Chapter 3:The Truth

by DeadlyFlameDemon & LoveMePrincessKagome

Kikyo had been walking out of her room when she had heard Kagome screaming at someone, or something. She was indeed upset with her sister but she was still concerned about her welfare, since all she had done since the battle was mope around and train until she collapsed, she began making her way to her sisters room to at least shut the door so it would not wake up the morning patrollers that were resting downstaris from the early morning when she saw Hojo staring into her little sisters room, almost as if he was in a trance. She quickly stepped over to him and pulled him into the hallway and easily pinning him to the wall by the scruff of his shirt, she leaned close to him and spoke quickly, yet firmly, "You repeat anything you just heard and I'll kill you myself and leave your carcass out for the birds to pick at. you got that?" She watched him pale and nod frantically before she dropped him, "Good. Now go downstairs and tell the other boys that I say if any of them come up here I'll kill 'em myself." She turned and walked past him, she heard his footsteps thunder down the stairs as if hell were at his heels, but it wasn't, what would have been after him was much worse.

Kikyo looked into Kagome's room and found her sitting on the edge of her bed with her head in her hands, the tears rolling out of her hands as she sobbed quietly. Kikyo's eyes softened at the sight, it still made her uncomfortable when her sister cried, no matter how much trouble she had caused. Kikyo leaned up against the door frame with one arm and spoke softly, "Kagome? Sister. What's happened?" She hadn't meant the question to sound mocking but somhow to Kagome it had. Kagome looked up at her sister with red and slightly puffy eyes, "K-Kikyo...You just couldn't wait to rub it in could you?" Kagome stood up and walked over to the door, Kikyo took a step back, now she was in the hallway, Kagome took ahold of the door and said, "Kikyo. I will not be down for dinner, no one is to disturb me fro the rest of tonight and tomorrow morning." With those words spoken she slammed the door in Kikyo's face. Kikyo was stunned, it had been meant as a simple question and nothing more, and now her curiosity was increasing. Why had her sister been screaming and then be caught crying with her door wide open? Kikyo could only think of one reason: Sesshomaru. She leaned up against the wall across from Kgome's door, as the memories of that night flooded into her mind.

Flashback

Kikyo ran through the streets of the East, following the gunfire to the borders where she could hear screams coming from the people she called 'family'. As she turned the last corner into a square that divided the four sides, she immediatly saw the cause of her friends' distress, there was Sesshomaru and other demons tearing apart the Angels with their claws and fangs, Sesshomaru had a sword that glowed with an evil aura. She skidded to a halt about 8 feet from the Fang, "I thought you said you loved my sister, well, this isn't exactly helping your relationship." She heard the deadly Inu-youkai laugh darkly, sending chills up her back as he replied smoothly, "I don't love that bitch, she was a mere decoy to get me into these lands." She was stunned before a moment until her confusion quickly turned ino rage. She charged at the demon, pulling out her own katana on the way, in an instant the clash of blades echoed in her ears. They were both giving it their all, at least she was, and he was laughing at her while calling her a 'Weak human', 'pathetic miko', or 'insolent bitch.' When she saw his attention had shifted alsewhere suddenly she took it to her advantage and tried to aim her sword at one of the 7 most fatal spots in the body. The next thing she knew she was on her back 4 yards away, the cold rain and mud spraying on her face, she had been thrown back by Sesshomaru's sword. It was then that she saw the cause of his distracted mind, 10 yards away she saw her sister, staring wide eyed at Sesshomaru, until he suddenly called the retreat. Nobody had gone after them, they were too busy trying to save the lives of those who had fought with such courage and bravery against the demons.

After that Kagome had disappeared until that night when ikyo had went up to her room to get her for dinner, she had found Kagome just laying on her bed looking up at the ceiling, trapt in her own little world. Kikyo had gently shook her and told her it was time for dinner, but the offer was declined with a slight shake of her head. Kikyo had then stood up and turned to leave when her sister's coarse voice stopped her, "Say it. Go on, say it, tell me badly I screwed up.." Kikyo turned towards her sister, snapping in an instant. "Kagome. He told me he was using you,I , told you, you can NEVER trust a Fang, a demon nonetheless, and look what happend when YOU disobeyed! We've lost over half of the people that raised us since we were children, at least half of the people we grew up with. And you know who's fault that is, Kagome, do you? IT'S YOURS! IF YOU HAD NOT SHOWN THAT DEMON HOW TO GET PAST THE BORDERS UNDETECTED WE WOULDNOT HAVE LOST SO MANY PEOPLE WE CARED ABOUT!" Kikyo was out of breath as she glared at her sister, who was still staring at the roof blankly, she then heard her sister's reply, "I know it is...It is my fault...And I will be the one to fix it, I will be the one to slay Sesshomaru. I have no choice now..." Kikyo just turned on her heels and stormed out, slamming the door on her way, she didn't go down to eat that night either, she just stayed in her room praying that Kagome forgave her for her ouburst.

