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Chapter Four: Questions You Shouldn't Answer

Kagome slowly let down the barrier, making sure that Itachi wouldn't suddenly attack her and ready to have it back up at the slightest hostile movement. She looked over at the kunai buried halfway to the hilt in the tree. She tried tugging at it again, but it wouldn't budge. Sighing, she looked over at Kisame.

"Hey, Kisame? Would you mind removing this for me?" Kisame glared at her, remembering all the shock commands she had given him.

Kagome realized what he was thinking, and sighed. "Look, I'm really sorry about all of the 'S' word commands. But I couldn't have you come after me. Like you said, if I'm not useful, I'm dead. I really don't like the thought of dying anytime soon. Especially since I just completed something that took a long time and over a hundred near death experiences to complete. So it would really suck if I died because I wasn't useful for something I have no control over," Kagome apologized.

Kisame looked over at Itachi to see what he should do. Itachi gave a small nod, so Kisame walked up to Kagome, and, with one hand, effortlessly pulled the kunai out.

"You couldn't pull this out by yourself? What a weak girl," Kisame mocked.

"Yeah, well, not all of us have youkai blood running in our veins," Kagome snapped back.

Kagome looked at the sun, and saw that it was getting late. Sighing, she looked over at Itachi. "Hey, what do you say we just camp together for the night, and you can ask your questions over dinner?" Kagome asked, sounding tired.

Thinking it over, he nodded. It would soon be dark, and they needed to find a good place for camp. And he and Kisame wouldn't have to hunt for dinner, giving them more energy for the next day. Besides, the girl would be camping with them whether she liked it or not.

Kagome smiled slightly. Looking over at the dead bodies, she decided something. Walking over to them, she started to search them.

"Hey, Kagome?" Kisame got her attention.

"Yeah?"

"What are you doing?" he asked.

"Something I learned from a dear monk friend of mine. They're dead, so they won't need their money. And if we don't take it, someone passing by will. Might as well take what I might need later on," Kagome said as she found what she was looking for. Pulling out the man's money pouch, she went to the next guy. This continued until she reached the last one. Looking at his weapon pouch, she decided to take it and try to learn to use the throwing knives that everyone here seemed to use. Attaching the weapon pouch, she looked at Itachi, and threw him two of the money pouches. "Those are from the men you killed so they're yours," She told him after he caught them. He nodded, and slipped them into a pocket on the inside of his cloak.

Walking away from the site, they traveled in silence until Kagome stopped them. "There is a clearing over there," Kagome stated, and started walking into the deeper part of the forest. Itachi looked suspicious as to why she knew this, while Kisame just shrugged it off.

Glimpsing Itachi from the corner of her eye, she smiled. "My friends and I traveled a lot, so I'm really good at spotting good camping grounds," Kagome explained. He seemed to ease slightly, but was still tense. He had learned the hard way that this girl could be tricky.

Just like Kagome had said, they came out of the thick trees and into a nice clearing a little ways from a river. They said nothing as Kagome dropped her bag and pulled out what she would need. Noticing that they didn't seem to have any camping supplies, she decided to ask about it.

"Where're your camping supplies?" she asked.

Kisame shrugged. "Don't need them," he replied.

"What do you guys do, sleep against a tree?" Kagome asked, not really paying attention as she was on autopilot setting up camp. Three years of almost nothing but camping could do that to you.

"Yeah, usually." Kisame replied, shrugging it off. Kagome bit her bottom lip. There was a cold breeze in the air tonight. And while Inuyasha would be fine sleeping like that, he was half demon. These people weren't. True, they might have demon blood in them, and Itachi could probable scare away any chilly air that tried to get him sick, but they were still, for the most part, human. Therefore, they were more prone to get sick if they didn't get proper protection from the cold. She would never get any sleep knowing that she was warm while they were cold. Digging through her bag, Kagome pulled out her spare blankets.

"Here." Kagome awkwardly held the blankets out to the two men, who just looked at her. "Would you please just use these if it gets cold tonight? I would never get any sleep knowing that you guys were cold while I was warm." Kagome blushed.

Itachi watched as the strange girl stood there holding out the blankets to them. Why would she care if they were cold or not? They had left her out in the rain tied to a tree just yesterday.

Kagome fidgeted under Itachi's gaze. Did she do something wrong?

After a few more moments, Itachi reached over and took one of the offered blankets. Giving her a small thanks, he sat by a tree and placed the still folded blanket in his lap. Kagome smiled at him, and Kisame took the other offered blanket, also saying his thanks. She smiled at him, too, and stood up.

