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Chapter Eleven: Runaway!!
Itachi watched as Kagome picked out different vegetables and put back others. He would give her one thing: she knew what she was doing while shopping. She seemed to know what food to buy slightly unripe, so it wouldn't go bad before she used it, and she knew which foods were ready to eat right then.
Though, he was starting to get ticked off at all the unhidden points and stares. What was wrong with these people? Yes, he was good looking and all, but he had never gotten this reaction. Some people were actually laughing, that's right, laughing at him.
"Are you almost done yet?" Itachi asked, irritation clear in his voice. They had been shopping for about an hour now, and the stares were starting to get to him
The worst thing was that he didn't know why they were acting this way. Kagome pretended that she didn't notice, but, when she thought he wasn't looking, he could see her smiling. She knew what was wrong, and she wasn't telling him.
"Yeah, I'm almost done. I can't buy too much, because we won't be able to carry it back if I do. I just have to get some rice, then we should be done," Kagome said, looking at what she had gotten so far. She was only getting enough to last half the month. Hopefully, with everyone coming in and out at random times, there wouldn't be a need to come back to the market before next month.
"Hn," was all Itachi gave as a response.
"Here, hold these so I can look at the rice," Kagome ordered, shoving several bags into Itachi's hands. He was now holding all of the groceries.
Itachi glared at her. The bags weren't particularly heavy, but he didn't want to have to carry them. Shrugging off his glare, Kagome started for the next shop.
Walking up to the stand, Kagome could see that it was run by an elderly man and his young granddaughter. The little girl was only about four years old, and she was playing with her little doll on the ground next to her grandfather's seat. The girl looked up when Itachi's shadow fell over her.
Itachi was glaring at the people laughing at him, which sent them running, though not as fast as they normally would. Suddenly, his ears were assaulted by a happy, high-pitched, girlish squeal. Wincing at the sudden noise, he looked down to see a little girl with short brown hair grinning madly, and clapping her hands.
The little girl suddenly pointed to Itachi's eyes, and tugged on her grandfather's pant leg. "Lookie, Gampa, that pretty man has pink eyes!" She giggled happily.
Itachi's froze. Quickly taking out a kunai, which caused the little girl to scream, he used the reflective blade to see his eyes. Sure enough, they were a bright hot pink. If you looked closely enough, you could even see little specks of bright purple in them, too.
It took Itachi a little less than two seconds to realize the person who did this to him. The same exact person who was, at this moment, running for her life, and dodging expertly through the crowd.
As soon as the little girl had pointed at Itachi's eyes, Kagome knew that this was her cue to make a run for it. So that is exactly what she did.
Dashing through the crowd, she looked for a good place make her move. After years of dodging Naraku's mass demon hordes, weaving through a crowd like this was easy. These people even got out of her way half the time, instead of coming at her with fangs and claws.
Seeing an alleyway that led to a different crowded part of the city, Kagome made a sharp turn for it. Looking behind her, she saw Itachi trying to make it through the crowd not too far behind her.
'He's pretty fast on the recovery isn't he?' Kagome thought, with a mental sweatdrop.
Two kunai snapped Kagome out of her thoughts as they whizzed past her head. The kunai hit the ropes holding some crates up to the wall in the narrow alley, causing them to come tumbling down, blocking her path and almost toppling on top of her.
Kagome skidded to a stop. Turning around to see Itachi slowly walking into the alley, Kagome, needless to say, started to panic. 'What to do, what to do?!' Kagome rambled on and on in her mind. Then, like a ton of bricks, it hit her that Sesshomaru had trained her how to jump over high things. Suddenly feeling very stupid, Kagome simply jumped over the crates and took off into another crowd.
Itachi followed Kagome into the next throng of people. To say that he was slightly upset over the harmless prank wouldn't quite be correct. He was absolutely furious. When he caught that girl, he was going to let her know just how ticked he was at her.
Looking around in the crowd, Itachi was shocked to see Kagome standing in the middle of it, smiling. She saw him, and blew a raspberry. Enraged, Itachi stormed after her.
Kagome freely smiled at Itachi. When he was close enough, she adopted a frightened face, and let out an ear-piecing scream, causing everybody in the crowd to look at her. Then, she shakily pointed a single finger at an intimidating approaching Itachi.
"Somebody! Help Me!" Kagome cried out in distress as loudly as she could. "My abusive ex-boyfriend is trying to Kill Me!!" she exclaimed with tears running down her face. "Please! Somebody has to help me!!" Kagome desperately shrieked.
Itachi could feel the murderous intent in the air, worse than when he was in battle. Suddenly, he was being attacked on all sides by men shouting at him that he was a worthless scumbag.
