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Chapter Twelve

The Night of the New Moon

Winry didn't understand how anyone would want to be like that, she didn't even understand how Ed and Al would be soo willing to put themselves in danger's way so casually. "So, why does Inuyasha want to be a full demon?"

"I think... to be stronger."

"That's it, the only reason he'll risk all that he has now, is to be stronger! Why are men soo freaking stupid and Independent!" (A/N: If anyone can honestly answer that for me, please tell me. Men confuse me. Like my boyfriend, he'll flirt with other girls and these guys flirt with me all the time and he sees it and gets like really jealous. 'What the hell, man! I mean you're such a freaking hypocrite!' Sorry for that, just help me please) Winry's hands were shaking she was soo pissed.

"I know, like Inuyasha is the lord of stupid, independent, jealous, idiots! He always has to be macho and he hides his feelings. Save for one night in the month were he'll actually…. Wait… Sango what night is it?"

"Oh, crap! Does Inuyasha know!"

"I don't know! We have to get back to camp now!"

"Why are you guys freaking out?"

Sango and Kagome weren't listening. They stood and raced for camp, they didn't think Inuyasha realized what day it was; there had been too much excitement in the last couple of days.

It didn't take them very long to get back to camp, their worry increased their speed. They found all of the men sitting around the fire, Inuyasha was the first to look up and notice the worry in all of the women's faces. "What's wrong?" He rose and went over to Kagome in a flash.

"Do you remember what night it is going to be!" Kagome's face was overflowing with concern.

"Oh, God! Are you serious!"

All Kagome could do was nod. Miroku and Shippo stood, alarmed by what they had remembered.

"Shit! Not now! Sesshomaru, Naraku, and the Homunculi are around! They could find us and kill us….DAMMIT!" Inuyasha grabbed the Tetsusiaga and stormed off into Kaede's hut.

"What is wrong?" Al, Ed, and Winry were completely confused.

"Come closer, we can't say this aloud, certain people can't hear this. Let's go into Kaede's hut, it's safer in there." They all followed Inuyasha's lead into the Hut. "Do you want me to explain, Inuyasha?"

"Feh, I don't give a damn who does it, I'm not going to, though." He grumbled something about being a half demon sucking and sat against the far wall and fell asleep.

"Okay…? Well, since Inuyasha is a half demon, he has one night a month were he'll turn into a mortal man."

"WOW….that sucks!" Ed's forehead met Inuyasha's fist quickly. "I thought you were asleep!"

"Demon powers, Tard, demon powers! I can her everything you say up to like a mile away!" He slammed Ed in the head multiply.

"Inuyasha… Sit! If you want me to tell the story, then don't interrupt!"

"Fine dammit, but make the boy- blonde- wonder stop talking!" Kagome only caught a few words of it and that was only because he was yelling.

"Fine, whatever! So Inuyasha's night of the month is on the might of the New moon. (A/N: I know what that sounds like, but don't mock me! I couldn't think of another way to phrase that!)

"You all realize that this is a secret and no one can know!" He turned to glare at Kagome, "But more and more people seem to be finding out about it!"

"That just means you're making more friends!" She added an innocent smile to that, to make him somewhat forgive her.

"Whatever!"

"Gyaa! Where's my backpack?" Kagome ran out of the hut to find her bag.

"What's wrong?" Inuyasha stuck her head out of the hut.

"How many days has it been since I came back from my era?"

"About fifteen…Why?"

"I have a test Monday!"

"Oh, come on, Kagome! Don't leave us all here again, we have these people, too, we need your help!" Shippo gave her a pleading look.

"Maybe, if you let me go back for one day, then I can get my brother to borrow either Ayumi, Yuka, and Eri's notes! I'll be back in the morning."

"You mean 'we'll be back in the morning'." Inuyasha walked out of the hut and grabbed Kagome's back and walked into the woods.

"Why are you coming?"

"Because you'll take too long, you'll go to your damn school and take forever."

"Fine, whatever. Sango can we borrow Kirara?"

"Yeah, maybe you should take one of the boys with you."

"Why, Sango, do you think I'm useless or something?" Inuyasha hated being categorized as a weakling.

"No, I mean, you're injured and it's the New Moon. You'll need some help protecting you and Kagome." 'Save! Go, Me!' Sango didn't want to piss Inuyasha off.

