Poisons Kiss-Chapter 2

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"I want to know the answers, no more lies,

I want to know the truth and open up my mind…."

Kagome opened her eyes cautiously. She had a splitting headache, and her side throbbed uncomfortably. Two concerned looking pools of amber-gold looked back at her. As her eyes opened fully, combinations of relief and sadness mixed in his eyes. She tried to get up and speak to him…….

"Inu Yasha, what's wr-" A sharp pain traveled all the way up one side of her body. She gasped in agony. The world swam, like when she had the flu. The room spun, faster and faster. She could feel her self sinking, falling, but was helpless to stop the ground from coming any closer. Strong arms grabbed her from behind, and she gasped. Inu Yasha pointedly was careful to keep his arms away from her injured side. He cradled her gently until she stopped trembling, and then carefully escorted her back to her sleeping mat.

He had lapsed back into unconsciousness after agreeing to stay here with Kagome, but woken up again during the night. He, Sango and Miroku had all agreed that they should go searching for the jewel shard, but that Inu Yasha should stay here. They had also agreed that they should not tell Kagome that she was dying. Her flu symptoms should be enough to explain why she was being left behind, and since Inu Yasha had been injured, but not that badly, it was obvious that he should stay and protect her. He could not keep the sadness out of his eyes as he looked at her thin, pale frame, her chest heaving as she recovered from the shock of the near fall. She looked up at him, once again noticing the grief in his eyes. She sat up on the mat, wincing, and suddenly, a horrible thought went through her head as she remembered what had happened prior to her unconsciousness.

"Oh my god, Miroku and Sango, are they alright?" Inu Yasha inwardly sighed. He wanted to hold her and tell her that everything would be fine, even though it might not be. He wanted to be with her more than anything else, but he was too much of a coward to openly show his feelings to another. Kikyo had never been a warm person who did that sort of thing, so Inu Yasha had never had any problems with their relationship. But Kagome……. Kagome was different. She was pure life, looking at him, her eyes sparkling, smiling. She always had a smile, and she was always optimistic, even when it seemed like everyone's last hour she always urged them to do something. 'Well we have to at least try, we can't just give up!!' She would say. But Inu Yasha knew that he treating her with a shred of kindness would just make her suspicious……

"They're fine, wench." he said, as nastily as he could.

"Oh" came the choked reply. He turned to see her face but she had already turned away from him. He never saw the angry, hopeless tears in her eyes, threatening to spill down her face. In one motion, she slammed her face into the pillow and pulled the cot's thin sheet over her head. Inu Yasha was immediately sorry.

"Kagome I………" He started.

"Shut up and go away!" she said, her reply muffled by the sheet. All her anger and frustration poured out, and the tears in her eyes began to run freely down her face. "YOU MAKE ME SO MAD! SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT SIT!!!!" Inu Yasha was too surprised to even register at first as he created an Inu Yasha shaped imprint in Kaede's floor. The physical pain from Kagome's sit and the pain of having always to hide his feelings from her mixed, leaving him feeling sick. When the pain and Powerful downward pull subsided, he got up, and without a word, limped over to the other side of the room. Kagome was at a loss. She had expected some sort of anger from her sitting him, some sulking, but all she got was silence. The way he was acting was worrying her.

And where were Miroku and Sango? She hadn't seen them since she had woken up. And Inu Yasha was hiding something, she knew it. He was trying to act normal, but why had she woken up to his concerned face? And what had happened to her side? Inu Yasha seemed to be fine despite the events preceding her waking up here, but he would have mentioned it if her wound was serious, wouldn't he? There was probably some explanation for her aching side. Inu Yasha is probably just tired, she told her self, resigned. She sank painfully into her sleeping mat, and felt herself falling into the soft abyss of sleep. In her fevered dreams, she felt herself falling slowly into a dark void. Strangely calm as the groping hands of her friends strained to reach her, her last sight was of Inu Yasha's hopeless looking face, tears streaming down. How strange, she thought. Inu Yasha never cries…………………………

"………………..And were all trying to find the shard of this Shikon jewel, and kill the demon Naraku" Sango finished. Miroku just nodded thoughtfully. He seemed strangely undisturbed by the rediscovered fact that the black hole in his hand spelled his death if they did not kill Naraku. Shippo skipped obliviously behind them and put in a few words to Sango's detailed explanation. Sango, though, was secretly worried. The only two things that he had remembered on his own were Kagome and his own name, and her entire detailed explanation had not seemed to spark anything in his mind. She was also nervously toying with the idea of trying to start her relationship with Miroku over. The only good thing about him losing his memory was that he also seemed to have forgotten his hentei-ish ways.

"Sango, there's a village up ahead!" Shippo's shout brought her out of her reverie and she jogged to reach the outcrop he was standing on. Sure enough, a village lay below. Sango's face wrinkled in consternation. There was something strange here, she could feel it……they didn't have Kagome to confirm their suspicions as they usually would, but in this village, no one walked the streets, and it reeked of something close to death. Shippo's exuberance showed clearly that he did not sense what she did.

"Miroku!" The Monk's head lifted, and he walked up to her. She bent to speak to him quietly. "There is something wrong in this village, but I cannot put my finger on what it is……There is no one outside…" He nodded. They both walked without speaking down into the valley, accompanied by a confused Shippo who seemed to also think it wise not to speak. They reached the village, and here, the stench of death seemed stronger. Still, they saw no one in the streets, no sign that there was any life here at all. Then, Shippo spotted a man leaning against a dried up well, holding a water ladle in his hands. He didn't appear to be moving. Sango approached the figure cautiously, fully aware that the thing might be a demon. As she neared the man, she saw that he was still breathing, if not a bit shallowly. She tapped him on the shoulder cautiously, and his eyes opened slightly, the dried skin around them cracking.

"w-water.." His voice was harsh and barely distinguishable.

"What happened here?" Sango questioned him as she poured water from a flask through his parched lips "Where are all the people?"

"You mean you don't know?" He laughed a harsh, guttural laugh that carried no mirth. "The great Lord takes his pick of human flesh for the lord of the North. He is nothing but a puppet now. The people still rest in their houses and wait to be chosen, or left to die. Poor little travelers, unlucky enough to wander here……." The man's speech dissolved as he coughed violently, scarlet blood spattering on the dirt. Sango bent to help him, but his head lolled to the side, and came to rest against his chest. He had lapsed back into unconsciousness. Sango stood and turned to face her companions.

"This can't be good." She warned. The other two, dumbfounded, nodded at her. We should search for someone who can tell us what happened here. The Trio Walked through the rest of the abandoned town, seeing no other signs of life. The finally reached the edge of the town. Dusk was falling upon them, as Sango spotted a house on a small hill a little ways away. Smoke rose from the chimney of the small cottage, and flickering candlelight shown in the windows. Sango frowned. Int eh midst of all this wreckage, a house still stood? She headed towards it, silently and cautiously.

As they neared the house, a sharp gust of wind nearly blew them off their feet. Simultaneously, they felt a powerful strike in the back of their heads. Everything went black.

AN: sorry for taking so long to update this! I have been veeeeeery busy.

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