Twisted Love

Chapter 37: Forbidden

"Do it, Sakura!" Jimmy yelled at his cousin, jumping up and down with excitement. Sakura giggled softly. She held a bow and arrow in her hands.

"Please Sakura!" Jimmy smiled at Sakura. She nodded.

InuYasha watched her from the doorway that led to the backyard. Images of his beloved mate holding her bow and arrows when they practiced assailed his mind. Her soft laughter. Her voice. Kagome. InuYasha sighed as he stared at Sakura. She was so much like Kagome, it scared him sometimes. Even through the girl wasn't raised with Kagome, she obviously inherited most of 'Kagome' genes. The flaring temper when she was mad, the soft smile, her soothing voice, and her heart.

Bryant and Serenity stood next to him. Gods how he missed his mate. Sakura notched the arrow, looking up at the sky. Her gaze narrowed as she studied the clouds. The forest started with the Tsuroka back yard.

'Kagome…' InuYasha thought. He knew Kagome would be so proud of her miko daughter. What clenched his heart and soul was what Kye had mentions. Kagome having amnesia. InuYasha blinked back the tears that stung his eyes at seeing his fifteen year old daughter finally smile as she located the spot to shoot her 'Heaven's Arrow'

The child had discovered the power when she was nine. While practicing her aiming one day, she said she saw a precise spot in the sky where she could shoot her arrow. Once she had shot it, at nine years of age Sakura discovered her first miko technique. Sakura had been amazed with the attack so she decided to name is "Heaven's Arrow"

Sakura notched the arrow, pulling the bow's string back and aiming at her spot. She released her arrow, making it shoot. A silvery light wrapped around it. It shot in to the sky, making silvery light dance in the darkness of the clouds. The clouds swirled and then a silver lightning bolt shot down in to the forest.

"Wow!" Jimmy yelled. Four more lightning strikes followed. "Sakura, do it again!"

"I think that five purifying lightning bolts are enough for one night," Serenity giggled. She nuzzled Jimmy's nose. "And I also think that we should head home."

"Yep…" Bryant agreed as he hugged Sakura.

"Bye, uncle" Sakura whispered. Bryant smiled down at her.

"Take care of your father…I think he took the news a little hard"

"I will"

Serenity hugged Sakura next. "Bye, sweetie…Remember t—"

"Yes, I know, take care of father"

"Alright" Serenity smiled and kissed her cheek.

"Don't worry, Aunt Serenity, I'll cheer him up somehow"

"Alright"

"Bye uncle Yasha!" Jimmy jumped in to InuYasha's arms. After saying goodbyes, the small family left. Sakura sighed and walked over to her father.

"Dad," Sakura started "Are you okay? You look pale" She made a face.

"Come inside, we need to talk"

Sakura followed her father. InuYasha sat down and she sat down next to him.

"Sakura…your mother, she—"

"I remember mom…" Sakura paused. "I remember mom and Kye…but only a little"

InuYasha opened his mouth to talk, but the doorbell rang. Sakura smiled and got up. She walked over to the door and opened it. Her smile turned in to a frown as she saw the woman standing there. Waist length orange-red hair and violet eyes, the woman smiled.

"Hello Sakura," she greeted. Sakura felt the urge to slam the door right back in to the woman's face. She tightly smiled.

"Hello, Keara," Sakura bit the inside of her cheek. Keara smiled and peeked over Sakura's shoulder.

"Can I come in?"

'No, you can't you ass—" Sakura didn't want to finished her own thoughts. With a glare, her honey eyes looked at Keara with an ice stare. Keara flipped her hair over her shoulder and proceeded in to the house.

Sakura made a face behind her. With a personal analysis, Sakura didn't like the woman one bit. Mentally— in Sakura's opinion— she had to be somehow mentally retarded. Physically, also in Sakura's opinion, she only managed a pretty face. Sakura frowned. Where should she have started? Besides the fact that Keara was a walking skeleton, she had a bad attitude towards Sakura. It was so obvious that she wanted her father. When she went to his job sometimes after school, everyone always would say that Keara wanted InuYasha. Sakura could name five things wrong with Keara Yamasha off the top of her head.

One: She was terribly conceded

Sakura snorted. 'There is nothing about her she should be conceded of in the first place.'

Two: Her voice was annoying.

'Yep…so true. Like a broken record'

Three: She treated Sakura like she was a little piece of dirt.

'Yeah, that's why I feel like slamming her with some miko magic sometimes'

Four: The woman was way to skinny

'Betcha my giant teddy bear weighs more then her…hell, I bet I weigh more then her! Stupid idiot…probably is anorexic'

Five: Mentally, she was an air-head

'Yep…don't know how in the hell she got a job with uncle Sesshomaru. I'm smarter then her…I bet Jimmy is smarter then her!'

