Chapter 4: Discovered
"Who is he, and why is he wearing those strange clothes?" Kinye asked.
"Strange?" Inuyasha sneered, "Look at your own clothes!"
Everyone except Kagome cast Inuyasha strange looks, their eyes full of wonder and offfenidance. "Inuyasha!" Kagome snapped, "I told you not to say all of that stuff!"
"What stuff? Defending myself and my rights you mean?" Inuyasha argued.
"Stop fighting, you two! Clearly this boy is the one Kagome was saying she hated so much." Ayume said, her eyes thoughtful.
Inuyasha looked at Kagome, "You hate me?" he said, his voice turning into a slow anger.
Kagome looked taken aback and said, "No!"
"Then if you like him, why didn't you just tell us you'd go out with Hojo?" Eri questioned.
Inuyasha suddenly looked furious, "Kagome, I have to talk to you," he glanced at the others, "alone!" With that he grabbed her arm and began to drag her into the wellhouse, his eyes deteremined. Kagome struggled to break free, even though she knew it was futile. Inuyasha was strong despite that he was only half-demon.
When he had slammed the door on the well house, only then did he turn around to Kagome. He wasn't mad, but actually sad looking. "Do you really preferr Hojo over me?"
"Of course not, Inuyasha! I-I just thought I'd never see you again is all. I missed you even in the few hours we were apart." Kagome said, trying to remain calm.
"Do you really mean that?" Inuyasha asked, his left hadn, which he has held tightly shut, suddenly opened in surprise. Kagome saw five shards fall to the ground, scattering. She waited for Inuyasha to pick them up, but he diddn't.
Kagome nodded, "I really do mean that, and Inuyasha, where-how did you get those jewel shards?"
"Naraku." Inuyasha replied.
Suddenly Kagome remembered, "You're hurt! How bad is it anyway?"
"You do know you just changed the whole subject." Inuyasha said bluntly, "And its fine."
Kagome knew only too well that Inuyasha was lying. It had to have been bad for him to flinch from the wound. "Let me see it." she demanded.
"Its nothing! Just a claw mark from where a stupid demon cat that belonged to Sango's brother clawed me." Inuyasha grumbled.
"Sango's brother? But isn't he with Naraku? How did he get a demon cat? I never knew he had one..." Kagome said.
"Ask Sango and she'll tell you." Inuyasha grumbled.
"Oh? And where am I supposed to find Sango?" Kagome blurted out.
"Down the well, but back to why I wanted to talk to you. I want to know if you really love me? Why did you tell yoru friends that you hated me?" Inuyasha demanded.
"I didn't. I said that you were grouchy and stubborn." Kagome responded, "Which is the truth, Inuyasha, and you know it!"
"I thought you liked me..."
"How could I not?" Kagome said, smiling faintly.
"ARE YOU TWO DONE IN THERE?" Eri cut in.
"NO!" they both yelled back, glaring daggers at the well door. Then they turned back to their conversation.
"Can I stay here?" Inuyasha asked suddenly.
Kagome couldn't stand the thought of not seeing Inuyasha, but they needed the rest of the jewels, right? Kagome shook her head, "How many shards does Naraku have?"
"At least thirty or so, why?" Inuyasha asked, suddenly growing suspcious.
"He has the rest and Koga has five more. We have to get those, Inuyasha, get those shards, I'm leaving the jewel here." Kagome said.
"But you need at least one to get back through the well, and now you're wanting to go back to fedual Japan?"
"Yes!" Kagome snapped. "Forget it if we're discovered, if youw ant to stay, then I'll let you stay!"
"Kagome! We aren't getting the rest of the shards. We can at least stay here for the next six months and then go back, kill Naraku and then everybody's happy."
"Yeah except me!" Kagome grumbled.
"What do you mean?"
"You want the jewel to become a full demon. Go ahead, but be prepared to never see me again!" Kagome spat, her tempor had changed faster than Inuyasha could swing Tenseigia.
Inuyasha knew she was right. But that couht returned. Did he really want to become a full demon? No. No he didn't, he loved Kagome, he didn't want to become a full demon anymore, he realized.
"No. No Kagome. I don't want to become a full demon anymore. I don't want to part from you." Inuyasha said. For the second time in the last fifteen minutes, Inuyasha kissed Kagome lightly and then handed her the shards. "Take them I don't want them anymore.".
"Are you sure? Do you rwally want to do this?" Kagome asked, stunned.
