InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ All Hallow's Evening ❯ Understand Me ( Chapter 12 )

 

 

All Hallow's Evening

 

Chapter 12: Understand Me

 

 

It had been two weeks since Miroku's announcement, and still Kagome's mind wandered around her chances.

She shuttered while thinking about her fate, now more than ever she doubted her mental health, it felt like being trapped in a psychotic nightmare. Her fate consisted of choosing between the two brothers. She could give herself to Inuyasha to avoid Sesshomaru or avoid Inuyasha to fall into Sesshomaru's claws.

 

Talk about choosing the lesser of two evils.

 

Both possibilities were appalling, but she knew which one she was going to choose, now she only had to hope for Sango's advice to work. Will Inuyasha see what was coming?

 

 

*~*~*~*~*~*~*

 

It had been a long day, War Council was taking longer than usual now that fucking Sesshomaru had decided to send the mikos to the front in three months. Strategies had to be made, supplies had to be prepared, transportation had to be arranged. And yet the thing that concerned him the most was that his idiotic brother was going to be in close contact with Kagome, the woman that he, Prince Inuyasha, still failed to tame. She had to be his before Sesshomaru saw her.

 

Usually, the women he kept gave in before the end of the first month. But he had time, three months were more than enough, yes?

 

The prince opened the door to his room and immediately noticed he wasn't alone. It surprised him because it was late at night and she usually slept early- to avoid him, he guessed. Maybe she was finally getting desperate?

 

“Kagome” he purred in a way that made her skin crawl.

 

“I was wondering something,” she said lifting herself from her sitting position on his bed. He approached her but didn't touch her.

 

“Kikyo---“ she started but was stopped by a flash of white and a loud sound. When she saw Inuyasha's bruised fist and the cracked wall she realized that the sound had been made by a tremendous punch. She tried to hide the fear in her eyes, but it was like trying to cover the sun with a single finger.

 

The demon couldn't tell what had caused the reaction. Maybe he had been expecting something else to come out of her mouth. Maybe he was just tired.

 

“I won't talk to you about her.” The hanyou hissed and she took a step back. The miko thought for a moment about leaving the room but quickly regained her confidence. She didn't have a plan B, this had to work. Inuyaha eyed her suspiciously but couldn't pin point what was fishy about her actions.

 

“You said you loved her and I…” He snorted and started passing around his room, feeling uncomfortable. She congratulated herself, she was getting a reaction. “I want to know why, how did she get you to open your---“ The
Prince hit the wall again, starling her. His fist was even more bruised now but he didn't seem to notice.

 

“SHUT UP!” He yelled and the miko winced. “It is none of your concern! I was stupid back then and it won't happen again!” He didn't want to love again? His words sank in and Kagome's eyes opened in silent realization.

 

“What did she do for you to not want to fall in love again?” her question hung in the air as the demon growled and approached her again, his hands frozen at his side, eyes sparkling in the dark room.

 

“Demons don't fall in love,” he lectured “they own.”

 

“You are part human.” She whispered with more conviction than what she felt. This… creature... couldn't be part human.

 

The hanyou snorted again and smiled a predatorial smile.

 

“What did she do?” Kagome's voice resounded around the room.

 

“Let's just say…” he murmured, moving as slowly as fog toward her “that I won't trust a miko again.” His breath tickled her lips but she didn't acknowledge it.

 

“So she betrayed you?” He didn't respond, his eyes gave away nothing. “I had the chance to…” She paused, unsure if she should voice her earlier actions. The desire to kill him still fresh in her mind, but her desire to let him live was even stronger “kill you that night and yet I didn't… I am powerless against you. What is there not to trust?”

 

He barked a laugh. “Tricky little bitch…” he said and grazed one of her cheeks with his cold hand, she allowed the touch. Somehow she knew he didn't mean that as an insult. “Are you giving up?”

 

“I need you.” Kagome whispered and the hand on her cheek paused. “I need you to survive.”

 

“I'll help you survive…” he said to the girl, his lips approaching hers. Kagome's eyes flew to the demon's lips but her mouth closed tightly. “Just close your eyes and surrender…”

 

“No.” she commanded, putting a hand on his chest and pushing him off her. “Not if you don't let me understand you first.”

 

“Understand?” He mocked. “What is there to understand?” He dropped his hand to his side again and took one small step back.

 

“I want to understand why your behavior changed so much since the day you kidnapped me. At first you seemed almost… human?” Kagome inquired and the prince only smiled broadly.

 

“Human? I have never been insulted so.” He joked. “That day, I seemed human to you?” he retreated some more, giving the girl more room to breath, the mood was totally destroyed.

 

“Well, you seemed kinda… happy.” She explained.

 

“Happy? Of course, I had a great catch to rub my brother's nose in. What was there not to be happy about?” The hanyou walked to his bed and sat, the miko followed him but didn't sit.