Later that night Kikyo had knocked on her sister's door, she didn't hear a response so she just walked in. Her first place to look at, the bed, she found was empty, finding this to be odd since it was 11 o'clock at night she looked at Kagome's bathroom and saw the light was on. She knocked on the bathroom door and still got no response, Kikyo figured she had locked herself in the bsthroom and went to sleep but when she saw a blood stain on the carpet outside of the bsthroom door, she became sickingly frightened. "Kagome! Kagome? Are you ok?", Kikyo yelled while pounding on the door with her fists, Kikyo quickly got tired of it and kicked down the door. Her eyes scanned the room, searching for her sister until her gaze rested upon Kagome's bathtub, which was filled to the brim with blood red water, and Kagome inside it with her eyes closed peacefully. Her eyes widened in terror as she realized what her sister had done to herself, before she knew it she was pulling her sister from the bloody water and onto the white rug on the bathroom floor, checking for a pulse in her neck. She was overjoyed to find her sister was still alive, but with the wounds to her wrists and ankles, it wouldn't be for long unless she got immediate help. Kikyo ran into Kagome's room and pulled out one of her sisters white sheets,some medical tape, and gauze. She then ran back into the bathroom and wrapped gauze around each gash in her body and secured it with tape before wrapping the seet aroud her litte sister and picking her up, Kikyo couldn't remember driving so fast in her life when she left for the hospitol with Kagome strapped into the backseat, her life force pouring out of her wounds.

End of Flashback

Kikyo shook her head and thought of what had happened after that, when the doctors had told her that her sister would heal after a few weeks, she cried for hours. That day seemed like only yesterday to her but Sesshomaru had no idea it happened, or at least she thought so, it didn't really matter to her but she knew he was the cause of her dear sisters attempted suicide, or maybe...Maybe it was her fault, maybe the harsh words She had spoken to her little sister had truly gotten to Kagome. Kikyo walked back to her room, the door to Kagome's room had been taken off the hinges for 5 days, until Kagome finally put it back on herself and made sure no one touched it. Kikyo silently shut the door and turned to walk towards her bed when two arms wrapped around her and covered her mouth gently, she let out a scream that was muffled by the stranger's hand. "Shh...Promise not to scream and I will not harm you, I swear." She nodded, knowing the voice, but not to whom it belonged to. Finally the man released her, she wipped around to see her attackers face but was met with the piercing golden gaze of Inuyasha. She took a step back, feeling along the desk for her Colt 45, she heard him chuckle lightly as he held up her handgun. His voice rang in her ears as he spoke, "Please Kikyo, I merely wish to know why your sister and my brother are fighting...And why your 'Angels' attacked us." Confusion shot through her mind at his words, "What do you mean? We never so much as crossd onto your lands after the last night I saw you, and your brother. They are fighting because your brother and his comrades slaughtered the only family she has ever truly known, since she can barely remember our mother..." Now it was Inuyasha's turn to be confused. It had been the 'Angels' who had attacked the 'Fangs', not the other way around. " No he didn't. He's been on the run for two weeks, the rest of the gang found out about Kagome somehow and so he was sentenced to death, but he said he couldn't let Kagome live all alone in this world, so he ran. He's laying low somewhere in the South since the 'Wolves' owe my brother for aiding them in a war against the North." Kikyo looked at Inuyasha for a moment, studying his face to see if he was lieing, he appeared not to be. "But...My sister thinks it was him who attacked us, she tried to kill herself because of it!" Kikyo took a step back, realizing what this meant.

