InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Broken Heart, Open Mind ❯ Hello ( Chapter 4 )

Broken Heart, Open Mind

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Kagome'sPoint of View

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Chapter 4: Hello

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When someone wants to leave something as quickly as he or she wants to, they can run fast. I proved that when I dashed away from Kaede's village from Inuyasha. It didn't even occur to me until I reached the outskirts of Inuyasha's forest and reached near Kouga's den that I still had a quest to complete... I went to a full stop... and lowered my head. How could I be so stupid to put my feelings in front of our quest to defeat Naraku? Running away from Inuyasha could wait... until Naraku was slain. And then he could go to Hell with Kikyou for all I cared.

I waited at that very spot until the hanyou in question reached me. I didn't even say a word when he carried me on his back when we left for Kaede's village. He was saying enough for the both of us. In fact, he said so much that I drowned out half of what he said. I know that he wanted to talk with me about the Kikyou-Inuyasha-me triangle... but this hanyou needed some intuition on a female's psyche. He obviously didn't know when it was to keep your mouth shut.

"Kagome, I don't know what happened back there..." Inuyasha panted as he dashed from tree to tree. "But I'm sorry. I don't want you being mad at me." So that's why he went after me. Little-Kagome-shard-detector + anger = no jewel shards. But I wasn't going to even try with him. In fact, I might even ignore his 'sit's. Who knows? I let him continue to talk until we reached Kaede's village. He put me on the ground, and, just as I was about to leave to see Miroku and Sango, he held me tightly and looked me in the eye. "So what's your answer?" I looked at him like he was crazy. "Dammit, Kagome, you didn't hear a single thing I heard!" I held my head down. "I wanted to know if you wanted me... to tell you what happened with Kikyou."

"I saw enough," I answered. Inuyasha sighed.

"Iie, you only saw a trick! I didn't do anything with Kikyou!" Inuyasha told me. "I wouldn't do that. If I was to do that with someone... I wouldn't do it in secret, and I'd be in love with them." He pulled my chin up to look me in the eye. "And I don't love Kikyou..." I pulled away from him. "Where are you going?"

"I need to think. And we need to find the rest of the jewel... we can't let Naraku get them all..." 'After all, you'd be disappointed with your little 'tama detector'...'

"Oh..." Inuyasha seemed dumbfounded. I walked away from him, my mind even more confused than ever.

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I was pleased the next morning when we started back on the shard hunt. At least it kept my mind off things. Of course, if it wasn't the hunt, it was the other two people that were there, Sango and Miroku. It wasn't that hard to see how much Sango was trying not to hit Miroku each time he complimented her. Every time she nearly did, he would only say, 'Remember, San-chan...' Of course, that would make her blush and forget what had happened completely. They made me smile...

"Miroku-sama... I think I feel a shard," I said suddenly. Miroku looked around. "A lot of them...." Suddenly, I held my head in my hands. "Too many... they're all corrupted..." My head started to feel like the skin was peeling from it. "Itai!" Inuyasha ran up to me, asking what was wrong. "Please... stop the shards... they're all corrupted... they burn..."

That was the last thing I remember before passing out.

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Inuyasha's Point of View

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Kagome just fainted in Miroku's arms as he appeared. I knew it was him the moment I smelled the air. His face smirked at me, as he gazed at Kagome's prone form. Then his scarlet eyes turned manevolent. Naraku leapt towards us, a dark grin from ear to ear. I pulled out Tetsusaiga, ready to use Bakuryuua.

"Maa maa, Inuyasha... if you die, Kagome will never know how you murdered Kikyou before rescuing her," Naraku said, reminding me of that horrible day. "And... doesn't she hate you even more...? You know why?" I narrowed my eyes at him. "Obviously not... wasn't Kikyou holding her hatred for you in her body?" I made no move, although I knew Sango and Miroku were beside me, ready for attack. "When Kikyou was disintegrated... her hatred flew into Kagome." He chuckled evilly. "And all I had to do was make her hate you even more."

"Why?!" I yelled out. "Yarou!"

"Language, Inuyasha. We're not uncivilized here," Naraku said, his face losing the grin. "Besides... I'm not even finished here..." He smiled again. "Ah... so my next stage is coming soon. Better make yourself ready." Naraku started off. "Say hello to Kouga!" Huh? Suddenly, just as Naraku left, Kouga's whirlwind appeared.

"You bastard! Where's Kagome?!"

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[Author's note: Now you all know what happened. Soon you'll know the exact reason why Inuyasha did it. Anyway, Kouga/Kagome fans would've loved the first draft of this chapter. It was all K/K goodness... I don't know if the next chapter will be though...]

Arigatou, all you lovely reviewers! If I could, I'd marry you all. ^_^

Disclaimer: Takahashi Rumiko owns Inuyasha.