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Chapter 11: Confusing Thoughts and Clever Tricks
The next day both Kagome and Inu Yasha were extremely pensive. Both were completely confused. Did they hate each other? Were they friends? And maybe…maybe there was something there that wasn't there before, something magical. Kagome had lain on her bed and stared at the ceiling for what seemed like hours trying to sort out her feelings. Do I love him? She asked herself was Ayame right? Kagome blushed darkly and rolled over of course not what am I thinking! This whole ordeal has me so confused I'm not thinking straight.
Rin and Ayame stood not too far from the door to Kagome's room watching her. "She's been awfully quiet since this morning hasn't she?" Ayame said to Rin quietly.
"I wonder what's wrong with her" Rin said worriedly "she's never been this subdued before."
Ayame could only shrug as the two girls decided to head downstairs.
And what about these new premonitions? Kagome thought what do they mean? That voice, that cruel voice. It just keeps laughing at me, like it's mocking me. Kagome had had many repetitions of the two new premonitions lately and it couldn't have irritated her more. She didn't like how they never showed too much information. She still didn't know who the voice was or why she was running towards Inu Yasha. What confused her the most was the fact that in her dream, Inu Yasha kept moving away from her as though afraid of her or trying to distance himself from her. Why was that happening? And why was the voice saying that he didn't remember her? Could something like that actually happen?
Kagome longed to see Inu Yasha. Even as she lay here she couldn't help but wonder what he was thinking about. It seemed strange to her. She couldn't seem to get him off her mind lately. The premonitions were keeping his image fresh in her mind that was for sure. They definitely didn't want her to stray too far away from him. This thought scared her even if only slightly. If the event from her dreams were to occur, how would the premonitions react to Inu Yasha moving away from her? Would their power grab hold of her strength once again? If that happened there would be no way to save Inu Yasha, assuming he would be in danger.
Meanwhile, little did Kagome know, Inu Yasha was thinking about her as well. What did she mean? He wondered. He had not stopped thinking about the night before and how Kagome had made him promise not to forget her. But why would he forget? What could possibly make him lose his memory of her? He thought long and hard on this and suddenly it came to him, the transformations! Of course, why hadn't he thought of it before. Only the premonitions could make him lose consciousness enough to forget who he was or what was important to him. But solving this question only led to asking another. How could Kagome have known about his transformations? It wasn't as though he had told anyone at the Higurashi residence, including her. And both Sango and Miroku said they had kept that part of the curse secret from Kagome when they had told her. So what was she so worried about if not the transformations?
"Has Kagome woken up yet?" asked Mr. Higurashi as Ayame and Rin walked into his workshop in the basement.
"Yeah, she's been up for a while" Rin said slowly with a nod.
"Then why hasn't she come down yet?" Mr. Higurashi in confusion "she usually comes down to say good morning to everyone as soon as she wakes up."
"We don't know" Ayame explained truthfully "She's been lost in thought since this morning."
"Inu Yasha too" Rin added quickly "I checked his room before we came down."
"Awfully strange" said Kagome's father "she's never been the type to be absorbed in thought before."
"I wonder what they're thinking about." Rin wondered aloud.
Kagome sat up and stretched. If she wanted to see Inu Yasha so much why didn't she? What was stopping her? She decided to peek in his room to see if he was there. Sure enough, he lay on his back with the same look of deep thought that had inhabited her own face earlier. "Inu Yasha?" she asked, slowly walking in.
Inu Yasha stared straight ahead at the ceiling and remained silent. Kagome wondered if there was something wrong with him. He wasn't usually this quiet. A lot of things about Inu Yasha had changed since Kagome had first met him. He seemed more patient now, more easy going and it seemed harder not to smile broadly at him every time she saw him. She crept closer and saw that his eyes were closed. Thinking maybe he was asleep, she sat down beside him. Her eyes darted around the room as she contemplated what to do. Should she wake him up? Should she leave him to wake up on his own?
Kagome chose to do neither and resolved to just sit there beside him. She lay back and breathed deeply. Turning to face Inu Yasha, she gently ran her fingers through his silver hair. Suddenly, she saw his white dog ear. She bit a nail uneasily, as though trying hard not to do something. Unable to resist the urge any longer, she reached out a dainty hand to touch his ear.
