InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Unaware ❯ Unaware Chapter 3 ( Chapter 4 )

I do not own Inuyasha & Co.

 

Well, kiddies, I have another chapter for you in the universe in which Kikyo sleeps, and Inuyasha wanders aimlessly. Let's see what our favorite characters do in this chapter, shall we?

 

Reviewer'sCorner:

 

This is new for me, but I figured that since some of my readers have taken the time to tell me how much they enjoy my fan fiction, I thought I'd give them some personal thanks.

 

From ff.net:

 

Ryous-Crystal: And more you shall get, since I'm nowhere near finished with this story. I have tons of plans for this baby, hee hee…

 

Kyasumi: Yep, this is definitely an Inu/Kags fic, since Kikyo ends up sleeping through most of it. Don't ask why, that's just the way my dream went. Granted, the characters I dreamt weren't the Inuyasha group, but the character she portrays definitely surprises us later on, and I have said enough *zips mouth shut, mumbles*

 

Demonic Princess of Tragedy: Why thank you very much! I really appreciate your praise! And yes, that does say something when I've attracted your attention through the ranks of all the wonderful fan fiction out there. If I could, I'd give you a real cookie of your choice, but I have to settle for a virtual one…*snaps fingers*

 

Shinto Princess Kikyo & Kiki & Sota101: Well now, you will find out soon enough who shot her, but I am not able to reveal it just yet. And don't worry one thing I will disclose is that she will not die. And as far as her waking very soon, it all depends on her. My characters tend to do as they wish and time is nothing of importance to them. Whenever she awakens, is just as much a mystery to me as it is to you.

 

From mm.org:

 

emie: Thank you for the compliment, and I'm glad you like the plot thus far. This fic is definitely Inu/Kag, so you'll enjoy the rest of it, I'm sure.

 

XxDemonic_PrincessxX : Thank you very much for the compliments and I am glad to see your enthusiasm for wanting to see more. I will hopefully be able to write more often soon, so just sit back and relax. Hopefully, I won't have to make you wait too long, k.

 

A/N: And anyone else who chooses to leave a few encouraging words in the future regarding this fic, or various other things, your names will appear up here at the beginning of each chapter as well. Thanks again, and now it's time we all enjoy what's next.

 

 

Chapter 3

 

 

`What she did for me. She didn't have to. I feel a sense of hope now. Knowing she's watching over both of us. I guess it takes someone from the outside to comfort me when I'm down. No matter what the circumstances, keeping it bottled up will only harm me.' Inuyasha thought to himself as he looked on at his seemingly lifeless wife. She still had those bandages over half her face. At the crime scene, she only had one little tiny bullet hole in her forehead. To think of what they had to do in order to get the bullet out just made him angry.

 

He wondered what scars she'd suffer, and how disfigured she'll be, if at all. He wanted so badly to rip the bandages off so he could see for himself, but he couldn't disrupt her healing like that. She'd scar for sure if he got his hands on her. She was still bleeding slightly from an incision that was larger than the bullet hole. If the nurses had changed her bandages at any point, it had to have been while he was asleep. Either that, or when he was out earlier that day. He decided he would mention it to Kagome when she returned.

 

As he sat on the bed, glancing off into the direction of the door, he sighed and then fell back onto the soft mattress. He turned his eyes to the heart monitor beeping in the background.e According to the monitor, her heartbeat was normal.

 

“Huh…Kikyo, baby. How long do you need? When will I see your eyes again? What am I going to do while you're asleep? I feel so lost without you, baby.” Inuyasha said aloud in her direction. He laid there watching her chest rise and fall as the machine breathed for her. He rolled out of bed and pulled the chair up to her side. He grasped her hand in his as he sat down.

 

“Kikyo, can you hear me? Blink or move something if you can. Please, baby. I need to know you're still with me.” He sniffed as he watched her lifeless face. This went on for a few minutes, his eyes tiring. His hands began to grip her hand tighter as his teeth clenched and he began to lose it at her side. His hand remained holding hers as he cried tears of anger at her lifeless demeanor.

 

“Kikyo, I hope you won't forget me. More than anything else, I hope you won't forget who did this to you. I swear to you, no matter whom you wake up as, I will get revenge for you. Whoever he is, he'll pay.” He growled as he bit his bottom lip, drawing blood.

