A Love's Betrayal

Chapter 1

By: Ryu Katanna

Beta: Miyu Suzuki

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'How could he do this to me? After everything that's happened this last week. He lied to me... no, no, it can't be.'

She cried out in her mind. As she ran toward the village she tripped and fell on a sharp rock, but payed no thought to the pain or the blood trickling down her leg. Bursting into Kaede's hut where she had left everyone to find out where Inuyasha had gone off to, she ran up to Sango. After seeing the gash on her leg and the tears in her eyes Sango tried to console her while Shippo and Miroku helped Kaede take care of her leg wound. Everyone gave each other worried looks as they took in their friend's condition. They all knew it had to have something to do with Inuyasha. After a few moments of trying to calm her down she finally sat up and looked around the room at her friends that she had come to think of as her family on this side of the well, though she didn't know if they thought the same of her. They also had come to the same thought of each other, but never brought it into conversation.

"Kagome what did that big jerk do now?" Shippo asked in his concern as he hugged onto her with all his might wanting her to calm down.

"Kagome what happened?" Sango asked looking into Kagome's eyes that were glazed over from tears for answers.

"Ne, child do not cry he always has been numb to the feelings of others tell us what is it ye has done to cause such a wound in thy leg." Kaede asked she had pretty much figured out what had happened, and was sure it had something to do with her sister the undead priestess, Kikyo.

"He was with Kikyo again wasn't he?" Miroku asked even though this would have been a perfect opportunity to grope Sango as she was next to him he didn't even have the idea come to mind. Kagome nodded and presumed to speak.

"H-he was with Ki-Kikyo when I f-found him. He w-was holding her a-and he... and he..." she couldn't stop it as she broke down into more tears

'That stupid dog bastard how could he do this to Kagome?' Shippo thought silently to himself. He knew what had happened about a week ago, but it seems Inuyasha had over looked the fact that after the night Kagome had returned smelling like him she also no longer had the spicy smell of a female in heat. If Inuyasha had known what he knew, Inuyasha would have never been with Kikyo because it was his pup. Yet this predicament had come up and he was the only one who knew of Kagome's condition.

"It's alright now your back with your friends, he would dare hurting you with us around. Now..." Miroku started to say something else but cut off when Inuyasha himself rushed into the hut and seen her leg in the bandages the Kaede had put on her.

Kagome... what happened to your leg? I could smell your blood on my way through the village." he said as he walked up to her, but when he reached out for her she cringed and pulled away from him. Smelling her tears he noticed her face was moist from them. Looking around at the others he could see worry and anger etched into their facial expressions. Looking back to Kagome he could see a look of anger, sadness, hurt and betrayal flicker through her brown eyes. She backed away from him until her back was against one of the walls of the hut. "Kagome..."

"What nerve you have to show up her like you don't know a damn thing! You bastard! I won't let you hurt Kagome any more than you have." Sango yelled standing up and looking at him with a raging flame of anger burning deep within her eyes as she was just about to lung at him when someone grabbed her forearm and stopped her. She turned around to find Miroku holding her back from kicking the pathetic hanyou's ass. "Let go Miroku I'm going to teach him a lesson he's never going to forget." Even though she fought against the monk's grasp he did not release her.

"No Sango." he said in a stern voice. "This is a matter they must settle on their own."

"But..." she was about to protest when Kaede intervened.

"Miroku is right, child. Come we shall let them alone to speak." Miroku and Sango both nodded and went outside the hut followed by Kirara, but Shippo refused to move a clung tightly to Kagome. "Come Shippo this is a matter that does not concern us."

"No! It does concern us when Kagome is hurt. Inside or outside I won't let him harm her anymore. I've seen him hurt her so much over the last four years, and I refuse to watch it anymore!" Shippo cried out loud enough for Sango, Miroku, and Kirara to hear from outside the hut. Kaede had no reply to that. She and the others knew it was true, but refused to do anything about it. Now after four years this little kitsune is the only one to take a stand while everyone else waited for the two of them to settle it themselves. All were startled by the cold and empty voice that now wafted through the room.

