Whoo this chapter was giving me some problems... But it was nothing i couldn't handle.lol sorry it took so long to update, i've been busy with prom, grad bash and trying to figure what the hell im going to do about college but i managed to squeeze it in.
So here goes chapter 10: The truth and Insanity... ENJOY!
Kagome skided to a halt when the bloody view of the battle came into view. She braced herself and frantically searched for Sesshomaru, she found him near the door fighting Bankotsu. Using no sense whatsoever she rushed over to him and jumped into Sesshomaru arms. He jumped back barely able to dodge the claw that almost rendered her back.
"Kagome, what the hell are you doing!"
The fighting had ceased as the men saw Kagome race through them and into Sesshomaru's arms. Bankotsu was breathing steam at what he saw before him. Kagome clung to Sesshomaru's neck and shoulders pleading for him to stop fighting. Sesshomaru backed away to give them a couple of feet away from Bankotsu in case he tried to snatch her away. She loosed her hold as Sesshomaru held her up from behind.
"Kagome I told you to stay upstairs" He said firmly.
She shook her head and tugged his shirt. "I'm not going to let you get hurt because of me, if something happened I would feel like it's my fault"
Sesshomaru set her on her feet; he noticed she was wearing one of his shirts which were sliding off her shoulders. "Kagome, I could never blame you for anything. I would fight for you forever even if I have to wait another 500 years to get you back."
"I know you would" and that's what I'm afraid of.
Kagome looked around at everyone in the room, all of this over her. "Please I don't want you to fight, Bankotsu I'm sorry but… I'm not leaving this house"
Sesshomaru flashed a triumphant smile towards Bankotsu as he wrapped his arm around Kagome's slim waist. She still connected eyes with Bankotsu as she slid deeper into Sesshomaru's hold. There was no way she could go back to him now, she knew that look on his face, it was just the same look his father would get when he wanted to go out and kill someone. He wants to kill me. Small footsteps were heard on the staircase, Izaiyo poked her head out from the corner. Inu held out his hand for her and she was soon standing by his side.
"You belong to me, not him" Bankotsu growled.
"I don't belong to you, I never did! Sesshomaru doesn't have to prove anything to me because I believe him!" Kagome yelled. "You are a liar, thief and a sadistic murderer!"
Sesshomaru pulled Kagome behind him as Bankotsu started towards Kagome in full anger but he was stopped by Renkotsu. His hand was held tight on his shoulder. "Okay I'm the cop here and I say there will be no more fighting or I'll throw every last one of you in jail, including you Bankotsu" He let his hand drop. "Now what is this talk about Bankotsu taking what was not his?"
"What! Don't act like you don't know" Inuyasha spoke for the first time since they arrived. "You know what he did to Kagome"
Renkotsu sighed. Kagome stared at Renkotsu and her heart dropped.
"You knew" she said softly. "After all this time you knew"
Renkotsu spoke the truth. "I knew that Bankotsu wanted to take you as a mate. He talked about you all the time and showered you with gifts, it seemed like he was so in love with you, according to the rules I thought there was wrong with it."
Inu spoke up "What rules? You can't erase someone's memory just because you want to mate them! Did it ever occur to you what would happen if she ever met Sesshomaru again, the confusion she would be in?"
"No! None of that ever occurred to me! I don't even know who he is, except that he rules the west." Renkotsu pointed at Sesshomaru. "Kagome, I'm sorry for what happened and when I first met you. You were so lively, kind, and you were favored by all of the residents of the castle."
Kagome refused to look at him. "Why did he erase my memory?"
"At that time I only visited my cousin a few times out of the month, sometimes at night in your sleep you would have nightmares and lash out at the servants, then the following morning you couldn't get up out of bed and stare out the window until you fell asleep again. He told me that recently you just had witnessed your whole family slaughtered by a pack of rogue werewolves and that he found you there in the rubble, A nasty blow to the head you couldn't remember much about it."
Sesshomaru growled. "Well let me tell you the truth about your cousin's story, 1 Kagome's family was not killed by werewolves but by natural death. 2 Before Kagome set foot in that castle she was human and dead in my castle in our bed. Does that give you any questions"
Renkotsu was confused. "What do you mean your bed, she was
"My mate before she was even his, she died in the battle of 1508 by the hands of his father Naraku who has disappeared out of nowhere, he cleaned her memory of me and my family and forced his mark upon her, which I do intend on erasing and you say you knew nothing about all of that" Sesshomaru eyes flashed red.
Renkotsu was speechless, he never knew that was the real reason Bankotsu asked about the potion. He sat down heavily into the couch and ran his hand through his hair; guilt was washing over him like a tsunami. How could Bankotsu do such a thing, he was no better than his own father. But he had no room to talk, if he hadn't agreed to the potion in the first place then there could be a chance that Kagome would remember everything and reunite with her mate Sesshomaru.
Kagome moved away from Sesshomaru and kneeled next to Renkotsu. He really had no idea what was really going on he was just trying to help her out. "Hey, Renkotsu don't feel so guilty it's not your fault you were mislead, I forgive you"
"But I'm just as guilty as him" He said wallowing in shame.
"I said I forgive you…okay if you want to make it up then we can do it over a banana split, come on no one blames you"
Renkotsu moved from the chair and pulled out his handcuffs, Kagome stepped back into Sesshomaru and the others tensed. Renkotsu fished for his gun and said:
"Bankotsu, you're under-
Bankotsu was nowhere in the room. "Where is he?"
The other turned behind them and saw nothing but walls and ceiling. They were so enwrapped in Renkotsu's confession none of them had noticed that Bankotsu had run off. Renkotsu ordered the guards to circle around the house and he put a mag in his gun.
"I didn't think the bastard would run away" Renkotsu muttered.
