InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Changing the Past, Changes the Future ❯ Dirty ( Chapter 12 )

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Chapter 12- Dirty

A sky filled with brilliant stars heavily speckled the inky sky over the rather large group of humans and demons. The full moon gave them a lot of light, which could have been dangerous, because it would allow predators to see them. However, with the spiritual barrier erected by the monk and undead priestess, there was nothing that could enter it.

Naturally, the white haired demon lord said he needed no such protection, but everyone ignored him. They were happy to not worry about someone attacking them in the middle of the night.

It had been two weeks since Inuyasha and Kagome had gone back to her time. Miroku, Sango, Kikyo, Koga, and the other wolf demons were on the hunt for Naraku and jewel shards. The day after Inuyasha and Kagome had left, Sesshomaru and his group had shown up.

Now, all of them sat around a huge fire.

Ah-Un was content with Rin sleeping on his back as he rested in the wet grass. In front of Ah-Un, Sesshomaru sat in the circle with Jaken on his left and to his right was Sango. To Jaken's left were Ginta, and then Hakkaku.

Which came as a huge shock to everyone was the fact that the two wolf demons and Jaken were now good friends. Some how the two bumbling wolf demons had befriended the most annoying being alive, Jaken.

Next to Ginta sat Ayame and next to her sat, her mate, Koga.

Koga had been sure to separate his mate from the monk. He liked the monk and would hate to kill him for copping a feel on his mate.

That was one thing that Koga actually didn't have to worry about. Miroku had only groped one woman since the day that Inuyasha and Kagome left. That woman had not been Sango, but the woman sitting on Miroku's right.

Kikyo liked it when Miroku would grab her. That, she didn't even bother to keep a secret. She had even walked by him and slapped him hard on the ass a few times. Inuyasha had known about the growing attraction between the two for a while. He was, after all, a mutual best friend to both. They both told him about their interests in one another.

Inuyasha had told them to keep it to themselves. The stupid flirting that they did was okay. One would think they were just messing around. But he had told them his fears about what Naraku would do if he found out about them.

He was actually right.

If Naraku found out that they cared for each other, in a romantic sense, he would kill Miroku and probably Kikyo too.

Sango was sitting to Kikyo's left with Shippo sleeping soundly in her lap. Of all the people in the group, Sango, Shippo, and Sesshomaru were the only ones suspicious toward Kikyo.

Naturally Sango didn't like Kikyo because now Miroku was interested in Kikyo. She conveniently forgot to remember that she was the one that told Miroku that she would never be anything more than friends with the monk, after calling him a pervert.

The whole event had hurt Miroku more than anyone had known. He hadn't even told Inuyasha how he had been feeling. Usually anyone in the group would cave after Inuyasha's nagging to tell him what was wrong, but Miroku didn't.

Inuyasha might be a ditz, but he cared about them a lot.

When he returned a week after hitting Kagome, he had apologized to everyone for his actions. He shoved Miroku, terrified Shippo, pissed off Sango, and he had done all of this in Kaede's hut. But the most damning thing he had done, he could only apologize to her friends for. He had hit Kagome. For the first time in a long time, he had cried as he begged for their forgiveness.
Things would never be the same as they had been before, but slowly their relationships with him had been improving.

Now both he and Kagome had been gone for two weeks. None of them had spoke of what happened that morning, but all of them had questions.

Kikyo had seemed the most unsettled by the whole situation and Miroku wanted to know why, but she would tell them when she was ready. Kikyo shifted again.

That greatly irritated Sesshomaru. “What is wrong with you, wench?”

Her green eyes locked with the cold eyes of the demon regarding her. “I am thinking, my lord.”

He blinked. “About what?”

`Gods, this guy sure is curious.' Kikyo didn't like Sesshomaru. She never had. She had met him when she had been alive. He had come to the village to kill Inuyasha and Kikyo had confronted him. Sesshomaru had assumed that Kikyo was Inuyasha's woman and offered Kikyo proposition. Sesshomaru had told Kikyo he would stop trying to kill Inuyasha if she let him take her body.

