Same drill. Not mine.

Murderer

by inuyashagirl

Chapter 17

Revelation

Inuyasha would have been drinking if it would have affected him. His demon blood made it pointless to drink. All the liquor in the world wouldn't have made him drunk, and he'd tried enough times in college to know. When he couldn't sleep, he usually went for a run, but since earlier that week he'd ended up in a small town in Massachusetts, he was spending the night staring blankly into a fireplace lit only for that purpose. At this point, he didn't have anything better to do. He was sure that the take-over couldn't be completely legal, but could find nothing to dispute it. Even his own lawyer had advised that he just accept it until after the turbulence of the murder investigation had blown over.

Inuyasha was serious. He was always serious, but tonight he wasn't cocky and swaggering like usual. Tonight, he was lost in everything that he had had. He was lost in his memories and his hunger for lips he could never kiss and eyes that would never meet his again. He needed no one to plague him, he was his own torturer, and maybe in the end, his own executioner. In Medieval Europe, they used to torture innocent people until they admitted to whatever crime they'd been accused of, just to make the pain stop. "Would I say I killed her if it would stop the pain?"

When morning came, Inuyasha hadn't slept. That was something he didn't do anymore . . . sleep. Sleep only came with peacefulness and until Kikyo's murderer was found and he was innocent, there would be no peace. The blue-lavender light slipped through the velvet curtains. "I should at least pretend I'm trying to get some sleep." He stood and stretched, not surprised to hear his joints crack from sitting so long. He knew he didn't want to sleep. He wanted to run, to fight, to do something to burn off this heaviness. Instead, he headed up to his room.

Just as his feet touched the top step of the staircase, there was a pounding at the door. Inuyasha frowned, when people wanted in, they hit the buzzer at the end of the drive and were given admittance at the gate. Inuyasha turned and made his way back down the stairs and paused at the door. Only one person came directly to the door. He considered ignoring it, but decided not to. After all, if he was lucky he might just get into a fight and be able to burn off some of this excess energy that was plaguing him.

He opened the door calmly and found just who he'd expected. Sesshomaru. However, he hadn't expected to see Sesshomaru covered in blood and panting, holding an equally bloody little girl to his chest. "Let me in, now!" He demanded breathlessly.

Inuyasha stepped back, mostly because his brother had shown up already injured. Obviously he hadn't come for a fight. Already, their normal chain of interactions had been completely thrown out the door. At this point, Inuyasha had no idea exactly what he should do. Sesshomaru walked past him and deposited the little girl on his leather sofa. She sighed and curled up in her sleep, obviously glad to be able to lie down.

"What do you want?" Inuyasha demanded, eyes on the little girl rather than on his brother.

"The FBI raided the mansion." Sesshomaru explained, wavering slightly as blood still seeped from his wounds.

"Oh shit! You're hiding from the government! Get out of my house now!"

Sesshomaru shook his head, "No! I need you to take her."

Inuyasha stared stupidly at him. "You want me to babysit?"

"There's no one else I can trust."

"TRUST? You do remember who you're talking to? There's no way I'm taking your kid. Both of you can get out now. I hope that when the feds get you, they lock you up forever. I'll come by every once in a while, just to laugh at you!" Inuyasha sneered.

"You have to take her."

"I don't have to do anything. In fact, if I call the police right now, then odds are, they'll lighten up on me!"

"Please."

"What?"

"I said please. It's the only time you'll ever hear me say it."

"No! You got yourself into it, and I'd like to see you get back out!"

"And Rin is innocent."

"You should have thought about that before you started getting other people's kids hooked on drugs. Now you know what its like to have your daughter in danger."

"Inuyasha, you owe it to her mother."

"Her mother? I've never even met her mother!"

"Really?" Sesshomaru growled. "And have you truly looked at her? Don't you recognize those eyes? That smile?"

Inuyasha frowned. When he'd seen Rin, he'd instantly recognized something about her, but hadn't been able to place where he'd seen them before. He'd dismissed the thought simply because he didn't care shortly after he'd left Sesshomaru's that day so long ago. "No. I don't." He answered stubbornly.

"Really? I think the resemblance is unnerving." Sesshomaru commented. "Can't you tell?"

"Look, if you think that the brat's mother is going to make some difference, then just tell me who she is. Otherwise, you and the rugrat can hit the road and have fun hiding from the FBI."

"Kikyo."

Inuyasha furrowed his brow. "Kikyo?"

"Kikyo is her mother."

Inuyasha stared at him for a moment and then laughed. It was a cold sound and disdainful. "You expect me to believe that? You're sick."

"Think about it Inuyasha. Remember when she was gone for a year, filming in New Zealand? It's rather unusual for a secondary character with fifteen minutes of screen time to be gone for an entire year, wouldn't you say?"

"And you would have me believe that that child is Kikyo's daughter?"

"Yes."

"And I never knew about this because . . . "

"You were still on Shikon."

"Yeah but, surely I'd notice that my girlfriend had a kid. I mean, I wasn't THAT messed up."

"Kikyo was an addict. She got started on the stuff even before you did. But she was smarter about it that you were. She kept it quiet, and clean, didn't show up in public high and confused like someone else. When she was pregnant, she had to be kept in isolation so she wouldn't hurt the baby, that baby. She came to me and told me that she was pregnant. So, I kept her locked in the mansion for the duration of her pregnancy. She left the baby with me. She was an actress after all, and she didn't have time for a baby. It was then that she saw what drugs were doing to her. That's when she decided to get you clean again."

Inuyasha shuddered, his story had the ring of truth. "I found shikon in her apartment."

"She couldn't stay clean. She picked up shortly after you went into rehab. In truth, I've always suspected it was what she took from you that she got hooked on again. She was still using until she died."

"Did you kill her?"

"No. I had nothing to do with her death."

"Do you know who did it, because so help me – "

"Don't you think I would have taken my revenge on them by now if I did? Don't you think I would have done something by now!" Sesshomaru snarled, suddenly furious.

"Touchy."

"Kikyo . . . meant . . . a great deal to me." He said haltingly.

"Let me guess, you were madly in love with her." Inuyasha spat.

"Perhaps. In my own way I loved her."

"You loved her so much that you gave her all the drugs she could handle." Inuyasha cooed mockingly.

"I could have let her get them from somewhere else, where they'd blackmail her and they'd give her stuff laced with God only knows what. Instead I gave her clean stuff." He said.

Inuyasha stared at him in horror, "You can't be serious! That's your logic! That's sick!"

"Please, just take Rin."

"Where are you going if I take her?"

Sesshomaru's eyes flashed red. "Kanna has been taken from me. I am going to get her back."

"God, how many kids do you have?" Inuyasha frowned.

"Will you take Rin?"

Inuyasha paused, still not sure if he believed Sesshomaru's story. He looked over at the little girl, fast asleep on the sofa. While he watched her, she rolled over onto her back and threw one arm over her head, her mouth slightly open. At that moment, she looked so much like Kikyo had when she slept that Inuyasha couldn't speak. He turned to Sesshomaru and nodded, nearly imperceptibly.

Without a word, Sesshomaru was gone. Inuyasha sat down in a leather recliner and watched Rin sleep, astounded by the resemblance that he now couldn't understand not seeing before.

Yeah, I thought this was a little predictable, but hey! I liked the idea! REVIEWS ARE AWESOME!