12-4-09: Okay Chapter 1-5, have been revised again by me the perfectionist. Not much has changed but I have changed Kaori's eye colour from dark blue to hazelish green. So until I can get everything else caught up things will be kind of all over the place!! Like one chapter her eyes are green, another they're blue, small things that annoy people greatly like that. Ugh 40 chapters to revise, not fun. Sorry this chapter is so short, but there is school and I haven't put one up in a while so I just wanted to throw one out there to say I'm not dead yet.. also then I started rereading the twilight books.. I might make a story on that.. but with an oc of course. One Idea for Jacob and another for Edward.. But I dunno, I don't want to abandon my Inu stories.

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I Do Not Own Inuyasha

"Talking"

40. No More Secrets

I rushed down the cliff face, leaping head first into the darkness. No.. No.. No.. This couldn't be happening. Why was he so stupid?! Why did he have to do that!? If I had been thrown from the top I would have survived.. I wasn't human. He was. I hoped that by some miracle he survived this fall.. Please.. God.. Who ever is up there.. Don't take him from me.

I reached the bottom. It was cool and damp, the sun only just barely rising above the trees. Ugh, if only he had waited a few more seconds to launch himself from the cliff.. I saw Toukajin's large body laying lifelessly on the ground. My ears perked as I listened for a heart beat.. Nothing. I could smell his blood, and the blood of Inuyasha. But my eyes couldn't detect a slight figure or sign that he was around.

"Crushed beneath Toukajin..?" Miroku muttered from beside me. Because of Toukajin's death the spell had broken and both the monk and Shippo returned to normal size. A cold chill shot through my body and I dropped to my knees. I reached under the heavy corpse and rolled it over. Nothing.

"I can't believe you just did that.." said the monk, a slight hint of disgust in his voice. My hands were now covered in the cannibal's blood but that didn't matter to me. We had to find him. I could smell him, all around, but I couldn't see him at all...

"Waahh!!! Inuyasha's dead!!" Shippo cried. I flinched. "He had horrible wounds..! And then he fell from that height in a human body.. There's no way he could have survived!!"

"Don't cry Shippo." Miroku sighed, patting the kitsune's orange head. "We'll hold a memorial service.. Inuyasha had achieved his goal, surely. Even if it meant exchanging his life.. he wanted to save Kaori-sama."

"Shut up.." My voice came out barely over a whisper and I sounded so vulnerable. The boys looked at me with minor shock plastered across their faces. "That idiot.. I could have survived this fall.. maybe barely but still.. he didn't need to save me.. Saying he died to save my life just makes me feel guilty.." I pulled a katana from it's sheath and stared at it.. turning blade over every time my unfamiliar light blue eyes shone back at me.. I missed my green...

"Kaori!" Miroku's hands grabbed my arms and held them back. "Killing yourself is not the answer! He died to save you, why would you put those efforts to waste!?"

I growled and pulled free. "Who said I was going to suicide!!" I ran toward the fruit head bearing tree and in a fit of anger whipped the katana at the trunk. It hit and cut right through. My breath came out heavy and laboured as I glared at the bobbing hilt. Damnit do something.. worse.. violent! Abruptly a flash of red exploded from the centre of the trunk and the tree fell over, cut clean from the place my sword had hit.

I felt a little better.

"Kaori you bitch! Are you trying to kill me!?" Inuyasha's aggravated shout came from behind. I didn't turn around.

"Inuyasha your alive!" Shippo cheered.

"Keh! Sorry to disappoint you."

"And what are you so sour about?" Miroku asked.

"There's no way I'd drop dead that easily. Worrying over me is pointless."

My hand grasped my other katana and pulled it out. The sound of the metal sliding against the hilt shutting up the boys behind me. I sensed the hostile curiosity.. Wet trails ran down my face but I laughed. "Heh, pointless huh..?"

I whipped around. "I'll give you something to worry about!!" And I was fighting, purposely missing, but relief and aggravation was running through my veins. His hysterical protests and questions of my sudden outburst shot from his mouth but I ignored them.. Saying it was pointless.. That idiot!

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"Corruption you say?"

We were back in the village, Inuyasha had insisted we go. If I had knew it would have been about this I wouldn't have agreed.

"Oh so what?!" I growled. "I get a little bloodlusty when I fight. Big deal.."

"It's not just a little." Inuyasha growled back.

"Inuyasha is right, Kaori-sama." Miroku piped in. "I sensed the dark energy as well."

I huffed and turned my back to them. How stupid...

"Kaori is there something wrong?" Kaede asked. "Ye seem more easily agitated then before."

"It's nothing." I growled.

"By your tone I cannot agree." She said.

I rolled my eyes and growled again.

"Maybe she's having one of those girl month things..?" I heard Inuyasha mutter. Miroku muttered back in agreement.

I looked up at them, and I saw their bodies tense and their eyes flood with fear. I got to my feet and snarled. "HOW COME EVERY TIME A GIRL IS EVER MAD STUPID BOYS THINK IT'S BECAUSE OF HORMONES!!!?!"

"We weren't saying it was because of that, Kaori-sama!!" Miroku sputtered. "It was merely a suggestion.."

"Shut up." I snapped.

"Alright."

My eyes swept over them and I left the hut. I really didn't know my problem but.. numerous things were bugging me. First what happened this morning. Second, that nobody even mentioned to Kaede that Kikyou was around.. I stopped walking and turned around, running back into the hut and ripping the paper door off the frame as I did so.

"Oh! And by the way!" I said in a sarcastically cheerful tone. "I just learned from Kikyou, a few days ago actually, THAT I'M A NOTHING!" Now I left for real this time.

"Wait! Kaori!" Kaede called. She ran after me and grabbed onto my sleeve. I sighed loudly.

"What?"

"What did Onee-sama say to ye?"

"Ohh nothing really. Just that I'm a descendant of some person named Midoriko, and that my real mother never wanted me and dumped me off here with the Shikon No Tama because I was a hanyou.. Oh yeah and apparently I'm a soul stealer now."

Kaede sighed. "This was not how I wanted ye to find out.."

I laughed, and blinked away angry tears. "Yeah, because you were planning on never letting me find out at all right? You always keep things from me. You and Inuyasha. I hate it. I deserve to know things too, I'm apart of this as much as you are."

Her wise chocolate eyes looked up at me, and held my gaze for who knows how long. Finally she signed and took my hand, leading me back to the hut. "Alright Kaori, no more secrets."

End Of Chapter 40

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