Chapter Three
Okay, this chapter has now been betaed.
I would like to give a nice thank you for all my reviewers! And I want to thank my beta reader kawaiichibishun.
Now the rest of the chapters should follow this writing style. So I hope none of you get confused.
Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto and Inuyasha I would be able to get a better laptop. But sadly, since I don't own them I'm stuck on my mom's computer until I have enough money for a new laptop.
"normal talk"
"the jewel talking"
'defined thoughts or talking in one's head'
Chapter Three: A bored Kagome is a dangerous Kagome
General P.O.V.
When Kagome woke up, the rain had finally stopped two hours before, and Itachi and Kisame had been walking for five hours in all. They had already long since removed the weapons from her person.
Kagome felt groggy as she woke up. 'What happened?' The last thing she remembered was yelling at some cloaked dude…
"He knocked me out again!" Kagome yelled, outraged, pounding her fists into Itachi's back when her mind clicked the pieces together.
Kisame and Itachi jumped when Kagome suddenly and unexpectedly yelled, slamming her fist down.
Kagome then noticed that she was looking at the ground. And the ground was moving. 'Oh look, a rock. There goes another rock... oh, there was a grass patch. Why is the ground moving?' Looking up, she saw the back of Itachi's head.
"Hey, pin-wheel. Why are you carrying me?" Kagome asked the first thing that came to mind. "Pin-wheel" ignored her.
Propping herself on her elbows, Kagome took a good look around the passing scenery. They were still in the forest, but their surroundings at the moment were not as thick as the forest that she last remembered being in. Finishing her observation, she turned her attention to Kisame.
"Hey, fish-stick." Kisame glared at her. Ignoring the glare, she asked her question. "When's lunch?" Kisame almost tripped over a rock at her unexpected question.
"Watch your step; there was a rock there." Her warning came too late. Kisame glared harder at her, and started to reach for the sword strapped to his back.
"You know, you and pin-wheel here are almost as good at glaring as Sesshy," Kagome commented. "You guys need to loosen up a little, you know that? Your face will get stuck like that if you keep it up for much longer. You can ask Sesshy; his face is stuck the same way almost all day." Kisame resisted the urge to strangle the girl. "Oh! We've never been formally introduced!" Kagome realized. Holding out her hand she stated, "Hi, my name is Kagome Higurashi. You can just call me Kagome. Nothing less and nothing more."
Kisame was shocked at the gesture, but he held his hand out nonetheless. "Kisame Hoshigaki. Just call me Kisame." He shook her hand. Most girls didn't want to be in the same room as him, let alone be willing to touch him.
"Well it's nice to meet you, Kisame. Now would you mind going in my bag and pulling out a chocolate chip energy bar for me?" she asked politely. Not seeing the harm in it, Kisame shrugged and took the bag off his back. "It should be in the left bottom pouch," she told him. Opening the pouch, he found a couple of the bars and got one out for her. "Feel free to have one as well; you can have any flavor you like." Taking one out for himself, he handed her the one she had requested. "Thanks." He nodded his head.
"Sure." Kisame opened his and took a bite.
Looking over her shoulder, Kagome looked at the back of Itachi's head. "Hey, pin-wheel." She felt him briefly stiffen at the nickname. She smirked; it was easy to get under his skin. "Would you like one?" she inquired.
"Hn," was his unhelpful response.
"So was that a yes, or no?" Kagome asked. He ignored her. "You know, you really need to work on your people skills." Kisame smirked; maybe this girl wasn't so bad after all.
"Hn." Itachi went back to ignoring her.
"Fine then, you don't get one." Kagome turned her attention back to Kisame. At least he talked. "So Kisame, where are we going?"
"Were taking you back to base so Leader can see you. You could be of some use," Kisame said. "If not we'll probably end up killing you." He shrugged.
