InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ vampires ❯ not one of us... ( Chapter 4 )

Hey guys, so sorry for the late update, real life intervened with a week load of tests, which I failed. Sighs sucks to be me.

Disclaimer: I haven't seen one of you in a while, have I? You look kinda familiar......... oh yessss I get it. I don't own Inuyasha and company.

Chapter 4: not one of us

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Kagome walked through the forest, following a path she remembered clearly. This was the same path that she and the gang would take when they were leaving or heading to Kaede's village. She overstepped a small crater in the dirt, an Inuyasha sized hole. She allowed a small smile to grace her features as she thought about the time she sat the poor hanyou, thus making this hole. It wasn't too long ago...

Flashback

The group was returning to Kaede's village, Inuyasha was grumbling because Kagome wanted to pause their search <yet again> to go home and do a test. She had it in three days time. Three days!!! That's like...three days long!! The poor hanyou was seething.

"Kagome you have two fucking days before that `test'" he ranted, "why not go back then?"

"Because I have to study and I have homework to do" she called from in front of him.

"What's with you and this studying thing? You don't need it!!! Once the jewel has been restored you can go back and do your damned studying!!"

Kagome rubbed her temples with her index fingers, trying to block the path of the hanyou-induced migraine that was making itself known. She turned to him. "Look, I know I was the one that broke the frigging jewel okay! I know that it's my responsibility to fix it.

"But I also have a life and responsibilities in the future so I have to go home every so often so people don't get suspicious of where I am OK?!"

She turned around and continued walking down the path.

"Well you aren't going back fo-"he was cut off by Kagome's sudden outburst.

"Jewel shard!"

"Where?!" Inuyasha said, he was currently in a tree searching franticly for the youkai "Kagome, I sense no youkai here"

"You may have a point there, seeing as though there isn't a shard" she said

"What?!" she glares at her

"SIT!" she yelled then skipped off, leaving Sango and Miroku with the irate hanyou.

End flashback

Kagome shook her head; she should have listened to Inuyasha on that one. She looked up, the noon sun assaulting her eyes. She quickly blinked away, though the red glare remained. She rubbed her eyes once more then continued walking.

She shrugged of her jacket and wrapped it around her waist, it was kinda getting very humid in there, high tolerance or not. She brushed stray bangs out of her hair, just as a village came into view.

She saw the kids in the village playing around, scaring fowls and other animals. She also saw a girl her age hugging a little boy, effectively reminding Kagome of Souta. Kagome averted her gaze; she really didn't want to remember anything of last night. She decided to overpass this village, besides she never needed to stop anyways.

"Wait!" came a voice, just as Kagome was to walk away, it was female. Kagome looked behind her, it was the same girl she saw from the village. Was she musing THAT long for the girl to have ran up the hill to her?

"I saw you when I was down in the village. Are you a wanderer?" she asked breathlessly.

"You could say that"

The girl eyed Kagome's clothes. "Do you know that miko form the village on the other side of Inuyasha's Forrest? The one in the weird kimono"

"Yeah I do, I just came from there" Kagome replied, knowing she was talking about the former her. Where did THAT one come from?

"I thought so because your type of clothing is one that I have heard about her wearing. I heard she has a pet hanyou, she put a subduing spell on him"

Kagome giggled a bit "Yes I saw him, and I even saw her use the spell on him, he was trying to attack me"

"Um, do you want to stay in the village? At least for the night"

Kagome shook her head, no. she couldn't put these people in danger just because she might get hungry tonight. "Thanks but I cant, I'm, looking for someone... and I'm afraid that she might be in trouble"

"I insist, besides you look like you could use some food and a good night's rest."

Food, that word struck a nerve in Kagome, she glanced at the girl's jugular, and it seemed to be pulsing harder under Kagome's intense gaze. She bit her lip, contemplating.

"I insist" she......insisted

Kagome compelled and the girl squealed, oblivious to Kagome's twitch. She dragged her down to the village, the girl's light brown hair whipping behind her in the braid like a thick whip. They were getting strange looks from the villagers, Kagome even picked up a few choice sentences like `she's not one of us' `she's probably a wondering soul trapped in that body' and so on.

They came to a halting stop at a hut in the middle of the village.

"Papa!" the girl called, "Papa!"

A man came out of the hut; he looked to be in his late forties, his black hair slightly graying. "Naoko" he said, "what's the matter?"

"Well, uh, we have a wanderer and I insisted she stay in the village this night" she said signaling to Kagome.

Kagome bowed "I'm sorry to be an inconvenience" she said "I'm Ka-me" she covered up almost unnoticed; she couldn't have them knowing her real name.

"You are named god?" he asked incredulously

"Yes I am, it was the word my mother uttered when they asked my name after my birth" she lied again.

