HG:I

Chapter 10

~Blackout~

*fist pumps the air*

Yeah! Double digits! Stay around for my author's note at the end, I've got some important stuff to say there – I don't say it here 'cause I want you to read first!

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Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha

The room is a mess. Feathers dance wildly in the air. With every step, the thick carpet threatens bare feet with hidden shards of glass and chunks of wood.

But it's not over.

With a snarl, I grip both sides of the end table next to the maroon bed and rip the wood from the wall. The screws bolting the table down are sent flying. I haul the table over my head and bring it back down with such a force, only splinters remain. From my violent menstruations, my hands are a bloody mess. The metallic scent sends my mind into a frenzy; that something in my blood doing overtime.

Blood. Need more blood. Kill!

"No!" I shout, denying the plea of my other conscious. I shake my head, but the words repeat themselves over and over, like a mantra, in my head.

My ears begin to pound. I look next to me, to find an inanimate victim. I spot the plush chair in the corner and advance towards it. Just as my lengthened claws sink into the cushions, ready to rip the expensive stuffing out, a voice stops me.

"Inuyasha?" The voice calls unsurely through the door someone opened.

That was a dire mistake… I think to myself. As to why someone would want to open the door after hearing such noises…

I snap my head up at Kagome, and my body reacts violently at the sight of her. My face twitches into something like a cocky smile. Like the hunter has cornered its prey. My knuckles crack in anticipation of plunging my claws into the flesh of her arm, dragging them down until-

A low growl rumbles in my chest, a warning her to keep her distance.

"Ge-get away!" I bury my head in my red hands, trying to shield her from the beast, but that only succeeds in imprinting my senses with the blood as it smears on my face.

Kill! Blood! KILL HER!

I stumble backwards to put more distance between us. Unsure of what my body will make me do, I bolt for the bathroom and lock myself inside. This is my best attempt to create a mental barrier between us, because I sure as hell know this isn't a physical one. Sadly for her, I could plow through this door without breaking a sweat. Fists pound on the other side of the door.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome screams through the door. My ears flatten themselves to drown her voice out, but it doesn't help. "Let me in!"

"No!" I yell at her. "I don't know what I might-" I startle myself when I glance at the mirror.

The demon, full-blooded demon, glares at me in the mirror, glistening fangs extended to the sharpest of points, purple tribal markings scar jaggedly down his face.

But the eyes… Blood-red themselves with starking electric blue irises- studying me.

Who is that? Is that me?

Kagome, persistent as ever, resumes in pounding the door down and screams, "You might what? Don't know what you might do? What you might say? Regret?"

I feel a pounding in the back of my head, crawling over every inch of my control and breaking it down. I steal another glance at the monster in the mirror and I could've sworn I saw him laughing at my struggle. In a flash of fury, I smash the mirror – shattering every inch of the cursed reflected surface. The glass cuts my skin before falling to clatter on the tile floor.

"Inuyasha? What was that? Answer me, gosh darn it! You're so stubborn!" From the other side of the door, I hear Myoga whisper to Kagome, but he could've been yelling in her ear as far as I could tell. I hear a noise as if she's carrying a necklace, the beads clanking against each other as she moved.

And that's the last thing I remember before I blacked out – but I know I didn't pass out…

A FEW HOURS LATER…

I frown, noticing I'm unable to get up.

"What the hell?" I say, finally opening my eyes to look around at my surroundings. I notice I'm in the main room of the apartment. Everything's a disastrous mess.

"Sit boy!"

As if a pair of hands pushed my neck from behind, my face connects painfully to the white marble floor. Behind me, I can here Effie complain pettily about blood on the floor. The force keeps me down, kissing the floor. I hear voices all around me.

"Do you think he's back to normal?" I hear Kagome ask, followed by a pained hiss.

Back to normal? What happened? Did I hurt you, Kagome?

"I don't know…." Mushin replies, sober and serious for once.

I inhale a gust of stale air and manage to spit out, "What the hell is going on!"

"Inuyasha!" Kagome cries. The force eases up instantly. I sit up quickly, not wishing to kiss the floor longer than need be, and get a good look around me. I stare in awe and horror at the chaos surrounding me.

Though Effie and the prep teams are unscathed, Mushin has his arm in a sling. The table is turned over with the food splattered up and down the wide walls.

