InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Mind Reader ❯ Yea! I'm a Mind Reader ( Chapter 6 )

As promised, the history behind this evil squirrel is revealed this chapter. And for now on, anything in between these little things (~ ) will be something Kagome is mind reading. Now on to the chapter.

Disclaimer- Could you get sued if you said you actually owned Inuyasha? Of course I'm just curious, has nothing to do with me trying to save my skin…

Mind Reader

Chapter 3: Yea! I'm a Mind Reader!

Inuyasha was getting quite impatient. It had been almost an hour and there was still no sign of Sango and the rest. `How long could it possible take to get on Kirara and fly here?' For the first time since he had caught Kagome he felt safe putting her down. She was still unconscious but her vital signs had stabilized. So now Inuyasha was pacing back and forth in Kaede's hut and slowly driving Kaede insane.

"Inuyasha will you just sit down already? I'm gonna go crazy listening to you grumbling and watching your pacing."

Inuyasha stared at Kaede for a moment than continued his pacing, completely ignoring Kaede's request.

Kaede sighed then went to check on Kagome again. `Miroku better have some more information for me or else I don't know what we'll do.' Once she was certain that Kagome was still hanging on she went back to grinding up her herbs. She ground her herbs with a little more force than necessary, but that was because she was imagining Inuyasha's face on each herb she pounded with a stone. He truly was driving the old woman crazy. She was getting ready to throw her stone at Inuyasha when he finally stopped.

"About time," Inuyasha said before running out of the hut. He was soon yelling at a late Sango and Miroku. Well, he was actually only yelling at Sango since Miroku was still knocked out.

"What the hell took you so long? Kaede needs Miroku to tell her what the youkai was so she can cure Kagome!" Inuyasha was furious, he would have thought that Kagome's best friend would have been a little more considerate.

Instead of getting into a yelling match with Inuyasha Sango simply grabbed the two shards the youkai had possessed and held them up for Inuyasha to see.

Inuyasha saw the shards Sango was holding up and quickly grabbed them. "Oh, the shards. But that shouldn't have taken an hour to recover!"

Shippo tried to keep a straight face as he answered Inuyasha. "Well you see, Sango had to knock out the monk so he wouldn't grope her while on Kirara. And then she went to retrieve the shards but she was scar…umph!"

Shippo was rudely cut off by Sango slapping her hand over his mouth. The last thing she wanted Inuyasha to know was that she was scared of an already dead youkai. She quickly changed the subject before Inuyasha could prod Shippo to continue. "So umm, shouldn't we take Miroku to Kaede so that he can explain to her what the youkai did to Kagome?"

"Feh, we could but unfortunately for us you were sure to knock him out."

Sango nervously laughed and then glared at the unconscious monk. `Hurry and wake up you baka!'

To her complete and utter surprise Miroku started groaning. As soon as Inuyasha heard that he grabbed the poor monk by his robes and whisked him off to speak to Kaede. While waiting for Miroku to get fully awake Kaede tended to Sango's injuries. She gave her some herbs to help her ribs mend faster and then she rebandaged Miroku's head. When Miroku was finally fully awake everyone sat around a small fire and waited for Miroku to start.

"Start talking monk." Inuyasha demanded, folding his arms across his chest.

"Well, what do you want to know about?"

"Everything you baka! Anything at all to help Kaede cure Kagome!" growled Inuyasha.

"You may want to start with what kind of youkai it was," suggested Kaede.

"Yeah, you're right," replied Miroku, getting comfortable. "What we fought today was Akki Kodomo. What that literally means is Devil's Child. Legend has it that he use to be a servant to a great lord of the past. He didn't have very many powers, in fact all he could do was bite and scratch. It was said that Akki was a faithful servant, doing everything his lord commanded without complaint.

However, one day for a reason unknown to anyone, the lord betrayed Akki. He sent Akki to the depths of hell. Some say it was because Akki was giving away his lord's secrets. Others say it was because Akki was annoying his lord and the lord grew tired of it. But for whatever reason, Akki was sent to hell and the lord never believed he would hear from his servant again.

However, once in hell it was said that Akki started training with the devil himself. He was training to exact his revenge on his lord. He grew insanely strong as well as learned many new skills. The more time Akki spent training the more evil and sinister Akki became. Soon all traces of Akki's former self were erased, and in its place was a creature just as evil as the devil itself.

Now after several years of training Akki thought that he was ready to seek vengeance. The devil granted his passage back to the living world, but before Akki left the devil gave him one last skill. He gave Akki his own blood red eyes and the ability to kill anyone with just a glance and a thought. Akki was than sent back to the living world, ready to wreak havoc on it.

When Akki got back to the living world the first thing he did was seek out his former lord. When he found him Akki discovered that the lord had found a mate and had two children. This didn't faze Akki at all. He simply walked up to the happy family and touched each child. Each child instantly died, and their lifeless bodies fell to the ground. The lord grew enraged and prepared to kill Akki. However, before he could attack his mate did. As she charged Akki simply looked her in the eyes and she too fell to the ground, dead. When Akki and the lord finally fought Akki was sure to torture him. Every part of the lord's body that Akki touched was instantly ripped open, and soon the lord was bleeding from every part of his body. He soon died, and then Akki destroyed the lord's castle with his wind attack.

After he had completed his revenge, Akki became a wonderer. He killed at random, but soon he faded away. For the past century or so no one had ever heard of Akki. He soon became a legend, just a myth to tell to scare people. Obviously he is, or should I say, was very much alive. He probably came across some shards, liked the power they gave him and decided to go after the rest. We are actually very lucky that we all survived the encounter. If he was being serious we all would have died within minutes, but fortunately for us he didn't perceive us as much of a threat. He was simply toying with us, and had no idea that Kagome could destroy with a simple arrow."

