InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Wild West and the Gang of Four Souls ❯ Someone they Trusted ( Chapter 4 )

(Last Time)

Inuyasha opened his mouth to reply, but before he could he felt the unmistakable touch of a cold barrel of a gun against the side of his head. This was a position he liked just about as much as he liked the look of pure hatred coming from the woman holding the gun.

How the hell was he going to get out of this one and what the fuck did he do this time?

Damn it, I didn't even see her hand move to her gun. She's got too much skill to just knock the gun away, thought Inuyasha as soon as his ability to think returned.

Sango was standing there perfectly calm and perfectly still with the gun held motionless at the side of Inuyasha's head. If it wasn't for the tears in her eyes, you would have thought she was an experienced and cold blooded assassin, to whom death had no effect. The tears showed the pain though, the tears showed her soul.

"SANGO DON'T!!!! Stop, don't shoot him." Kagome gasped.

"I have to; I have to avenge my family; I have to put them to rest. This is the only way."

"Fine then, go kill the man who killed your family, send him to hell like he probably deserves, but Inuyasha wasn't him."

Sango looked at Kagome for a split second in disbelief, but a split second was all Inuyasha needed.

Too fast for anyone to follow his movements, Inuyasha grabbed the gun from Sango's hand and emptied the bullets onto the floor. He then dropped the gun to the floor and kicked it to Miroku, who was too fascinated by the beautiful would-be assassin in front of him to notice.

"I know it was him. I'd never forget the name they told me? I won't stop now just because he's your friend. I'll never rest until he's dead!"

With that Sango reached down into her boot, pulled out her dagger and threw it at Inuyasha.

Now Sango was never one to brag about her talents; so if you asked Sango if she could throw a dagger she'd say that she was pretty decent at it and could usually hit things if she tried. The truth was that decent didn't even come close to describing Sango's talent in this area. Sango had never missed one of her targets and none of her targets ever been dodged or blocked; that is until now.

Inuyasha caught the dagger about an inch away from his throat and dug it into the cutting board.

"What the HELL is going on here, and why the FUCK do you want to kill me?!?!?" Inuyasha was pissed now, and I mean this close to killing this girl in front of him. But Inuyasha had learned something, no matter how mad he was an angry, Kagome was worse and though he wouldn't admit it, he was scared of a pissed off Kagome and wouldn't harm anything she wanted alive. It was plain that she knew this girl and wanted her alive so that meant hands off.

Kagome didn't know what to do. What could she say to convince Sango that Inuyasha hadn't done killed her family? How could you convince someone of that?

Miroku, on the other hand, was in his specialty, negotiating with an attractive woman. He also knew, for probably the first and last time in his life, that he shouldn't take advantage of this lady at this point in time.

"Excuse me madam but I feel that we might have a misunderstanding between all of us. I'm sure that a lovely goddess such as your self would never forget or lie about something so tragic, but I am positive also that my friend here would never harm someone such as your self so cruelly. Please tell us how you know it was Inuyasha that murdered your family?"

Sango look at the man warily. Anyone who could lay it on that thick must have something up his sleeve, but Sango answered him none the less. "It was a man by the name of Onigumo who informed me. He was the newest ranger to our group and was the only survivor of the massacre."

It was then that Sango heard from Inuyasha the most impressive display of non-school oriented English that she had ever heard, and that is a lot to be said for someone who was completely raised by a group of men.

"You seem to know the man I speak about." Sango stated.

She really didn't know who to believe anymore. Inuyasha was the man she had sworn to kill but his reactions were not one of a guilty person but someone with a lot of anger issues.

Miroku answered her question, "Yes we all know him and you should too. Have you ever heard of a man called Naraku?"

"Yes I know who he is but..." Sango voice was getting louder and more distressed as she started putting things together, "but no, no it couldn't have been the same person!! No, we would have recognized him or figured it out. My family was the best damn group of rangers in the West!! How could we have let ourselves be tricked like that? HOW CAN MY ENTIRE FAMILY, MY ENTIRE LIFE BE GONE JUST LIKE THAT?!?!?"

Sango was kneeling on the floor by that point shaking but not crying. She couldn't think, she couldn't move. It was easy to not realize that everything was gone when you had a set goal in front of you, but when that goal was questioned everything came tumbling down. Now all that she had been trying to out run came back to her. The realization that she was alone now hit her like a piercing blast of cold wind that froze her entire self.

Miroku's heart felt for Sango. She needed someone to be there for her and she needed time and peace so that she could sort it all out.

Kagome knelt down beside the girl as if hearing Miroku's thoughts and gave her a hug. "Miroku, could you help me get Sango up to her room? It's just at the top of the stairs."

Miroku reached down and picked up Sango who was still shaking. Who knows if she even noticed that a man she didn't know was holding her. At that moment she really didn't notice anything.

"Don't worry Kagome I've got her and I won't try anything. You should get some herbal tea for her to drink, something that will calm her." Miroku then went into the main room and up the stairs to put Sango in her bed.

A few minutes later he returned down stairs, still with a somber look on his face. "She fell asleep even before I put her down. Kagome, you should go check on her in an hour or so."

Kagome shook her head in sympathy, "She has been holding so much in that she shouldn't have. The shock of losing everything must have just hit and knowing that it was someone who they trusted who killed them must have made it too much to bear."

Inuyasha was sitting there not all too sure of what to do. He didn't like thinking about sad things, it was just too hard. He really didn't know how to react to situations like this. Inuyasha also hated to see the usually cheerful and up beat Kagome so sad and downcast. So Inuyasha did the only thing he could think of to get everyone's minds off of such a sad event, he acted like himself.

"So wench are you going to cook us ramen or are you going to keeping moping around and wasting time, `cause its about time we were fed?"

Inuyasha was happy that Kagome was sad no longer and though his heart wouldn't regret what he said, his ears and his stomach probably would. Kagome had the look on her face that scared him and told him that he would never eat again as long as he lived which was looking to be a very short period of time.

"YOU INSENSITIVE JERK!!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT I EVEN TALK TO YOU WHEN YOU SAY STUFF LIKE THAT. YOU ARE THE MOST EGOTISTITICAL, SELF CENTERED…"

Miroku shrugged and stopped listening at that point. IT looked as though Inuyasha had really set Kagome off this time, and he knew from experience that she could go one like this for a long time.

Kagome would eventually calm down. They would ultimately get food. So the key was to wait it out and put ear plugs in.

Miroku walked to the porch and sat down looking attentively out across the desert but thinking only of the woman upstairs. Was she going to be okay?

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(As Always thank you so much for reading and please give me any advice that you come up with.

My next chapter is going to start getting more into a plot and the settings around Mercy so remember a) Mercy doesn't exist and nothing in this story does so I can be as historically wrong as I want. b) I'll probably make up a lot of things to have this story work, one in particular is the Native American Tribes in this story, and they aren't at all real. c) If there is anything offensive or not pc it is because time period wise, a lot of people were close minded assholes.

Yours truly, FeFe or EEF)