CHAPTER SIX: Holy Beings.
Kagome sat patiently at the kitchen table, rapping her fingers across the surface nonplussed. She let out a heavy sigh as she glanced up at the clock for the umpteenth time that morning; 12 o'clock p.m.
"Where is he?" she groaned. Inuyasha was nowhere to be seen, but she had a slight feeling he was prodding Kouga for more information, as usual. Kagome felt a little guilty that she didn't believe him about this Bloody War business, it sounded too fairy tale-ish for her. She figured it was just a coincidence that's all, but Inuyasha was determined to stop it. He had spent the whole night pacing the living room while she tried to sleep on his couch, he had refused to let her walk home alone by herself, and she had refused him when he offered to walk her, so she had stayed.
Kagome could still hear their argument from the night before in her head. He hadn't been very happy that she'd disobeyed his orders and come back, but they both knew Kagome obeyed no one.
"Honestly," she huffed to herself. "I mean a vampire just comes and kills a few bodies without covering his tracks, that can't be too uncommon." Too bad those tracks were impossible to follow. "I mean…there's been human serial killers who've killed more than that. For a vampire this shouldn't be much of anything." Kagome snorted. But then again, Salem was a very…died-down town now. No one seemed to come here anymore, and that was puzzling. People use to come from all over the world to see where the Witch Trails had taken place. But the locals hadn't really seen any new faces in months, only a few here and there. The same went with the dead. So a breakout like this probably was rarer than she thought, come to think of it…she'd never heard of this kind of thing before in Salem. Sure she'd heard of some girl stabbing her boyfriend to death with a screwdriver because he tried to rape her or some old couple being poisoned by their children for their inheritance, but never senseless killing. All that happened off in the big city where a person could get lost. But down here, where everyone knew everybody…there was always a motive.
She was brought out of her thoughts when the door burst wide-open and Inuyasha came storming in, taking his seat in his armchair, she could tell by the way it squeaked from the living room.
Kagome sighed as she walked across the hall, taking her seat on the couch.
Inuyasha at first didn't acknowledge her, but when he did his voice was just flowing with anger. "I thought I told you to go home this morning. And don't even try and use that 'it's not safe' bit again…it ain't gonna work this time. Vampires don't come out in the daylight except me."
Kagome ignored his words. "So how did it go, with Kouga I mean?"
Inuyasha's eyes snapped on her. "How the hell did you know?"
"You're predictable. So how did it go?"
He seemed to accept her presence. "I fucked it up as usual. The asshole knows something but his big fat ass won't tell me; instead he talked about his family the whole time and how much he missed them. Stupid idiot shouldn't have let himself be bitten then-" his anger disappeared with that remark, Kagome could only guess it was because he hadn't had a choice of becoming what he was either.
"So he knows something?" She thought for a second. "Maybe he'll let us trade something for the information…like…a better place to live besides that sewer. Or maybe some food from the butcher or maybe he'd-"
"I already tried that bit. And there ain't now way in hell I'm giving that bastard what he wants. Over my dead body!"
Kagome snorted. "Inuyasha, you are a dead body. So what did he want?"
Inuyasha fell silent, shifting his gaze from Kagome's face to her sneakers.
"What's wrong? He didn't ask you to be his sex slave or anything did he?" She giggled.
The vampire gave her a narrowed look. "That ain't funny," he ground out.
Kagome's face fell. "Oh…I didn't think-"
"No - no - no -no. Not me." His face went bright red with a slight mixture of sickly green. "He wanted to meet you again."
"Oh." She suddenly didn't feel like they needed whatever information the vampire leader had to offer. "We need this info don't we? We need it so we can stop this war don't we?" She still didn't believe in it, but she did want to stop this murdering rampage.
Inuyasha didn't answer her; he only left her in silence. She took it as a yes.
Kagome grabbed her book bag, and began rummaging through it. When he finally looked up Kagome stood before him, with the cross Inuyasha had given her a month ago and a clove of garlic hung around her neck, a bottle of soda filled with what he could only guess was Holy Water in one hand and one of his stakes held in the other.
He gave her a skeptical look. "You can't be serious?"
Kagome glared at him indignantly. "Take me to him."
He ran his hands over his face. "Garlic doesn't work...it's only a wives tale to make women feel safe when they're cooking."
She threw it to the side, but still had the cross and whatnot. "Take me."
"Kagome…."
"Now."
He led her deeper down the sewer, turning another corner yet again, and coming face to face with a rather large and ogre looking demon. Kagome's face fell, but Inuyasha just led her around the creature and continued towards Kouga's den.
