InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Decrepit ❯ Chapter 8 ( Chapter 8 )

Title: Decrepit

 

Author: Anonymous Fangirl

 

Summary: Because they have no other choice.

 

Rating: Mature.

 

Pairings: Sesshoumaru Kagome

 

Genre: Romance, Angst

 

Dedicated: Noacat

 

Disclaimer: If I owned Inuyasha, the show wouldn't be called Inuyasha. It'd be called Sesshoumaru, and Sesshoumaru and Kagome would get together, and Kikyo would have never made an appearance, and Kagome would have come to the past to meet Sesshoumaru, and Inuyasha would still be stuck to the tree in her time. Why No one had found him by then was a mystery. Maybe he disintegrated in the span of 500 years. Alas, I own not the wonder that is Inuyasha. Boo hoo.

 

Etc: And now things get angsty.

 

 

 

Chapter Eight

 

 

Inuyasha stood, still a hanyou, in the doorway. Everyone turned simultaneously to him, and all but Kaede were obviously shocked that he was there. (ha-ha. . . I bet you all thought it was Sesshoumaru, didn't you?)

 

“Inuyasha. . . I thought tonight was the night of the new moon?” Miroku posed the question of why he wasn't human in the form of a statement.

 

But Inuyasha's eyes remained fixed on Kagome. “Why's Sesshoumaru's story so important to you? It never mattered to Kikyo, and she was the one who taught it to Kaede.”

 

Kagome's nerves were instantly struck. “I'm not Kikyo! Not that it has anything to do with anything! Who cares if it mattered to Kikyo? And who says it matters to me?” Kagome nearly screamed. She hated it when people compared her to Kikyo! They only vaguely resembled each other, and their personalities couldn't have differed more.

 

Still. . . why had Inuyasha brought up Kikyo at a time like this? He hadn't done it in a while, and she hadn't been acting like Kikyo at all. . . even he said it.

 

Inuyasha sneered. “You care. . . just like you care about Sesshoumaru.”

 

Kagome blushed, and must have hesitated - the looks on Sango's and Miroku's face told her that she hadn't defended herself fast enough. “I don't care about Sesshoumaru!” Kagome screamed and closed her eyes. “I don't! I don't!”

 

Inuyasha sneered. “Yeah, right. Then why did you spend so much time with him last week, huh, Kagome?” Inuyasha took an accusing step forward, and Kagome scrambled back, lurching Shippo from his sleep.

 

“ ` Waz goin on?” Shippo asked with have closed eyes.

 

Sango and Miroku were shocked. “You spent time with Sesshoumaru?!” Came Sango's voice.

 

If Miroku had an opinion he kept it to himself for a change.

 

Kagome didn't deny it. . . and that was all that they needed to know the truth.

 

“But Kagome. . .” Sango whispered softly. “ Why?”

 

Kagome shook her head, trying in vain to will the tears away. “He said he was going to hurt you all! He needed me! He wanted me!” Kagome buried her head in her fists, hoping it would make her friends stop looking at her with such accusing eyes. “I wanted for so long to be needed!” She admitted tearfully.

 

“But we need you.” Shippo informed her innocently. “If it weren't for you, we could never find the jewel shards.”

 

Inuyasha sneered. “If it weren't for her, we wouldn't have to.” Inuyasha took another step forward, and Kagome's quiet tears became sobs. “Think about all the deaths that were caused because she broke the jewel in the first place.”

 

Kagome flinched, and Miroku finally spoke. “Stop it, Inuyasha! You are being callous and you're hurting her feelings!”

 

Inuyasha growled and turned to Miroku. “What about you, monk? Are you still going to feel the need to defend her feelings when that hole in your hand takes you to hell, all because she broke the jewel that's making the guy who gave it to you immortal?” Inuyasha stomped one foot, and the wood crunched and gave way to the appendage. “Will you still want to make her feel good then too!?”

 

“Inuyasha. . .” Sango whispered quietly, trying to divert his attention from the shocked monk.