Having to dodge the attacks, he was at a slight disadvantage because he couldn't hurt any of these people. Pein had ordered not to attack anyone in this city because he wanted to a good record here. Then there was the plain out mass number of them. He was slowly getting pushed away from a crying Kagome.
Itachi looked closely at Kagome. While she was crying, there was a small, barely noticeable, upturn of her lips. She clutched her stomach in what looked like pain, causing people around her to be concerned as they tried to comfort her. Oh, she was in pain all right. Her tears and pain were from laughing at him so hard. When he got his hands on her later, she would face his pure hatred and wrath.
Kagome couldn't help it. What she had just pulled off was too much to hold back her laughter completely, so choking sounds started. Lucky for her, the people thought that the choking sounds coming from her were fearful sobs that she was trying to hold back.
Okay, so maybe she hadn't completely forgiven Itachi for slapping her, but this was slowly making up for it. She didn't think that this many people would actually attack him, but the more the merrier in this case.
Kagome was snapped out of her thoughts when her arm felt like it was almost ripped out of its socket, and she was being forced to run quickly or risk being brutally dragged to death. Her head snapped up to see the back the person who was kidnapping her now.
It was a boy about fifteen or sixteen years old with wild blonde hair going in all directions. The hair had probably never seen a comb in all its existence. He was taller than her by a couple of inches, and would probably keep growing before he was done. The guy was wearing a black jacket and pants with bright orange highlights.
Naruto looked back at the girl he was helping get away. She was looking at him in shock. Not wanting her to get scared, he gave her a bright smile.
He had seen the whole commotion, and saw that no one was actually helping her get away. So he decided to take the important action of getting her to someplace safe from her ex-boyfriend. He could see that the woman had a huge purple bruise on her left cheek, testament to her abuse. He didn't get to see the ex - lucky for that guy, or else he would have let the guy have it for harming this young lady.
"Don't worry, Miss. I'll get you to someplace safe. Don't you worry about it!" Naruto exclaimed while still practically dragging her.
Kagome grimaced. Okay, maybe yelling that out wasn't one of her brightest ideas. Now someone was dragging her into some random part of the city thinking she needed protection from Itachi.
Kagome thought about the glare of death Itachi had given her before being dragged away, and felt a shiver go up her spine. Okay, maybe she did need some major protection right now. He would be out for blood after what all she'd done to him today. Unlike other times, she probably wouldn't be able to talk Itachi out of murdering her, then mauling her body into an unrecognizable form afterwards, this time.
Having a newfound determination, Kagome took off like a bullet, and started dragging the poor blonde boy behind her. All that running training from friends in the feudal era wasn't for nothing, after all. It was to avoid getting killed in situations like this. Yep. Her friends knew that someday they wouldn't be there when she randomly ticked off some psychopath. So they had trained her how to fight, but - more importantly - they especially taught her the best way to run away.
Naruto was shocked when the girl took off like a bat out of blazes, and started dragging him like a rag doll. Tripping a couple of times before finding his feet, Naruto tried to keep up with the woman. It was surprisingly difficult to manage without the use of chakra.
Deciding to take charge, Naruto pumped chakra into his legs before grabbing the woman around the waist, and jumping to the rooftops. He was surprised when the woman didn't tightly hold on to him. Instead, she started maneuvering herself to his back.
Kagome was briefly shocked when the blonde boy started roof jumping, but quickly got over it. Not feeling comfortable being held in the way she was, she started maneuvering herself to the boy's back like she had many times with Inuyasha.
After a while of roof jumping, the blonde boy slowed down, and jumped into a street with little activity below. Kagome slid herself off his back, and took a step back to give the guy some personal space.
As the blonde boy turned around, Kagome took note of his facial features. Brilliant blue eyes that were almost neon were the first thing that her eyes landed on. They shone with a friendliness that matched his wide smile. He had a playful fox-like look to him and deep dimples. He was an overall pretty good-looking teen. But he was too young for her.
"There, we should be far enough away from your ex for him to not find you," Naruto said, grinning at her.
Kagome smiled gratefully. She could tell he was a good kid. "Thanks for your help. I think I can take it from here," Kagome said as she started walking away. She had taken three steps before she felt herself being dragged backwards.
"Why don't you have lunch with me before you go?" Naruto asked, still dragging her. "I know a great place where we can have some ramen. You like ramen, right?" Naruto asked, though he never stopped pulling her along.
"Um, yeah, but I really…" Kagome started before Naruto started up again.
"Great! We're almost there! I travel a lot, so I'm happy I found this place for while I'm here," Naruto exclaimed.
"But I really ca…" was all Kagome got out before Naruto once again interrupted her.