 

@*@

 

Kagome had made her second set of rounds and had a nice break, chatting with the other nurses. They were surprised the silver haired hunk allowed her to touch him with how he had treated her when she arrived for work. She was smiling, and giggling. They began to gossip and cause her trouble as they called her a tramp jokingly. She just made the comment that they would act the same way had they been in her shoes. They all shrugged it off and let her go about her rounds.

 

As she approached the Tai room, she silently clicked the door open. What she heard was surprising. She heard coughing and grunting. She quickly ran up to the bed to see Inuyasha lying beside Kikyo, coughing, and blood trickling down his chin. She gasped, wondering if there was something, she wasn't told as far as his health.

 

“Oh my God! Inuyasha, are you okay?” She yelled as she scrambled around the bed to wrap her arms around the man and lift him into a sitting position. Once he was sitting, hunched over, she eyed the spot where his face was. She saw the sheets and mattress were covered in blood.

 

She right away grabbed a towel from the closet, wet it, and then held it up to his face to wipe off the blood. Once she cleaned his face, her hand holding his chin up, she saw he had bitten himself hard enough to draw a fair amount of blood.

 

“Oh my, Inuyasha. What did you do to yourself? What were you thinking?” She asked as she stepped to the closet to get the first aid kit.

 

He remained silent, as if he had done something wrong and was expecting punishment for it. When Kagome returned to his side, she pulled the chair closer to the other bed as she sat upon it. She turned his face towards her as she eyed the damage more closely. She used some Neosporin to help heal the gashes, and then grabbed some cloth to clean off more blood. He just stared into her eyes as she worked on healing and cleaning him.

 

Once he was okay, by her standards, she sat back and watched him stare at her as if he was a mute child. His eyes held so much, he didn't know where to start. She could see it. “Ya know, you can tell me what's on your mind, if it'll make you feel better.” She said as sweetly as she could.

 

He sat there for a moment until his gaze turned to his hands in his lap and he regained his composure. “I don't know what to do. I wish I could help her. She's always been the type to shut me out of her situations, and she's doing it even now. She has no idea how this hurts me. I am starting to get itchy feet just waiting for her to wake up and tell me who did this to her, so I can get revenge for her. If there's anything I know I can do, its that.”

 

“Revenge won't solve anything, Inuyasha. I think I understand why she's kept you out of her affairs. She wants you to remain innocent. That's how she sees you. I bet it'll hurt her worse if you try to cap the guy who capped her. If you ask me, that's a surefire way of losing her forever. Not only that, but I wouldn't want that for you either.” Kagome replied as she reached out and put her hand on his shoulder, gaining his full attention.

 

The look he gave in return held contempt. “Then what am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to react to this? I am frickin' angry, and I have every right to feel this way!” He shot back as he shoved her hand away from his shoulder.

 

Kagome returned his stare sternly. “You fool. You kill the person who's at fault, and you're no better than he is. Don't you get it? You think Kikyo planned to get herself shot. I honestly don't think so. Maybe you should do some investigation. It'll get your mind off things, and get you away from her for a while. Find out who the jerk is and get him behind bars. It sounds like you don't need revenge, but justification as to why this happened.”

 

She pegged his emotions. He questioned the motives and the reasoning more than anything else. And she was right about sitting here and rotting next to his lifeless wife. He lowered his head and tears once again began to fall. “You're right. I need to vent, but I don't know how or where to…*sigh* I'm sorry if I hurt you. I'm not usually like this.”

 

“Its all right, Inuyasha. You're hurting. You're going to be angry. Why do you think I'm listening?” His head shot up to look into her eyes. “I care about your heart. You're life has been turned upside down within a matter of moments. That happening to anyone would be devastating. We've all been through a lot in our lives. How we get through these situations is what makes us who we are.”

 

He watched her like a deer in the headlights. She just smiled and cocked her head to the side, trying to bring a smile to his face. After a few moments of her cute demeanor, he finally relaxed a bit and smiled slightly, since his bottom lip was injured. She noticed the action, and remembered he couldn't smile at the moment. She gasped and reached her hand to his lips as she caressed the corner of his mouth slightly. His expression went from content to surprise as her finger made contact with his skin.

 

He slightly pulled back as she leaned a bit forward. She angled his chin to see his lip better in the light. It seemed to start bleeding slightly again. She picked up the bloody towel and dabbed his lip as he sat and watched her expression. After a moment, he grabbed her hand and stopped her from dabbing his pained lip. His expression became serious as he looked into her eyes.

