InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Darkest Child ❯ Chapter Nine- Words to the Wise ( Chapter 9 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

A/N This chapter is dedicated to kaira2828!! Heres the next chapter you were waiting for! I'm glad you think its kewl. I think its pretty cool myself. Still, every time I put up a chapter I can't help but bite my fingernails and hope you guys will like it. Anyway, read on, and I hope you enjoy it!

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Kagome looked around the room and took it all in. It was a surprisingly nice room. ‘It’s kinda big for a dorm room’ Kagome thought idly, ‘but then again I am sharing it with two other people’. There was a window on the wall opposite the door that led out to a gorgeous balcony. She could see from her place on the bed that it had a wonderful view of the carefully manicured lawn. There was a tv and a large comfy looking couch on the left side of the room along with three doors. The right side of the room had the three beds, each with a night stand and a trunk at the foot of the bed.


Sango got up and opened the three doors. She pointed to the one closest to the door to the hall and said “This is the room with the toilet and sink.” The room was the average bathroom but very clean. Sango moved to the next room “This one is where the showers and bath are,” This room had three shower stalls lined up in a row so that three people could shower at once while keeping their privacy. There was also an opaque glass door that enclosed the bathtub, once again for privacy.

“The separate rooms come in really handy when you need to go the bathroom when someone else is in the shower” Rin said while bouncing on her bed.


“And finally, this is the closet. You can hang up your stuff in here.” Sango said Kagome looked in and saw a walk in closet with lots of space.


“Man, I feel like I’m in a really fancy hotel. I mean we even have a mini fridge! Even a little kitchenette!” Kagome said happily. ‘I can cook!’ she thought, even happier then before.


“I know, ain’t it great?” Rin said while sneakily walking over to Kagome. “Now, are you gonna tell us what’s in the box or what?”

Kagome looked at the two anxious girls and smiled. “Well if you really wanna know . . .”

“Come on tell us, tell us!” Rin said, basically jumping out of her skin with excitement.

“Okay” Kagome opened the box slowly and pulled out the first thing in it. Both Rin and Sango gasped.


It was a bow, but not an ordinary bow. The wood it was made out of was obsidian black and had red figures engraved upon it. There were animals of all sorts, and some that the girls had never even seen before. It wasn’t only that they were beautifully painted, but it almost seemed as if the deep crimson figures were alive. Like they were just waiting for you to look away so that they could jump off the bow and move around.


Next Kagome pulled out a quiver of arrows that had the same designs on it. The arrows were quite plain compared to the rest of the set. Kagome could see the question in Sango’s eyes and easily responded to the unasked question. “You guys can hold them if you’re careful, they’ve been in my family for a very long time.” Sango and Rin took turns looking at the weapon, both with awe.

“These are wonderful Kagome, much better then the ones the school provides” Sango said.

“That’s why I brought them, I want to see if Kaede will let me use it instead of the other ones.” Okay, that was a lie, the truth was she never went anywhere without her bow and arrows.


“These are really great Kagome, thanks for showing us.” Rin said, pleased to be allowed to see something so obviously special to her new friend. Kagome raised an eyebrow.

“You don’t think that’s it do you? There’s still more in here.” The other girls were once again excited. Kagome should have noticed that it was strange for teenage girls to be excited in seeing weapons, but then again, Kagome wasn’t all that up to date on what was normal. In fact, she had always been interested in weapons herself, so she didn’t think it was weird at all. She pulled out a sword next and it had Sango practically drooling.


Its edge was incredibly sharp and its blade shone in the sun. But the most interesting thing about it was the hilt. It was a deep cobalt blue that seemed almost iridescent. There was a thin piece of silver that twisted like a vine around the hilt and altogether it had a breathtaking design.

“May I?” Sango asked with hopeful eyes. Kagome simply smiled and handed it over. Sango tossed it from hand to hand with the ease that belied lots of practice and Kagome started to solidify some of the suspicions she had about Sango.


She watched as Sango placed her finger underneath the point where the hilt met the blade and it stayed there when she took her other hand away. “Perfect balance” Sango muttered to herself. She tossed it into the air and easily caught it again. Sango tapped a fingernail against the thin blade. “Skillfully made. Finely tempered.” Sango gave the sword back to Kagome.

“You sure know a lot about swords Sango” Kagome said with a knowing smile. Sango seemed flustered and looked at Rin like she could give her an answer.