"Positive." Inuyasha said, his face plastered with a big grin.
Kagome had never seen him smile like that, she had onyl seen it in battle, and his battle smile was a mean looking one, creul. Kagome smiled back and then looked back at the well house door as light flooded in on them. Before aqnyone could get used to the light, Kagome grabbed inuyasha's hand and forcfully tugged him down to the well an leapt.
Kagome was on the other side with Inuyasha, who looked startled. "Why did you come here?" he asked her.
"To say good-bye." Kagome said. Then she smirked, "And to get Koga's jewel shards."
"How on earth will you manage that?" Inuyasha looked startled.
"He likes me, doesn't he? Ask him for it-and please don't get jealous because it'll be a lie-and then I'll say I'll dump you and our group and go with him. I'm sure he can give up the five he's got, right?" Kaome said.
Inuyasha looked impressed. "Sure. Oh and, becasreful when you get out, Naraku's still about." Inuyasha wanred.
This is so unlike Inuaysha! Kagome thought. To warn me and not get angry with me because of any plan I miht have, or any doubt that it will fail. I think I like this Inuyasha even more!
As they climbed out of the well, Sango and Shippo were looking off into space while Miroku was tapping his staff on the ground, fiddling around. "He should be back any minute now." Shippo breathed.
"Without Kagome." Sango sighed.
"What a tempor he'll be in!" Miroku said.
"And what a joyous modd he'll be in!" Iniuyasha said, his face displaying a ripple of surprise through the group. Clearly they hadn't seen him happy either.
"Inuyasha, are you sick?" Sango asked.
"You need bed rest!" Shippo commented.
"No he oesn't!" Kagome piped up, no one had noticed her for a few seconds. Then as she spoke, all eyes turned to her. Shippo's eyes lit up with joy, Sango, surpsie and happiness, Miroku's with an unknown light and surprise like Sangos' .No one had expected her to come.
"Are you coming back?" Shippo asked.
"No, I came to say...good-bye." Kagome hadn't realized how hard this was. How was she supposed to say good bye to best friends, and not even talk ot them for another full six months?
"Good-bye? Is that why Inuyasha is so happy? He knows your not coming back?" Shippo asked, his eyes miscvious and sad. To everyone's surpirse and alarm, Inuyasha ignored Shippo.
"I'm staying with Kagome!" he said.
"How is that cheerful? What about collecting the jewel shards?" Sango asked.
"I don't want the jewel anymore. Alls I wnat is Naraku dead and to stay with Kagome." Inuyasha answered, his mouth turning into a frown.
"What!" everyone but Kagome gasped.
"Do my ears decieve me?" Shippo asked.
"Did you really say you didn't want the jewel?" Miroku asked, stunned into disbelief.
"Yes."
"I guess we ouaghta' be going..." Kagome muttered suddenly.
"So soon?" Sango asked.
"Yes, we have very little time before my friends know that we had not left the well." Kagome said.
"Good-bye, then." Snago said, huggijng Kagome.
"Bye." she said. Instantly Kagome knew she would miss Sango and Shippo the most.
"Bye." Miroku said, shaking her hand and then did a nod with his head to Inuyasha.
""Goos-bye Kagome." Shippo cried as Kagome leapt down the well with Inuaysha. When they were on the other side, Kagome listened to see if anyone was around. It didn't appear that anyone was even nearby. She and Inuyasha climbed out, aware that both of them would have some explaining to do once found.
"Kagome!" came a sudden angry voice from the well house door. "Why did you go back? I told you to stay here!"
Both of them turned to see Kagome's mother looking at them both with atern eyes. "But-" Kagome started.
"No, Kagome! Inuyasha isn't supposed to be here and you know it!"
"Be here? How are you supposed to stop, huh? Are you goingt to try those little pieces of paper again?" Inuyasha asked smartly. Kagome couldn't help but laugh despite the predicument they were in. She remembered the time when she had first met Inuyasha. After shattering the Shikion No Tama, she only got one shard and then had gone home. Inuyasha had come after her and the shard. When he found them, he was covered in the spells that kept demons out. He had come through the well because he was half demons, believeing the spells were only little pieces of paper! She laughed again.
"No, I have a better plan, Inuyasha, if you don't go back!"
This is so unlike mother...Kagome thought. Why is she being so strict? "Are you feeling okay?" Kagome asked, feeling worried for her mother.
