InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Trust in a Youkai ❯ Betrayed ( Chapter 3 )

Sango and Kagome woke up early so they could go shopping early. With a lot of arguing from Inuyasha about them needing to hunt for more shards they finally agreed that they would only be gone for a couple of hours then they will leave.

About two hours later Sango and Kagome came back with two kimonos and an exterminator’s outfit. One kimono was a light sky-blue with butterfly’s imprinted all over with a dark blue obi. The other one wasn't really a kimono, it was a long light purple skirt with a white harou that looked like Sango's but where Sango had pink Kagome had dark purple. Her exterminators outfit was just like Sango except where she had red Kagome's was a light blue-green. When they entered the hut they were pushed right back out by Inuyasha.

"Good your back, now we can go shard hunting" Inuyasha said as he pushed the girls out of the hut.

"But Inuy-" Kagome started

"No 'buts' we're leaving" Inuyasha Interrupted. With a sigh Kagome let Inuyasha drag her out of the hut and down the road.

Days went by and everything was back to normal. Kagome was her cheery old self again and Inuyasha was back to being the slave driver he was. The only thing that was different was that now since Kagome had a cat suit like Sango Kagome was getting groped daily. Now Kagome is always as far away from Miroku as possible. Now that Kagome was getting more attention from Miroku Sango was starting to get jealous and Kagome knew. So finally one day Kagome and Inuyasha threatened Miroku's life that if he didn't stop groping Kagome they would make sure that even if someone agreed to bear Miroku a child he would never be able to produce one. Now Miroku gropes Sango and only Sango. Every thing was back to normal.

The group decided...well Inuyasha decided to stop and rest for the day on the account that it was almost dark and it was the day that Inuyasha turned human. He also caught Kikyou's scent near by. When the group was settled down Inuyasha decided to go for a littler 'walk' before he turned he turned human.

It has been dark for hours now and Inuyasha has yet to come back so Kagome set out to find him. Kagome was walking through the forest when she heard something up ahead of her like someone was talking. Following the voices Kagome walked onto the scene of Inuyasha confessing his love to Kikyou. Quickly Kagome hid behind a large tree holing her breath hoping that they didn't see her. Silently she watched.

"I love you Kikyou" Inuyasha confessed.

"And what about my copy Kagome?" Kikyou hissed her name like it was a sin.

"I don't care about her...she's just a shard detector, nothing else"

Kagome couldn't believe what she was hearing. He promised her that he wouldn't hurt her in any way. He PROMISED and here he was breaking her heart. Having enough of his lies and deceit Kagome came out from behind the tree no longer caring if they saw her and marched straight up to Inuyasha.

Noticing something from the corner of his eye Inuyasha turned to see Kagome walking straight at him. "Kagome what…" Inuyasha was cut off by a hand going across his face. The sound of flesh hitting flesh could be herd through out the forest.

"How could you?" Kagome yelled "You promised me that you would never hurt me and here you are with a dead bitch who has tried to KILL me numerous times!"

"Kagome I…" Inuyasha started getting angrier by the minute.

"NO" Kagome screamed "You lied to me and came to this dead whore and…" Inuyasha had had enough and slapped Kagome sending her to the forest floor. Holding her cheek Kagome could do nothing but stare up at the angry hanyou before her.

"Kikyou is not a bitch or a whore, I love her and you are nothing but a shard detector, a copy of Kikyou" Inuyasha yelled.

Kagome couldn't take it any more. Quickly she stood up and ran away. The unshed tears blurred Kagome's sight as she ran. She continued to run even when her legs pleaded for her to stop as tree branches scratched her face and tore the clothes she wore over her cat suit. Ignoring the pain in her feet she continued to run until she tripped over a root coming out of the ground. With out even a second thought Kagome was right back up and running again going deeper into the forest. The whole time unaware of the eyes that followed her. She ran until she no longer could and collapsed. Up ahead she heard a small stream about five feet in front of her. She slowly crawled her way over. Looking at her reflection in the water she could see all the cuts she had received form the branches and the forming bruise from Inuyasha. Touching the bruise on her face the memories of Evann beating her came back causing her to break down crying. Once most of her tears subsided Kagome ripped off what ever was left of the right sleeve of her haroi covering the material of her cat suit.

Dipping the rag into the water Kagome proceeded to clean her face as well as her hands. Deciding that the rest of her outfit that she wore over her suit was history Kagome took it off showing the cat suit that fitted her every curve. Still unaware of the pair of eyes watching her.

The silent watcher decided that now would be as good of time as any so he slipped out from the brush to stand behind the distracted human. Kagome suddenly stiffened sensing a familiar aura behind her. Not really caring what happened Kagome went back to what she was doing.

"What do you want Sesshoumaru?" she asked in a bored tone.

"What are you doing so far away from your precious hanyou?" he asked looking down at the girl cleaning her wounds.

"He's not my precious anything" Kagome shouted.