 

“Kagome. There's something you need to know.” She lowered her hand and sat back a bit to listen. “I want you to know I am faithful to my wife. I see how you look at me, and I have to let you know that it worries me. I don't know what your past was like, and it's none of my business. So, please…Keep your heart in check. Okay?”

 

Kagome couldn't believe he had misread her actions. Sure, he was driving her crazy, but the last thing she wanted was to let her heart glom onto someone she couldn't have no matter how she felt. Her eyebrows furrowed as she pulled the rag into her lap and began to fold it.

 

“Do you understand?” Inuyasha asked.

 

Kagome looked up with hurt eyes. “Of course I get it. You've been misreading my actions the whole time, Inuyasha. I have no intention of taking your heart from your wife. No matter what happens to her, she holds your heart in her hands. You're the one who gave it to her, and it's out of my reach. How can you accuse me of trying to win you over? I care about you because of what I've been through in my life, and what I've seen while working as a nurse! Once again, you don't know me!” She shot back as she got up from the bed, pushing his chair aside roughly.

 

Inuyasha sat in his chair and watched her go about her business of taking care of his wife, and ignoring him. “Hey.” Kagome just continued to copy down the vitals on the monitor, and checked the I.V. bag. “Hey!” He shouted across the room as he stood from his chair and stepped up to the bed across from Kagome as she worked. Since he wasn't able to break her concentration, he stepped around the bed as she stepped to the edge to set down the chart.

 

Since she wasn't paying attention to him, she bumped into him and stumbled back a bit. As she lost her footing, he saw she was about to fall into the monitor and the instruments. He right away reached out, caught her arm and pulled her forward. She crashed into his chest as he brought her to him to steady her. She dropped the I.V. bag and the clipboard in the process and she ended up shuddering in his arms.

 

“Are you okay? That was close.” Inuyasha whispered over her forehead as she clung to him. He just held her to comfort her and calm her down. “You should pay better attention to where you're going and what's in front of you.”

 

“Thank you.” She shook out as she realized where she was. What was happening. He was holding her in his arms. Not only protectively, but also tenderly. Like a man would hold his wife. Her eyes shot open as her head pulled back from his strong shoulder and her eyes gazed into his. His eyes held worry. “What do you think you're doing?” She asked roughly, as she shoved his arms away from her and kneeled down to pick up the chart and the empty bag.

 

“What do ya mean? I stopped you from falling! You were shaking, so I held you to calm you down! You have done a lot for me, and once I do something for you, you shoot it down my throat. Well thanks very much. You really know how to show appreciation, don't you?” He spat as he stepped away from the bed and stepped out of the room, letting the door shut on its own.

 

Kagome remained kneeled on the floor as she dropped the chart and the bag once again and covered her eyes as she let herself go over his words. To hear such contempt in his voice, it brought shivers down her spine and caused her to fear him. Why he shot such cruel words her way, she didn't understand, but she knew she needed to be away from him for a bit and cool herself down.

 

As she gathered herself enough to get up off the floor, she returned the clipboard to the foot of the bed and then just slowly stepped out the door, letting it shut behind her. She looked down the hall as the door clicked shut and saw him sitting on the bench a ways down, hunched over and his head in his hands. She didn't know what to say to him after an outburst like that. She didn't know she had done anything wrong.

 

“Cool down, Inuyasha. Everything will be all right soon, I promise.” Kagome whispered in his direction as she then turned the opposite direction and stepped behind the nurse's station to dispose of the empty bag.

 

@*@

 

`What just happened? I…I held her. She let me hold her. She smelled so good. Not only that, but she felt good against me. She was so shaken, I didn't know what else to do. But her reaction was very uncalled for. I was just returning the favors she paid me. What did I do wrong? Yes, she confuses me. She readily takes care of me without question as to whether or not she should. Yes, its strange, but…Do I really want her to stop?' He thought to himself as he pulled his hands away.

 

`No, this must not continue. If this keeps going on, I'll fall for her. She's a wonderful woman. To think some idiot hurt her in the past bothers me. Who would readily want to hurt her? It doesn't make sense.' He thought as he stared off in the direction of the nurse's station, hoping to catch a glimpse of her. He sat and watched for a few moments when she came around the corner and walked off in the opposite direction, I.V. bags in her hands for her other patients.

