Finally, the chapter is done. :)

Ch. 13 What Lies Beneath

Kagome's screams tore at Koga's heart and drove him insane. He squeezed his fists in anger and watched the blood flow from his wounded knuckles onto the wooden floor making a pattern of hate. In his mind he visualized the atrocious things that Inuyasha did to Kagome and his anger grew into a burning rage. He had to make him pay. He quickly turned towards the exit of the hut and quickly walked out in silence.

"Koga, wait," Sango said rushing out after him. She quickly caught up to him and pulled his arm back so that he could face her. "Please, I know it must be hard for you, it's hard for all of us, but don't do anything stupid. You know Kagome wouldn't want you to." She looked at him with pleading eyes. He knew what she meant, but he couldn't control his rage any longer, his fists long to hit something, and he was going to make sure that that something would be Inuyasha.

"Sango, I can't promise you anything. You didn't see what he was doing to her, you didn't see her pain…and you can't feel mine," he said in a deep smooth voice. He had a glare in his eyes that made her quiver and take a step back; she'd never seen him so irate before.

But she wasn't going to let his anger stop her from letting him know how she felt. "Do what you want Koga, I can't stop you, but just know that you're not the only one hurting here," she said as she clenched her hand against her chest, right above her heart. She gave him a quick glance that flashed only the smallest fragment of her pain.

Deep inside himself he knew that everybody else was hurting, but to know that only made him more irritated that the stupid bastard had inflicted so much pain on everybody that he had slowly started to care for. He took in a huge breath of air and placed his hand on top of hers. He knew he was going to do the right thing. Koga left his hand there for only a second, but what seemed to him like an eternity and then turned and walked away.

The early morning wind blew against Sango's face, as she watched the wolf demon walk into the early dawn. The sun shed light upon her eyes, blinding her momentarily, but as she regained her sight she saw that Koga was gone. She sighed a long sigh and whispered underneath her breath, "Please Koga, please don't kill him."

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Inuyasha awoke in a sunlit meadow filled with a incandescent radiance, he felt the soft breeze sweep across his skin, and heard the sweet sound of a familiar voice in the distance. Far away he saw Kagome running towards him, "Inuyasha. Inuyasha!" He saw the smile on Kagome's face as she approached him it was bright as always; suddenly she was standing in front of him looking up at him while holding his hands. He felt happy here with her, like a sudden feeling of pure warmth, and if he could he would stay here forever. Inuyasha let his hand brush against her soft skin, and slowly bent down to kiss her, but she faded away and he fell into darkness. He could sense that he was alone, and he felt a twinge of pain in his heart.

A soft light appeared in front of him and he slowly walked towards it until his foot fell into a puddle of water; he leaned down and saw his reflection. Who was this person he was staring at? It couldn't be him? He shook his head and looked again.

Starting at him was a demon, with blood red eyes, sharp fangs, and the desire to kill. The demon mocked Inuyasha and laughed at him. Inuyashsa quickly backed away but bumped into something soft. He looked up to see Kikyo.

She laughed out loud and said, "What's wrong Inuyasha? Don't you like the new you? The look suits you most definitely."

"What have you done to me?"

"What have I done? You mean what have you done to yourself! Isn't this what you wanted to become, a full fledged demon? You haven't realized it yet, but you were the one who pushed Kagome away, she gave you her love and you denied it. You are despicable Inuyasha."

"No, that's not what I meant to do. You were the one that hurt me, but I went and hurt her instead," he said.

"Yes, you did," Kikyo said, "I never loved you. You were the one responsible for my death, you made me weak, I did plan on revenge, but things happened to fall into place naturally. After I left you had nobody and the only person to run back to was Kagome. But when you saw her with Koga, that only made you feel more alone and added to the fire that was growing in your heart."

Inuyasha looked at Kikyo as if she were crazy, but as soon as she said that bits of the horror scene flooded back to his memory. He saw Kagome's scared expression, saw her pain, and he yelled out in anger. "This isn't what I wanted! What the hell have I done?"

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Inuyasha awoke from his nightmare in a sweat; he hurriedly looked around him and spotted Miroku. He tried to get up, but felt dizzy and sat back down. There were dark spots of dried blood on his clothes and he could taste it in his mouth as well. Miroku quickly stood up from where he sat.