 

Inuyasha didn't spare her, either. “And you! Your family would still be alive if she hadn't come here! No, not your family,” Inuyasha corrected with a sadistic smile. “Your whole village.”

 

Shippo whimpered, and Inuyasha turned to him at last. “And you. . . do you think you would still be an orphan if those two demons that killed your parents hadn't gotten their grubby hands on those stinkin' jewel shards? No. . . right now, if Kagome wasn't here, you could be living with your parents, maybe learning to hunt properly. Instead, you're just mooching off of a time traveler!”

 

Inuyasha stared at them all, slowly. “Kagome doesn't deserve to be here. . . she doesn't even deserve to be alive.” Inuyasha reached for his sword and paused, remembering that the blade forged from his father's fang couldn't cut down humans. Instead, he sliced his wrists and bloodied his nails. “If it weren't for you, none of this would have happened.” Inuyasha flexed his claws and growled, eyes flashing red. “If it weren't for you, Kikyo would be alive.”

 

Kagome's tears slowed. “So that's where you've been when you were `checking on me.' You were with Kikyo.”

 

Inuyasha hissed. “Don't use that condescending tone of voice! At least I was with someone I loved! You, on the other hand, are just another filthy palace concubine!” He took one more step forward, then another, and another. Kagome tried to crab - crawl away from him, but her back soon hit a wall. She stared up at him with eyes wide with terror. “Not anymore.” Inuyasha said quietly, so quietly she almost missed it. He knelt down to her then, and smiled. “You know, I used to think myself in love with you.”

 

Kagome had prayed for so long, so long to hear him say those words. She had expected her stomach to drop out from beneath her, or to get twisted in to butterfly knots. But no, instead, his words just filled her with a blind terror.

 

“But then I realized something. I wasn't in love with you. . . I was in love with Kikyo.” Inuyasha dragged one claw across her cheek, then dragged it across her other one. “He's not in love with you. . . he's still in love with Orihime.” Inuyasha bent down and gave Kagome a soft kiss on her lips, barely brushing his lips against hers. He pulled away, slowly, but remained close enough that she could feel his lips on hers when he spoke again. “How long before he wishes that he had been the one to kill you?”

 

A whoosh of air above her snapped her out of her fear as Inuyasha fell limply unconscious in to her lap. Miroku stood over her, holding Sango's boomerang bone and rubbing the shoulder he had obviously thrown the giant weapon with, a grimace on his face. “How in the world do you do that all the time, Sango?” He asked with a casual grin, as if Inuyasha hadn't just tried to kill her.

 

Kagome stared down in horror at Inuyasha's limp body. Why? She thought, tears forming again in her eyes. Why in the world would he try to kill her? She cared for him! She did her best to make him happy! She had given herself to his brother to ensure his life! Why in the world would he have tried to kill her!?

 

“My guess is that Kikyo wants her soul back. . . all of it.” Sango told her, and whistled to Kirere.

 

Kagome touched her fingers to her lips. “Had I said that out loud?” She asked.

 

Miroku nodded. “We need to get Kagome some place safe. If Kikyo has Inuyasha willing to kill for her, my guess is that you wont be safe from Inuyasha.” Miroku's face twisted up, and his brows drew together as they often did when he was thinking. “You can't go back to your own time. . . it isn't safe for you there. He could always come to you, and you wouldn't have anyone there who is strong enough to protect you from him.”

 

Sango frowned. “Is there anyone strong enough to protect her from him?” She wondered rhetorically.

 

The three friends looked at each other with eyes full of worry. They all knew the answer. There was only one person who could protect anyone from death.

 

Kagome exhaled slowly, his name on her breath. “ Sesshoumaru.”

 

 

Anonymous Fangirl: Don't you just hate me? I know this chapter is a bit confusing, but bear with me. If you have any questions, I would be happy to answer them for you. Just put them in your review! (Was that subtle enough?)