"Oh, you're worried about the bill, aren't you?" Kagome was about to deny it, but Naruto just continued on. "Don't worry about that. I'll pay for us. Pervy Sage just gave me some spending money anyways." Naruto didn't mention that when he 'gave' him the spending money, it meant that Naruto had pick-pocketed the old perv, and was planning to spend all the money to get back at him for leaving the boy behind in the last village.
"That's nice and all, but I really need to get…" Kagome tried to break out of Naruto's grip, which had somehow shifted from her shoulder to her right wrist without her noticing.
"Oh, you need to go grocery shopping? I'll help you with that later!" Naruto smiled back at her, not getting that she was trying to get away. "But first, I'm hungry, so we'll just have a quick lunch before that."
Kagome let her head sag in defeat. How thick can one guy get? Guess she was going to eat ramen with this idiot whether she wanted to or not.
At Some Random Ramen Shop
Kagome smiled as a medium bowl of chicken ramen was placed in front of her. It seemed like no matter where she went, ramen was there for her. Like a longtime friend, it would help her by being a constant in her life.
Naruto happily dug into his ramen as soon as the waiter's hand left the bowl. He looked over at the young lady only a few years older than himself as she ate her ramen with a gentle smile of contentment on her face. Then, it struck him that he didn't know her name yet. Or given her his, for that matter. Slapping a hand to his face, he thought about how rude he must seem.
"Hey," Naruto called out to get her attention. She looked at him from the corner of her eye, telling him she was listening. "Sorry for forgetting my matters earlier. I'm Naruto Uzumaki, future Hokage of Konoha village! Believe it!" Naruto introduced himself.
"Okay, why wouldn't I believe it?" Kagome asked, confused by his favorite add-on. If the dude said he was going to be the Kage of his village, then who was she to say he couldn't? She silently thanked Kisame for filling her in on ninja ranking. She'd thought at the time that she would just use it against Itachi, but now it was coming in very handy.
Naruto was shocked at the question for a moment. Then he gave her an ear splitting smile. "So, what's your name?" he asked her, changing the subject. It felt good to have someone just believe him, no questions asked.
Kagome held out her chopstick-free hand to Naruto. "Kagome Higurashi. It's a pleasure to be in the presence of a future leader," she told him with a smile.
Naruto could have hugged her to death right then. He grabbed her hand, and gave her a firm handshake to show his respect for her, which she returned.
"So, where are you going to go after this?" Naruto asked.
"Um… back to my workplace, I guess." Kagome said, unsure. She wasn't to keen on the idea of the return trip with Itachi.
"But couldn't your ex find you there?" Naruto asked wide-eyed.
"Umm…" Kagome wasn't sure what to tell the kid. He might get mad if she told him the truth, but if she didn't tell him now, then she might really pay for it later. "The guy chasing me wasn't really my ex," she began slowly. She looked over to see Naruto looking confused, so she continued. "He's a friend of mine that I played a trick on, and it seemed like he was about to kill me." Kagome blushed.
Naruto got a look of understanding, and his mouth made a perfect 'o' shape. Kagome waited for him to get mad at her for pulling that, when she heard him break out into a laughing fit. Kagome watched as the blonde boy almost fell off his barstool laughing.
Kagome sweat-dropped as she thought over what she had done. Sure, it might be a little funny… okay, depending on who you are it could be really funny, but it shouldn't be that funny. Starting to get concerned, Kagome put a hand on Naruto's shoulder to keep him balanced so he wouldn't fall off his stool.
After a minute, Naruto calmed down, but was still breathing a little hard, and he was red in the face. He looked over at Kagome, and smiled brightly at her.
"I needed that," he informed her. "Pervy-sage has been seriously torturing me lately with training. It's nice to have a laugh like that. So what'd your friend do that got you so riled up to do that to him?"
"Well…" Kagome thought about the rosary and the slap, but she didn't think it would be a good idea to give him the whole truth. "It's been building up for a while now, you could say," Kagome decided to answer instead. "So I made his eyes hot pink, then he got mad." Kagome shivered in fear at the last part.
Naruto laughed when he saw her wide, fear-struck eyes at the last comment. He knew he must get a similar look when thinking about a mad Sakura. Seeing it on someone else, though, was funny.
Kagome saw his amused look, and snapped at him. "It's not funny! He will skin me alive when he finds me!" Kagome declared using her hands for emphasis. Then she went back to quaking in fear, holding her ramen bowl in her hands for the comforting warmth.
Naruto laughed at her expression a little before patting her on the back. "Don't worry. You can hang with me until he cools off a little," Naruto offered with an open smile. Kagome smiled back with gratitude.