Kikyo had known what Sesshomaru had been thinking and took full advantage of the situation. In demon society, the male generally liked his female to be a virgin. Sometimes the male would abandon or kill the female, if she wasn't a virgin.

Sesshomaru would believe that Inuyasha would react like this, so he decided to take the human. After Inuyasha either left her or killed her, this would leave Inuyasha vulenrable to Sesshomaru. Then he could finally wipe clean the blemish that Inuyasha had represented to the demon's bloodline.

Things hadn't working out the way Sesshomaru had planned. Onigumo's scent had been washed away and the spiritual purity that Kikyo possessed, made her smell like an unclaimed virgin again.

Sesshomaru had mocked Kikyo about being a whore as he took her because she wasn't a virgin. He couldn't wait until Inuyasha lost the trust he felt for the human. It had only been a matter of time before Sesshomaru could kill his brother. When he had heard about Inuyasha being pinned to the tree, he had guessed that it had to do with him taking the priestess.

And why wouldn't he think that? Sesshomaru thought the world revolved around him. To this day, Sesshomaru still believed that the whole Kikyo and Inuyasha situation had been because of him.

“Pray tell, what are you thinking about, Kikyo?” Sesshomaru asked in a bored tone.

“The past,” she replied.

Miroku's hand rested lightly on Kikyo's right shoulder. “What were Inuyasha and Kagome fighting about that night Kagome returned?”

Kikyo sighed. She knew this was coming. It actually took longer for someone to ask than she thought it would. “Kagome changed the past.”

“How did she do that?” Koga asked.

“Why did Inuyasha call her Tomi?” Ayame asked.

“What happened?”

“One at a time. I figure that it is best to start at the beginning.” Kikyo looked at the fire. “Fifty four years ago, I met a bandit when I went to help a village that had just been torn apart by a rogue group of men calling themselves samurai.”

“Onigumo.” Sango said.

“Yes.”

“Who the hell is Onigumo?” Koga asked.

“I'll get to that. Anyway, I met Onigumo and well, the first night together, we slept with each other. I know that all of you think that Inuyasha and I were once lovers, but that is simply not the case. Inuyasha and I were nothing, but close friends.”

“You are not his woman?” Sesshomaru deadpanned.

Kikyo laughed. “Hardly. Inuyasha is my best friend. I'd do anything for him.”

“Would you die for him?”

Kikyo laughed. “I'm already dead, but yes, I would die for him.”

“You allowed Onigumo to take your body?” Miroku was shocked. He had known that Kikyo and Onigumo had a past, but he had thought it nothing more than an ill man's fixation with the woman nursing him.

She smiled bitterly. “At the time, I had already met Inuyasha. Onigumo and Inuyasha hated each other with a passion from the moment they met. Despite the fact that Onigumo was a human bandit, he saw Inuyasha as a lesser creature, because he was a half demon.”

Kikyo noticed Sesshomaru shift slightly. That demon had to be the most hypocritical bastard alive. He hated Inuyasha because he was half human, but it wasn't okay for Onigumo to hate Inuyasha for being a half demon.

“It was about a year or so later that my younger sister, Tomi, appeared in the forest, near the village. I'm not sure when she and Inuyasha met, but I know they did. Onigumo had been injured when a rival bandit attacked him. He was slightly burnt, but lost the use of his legs.”

“Get to the point. Kikyo. Why did Inuyasha call Kagome Tomi?” Sango snapped.

Kikyo frowned at her. “Because Kagome is Tomi. I will let her explain all of this to you when she returns. I am only telling you now, because Kagome has changed the past and is now in great danger from Naraku.”

“Wait,” Koga interrupted. “When did you meet Naraku?”

Kikyo looked at the fire with a sigh. Miroku rested his left hand on her right one. “Please continue, Lady Kikyo.”

