Don't own InuYasha, and it's not like I'll actually own him when all I want is Sesshomaru.

Through the Well

By Miztikal-Dragon

Chapter Thirty-five: To eavesdrop part one!

Everyone woke up seemingly in a good mood, Miroku was feeling a lot better and had gotten a little "love slap" from Sango when he groped her after breakfast. Inuyasha and Kagome were on speaking terms again, though it was a bit awkward to strike up a conversation, unless they were having one of their harmless arguments. Kaede and Kirara left yet once again to do the daily chores and check ups on the ill villagers.

A little while after lunch, both Kagome and Sango gathered their bathing materials including two towels, hair brushes, change of clothing and all of the other necessities. Slowly the two girls walked to the river, silence was a virtue and they both watched the scenery as it passed.

The sun shown brightly in the clear blue sky. It was a nice summer day. Sango glanced over at her friend, even if it was a nice day outside, Kagome's silence was one of sadness and guilt. They stopped under a tree and set there things down into a shady place.

Slowly they both undressed and still they didn't utter a word to the other. Silence seemed to have captured their voices and held it as hostages. Quickly covering their nude figures with the icy cold water of the river they began to clean themselves.

"Kagome?" Sango asked untying the ribbon from her hair. "Can I ask you a question?"

"What's on your mind Sango?" Kagome asked sitting on an underwater rock, watching her friend.

"I'm worried about you Kagome," The demon slayer replied, "Your emotions are all over the place...I mean when we spared and you tried killing me, I have to admit I was scared."

"Why?" Kagome asked worriedly.

"Because deep down I knew that you, one of my closest friends would never just attack me without a good reason...Kagome, what happened the night you walked off? What did you see that I couldn't? Please, just ease my mind and tell me..."

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Miroku and Inuyasha watched as the girls gathered their things and left. It seemed eerily silent and the air was thick with silence. Inuyasha's ears twitched for a few minutes, and then he looked up at the monk.

"So?" Miroku asked.

"...So what?" Inuyasha grunted crossing his arms over his chest.

"Did the girls say anything?" The monk questioned nudging the hanyou.

Inuyasha growled and hit the lecherous monk over the head with a broom that magically papered from out of nowhere. "If they did, it obviously wasn't about you...sheesh, if you wanted to know so badly why don't you just follow them?" Inuyasha snorted dripping with sarcasm.

An evil grin spread across Miroku's face as his eyes glassed over, and Inuyasha could have sworn that he saw twinkling stars in the monk's eyes. Miroku nodded and climbed onto his feet, brushed off his robes and grabbed his staff.

"Where do you think you're going monk?" The hanyou asked.

"Why Inuyasha, I'm going to do exactly what you said." Miroku replied, "I'm going to follow them and find out what they were talking about."

"I didn't mean it literally, you dumb monk!" Inuyasha snarled, "I was being sarcastic just for your information!"

"Of course you were Inuyasha, but none the less." Miroku smiled, "I can't just pass up the opportunity to see two young beautiful females..."

Angrily Inuyasha jumped to his feet and waved his clenched fist into Miroku's face.

"Don't you dare think about looking at Kagome you lech!"

"I wouldn't dream of it Inuyasha," The monk chuckled walking out of hut and going quickly towards the river.

"Get back here!" Inuyasha yelled going after the monk and hitting him.

"I wouldn't keep hitting me like that if I were you." Miroku said rubbing the back of his head.

"And why not?" The hanyou asked walking next to Miroku.

"Because, Lady Sango wouldn't like it too much if you were to give me a concussion and I drop dead." Miroku replied matter of fact.

"Oh, I'm so scared." Inuyasha mused, "Like she could hurt me!"

Miroku laughed nudging the hanyou's side, "Yeah, you say that now, but what about when you first met my dearest Sango?... You were singing a different tune when she tried to cut you in half with that boomerang of hers..."

