the secret... well... you'll be happy to know, you'll all know if you were right or wrong, in this chapter. But no fear, just because... uh... something will be revealed does not mean the story is at its end --laughs out loud—this story is no where near its end!
I've responded to a few reviews:
Ashe Nightingale (bloodhuntressseries73yahoo.com): I kept on forgetting to reply to you! Lol, I'm sorry – but that was sadly... neither of the swords.
Princess Krystal01: Well... I had explained about the brothers in my earlier notes, but I'll tell you quickly. The both are full brothers – same mom and same dad. Inu-Yasha just had an accident, causing half of his blood to go human.
Aacire: He he he... oops I guess?
Ami Kuroneko: Oh – you naughty, naughty girl (I love saying that)... what got you to get grounded?
Dark Lady 69: Wow... you're good
Ks-Starshine: Lol – thanks!
That's it for now – okay, on with the story!
Chapter Twenty – Two
A Tale to be told
Kagome opened her eyes to stare up to see a hazy ceiling. Not focused at where her station was, she rubbed her eyes with numb fingers to direct her eye sight. Her back was throbbing painfully as she sat up and got feeling into her fingers. She blinked her eyes and then looked around where she was placed at.
She seemed to be in a very large cage, the ones where you keep parrots – though this one was much, much larger. She pondered on why she was here – then everything which had happened in the last few hours passed in her memory like a flash.
She stood up and grasped the iron bars and pulled. No use, they were embedded to the ground firmly, trapping her in a small, circle like cage. She looked around in the darkness and then she screamed when she saw a girl staring at her from not so far away.
She walked back and immediately banged her head on the bars and shut her eyes in pain. A second after, she felt a gust of wind and she opened her eyes to see the cause of it. In front of her, on the other side of the bars was standing a girl who looked a few years older than her, holding a fan, her eyes were bloodshot red and she was wearing a kimono with flowers drawn elegantly over it.
"Recognize me?" She drawled out and shot Kagome a wicked smile, terrifying the wits out of the trapped girl.
"No" she said back boldly, not wanting to crumble on the feet of her... whoever she was.
"I see, so you did not see me when I tried to kill you and Inu-Yasha with my feather" she said, grinning an icy cold grin.
Kagome widened her eyes, not wanting to believe what had just swept into her ears "Why?"
"Well... why don't you ask Naraku that question, he's the one ordering us to kill you – I mean Kanna and I of course, and when he found out that whenever we tried to kill you, Inu-Yasha always seemed to come in the way so we brought you here, where we could wipe you clean without any interference" Kagura smiled at her though it seemed evil and sent a shiver down Kagome's spine.
Kagura looked down at Kagome who had withered down to her knees and was shivering on the floor. "I'll let Naraku deal with you"
Kagome looked up from her spot and shuddered, somehow the temperature in the room had dropped numerous degrees. "You don't scare me" she breathed out, not letting them get the best of her.
Kagura laughed. "Believe in what you want to"
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It seemed like what – hours till Naraku came, and it got colder every minute. Were they planning to freeze her in this cage? The fact that she was wearing a summer dress which had its left sleeve torn off wasn't helping a bit. As Kagome heard footsteps, she looked up to see the 'oh so familiar' face grinning down at her.
"Nice to see you again, my oh so sweet Kagome – my apologies for taking so dear long, I had some business to take care of" Naraku drawled out to her, grinning as he said it. Kagome pressed her back to the bars of the cage, trying to further herself away from him as if he were a poisonous snake out to get her.
Kagome didn't speak, mostly because she didn't have the nerve to. Her teeth felt like they were frozen shut and her body had become so pale that she didn't feel like losing her stamina just to snap a comment at him.
He smirked at her actions and afterwards, sighed. "Well, like I said before, I had some business to take care of, like to see what?"
Kagome moved her pupils up again to see her predator motioning up ahead in the dark. She strained her eyes to see but the darkness didn't allow her to see what was being held in front of her.
Naraku pointed his index finger towards where she was looking at and at once a faint though rather dim light appeared in front of her. She widened her eyes as she processed the sight in front of her.