Sesshoumaru was about to say something when he caught the scent of salt, 'She's crying...that bastard of a hanyou must have done something to her' he thought. Sesshoumaru knew that he had feelings for Kagome. Ever since that battle when Kagome tried to shoot him with her arrow not to mention that she was the one that pulled tetsigua from his fathers tomb. She had no fear of him and he loved that. Yes Sesshoumaru loved her since that very day. He wanted to help her, he didn't want to see her cry.

"What did the half-breed do now?" he got closer behind her.

"That's none of your business" She said bitterly. Suddenly Kagome felt arms slide around her waist and embraced her. Sesshoumaru felt her stiffen and he could sense her fear.

'Why is she afraid of me now?' he thought. "Don't be afraid, I'm not going to hurt you" he felt Kagome relax a little. "You can trust me"

"Trust?" Kagome questioned bitterly "Could I trust Evann after he beat me or could I trust Inuyasha after he promised that he would never hurt me then does?" Kagome yelled struggling to get free of Sesshoumaru's embrace only causing Sesshoumaru to tighten his hold. "So what makes you think that I could trust you out of every one else?" Kagome continued to struggle.

"Stop struggling and calm down I promise I wont hurt you" Sesshoumaru said.

Kagome calmed due to the fact that she was physically and emotionally exhausted. "Promises don't mean anything, they always get broken" Sesshoumaru loosened his grip to a light embrace.

"But I never brake my promises" Sesshoumaru said softly as he nuzzled his face in her neck pleased that she didn't try to stop him.

"How can I believe that?" Kagome's voice was barely a whisper. Even with his youkai ears Sesshoumaru had to struggle to hear.

Slowly he turned her around to look her in the face "I give you my word as The Lord of the Western Lands" his voice was still soft, it made Kagome want to believe him. Could she trust him to not break his promise? Closing her eyes Kagome nodded. "What did the hanyou do?" he could smell the scent of salt again as Kagome lowered her head. Gently he slid a finger under her chin and lifted her head up to look her in the eye "You don't have to tell me if you don't want too" Sesshoumaru said wiping her tears away using his thumb.

"Thank you" breaking eye contact she sighed "I need to get back to camp before they start to worry" Kagome went to stand only to be pulled back down. Looking down at the hand around her wrist Kagome followed the arm to its owner. Seeing that it was Sesshoumaru she gave him a confused look.

"You don't want to go back do you?" he asked.

"No I don't, but I have to help them collect the jewel shards...I've been gone too long and any time now they will come looking for me." Kagome said quietly.

"Very well" reluctantly Sesshoumaru let go of Kagome's arm enabling her to get up.

Quickly Kagome stood and with a quick "Bye" she ran off leaving Sesshoumaru alone to his thoughts. Kagome covered Sesshoumaru’s scent so Inuyasha wouldn't notice. When Kagome got back to camp Inuyasha was still gone. 'Probably still with that corps of his' Kagome was brought out of her thoughts by Sango walking up to her.

"What happened to your clothes, why are you wearing just your fighting clothes...were you attacked?" Sango asked worried about her friend.

"Calm down Sango I'm fine...I just got a little clumsy and ruined my other clothes that's all" Kagome lied.

"Are you sure you’re alright?" Sango asked one last time.

"Yes Sango I’m fine" Kagome answered.

"Ok then, here I saved you some food" Sango said handing Kagome a bowl of ramen. Kagome took the bowl and sat down giggling when Shippo curled up in her lap.

"So Kagome, did you find Inuyasha?" Miroku asked.

"Hm, what?" Kagome looked up from her bowl "Oh, him Inuyasha, umm no I didn't find him" she sighed and looked back down at her bowl. Kagome finished eating in silence. Once she was done she went over to her sleeping bag and got it ready. "I'm going to bed" she said as she crawled into her sleeping bag with Shippo.

"Yeah, we'll be doing the same in a minute" Sango yawned.

Kagome couldn't sleep that night. No matter how hard she tried she couldn't fall asleep. She couldn't forget the events that had happened earlier that day. Lazily she brought her hand up and touched the spot on her cheek where Inuyasha had slapped her. There was already a bruise there. Luckily Sango and Miroku hadn't asked about it. Kagome was going to sit up when she saw Inuyasha walk into camp. Quickly she closed her eyes and acted like she was asleep. Inuyasha looked around the camp then jumped into a tree and quickly fell asleep. Kagome then cried herself to sleep.

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Sesshoumaru was also having trouble sleeping. All he could think about was what happened earlier. "Who is this Evann she was talking about and what did she mean by him beating her?" Sesshoumaru asked aloud. "That bruise on her face, did Inuyasha do that to her...is that what she meant by him betraying her trust?" sighing he rolled over onto his right bringing his hand underneath his pillow. "I will have to find out...no one should be able to hurt Kagome" with that last thought Sesshoumaru was finally able to fall into a light sleep.

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