InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Don't Promises Last Forever? ❯ Let's Chat ( Chapter 19 )

Let's Chat

"So…" Kagome started.

"Ok, you got yourself into this. Spill."

"Agh. Fine. Where do you want me to start?"

"Last Wednesday. What the fuck happened? None of us actually got an explanation. And don't leave anything out. You wouldn't want Mr. Evil to have his hand at you." Sango warned. Mr. Evil was her dog. But he also had memory demon blood in him. He was able to relay thoughts from anyone to his master, aka Sango. Very handy, for her at least.

"Why don't you just use him then?"

"Cuz, Kagome, I'd probably die from the overload of my senses. Especially when he got to Koga…"

"Ah, heh, yeah. You probably would." She said, somewhat sheepishly.

"That good?" Sango asked, an eyebrow raised.

"Nothing I know compares to fucking a wolf demon. Nothing. Too bad we're just lovers though. But I could never stand how possessive he gets."

"True, true. Don't want another repeat of Hojo." Sango agreed.

"Yeah, anyway. Ok. On Wednesday, when you pulled Miroku and I took Inuyasha, we danced. A lot. I got him going really well. But I was stupid and then turned to dance facing him."

"Oh, crap. And he knows of that stupid little thing about your eyes, now doesn't he?"

"Obviously. Cuz he reached my `true self,' you know, where I'm unhappy and sad and weird and basically how I am with you and Miroku." Kagome explained.

"Yeah, I figured as much."

"Anyway, I was desperate for a distraction. So I kissed him. And he kissed back. But with that kiss, something unlocked in my mind, and I felt myself being thrown back into that night with Hojo. It was like I was reliving that night over and over…it was horrible. The pain my body simulated was unbearable. I remember dropping to my knees and trying to scream like when I was with him, but I couldn't. And then it repeated again, and I tried to scream again, but this time it actually came out. And then it was weird. I felt myself `die,' like Hojo said, only I'm still here. I guess I blacked out. The last thing I remember actually seeing was the strobes flashing and Inuyasha…"

"So that's what happened…" Sango mused. That actually explained a lot.

"Yeah. When I finally came to, Inuyasha had started talking, but he didn't know I was actually conscious. Hell, I could barely move. It wasn't pleasant. But he went into this whole confession, and ended with him saying that he couldn't bear to lose me. That he needed me. That he loved me. I wanted to cry at that point. But I couldn't. I wasn't able to. He wound up falling asleep, and so did I, and the next day I awoke to him talking to Sota and Mother. I never knew he had the ability to be so…nice."

"Ha. So he is capable of being respectful."

"Yep! Anyway, so then we had a short conversation with him denying everything that he said the night before and then he went to get my doctor. It was weird though. I couldn't see. Not that I actually cared, because I didn't. It wasn't really of importance to me at that point. Anyway, he brought back my doctor, who told me I had taken Memex. I just went to sleep after that. I didn't want to hear it. I wanted to get better, though I thought that I'd get better in no less than a month, like most normal people." Kagome elucidated.

"Yeah, that's what we were betting on."

"Well, I awoke the next night, really late, vision fully intact. It was nice, being able to see. I took a shower, and then walked out of the bathroom, and saw Inuyasha sleeping there. I almost screamed."

"Well, he refused to leave until you left with him." Sango said, sympathetically.

"Really?" she asked, her voice giving away she was now feeling very guilty.

"Yeah."

"Oh." She hung her head.

"Kags, what's done is done. We can make amends and atone for our sins, but that's about it."

"But Inuyasha…" she now felt really guilty bad about sleeping with Koga.

"Inuyasha doesn't know about you and Koga. And I doubt he will ever learn unless you told him. Which I doubt you will. Just take a really long shower before you get anywhere close to him. You know how extremely jealous he gets."

"Yeah, well I don't think I'm going anywhere near him anyway." Kagome said, picking her head up. "On with the story. So I got dressed, and sat down, and started thinking when all of these sad memories came over me. I started crying, but Inuyasha came to comfort me. We wound up falling asleep together."

"Awww…how sweet." Sango said, a dreamy look on her face.

"Isn't it? The next day, we wound up having this pillow fight, and he finally won the wrestling match we started a few weeks ago. It was night, cuz I then caught him in an unexpected kiss. He then asked me out."

"Really?" Sango was really excited. "What'd you say??"

"The only thing I said was, `You have no idea how long I've been waiting for you to ask me that.' He took that as a `yes,' but since I never actually said the word, we never were officially going out. Hence I was able to pull what I pulled with Koga."

"Ohhh…now I get it." Sango responded.

"Yeah, technicalities. Anyway, so he took me to this little cottage of his…"

"Wait, Inuyasha? Or Koga?" Sango asked.

"You really are the slow one today, aren't you? Inuyasha took me there. It was by our old town, though. After that, we went to chill at his house, which was really nice." She said, pausing at her words. She remembered how big his house was, even though it didn't look it. "I mean, spending the time with him." She added quickly. "Well, the house was really nice too, I guess. Big. He has a lot of money."

"Oh, ok?" Sango said, confused.

"ANYWAY. I wound up spending the night there. But I awoke to a scratching at my window in the middle of the night, and I got freaked, so I went up to sleep with Inuyasha. He's a great teddy bear, I've learned."

"I bet!"

"Mhmm…" she said, her eyes closed in reminiscence. "So the next morning, he made breakfast, which was amazing. But after breakfast, he pulled this stunt and started to kiss me and caress my body. Not that I didn't like it, because I did. It was juts that I didn't want him to. And when I asked him to stop, he wouldn't. I said stop, and he still wouldn't. Then his hand was on my thigh, and it was near…well you know, my scars. I don't want him to know about that." Kagome said, her expression becoming nervous at the mere thought of it.