The guards came back and reported. "He's not in the perimeter and his vehicle is gone"
"Dammit! He's probably going to go on the run, look I have and check his place and go back to the department, Thank you Kagome for forgiving me and lord Sesshomaru please forgive me as well. It would be best if you all go somewhere else for the night maybe to your mansion where it is more guarded, in case he comes back for round 2"
Inuyasha said as arrogant as he was. "Like he could try"
Kagome went to hug Renkotsu and Sesshomaru felt a tinge of jealousy hit him. Kagome said something in that foreign language he had heard her speak before. Renkotsu replied back in the language as well. After the cops had gone they still continued to talk.
"Kagome are you okay" Izaiyo asked.
"Sesshomaru you never told me that I was killed by Naraku" Kagome arms rested on her hips.
Inu knew what time it was and ordered everyone back upstairs. Kagome leaned against the broken window and Sesshomaru stood in middle of the room. There was one thing that Kagome was shocked by, she was killed by Naraku! Sure he was a crazy man but he always treated Kagome with respect and care like a real daughter.
"It was him, I wouldn't lie" Sesshomaru eyes glimmered.
"I know you wouldn't but… that is so hard to believe he treated me like his daughter, well ever since I met Bankotsu.
"Well he's not the person who you think he is, he hates humans and werewolves and kills them for sport" Sesshomaru snapped.
Kagome knew he was getting angry but there was one thing she had to know. "Did you kill his mate?"
They just stood there staring at each other, then in a blink of an eye Kagome was against the couch on her back and Sesshomaru loomed over her. His eyes were a slight shade of pink and his breathing was ragged. "are you taking up for Naraku?"
Kagome struggled against him "No. I'm. Not. I just wanted to know who was responsible for the war that caused my death" she snapped.
Sesshomaru went still, his eyes returned to their normal color. He looked as if he had been stabbing by a knife right in his chest. Kagome didn't mean for it to sound the way she said it, she put a hand on his shoulder but he shrugged it away.
It was just like in his dream, she blames him. "I didn't kill his mate" He got up and left upstairs.
Miles away
Renkotsu burst into Bankotsu's study equipped with his gun and flashlight. All the lights were off and no one was in sight. No one except one person. Bankotsu was sitting a chair near the fireplace, gazing into the fire. Renkotsu approached him cautiously, coked his gun and pointed it. He was a good cop, loyal to the law; he couldn't let this slide just because of blood kin.
"Bankotsu you're under arrest"
Bankotsu said nothing.
"Get up and put your hands behind your head"
Nothing.
He lowered his gun "Shit Bankotsu don't make this worse than what it already is"
Bankotsu tilted his head and stared at Renkotsu. "You actually plan on taking me to jail"
"If you plead guilty the least you can get is 100-250 years, what you did is not taken lightly in the law, bank."
"What about my mate you plan on taking her away from me too." Bankotsu stood.
Renkotsu aimed his gun again. "Your mate! You forced her to love you! You're lucky enough that Sesshomaru didn't rip you to pieces"
"I will deal with him later but I have to solve the problem at hand first" A thick sword appeared from Bankotsu's hand.
He wouldn't. Renkotsu aimed and fired shot's; the bullets went right through Bankotsu and into the wall. He barely had time to dodge the big sword that missed him and sliced through the desk like butter. He couldn't dodge the second attack as the Bankotsu stabbed him through his chest and pinned him to the wall. Blood seeped from his mouth as he coughed.
Bankotsu laughed at how pitiless his cousin fought. "you should've never stop training"
"Fuck you" Renkotsu spit in Bankotsu face.
Bankotsu wiped the blood from his face. "You were supposed to back me on this but instead you take that mutt's side, I'm your blood! And you try and take my mate away from me just like father and now you're going to end up the same way he did."
Renkotsu choked. "What are you taking about?"
"I killed the bastard" He laughed menacingly. Renkotsu just stared at him bewildered. He's gone insane.
"Yep, I killed him slice his head off with ol' Banryu here" He pushed the sword in deeper. Renkotsu grunted and more blood spilled from his mouth. "So know you know how far I'm willing to go to keep Kagome, The love of my life."
"You need help Bankotsu, you're not thinking clearly anymore"
"NO, IT'S YOU WHO DON'T UNDERSTAND!" He began to pace the floor. "See you're just like Father, always telling what I should do and mother that Bitch! I knew she-
"You killed your own mother" Renkotsu watched in horror as Bankotsu glared at him.
"She told my father that I was unfit to rule, that I was a coward, a lunatic and would bring the vampire race to its knee's, but I didn't kill her with Banryu, I chopped of the hand of a prisoner in the dungeon and ripped out her throat with it as she slept, Father smelled werewolf and declared war on the west." He giggled. "The perfect plan"
Renkotsu tried to move the huge sword but it wouldn't budge. He knew he wouldn't make it out of here alive. "You're not going to get her back, Bankotsu, she chose who she wanted and you've lost."
Bankotsu shook his head. "I haven't lost; I plan on giving her another potion, strong enough to kill every wretched memory she has of that mutt, then we can be truly be together, forever. But that's enough talking for you, say hi to Jakotsu for me"
Renkotsu tensed. No. not Jakotsu!
Bankotsu pulled the sword from within Renkotsu. He slumped to the floor as blood gushed from the gaping hole in his chest. Renkotsu smiled at a thought as the sword swung and swiped his head clean off his shoulders.
No more excuses, Jakotsu.
I didn't know whether or not to leave him in the story, but what better way to prive that Bankotsu is nuts for Kagome by killing his whole family, pretty carzy if you think about it. Soon another character will prove that she's crazy... crazy for some sesshy! LOL . You know the routine ... glad you enjoyed this chapter.
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