Chapter 8: The Truth, Part One

"He's picking you up in a what ?!" Naraku nearly shrieked dropping the dishes in the sink, breaking most of them as they bounced and hit the floor.

"Honey, I think she'll be fine," Jakotsu said forcing him to sit down in a chair.

Kagome rolled her eyes as she grabbed one of her hoody's from the closet and wrapped it around herself tightly.

She was going to tell him the truth.

And she was far more scared than she had ever been in her entire life.

Looking at the small old ring on her finger she sighed grabbing her house keys and placing them in her torn jeans pocket. She still had twenty minutes until he was going to show up, and the girls were waiting for her to tuck them in and kiss them goodnight.

Now she was praying he didn't come to get her. All she wanted to do was take her girls and go in her room and snuggle up with them and go to sleep. She really had no idea why she was giving in this soon, but she had no choice. It was either tell him now or run away again, and the only problem with option two was her children would never fit in anywhere she ran.

So, it looked like she'd have to live with her first choice and hope nothing truly bad happened tonight.

Walking up the stairs to her daughters' bedroom, she looked outside one long window in the hallway and sighed.

She was going to have to relive everything to him tonight, and now that the time was finally here, all she wanted to do was escape whatever way she could.

"Maybe I can hold it off," she whispered to herself as she watched a pair of headlights turn into the driveway, then back out. "Maybe I can wait just a little longer."

"Wait a little longer for what, Mommy?"

Kagome looked down to her right and smiled seeing Amaya standing there in her little red flannel nightgown with white daisy print all over it. Her long flowing silver hair, just like her fathers, was hanging back loosely in a sloppy ponytail that Miroku had done for her before he had left only an hour ago.

He really could only get it to look right on his own head.

Kagome bent down on her knees and smiled pulling her child into her arms. Amaya returned the hug and wrapped her arms around her mothers neck as she lifted her up with her. Kagome saw clearly in the moon's bright light how much her baby was like her father, and it killed her in that instant to have even had the thought of holding this off any longer. He needed to se how beautiful his girls were. He needed to hold them in his arms and smile just as she was doing right at that very moment. But more importantly, he needed to know that he was in fact a father.

"Nothing baby," she whispered placing a kiss on her tiny forehead, making her little black ears twitch slightly. "Mommy's going to tell you a secret. But you have to promise me you won't tell you're sister. Can you do that for me, sweetie?"

Amaya looked at her mother with the seriousness of an adult for only a moment, making her look even more like her father. Kagome wondered sometimes how much her children really understood, mainly because of how smart they were, but Amaya was a very strange child. She always seemed to understand the most complexed of things, and she always kept her word no matter what. Kaiya was more like a normal little four year old. Full of joy and energy and never understanding everything in full. Kagome even sometimes wondered if it was their demon blood that made them so unique.

Even still, she loved them more than anything. And if she had to go through all of the hell she had gone threw once more just to have these two little angels in her life, she would do it gratefully. As long as she had them, she was never truly alone.

"I promise Mommy," she whispered, not wanting her little sister to hear her.

Kagome smiled as Amaya wrapped her legs around her waist to secure her place in her mother's arms. This was all the love she'd ever wanted from her own mother, and even though she had never received an ounce of it, she was glad that the heartless gene, as she called it, had not been passed onto her.

"I'm going to be seeing you're daddy tonight," she whispered as she leaned against the wall. Sighing as she saw she child's expression of happiness light up her face, Kagome forced herself not to choke up in front of her strong little girl. "Sweetie, you do know he knows nothing about you and your sister right? Mommy was too afraid to tell him when you were born."

Her daughter's head tilted to the side as if she were confused, but she asked her mother why anyways.

"Why were you scared to tell daddy about us, Mommy? Did he do something bad?"

This was one of the few times she hated how smart her child was. Even Kaiya could have sensed the dread in her at that moment, and nothing in this world would have allowed her to hide it from ether of them.

