InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Changing the Past, Changes the Future ❯ String of Lies ( Chapter 9 )

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Chapter 9- String of Lies

Inuyasha was livid as he ran toward the well. He used his selective memory to sort through Ayame's announcement. The only words he paid attention to were the ones that told him Kagome was back. He paid no heed to the blood and Naraku the wolf demon had mentioned.

That little bitch! He was going to give her a piece of his mind. He had been guilt ridden when he had hit her. The event actually rendered him speechless. It had only taken him a week to go apologize and when he went to the future, Mrs. Higurashi had demanded for him to tell her where her daughter was. He was completely baffled. He hadn't seen Kagome in week. When he told her mom that, she told him that she left two days before to say goodbye to them for good.

He had been panicked when he returned to the past and could find a trace of Kagome. What if some demon had snatched her while she returned to say goodbye to them? He already blamed himself for Kagome leaving. He had been so cruel toward her and all because he didn't know how to react to her. He felt the same way around Kagome that he had with Tomi, but she had been gone for fifty three years. If Tomi had survived, she would be over seventy years old by now. An image of Kaede flashed through Inuyasha's head and he shook it to clear it.

A lot of weird things have been happening the past few weeks. Memories of things that had occurred before he was sealed to tree were in disarray. It was like waking up from a dream with some of them. Things he remembered weren't what really happened. Some parts were black. He remembered finding Tomi's body, but he also remembered finding that her scent faded near the well.

Running toward the well, Inuyasha was overcome with a headache so bad that he collapsed to his knees as memories and spiritual power zapped into him all at once. Being in the lead, everyone watched him fall to the forest floor.

“Inuyasha, what's wrong?” Sango put her hand on his shoulder.

“I don't know. My fucking head hurts so damn bad.” He spoke through clenched teeth.

Miroku looked over at Kikyo in the paleness of the predawn light. Her face appeared to be even more ashen than it usually was. Her hand went to rub her temple as she winced in pain.

All in the group stared at Inuyasha as he began to glow pink. Whatever spiritual powers had laid dormant in him when he was without his mate, were now awakened with a vengeance.

His head snapped back as if someone had hit him when the realization slammed into him. The memory was vivid and he knew it was true. The last time he had inhaled Tomi's scent was the morning he followed it to the well. She had vanished through the well! No wonder Kagome looked so much like Tomi. It's because Kagome and Tomi were the same person!

“Come on! Koga is with her, but she needs all of you!” Ayame yelled.

Inuyasha's eyes locked with hers. Koga! That fucking wolf had his hands all over his mate! He jumped to his feet and sped past Ayame. A very demon like growl erupted from his human lips as he ran.

The others stared after him in shock.

“What was that all about?” Miroku asked any of them.

Sango shook her head. “I have no idea, Miroku.”

Everyone else was close behind.

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Kagome clung to Koga with a death grip as he jumped from the well.

Ginta and Hakkaku rushed to Koga's side, obviously very concerned about the human they called their little sister. They too could smell Naraku on the priestess. The two usually bumbling, laid back friends of Koga were totally on edge as the studied their friend.

Naraku wasn't the only thing Koga could smell on Kagome. He pulled the remnants of the collar away from her skin to see the mark of a spiritual half demon. He recognized the crescent moon as the same one that Inuyasha's full demon brother had on his forehead. It was obviously a family crest, because Ayame's grandfather remembered the father of Inuyasha and Sesshomaru having one.

“So, Inuyasha finally marked you, huh?” He smiled at her.

Her response was to cry harder against him.

“Hey Kagome,” Ginta walked over to her. “What happened to your face? Did someone hit you?”

Koga pulled back enough to stare at the healing scratch marks on her face. They were about a month old. A month ago, she had went home because of Inuyasha. “That sonofabitch.” He growled as he held Kagome tighter.

“He hit her. Inuyasha hit her.” The wolves noticed the human burst through the tree line and into the clearing.

“Get the fuck away from my mate, Koga!” Inuyasha bellowed.

Koga eased Kagome to the ground and Shippo jumped on her shoulder. He clung tightly to his mama, not quite sure what to do. The three wolf demons stood between her and the enraged human. Koga folded his arms across his chest. “Tell me, mutt face, did you hit her before or after you marked her? Did you have to knock her senseless to mark her?”

