Title: Safe in the Enemys Arms
Author: Queen Serenity
Fandom: Inuyasha
Chapter: Eight Distrust
About ten minutes later, Kagome was sitting there, on the ground, thinking to herself, and feeling more betrayed than ever she had.
She was still trying to figure out who had saved her. Who could it have been? That she knew of, the closest people to her had been Inuyasha and Kikyo, so. Who?
As Kagome sat there thinking, Inuyasha was meanwhile swiping dirt off of his face. Every time he had tried to talk to Kagome, she had sat him. Obviously, she wanted nothing to do with him at the moment. She wouldnt even look at him.
All of a sudden Kagome stood, still not looking at him. She went over to her things and pulled out her bow and arrows, then picked up the bag containing her clothes and stuff, too. She started to walk out of the clearing.
Inuyasha knew that he was probably going to get a face full of dirt again, but decided to risk it. Where do you think youre going?
Kagome stopped walking, and he could see that she had stiffened a bit. When she replied, her voice wasnt angry, though. Just sort of flat. Dead. Obviously, I need to get myself clean. Obviously, Im going to the lake.
And youre taking your bow because?
She started walking again. Obviously, it isnt safe around here So obviously, I need to take a mean to protect myself.
What about me?
Thats not your concern anymore.
As Kagome walked out of sight, Inuyasha briefly considered following her, but decided against it. He felt a little guilty about having left Kagome alone he agreed, she could have died. But still, what had happened? Had she saved herself?
Right now, there was no reason to follow Kagome and risk incurring her wrath again. The lake was with earshot of him, so if anything happened to her then he obviously would hear it. For now, Inuyasha would just sit and rest the sun was rising, and soon it would be time for them to get moving again.
Kagome, looking around to be sure that the coast was clear, ducked behind some bushes and prepared to change into her swimsuit.
As she eased out of her shirt, wincing in pain, Kagome saw bruises all across her upper torso, including her arms especially in the rib area; she wouldnt be surprised if she had a cracked rib or two, at least. Trying not to aggravate her injuries further, she finished getting her swimsuit on.
Setting her stuff on the shore within easy reach, Kagome waded into the lake and started cleaning herself.
One thing was for sure when she had told Inuyasha that guarding her wasnt his concern anymore, Kagome had not been exaggerating she could not trust him to protect her anymore. Just a little while ago, she could have died, simply because he had wanted to go and see Kikyo and it had been just after he had promised to protect her, even! The nerve!
Never again would she trust him to watch over her never again would she feel safe, just by being with him. It seemed that that would be her job from now on shed simply have to take care of herself.
Well done, young Kagome you do not need him. All you need is yourself.
Kagome whipped around, looking around frantically as the whisper sounded out all-too-close to her, it seemed.
QS: How was this for a chapter? Im about to go to the library, but I wanted to put up a new chapter of this today, and wrote it within about fifteen minutes. I hope you guys like it. Does everyone seem in-character? I hope so. If I was Kagome, I wouldnt trust Inuyasha to guard me anymore, either.