"Oh," was all Kagome could say. She was once again being kidnapped, and had the hand of death above her again. Well, not to worry, she was now a professional at that. She would just wait for the right moment to distract her captors and get back to the well. But how to get the Jewel to let her get back was a whole other story. Until then, she would get to know Kisame better, so she wouldn't be bored. That and she might learn something useful for getting away.
"So," Kagome drawled out. "How long till we get there?"
"Two days." This came from Itachi.
"Wow, we must be pretty far from here, then. How long have I been asleep?"
"A couple of hours, but if you're thinking about escaping, then forget it. You have no idea where you are, and we're not going to tell you," Itachi informed her.
"Oh, okay. Well, how about we play a game to pass the time?" Kagome asked. Kisame just looked at her oddly. Wasn't she supposed to be screaming her head off, like when Itachi first flung her over his shoulder? Isn't she supposed to be plotting her escape, instead of playing games and getting to know her captors better? Deciding that he should ask her, he did.
"Would you prefer it if I started screaming like a banshee?" He told her no. "Would me yelling do any good except for getting me knocked out again?" No again. "And shouldn't I at least try and entertain myself for what could very well be the last two days of my life?" Kagome finished with that question.
Kisame thought it over; it made more sense than being depressed and wasting your last two days. Shrugging, Kisame agreed to play a game.
"What do you want to play?" he asked.
Kagome thought it over for a minute. She knew just the game that she might be able to get information from him with. "How about we take turns asking each other questions - but you can't pause for a long time to answer or ask; sound good to you?"
"Sure. You can go first;" Kisame said. He could see that Itachi was now paying attention.
"Okay, first question, what's with the tacky matching cloaks?" Kagome asked, staring at the cloaks.
"They show that were members of the Akatsuki. My turn, how old are you?"
"Eighteen. How long have you been ninja?"
"Since I was eleven. Where are you from?"
"Tokyo, Japan. If you've never heard of it, well, that's not my problem. Where are you from?"
"The Village Hidden in the Mist. Do you have family?"
"Yes, I have a little brother named Souta, my mother, and my grandfather. We all live at Sunset Shrine. What's with the weird aura coming off your sword?"
"It's one of the seven Swords of the Mist. What's an aura?" Kisame was curious.
"An aura is the power that a certain object or person gives off. As long as something has power stored in it or a person is alive, they will give off an aura." Kagome explained. "Now what's this chakra thing?"
"Chakra is the fuel that your body uses to do physical work or a jutsu," Kisame explained.
Itachi, who had been listening the whole time, decided to ask a question of his own. "Why were you yelling at your necklace?"
Kagome looked back at him in shock. She had forgotten that he was there. Suddenly, she smiled. "Yea, pin-wheel's joining in," she said, knowing it would change the subject. She didn't want to tell too much about herself, except for what wouldn't do any harm.
"You will stop calling me that blasted nickname," Itachi demanded; his eyebrow ticked. Kagome looked at the ground, and noticed that his toenails were painted a light purple.
Kagome smirked. "Whatever you say, pretty-boy."
Itachi was getting angry; what was it with her and her blasted nicknames? He was an Uchiha, and deserved some respect!
"Girl," he warned.
"Kagome."
"Don't push me, girl."
"Use my name, and I'll use yours."
Itachi noticed that his question still wasn't answered. The girl had managed to distract him for a moment. "Answer the question," he demanded.
Kagome tried to think up something that he might believe. "I'm mentally unstable?" she guessed, not sounding so sure of herself. It had almost worked with the other ninjas, might as well try it with them.
"Hn. That jewel electrocuted you when you insulted it and when you tried to take it off. What is it?" he demanded.
"Apparently, the sadistic marble has set out to ruin my life. Now, that was two questions, so I get to ask you that many as well; then, it's Kisame's turn. Your first question, do you have any family?"
"One little brother."
"Okay, second question, are you gay?" Kisame started to choke on the last bite of the energy bar that Kagome had given him, and Itachi tripped, causing Kagome and him to go tumbling into a limb-tied mess.