"Yes, sweetie. But it wasn't you're daddy's fault. And I had to leave him so I could get away from your grandmother."

Her daughter growled at the mention of her mothers mother. And she really couldn't blame her. They had been out a few months before shopping and getting Kagome ready to head back to school when they had run into her in the mall. Her mother had freaked out, shouting and screaming that Satan's Slut was back in Tokyo.

It was safe to say both girls had left their grandmother with a long, lasting impression of what they thought of her.

"Me and Kaiya don't like her," she growled in her small sweet voice. "She's a bad lady."

"I know honey," she sighed cradling her child's head in her cut off gloved hands. The soft strands eased her as she once more took control of her composure. "But that's why daddy doesn't know about you two. And there is one more reason, but I can't and never will tell you. So please, be Mommy's big girl and don't ask me, okay?"

The little grunt that escaped her daughter's throat almost made her laugh, but she held it in for all she could. Amaya was far too much like her father, and sometimes, it really scared Kagome how much they were alike.

But it was moments like this also, that made her see telling him the truth was the best thing to do. So, with her mind made up, she pushed herself off the wall and started walking farther down the hall to the large red and pink split painted room of her children. Kaiya was sleeping peacefully already in her twin sized bed next to the window. Clutching the tiny tattered blue stuffed animal she loved so much in her arms as she slept peacefully.

Gently laying her other daughter down in the red and white bed on the other side of the room, Kagome pulled the covers up and over her, tucking her in tightly so she was warm and comfortable. When she was finally satisfied that her child would be able to sleep, Kagome bent over her, kissing her forehead and rubbing her nose against hers.

Amaya giggled and hugged her mother once more.

"Goodnight, sweetheart," she whispered to her smiling.

"Goodnight, Mommy," she yawned, showing off her tiny fangs that melted Kagome's heart everytime she saw them.

Kissing her one last time, Kagome walked over to Kaiya's bed of pink and purple fleece blankets and pulled the covers up. Kaiya stirred slightly, as if she were saying 'I'm fine the way I am, Mommy,' but she did it anyways. Checking the window to make sure it was closed in place and secure, Kagome quietly walked out of her daughters' room and shut the door

Leaning against the wall facing the large windows once more, Kagome forced her eyes to stay dry as she finally saw a pair of headlights turn into the driveway and continue down the long path.

"Well," she sighed heading for the stairs. "Here goes nothing."

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Inuyasha turned off his engine as he finally parked next to Kagome's Jeep Liberty and sighed. How was he going to tell her the real reason why he wanted to talk to her so badly tonight?

'Hmm, well lets see. You're all I've thought of for the past four years now, and I can't live without you in my life. I can't even think of ever being with anyone else, and the thought of you ever leaving me again kills me more than anything else in the world. So, will you marry me?"

Yeah, that was going to go over with her perfectly. She was so closed off from him right now that he had no idea what he was suppose to do. But as his claws gently scraped the tiny box in his jacket over and over again, he found it harder and harder not to want to even try asking her.

Plus, the fact that she still wore the ring he'd given her so long ago seemed like a sign to him.

As he looked up, Inuyasha nearly shrieked at what he saw glaring at him from the other side of the glass.

Minus the very prominent Adams Apple, it looked like a woman with long, dark hair halfway up in curlers, and red eyes and a lot of green stuff on her face. The long blood red fingernails, or were those claws? Were wrapped around the upper arms in a way he'd only seen his own mother do whenever she was pissed at him.

This must be Naraku, one of Kagome's adoptive father's.

Or at least he hoped it was and not some loony from the mental ward wanting to talk to him.

"Are you Inuyasha?" the deep voice, which shocked him even more, asked in a growl.

All he could do was nod.

"Good, my name is Naraku. And here's a warning. Do not hurt my daughter in any way. Or else you're dead. And just because I'm as flaming as they come does not mean I can't kick your ass. She's my baby. And I'm more like her mother than a father to her. So do yourself a huge favor and have her home before 2am. Capiche?"