"Feh," The Inu-hanyou replied, "Yeah right, you just keep telling yourself that monk and I'll give you another hole in that head of yours."

Inuyasha jumped into a near by tree and sat on a sturdy branch. He had to admit that Sango was a very powerful demon exterminator and that if she ever wanted to slay him it would be a very close fight, but Inuaysha would die none the less because he wouldn't want to hurt Sango too badly and the main fact was that she had more tricks up her sleeves than him.

He frowned when he thought about the night before, how it all of a sudden started raining and then hailing, but when he asked Kaede about the weather she had had no clue on what he was talking about. The elderly priestess had told the hanyou that there was no rain what so ever.

'I know I felt the rain.' He told himself, 'I remember the smell of the rain, the hail as it hit my body, didn't I? Could Kaede be right? I don't remember ever being wet, then how?--I could have sworn that it had been raining.'

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Miroku watched as Inuyasha through one of his childish tantrums and jumped into a tree. He kept on going though, the monk smiled widely as he continued towards the river. His mind ran wild on all the many possibilities.

'Too bad that Inuyasha didn't want to come along with me.' He thought as his staff jingled, 'I'm positive that this will be such a wondrous sight. My dearest Sango, my love why must you tempt me so?'

He could hear the shuffling as the girls undressed. The monk laid his staff on the ground and silently crept into the bushes so he could see and hear both Sango and Kagome's conversation.

"Because deep down I knew that you, one of my closest friends wouldn't just attack me with out a good reason...Kagome, what happened the night you walked off? What did you see that I couldn't? Please, just ease my mind and tell me.."

He watched as Kagome shifted uneasily as she scrubbed her arms. She wasn't looking at Sango, Kagome's eyes were on the water in front of herself.

"I don't really know Sango," She replied, "But at first, I saw something shinny, you know and I ignored it until I heard someone calling my name.."

"Really?" Sango asked worriedly.

"Yeah," Kagome said dunking her head under the water then glancing up at Sango. "Then I saw a figure, it looked like Shippo, and I mean I had been so worried about him so I went to him, but I could have sworn that the wind was calling my name."

'The wind?' Miroku asked himself.

"It was so real. I mean, I could only hear the wind, not the crickets, or the blades of grass whistling, and I couldn't stop walking. It was as if my legs were carrying me deeper and deeper into the forest."

"I know how it feels." Sango murmured sadly dipping her hair into the water, "But please, keep going."

Kagome nodded and resumed her story, "That's when I saw a little girl, She held a mirror and She was ever so pale with her long silver hair and small black eyes. It sent chills up my spine." She paused before continuing, "When the wind became stronger, I looked behind me, I was trying to see you, but all I saw was an enormous dome type thingy.."

'Intriguing' Miroku and Sango thought in unison.

"His black eyes boarded into mine as I caught sight of him, his black dead eyes, stopped my beating heart as he stared at me hungrily, evilly, lustfully. I could see it on his face, in his eyes, oh Sango I didn't know what to do.."

"Who Kagome?" Sango asked confused.

"I don't know, but when he touched my wound on my cheek, I tried to move away. Honestly Sango, I did," Kagome wiped the tears from her face, "And I can still remember what he told me, I couldn't move. His touch rendered me helpless, it was as if he was sucking the energy from my body."

"What did he say to you Kagome? Please tell me!" Sango pleaded sitting across from her friend.

Kagome sighed heavily, "He said, 'I am the darkness in the light. I am the monster in everyone's nightmares, the undead that walks the earth at night. I am every tainted beauty, every hated demon, everything that is evil and cunning' I...He..."

"Naraku..." Sango growled and Miroku mouthed silently.

She didn't hear Sango's words and continued, "He said that he wanted to help me Sango, but I didn't want anything from him. He made me feel like purging, but when he rubbed my cheek and every wound that had been inflicted, along with all my pain disappeared, I became scared for my life. Sango, He gripped my shoulders and I tried to get away, I tried to fight to free myself...but...but.."

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