"Not now Inuyasha! You have some serious explaining to d.." Kagome had pushed Inuyasha's arms away and turned around only to see that the amber eyes that she loved to much where not there. Instead there were the red eyes but blue slits. He had purple marks on each cheek and his fangs and claws were inches longer then normal. "Inu...Inuyasha?" She stuttered "Oh no, oh no, oh no!" Kagome repeated as she took slow steps backwards, away from Inuyasha in his demon form. She felt something stopping her from moving further. She had backed into a tree.
"oh no! how do I get myself into these situations?" She mumbled to herself. Just as she finished the demon Inuyasha's lips came crashing down on her own in a dominant kiss.
When they separated Kagome noticed that Inuyasha would not change back from a kiss like he did in Kaguya's castle. But what else would she do? Should she sit him? would it work?
"SIT!" She screamed, she watched as he plummeted to the ground and got back up growling. "Ok, that didn't work very well." She squeaked. "Maybe…" Kagome had an idea.
"Inuyasha, SIT!" she shouted again, but this time when he was pulled to the ground she ran over to him and kissed him on the lips. When she pulled away, she noticed the marks on his face were fading and his eyes were not a light pink.
Kagome repeated the 'sit and kiss' situation until Inuyasha was completely back to normal.
"Kagome?" Inuyasha mumbled. "What happened?"
"I don't know, you just came over while I was on my walk and you were in your demon form." She explained.
"Oh my God! Kagome! I didn't hurt you did I?" he asked, panicked. He started looking over her for any signs of blood but he found none.
"No you didn't." She comforted.
"Why are you out here all by yourself anyways? You could have been hurt! Or KILLED!" He scolded.
"I was going for a walk, what are you doing all the way out here?" Of course she already knew, but she was hoping that he would just tell her and she wouldn't have to get angry, he might tell her the whole story or…
"Nothing." He said turning his back to her and crossing his arms over his chest stubbornly.
"Fine then." Kagome huffed, then turned around and started walking away in the direction he had just come from.
"No! Wait!" he screamed desperately after her. "Don't go there!"
"Why not?" She asked rudely, Inuyasha was not in her good books right now. Going off with Kikyo and telling her he wasn't doing anything, why should she be polite to him?
"Because…well…ummm, because-"
"Ok well, if there is no reason why I can't go, I will continue my walk if you don't mind!" Kagome cut off his rambling and added the last part with anger.
"Kagome…no!" He shouted her name, but his voice gradually got smaller. He was too late to stop her anyways. She had already gone through the large clump of tree's/ When he heard Kagome's frightened scream he knew that he had found Kikyo, drained of energy, with a wound almost identical to the one Naraku had given her causing her death. Kikyo looked up weakly, noticed Inuyasha coming thought the tree's following Kagome and put up a strong barrier.
"Inu…Inu…Inuyasha! Some…something happened to her?" Kagome was in hysterics. She couldn't get a word out properly and she was shaking.
"Kagome, calm down, I already know."
"How did you know? Did you see who did it?" She asked frantically.
"Yeah, I know who did it." He
"Who was it?" She asked the question he was hoping she wouldn't.
"Me." He admitted letting his bangs over his eyes. How was he going to explain his reasoning to it?
"What did she do? It must have been pretty bad if it made you turn into your demon form." Kagome asked gently, although she was making it obvious that she didn't expect an answer.
"How did you know this she did it?" Inuyasha asked, amazed.
"I'm not stupid Inuyasha. You don't turn into your demon form for nothing and you're not close to death. The only people who can make you turn demon would be Naraku and Kikyo, and maybe Sesshoumaru." Kagome explained her logic.
"Oh." Was Inuyasha's brilliant response. "Well…I…she…she was being a bitch."
"Oh." Kagome said gently and assuring "You know you can always talk to me about anything Inuyasha." She grabbed his hand and led him back to where everyone was waiting. Sango, Miroku, Shippou, Rin, Sesshoumaru and Kirara were all waiting.
