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Chapter 8-The horrible truth

Sango sat at the bar to help keep an eye on people, watching as everyone moved around the club either playing or drinking an unhealthy amount of alcohol. She had made sure never to get involved if a club member managed to get alcohol poisoning. It was, after all, none of her business if they wanted to endanger their own lives. It was only her business when it concerned Miroku, Kagome, or perhaps even Inuyasha, but it wasn't like he would ever get sick.

She took a drink of her beer and looked around until she spotted Miroku coming towards her with a slightly confused look on his face. "Say, Sango…"

"What did you do now, Miroku? You have that guilty gleam in your voice." She gave him her full attention while she sipped her beer, making sure to only take a sip and not chug the entire thing.

He laughed nervously and played with something on his belt. "Strangest thing…I went up and knocked on Inuyasha's door, you know, to ask him a question, only he's not there."

"How do you know he's not there? Maybe he just didn't want to answer you and wake Kagome up."

"No, he's not there. I checked."
Sango eyed him suspiciously. "How could you have checked, Miroku? You don't have a key."

He hesitantly reached into his pocket and pulled out his own set. Sango gaped at him. "Miroku, you didn't…"

Miroku smirked. "I just borrowed Inuyasha's keys when he wasn't paying attention and had a set of my own made."

"If Inuyasha finds out…"

"He would have if he were in his office, but he's not. I really wonder where he went."

Sango snorted and started chugging her drink. "That's none of your business, and Inuyasha will let you know that later on."

Miroku stared at her guiltily. "Sango, you're not going to tell on me, are you?"

She sighed. "I should, it would serve you right for making the copy set in the first place. I could go looking for him right now and interrupt him so that he's angry enough at you to actually hurt you."

"Ouch, so merciless, Sango." He muttered with sarcasm.

"Always a pleasure, Miroku." She paid the tab and stood when she noticed Kouga conspicuously walking in. "Ah, so there's the demon."

Miroku turned his attention to him as well. "I wonder where he's been."

"Don't know. Ever since Kagome was claimed verbally by Inuyasha, he's been sneaky. It's starting to make me wonder…" That's something else we need to talk to Inuyasha about.

Miroku stared at Sango. "Shouldn't we confront him about it?"

"I would, but I think that we should talk to Inuyasha first. I don't like the way he's been sneaking around, Miroku. He's up to something."

"Well, right now Inuyasha won't care about anything other than making sure Kagome is alright." They continued to watch Kouga disappear within the crowd of gang members to join in on the fun.

Miroku grabbed Sango around the waist and leaned on her. "I can tell you're still worried about Kagome-chan, Sango."

"Of course, Miroku, why wouldn't I be? She's one of my best friends." The bartender put another drink on the bar and Sango grabbed it to chug it, only to have it gently taken from her and sat on the bar. Miroku stared at her with a half concerned gaze. "Now, now, Sango, drinking is not the answer."

She glared at him and sighed, but never stopped her stern expression. "Why do you always do that to me, every single time you see me have more than one drink, you cut me off."

"Do you not remember the incident with Kagome? Inuyasha's right, that shouldn't have happened, so I'm not taking any chances with you, either."

"Kagome also overdosed, Miroku. I'm not going to do something like that. Now give me back my beer."

He snorted. "You could be capable of anything when you're drunk, Sango. No beer."

She basically growled at him. "You're about to get it, give me back my drink!"

He shook his head and watched as Sango prepared to hit him, hard. He gripped her wrist before she could hit him and slammed his lips against hers. Even though they were a couple, that shocked Sango out of any thoughts of hurting him for the time being. She barely even got to kiss him back before he pulled away and grinned at her. "I knew that would work."

She glared at him. "Hentai."

"You liked it, Sango, or else you would have hit me like every other time I was being a Hentai."

She made a sound like she couldn't think of something to say and stormed off with her chains clinking urgently behind her. "I can't believe this!" She shouted with her hands in the air, enough to make the club halt and stare cautiously at her. No one would think of going near her when she was angry, as she tended to take her anger out on the rest of the club.

Attention was turned to Miroku, who seemed overly satisfied with himself. He seemed to suddenly notice the club was staring at him and he waved them off. "Nothing to see, here, go back to whatever you were doing." He muttered. The club reluctantly listened, but not without their smirks and words of "Oh, he's going to get it later."

That's when Shippo decided to join him on the bar stools. "What's up, Miroku?"

"The usual, trying to understand my violent angel." He grinned and stared at Shippo. "So what's going on with you?"