"It is good to meet you, I am Naoto, I hope you find it very hospitable here. How long will you be staying?"

"Just the night. Thank you"

"Don't worry papa, I'll keep her company" ht girl, Naoko, chirped.

"OK" he said then went back into the hut.

Naoko had pulled Kagome to a hut on the other side of the village, Kagome stepped into it and came face to face with a mirror and her reflection.

She gasped at her reflection, her hair lost its raven shine, and it was now just a dull black, like when it's dirty. Her blue eyes lost their glimmer. She blinked and they became black, but just as quickly as it appeared, it left. Gone unnoticed by Naoko. Kagome's skin was deathly pale, no wonder Naoko said she needed food and rest. And no wonder the villagers said what they had. She looked terribly ill. Too bad that wasn't the case. She looked closer at herself, her reflection wavered slightly, like wisps of smoke leaving her body, again gone unnoticed by Naoko.

"Kagome, are you alright?" Naoko asked

"Yeah- I'm just fine" she answered absently.

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A familiar yet unfamiliar black engulfed Kagome, she couldn't move, she couldn't cry out she couldn't breathe! She struggled to move, open her eyes, anything! But everything she tried failed. She could feel her pulse the only sure sign that she was still alive.

She felt a pain in her neck; it was a short and sharp pain. She popped her eyes open, she couldn't feel a thing, not even her heartbeat anymore! She couldn't hear, she couldn't see, she couldn't smell, it was like her brain completely shut down.

She rubbed at her eyes-yes she could move now-she rubbed till they were to burn, but she didn't feel it, it still didn't cure the darkness that still engulfed her. She banged on her ears, pulled her nose, trying to get them to work.

She saw a blurred image before her; she was in a semi-dark room. She heard laughing around her. She looked around and saw a guy. She inhaled, still trying to get her body to work, but her lings just burnt intensely.

"Who are you?" she got out in a hoarse whisper, her lungs and throat burned like hell. She inhaled again, trying to breathe but to no avail. The burning eventually subsided, leaving a dull throb. "Who are you?" she asked again, more demanding this time.

"Don't you remember me? Its Alex" he mocked

Kagome felt her heart lurch, though she felt no pulse when she touched her jugular, just two puncture marks. "You!"

"You need to eat my little birdy" he said, fading into the blackness.

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Kagome snapped up, she looked around, she was in a hut, Naoko's hut she remembered. She looked around, making sure that Alex wasn't around, and she even searched with her mystic powers. He wasn't there.

She slumped back on the loaned futon, she looked through the window, it was dusk, the red orange and pink rays of the sun casting an eerie glow in the room. She heard the villagers going about their business, preparing for dinner.

She got up from the futon and exited the hut, stretching like a cat as she did so, why couldn't Alex have turned her into a cat demon or something, anything but the undead. She heard the whispers of the villagers, but chose to ignore them this time. If they were posing a threat, she could easily kill them.

Whoa, where did that train of thought come from? Must be her vampiric side, yeah that had to be it. She walked deeper into the village, drinking in her surroundings. That word hit a nerve. What she wouldn't so for a drink right now.

"Kame!" Naoko invaded her musings

"Uh hi?"

"Did you have a good nap?" Naoko stood in front of her

"Yeah I guess"

"Great! Are you hungry?"

What's going on? Is it Vampire innuendoes day?!!

"Well not really but I guess I`ll just eat a bite"

`You have to eat my pet' Alex's voice wavered in her mind she shook herself.

"Are you ok?" Naoko asked, after seeing her shake.

"Yeah, just a bad dream is all" she waved it aside.

"Do you wanna talk about it?"

"No"

"OK, but it helps sometimes if you do"

They walked down to Naoto's hut in silence as Kagome mulled he thoughts.

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Kagome sat at the table in Naoto's hut, staring and picking at her riceballs. She couldn't eat it; this wasn't her food anymore. She looked up at Naoko, the little boy she had found out to be her brother, and Naoto, all eating their food happily. Their jugulars pulsing rapidly under her intense stare.

"Are you ok?" Naoko asked

"Yeah I'm fine, I just am not really hungry I guess" she put down the bowl on the table. Her stomach was killing her, she had been ignoring it for the past 12 or so hours and it was beginning to take control again.

She could now smell the metallic liquid all around her, it was making her dizzy, she had ignored it for too long today by stopping her breath, not that she needed to breathe anyway, it was just a way for her to look normal. She was temped, but she didn't, she wanted to eat, but she couldn't, she was trying to hold it off longer, trying her hardest not to give in, to stretch it as long as it can go, even though her composure and control wont last very long.

She was now extremely hungry, and Alex's voice in her head was NOT helping!!

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tbc...