Author Note: Okay three more chapters to go before I am back at nine and can put up the first actual new chapter! Cool huh?

Anywise, I hope you all enjoy this chapter.

No Life Flower

Chapter 6:

UN Shedding the Truth from the Lies!

They had been walking in silence for sometime now; not even a word was exchanged. Kagome stalked ahead of Inuyasha, so she wouldn't have to look him in the eyes. Figuring that is she starred him in the eyes or he gazed into hers, he might discover her true inner feelings and thoughts. The dream she had witnessed a while ago had really frightened her; it felt so real. Even now, she could still hear Kikyou's vile words plaguing the back of her mind along with her annoying mirthless laughter. Those exact words tugged vigorously at her very soul.

-You are I and that's all you will ever be. Even to Inuyasha... - Those words tormented her the most.

Dose Inuyasha only think of me as Kikyou's reincarnate. She shook her head of the unnerving thought that seemed to engulf her mind and soul.

No that can't be true... but still... A dejected look soon emerged to her already worried expressions as she gawked at the ground attentively observing every tiny nook and cranny that passed her by.

" What the hell is your problem?" An irritated look soon replaced the sadness that once was her face; She kept her eyes tied to the ground. Inuyasha stepped right in front of her stopping her in he tracks. She crept her eyes from the ground half way to notice the sour look in his demeanor and soon returned her eyes to the rocky foundation from whence it came.

" Nothing Inuyasha, I was just feeling a little tired." She tossed that lie out to quickly and knew that it wouldn't go without suspicion. She moved up from the ground with eloquent smile hoping to seem truthful. Inuyasha along with his sour look had now received a bit of suspicion as she had suspected.

" Look you have been acting weird and I don't think it has to do with fatigue since you had just been sleeping." He stated simply for the record. * There was no getting out of this one was there? * She pondered a moment for a quick solution that would allow her to of her current situation. She smiled innocently as if she were on cloud nine.

" Inuyasha..." She said sweetly.

He gulped as sweat and fear soon claimed his facial appearance. " Yeah? What?" he questioned fearfully. He had heard this one before; he knew he was in trouble now. She would always start an angry rampage off with a sweet toned voice saying ' Inuyasha' then she would go berserk with rage.

" There's nothing wrong I'm just worried about telling Sango and Miroku the truth; but it was kind of you to worry." His jaw had dropped precisely five stories from where it was suppose to belong. It didn't make any sense to him; she never started a sentence off with a gentle ' Inuyasha' without murderous screams following it. He knew then that there was something off with her but if she didn't feel like talking about it, then obviously there was no reason to interrogate her any further. He knew he himself wouldn't like it very much if someone kept probing further into his feelings for information he didn't want to be identified. He decided not to give an answer, just let it slip away into a long silence of understanding seemed reasonable enough to him.

Kagome prayed very hard that her untrue response would be enough to make him quit questioning her. Thankfully enough he did, which she had figured out after the beginning of the long silence he had produced. She then retorted back to her reflection of her hideous nightmare. She could recall when she had first met Inuyasha, he thought she was Kikyou and doubted that she wasn't when she had specifically told him, she was Kagome and not the Kikyou person he kept referring her as. He wouldn't believe her for the longest time, but after he had grasped the true sent which was Kagome, he figured out that she was indeed not Kikyou.

He couldn't think of me as Kikyou still if he had truly said that I was nothing like her. She sighed mentally not allowing Inuyasha to sense her loss of breath. She felt horrible now; She felt even worse now, then she normally would've due to the fact of her sickness in her heart. They were nearing the closing of their journey; Kaede's hut was up ahead. Inuyasha moved like the shadow of the passing cloud, unseen, unnoticed, even by the wind that blew around him as if he were not there and crept up to the side of Kagome seeing as he had fallen behind her while.

" We're almost there you know?" He informed sympathetically towards her situation. His sympathetic tone of voice made her smile inwardly, it made her happy to know that he cared about her feelings.

