Disclaimer: I don't own much...and of the few things I do, Inu-boy is not one of them.
Well, I'm back with an update. I was outa town this w/e, went to Mrytle Beach, and I had an ok time. But my neck hurts cuz my dad's too cheap to pay to stay at a good hotel, so we were stuck in a cheap motel with flat pillows. But we did go shopping at the new mall...so I guess it's all good...I guess.
Chapter 6-What You Don't Want Them To Know
She sat there staring at him. Afraid to talk; afraid to move; afraid to breathe. Slowly, she started shaking her head. 'He knows I'm like her. He knows I have those stupid powers. He thinks I'll hurt him. He's gonna kill me!' Her mind raced. She did the first thing she could think of. She jumped and ran.
She ran down the hall, making her way for the stairs. He wasn't far behind, and would've been on her tail, but he wasn't expecting her to do that. 'Oh gods, help me!' Her mind raced, and her feet flew about as fast as the thoughts. She could hear him catching up behind her. 'He's fast! And he's catching up quickly. I can't let him get me!' She knew she didn't have a chance against his speed and power. He was half-demon after all.
Kagome skidded around the corner of the hall, nearly falling down the stairs because she turned the corner so sharply. But her fall was prevented when a clawed hand reached out and grabbed the back of her dress.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled, trying to get her to stop.
She tried to squirm out of his grasp; afraid of what he was going to do to her. But he held her tightly to his chest. It wasn't really working. 'I need to talk to her. I need to see her face. I gotta turn her around, which might not be so easy with her kicking around like this.' With those thoughts, Inuyasha spun her around and pinned her to the wall. He had her arms pinned by her head, and his body was close enough to hers so that she was unable to move.
'I'm gonna die!' Kagome thought, her eyes clutched shut, tears threatening to fall out of the corners. 'I'm gonna die, and I didn't even do anything! What luck. I wish I'd fallen down the stairs.' She stood unmoved for a moment. 'Why isn't he doing anything, or even talking?' She listened closely to the sound of his breathing. She could feel his chest rise and fall with every breath he took. She could also feel his warm breath against her cheek. 'Are we THAT close?' She thought. 'What a wonderful place to be before I die, pinned against a wall by Inuyasha.' She inwardly laughed at her own thoughts. 'This isn't funny, why do I think this is funny? He's probably about to rip my throat out. He thinks I'll betray him, so he's gonna get rid of me! I even thought we were friends!'
"Kagome," he whispered. His sudden voice caused her to jump in her skin. "Look at me. Open your eyes, ok?"
Slowly, her eyes opened, and she found herself staring into Inuyasha's molten eyes. She felt her knees buckle beneath her a bit. "Yes?" She let out, hardly audible.
"I need to hear you say it. Tell me you'll never betray me." His voice was stern, and she felt tears stinging in her eyes. She tried to blink them away, starting to shut her eyes. "Don't close your eyes, keep looking at me. I need to know your telling me the truth."
She kept her eyes open and the tears began to fall. 'Why...why is he making me do this? I already told him...'
"How could you even think that. Why do you think I'd hurt you?" Her voice was shaky, and her fists were clutched in anger.
"Kagome, I know about you...and Miroku." Inuyasha said.
"And you think we're like HER?" Kagome's tears of mental anguish rolled down her cheek.
Inuyasha bent down close to her. So close that their noses touched. "I'm not saying you're like her. I just need to hear you say it, I need to see you say it. So please, just say it."
"I'll never...never ever betray you. I'd never hurt you, I wouldn't ever dream about it!" Her eyes blurred over with tears as she cried out.
Inuyasha could see the truth shining strongly through her eyes. She was still rambling, but he couldn't understand a word of it. He watched as tears kept falling from her eyes, though he had no idea what for, he didn't do anything to her. 'How do I shut her up?' He thought.
"Why are you crying?" He finally asked.
"I thought that you thought that I was gonna hurt you, which I'd never do, and I thought that you'd kill me and not even give me a chance, and that you thought I was like Kikyou, which I'm not and then I thought that you'd hurt Miroku too, and then..."
Inuyasha let his forehead rest on Kagome's, which made her stop speaking abruptly. Then, he started laughing. She stared at him in shock and disbelief. "Why...why are you laughing?" She asked.
"You thought I'd hurt you? What gave you that idea?" He asked, opening his eyes to look at hers.
"Well, that's what most master's do when their servants disobey them or betray them. They either hurt them, or sometimes kill them." She said, slightly embarrassed that she really thought that.