In a cage, most like hers, lay Inu-Yasha.
The condition he was in, pitched Kagome's breath in the middle of her throat.
He had been beaten up vigorously and was lying down in the cage, probably un- conscious. His chest was moving with tentativeness and cuts and bruises could be seen up his arms and face. His eyes were shut and no sound of movement could be heard coming from his direction.
Kagome stared at him for what seemed to her to be eternity.
Who was...this Naraku who could bring such pain to Inu-Yasha and torture her? For all she knew, he had appeared out of no where and had tried to commit murder to her and now he had kidnapped both Inu-Yasha and her.
"What do you want with us?" she asked timidly, all courage drained from her nerves. If he could to that to Inu-Yasha, only god knew what he could do to her.
"What I want from you is the location of the swords, what I want from him – is his dead body" he replied and miraculously stepped through the bars and crouched down to Kagome.
He grabbed her throat and pressed it, making Kagome choke for air.
"Tell me or you'll be holding your head in your hands" he said, and dug his claws in her neck.
Kagome winced in pain and she tried to remember everything the map had told her. "I don't know" she replied, remembering she had not even glanced at the drawing of where the swords were hidden.
He tightened his grip on her neck. "Tell me" he repeated.
"I swear, I don't know"
He growled in frustration and threw her down on the icy cold ground. She received shocking pain in her elbow and could have sworn that she just broke a bone.
"You're not going anywhere until you tell me where the swords are. You're going to stay in this cage, no food, no water and I'm going to let you go, only if you tell me where the swords are" he said and he took her wrist and twisted it slowly.
"But, I don't know where they are – I'm not lying" Kagome whimpered out, hoping he got the point she was telling the truth.
"Listen little girl, the only way you're getting out here alive is if you tell me where the swords are –" he stopped and looked over at Inu-Yasha "Though that doesn't mean he's going anywhere"
Kagome glanced at Inu-Yasha who still lay motionless and then looked back at Naraku. This was a lose or lose situation. If she had studied the map closer, she would have told Naraku where the swords would be however, if she was set free – Inu-Yasha would remain captive and would be soon killed, and now – because she hadn't studied the map, she wasn't going to be set free, neither was Inu-Yasha and both were going to be killed.
She didn't reply to his comment and tried to ignore the incinerating pain that he was causing from twisting her wrist.
"You know, you're not as much as fun as Kikyou was"
Kagome took a sharp breath and looked directly towards Naraku. How in the world did he know about her sister, and what did he mean by 'she wasn't as much fun as Kikyou'?
"What did you do to her?" She asked, feeling as if he had suddenly pulled a string, gathering up her courage once more.
"Oh – why don't you ask Inu-Yasha that?"
She bit her lip, "You ruined my sister's life, didn't you?"
"Oh, so you seem to be familiar with this topic, I see" he replied, smiling all at once.
"You're a pathetic bastard" she drawled out making him frown.
"Oh, let's not say such nasty things, shan't us" and after a minute, he dropped her wrist to the ground and left her alone on the icy ground.
She lay there again, solemnly on cold ground in the small cage. She shut her eyes and took a deep breath. Her stomach was ravaging with nervousness, fear and worry. Was she actually going to die now and her sister, what had he done with her?
Her life was going to end painfully, slowly and most depressingly, she would have to watch Inu-Yasha suffer in front of her.
She shut her eyes and tried to calm her nerves but it didn't do any help. All she wanted to do now was cry but surprisingly, no tears came.
She breathed in and out... in and out, trying to make sense of it all.
She was sure now, that Naraku had murdered Inu-Yasha's mom and now she knew that this was all connected with her sister as well. She looked back at Inu- Yasha and for the first time in her life, like nothing ever before, had a strong desire to cuddle up in that strong toned body of his, receiving nothing but his warmth and care in return.
She frowned and bit her lip as she stared at the motionless body in front of her. She hated him for making her hate him one minute, and fuss over him the next. Stupid, stupid Inu-Yasha... what was so special about him that she had started feeling depressed at the thought of no longer hearing his... annoying voice in her ears?