"Thanks," she said. "You may be stuck with me for a while for offering that," she half-joked, but with a serious undertone to it. Being slightly paranoid, Kagome checked the nearby auras for any sign of Itachi, and almost jumped out of her skin when she felt a strong - but covered - demon fox aura sitting right next to her.
Naruto felt her alarm, and looked at her questioningly. "Is something the matter?" he asked.
Kagome looked at him out of the corner of her eye as she studied his aura closely. He almost had an aura like Inuyasha's, but Naruto's aura had two completely different mindsets clashing, instead of blending together to join the human and demon side.
Lowering her voice, Kagome spoke out with a calm, steady voice, so as to not raise alarm with other people in the ramen stand. "Naruto, why do you have a demon aura clashing with yours?"
Naruto was shocked, to say the least. How could she know about the fox demon inside of him? He was sure she wasn't from Konoha. Even if she was from his village, she wasn't old enough to know about the sealing.
"Please, just answer the question. I do not wish to raise alarm here, or make a scene," Kagome continued in the same smooth voice.
A calm and serious expression fell on Naruto's face. "I've had a demon sealed inside me since I was born," was all Naruto said. He didn't want to say more than was necessary. He saw Kagome nod, before smiling.
"I had to make sure. Don't worry about it, though. I'm not from around here. Where I'm from, there are many more demons then here. I know quite a few, and am close friends with some of them. If it wasn't for that, then I wouldn't even have noticed the demon aura you carry. Your secret is safe," Kagome said with a kinder emotion in her voice this time, but still spoke low so no one would overhear what they were talking about. The fact that Naruto became so serious when she said this was testament to the fact it was a secret.
More cautious of her then before, Naruto nodded, and started on his next bowl of ramen. "So you're not from around here?" he tried to start up a conversation to break the tension a little.
Kagome knew what he was doing, and was grateful for it. She nodded happily before answering. "That's right. I'm hoping to one day go back to my homeland, but for now I'm stuck here, so I'm trying to make the best of it."
Naruto gave her a smile. It still wasn't as big as before, but it was there nonetheless. "It's great that you are doing that. What's it like where you're from?" he asked, curiosity getting the best of him.
"Well, it depends on what part of where I'm from. Some places are much more advanced than here; others are more natural. But I love both of them a lot, so this place isn't so bad. It's a nice in-between of the two. So what about you? What's Konoha like? You mentioned that you didn't know this place well because you travel a lot. What cities have you been to?" Kagome questioned him hoping to get some more information on the world she'd gotten stuck in.
As the afternoon wore on, Naruto found himself getting comfortable around Kagome. She was easy to talk to, and she truly didn't seem to care about the fox. He could talk about almost anything with her and not have to worry about rejection. It was… nice; there was no better word describe it.
Jiraiya showed up about half an hour after noon and joined in the conversions - after hitting on Kagome. After so much time with Miroku, who was a lot more attractive then Jiraiya, almost nothing he said affected Kagome, and she just told him he was to old for her.
Naruto told her almost everything he could think of. She was told about his hopes and dreams, about how growing up was rough because of him being 'special', as she dubbed it. When they started to talk about his friends, Gaara and how he was special popped up as well. Then Sasuke came up. She promised that she would try and keep an eye out for him, and asked for a description. Naruto pulled out a picture of team seven, and pointed out Sasuke.
Kagome looked at the picture in complete shock. He was almost a mini Itachi replica, with a few differences. Maybe they were closely related? She remembered that Itachi's profile said he was from Konoha, so it was possible. Once she was sure that she would be able to recognize the boy if she came across him, she nodded her head. It didn't take long because, if she needed a reminder, she could just think of a mini Itachi without the lines on his face - and more emo-looking.
It was almost two before Kagome felt a warning bell go off in the back of her head. But for the life of her, she couldn't think what would be so important. As seconds went by, the warning continued getting stronger until it hit her. Itachi was coming her way fast, and he was still ticked. What she felt was a deathly intent against her health.
Standing up quickly, Kagome shocked Naruto out of what he was talking about. "What's the matter, Kagome?" Naruto asked when he saw her panicking.
"Um, remember that friend you saved me from?" Kagome didn't have to say anything else for Naruto to get what was going on.
Naruto got up to grab Kagome and run as soon as he felt an intense chakra signal coming quickly towards the ramen stand. But, before he could grab her, the bamboo door opened, and there stood someone he truly wasn't expecting. Except something was slightly different about him, Naruto noticed, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.
Itachi smirked as he felt the pull of the rosary that lead him toward Kagome, until he could sense her himself. She was hiding in the commoners' part of town. Following her unique miko powers and the pull of the rosary, he soon came to a ramen stand from which he heard Kagome speaking to someone.
