Warning: There will be very gory scenes, (And I mean gory!) bunch of tragedy, suspense, horror, action/adventure, and romance at the end and a little in between. Also some spiritual around the middle and at the end.
Disclaimer: Inuyasha- Say it!
Me-NEVER! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Kagome- You have to or I'll call the lawyers. (picks up phone)
Me- (gasp) FINE! (sniffle) I don't own Inuyasha. (looks around) But he will be mine!
Kagome- What was that? (glare)
Me- Nothing! It was nothing. Before I forget the bad guy in this story is mine!
Inuyasha- Uh... what are lawyers?
Summery: Kagome has memories of death and torture that were hidden from her. When tragedy strikes she remembers it all. Near insanity she learns a past enemy will endanger everything she holds dear. (Inu/Kag)
The Hidden Truth
By: RejectedAndLoved
Chapter 1:The Beginning of the End
It was a beautiful, sunny day in the Feudal Era, as the wind gently blew around a group of six. (1) Things were silent as five of the companions used this time wisely to take in the luscious scenery surrounding the dirt path they walked on. While the sixth member of the group was constantly twitching his ears to try and find the invisible danger. As well as twitching his left eye brow in annoyance. At long last, he finally snapped.
"Kagome! Where are the damned jewel shards?" The member in question complained. "For days we've been traveling with no rumors, no attacks, no threats, and no nothing! There has to be a jewel somewhere!" He yelled at the miko whose headache was growing rapidly.
"Well, I'm sorry Inuyasha. I can't sense anything. There's not a jewel shard around here," Kagome sighed. And as peaceful as this young girl is at the moment, she was soon to unleash her rage among the hanyou if he would continue.
The demon huntress, lecherous monk, and the fluffy kitsue were losing their patience as well, but that was because Kagome and Inuyasha would always have this fight, no matter the circumstances. But what helped them be distracted from the two, was their pondering on how Kilala seemed unfazed, and was not bothered at all. Sadly, Inuyasha's voiced pulled them away from their pondering.
"As a miko and guardian of the jewel you SHOULD be aware of it at all times. You're just a useless wench."
Sango, Miroku, and Shippo sighed. "We might as well head back to the village." Miroku suggested, indicating that they won't make anymore progress.
"We might as well; Kagome will probably head back home afterwards." Sango sighed.
"I want Kagome to stay!" Shippo whined. Then he looked at the battlefield.
"YOU JERK! YOU DON'T RESPECT ME AT ALL! I BET YOU WISH KIKYOU WAS HERE INSTEAD OF ME!" Kagome raged.
"AT LEAST SHE CAN HANDLE HERSELF WHEN DEMONS ATTACK SO I DON'T HAVE TO SAVE HER!" Inuyasha yelled back.
"You might as well lend her Kilala." Shippo sighed. He knew that there was no way to make Kagome stay after Inuyasha's last statement. The kitsue jumped off his refuge on the transformed Kilala and onto Miroku's shoulder.
"You're right. Kilala stay with Kagome okay?"
Kilala purred in reply to her master and started to approach Kagome.
"Okay, that's done lets head back to the village." Miroku said while turning towards the village that they left less then thirty minutes ago, with Sango and Shippo behind him.
"WHY DO YOU EVEN LIKE A DEAD PRIESTESS ANYWAY? SHE ONLY WANTS TO DRAG YOU INTO HELL! SHE DOESN'T LOVE YOU AT ALL!" Kagome's words echoed into the air causing creatures with wings to fly away in fear.
The three heading back to the village stopped and turned in shock. They stared at the pair as fear grew within them at what might happen.
Inuyasha twitched and his eyes grew dark. He clutched his hands into fist, and his knuckles turned white. "That's a lie you snotty little whore!" Inuyasha sneered, making sure ever word was thick with the venom of pure hatred.
Numbed at what she was called she replied with an equal amount of malice. "See you DO love her! I'm not blind. Every time you smell her scent or see her spirit demons you go running off trying to be her hero. Unknown to you since you are, at the time obsessed with Kikyo, your so called love, I follow you and when I get there you two are either making out, telling each other you love each one another, or hugging. It's sickening!"
But right before Inuyasha could say anything Kagome continued. "And don't say 'It's ONLY because I have to repay her for what she did for me,' because that is bull. You don't owe her anything! Naraku made you betray each other; there was nothing you could've done. She pinned you to the tree, she died, and you slept. What's done is done! Get OVER IT YOU HEARTLESS BASTARD! SIT!" Kagome screeched at last as an odd mix of feelings like relief and depression consumed her. Painfully, depression overpowered relief.
But before Inuyasha could make a reply, Kagome turned around and ran to the well, letting her tears fall.
