A/N: Hello minna! Well, I'm back. I am so sorry for taking so long with
this chapter. School has just resumed in my country and it is so darn
taxing! Gods, I hate being a sophomore! College sucks beans!
Anyway, here it is. Thanks to all who reviewed my previous chapters, by the way. This chap may be a bit shorter than my other chaps, coz I still have to 'study' for an upcoming test. And, I have to go see my choir instructor in two hours. I missed practice for the past four consecutive days and he must be hell furious.
On with the chap!
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. I'm a starving seventeen year old college sophomore with a run-down Nissan and a house that actually belongs to my parents. Pathetic, ne?
SEVEN WEEKS
Secrets
-----/---@
"And just WHERE do you think YOU are going?"
Kagome shrieked as she turned towards the sound of the voice, dread flooding her being and only one coherent thought stood out in her mind.
'Shit, I've been caught!' she thought frantically as she faced the source of her fright. The raven-haired woman's eyes narrowed in fury at the person she found there.
"Kagura... what are you doing here?!" she demanded, quickly stepping away from the ruby-eyed youkai. Kagura smirked at her, advancing towards her with her fan out before her.
"Teme... I found out that you have been taken by the ookami tribe and I just thought maybe I should get rid of you before Inuyasha rescues you..."
"Bakero. You could never defeat me!" Kagome said in an outrage, grabbing her bow from its place on her back.
Kagura just stared at her with a strange smile as Kagome hurriedly strung an arrow. "Don't worry. I have no intention of killing you just yet, Kagome- chan," Kagura said, making Kagome stare in shock. "Surprised? I know who you truly are by now."
Kagome stared at the female youkai with shock. 'Masaka... she couldn't really...?" she straightened, pretending to be confident. "You lie, Kagura."
"Do you think I am stupid, LADY Kagome? When you and I encountered each other for the first time, your outburst about your ruined city surprised me. Now I know why." Kagura said with a triumphant grin as Kagome's eyes widened in fear.
"You... you can't..."
"It all adds up. The silence, the formless blasts of light... It's YOU, isn't it?" Kagura taunted with a sneer. "Who would have thought that a spineless noble such as yourself would mature so quickly. And you hid your secret well. Maybe I should inform Naraku-sama..."
"IYA!" Kagome shouted in a panic before she could entirely think about it.
Kagura grinned. 'So I AM right!' she thought in triumph. "Or maybe, I could tell Inuyasha! Just imagine how AWFUL he would feel if he found out that you had lied to him!"
"Iya... You got me, Kagura. Demo, onegai... don't tell them. I would do anything..." Kagome implored Kagura, who just smirked in return.
"I won't tell them. Especially not Naraku. He would have my blood for it. But I assure you this: despite all your desperate efforts my beloved friend, Inuyasha WILL die Kagome! Or should I say..."
"KAGURA!!!"
The sudden holler silenced Kagura and caused Kagome's eyes to shoot up in both fear and surprise. A blur of red and silver landed before the two women as the voice died down.
"What the fuck are you doing here?" Inuyasha asked Kagura before he turned to Kagome. "Are you alright, Kagome?"
To his surprise, Kagome was staring at him the way she would have stared at someone who was about to murder her. Utter fear and distress was in her eyes, and that fact was made even clearer by her scent.
"Kagome? Oi! Daijobu?" Inuyasha asked confusedly, wary of Kagura's presence right behind him. Kagome shook her head lightly, and instead of answering, she asked him something he wasn't quite expecting in the softest tone she had ever used.
"How... how long have you been here? Did you..."
"What the fuck are you rambling about, bitch? I just got here to find Kagura harassing you!"
Kagome visibly brightened at that. "Great!" she said, before turning back to Kagura. "Now that I think about it, you don't scare me Kagura. I don't care what you do. And if you as much as try to tell, I would kill you slowly. Got that?"
Kagura grinned, then plucked a feather from her hair, preparing to use it for escape. "Such brave words, Kagome. But like I said, I won't do that. I just came here to inform you, slut." And with that, she took off swiftly.
Inuyasha felt lost. "Oi, what was that about?"