"What the hell was that thing?" she whispered as she glanced back at the monster before it disappeared around the corner.
"It was a demon. Kouga lets demons and whatnot use his sewers as a source for traveling during the daylight. He makes big bucks for it, and no one dares to threaten him since he's helping them."
"Let me guess, his motto is that people can't stab you if they've got both hands wrapped around you in a hug?"
Inuyasha nodded. "People won't harm you if they like you."
They came upon the watertight door, and almost as if it was routine Inuyasha twisted the handle with both hands, before they both scrambled into the small room and shut the door back again.
The two turned to stare at the off-white door covered in warning signs as the small rectangular window opened, this time revealing a pare of purple orbs.
"Oh…it's the puppy with the pretty fur." The eyes purred; they obviously belonged to a woman. She opened the door and let Kagome and Inuyasha enter, before she grabbed a lock of Inuyasha's hair and began running her fingers through it, and rubbing it against her cheek. "Such pretty hair."
Inuyasha uneasily stepped away from her. "Get off me, Yura."
Yura turned her playful eyes from him to Kagome and then back again. "Aww…is the puppy uncomfortable around me?" she giggled. "I take it you've come to see kouga again? And you brought a human too." She glanced at the cross around Kagome's neck and hissed. "What are you trying to do? Kill us all."
Kagome just stood boldly. "Take me to Kouga."
Yura didn't dare say no when her eyes trailed to Kagome's stake. She stumbled off in a hurry, hissing at the others to keep their distance. Kagome and Inuyasha looked at each other before they turned to face the rest of the room filled with deathly still, terrified vampires.
"Maybe me bringing this stuff wasn't my smartest idea."
"Nope. But you need it if you're going to be alone in a room with that creep…but don't worry." He turned to face her. "He's too much of a bloody coward. He knows I'm stronger than he is…and that if he tries anything funny I'll set the sewers on fire during the day so he'll have nowhere to go but outside in the sunlight."
"You sound like you've done that before."
He nodded. "I use to kill vampires…thought I could repent for my sins by ridding the world of us…that's why there's so few around here today. But then I stopped, figured it was a waste of time. And that's when Kouga and his little clan came along."
Kagome stared at him for a moment, something told her there was a lot more to that story…and possibly even that short version was completely skewered, probably a lot to his own story was as well, but she didn't pry. She had done enough of that already.
Yura came back into the room, shaking slightly as Hiten came up to her and wrapped an arm around her. "He says…he would like to speak to her…alone. Which I'm sure you already know…but he says she has to put the stake and holy water aside."
Kagome was about to press the matter when she remembered that she had come to him for help, not the other way around. She gave her things to Inuyasha, with the exception of the cross that she hid under her shirt, and followed Hiten back through the chains of rooms to Kouga's personal quarters. She pulled out the cross and held it in her hand, willing it to give her the strength she needed.
Once they reached Kouga's quarters Hiten and Yura pushed her in and locked the door behind them.
"How long till you think she barbecues him with that cross?"
Hiten shrugged his shoulders. "I dunno…but I hope the elders pick me to lead the clan when he's dead."
Kagome stood solemnly against the wall, her palms were sweaty, and her body was trembling slightly. She wanted Inuyasha in there with her, but he was too cocky to admit she could be in danger as long as he was at least nearby. Kouga's room was dark, having the lights turned off, and instead there were a small handful of candles dispersed around the room, giving the room an eerie feeling that sent a chill down her spine. She glanced around and noticed all the prisoners were gone, she wasn't sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing. They could have been killed or set free.
She could just make out a figure standing across the room from her, but she couldn't see who it was, though she had her suspicions. She was only aware of his presence when the light would dance across him for a brief moment.
She heard him speak, calling out her name, suddenly she was more terrified of Kouga than she had been the first time. His voice sounded so much like a serial killer provoking its prey. She didn't like this one bit. What had she been thinking? coming in here alone? She had a gut feeling that she was in trouble; she read it in his eyes.
Kagome pressed herself up against the door, fumbling with the knob as she watched him advance towards her, the light flicking across his malicious face. She stared into his eyes, the only part of him that was visible without the light. His eyes were so blue…so…shiny.
Kagome tried to scream for Inuyasha, tried to call out for him to come help her…but her body was frozen, she couldn't move or tear herself away from those eyes as they slowly kept drawing towards her. She could see everything in his orbs, she could see the future, she could see the past, she could see a world without pain. All she had to do was succumb to those eyes. Kagome was almost positive she could see the pocket-watch swinging back and forth -back and forth inside Kouga's orbs.