But there's blood too. The black, dried blood stains the ripped up sofa. The sofa Kagome sits on with a gauze wrapped tightly around the arm she cradles oh so gently. She holds my gaze for half a second before turning away, but I still notice the tears lacing her brown eyes and the slight quiver in her lips.

I crawl the short distance over to her I kneel before her and place my hands in her lap, noticing someone wrapped them up as well.

Good thing, I don't want to smell that damn blood all the time.

"Kagome?" I beg, something I definitely don't do on a regular basis. "Please… Please explain to me what happened? I don't remember anything!"

She whips her black head to look at me in disbelief.

"You… You don't remember?" I shake my head. She bites her lip and looks at the others. I follow her gaze. Mushin nods for her to continue, thank Kami!

"You… You turned on us, Inuyasha. When I knocked on the door after you smashed the mirror, you burst through it with a malicious glint in your eyes, your blood-red eyes! I had a plan though, well, sort of." She knits her eyebrows and her eyes concentrate on something inside. I find myself biting my lip from the anxiety.

Don't stop now, wench!

"I ran, through the door to warn the others but…" She motions toward Mushin. "You got to them first."

I caste him an apologetic look, and focus on Kagome once more.

"Then, while you were chasing Cinna, I ran and jumped on your back and…" She looks at me with a sad smile. Motioning towards her arm, she adds, "Let's just say you weren't too happy about that. But I was able to put the Beads of Subjection around your-"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa," I interrupt. "The what?"

Instead of answering me, Kagome leans in close to finger the weight resting on my collar bone. I look down and find just what she was talking about. A black-beaded necklace hangs around my neck, fangs jutting out of the work here and there. When Kagome's hand retreats to hold her arm, I take the piece of work into my own hands.

"Well," I glance at her, taking the necklace in both hands. "I guess I won't need- what? Hey, what the hell!"

As hard as I might, I couldn't yank the damn thing off. With each pull, the beads only grow brighter and brighter until they glow a blinding white. Kagome stills me by placing her hand on mine, the beads dim to her touch.

"You can't take it off, Inuyasha. You… Just can't…" She looks at me with sad eyes and I feel as if those eyes are drilling through me, wrenching everything inside out of place.

I can't take it anymore! I've got to do something before I do something stupid like apologize…

Without so much as a word passed between us, I stand and scoop Kagome up in my arms, wary of her arm. I hear her gasp, but not a word of objection, so I carry her bridal style out of the room. Everyone else stares frozen at our backs.

Finally, Mushin calls out, "Inuyasha, what do you think you're doing?"

I yell over my shoulder, "Fixing what I broke, what else does it look like?"

I shut him out as I take longer strides to separate us, but then I stop short.

Shit! I don't know where I'm going…

"Uhh… I don't know where you-"

"Keep going, I'll tell you where to go."

I smile and do as I'm told. At first, I head down to my room, but Kagome steers me the other direction. With each corner, new hallway, new passage, I memorize the path for future occasions. Finally, we stop in front of her door. Kagome wiggles in my arms, but in her ear I whisper, "Not yet."

She tilts her face toward mine, confusion clearly written on her features. I smirk.

"What? Thought I'd drop you off at your door and walk away," she nods. "Fat chance."

I shift her in my arms and open the door. I nudge the door with my foot to further open it and step inside.

Inside, her yellow walls reflect happiness. Unlike my carpeted room, she has bare wood floors that feel cool under my bare feet. I walk into the room and set her down to lie on her green bed. It's smaller than mine, and not as poofy.

I stand to walk out, but something deep inside me tells me to stay.

And with one look at Kagome and her arm, I do.

"Mind if I stay for a little while?" I ask, unsure of what her answer will be.

She'll say no, you idiot! You sliced her arm up earlier, so why would she want your company now?

I was just about to change my mind and run out the door when she says in a small voice, "Please. Please do."

I sit on the edge of her bed and we just sit there. For minutes, we sit in silence, not looking at each other.

"Umm…" Kagome breaks the silence. My ears flicker her way. "May I… Forget it, it's stupid."

I face her, leaning on my hands on either side of her legs.

"No, tell me." I scan her face, but there's something there I can't decipher.