Kagome's scent changed again for a second, then went back to normal before replying. "Nothing. She was threatening to spread horrible lies about me and I warned her not to."
"Good for you. Mind telling me how you got out?"
"Innocent seduction my friend," Inuyasha just gave her a strange look. "Eh, don't ask."
"I won't," the hanyou said matter-of-factly. "Now, let's blow this joint before that idiot ookami realizes that you are..."
"Soldiers! Where the hell is MY Kagome?!"
"...gone." Inuyasha quickly lifted Kagome onto his back and took off into the now darkened night sky when he heard Kouga's enraged voice asking for his 'woman'.
----/---@
A half hour of desperately exhausting downwind running later, Inuyasha finally paused in his frantic steps for a breather.
"Ano... Daijobu, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked anxiously as she looked down at the panting Inuyasha from her place on his back.
"Hai... d-da-daijo-bu... I'm fine..." he answered between heaving breaths as he bent down to let Kagome slide off his shoulders. He turned to her with a watery grin and found her staring curiously at him.
"Na-nani?" Inuyasha asked grumpily.
"Inuyasha, you're exhausted!"
"No, really. Ya think?" he answered sarcastically.
"Shut up, baka, I'm making an observation here!" Kagome laughed. "I mean, you usually don't get tired so easily. We've been traveling for quite some time now and you have NEVER gotten so winded before."
"Well, I've been running around, trying to find you all day, bitch! Of course I'm fucking exhausted!" Inuyasha said defensively.
"That's not... oooh, never mind!" Kagome snapped back.
Inuyasha stared as she turned away with a huff. She was undeniably smart and observant. He looked up at the night sky and noted that the moon was now just a tiny sliver on the pitch black sky. In a couple of days, it was bound to disappear completely. 'No wonder I'm not myself.' He thought, belatedly realizing that Kagome's strange scent seems to have waned. 'But then again, maybe it's just me.'
-----/---@
Sango lay awake on her bed, thinking. Miroku's words... what he said disturbed her. Could Inuyasha really be hiding something so important from them? How did Naraku get to him so quickly? She shook her head against her thoughts.
"I have to clear my mind. I have to SLEEP for the gods' sake!" she whispered irately, wishing that Miroku hadn't told her of those things. But actually, she was rather glad that he shared his thoughts with her.
Miroku was always a reserved man - if you left out the groping part, that is. When she met him all those years ago, he had been rather distant. He barely spoke, claiming that 'the pains of the world would reveal themselves, not through words, but through life itself.'
The only time they ever really had a heart-to-heart was the day they met, and even then, she was the one who did most of the talking.
And lately, she found that they have been talking more and more, since the princess was abducted. She wasn't glad for the abduction, but she was glad that the incident had seemed to somehow gotten them closer.
Sango smiled lightly as she thought of Miroku. He was such a pervert, but Sango knew the truth: she loved the lech. She enjoyed having him around her as much as she enjoyed having him talk to her.
But glad as she was about their newfound conversationary tactics, it still pained her to think that Miroku may not return her feelings. Sure, he groped her all the time, but she was the only girl, aside from Lady Azalea, in the palace. And there was no way on earth that he could grope the princess, even if men HAD been allowed to touch her. She was 'electrifying', that princess.
Sango sighed in frustration. She didn't know what to make of this. She closed her eyes for a second, but they popped back open when she heard a soft rustling at the front of her chamber door. She stiffened, then decided to pretend to be asleep. She lay on her side and closed her eyes. Whoever that was would go away soon enough.
But she was wrong. The one who was outside her room was shifting a lot, as if fidgeting. Then, she heard the soft click of the knob as the door was pushed open.
She was stunned. Somebody just came into her room!
She feigned sleep again, only to feel her mattress tilt under the strain of another weight settling down on it. Sango was about to turn and slap the person when she felt a familiar rosary-covered hand reach up to lightly touch her arm.
'Miroku?' she thought dazedly. She turned around to face him, her eyes still partly closed so he wouldn't notice that she was awake. The darkness of the room hid her face well, and she saw that, it was, indeed, the houshi, who sat on her bed.
