Robotic Beauty

Disclaimer: Do I own Inuyasha? ::sighs:: Unfortunately not…

A/N: Agg!! ::slaps herself repeated in the forehead:: I made yet another mistake in giving the same character different roles!! Thank you amberescence AGAIN for catching my error! Anyway… Kagura keeps her role as server to Naraku and now Sesshoumaru is engaged to Nazuna. God! ::sighs:: Thank you so much amberescence!! I owe you big time!

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Ch. 10: Information

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Sango was sobbing behind him and Miroku had collapsed onto the ground, cursing every god he could name, but Inuyasha didn't care. The worst thing in the world could happen and he wouldn't care. His everything, his very life had been taken from him. In the few months that she had come into his life, Kagome had become the single most important thing that kept him going. Now that she was gone, he didn't know what to do with himself. He was lost.

And when he felt the slight stirring in her body, he would have sworn his heart stopped beating for a moment.

With an almost inaudible groan, her eyes fluttered open and she took in a small breath.

Inuyasha stared at her disbelievingly and blinked hard. Am I imagining things now?

"Inuyasha?" Kagome asked in a whisper.

"K… Kagome…" Suddenly, he wrapped his arm fiercely around her shoulders and buried his nose into the crook of her neck. Silent sobs wracked his body.

"Inuyasha?" She asked again. "Are you… crying?" But there was no need for him to answer. She very clearly felt the warm tears slipping down her neck. Gently, she hugged her own arms around him comfortingly.

"I thought you were gone." He whispered.

"I'm right here, Inuyasha. I'm not going anywhere." She consoled.

He looked up and Kagome wiped away the droplets of water on his cheeks. She kissed him tenderly on the corner of his mouth.

Sango dropped to her knees next to the two of them and pulled Kagome into her own arms in a sisterly hug. Miroku embraced her soon after.

"How did this happen?" Sango asked, frowning when Inuyasha took Kagome back possessively.

Miroku shook his head in wonder, "It's a miracle."

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Sango knocked on Kikyou's door.

There was a pause before it opened slightly. "Is it safe now?" Kikyou asked tentatively, her eye peeking through the crack.

"Yes."

She beamed. "Did Inuyasha save me?"

"No."

Kikyou frowned. "Then where is he?"

One side of Sango's mouth lifted in an amused smile, "Over there." She jerked her thumb behind her.

The Princess looked over her shoulder and her jaw dropped. Inuyasha and Kagome were several feet away locked in a kiss.

"Inuyasha!" She gaped.

He looked up. "What?"

"You… you're cheating on me!" She said, stupefied.

He rolled his eyes, "Look, the Curse day is finally over and nothing bad happened so I'm no longer obligated to 'protect' you. So now I'm going to cancel the engagement. If you have a problem, then too bad."

Angrily, she marched over to him and pointed at Kagome. "It's her isn't it? It's that fake bitch! Why would you pick her ov— " She stopped and leaned closer to Kagome, peering at her face. "Something's different. Her eyes…"

It was something odd. The moment Kagome had woken, her eyes had changed. They'd transformed from the blank, dulled eyes to her old brilliant gray-blue ones, although Inuyasha claimed they'd always been that way.

Kikyou quickly shook her head though. It didn't matter if her eyes were blue or black, her fiancée had still left her for a robot. Furiously, she yanked on Inuyasha's hair. "How could you pick someone who isn't real over someone who is! All she is is metal and wires! I could ask my parents to tell Mushin to dismantle her and she'd be gone just like that!" She snapped her fingers.

Inuyasha growled a low, dangerous growl and he grabbed her shoulders fiercely, his claws slicing through the fancy fabric, "You do and I swear I'll make your life a living hell," he hissed at her.

Tears pricked at Kikyou's eyes as his claws began to lightly pierce her fair skin. "You're hurting me, Inuyasha." She whimpered.

"I don't really care." But he pushed her away anyway.