“I-I just read a lot of books on the subject” Sango said finally, stumbling over her words. Kagome knew it was a lie but decided to play dumb. “Oh, I have some if you’d like to borrow them.”

Sango could tell Kagome hadn't bought the lie. Still, she trudged on, knowing explinations would be in order later on. “Sure that would be great. Kagome, where did you get this? I’ve never seen such high quality.”

Kagome smiled but the action was pained. “My father made this for me.” Rin decided to change the subject. Kagome's father's death had no doubt taken a huge toll on the girl. She didn't want to remind her of it too much.


“Kagome, you didn’t tell us about how creative writing was today. We always used to ask Inuyasha, but he refuses to tell us anything about that class.” Rin said, absently braiding a lock of her hair.

Kagome smiled again. It seemed she was doing that a lot more in the past 24 hours then she had in almost the whole last year. “I’m not surprised that he doesn’t tell you about it. There isn’t much to tell. We sat and wrote anything we wanted. Inuyasha slept.”

“Not surprised. What did you write?” Sango asked, suddenly knowing she wanted to speak to the girl personally later.

Kagome blushed thinking about what she had written. It sounded pretty crazy. “I wrote song lyrics. I do that a lot but its kind of useless since I can’t play an instrument and therefore can’t write music to go to the lyrics. Usually I just write them to music I hear from other places.”


“What music did you write it to?” Sango asked.

“Well actually, that tune you were whistling earlier when we were changing.” “Really! I wrote that tune on my guitar but I can’t ever think up words. I’ve never been good with stuff like that. Can I see what you came up with?”


Kagome, seeing the hopeful smile on her friends face, and being the overly nice person she was, decided to swallow her pride and let them see. She pulled the paper out of her back pocket where she had stuffed it when she had raced out of class. She gave it to Sango who read it. Her brows furrowed in concentration, then relaxed into a smile. Then Sango began to laugh.

“These are great Kagome. Weird, but very funny and strangely empowering. Who are these about?” Sango asked as she handed them to Rin to read.

“I’m glad you think they're funny, and not insane. I was in a weird mood and they just kind of came out. They aren’t really about anyone, except maybe me and my weirdness.”


Rin looked up from the paper and said “Can you sing these? I’d really like to hear them.” Kagome no longer was that worried about singing in front them. She felt relaxed, and had always been able to control herself better when she was relaxed.

“Okay, but I got to put my stuff away” Kagome warned the other two. Kagome hated disorder.

“We can do both at the same time right?” Rin asked hopefully. Kagome nodded in agreement. Sango agreed also.

Sango ran for the closet. “I’ll get my guitar”


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“Shut up Miroku, you got exactly what you deserved” Inuyasha said to a roughly beaten Miroku.

“I didn’t even eat any. Sesshomaru is the one who ate them. And Rin! Rin did it too!” Miroku pouted.

Sesshomaru, with only a single bump on his head (which was quickly fading), looked at the complaining boy. “Stop whining. You sound like a girl”

“Yeah, shut up, ya sissy.” Inuyasha added with a sneer.


Miroku looked indignant. “How dare you treat me like this? I am all man, just ask any one of the women at this school.”

“Yeah, it’s probably really hard to ignore it when you’re groping them all the time.” Inuyasha muttered.

“Yeah exact- Hey!” Inuyasha snickered. Miroku looked positively livid but slowly put his expression back to normal.

“Inuyasha you shouldn’t get mad at me just because you are sexually frustrated.” Miroku had crossed his arms and taken his 'All-Knowing' pose.


It looked as if Miroku was about to get another beating when they heard some music. “Sounds like the girls are playing. Lets go see.” Miroku said, seeing his escape. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru were interested as well and quickly followed.

They opened the door to the girls' room and were greeted by a very bizzare sight. Sango was sitting on the edge of her bed playing the guitar while Rin was doing the swim on top of the tv set. Kagome was putting things away while kind of dancing along to the music. Then she started singing.

‘Deja vu’ Inuyasha thought absently.


You think that I go home at night
Take off my clothes, turn out the lights
But I burn letters that I write
To you, to make you love me

Her voice was still hauntingly beautiful, but Inuyasha wasn’t getting that feeling like he was drowning in it like before. Strangely, it disappointed him a bit, but only a little, because she was still a great singer and the song was . . . interesting.

Yeah, I drive naked through the park
And run the stop sign in the dark
Stand in the street, yell out my heart
To make, to make you love me

After that verse, Miroku’s Hentai senses went into overload.