As Itachi and Kagome started to roll, he somehow wound up on top of her and their lips slammed together. They both stayed there, too shocked to move. That was, until Kagome realized that he had just stolen her first kiss. The time she had kiss Inuyasha didn't count, because that was just to stop him from turning full demon, and he didn't even know he was being kissed. So that didn't count. It took her a year to make herself believe that that one didn't count, and then here he goes and trips, causing them to kiss.
Kagome's face turned red from anger and embarrassment. She quickly shoved Itachi off her with amazing strength. And shot up.
"That was my FIRST kiss, you jerk! I was SAVING that!" Kagome screamed at him. Itachi stood up from where he landed a couple feet away, and glared at her.
Who cares if it was her first kiss? She just accused him of being gay! Itachi Uchiha was not gay! Itachi Uchiha had women beg to even spend five minutes in his presence, and she accused him of being gay?!
Kisame, who had finished choking in time to see their position before they came to their senses, was laughing his head off.
Kagome had a sudden idea. Walking up to Itachi she stopped in front of him.
"Listen Itachi, I think that we may have started off on the wrong foot, so how about we start fresh? Hmm, what do you say?" He looked extremely suspicious. "Here, to show my sincerity, I'll give you this luck charm that a close friend of mine gave to me." Kagome held out a closed fist. Hesitantly, he lifted his hand. She dropped the small rock into his hand. He turned it over to look at it better. It was the small rock that was shaped like a person that was in her pocket earlier. The second that both hands were touching it Kagome slapped the seal onto it.
The rock instantly transformed into a rock that weighed a ton, and Itachi slammed to the ground. Shock was written all over his face at the trick.
Immediately, Kagome turned to Kisame, who was laughing his head off at Itachi being tricked so easily. Sort of feeling bad for it, Kagome let out a chain of shock commands until Kisame was rendered unconscious. Rushing over to him, Kagome pulled off her bag and puts it on her own back.
"WENCH! You will take this thing off me RIGHT NOW!" Itachi had lost all control. He was ticked.
"My name's Kagome. Not wench. Learn it, use it, love it. I'm leaving now, and if I ever see your ugly face again it'll be too soon." Kagome waved good-bye and turned around. "Oh, and tell Kisame I'm sorry about all the shock commands. I just can't have him coming after me. Somehow, I don't think he would let me just walk off. Bye now!" With that, Kagome took off to try and find a way back to the well.
(A/N: I thought about ending the chapter here but decided it was to short.)
With Kagome
Kagome sighed. She had no idea where she was. After talking to a passing traveler, she was now sure that this was an alternate universe. She had asked the stranger if she could take a look at his map, and he had let her. Lucky for her, it was a map of the whole continent. Not so lucky, it looked nothing like any of the continents in her world. They were shaped completely differently.
She had thanked the traveler and went on her way. She only had very loose information of where the well was. It was somewhere in Fire Country. She had made note of the directions to the edge of Fire Country closest to her, so she had somewhat of a sense of direction to head to. As for how she would find the well itself among all the forests that covered the edge of Fire Country ... well, she would figure that out when she got there.
Maybe she could convince the Jewel to help her find the well? Probable not, but it was worth a try.
Noticing a puddle on the ground, she remembered that she was still in her soaked clothes. Stepping off the road and into the forest, Kagome found a large tree to change behind. Putting her bag down, she opened it and pulled out a new change of clothes. 'At least the Jewel sent me to this world when I was fully prepared,' Kagome thought, trying to find some good in the situation.
Slipping into a denim skirt that had cargo pockets on the sides and a white shirt with red lettering that read "I used to have super-human powers ... but my therapist took them away", she pulled on her extra pair of dry tennis shoes so she would be more comfortable for walking. Kagome then placed her weapons, which she had found in her bag, where she could easily get to them if need be.
Getting back on the road after her quick change into dry clothes, Kagome decided to try and talk to the Jewel.
She felt so stupid doing this. "Hey, Jewel." No answer.