"I'm fine! But you won't be!" Mother threatened.
"Actually, I think Ill be just fine." Inuyasha yawned. That made her even angier.
"Mom, please, I promised him he could stay." Kagome explained.
"Kagome, you didn't!" her asked, stunned.
"I did, I thought you'd let him." Kagome breathed.
Her mother sighed, "Fine. But Inuyasha," she shot him a glare, "Don't try anything stupid and change out of those clothes!"
With that she left. Kagome breathed in relief. "Glad that's over, I thought she was going to kick you down the well!"
"Nah, she's too weak." Inuyasha chuckled.
"Not with those wounds you have, she is-"
"Kagome! Where have you two been?" came a demanding voice.
Kagome sighed as Eri, Yuka, Ayume, and Kinye gave them both hard stares. "Been? Gone? What do you mean, we haven't been anywhere!" Inuyasha growled.
"Then here the heck did you go?" Eri demand.
"No where."
"Inuyasha! What are you doing here?" came a suddenly childish voice.
Kagome looked to see Sota coming. She groaned and ave his a feirce, angry stare. "Inuyasha? Isn't he that dog-demon who got killed long ago due to an arrow in the heart shot by Kikyo?" Yuka asked.
Kagome felt Inuyasa stiffen beside her. He didn't like to talk about Kikyo because he had believed she had killed him, but Naraku had made her believe that he had betrayed her and so she killed him.
"Wasn't that demon in love with Kikyo? Why did he kill her and she kill him? What a bad relationship!" Ayume laughed. "Glad there aren't any demons left!"
Inuyasha had stiffened even more. Kagome could sense his waves of anger and pain and wished she could shut her friends up. Suddenly she heard Inuyasha's kuncles cracked as he flexed his figures. "No demons huh?" he whsipered, but only Kagome heard him.
"Inuyasha, don't." She whispered under her breath.
"Hmm...If I remember correctly, Inuyasha was pinned to um...that tree!" Eri said, pointing to the very tree Inuyasha was pinned on. "Didn't you say that was the tree, Kagome, becauase you figured it out in you reading?"
"Oh um...yeah." Kagome looked surprised.
"But didn't he come back to life? Didn't Naraku kill him in the end?"
"I think so...Maybe he killed Naraku..."
"I feel sorry for them. They were never meant to be togeather. After all, that Inuyasha was a creep the way he attacked Kikyo and tried to steal the Shikion No Tama!" Kinye piped in.
"You know about i-"
"Is your boyfriend okay Kagome?" Yuka asked, cutting Eri off. Inuyasha's face was full of fury and on the verge of attacking.
Just as Kagome was about to tell him to calm down, he sprang at Kinye. Kagome couldn't help it. She yelled, "Sit boy!" Inuyasha sudenly fell to the ground, plunging into the concrete.
"Why you!" Inuyasha snarled.
"It was for your on good! You would have killed Kinye!" Kagome snapped.
"She would ave deserved it!" Inuyasha growled.
"Have it your way!" Kagome sighed. "Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit!"
Inuyasha was even further, forming a hole in the conrete. "Ow..." his dazed voice came from the hole. Suddenly he looked up, "Don't you thing Naraku did enough?" he snarled.
"Opps! I forgot, you're hurt!" Kagome gasped. Suddenly she was aware of the stares on her and Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha...Naraku? Kagome, you have a lot of eplaining to do!" Yuka snapped.
Kagome ignored them for the moment, "Inuyasha, what did you do with my first aid kit?"
"Shippo threw it at me, I threw it off in the woods." he mumbled.
"You threw it off in the-Inuyasha!" Kagome suddenly flared. As Inuyasha climbed out of his own hole, he looked down at the rip in his kimono, it had little pieces of rock on it, and it was still bleeding.
He flinched as he bent over. "Did you say Sango's brother's demon cat did this to you?" Kagome asked.
"Yeah, why?"
"Have Kirara ever cut you before?"
"No. She only fights demons."
"And how many shards did Naraku have in that demon cat?"
"Five."
"How big was it?"
"Taller than a tree."
"How long were its claws?"
"Long."
"Did it bite or claw you?"
"Clawed."
"Inuyasha! That wound is deeper than youthink! You do need bed rest!"
"I do not!"
"Will you just tell us whats going on?" Eri snapped.
"Oh I guess, help me with Inuyasha and we can go inside-in my room-and I'll tell you everything."