He breathed out her name when he finally stood directly before her, but she never heard him, she was too lost in those eyes.
Kouga only smirked. He still hadn't lost his charm…or the ability to mesmerize people. He still had it. But there was something wrong with this girl; she hadn't fully given up yet. He knew she was still fighting because she hadn't closed her eyes.
"Stubborn little girl," he huffed. "Well hello." His eyes fixed on the cross. "I recognize this old tattered thing." He went to touch it but then remembered that it would harm him. "That cross use to be Kikyo's…that's the one she gave to Inuyasha. Well I'll be damned. If he gave that thing to you…you must be something special."
He bent down to look deeper into her own eyes, but they slowly closed. He smirked. "I win again. God I love doing that to people." He flipped the light switch on, filling the room with the violent yellow light. He led her farther into the room by simply giving orders, and of course, she obeyed without argument. He knew if Inuyasha found out what he was doing, he'd be a very dead dead-person by sunrise. Inuyasha would personally drag him out into the sun and let him fry. But Inu was never going to know. And the girl was never going to tell anyone she had been hypnotized because she wouldn't remember.
He sat down on his couch and watched her thoughtfully as she stood stalk still before him, completely oblivious to the world around her. He inspected her from head to toe. She was a pretty specimen; just catching an eyeful of her like this was worth giving Inuyasha whatever information he needed any day. He even thought about removing an article of clothing or too, but then he thought better of it. Inuyasha would probably catch a little too much of his scent on the girl and then there would be nothing that could save him.
Suddenly there was a cracking sound and Kouga's eyes shot to the ceiling where Hiten stood upside down with his arms crossed over his chest, his braid dangling all the way to the tiled floor. Hiten haphazardly glanced around the room before his eyes fell of Kagome and his master.
"I came to check and see if the girl had killed you yet - what in hell's name are you doing?" he barked, accidentally forgetting that Kouga was an authority figure compared to him.
Kouga waved his hand dismissively. "Just having a little fun. I ain't doing anything to her…just looking."
Hiten tutted before he jumped off the ceiling, doing some odd sort of flip that made him land in a squatting position on the floor, all without making a sound. He stood up with ease.
"You know if Osuwari finds out you put his little girlfriend into a trance he's going to gut you."
Kouga shrugged his shoulders as he stood up. He went to touch Kagome's arm, meaning to pull her into a kiss, he at least disserved that much, but the second his flesh touched hers his skin became red hot. He jerked away from her, shaking his blistered limb by his side. "What the fuck - what the hell just happened?"
Hiten only snorted and rolled his eyes, surely to God he would have made a better leader than this clueless bozo. "I figured as much. She would end up being one of those HBs. Especially since she's hanging around with Osuwari." He sighed when he noticed the confused look of his sire. What an idiot. "She's an HB…a Holy Being…we, since we're soulless vampires, can't touch her in any way."
"What gives you the impression she's a Holy Being? I mean…it could be the cross around her neck-"
Hiten sighed. "She's glowing purple moron. Face it…she's a Holy. You can't touch her without being inflicted with pain."
"But…damn it…she is, isn't she? I've…I've heard of Holy Beings before…but what are they? Are they like those mikos that hunt down demons?"
Hiten shrugged his shoulders. "I suppose they're one in the same, I'm not really sure. They're the reasons vampires haven't taken over the world before now. But I hear their numbers are getting fewer and fewer just like us." How did this idiot become the leader? He can't even figure out his infatuation with this girl is hopeless, even after its obvious she could kill him.
"Where do they come from?"
But that question went unanswered when Yura dissipated into the room in a puff of smoke. She stood by Hiten, glaring uneasily at Kagome. "A Holy Being you say?" she laughed. "Never would have expected Inuyasha to fall in love with one of those. I bet he doesn't even realize she could kill him if she really wanted to."
The three exchanged looks.
"Should we tell him?" Kouga asked.
"Nah."
"Speaking of the devil…where is Inuyasha?" Kouga continued to message his hand.
"He's being his usual self, trying to threaten as much information out of the clan as possible. And the idiot doesn't think he should worry about his little girlfriend. He's too cocky to believe she could be in trouble." Yura snorted. "I bet she doesn't even know what she is." She added as an extra thought. "Just look at her, you can tell her energy is weak."