“Stop it!” Kagome slowly rose to her shaking feet.

“Kagome!”

“Kagome!” Sango and Miroku ran to the girl.

She was sobbing as she threw her arms around the two. “Oh Gods, I'm so happy to see you two. I'm back! He's not here now.”

“Who's not here, now, Lady Kagome?” Miroku asked.

“Naraku!” She cried out.

Inuyasha continued toward Kagome with his face nearly expressionless. The only things that could be seen on it were his confusion and excitement. He had been right! Tomi and Kagome were the same person. She looked the same as she had that night he had left her in Kikyo's hut. Part of him wanted to yell at her for being stupid, the other part wanted to hold her, and never let her go again.

Koga had other ideas.

“Grab him!” Koga yelled to Ginta and Hakkaku.

“Let me go, you fuckers! You can't keep me from my mate! Tomi!” Inuyasha fought against the stronger demons. He felt something growing inside of him and released it into the two wolf demons.

They yelped when the hot pink purifying energy zapped into them. They shook their hands and backed away from the human.

“What the hell?” Koga stared at them. Inuyasha's eyes were glowing pink and his aura had the most powerful spiritual energy any of them had ever seen.

He looked over to Kagome and saw the mark on her glowing through her clothes. “Get away from her or I'll fucking purify you!” Inuyasha shouted.

Kagome knew his secret, but none of the others had. She wasn't even sure if Kikyo knew and he told her everything. Her mind was working a million miles an hour and she was blocking out Shippo's continuous babbling. If Inuyasha's spiritual powers from his mother could only be activated if he claimed a mate that was a priestess, then with Kagome's return to him, he was overwhelmed by powers much larger than something he could control. He couldn't control them. He could accidentally kill any of the demons around him by just touching them.

Kilala hissed at him and ran to Sango. Ayame went to move toward Koga, but Kikyo's hand wrapped around her wrist. “No. What ever is happening to him, it has spiritual powers I have never seen. I don't believe he can control them.”

“What's wrong with Inuyasha?” Shippo asked anyone listening.

“He is a spiritual half demon. His mother was a priestess, a very powerful one, I believe,” Miroku replied.

“That's amazing. I thought they were just myths.” Sango stared in awe.

“Will you stop talking about me like I'm not here!” He shook his fist toward them. “I might be human tonight, but I'm not deaf, you know!”

“Ginta! Hakkaku! Koga! Get away from him! He can't control his powers! He might kill you!” Kagome ran from Sango and Miroku, toward Inuyasha.

The sun was creeping over the horizon while all this was going on. As Kagome passed Koga, his large hand clamped over her wrist, halting her. “I'm not going to let you go to him, just so he can hurt you again.”

“Koga, he's not going to hurt me. Thank you for the concern, but let me go.” She tried to pull away from him.

All of them were frozen by the low growl vibrating from Inuyasha's chest. All eyes turned Inuyasha. His head was bowed, but his white hair and dog ears had returned.

“Get away from my mate, wolf. Or I'll tear you to pieces.” His voice was a low demonic snarl.

Kikyo's eyes landed on her best friend's hands. The claws that had always been there were longer and sharper. “Inuyasha.”

He spun to face her and smirked at the fear that appeared on her face. The part of his eyes that used to be white was now red and the gold iris of each of his eyes now appeared blue. His fangs were long, over lapping his lower lip and one thick magenta stripe jaggedly adorned each cheek. She had heard about him turning full demon, but had never seen it.

“Let me go, Koga. He won't hurt me,” Kagome pleaded with him.

Inuyasha whirled back to face his mate and the demon holding her. He cracked his knuckles as he faced them. He began to stalk toward them.

Ginta and Hakkaku scrambled away from Koga and Kagome.

“What are you two doing? Don't tell me you're afraid of mutt face.” He taunted.

“We shouldn't interfere Koga. If he claimed Kagome as his mate, then we should let them work this out.” Ginta said.

“Yeah. Besides, whatever happened they need to talk about it.” Hakkaku added.

“I'm sorry, Koga,” Kagome said.

“For what?”

“For this.” She drove her elbow back into his stomach. The wolf grunted and doubled over, releasing her wrist. She walked to Inuyasha and stopped just out of his grasp.

“Mine.” He looked at her, heatedly.

“Yours.” She nodded as she stepped closer to him. Her arms wrapped around his waist and her head rested against his chest.

