InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Sacrifices ❯ Friends... no matter what ( Chapter 8 )

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Chapter8: Friends... no matter what

Inuyasha and the rest had found a village to spend the night at. Two days had passed since the day Kagome ran into Kikyo, and she had decided to pretend like nothing had happened that day. Maybe because it'd be better to keep those things to herself. Maybe because this way it wouldn't hurt as much; after all, even when Kikyo's words were true, she still owed them for all the time they had spend taking care of her, and she just couldn't forget that. And even though she still held a smile everytime she talked to them or just stood there watching Shippo play around, the others had noticed her behaviour had changed. Especially Sango; being the only girl next to Kagome, she could tell she was faking all those smiles. She knew something was wrong.

*SLAP*

Sango stood up with an angry though funny expression, holding some clothes as Miroku blinked in shock on the ground with a red mark on his cheek.

" I just wanted to offer you a hand Sango!..." said Miroku while getting up and dusting off his clothes.

Sango kept walking towards the hut with a huge vein popping out on her forehead. "Well your hands are nowhere needed here!!"

"Hn... I'll go get some medicine supplies! Be right back... Oh! and could you tell Inuyasha he's got to fix the hut he destroyed??!..."

*FLASHBACK*

The day before, Inuyasha stood behind one of the huts; he had taken out Tessaiga and was swinging it around violently.

" 'AHH! Why doesn't this feeling go??!... Something's wrong with that wench!! Sure she's all smiles now but I know something's wrong with her...'" he softened his expression. " 'Ever since we got here she's been acting weird... Damn it!!! What the hell happened back there!!?'"

Inuyasha kept swinging Tessaiga around with all those things in mind. He knew it wasn't because of the head of the village Kagome was sad that day. He knew it was a lie. But it couldn't have been Kikyo either, because he didn't feel her presence coming from the woods; he had followed her towards the village, that's where it felt stronger. But what was it then?

As these questions kept popping on Inuyasha's mind, he didn't notice Shippo walking up to him. Shippo stood behind him watching him working with Tessaiga and got a cute upset face.

" 'Hmf... why does he do that?... Trying to show off his skills all the time... what a dummy..'" He thought to himself as he drew a grin on his little face. "INUYASHA!!" yelled Shippo at the top of his lungs.

Inuyasha, who was pretty busy trying to answer all the questions he made to himself, was caught off guard by Shippo's high pitched tone of voice. He lost his balance and got a funny shocked expression as Tessaiga came out flying, escaping from the hanyou's hold as he landed on his butt.

"Kuso!!! What are you trying to do Shippo!!" he snapped as he quickly got up and walked towards the little fox demon.

Shippo turned around in a careless way, crossing his arms in front of his chest. "Just came to tell you food's ready... what were you trying to do anyway?"

"Feh... non of your business..." replied Inuyasha as he dusted off his kimono. "And you better not do that again! What would've happened if Tessaiga had hit you in that empty head of yours!! You've got to think things first before you do them Shippo!" Inuyasha scolded at him.

Shippo was now looking at him with a cute sarcastic expression on his face as he pointed towards the place Tessaiga had landed.

Inuyasha turned around and got a 'what-the-hell?' look on his face as he saw an angry looking man standing next to a half destroyed hut; Tessaiga had crashed into one of the walls of the hut.

"I think you should apologize to that man...Ja ne!!" said Shippo with a happy expression as he turned around and left jumping up and down, waving his arms in the air.

Inuyasha watched him as he was leaving and got a funny angry expression. " Shippo!!!"

*END OF FLASHBACK*

"Sure!" replied Sango as she entered the hut and Miroku started to walk away.

Inside the hut, Kagome was sitting in front of Inuyasha with Shippo on her lap. Both the hanyou and the little fox demon stared daggers at each other.

"Mou!! You shouldn't have let go of Tessaiga!! It's your fault!"

"What?? You took me by surprise you little brat!! You were lucky it didn't hit your big clumsy head!!"

"Nani!!?" Shippo turned to Kagome with big teary eyes. "Kagome..."

"Feh... 'Kagome, Kagome he's yelling at me'" Inuyasha mocked him. "Why don't you stop being such a baby..."

Sango sat next to Kagome after placing the clothes on top of a blanket. "Still fighting over the same thing huh?" Kagome nodded in response with an awkward smile.Then Sango turned towards Inuyasha, who kept arguing with Shippo. "You've got to go back and fix the hut..."

"Feh... I know..."

