InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ All Hallow's Evening ❯ Ask Me ( Chapter 5 )

Thank you sooo much for all your reviews! (63 in total, wow! Do you think we can make it to 100? ^_^U that is my goal in life hehe) I feel loved lol, this story is getting more and more interesting in my head ¬¬ (I'm weird like that...) so here goes the next chapter!

Miroku is going to appear here somewhere, at first Kaede had his part but I think Miroku will work better for it because he has a bigger mouth, lol, you'll see...

A reviewer said it wasn't All Hallow's Evening but All Hallow's Eve... so... yeah, I don't really know lol I started this fanfiction because of a pamphlet I read about Halloween and it said it was 'Evening'... but 'eve' sounds better O_o it's too late to change it now but I'll do some research ^_^u

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All Hallow's Evening

Chapter 5: Ask Me

"Hey Kagome! Kagome! Wake up!"

'Let me sleep' was all Kagome could think about, 'I'll do my chores later, I promise...', she had been asleep for half a day already but she was still whipped. Her breathing stopped suddenly. Her mother would never let her sleep for half a day... Then the voice that woke her up registered in her head, it was that girl from yesterday.

Kagome immediately sat straight up, hands flying to her face, feeling. Yes, she was alive. Next was the recognition of the place, she was in a strange room, sleeping in a strange bed, wearing the clothes she hadn't changed in two days. Sango was kneeling beside her bed, looking concerned at her.

The younger girl felt a sob coming through her throat and buried her face in her hands, her shoulders started shaking but she didn't cry.

"Kagome, Kagome..." whispered Sango, hugging and rocking her gently. The girl's breathing was shaky, but she was slowly calming herself.

"For a moment" Kagome started "I thought it was all a dream." Sango looked at her and smiled.

"I know."

Kagome stood up and tried to fix her clothes a little, they were really wrinkled and a little torn because of the 'comfortable' journey to the castle. Sango tried to hide a giggle.

"I have some new clothes for you" She said, "Inuyasha thought you'd like to take a bath and change clothes so he sent me to escort you to the public bath. And then I have to take you to the Training Room..." Sango sighed. "He ordered me to take good care of you." Kagome just stood there, her face too serious for her twinkling eyes. Sango felt uncomfortable so she tried to explain. "It's the first time one of his women is going to spend a long time outside his room. He is worried."

Kagome turned around in slow motion and started making the bed, Sango didn't stop her although she knew a maid was supposed to take care of that.

"What is it?" Sango asked her. Kagome didn't turn around to answer, but she spoke in a loud voice so she could hear.

"He is not worried about me, he is worried about me running into his brother."

"Why do you say that?" asked Sango feeling confused.

"That demon said he'd take me for himself if Inuyasha didn't... you know, do 'that' to me fast..." Sango tried her best not to look horrified at the comment but it didn't work.

"...That... that is..." she said, looking for the right word.

"Bad?" finished Kagome, and moved from the bed, it was done, like she had never slept on it.

"He is scary, isn't he?" Sango said, she sat on the bed, not caring she was wrinkling it again. Kagome sighed but sat on the bed too.

"He paralyzed me with a look." She said feeling ashamed. Sango only made a dismissing sign with her hand.

"I completely understand. He still scares me." Sango looked at the girl, she was looking much better. When she had first come to the room the girl had been sleeping soundly on the bed, she looked really tired and pale, so she tried to wake her up, it had taken her 3 tries until Kagome reacted. And then the girl had stared at her with such an shocked face that she had felt her heart sink. She knew it wasn't going to be easy for the new girl to get used to her new style of life, it was all different here, but the faster she got used to it, the better her chances were of getting close to Inuyasha. The other girls had been hopeless, she was aware of that now, all they did was whimper and bawl all day, she had hardly been able to talk to them without them sobbing into her shoulder. Kagome... she was strong.

"Seshomaru's eyes are so cold and creepy." Sango continued. "That's why I like Inuyasha better... at least his eyes look more innocent, don't you think?" She smiled at Kagome but the girl jut looked away.

"Sorry, I won't say anything good about my kidnapper." Sango's smiled cracked. 'Yep... ok, she is right' Sango thought 'but she won't survive with that attitude.'