She tried again. "Hey, stupid Jewel that gets its kicks from my misfortune," Kagome said.
"You called?" the Jewel answered.
"How do I get back to the well?" Kagome questioned.
"Why should I help you?" the Jewel questioned. "I want to be here."
Kagome's eye ticked. She spent three years putting this sadistic marble together, and not only does it try to force her to give up more years of her life doing some job here, but it constantly backtalks her. "Fine, I'll leave you here and you let me go home, or at least to the feudal era," Kagome bargained.
"No, I like you, you're funny when you trip; you'll have to stay here with me," the Jewel said. "Besides, you still have a job to do here. Do you think that I would send you here for no reason besides my wish for a change of scenery?"
"Yes," Kagome answered without hesitating.
"You're cold, you know that? You're really cold."
"And you are a talking marble that caused my life to fall to ruin."
"Do you really think that? If it wasn't for me, you would have never met any of your friends," the Jewel pointed out.
It had a point. If the Jewel hadn't done all it had, she would have never of met any of her friends. But then again, a lot of them wouldn't have had some of their misfortunes befall them. Sango would still have her village, Kouga's tribe wouldn't have had the devastating blow that it did, Shippo's father wouldn't have been killed for his jewel shard, and many other people wouldn't have suffered.
"True, but the demon slayer's village still could have been attacked, regardless of Naraku trying to gain the shard, at the hands of other demons who held a grudge against them. Kouga's tribe would still have been at war with the Birds of Paradise, still losing lives - and Kouga's tribe would still be feasting upon the blood of humans. The kit's father could had still been killed by the thunder demons for his pelt; many foxes are hunted for them, and then the kit wouldn't have had anyone to watch out for him – he would have been killed within a week. And many more people would have still lost their lives due to all the wars. I simply sped up the inevitable, and brought some people together in the process. If it wasn't for that, Naraku would have never been killed, and your friend the monk would had been sucked into his cursed hand; he would never have lived long enough to see that son of his who's on the way," the Jewel explained to Kagome.
"Sango's having a boy! Oh, I can wait to tell her!"
"You missed the whole point of what I just told you, didn't you?"
"No, you have a point, but why me?" Kagome whined.
"Why not? You have a large soul that can keep you alive even with half of it gone; not many people could do that. You have a natural talent that's let you make friends of opponents easily, instead of having to kill them. And you're not judgmental... okay, not too judgmental. And you provide hours of entertainment. Kikyo was so boring! All she ever did was pray, sleep, heal people, eat like a bird, pray some more, fight demons, eat some more, and then sleep. It was the same thing every day! It was like she was a robot or something." The Jewel's complaints echoed loudly in Kagome's mind.
Kagome stopped walking. "What can I call you?"
"Hm? What do you mean?"
"Well, I can't just go on calling you 'Jewel', so what do you want to be called?"
The Jewel thought it over for a minute. "Bob."
Kagome sweat-dropped. The Jewel wanted to be named 'Bob'? Could you get any more original? "Bob?" Kagome asked.
"Yes, Bob is a nice name. It's simple, I like it," the Jewel explained.
"Wait a minute. I thought that you were supposed to be Midoriko and some other demons' souls?" Kagome questioned.
"I was, but you broke and fixed me so many times that my souls became one, and it came out with me."
"Oh... well, I guess that makes some kind of sense. Well, Bob, if you're not going to let me go home, what is my job here?" Kagome questioned.
"I'm still working on it," the Jewel answered.
Kagome's eye twitched. Bob really was trying to make her life miserable. There wasn't even really a reason for her to be here!
"You mean that you don't know the reason we're here?" Kagome tapped her foot.
"Of course I know why we're here," Bob stated.
"Would you please tell me that reason?" Kagome was trying very hard not to loose her temper.
"Nope."
Kagome lost it.
"What do you MEAN 'nope'?! Now, you are going to TAKE ME BACK to the well, and you're going to REMOVE THE BARRIER and LET ME GET BACK HOME this instant!" Kagome demanded of Bob, while shaking the jewel from its place around her neck.