He was the one, who probably got her into this whole tangle web of pain and suffering in the first place.
And she didn't feel any hate for him right now?
Kagome groaned silently as she tried to sort her priorities out. She hated Inu-Yasha, of course she did – they were sword enemies right?
Well... they hadn't told each other they were sworn enemies, but... it had been a silent agreement between the two hadn't it?
And... all those times where he had embarrassed her, he hadn't said sorry to her – once! He had shouted at her, yelled at her, insulted her, and bossed her around... and even though she was filling her mind with all the rude things he had done to her, she still wasn't feeling anger towards him?
But why?
She sighed and tried to force the subject to the bottomless pits near the very back of her mind and looked hopelessly around for a way out. As she looked in the darkness, she saw different objects looming around – scaring the air straight out of lungs.
She resisted the urge of staring at the looming figures and tried to find something interesting in Inu-Yasha to look at, but the urgent state he was in wasn't at all pleasant to be looking at.
She bit her lip and shuffled closer towards his cage, and when she pressing her body against the bars she reached out and tried to touch his arm.
He winced at the touch but didn't open his eyes or move when she placed her hand on his bruised arm.
Kagome frowned again and moved lower to hold his hand.
"Inu-Yasha, can you hear me?"
Kagome stifled what to seem to be tears when she neither felt nor heard any reply from Inu-Yasha. This isn't the time to cry. Kagome closed her eyes and tried in a desperate attempt to shut out everything from the world.
Kagome's eyes shot open when she felt Inu-Yasha's hand close over hers. She looked over to Inu-Yasha and saw him opening his eyes, though with a stagger.
He looked at Kagome and seemed to be lost at his surroundings.
"Kagome, is that you?" came his weak voice.
Kagome immediately let go of his hand and withdrew it back to her chest. She sighed in relief though the relief was soon washed away when she remembered that he was injured very, very badly.
She turned back to Inu-Yasha.
"What happened to you?" she asked, feeling a sob in her throat though she swallowed it down.
He winced in pain when he saw everything which happened in the last few hours flash before his eyes.
"Please... don't hate me" he asked her, more of a plead than a command. He turned his body so he could face her and opened his eyes again to look at Kagome.
She blinked. "I... uh... why would I hate you?"
There went the thought of them being sworn enemies.
He groaned as he felt pain in his right arm and clutched it, hoping the pain would go away. "Because I've gotten you into this mess"
"No you haven't" she replied back and then looked at him, and then a question popped in her mind, though she silently cussed herself for getting such a bizarre question at such a... depressing time.
"Inu-Yasha?" She asked, hoping he wouldn't faint on her.
He opened his closed his eyes and looked at her, though he looked he would faint any second. "Whaddayaneed?"
Kagome smiled even though she felt like she was going to burst into tears any second. "I want to ask you something"
He opened his eyes again and this time, he tried to keep them open "Don't ask me if were going to die, because – I really don't know"
Kagome felt her heart drop into her stomach at that moment... ask Inu-Yasha to say something so negative.
Apparently, Inu-Yasha noticed and then he sighed. "Well, I'm just stating the exact situation were in"
"Stop trying to act all smart!" she snapped at him, and then softened. "Listen, what's going on?"
He sighed and forced his eyes to remain open. "Truth be told here, I'm not sure"
"You must have a clue"
"...I..." he sighed and then closed his eyes for a minute then opened them again, looking straight into her eyes. "I guess I can't keep it from you any longer"
She furrowed her eyebrows "What do you mean?"
"You want to know about... this... secret don't you?"
She widened her eyes, understanding what he was asking. Now, she felt as if she didn't want to know it any more – knowing that the secret wasn't anything you would laugh about.
"I'm not pressuring you" she replied, finding that that was the only reasonable answer she could find.
"Well, you won't be mad if I told you would you?"
"I guess not" she replied.
He sighed "It all started when I was fourteen, I met this girl – I forgot her name, but she was really nice and had the brightest eyes I had ever seen"
Kagome nodded.