"Kagome wait, take Kilala." Sango yelled, but Kagome kept on running so she wouldn't have to face Inuaysha. Sango sighed then abruptly she gave Inuyasha harsh glare. "She's right you know. You give Kikyo more credit then you should. The only thing Kikyou wants you to do is to die with her. Kagome wants you to live your life wi-" She stopped, refusing to tell Inuyasha the obvious.
Sango continued her malevolent stare towards her companion, and laughed bitterly, "Why should I even bother? You don't care about a snotty little whore right?" She turned and stomped back to Keades village.
Inuyasha, stood and listened to the slayers rant. And when she said her last word, his ears began to hang low in shame.
Miroku stared after Sango's retreating form before he turned to the hanyou. "If you don't want to lose Kagome, I suggest you go after her. If you don't we might never see her again. You have to make a choice Inuyasha. Lady Kagome... or Kikyou?" Miroku said and also headed towards the village.
"YOU BIG MEANIE! You better bring Kagome back or I will never forgive YOU!" Shippo cried while riding into the distance on Miroku shoulder.
The whole time Inuyasha kept silent. He knew he should go get Kagome, but he was afraid he might piss off Kagome even more and get 'sat' over hundred times. It might make her never return. He shuddered at the thought.
Thinking it over, Inuyasha had come to the conclusion, that it would be best to wait five to ten days. He knew that the others would not be happy with this decision, so he jumped off to find sanctuary in his tree.
With Kagome
Kagome was leaning over the ledge of the well, waiting for Inuyasha to come. But no one did. "I knew it, he doesn't care for me at all. He never does." And so Kagome jumped.
When Kagome climbed up the well, she ran out of the rotting shrine and towards her house, which appeared to be unsettled, with no lights on.
"Mom! Grandpa! Sota! Anyone home?" Kagome yelled at the entrance. When she got no response, she took off her shoes and dropped her bag, and headed toward the kitchen to see if anyone left a note. The kitchen was bare.
She turned and headed towards the living room, and noticed a puddle of a red colored liquid leaking from the room. She frowned. "Sota... you're in big trouble if this stains." Kagome walked back to the kitchen to retrieve paper towels.
When she returned, she open the door to the room and was met with a horrifying sight. She screamed. Scrambling to a corner, she softly sobbed as she took in what she saw.
Her grandpa was lying in the far corner of the room with stab marks covering his body. His holy robes were slashed, barely making him decent, dyed red with blood. His eyes were wide, full of lifeless fear, and his mouth hung ajar, as if making a silent scream. Closer examination one could see several bones bent at odd angles.
In front of Kagome was her mother. She laid sprawled on the floor on her back, with her head decapitated a few inches from her body. Bruises and welts covered her wrist and thighs. Her clothes were ripped, exposing her completely, including bite marks and the blood seeping between her legs.
Regretfully, Kagome could not morn for long because a little boy screamed upstairs.
"Sota? Sota! I'm coming!" Fanatically, Kagome ran upstairs stumbling along the way. She saw her bedroom door open, and heard cried inside. She ran in her room and saw Sota on the ground with tears in his eyes and a knife on his neck. When she looked up she saw the man who was holding the knife. He had a sickly grin on his face, with a look of excitement in his eye, as he slit Sota's throat.
"NO! SOTA!" Kagome ran towards the man with her fists in the air. When she was about to hit him he disappeared making her fall onto Sota's legs. She sat up quickly, grabbed a sheet from her bed, and wrapped it around Sotas neck trying to stop the bleeding. "Sota hang on! Don't go! Please!" Kagome sobbed while securing her bed sheet around Sota's neck but the only thing it did was absorb the blood and did not seal the wound as she sadly thought it would.
Sota grasped Kagomes' hand as he tried to speak. "Ka...go..." He gasped desperately for air, only to fail miserably; as his body slowly relaxed to the point he was no longer clasping Kagomes hand. Kagome watched sorrowfully as his hand fell to the ground. Her hand on his neck felt the faint hearts beats stop.
Kagome gasped. "Sota? No! Don't go please!" Kagome sobbed while clutching Sota's body tightly to her chest, covering her clothes with his blood that soaked through the bed sheet. She rocked back and forth hiding her face in her brother's hair, inhaling his scent deeply, which made her cry more.
"My, my, my, look what we have here! Can't handle loss well can you?" A dark voice cackled from the hallway. When Kagome looked up, it was the man who was on top of Sota a few moments ago.
"You! What do you want?" Kagome screamed while dragging Sota and herself towards her bedroom window.