"Could one of you please go and gather some fire wood?" Kagome asked politely. Kisame said he would, and walked off into the forest.

Kagome looked at the sun in the sky and saw that they maybe had an hour of sunlight left. "I had better go and get some water," Kagome told Itachi, and he nodded. She walked over to her bag and fished around for the water bottles. Pulling out four of them, she headed to the river to fetch the water, one for each person and another for the instant ramen.

Itachi watched her leave, and thought about the questions he would ask her. She was very strange. Recalling over everything he knew of her, he tried to think of what questions would give him the most important answers. One of the questions was obviously how she knew demons. The second question ... he would decide after she answered the first. It could, after all, lead to something else that could be important information.

Kagome arrived back at camp from the river. She had the four bottles of water in her arms, and handed one to Itachi as she walked by. She started to gather large rocks, and set them up in a circle in the middle of camp. Then, picking up the driest twigs she could, she placed them in a pile in the middle of the circle.

Sighing, she went back to her bag, and pulled out a pair of pajamas. Looking over at Itachi, she pointed to some trees in the opposite direction as Kisame had gone. He nodded his head in understanding, and she went and changed into her pajamas behind some large trees.

She walked back into the clearing with her clothes under one arm. He looked over her pajamas. The black tank top had a cartoon cat with a small dog on a lease that said 'I don't bite, but my dog does'. Her pants were loose-legged, and had the same picture as the shirt printed all over them.

Kisame came back with the fire wood right after Kagome had rolled out her sleeping bag. His arms were full with enough firewood to last the night. He dropped the firewood a little ways from the fire pit.

Kagome walked over, and set up the firewood. She took out her lighter, and tried to start the wood on fire, but the wood was just too wet. Sighing, Kagome prepared for nasty cold ramen since the fire wouldn't start.

Itachi saw her try to start the fire without success. Mentally sighing, he placed the blanket on the ground and stood up. Walking over to the fire pit, he saw Kagome look at him curiously. He motioned for her to stand back. After she was far enough back that she wouldn't get burnt, he nodded to her that she could stop. Doing the proper hand signals, he performed a small fireball jutsu.

Kagome about jumped out of her skin when fire erupted from Itachi's mouth. The fire caught after a second, and Kagome smiled brightly at him.

"I don't know what the heck that was, but thanks."

Itachi just nodded, and walked back over to his tree. Kagome went to preparing dinner while Kisame cleaned his weapons.

"What flavor of ramen do you guys like?" Kagome asked.

"Shrimp," came Kisame's answer.

"Hn, beef," Itachi replied.

Kagome nodded, and took out their ramen as well as a chicken one for her. Filling the cups with water, she closed the lids, and waited for the noodles to cook.

After a minute of complete silence besides Kisame sharpening his blades, Kagome decided to take a look at the weapons she had taken earlier. Looking at the unusual knives, she decided to ask what they were called.

"The long ones are kunai and the star ones are shuriken," Itachi answered her.

"Thanks, I'll have to ask Sesshy if he knows how to use them when I get home. He's going to be pretty mad that I'm missing training. Heh, he'll probably make me train for three days straight for being so late. Well, that or he'll beat me so hard in training that I'll feel it for a month," Kagome said, talking to herself quietly after the thanks, not thinking that they could hear her.

Itachi narrowed his eyes. She was still in training? She had thrown him through two trees, and she was still in training? And just who was this 'Sesshy' she kept mentioning?

Kagome popped out of her musings when she realized that the noodles were done. Passing the cups to their owners and a bottle of water to Kisame, she started to eat.

"So, you ready to ask your questions yet?" Kagome asked, not looking up from her noodles.

"Hn. How are you associated with demons?" Itachi asked.

Kagome blinked. Weren't demons common around here? Both ninjas had demon blood in them, and so did the other ninjas, no matter how diluted it was.

"Well, for the past three years, some friends and I have been fighting demons on an almost daily basis. That and the majority of my friends are actually demons," Kagome told them.

Itachi blinked. Was she lying to him? No. She was telling the truth. She must be; he was using an eye-based jutsu for detecting lies on her at the moment. Who was this girl? Where did she come from? Why did she travel with demons? Her answer had just opened new doors to questions, questions that he had every intent of having answered.

"You should ask her about where the well goes," a voice said inside his head. Itachi would have jumped ... if he hadn't long-since trained himself to remain calm and collected through everything he came across. Only this girl had ever made him feel so much emotion in a long time. Mostly anger, sadistic pleasure, curiosity, and rage, but it was more than anyone else could claim.

'Who are you?' Itachi demanded of the new voice inside his head.

"My name is Bob. You like it? I just got it today, when Kagome asked me what I would like to be called," the voice told him.