"Well, this may sound strange, but I caught the whiff of that 'Kikyo' woman when Kouga walked in."

Miroku's gaze turned serious. "You don't say…go on."

"It wasn't exactly on him, just like he had been around her. And if that's the case, then I think Kouga is on his way to betraying Inuyasha just like she did."

"If he is talking to Kikyo, he already has betrayed the gang." He put his hand on his chin and thought about it. "I had better tell this to Sango."

"Uh…do you think that is such a good idea?"

He stared at Shippo carefully. "If we don't tell her, she'll probably kill us later. Inuyasha, too."

"I'm just saying that another betrayal might make Inuyasha so mad, he'll kill the messenger."
"No, Kagome would never let him hurt one of us, Shippo." Miroku then got off his stool and prepared to seek out Sango. "Just do me a favor and keep your eye on both Kouga and the surveillance. If you catch another whiff of her or Fluffy, let us know."

"Ok." Then he got up to go back to his station as Miroku decided to go find Sango. "This cannot be a good thing…"

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Kagome woke to a more intense throbbing in her stomach, as if a feeling was making it worse. Something's not right…She looked up at Inuyasha, and the second she did his eyes opened to stare at her. He ran his hand through her bangs and tried to decide whether the feeling that was radiating from her was her pain, or something else. "Are you alright?" He asked quietly. It was almost as if she had an aura about her, but she was just a human and it was impossible for them to have one unless they had super abilities, like a certain psycho bitch he knew.

She sighed and rested her forehead on his chest. "I just have a bad feeling, that's all."

His ears flipped back against his hair. "What kind of a feeling?" He rubbed her shoulder and back carefully. That feeling she gave him made him slightly nervous. Luckily for her, she couldn't quite pick up on feelings like he could. Not yet, anyway.

"I can't tell, not with this stupid wound on my stomach." She shifted uncomfortably against him and clenched her eyes shut.

Inuyasha couldn't help his curiosity. How could she get a feeling? She's human! "Uh, Kagome? You can get feelings?"

She stiffened. "Oh, umm…" She was now officially nervous. What would she tell him? "Call it a hunch, that's all."

"Kagome, you're lying." He stated quietly, and he could see her clench her fists because she was caught.

"I am not." She stated quietly.

"Then why did you stutter, and hesitate? And why did you call it a feeling if it isn't?"

She sighed. "I can't tell you." She had her cheek on his chest so that she wouldn't look at him. She hated lying to him, and knowing that he probably wouldn't stop until he got the answers just made her a little scared.

He gripped her tightly and adjusted their position so that they now sat up against the back of his leather couch with her straddling him. He moved her back slightly so that she could look at him, and she did so with guilty eyes. "Come on, Kagome, its not like I'm going to tell anyone if you have a secret. Who would I go blabbing to?"

She shrugged. "It's just something that nobody ever knew about, for safety reasons."

He stared at her. "Are you a Miko?" His response was a slight nod, and she looked down and away from him.

He focused his energy to find her aura and took note that it was there, but very slight. "Then why am I just now sensing your aura?"

"Because I have spent all my life hiding it, you're only sensing it because of my weaker state. I'm holding back as much as I can, even when I sleep. I didn't want people to know."

"You don't have to keep secrets from me, Kagome."

She shrugged and looked at him like she was tired. "It's just that all my life I have hidden it. Do you know what people would do if they knew I was a Miko? They'd treat me like a witch and kill me. Even my father didn't know."

"So then when did you find out you were one?"

"Well, I guess I had brought my power out when I was threatened. When I was little, I was just outside the school grounds when a couple of bullies attempted to catch and beat me up. I felt frightened and backed into a corner, and suddenly a burst with purple energy from my hands had ended up killing the boys. I ran home from school that day with burnt hands and attempted to find out exactly what had happened. Through research, I found I was a Miko. But I had also noted that people feared us and would kill us on sight. So, I never told anyone."

He sighed. "Yea, well Kikyo is Miko and the cops are too chicken-shit to do anything about it."

Kagome cocked an eyebrow at him. "But she's also insane."

"Keh, why do you think she's not in my club anymore? Someone who's stupid enough to betray me is usually insane. I usually kill people like that."
"Then why isn't she dead?"

"Because she's a Miko, and at the time I didn't want my stupid brother to be seeking me for his stupid promise he's held to her." He ran his claws through her hair and combed it. He looked down to observe her wound and she looked down with him. "It's getting better…" She said amazed.