After blinking a few times at the strange he/she in front of him, he nodded.

"Naraku! What have I told you about coming outside like that? You're going to scare someone to death!"

Both men turned to look up at the staircase. To Inuyasha's relief, it was Kagome. And she looked absolutely beautiful to him.

Her chop job jeans hugged her curves tightly, accentuating ever supple curve he craved to touch. Her leather biker cut off gloves and black fingernails made him think she could be wild and free, like him in a sense. And her tight black turtle neck and Shinedown hoody just made her even more amazing in the soft glow of the moonlight. But there was something in her eyes that didn't quite match her appearance.

Was that… fear?

He figured his mind was most likely just playing tricks on him once more. Why would Kagome be afraid of him?

"Will you stop making fun of my face peel?! I pay good money for this stuff," Naraku hissed throwing his arms on his hips roughly.

Kagome simply rolled her eyes, and finally looked at Inuyasha for the first time since she had come outside. He looked the same as he usually did. Absolutely handsome.

Black jeans, black skin tight tank top, black leather jacket, and black biker boots.

Damn.

He had to go and make this even harder on her huh?

Her fingers absently went to the scar of her C-Section hidden behind her jeans. And she sighed looking at him. Inuyasha was going to hate her after he knew everything that had happened. She just knew it.

She only hoped she was strong enough to deal with losing him once more. Because if she wasn't, she had no idea what she was going to do.

"Naraku, that stuff is gross, and you've scared everyone in this house multiple times because you think your skin isn't smooth enough," Kagome drawled as she walked over to the passenger side of Inuyasha's Jeep. Shaking visibly.

She wanted to run. But she knew she couldn't do that now. So, she hopped in the car, slammed the door, and buckled herself in. Inuyasha followed suit, but he was far more gentle with his door. He looked at Naraku, as if to ask what was wrong with her tonight. But all Naraku did was look away sadly, and Kagome knew why he was acting like such a bitch tonight.

He was worried about her.

"Have her home by 2am. No later," he whispered quietly to him, sending a glare at him as he walked away from the car. "And do yourself a favor, Inuyasha, and just listen to her."

And with that, he walked up the stairs and into the house, as if leaving them both in the car was the only way he could not cry at this. Inuyasha was confused, like usual. But Kagome knew exactly what Naraku had meant.

"Well, are you ready to go?" he asked her softly, which almost made her wince.

Nodding her head after a moment, Kagome hugged her hoody even closer to her body. As if the thin shield would protect her from everything she was feeling in that instant. Rolling down the window as the vehicle finally turned out of the driveway, Kagome let the cool night air wipe across her face roughly. As if she was hoping the cool air would allow her to finally feel some peace in the car, Kagome sighed, only feeling a lot worse about how this was going to go.

After stopping at the third red light from their departure, Inuyasha looked at Kagome in pure worry. She seemed so far away and inside a cage made of anything to keep him and everyone else out at that moment in time. He wondered what she was going to tell him. And he wondered how on earth it could cause her entire personality to change so drastically like this?

Wanting to make sure she was okay, he wrapped his free arm around her shoulders. When she looked at him, even though she was smiling, her eyes held so much pain and misery in them he had to move away.

"Are you okay baby?" he asked, now knowing full well something was wrong.

He could smell her tears before they even appeared in her eyes, but she shook her head at him and looked away. Inuyasha figured that whatever this secret of hers was now, was most likely a very big… and bad one. And by the look in her eyes that instant, he knew taking his time to get to this place was not even worth it. So, speeding up a little, he sighed inwardly to himself.

'Please god… let something good come out of tonight,' he begged silently to himself.

But he had no idea what he was store for. And that was the reason silence at the moment was all Kagome could come up with. Fear controlled her in that instant.

Now it was only a matter of a few hours if that, that he would know the truth.