"He is not that bad." She started to say but Kagome shot her an annoyed look. "He has a good heart..."

"He is a 100 years old... what does that mean? 80 women? He has raped 80 women?..." Kagome whispered, her eyes falling to the hands on her lap. She had the sudden urge to work, do something... now she missed her chores, at least that would keep her too busy to think in what was to come.

"He has not raped anyone." Sango said in an angry voice, the comment had offended her. Inuyasha was one of the few demons she knew that were decent... he had his faults but it was nothing compared to what she had seen.

"Maybe not physically," Kagome said, looking right at Sango's eyes. "but how can a woman in her right mind agree to sleep with a demon?" The young woman's eyes left Kagome's.

"Lets go" Sango said while standing up. "We have to hurry, you have to be at the Miko's training room in half an hour." Kagome followed her but stopped once they were about to go to the hall. She wasn't sure if going out of this room without much protection was a wise idea. This was a world full of demons, after all... And what if Seshomaru found her?

"We are not going to run into Seshomaru." Sango assured like she could read Kagome's expression. "He is hardly ever in the castle and when he is he usually stays in his room." The young woman took the girl's arm and led her to the hall, headed for the public bathroom.

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Kagome was out of the bathroom and clean in 20 minutes, she was wearing some strange clothes made of an elastic material, nothing like a kimono, it looked more like what a demon exterminator would wear, except it had a green skirt that ended 8 inches above her knees.

"Why do they have public bathrooms in a castle?" Kagome had the need to ask the wiser girl.

"Oh... demons think we, humans, should be cleaned at least once a day -something they don't need to do, don't ask me why- so they made this bathroom for all the humans to share." Kagome made a face, sharing a bathroom with all the human servants was disgusting, but sharing a room with a demon that didn't need to bathe was beyond disgusting. Then again, Inuyasha hadn't smelled bad at all.

It had felt good to see some more humans. They were not as cheerful as Sango, of course, but at least they smiled a little at her, out of pity, yes, but she felt kind of welcome now...

"It's this way." Sango said to her when she was getting too lost in her thoughts to notice where she was going. They were in a unusually bright hall, so Kagome decided they were near an exit. The two girls walked to a little door made of red wood, Sango opened and the amount of light that entered hurt Kagome's eyes so much she had to shut them. It was scary to think she was getting used to the darkness already.

They were out in what looked like a big backyard, nearly a hundred young women were walking around, wearing red and white clothes, the traditional miko's kimono.

Kagome's mouth fell open, there were so many... she hadn't seen this much people together since her village's last festival that had been 10 months ago. She felt a punch-like feeling in her stomach at the memory, but she dismissed it, it was not the time for self-pity.

Sango hurried to one side of the courtyard and Kagome followed closely behind her, there were a bunch of girls crowed around something or someone that Kagome couldn't make out.

"Miroku!" Sango screamed over the loud sound of the girl's chattering. Kagome saw a guy that looked fairly young come out of the center of the circle.

"Now, now, girls, I have to attend this call." He said in a cheery voice. Kagome just looked at him strangely. He was wearing Priest robes.

"I brought the new one," Sango said to the guy, Miroku. "She is staying at Inuyasha's." Miroku's eyes widened.

"But she is a Miko..." Sango nodded and lifted an eyebrow, like she was trying to hint something. "That is unusual." He added.

"Well, yes, Sango said the same thing." Said Kagome in an exasperated voice. She was sick of people talking like she wasn't in front of them. Miroku's eyes fell on her form, running up and down.

"What a lovely creature!" he exclaimed. Kagome blushed, she wasn't expecting that. "Would you like to have the honor of bearing my---" Suddenly Sango smacked him on the head.

"She. Is.. Inuyasha's." She whispered dangerously.

"Oh, yes." The guy said, rubbing his aching head. "Sometimes this little details elude my reasoning." Sango rolled her eyes and Kagome just looked blankly at them.

The older girl cleared her throat. "This is Miroku... your... er, instructor, per se..."

Kagome looked even more blankly at her. "...what?..."

"I command the Miko Army." Said the priest, looking really proud.