"It's ok Shippo you listen to Kaede and go with her I will be just fine. I'll come and find you afterward... no matter what happens this thing will end tonight." Kagome stated showing no expression in her eyes or on her face. It was empty, all parts of her were empty, like a shell of her former self left behind.

"Alright, Kagome I'll wait for you." Shippo said as he followed Kaede out of the hut.

A few minutes after they had left Inuyasha walked up to her until he was about a foot away from her, and taking a look at her leg he cringed at the smell of her blood. He knew she must have seen him with Kikyo again, and ran here. He knew that one day he would have to choose between Kikyo and Kagome, but would tonight really be that day? Is that what she meant by 'no matter what happens this thing will end tonight?' He loves them both, but could he really choose witch one to be with and then loose the other from his life? Kagome had given him her love and compassion, but so had Kikyo. Kagome had given him her heart and her body, and Kikyo had given him her heart and her life. He couldn't choose how could he when he loved them both and wanted to be with them both. Was that even possible? To be with ether one of them. Kikyo was dead, and Kagome lived and belonged to another time where demons didn't exist. He could go to hell with Kikyo for all the rest of eternity, or with Kagome to yet another world that would look down upon his existence. Either way he had to choose and he hated it.

"Well Inuyasha have you made your decision? Kikyo or me? You knew one day you would have to choose so who do you want, because I can't take this anymore. I refuse to let you toy with me anymore like some little plaything that you can mess with and throw aside for amusement some other time." she had no emotion in her voice, no expressions on her face. He was angered that she was acting like she couldn't care either way, and in his anger he did what he always did... he didn't think about what he was saying. He started yelling in his arrogance.

"Choose? What's there to choose? Kikyo gave her life for me I have and always will love her and only her. Your nothin but a shard detector, and after we find all the shards of the jewel I will personally push you through the damn well and have it sealed. That way you can never come back! Don't you get it I love Kikyo? I never loved you!" he knew that he was lying to himself as well as her, but he was blinded by his anger at his words that he couldn't give a shit about anything anymore.

"I see... so the other night didn't mean anything to you then?" she asked as she stood from where she was sitting, her voice still unchanging.

"No! The other night was a mistake that I will never make again." he growled as she walked toward the door.

"You've made your choice and I won't try to change it. Goodbye, Inuyasha. I hope you have a nice life with Kikyo." she said as she walked out of the hut, and leaving Inuyasha with his thoughts and his choice.

Meanwhile with the others

After the group had left Kagome and Inuyasha to speak in private they found themselves in the marketplace.

"Do you really think Inuyasha and Kagome will be alright being left alone to tear each other apart?" Sango asked nobody in particular.

"Ne, child we can only hope they settle things in a civil matter not a violent one. Ye know Inuyasha would not harm Kagome physically, but emotionally is another matter altogether." said Kaede as she looked through one of the vegetable stands, eventually wondering away from the three.

"Kaede is right Inuyasha is not that sensitive to the emotions of others, and that is why he upsets others so easily." Miroku stated as he walked over to a cloth stand Sango had started looking at.

"Guys, I'm still worried about Kagome. Before we left she said that no matter what happens this thing will end tonight, but what exactly did she mean by that?" Shippo asked in a troubled tone as he climbed onto Miroku's shoulder.

"Maybe she means the thing between Inuyasha, Kikyo, and herself. So basically I think she is having him make a very important decision about who he wants to be with." said Sango as she puzzled over who he would choose.

"Ah... to choose between two women you love like that must be hard, but I think that he has known from the beginning that one day he would have to choose. Kikyo or Kagome, life or death, I wonder who it is. Of course I think he should choose Kagome. What about you Sango?" Miroku asked in deep thought about this little problem that had always been there and known, but just now after four years coming to term.

"Kagome of course, she's given up so much just to be here with him, but he's blind to that fact." Sango said as she walked over to Miroku and Shippo.

"Ya, he's so stupid he can't see it. I wonder would will happen to her and the pup when..." Shippo stopped realizing he had let the cat out of the bag, so to speak.