 

He sighed as she entered one of the rooms further down from his wife's. She was certainly ignoring him on purpose. But, with what he said to her, he wouldn't blame her. She had a job to do after all. What amazed him more than anything was how he could upset her and at the sign of seeing him hurting, she'd set her feelings aside to comfort him. He wondered what it was she had gone through eight years ago. Her past must have been rough seeing her act the way she has towards him. Especially since she claimed, she wasn't after his heart in any way.

 

He stood up and decided to go out somewhere for a change. He pulled his cell phone out of his pocket, and readied it to dial his best buddy, Kouga. As he stepped through the elevator doors, he dialed the number and put the phone to his ear as it rang.

 

*click* “Hello?” Kouga answered.

 

“Hey, man. What you up to tonight?” Inuyasha asked as he sat down on the bench outside the door.

 

“Well, I'm working at the bar tonight, but if ya need to get away, the drinks are on me, man.” Kouga offered.

 

“Thanks, man. I really appreciate that. I'll be there in a bit.” Inuyasha answered as he closed his cell phone and went back inside to let the nurses know he was going out for the night.

 

When he reached the floor, he stepped down the hall towards the nurse's station to give the info. No one was there. He looked around and couldn't see a nurse in sight. He slapped the counter in annoyance and looked around the counter for post-its. Once his eye caught the neon orange post-it block on the lower part of the desk, he reached over and grabbed one off the top. He grabbed the nearest pen and wrote the note.

 

Kagome,

 

I have stepped out for a bit. Please call my cell if anything happens.

 

Thanks,

 

Inuyasha

 

 

He clicked the pen closed and stuck the note to face the opposite direction and looked around once again. Seeing as no nurses were around, he just put his hands in his pockets and stepped off towards the elevator.

 

As the elevator dinged in the distance, Kagome came around the opposite corner and saw the orange post-it sitting in the middle of the desk. She read the simple message and smiled. She grabbed the note, slipped it into her pocket and stepped around the corner as the elevator doors closed. She sighed as she watched the elevator numbers descend.

 

“Good for you, Inuyasha. It's about time you got out for some fresh air.” She sighed as she turned around, a smile plastered to her face.

 

@*@

 

 

Inuyasha pulled up into the parking lot of the bar. Kouga was the main bartender, and the owner was his best friend, Hakaku. The two were great guys, and Inuyasha trusted them a lot. He told them what he couldn't tell anyone else, especially Kouga. Kouga was more of a brother to him than Sesshoumaru.

 

Inuyasha stepped up and walked in through the heavy door. As the door slammed shut behind him, Kouga's eyes shot his way. Kouga smiled as he directed Inuyasha to have a seat with a nod of his head. Inuyasha's feet moved as he complied. He grabbed the stool right across the bar top from his friend.

 

“Man, you look like hell. What happened?” Kouga asked as he eyed Inuyasha's swollen lip.

 

“Oh, nothing. Just bit my lip out of anger is all.” Inuyasha shrugged.

 

“Damn. You gonna be okay with alcohol then? Might burn your wound.” Kouga warned.

 

“Naw, this is nothin'. Gimme a scotch whisky. Anything to calm my resolve.” Inuyasha spat.

 

“Dude, if you're gonna drink yourself drunk tonight, I can drive you back to the hospital later, sound good?” Kouga offered as he poured his drink.

 

“Naw. I don't wanna stumble into the hospital slobbering drunk. You could take me home though.” Inuyasha shook his head.

 

“What about your car? How are ya gonna get it if you leave it here?” Kouga asked as he slid the glass towards him.

 

Inuyasha took a deep sip, slammed the cup down on the bar top and sighed in relief. “That was good. Pour me another.” He requested, gesturing with his hand.

 

“Inuyasha, I don't know about this. I didn't know you were this bad off. Maybe I'll need to limit your drinks, man. I don't want any fights tonight. You know how you get when you're drunk and pissed off.”

 

“Dude! I'm fine! Its okay! Just pour me another!” Inuyasha yelled over the loud music the DJ just started.

 

Kouga sighed as he grabbed the glass and poured him a mulligan. He hated seeing Inuyasha like this. He had seen him piss drunk before, but those were good times, and he would piss off everyone around him as a joke and he'd end up wrestling with whomever he irritated the most by the end of the evening. But seeing him this out of it and upset, worried Kouga to no end. He had no idea his best friend was that broken over the incident. He figured he needed to watch over Inuyasha more diligently than he had been.