"Maybe we should go up and see her" Kagome's father suggested.
"Not a good idea" Rin said, shaking her head violently "she won't like us just barging in."
"It's that Inu Yasha's fault!" Kagome's father exclaimed "ever since she came back she's changed so much!"
"You don't mean that" Ayame said with a smile.
Mr. Higurashi sighed "no, you're right" he said "I don't. I just keep thinking that my daughter's going to get her heart broken."
"You should have some faith in Inu Yasha sir" Rin said "though it's hard for even me to admit, I think we may have misjudged him."
"What do you mean?" Kagome's father inquired.
"Well, we used to think he was short tempered and violent right?" Rin said as both Mr. Higurashi and Ayame nodded "but haven't you noticed that we were wrong? I mean, he's done some pretty redeemable things hasn't he?"
"I think I know what she's trying to say" Ayame said, looking at the still utterly confused expression on Mr. Higurashi's face "she means when he saved her from Koga. He seemed to really care about her."
"She didn't know it but Ayame and I were listening at Kagome's door when she woke up after he saved her" Rin said "they seem to really care for each other."
"So we really don't think he would try to harm her or anything" Ayame said nodding.
"I suppose" Mr. Higurashi said with a sigh "But it still worries me."
Suddenly, they were interrupted by a knock at the door.
Kagome gently brushed her fingertips against Inu Yasha's ears. They felt soft and the silver fur felt very much like crushed velvet. Kagome felt her cheeks burning with a blush as she slowly rubbed her thumb in a circular motion against his ear. Suddenly, Kagome heard Inu Yasha do something he never had before. He purred. (a/n: yeah uh…I don't know for sure if dogs purr but just go along with it) Kagome smiled as she lay her head on his shoulder. No! her mind told her you can't fall in love with him! But Kagome simply smiled and closed her eyes maybe it's too late.
Suddenly, Kagome felt Inu Yasha put his arm around her. She looked up and saw that he was awake. "oh Inu Yasha" she said, pulling away immediately and blushing scarlet red "How long have you been up?"
"I was never asleep" he replied with a laugh, though Kagome could see that he was blushing just as darkly as she was.
Kagome laughed nervously "oh…" she said, embarrassed.
The two stayed quiet for awhile, just looking at each other. But suddenly, they were interrupted by Kagome's father barging in on them. "Inu Yasha I…oh" he began to say but couldn't finish because he saw the two of them together.
"Hi dad" Kagome said nervously, backing about two inches away from Inu Yasha.
"Oh Kagome I didn't notice you weren't in your room" said Mr. Higurashi.
"That's okay dad" Kagome said with a smile "I was just leaving."
With that she went down the steps to the kitchen. There she saw that Ayame and Rin were waiting for her. They looked up at her with almost guilty looks plastered on their faces "Is there something wrong?" Kagome said, sitting down.
"N-no nothing" Rin stammered unconvincingly "w-what makes you th-think something's wrong?"
Kagome gave Rin a confused look but quickly dismissed her puzzlement "Never mind" she said "do you know why daddy wants to talk to Inu Yasha?"
Ayame looked about ready to cry and Rin almost went insane with nervousness. Both shook their heads as quickly but Kagome sensed that they were hiding something from her. (a/n: gee I wonder why?) But before she could give it another thought, the girls whisked her away for a shopping trip.
"Hi Mr. Higurashi" Inu Yasha said politely "is there something wrong?"
"Get out Inu Yasha" Mr. Higurashi said in a deadly calm voice "never come back."
"What?" asked Inu Yasha, confused.
"I don't want you to see my daughter anymore!" Kagome's father fumed "Get out!"
"But…I don't get it" Inu Yasha said nervously "what's wrong?"
Instead of giving Inu Yasha an answer, Mr. Higurashi took the pocket knife he had attempted to kill Inu Yasha with once before out of his pocket. "You tried to kill my daughter" he said menacingly, advancing slowly toward Inu Yasha with the knife at the ready "Now I have to kill you!"
