Do I have to say it again?

Chapter 8- Siren nature

Kagome reached across for her bag and shyly said "Since we're all friends now… can I give you these?" she handed out the friendship necklaces with all their names engraved on the backs, with the bubbles surrounding the names made out of the tiny words best friends over and over again perfectly linking up again.

Sango had tears shining in her eyes and slipped hers over her head and smiled unable to speak without a lump forming in her throat. The boys copied her actions and Kagome smiled and sighed to herself "Friends…"

"Bye" Kagome said waving from the edge of the rocks. "I'll be back tomorrow evening, I need to hang out with my sister a bit more!" she smiled happily.

Sango waved with one hand while the other kept Miroku's arm tightly around her stomach, Miroku waved with his free hand and Inuyasha smiled just behind them.

Kagome turned and gracefully dived into the sea, vanishing from sight with a barely heard splash. Inuyasha felt the slight pain tug at his chest but it was always there when she wasn't so he was used to it. Kagome was feeling similarly. Putting a hand to her chest she breathed the sea water deeply before continuing down to Altantica.

Inuyasha leaned against the wall and sighed to himself "I have to tell her" he thought to himself. I have to tell her that I love her.

A black van pulled up beside Sango's purple car and he looked up just in time to see men dressed in black getting out with nets, guns… and a harpoon.

Stripping of all human items Kagome swam into the mer-village towards her cave home. "I'm back!" she called as she entered the cave.

She smiled at the sight of Kikyo sitting by her forge surrounded in her work as normal. She swam up closer to her and said a bit clearer "Hi! I'm back, how's your day been?"

Kikyo laughed once and said "How could I have not seen this?"

Kagome was suddenly very nervous of her sisters tone "Kikyo?"

Kikyo's red and black scales seemed to smoulder in anger and her long black hair was unbrushed and her face was pale with pain and anger. She slowly straitened up and turned to look at her younger sister.

"How could you Kagome? How?"

Kagome looked helplessly at her "Kikyo, I don't understand… what did I do wrong?"

Kikyo held up a leather jacket and growled out, not looking at her "I bet you human really wants his second skin back!" she threw it at Kagome.

The young mermaid held the fabric to her chest and looked smaller than ever at her sister's anger.

"What about Mother? Eh? Those freaks of nature killed our mother! And you go prancing around on legs with fucking shoes and- Arrhh!" she screamed out her anger and threw the nearest time at hand at the trembling mermaid.

Kagome ducked under the hammer and said "Kikyo! Calm down! I haven't done anything!"

Kikyo grabbed her sister by her hair and shouted at her "You haven't done anything! You sea slug! You've been flaunting about with a human! The same things that Killed MUM!"

"HE DIDN'T KILL HER!" Kagome screamed back at her with blue tears running down her cheeks and becoming dark blue sea glass at their fins. "Other humans, he's done nothing wrong!"

Kikyo slapped her and she cried out holding her stinging cheek "Stupid girl! All humans are beasts that should have been drowned at birth if the sea was worthy enough for then to be drowned in!"

Kikyo had never raised a finger against her sister and the poor girl lay on the cave floor holding a stinging cheek while her sister held her hair roughly tugging it as she yelled in her ear.

"Stop it Kikyo!" she squealed and tried to wriggle out of her grip.

"No not until you promise to never return to the surface again!"

Kagome gasped and shook her head "I can't do that Kikyo… I'm sorry"

Kikyo let out a reptilian hiss, this aggressive side was what the sirens had been famous for and in Kikyo's mouth were skewer like fangs and her eyes went down to slits that boiled the water around the two girls.

"Why not?" she asked her voice grating and almost growling as she let her sister's hair go and her voice calmed down to a whisper but with that new evil edge to it. "What possible reason could you have for not staying down here with your family?"

Kagome cried into the jacket. Unnoticed by the two mermaids a few curious sea people and fish had stopped to watch and listen to the fight. The mermaids watched in horror and the fishes all hissed in agitation as they sensed Kikyo's siren nature start to surface.

"Tell me!" Kikyo demanded.

Kagome sniffed and said "I'll tell you, if you stop transforming… Kikyo, you're not a siren… don't do this to yourself"

Kikyo struck her again sending her back into the wall. "Tell me! Tell me why I shouldn't just go up to that house of his and drown him in the sea? Tell me!"

Kagome sniffed again and said loud enough so everyone could hear her "Because I love him"

Everyone gasped and the two girls became aware of the audience.

"You what?" Kikyo said so shocked that she had turned back into her old self.

Kagome sighed in relief and got up off the cave floor and said "I love him, and if you want to drown him" she pulled out her shell dagger "You'll have to go through me first"

Sigh, another filler. I couldn't bring myself to merge this chapter with anything else because I wrote this when I was in a bad mood.