Stepping through the bamboo door, he was surprised to see that, out of all the people in the world Kagome could be talking to, it had to be Jiraiya, one of the Three Sannins. And Naruto Uzumaki, the Kyuubi vessel.
But he didn't care, for the moment. The important thing now was to get Kagome somewhere private so he could make her get rid of the pink tint before getting his revenge.
Because let's face it, he wouldn't be nearly as intimidating with a pink-eyed glare. It wouldn't do any good for her to be thinking of girly things while he was threatening her. It just wouldn't work out, and would only serve to kick his already bruised ego.
Kagome broke out into a nervous sweat when she saw how calm Itachi looked on the outside. She had learned the hard way to be more scared when the person looked calm.
"Oh, hey there, Itachi." Kagome slowly inched back, hands feeling for something behind her. Itachi took a step forward. "So what have you been up to all day?" she asked as calmly as she could, which wasn't all that calm considering how he kept creeping towards her.
Itachi noticed her backing up, and followed her. In an odd sense, he had the memory of them doing this same thing in the forest. He stopped moving forward when the Kyuubi vessel stepped in front of Kagome protectively, kunai already in hand.
"What are you doing here, Itachi?" Naruto demanded. "And how do you know Kagome?"
Itachi glared at the boy who was blocking his path to Kagome. 'Does this boy really mean to stop me from getting ahold of her?' Itachi wondered as he reached for his kunai.
Kagome could feel the tension growing rapidly. It would be obvious to say that these two knew each other, and weren't on the best of terms.
Not wanting Naruto to get hurt, 'cause let's face it, she didn't have any idea how mentally unstable these ninjas could be, Kagome stepped in front of Naruto, blocking him from Itachi.
Smiling brightly, Kagome tried to talk the tension out of the air. She had seen Miroku do it enough times to at least try. The other customers had already paid and left out the other door as soon as Itachi had stepped into the stand, like animals fleeing from a wolf.
"Well, I see you two already know each other, so there's no need for introduction. So why don't you join us for some late lunch, Itachi?" Kagome asked with a charm she had seen Miroku use a half million times. She looked at Itachi, seeming completely calm, except for the nervous sweat and darting eyes. But, if you ignored those, she was the picture of calm. Looking at Itachi's glare, she could tell they weren't going to have a nice chat over lunch.
Itachi glared at her, knowing she was trying to make him forget about his anger at her. Yeah, that wasn't going to work. Taking another step towards her now that the Kyuubi's vessel was out of the way, he could just imagine the torturous pain he was going to put her through. Suddenly, he heard mad laughing.
Jiraiya had been thinking that something was different as soon as Itachi stepped into the door. Not only was he not wearing his Akatsuki cloak, but there was something off, as if someone had made themselves a copy of him but forgot one small detail. Then, as he glared at the beautiful young woman his pupil had been spending the day with, it hit him.
He remembered Naruto saying that the woman was hiding from a friend because she had destroyed the man's pride, but this… this was the famed Itachi Uchiha's pride she had demolished - by turning his eyes PINK! It was just too much for one of their worst enemies to be seen like that. He was SO going to tell everyone in Konoha about this. This must be proof that Itachi was gay, like many of the other people his age joked.
Itachi's eye twitched as he watched the old ninja start rolling on the floor laughing. Really, it was bad, but it wasn't nearly that bad.
…The old man had still not stopped, except now Naruto had taken a better look at him, and was now trying to hold back his laughter. That woman was so going to get what was coming to her.
Kagome started to panic when Naruto and Jiraiya started to laugh at Itachi's eyes. Yeah, that was so not going to help her avoid his wrath. She could, even now, see his rage growing by the moment. She needed to get these guys to stop laughing, and she need to get them to stop now.
So Kagome did the first thing that came to mind; she kicked Naruto in the shin, since he was the nearest one to her. A now bruise-sporting Naruto calmed down quiet a bit, rubbing his shin.
"What was that for, Kagome?" Naruto whined.
"You're not helping!" Kagome hissed through clenched teeth, facing him. "Do you want him to feed my mangled corpse to the birds on a pike?!" she demanded in a harsh whisper not wanting to give Itachi any ideas.
Jiraiya had finally calmed down enough to think clearly. Looking at Itachi and Kagome, he got a little suspicious. He could tell there was a connection; was she working for the Akatsuki as a spy? No, Itachi wouldn't have revealed himself like this if that was it. Not to mention her story did match up with the facts so plainly given; he had to make sure he didn't start laughing again at the thought of the story. But who was she, then? Not just any person could make friends with Itachi Uchiha. What was their connection? And from how mad Itachi looked, that connection had to run pretty deep. As Jiraiya pondered, Itachi had started to talk to Kagome.