He leaned closer and touched her cheek with the lightest of touches before brushing back the bangs that covered her face. He was whispering something, and Sango strained to hear.
"You have always been special to me, Sango. You... I wish I could tell you directly. Well, I could, but not when you're awake. You are so fascinating, did you know that? I come here almost every night, since the day we met, just to watch you sleep," Miroku said softly.
Sango was blushing a thousand shades of red. 'Thank the gods for the dark!' she thought. A part of her told her that she should be angry at the monk for sneaking into her room all the time, but somehow, she couldn't.
"I wish you knew how much I..." Miroku hesitated, then shook his head. "But I know it was never meant to be, so what's the use? I just want you to know..."
What he did next nearly caused Sango to jump off her bed. Miroku slowly leaned down and KISSED her cheek! It took all of Sango's self control to not reveal that she had been awake the whole time.
Miroku then stood and quietly left. When the door closed, Sango shot up from her bed and lightly touched her cheek. She could feel the heat on her face and knew that she was blushing wildly. She stared at the door through which Miroku had just passed, then smiled widely.
'I guess THAT helped clear my mind!' she thought happily as sleep took her.
-----/---@
A/N: Gah! So sappy!
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"That one."
"Baka. That's too small. This one would do better."
"Don't be silly Kagome! It's not small! It would fit at lest ten people! Besides, this one smells horrible."
"No it doesn't."
"You just can't smell as well as I could. This smells like a hundred gallons of shit was placed here!"
"But this one has more moonlight in it because its opening is facing the moon!"
Kagome and Inuyasha stood in the middle of a barren field, arguing over two caves, and which one they would use for the night. Both caves were quite fine actually, but they had to decide on one, and they had their preferences.
"But it stinks!" Inuyasha complained yet again.
"But your cave is dark!" Kagome shot back.
"Stupid wench. If the dark is your sole fucking concern, we could always light a fucking campfire!" the hanyou yelled before he turned with a huff.
"But then it would be hot!"
"It's freezing! Besides, what have you got against the dark? You've avoided dark places ever since we've met!" he accused.
"No I have not."
"Have too."
"Have not! And that's not the point..."
"You're afraid of the dark, aren't you?" Inuyasha teased.
"I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE DARK!"
"OK! But I still don't want to stay in that stinking cave!"
Kagome just sighed. 'Gods, he is sooo stubborn when he decides to be!' she thought as she practically felt steam pour out of her ears.
"Alright. We'll stay in the darker cave. But YOU will cook dinner." Kagome declared, thinking that Inuyasha would agree to sleep in her chosen cave with that condition.
"Sure, no problem."
She thought wrong.
-----/---@
"Kagome, where the hell did you put the ladles and stuff?"
Inuyasha frowned into Kagome's bag. They had just settled into his chosen cave. Kagome had looked extremely surprised when he agreed and he had grinned in spite of himself.
His frown deepened. Her bag was confusing! There were combs, towels, brushes, lots of uncooked food, some 'emergency supplies', a first aid kit and a lot of other crap, but he just couldn't find the stirrer.
Kagome looked over at him from her spot on the floor. She was trying to start a fire, and so far, was nowhere near succeeding.
"It's in there somewhere. Keep looking," she replied distractedly.
"I looked everywhere, Kagome."
"Well, look harder! Try digging down to the bottom of the bag," she instructed, before squealing gleefully when the flint finally reacted to her furious rubbing.
Inuyasha mumbled something about messy bags while tossing her stuff out of her bag one by one. When he finally had everything out and Kagome had a good fire running, he glowered at her.
"THESE were inside your bag," he snarled. "See any ladles?"
"Oh my," Kagome said, then smiled sweetly. The smile was totally unexpected, and Inuyasha was disarmed quite suddenly. "I must have left them in that last cave we went to. Haha! Watashi no baka."
Inuyasha sighed. "Now what?"
"Well... there's a town about 300 meters away. I could go steal some from the nearest house..."
"NO!" he exclaimed. "No stealing. Here," he said, handing her some of the money that he still had with him. "Take this and BUY the ladles. I would hear none of your god damn thieving skills."