During Miroku's whole story no one moved a muscle. They were all captivated by the tale Miroku was telling.

Sango was struck by how ruthless Akki was. "Wow…so his first kills when he returned from hell were children? How awful…" she trailed off, still in shock that something could be so cold blooded as to kill an innocent child.

Shippo however was impressed. Not with Akki, but with Kagome. "And Kagome killed him! She's so cool!"

Inuyasha didn't say anything, but he did let a very quick sparkle of pride shine in his eyes when he glanced at Kagome.

Kaede brought everyone out of their thoughts. "How does his death skill work? That was what he hit Kagome with, so I need to know what it does before I can cure her."

Miroku sighed before answered her, "No one really knows. No one has ever lived from that attack. Several rumors have popped up though. One is that it freezes your heart. Another is that it freezes your lungs, causing you to suffocate. And the last one I heard, and I believe the most far-fetched, is that it opens your mind and forces it close in upon itself, causing you to die."

Kaede took it all in and then slowly stood up to get some herbs.

"Do you know what to give?" questioned Sango.

"Not really. However after hearing the different possibilities of what could be ailing her I have some ideas of what may help."

Shippo was impressed with Kaede's abilities, "so what are giving her? Which rumor do you think is true?"

"I don't have the foggiest idea," replied Kaede, "I'm just gonna give her something for all three and hope one will work." Kaede saw that Inuyasha was about to flip out at the lack of confidence on her part, so she quickly tried to put the distressed hanyou at ease. "Don't worry, none of the herbs will harm her further and I'm almost positive that one herb will help."

Inuyasha growled in response so Kaede took that as a positive response. So she found the herbs she needed and gave to them Kagome. Once she was finished giving the herbs to Kagome she sat back against a wall. All there was to do now was wait.

~ 1 hr later ~

"Kaede, you worthless hag! You said at least one of those herbs you gave her would work! And she's still unconscious!" As you could probably guess Inuyasha was tired of waiting for the herbs to take effect.

"Inuyasha," Kaede started, trying to remain calm, "it is not an instantaneous effect. Her body has to absorb the herbs before they can do anything."

"Yeah Inuyasha, so sit down and stop pacing already. You're driving as all insane," remarked Miroku. He suddenly realized he shouldn't have said that and was preparing himself for a royal beating when Kagome twitched.

When Kagome twitched Inuyasha immediately forgot about torturing Miroku and was at her side a split second later. Everyone else joined him and soon they were all staring at Kagome, waiting for her to wake up.

Kagome's head hurt. And it was very loud. She couldn't understand why everyone was so loud. And they were talking over each other. As her eyelids fluttered open she saw five sets of eyes staring at her. `Jeez, am I really that interesting of a person to watch? And why won't they shut up? My head hurts enough as it is.'

~ Thank god she woke up, she saved my skin! ~

~ Yea! She's up! She's up! She's up! ~

~ Whew, they finally worked. Now Inuyasha can get off my back. ~

~ Bout time she woke up. Her eyes sure are pretty…what? Where there did that come from? ~

~ Good she's up. Now Inuyasha can finally stop his pacing. ~

As Kagome listened to all of her friends talk at once she got a little pissed off.

"Will you all just SHUT UP!! I have a headache!" she screamed, sitting up.

Everyone's jaws hit the floor as they stared at one another completely confused.

Sango was the first one to speak up. "Uh Kagome? No one said anything."

Kagome glared at her friends when another bout of talking started.

~ Ooookay…what herbs did Kaede use again? ~

~ Umm, are there side effects to those herbs that Kaede didn't know about? ~

~ Crap, now Inuyasha's gonna be pissed at me again. ~

~ Nooo! She's going insane! Nooo! ~

~ Huh? ~

But this time as Kagome listened she noticed that no one's mouth moved. And what was even weirder was that she didn't actually hear the words. Instead they just seemed to pop up in her mind. `Oh man, what the hell is happening to me? It seems like I can read minds. Guess there's only one way to find out.' Kagome looked up at Inuyasha. She knew she would regret doing this, but she had to find out.

"Inuyasha? Sit."

As Inuyasha plummeted into the ground a string of curses came from him.

"SHIT! DAMN WENCH! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?"

Kagome definitely heard that, but now she focused on what her mind heard.

~ SHIT! DAMN WENCH! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?~

`ok, that's Inuyasha'

~ No, not another hole in my floor. ~

`That was Kaede'

~ Ooooh, that was vicious. Sure glad Sango doesn't have one of those for me. ~

`Definitely Miroku'

~ Ouch, that was sorta cold. ~

`Sango'

~ HAHAHAHAHA!!! ~

`Oooh, Shippo isn't too nice.'

As Inuyasha sat up grumbling Kagome spoke again.

"Thanks Inuyasha."

"Thanks? What the hell did you do that for? I didn't do nothing to you!"

Kagome realized that she had to come up with something fast or else Inuyasha would get even madder.

"Ummm…I had to make sure I wasn't dreaming."

"Feh."

As Kagome listened in on her friend's thoughts she grew a little panicked. `Oh crap, I can read minds. What am I suppose to do?' But as she listened further something suddenly dawned oh her and a grin slowly formed across her face. `Oh yea! I can read minds!'

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Alright, well I'm pretty sure that the squirrel's major part is over. He will probably be mentioned a few more times, but nothing too major. I know how all of you will be disappointed that the evil, twisted squirrel is over. But hey, at least now the real fun can begin- reading minds! The fun begins next chapter. Oh yes- don't forget to review!