Chapter 11: The Locket's Secret

After dinner, Kagome offers to do the dishes. "But it's my turn to do them dear." Ai gently urges her daughter out of the kitchen. "But I'm doing you a favor, mom. Just this once." Kagome begs as she tries her best to prevent from being forced out of the kitchen. "Just let her do it, Ai." Hige takes Kagome's side. "Besides, I want to do them with her." He offers his help. Kagome can tell right away that Hige wants to have a private conversation with her. "If you say so." Ai let's go of her daughter's shoulder to let her do the deed.

Ai and Sota leave the kitchen to let the father and daughter team to do the dishes. "What's going on, Kagome?" Hige asks her softly to get her to talk. "What are you talking about, dad?" Kagome tries to act innocent as she puts the dishes into the dishwasher as Hige puts away the leftovers into the fridge. "You being outside with Inuyasha." He reminds her. "Oh. I must have been sleepwalking, and then Inuyasha had to wake me up." Kagome had to come up with something that would be convincing to Hige.

"Funny, you never sleepwalked in your life. Maybe it was something you developed recently." Hige holds his chin trying his best to think about this. 'Yeah let's go with that.' Kagome thought sarcastically. Hige can see that the dishwasher is being started with the sink empty. "Looks like we finished rather quickly." He comments proudly. "That's because we worked together in record time." Kagome said to him. "Ok, I'm going to go take a shower. You're free." Hige said as he leaves the kitchen.

Kagome feels so relieved that her father believed that lie. But it was the only way she can do to keep his suspicion at a minimum. She goes up to her room to find her phone with a text popped about five minutes ago. She opens it up and to see that it was Inuyasha telling her that he's outside waiting for her. She grabs her phone and heads outside through the dinning room's sliding room and onto the patio.

The patio is very wide. It has the grill and the long chairs placed around with little tables by them. "Kagome." Inuyasha comes up the steps onto the patio. Kagome turns around to see him with a bag in his hand. "What took you so long?" He asks her a bit impatiently. "Sorry. I was doing the dishes with my dad." Kagome rubs the back of her neck. Inuyasha nods. "Anyway, I had to confiscate the locket that I was get off of you." He holds out the zip lock bag with the locket in it.

"Why is it in there?" Kagome leans in to get a look at it. "The locket will possess anyone who touches it." Inuyasha tells her so far. Kagome blinks a few times. "Wait a minute. When I found it in my closet it didn't possess me when I touched it." She explains to him what she went through. "That's because it didn't know you when you touched so it had no effect on you." Inuyasha sits down onto one of the chairs. "Ok. Then why did it possess me when I was sleeping. I didn't had any contact on me?" Kagome follows through as she sits onto another chair.

"When it found out about you hanging out with me, it activated and since it was so close to you since you were sleeping it controlled you without realizing it." As such Kagome crossed her arms. "Then how is it that you know about this locket so much?" She asks him with her one brow raised. Inuyasha knew this was going to happen eventually. "This locket once belonged to my ex-girlfriend." He admits to her.

Ok Kagome never saw this coming. "Your ex? I never know you had one to begin with when I met you." She said in surprise. "That's because it happened a week ago. I was going to wait for her to see what she wanted to see me for. As I waited, I heard a crashed with my ears. It was raining so I had no umbrella on me so I ran as fast as I could to get to the wreckage…"

Flashback

Inuyasha runs as fast as he could to get to the wrecked that he was able to hear. The rain pour very heavily thus making it difficult for Inuyasha see around himself. He then sees flashes light up ahead. He gets to the spot to see a car swerved into the ditch along the road. It was very deep to see a blue car is wrecked. 'It was my e- girlfriend's car that was stuck in the ditch. I was careful getting into the depths. I was able to see her breathing in labor.' Inuyasha tells Kagome. Inuyasha managed to get the girl out of the car. "Hey, Kikyo. Wake up. Please." He shakes her a little. "Young man." A person comes down to him. "We need to take her to the ER." He demands Inuyasha. Inuyasha agrees and helps out to bring the girl's body to the ambulance so that the vehicle can transport her to the closest hospital. "Do you know her?" The man asks Inuyasha. "Yeah, that's my girlfriend." He replies absently.

