Chapter 5

"Oh!" Kagome gasped, "Can we go there?" she pointed in the direction of a street show.

"Sure." Inuyasha said leading her over to the street performer. There was a woman dancing beautifully with a small band playing behind her.

When they were done, Kagome gracefully walked over and gave the dancer and each band member a gold coin. "That was a lovely performance." She complimented.

"Thank you." The woman said bowing respectfully.

"Come on Kagome, let's keep looking around. I think we lost Sango, Miroku and Sesshoumaru." Inuyasha said walking toward Kagome.

"Prince Inuyasha!" The woman gasped bowing low to show her deepest respects.

"Yeah, in the flesh. Good job with the dancing." Inuyasha said, his tone on the verge of boredom. "Here," he said giving her a few gold coins "Tell your band they're pretty good."

"Of course Prince Inuyasha." The woman grinned happily. While Inuyasha led Kagome in another direction, the woman wondered if the two were a couple. They did look meant to be after all.

Kagome couldn't help but beam at Inuyasha.

"What?" He snapped, getting tired of her staring.

"Nothing." She answered looking forward once again.

"Aw Kagome!" He wined childishly. "Come on! You're not being fair."

"It was just so nice what you did back there." Kagome smiled.

"That's all?" Inuyasha asked, rather disappointed.

"No! That's not all, I think what you did was very caring." She said giving Inuyasha a kiss on the cheek. He blushed a small shade of red.

"It was nothing." He said, trying to hide his blush from Kagome, who just giggled.

"Let's go find Sango, Miroku and Sesshoumaru." Kagome laughed walking ahead, forcing Inuyasha to run to catch up.

"Where could Kagome be?" Sango asked herself.

"Well, we know she's safe. Inuyasha is with her. Believe me, he wouldn't let anything happen to her." Miroku assured.

"Unless Inuyasha gets hurt leaving Kagome in danger." Sesshoumaru offered another opinion.

Sango just laughed. "Kagome always gets into trouble." She explained. "I will be more surprised if nothing happens to her. She has been harassed so many times by people visiting the village near the castle that I've lost count. Not to mention all the times she's been chased after. Poor Kagome. But the worst of anything is her sister Kikyo! She terrorized Kagome just because she's jealous of her. Kikyo believes that she is more beautiful, more powerful and more respected. Even thought it's obvious that Kagome is more respected because she is friends with the villagers, more powerful because they listen to her, and Kikyo is so horrible, beauty is far from her."

"Speak of the devil. Here comes Kagome!" Miroku cried when kagome came into view with Inuyasha at her side.

Kagome was white as a ghost and Inuyasha was trying to console her.

"See," Sango whispered to Miroku. "Something always happens to her."

"I wonder what happened." Miroku whispered back.

"Just wait, she'll tell us." Sango said. But she noticed Kagome looked shocked and angry, while Inuyasha looked surprised. "Kagome, what's wrong?"

"He shouldn't be here! He should be back there!" She fumed.

"Hojo!" Kagome shouted, "He followed us here! I'm lucky he didn't see me or I would have had to run!"

"Kagome, don't count your blessings yet." Sango sighed.

"Wh-"

"Oh Kagome!" A voice behind Kagome called, making her groan.

"Help!" She begged Inuyasha. He nodded when she started inching closer to him in hopes that it would drive Hojo away. He put his arm around her slim waist and pulled her closer to him.

"Hey! Get your hands off of Kagome!" Hojo yelled. Succeeding only in making Inuyasha tighter his grip on her.

"What did you say?" Inuyasha spat.

"I said…" Hojo started off bold, but when he saw the glare in Inuyasha's eyes, he lost his spark. "Would you please let go of Kagome?"

"Why should I?" Inuyasha asked, deciding to play with him a bit.

"Because Kagome and I are in love." Hojo said confidently. Inuyasha looked down at Kagome who groaned and hid her face in his chest.

"It's obvious that you haven't heard that Kagome is going to be marrying either my brother," Inuyasha said pointing to Sesshoumaru. "Or myself. So you really have no reason to say that you two are in love." Inuyasha growled.

"She will be mine!" Hojo yelled as he scurried away.

"What a wimp." Inuyasha laughed. "He ran away! We weren't even fighting and he ran away!"

"Thank you SO much!" Kagome cried giving Inuyasha a big hug. Sesshoumaru was quickly getting very jealous of him.

'How has he gotten so close to her already?' he thought.

"Kagome, I hate to bring this up but if Hojo is here…wouldn't that mean Koga is here too? And if not, he will be here sooner or later." Sango said.

"Oh no!" Kagome moaned, burying her face in Inuyasha's chest again, letting him comfort her.

"Poor Kagome." Sango sympathized with Miroku. "With her luck, Kikio will come also, and Kikio is the worst that could happen. She is the cold, uncaring and slutty version of Kagome. She's done anything you can think of." Sango said, Miroku's eyes widened.

"You're joking." He whispered. Sango shook her head sadly.

"Anything you can think of." Sango was ashamed of knowing Kikio as well as she did. But living in the same house as someone did make you know a lot about them, even if you tried to keep away from them.

"How could she do that? Doesn't she care that she is embarrassing her post as a princess?" Miroku asked, gaping at the thought. He may be a pervert but he thought that it was strange.

"She doesn't care. That's why she and Lord Higurashi get along to well. Neither of them cares about anyone but themselves." Sango sighed.

"So," Inuyasha started, "who's Koga? And what was up with that Hojo guy?" He asked Kagome.