'Where are you?' Itachi then demanded. He didn't like the fact that someone else could so easily enter his mind.

"I'm around Kagome's neck," the voice answered in a careless tone.

'You're the pink sphere on the girl's necklace that she was talking to,' Itachi stated more that questioned.

"That would be correct. I'm the soul of the Shikon Jewel. But really, if you want to get the most out of your answer, you should ask her about where the well goes," the Jewel informed him.

'Hn. Very well,' Itachi conceded.

"So, do you have your second question ready?" Kagome inquired as she finished her ramen. She took out and began preparing another cup for Kisame, who had just asked for a second one.

Itachi nodded his head. "To where does the well we found you near lead?" Kagome stiffened. It seemed the Jewel was correct.

"Why would you want to know about a dried-up old well?" Kagome asked, trying to lead him off the question. She forced a small laugh.

Itachi saw what she was doing, and smirked. It must really be something if she was trying to change the subject. What was it about the dried-up old well that she was trying to hide?

"I asked my question, now answer it, Ka-Go-Me." Itachi made sure to pronounce each syllable like she did when she yelled to make sure that she remembered her part of the deal.

"Um…" Kagome knew she was stuck between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, she could tell him the truth and hope he didn't believe her, but then he would likely just kill her. Or she could tell him a lie. She had a feeling that he would know the instant the words left her mouth that they were false. Thinking fast, she tried to decide what she could do.

"You don't want to waste your last question about a well do you? I mean... there are so many other things you could ask about…like how I got the rock to transform earlier," Kagome prompted.

Itachi wasn't falling for it. As much as he would like to know how she did it, that could wait until she was being questioned at the base. "No, I would like very much to hear about the well you seem so attached to."

Suddenly she had inspiration. She decided to tell them the truth, but make it sound ridiculous. Then she'd add in a very applicable quote from her favorite movie, 'Pirates of the Caribbean'.

Taking a deep breath, she looked at them. "No lies?" she asked. They both nodded. Kisame wondered why Itachi would ask about the well instead of any other number of things he could be asking, and he wondered why she would try to avoid answering it. It was just an old dried up well. Wasn't it? He certainly hadn't felt any chakra coming from it earlier.

"Fine then. If you really must know, it started when I was pulled down the well on my fifteenth birthday by a centipede demon as long as a tree. When I came out of the well, instead of a roof being over my head, there were only clear open skies much cleaner than the ones I was use to. I had traveled back five hundred years into the past. I used the well as a transport back and forth through time where I had to do battle with demons." Kagome paused, and made to look like she was trying to think the rest up. "I had to also do a mission of great importance that could change history in my time if I messed up. Once my mission was complete, I still traveled back and forth… until my talking sadistic pink marble, Bob, sent me here. A completely different world." Kagome explained it so even a child wouldn't believe it, even though it was completely true.

"You said no lies!" Kisame shouted, and pointed an accusing finger at her.

Kagome wanted to brake out in a smile so bad that it hurt. He was doing exactly what he was supposed to do.

Itachi had kept his jutsu on through the whole answer, and saw she wasn't lying. She was answering truthfully, but explained it to look like a lie. He smirked mentally. "She's not lying, Kisame."

Kagome could have laughed out loud if it wouldn't have ruined the effect.

"If that was the truth, she would have told us something else. She was making it up as she went!" Kisame exclaimed.

That was her cue. "Unless I knew that you wouldn't believe the truth even if I told it to you," Kagome pointed out.

Kisame fell silent. Itachi's mental smirk grew, and a real one joined it; so that was her plan to get out of the answer. It was actually a very good plan. Make the truth sound unbelievable, then confuse the people questioning you by making them doubt themselves. "Yes, it is the truth, isn't it Kagome?" Itachi said in a sly voice. Her plan would have worked had he not had his jutsu.

"She tried to cheat! Quoting a movie like that. Man, Kisame really fell for it, too," the Jewel pointed out to him.

'Indeed.'

"So you're not from this world, Kagome," Itachi stated. Kagome tensed. Why did Itachi believe her? Why wasn't he accusing her of lying? He was supposed to be confused, dang it! Why was he just smirking like that? Oh, that couldn't be good.

Itachi could almost read her thoughts. "I wouldn't have believed a word you said… if it wasn't for the fact that, with these eyes, I can tell if you lie to me. Not once did you tell a lie in that whole story."

Kagome started to break into a nervous sweat. So that's why it didn't work. Imagine that, some crazy power for the crazy eyes. Who would have thought? How would she get out of this one?