"No. I don't want to." Bob's reply sounded like a spoiled little child. "Besides, you're going to be very busy in just a moment." Bob said like it didn't matter.
Kagome was about to yell at the Jewel some more, when five men suddenly dropped form the trees above. They were all wearing black, and had the same metal bandana-thing going on as Itachi and Kisame, except theirs all were matching, with a musical note on their metal plate.
"Um, hi?" Kagome asked, not to sure how to respond.
One of the men, most likely the leader, stepped forward. "I'll make it simple for you. Give us your money and we won't kill you slowly," he stated.
'Wasn't it supposed to be 'give us your money and we won't kill you?' Not 'we won't kill you slowly'?'
"Umm, I don't really have any currency that will work here. I'm from a different country," Kagome explained. The leader didn't look too happy about the news.
"Then we'll check your bag after we kill you."
"But isn't it bad luck to kill an insane person?" Kagome asked.
"What?" the leader asked. 'What the crap was the woman talking about?'
"Didn't you see me having a conversation with myself just a moment ago? I'm clearly insane and it's said that, if you kill an insane person, you'll become insane too," Kagome told them.
"I don't believe that. Besides, you don't look insane," the leader informed her.
"Ah, but it's not the outside that tells you if a person is insane. It's the inside of their head that's messed up. And last I checked, someone talking to themselves is a clear sign of insanity. Clearly, I was talking to myself just a moment ago until you so rudely interrupted my lovely conversation with Bob," Kagome remarked.
The leader looked confused. Then his face set into a line of determination. "I don't care if you're insane or not. Kill her and take her bag," the leader commanded two of the other ninja.
Two of the ninja immediately came at Kagome with kunai, so Kagome instantly put up a barrier. The two ninjas slammed headfirst into her barrier before they could stop.
Kagome winced; that had to of hurt. As the two stood up and wobbled around for a second, the others stood in shock.
"Hey, are you two okay?" Kagome inquired.
The leader tensed; was she making fun of them? "Everyone, kill her."
All of the others snapped out of their daze and attacked. Kagome was attacked on all sides, but to no avail. Her barrier stood firm. The leader called off their attack when he saw it doing nothing. He threw a kunai at her barrier, and saw her slightly tense. He smirked. Making shadow clones of himself, he told the rest to do the same.
"Wow! How'd you do that?!" Kagome's jaw almost dropped to the ground. All these people just multiplied.
"Everyone, attack her at once and her barrier should collapse." Everyone waited for the signal to attack.
'Uh-Oh,' Kagome thought. 'This could be bad.' Kagome went into a fighting stance. Once her barrier broke, she would have to fight them off by hand. She just hoped that they didn't have any more tricks like this one up their sleeves.
The leader gave his signal, and they all attacked. The moment Kagome's barrier collapsed, she pulled out her sword. She used some of her power to throw enough of them away from her that she could focus on incapacitating or outright killing some of them. She noticed that at least three of them disappeared in a puff of smoke when her power touched them.
She didn't have much time to ponder on it, because she had to block some strange star knives. Seeing them bury themselves deep into the tree behind her, she knew it would be bad if one of those hit her.
Sweat-dropping, she wondered what she did in her past life that deserved this. Oh, wait; she was Kikyo. Well that explained a lot.
When Kagome kicked one of them in the head, it disappeared in another puff of smoke. Grinning, she made her power flare briefly, then drew it back in. All of the people disappeared, except or the original five. She also noticed that all of these people had a small drop of demon blood in them. Hardly noticeable, but it was still there. Now, this number she could take.
Kagome charged them with her katana drawn. She quickly jumped over one of them, and stabbed him in the back. As he fell to the ground, another attacked her from behind. Pulling some of her miko power into her hands, she blasted the man back, before gutting him while he was on the ground.
