InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Runaways ❯ A Bath and Deception ( Chapter 8 )

Runaways

By: Angela Perri…aka Neko_angel666

 

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Recap:

Naraku stared at the solar eclipse and smirked to himself.

“So the jewel has finally appeared.” He stated with a evil grin. He had been waiting for this day for 500 years.

Yes, He was the Youkai that had attacked and killed Kikyou's friends. He only wounded Kikyou so he could take the jewel from her and make her his mate, but that bitch had almost killed him with her purifying blast making him retreat. He was going to come back for her and the jewel but she had herself cremated and took the jewel with her!! That's when he heard the prophecy, and he vowed that one day he would have her and the jewel again. And that day had finally come. He didn't have to hold back anymore, he could finally kill all of them. He had been looking forward to this day for way to long.

“Soon Kagome, you and the jewel shall be mine!!” He laughed evilly.

 

A Bath and Deception

 

Back with the Inu gang everyone was staring at Kagome in awe.

 

“ok, what the hell just happened?!” Inuyasha asked finally getting his voice back.

Silence.

 

“Perhaps the prophecy has finally been fulfilled!!” Myoga exclaimed coming out of nowhere.

 

Everyone looked at him still in shock. Was he right? Was that the jewel?

It had to be there was no other explanation to it.

 

“So this is the Shikon no tama !!” Kagome said in wonder as she held it up to her face.

 

“but why did it come to me?”

 

Myoga thought about it for a second. “My guess is it chose you as is protector.”

 

“But why!? Everyone here is just as capable to protect it as I am!!” She asked still confused.

 

“Maybe it has to do with the fact that you are Kikyou's reincarnation” Myoga stated.

Kagome slumped to the ground in shock. Now what was going to happen?! First everyone finds out about her secret, then she die's and is brought back and now the Shikon no tama has been put under her protection. It was all just a little to over whelming. Not to mention her hair, skin and clothes were still caked with the blood from her earlier injury!!!

Everyone one walked up to her cautiously.

 

“Umm… Kagome? Are you alright?” Shippou asked.

 

She looked up at them in a daze. “I need a bath” She replied.

Everyone does an anime fall.

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After everyone got over the shock of Kagome's randomness, the girl had decided that they had to agree with her. They had been traveling for nearly 4 days without a bath and needless to say they needed one, especially Kagome.

They were now soaking happily in the crystal clear water of a near by hot spring that boys had sniffed out for them.

Kagome sighed happily as Rin and Sango talked amongst themselves. This was rather good way to release the stress that was caused by the last 5 days. She could fell her muscles begin to relax as she started to fall asleep due to their peaceful surroundings.

 

“I can't believe how much has happened today!!” Sango exclaimed.

 

“Yeah!! What about you, Kagome.”

 

“……..”

 

“Kagome?” Sango said as she looked over at her. She was fast asleep!!! `poor thing!! This must have been a very stressful day for her...” she thought.

 

“Maybe we should go back to camp. I'm a little tired also.” Rin said with a yawn.

Sango nodded her head and waded over to the sleeping girl.

 

“Kagome… wake up, we need to go back to camp” She said while shaking her gently.

Kagome's eye fluttered open as she yawned loudly.

 

“Alright, lets go” Kagome said before she pulled herself out of the water, dried her self off and put her clothing on. Sango and Rin quickly followed suet.

 

Once back at camp, the boys went to take their baths and returned with in 10 minutes. They quickly made and ate dinner. Afterwards, Kagome wasted no time in going back to sleep while snoring softly. Everyone took this as their cue to go to sleep as well. They were all rather tired as well.

Inuyasha slipped in next to Kagome and pulled her into a spooning position. He stared down at the beautiful angel before him wondering what he had done to be blessed with such a wonderful gift. She was perfect to him in everyway. She was Caring, hot headed, courageous, beautiful, smart, loving, and not to mention strong. He had no Idea how she had managed to live so long. If it were him in her shoe's he would have killed himself a long time ago. Deep down inside he knew she loved them all dearly and that alone was probably why she had `grinned and bared it' so to speak. She was always unwilling to cause other people pain because of her. But that was Kagome and although she put herself in danger because of it, he knew that deep down inside it was one of the reasons he loved her so much.