"Whoa Inuyasha, I don't think you'll be going anywhere soon. You'd better sit down," he said as he put a hand on Inuyasha's shoulder. Inuyasha suddenly felt a spark of anger and without knowing it let out a snarl. Miroku quickly took his hand off of Inuyasha.

'Who is this person because he's definitely not Inuyasha,' Miroku wondered.

"Miroku," Inuyasha started to say, he didn't know what the hell was wrong with him, he felt hate, anger, and pain. "You shouldn't come near me, I'm not myself."

"Yeah I think we know that you're not yourself by now." Miroku thought how he was going to tell Inuyasha what happened, or if he even remembered.

"I hurt her, didn't I? I really hurt her," Inuyasha said, his voice full of remorse. But still, he knew that he couldn't let Koga have her. Even though he knew what he did was wrong, and probably it wasn't what he wanted, it was his only choice.

"Yeah you did. Not just physically, but I think mentally as well. You didn't just hurt her, you know. You hurt all of us," Miroku said looking at Inuyasha, hoping that he would get the message across.

Inuyasha looked down at the ground, he felt his whole body ache, and he figured Koga was the one that had caused it. 'If it was me in Koga's position I would have already killed myself. How the hell could he let me do that to her? How could I let myself to that to her?' Before he finished thinking to himself he looked up to see Koga slowly walking towards him. He already knew there was nothing he could do to defend himself, he was too weak.

Miroku quickly stood up, "Now Koga don't do anything stupid." Koga quickly glared at Miroku and he shut up.

"Why the hell does everyone keep telling me not to be stupid? I'm not the stupid one here that bastard is!" He was angry, Inuyasha could tell.

Koga rushed at him with full force, he grabbed him by his neck lifted him on his feet and stared at him. Inuyasha could feel his blood pulsing rapidly in his veins.

"What are you going to do Koga?" Inuyasha said, "Look, I'm not myself and I know what I did was wrong, I'm already paying the price. I doubt Kagome will ever talk to me again and I know you're angry."

"Angry is an understatement. I'm fucking pissed off! What the hell were you thinking you fucking mutt?" Koga spat at him, and with that being said he pulled back his arm and punched Inuyasha hard in the face.

"Fuck Koga! Ok look I deserved that, but I'm not myself. I don't know how much longer I can contain myself," Inuyasha said squeezing his knuckles. He looked at Koga and their eyes locked, Koga's once profound blue eyes were ice cold and they looked deep into the soul of the half breed that was staring back at him.

All of a sudden every bit of rage that Inuyasha was holding inside burst from within him, seeing Koga take charge of him made him heated. He was angry at everything, that he made the wrong decision, that he no longer had Kagome's love, and angry that someone like Koga could win her love instead.

"Koga, if you're going to kill me do it now, before I get the urge to fight you again. I already said I'm not myself," Inuyasha said growling. He turned his head to the side so that he wouldn't have to look at Koga snarl.

Koga tightened his grip around Inuyasha's neck tighter for a little bit longer and then dropped him on the ground and stood over him.

"Fuck you Inuyasha; I'm not going to kill you because that's not what Kagome wants. Kagome will always care for you no matter what the hell you do to her; because she loves you don't you get that. Yeah so you fucked up more than once, but her feelings for you will never change," Koga lowered himself to Inuyasha's face and said, "But don't you dare do what you did to her again, because she will never be yours, and if you do the next time won't turn out so good for you. She's mine now and that's how it will stay, get that through your head. Her feelings for me trump over her feelings for you. You want to know why? It's because I was there for her, I gave her love in return, and I didn't smash her feelings into the ground like you did you bastard. That's why."

Inuyasha's anger was still boiling in his body, he hated Koga. He hated that Koga was Kagome's love, he hated that he took her virginity, he hated that they were so happy. That's the one thing he had wanted from Kikyo, but he made the wrong choice. He saw that now.

Miroku looked back and forth between Koga and Inuyasha, not believing what he just heard. He didn't know that Koga had the will power to not kill the man that raped his lover. He didn't understand how, but he understood why, and that's because what Koga and Kagome have is true love.

Okay this took me so long to write, just because I had it down and then deleted it all and then some of it didn't flow correctly. So this is what I have. I hope you liked it and I hope that it's okay for you to understand. Please review. Thanks for you're patience.