Hello Everybody! Here is the new chapter to Melting the Ice! I hope you like it! Thanks Sabi for all of your help! Without it, this story would be nothing.
Melting The Ice
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Accusations
The boy saw her, and his eyes narrowed. "You! What the hell are you doing here?" Kags glared at the boy.
"I should ask you the same question!" Miroku looked on in astonishment as the girl and the guy glared death threats at each other.
"Um, how do you two know each other?" Kags turned her head slowly towards Miroku.
"YOU DID NOT TELL ME THAT HE WAS GOING TO BE HERE!" Miroku flinched. Kagome was scary when she got mad.
InuYasha smirked. "How was he supposed to know that you knew me? I mean good heavens little rich girl, grab a brain." Kagome turned back towards Miroku, fires burning in her eyes.
"YOU ARE A FREAKIN JERK! I HATE YOU! I ALWAYS HAVE! SINCE...WELL EVER!" Kags screamed at him, his small ears twitching furiously.
"DON'T YELL LITTLE RICH GIRL!"
"I WON'T YELL IF YOU'D JUST GO TO HELL!" InuYasha smirked.
"Poor Little Rich Girl. For all of the manners your Grandmother taught you, and I'm sure your parents tried to teach you, you still curse. Why is that?"
Kags looked up at him, her smokey blue eyes once again filled with tears. "My grandmother died. And my parents treated me like a slave. OF WHICH YOU'D KNOW IF YOU HAD ACTUALLY STAYED!"
Miroku shook his head. "What do you mean if he had actually stayed?"
"Nothing. I mean absolutely nothing! But Miroku, I am leaving. Good-bye." Kags stomped away, her feet hitting the cold stone street with a thud. Miroku and the boy just watched her for a moment before Miroku sighed and turned to InuYasha.
"Go apologize. Now." InuYasha glared at the boy.
"Why should I apologize!? She told me to go to hell, and she was the one who was yelling!"
"BECAUSE YOU ARE GOING TO BE A GENTLEMAN! And," Miroku said lowering his voice, "The other group wants her. They need her for something but they won't say."
The Boy raised his eyebrow. "And you know this how?"
"Sango told me. She's on a, "Miroku took a step closer to the boy. "Mission. For the boss. She found this out and told me. We have to keep her InuYasha! The other group would just exploit her!"
The boy looked up at Miroku. "Are you serious! They would kill her!"
"Yes I'm Serious!" InuYasha sighed. A long, long time ago, two impoverished people, wanting revenge on the richer people in the city had started two thieving groups. People to pick pocket, steal, riot, and rebel, etc. These two people had been friends, and over the years they had merged the two groups, but after one particular riot, the two leaders fought. They couldn't agree on anything, and so they became enemies. They had split the one group back into the two separate ones. And ever since than, the two groups had been trying to dominate each other. Except recently, the other group, had wanted to dominate the city, and had been looking for certain people that could make this happen. It seemed now, that Kags was one of them. And if the other group got a hold of her... the results would be devastating.
"But that is impossible! Kags has always been a little rich girl!" Miroku sighed and rubbed his temples. He was eight but acted like eighteen.
"You don't understand InuYasha! She is not the poor little rich girl! We've been watching her since she was old enough to be observed in daily routines! Her parents have made her clean, they've beaten her, and they've sent her without food for days! Her parents may be rich, but she certainly is not! Which is why she didn't even tell us her real name!"
"Well, that may be true, but why didn't you know what she was talking about when she said 'if I had stayed'!?"
Miroku sighed. "We only watched her certain hours and days. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Sundays. We lost track of her for a year, but it was lucky we found her! If we hadn't gotten her when we had.... The others would have captured her, and turned her completely against us! She is the key to our groups defeat!" InuYasha stepped back in shock.
"Her! The Predicted One! She can't be!"
Miroku shook her head. "We don't know if she is for sure...but it is very possible. So please go apologize to her!"
InuYasha glared at Miroku. "Fine. But I will not promise to do anything else." Miroku rubbed his temples, and threw his hands down, exasperated.
"I doubt that InuYasha. Kags is very beautiful, and is very kind, but angry." Miroku told InuYasha as he glanced doubtfully at Miroku before he set off. "Becareful you don't try and melt her InuYasha, you'll hurt her even more..." Miroku whispered as he watched InuYasha walk away...
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Kags sat a bench outside of a store crying. Her life had taken so many bad turns... And now InuYasha was back. She remembered the day she had first met him. She had been four and he had been six. He had been trying to steal her meagre amount of money.
-FlashBack-
Kags looked around the neighbourhood, trying to find where she was. She had finally saved enough money to come to market for the day. "What should I buy!?" Kags asked anxiously to herself.
Kags felt something brush against her pocket, and remembered what her grandmother had said about pickpockets. She looked around an out of the corner of her eye, saw a boy quickly walk off. "Hey You! Wait! Please!" Kags screamed as she ran to try and catch up with him. "Please wait!" Kags rounded a corner and saw it was a dead end. She checked her purse to see if she still had her money and found it wasn't there. She felt a tear slide down her face. She had worked so hard to save that money, and had worked extra hard on her chores so that she could leave after her parents left for their party.
"You're not from around here are you?" A gruff voice asked from behind her.
Kags head turned quicker than she could blink. "You're right I'm not."
"I know." Kagome sighed.
"Who are you? And why did you take my money! I had to save up for along time to get that much money you know."
"Did you now?"
"Yes."
"Well here have it back than." The voice said, as something landed in her lap.
"Thank you." Kags turned around, and found that she was face to face with a boy with his hair tied up behind a bandanna.
"Meh. Its no problem."
"It is a problem. My grandmother told me to watch out for people like you and I wasn't."
"Your grandmother seems like a wise person."
Kags nodded. "She is."
- End of Flashback-
He had met her grandmother, and had stayed with them for a year. But having found somewhere else to go, he had left. Gone forever...until now...
-FlashBack-
Kags walked up to her grandmother's at dawn. She had wanted to ask InuYasha about something. On her arrival she found her grandmother sitting at her table.
"Kags, InuYasha left. He did leave this note for you though...." Kags snatched the note from her grandmother's hands and read it frantically.
Dear Kags,
I'm sorry. You know I am. But, there were new choices in life, new places to go, new people to see... I hope you can forgive me Kags, but I've never been the one to stay in one place for long..."NO!"
"I'm sorry Kags..."
-End of FlashBack-
Kags sat on the bench and didn't even notice a figure approach her.
"Hello Kags." Kags looked up, not expecting to see whom she saw.
"Hello." She said stiffly.
"Kags I just wanted to say sorry... for everything. I knew you weren't expecting me and, yeah." The boy said as he looked into Kags' smokey blue eyes.
"Whatever Miroku told you to say that."
"So what if he did?!" InuYasha demanded angrily.
"So, maybe you should do something on your own for once, instead of mooching it off of somebody."
"Kags that was uncalled for!"
"Nothing is uncalled for InuYasha."
"But..."
"Don't worry I won't leave. I promised Miroku I'd stay at least one night." InuYasha, for the first time in his life, looked at a loss for words.
"I don't care."
"Good. I don't want you to."
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A figure watched the two people from the shadow. "Hmm... This might prove harder than thought...."
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