"Ano, thanks. You know, I could make away with this money and never come back," Kagome said, mock-seriously.
"You won't."
"Eh?" Kagome stared as the hanyou calmly turned around to put her things back in her bag.
"Firstly," he started. "You wanna get to the princess, and you admitted to not being able to do that on the day we decided to travel together. Secondly, I just know you won't. Now go."
"You know I won't? What made you 'know' that?" Kagome asked teasingly, then blushed a violent shade of red at his unexpected answer.
"I trust you."
Kagome stuttered, before finding her misplaced tongue. "Gods, um, I'd better go now, then!" she said brightly, her face still red, before rushing off to get the stuff.
-----/---@
Inuyasha watched her retreating figure with interest. He shook his head as he saw her trip and nearly fall over a small rock in the road.
'I guess I got the reaction that I wanted,' he thought to himself, before he set himself on chopping the veggies in Kagome's bag.
-----/---@
Kagome cursed lightly as she tripped. 'Damn. I should watch where I'm going! I get more bruises when I don't.'
But she couldn't help but be distracted.
* "I trust you." *
His last words to her echoed painfully in her head. 'He trusts me,' she thought. The thought sent wonderful chills throughout her body, but filled her with dread at the same time.
'He trusts me, but I didn't trust him enough to tell him the truth,' she thought in self-disgust. 'I know I trust him now, but I still can't tell him!'
She shook her head angrily as she felt tears of frustration well up in her eyes. 'I have been lying to him for so long. He thinks he knows me enough to trust me, but the Kagome he knows is half a lie! I... he knows only half the truth about me.'
The tears started falling at that last thought. It was painful. Desperation filled her as she silently debated with herself. If she told him now, he would never trust her again. If she didn't, he may find out sooner or later and... that would just make it worse!
She wiped the tears with the back of her hand as she approached the village. "I won't tell him," she decided without much enthusiasm. He didn't need to know.
'He would leave anyway,' she tried to comfort herself, but that thought brought even more pain to her. She was so confused, but she couldn't tell him.
She would just bear the pain of knowing that he trusted her without knowing that she had lied to him.
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A/N: There's my chap! I hope you liked it!
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Scarlet Raven 1001
Anyway, here it is. Thanks to all who reviewed my previous chapters, by the way. This chap may be a bit shorter than my other chaps, coz I still have to 'study' for an upcoming test. And, I have to go see my choir instructor in two hours. I missed practice for the past four consecutive days and he must be hell furious.
On with the chap!
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha. I'm a starving seventeen year old college sophomore with a run-down Nissan and a house that actually belongs to my parents. Pathetic, ne?
SEVEN WEEKS
Secrets
-----/---@
"And just WHERE do you think YOU are going?"
Kagome shrieked as she turned towards the sound of the voice, dread flooding her being and only one coherent thought stood out in her mind.
'Shit, I've been caught!' she thought frantically as she faced the source of her fright. The raven-haired woman's eyes narrowed in fury at the person she found there.
"Kagura... what are you doing here?!" she demanded, quickly stepping away from the ruby-eyed youkai. Kagura smirked at her, advancing towards her with her fan out before her.
"Teme... I found out that you have been taken by the ookami tribe and I just thought maybe I should get rid of you before Inuyasha rescues you..."
"Bakero. You could never defeat me!" Kagome said in an outrage, grabbing her bow from its place on her back.
Kagura just stared at her with a strange smile as Kagome hurriedly strung an arrow. "Don't worry. I have no intention of killing you just yet, Kagome- chan," Kagura said, making Kagome stare in shock. "Surprised? I know who you truly are by now."
Kagome stared at the female youkai with shock. 'Masaka... she couldn't really...?" she straightened, pretending to be confident. "You lie, Kagura."
"Do you think I am stupid, LADY Kagome? When you and I encountered each other for the first time, your outburst about your ruined city surprised me. Now I know why." Kagura said with a triumphant grin as Kagome's eyes widened in fear.
"You... you can't..."
"It all adds up. The silence, the formless blasts of light... It's YOU, isn't it?" Kagura taunted with a sneer. "Who would have thought that a spineless noble such as yourself would mature so quickly. And you hid your secret well. Maybe I should inform Naraku-sama..."