'I know I can talk to her about anything, but would she want to know why Kikyo was in such a state?' Inuyasha thought as he let Kagome drag him along.
"Sango, I thought you would be closer to Miroku, but come on, there are children around!" Kagome joked with her friend. Sango had just tripped over one of the logs that was used to sit on and Miroku had tried to catch her, which was proven unsuccessful when they both tumbled to the ground, Sango on top of Miroku.
"Kagome!" Sango yelled while her face turned an almost sickly red.
"Lady Kagome, I never knew you had such a mind!" Miroku said, shocked, he had always thought of Kagome as the innocent girl.
"Oh gees Miroku, come on. It's not like I have no idea what you go on about all the time." Kagome sighed at how dense he could be sometimes.
Meanwhile Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha, Shippou, Rin and Kirara were all watching the…interesting…conversation like is was a tennis match. Their heads were whipping back and forth from Sango, to Kagome, to Miroku.
"Who do you think is going to win?" Shippou asked.
"I bet Kagome." Inuyasha said confidently, Kirara mewed her agreement.
"Yeah Kagome'll kick their as-" Shippou was unable to finish his sentence for Inuyasha's hand was now covering his mouth.
"Shippou!" Inuyasha growled. "If Kagome hears you say that we're both going to get our Asses kicked!"
"Mmph mmp bupher!" Shippou tried to say something, so Inuyasha took his hand away.
"What?" he demanded.
"Well, right there I said mmph mmp bupher." Shippou said with a gleeful giggle shared with Rin. "But why would we get into trouble? You say it all the time!" He asked becoming serious all of a sudden.
"Kagome warned me that any cussing from you would be my fault." Inuyasha glared at Kagomes back. "It's not like it's that bad anyways."
"Exactly! So why can't I say it?" Shippou bugged, jumping up and down as though that would get him his answer faster.
"Because Kagome said so." Inuyasha snapped, getting angry at the constant questions, and the fact that Sesshoumaru, Rin and Kirara were all staring at him now, forgetting about the other argument between Kagome, Sango and Miroku. "Do you want to make her angry?" Shippou shook his head wildly in response. "Good, then never say those words!"
"What words?" Rin asked innocently.
"Shit, damn, bitch, ass, crap, fu-"
"Shippou! What are you saying!" Kagome cried. "Inuyasha! Look what you've done! You've taught him how to cuss! That's such a bad habit! And now Rin knows the words too!" kagome scolded the half demon.
"But Kagome! I just told him NOT to say any of those words, don't yell at me! Yell at him!" Inuyasha insisted.
"Shippou! Why would you say something like those words?" kagome demanded loudly, getting the attention of everyone in the camp.
"Because Rin asked about them." He answered simply. He still didn't understand what was so bad about them. They were just words after all, right?
"You were saying them to Rin?" Kagome cried, throwing her hands into eh air in frustration "Shippou, listen to me ok." She said, waiting until she had his full attention before continuing. "Never say those words again alright. They are not nice words and they should not be said under any occasion."
"Ok Kagome, but why are they so bad? They are just words." Shippou asked, curiosity evident in his eyes.
"They are mean and insulting. They should never be said…right Inuyasha." Kagome said, glaring at him, Inuyasha gulped and nodded his head stiffly.
Sesshoumaru smirked at how easily his brother cowered from Kagome. 'Does he have no pride?' he thought
"Ok, well." Sango said loudly, breaking Kagome's glare from Inuyasha before he turned to ash.
"Right, where shall we be heading?" Miroku caught on to what Sango was trying to get away from. No was likes awkward silences, or ash Inuyasha's.
"We are going to go…south." Inuyasha said, clearing his throat.
"Has there been talk of Naraku in that direction?" Sesshoumaru asked. "For I have heard nothing of the sort." He added, sure that if Naraku was in a known location, he would know where it was.
"No, there have been rumors of jewel shards in that direction." Shippou said happily.
