Chapter 18
As Kagome walked toward the dining room, she noticed Sango and Miroku standing outside. When they noticed her the motioned her to enter. When they walked closer to the door, they heard loud noises. Sango and Miroku looked to Kagome for an explanation but she just shook her head and kept walking. When they got to the door, Kagome hesitated before opening it and letting herself in only to find Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru in fighting stances and half the room was in ruins.
"Honestly you two!" Kagome scolded, "If you are still fighting for the same reason as before then you're both being ridiculous. And fighting in front of Rin and Shippou! You should be ashamed! You're both going to make them think that it's alright to fight over stupid things when it's not!"
"How can you think that your safety is a stupid thing?" Sesshoumaru asked, proving that they were still fighting over the same thing as before.
Kagome blushed a bit "I'm not dead am I? Proving that I', safe enough." She insisted
"I'm not going to let her die Sesshoumaru!" Inuyasha spat out his name like it was poison.
"But you are going to let her get harmed." Sesshoumaru said back in a monotone voice, as always.
"Sesshoumaru, I never get seriously injured." Kagome said gently.
"But you get injured." He stated.
"But everyone has to get hurt at some point in time or they wouldn't be working hard enough. Sango gets hurt, Miroku gets hurt, Inuyasha gets hurt, all because they do stuff. If I didn't do anything to help out then what would be the point in my being here at all?" Kagome said desperately.
"Have you noticed" Sango whispered to Miroku "how concerned Sesshoumaru is for Kagome's safety? Do you think he loves her also?"
"It is definitely a possibility. He does seem very concerned and is showing more emotion then I've ever seen." Miroku whispered his reply.
"Sesshoumaru's eyebrows started to twitch. "I can hear you, you know!" He growled.
"See! More emotion then normal!" Miroku said loudly and triumphantly before everything went black.
"You didn't have to knock him out you know Sesshoumaru." Kagome sighed. Inuyasha smirked at Sesshoumaru, but Kagome caught him. "And what are you so happy about Inuyasha?"
"Because, for once it's not me you're mad at!" He grinned making Kagome giggle a bit.
'What could be going on?' Sango thought, looking at Sesshoumaru who was looking at Kagome longingly.
'How does he do it?' Sesshoumaru though 'He can get her to laugh at the most stupid things.'
'Now that I think about it, did Inuyasha ever tell Kikyo that he chose kagome?' Sango thought randomly 'Oh my God! He didn't! Kikyo might still think that Inuyasha loves her. What if he does but he loves Kagome also? What if he hasn't actually decided yet? Kagome would be crushed!' Sango had a look of horror pass over her face and Kagome became worried.
"Sango would you like to come for a walk with me?" She asked, and when Sango gave her an odd look she quickly added "Just a short little one."
"Sure, I guess I could." She answered nervously 'I hope I can keep my mouth shut!' And she followed her out of the room.
"Sango, what's wrong?" Kagome asked when they were out of the room.
"InuyashamightnothavemadeuphismindaboutyouandKikyoyet!" Sango blurted out 'So much for keeping it a secret!' she scolded herself.
Meanwhile Kagome was confused out of her mind "WHAT?"
Sango sighed, "Inuyasha might not have made up his mind about you and Kikyo yet. He hasn't told her anything." She said sadly.
"Are you sure? Could he have gone out at night sometime?" rather calmly she asked. Sango certainly didn't expect this to be her reaction.
"I'm positive." Sango replied, "He hasn't spoken to her yet."
"Alright." She sighed as thought this was more boring then stressful or hurtful.
"Kagome? Is something going on? You're acting like you don't even care!" Sango gasped.
"Well you see I know that he will always love Kikyo. I know that he loves me also, but Kikyo will always be in his heart. She will always be there somehow. Part of me always knew that Inuyasha would have a really hard time deciding who he was going to pick, and I was willing to wait until he did." Kagome sighed a sad, stressed sigh. "But that time has passed, I don't know how much longer I can wait for him to pick. I love Inuyasha, but right now I'm at the age that people in my time start trying to find the person they are going to marry. Or they date a few people about now and experiment if you will." Kagome looked out the window and pictured her family there, smiling at her. Inuyasha was there also, but suddenly he turned around and started walking away! She whipped her head away from the window to face Sango again. "If he doesn't pick soon, I will have to do it for him, and Kikyo will have to help you find the jewel shards." She said sadly.