"And what the hell is this Miko Army thing about?" Kagome asked irritably and crossed her arms in front of her chest, maybe that way he wouldn't keep looking at it. She didn't even have a cleavage, for God's sake!

"Hum... Sango didn't tell you?" he looked at her but Sango only gave him a 'hey, it's your job' look. "Well, to put it simple... this kingdom is at war with the Wolf Clan, that rules the south, so they need as much help as they can, those wolves are barbarians, that's why they use the Mikos... with your powers they can do much more damage to those stupid youkai."

"Let me see if I understood correctly..." Kagome stated in a calm voice. "They kidnap us, take us away from our world, take out rights away, make us live in this creepy castle, rape us... and they expect us to fight their battles? That is disgusting..."

Miroku looked nervous and started looking around to see if some Inu Youkai guard had heard her. "Well... it is rather... evil... But most of us wouldn't have a chance to live in the human world anyway." He finished with a gulp.

"Why do you say that?" asked the miko curiously.

"You know what they do to the Miko's and Priests in our world... they kill us, our own kind..." Kagome just shook her head.

"We can hide." She said, but now Miroku was the one shaking his head. "how can you say this is better than being in the human world? Tell me: how many of these girls live in the Harem?"

"Only the best of the best lives in the Harem." Miroku said in cool voice, but he was feeling more and more nervous by the minute. This girl just wouldn't shut up for her own good. Sango was just looking at them with a amused smile, she enjoyed looking Miroku sweat.

"Then answer me: Why the hell would they want to put ME in the Harem?" Kagome asked and pointed at herself, as if to showing that she wasn't much.

"The girls Inuyasha and Seshomaru pick are the best ones. You have an unusually high power." He answered trying desperately to look for a way to change the subject.

"And what does my power have to do with anything?" Kagome asked, this was getting more and more confusing...

"Your miko powers are pure, demons have a dark aura... when they touch you, they feel something close to an energy shock, it hurts them. I think they like that." Miroku answered honestly. "The bigger your power, the more it hurts them."

Kagome's thoughts were sailing in a sea of disgustness.[hey, I made up a word!] "So that is why Seshomaru touched me..." she whispered. "Arg... and Inuyasha carried me all the way here... I feel violated!!!" she finally screamed.

Sango tried to calm her down by patting her shoulder. "Don't worry... it doesn't have much effect on him." Kagome looked at her questioningly and Miroku gave her a 'you screwed up' look.

"Why?" Asked the young miko.

"Er..." Sango said when she realized her mistake. Well, it was bound to come out sooner or later. "Well, Inuyasha is a hanyou." Kagome kept staring blankly at her. "Which means he is not a complete demon..." Kagome looked even more puzzled. "Which means... he is half human." Sango could hear the sound that Miroku's palm made when it connected his own forehead. He thought she shouldn't have said anything, but Sango believed it was for the best.

"He is half human?" Kagome repeated, not really believing her ears. "Which means... his mom is..."

"Human." A woman's voice completed her sentence, and the three of them quickly turned around to find a beautiful woman watching them with amused eyes.

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Ok... not much of a ground shaker considering you already knew that (Inuyasha's mom being human...) but... lets see how Kagome is going to react to that! As an interesting fact... the queen was not supposed to be here yet... but she decided to appear, lol.

Oh... I don't blame you if you don't understand much about what is happening here... my brain is a little hyper in the imagination department, sorry! u_u

And I'm sooo sorry for the Inuyasha-less chapter!!! I am compensating making this extra long to end the explanation once and for all, arg... I hate when there is so much dialogue but I can't help it... I can't continue this fanfiction if you don't know I'm completely against what Inuyasha is doing here (you know... the 'keeping' women part, even if he is not raping them...), and now you know about the Miko Army and you have seen Miroku, he is going to be the comic relief, can you tell? He is just such a comic character... of course, everybody has a sad story behind...

Too much babbling! This is really long, and it only took me all afternoon ^_^ I hope you enjoyed it! Inuyasha is going to be here in the next chapter, promise! Next chappie it's called *takes out her list of all the possible '-verb- me' names* (yes, I have one ¬¬) Explain Me (that does not mean there are going to be more technical explanations, I promise!!!!! -I promise a lot of thing, dont I?)

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