A/N: I bring in a few other pups in this chapter. Check out my website (URL in my profile) and click on the Got Yasha? page. There is a link to where I list all 122 pups names, birth years and ages!
Chapter 12
"Who the hell are you?", Inuyasha demanded again, as Kagome sat up and turned on the light to see what the commotion was about. She was shocked to see a strange woman in flowing black robes standing in her room.
"What the ...?", Kagome started.
Inuyasha got up, still holding the woman's right wrist. Pushing her back against the wall, he growled,
"Tell me your name, woman."
"I have to do no such thing.", she said, and then she vanished, leaving Inuyasha holding empty air.
"Well, that explains how she got into our house.", Inuyasha said, flustered by the disappearance.
Getting dressed, he began a search of the premises. Hearing a commotion, he was soon joined by sons Phillip, Bunza, Yasuo, Travis and Toshiro and daughters Sage, Skylar, Izayoi, Asame and Tatiana. Mashai also joined them. As Inuyasha explained what happened, he noticed Shane, Kellen and Ian on the steps listening intently. The news made all but one question what happened. One person just paled. Bunza noticed the change in Mashai.
"Do you know anything about this, Mashai?", asked Bunza, suspiciously.
"Why would Mashai know anything?", asked Izayoi, a bit angry at her brother's assumption.
"Because he looks like he just saw a ghost.", Bunza said, taking a step nearer to Mashai.
"I might know something about it, yea.", Mashai admitted, sheepishly.
Inuyasha was on Mashai now. Grabbing the young man by the shirt, he demanded,
"Tell me all you know, dammit!"
"You need to tell me first what she looked like.", said Mashai, disengaging himself from Inuyasha's grip.
Kagome described the woman, from her long black hair, to her hardened, yet feminine, facial features. Mashai shook his head,
"Yes, I know who she is."
"Who, dammit?", Inuyasha demanded again.
"She was my mother."
Everybody stopped and stared.
"What ... did ... you ... just ... say?", Bunza stressed every word.
"Mashai?", questioned Izayoi.
"So, that's why you were dating my daughter. You wanted me dead. You wanted me dead because of what I did to your father.", said Inuyasha as the others gasped at the thought.
"NO! That's not true. Well, it's somewhat true.", admitted Mashai.
"See! I knew you couldn't be trusted. Your stench says it all. It says all I need to know."
"That's not true. I thought I wanted to kill you ... but ... but it's my mother who wants you dead. She called tonight and told me to do it and I refused."
"I don't believe you.", said Inuyasha as the other males agreed and Izayoi started to cry,
"How could you try to kill my father?", she pleaded with him.
"Get out of my house. I gave you my hospitality and this is how you repay me. And this is what you do with a woman's trust. GET OUT!", Inuyasha barked.
Mashai tried to defend himself, "It wasn't my doing ..."
"Get out Mashai, before we throw you out,", said Bunza.
Mashai picked up his stuff and left, sadly. Shortly after leaving, the phone rang. Not wanting to wake anyone else at this early hour, Inuyasha got it on the first ring,
"Kateitenma", he answered, and then fell silent, "Ok.", was all he said and then he hung up.
"I have to go.", he said, turning to the group.
"Why", the chorused.
"That was Jaken. Sesshoumaru is in the hospital in critical condition. He was heading here and someone cut his brake line. His car smashed into a semi."
"Any idea who?", Phillip queried.
"They believe it was Jenkins, one of his employees."
"Wasn't he one of the ones who we think followed the flute?", asked Yasuo, as his father nodded.
"Hey, Dad?", Shane questioned, standing up for the first time.
"Yea?"
"That description of the woman you gave that was in the house?"
"Yea?"
"She sounds like the woman we saw on the rock in front of the old house."
"Mashai's mother is the woman on the rock?"
Kagome's mind started racing. 'If Mashai's mother was the woman on the rock, could she be somehow related to Jones?', she thought.