I am extraordinary, if you'd ever get to know me
I am extraordinary, I am just your ordinary
Average every day sane psycho
Supergoddess
Average every day sane psycho

The girls were enjoying themselves too much and had still failed to notice that they had three pairs of eyes on them, watching intently.

You may not believe in me
But I believe in you
So I still take the trash out
Does that make me too normal for you?

Kagome did a little spin and put another book on the shelf. Rin giggled and started doing the monkey dance.


So dig a little deeper, cause
You still don't get it yet
See me lickin' my lips, need a primitive fix
And I'll make, I'll make you love me


Inuyasha enjoyed the way Kagome gently swayed her hips from side to side and wondered how one little girl could have such an effect on him.


I am extraordinary, if you'd ever get to know me
I am extraordinary, I am just your ordinary
Average every day sane psycho
Supergoddess
Average every day sane psycho
Supergoddess

See me jump through hoops for you
You stand there watching me performing
What exactly do you do?
Have you ever thought it's you that's boring?
Who the hell are you?

Rin jumped off the tv at the word hell and started jumping on her bed (once again) while playing an air guitar. She was trying in vain to immitate Sango’s skill. Inuyasha felt a little guilty at the previous few lines. He was watching her and. . .'Keh, whatever' He thought, a blush flushing his cheeks.


I am extraordinary, if you'd ever get to know me
I am extraordinary, I am just your ordinary
Average every day sane psycho
Supergoddess
Average every day sane psycho



The song ended and the girls fell into giggles. They quickly stopped laughing however when the boys started clapping. Okay, two of the boys started clapping. One simply stood with his arms crossed and a small smile on his face. ( I’ll give you a clue, his name begins in Inu and ends in Yasha) “Good job” Sesshomaru said with his normaly unreadable face. He was staring at Kagome in a way the angered Inuyasha. Inuyasha was further angered when he realized he didn't know why it made him angry.


When Kagome saw Sesshomaru, her heart sped up a little. She couldn’t deny she was a little scared of him. Sesshomaru saw the wary look she gave him and inwardly smiled. ‘She’s smart and cautious. The complete opposite of Inuyasha. She would help his personality. And it seems she’s interested in him. Her scent changes around him. This might work' Sesshomaru thought.

“I guess your voice will be acceptable bitch.” Inuyasha said, cracking his knuckles. Sesshomaru inwardly rolled his eyes and had to restrain himself from smacking his brother. Kagome’s eye began to twitch and she looked at Sango. Sango simply nodded and handed her something. Kagome walked up to Inuyasha and hit him squarely over the head with ‘Old Poundy’.

“My name is Kagome. Get that through your thick skull” Inuyasha was holding his head with his eyes shut tightly in pain.

“God, bitch what was that fo-” As soon as he said the word bitch Kagome raised the pan back and hit him again.


“Come on, it’s not that hard. Try it with me, Ka-go-me.” She said it slowly like she was conversing with a dull-witted child. It looked as if Inuyasha was about to start cursing at her again so Miroku clapped a hand over his immensely stupid friend’s mouth.

“What my thick friend meant to say was that you are a wonderful singer and that he is happy to be graced with your presence. Right Inuyasha?” he said sending a dark look at Inuyasha.

Inuyasha, finally understanding that Kagome was going to beat his sorry ass if he said the wrong thing, fell to his old fail-safe. “Feh.”


Kagome, taking that as an apology in Inuyasha language, let things go.

“Well you guys saw that she’s good enough, so leave us alone so we can talk” Sango said with a smirk, stating plainly that she had believed in Kagome the whole time. Miroku stepped forward quickly and said in his smoothest voice, “My Sango, why would we want to leave a bunch of beautiful girls such as yourselves?” His hand had almost made it to her bottom, and Kagome usually would have just watched him get beaten (it was amusing to watch and very therapeutic to join in on) but she was hungry and didn’t want to waste time. Kagome picked up one of the rolled up posters and smacked Miroku on the head. He looked at her and she bopped him on the head with it again.

“What was that for? I didn’t do nothing.” Miroku asked with a very childish pout on his face, unaware that his bad grammar had given him away.

“It wasn’t what you did, it was what you were intending to do. I haven’t known you a day and I already know your lecherous ways, bozu.” Kagome turned from Miroku who was looking at her cod-mouthed to Sango who had a similar expression. “I’m hungry. Sango can you show me to the candy machine?” Kagome noticed for the first time that everyone was looking at her. Even Rin had stopped moving long enough to stare at her. Kagome went through what she had just said and looked for something she had done wrong.