Her gaze flickers my way and she bites her lips, whispering, "May I… Touch your ears? I know, it's dumb-"

I get up to stand beside her bed.

I really shouldn't, Mom was the last person I allowed to touch my ears, but I can at least offer her this one small token after what I supposedly put her through.

Without a word, I sit with my back against the bed where her head is and say, "Go ahead, I don't mind - but just this once!"

I hope I don't do anything embarrassing-

At that moment, her fingertips brush against my ears, sending shocks through my body. My ears swivel forward as a reaction and I hear Kagome laugh, "Hey, come back here…"

I flatten my ears, embarrassed that she was talking to my ears, and force them to stand. The pressure increases and so do the shocks. Next thing I know, Kagome is laughing again.

"What?" I bark, more harsh than I intended.

Still rubbing my ears, she replies, "I think your purring is cute!"

My face must have been as red as a beet, then and there. I wanted to run and never face her again, but she was right. As soon as she said it, I noticed the rumbling in my chest that ricocheted off the walls of my throat until it squeezed through my lips.

This is exactly why I didn't want her to do that! Only Mom knew this secret…

I stop, immediately.

But that only makes Kagome laugh even more.

"Come on, I thought that was cute!"

"So you say," I growl. The fingers disappear. My ears flicker behind me to catch the sounds of her shifting on her bed. I crane my neck to see she has her back turned to me.

"Kagome?" I ask, twisting around to face her back.

"I'm sorry, I knew it was stupid but…" I can hear her voice on the verge of breaking up in sobs. I place a knee on the bed and haul myself up with my bandaged hands, looming over her body to see her face. Her eyes are staring straight ahead at the wall, but I can still see the two or three tears trail down the sides of her face.

Why is she crying! What the hell did I do?

"Umm... Actually, Kagome?" I pull her out of her revere. She shifts under me until she lies on her back; my silver hair creates a makeshift curtain to our left. For a moment, we just stare at each other, but then I realize how awkward our position is and say, "I didn't even let your mom touch my ears. So you should remember that I don't allow just anyone to touch these."

To emphasize my point, I swivel my ears to and fro. I watch as Kagome's face lights up as she admires my ears at their best, her smile doing strange things to me. Much too quickly, I maneuver off her and sit up on the bed.

Kagome's eyes never leave me.

"Who else touches your ears?"

I hesitate, but I look her straight in the eye and say, "My mother."

"Oh, you must let her do it all the tim-"

"She's dead." I mutter without emotion. I look away and, in the corner of my eye, see Kagome lower her head.

"I-I'm so sorry, I didn't know-"

I get up off the bed, hating how things are turning out. Without looking at her, I say, "No, it's fine: you didn't know, so… Yeah…"

I sigh and run a hand through my hair.

Kagome thrusts herself into a sitting position, the rapid movement stealing my attention.

"What are you doing?" I ask, rushing to her side of the bed.

"I… I'd like to hear more about your mother in a more appropriate place." She looks at me with a glint in her that screams look into what I'm actually saying!

Which is: Let's talk where Hizador's hawk-like eyes can't watch us.

I nod and give a small grin.

I scoop her into my arms, but this time she protests.

"I can walk you know!" Kagome cries, squirming all the while.

I press her tighter to my chest.

"I know… Just think of it this as my way of saying sorry."

I feel Kagome still in my arms and I can't help but grin triumphantly.

"So, do you know where this place is?"

She nods and I follow where ever she directs me.

A/n: O.o woooowww….. This is one looonnnggg chappie!

I hope I didn't bore you guys! (if I did, just stay quiet and lie to me- jk!)

As I told Trunks' Hottie, I'm thinking about doing a writing marathon where I type as long as I can for one day until I've updated at least one chapter per story I have.

She liked it, how about you?

Okay, to do her justice she said, "THAT WOULD BE AWESOME! AWESOME I TELL YOU!"

*cocks eyebrow at the other reviewers*

See what I mean?

So give this one a review and let me know if I gave Inuyasha's Demon justice or not.

(btw, I had him black out because this is his first time, and when he went full-demon in the series, he kind-of blackout out then as well… Actually, he blacks out every time!)

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Till Next Time!

p.s. I'M OUT OF SCHOOL! WOO HOO! I am now halfway through my high school career: a sophmore!