Chapter 2
Inuyasha watched her,as she came back inside.
"Where have you been?",he asked strictly,with no intention of letting it drop without answer. Kagome however,didn't feel like makeing it easy.
"Why do you care?",she asked,looking at him coldly,"You don't need to know everythig!".
Inuyasha was sightly shocked. What could she posiably be doing? She smelled of blood again.Her attitude was that of a frightned animal,pretending to be feirce,sharp,while scared.But he could tell,it wasn't him that she was scared of.And it wasn't only the fact that she wanted her secret to be,well a secret.It was something else.Perhaps the secret itself.He was starting to worry.
"Because",he answerd,"I wanna know whats up with you. I don't care if it's a secret,,you are gonna tell me".
He saw the familliar fear,flicker through her eyes.
"I'm going to go to bed now",She replied,shakely,turning to go to another room,"Me and my secrets". "Horriable secrets",he heard her mutter under her breath.
"What's so horriable about them?",he tried to say flatly,but accidiently sounding concerned,as he truely was.
"They just are",She snapped.He could smell her salty tears,pour down her face. She was crying ( no duh!!!!!)
He left her be. There was nothing left to be said. He knew that something was wrong. It was totaly secret,and it was definately bad. Kagome didn't cry that eaisly! He watched,as she merged into the shadows,becomeing engulfed with them,as if,simply not dissapering into the dakness,but becomeing it. Yes something was wrong.She was someone new,and yet still the same Kagome.
The sunlight poured in through the window,stopping at the brim of Kagome's sleeping toes.Reflectivly,they pulled themselves back,her legs,curled up against her sleeping body.
"Is Kagome going to sleeo through this day too",Shippo asked,"Don't we need to go?".
"No,i'm not gonna let'er sleep through two whole days!",Inuyasha replied gruffly,kicking at Kagome."Yo wench,get up it's morning!!".
Kagome.wearily opened one eye,wincing as the first few rays of sunlight his them.
"Alright",Kagome answerd solomly,grabbing an umbrella from the darkness,that was gradualy dissapateing as sunlight filled the room.
"Umm,Kagome,it not raining we don't need umbrellas",Sango stated.
"Yes well,the sun is getting hot an i'm starting to burn",Kagome replied,fearfully. Lucky for her,they all let it rest at that,not pestering her about it. Also lucky for her,they didn't bother to look behind them at her,as they walked on.They didn't see what she was silently doing.
"So,Kagome",Shippo chirped later that night,after sun down,"Will you tell me a story?".
Kagome loked at the little fox as he crawled onto her lap.He was cutr,small,childish.Nieve,helpless...no,she didn't think that way.She wouldn't think that way. Not about Shippo!!!
"I can",she said softly,mouth remaining mostly shut,revealing no teeth.
"Great! tell me one about a prince and a princess who end up falling in love,and add some R-rated stuff!!",Shippo tried to get her to tell him the dirty story!!
"Ok",Kagome agreed,"But it'l be real real long,so by the time we get to the lemon,you'l be sixteen!".
"Damn",Shippo cursed under his breath. But surprisingly,Kagome let this pass.
And so she began her tale of Cenderella.And in about a half hour,Shippo was out like a light.
"I need to go",Kagome said,excuseing herself from the group around the fire.
"Where ya going?",Inuyasha asked,perpously trying to make this hard for her.
"Out",She simply stated,"Don't worry ill come back".
"Alright",Sango and Miroku concluded,this enough to satisfy them. Inuyasha just 'Fehed',and let her go,allowed her to merge into the shadows once again. And once again,he heard the blood curtling cry of an animal in pain,and then Kagome returned,and Inuyasha left,unseen.
He used his nose,sniffed out where she had been,her tamperd with smell,reaking of blood,rotting death,it made him wonder. She used to smell so pure and now she was tainted. And,while on the terms of his thoughts of carcuses ( as an idea /request of a reviewer) he found it. The fresh body of a squirrel. Nothing unordinary about it,it was a simple squirrel. But it was drained of all life,pale and stiff as a board.A clue. Not one that restored much confidende though. Kagome was never one to kill anything,much less anything innocent.
And it was then,that he heard,yet another scream from the village.A woman,pure fear and surprise. He ran off to see what was the cause of this pain was,unable to belive that it was Kagome.