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Pulling onto the side of the road next to the park, Inuyasha turned off the engine and could already feel his body begin to shake drastically. Some was very wrong tonight. He could feel it in his soul. And whatever Kagome was going to tell him, he had a feeling was a lot more important at this point than what he wanted to tell her.

Upon getting out of the car, Inuyasha found himself rushing over to her side of the car and opening the door with lightening speed. She looked up at him in slight confusion, as if she was wondering why he was acting like this. But he could tell by her scent that she was scared to death of him.

"Okay, I can't take it anymore," his voice shook and his eyes began to burn. "Why are you so afraid of me right now? What did I do, Kagome?"

Her eyes widened, as if she too realized that he would be able to sense her emotions in that instant.

Pushing him aside, Kagome stepped out of the car and began walking. The moonlight reflecting off her hair in ways he found absolutely irresistible. Her body, even though he was now just noticing how much of it was covered by the amount of clothing she had been wearing around him, made him feel alive as he stared at her.

As she headed over to a solitary bench in the center of the park, Kagome sighed as she crashed into it. Looking up at the sky, she seemed to be thinking about so many things right then and there, that Inuyasha just stood there. Too afraid that she might just run away from him if he sat down next to her.

It must have been at least an hour, before she finally managed to speak to him.

"Do you remember that fight you got into with Koga back when we were thirteen?" she said softly.

She looked over at him with tears in her eyes, and the blue's and silvers showed so bright, he was afraid she would blind him by her painful beauty. She waited for him to answer her, and found herself patting the space right next to her. But he stayed where he was. Unmoving.

"Vaguely," he said honestly. The images floated in and out whenever he though about that night. All he could remember was the fist flying to the side of his head, and Kagome beginning to pull him away.

After that, everything was a blank.

A shiver ran up his spine, almost as if his body and mind were trying to remember what had happened that night, and whatever he had done was bad. Kagome moved over as he finally sat down. He was shaking as an image, almost like a photograph shot into his mind, and he gasped in horror as he realized who the image was of.

Kagome. Crying and covered in blood beneath him.

As the image faded away, he looked at her in horror. But all she cold show him was her weakest smile.

"Something very bad happened that night, Inuyasha," she whispered in a shaky voice. Looking away from him, she began to move her hair away from her neck slowly and pulled off her gloves, rolling the sleeves of her hoody up as she did so. "And I know you don't remember, but I think it's time you knew the truth about why I left Tokyo. And why you haven't heard from me in four years."

Inuyasha's eyes widened as his vision blurred.

Bite marks and deep purple and red scars marred her skin everywhere. But it was the marks on her neck that came flying into his mind first, and that was when his own nightmares began to come to life in his mind.

Flashback

"Inuyasha!? Please?! Please stop!" she was crying and screaming over and over again at him. But he barely heard her through the haze in his mind.

Everything was out of his control in that instant. His human heart was locked away and trapped within and all he could do was watch in horror. He wanted to scream in that instant and pull himself away from her. But his body was no longer under his control. His demon blood had taken over, and now, he was being forced to watch his accursed heritage rape the girl of his dreams. Over and over again.

"No! Kagome!!!" he screamed along with her, crying within himself as he tasted her blood hit his lips. He knew exactly what his demon blood was doing to her, and it was so wrong. It was marking her as his. And even though she was, this was not how it was suppose to be.

No pain, no fear. It was suppose to be a loving union.

But he had no control.

And he could tell, this had lasted for hours and hours on end.

His claws ran across her flesh, and dragged out the deep lines he had seen only moments before, only now they were fresh and she was screaming. But nothing was coming from her throat anymore. Her screams were raw and barely there . Even her tears had frozen to her cheeks and, now lay in frozen drops on her face. Even the blood he had ignored was beginning to dry, and he could feel himself becoming sick from the sent of it, long with what he had stolen from her so heartlessly.

He was going to kill her.

"No!" he heard his younger self finally snap into consciousness. And as Kagome blacked out finally, he managed to pull away.