"I'll go." Ed rose to his feet and followed after Inuyasha.

"I'm still going to send Kirara with you, so Ed'll have a ride back to camp." Kirara sprinted out of the hut on Sango's command.

They all started walking, in silence. Inuyasha's features started changing; only Ed was gawking at him. "Why are you staring, Alchemist-Boy?"

"Your hair is turning black and your ears are gone!"

"And my claws and fangs are gone and my eyes are brown now and my senses are all dull! I can't hear, smell, and feel what I did before!"

"Calm down, Inuyasha! He meant no offence by saying that! He's just never seen you like this!" Kagome stepped in front of him and grabbed his shoulders.

"Feh, well, he'd better get a good look, because when I come back in the morning I'll look like I did this morning, without the injuries."

"You mean, you'll be fully healed!" 'I'd be laid up for more than six days with those injuries!' "How is that possible!"

"Again…demon powers, bud."

They reached the well quickly, mostly because Inuyasha wanted to be out of sight as soon as possible.

"This is where we leave you, Ed!"

"This is a well." Ed just stared blankly at it.

"Yes, thank you, Sherlock! This is Kagome's and my doorway to her time." Inuyasha rolled his eyes.

"This is the Bone Eater's well, it has a time rift that leads to my time."

"Ah…um…okay…? Well, goodbye then. Wait, why did Sango send Kirara with me?"

"Kirara, Transform!" Once Kagome commanded it, Kirara transformed into a large fire cat.

"Gyaa!" Ed jumped back in fear.

"Oh shut up and get on her back!" Inuyasha picked him up and set him on Kirara's back. "Kirara take him strait back to camp once we're in the well."

Kirara meowed in understanding, once Inuyasha and Kagome were in the well, she did as she was told. Leaving Ed to focus on the frailest part of a feudal era hero and the fact that his life on one night of the night rested on how well people could keep a secret. It didn't take too long to arrive back at camp. He received questioning looks from all of those who were there.

"What's wrong, brother?"

"Hmm, ah….nothing, it's just that, I find it curious that Inuyasha's life on one night of the month depends on how well people can keep a secret."

"It is curious, but very true. These times are dark, very dark. A lot of people plot against Inuyasha, Koga, and Kagome. Sango, Kagome, and I have all died before."

"If you've died, how are you here?" Al stood. He couldn't grasp any part of this.

"Well, there were two possible ways. (One) steal Sesshomaru's Tensaiga, or (Two), which is how Myoga did it, to remove the reason for the death. See, we had been ailed be poison, so he sucked it out of us."

"Ed, don't even think of it, trying to get mom back the first time had been a mistake, doing it twice would just be lunacy." Al stopped his brother in his tracks.

"I realize that, but to think, that they have the option of returning people to life in the era is… unfair."

"Only Sesshomaru has that option, and he wouldn't do that for just anyone."

"Why does that murderous beast get the option of reviving people?"

"His father bequeathed that sword to him. Probably to change his outlook on life. Sesshomaru would have killed his own father to gain more power when he was younger, His father realized this, and wouldn't you have done something about this if you were him?"

"Who would he revive anyways, he doesn't like his kin, so, and who else is left that would be close enough for him to care about?"

"Rin and Jaken. Look at things from Sesshomaru's perspective; he thinks it is all Izayoi and Inuyasha's fault that their father, Inu no Taisho, is dead."

"Who are; Jaken, Rin and Izayoi?"

"Rin is the little girl that ran out of the bushes in the middle of the battle with Sesshomaru and Jaken is the little green imp that ran out after her. Izayoi is Inuyasha's mother."

"How did she die?"

"We do not know, we only know that Inu no Taisho died in a battle when Inuyasha was a newborn and Izayoi died when Inuyasha was very young."

"Why does Inuyasha look down so terribly on being a half demon? He was cursing being half human when I was in the hut with him this morning." Ed didn't mind it and didn't know why Inuyasha resented it so.

"Inuyasha has been tormented all of his life. Neither human nor demons had fully accepted him until he met us all and Kikyo. Other than that, there was his mom. Inuyasha was beaten up when he was little because of the fact that he was a half demon. He had no friends; that is why he does keep to himself. If you think he is distant now, you should have seen him when we first met him. He would tell us nothing, not even Kagome could get through to him."