"Kagome." Said person froze at hearing her name be spoken so calmly from her soon-to-be murderer's mouth. "Why did you run off earlier?" Itachi asked her, deceptively calm, as he took a step forward. Naruto saw him, and glared. Itachi didn't want to start a fight here, so he had to go about this situation carefully.
Kagome did a double take; she wasn't expecting that question. "Um…" Then something hit her like a ton of bricks. In her rush to save her life, she had left Itachi with all the groceries. The whole reason that they were even in the city was because Pein had told her to get the month's food supplies. If they didn't recover those he was going to so be ticked off at her. Then, she remembered that Itachi had asked her a question, and was glaring at her as he waited for her answer. "Could I hear the question again?" Kagome asked. Itachi's glare just intensified.
Naruto saw Itachi starting to move forward again, and put a hand on Kagome's shoulder to shift her behind him. Within the second, Naruto could feel his wrist held in a tightening grip that would break it if it wasn't released soon. Looking up, he could see an enraged Itachi, Sharingan activated, holding his wrist off of Kagome's shoulder. He seemed deceptively calm overall, except for the obvious rage in his eyes.
Jiraiya's eyes widened in amazement. Even if it was just for a second, he had seen Itachi get slightly jealous when Kagome was talking to Naruto, and then, when Naruto touched her, it was the breaking point. That was their connection. If there was anything as famous as an Uchiha's good looks and talents, it was the male's possessive streak over the girl they liked. Any guy who didn't want to end up missing their front teeth knew better than to get near a girl that they knew an Uchiha had their eyes on. Well, this was an interesting discovery, to say the least. But looking at the girl, Jiraiya couldn't say he disagreed with the choice.
Kagome jumped when Itachi suddenly appeared no less than two inches in front of her. But, for once, his attention wasn't on her while doing this. Looking over her shoulder, she was just in time to see Naruto as he yelled out as Itachi shattered his wrist.
"Itachi!" Kagome shrieked, and pushed him away from Naruto. Naruto took a step back, cradling his injured wrist, as soon as he was no longer held there.
Itachi let her push him back after she saw what he did. He hadn't liked it when she had turned her back to him to whisper to the boy, and he really didn't like seeing the boy's hand on her shoulder. He knew he was getting jealous, just like when he read about the other males in her diary. But unlike those times, he could take his anger out on something now. His satisfaction was short-lived, however, as he saw Kagome hurry over to Naruto and check his wrist, glaring at Itachi from the corner of her eye when she saw him, before completely focusing on the wrist and holding out a blue-glowing hand.
Jiraiya watched in astonishment as, instead of a green healing chakra, this girl, Kagome, used a blue energy that was the complete opposite of the Kyuubi's to heal Naruto's shattered wrist.
Looking over at Itachi out of the corner of his eye, he could plainly see Itachi's rage growing at Kagome's attention towards another male. While another person may not even be able to notice that the man was actually jealous, Jiraiya had hit on enough women sought after by Uchiha males to recognize the signs when he saw them.
The Sharingan was a big giveaway, since he personally knew Itachi had a strong control over his emotions, yet it was activated. Then, there was the slight clench of his fist, and its slow, unknowing creeping towards the kunai pouch. You couldn't really count the glare, since Uchiha men - and some of the women - always seemed to be glaring no matter what the occasion. But there was no doubt now in Jiraiya's mind that Itachi had put what most would call a claim on Kagome as his girl. By the looks of it, Kagome didn't have any idea how deep this claim ran, and was going to get his pupil and a couple of other guys killed if she kept this up.
But Jiraiya had to admit that he was surprise that Itachi was this possessive over the girl. It seemed out of character for the Uchiha. He had seen the boy occasionally growing up, and knew that he had even killed his girlfriend in the massacre, and he'd never really cared if another guy had hit on her.
Again looking over at Itachi, he saw that he was about ready to kill Jiraiya's pupil, who was now healed, and was letting the girl check over his wrist as he watched Itachi for any more attacks. Well, he guessed now would be the best time to step in. He had gathered plenty of information from this little play date that Tsunade would want to know.
"Well," Jiraiya started out loudly to gain everyone's attention, which he promptly got. "I think it's time to get back to Naruto's training now that his wrist has had enough time to heal." Jiraiya saw Naruto getting ready to yell out. And he could understand. If it wasn't for the fact he now knew Itachi wouldn't really hurt Kagome, he wouldn't consider leaving Kagome with the rogue ninja either. But with how jealous he was over someone else just touching her shoulder, she would be more protected with Itachi than she would be with them any day. "Now, Naruto. Kagome and Itachi probably have some shopping to do. We took up enough of their time as it is," Jiraiya said, smiling, as he stepped up to Naruto. He was thankful when Kagome took a step back from his pupil. Naruto was getting ready to say something else, before Jiraiya effectively knocked him out cold with one swift hit to the back of the neck.