 

“I love you, Kagome” He whispered before falling into a peaceful sleep.

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Clang…

 

`what's that sound?'

 

Clang, clang….

Kagome's eyes fluttered open. What was that sound? It was so annoying!!

“Is that all you got, Inuyasha!!” Someone teased.

 

CRASH!!

 

“HA!! Take that Sesshoumaru!!”

Kagome looked towards them to find Inuyasha standing over sesshy with a smirk on his face. Sesshy growled then twirl kicked Inuyasha's legs making him fall to the ground where Sessh once was. Sesshoumaru was now standing over Inuyasha with a smirk on his face.

 

“ You should spend less time gloating and more time fighting, little brother”

 

“Grrrrrr, Shud up, Fluffy!!” Inuyasha teased as he stood up to face him.

Everyone was now awake. Kagome stood up in annoyance and glared at them, but they didn't notice and resumed with their fight.

 

“HOW IS ANYONE SUPPOSED TO GET ANY SLEEP WITH YOU GUYS MAKING SOOOOO MUCH NOISE!!!!” Kagome screamed. Inuyasha and Sesshy stopped in their tracks and looked at her with a hint of fear in their eye's.

 

“Keh!! We need to practice!!”

 

“Inuyasha!! SIT BOY!!!”

 

“Dammmif…”

 

SLAM!!!

 

“That's better. Now do me a favor and sit down and try to be `civilized' while I make breakfast.” Kagome said happily as she started to prepare breakfast. Everyone sat around her now that they were awake as she pulled out her backpack and looked inside to find that they didn't have much food left.

 

“umm…you guys? When will we get to a city or village?” She asked.

 

Sesshoumaru sniffed the air. “By tomorrow . Why?”

 

“well, it's just that we're running out of food. In fact we don't even have enough for this next meal!!” She said worriedly. Everyone looked at each other worriedly.

 

“So what are we going to do? We still have at least 24 hours ahead of us, till we can get to a place to buy food.” Rin asked.

 

Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha looked at each other and nodded.

 

“We'll hunt.” Sesshy said.

 

“You know how to hunt?” Sango asked.

 

“Well yeah, it's instinct for demons.” Inuyasha replied.

 

“But what about skinning and preparing it?” Sango asked again.

This got Sessh and Inu this time. They only knew how to hunt.

 

“I can do it, My parents taught me how to prepare fresh meat before they died.” Rin said happily. Sesshoumaru smiled at her as her beamed with pride that his mate was so smart. Wait, Mate? Where'd that come from, he hadn't asked her yet. NO!! he wasn't even going to ask her, he didn't feel that way about her…. Did he?

 

Sesshoumaru gulped. “Umm… Ok then, lets go hunt Inuyasha.” he said trying to do something, ANYTHING to get these thoughts out of his head.

Inuyasha nodded his head and followed Sessh into the forest after he waved goodbye to the others.

 

“So do you really know how to prepare fresh meat?!” Kagome asked excitedly.

 

“Of course I do. My parents were butchers after all!!” Rin smiled.

 

“Really, you never told us that… I wish I knew how to also…” Sango said.

 

“Yeah.” Kagome agreed.

 

“I could teach you guys, It's really not as hard as it seems.”

 

“REALLY!!?” Both girls exclaimed.

Rin smiled in amusement and nodded her head. Kagome and Sango jumped into her arms while jumping up and down excitedly.

 

“THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!” They laughed happily.

 

“Ok, Ok… your welcome” Rin giggled.

 

Miroku was drooling in the background while he watched them as his perverted imagination went wild.

 

BOOM!!

 

The girls quickly turned around to find Miroku lying on the ground unconscious with a boar on top of him as Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha stood over him growling.

