Safe in the Enemy's Arms

Author: Oh, wow,
I’m surprised you guys like this so much! Anyway, if you guys already read the
first chapter before I posted this second one, then GO BACK and read it,
because I added in some stuff just now.
Seriously. Please? Thanks.style='mso-spacerun:yes'> Hope you guys enjoy this chapter just as
much, but I doubt you will.

Title: Safe in the Enemy’s
Arms

Author: Sere G (href="mailto:durinae_nov_fantazirs@hotmail.com">durinae_nov_fantazirs@hotmail.com).style='mso-spacerun:yes'> If
you write, put ‘Fanfic’

in
the subject, please. This will prevent
it from being sorted into the junk.

Fandom: Inuyasha

Chapter: Two – Hidden
Meanings

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style='mso-tab-count:1'> Kagome kept screaming even as
someone started shaking her gently.
“Kagome… Kagome, wake up, child!”

style='mso-tab-count:1'> The urgent pleading continued until
Kagome sat up suddenly and knocked heads with Kaede, who had been trying to
wake her up.

style='mso-tab-count:1'> Kaede sat back, frowning and holding
her head, and eyed Kagome with concern as the girl wiped sweat from her brow,
her chest heaving as she gasped wildly, trying to get breath into her
lungs.

style='mso-tab-count:1'> As she gasped for air, Kagome’s eyes
were wide with anxiety and horror left over from the dream, and a bit of
shock. She reached up, and could feel
tears in her eyes which she swiped away hastily.

style='mso-tab-count:1'> A…
dream? It was just a dream? But it felt so real! It was so… so clear, so real!
What a weird dream… no… more like a nightmare. Kagome’s thoughts raced as
it sunk into her anxious mind that it had all been nothing more than a dream,
that it had nothing to be freaked out about.

“What
is the matter with ye, child?” the elderly priestess asked Kagome as she rubbed
her head slightly, her hand halfway covering the red mark which had already
started to make itself apparent. “Ye
were screaming in such a way that ye most likely would have awakened half of
the village were it not morning already.”

style='mso-tab-count:1'> Kagome finally got herself breathing
normally once more and frowned, eyes cast down.
“I’m sorry, Kaede. It was just a
nightmare, that’s all. Nothing to be
worried about, I’m sure.”

A
concerned look sat upon Kaede’s face as she eyed the stressed-out-looking girl
before her.

“Would
ye like to talk about it, child?” she asked, her voice meant to be comforting, “Ye
never know, it may help. Sometimes
dreams are not only dreams, but visions… visions with hidden meanings which
must be discovered. If this is the case
in your dream, then it just may be important.”

style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>If I try to look at it like one of those
dream psychologists or whatever would… you’d think that the meaning of the
dream would be obvious…

style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>…You’d think that me waking up alone in the
dark in my dream symbolizes a fear of being alone.style='mso-spacerun:yes'>

style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>And as for the scene with Kikyou… they’d
probably say it symbolized jealousy, and a fear of Inuyasha abandoning me.

style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>And lastly, for how I was outside my body,
how I couldn’t touch or affect anything, and how I died in the end… they’d
probably say that I had a deep innate fear of death, and that I was afraid that
life was passing me by…

style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>…Or maybe that my conscience is telling me
that I’m not making a big enough difference in life? That I’m afraid I’ll be
forgotten when I’m gone?

style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>It doesn’t matter, anyway.style='mso-spacerun:yes'> Man, I’ve read too many of those analytical
dream books… It’s all just a bunch of garbage, anyway.style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>

style='mso-tab-count:1'> Kagome thought about the images she’d
seen in the dream, and knew right there that she really didn’t want to talk
about it; she shook her head slowly.
“No, thank you, Kaede, it was just a dream… nothing more.”

style='mso-tab-count:1'> At
least I hope that’s all it was…

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style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>QS: So, does anyone think Kagome’s dream had
some hidden meaning?

style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>PS: Don’t forget about keeping an eye out
for any Naraku/Kagome artwork, ppl! Please?