Kagome stood, shocked, as Naruto's sensei knocked him out cold. What was up with these people? Did they live for kidnapping and knocking each other out randomly?! Really! That was all it seemed they ever did.
"It was nice seeing you again, Itachi. Call me when you have a wedding date planned," Jiraiya said as he disappeared in a swirl of leaves with Naruto slung over his shoulder.
Kagome just stood there, trying to process the last part of what the old pervert had said. Turning a bright red, she realized that he had been talking about her and Itachi getting married. Turning away from him, she tried to cover her embarrassment with anger. This wasn't that hard once she remembered that he had shattered Naruto's wrist. She didn't have time to comment on it, though, because, as soon as she turned around, she was once again flung over Itachi's shoulder like a sack of week-old potatoes, and they appeared in a sunlight filled forest with leaves falling around them like when Jiraiya had disappeared.
Guess this was the other end of the disappearing act. It would have been great for getting to school on time if she had known this trick a year or more ago. Maybe she could get someone to teach it to her?
Itachi dropped Kagome onto the ground as soon as they were stable. To say that he was mad at her would be an understatement, but he had been able to release some of his anger by breaking the Kyuubi's vessel's wrist. Now that he was a little calmer, he knew he couldn't actually hurt her. If he messed it up again, then Bob wouldn't keep her under his control anymore, and she had plenty of experience in escaping, as she had escaped him twice now, and he had had a hard time finding her afterwards both times.
He circled Kagome, debating on how to get his revenge as she rubbed her butt, which was sore from being dropped twice today. She was scowling at him and his obvious mistreatment of her behind, but that was irrelevant. He was shocked, though, when, instead of blowing up, she started talking calmly.
"Why did you break Naruto's wrist?" she asked in a demanding tone as she stood up.
"Why did you turn my eyes pink?" he demanded in turn, giving her a stern glare.
"For you acting all high and mighty, and for revenge after you dropped me last time. I'm going to be bruised so badly now. Besides, it was only a small blow to your pride compared to what I could have done, and it's already fading fast." Kagome took a step towards him threateningly. And it was true. His eyes were turning onyx again, and the pink was quickly fading.
He matched her step as he started back at her. "You think that turning my eyes pink is only a small blow to my pride?"
She took another step forward. "Yes, there seems to be enough pride and ego in there for an army of morons, and still have then have unbelievable levels of both," Kagome spat out. Itachi steamed at her comment, but she didn't stop. "Maybe if someone deflated that oversized head of yours every once and a while, then your nose wouldn't have such a hard time getting stuck out of your hairline for everything you see, you stuck-up spoiled brat."
Itachi didn't reply to that. Instead he took out something else. "Well, maybe if you didn't try and seduce every male you see, then I wouldn't have to have broken that boy's wrist to stop him from taking advantage of you," Itachi said coldly.
Kagome faltered back a step at the insult. "I did not try to seduce Naruto!" Kagome yelled, stepping up to the challenge to her reputation.
"Please. You were whispering in his ear, and were already on a date with him after you gave a sob story in the market," Itachi said disbelievingly. He knew she didn't really try to seduce men, but he was mad, and attacking her reputation was the best way he knew of to get back at her at the moment. "You have men trying to court you all the time, and can never stick to one. You just tease them, and move on after you've gotten what it is you wanted. I bet that you have slept wi-"
A loud, resounding slap echoed throughout the clearing and into the surrounding forest.
Itachi stood there, shocked. She had slapped him. There she stood before him, her chest rising up and down deeply, her face showed undisguised rage over his words.
"How dare you," she bit out. "How dare you even suggest that?" Kagome demanded. "Do you really believe me to be some gold-digging slut?" Kagome asked with cold eyes so unlike her usual warm, inviting eyes. They were icily cold-looking instead of like the warm summer sky.
Suddenly, Itachi wanted to bang his head on something hard many times for his own rash stupidity. But it was too late to take it back now. That was the problem with words. You could never really take back something once it had left your mouth. But… he would try at the moment.
Sighing deeply, Itachi ran a hand through his bangs. "Look, I didn't mean it-"
"What? Like that? Then how did you mean it, Itachi? You said it in everything but the direct words, that I'm a loose gold-digger who sleeps with everyone." Kagome spoke loudly, but it somehow still sounded like she had whispered it. Itachi couldn't even meet her eyes. That was what he had been knowingly and wrongly implying. Kagome opened her mouth to say something else, but an overpowering chakra was heading their way rapidly. As it overcameed them, Itachi remembered feeling a small percent of this energy when he had been fighting the Kyuubi's vessel in the hotel a year ago, and the seal had leaked a little bit of the demon's chakra. This, though, made that power level seem like a helpless newborn's grip on a fingertip compared to a giant constrictor's killing pressure slowly squeezing the life out of you.
