InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Afraid to Love ❯ I Don't Want to Know the Truth ( Chapter 1 )

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1: I Don't Want to Know the Truth

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My own mother had died years ago from a strange disease and two years later my father appeared with a new human woman to become my mother. She was understanding and caring as well as beautiful for she was the most beautiful mortal that my father could find.

She had long black hair that reached the middle of her back. Her eyes were a dark black that seemed to pull me in the first minute I saw her. She was now Lady of the Western Lands and she had a blue crescent moon on her forehead.

She was dearer to me than my own father. A few years later, she gave birth to a half-demon named Inuyasha. The scent of one of our inu-youkai slaves always surrounded them since Inujo was their personal servant. He had silver hair with orange tips and he had orange eyes. He looked kind of like my father, but he was much younger.

One night, my stepmother was reading me a story, since my father was gone, when Inujo came in and I was sent out of the room. I left to my bedchambers, but returned half an hour later since I had left one of my haoris in my stepmother's bedchamber. I stood outside and I heard moans and screams.

`Oh, no!' I thought `Was somebody harming my stepmother?' Worriedly, I barged in to see two nude figures. One of them was Inujo and the other was my mother. They both turned in my direction and heard my loud gasp.

My stepmother's eyes were wide with shock. "Sesshomaru, please don't tell your father or Inuyasha. I beg of you, try to understand. Inujo is the one I love. He was to become my mate before your father forced me to mate with him and made Inujo a servant. Please, Sesshomaru, don't tell anyone."

"Then, who is Inuyasha's father?" I asked hoping that he was truly my half-brother. I was fond of the child and loved him as much as I loved my father and stepmother. Inujo looked ashamed and said "Inuyasha is my son. The Lord does not know this, so please do not tell him." I could feel my rage building up at the world around me. My stepmother, my half-brother, Inujo, they had all been a lie.

I let out a low growl as deadly green poison began to drip from my claws. I couldn't kill the Lady of the Western Lands, but I could kill this servant. Inujo had no right to bed the Lady of the Western Lands or lie that his child is a Prince of the Western Lands. I slashed him in the chest with my claws before he could run away and the poison began to seep in as I watched him slowly and painfully die in the nude.

My stepmother was crying over his injury and I knew that she wanted to punish me, but she couldn't unless she wanted the truth about her and that half-breed revealed. I walked out of the room and slammed my bedroom door shut. If I couldn't get revenge on the woman, I could get revenge on her son.

Two weeks later, I was called to my father's office. His eyes were bleeding red. "Sesshomaru, is it true that your mother had an affair?" I silently nodded. "Why didn't you tell me?" "She asked me not to." "You have the right to disobey her…" "That's not what you used to say." "So, that is why you killed Inujo?" "Yes." I growled at hearing that name and so did my father.

After I left Father's office, I walked out to the garden. Apparently, he still didn't know the truth about Inuyasha. I would have to remain silent about that. Although I detested my stepmother for what she did, a youkai does not break his promise. Still, my father did not kill the human wench.

A year later, my father was killed in war. As the eldest heir, I became the Lord of the Western Lands. As soon as I became the Lord, I ordered for the wench to be beheaded. Her last words were "Do not tell Inuyasha until the time is ready." Her head rolled off of her shoulders and she went to join Inujo.

The second thing I did was kick the half-breed out of the castle. He was not a descendant of my father, so he had no right to live in our castle. He thought that I was mean, but he didn't know of who he was. I just let him continue to believe that he was Inuyasha, Prince of the Western Lands. It was more like Inuyasha, Servant of the Western Lands, for that was what his father was.

From that moment on, I hated all humans, except for Rin. Other humans only brought trouble. I also stopped loving. I had loved my stepmother only to find that she had lied to me all of these years. I had loved the half-breed only to find that he was not at all related to me. He was the son of a dirty servant who had helped me become emotionless and afraid to love.

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