Underestimation
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Inuyasha, Wish I may, wish I might, they still wont be mine
Chapter 4: Fearful
"I see." Kakashi stood up again, kunai in hand.
"I warned you didn't I?" he said as he made another cut on her shoulder.
Kagome winced but, didn't cry out. She continued to glare at Kakashi.
"You remind me of someone I knew before it happened." she said instead.
Kakashi looked at Kagome again.
She took this as liberty to speak again. "He was very cruel, cunning, and didn't believe a word I said until it was too late. He and another I know fought for the same side, and yet, they were enemies."
Kakashi toyed with the blood stained kunai in his hand. "Well, what happened?" he asked
"Will, you believe me if I told you?" she asked again
"Depends if you are telling the truth."
Kagome snorted. "As if you are any good at discerning the truth from a lie."
"I could be, if I was being told the truth." he retorted.
"Well, discern this than."she started. "My name is Kagome Higurashi, I lived in a place called Tokyo, Japan. I traveled down a well, across time, to help a half demon recover the fragments of a powerful jewel, After recovering all the pieces, he wished for his dead lover to return and his lover wished for me to live as a cursed being in another dimension of time. I have been wandering in the wastelands of this cursed place for a month now. I have been captured by hawks, old women wanting company, and grubby two year olds. Now, go and tell me that this isn't the truth and cut me on the arm again why don't you?"
Kakashi, breathed in slowly. She had said everything so fast. He couldn't really tell what was truth and what wasn't. It all sounded too fantastical to be true.
"So, you're saying your boyfriend changed you into a cat so that he could be with his dead ex?"
"That is the gist of it. Yes."
"What if I told you, you are most evidently deranged?" he said.
"And why is that?" she asked.
"Because everything you said is impossible. No one has heard of a place called Tokyo, and no one has ever seen a demon."
"Really?" she asked knowingly.
Kakashi was counting out the lies she told in his head. Yet, the more they spoke, the more confused he became. The more those intelligent blue eyes made him doubt all he said and all he did.
"Are you going to cut me again?" she asked and motioned to her shoulder. The blood trickled down her arm and into her sheet creating small stains.
Kakashi walked up to her. Kagome looked into his eyes, challenging him in ways he thought were only possible in words. He raised his kunai and slashed through the air.
Kagome winced. She felt the ropes loosen and then give way. He was setting her free.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
Kakashi sighed and shook his head. "I don't really know. Consider yourself lucky, I almost believed you."
"Huh?"
Kakashi picked her up bridal style, the sheet trailing on the floor. He looked deep into her eyes. "You gave me a moments notice. That takes skill in the most basic trick in the book, deception."
Kagome was too entranced to notice what was happening. His face was close, all too close.
"I know you don't like being man handled but, this is necessary." he said.
Kagome noticed then, that he was carrying her, but she did not protest, he had hypnotized her.
He walked out the door with her in his arms.
"Where are we going?" she asked innocently.
Kakashi was surprised. She sounded almost, herself.
"To see who you are." he replied steadily.
They walked down the road. Everywhere people murmured and hissed at the girl, the sheet princess they called her. Drops of blood made a tiny trail to Hokage tower.
People whispered and rumoured as they are wont to do.
But, that didn't matter to Kakashi, he would've been more secretive, if her injury and his acrobatic antics were to be a good combination. He hated to become a spectacle.
The kitten fell asleep in his arms, her shiny black hair almost blue in the dimming sunlight.
The day was ending. But, in Konoha, the issue had barely begun.