 

“So, what's happened with Kikyo that's got you all wound up?” Kouga asked as he slid the glass towards his friend.

 

“She's in a coma. I have no idea when she'll wake up, or if she even will. At this point, she's a vegetable relying on a breathing machine and I.V. bags, man. The doctor said she could lose her memory, become a different person, lose some motor skills on her left side, and that they have no idea how much damage was done, and they won't know until she wakes up.” Inuyasha shouted as he downed the second glass of Scotch Whisky.

 

Kouga rested on the bar with both hands as he lowered his head and shook it back and forth. He knew she was injured badly, but he had no idea it could have been THAT bad. He looked back up at his friend who had turned off to the side to watch the light show the DJ was putting on as couples began to get up and dance. He was leaned up against the bar, resting his head on his hand.

 

Kouga didn't know what else to do but put his hand on the shoulder nearest him. Inuyasha turned his gaze back to him. Inuyasha saw sympathy in his eyes. Inuyasha turned around, covered Kouga's hand with his own and patted it in a masculine way as he sniffed a bit. Kouga had no idea as to how else to react, or even what to say to comfort him. Kouga knew the relationship Kikyo and Inuyasha had very well. Kouga was Inuyasha's best man at their wedding ceremony. Kouga was always so happy to hear good news from them.

 

As Inuyasha showed enough acknowledgement of Kouga's sympathy, he turned again to watch the couples dance. He didn't know what he wanted anymore. Nothing could bring him comfort. Not even another woman. He just felt he was in the wrong place, even though he felt more comfortable there than at the hospital. At first, he did want to drink himself into a stupor, just to shut out the world and pass the time in a less painful way. But when he saw the way Kouga looked at him, the sympathy he showed in his eyes, he knew he couldn't be foolish this time around.

 

He closed his eyes as he rested his back against the bar and listened to the music. Just as he was watching some funky and strange images fly through his mind, he felt something touch his leg. His eyes jumped open as he looked at his lap. There was a slender and beautiful hand caressing his right thigh, just a bit too close to the family jewels. He looked to his right to see a gorgeous woman smiling deviously at him.

 

“Hey, baby. You look like you could use some company. Wanna dance with me?” She purred as she leaned in closer to hear his response.

 

He began to sweat as his mind fought over what to do. He wasn't drunk, but he wasn't thinking straight either. She just kept inching her hand higher as she awaited his response. He was getting to the point where he'd ask for another drink just to forget his situation and get with the girl feeling him up. Part of him wanted what she would offer him, but one little tiny voice kept begging for him to push her away.

 

Kouga saw what was happening when he finished helping out another customer and stepped up to his friend and the vixen. He saw who it was. It was Sango. She was the free-spirited girl who practically lived in the bar every night, looking for companionship. She was a very nice girl deep down, but he knew she couldn't comfort his friend the right way. He'd only end up making a big mistake.

 

“Hey, Sango. Go after someone else. He's not the guy you want, trust me.” Kouga shouted as he grabbed the arm attached to the hand massaging his package. She gave Kouga a nasty look and yanked her arm away from him as she stormed away into the crowd.

 

Inuyasha couldn't believe what was just happening. He had no clue how to react. He had never met such a forward woman before, and she was damn beautiful. Kouga tapped Inuyasha on the shoulder to get his attention. Inuyasha jumped out of his trance and turned to Kouga.

 

“You better watch yourself around here. It doesn't do any good to space out while you're in this condition. She was practically ready to go down on ya, man!” Kouga warned.

 

“Who was that?” Inuyasha asked, finally coming out of his daze.

 

“Sango. She's a good woman, but she's a bit of a slut. She just tried to take advantage of you, and you almost let her. I knew I had to do something, otherwise you'd end up wrapped around her finger, or should I say, she'd be wrapped around your dick.” Kouga spat as he grabbed his glass.

 

Inuyasha leaned over and placed his head in his arms. He suddenly slapped the bar top again as if to ask for another mulligan.

 

“No way, man. I'm not giving you more so you can become stupid.” Inuyasha's head snapped up as he sneered and started growling at Kouga. Kouga stepped back a bit watching his friend as the sneer turned to a stern face. “You need a psychiatrist, dude. Maybe I should call you a cab and get you to a hotel?”

 

Inu shook his head and said, “Naw. I'd go home before I'd go to some cheap and crappy hotel.”