"Maybe we should have an elder look at her though." Kouga added as he poked her flesh with his finger. He jerked his hand back in pain and watched as boils began to grow at the tip of his index finger. He touched her again and watched as one of the larger boils popped and puss oozed from it. He wiped it off on his pants.
Yura rolled her eyes. "We shouldn't, you know they'd just tell us to execute her, and even though I'm all for it, you know Inuyasha would slay us all. He's a danger to our clan, Kouga. I don't know why you insist on keeping a friendship with him."
He shot her a nasty look. "I've known Osuwari since we were kids. We may act like we hate each other but we've been best friends for as long as I can remember. We saved each other's asses at least a dozen of times in the war. There's no way I'm cutting the only lifeline I have from my past. He ain't going to do anything to us if he feels the same way."
Yura scoffed. "Yeah well…not only is he an endangerment…but now even his little human concubine is too. And don't forget about you-know-who's back…he ought to be enough of a blast from the past for you."
The room fell silent until: "Maybe we should send word of all of this to Naraku. He could make heads or tails of what we need to do about the girl and 'ol' stiff face."
Kouga's anger bubbled over. "No way! Naraku skipped town years ago and left everything to me. It's that assholes fault so much happened. I don't want to give him any reason to come anywhere near hear or her."
Yura chortled. "Sometimes I wonder if you have a soul, Sire." She spat the word as if it were the worst insult possible. "Sounds like Inu's not the only one that's been smitten with puppy love." With that said she dissipated out of the room, making everyone cough from her smoke.
Hiten waited a moment before he gave Kouga a wary look and disappeared the same way as Yura had done
Kouga turned to look at Kagome, his hand instinctively flying to his own necklace. It was made of a small vile tied to a simple chain, but it was what was in the vile that was so precious. He had had an idea of making Kagome a vampire while she was with him just so he could see what she was like. And then when he was done having his fun he would let her drink the liquid from his necklace and everything would go back to normal as if it had never happened. But now that didn't seem like such a good idea, he didn't want to waste the one thing that Naraku had ever given to him that was actually worth something and helpful. That and the fact that if he tried to bite Kagome he was afraid his fangs might melt out of his mouth now that he knew she was a Holy Being.
He sighed as he snapped his fingers, bringing her to. She gasped slightly before shaking her head, trying to wave off the dizziness. She turned to glare up at the vampire. "What was it that you were saying?" she growled rather hotly. She hadn't even realized that something had happened.
Kouga threw on a flamboyant smile. "Nothing much Miss, just that I have this for you."
He handed Kagome a photo.
"What's this?" she asked. She gingerly glanced at the man's face. He looked strikingly familiar, but she couldn't seem to place him.
"That's your killer. It's not very good…and you can hardly see his face, mostly just his hair, but Inuyasha should recognize him."
"Who is he?"
"Inuyasha's elder brother."
Kagome's mouth fell open as she dropped the photo to the floor. "What-"
Kagome sat silently in the back seat of the bus, never speaking; never moving; never doing anything to draw Inuyasha's attention onto her. He had already asked her at least a hundred times what Kouga had told her, and every time she had answered him with a lie. "It was a hoax." She'd tell him. "He only wanted me there to try and seduce me; just a waste of time."
He never really bought it, but he could tell Kagome was nervous and upset about something so he stopped pressing the matter once he was sure that Kouga hadn't tried to harm her in any way. He just sat there with his head leaned against the window, watching the rain splash across the glass.
Kagome resulted in watching the road through the small crack in the floor. These public passenger busses were never safe anymore since the government cut its funding. She was trying her best to push the picture Kouga had given her out of her mind but no matter what that was all she could think about. Sesshomaru was alive? But how could this be? The police discovered him underground with everyone else didn't they? He was supposed to be six feet under. But something told her he had played the same trick Inuyasha had to make everyone think he had passed away.
She wanted to tell Inuyasha, really she did. But she didn't know if it would hurt him or not. She wasn't sure if they had been close. Inuyasha had been incredibly upset the first time he had told her how he had killed his brother. She knew she should tell him for his own safety. And she was going to; as soon as she was sure Kouga hadn't been playing a cruel joke. She didn't know how she was going to prove it but she was, even if she'd have to hunt Sesshomaru down herself.