Two more charged at her while doing something with their hands. Kagome wasn't expecting the fireballs that shot from their hands after they called out an attack. Jumping back, Kagome noticed that the edge of her skirt was on fire. Eyes widening, she tried to pat the fire out. The two attackers took the chance, and attacked her.
When she noticed the attackers, it was too late to put up a barrier. Kagome tensed, and waited for her head to be removed from her shoulders. She heard a whistling sound come from behind her, and two kunai were plunged deep into her attackers' necks, sending them flying back 'til they hit the ground, dead the instant the kunai went into their necks.
Kagome looked at the dead men. "Well that was lucky," she said out loud. "Wonder where those came from?"
"WENCH!!" Now, who did she know here who sounded like that? That yell sounded like something she had heard before. If she could only place a face and name with it...
"You're going to PAY for that TRICKERY!" the voice huffed.
Kagome slammed her fist onto her flat palm. 'Pin-wheel! That's whose voice it was.'
Kagome turned around to see a very ticked off looking Kisame and Itachi. 'Oh. Crap. This could be bad. Very, very bad.'
Beaming a smile at them, she decided it might be a good idea to try and talk her way out of this one. "Oh, hey guys! How have you been?"
The last ninja who had tried to attack the girl decided that it might be a good time to get out of there. If she was friends with Itachi Uchiha, he knew he didn't stand a chance. Teleporting as far as he could, he took off at a dead run back to base.
With Itachi
Itachi's eye twitched. She had left him under a rock that he couldn't lift no matter how hard he tried, and a passing traveler, when asked to remove the sealing spell, had taken off running screaming about how a ninja was going to kill him.
So he had to wait five hours, FIVE HOURS, for Kisame to wake up and remove the spell. But instead of doing it immediately, he stood there laughing his head off at Itachi's predicament and making fun of him. He had even gone so far as to take a picture of it with their camera, which was supposed to be for mission proposes only. And so Itachi couldn't destroy the camera because it still contained the film from their last stakeout. Finally, after threatening Kisame that he would use the Tsukiyomi on him otherwise, his partner removed the spell.
Then came the long and annoying job of tracking the girl down. He couldn't believe that she had made it so far within so few hours without the help of chakra in her legs. Perhaps she used her miko chi in the same way that they used their chakra?
They were getting surprisingly close to the area they had found her.
Finally, they heard fighting and went to check to see if it her.
It was.
She had already taken down two of the ninja before they had arrived. Just seeing her there made his blood boil. He could tell that Kisame was remembering all the shock commands that she had given him before she left and was ticked as well.
As they watched, two more of the other ninjas attacked her with a fire jutsu. She easily jumped out of the way from it. He took note that she didn't use and chakra to power her jump; it was pure muscle. Then she took notice that her skirt was on fire. Completely dropping the fight, she tried to put the fire out. The ninjas took advantage of her distraction to launch another attack.
Seeing them about to kill her, Itachi jumped in and threw two kunai straight into their throats. If anyone was going to kill her, it would be him. Yes, he was going to enjoy killing her in the most long and painful way he could think of. First, he would torture her with his Tsukiyomi until she begged for death, and then he would torture her in real life. He would make it last for days, until he would stab her in the gut for an even more slow and agonizing death. He would watch as the life drained from her eyes. Then he would laugh, and leave her corpse for the birds. Yes, that sounded like a good idea.
"Well that was lucky," she said. "Wonder where those came from?"
Itachi has never been as mad as he was ... Right. At. This. Moment. "WENCH!!" he yelled. Oh yes, she would suffer; he would make sure of it. She seemed to be lost in thought. Now she was ignoring him yet again!
"You're going to PAY for that TRICKERY!" he yelled at her.
She slammed her fist to her hand. She had just remembered who they were. She turned around with the biggest fake smile he'd ever seen, and Itachi could feel the fear and nervousness rolling off her in waves. Good. She knew what was coming.
"Oh, hey guys! How have you been?" she tried to play it off.
He glared at her. Almost as if she could feel him trying to burn a whole through her, she started to sweat.