Realization hit her like a ton of bricks and she would have winced if she hadn’t been so skilled at schooling her expression.

“Wha-, what did you just call me?” Miroku asked, all the color running out of his face. She had called him bozu. An offensive term for a monk. But it wasn’t the fact that it was offensive that made it so bad. Monks were feared and hated by demons and humans alike, just like Mikos. Most were killed off if they couldn’t protect themselves. It had come as an aftereffect of the Miko's turning evil. People began to think of anything with spiritual powers as evil. Monks hadn't been excluded from the predjudice.


Kagome had sensed Miroku's power right away, and it hadn’t really bothered her. Though he was a pervert, he still had a pure spirit and she knew his powers weren’t awakened yet anyway. In all probability he didn’t even know he had the gift if it hadn’t surfaced yet, but his family was bound to have monks with already awakened abilities. And even if they were already dead, Miroku would still be hunted because of his heritage if anyone found out.


‘Poor boy.’ Kagome thought. ‘He wouldn’t even have the power to protect himself.’ All that ran through Kagome's mind in a split second and her expression never changed.

She said, almost as if it was obvious “The beads on your hand. They’re Buddhist. Someone back where I used to live wore em too. They were almost identical except he wore em around his neck. He did it to get attention I think. He really used to piss me off so I started calling him bozu. Guess seeing the beads kind of made me remember that. Just slipped. Guess I miss everything about the country, including annoying neighbors.” The lie slid easily from Kagome's lips, and she felt only a little shame for lying to them.



It looked like everybody bought it. Excluding Inuyasha and Sesshomaru. They could smell that she was lying. Inuyasha was curious while Sesshomaru had decided that he was going to talk to her. He usually didn’t go to so much trouble, but he could read his brother and could already tell that Inuyasha was attracted to Kagome. Not in the casual way either. Sesshomaru wouldn’t go as far as to say Inu loved Kagome. For gods sake, they had just met! But though Inuyasha was only a hanyou, he was still half dog demon. Dog demons mated for life, and didn’t get ‘interested’ often. Inuyasha’s instincts would get the better of him eventually. Even if he fought them like Sesshomaru supposed he would.


Because of all that, Sesshomaru already thought of Kagome as a sort of sister-to-be. But that wasn’t everything. He had felt something evil approaching for a while now, and he wasn’t the only one. Sesshomaru was, after all, the ruler of the western lands. For the time being at least. He had connections to some other very powerful demon lords and they had all felt something coming. Then again, all the other demon lords were idiots only concerned with money and power, so they weren’t exactly a lot of help figuring out what it was.


Sesshomaru had some idea, but he didn’t want to believe it was time for the prophesy yet. Kagome would have a big part to play in the prophesy if she was what he thought she was. Because of everything, Sesshomaru didn’t exactly want Kagome to fear him. Though it was funny, it was better she trust him since he was currently the only one who knew her secret.


“I’ll show her the machines, Sango.” Sesshomaru said. Everyone was surprised, except Inuyasha. He kept thinking about earlier.

“Uh, Sesshomaru, are you sick?” Sango asked, very confused. Sesshomaru simply quirked a single eyebrow.

“No, I need to talk to Kagome.” Kagome was curious so decided that she would go with the demon. She didn’t feel any real danger coming from him anyway.

“All right I’ll go.” Kagome agreed. Sesshomaru left the room and Kagome followed. But before she closed the door she said, only half joking, “If I don’t come back in 15 minutes, send a search to pick up my remains.”


With that they were gone. Inuyasha looked like he was about to spontaneously combust. ‘What’s that bastard doing?’ Inuyasha started toward the door but Miroku stopped him.

“Sesshomaru doesn’t do things unless there is a reason. I believe that he has a very good reason for taking her there.”

“Like what?” Inuyasha said with barely contained anger.


“Well, to be honest, it might have to do with her strange aura.” Miroku offered, rubbing his chin in thought.

“What about her aura?” Rin asked. She was the only one in the group who couldn’t sense auras.

“Well, it’s unusually strong, and quite potent. He might be warning her of some of the demon men in the school. They tend to be attracted to something like that. Right Inuyasha?” Miroku said the last part with a suggestive grin. The grin was quickly taken away when a fist connected with the back of his head.