"What I want? Well I want you to suffer." He said while walking towards her. "You might not know why now, but you will soon enough." Then he held up his hand at Kagome and a blinding light started to surround her.
Kagome pushed her self sideways to dodge the attack and dashed out of her room and ran to the well, forgetting her brother's body, which laid beside her bed.
"Perfect, I love it when they run." The man sneered and chased after Kagome.
When Kagome was about to jump into the well the man showed up behind her, "You're not leaving without your gift are you? I was hopping you wouldn't." And the same light from before was shot at Kagome making a direct hit, pushing her backwards into the well. Just as the well got darker, the quicker her mind seeped into unconsciousness.
With Inuyasha
"INUYASHA! GO GET KAGOME!" Shippo screeched with tears.
"Back off!" Inuyasha yelled, now regretting coming back to Keade's.
"Shippo, I am sorry to say but your efforts will be effortless. For Inuyasha is a stubborn ass who does not understand Kagome's feelings. Besides," Miroku paused. "It only shows he has chosen Kikyo." The monk sneered causing Inuyasha's ears to twitch.
"You bastard. I never said I chose Kikyou. So much for being fri- " Inuyasha stopped and sniffed the air. Kagome's scent flowed through the air, thick with blood. Alarmed, Inuyasha dashed towards the well as fast as he could. Upon arriving, Inuyasha dove into the four walled monument only to land beside Kagome's body.
"Shit." He covered his nose to block the strong scent of Kagome's and Sota's blood. This frightened him because no human can lose this much blood and live. Quickly, Inuyasha scooped up Kagome's body and carried her bridal style to Keade. All the while thinking how this happened, and how Sota's blood got on her.
At Keades Hut
Sango fumed, "I bet he went after Kikyou again. I saw the way he sniffed the air. Kagome's better off without him."
"Now Sango, I'm upset with Inuyasha for what he has done to Lady Kagome, but don't you think you're over reacting just a little?" Miroku said with fear of being beaten with a certain boomerang.
Sango only had time just to glare at him for the next second Inuyasha burst into the hut with a bloody Kagome.
"Oh my lord, what has happen to her?" Keade gasped as she moved to clear room for Kagomes body.
"I.. I don't know! I just found her like this!" the hanyou spoke as he laid the miko before Keade.
"All right. Miroku, Shippo and Inuyasha you three step outside while I bandage Kagome, but in the mean time help Sango collect the water needed to clean her wounds." The old woman spoke forcefully as she looked at the blood soaked body.
Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Inuyasha did as they were told and grabbed as many bucket as they could carry to the river. They made sure to fill every signal one with water before they returned to the village. All the while they stayed silent, not sure of what to say.
They all placed the buckets near the entrance, resisting the urge to look in, and moved to lean against to side of the hut. No one spoke or looked at anything. They just trapped themselves within their own thoughts, blocking out reality.
Remembering her job Sango grabbed a few of the water filled containers and stepped into the hut and gazed at the scene in front of her.
Keade had stripped Kagome of her clothing, which sat bundled in a corner, and was trying to wash her even with her limited resources. But the gashes had not stopped bleeding. Sango was truly terrified of the fact she might lose Kagome.
Keade worked as hastily as she could but slowed when she noticed Sango just standing at the entrance and not moving. The old woman looked up and saw the fear within the slayer. "Child we have little time we must clean her body and bandage her wounds."
Sango snapped out of her trance and walked towards Keade. Sango kneeled next to her dying friend as she and the old woman washed the blood that stuck to her skin and tried to close to gapping wounds.
Later
"We cleaned her and bandaged her. No matter the amount of herbs I have put on her wounds her fate is to be relied on her will to live." Keade sighed and she went to dump the blood water with Kilala trotting behind her.
Seeing Keade walk down the path away from the hut the three guys took it as that Kagome was bandaged and went inside. They saw Kagome laid against the wall deathly pale and with Sango crouched over her with determination in her eyes.
Seeing this Miroku step toward Sango and kneeled besided her placing a hand on her back for comfort. "Want to tell us Kagome's situation, Sango?"
Sango broke and release what she held in her by thrusting herself into Miroku's shoulder softly sobbing. "Oh Miroku! Kagome might not live through the night! I don't want to lose her!"
As Miroku was about to speak a voice came from the doorway. "Do not worry, for Kagome will not die." the voice said, whose tone was way too cheerful considering the situation.
TBC
A/N: Okay first chappy of my first Inuyasha story! (Starts to hyperventilate) It's okay, I'm good. PLEASE review! I don't care if anyone flames me but if you DO flame me then it better say something for me to improve on. NOW... see the little button below... right down there. CLICK IT PEOPLES!
(1) When I say six I include Kilala. She plays a big role too!