"Why are we looking for jewel shards when Naraku is afoot?" Sesshoumaru asked, speaking in monotone but he was clearly confused.
"Because Naraku is collecting the jewel shards also, and sooner or later he will come for ours, or the other way around. But either way, he needs our chards to finish the jewel and they only way for that is to come and get them himself. And of course the more jewel shards we collect the sooner that he will come after us for them." Miroku explained.
"Ok, lets get going." Kagome cried enthusiastically.
"Well someone is enthusiastic." Sango joked with Kagome as they began to walk. "Just watch, you will be the one begging to take a break in a few hours." She laughed.
"Well I say it but I know everyone else is thinking it." Kagome defended.
"Ok Kagome." Miroku joined into the playful teasing. "Because everyone is so frightened of Inuyasha right?"
"What's that supposed to mean?" Inuyasha demanded angrily, the vein in his forehead throbbing out of his head.
"Nothing, nothing." Shippou laughed, trying to look innocent.
"Yeah right, damn runt." Inuyasha insulted.
"Kagome!" Shippou yelled. "Inuyasha said a bad word!"
"Inuyasha sit." Kagome called. "You're rubbing off on Shippou!" she scolded. Inuyasha only growled from the creator he has created. Sesshoumaru was silently enjoying Inuyasha being in trouble by Kagome. "Shippou, why don't you go and play with Kirara and Rin?" She suggested.
"Inuyasha are you alright?" She asked kindly when Shippou was out of hearing range.
"What do you think wench! You just sat me!" Inuyasha barked.
"I'm sorry, but you are teaching Shippou bad words! If I let you get away with it then Shippou will think it's all right. He really looks up to you, you know." She explained. "Even though I love you, I don't want Shippou turning out exactly like you." She smiled innocently.
"Damn wench! That's not a compliment." Inuyasha stated the obvious.
"Oh come on Inuyasha. Don't be angry. But would you want Shippou to be exactly like you?" She asked trying to make her point.
"Yes…no…maybe!" He growled, turning his back to Kagome while crossing his arms over his chest stubbornly.
"See, Shippou needs a role model, and you're his. And a role model is someone that they want to be like. I love you a lot but you have to stop swearing…for Shippou." Kagome reminded him once again of her love for him, unknowingly making Sesshoumaru extremely jealous.
"Yeah, yeah." Inuyasha said. "I want to go and look for jewel shards." He said like a child asking for a cookie.
"Fine, I'll go and get everyone and tell them that we're leaving, again." Kagome sighed. She got up and walked away toward where everyone else was.
When she was gone, Sesshoumaru turned to Inuyasha. "You are an idiot." She said simply.
"What? WHY!" He snapped his head in Sesshoumaru's direction.
"Kagome just told you twice that she loves you and you said nothing in return." He said emotionless.
"So what?" Inuyasha stubbornly huffed. "Like you would do anything more."
"I would at least take it as a compliment. You start getting angry and start yelling. A unless human action."
"You're just mad cause Kagome said she loves me and didn't say anything about you." Inuyasha mocked.
"Anger and jealousy are meager human emotions. A demon such as I does not have a need to feel." Sesshoumaru informed him coldly.
"Yeah, well I don't think that Kagome should have everything?" Inuyasha asked.
"Of course." Sesshoumaru agreed, not sure where this was going.
"Well she likes knowing how people feel. Demon or not she will still want t know your feelings. She won't be terribly happy when she finds out you don't feel." Inuyasha gloated.
"I never said I could not feel, only that I had no need to, and emotions have nothing to do with the situation at hand." Sesshoumaru insisted.
"Sure it doesn't." Inuyasha said with sarcasm dripping from his voice, but he walked away before Sesshoumaru could come back with another question or comment.
Soon the whole group was rounded up and ready to set off yet again. SO they started walking in the direction of the jewel shards were rumored to be.
After a few days of walking, the group had already gotten 7 shards! The demons kept popping up everywhere and Kagome was running low on arrows, which could cause a problem in the near future. So in the next village the group stopped to get supplies. They got first aid supplies (ones that were available in that era!) and more arrows and lots of food.