"He should've done that yesterday... but because he's so lazy he told the owner he'd do it today... poor man had to sleep with half his house destroyed... I hope he didn't catch a cold..." mumbled Shippo as he glanced at the hanyou and noticed his upset expression.

"What was that??!"

"Enough!" interrupted Sango. "I think you should go fix that hut now Inuyasha... it's not the man's fault you were distracted..."

"Eh?? Are you taking his side??" Inuyasha snapped at her punching the floor.

"Ha!... eh?" Shippo changed his expression to a scared one as he saw Sango's.

"I think you should go with him too Shippo... after all, you were the one that scared him..."

"He did not!" snapped Inuyasha turning his face away.

"Shippo you better go with Inuyasha, you're guilty in part as well..."

"Mou!!" Shippo turned to Kagome with pleading eyes.

"Gomen ne, Shippo... but Sango is right..." Kagome replied with a smile on her face.

"Eh??"

Inuyasha smirked and then grabbed the little fox by his tail, dragging him out of the hut.

"See what you get for trying to get away with yours.."

"Waaa!! Kagome!! Let go of me Inuyasha!!..." Sango and Kagome smiled as they saw them walking away.

Kagome stood up and went towards the clothes. She knelt down next to them and started folding them carefully. Sango stayed on her position as she watched her folding the clothes. In the last couple of days Kagome had been awfully quiet.She merely nodded to everything in response, not saying more that was needed to be said, and smiling all the time. Faking a smile that is. She was staring to get worried, because whatever it was she was keeping to herself, it was obviously hurting her deeply.

"Ne... Kagome..." Saango said not taking her eyes off her.

"Hai" Kagome replied not turning back to face her.

"Is something wrong?... I don't mean to annoy you, but you've got something that's troubling you, don't you?"

"Eh?... n-no... why would you say that? Everything's ok..." Kagome faked a smile as she kept folding the clothes.

"Oh... sure..." Sango turned her face towards the small pot in front of her and then her expression got a little upset. "No it's not..." Kagome widened her eyes as she heard her say this. "You're obviously hiding something... you've been acting strangely ever since we got here..."

"You think so?" Kagome turned to her with a smile, trying to hide as best as she could her true feelings. "I think I'm just a little tired, that's all...I've been trying to remember things for some time know, but I still havent been able to... I think forcing my mind to do it has unconsciously gotten me tired..." She kept her smile for a few seconds and then changed it to a concerned one as she saw Sango's expression, concerned as well.

"I don't know what happened back there... but whatever it was I'm here for you Kagome!" Kagome widened her eyes in surprise as she saw Sango's determined though soft expression. "You've always been there to support me whenever I needed it... and I'm here for you as well... I know you're going through a difficult time know, but I'm here for you, we all are... we're friends Kagome... no matter what... and if there's anything..."Sango continued talking as Kagome just stood there. She started remebering all the fun moments they all had spent together. Even when they werent many, she still felt happy when she remebered them. Images of them smiling; images of they holding a serious and concerned expressions; images of them just being together. Kagome lowered her head and drew a slight smile on her face.

" ...that's why..." Sango was surprised now. She was interrupted bacuase Kagome had ran up to her and hold her in a hug. She widened her eyes at the sudden action.

"Arigatou Sango... I'm sorry if I worried you... it's all right now... Everything is going to be all right... arigatou..." she whispered sweetly as she held Sango on a tender hug. It was going to be all right; it had taken her a few days to finally understand it. Maybe what kikyo said was true, maybe she was a shard detector like she said. But it was all right now. She understood her mission there was to help them find the shards, and as cruel as it might sound, she was in fact a shard detector, but that was not only it. The fact she was didn't mean she was used by these people because if she was then why did they care about her so much?. No, she was there because she wanted to. She wanted to help them.

Sure Kikyo's words had shocked her, but it was mostly because of the way she had said them. It was the truth, but put in a hurtfull way.

" 'Iiyo... I understand now...'" Kagome thought to herslef. But what was still unclear for her was the situation between Inuyasha, Kikyo and her. She realized now she was in love with him. She had known all this time in some way. And what worried her was Kikyo's words when she told her his life belonged to her. That she didn't understand, she didn't want to. One thing that was clear for her was that she wouldn't allow her to hurt him in any way. If they loved each other, she would understand, in fact she did, but what she was not going to tolerate was Kikyo playing with his feelings, playing with his heart. She'd be there to help him even if it meant getting hurt. That is just the way things were supposed to be.

