Chapter 3

The Voices

Hey, I'm glad people are liking my story :D This chapter is going to be about Kagome dealing with the death of her father, and another surprise 'death I don't think you guys are expecting! Hope you enjoy ;o

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, all I own is this piece of popcorn under my chair, actually, I just ate it XD


---Last time on I Won't Say I'm in Love---

The grieving Hanyou felt a lone tear slide down his cheek. He wiped it away furiously, coming to a decision.

'There, one tear for mama, one tear for papa; everything's fair now. From now on, it's just gonna be me, myself, and me. There's gonna be no more tears, and no more crying; nobody is gonna make you feel like this again, not now, not ever.'

With that decided, Inuyasha balled his fists, and walked back to the castle to face his future, a future without his father.

--- A Couple Days Later ---

Kagome had not come out of her room since the message of her father's death was delivered. She refused to eat, drink, and even bathe. Her mother was starting to get worried. She understood how Kagome felt; she had grown up in a very protective environment. The worst thing she's ever had to deal with was losing her, puppy back when she was five. This tragedy must be tearing her apart.

"Kagome?" her mother asked through the door, knocking softly. "Kagome sweetie, can I come in?"

Kagome didn't say anything, she just sat on her bed, staring up blankly at her ceiling. She hadn't moved all day, the only way you could tell she was alive were the occasional moans and sobs heard from behind the door.

Kagome's mom opened the door, and walked over to her daughter. Every time she looked at the empty shell that was her Kagome, she felt her heart drop to the ground.

"Kagome, sweetie," her mother began, not knowing if her daughter was even listening to her. "We have to go to the funeral now, they are having both funerals at once, so Inuyasha will be there; don't you want to see your best friend again?"

Kagome blinked, and felt a new pain well up in her heart. Inuyasha wasn't her best friend, Sango was. Oh gods how she missed Sango; even though she had only known her for 2 years, they were already best friends forever. Sango was only six, but even so, she was already a full fledged demon slayer. Her father was also a demon slayer, and she and her father had gone off to fight the in the war that had taking her father's life.

"I don't want Inuyasha," Kagome began, speaking for the first time since her father's death. "I want Sango."

The queen let out a choked sob, and looked at her daughter's pale, tear stained face. She had been so preoccupied with the death of her husband, she hadn't found time to tell Kagome that Sango's entire family had been killed, and Sango herself had gone missing.

"Oh sweetie," the queen began, not bothering to hide her tears.

"What is it mama?" Kagome asked, not knowing what had brought the sudden change in her emotions. She had only mentioned Sango… oh god no… not her Sango, please not her Sango.

"Mama?" she asked again, tears already flowing down her already tear stained face. "Please no mama, please no……"

"Oh God, I'm so sorry Kagome, Sango….. her entire family was killed, she's disappeared, nobody knows where she is, honey, I'm so sorry." Kagome's mother had tears In her eyes, she was staring at her daughter, who was at a loss for words.

Kagome felt like her heart was about to burst, she couldn't take this anymore. Why Sango? Why not that stupid Inuyasha, why Sango?

"Is she dead mama?" Kagome stuttered, tears slowly falling down her read and puffy face.

"I don't know sweetie," Kagome's mom said sadly, wiping tears away from her eyes. "I really don't know. Come on now sweetie, we have to go to the funeral, I'll wait for you to get ready."

"Ok, mama," Kagome said, trying not to let anymore tears fall from her eyes, tying to be strong; for Sango and Papa.

Kagome's mom walked towards the door, taking on last look at her daughter, before exiting the room. Kagome sighed, and started to put on her black dress.

'I love the color black,' she thought miserably, pulling the dress over her head. 'It's my new favorite color, the color of my soul.'

A voice sounded in Kagome's head, a voice full of hope happiness, and… annoyance? 'Come on now,' it said to her. 'You know your souls not 'black.' Quit whining; remember when your puppy ran away? You got over that, you'll get over this.'

Kagome was furious. Whoever was in her head had a lot of never, she tried to keep her voice level as she started to give the voice a piece of her mind.

"Who exactly are you?" she whispered seething, balling her hands in little fists. "What in the heck do you mean I'll get over it? Puppies and Dads ARE NOT the same thing. Whoever you are, get out of my head!"

The voice inside her chuckled; Kagome tried not to scream in frustration.

'Dear child,' it began. 'I'm your conscience; I can't get out of your head. Didn't you……'

The voice trailed off and another voice entered her head. This voice was sad and depressing, and full of anger and hate. Kagome looked around in confusion; why were there so many voices in her head? Was she going crazy?