" I know. Inuyasha... Thanks. I will be okay." She choked out in a few choppy sentences; the truth was she didn't know if she could get the truth out to them. It hurt her bad, she could feel an agonizing guilt pass through her body at the thought of actually lying to them, as she had been. She never wanted to deceive them; it was always like a passing thought to her. She never mused for a moment that she ever would truly mislead them. She had promised herself to fix it once she had told Inuyasha the truth. That time would be in this instance of reaching their destination. She was just glad that Sango had interrogated her to the point of her identifying her problems that also meant that she lied to one less person, which also was a plus in her mind. They had now reached their intent objective ' Kaede's Hut' Inuyasha walked in front of Kagome once more stopping her in her place.

" We're here now, are you okay with this? I mean you could still back out." He offered empathetically.

She lifted her gaze towards and with an obligated smile. " I have to do this!" she replied in a determined fashion. She then walked slowly toward Kaede's only to be taken aback by a loud rumbling sound and Shippo flying outside the hut. She quickly ran over to the dizzy faced Kitsune. " Shippo are you okay." She inquired in astonishment.

The little kitsune shook of his dizziness and stared up to her with a pleasant grin. " Yeah I'm alright Kagome." His eyes shot open wildly in amazement. " Kagome!" He shouted excitedly. "Your back, I missed you, I thought you left for home and never was coming back because of Inuyasha's big mouth." The young kitsune rambled on for a while until his little eyes had caught onto Inuyasha's vile glare. He then choked his last words as he pulled his mouth shut. He didn't feel like getting a punch to the head today. His head still hurt from the last ones he had received when Kagome first left for home after a long horrendous fight with Inuyasha about Kikyou.

Kagome slowly dropped the Kitsune to the floor as Sango came walking out from the hut with an irritated glare in her eyes. Miroku soon came following out after her with a big lump on his skull, and a sheepish glint in his eyes.

" But Sango!" he said innocently.

" Don't but Sango me! I saw your hand, you dirty monk." It was now obvious what was going on here. Miroku was up to his old dirty tricks of grouping Sango's butt and had received the ultimate penalty for his perverted actions. Telling by the large lump that threatened to engulf Miroku's skull it must have been some major dirty trick to obtain a punishment to that extreme. Sango then turned her gaze over to a baffled Inuyasha and Kagome. She let the intensity of the moment fade before laughing sweetly and running up to Kagome with a happy smile.

" Kagome your back." She embraced her tightly and then whispered a little something in her ear. " Did our plan work?" Kagome nodded her head in satisfaction to her question. Sango grinned deviously as she drifted away from her.

Miroku came slowly up to Kagome rubbing his head in agony. A smile soon appeared over his painful expressions. " Ah Lady Kagome so, you have returned." He said and then strolled passed her right up to Inuyasha with a devilish look in his eyes.

" So, did our plan work." He whispered curiously so that only Inuyasha could hear him. Kagome and Sango didn't even notice them since they were in deep conversation themselves. Inuyasha kept his demeanor blank with little emotion.

" It worked fine." He replied coldly. Miroku didn't mind his cold toned voice at all since that was how he always was most of the time and he didn't take it personally.

" Then it was worth it." He asked curiously once more.

Inuyasha sighed heavily. " Yeah. Whatever." He responded in a deep elongated yawn. That must mean that they had talked for so long that he had gotten tired from it; in other words, that was a good thing.

Kagome was still conversing with Sango about Inuyasha and her sickness. " So you told him everything."

" Yep just about." She said biting down on her lip roughly. She didn't tell him everything- like her dream, and it probably would be best to keep it that way. Telling him would most likely just bring about more problems for them then already had.

Sango's visage contorted until it was drowning in worry. " What didn't you tell him?" she questioned in concern.

