InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ All Hallow's Evening ❯ Explain Me ( Chapter 6 )

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All Hallow's Evening

Chapter 6: Explain Me

"Human." That word resonated in Kagome's head while she looked at the woman standing in front of her, her hair was almost completely gray, but you could tell it had been a beautiful black just years before. Her eyes hadn't aged a bit, though, they looked as young as Kagome's.

"Stop looking at me like that, girl." The queen said in a friendly tone. "I'm real."

Sango ran to the Queen's side with a concerned face. "Why are you here, your majesty? Did you need something? I'm so sorry I haven't been by your side today, Inuyasha told to escort Kagome and…" The queen just waved her hand.

"Shut up, Sango." She said, again in a friendly tone. "I can live without you, you know?" Sango just turned red on the cheeks and looked away. "I came here to see" the queen gazed solemnly at Kagome. "her."

Kagome jumped when the woman's eyes landed on her. "Me?"

"Yes, you, child." The queen said with an amused smile. "Now come here." A second later Kagome was in front of her, this woman the kind of person you didn't want to leave waiting. The queen took Kagome's chin and lifted it so she could see her better, she eyed her for at least a minute. "So Inu-Taisho was right…"

"About what, my lady?" Sango asked curiously.

"Two things… One I'm not telling, God knows there are too many gossips running around here, don't you think, Miroku?" The priest just pretended to have deaf ears and looked at the sky with an interested face. "The other thing, you already know… This girl is powerful."

'She came here only to look at my face?' Kagome thought. 'What did the King told her about me?' she wondered again. Why do people keep hiding things from me…?

"You are a Miko too?" Kagome asked, but the words didn't turn out right because the queen still held her chin up.

"Yes." The woman said before releasing her gently.

"Hum… can I ask you something?" Kagome said, feeling a little self-conscious about talking to the woman, after all, she was the queen.

"You already did." The queen smiled when she said this and the words didn't sound harsh, therefore Kagome took this as an affirmative.

"How old are you?" Sango and Miroku gasped as soon as those words came out of Kagome's mouth, so she looked around trying to see what was wrong.

"Y-you don't ask such things to your queen!" Sango yelled in a strained voice. For a moment Kagome thought they were going to behead her or something drastic like that; until she heard the queen laughing.

"Oh, don't tell me I'm that scary." The woman told Miroku and Sango, who had very bewildered expressions on their faces. "The girl is just curious." The queen took Kagome's arm and led her to a less crowed section of the yard. "Don't tell this to anybody" she whispered. "I'm 186 years old." Now it was Kagome's turn to gasp.

"What?? How?? I'm very confused…" The queen chuckled.

"This should be a little confusing for you… I mated with a Youkai, therefore, me, being a Miko, borrowed some of my husband's life energy… as a result, I'm going to live as long as he lives. Not a second less not a second more." Kagome just eyed her blankly.

"So… you are going to die at the same time?" The woman nodded. "How tragic…" the queen snorted.

"It's called 'romantic.'" Kagome smiled at her.

"Well… You look pretty young to be 186 years old…"

The queen flashed her a smile but said: "Don't flatter me, it won't help you much here…" Kagome's eyes suddenly lowered to the ground, her status in that world all of a sudden seemed to have come back to her, she was a… concubine. And she was talking to her kidnapper's mother…

There was a short silence, the queen still held her arm, they were alone in a recluse section of the yard and all they could hear was the chatter of the other mikos, Miroku and Sango were probably looking at them… but it seemed like they were alone in the world and that nobody else could hear them.

"Please…" the queen whispered to Kagome but did not look at her. "Have patience with him." The girl looked at the queen feeling confused. What was her asking her to do? "He… gets lonely sometimes."

Kagome lowered her eyes again, the queen was talking about his son… "I… don't know what you want me to do…" she whispered back. The queen released her arm and smiled a sad smile.

"You'll know…"

***

Inuyasha wasn't feeling particularly happy today. It had been a long day, especially when he had barely had enough sleep the night before.

They had been back from the Human World the previous day at dawn, he hadn't sleep at all that Halloween night. Then, yesterday with barely enough sleep he had accompanied his father to a stupid war council that lasted all day. He had come back last night to find the girl still asleep in her room, she had been sleeping all day! But for some reason it didn't feel right to wake her up, she looked so sick and pale. That was why she had told Sango to escort her to the bathtoom, cloth her and take her to the Miko Army, it wouldn't be fun if the girl slept in her room all day.

Last night he hadn't been to sleep much, he had been dreadfully tired but he stayed all night looking at the ceiling, unable to close his eyes. It usually happened after Halloween, he had to endure two or three nights without sleep. He didn't really know the cause of his insomnia… maybe it was his conscience?… nah.

It was dark inside his room and he didn't see any light coming out of her room, so he decided she was probably asleep, again.

"Shit," he thought "It's been two days and I'd hardly seen her."

It wasn't that odd, actually the women would just cry and cry and not come out of their room until they were too hungry to ignore it. But he hadn't seen her cry once since she got here, not even smelled her tears. Maybe she was just stubborn.

The second he approached his bed he sensed something was out of place and mentally kicked himself fro being so careless.

"Why didn't you tell me you were half human?" A voice asked. The voice was emotionless.