One of his hands cradled her head while his other arm wrapped around her.

All of the people watching, just stared, stunned. Tetsusaiga was strapped to his body. Some because they had never seen Inuyasha as a full demon and others because they knew what happened whenever he turned full demon. They had never seen Inuyasha in his full demon form when he wasn't trying to kill something.

Kagome was so relieved that she was back with everyone. This was better than the other two outcomes. One was her being dead with a broken neck and the other one…Thinking about the other possible outcome made her shudder and cling tighter to Inuyasha. None of those things had happened though. She was back with her friends and Inuyasha. She was being held tightly by the man she loved. Everything was going to be okay.

A soft whimper escaped the man holding her as he rocked her back and forth. His mate was back. She hadn't died. She was safe and in his arms. The demon receded, leaving the half demon in his place. “Tomi.” He whispered. She didn't even bother to correct him. She felt tears of relief building in her eyes. All of them should have seen it coming. Inuyasha possessed an amazing ability to totally destroy the moment. His suspicions and impulsive nature always found a way to wreck even the most perfect of times.

And he wasn't going to start by failing them now.

“You left me.” His accusing voice snapped her attention back to him.

She pulled back slightly. She looked into his gold eyes to see his hurt, anger, and accusation. “No…you don't…”

“Shut up!” He pulled away from her. “I told you not to leave and you ran out anyway!”

“I wanted to kill Naraku. I knew that it wasn't you that night!”

“That's right.” His voice was vicious. “You ran after him without thinking about what might happen to you. Or me! Did you ever think about what I would go through after you were gone? How much it hurt me!”

“I'm sorry…”

“You knew the whole time that you were my mate and you never told me! Was it some kind of a sick game to you!”

Kagome shook her head with tears running down her cheeks. “No. It's not…”

“You were just looking for an easy way out. I knew that you were too good to be true, Tomi. Nobody could ever love a half breed the way you acted like you loved me. Did you figure out that you would have to stay with me forever and maybe, have my pups? Is that why you looked for an easy way out?!”

“I went to kill Naraku, because he had talked to Kikyo that night.”

“Does anyone have any idea what they're fighting about now?” Sango asked.

“I'm not totally sure.” Miroku frowned.

“He told me what he was going to do to me and I ran. After I got so far, I noticed the well. I didn't even know if it would work, but I needed to…”

“WHAT!!! You didn't even know if it would work! The fall would have killed you without the time portal to ease your fall. You knew that though. That's why you did it! What better way to get away from me?!”

“Don't make this about you! You're such an asshole! I jumped head first into the well, because I would have rather died than let Naraku rape me, because that's what he was going to do. You know how I felt about Onigumo. How he disgusted me!”

“Tomi, I…”

“Kagome! My name is Kagome! I was lying to you when I told you my name was Tomi! My mother's name is Tomiko. I didn't want to use my real name, so I gave you that name. My name is now and has always been Kagome!”

“Kagome… I thought…”

"Of course you did! You believe that everyone is looking for a reason to fuck you over! You're such a fool! You think that just because you are a half demon that you don't deserve kindness, so you think anyone who gives it to you has some kind of a hidden motive.” She looked around at everyone. As happy as she was, there was person that she needed more than anyone. That person was five hundred years in the future.

“I need to go home,” she said to no one.

“Like hell! I just found you again. Besides, that well is fucking haywire. What happens if it takes you somewhere else?” He was beyond pissed at her. He couldn't believe she had just yelled all that stuff in front of the others. Now, she wanted to leave him again.

She looked at him as she walked to the well. “You can come with me, if you want.” She was now standing on the edge of the well.

He bounded over to the well and stood next to Kagome. He grabbed her hand in his and together they jumped.

All of the others ran to stare down into the well. “That was weird,” Koga said.

Kikyo snorted. “Yeah, I agree. And I'm the walking dead.”

Miroku smirked slightly at the thought of Kikyo having a sense of humor.

“No kidding.” Shippo said dryly.

All of them wondered what would happen when Kagome and Inuyasha came back.

Kikyo was the most concerned. She knew Naraku better than anyone.

What will they do about Naraku? Now, he would be even more determined to smash Inuyasha and take Kagome.

It was only a matter of time before he remembered that Tomi hadn't died.

Only a matter of time before he found out that Kagome was Tomi.