'Dear Kagome,' the sad voice began, filling Kagome's already hurting soul with more hurt and sadness. 'Don't listen to this nitwit; I'm your real conscience!'

'Are not,' her 'good' conscience began. 'I am!'

'Are not'

'Are too'

'Are not'

'Are too'

'Are not….'

"STOP IT!" Kagome roared, looking frustrated. "Stop acting like little two year olds! As far as I'm concerned, you are both my conscience! It's either that, of I'm going crazy!"

The voices suddenly became quiet, and Kagome just sat there, waiting for one of them to talk.

'Ok then,' her 'evil' conscience began. 'Let's go to the main problem.'

'Yah, let's….' her 'good' conscience started to agree, but it was cut off by her other conscience.

'I'm not talking to you!' Her 'evil' conscience stated, fuming. 'I'm talking to Kagome! You stay out of this!'

'Make me!'

'Oh I will…. You just…..'

"You guys….." Kagome began sweetly, smiling at nothing. "SHUT UP!"

"Ohhhh, rather big words coming from suck a small girl,' her 'evil' conscience replied coolly.

'Watch your mouth missy,' her 'good conscience replied in a warning tone.

"Ugg," Kagome started, rubbing her temples, the tears long gone from her face, thanks to her recent distraction. "You guys are confusing me, do you have names?"

Her consciences were silent for a moment. Kagome waited patiently, as her consciences took their sweet time.

"Well?" Kagome asked, getting impatient.

'No,' her 'good' conscience finally said. 'I don't think we do.'

"Well then, can I name you?" Kagome asked?

'I don't see why not' the 'evil conscience replied smugly. 'Just… don't give me a stupid sissy name, ok?'

Kagome grinned and though hard, trying to figure out a new name for her new 'friends'

"Well fist I need to know if you guys are boys, or girls." She began, her brows furrowed in thought.

'We're neither, the voices stated at the same time. 'We're part of you, we don't have a gender.'

Kagome sighed, an looked around her room, trying to find some source of inspiration.

'I guess I'll just name them like I would a pet,' she thought in her head, thinking they couldn't hear her.

'Excuse me,' her evil conscience began, and her good conscience picked up where the other one left off. 'We're not 'pets;' we're part of you, so don't treat up like we're animals!'

Kagome grinned sheepishly. "Heh, Sorry guys"

Unbeknownst to Kagome, her mother had come to her door to lead her to the funerals. She came just in time to see a huge grin plastered on her daughter's face. Her eyes widened and she covered her mouth with her hand as her daughter started to speak to herself.

"Ok guys," Kagome began smiling. I think I've finally got names for you!"

'They better be good' her evil conscience stated, sounding smug.


Heh, hope you liked it, sorry I've not been updating, I've had a lot of things going on :P If your wondering about Sango, she's not really dead, you'll find out what happened to her later! I hope you like the voices, they'll be with Kagome through the rest of the story! The aren't really 'good' and 'evil' one is just more sarcastic then the other XD The reason I left off on the names, is because I need some help. I need two names, that are sort of unisex, to give to the two voices, I just need some ideas, so leave yours in the review area place…. Thing? Heh, time for the reviews!

silver-angel-sakura- Heh, sorry about the crying :o Poor little Inu ;-;

inuyasha's ear's are so cute- hands you a tissue Here you go :D Updating...now!

Neya- Yah, Kagome takes it pretty hard, after she gets to the funerals it will be even worse :( And yah, Kagome is a miko, we'll find out all about that later :D And yah, that was Tsubaki! Evil snake lady :P I'll try to make the chapters longer :D I don't think this one is very long, but they'll get longer! I promise!

mikkey hodge- yah, I'm planning on this being a long story, I'll be able to work on it more after school is over!

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RoxyBunny- Thankies :) And yah, this will be the most emotion he shows for a loooooong time. He's going to start acting more like he does in the series, Poor little guy :( And here, you can hold Kagome hold her up squeeze the life out of the little dear! I hope this chapter was what you wanted :D And you'll se who becomes king in the next cahpter, remember, he has a brother! An older brother :P

angicakesisinuyashasluvr- Thanks, and yah, Sesshy is going to become the new king! Kikyou will be in it a little later, and I won't tell you if it will be Inu/Kag or Inu/Kik, but I'll give you a hint: I hat Kikyou :P Hehe, romantic tension coming your way!

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