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Disclaimer: I still don't own, or claim, Inuyasha as my own. Why? Because it isn't mine, you silly goose!
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Well, here's why this update was rather late: 1) I typed the chapter, it was all ready and pretty, with no mistakes! - 2) The program I typed it in died. - 3) It won't open up for any other program. - 4) I had to retype the whole stinken chapter! It seriously sucked, and it still does, a lot! Oh well, at least now the writing can be improved, and better! Now, on to your wonderful reviews! Thanks:
Cherry Blossom Love- Aww, it's okay! I fulfilled your wish, and life sometimes sucks, but what can you do about it? Just look towards the optimistic parts of it . . . which I cannot do. I'm a very pessimistic person.
Zora- Oh, thank you so much! - -I guess I didn't overdo Inuyasha- - but that doesn't mean that I'm happy with the chapter as the author. I, myself, are my own toughest critic, no doubt about it.
Jamie- A good movie so it was . . .You didn't point out the mistakes, but I found some. Just to lazy to re-edit the chapter. :)
Yusuke brat- I hate brothers. I have a younger one, he sucks, a lot. Anyways, I will, for now on, always mentally add eight reviews to my review count, so thank you for reviewing!
Priestess kurumi inu's sister- It seems as though you and I share alot of the same opinions about Kagome in the Inuyasha series, do we not? Inuyasha doesn't always do everything wrong, give the poor dog demon a break, right?
brigurl- I'm glad you read it and liked. :)
Carol J- Yes, well . . . it's kind of hard to not write about the blood when the title is 'Bloody Lies', and the story is all about the blood, but in a different way than having it all over the ground . . . Don't worry, there won't be many more bloody scenes here.
amber- Okay, well then . . . Here's your update!
MarieRose- I will keep them coming! Thank you for reviewing, and here's a new update!
That is the most reviews I've ever gotten! Nine, almost ten (what I wanted) but nine is awesome too! Oh! Will you please go read and review Who I Am? It's my latest Inuyasha fanfiction . . . and it's one-shot. For now, I might do a parallel fic about what the others think about him . . . but now, onto the story you're here for!
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BLOODY LIES
Part IX
Can I Trust You
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. . . And Then I'm Awake . . .
. . . Or So I Think . . .
. . . I Pray This Is A Nightmare And That I'm Still Asleep . . .
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Everything and anything that had happened to Inuyasha within the past few days swam around in his head lazily. Nothing was connecting or making any sense at all in his still sleepy mind. Why would Kagome be mad at him? Why was he with Kikyo? When did he fall asleep? Why did he punch a new clearing in Inuyasha's forest?
Why this?
Why that?
What's going on here?
And then it was made perfectly clear. Kagome would be mad because he would have been with Kikyo, which he had been. He'd punch a clearing in the forest because he was mad. He'd have fallen asleep when he passed out from lack of almost everything; sleep, food, blood, clear thinking, everything!
So then . . . where was he now?
He heard a murmur, caught in the wind, come dance around the fuzzy appendages on his head that looked like triangles. What message did that murmur contain? He listened intently as the murmur became voices, and those voices were still not clear. What were those voices saying that he couldn't decipher?
What's going on here?
He recognized the tone and vibrations the voices had . . . one was Sango's, obviously as it when up and down rapidly in worry. There were still two others. One was Shippo's, how could anyone not know that annoying little high-pitched squeaky tone his still childish voice had? That left the other voice to be Miroku's. It wasn't Kagome's . . . hers was soft, this one was sort of ruff, yet somewhat deep. Definitely Miroku.
That meant that Sango, Shippo, Miroku, and most likely Kirara also, were coming towards him. Where was he again? Oh yes, he was in the hut. Keade's hut, in the village, by the forest. Why, again? He remembered, he had passed out, and he didn't need to be reminded of why he did that. He knew perfectly well.
Oh, but that didn't mean the others understood.
And just for Inuyasha's luck (which wasn't much), they didn't understand any of this at all. What had been going on behind their backs? How long had it been going on? Where was Kagome? What did Kikyo and Naraku have to do with this? Why in the world should Inuyasha hate Kagome in the first place?
What's going on here?
Then they were there, standing in the doorframe, looking at their hanyou friend who was sitting up with an adorably cute thinking expression on his scarred face. Not all the cuts had healed yet, these were taking an impossibly long time to get better. Shippo followed Sango, then there came Miroku, and Kirara was perched happily in Sango's comforting, protecting, arms.
Then the interrogation began.
"Inuyasha," Sango started the 'meeting'. "We have some questions. We think we deserve them, being kept in the back for so long now."
"You do, do you?" Inuyasha asked, raising an eyebrow slightly.
"Yes," Miroku affirmed Sango's statement, "we do."
Inuyasha turned to glare at the houshi, "No one asked you." He said.
Miroku raised his hands and waved them, showing he didn't do anything. Sango nodded at them both and continued the confrontation of Inuyasha.
"First off; Where's Kagome?"
"How the hell should I know? Does it look like a have a tag on her or something?"
"No . . . No one ever said that, Inuyasha. We're only asking. Anyways - Next question! Where'd you get all of those cuts?" Sango asked the demon in a firm toned voice.
Inuyasha looked at her with a glare that might have withered a flower. Actually . . . 'weed' might have been the word you're searching for. Inuyasha opened his mouth to say something rude like: "Why should I tell you?" or "Why's it matter, huh? Huh? Huh?!" or maybe even, "Bite me, bitch!"