"You reminded me of her, really – same energetic energy – sharp comments, and same eyes – bright honey brown" he said and then sighed "She turned out nothing I thought she would be"
Kagome remained silent, urgent for him to continue on.
"I had what I used to call a friend in the palace – his name was Naraku, us three, the girl, Naraku and I used to play together everyday. Where the girl even came from, I had no clue, she just told me she came from afar and that she was allowed to stay at my palace so I didn't argue.
Naraku didn't show it, but deep down he had been jealous of my wealth, riches, caring family and of me, he played me directly into his little trap. A month or two passed and I had noticed that the girl was becoming distant from me and was becoming more attached to Naraku. And one day, I had noticed she wasn't looking my way at all but was giddy laughing with Naraku.
She came to our palace on her fourteenth birthday and gave me a cold stare whenever she passed me. Naraku had been, obviously telling her lies about me and now we all were no longer friends. The day was going well, until the clock had struck twelve...
She had come into my room and had started to pour out apologies for being such a – 'meanie' as she called it. I forgave her – how was I supposed to know that this was just Naraku's evil plans? She said Naraku had wanted to apologize and was waiting for me in the dungeons. I went and as soon as I stepped into that dungeon, Naraku came and seized me.
They dragged me to the smelliest dungeons and locked me in their. They tied me on a chair and from that day on – for two months, they kept coming to beat me every day. The only water I drank was from the sewers and the only food I ate was stale bread. Then one day, the girl came – she was no longer, her cheery self and her eyes had started to lose their honey brown color and had started to look bloodshot.
She came and taunted me, and with every word she said she slit a piece of my skin with her dagger. Then Naraku came, and they both started saying things like: "why don't you kill us? You can escape out of this dungeon in a second".
So I did the most stupid thing I had ever done in my life. I had believed them, and with my demon powers – snapped out of the chair I was tied down to and had used my demonic powers with all my will. They escaped somehow – and so did I. But the day after, I had realized – they had kept my mother prisoner there as well – and now, I had killed her with my own hands."
Everything fell into elapsed silence. Kagome bit her bottom lip; this was it – the big, large secret she had been dying to know.
She knew who that little girl was, and she hated herself for knowing so.
"Inu-Yasha?" she asked timidly, her perspective of everything changed in a second, as if she could feel his pain in her own soul.
There was no reply but she knew he was conscious and listening to her every word with earnest.
Before speaking, she withdrew her hand from her chest and once again, clutched his hand. "That little girl was Kikyou"
He didn't speak and when he did Kagome was surprised with his answer "You're going to hate me now, aren't you?"
She widened her eyes and studied him closer "Why would I hate you now?"
"Because you've found out what a filthy half breed I am, who can murder his own mother"
She tightened her grip on his hand, though it was one sided because Inu- Yasha seemed to dead to return the squeeze. She looked at him sympathetically and shook her head. "You're not a filthy half breed. You may be half demon – but that also means that your other half is human. That means..." she smiled remembering what Kikyou had said before they had even reached the castle "...half sweet, romantic and gentlemen like and half strong, protective and hot but that also does mean 100% percent arrogance, rudeness and selfishness as a true warrior"
He blinked then smirked. "So you really do think I'm hot – don't you?"
She scoffed and rolled her eyes. "Oh...come on – I was just trying to cheer you up"
"Look who's holding my hand"
She gaped at him and let go immediately. "You bastard, remind me never to say nice things about you again!"
"But aren't I... half sweet, romantic and gentlemen like and half strong, protective and hot?"
"Inu-Yasha!"
"What?"
"We're stuck in this... place – and all you can think about is trying to insult me?"
"I don't have to think to insult you, it comes naturally"
"Don't you dare talk to me again mister!"
"I'll be proud not to"
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Tadaa!!! This was short, and I know it – don't blame me, I didn't want to push anything on to you guys. The next chapter will HOPEFULLY come out next week – and that's all I can say now.
Surprised? You better be! I hope the secret was worse than you though it would be
Anywho (sorry to everyone who I got this damn word stuck in their brains)
Until next time-
Sayonara!