“Shut up letch.” Inu warned. With another bruise on Miroku’s head, the four sat down to wait for Kagome and Sesshomaru's return.


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Kagome followed Sesshomaru around a couple turns in the hallway. The trip was silent and had Kagome becoming more nervous by the second. They finally made it to a line of machines. There were three food vending machines and three soda machines. They stopped in front of them and Sesshomaru turned to her. She took a few steps backwards.

“So what do you want Sesshomaru? It’s obvious you weren’t just doing this to be nice.”

Sesshomaru looked at her and finally spoke “You have no reason to fear me. You must simply respect me. I am not like the common demon.”


“I’ve realized that.” Kagome said, becoming comfortable once again. She turned to one of the machines and started to browse through the food. She nodded her head as a signal to keep talking.

Sesshomaru was slightly annoyed by the way she wrote him off, but he continued.“I know your secret. At least some of it. You are a miko.” Kagome turned to him, some of the anxiety back. Sesshomaru grinned, sensing this. “I’m the only one who knows, and I am the only one who will know unless you reveal it. Or if you act stupidly like earlier when you let your spell slip. The demons at the school aren’t strong enough to tell what you are, but they will be drawn to your power, concealing spell or not.”


Kagome sighed, like she was in pain, “I was afraid of that. So, you’ll keep my secret?”

“Of course. There is no reason to reveal it. And if one presents itself, my honor will keep me from telling. But, I am going to warn you only once. You have to watch yourself. The people waiting for us aren’t your average humans, as I am sure you have already seen.” Kagome slipped some money into one of the machines and pushed some buttons. She bent down and picked out a pack of powdered doughnuts.

“I have.” Kagome said, almost as emotionlessly as Sesshomaru himself.


“They are more perceptive then most and if you slip like you did a moment ago they will eventually find out. You are good at lying but not that good.” Kagome had gotten a few more munchies and a couple sodas and started walking back with Sesshomaru.

“Okay, so basically you brought me out here to tell me to respect you, that you won’t tell on me, and to watch my ass.” Kagome said, juggling her many items of junkfood.


“I wouldn’t have stated it like that, but yes. Also, I feel that something is going to happen soon, and I thought we might as well be on good terms when the shit hits the fan. We could use your help” Kagome stopped for a second. Sesshomaru looked back at her.

“Why do I think you know more than you're saying?” Kagome seemed to come back from her stupor. “I don’t know anything about 'things about to happen'. And even if I did, I still just met you, so I might not tell you.”


They continued walking, “I can respect that, but what I don’t respect are people getting my friends in danger.” Kagome rounded on him and Sesshomaru was surprised by her look. He saw anger burning in her eyes and for a second he swore he saw her eyes flash dark blue. He quickly dismissed it.

“I don’t make many friends, Sesshy.” she said the nickname, her voice dripping venom. “I am not about to endanger them. Why do you think I keep my identity secret?!?” Her voice was raising slightly in anger, and if Sesshomaru was in his dog form he would have flattened his ears to his head.


“If you are telling the truth about them being your friends you’ll have to tell them eventually. They deserve that much.” saying that, Sesshomaru stepped around her and walked into the boys dorm, his stride regal. Kagome just watched him go.


‘I can’t tell them, they won’t accept me’ Kagome thought, pain twisting in her chest.

‘Sesshomaru accepted you, so why won’t they? Plus they accepted your crazy mom. This will be small muffins compared to that’ her mind retorted.

‘I’ll only put them in danger. All I ever do is hurt people. And who says small muffins?’

‘Apparently you do, I mean I am your mind stupid’.


Kagome walked into the room, still fighting with herself. When she got in she stopped and looked at the people inside. Sango was chasing Miroku around with a mace in her hands while Miroku screamed about how he had seen a spider on her.

“On my boob? You stupid lech I’m gonna kill you!" Sango raved.

Rin was sitting about an inch from the tv screen singing along with a commercial in a very bad french accent. “Pop pop, fizz fizz. Oh what a relief it is!”.

Inuyasha seemed to be oblivious to the racket around him because he was sprawled across the couch snoring loudly. Kagome smiled lightly and made up her mind.

‘I don’t want to lose them and I definitely don’t want to hurt them. I can’t tell them about who and what I am. Ever.'

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Damn, this took me forever to edit. I'm considering some changes (minor) in the plot of this story. I want to take out most of the song lyrics and add more depth, introduce more drama. Hmm, I'll just have to figure it out.

I'll update soon! Keep reading and reviewing!