Kagome stood there, knowing she should know this power level. But, with her emotions being twisted around like they were, she couldn't focus on it. But it wasn't supposed to be here. That much was clear, and it was someone she knew very well.
Itachi was shocked that Kagome could just stand there like that, when it took him countless battles to gain resistance to this level of chakra and murderous intent, and he was having a hard time in not being effected by it. He could feel his Sharingan activating in defense to the threat.
Itachi put on an emotionless mask as the bearer of the strange chakra came closer to them. But the chakra wasn't increasing. He could feel the it focusing on Kagome like it was searching for her, and the closer it got, the more it's holder was reeling it in. 'Who would be searching for Kagome that had this much power? Who even had this much power?' Itachi was snapped out of his musings when he heard Kagome whisper a name that sent warning bells off in his head.
"Sesshomaru." The name rolled easily off of Kagome's tongue as the connection came to her.
As if summoned by her call, a man with amazingly long silver hair, which shone in the light like it was a part of it, wearing white traditional clothing and gleaming armor appeared, bearing two swords, in the clearing, standing in front of them like he had been there the whole time.
Itachi felt all of the chakra focus solely on Kagome. Taking a good look at the man Kagome had called by the name of her older demon 'brother', there was no denying that this man was not human. From the stripes on his face and wrist, to the glowing golden eyes that could strike fear into the heart of any man, and the wild feeling that he gave off, he was not human. This was a true demon from one of Kagome's worlds.
Itachi wasn't expecting the man to suddenly move as if a blur, and start attacking Kagome with a sword drawn at his hip. Kagome, though, seemed to be expecting this, and quickly blocked an attack from the front with her blue chakra in the form of a sword. After a couple of parries and blocks, they broke apart, and the elegant man attacked her with a green whip like the one he had seen her use against him, except hers had been purple rather than green. But, instead of blocking with her sword, Kagome formed a blue barrier like the first time she had escaped him and Kisame. This went on for a while before the man stopped, and stared her in the eyes.
"You haven't been training." It wasn't a question, but a statement laced with disapproval.
"I've been busy," Kagome said dryly while lowering her barrier, now that the test was done.
Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes at Kagome. He could feel the turmoil in the air, and could smell how mad she had been previously, before he had entered the clearing. He looked her over from the foot up, checking for injuries. He was not happy with what he found. Right there in plain sight was an active rosary on her neck, and a recent bruise that was turning purple on her right cheek. He could feel his beast wanting to take over at the sight of a packmate harmed and placed into near-slavery. Not that he could blame his beast. He, too, was enraged over the event.
Inside of a second, Sesshomaru had Kagome's face in his hands, and was turning it from side to side, deeply inspecting it. Then, he lifted the rosary for closer inspection, mindful not to choke Kagome, since it was almost a choker on her. Carefully sniffing the rosary and Kagome's cheek, he searched for the scent that belong to someone else. He quickly found it and the owner of the scent. It wasn't that hard to locate, since Kagome was covered in the human male's scent. No, this was a descendant of a half-breed, which still made him lower in his books than a human, even if he had started to give his half-brother some respect and no longer was trying to kill him on sight.
Itachi didn't even have time to blink before he was slammed through five trees, breaking more ribs with each impact. Suddenly, there was a face with enraged blood-red eyes before him that belonged to the demon he had been admiring only seconds before.
'So what's going o- OH UNHOLY CRAP!!' Itachi heard Bob suddenly scream in his mind. 'How did Sesshomaru get here?!' Bob yelled in a panic, just adding to Itachi's already painful headache from being slammed into five trees and counting. But Itachi didn't get to answer before he felt claws slip around his neck, halting him before he could slam into another tree, but nearly causing him a broken neck in the process.
Sesshomaru was surprised when the man's neck didn't snap, but just added pressure to slowly suffocate the man that had dared do this to a member of his pack. Then, thinking about it, he released his grip enough to let the man juest barely breathe.
"You will remove the rosary from the neck of this Sesshomaru's miko, and I will grant you a quicker death by my poison acid, instead of stripping you of your skin alive, and then melting your bones from the inside out until your body gives out from the pain," Sesshomaru demanded.
It was not a threat to take lightly, Itachi quickly decided.
End Chapter.
Okay, so tell me how that was. I really want to know what you all thought of this chapter. I worked really hard on this one so I really need to know how it came out. If not I will send Bob to ruin your life. This is a very serious and life threatening warning.
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