 

“Hmp… serve's him right” Shippou said with his arms crossed over his chest.

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After the girls had finished preparing and cooking breakfast, they had all dug into like they hadn't eaten in days. Well, it was partly true, they hadn't eaten MEAT since they had left. When they were finished the girls finally noticed how dirty they were from cooking.

“I think we should take a bath before we leave” Sango said.

 

“I think your right.” Kagome replied.

 

“Ok, so it's settled. We take a quick bath at the hot spring before we leave.” Rin declared.

They gathered all there bathing utensils and started walking towards the hot spring.

 

“Hey!! Were the hell do you think you're going?!” Inuyasha said making them stop and look back at him.

 

“We need a bath so we're going to take one.” Kagome answered simply.

 

“But you took one last night” He argued.

 

Kagome walked up at him and looked at him with puppy dog eyes. “PLEEEAAASSEE, Inuyasha.” She begged. Inuyasha gulped. Why did she always have to use that look. He sighed, he knew that he couldn't say no to that look.

 

“Fine, but make it quick.”

 

 

“Thank you.” Kagome smiled, gave him a quick kiss and left for the spring with the girls.

Inuyasha sighed and sat in front of the fire and watched as it danced.

 

A few minutes of silence went by until Miroku broke it.

 

“Hey, they left there bathing soap behind.” Miroku said then smiled evilly. “..I'll just go bring it to them..”

 

“Oh no you don't, I'll bring it to them, lecher” Inuyasha grabbed him by his shirt caller and grabbed the soap from him.

 

“Inuyasha , how could you think such a thing. My intentions are honorable ones” Miroku said innocently.

 

“Keh!! Yeah right. I'll be right back.” Inuyasha said before he disappeared towards the spring.

 

“(sigh) Such little faith…” Miroku sighed.

 

Sesshoumaru snickered under his breath as Shippou stared at them like they were nuts.

 

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Inuyasha walked through the forest quietly when he saw Kagome walking towards him from the path. Odd, he didn't smell her coming… `She must have her barrier up' Inuyasha thought.

 

“Hey Kagome, you forgot your soap. So I came to bring it to you.” He called to her but she didn't seem to notice him, she seemed deep in thought. He walked up to her and tried and wrapped his arms around her.

 

“What are you thinking about, Kagome?” He asked finally catching her attention.

He hadn't expected it when Kagome pushed him away from her and glared at him.

 

“DON'T TOUCH ME!!!” she yelled.

 

Inuyasha looked at her in shock. “W-why?..”

 

“BECAUSE I HATE YOU!! I HATE ALL OF YOU!!!”

 

“B-but I thought…” he started.

 

“ Well you thought wrong, I love Naraku, the only reason I went on this stupid trip was to watch you guys suffer but you guys keep on resisting”

 

“W-WHAT!! But Naraku molested you!!”

 

“You guys must be incredibly stupid. Naraku touched me because I wanted him too. And to think that I would actually love you, A HALFBREAD?! HA!! That's a laugh. Why would I degrade myself to something to worthless?” She sneered in a very un Kagome like maner.

Inuyasha reached out to her desperately but she slapped his hand from her.

 

“Stay away from me!!” She growled before she walked away and disappeared beyond the trees.

Inuyasha just stared at were she disappeared in disbelief as he sunk to the ground. This couldn't be happening!! She had lied to them, to HIM this entire time.

`I thought she loved me…' Inuyasha thought sadly as her put his hands to his face and slightly pushed them into his hair.

But she didn't, she been deceiving them this entire time. `How could I be such a fool!!' He growled to himself as his sorrow changed to anger.

`She won't get away with this.' He thought as got up and Stomped back to camp.

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Back at Camp the girls had just returned from their baths to find Inuyasha wasn't there.

 

“Where's Inuyasha?” Kagome asked.

 

“He left to bring you guys your soap 15 minutes ago.” Miroku stated.