"But now that I think back on it, it's not very surprising. You were yelling at the jewel when we first found you; it was when you first arrived here, wasn't it?" Itachi took a step towards Kagome. "Then when we traded asking and answering questions, there were some you should have known the answer to even as a civilian, but you truly didn't have a clue." He took another step closer to her. "Then there is your strange power. I had never heard of a miko before, but I know you didn't lie about being one." This time she took a step back when he took one forward. "Then… your story matches perfectly with what you were yelling at the well, when you didn't think anyone was there." Kagome's back hit a tree when she took another step back.

"Tell me, Kagome," Itachi took another step forward. His eyes shined with a predator's gleam. Kagome shuddered at the sight. She saw just how much of a killer he was. It reminded her of how Sesshomaru used to look at her, before their groups teamed up and she started to look out for Rin.

"How does the well work?" he asked in a sly voice as he took another step. He was only two steps away from her now. She started scooting around the tree, getting ready to run for it.

Itachi let out a sharp laugh when he saw what she was going to do. "I don't think that you'll be going to the well or home for a while, if ever again, Kagome."

Itachi was only a step away from her now. She looked like a cornered animal; her eyes were wide and her whole body was tense, ready to bolt at a second's notice.

Itachi took the step and placed has hands on each side of her so she couldn't escape. She looked into his cold calculating eyes, before he leaned in to her ear and whispered, "Oh, no, my little Kagome, you're going to come back to the base with Kisame and I. You could be very useful."

"And if you try to run, I'll have Kisame cut your legs off." Itachi warned. Kagome let out a small whimper.

'I'm not going to let you go home, Kagome. You must stay here, and I will do anything to make sure I get my way,' the Jewel told her, without emotion, in her mind. 'This is your new home now.'

Itachi caught Kagome as her legs gave out. Her gaze was blank; she was lost in her own thoughts. The Jewel wouldn't let her go home. She would never see her friends again. She wouldn't be there to watch Shippo grow. The Jewel wouldn't even let her go back to her own time. How could the thing be so cruel?

Kagome grabbed a fistful of Itachi's cloak as she let out a chocked sob. She was stuck here in this world that she didn't want to be apart of. She didn't want to give it a chance; she just wanted to go home.

"Please, just let me go home," Kagome begged anyone who would listen. It didn't matter if it was Itachi or the Jewel listening. She just wanted to go home.

"No. You could help speed the Akatsuki's plans up. Besides, you have nowhere else to go. The Jewel won't let you go back home, anyway," Itachi pointed out as he lowered his arms. Kagome gripped his cloak tighter as another sob made it through her barriers. "This world can be very dangerous; it would be best if you just stayed with us, anyway. At the very least, we can offer you protection from some people who, if they learned of you, would without a doubt experiment on you and try to copy your powers." Itachi's voice held no emotion, but it was the most he could offer her.

She truly did just want to go home. She had a family and friends there who she was happy with, no doubt. He could clearly see that she hadn't been expecting her magical jewel to send her here.

But it had to be fate that she was sent here, just as he was passing by. He didn't usually believe in fate and destiny, but it was too much of a coincidence for this not to be one of them. A member of the Akatsuki, the group trying to gather the nine-tailed beast, stumbles upon a person from a different world that had powers over demons.

But seeing the high-spirited woman who had previously stood up to him, insult him to his face, and completely dismiss him, even trick him being so broken and frightened now, like a trapped animal, sobbing into his cloak, softened his cold heart enough that he wanted to give her some sort of comfort. Not that he would let that be known, though.

Itachi decided at that moment that he would protect this girl… at least until he could find someone else who could, or until she could defend herself and was used to this world that was new to her. He didn't know why he did it, or even why he cared if she was ripped from her life. He had caused enough people to lose their loved ones that he should have been immune to this type of thing. But watching someone who had shown such spirit so fragile now, he just couldn't help but want to protect her. He wouldn't go back on his silent declaration. Once he made a choice, there was no going back.

Looking at the small shaking girl clutching to him, he saw how bad his statement had scared her. Not the threat he had given her about running away, but about the Jewel not letting her go home. It had hit her that she had just pretty much lost her friends, family, and both places she called home. And it had hit her hard.

She was so shaken up that she didn't even notice when he picked her up bridal style and brought her over to her sleeping bag. Lifting it, he slid her in it before zipping it up to keep the chill out.

Looking over the fire, Itachi met Kisame's gaze. "She'll be coming with us back to base. I don't think her running away will be as much of a problem anymore. She's just realized that she's stuck here," Itachi told Kisame.

Kisame nodded gravely. "It must be hard for her to loose both places she calls home as well as friends and family all at once without warning," Kisame said in a rare show of compassion.