Kagome gazed at her vaguely. " I told him everything about me dying." She about choked on that last part. She didn't mean to sound so suspicious or anything on the lines of that. She just didn't want Sango to interrogate her further. Her dream wasn't something she wanted to talk aloud about. Sango nodded in agreement with her allowing her to let some of this hapless horrible dream fade. She didn't want to think about her nightmare now she had other things that were much more important then that; like telling Shippo and Miroku not mention Kaede the truth about her illness.

" Sango I'm ready to tell everyone else the truth but I'm going to need your support." She explained.

" Oh course! I will help in any way I can." Sango replied in assistance. Kagome was overjoyed that she was willing to help her out in her time of need.

" Okay um, how do you think I should go about this Sango?" She asked curiously, as she didn't have a clue what to do and for some unknown reason today Sango has known just what to do for everything. She was praying that she might know how fix her problem.

Sango smiled a smile of true knowledge, which made Kagome smile happily to know that Sango may have thought up a plan. " Well Kagome, I might just know what to do. Just leave it to me."

Kagome's face became a shade of the curious cat. Just what did Sango have planned? " Sango what do you mean, aren't you going to tell me?" She consulted her unaware of what was running through her friends head.

Sango smiled unaffectedly. " I know what to do, we can all go have one of those picnic things you have always talked about and then you can tell them there."

Kagome smiled at the idea, as she was already equipped just for something like that. She had packed a picnic for them right before she left for school to make up with Inuyasha after their fight; it should still be in her yellow bag.

" That's a great idea Sango. I have the supplies in my bag." She then opened her oversized yellow bag to reveal and abundant amount of great looking and tasting food.

Sango's eyes opened wide at the sight she was now at loss for words. " You already planned this."

Kagome really didn't have a chance to answer as Miroku and Inuyasha came up to them. She quickly closed her bag and tossed it over her shoulders. " Hi guys." She smiled eloquently as if she wasn't doing anything wrong.

Inuyasha and Miroku's expressions grew sour with suspicion. " What were you two doing over here?" Miroku asked as his and Inuyasha's eyes shifted over the both of them.

Kagome could feel their eyes burning through her inner-soul sending chills up her spine. " Um nothing we were just talking about Sango's extermination that the two of you were suppose to help her with; but didn't," she said with a hint of anger. That may not of been what they were really talking about though she still was mad that they left her there by her self to exterminate a Youkai when anything could of gone wrong; that also meant that her answer was partly true. Inuyasha and Miroku gulped as they saw the anger in her eyes but were able to rest easy when she smiled sweetly at them. " But that's okay." Her smiled grew bright. " Hey guys I have a surprise for you all."

Shippo ran to her jumping straight into her arms. " Really Kagome. Oh what is it?" the little kitsune asked excitedly.

Kagome patted him gently on the head. She then lifted her gaze up to Miroku and Inuyasha. Miroku had an interested look while Inuyasha was in total bafflement. " I will show you all the surprise in a minute; but first I have to get it ready, so why don't you all meet me and Sango over by the Goshinboku Tree when the sun begins setting in the north." She said to them in words that they would understand. She really wanted to say a few hours but knew they wouldn't know what she meant. Miroku and Shippo nodded as they walked back into Kaede's, Inuyasha however stayed behind eyeing her in suspicion.

Kagome marched right up to him with a smile. " Inuyasha I can't get the surprise ready if you don't go wait with the others." Inuyasha glared at her a bit more.

" I thought we came here to tell them you know." He asked sourly.

Kagome sighed. " I did but-"

" But what?" he asked.

She growled moderately at him. " -Like I was saying I want to give them a surprise first; this isn't easy you know." She said in aggravation. Inuyasha huffed as he went off with the rest of them. Kagome sighed once more in exasperation. " He always has to make things so difficult." She moaned underneath her breath.

Sango patted her gently on the back helping her to ease her mind. " Come on Kagome lets get started." She announced happily as she walked towards the Goshinboku Tree. Kagome followed her solemnly. Once they had arrived, she pulled her bag off her shoulder and sat it on the ground.