By the time Sakura snapped out of her thoughts, InuYasha was calling her.

"Huh?" Sakura was snapped out of her thoughts. InuYasha smiled at her.

"I said…stay here with Keara for a few minutes, I'm going to pick up some papers from your uncle"

"What?"

"Sakura, please stay here with her," InuYasha kissed her forehead.

"Alright," Sakura agreed.

"I know you're not fond of her…but maybe you two should settle your differences"

"Okay, okay…just hurry back please, dad,"

"I will"

With that, InuYasha left the house. Sakura heard the screech of the tires as he left. She sighed and walked in to the living room. Keara wasn't there. Sakura saw the door to her father's office opened. Sakura walked in and found Keara looking through his desk.

"What the hell are you doing?" Sakura growled. She walked over to Keara. "How dare you go through my father's things!"

Keara held a picture in her hands. She blinked. "Who is this?"

Sakura glanced at the picture. Her mother. Sakura snorted. "My mother…you know, my father's wife and mate!"

"Your father is going to go out with me…soon enough, sweetie, I'll be your step-mother"

"In what world? My father wouldn't fall for whore like you"

Keara frowned. She shot up and grabbed Sakura's long hair, pulling hard. "I'm not a whore you little brat"

"R-i-i-i-i-ght," Sakura frowned. "Even I can sense your tainted aura. My father could probably smell all those disgusting male scents of you. The scent of sex is strong Keara, you can't wash it off because it's within your body and reflects both on your scent and aura"

"That's not true!" Keara tugged harder on Sakura's hair. Sakura's instincts kicked in.

"Let me go!" Sakura grabbed Keara's wrist, burning it with her miko power. Sakura laughed. Keara grabbed her burning wrist, Sakura's finger marks on it.

"Wh-What did you do to me!"

"It's a purity spell. If you were pure, as you say, it wouldn't have burned you"

Keara snorted and grabbed a picture from InuYasha's home desk. She looked at it. She gasped. InuYasha's eyes looked so happy, so full of life. The girl wrapped in his arms with a little version of Sakura and another little boy besides them. The black haired woman also looked so content. Keara dropped the picture. Memories of InuYasha's eyes, the solemn expression he always carried around, the melancholy that radiated off him as he spoke. His golden eyes, how they always seemed so distant, so lonely, so lost.

"Put everything back Keara," Sakura said. "Get out of here and get back to the living room, my father should be home any minute"

'I-I have to get InuYasha to kiss me. One kiss, I'll show him' Keara thought. The phone rang. Sakura left the room to pick it up, Keara followed her. Sakura hit the speaker button before answering.

"Hello?"

"Hey golden eyes!" another girl's voice yelled. Sakura smiled.

"Hey, what's up?"

"Nothing much, sitting around here…bored to eternity. My brother likes you, you know that"

Sakura giggled. "Your brother has always liked me"

"I know, which is why I think you should go out with him"

"In his dreams," Sakura rolled her eyes. "Look, I have some annoying company right now, call you back later kay?"

"Alright"

"Bye"

"By, golden eyes"

Sakura clicked the button again, disconnecting the call. She looked over at Keara.

"Lemme give you some advice, Keara," Sakura started. "My brother called three days ago…They are alive. My uncle, brother, and mother. You see, my father is still in love with my mother. She is coming back as soon as Kye calls us again. Don't mess around with my father and don't try to make him fall for you. He's not stupid. Why you when he has my mother? Don't try anything Keara because if you do, I swear, I will use my miko powers against you. My mother burned a girl named Jesse a long time ago and miko burns are permanent, no amount of plastic surgery could fix 'em. I will do that same to you"

"You wouldn't"

"I burned your wrist, I'd burn your face to. My last name is Tsuroka in case you didn't know, you can't hurt me, but sure as hell can hurt you" Sakura smiled at her. "Try and hurt me and my father and uncles will cut your head off. My uncle Bryant is a time-keeper…remember that and don't do anything to my father"

"I love him!" Keara blurted. Sakura stopped and looked back at her. "I met him and he was so depressed. Then, as you grew, he started to smile again. He always told me you looked like your mother expect with different eyes and longer hair. He laughed once. I fell in love with him, everything about him, I adore."

Sakura looked at her and sighed. "I don't care, Keara. You've treated me like dirt for the last eight years, I won't let you near my father. He loves my mother"

"What hurts more in life is watching the one you love, love someone else"

Sakura gasped softly. "Maybe true…but still…I've warned you"

'I'm sorry Keara…I won't have someone like you as my step-mother when my real mother is still somewhere out there. With amnesia, but still there.'