"PUP!" both Sango and Miroku almost shouted at the same time causing a ringing sound in his ears.

"Oops..."

"What do you mean Shippo? When did you find this out?" Sango asked with a great deal of surprise. "Also why doesn't Inuyasha know about this, he is part demon after all?"

"Yet another question how do you even know about any of the stuff about babies. You're still young." Miroku asked as the hentai part of him couldn't help but ask. Deciding that he owed his friends an explanation he started answering one question after the other.

"I mean that Kagome is carrying Inuyasha's pup. I found out about a week ago when they came back from one of their private times together bathed in each other's scent. Well at the time of that little outing Kagome was in heat, which I could tell because females get a spicy smell to them that has no effect on older demons, mated demons, and younger ones such as myself. Yet for Inuyasha it is very... how should I put this, enticing. Well anyway the next morning she no longer gave off that scent. My guess is that Inuyasha was to caught up in his thoughts that he didn't notice it. As for your question Miroku, you have to remember I am a demon after all I age much slower then you. I'm much older then I look. In human years I'm around nine or ten, but in demon years I am around one hundred sixty seven years old." Shippo said with a grin at the expressions on their faces. "There is one thing I need to tell you though."

"What's that?" Sango asked still a little dumb struck.

"You two can NOT tell either Kagome nor Inuyasha about the pup. It would tear Kagome apart inside out to know if Inuyasha chooses Kikyo, and then find out she's carrying his pup. Do you understand?"

"Yes, we do." They both said.

After a few moments of silence someone called out to them. Startling them from their thoughts.

"Hey Sango, Miroku, Shippo, come over here!" it was Kagome. Remembering to hold their tongues on the subject they had been speaking of moments earlier as they ran over to the seeming more cheerful Kagome then the one they had left in the hut.

"Hey!" the three of them shouted as they approached her.

"Kagome, what happened between you and Inuyasha? Are things going to be all better now?" Shippo asked and jumped from Miroku's shoulder into Kagome's arms.

"Yes, things are all better. Now come on Shippo, we're leaving. Inuyasha made his choice, and he decided to go with Kikyo. I'm not going to stand in his way this time. I went for a walk in the forest and ran into Koga. He said that both me and Shippo could stay with his pack for as long as we like. I said on one condition and he agreed not to call me his woman anymore. He just wants to make sure I have a place, and I can't stay here anymore. Please try to understand." She said reverting her eyes toward the ground.

"It's alright Kagome. I can understand why. Good luck with Koga and his pack." Sango replied with a slight glimmer of tears in her eyes. "Just make sure to visit alright? I'll be staying with Kaede in this village. So you'll always know where to find me."

"I will come visit Sango, and thank you so much." Kagome said as a tear trickled down her cheek. She turned to Miroku when he spoke up.

"Just take care of yourself. I'll also be here if you need me." He said pulling her into a hug that was not perverted in any way. "When do you leave?"

"Koga will be coming for me and Shippo at sunrise. That is if you want to come, Shippo." She said when he nodded she looked back up at Miroku. "Don't worry I'll be just fine, and you two better bet I'll come whenever I can to visit you. Even if it isn't for a year or two. I have to get my life in order. I already ran home and told my mother what's going on so everything is settled."

"Well we should probably get you packed and ready. You still have to say goodbye to Kaede, and get some rest before sunrise." Sango aid pulling on Kagome's wrist toward Kaede's hut knowing Inuyasha had most likely left already as Miroku followed behind them quietly.

End Chapter Peoples

IMPORTANT AUTHORS NOTE:

Hi, this is Ryu here. I'm Sorry I haven't posted in quiet awhile, but school got let out and that's how I would post my stories. Finally, now we have Internet at my home, so I will have things up much; much faster. Though I have lots typed I can't put it all on my stories. I still have lots of editing to do yet. I am sad to say that my fic: Love Will Overcome will not be updated any time soon. I am having difficulties with thing particular story at the present time. Sorry to all those waiting for it. Hope you like the newer stories. If there are any questions about anything at all please ask them in your reviews. Thanks.

Ryu