 

“Then why didn't you seem happy once you did?” Inuyasha stroked his hands against his face in frustration.

 

“I TOLD you back then, I didn't want---“

 

“A miko in your room again?” She finished for him. The demon lifted his golden eyes to meet hers and the girl felt chills down her spine. “I am the first miko you have had since Kikyo, right?” He didn't answer, she didn't expect him to.

 

The hanyou turned his head slightly, as if to look at her from another angle. “Have you made your point yet?” She understood he was dismissing her and turned to leave, but not without asking him again: “What did she do?”

 

Inuyasha grinned and looked at her dangerously. “She made me kill her.”

 

His confession shocked her so much she didn't remember walking to her room and getting ready for bed. She laid in her bed motionless, listening to the silence within her room and thinking about the hanyou sleeping next door.

Inuyasha had just confessed of killing the woman he had loved, the woman that in return hadn't loved him back. Was that the reason he had killed her? Was she, Kagome, going to suffer the same fate if she used the demon's feeling against him?

 

She didn't have another plan, there was not another chance. She had to try. If she didn't try to get out of her prison, how was she supposed to make her mother proud? Her mom had to know she had tried.

 

Her mother's face appeared in her thoughts and the girl winced. What would she think if she knew of her daughter's behavior? Using Inuyasha's feelings for some dead woman to get free… was it even possible? Was it even possible for him to feel something without being… physical? One thing she was sure of, she was going to need to stop being a virgin before facing Sesshomaru. The only problem was that she couldn't give herself to Inuyasha because then HE would be winning and he would probably give her to his brother anyway.

 

What was she to do?

 

*~*~*~*~*~*~*

 

The next day at training an unexpected visitor showed up. Miroku wasn't happy and went to a corner to sulk, while the old miko was greeted by the other mikos.

 

Kaede went to Kagome after all the girls had talked with the old woman a little, the girl wasn't surprised, she had been waiting for the visit.

 

“I know who Kikyo was now.” Kagome said and Kaede smiled. “But I want to know something only you can answer.”

 

The old miko nodded. “I suppose you have the right to ask.”

 

Kagome smiled and proceeded. “How was she… as a person?”

 

The old woman pondered at this for a moment and then replied. “Before we got captured she was a very happy woman, she was going to be married in a couple of months, it was, and she told me, the best time of her life.” Kagome could feel oppression in her chest imagining a young happy woman being taken from her life at home. “But once we got here she…changed.” The woman paused and the girl was afraid she wasn't going to say more, but Kaede continued. “It was like her spirit had left her body, I think she simply gave up.” There was another pause, Kagome could understand the young woman's feelings. Giving up was so much easier. “She was empty.”

 

“Empty? What do you mean empty?” The girl asked.

 

“Just that, she showed to emotion, no happiness, no sadness, nothing. I still don't understand what in her attracted Prince Inuyasha.” Kagome caught her meaning and was surprised.

 

“You knew he loved her?” She asked in a choked voice.

 

“I know he felt something for her. I doubt it was love.” Kagome stared the old miko with questioning eyes. Even Inuyasha had admitted loving her, how could he be wrong? “I think… maybe… her lack of fear of him, of anything, really, made him feel at ease. Not other woman, apart from his mother, had ever felt anything but fear of him. In contrast, she felt nothing.”

 

Kagome was silent for a long time, absorbing the woman's insight. If what she was saying was true and Inuyasha's feelings were triggered by Kikyo's “acceptance” of him, manipulating him would be easy. But that didn't resolve an important mystery: Why had he killed her?

 

“Then,” the younger miko wondered. “Why did he kill her?”

 

Kaede only eyed Kagome and kept silent, she didn't know how the girl had gotten that information. “If your goal is to understand Prince Inuyasha you'll have to ask him.”

 

Kagome's shoulders fell in defeat. Why she had thought for a moment the woman had an answer for her was inexplicable. “I'll try.” She whispered.

 

“Show no fear and he may trust you.” The older miko said and the girl silently agreed.

 

*~*~*~*~*~*~*

 

 

It was November the 30th, and that fact was making Inuyasha squirm. That girl was unbelievable. It had been almost a month now and she had not surrendered. He decided he'd have to take action but he didn't like to beg. He didn't want to force her either.

 

He could almost hear Sesshomaru's voice taunting him. This was not helping at all when it came to him doing his job.

 

His eyes passed through the empty seats at the War Council room and he sighed. The meeting was over and he was still sitting at the head of the table, torturing himself with thought of a woman.

 

In addition to his female trouble, this war had him really frustrated. He had been appointed to be his father's right hand in those meeting for a reason, the same reason Sesshomaru had been appointed at the front of battle. Inuyasha was the impulsive one, Sesshomaru the thinker, the King had thought it best if his sons were forced to cultivate the opposite talent.