Inuyasha's eyes bulged out, "S-she tried to...to commit suicide!" Kikyo nodded and spoke softly, "The doctors said had I been a moment later, she wouldn't have made it out alive...I was so ashamed of myself for telling her that it was her fault for Sesshomaru attacking us...and now I find ouu it wasn't him!" Kikyo looked down to where her bangs hid her face, a few tears made its way down her face and fell to the floor. Inuyasha moved towards her and pulled her to him, he never had been able to watch women cry without feling a pang of sympathy, "Hey...Don't be so hard on yourself...But now that we know neither of us attacked each other, then who did?" Kikyo blinked and looked up at him, nobody came to her mind, she trusted all of her gang with her life, how could she accuse any of them of that heinous crime? Inuyasha could see it in her eyes, she didn't fully believe the Fangs hadn't attacked them, he sighed and took a step away from her. "You don't have to believe me, but I just wanted to tell you the truth." With eyes filled with hurt he turned to leave but was stopped by Kikyo's voice, "I'm sorry...Inuyasha...It's just too hard to blame someone from my gang since they all practically raised Kagome and I, you must know how I feel, don't you?" Inuyasha turned half-way towards her. "No...i don't...By the time both of our parents were gone Sesshomaru and I were old enough to take care of ourselves and never really got close to the rest of the Fangs...But that's only natural since hardly any of our members attached to each other for reasons just like this one. We can't trust each other the way you humans do, that is one of the main differences of our kinds." Kikyo was stunned, not being able to trust anyone? She just couldn't picture that happening between the Angels, she lowered her head to the point where her bangs covered her face. "Oh...I'm sorry, I had no idea..." Inuyasha was in front of her with two easy strides, he tilted her head up with his claws and said, "Hey, don't be, it's just the way things our over in the West." She looked up into those amber pools and looked into his soul while he got lost in her chocolaty brown orbs, he leaned down and closed the space between them, he felt her jump a little. Thinking he had went to far, he pulled away from her, ears flat and looking down he spoke quietly, "I-I'm sorry, I shouldnt have done tha--" He was cut off by her lips being pressed firmly against his. After a few moments of shock he relaxed and returned her kiss full-heartedly, closing his eyes and wrapping his arms around her as hers wound around his neck. His ears twitched a little and he pulled away suddenly, slightly out of breath he urgently said, "We have company, I have to get out of here, Now." She nodded and opened her balconey window quickly.

He quickly went to jump out of it but first he turned to her and gave her a chaste kiss, "I'll be back next Saturday, I'll inform you about Sesshomaru and everything then. Think about our problem and tell me your conclusion when I come back." She nodded and watched him leap off her balconey rail just as a knock was heard on the door. She paced over to the door and opened it, "Hojo, what do you want?" His brown eyes were clouded with worry, "Um...About earliar, was Kagome talking to that silver haired demon, wasn't she?" Kkyo looked at him blankly, "Who she was talknig to is none of your concern, stay out of it, and remember what i told you." She slammed the door in his face, a little upset that he had been the one to interupt Inuyasha and herself. She layed on her bed later that evening and stared up at her ceiling with starry eyes, obviously still in la-la mode from the kiss, she sighed a content sigh and closed her eyes sleepily, it was not long before sleep overtook her body. But even in sleep, her thoughts of him remained.

After she had slammed the door in her sister's face, Kagome had once again, fallen to the floor sobbing for what seemed like the millionth time in two weeks. She was finally letting out all the emotions she had been holding inside, she didn't know how long she could keep up this "Double life" she felt she had gotten herself into, she felt like she was a traitor not only to the Angels but to her heart as well. At that moment she made up her mind, she was not going to let this incident with Sesshomaru ruin her life, she was going out tonight. She stood up and paced over to her closet, she had many outfits that were less than...Inappropriate but she ended up choosing a short red tank top with a black netting over it with a short black skirt. She added black fingerless gloves that reached just below her elbow, earrings that looked to be made of chain embedded with red rubies that reached her shoulders. She brushed her hair until it was soft as silk and then pulled it up into a messy bun with a few of her bangs outlining her face, she tied black and red ribbons in it. She then put some red glitter in her hair and on her face along with the deep red eyeshadow and blood red lip gloss. She looked in the mirror once she was finished and smiled approving her choice of attire, she locked her door quietly then walked out onto her balcony, locking the two doors behind her, and putting the lanyard with all her keys around her neck. Silently, she walked over to the right side of her balconey and grabbed onto the rope like ivy that went down the side of the building, with one last look back at her sister's balconey she lifted herself over the steel fence railing and lowered herself slowly down the vines. She took careful, slow steps, she had forgotten how high it really was from her window to the ground and unfortunately she was terrefied of heights, ever since that day, she had feared them greatly.