The next day Kagome sat at her lunch table, chatting away with Sango and Miroku. He had pretty much become a member of her short list of friends since Sango had introduced him to her. He even knew a small amount about Inuyasha, but he hadn't been that astonished when they had told him. He was a little more on the weird side like Sango. His appearance wasn't that bad to look at though. He had hazel eyes and brown hair that he had lime green streaks dyed in, which was long but he always pulled it back into a ponytail that was even sometimes longer than the girls, reaching down to his chest. He wore mostly local band T-shirts from his hometown in LA and pants that were shredded with holes and fray. He had a broken arm, which he wore a cast over that was covered in stickers, profane words, and scribbled drawings he'd done himself from boredom during class.
"I'm telling the truth guys. Kouga told me it was Inuyasha's brother. And I really think it's true. I don't know what to do…I can't hurt him. I can't hurt Inuyasha."
Miroku ran his fingers through his bangs. "Whoa…that's deep. So that's what's been happening with all the murders that's been taking place lately? first that runaway Nauru Tomoku…and then Kagura and Kanna…and then that teacher from the middle school and her whole family? And that's just the murders we've discovered A vampire's killed all of them…and worse off he's your friend's brother?"
Kagome bit her lip and nodded.
Sango reached across the table and patted her friend's hand. "You should tell Inuyasha, Kagome. He needs to know. It'll only make him angry at you if he finds out a different way…or if you take too long."
"There's no stopping that now…I've already been lying to him. He wouldn't forgive me if he knew. I know how Inuyasha is; he doesn't do well with betrayal and things like that. But if I do tell him I want to know that it's for sure positive and that there's no possible way it's a cruel joke on Kouga's part. I don't want to hurt him and then we find out it was Kouga or Hiten or Yura doing it this whole time. I have to be absolutely positive."
"Maybe you should speak more with Kouga…sit down and talk to him." Miroku offered. "You said so yourself that you think he likes you…maybe you can seduce an answer out of him."
Kagome shook her head. "I know how to find him…but there's no way I'd go down there to his nest alone; Hiten and the others would eat me alive. I'm not dumb enough to go down there on my own without Inuyasha. They're afraid of him so they don't dare attack me when he's around."
Miroku and Sango exchanged slight looks before Sango added: "Well Kagome how do you plan to prove whether it's this Sesshomaru or not?"
Kagome banged her head down on the polished surface of the lunch table. "That's my problem," she mumbled. "If I have to…I'm going to find the killer myself."
Sango's face fell. "No. You are not to do that!"
Kagome looked up at her best friend in surprise. "But I thought you liked vampires and those kinds of things. And you want me to stop Sesshomaru before he kills someone else off don't you?"
"I do." Her voice was very stern; it even scared Miroku into scooting a little further down the bench from her. "But you do not want to meet one if it doesn't have a soul. I've read so many documentaries on them from Aunt Sabrina-sama's store. They're horrible, Kagome, they're not as generous as Lestat or Louis from the Anne Rice books. What's been happening lately is only the start of it. Soon they'll start torture for the fun of it."
Kagome was suddenly reminded of the women that had been chained to the wall in Kouga's quarters.
"And that's just what they're like. Sesshomaru, if it is him; won't think twice about killing you, but he'll make sure it's very slow and very painful. And he will. But then again he might just do what he did to Kagura. And you do not want to be one of them either. A vampire is the worst life there is...demons look down on them, werewolves are known to rage wars with them, and so many other things. They feel nothing but emptiness inside; not to mention they can't do anything in the daylight, or the fact that you're constantly hungry. They loose their friends and family. They can't go into peoples houses without being asked. You can't even go to your own home without asking permission. And normally the only reason you're going there is because you're so desperate you're going to kill your own flesh and blood, which when you're done should haunt you for the rest of your life but it doesn't because you don't have a soul anymore. And the ones that do are the ones that I feel the most sorry for; they get turned into a monster…but are forced to live with a conscience.
"Plus they're body is dead, nothing really functions right anymore…so you're always cold. There is no such thing as body heat. And then there are those Holy Beings, you don't want those things always hunting for you and trying to kill you. And there's so much more. No, Kagome. I refuse to let you track down a ruthless killer…it's bad enough you found a vampire with a soul, one of the few exceptions to the vampire race, but I won't let you get yourself killed. You're my best friend. I refuse to let you do something stupid."
Kagome was baffled; she sat there frozen not really paying much attention to Miroku's next comment: "I wonder if they can taste things when they eat them…or stuff like that? I mean I know they can eat things…but doesn't it always taste like cardboard or something?"
Sango shrugged her shoulders. "I'm not sure about that. But you know the best way to fix Kagome's problem don't you? without doing something irrational." She shot a glare at Kagome after that last part. "If we could just dig up Sesshomaru's grave…then we would know whether he was really dead or not. But we can't do that since he's in the Osuwari Cemetery. Inuyasha would definitely notice us digging around in his yard."
