GAH! Naraku kun someone stole your clothes... YOUR NAKED!!
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A paradox could be used to describe many different situations involving an absurd reality but could be in fact just that… a reality. For instance a young modern girl who only ever studied about the past in school, dreaming of returning to the past to see what it was really like, then being thrust into the past by no will of her own, and experiencing that past for herself. In short; the young girl's experience of being thrust into the past would be classified as a paradox.
Now a paradox is the sister to enigma and a cousin to irony and just generally one of those situations that can send you into madness without even trying. For example; a miko of good in the arms of a hanyou of evil arguing over the absurdity of how and why they are enemies and without a single drop of bloodshed from either of them. This is what you would call a paradox of colossal proportions; as neither would never consider such a thing could happen let alone allow the passing thought to cross their minds.
Yet here they were within each other's arms arguing over a most menial detail of their situation at hand which was…'Who said that they had to be enemies?'. So that brings us to the evil cousin known as irony and it's ability; like paradox, to drive one mad. The irony of their situation was that the evil hanyou; whom immersed himself in lies and deceit, was arguing for the side of good, using dark threats to get his point across, and throwing their paradoxical situation into the tight embrace of its sister known as enigma. Feudal Japan and all that knew these two were never going to be the same again.
"I'm just saying…" Kagome trailed off when her so called enemy; which had yet to be determined why and whose fault it was they were branded as such, cut her off.
"Silence girl." Naraku growled in her face. "The mere fact is that you and I are enemies; when, where, and how we came to be such is irrelevant. You are good and I am evil."
"By what standards are you considered evil?" She had to bite the inside of her cheek to keep from laughing as this was much too fun. Never did she think she would be able to play these mind games with Naraku; of all the beings in the world.
Best of all he didn't do like Inuyasha; by getting mad and throwing a fit, which was entertaining for a minute then the funny quickly died away to annoyance due to his large loud mouth. Nor did he do like Sesshoumaru and just walk away with a haughty sniff; letting her know silently that she was so far beneath him that to utter a single word in her direction was such a complete waste of his time that death would surly come for him should he dare to speak a word to her. 'Narcissistic bastard!' She grunted out to herself. However; currently this was the most fun she has had in a long long time, so fun in fact that her cramps and headache were completely forgotten… for the moment anyway.
Naraku just stared at her; who was she kidding? "I am Naraku…"
"Yes and I am Kagome." The miko nodded. "What does that have to do with anything? My point is this; you claim to be evil and all I want to know is by what standards are you considered evil? Are we talking god of the underworld here; which is pretty evil..." She nodded her head. "Or are we talking death row inmate? There's a pretty big difference between the two you know."
"Death row inmate? You speak nonsense." He had determined; not so long ago, that he was the one going mad as she was still alive and he was actually arguing with her. He couldn't fathom one single reason for continuing with this nonsense yet here he was still doing it enforcing the passing notion that he had either taken a severe hit to the head or he was indeed losing his mind; to which the later was the case.
"Oh right." She nodded her head vigorously. "Umm… how about a murder running across the land killing for the thrill of it? Would you consider yourself evil like that or the ultimate evil? I mean I need to know this so I can decide just how much of an enemy you really are." She smirked at him; not believing how stupid this was getting, yet it was still entertaining none-the-less.
"It doesn't matter on what level I am your enemy." He growled getting more and more annoyed by the second. "You are the opposite of me; therefore, you are good and I am evil, hence we are enemies." With that he released his hold upon her expecting her to fall to the ground and hopefully injure herself at least a little bit only to find she still had a tight hold upon him and wasn't going anywhere.
"Who said I was good" Kagome tossed back smartly. "Just because I don't go around killing for no reason at all; doesn't mean I am good."
Naraku peeled her from his person with a grind of his teeth. "You have gone mad." He bit out then began surrounding himself with his miasma; forgetting that he could feel her pain and his whole reason for being there in the first place. "I will destroy you; doubt it not."
"Ha!" Kagome pointed at him. "You keep trying and keep failing! I will live to see another day and another and another and YOU can do nothing to me!" She held a determined fist out in front of her to continue on with her rant when those forgotten cramps decided to remind her of their presence and flare up in the worst of ways; knocking her to her knees.
Naraku pulled his miasma back into him and growled in his chest. What the hell was wrong with her that was causing him such pain? He didn't know but by damn he was going to find out. Once the pain subsided to a more manageable level he grabbed the girl up, tucked her under his arm, and took to the sky. He was going to find out just what the hell was going on here even if it killed them both.