Sakura raced up the stairs and entered her room. InuYasha opened the door again. Keara was with her head down and with her fists clenched. Before InuYasha saw it coming, before he could react, Keara launched herself at him, her lips smashing against his.

InuYasha gasped, dropping the papers on the floor and grabbing the woman's shoulders. Keara grabbed fistfuls of his shirt, kissing him harder. InuYasha pushed her away.

"What the fuck do you think you're doing?"

Keara hugged him tightly. "I'm sorry! I-I just…InuYasha, I love you so much! Please…give me a chance and I will prove how much I love you. Please, I beg you to give me a chance! To let me love you and show you the stars!"

InuYasha stepped away from her. "Keara…I can't do that to you"

"Why?"

"Because—"

"Please"

"No"

"Listen to me"

"No, you listen to me. You love me?"

"With all my heart"

"The love you have, it's forbidden Keara…Youkai mate for life, I mated Kagome. Humans get married for life even though half the time people separate. I married Kagome. I'm bonded to her until we die. She's my mate. I can't love anyone else"

"Because it's forbidden"

"No, because I love Kagome. Yes, youkai can only choose one mate, but still…I mated Kagome for life and it's going to stay that way until I die"

"But she's not here!"

"It doesn't matter, Keara…I can't love you"

"B-But I've given you so much"

"And I thank you…" InuYasha paused. "It's just that…I'll never be able to love anyone else"

Keara pushed him aside. "InuYasha, you will fall for me…Even if my love is forbidden because of this Kagome…I will see to it that you love me! Only me and discard that mate of yours! I give you my word, you will fall head over heels in love with me!"

She slammed the door. InuYasha sighed and picked up the papers that he dropped. Just on the staircase, Sakura clenched the rail as tightly as she could.

'She didn't take me seriously…I'll show her not to take my threats lightly'

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"You ready mom?" Kye asked as Kagome slipped her arms under his elbow.

"Ready"

"Uncle Souta…let's go" Kye said as they finally packed to leave the hospital. Kagome had made a full recovery over the past three days. Even if she was unaware of it, her miko energy had soared to heal her.

"Kye?" Kagome asked.

"Yes, mother"

"When will I get to meet your father?"

Kye smiled sadly. "Soon mom, just as soon as he get you back on track here…we'll go home"

"Oh…okay" Kagome smiled and agreed.

'Father…you're going to have to make mom fall in love with you all over again…Wonder how you did it the first time…?'

A/N:

Thank you for reviewing…and reading…'Newayz I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Come back again! See ya!

Questions/Answers/Comments

SensesFail26x: keep forgetting to review, but I'm slow like that. So sorry bout not reviewing, but anyways, onto the chapter ! Wouldn't Inuyasha remember what happened when he was with Kagome ? Or did both forget? And if Kye called his dad, wouldn't Sakura remember what he sounded like since they all have intense hearing and stuff like that? Ahh, I don't know, you tell me. I told ya I was slow.
Eh heh. Update soon, Jewel.

SakuraTsuroka: Don't forget to review…it's like the second best part of a chapter! Besides reading it of course…To your questions: Technically, no, InuYasha is not aware that his youkai talked to Kagome. Is it mentioned in the previous chapter, only a third of his youkai is within Kagome's subconscious. InuYasha, the one that is in Japan, has no clue that his inner youkai spoke to Kagome. Kagome, however, forgets because obviously…we don't know what goes on in our subconscious. It acts on its own little accord. Second Question: No, Sakura only briefly remembers Kye because he left when they were only seven years old. His voice was much different then it is now. Kye would be the same because Sakura's voice changed and he can't smell her scent so he couldn't know who she was. Only Kye is hanyou, Sakura, however, has some hanyou abilities, but her blood is miko blood.

Lancastrian: This chapter was great with the fact that Kye got to talk to Inuyasha about Kagome and all...of course i'me dissapointed with the fact that Kagome has amnesia. Oh well I hope it progresses and ends how I think it will your awesome keep the good work up!(spelling might be wrong somewhere lol)

SakuraTsuorka: Wahoo! I'm glad you liked the chapter! I am a big fan of happy ending…what do you think? 'Course, in this story, I love torturing Kagome and Serenity…if anyone noticed, they're the ones that mostly get hurt. It blends with the story. Muahahahaha! 'Newayz…yeah, you spelled disappointed wrong…lol…I'm crazy remember?...well, only like an eighth of me is…that's still enough isn't it…?

To everyone else…keep reading and review! Thank you and good bye!