Miroku raised an eyebrow. "I thought they turned to dust when they die."
Sango rolled her eyes. "That's only in exposure to sunlight…or if they're really, really old."
Miroku nodded. "So his body would be in the casket…?"
"Mmhmm," Sango mumbled as she took a bite of her pizza.
"Maybe we can trick Inuyasha into leaving for awhile…and then we can check if Sesshomaru is still there or not." He suggested.
"That wouldn't be a good idea either. He'd notice. That house is over two hundred years old; the cemetery hasn't been messed with in over fifty. He has an acute sense of awareness of his surroundings, all vampires do it's like a defense mechanism in their brains or something. He'd notice the unturned dirt where we'd been digging. And then he'd suspect something was up, and inevitably find out Kagome had been lying to him."
"So why don't we just tell-"
Kagome suddenly came to. "What was that you said?" she blurted out. "What was that about Holy Beings?" She'd heard that before.
Sango took another bite before she continued. "Oi. They're nothing really. You know the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer?"
The other two nodded.
"Well that show got its idea from the Holy Beings. Only in real life there's more than just one. They're specially chosen boys or girls who can kill vampires with the slightest touch or whatever. Very powerful once they realize they are one. I knew one in my old school…he'd scare the crap out of you though. He'd literally go and sit in the swamps and just wait for a vampire. He was really strong…and really strange, stranger than me…not to mention really military-like. Like him being a Holy Being or a Holy One was his duty to his country or something. He lived to serve, even if it killed him. Which I'm not sure, but I think it did. I haven't kept in touch with anyone back in Australia to really know. Though I do remember that he got his arm bit off one time when he was experimenting if his power would work on a crocodile."
"Ouch." Kagome crinkled up her nose.
"Hey these Holy Beings…how come none of them are coming to the rescue here in Salem and saving us? Well okay, not exactly save us…but stopping this vampire serial killer that's on the loose." Miroku shot out.
Sango shook her head. "It's not as easy as that. None of them come down here because of the Witch Trails…we persecuted too many of them as witches and had them burned at the stake. They all know the story. They won't help us anymore because of it. Most of them either decides to just neglect their powers and go on with their life…or they never truly figure it out. Very few of them actually realize what they are and act upon it. They're getting rarer and rarer. There's probably around a few hundred now when it used to be that every other person was one."
Miroku persisted. "But there's still that few hundred…surely to God one of them has noticed something hasn't been going right here."
Sango sighed. "You're not getting it. None of them want to help."
"So they're just basically saying 'screw you, die if I care'?"
Sango nodded.
Miroku suddenly lost his boyish smile. "But they can't all hate us, I mean we're sorry for what our ancestors did in the past but come on…there's innocent people dying. A baby died for fucks sake. We need some serious help. This…thing, Sesshomaru…isn't it obvious that he's going to just keep killing and killing until we're all dead. And then he'll just move on to another town, possibly their town. They need to care."
Kagome suddenly became incredibly serious. She had never thought about it from Miroku's point of view, and probably Inuyasha's too. Now the Bloody War became very real.
Sango patted Miroku's arm. "Calm down…don't get so overworked. I'm sure Inuyasha will find a way to stop this. Right, Kagome?"
Kagome nodded. "Sango…what do you know about the Bloody War?"
Her face suddenly became very pale. "What did you just say?"
"The Bloody War? Ever heard of it?"
Sango only nodded. "Why-why you want to ask about that for?"
"Inuyasha mentioned something about it…he seems to think it will be happening soon and I-"
"I'll take you to Aunt Sabrina-sama." Sango interrupted.
Kagome frowned. "What?"
"I can't tell you much about the Bloody War…only that it happened along time ago and was predicted to happen again. Aunt Sabrina-sama will know what to tell you. I'll take you to her okay?" The urgency in her voice told Kagome this was a subject Sango didn't really want to get into.
Kagome smiled slightly.
"You don't-you don't think that's what's happening do you, Kagome?" Sango squeaked.
Kagome shook her head no. Something about the absolutely scared look on Sango's face made her feel like she needed to say no for Sango's sake. She felt like if she didn't Sango would crumble, an odd feeling but she did. "I'm sure that that's not what's happening. I think we're all just throwing it way out of proportion. Inuyasha will stop everything and no one else is going to die. I promise."
But she would be proven a liar very soon.