 

“Well, if you're gonna drink yourself into a stupor and just get yourself into trouble, then I recommend you go somewhere where you'll be looked after by someone. You shouldn't be alone tonight, man.” Kouga pointed out rather harshly as he nodded towards the phone. Inuyasha looked in that direction and eyed the phone.

 

“Who the heck am I gonna call? You guys are the only guys I trust.” Inuyasha raised his palms towards Kouga.

 

“Call a cab to take ya back to the hospital. I have to work, I can't leave to take ya…” Hakaku slapped his hand onto Kouga's shoulder and asked what was going on. Kouga motioned his head towards Inuyasha and Hakaku took a look at his downtrodden friend.

 

“Whoa…Inuyasha, what happened? How did you end up so pale and beat up?” Hakaku asked as he lowered his hand from Kouga's shoulder.

 

“I'm fine. It's Kikyo who's in trouble. Did Kouga tell you?” Inuyasha asked.

 

“Tell me what? What happened to Kikyo?” Hakaku asked as he leaned closer to Inuyasha.

 

“She was shot by someone in an abandoned alley right near Shikon Adverts. She was on her way home from work. According to the cops, there was no evidence of foul play. So, I'm figuring it was some asshole she knows.” Inuyasha spat out the last part.

 

“Oh my! Man, is she okay?” Hakaku asked.

 

“She's in a coma. We don't know how bad the damage is, and we won't know until she wakes up. She could end up forgetting who the heck I am!” Inuyasha shouted as he slammed his hand onto the bar top.

 

“Wow. Do you have an idea as to who it might have been?” Hakaku asked.

 

“No, you dumbass! If I did, I wouldn't be drinking my ass off!”

 

“Listen Inu, we all know your pissed off, but don't take it out on us. We're here to help in any way we can.” Kouga reassured.

 

Inuyasha just slumped down and laid his head back in his arms saying, “I want her back. I want to go back in time and stop her from leaving work that day. I wish I could've saved her.”

 

Hakaku looked at their saddened friend and whispered something in Kouga's ear. Kouga looked at him as if he had snails crawling up his nose. Hakaku gave him thumbs up and winked.

 

“I'll be fine. You just go take care of him, okay. No woman is gonna heal him.”

 

“I don't swing that way, and neither does he!” Kouga shot back in disgust.

 

“I don't mean THAT, geeze! I meant to be there for him as a brother. You know, listen to what he has to say. Help him vent. You can do that, right?” Hakaku explained.

 

Kouga shrugged as he said, “Fine. C'mon Inu, let's go back to my place.” Kouga grabbed his jacket off the coat hook and walked around the bar. He stepped up behind the drunk man and slapped him from behind to get him to sit up and pay attention. Once Inuyasha got the message, the two stepped out and into the parking lot.

 

“Tell me why you're taking me to your place again?” Inuyasha asked as clueless as ever.

 

“Because, I'm here to make sure you don't get into any trouble, and so that you don't bother the nurses while they take care of your wife. You're a mess, man. And, in my opinion, you are in need of a good fight, which I can provide.” Kouga explained as he adjusted the collar of his jacket.

 

“Tsch…Why would I wanna fight you?” Inuyasha spat, his head hung towards the ground.

 

“Because, it'll take a swift kick in the ass to get the depressed emotions out of ya. You need to vent your anger. Bottling it up will only kill ya. Look at your lip, man. That's disgusting! You're turning your violent nature at yourself. You feel you're at fault for all this?”

 

“I am at fault! I wasn't there to save her! I failed her!”

 

“You failed no one. If I remember correctly, she shut you out of her problems. She didn't want you to have anything to do with her troubles. She sheltered you from those things which would anger you.”

 

“Why? Why would she do something like that? What was she trying to prove by doing something that stupid? She's a woman! She's not the fighting type!”

 

“But she aint no weakling either. She's still alive, Inu. A shot like that woulda killed any other woman we've ever run into. She has a will that's keeping her here. She's stronger than you think.”

 

“I don't believe you. She kept me sheltered, and away from her problems. She was hiding something. She was involved in something she didn't want me to know about.” Inuyasha shot at him.

 

“Like what? Huh? What would she have hidden from you? At this point, anything is possible. I don't think that's what happened at all. She was set up by someone she knows. That had to have been the case. She would never hide anything from you. She loves you, Inu.”