"I don't blame you!"

"Yeah, he was an asshole. But I was like, `get off of me, now.' And I felt this power surge through me. Like if I had to I could have killed him by touching him. It was scary. But all I did was leave him with a warning and walked out. I'm very proud of myself for not breaking him in two."

"As you should be!" Sango consented, nodding her head.

Kagome did sort of a snort-laugh. "Yeah, well I got home, and let's just say someone's looking for me. They left me with a note saying that they'll be back for me. It was creepy. I then took Sota to school, then came to the HS, where you saw me, and the whole thing with Kikyo."

"Yep." Was Sango's only response.

"Well, when Koga pulled me aside, he said something about an immense power seeping from me when the bitch angered me. That's when I invited him to lunch. Which was cancelled due to other `activities.'"

"Ha! Other activities, my ass." Sango said, laughing. "But you might want to go see your grandpa about that aura thing. And you don't have to tell me about Koga. Something tells me I don't want to know." Sango said.

"No, I'm not sure you do, actually."

"Hm…well, what time is it?" Sango then asked.

"Only 8:30. You want to come on a trip with me?" Kagome asked.

"To grandpa's?" Sango also referred to Kagome's grandfather as `grandpa.'

"Yeah, he should be answer a lot of questions."

"Kind of like how I got weirded when I could distinguish between humans and demons?" Sango asked. When she was in her freshman year, she went to Kagome's grandfather, who explained to her about being a demon slayer. From there her father trained her. But Sango was still close to Kagome's grandpa, and ever grateful to him.

"Yeah. Maybe I have something in me like you have demon exterminator blood in you." Kagome reasoned.

"Hmm…only one way to find out, though."

~*~

"Kaggy! Oh, dear, have you grown. It's so nice to see you again! Come in, come in." The old mad moved aside to let the two girls at his door in.

Sango gave Kagome a look. "Kaggy?"

"Heh, yeah. Come on. Let's go."

"So, Kaggy and dear Sango, it's nice to see you again as well. How are you? What do I owe this visit? Do you two want some tea?" he asked, fumbling around trying to make his home somewhat reasonable.

"Well, grandpa, it's very nice to see you too. And tea would be nice. I could use something to wake me. Also, grandpa, I have a few questions I thought you could answer."

"Really now? About what?" Grandpa called from the kitchen.

"Well, see, that's the problem. I don't really know. One of my demon friends said my aura flared or something like that…"

A crash was heard from the kitchen, along with words that were never meant for young children's ears. He came running out of the kitchen, a huge smile plastered on his face.

"Oh, Kagome, I never thought it could be true! But it is! You've received the miko blood from our side. You have the power of the priests and priestesses before you! Amazing!"

"What, WHAT?" Kagome stammered. What the fuck was a miko? And why wasn't she informed of this before??

"Y-you're saying…" Sango started, very slowly, "Kagome is a m-miko? Like a pure miko?" Sango knew that although mikos were not ones to be feared under normal circumstances, a pure miko was very rare. They were very powerful, drawing healing and purifying powers from their own spirit energy. If they became angered enough, the could destroy demons, people, towns, even cities, through a sacred method known as `purification.'

"Oh, happy, joyous day! Kami has answered my prayers!" Grandpa was doing some sort of jig around the room.

"Ok, grandpa, calm down." Kagome said, pausing. "Grandpa!" she screamed, finally getting the old man's attention. "Could you please tell me more? About being a miko, I mean. Is it dangerous?" Koga seemed somewhat worried before, and now Sango…

"Oh, of course." Grandpa sat down, preparing to tell some sort of story. Kagome braced herself for it. "You see, hundreds of years ago, our family belonged to a clan of people with healing powers. Your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great…oh, you get it. But anyway, that grandmother was a very powerful miko and priestess. She was legendary, one of the greatest healers of her time. However, when she bore her children, none of them exhibited the healing trait she had.

"After many years, research has been done on the power of mikos. It seems that the power of the healer in the miko lies dormant until the need of protection of self and/or others awakens it. In your position, your powers may have been awakened long ago, although only now they have begun to show themselves."

"Inuyasha…" Kagome whispered quietly. She now understood why he backed off so quickly with that third warning. That power surge she felt, that came from within her.

"However, once the power awakens and manifests itself, it can go out of control very quickly, desimating both yourself and possibly those around you. So you must learn to control this, manipulate it, and use it for your own purposes. You have been blessed with a gift, Kagome. A very powerful one at that.

"I shall be calling Kaede tonight. She will contact you tomorrow." Kagome nodded at the man. "I'm sorry if this seems sudden, but you must undertake this. Also, no one but you, Sango, and myself may know about this. There are corrupt people who would try to use you for your powers. Until they are under control, you won't be able to attend school, I'm afraid."

"But, grandpa!" Kagome protested.

"No buts. Shippo will be your tutor. Even though he is young, he is very smart, and truly amazing. I want to take every precaution against something happening to you."

"Fine." She said, flatly.

"You two should get going, it's late, almost 11. Your curfew is in an hour, no?"

"Yeah, it is. Thanks Gramps." Sango said, pulling Kagome out the door.

"B-bye grandpa." Kagome said weakly.

"Bye, Kaggy. And please, be careful."

Kagome had no clue of the dangers her powers held. Especially how they attracted demons. And most horribly, how they attracted Naraku…

Kagome's grandfather worried greatly. She was sure to be attacked by the man, if she hadn't been so already. He had lost track of where he was, and for all he knew, he could be living right next door to her in the form of a young boy. Grandpa only hoped that his granddaughter would be strong enough to withstand him…