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BLOODY LIES
Part VI - But Don't Tell
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. . . If I tell you a secret . . .
. . . Promise you won't tell . . .
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"What?!" He heard faintly, in the distance, "What do you mean he was with Kikyo? You think she's the one giving him all those cuts?"
He heard someone answer, "Yes . . . he wouldn't do it to himself, would he? I never thought of him as that kind of person, did you?"
"Well," The other person seemed to think before speaking, "No, I didn't . . . but what reason does Kikyo have to scar him up like that? Seriously Kagome, I just don't see that happening!"
So, the two people were Kagome and . . .
"Sango, you don't know that though" . . . Sango, Kagome must be the one speaking, "Inuyasha would never cut himself!"
"You don't know that either! How much do we actually know about Inuyasha?"
"But, Sango," Kagome insisted, "Why would Inuyasha kill himself, and literally strip away his demonic senses, like Kaede said?"
"Uh, there's always that fact that he's a hanyou and about all of Japan wants him dead except you, Miroku, Shippo, Kaede, and the rest of this village!"
"And you, Myouga, Kirara, Souta, my mother, Kouga . . ." The last word came out of Kagome's mouth slowly.
Inuyasha couldn't suppress a snort, his eyes snapped open, meeting a blinding light and two hazy figures.
"Inuyasha! You're awake?" Kagome asked, "You probably shouldn't open your eyes up so quickly, they need to adjust to the light."
"How are they going to adjust to the light if I don't open them?" Inuyasha grumbled, sitting up.
"You shouldn't sit up! Do you feel okay? Do you need anything?" She asked, handing him a 'water bottle', a container that held water from her time.
Inuyasha waved away the bottle, "I don't need anything." His eyes were open, the room seemed to swim around, but abruptly stopped after he shook his head slightly.
They were in a hut, and guessing from the girls' conversation, it was Kaede's hut. However, one could never be so sure with these human houses, they all looked alike to Inuyasha. Except Kagome's, but that's in the future, so basically it didn't count.
"I don't need anything," He repeated, "But I do want some answers."
He sent Sango and Kagome a glare, "Now!" He growled out when they didn't answer immediately.
"Well, about that," Kagome started slowly, "We want some answers too, Inuyasha. Nothing serious . . . just simple things like . . . Why did you pass out? Why do you have scars all over your body? Who's doing it? You don't cut yourself, do you Inuyasha?
"Why didn't you tell us about this? Why didn't you speak up about your senses failing? How come you were with Kikyo? Does she have anything to with this? Are you okay, you're looking a little pale . . . no, angry? Anyways, what do you think you're doing out in the forest in the mid-"
Kagome paused as she felt Sango's hand on her shoulder, a slight 'no' nod from the taijiya told Kagome clearly, 'No! You ask anymore questions, there go your vocal chords. He is not in the mood.'
"But it's for his own good!" The miko protested.
Sango hardened her gaze at the teenager, Kagome dropped it and looked at Inuyasha.
She was rewarded with angry looking orbs. She heard a faint, "Told you so . . ." from Sango.
"So, Inuyasha, do you need anything?" Kagome asked again.
"No! Dammit! I want some answers! Now give them to me!" Inuyasha growled, "Where are we? What happened? Where's everybody else?"
Before Kagome could answer, Sango butted in, "We're at Kaede's, you fainted in the forest, and Miroku, Shippo, Kirara, and Kaede herself are out in the village doing Kami knows what. Satisfied?"
"No! What else happened? How long have I been out?"
"Kagome ran to us, we ran to you, brought you here, fixed you up, or so we hope, sat here for about five hours waiting for you to wake up. Oh, you fainted because of blood loss. Need anymore information, because now I think it's our turn for you to answer some of our questions."
Inuyasha glared at the girls in a sulky way, "Whatever," he mumbled, a note of ice in his tone.
"Okay! First off," Kagome started, "Are you okay?"
"Yes! Didn't we establish this fact already? Don't ask pointless questions!"