Kagome shivered at the thought of the two men. "They are both some men from back home who have…an…obsession." She said, trying to find some different words, but couldn't.

"And let me guess. Their obsession is you?" Inuyasha asked sarcastically.

"Unfortunately." She sighed. "I can't seem to make them realize that I'm not interested in them. They are too dense to realize my hints."

"Well, if you'd like, I'll help you with them." Inuyasha offered.

"Would you?" Kagome asked, excitedly. When he nodded she smiled gratefully. "That you SO much!" She cried happily.

"No problem." He said, putting his hand on her back and leading her back to the castle. "Lets go, it's getting dark." He said.

"Sure," She said, only noticing now how tired she was now.

"Kagome, are you going to make it all the way there?" Sango asked jokingly.

"Of course I will." Kagome snapped back playfully.

"Ok." Sango said. Then she turned to Sesshoumaru "She's not going to make it even half way." She whispered.

"That would be no problem. Either Inuyasha or myself with carry her." Sesshoumaru offered, never taking her eyes off the tired princess.

"Are you sure?" Sango asked.

"We are demons, she is feather light for us." Sesshoumaru said, as thought bragging.

"Ok, if you insist." Sango said, putting her hands up in defense.

"Of course I do." Sesshoumaru said.

Only moments later, Kagome leaned even more into Inuyasha making him decide that it was time that she be carried.

"What are you doing?" Kagome mumbled her protest.

"Bringing you back to the castle, what does it look like?" Inuyasha answered.

"Why are you carrying me?" She asked with a small yawn.

"Because if I don't, you'll end up falling asleep on the ground." He answered. "And at least this way you won't fall to the ground."

"I'm not tired though." She protested weakly.

"I'm sure you're not." Inuyasha said sarcastically.

"Ok, maybe a little bit." Kagome admitted. "Thank you."

"No problem." He said quietly as she leaned her head against his shoulders, since she was being carried bridal style, and fell asleep in his arms.

"Wow, look at Kagome!" Miroku commented quietly so as not to wake her up.

"Wow!" Sango gasped. "She must really trust him already."

"She barely knows him" Sesshoumaru commented.

"I know! That's why it's so surprising. Kagome would freak out if someone she didn't trust picked her up!" Sango said calmly. 'And she would NEVER trust someone enough to fall asleep while they were carrying her! What's going on? What made her trust him so much?' She thought.

"Probably that Inuyasha offered to help her in fencing and archery. Also it's possible that he has also offered to help her get Hojo and Koga out of the way. He told her that he thought that her fencing was a good idea." Miroku thought out loud.

"That would help. She always gets angry when people try and stop her from doing archery and fencing. And Hojo and Koga drive her crazy." Sango sighed. "Poor Kagome."

When everyone was back at the castle they were interrogated as of why Kagome was now being carried by Inuyasha instead of being conscious and walking by herself.

"Lord Tashio, nothing happened! Kagome met up with a man from the village back home that normally stresses her out, and when he left she started stressing about the possibility of another man from the village back home being here also. And after all that stressing she was incredibly tired and fell asleep and Inuyasha was kind enough to carry her." Sango explained.

"If Kagome was in any kind of danger I would not be trying to convince you otherwise. I would be out of my mind right now." Sango continued.

"Alright." If you're sure she's alright there's no need to send word to Lord Higurashi." Lord Inutashio said.

"There is never need to send word to Lord Higurashi. He never has and never will care about what happens to Kagome as long as she doesn't ruin the family name, which he thinks that she does on a regular basis." Sango said angrily.

"Surely you are over exaggerating." Lord Inutashio said calmly.

"I wish I was." She sighed. "Although he does care for Kikio, which is the reason the marriage was arranged. Kikio was getting angry at the attention Kagome was getting from the male population in the villages back home, and also her lack of it. Kikio convinced Lord Higurashi to send Kagome away so that she could be the princess of the Northern Lands, and so all the male attention would be hers." She sighed.

Lord Inutashio had a look of pity on his face.

"Kikio is completely horrid." Sango said.

"There seems to be something about his Kikio that you are not telling me." Lord Inutashio said.

"She is impure." Sango sighed sadly.

Lord Inutashio had a look of disgust on his face. "But Kagome is…" he trailed off hoping that he know the right answer.

"Completely untainted." Kagome's cheerful voice floated unto the room. "I must apologize. Falling asleep like that! How horrible of me." she said to the heads that turned her way. "Especially you Inuyasha, you were forced to carry me." She giggled lightly.

"It wasn't a problem." Inuyasha said from the far corner of the room. Kagome smiled at him.

"Lord Inutashio I am so sorry. I did not mean to be so rude, entering your castle in such a state." She apologized politely.

"Not at all. I was more worried of what had happened then anything else. And please, just call me Inutashio. The title is too much." He smiled kindly at Kagome, who was surprised, that someone other then Sango would be worried about her.

After a bit more talking, everyone headed off to bed.

"Kagome try to dream good dreams tonight." Sango encouraged softy, so no one else would hear.

"Thanks Sango, same goes to you." Kagome smiled kindly to her friend.

Kagome's Dream

She was running down a long corridor, constantly looking over her shoulder as though making sure no one was following her.

"You can run my little Kagome, but I will find you." A deep voice filled her heart with fear.

"No!" She screamed, "I've done nothing! Please, leave me alone!"

Suddenly the corridor ended ands he was stuck in a dead end.

"I told you, you couldn't get away from me." The voice said from behind her. Kagome whirled around. She gasped only one word.

"Naraku!"

End of Kagome's Dream

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