 

“Tsch…I'm beginning to wonder about that, Kouga. I looked back a ways these past couple of days. Things I didn't think mattered all add up to this. There was something she wanted to keep me from, so she told me not to butt in. Not only that, but she wanted to be the dominant one in the relationship. If I tried to stand up for her, she'd smack me, and then smack whoever shot her the crewed comments to begin with. I was only allowed to stand by her side, as if I was her car. That's all I ever was to her. I'm rich, so she glommed onto me.”

 

“Is that what you really believe?”

 

“Yeah.”

 

“You're full of shit, Inu. I think the drink is talking to me, not you. What has happened to you that has made you think like this? We both know Kikyo. She would never do that to you.”

 

“You really think you know her, huh? Well, my friend, you never slept with her. You never lived with her, or spent 24/7 with her. You don't know half as much as I do.”

 

“Give me an example, then.”

 

“Okay. If I'm in the mood, I'll fondle her to get her in the mood. 95% of the time, she shrugged me off and told me things like, `Not tonight, honey.', or `You are a horn dog! We just made love yesterday!'”

 

“And? Not all women can go at it every night. Maybe you're not as satisfying to her as you think.”

 

At that comment, Inuyasha growled, which threw Kouga for a loop. “Did you just…Growl at me?”

 

“What of it? You just said the wrong thing to me, you jackass.” Inuyasha spat as he ran in for a punch. He landed Kouga a punch right in the kisser, throwing him to his back on the gravel.

 

“Ow!” He exclaimed as he put his hand to his mouth, and saw blood. He got up from the ground and lunged for Inuyasha. The two fell to the ground and Kouga had him pinned. Inuyasha snarled and grunted to get lose. Kouga just struggled to hold his friend as he exasperated himself. `That's it, exhaust yourself, Inu. You'll feel better and think more clearly.' Kouga thought as he looked into his friends golden eyes, seething with pure anger.

 

“You can't hold me down forever.” Inuyasha spat.

 

“And you can try to get yourself out of this one. Just keep struggling, but it'll end up being good for you in the end. You need to learn to submit, you bastard.”

 

“Don't you dare call me that!”

 

“But that's what you are, isn't it? You are fatherless, aren't you? You are motherless. What's so wrong with accepting that?”

 

“Shut the fuck up! Are you getting kicks out of pissing me off or something?”

 

“Oh, you bet I am. You are so fucked up in the head right now, you can't tell a crater from a hole in the ground!” Inuyasha screamed as he tried to break free. Kouga had to struggle as the hold on Inuyasha's hands on the ground above his head grew strained. He had to use his body weight to hold the man down. As the two struggled and grunted on the ground, Kouga clearly atop of Inuyasha, two men from the bar walked by and yelled, “Hey…Get a room if you're gonna do stuff like that! You two are sick!”

 

Inuyasha and Kouga then realized the position they were in. With all the struggling Inuyasha did, Kouga had to pin both his legs with his own, spreading both pairs of legs far apart. Kouga's body nearly covered all of Inuyasha's body. As Kouga laid there thinking about their position, Inuyasha caught his chance to smack the man off him. “Get off me!”

 

Kouga rolled away a few feet and grasped his nose. Inuyasha picked himself off the ground and walked over to his best friend rolling onto his back. Once he reached him, he set his foot on his chest and pinned him down.

 

“Listen to me. I'm done dicking around with you. Are you gonna take me to your place or what? Or are you gonna take me to a hotel where you plan to fuck me the whole night?” Kouga looked up at his friend and said nothing as he removed his hand from his nose.

 

“We're going to my place, and you know I wouldn't go to those lengths to help you. Dammit, Inu. Why would you even think something like that?”

 

“What was that all about back there?” He shouted as he pointed to where they were pinned to the ground moments before.

 

“You were going berserk, so I pinned you down to get you to calm down. You're the one who struggled and brought us into that embarrassing position, dumbass!”

 

Inuyasha lifted his foot from the man's chest and just gave out a “Keh!” as he walked towards Kouga's car. Kouga got up from the ground, dusted himself off and followed his friend across the gravel parking lot.

 

@*@

 

Now then, wasn't that a little more like the Inuyasha we all know and love? Confused to all hell and making stupid mistakes when it comes to Kikyo. Oh well, this chapter certainly was fun to write, and we finally got a gist of how screwed up he is, and how screwed up Kikyo's and Inuyasha's relationship really was. Well, in this fic, anyways. Well, `til next time, then. Ja ne for now!