 

“What!! He never came past us!! You don't think he's hurt is he?” Kagome asked worriedly.

 

Sesshoumaru sniffed the air. “No, he's not hurt. I don't smell any blood.”

Suddenly Inuyasha appeared from behind the trees with a scowl on his face.

 

“Oh thank kami..” Kagome whispered until she noticed his disposition. “Inuyasha, are you all right?” She asked, her voice full of concern.

 

Inuyasha looked at her with a growl. “You can stop your little act, Kagome.” He growled.

Everyone looked at him curiously.

 

“What are you talking about?” She asked genuinely confused.

 

Inuyasha now had his face an inch from hers. “ You lied Kagome, you think that I would forget. You lied to use all!!” he growled causing her to flinch back. Everyone was just standing there in shock at what was happening before them.

 

“What are you talking about, Inuyasha?!” She asked.

 

“Stop playing this little game Kagome, I know about you and Naraku and I will never forgive you for it….I… I HATE YOU, KAGOME!! I NEVER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN!!!” He yelled as he looked at her with disgust.

 

Kagome's eyes went wide. She held her hand to her chest as she felt an immense pain in her heart. It felt like it was shattering into a million pieces. She looked into his eyes desperately looking for any sign that he was lying but she only found one thing, deep disgust and hatred for her.

 

“no..” She whispered as she slowly stepped backwards, her lips trembling as tears rushed to her eyes. This couldn't be happening, it had to be another nightmare. But it wasn't she knew it. She looked at her friends desperately for help but they stood there to shock to move. No!! th-they couldn't… They hated her to?. Inuyasha hated her!?

 

Inuyasha watched her with disgust, but felt his heart break at the look she was giving him. Was this just another act? It had to be. He knew what he saw.

 

Kagome couldn't take his look with the combination of silence anymore. She turned around and ran as fast as she could.

 

“KAGOME, WAIT!!” Sango and Rin called as they watched her retreating form, but she didn't stop and disappeared beyond the trees.

Not far from were she disappeared, a women with long white hair and deep blue eyes was watching the entire event. She smirked to her self. Part A of their plan had worked, now part B would begin.

 

Everyone turn to look at Inuyasha in shock. Inuyasha just glared back at them.

 

“BASTARD!!!” Sango screeched as she came at him with her Hiraikotsu but he just dodged her. She came at him again but Miroku pulled her back.

 

“LET GO OF ME!!!” She yelled but he didn't budge.

 

“No, we should at least give him a chance to explain before we kill him.” He said angrily.

 

“KILL ME!!?? Kagome should be the one your mad at, she's the one that's lied to us this whole time!!” He growled.

 

“What are you talking about Inuyasha.” Sesshoumaru said calmly.

 

“She has lied to us this entire time!! Naraku never molested her, she's even in love with him. This whole time she's been leading us on a wild goose chase.”

 

“What are you talking about. I was there many times when Naraku tried to rape her.” Shippou growled.

 

“And I was there last time. He even threatened her. So how can she love him when she scared to death of him?” Sango put in.

 

Inuyasha looked at them in frustration, what was going on. He was completely confused

now. “but….she told me this herself!!” Inuyasha declared.

 

“When did she say this?” Rin asked confused as well.

 

“When I was on my way to bring you guys your soap at the hot spring.”

Rin and Sango looked at each other with wide eyes.

 

“Inuyasha, Kagome was with us the entire time to and from the spring.” Sango said in a panic.

 

“WHAT?! How can that be possible?” Inuyasha growled.

 

“Because you were deceived Inuyasha” Sesshoumaru said making everyone look at him.

 

Suddenly they heard someone laughing hysterically. Everyone got into a defensive position when the women who had been watching them appeared.

 

“You are to easy!!” She laughed.

 

“Who are you?” Inuyasha growled.

 

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(A/n: Dum da dum!! Evil Cliffy!!! MAWW HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA. If you want to see the next chapter, you must REVIEW!!!!! *** Walks away laughing hysterically***)