flashback

"KAGOME! KAGOME!" An older woman in a navy blue business skirt yelled towards the school engulfed in flames, tears poured down her face as she attempted to break free from the two firefighters holding onto her tightly."PLEASE! THERE IS A LITTLE GIRL IN THERE! PLEASE! LET ME GO!" The teacher cried as they pulled her to safety, she was shocked to no end when the fireman told her that they could not send anybody into the building because of the danger of the entire thing collapsing. She began to sob as she began to struggle again, screaming at the Fire Cheif things like, "You bastard!", "how could you let a child suffer like that." As well as many other things. Meanwhile, a little raven haired girl coughed harshly while screaming from the pain that emitted from her leg, which was trapped beneath a ceiling beam. She was losing precious oxygen, and she only thing she could think was: 'I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die!' Thats all that was running through her mind. She coughed again as the smoke filled her lungs, 'Somebody! Help me!' her eyes burned from the smoke that was so thick all she could see was the blurry orange flames all around her, she closed them, hoping for it all to end quickly, praying that it didn't hurt as badly as her leg did. Suddenly the weight of the beam was lifted, had she died and gone to the other world, or was someone really helping her? She opened her eyes, only to be greeted by a cloud of smoke being blown into her face, someone was carrying her, was it God? All she could see after the last smoke intrusion on her eyes was a blurry figure clothed in white, 'Oh my god..I am dead, an Angel is taking me to heaven,heavenly father, I am coming back to you!'

She closed her eyes tightly as she felt the air shift around her. But in a moment, the air was clean, it was as if the smoke had vanished, she wiped her eyes with her hands and opened them only to be greeted by a white blanket like robe covering her face and body. She could tell that she was no longer inside of the building, she pushed the robe away from her eyes only to see everything that was happening with the fire hundreds of feet below her, she screamed and the robe was instantly pulled back over her face by a strong hand., the feeling of being in the air for so long and so high, made her pass out quickly after. When she awoke, she was in a hospital bed, when she asked about her savior a few weeks later, her mother told her that it was someone who was merely doing their job as a civilian, but Kagome knew that was a lie, the person who saved her, knew who she was, and had intentionally saved her life. It was not a mere coincidence.

End of Flashback

After a few years she had forgotten all about the incident, but now, seeing herself so high up from the groundo the memoryf it came back to her , and all of the questions she had had before ran through her mind. She shook her head slightly and proceeded down the vines very slowly and carefully, even though it took about 10 excruciating minutes, she finally reached the stone covered ground. The moment her feet touched the ground she sighed with relief, now that she was no longer in the air, she could concentrate on the task at hand. She flipped open her cell phone, which Kikyo had made her carry around ever since the night she came back from Sesshomaru's, and hit the speed dial. It rang three times before it was picked up and a womans voice spoke on the other line, "Hello, Kagura speaking." Kagome smiled at the bored tone in the older womans voice, "Still saying your name when you pick up, eh Kagura? You must be overly bored." She heard Kagura laugh gently and say, "Hey Kagome, it is good to hear from you after so long, how are you?" Kagome giggled quietly at her friends rambling, "Well, actually, I need to ask you something, is there any parties happening tonight?" There was a silence on the other end of the line for a moment before she got her reply, "Well...Yeah...But it's up here in the North.." Kagome sighed, she never really had a liking for the North-side Dragons, other than Kagura. Most of the men liked her, or she should say, her body, and the women hated her for that reason.

"Will you be going, Kagura"

"I Always do"

"Wait for me?"

"Of course! I'll see you there Kagome!"

Kagome hit the 'end' button and and threw it into the bushes, she didn't need her sister tracking her. She silently crept along the wall of the building, the bouncers were too busy with the Saturday night crowd to notice her, she quickly went over to the crowd and made sure they didn't see her as she continued down the street, away from the club with the neon sign that read 'The Moonlight'. It was nearly 10 o'clock by the time she got to the dark club with the blood splattered walls that lead to the door, the air had a foul stench in the North, and it made her stomach clench. It made her wonder if all these people ever thought about was death, blood, and sex, there were prostitutes and whores running around fucking anything that walked, talked, or paid money. It was an utterly disturbing place in Kagome's mind, a few of the sick, drug-dealing, bastards had tried to get her to bed them one time,but she was saved by Kagura who told them that if they touched her she would castrate them with a butter knife. She chuckled at that memory as she approached the doors with the blinking neon sign that said, 'The Bloody Bucket', 'What a name for a club.' She thought. Kagura was waiting for her as she came to the doors, they stared at one another bfore Kagura spoke, "What in bloody hell took you so long Kagome?" Kagome thought for a moment, "I had a fun time getting past the border this time, the security has tightened." Kagura nodded, "I'm sorry, I should have warned you about that, with everything that has been happening, Naraku has told them to triple the security...But tonight was an open night, anyone is allowed in tonight as long as they don't cause trouble, you didn't have to sneak in." Kagome sweatdropped. "I wish I had known that.." Kagura laughed, "Well, lets go in shall we?" Kagome nodded and followed Kagura in the doors that no longer had a bouncer to stop anyone from coming in.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------AN: Ok guys & gals, Sorry for the messed up time, my pc broke down as I was changing chapters around.