A few days later Kagome was looking around the campfire when she thought about Naraku, they were so close to collecting at least half of the shards, There was the half that Naraku possessed and the 2 that belonged to Koga.
"So where are we going tomorrow?" She asked Inuyasha.
"North, that's where there have been the most rumors of Naraku." He answered.
"How many shards are left to be found?" Shippou asked anyone who knew the answer. Everyone looked at Kagome expectantly.
"From what I know there is about 4 shards left, 2 of them belong to Koga and I don't know where the other ones are, maybe Naraku already got a hold of them." Kagome explained, everyone nodded their head in understanding.
"Well, it's getting late, Shippou, Rin…its bedtime." Kagome told the young children.
"Kagome, will you tell us a story?" Rin asked, her speech had greatly improved.
"Of course, but just a short one alright. I need to talk to Inuyasha, Sango, Miroku and Sesshoumaru about what will happen tomorrow. It would be boring for you to listen." She said kindly. SO the 2 children and the teenager left to get/put to bed.
After about 15 minutes Kagome returned. Everyone looked at her expectantly.
"It's about the Shikon Jewel." She finally said. "We are almost finished and I wanted to make sure everyone knew what they were going to do when our journey is complete." Kagome was choking back tears as she said this and Sango has silent tears falling down her face.
"No Kagome! We can use the jewel to keep you here!" Sango cried running over to embrace her best friend, the one who she could tell anything to, the friend who always comforted her about her brother and Miroku. The friend who she could talk to and would talk to her in return.
"That would be a selfish wish! The jewel would not be purified." Kagome said sadly, a lone tear forced itself out of her eyes.
"We'll find a way to keep you here Kagome." Miroku said, hating to see how sad the two girls were. He looked at Inuyasha for help but noticed that none could be given for Inuyasha had a look of pure horror on his face. Inuyasha didn't know what to feel, he was scared, angry, sad, and betrayed.
'Kagome can't leave! I have to find a way to keep her here!' He thought desperately. "You aren't going anywhere!" He said stubbornly.
"Inuyasha I have no choice!" Kagome cried.
"Yes you do! You could stay here and everything would be fine!"
"Inuyasha you're being an idiot! You know I can't stay here!" Kagome yelled angrily at the half demon she loved so much.
"I bet you just want to go back to see your precious Hobo!" Inuyasha spat his pet name for Hojo.
"It's Hojo and NO! That's not why! I'm trying to do what's best for everyone!" She yelled, her tears were unstoppable now.
"No! You're going what you want! You don't care about anyone here!" He screamed at her.
"…" Kagome made a funny noise in her throat. She couldn't say anything. She was so hurt by what he had said that she couldn't even cry, the tears had stopped. She turned on her heals and started walking away silently.
"Inuyasha you bastard! How could you say that!" Sango screeched Miroku was holding her back so she couldn't hurt him.
"Feh!" Inuyasha said turning his back to her, hoping that no one would see his guilt.
"Inuyasha why would you say such a thing to Kagome? You know she doesn't wish to leave us!" Miroku yelled while letting Sango go. He hit Inuyasha over the head with his staff.
"Ahhhh! You are ALL crazy!" Inuyasha snapped.
"Go after her and if you don't apologize right now I'm going to exterminate your ass!" Sango threatened, a serious look covered her face.
Inuyasha didn't want to see what he had done to Kagome. He hurt her and he didn't want to see the pain that he had put in her eyes. He didn't want to see her broken. He wished he could see her as her normal self, the one that he didn't break. But he had broken her and he would have to put her back together, so he left without saying anything to the group.
Hey everyone, sorry, I left another cliffhanger. But I'll make sure that the next one isn't. But if I didn't make this one a cliffhanger, what would there be for you to be exited about next time? But as usual I want to thank everyone for reading (even if you're not reading this :P) and special thanks goes out to…MY REVIEWERS!
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