Miroku turned away from their conversation. He really had something to think about now. Why did Naraku go after Kagome instead of Kikyou? Especially if he knew Kagome was trying to trick him? It just didn't make any sense. Naraku was known to be a cunning mastermind. Somewhere deep in him, he knew they weren't going to fool him, but the sudden turn of events left him baffled.

And somehow, Kagome couldn't die, not even from a highly poisonous arrow and should have burned a hole right through her chest. Genius blacksmith or not, he knew Mushin couldn't create Androids out of something other than metal. There was something his father was hiding… Never had he been told how his father had been able to do so well in creating things when he'd done so poorly before.

Miroku decided then that he was going to have a talk with Mr. Mushin Kazaana.

"Oi, Miroku, where are you going?"

"I'm going to talk to my father about why Kagome wasn't destroyed by the arrow." He glanced over his shoulder. "You guys can come with me if you want."

They shrugged and agreed.

Once outside of Mushin's room, Miroku gave a knock to the door.

"Who is it?" Someone grumbled annoyed.

"Miroku."

"Alright, come in."

He opened the door. Mushin was on his bed and his eyes were closed.

"Whaddaya want?" He asked, opening one eye.

Miroku thought over in his mind how he would phrase this. "I need to know the truth, Father. How did you get your powers for making Androids?"

Mushin chuckled and sat up, both eyes now open, "I'd hardly call it a power…"

"The truth, Father." Miroku said unsmilingly.

Mushin looked at his son intently for a moment before he heaved a huge sigh. "I knew I wouldn't be able to keep it from you forever, son. You deserve to know what happened all those years ago. So listen closely because I'm not going to tell it a second time."

Miroku nodded and the four of them, Inuyasha, Sango, Kagome and he, sad down on the ground. He noted with an inward smile that Kagome was sitting on Inuyasha's lap.

"Now, before any of you scamps were born, with the exception of the Prince, Naraku was a well known wizard of blacksmithing. He was a good man that helped people fix their broken things and made little trinkets for the children. But then, it was said that he disappeared for an entire year. He came back with fearsome powers he'd tapped into. He was the first to ever create an Android. A powerful Android it was too! It did everything he asked with a snap of his fingers and people began to fear him like nothing else.

"Then one day, I found Naraku at my doorstep. I was scared beyond belief but he'd only come for an exchange. Somehow, he knew that I kept an old family treasure called the Shikon Jewel in my house. He told me if I gave him the jewel, he would grant me incredible blacksmithing abilities. He threatened that if I didn't agree, he would burn the village.

"I was sad to see it go, but I had no choice. The jewel had been in our family for generations. But on the plus side, I'd gained knowledge beyond anything I'd ever known. It was through those powers that I was able to create Androids." He ceased talking and they lapsed into a silence.

Miroku mulled over the new information in his head. "Why did he want the jewel?"

Mushin shrugged. "I have no idea. It had no significant power other than being a rare gem. I didn't think Naraku was into things like jewels, but who knows what's going on in the mind of that man."

"Could it be that Naraku is up to something more?" Miroku murmured.

"It's very possible," Mushin said gravely. "In fact I'm almost a hundred percent sure he's up to something."

"But what can we do?" Sango asked helplessly.

Mushin looked at her. "There is one man that I know knows a lot about Naraku. He helped me in making Kagome an Android and he's a blacksmith too. You should go to him and ask. We may be facing a lot of danger now that Naraku has made an appearance again."

"Who is it?" The four of them leaned forward.

"His name is Toutousai."

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A/N: And the plot thickens! I'm not too sure how many more chapters there are left. Maybe ten… but I'm really not sure. Anyway, review people! Thank you so much for all the lovely reviews last time!! Also, for those of you who are looking for a really good fic to read, I greatly encourage you to read A Fighter's Story by Jazz the Wolf Demon. It'll be sure to make you cry, laugh and all that good stuff! So go check it out!

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