"IYA!" Kagome shouted in a panic before she could entirely think about it.
Kagura grinned. 'So I AM right!' she thought in triumph. "Or maybe, I could tell Inuyasha! Just imagine how AWFUL he would feel if he found out that you had lied to him!"
"Iya... You got me, Kagura. Demo, onegai... don't tell them. I would do anything..." Kagome implored Kagura, who just smirked in return.
"I won't tell them. Especially not Naraku. He would have my blood for it. But I assure you this: despite all your desperate efforts my beloved friend, Inuyasha WILL die Kagome! Or should I say..."
"KAGURA!!!"
The sudden holler silenced Kagura and caused Kagome's eyes to shoot up in both fear and surprise. A blur of red and silver landed before the two women as the voice died down.
"What the fuck are you doing here?" Inuyasha asked Kagura before he turned to Kagome. "Are you alright, Kagome?"
To his surprise, Kagome was staring at him the way she would have stared at someone who was about to murder her. Utter fear and distress was in her eyes, and that fact was made even clearer by her scent.
"Kagome? Oi! Daijobu?" Inuyasha asked confusedly, wary of Kagura's presence right behind him. Kagome shook her head lightly, and instead of answering, she asked him something he wasn't quite expecting in the softest tone she had ever used.
"How... how long have you been here? Did you..."
"What the fuck are you rambling about, bitch? I just got here to find Kagura harassing you!"
Kagome visibly brightened at that. "Great!" she said, before turning back to Kagura. "Now that I think about it, you don't scare me Kagura. I don't care what you do. And if you as much as try to tell, I would kill you slowly. Got that?"
Kagura grinned, then plucked a feather from her hair, preparing to use it for escape. "Such brave words, Kagome. But like I said, I won't do that. I just came here to inform you, slut." And with that, she took off swiftly.
Inuyasha felt lost. "Oi, what was that about?"
Kagome's scent changed again for a second, then went back to normal before replying. "Nothing. She was threatening to spread horrible lies about me and I warned her not to."
"Good for you. Mind telling me how you got out?"
"Innocent seduction my friend," Inuyasha just gave her a strange look. "Eh, don't ask."
"I won't," the hanyou said matter-of-factly. "Now, let's blow this joint before that idiot ookami realizes that you are..."
"Soldiers! Where the hell is MY Kagome?!"
"...gone." Inuyasha quickly lifted Kagome onto his back and took off into the now darkened night sky when he heard Kouga's enraged voice asking for his 'woman'.
----/---@
A half hour of desperately exhausting downwind running later, Inuyasha finally paused in his frantic steps for a breather.
"Ano... Daijobu, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked anxiously as she looked down at the panting Inuyasha from her place on his back.
"Hai... d-da-daijo-bu... I'm fine..." he answered between heaving breaths as he bent down to let Kagome slide off his shoulders. He turned to her with a watery grin and found her staring curiously at him.
"Na-nani?" Inuyasha asked grumpily.
"Inuyasha, you're exhausted!"
"No, really. Ya think?" he answered sarcastically.
"Shut up, baka, I'm making an observation here!" Kagome laughed. "I mean, you usually don't get tired so easily. We've been traveling for quite some time now and you have NEVER gotten so winded before."
"Well, I've been running around, trying to find you all day, bitch! Of course I'm fucking exhausted!" Inuyasha said defensively.
"That's not... oooh, never mind!" Kagome snapped back.
Inuyasha stared as she turned away with a huff. She was undeniably smart and observant. He looked up at the night sky and noted that the moon was now just a tiny sliver on the pitch black sky. In a couple of days, it was bound to disappear completely. 'No wonder I'm not myself.' He thought, belatedly realizing that Kagome's strange scent seems to have waned. 'But then again, maybe it's just me.'
-----/---@
Sango lay awake on her bed, thinking. Miroku's words... what he said disturbed her. Could Inuyasha really be hiding something so important from them? How did Naraku get to him so quickly? She shook her head against her thoughts.
