Inuyashas grip loosened on Myoga. He started breathing again, but they were short, raspy breaths. He shuddered and bit his bottom lip until it started bleeding.

"I didn't want to tell you, master, but"--

"You're lying!" Inuyasha screamed, "How can that--I mean it isn't--that's impossible!"

"But it is!" Myoga sobbed, "Naraku is the mother of your sister."

"But Naraku came into existence only fifty years ago. Inukasumi was conceived by my father when I was still a baby. Naraku couldn't be her mother, or father, or whatever! Not even Onigumo could have..."

"No, it was not the Naraku you know." Myoga shook his head, "The story I told you was true. A nameless dog demoness beat your father in battle and forced him to conceive her child."

"Then how the hell is Naraku her mother?" Inuyasha asked.

"My lady Inukasumis mother was very protective of her daughter. But she didn't think she was strong enough."

"But she beat my father. She was plenty freaking strong enough." Inuyasha frowned.

"She didn't think so." Myoga shrugged, "She was not the... sanest of demons. She certainly wasn't crazy, but she was obsessive over things like power. She was obsessed with protecting her daughter because she was all she had left of your father to remember. She wouldn't part with my lady Inukasumi for the world."

"Then why did she abandon her?" Inuyasha asked.

"Because she didn't think her daughter was safe with her." Said Myoga. "Demons were constantly trying to overcome her, and once Inukasumi got wounded. Nothing serious, but when her mother saw her daughters blood pouring onto the grass, something inside her snapped. She sent her only daughter to a pack of young orphan demons where no harm could come to her. The heartbroken mother began to cry, and could not stop. It was then the nameless dog demon gained a name; the weeping dog demon."

"She never stopped crying?"

"No. the tears never stopped. She killed uncontrollably to try and gain power, to destroy her enemies so she could get her daughter back." Myoga paused. "...Until fifty years ago, when she received a calling to an unimaginable power..."

"She didn't!" Inuyasha gasped.

"She did." Myoga said, "She thought that if she could overcome all the other demons devouring Narakus body, she would be free of her attackers and have all the power she needed to gain back her daughter. But she was distorted into the demon we know as Naraku, and her soul was lost forever."

"So she was deceived by Naraku as well?"

"Yes. She could not resist power, and that was her downfall."

"Naraku really is Inukasumis mother. In a way." Inuyasha said.

"Naraku would not be half as powerful as he is without Inukasumis mother." Myoga stated, "She could have been a match for Naraku himself, if only she didn't bond with him."

Inuyasha took in a deep breath. His legs failed him, and he fell to the ground.

"Are you alright, my lord Inuyasha?" Myoga hopped over to him.

"Hell no, im not alright." Inuyashas voice wavered, "Imagine what Inukasumi will do when"--

"She must not find out!" Myoga shrieked, "Not yet!"

"She has a right to know! She's my sister!"

"Please, my lord, we can't just tell her out of the blue like this! Wait until I think of some way to let her know calmly. She is very unstable at the moment, my lord. She must calm down first." Myoga paused nervously. "She has a reputation to be quite... impulsive."

"Yeah. Must run in the family." Inuyasha sighed. "Ok, but on one condition."

"What?"

"If keeping this from Inukasumi hurts her somehow... I will send you to hell." Inuyasha said, shaking his head and gritting his teeth. "I just can't let anything happen to her." He whispered, "She's the only family I've got that can stand to be within a mile of me."

Myoga sniffed and patted Inuyasha on his back soothingly. "It'll be ok, my lord."

"Yeah, we'll see about that." Inuyasha said in a low, trembling voice. He looked up as his sister passed him. She smiled and ruffled his hair.

"Hey, Myoga! Where have you been?" She asked cheerfully.

"Around." Myoga gulped.

Inukasumi kneeled down to her brothers' point of view. "Are you ok, Oniichan?" she asked, "Im so sorry about earlier. I know you can take care of yourself. Im just worried you might leave me again." she smiled sadly.

Inuyasha held his sister tight. Inukasumi couldn't see his face, but she could feel him shaking.

"Oniichan?" she asked softly, "Are you really ok? Are you feeling sick? Tell me, Oniichan!"

"Don't worry about me!" Inuyasha whispered harshly, "You shouldn't care about me so much! Look out for yourself!" he gripped Inukasumi tighter and tighter as he let her stroke his hair soothingly.

"What's wrong, Oniichan?" Inukasumi asked into the distance, "Let me help you, big brother. I can handle it."

No you can't, Inuyasha thought, fighting to keep his tears hidden, You can't ever know. I don't want you to know. But you have to. It's not fair. It's just not fair, damn it all.