Back with the boys
After the girls had left the dining room everything went quiet, even Rin and Shippou, and Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru listened with they're advanced hearing.
"Well you see I know that he will always love Kikyo. I know that he loves me also, but Kikyo will always be in his heart. She will always be there somehow. Part of me always knew that Inuyasha would have a really hard time deciding whom he was going to pick, and I was willing to wait until he did. But that time has passed, I don't know how much longer I can wait for him to pick. I love Inuyasha, but right now I'm at the age that people in my time start trying to find the person they are going to marry. Or they date a few people about now and experiment if you will. If he doesn't pick soon, I will have to do it for him, and Kikyo will have to help you find the jewel shards." Kagome's voice said sadly.
"Why dear brother, I do believe she is talking about you." Sesshoumaru stated the obvious.
"Shut up!" Inuyasha growled 'How does she know that I haven't told Kikyo yet?'
"It is a good thing that Kagome already said that I could come along. Someone has to be there for her when she sets you aside Inuyasha." Sesshoumaru said still in monotone, but the sides of his mouth where turned up in a smirk.
"I said shut up!" Inuyasha demanded 'What can I do? I can't tell Kikyo that I choose Kagome, but I can't tell Kagome that I choose Kikyo because I love Kagome too! Bt if I don't decide soon then Kagome will leave me and she will go with Sesshoumaru! I have to do something, but what?'
"The girls are coming back." Miroku said seconds before the door opened the girls walked in.
"Hey Sango, don't you hate it when you walk in a room and everything goes quiet?" Kagome asked as they walked into the room of silence.
"Yeah, it's so odd." Sango replied looking suspicious.
"It's nothing my dear Sango." Miroku said dashingly, making her blush.
"If you say so Miroku." Kagome sighed, knowing Sango wasn't going to say anything. She looked over at Inuyasha, surprised that he hadn't said anything yet. "Inuyasha, are you alright?" She asked, genuinely concerned.
"Yeah, fine." He answered, never looking at her.
"Kagome, if I am not mistaken, you have not eaten breakfast because of certain problems." Sesshoumaru said glaring at Inuyasha when he said problems.
Inuyasha glared at him while he watched him pull out a chair for her. After a few minutes of silence, kagome decided to break it.
"Well, I was thinking we could start shard hunting again this afternoon." She said, knowing Inuyasha would want to start right away.
"I think we should leave now." He said gruffly.
"Inuyasha, I know it's hard for you but think of someone other yourself for a while!" Shippou yelled making everyone realize that he and Rin were still in the room playing.
"Oh, and you are thinking of everyone else right now right?" Inuyasha snapped his response.
"Yes! I was actually." Shippou whined. "Kagome is eating, Sango and Miroku are relaxing, something they don't get to do very often because you are always making us look for shards, and I am playing with Rin."
"Feh." Came Inuyasha's infamous remark.
"Well Inuyasha, it seems that a young demon child can stump you." Sesshoumaru said, in monotone, even thought it was rather obvious that he was enjoying that Shippou stumped Inuyasha. Then he turned to Kagome and asked, "How can you tolerate him?" This made Inuyasha listen in with great interest.
"No one is perfect Sesshoumaru," Kagome reminded calmly. "If you focus on the positive things in people and not the negative things then they everything seems much more exiting."
"That is extraordinary." Sesshoumaru said.
"Not really." She shrugged "It's what most people in my time try to do." She looked at the food on the table and took some more bacon and some scrambled eggs. "Sango! Come on, you haven't eaten either!" Kagome called her friend over, stopping the room from complete silence again.
"Alright." Sango said taking the chair next to Kagome.
"If Inuyasha, where are heading first?" Miroku asked noticing that Kagome and Sango were deep in conversation, and Sesshoumaru would make a comment now and then.
"Back to Kaede's village." Inuyasha said after a moment of thought. "I'm sure that kagome wants to go back to visit her family." 'And Kikyo might be near there' He thought.
"How kind of you Inuyasha, Kagome normally has to fight you to be able to go back to her era." Miroku said "Or is there another reason we are heading in that direction?" He added suspiciously, he was friends with Inuyasha but he was also friends with Kagome and didn't want her to be hurt if Inuyasha decided to do something.