"The only pointless question is the one left unasked!" Kagome quoted from some book she read about five years ago.
"Feh . . ."
"Good!" This time it was Sango who asked the question, "How did you get those cuts?"
"From something sharp and pointy." That certainly left room for the imagination to fill in the answer.
"Like what? Tetsusaiga? A tree branch? A sharp, steel katana? some sort of evil Kikyo tricks or magic?"
"Maybe"
It was clear that Inuyasha was not in a talking mood today, and he confirmed it as he stood up and stomped out the door.
"Well, that went well!" Kagome said in a sarcastically bright voice.
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Plunk!
A pebble landed into the river. Small ripples blossomed from the area of impact, spreading out slowly thinning as they strived to reach the bank that Inuyasha sat on.
Deep in thought he lazily threw another stone at an orange fish. It looked at him with the typical 'fishy' face. He made an annoyed 'fishy face' back at the fish. Stupid blubbering, scaley things! How could anyone stand them? They were so worthless! But they taste good. His inner voices cheered.
Yes indeed, they did taste good, so that is why they existed. I mean, what else were they good for? To stare at them, keep them as pets?! What an absurd idea that was! He laughed at the stupidity of someone who kept fish. How idiotic . . .
"Are you trying to kill the fish, 'cause that sure isn't working." A familiar, annoying, childish voice boomed in Inuyasha's ear.
"Brat! You don't go around shouting in my ears!" Inuyasha yelled at the kitsune, snatching him up by the tail, "What do you want, anyways?"
"Don't yell at me! Kagome told me to come and yell at you to come back to the hut!" Shippo sniffed Inuyasha curiously, "You smell like that pot, whatjamacallit, Kikyo." He observed, "Ooh! Was Kagome mad at you? If she wasn't she will be because you smell just like that pot!"
Inuyasha snorted, however he sniffed himself just incase.
Damn, he did smell like Kikyo . . . "Did you know that your blood smells like a humans? Is tonight the new moon? Is there in eclipse?"
"No, dammit! Why do you care?!" He smacked the fox on the head, sending him to the edge of the river.
Shippo dug his head out of the ground and pouted at Inuyasha, "Because! And I'm going to tell Kagome!"
Amber orbs slitted, "Tell Kagome what?" He murmured to the kit, tone dangerously low.
"Tell Kagome that you . . ." Shippo looked at Inuyasha, a shiver went up his small spine, "That you'd really like some ramen for dinner?"
"Yes!" The demons eyes lit up at the mere mention of his favorite food, "And nothing else, right, Shippo?" He growled lowly.
"Right!" The kitsune agreed with the hanyou without hesitation. His small child-like mind was slowly forgetting what Inuyasha smelled like. To him Inuyasha smelt like his normal self.
"Right." Setting the kit onto his shoulder, Inuyasha shot back to the village. It was a good thing that for a fox, this one had unusually pitiful memory skills. However, he shouldn't provoke the kitsune . . .
No indeed, he didn't need to be blabbed on right when everyone was already suspicious of him.
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. . . But perhaps it is better if I stay silent . . .
. . . They say what you don't know, can't hurt you . . .
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Note: Well, I hope this sort of quick post makes up for previous long waiting times. Agreed? Well, I recently (yesterday) discovered Corel WordPerfect on my computer. It has spell-check, and the awesome(er) looking " and " and ' and '. I know, I'm kind of weird, but I like those quotation marks better than the other ones, the other one's sort of bother me if their on my works, but no on anyone else's. Odd, but you probably don't care about what kind of quotation marks I prefer, do you?
Maybe I won't need a beta reader anymore, unless this program quits out of me too. I've been using it for an hour now, so I'm positive it'll work okay. :)
Well, I suppose I'd better finish up this end note so everyone can get their next chapter, you agree to that too, don't you? I'm sure you do. Well, look forward to more chapters soon! Um, I'm so happy about how many reviews I'm getting! You guys rock! (My brother's a fucking asshole, he just hit me for no reason!)
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