"I have to clear my mind. I have to SLEEP for the gods' sake!" she whispered irately, wishing that Miroku hadn't told her of those things. But actually, she was rather glad that he shared his thoughts with her.
Miroku was always a reserved man - if you left out the groping part, that is. When she met him all those years ago, he had been rather distant. He barely spoke, claiming that 'the pains of the world would reveal themselves, not through words, but through life itself.'
The only time they ever really had a heart-to-heart was the day they met, and even then, she was the one who did most of the talking.
And lately, she found that they have been talking more and more, since the princess was abducted. She wasn't glad for the abduction, but she was glad that the incident had seemed to somehow gotten them closer.
Sango smiled lightly as she thought of Miroku. He was such a pervert, but Sango knew the truth: she loved the lech. She enjoyed having him around her as much as she enjoyed having him talk to her.
But glad as she was about their newfound conversationary tactics, it still pained her to think that Miroku may not return her feelings. Sure, he groped her all the time, but she was the only girl, aside from Lady Azalea, in the palace. And there was no way on earth that he could grope the princess, even if men HAD been allowed to touch her. She was 'electrifying', that princess.
Sango sighed in frustration. She didn't know what to make of this. She closed her eyes for a second, but they popped back open when she heard a soft rustling at the front of her chamber door. She stiffened, then decided to pretend to be asleep. She lay on her side and closed her eyes. Whoever that was would go away soon enough.
But she was wrong. The one who was outside her room was shifting a lot, as if fidgeting. Then, she heard the soft click of the knob as the door was pushed open.
She was stunned. Somebody just came into her room!
She feigned sleep again, only to feel her mattress tilt under the strain of another weight settling down on it. Sango was about to turn and slap the person when she felt a familiar rosary-covered hand reach up to lightly touch her arm.
'Miroku?' she thought dazedly. She turned around to face him, her eyes still partly closed so he wouldn't notice that she was awake. The darkness of the room hid her face well, and she saw that, it was, indeed, the houshi, who sat on her bed.
He leaned closer and touched her cheek with the lightest of touches before brushing back the bangs that covered her face. He was whispering something, and Sango strained to hear.
"You have always been special to me, Sango. You... I wish I could tell you directly. Well, I could, but not when you're awake. You are so fascinating, did you know that? I come here almost every night, since the day we met, just to watch you sleep," Miroku said softly.
Sango was blushing a thousand shades of red. 'Thank the gods for the dark!' she thought. A part of her told her that she should be angry at the monk for sneaking into her room all the time, but somehow, she couldn't.
"I wish you knew how much I..." Miroku hesitated, then shook his head. "But I know it was never meant to be, so what's the use? I just want you to know..."
What he did next nearly caused Sango to jump off her bed. Miroku slowly leaned down and KISSED her cheek! It took all of Sango's self control to not reveal that she had been awake the whole time.
Miroku then stood and quietly left. When the door closed, Sango shot up from her bed and lightly touched her cheek. She could feel the heat on her face and knew that she was blushing wildly. She stared at the door through which Miroku had just passed, then smiled widely.
'I guess THAT helped clear my mind!' she thought happily as sleep took her.
-----/---@
A/N: Gah! So sappy!
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"That one."
"Baka. That's too small. This one would do better."
"Don't be silly Kagome! It's not small! It would fit at lest ten people! Besides, this one smells horrible."
"No it doesn't."
"You just can't smell as well as I could. This smells like a hundred gallons of shit was placed here!"
"But this one has more moonlight in it because its opening is facing the moon!"
Kagome and Inuyasha stood in the middle of a barren field, arguing over two caves, and which one they would use for the night. Both caves were quite fine actually, but they had to decide on one, and they had their preferences.
"But it stinks!" Inuyasha complained yet again.
"But your cave is dark!" Kagome shot back.
"Stupid wench. If the dark is your sole fucking concern, we could always light a fucking campfire!" the hanyou yelled before he turned with a huff.
"But then it would be hot!"
"It's freezing! Besides, what have you got against the dark? You've avoided dark places ever since we've met!" he accused.
"No I have not."
"Have too."
"Have not! And that's not the point..."
"You're afraid of the dark, aren't you?" Inuyasha teased.