Later that day, everyone sat around in a circle having tea. It was around 5:30 p.m. and the sun was setting outside, giving the sky a lovely tone of orage and red. Kagome had gone back to beging herself, and they had noticed because of the change in her expressions and behaviour. As they talked about whatever had happened to them during the day, Inuyasha sat leaning on a wall watching Kagome's smiling face. He smiled too as he caught a glimpse on her sweet smile and got a little blushed.

" 'Feh... like nothing had happened... I'm glad she's smiling though... hn... who'd say it. she's got a beau...'" he stopped and shook his head in embarrasment as he realized what he was about to say. " 'Kuso!.. what the hell are you thinking...'" he thought to himself.

Kagome noticed Inuyasha's cute confused expression and smiled. "Inu-san are you..." she suddenly stopped and widened her eyes when she felt something wrong. She started to look around and she could see everything was in slow motion and her vision was turning flurry.

Everyone in th room had gotten concerned expressions by this point. Kagome held her head as she kept feeling something was wrong inside her. It was like something or someone was trying to control her, but she didn't know what it was or who it was. She clenched her eyes tightly when she felt she was going to faint.

"Kagome!! What's wrong?! Are you ok??" asked a concerned Inuyasha as he tried to approach her.

He stood frozen when he noticed her expression.There she was in front of thim,still holding her head between her hands, hair covering her eyes. But he was able to catch a glimpse of her expression, her eyes were cold and angry. "Kagome?... are you ok?" he asked in a soft tone of voice.

"Of course I am... I don't need help from a stupid hanyou like yourself..."

Everyone widened their eyes as they heard those hurting words. Kagome's tone of voice deep and she was breathing heavily. Then they turned towards Inuyasha, who just stood there staring at Kagome, hurt reflected on his eyes.

"What..." He held a confused and concerned expression. But inside him his heart hurt. It felt like a stab in the heart to hear her say those words to him. He quickly ran over next to her when he noticed she groaned in pain.

"Kagome!!! What's wrong with you!?" asked Shippo, who held a really concerned expression and had gone over next to her as well.

Kagome looked at him from the corner of her eye, hate reflected on them. This made Shippo step back in shock.

"Get away from me!" she yelled as she pushed the little fox to a side, making him fall.

"Kagome!" yelled Sango, holding her arm.

"Ahh!" Kagome scremed in pain as she felt her head was about to explode. "What's happening to me!?" she cried.

This made Inuyasha get angry, and he held her arms and knelt in front of her. He started to shake her, trying to get her back. "Kagome!! Kagome!!"

Kagome held her head bettween her hands once again and Inuyasha let go of her. After that, everything was quiet. Silence filled the room in wich Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango and Shippo, stood watching Kagome's sudden reaction. Sango was now carrying Shippo, who was scared and hurt at the same time.

After a little while, Kagome took her hands away from her head and started breathing normally. She had some trouble with her vision at first, everything was flurry; she tried to focus on one thing but she couldn't. Then she felt a strong grip, and managed to focus on the one that was holding her. As her vision went back to normal slowly, she noticed Inuyasha's concerned expression.

Kagome widened her eyes at the sight of his eyes. They were hurt. She had hurt him. Tears begun forming on her eyes as she turned towards the rest, only to find Shippo crying on Sango's shoulder and Miroku looking at her in concern.

" What... what have I done?..." she quickly turned her gaze towards Inuyasha. "I...I'm sorry I.." then she quickly got up, all her body trembling as she started breathing heavily at the sight of what she had caused. "I... I'm sorry..."

"Kagome..." Inuyasha was interrupted when he saw Kagome's tears. He was about to say something when Kagome suddenly turned aound and ran out of the hut. "Kagome!!" and with that, he went chasing after her, leaving Sango, miroku and Shippo behind.

"Houshi-sama..." said Sango not taking her eyes off from the door of the hut, as shippo kept sobbing.

Miroku nodded in a serious way. " Someone was controlling her... I could feel a strong presence just a few minutes ago..." Sango and Miroku stared in a serious way.

Not far from there, behind a tree that was near the hut, Kikyo stood with an evil smirk on her face.

"And this is only the beginning..."

After a few seconds, Kikyo started to walk away, always holding that malicious smirk on her face. As the breeze blew, making her hair flow in the air, the turned one last time towards the hut. Her eyes were narrowed and empty, just as if her own escence had flown away with the breeze.

Author's note: YAY!!! I got to finish this chappy!!!.Waaaa!!!! Hope you liked it! Anyways, I hope you review this one, I really want to know if you're enjoying this story or not. Ja ne!