In honor of the full moon (at least where I am), I present to you Chapter 10 of Truths, which is slowly leading down to the finale of Truths, which will, sorry to say, ultimatley dissapointment most of you all. However, I'll be releasing the small story "Bridge" which is no more than a few mere paragraphs long that links "Time" and Truths together, and after that I'll begin releasing the first few chapters of "Time". Visit my Fanfiction site for updates and info that I don't always post here. http/ with html layout designed by me.
And now I present to you, Truths, Chapter 10!
Chapter 10(Blood, Tears, and the pain of Confession.)
Amber eyes opened slowly in warm rays of sunlight. Am I dead? Inuyasha thought as he moved his eyes around the scene before him, which was a roof with a window in it. No, this is…
Groans were emitted from the back of his throat as he tried to move, having the painful effect of accomplishing the task.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled as she ran over to him.
Inuyasha groaned again, moving his arms and legs and feeling a hand push down on his forehead.
"We thought you were a goner!" She said as Sango and Shippou came running over.
"How long…" Inuyasha said through the pain.
"How long what?" Shippou asked, his face wrecked with concern for the man in front of him.
"How long… Have… I been out…uhn!"
"About seven hours." Sango answered, her brown eyes surveying Inuyasha with concern. "It broke your spine. We thought you were paralyzed."
"Stupid…" Inuyasha laughed slightly, feeling the consequences of doing so throughout his entire body. "You should know by now…uhn… that it will grow back."
"We weren't sure since it was your spine." Kagome said slightly.
"Even if my heads cut off…" Inuyasha moaned, "it can be re-attached and I will live, however being a half demon it takes slightly shorter amounts of time and less to kill me than regular demons."
Inuyasha accomplished the painful task of sitting up, drawing gasps from Kagome.
"You should lie back down." Sango said.
Inuyasha thought before answering "yea" and nodded, lying his sore body down.
"Miroku…"
These words escaped his lips.
Kagome and Sango stood still and Kagome looked slightly pale.
"Well…? Where is he?" Inuyasha proceeded to push the question.
"Well, see, Naraku took him and…" Kagome stopped, slightly scared by the truthful reality of the whole situation.
There was a long pause in which only Inuyasha's painful breathing could be heard. Until the hanyou broke the silence.
"What do you mean, Naraku's got him!" he yelled, picking his sore and beaten body up and off of the ground once again, using his back hands to prop it off of the beaten floor.
"Well…" She said slightly, "we're not exactly sure if he's…". Kagome's voice trailed off slightly…
Inuyasha felt a tightness in his throat. His lover was really gone? Was it really true! Inuyasha felt his eyes sting slightly and rolled himself over to face the wall, upon which the monks smiling face was portrayed. No, no, no, no, no, NO! This was not happening! It just wasn't! Inuyasha's tears flowed slightly onto the ground and sparkled in the rays of gleaming sunshine. Was it really day outside? Was it Naraku who set this whole thing up? Why didn't anyone remember their encounter with him several days ago? Who or what was that old man? Why was Miroku gone? Why was his best friend, His lover, and his partner in life, gone…? Was this some cruel joke being played upon him from the heavens? Was it like this because it was forbidden? Was everything going dead in his mind as his hot tears spilled silently onto the floor beside him because someone above wanted him to understand that it was all merely a mirage?
Kagome backed away slightly as she recognized the slightly fidgets and gasps of air. He's crying. He's crying because we lost? Or maybe it's because of Miroku. She studied the figure with perplexed eyes, her mind blazing with questions she longed to be answered. She knew that something had been up with her hanyou partner right lately; she had seen it in his eyes, actions and talk. Over the past few days he had grown calmer, more tolerant of things such as Shippou and herself asking him things. However he had also been spending some abnormal amounts of time away from the campsite or where the bedded down. Time in which Miroku had also been gone.
The young girl continued to watch as the hanyou's body twitched more, his silent sobbing slightly more visible to the waiting eye. Perhaps the monk had become someone that Inuyasha could talk to, someone that he could easily relieve stress with, and talk and walk with. However She also suspected something deeper, something more along the lines of a romantic relationship.