 

Now Inuyasha was forced to THINK while his brother had to ACT. The inactivity was killing him, but at the same time he knew that Sesshomaru's plan of sending the miko's to fight so early was a big mistake.

 

Never mind he didn't want Kagome close to his brother just yet.

 

“Is there a problem, dear son?” The King entered the room and sat on one of the empty seats across from the prince.

 

“I want to go to the Front.” The young demon said, making his request sound the least selfishly childish as he could manage.

 

“We have been through this before, Inuyasha.” The King sighed.

 

“Sesshomaru is wasting our only resource to win this war sending those girl to fight. They are NOT ready.” The prince explained.

 

“Your brother knows what he is doing…” The old demon said and got up front his seat to go to the door.

 

“Many will die.” Inuyasha whispered at last, looking at his father's retreating form.

 

“Oh, please, son, tell me you don't actually care.” The full demon said in a disappointed voice without turning to face him.

 

“Of course I don't.” A lie. A short silence followed.

 

“You are too much like your mother.” Inuyasha's father said while he exited the door. “That's why your brother will be King when I die and not you.”

 

*~*~*~*~*~*~*

 

Inuyasha couldn't hide that his father's harsh, but well known, statement had affected him. The King thought of him to be a softy, even after all the things he had done to make his father think the contrary. No matter what he did the older demon always saw past his son's facade, it was really frustrating. Couldn't he understand how hard he was trying to suppress the human emotion running through his head?!

 

His resolve hardened, it was the last night of the month and he'd be damned if that girl didn't sleep with him tonight. He opened the door to his quarter with a loud thump, it was early in the afternoon and he knew the miko was not there. She was training with that stupid monk.

 

He entered Kagome's room and emptied the contents of the chiffonier next to her bed, it was not much, just three outfits that looked exactly the same, the miko training outfit. He fingered the red fabric while he moved all her stuff to his room, once there he cleared one of his drawers and put the girl's clothes in there. He closed the drawer feeling that at last he had done something right.

 

He walked calmly to the door that connected their bedrooms, pulled out an old looking key and locked the little door with little ceremony. The hanyou pocketed the key again and sat heavily on his bed.

 

She'd be surprised when she got back.

 

*~*~*~*~*~*~*

 

Kagome tried to open the door to her room once again. It didn't even budge. It was locked, it was really locked. Dread began to overpower her and she looked quickly around Inuyasha's room, searching for a clue. Red fabric caught her eye and she hurriedly walked to Inuyasha's chiffonier, it was where he kept his clothes.

 

The drawer was heavy but she opened it in one yank, her eyes widened. Her clothes were there.

 

Kagome heard the door open and she turned away from her discovery without bothering to close the drawer.

 

“Why are my clothes here?” She demanded and the hanyou smiled in self-contempt.

 

“Because this is your new room.” The demon explained. The miko reached him in three quick strides.

 

“This is below you.” She hissed.

 

Inuyasha laughed at her, she was so funny sometimes. “How could you know what is below me?”

 

“You can't force me to do anything.” Kagome challenged him.

 

“I can force you to sleep with me.” He said calmly. “In the literal sense of the expression.” The girl growled in frustration and started to head to the door. “You can't go. I locked it.” Sure enough, once she tried to open the door it didn't budge either, just like the door to her room. She was trapped.

 

“Fine!” she yelled and Inuyasha felt victorious for the first time in a long time. But it only lasted a second.

 

Kagome grabbed one of the pillows and yanked the blanket off the bed. She walked with as much dignity as she could to a corner in the room and laid on the cold floor, covering herself with the thin blanket.

 

“Goodnight!” She yelled without even bothering to change into her bedclothes.

 

The prince watched all her actions without reacting. Slowly he cursed under his breath and grabbed his forehead as if in pain.

 

That girl would be the end of him.

 

Inuyasha threw himself on his bed and looked for the blanket, he cursed once again. She had the only blanket. And God as his witness he would NOT get up from his bed to get a new one.

 

*~*~*~*~*~*~*

 

Kagome was very disoriented. The first things she noticed when she woke up were that she was really sore and she was really cold.

 

The last thing she noticed where her friend Sango peering down at her with a small smile on her face.

 

The younger girl groaned and turned around to face her friend, her eyes still sleepy.

 

“Congratulations.” Sango said, her smile wider than before.

 

“Huh? What do you mean?” Kagome inquired, she was feeling very confused.

 

“You passed the month. I can surely tell you that you have survived longer with Inuyasha than any other woman in 50 years.” Explained the older girl.

 

The miko was quiet while she sat up and eyed the bed, looking for the demon. He was not there. “I don't know if I should laugh…” said Kagome “or cry.”

 

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Finally done, I'll begin the next chapter immediately. Of course, I always do that but still end up taking 6 FREAKING MONTHS to finish.

 

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