He growled looking down on her naked, bloody form, and felt as if his head were going to split away from him. He needed to run away from her. He needed to leave. She would never love him after this. Never.

Even though he had had zero control, this was one thing in his life that would be unforgivable.

Running into the woods after leaving his red jacket behind, thinking if she came to, she might need it just to stay warm after all of her blood loss, Inuyasha ran as fast as he could, crying within his demon form and screaming inside his head. Her scent was all over him, along with her blood and the remainder of her virginity he had stolen from her.

Without thinking, Inuyasha jumped high in the air, landing on a large rock near the river bank. But he had landed wrong, and found himself falling into the icy water.

After feeling what felt like a rock collide with his skull, he blacked out, only feeling the icy coldness of the running water washing away everything he had done. Along with his memories of the night. His human heart was broken and freezing as well. But, come that morning, he knew why he had no idea what he had done to fall asleep in the river.

And he had had no idea, why all he had wanted to do was scream.

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"Inuyasha?! Inuyasha, look at me! Inuyasha?!"

He could barely feel the hands on his jacket that were shaking him, barely see the face in front of him that seemed to be worried, and he couldn't sense anything. He ad completely numbed out.

"Inuyasha Taishio! God damnit! Answer me! It's Kagome!" the voice screamed in his face.

His hand moved without his knowledge to the side of the woman's face. And after blinking a few times, he could see who was saving him from insanity.

Of all people…

"Kagome…" his voice cracked. His throat raw from what he must have been him screaming in the madness from his new found memories, he looked at her as his vision blurred once more, and he blinked to try and force his tears away.

But they just wouldn't stop.

"Oh… My… God…," he shivered. "What… what have I?…"

Kagome had no idea what had just happened, but one moment, he had been sitting next to her, and then the next, screaming and holding his head as if in utter agony. All he had screamed was her name and 'No' over and over again. His body had even began to seize. And she had jumped away from him for only a second as he fell to the ground, shaking uncontrollably.

It must have been twenty minutes or more before he had finally stopped screaming. And she had held onto him the entire time. This must have been what Miroku had meant when he might lose his mind over this. And boy, had he been right.

"Shhh, it's okay," she cooed running her fingers throughout his hair. Hoping and praying he would stop shaking at least for a moment. She had expected the tears. Well, possibly him crying. But this? Not at all. "Everything is going to be fine. I came back, didn't I?"

Without any warning, Inuyasha wrapped his arms around her tightly and pulled her onto him. At first all she wanted to do was runaway from him. But he was shaking and crying, he was living the nightmare of that night over and over again like she had for years. So, she did the only thing she could think of to do in that instant.

Pulling away just far enough so she could look into his golden eyes, she kissed him fully on the lips.

His eyes widened for only a moment, allowing fresh tears to just drain from his eyes as he felt her warm, full lips against his.

When she finally pulled away, she was smiling weakly at him. And from the look of pure and utter love radiating from them that he saw, he could honestly tell she was no longer afraid of him.

"I love you. So, please, don't beat yourself up over this," she said softly to him. As she pulled him to his feet, she sighed looking at her watch. It was almost 2am. She needed to get home. When she looked at him, she wanted nothing more than just to hold him in her arms. But his eyes were just so dead in that instant, she didn't know if right now would even be a good idea to tell him about the girls.

But, it was most likely better to get everything out in the open right now.

"Inuyasha?"

He looked at her, pain written all over his face.

"How can you love me… after I did something like that to you? I could have killed you."

Kagome sighed as she looked up at the stars in the sky.

"I've always loved you. And that will never ever change. Even though you… even though what happened that night was the worst thing next to my mother beating me and throwing me out the very next day… I couldn't hate you. I knew it wasn't you doing those things to me. Because I know you." looking at him she walked into him and wrapped her arms around his waist, hoping he didn't run away from her. " I know for a fact that it was the blow to the head you suffered from Koga that had made you change. And from what I understand, half demons have zero control over their actions when they get to that point. So, even though you did it. I couldn't blame you for it when it wasn't even your fault."