With her own abilities, the wound would have healed with an incredible speed, but with the bond that Inuyasha had forged with her, it was already almost covered in a scar tissue. That made her eyebrows furrow. "Is this going to scar?"

"Nope. When it's completely healed you won't be able to tell that you had a wound."

She put her hands on his shoulders for more support as she stared at it. "How long have we been laying here?"

His ears twitched when she said something and his gaze instantly went back to her. "About fifteen hours."

She widened her eyes in disbelief. "Fifteen hours? I have been asleep for fifteen hours!"

Inuyasha sighed. "Well you ARE injured, sweetie."
"Don't call me sweetie." She said quietly. "I have never slept for more than nine hours in my entire life. I just wasted a day of my life sleeping."

"Well what would you have been doing? You wouldn't have been able to go anywhere. It goes faster if you sleep."

She smirked at him. "And what were you doing for fifteen hours? I know you weren't sleeping, you never sleep."

He paused. "I was watching you sleep."

She looked down at his stomach and sighed, dropping the subject. "Am I getting blood all over your couch?"

He gazed down at his stomach and then shrugged. "A little blood ain't gonna hurt nothing. I can replace furniture, I can't replace you."

Kagome smiled at him. "That's sweet, Inuyasha."

He shrugged again and brought her closer to him. "Yea, well, you had scared me when you got stabbed. Promise me that'll never happen again."

She leaned into him and hugged him tightly. "I don't think you would let that happen, Inuyasha."

"You're right, I won't." His hand went to the base of her head and held her against his chest as he started to lightly kiss her neck and shoulders. She giggled slightly and held onto him tighter, forcing one of her eyes open.

She reached up and ruffled his hair as she gently started rubbing his ears. He began to slowly purr in her ear and brushed his lips against her cheek before kissing her deeply. He had to remind himself constantly to be careful because of her injuries, but at the moment it was as if she had forgotten she even had an injury. As long as he didn't dare take it too far, they were probably both fine where they were.

Suddenly, his cell phone rang, and he growled softly before pulling away to reach it on the back of the couch. Kagome just hugged him tightly and closed her eyes as if to go back to sleep, but she listened to him answer. "What?"

"Greetings brother. How fares it in the club of dimwits?"

Inuyasha growled loudly and clutched Kagome tighter. "What the hell do you want?"

"Intolerable, I send you a greeting and you bite my head off. Completely rude, Inuyasha."

"You have a purpose for calling, do you not? Well spit it out!" He bit out angrily. Kagome was rubbing his shoulders slightly with a concerned look on her face, and he had to admit that it made him feel better and a little less murderous.

"Hai, very well then. How is the Higurashi girl?"

"None of your damn business, I should hunt you down for doing what you did to her."

Sesshomaru tsked on the other end. "You know very well you couldn't do that without bringing her along, and if you bring or leave her it will certainly seal her demise. It appears as though the little wench shouldn't leave your sight, as she is a weakling human who's too intellectual for her own good."

"What the hell do you want!" He repeated. Just the thought of his brother made him angry.

"I sense a bond has been made between the two of you, hence her new immunity to my poison and her healing powers. I called to check and see if my hunches were correct, and if so, you have put that woman in a whole new level of danger."

Inuyasha growled deeply and rested his head against hers. "I don't know what you're talking about, and that is none of your business. If that is all, then I'm done speaking to you."

"I'm afraid you don't understand, Inuyasha. You know very well that Kagome is not the only girl whom wanted your affections. Both women may be Mikos, but…"

"How did you know that?"

"Very simple, I am a full demon, and once I injured her she let a tiny bit of herself be revealed. A half demon like yourself wouldn't have detected it if you weren't looking. Now, as I was saying, Kikyo is the stronger Miko and she wants revenge for all that woman has done to her. If she is now bonded to you, that has just iced her cake, as you would put it."

Inuyasha was starting to not like this very much. Kikyo and Fluffy dearest were both very bad news, and receiving threats from them never ended well. "What do you mean?" He asked carefully.

"It is quite simple, Kikyo will put a dream curse on Kagome and you will be powerless to stop it. The only way the curse can be removed is if Kikyo is killed, and if she is harmed in any way I'll be seeing you in hell, Inuyasha. That is, only if the bond is true. Tell me now, brother, as I can smell a lie over the phone."

Inuyasha snorted and closed his phone, effectively ending the conversation. It was none of his brother's business what he does with other people! Although a string of fear remained for the dream curse that Kikyo could unleash unto Kagome.

