InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ I'm Looking In ❯ Tell Me Lies ( Chapter 13 )

Kagome entered Inuyasha's room and saw the Hanyou glaring out the window, arms crossed over his chest. “Inuyasha, I…”

 

Inuyasha turned to her, his eyes ablaze with anger. “Why didn't you tell me that we weren't mates anymore?”

 

Kagome took a step back from him and Shippou quickly came to her defence. “W-we were afraid that it would slow down your progress!” The Kitsune cried. “Kagome wanted to tell you but Kohana and your doctor wouldn't let her!”

 

“Let's just let the stupid, pathetic, worthless,” Inuyasha's tirade was cut off by the sharp connection of Kagome's hand against his cheek.

 

“Don't you dare finish that sentence.” She snapped. “Since you've obviously regained your memory, then you know that I have never thought of you that way!”

 

Inuyasha snorted and turned away. “So that's the little bastard that's been the cause of all our problems.”

 

Kagome rolled her eyes. “I don't think its right to blame it all on Brandon.”

 

“Oh no of course not.” Inuyasha snarled. “Let's just put all the blame on me because I'm the fucking idiot. I believe everything!”

 

Kagome was on the verge of tears, Inuyasha's back was to her, but she knew he'd smell them soon enough. “And here I was stupid enough to think that we had been given a second chance.”

 

Kagome stormed out of the room, the scent of her tears trailing behind her. Inuyasha turned to Shippou who had jumped from Kagome's arms to the bed, and was currently glaring at him.

 

“Way to go, asshole.” Shippou said. “You do realize that if you had pretended to not have your memory back, you could have gotten Kagome to be your mate again right?”

 

Inuyasha growled and reached over, thumping the kit hard before turning and facing the window. Damn that brat for being right.

 

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Kagome slammed the door shut as she stormed into the house. She almost ran Rin over, but stopped to let the girl pass. Jaken, on the other hand was not so lucky. He stormed towards Kagome, screaming at her for slamming the door closed. Kagome wasted no time in kicking the small toad away from her, sending Jaken rolling down a flight of stairs.

 

Sesshomaru appeared out of his room, staring at Kagome like she had lost her mind. “What the hell is going on?”

 

Kagome glared at Sesshomaru. “He's regained his memory.”

 

“That's a good thing, isn't it?”

 

“It would be a good thing except now he's pissed off because everyone wanted to shelter him.” Kagome shouted stalking to her room. “I knew this would happen!”

 

Sesshomaru reached up and scratched his head, his confusion clearly evident. He knew that Kagome had wanted to tell him everything from the beginning; she hadn't wanted to give him false hope. However, Kohana and Inuyasha's doctor had forbidden it, even going as far as to threaten to not let Kagome see him. At that threat Kagome had relented and kept her mouth shut.

 

Sesshomaru followed Kagome to her room, and watched her stare out the window, her body tense with anger. “What happened?”

 

“I don't know!” Kagome said. “Apparently Brandon pissed him off and he beat the shit out of him. But whatever Brandon said to him obviously triggered his memory, because when I went to his room to see if he was alright he snapped.”

 

“Did he hurt you?” Sesshomaru asked.

 

“Physically?” Sesshomaru nodded. “No. He started calling himself worthless and stupid. He was so angry. It's funny. I almost wish he had hit me, hearing him call himself all those things hurt me more than any physical pain could have.”

 

Sesshomaru went to Kagome and wrapped his arms around her waist, staring out the window with her. Her hands patted his arms as she accepted his attempt to soothe her.

 

“I don't know why he thinks that way of himself. He never has.”

 

“At least not that he's mentioned to you.” Sesshomaru said. “And I believe that it is partially my fault.”

 

Kagome turned her head to look at him in shock. “What do you mean?”

 

“You know how my mother died when I was young right?” Kagome nodded. “Well, she was killed by a human male protecting his Hanyou daughter. He thought that my mother had come to kill his child. He and a group of villagers hunted her down and slaughtered her before my very eyes.

 

“I was hidden away in the bushes. She had been teaching me how to hunt, while my father was off tending to his wards. She had caught their scent and told me to hide. They lynched her, and then hung her from a tree branch. Because they were afraid she would come back to life, they severed her head and limbs before burning her corpse. I watched the whole thing.”

 

Tears sprung to Kagome's eyes. “I'm sorry. I never knew. Inuyasha had only told me that there had been a Youkai extermination at that time.”

 

“That's the story that my father told Kohana, so that's what she told Inuyasha when he asked why she wasn't my mother as well. For the longest time I hated humans and Hanyou's. My father and I actually stopped talking for the hundred years or so before Inuyasha was born. I received news that they had been pregnant several times, only to lose the baby. Each time I heard that I had lost another sibling I was heart broken. Even thought the child would be something I would despise, it felt good knowing I'd be an older brother.

 

“I was at the hospital when Inuyasha was born. My father brought him out to me and all but forced the baby into my arms. He said, `Sess, this is your baby brother, Inuyasha. I want you to take care of him should anything happen to me'. Unfortunately my prejudice towards Hanyou's made me treat him horribly.

 

“Inuyasha followed me around in typical little brother fashion. I always told him he was stupid and useless. I despised him. One day Father had taken Inuyasha out to the park, a guy was driving down the street, obviously drunk, he swerved and almost hit Inuyasha, but Father got to him first. The car hit him. Normally such a thing wouldn't kill a Youkai, but the car caught fire.

 

“It's ironic that the thing that killed both my parents was fire. I blamed him even more for killing our father. I called him more names, told him he was useless more often. I belittled him and made him believe that he was truly useless. He became shy and withdrawn; Kohana assumed it was because of the death of his father. She was originally going to home school him, but when he wouldn't come out of his shell, she insisted he go to public school.”

 

Kagome chewed her lip and nodded. She knew the rest; she had been there every moment after all. She also knew that Sesshomaru had changed his opinion of his brother because she had yelled at him more than once for treating him poorly.

 

She dashed a hand over her eyes. “I just don't know what to do anymore Sesshomaru.”

 

Sesshomaru's arms tightened around her. “I don't know what to tell you.” He said quietly. “You'll know what to do when the time comes.”

 

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Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or the characters of Rumiko Takahashi. I do own the plot of this story along with any original characters that may make an appearance.