"What?" Inu Yasha said, backing away "I never…"
"Don't play dumb with me beast!" Kagome's father interrupted "I heard from a reliable source that you were planning to make Kagome trust you and then kill her! you're a fiend!"
"But…I didn't!" Inu Yasha said in defense.
But the man paid no attention to his cries of protest and kept on advancing towards Inu Yasha. Inu Yasha backed up until he was up against the wall. His eyes widened as Kagome's father lunged for him in attempt to plunge the sword into his heart. Inu Yasha made a dash for the door and ran out as fast as he could. Kagome's father stood in the doorway shouting "Don't ever come back!"
Rin and Ayame tried to act as normal as usual as they and Kagome walked through the town. Glancing at Kagome, Ayame could see that she was still thinking about Inu Yasha. "Kagome" she said, putting a hand on Kagome's shoulder "please, maybe you should let Inu Yasha go."
"What?" Kagome said in shock as she struggled to push Ayame's hand off her shoulder "Why should I do that?"
"There's…something you don't know about Inu Yasha Kagome" she continued "something we aren't going to enjoy telling you."
"What's that?" Kagome asked, dreading what they were to tell her.
"He's trying to kill you Kagome!" Ayame said through streaming tears.
Kagome gasped and looked away "what?" she asked in disbelief.
"He's been planning it all along!" The redhead shouted (a/n: F.Y.I. the redhead is Ayame) "he wanted to get you to trust him and then he was going to kill you. He didn't tell you, but that's how to break the curse, to kill someone whose heart is pure. All this time he's just been testing you to see if you were the one!"
"No!" Kagome said, kneeling down to the ground "I don't believe you!" she cried through her tears.
"You have to let him go!" Rin agreed.
"But why?" Kagome said "why would he lead me on? I thought…I thought I loved him."
Rin knelt down beside Kagome and lent Kagome her shoulder to cry on. Ayame looked away and one of the vendor's carts. Standing beside it was Ginta. He gave Ayame a thumbs up and disappeared just as quickly as he had arrived. Ayame looked down at the ground almost in shame.
"What are you going to do now?" Rin asked Kagome after she had had a good cry.
"I'm going to find Inu Yasha" Kagome said "I still have faith in him. I'm going to find him and sort this out."
Ayame's eyes suddenly widened and she grew nervous "I-I'll be right b-back" the redhead stuttered and sprinted off.
Rin watched as Ayame ran in the opposite direction of where they were standing. She then looked back to Kagome, who had a determined look on her face. "I have to go" she said, clenching her fists "tell father I won't be coming back, not for a while.
"Excellent job!" Naraku laughed "you've totally redeemed yourself."
"It was pretty clever wasn't it?" Koga said with a smirk.
"Yes indeed!" Naraku said with a smile "tricking both Kagome's friends and family into thinking Inu Yasha had to kill Kagome to break the curse, I couldn't have thought of a better plan!"
"Thank you, thank you" Koga said with a bow "And this takes care of another problem."
"What problem is that?" Naraku asked curiously.
"Whatever relationship Kagome and Inu Yasha had is now destroyed!" Koga smiled "she won't miss him when he's gone now."
"Everything's working out perfectly!" Naraku said "Now we can take our time with the transformations and watch the show."
"I wouldn't be so sure about that" said a female voice from the shadows.
"Who are you" Naraku said, eyeing the girl suspiciously.
"This is my accomplice" Koga said with a smirk "she helped me pull off the whole thing."
"What did you mean?" Naraku interrogated "why can't we wait."
"Your plan was only successful halfway" the voice said "Kagome didn't buy it, she's going to find Inu Yasha to sort it out."
"Easily fixed" Koga said quickly "we'll just have to find him first and transform him, I doubt he could have gotten too far.
"Come into the light then and let's celebrate!" Naraku snickered as he filled three glasses full of beer.
"gladly" replied the voice. After she had spoken the redheaded girl stepped out of the shadows and sat down, a smirk plastered on her face.
Author's note: this isn't much of a cliffhanger is it? I mean you probably know who the voice is already. But you're probably wondering how and why right? Well it's all to come in the next chapter so keep reading. (hint-hint: the more reviews I get, the faster my fingers type if you catch my drift.) ja ne for now!