His gaze softened, and his eyes held an emotion that Kagome couldn't decipher. His head slipped from where it was on her forehead, to where his mouth was right next to her ear. Then his grasp on her wrists weakened, and he let go, slipping them around her into an embrace. "I'd never hurt you." He whispered.
Her knees went weak, and if he weren't holding her, she would've fallen to the ground. The way he said it made every hair on the back of her neck stand on ends. Her arms that had fallen at her side, lifted to lightly clutch the back of his shoulders, her fingers mixing with his silver hair.
'Why does this feel so right? Just like this, I could stand this way forever.' She felt so comfortable in his hold; so secure, so safe, so warm. It was as if for that moment, time had frozen. But the truth of it all crept in to her mind slowly. 'No...this...it isn't right. I...we can't be like this.'
She let go of the grip on his shoulder and started to pull away. She stood in front of him, savoring the moment of silence. Her eyes looked sad, and his confused. "Inuyasha," she began, "we can't do this." He could see the pain in her eyes. She knew as well as he did that it couldn't work. They would be outcasts in society, shunned by all demons.
"Kagome..."
"Your cereal is in your room. It will get soggy if you don't eat it soon...master." Her voice was unreadable, but he could read every emotion she held that moment in her deep chocolate pools.
She left him leaning against the wall as she walked down the stairs and to the kitchen.
"Kagome, what's wrong?" Sango asked, jumping up from the stool she was sitting on to run to her friend's side.
The silent tears were again staining the young girl's face. She stared ahead blankly, not wanting to answer her worried friend.
"He knows." Was all she said at first.
The others looked at her, not completely sure of what she was speaking about.
"Inuyasha. He knows about our powers." She directed at Miroku.
His face fell into a grave expression. "How?" Was all he was capable of asking; worry dripping off the single word.
"I don't know. But he does."
"Is that why you're so upset? Did he do anything to you?" Sango asked in hopes of actually getting an answer this time.
"Yea," Kagome lied, "But he didn't do anything. He just made me tell him I'd never betray him." Her voice was still emotionless, and she averted her eyes so that they couldn't see the pain that was threatening to show.
"Is that all?" Sango asked unsure. 'She's not telling us everything. Oh Kagome, what happened? I'll have to ask her later. She may just not feel like talking about it. Or maybe I should ask Inuyasha, he'll probably know, seeing as he was the last person she spoke with.'
Kagome nodded her head. "I'm going to go work in the library. If you need me, I'll be there." She walked out the door with the last word.
Miroku looked at Sango who was biting her lower lip. "There's something she's not telling us." The cook said.
"Yea, I know. I wonder what it is though?" The worried girl wondered aloud.
Miroku set his hand on her shoulder, "Maybe, we should ask Inuyasha. If he doesn't know, then he'll find out."
Sango turned to Miroku and asked, "What do you mean he'll find out?"
"You know as well as I do that there's something between those two. Ever since the day y'all came here. If we tell him something's wrong, and ask him, and he doesn't know, he'll confront her about it because he'd worry about her." Miroku answered.
Sango shook her head. "Let's go then." She grabbed his arm and they ran out of the kitchen and headed towards their young master's bedroom.
Inuyasha was swirling his cereal around the bowl with his spoon when he heard a knock at the door.
"Yea? Come in." He said, readily expecting Kagome to come through the doors. But instead Miroku and Sango came through, closing the door behind them. 'Uh-oh.' He thought. 'They look determined to find something out.' His thoughts were no lie.
"Did...uh...do you know what's wrong with Kagome?" Sango asked.
Inuyasha bit his tongue. 'There's no way I'M telling them what happened.' He watched them for a second before saying, "No. Why?"
Miroku stepped forward. "Well, it's just she seemed a bit upset when she came into the kitchen. And seeing as YOU were the last person she spoke to..."
Inuyasha started to fidget. "Well, I don't know what's wrong with her. It's not like anything happened." He was all but convincing.
Inuyasha was trying to come up with a good excuse that didn't involve him in any manor as to why Kagome would be upset. But, since in this series, the characters always have PERFECT timing...Kagome walked in the door at that very moment. Not seeing the others, she said, "Inuyasha, we really need to talk." Then she looked up to see, instead of one pair of eyes looking at her, three were.
'Crap.' Was the only thing Inuyasha and Kagome both thought at that moment.
Hey! Look! Another cliffie! Sorry...really, I am. But I still don't know how I'm gonna have them react. So I'm workin on it, ok kiddies? Review please! Even if it's to tell my how you hate writting English papers after only being in school for a week or two...I can connect to that... --