'They let me ride with her to the hospital. When we arrived, Kikyo had a collapsed lung and her heart was very weak to keep her alive. They had to put her into the I.C.U. I had to stay by her side throughout the time she was recovering.' Inuyasha said to Kagome as he has to continue on. Inuyasha holds onto Kikyo's limb hand. He prays constantly to let her live through this. As time went on, a doctor enters the room. Inuyasha looks with pleading eyes. "You must her boyfriend." He states the obvious. "Yes. Tell me what her condition is." Inuyasha responds to him. The doctor goes through the chart. "From what I can gather is that she has a collapse lung due to a broken rib and her heart was damaged." He explains to Inuyasha.

Inuyasha knows for sure that his prayers will not be answered. 'It was a matter of time until she died. I had to do what was best for her.' Inuyasha sadly spoke to Kagome. Inuyasha turns around to see that Kikyo is telling him to come to her. Inuyasha heads to her side. "Inuyasha…" She spoke in a whisper. "I just want to let you that you were the best that ever happened in my life." She starts off. "No, stay with me, Kikyo." Inuyasha begs her. Kikyo shakes her head. "I was going to let you know that I was so happy. Even I had to tell you that it wasn't right for the both of us." Inuyasha is confused. "What are you trying to say here?" He grasps her hand in his. "I had to break up with you. If I told you that over the phone you'd come straight to my place and you know how my family are to you. So I had to come you instead." She explains to him.

Inuyasha does his best to control his temper. Kikyo is aware about it since their relationship. "I see." That was all Inuyasha could say to her. "You know that even we are splitting up, I just want to let you know that I love you despite all of that." Kikyo smiles to him sadly. Fearing for the worse, Inuyasha kisses her as her life is flat at the last second. 'That was the last time I saw her. I had to tell her family what happened. Ever since they never wanted me to come to her funeral. Just being there would be too awkward for them. 'As soon as the funeral was finished, Kikyo's younger sister has given me her locket that I gave her for our month anniversary of our relationship.' Inuyasha holds the locket tightly.

End of Flashback

Inuyasha finished his story. He sees Kagome sniffs sadly. "I had no idea that locket meant so much to you." She was able to say to him. But then something crossed her mind. "But I don't understand how the locket ended up in my closet when I moved in." She looks at him. Inuyasha remains silent for a few more seconds. "Your place happens to be Kikyo's potential house the moment she moved out of her house." He tells her wary. Kagome didn't see that coming. Not by a long shot. "From Kikyo told me before the accident that she wanted to move here so we can be together. She was able to bring in a few of her things to the house. However after the funeral, I had to go there to retrieve the boxes. I had the locket in my pocket at the time. When I picked up the last box, the locket must've slipped out and landed in there. I couldn't let her family to know about this. I wouldn't hear the end of it if I had to."

Kagome is now in a pickle. "I had no idea that the locket meant that much to you. I wasn't aware of this." She is about to stand up. "Wait." Inuyasha stops her with his voice as he stands up. "What is it?" Kagome asks him curiously. "You must've tell anyone about this. Only you, me and my parents only know about this." Kagome looks at him, "What about Sango and Miroku?" Kagome asks him boldly. "Neither of them are aware about my past. They moved here a month after the accident. They have no idea about this." Kagome can tell that Inuyasha is a shady character from that comment. "I'll be hanging onto this. I don't want you to fall victim to this." He said as he is about to go back home.

"Wait a minute. I don't know anything about the curse part of that locket." Kagome goes up to him. "No. You're not ready to take what this locket is capable of." Inuyasha looks at her in the eye. "But it would be best that I know more about the curse so I wouldn't be under the spell." She tries to make him to talk. So much is too much for him. "Tell me what happened." He absent minded asks her. "That one thing I heard was tune of some sort." Kagome gives one detail so far. 'The lullaby.' Inuyasha knows that one so far. "Anything else?" He asks her without turning around. "I heard a voice telling to go to you." Kagome gives another detail for what she went through. "A voice?" Inuyasha asks in surprised.

"It was a female voice that spoke to me. I don't know who it was." Kagome tries so hard that she can't seem to think of anything else to describe anymore details. 'A voice spoke to her.' He thinks to himself. "I might as well go to sleep, we have school tomorrow." Kagome spoke to him and goes in. Inuyasha wanted to go after her, but seeing her father through the window, that was his cue to leave. Inuyasha gets back into his through the back door of the garage. He casually goes into his bedroom. He closes the door behind him as well as in locking it. He doesn't want any intrusion from his family. For once he thought that he was going to be putting Kagome in danger that she isn't aware of.