Dream curses were very terrible things. The person giving them would know when person two is sleeping, and when that happens then she can deposit any kind of dream she wants, if she is well, that is. Kikyo was certainly not the most stable person in the world, and she could probably pull some freaky shit that could possibly drive Kagome insane. He saw the brink of insanity on her once, and he couldn't let that happen again.

In his mind he settled it, both Kikyo and Sesshomaru had to die. They were a threat to his love, himself, and his club. If they were alive, they would cause utter havoc throughout the city and probably frame Inuyasha. And his criminal record that probably would put him in death row was really big enough already…

Kagome tugged on his hair and he turned quickly to look at her concerned face. "What's wrong, Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha just furrowed his eyebrows and shook his head. "Nothing." He pushed her back again to examine her wound, and both felt extremely cold when the wound still hadn't been healed. Inuyasha guessed that he was cold because of the bond, telling him that she still wasn't healed. "This should take another day or so, so I highly suggest you go to sleep."

Kagome sighed deeply. Fine, I guess he's not going to tell me what's wrong. Why am I not surprised? Surprisingly, she decided to drop it as she was not in the condition to argue some more. "Well, do you have any food?"

"Sure I do, but you can't eat."

She gaped at him. "I haven't eaten in two days, I'm a little hungry, Inuyasha."

"Hey, I'm not doing it to be mean, I'm doing it because the healing process won't work properly if you do. You can have something to drink, though."

She snorted. "I highly doubt that anywhere in that kitchen besides tap water is a drink that's nonalcoholic."

"Hmm…" he actually had to think about it for a moment, but trying to force his other thoughts back was a little harder than he had thought. "I…I don't think I do have anything besides water that I'd be willing to give you."

She shrugged and looked down. "All well, I guess I can live."

"Are you thirsty or not? If you really can't live with water then I'll have Sango bring up something else."

"I'll live, Inuyasha. I'm not that weak." She stretched and yawned, clutching him tightly once she realized that he could probably get a great view of her chest.

He smirked when he realized that she was hiding herself again and continued the comforting process of combing through her hair. He adjusted his position on the couch to lying down again and made sure that she was effectively stable to stay put in the case that he had to remove his hands from holding her. He didn't want her to budge once the process started working again.

Somehow, his mind went right back to the hole that Sesshomaru had dug for him. It felt so right to be holding Kagome, especially like this. And his bastard brother was attempting to take that all away from him! It was obvious that he wanted something to happen to Inuyasha, but Inuyasha had been tormented all his life with the sudden death of his mother that he could have prevented had he been paying more attention. He couldn't even catch the man who killed her. He never forgave himself for it.

But instead of ending his life, he chose to take it out on the world and become what he is today. He had promised himself that he would never feel for another person in his life for fear that they would be lost to him. He never wanted that hopeless feeling back.

Yet, his new lifestyle brought him to love Kagome, and the fact that if he hadn't been a gangster in the first place he would have never gotten her, it just made him relieved that all of that had happened. After he had quit denying what she did to him, he was able to bring himself to his senses and care about someone instead of shutting everyone out. Kikyo, even though she claimed it, had never been in his view of interest. She merely disgusted him and angered him deeply when she had betrayed him.

Kagome kept her eyes open as she played with the muscles of his right arm. So toned, he is…and caring. I'm lucky all this had happened to me. She sighed. Even though her father had died, she felt like it all came together to mean that she belonged right here in this gang, and in Inuyasha's arms.

But she had to admit, something about his death didn't ring right…it didn't sound like her father to just cowardly take his own life. She found herself drifting back to the horrible memories of the death of her kin. She started remembering the way he was killed without any guilt as she grew determined for some answers.

The police claimed his slit his own throat and dropped to the ground. When she reviewed the memories of the photographs shown, it gave her exclusive proof. Something that she now burned in fury with that the police had failed to notice it.

The slice was jagged, indicating that not only was it not done with a knife, but it wasn't done with any type of metal at all. Her years at a law school showed her that. This showed that he couldn't have killed himself because the weapon was inadequate and an obvious overlook of the forensic pathologists. The knife they showed on the screen that had been the 'tool' he used to kill himself didn't even have a jagged blade! It even gave exclusive proof of who did it! Focusing her memory more, there were initials carved into the bottom of the knife, and she gasped with a cold string of realization, causing her to clutch Inuyasha in both fear and anger.

Sesshomaru had murdered her father.

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(A/N-Sorry for the short chapter, but I had to end it here. So suspenseful! hehe…)

(Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it, as it is now four in the morning and I am going to sleep! Thank you, KawaiiMissi! Loved your review!)