"Would it have made any difference?" He asked before lighting some candles from the nightstand. She was sitting in his bed, her clothes changed, he noticed. She looked much better.

"No." she replied after a moment of silence. "I just thought I should have known…"

He snorted and moved to the other side of the bed, where his clothes were kept in a bureau. He stripped out of his heavy kimono so he was only wearing his baggy pants. He could feel her eyes on his chest before she turned away, he smirked and put on a more comfortable kimono.

"Why would I have told you? So you could make fun of me? 'Poor little hanyou, so close to being a human but not close enough'? Or so you could think I was a little more harmless than a full Youkai? Don't fool yourself…" Kagome shifted on the bed so she could see him better now that he was dressed again.

"Why should I pity you? You are no victim" she said in the same emotionless voice.

"Oh, and you are?" he smirked. "Poor peasant girl whose destiny was to be killed by her own people when they find out she was a miko… I saved you, you won't be killed here. You'll be useful." His eyes were not on her, but in the flame of one of the candles that sat on the nightstand.

"So that is why you keep me in your room? To save me?" She asked in a sarcastic tone.

He snorted again. "I told you already, I do it to piss off Seshomaru."

"AND get a good lay, huh?" she added. He laughed at her.

"Who said you were going to be good? Too confident, aren't we?" He suddenly looked at her and started to come closer so she stood up and started to back away. "I scare you?" he whispered, looking at her with those expressive golden eyes.

"Don't you dare touch me." She hissed when he was some steps away from her. "I know what it does to you. It's disgusting." He growled and looked away again.

"I forgot you were with Miroku today… That little shit, he has such a big mouth. It doesn't matter, though" he told her and in a blink of an eye he was standing in front of her, hands near her arms, his finger were only millimeters way from her skin. He was teasing her. "Your power doesn't affect me in this form… much." She was breathless for a second, not being able to understand how he had moved that fast.

"I won't let you touch me!" she screamed and back away again.

She headed to her room but he quickly caught her arm, she tried to break free but his hold was too strong. Before she could say anything he had embraced her in an iron hold.

"You'll give in… they all do. 'I won't let you touch me' they say… but when the end of October is near… they panic." His voice was smooth and his eyes intoxicating, but Kagome couldn't feel anything but disgust. "They think they can make themselves indispensables" he put his lips close to her ear and whispered. "How silly of them."

Kagome pushed him away so suddenly he let her go. Her face was contorting with angry. How dare him speak like that about women that didn't have another choice!

"Your mother told me to have patience with you but now I can see you are hopeless!" she screamed at him and once again tried to put more distance between them.

"You talked to my mother?" his voice, his face, everything changed once those words left his lips.

"She seems to think I can do something to change you." He was the one that backed away now, he ran his finger through his hair while he walked slowly to his bed.

"She doesn't really approve what I'm doing…" Inuyasha told her. Kagome was fixed in her place, still too far from her door, but now far enough from him to feel comfortable. He wasn't even looking at her anymore.

"What mother would?" There was a long silence. Inuyasha walked over his bed and heavily sat on his bed, when he was comfortable enough he fixed his eyes on Kagome again. Kagome took a big breath, she knew she was going to get in a lot of trouble for asking this, but she had to know… "Why did your mother married your father?"

He gave her an annoyed look. "What kind of question is that?" he asked in a defensive tone.

"Well… she is human. Your father is…Youkai."

"News flash. I already knew that." He said, using an irritated tone again.

"You know very well what I'm asking!" screamed the miko at him, she could feel her face getting red. "Was she brought here like I was?! Did your father raped her? Did he make her stay?! Did she have a choice…?" she had said too much and she had only noticed after it was too late. She always had the bad habit of saying everything she thought, but it had never put her in such danger before. She saw his eyes light with red anger and when he spoke he did nothing to hide his fangs.

"You don't have the right to speak like that of my parents" he said in a very ice cold tone of voice that made Kagome flinch. "You don't know anything, you think you are so smart, you think that you understand everything?" he shifted her gaze from her face to the ceiling, he looked deeply disgusted. "Not everything is black and white."

Kagome was quiet, she didn't know what to say, she didn't want to agree or disagree, because right now she wasn't sure what she was thinking. She couldn't really comprehend what he was saying.

The miko was surprised when he kept talking. "They love each other." He whispered.

'I'm sorry' that is what she wanted to say right now, but he didn't let her even start saying it.

"Would you go already?!" screamed the hanyou, his eyes still fixed in the ceiling. "I want to fucking sleep peacefully for a damn night!"

She flinched again but quickly did what he told her. Her mind full of things to think about. 'Not everything is black and white…'

Inuyasha moved on the bed so now he was laying on one side, looking at the wall. He had told her he wanted to sleep… it was a shame that he wouldn't be able to do that. It was the beginning of another restless night.

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Did that suck or what? It was a really hard chapter to write, I don't really know why! Maybe because I was getting to much into Sango and Kagome and forgetting about Inuyasha? Lol… Next chapter I'm going to talk about the Miko Army and Miroku because it's very important in the plot (yes, there is one lol) but Inuyasha will be there too! (he is important, after all haha)

I'm very sorry about the delay! I'll make up for it! (maybe… a long chapter for a change? u_u I'm such a fraud…)

Next chapter will be… "Answer me" or did I do that one already? Lol

Oh, Shippo is going to come soon…