She seemed to bring out the better side of him when she was around. Even if she did give him what basically amounted to a shock collar. She only used it when he insulted her and the last time she had run for it, and she had even apologized for it, too, feeling bad about it. But he would've done the same. The only difference was that, if someone were to kidnap him, he would slit his or her throat the first chance he got. And she could have slit his and Itachi's throats while they were both stuck and there was nothing ether could have done about it, but she didn't. Instead, she just did minimal damage, and ran for it.

Kisame was starting to become attached to her, and, from the looks of it, Itachi seemed to be becoming attached to her, too. Maybe even more so than him.

It was a new feeling for both of them to become attached to something. They weren't sure about how to deal with it, either.

"I'll keep first watch; try and get some sleep. We're going to have to try and make up for lost time tomorrow," Itachi told Kisame.

Kisame nodded, and unfolded the blanket Kagome had given him. While the cloaks were plenty warm, there was just something comforting about having a blanket over you while you slept. Going over to a large tree, Kisame nodded off to sleep.

Itachi waited for Kisame to fall asleep before he called out to the Jewel.

'Shikon Jewel,' Itachi called out with his mind.

"Call me Bob," The Jewel answered.

'You will give me the answers to my questions,' Itachi demanded of the Jewel, ignoring it's response.

"Or what? I'm a Jewel. You can't exactly torture me for information, you know," the Jewel responded dryly.

Itachi fumed. 'You will give me the information I require, or I'll throw you into a lake.'

"And I'll just posses some poor sucker to fetch me. Then I'll just come back to my guardian, Kagome. Besides, you can't even get me off Kagome's neck without cutting her head off. Then your answers would be worthless, wouldn't they?" Bob was having a great time pestering Itachi. "But since you asked so politely, I'll answer the questions I feel like answering. But some of them aren't my place to tell."

'Fine, what is the world that Kagome comes from like?'

"Which one? The one with demons, or without demons?" the Jewel asked.

'Both.'

"Well, she originally comes from a place that is more advanced than this one, but you're pretty close to her time. Pretty much everyone lives like civilians there, except largely without the clans. As an adult, generally by the time that you get married but it can be earlier, you break away from your family and start your life on your own. You can still visit your family anytime you like; it's just that the head of your family doesn't control your life anymore." The Jewel explained a little more about Kagome's time to Itachi.

"Then five hundred years into the past, there are demons that raid human villages and feast on anything with blood. But those are only the lower demons. There are demons that are higher up that have a more human build. You can usually tell how powerful a demon by its looks. If they look almost human, but with a few differences like a tail or wings, then they are the ones you have to look out for.

There are wars constantly over the land, and much bloodshed. But for all the demons and bloodshed, there are mikos - humans that can kill a demon with a touch if they're powerful enough, and can heal with the same power.

Kagome here is especially good at healing. She restored the arm of one of her friends; it had been cut off nearly three years before, not to mention that he was a demon and she didn't unintentionally …purify… him in the process. She probably felt bad because it was in her defense that the limb was removed.

But these mikos, while they can be great in a fight against demons, usually are defenseless against humans. Which is why Kagome has been training so hard. She doesn't like being helpless. She even found a way to change her miko energy to something that can hurt humans if need be, though it doesn't pack nearly the punch to a human as it does a demon." The Jewel finished explaining about the feudal era.

Itachi thought over what the Jewel had said. Kagome could restore lost limbs; could she restore his failing eyesight as well?

"Yes, it would be very easy for her to do so. But looking through you memories, I would say she would have to do it regularly for the best results. Probably every time you used your eyes for a large jutsu, almost like an eye doctor," the Jewel told him.

'Can you read thoughts of mine that I don't send your way?' Itachi questioned in his mind.

"Yes, and I can also go through your memories. But don't worry, I'm only taking common knowledge of this world, nothing TOO personal," Bob told him.

'Hn.' Itachi didn't feel too comfortable with a jewel named Bob going through his memories, but knowing there was nothing he could do about it, he took it in stride.

Looking over to Kagome, he saw her still-sleeping form, and thought about what she had done earlier to him. It was nothing personal against him; she had just wanted to get home, so he decided to let that slip. Besides, he had already scared her to where she could feel it in her bones. He would let her get off with a warning this time, but if she ever tried something like that again, he would punish her.

Besides, while he could force her to heal his eyes, he didn't want to take the chance that she might attack him halfway through the process, and hurt or possibly even kill him to try and escape. He would have to slowly gain her trust and have her indebted to him before he asked her to heal his eyes. Then, he wouldn't have to worry about going blind.

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