Kagome shook her head slightly and got up and headed towards the door.
"Kagome." Sango said to the miko who was standing in the doorway, her back facing the brown eyes of the demon slayer, which were presently filled with fear.
"The villagers deserve a burial." She said.
Sango nodded silently, which Kagome recognized by the change in atmosphere.
Several days passed and Inuyasha's health grew steadily better. Every day was painful for the hanyou however. It seemed almost as if all will to live, fight, or to even move had been sucked out of him. Kagome stood senselessly in one place for several minutes on end, her mind pondering meaningless relationships and possibilities, every hour bringing more horrifying pictures to her mind. Sango was torn apart by the monks disappearance, yet was still the only one who managed to keep a cool, clam, and easy attitude.
By the fourth day Inuyasha was moving again and found himself constantly out on the front porch, the moonlight hitting his face and bringing aches and pains into his heart. The one thing that he had wanted and needed was gone. The one person that had ever sent chills down his spine when he kissed and trembled his very heart with shimmering anxiety was gone forever, unable to ever return.
"DAMNIT!" Inuyasha yelled as he started hitting a nearby tree.
"WHY! WHY! WH-"
"Inuyasha!"
Inuyasha felt his bloodied knuckles cease fire upon the innocent tree as his crimson clad body turned to face that of a young, modern day school girl.
"Go away." He muttered to the girl as he passed right by her and laid his still recovering back against the wall of the house.
Kagome followed him and sat beside him, gazing into the starry sky that peeked out from above the roof overhead. A slight summer breeze blew, ruffling Inuyasha's hair but never touching his cold, depressed heart.
"Inuyasha." She said much calmer to the hanyou, who golden eyes glowed like a ghost in the moonlit night, "I have many questions that need to be answered, and I'm afraid that you're the only one who can answer them."
"Go ahead." He said, closing his eyes and allowing more breezes to calm him, "But before you start I need you to understand something."
Kagome felt her heart sink a little but nodded silently, and unspoken "please proceed" exchanged within the night.
"Me and Miroku had something going," He started, his heart throbbing as his words flowed from it, "We had something steadily going for quite a long time. But you see I found out something Kagome."
Inuyasha turned his eyes which were presently filling with tears, a smile upon his face; the first of which Kagome had personally seen in weeks.
"See I found out that I don't always have to suffer. Miroku taught me that, and somewhere in the process we found out something that had been missing in our lives, the one thing that we both shared."
Inuyasha paused and moved his head to the right slightly but bringing it back slowly as his next words coursed from his lips.
"I love him Kagome. I love Miroku and he loved me and there's no way I can go on now. He's gone Kagome, he's gone forever."
Kagome felt her throat tighten but remained calm and reached out and pulled the hanyou's head closer to her shoulder. Inuyasha felt the weight of the world crash around him, quite thankful for the resting sanctity of the school girl. There was a long pause in which kagome's eyes scanned the moonlit lawn, the saddened brown ovals passing frivolously over each dewy blade of grass. I was too late, I knew it, She thought in her head as she felt her heart throb. I should have tried but…
Kagome turned her head towards the silvery haired head which was resting peacefully upon her right shoulder, obviously quite stressed out from the activities of the day. But he needs me now, she thought to herself as she laid her own head back against the house's wall, he needs me to understand and support and I need to do exactly that…
Inuyasha was slowly drifting off to sleep. He was now very aware of just how much he had in point of fact worn himself out, his back gave a silent ache, a painful reminder of the scar in his heart. Miroku was gone and he needed to accept that for now, but the more Inuyasha tried to think, the more he became filled with rage. Naraku will pay and this time with his own soul…
Hanyou eyes lay closed upon the shoulder of a girl whose resting head symbolized a silent bond which had no more meaning than comfort. The wind blew slightly and ruffled their hair, silver intermingling with black in the night air…
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(note: shortness is due to lack of time needed to work on this chapter, new chapter will be released quicker than most to make up for thsi one's shortness, sorry 'bout that guys . Stewie2kill)