After running these possible answers through his head several times each, and opening and closing his mouth like fish, Inuyasha came to the conclusion. Rude comments weren't going to get him, or them, anywhere. He'd just get yelled at more, and a sit from- Don't say it! His mind cautioned. That didn't get him anywhere. Miroku and Sango wouldn't get their answers, and that would not help them any. Well, it wouldn't matter. Inuyasha was positive the houshi and taijiya would keep pestering him from answers until he snapped and spilled all the things stored up in his head for safe keeping.
That would not work, at all.
So it was final; Inuyasha had to give them an answer. However . . .
"From something sharp. Oh, and pointy, you know?"
. . . no one ever said he had tell every little detail. And he wasn't lying, was he? No, knifes, daggers, whatever, were plenty sharp, and pointy at the tip. His answer worked, and this was the strategy he would use through this 'meeting.' Interrogation more like it, Inuyasha thought bitterly to himself.
"Obviously. How could we have missed that one?" Sango asked, sarcasm filled her words.
"Hey, you asked and I gave you the answer. It's the truth too!" Inuyasha smirked back at the two humans infront of him. He was so good.
"Indeed," Miroku said through slightly gritted teeth. "let's move onto the next question, shall we?" Inuyasha just shrugged, so the monk continued, "Good. Now, Shippo finally was able to recognize the scent on you that he before could quite remember. He says it smelt like . . . Kikyo. So, Inuyasha, there's a reason why Kagome wouldn't be here. We still, however, need to know what you were doing with Kikyo, or what Kikyo was doing with you.
"Shippo told us your blood smelt more . . . how should I put this? More - human, and less demon. We researched this, since your blood is supposed to be half-and-half, strictly."
Sango continued,
"We came up with some answers . . . thanks to some old scrolls laying around the village. We discovered that the only way a demons, excuse me, a half-demons, blood can get more . . . humany1 is if someone with obvious 'skills' can extract the demon blood only from the hanyou. This, we learned, kept the rasher side, the demon side, of the hanyou more secure.
"The one who takes the demon bloods does whatever with it . . . no one knows what exactly because they all have their own wants for it. Now, to the main point, would something like this be happening with you? And Kikyo? And Kagome saw you at the wrong time and went home?"
This time Miroku continued,
"Why could Kikyo possible need your demonic blood? She hates it, because it's you, so why take it? There has to be a reason for her to want it. However you, Inuyasha, you have the Tessaiga2. Sango and I asked ourselves; 'Why would Inuyasha need his demonic blood to be more secure? That's what the Tessaiga's for.' And it's truth.
"Why would you want, or let for that matter, Kikyo take your demonic blood? What can you possibly gain from it? Is there something you're not telling us about the Tessaiga? More importantly though, are the side effects of a hanyou losing his demonic blood . . . do you know what they are, Inuyasha?"
The half demon looked at Miroku, then Sango, then Miroku again. Surprise and shock wasn't written on his face, but in his eyes. They shown a brighter amber color than they had before. Miroku and Sango had done more than research. They had wanted to know, and they had solved almost all of Inuyasha's present dilemma.
Did Inuyasha know the side-effects of giving up the youkai part of his blood? Of course he did . . . he wasn't that stupid. He himself had done some digging-up on the process, and had learned, possible memorized, the accounts written about hanyous . . .
"Gone insane!" Shippo was speaking now, his high-pitched childlike voice was stricken with some sort of sorrow, "They die! And they can't sleep! And they can't eat! And they can't remember things clearly, either! They slowly loose what they have a grip on! Inuyasha, I don't want you to die!
"You don't need this stupid, retarded ritual thing! You have Tessaiga! And . . . and you've got me! And Sango, Miroku, Kirara, and Kagome!" He whined.
Inuyasha turned his gaze to the kit, who was on the verge of tears. The kitsune couldn't take the death of another he loved . . . or was close too. Maybe though, maybe Inuyasha had already gone to far? Maybe he was already out of hopes firm grasp?
and Kagome
The two words drifted heavily through his mind, which was once again becoming cloudy with powerful thoughts and emotions.
and Kagome . . .
No, that wouldn't work.
"Yeah, sure, I'm sure that'll happen! They day hell opens its gates and floods with joy! Kagome's mad. She's too stupid to see I didn't do anything . . . (or had he?) She . . . betrayed me . . . in some twisted way. She isn't going to come back and save me now. Who would, anyways?
"No one would, absolutely no one!"
Rising to his still unsteady feet, Inuyasha took a stride to the door of the hut, paused, then leapt out of the hut and bounded off somewhere into the forest named after himself.
The two humans, and two demons, left behind in the hut shook their heads sadly. They knew, and they knew he knew too.
It wasn't true.
They had to save Inuyasha, who else would?
Kagome would come back and help them.
There wasn't any possible way they could continue living in this sea . . .
. . . a sea of damned and bloody lies.
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. . . A Pinch To Prove This All A Dream . . .
. . . But I'm Already Awake . . .
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Authors Notes: Well now . . . that was sort of short. And after that long wait! Wah, too much! I'm sorry about the length. And I also realize that this is more talk than action, but it's all leading up to the 'big moment.' You'll be rewarded in the end. Promise! :) Please ::begs:: I will still wait for your reviews, why not send one in? It doesn't take that much effort. ::mutters 'hypocrite' to self:: Buuuut anyways! Please review! And read! And check back soon! Oh!
1 - I know I've spelt it 'Tetsusaiga' before, but I've changed my mind. That's not how it's said, or even really spelt. It's something like a miss-translation or so . . .
2 - No, it's not a word. Trust me, I know. Or is it? Hmm . . . It's just there because I couldn't think of anything else to put. Maybe I was just lazy? That's probably it.
Well, get reviewing you slackers! n.n Oh oh! Please also read and review my other story; "Who I Am" I'd very much like that! Bye now!
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