"N...No" Inuyasha stuttered "Wh…Why would there be another reason?" He seemed to find the floor very interesting.
"I have no idea, I just thought that maybe a certain Priestess could be found in that direction." Miroku guessed.
With Kagome, Sango, and Sesshoumaru
"Oh! Miroku got it!" Sango whispered dramatically as she, kagome and Sesshoumaru were listening to Inuyasha and Miroku's conversation. "And Inuyasha was doing so well with the whole 'so Kagome can go and visit her family' stuff too."
Kagome giggled "Good thing I didn't go and thank him when I wanted to."
"That would have ruined it." Sesshoumaru stated the obvious.
"Hmmmmm, now when I go home how am I going to know if Inuyasha has gone to see Kikyo or not?" Kagome thought out loud, thought softly enough for Inuyasha not to hear.
"I will watch him for you." Sesshoumaru offered, "I am able to mask my aura and my scent. He will not notice my presents."
"Awww, thank you Sesshoumaru!" Kagome said, "You're so sweet."
"I'll tell you what he says to Miroku." Sango laughed. "It's always the same chain. Inuyasha does something stupid, and then he tells Miroku. Miroku then goes and tells me and I tell you. The best part is that when you 'catch him' and get him into trouble." Sango said, pretending to gaze off into her own world.
Kagome giggled, "I can't believe that Inuyasha still tells Miroku anything. Everyone knows that you can get him to tell you whatever you want to know." She said to her friend. When she turned to Sesshoumaru she added "When he kissed Kikyo, Miroku got it out of him, then Sango got it out of Miroku and I got it out of Sango. When she told me I didn't talk to Inuyasha for…how long was it that time?" She asked turning back to Sango.
"A week and a half a believe." Sango said trying to contain her laughter while pretending to do the math in the air.
"Oh yeah." Kagome giggled.
"It seems that you two ladies have a dark side." Sesshoumaru said. "Although when it is used against Inuyasha I will always be more then willing to take part in the matter."
Kagome and Sango looked at each other and burst out laughing.
"What might I ask is so amusing?" he asked, not sure if he should be amused, insulted or just plain confused.
"I'm sorry Sesshoumaru, but you speak so formally." Kagome giggled.
"What are you talking about?" He said, "I speak as the Lord of the Western lands should."
"You know you can loosen up when you're talking to us." Sango said with a hint of a giggle still in her voice. "We never use titles, no one is our group is very polite, ok well we all are but Inuyasha, but everyone just ignores him." Kagome laughed at that comment, sure she loved Inuyasha, but it was the truth and it was funny. 'But everyone in the group is very casual. You'd be the only one being formal." She finished shoveling some more eggs in her mouth. "Anyways, it would probably be wasted on our group anyways."
"I suppose not. But I will continue speaking the way I have been brought up to speak if you do not mind." Sesshoumaru said almost coldly.
Their silence was cut when Inuyasha came over and said: " Ready to go?"
"Yeah, just let me go and get a few things." Kagome said before running away.
While kagome was gone, the only noise was Shippou and Rin playing in the far corner. Sango was wondering what Kagome would do when Inuyasha went to see Kikyo and if Sesshoumaru would be sensitive when he told her.
Sesshoumaru was thinking about how to tell Kagome that Inuyasha saw Kikyo and wondering I he was supposed to tell her what they did. He was also wondering how Inuyasha could ruin his and Kagome's relationship willingly and knowingly.
Inuyasha was wondering how he could sneak away from the group undetected so he could go and see Kikyo; there was a decision to make.
Miroku was wondering how much would change with the group now that he and Sango had confessed their love for each other, Inuyasha and Kagome had confessed their love for each other and Sesshoumaru and Rin and entered the group. And from the look of things, Sesshoumaru seemed to have some deep feelings for Kagome. 'Things will never be the same. Will Inuyasha sneak off with Kikyo, forcing Kagome to step aside and seek comfort by Sesshoumaru? Thus making two new couples in the group? Or will he stay with the group and keep his and Kagomes relationship leaving Sesshoumaru and Kikyo alone?' All these questions ran through Miroku's mind, and they would be answered soon enough.
Hey everyone just wanted to say thanks for reading and I hoped that you liked it! Sorry that it's taken so long to write a new chapter, but I've had to study…stupid exams! Anywho, as always, I want to thank my reviewers:
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