"I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE DARK!"
"OK! But I still don't want to stay in that stinking cave!"
Kagome just sighed. 'Gods, he is sooo stubborn when he decides to be!' she thought as she practically felt steam pour out of her ears.
"Alright. We'll stay in the darker cave. But YOU will cook dinner." Kagome declared, thinking that Inuyasha would agree to sleep in her chosen cave with that condition.
"Sure, no problem."
She thought wrong.
-----/---@
"Kagome, where the hell did you put the ladles and stuff?"
Inuyasha frowned into Kagome's bag. They had just settled into his chosen cave. Kagome had looked extremely surprised when he agreed and he had grinned in spite of himself.
His frown deepened. Her bag was confusing! There were combs, towels, brushes, lots of uncooked food, some 'emergency supplies', a first aid kit and a lot of other crap, but he just couldn't find the stirrer.
Kagome looked over at him from her spot on the floor. She was trying to start a fire, and so far, was nowhere near succeeding.
"It's in there somewhere. Keep looking," she replied distractedly.
"I looked everywhere, Kagome."
"Well, look harder! Try digging down to the bottom of the bag," she instructed, before squealing gleefully when the flint finally reacted to her furious rubbing.
Inuyasha mumbled something about messy bags while tossing her stuff out of her bag one by one. When he finally had everything out and Kagome had a good fire running, he glowered at her.
"THESE were inside your bag," he snarled. "See any ladles?"
"Oh my," Kagome said, then smiled sweetly. The smile was totally unexpected, and Inuyasha was disarmed quite suddenly. "I must have left them in that last cave we went to. Haha! Watashi no baka."
Inuyasha sighed. "Now what?"
"Well... there's a town about 300 meters away. I could go steal some from the nearest house..."
"NO!" he exclaimed. "No stealing. Here," he said, handing her some of the money that he still had with him. "Take this and BUY the ladles. I would hear none of your god damn thieving skills."
"Ano, thanks. You know, I could make away with this money and never come back," Kagome said, mock-seriously.
"You won't."
"Eh?" Kagome stared as the hanyou calmly turned around to put her things back in her bag.
"Firstly," he started. "You wanna get to the princess, and you admitted to not being able to do that on the day we decided to travel together. Secondly, I just know you won't. Now go."
"You know I won't? What made you 'know' that?" Kagome asked teasingly, then blushed a violent shade of red at his unexpected answer.
"I trust you."
Kagome stuttered, before finding her misplaced tongue. "Gods, um, I'd better go now, then!" she said brightly, her face still red, before rushing off to get the stuff.
-----/---@
Inuyasha watched her retreating figure with interest. He shook his head as he saw her trip and nearly fall over a small rock in the road.
'I guess I got the reaction that I wanted,' he thought to himself, before he set himself on chopping the veggies in Kagome's bag.
-----/---@
Kagome cursed lightly as she tripped. 'Damn. I should watch where I'm going! I get more bruises when I don't.'
But she couldn't help but be distracted.
* "I trust you." *
His last words to her echoed painfully in her head. 'He trusts me,' she thought. The thought sent wonderful chills throughout her body, but filled her with dread at the same time.
'He trusts me, but I didn't trust him enough to tell him the truth,' she thought in self-disgust. 'I know I trust him now, but I still can't tell him!'
She shook her head angrily as she felt tears of frustration well up in her eyes. 'I have been lying to him for so long. He thinks he knows me enough to trust me, but the Kagome he knows is half a lie! I... he knows only half the truth about me.'
The tears started falling at that last thought. It was painful. Desperation filled her as she silently debated with herself. If she told him now, he would never trust her again. If she didn't, he may find out sooner or later and... that would just make it worse!
She wiped the tears with the back of her hand as she approached the village. "I won't tell him," she decided without much enthusiasm. He didn't need to know.
'He would leave anyway,' she tried to comfort herself, but that thought brought even more pain to her. She was so confused, but she couldn't tell him.
She would just bear the pain of knowing that he trusted her without knowing that she had lied to him.
-----/---@
A/N: There's my chap! I hope you liked it!
Review Responses:
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