“One night, Onigumo and I got in a fight over the scared jewel. He wanted to use it to get the use of his legs back and I told him no. Onigumo's soul was so dark, that even an unselfish wish on the jewel for him would taint it. I told him that if I gave it to Inuyasha so he could become human, that it would purify it. Onigumo believed that I had chosen Inuyasha over him. We had a fight and I left.” Kikyo's voice was bitter as the memory played vividly through her mind.

“The next morning, I returned to find that his cave had caught fire. There wasn't even a body left, just a shadow of one. Onigumo had sold his body and soul to the demons for four reasons. Though two of them, I am not clear as to what he was going to do. One was to kill Inuyasha, the second was to get the Shikon No Tama, and the other two reasons involved Tomi and I.”

“Wait,” Ayame said. “You said that Kagome changed the past. Does that mean that…”

“Yes. Kagome and Tomi are the same person. We all know where Kagome is truly from. Is it so hard to believe that the well could malfunction and take further into the past?”

“But Naraku confessed to Inuyasha that he was the one to kill Tomi. If Kagome really is Tomi, wouldn't she have died?” Miroku asked.

“That's the thing. That was the second time Kagome had traveled back there. Kagome is not my reincarnation, but a reincarnation of herself.”

“Come again?” Ginta spoke.

“The first time this happened, we found Kagome's body in the forest. She had had her throat slashed. This time, she apparently escaped, thus changing the past and the future,” Kikyo said. “Since Kagome is from the future, when she was killed in the past, her soul waited and she was reincarnated into herself.”

“How is that possible?” Jaken asked.

“I'm not sure. I have told you all I know. If you have any more questions, it might be best to ask Inuyasha or Kagome when they return.”

“Did you know that Inuyasha is a spiritual half demon?” Sango asked Kikyo.

She shook her head. “I had no idea. He never told me, but I know why he didn't.”

“Inuyasha is a spiritual half demon?” Sesshomaru echoed.

“Didn't you know, Lord Sesshomaru?” Miroku asked him.

Sesshomaru frowned. “Obviously not. I believed my father to be weak because he mated with a human woman, now I believe that he was just foolish, because he mated with a priestess.”

“What ever became of Onigumo? Surely, he didn't survive the merging of demons into his body, no human is that evil,” Ayame said.

Kikyo smiled softly, but her eyes were hard and cold. “One was. Onigumo is no longer his name though.”

“What is his name now?” Jaken's yellow eyes were bugged out in curiosity.

“Naraku. His name is now Naraku.”

“You were having carnal relations with Naraku's human core while you were doing the same with this Sesshomaru?”

Kikyo looked at him. “Indeed.” She was clearly mocking him.

“If I may, Lady Kikyo,” Miroku said. “Have you been, uh, with Naraku since the transformation?”

“Yes. The last time was over a year and a half ago.”

Koga jumped up, disgusted. “If I was with you the same time that you were with Naraku…”

“What?!” Everyone, but Sesshomaru shouted.

Sesshomaru just snorted. “It appears that the priestess is quite the busy little slut.”

“When were you with her?” Ayame was clearly hurt.

“Just after I met Kagome. I thought that Kikyo was Kagome when I saw her bathing. When I saw she wasn't, I took her anyway.”

“Oh yeah. I thought she looked familiar,” Hakkaku said.

“She's the one that we took with Koga.” Ginta said.

He remembered how he and Hakkaku had been looked for Koga. They found him taking the priestess in the hot spring and joined them.

Sesshomaru's eyes narrowed in disgust. “Who haven't you been with?”

“I haven't been with the fox, the toad, or the monk.”

No one spoke for a few moments. All of the group members were actually thinking about what Kikyo had told them about Kagome.

All except one.

Koga scratched his head and turned to look at Kikyo. “If I fucked you while you were fucking Naraku, does that mean that I fucked Naraku too?”

Everyone turned to look at him in shock.

Even Sesshomaru had an expression on his face.

That expression was one of complete and total shock.

Perhaps he should kill the wolf now and put him out of their misery. And out of his own misery. Sesshomaru believed that it must be painful to be that stupid.

Kikyo grinned broadly at him and met his blue eyes. “Yes, it does, Koga.”