Sango watched her as she pulled out a large piece of cloth and lay it flat out on the ground. " Kagome what are you doing?" she asked in curiosity. She had never seen anything like; she was now laying all types of food on the cloth.

" I laid this blanket out for us and the food to be on. This way we can be comfortable and nothing can get on the food. In any case it's also good to put the food out like this so everyone can pick out what they want to eat." Sango nodded in understanding. She didn't really see any point to this but if that's what Kagome wanted to do then she had no room to complain.

" So Sango how did you get Miroku to stay away from me and Inuyasha." Kagome asked Curiously. Sango smiled mentally to herself; it really was an interesting story.

" Well it was actually really funny." She said letting a grin replace her blank face. Kagome looked up from her position on the floor with a smirk. " Well I asked him he wanted to go somewhere with me and easily enough he did and I started to walk him back to Kaede's; you want to know the funny part." Kagome nodded in a panic to hear the rest. Sango's grin deepened somewhat. " Well the only reason he agreed was so that he could get me away from you and Inuyasha; sound familiar."

Kagome's mouth fell in some measure to the ground. She couldn't believe it she was at a loss for words. She couldn't process the fact that Sango and Miroku had actually thought up the same plan; they were more a like then she thought, more reasons why they should get together. " You two thought up the same plan for me and Inuyasha, that's scary."

Sango sighed in contempt. " I know I was freaked out when I first heard about it from him."

Kagome curiosity peaked its limit. " So what happened next?"

Sango was amazed at how interested she was getting on the subject. She nodded in acceptance. " Well after the shock faded away we decided to stick with our plans and went back to Kaede's." She said excluding the fact that they went and watched them and then left for Kaede's. She felt very bad for watching them when she knew what was going on, she wished that she wouldn't of ever watched then she wouldn't of had to lie to her best friend.

Kagome smiled at her as she stood from the ground. " Well I think that this good enough for the picnic." She stated simply.

Sango gazed over the whole picnic grounds, checking it out thoroughly. She then turned her gaze back to Kagome with a satisfied smile. " It's perfect, Kagome."

Kagome clasped her hands together with a laugh. " Now all we have to do is wait for them they should be here any minute now."

Miroku gawked at Inuyasha as he sat up in the tree by the lake. " So Inuyasha," Inuyasha didn't move or take the time to look down on him. He seemed to be deep in thought. " How did it go, did you find out what was wrong with her?" He asked in a calm respective voice. Inuyasha didn't seem to have heard him; but he knew better than that, if it were any normal person up there the question might not of been heard. Inuyasha on the other hand wasn't a normal person and he knew damn well that he had heard him.

" Well, what did she say?" He questioned for the second time to make his presence known.

Finally, he looked down at him his expressions were vague and unreadable almost as if he was dead. " Miroku what do you want?" He said dully with no emotion. From the data he had received from the way Inuyasha was acting, whatever he had found out from Kagome must have been huge to take this big of a toll on him. This only made his curiosity grow stronger.

" What happened with Kagome?" He asked one last time hoping that this time he would be lucky and receive an answer.

Inuyasha sighed heavily his eyes didn't even seem to have any life left in them. " I told you that your plan worked." Was all he said, it was as if he wished that he never talked to Kagome? He was about to interrogate him further when Shippo came running in to his arms.

" Miroku, Inuyasha we have to go to Kagome now for our surprise." The kitsune said in excitement. Miroku and Inuyasha both gazed to the north, noticing that the sun was in the north. Inuyasha jumped off the tree with is eyes closed heading towards Kagome.

Shippo stared at his back blankly. " What's wrong with him?" he questioned curiously as a fox.

Miroku glared suspiciously towards his friend in wonder. " I don't know, but I will find out." He said fixating his eyes on him as he got smaller and further away from him.

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Authors Note: I ended it on a not sad note today, because I didn't feel like ending it sad again for like the six time. I will save that for later. I hope you al enjoyed. And thanks to all who have reviewed.