"But I-"

Pressing her fingers to his lips lightly, Kagome pulled him closer to herself, savoring the warmth flooding through her body from the contact, she rested her head right where it had always been. Right over his heart.

"No buts. And… I really hate to say this after everything you just went through… but," she looked away and sighed. "But, there's more…"

He swayed in her arms and found his strength leaving him.

More? How much worse could this get?

Bending over and picking up the keys which had fallen out of his pocket, Kagome started pulling him in the direction of the car. He moved slowly, as if he was in far more shock than she had been counting on. But as she managed to pull him into the passenger side of the car, he stopped her and rolled over into the driver's side.

"I don't think you're in the right frame of mind to drive right now," she said softly to him.

He didn't look a her, he couldn't bring himself to do so at the moment.

The silence was most likely going to kill her, but she just got in as he started the engine.

As he pulled out of his parking space, his memories of how happy and carefree he had been only a few hours ago taunted him endlessly.

He wanted to erase the past, and start over fresh with her. But whatever this second pat of her secret was, he had a feeling that it was going to kill him just as much as the first part had.

He was just hoping that he could handle whatever it was a lot better. Because breaking down like that one more time, would kill him.

It really would.

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Upon pulling into the long driveway, Kagome glanced up at the house in confusion. All of the lights were on, and from what she could see in the distance, someone was running around frantically. As Inuyasha turned the engine off, he finally managed to snap out of his thought's long enough to catch Kagome running up to the house in a panic.

As he got out of the Jeep, the front door opened wide, and another man was standing before them panting. This must have been Kagome's other father, Jakotsu.

"Kagome!" he shrieked. "Thank goodness you're home!"

"Jako, what's going on?! Why is everyone still awake?" she asked confused.

In that instant, Amaya ran outside, and Inuyasha gasped as he saw the little girl.

She looked exactly like him. Her hair was silvery white and straight. Her skin slightly tanned and glowing softly in the moonlight. Her tiny fangs were showing through her mouth as she cried openly. And her little black ears on top of her head were a dead give away that this child wasn't fully human. Not to mention, her eyes were the same golden glow as his very own. He looked at Kagome, and then at the little girl, she must have been about three or four….

That's when her scent hit him. It was a mixture of his and Kagome's.

'No… this can't be happening,' he thought to himself as Kagome looked at him, pain written in her eyes.

"Mommy!" the little girl cried wrapping her arms around Kagome's legs.

Kagome turned away from him in that instant, and bent down to her child's eye level. The little girl wrapped her arms around her mother's neck tightly and cried loudly.

"Honey? Honey what's going on? Why are you out of bed?" she asked calmly, noticing that Jakotsu had run back in the house still searching for whatever was causing her family to go into hysterics.

Amaya looked into her mother's eyes and her bottom lip quivered.

"Kaiya's missing!" she cried. "I woke up to go to the bathroom and she was gone and the window was open. We can't find her anywhere!"

Inuyasha had now slowly moved to the stairs. And the look of pure horror on Kagome's face and the little girl's even had him scared. Whoever this Kaiya was, they needed to find her.

That's when the other scent hit him, and walking backwards from the two on the stairs, he looked up onto the roof of the large house.

His eyes widened in complete and utter shock as he stared up. At another little girl. Sitting on the roof with her eyes closed, with long curly black hair and white ears was sitting on the roof.

"Kagome!" he shouted. "I think I found her!"

Kagome pulled away and picked her child up and ran over to him. When she followed his clawed finger to where he was pointing, she gasped in horror.

"Oh my god… Kaiya!!!"

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Yes, I put in a cliffy.

Deal with it.

Ha ha ha ha!

Well, lemme know what you thought.

Next one is going to be interesting.

Toodles,

Me

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