Kisame looked about ready to rip her to shreds and eat the pieces. Itachi held out his hand to stop him, giving him a look that said "I will take care of her". It took a moment, but he nodded his head, saying that he would stay out of it.
Pulling out a kunai he threw it at her; it pinned her by her sleeve, right by her neck, to the tree right behind her. Her neck started to trickle a small line of blood where the kunai had just scraped her, as her eyes widened to the size of saucers. Itachi could almost smell her fear in the air, and enjoyed every second of it.
"Um, perhaps we could work something out?" she asked in a panic. "You could not kill me, and I… um… I… what would it take for you not to kill me?" she asked in haste.
Itachi smirked sadistically. "I'm going to enjoy this," he stated before taking a step forward. Her eyes widened again. She started to tug at the kunai pinning her to the tree, like an animal in a trap, but the kunai was in to deep for her to remove it with just one hand.
When he was perhaps five feet from her, she grinned as though remembering something. She threw out her hand as a pink bubble surrounded her.
"Ha! Beat that pin-wheel! You can't get pass my barrier!" she exclaimed. She pulled at her lower eyelid, and stuck out her tongue and blew a raspberry. 'Pin-wheel' decided that he would remove that tongue for her.
Itachi narrowed his eyes. What other tricks did she have up her sleeve? Looking over at the two ninja she had killed, his eyes widen ever so slightly. They were from the Village Hidden in the Sound. They were extremely hard to kill, compared to normal ninja. He could kill them easily, of course, but she wasn't a ninja; that much was clear from carrying her for five hours. She had muscle, but not in the same places a ninja would. How powerful was she? She couldn't be all that powerful considering how easily he had taken her out. Her defenses were horrible and she was easily distracted.
"Wench, why were these ninjas attacking you?" Itachi demanded.
"Oh, those were more ninjas?" she asked curiously.
He resisted the urge to try and walk through her barrier and strangle her. Answers were needed first. "Answer the question, wench." Her previous fear and nervousness disappeared, and was instead replaced with rage.
Her eyebrow twitched. "My name is NOT 'wench'! Why is it any human, demon, child, and even ghost can never get my name right?! Is my name hard to remember? NO! It's three simple syllables! KA-GO-ME!! Use it!" she finished her yelling tantrum huffing.
Itachi stopped listening to her after she said 'demon'. He narrowed his eyes. She actual knew demons? How would that be possible? There was only nine that he knew of for sure, and she was too young to have known any demon personally except the wild ones. But that didn't make sense. Those demons couldn't talk. Could they?
"Girl," Itachi started.
"My NAME is KAGOME!"
"If I agree to call you by name, will you answer any questions I ask you truthfully?" Itachi questioned, glaring at her.
Kagome narrowed her eyes, wondering what he would ask. But she really hated it when someone called her a wench, like he seemed on intent on calling her. "If you agree to call me by my name from now on, I'll answer any two questions you ask. But only two. Do you agree to the terms?"
Itachi thought it over. It was better than nothing, and he could always force more answers out of her later. Yes, he was still going to make her suffer. No one made a fool out of Itachi Uchiha and got away without a scratch.
"How do I know that you'll keep your end of the bargain?" Itachi wanted to be safe.
"I give you my word as a miko that I will answer any question you ask truthfully. BUT... you also have to give me your word as whatever it is that you are that you'll start addressing me by my name," Kagome demanded.
"Agreed." Itachi said.
"Will you attack me if I drop this barrier?" Kagome asked. He didn't answer. "I won't answer your questions if you attack me," she warned.
Itachi gave a short nod that he wouldn't attack her, and the barrier dropped. After his questions were answered... now, that was another matter.
End Chapter.
So how was that, people? Tell me what you think. I would really like to know if people are liking this fic or if I should improve on things. Another thing, am I keeping them in character? If you could tell me it would be MUCH appreciated. Please review. I don't know what I need to fix to get this a better fic if you don't tell me.
-Probs