Kagome froze as she looked upon the face, fear coursing through her blood and anger pounding in her beating heart. She snarled as she jumped down and looked at the man before her, narrowing her eyes.
"Ahh, Faze Scandal, what a nice surprise."
"What do you want Naraku!" Keiji said jumping down also, looking at Naraku with hateful eyes.
"Black Murderer, why do you talk to me so coldly when I took you both in when you where running from those filthy Hargole creatures? Have you forgotten?" Naraku said, pretending to be offended by Keiji's words.
Kagome growled at Naraku. "Stop the sarcasm and tell us why you are here!"
Naraku sighed as he walked up too Kagome and cupped her chin with his hands. Kagome took her face away in disgust as Naraku smirked. "I'm here because I have finally found out why the miko Kagome seems so familiar to me." Kagome's eyes widened in fear as she looked at Naraku; hatred seething through her veins. "It also seems that the miko is now standing before me, seeing as her former name was Faze Scandal." Kagome snarled at him. "It seems I've touched a nerve."
"Leave!" Keiji yelled running up to Naraku and kicking him in the head sending Naraku flying. Before he could hit the tree Keiji appeared and pummelled him to the ground. "Ha! Your just one of his demon puppets, Naraku you coward. Can't even face your former assassins," and with that Keiji chopped his head off and smashed what was left of the demon puppet.
Kagome just stood there, he figured it out, and he knew what she looked like in human form. "He found out…" her voice trailed off not knowing what she would do. She couldn't just leave Inu-yasha and the others, they needed her. "What am I going to do?" Kagome asked as she hid her face in her hands.
"I don't know…" Keiji said looking at his sister with his burgundy eyes. His sister had always been like this, ever since she came back to the Feudal Era when she had sworn to him not to come back. Yet fate always had away with twisting things like that but he was glad that she would was here.
"I can't leave the group, they need me to detect the Shikon No Tama shards but if Naraku tells them who I really am…" She couldn't finish her sentence as tears slid down her eyes and sobs came forth in waves. Keiji took his sister in his arms and let her cry in his chest.
"There's nothing you can do. If they find out then they find out but if they do you come to me. Alright?" Kagome nodded it was the only thing she could do. If they found out then she would stay with her brother, no questions asked.
Kagome then moved out of Keiji's arms, turned into her human form and said. "Expect me soon… and don't get yourself into anymore trouble. It's already hard enough to keep the dog demon hanyou in line."
Keiji laughed, "I'll try…"
Kagome smiled as she waved and made her way back to the campgrounds where a very concerned, annoyed hanyou was. Kagome smiled at him as he ran up to her. "Kagome! Damn wench had me worried!"
"I told you not to worry about me." Kagome smiled. "I can take care of myself you know."
"No you can't!" Inu-yasha said his nose in the air.
"Inu-yasha?"
"Yes?"
"SIT!" Kagome yelled and Inu-yasha went crashing to the ground.
"Why does she always do this to me?" Inu-yasha asked as pain took over his body. Kagome smiled and walked back into her sleeping bag where Shippo had just woken up.
"Kagome?" The little kitsune asked looking tiredly up at her.
"Shh back to sleep, the sun has yet to rise." Kagome said putting the little fox too sleep. Kagome smiled down at Shippo as she watched him sleep peacefully. The kind of sleep she had been longing for, for quite a while.
Inu-yasha got up and watched Kagome putting the little kit to sleep. He smiled as he walked up too her. "You sure you're ok?"
"I just envy him that's all." Inu-yasha was confused but didn't say a thing as Kagome continued. "I haven't been able to sleep peacefully and think that nothing in this world could harm you." Kagome smiled as she just looked down at the kitsune not really aware of Inu-yasha listening to her.
Inu-yasha looked concerned as he brought her into his arms. Kagome stiffened a bit but then relaxed. If her secret got out and she wasn't able to do this then at least she was able to spend this moment right now with the hanyou she loved. "Kagome… I don't know what's wrong but when you're ready I want you to tell me."
'If Only it was that simple.' Kagome thought looking at Inu-yasha.
"I will not push you so that you run away from me but you can trust me." Inu-yasha said parting with Kagome only a bit so they could stare into each other's eyes.
"I know I can trust you but there is nothing to tell." Kagome smiled as she leaned against him, her head resting on his chest. 'Please god let this moment last if only a bit longer.' Kagome pleaded in her head as she closed her eyes.
Kagome opened her eyes too find her self up in a tree with Inu-yasha holding her to him. A blush came upon her face, it had been the first time in weeks since she had been able to sleep so peacefully.
"So our sleeping beauty is awake I see." Miroku said looking up at Kagome with a lecherous grin on his face. Kagome got angry and got a sleeping Inu-yasha to let go of her so she could jump down. Soon she had forgotten that she had to pretend that she was human and slid off the branch. "KAGOME!"
Kagome looked at Miroku as she landed gracefully on her feet and then looked up at how high the branch was. It was about twelve feet and she then hit her head. When she looked up she saw Inu-yasha had awoken and had his hand to his heart. It seemed he was panting in relief with his eyes closed.
Kagome tried too look confused as she looked from Sango to Miroku, then to a woken Shippo and Inu-yasha. "What?"
Miroku shook his head and said "false alarm I guess but how could you jump from that branch the ground and not be hurt?"
"Well my feet hurt a bit, think I bruised the heel of my right foot but other than that I'm fine." Kagome smiled as she continued but then remembered something. "Oh and Miroku?"
"Yes?"
Kagome walked over to Miroku and slapped him across the face. "You know you deserved that right?" Sango said in an annoyed tone.
"You both are too cruel to me!" Miroku said as a big red hand print started to appear on his cheek.
"No you just have a lecherous mind, what did you do this time monk?" Inu-yasha said jumping down to join the rest of the group.
"All I did was suggest something!" Miroku whined trying to get some sympathy from Inu-yasha. Unfortunately for him this wasn't working out as he hoped, instead of getting sympathy he got a punch in the face. "Inu-yasha!"
Kagome shook her head, this was what the group was normally like, even though it was funny at times but others it was just plain stupidity. "Can you guys give it a rest for today?" Kagome asked looking from Inu-yasha to Miroku.
"You two never learn, especially Inu-yasha." A young voice came for the first time this morning.
"Why you! I dare you to say that again!" Inu-yasha snarled hitting the poor little kitsune.
"Inu-yasha SIT!" Kagome yelled. "Anyways I'm going home today, there are a couple of tests I have to take."
"Oh no you don't!" Inu-yasha yelled but he couldn't move to stop her.
"Sango may I borrow Kirara?"
"Sure…"
"Thank you so much!" Kagome said as she mounted Kirara and rode off into the distance. Once she was sure they where out of eye sight she told Kirara exactly where she really was going. "Kirara, I'm actually not going back to the well I have a couple of things to do and I need you to not tell anyone about this." Kirara nodded her understanding as she saw Kagome's appearance change.
Kagome looked at Kirara with black eyes as Burgundy hair framed her face. She had two stripes, one on each cheek and a star on her forehead. Claws grew where her fingernails use to be and they changed too black and burgundy. A tail grew from behind that was black with a burgundy tip. Kagome smiled and two glinting fangs showed.
"Thanks for understanding Kirara." With that said Kagome jumped down to see her twin brother Keiji lying on the ground in a bloody mess.
