Chapter Fourteen: Denial
A/N: Edited on 8/30/15
Sango stared at Miroku. InuYasha looked down at them, his red eyes now showing no emotion.
"Monk, what dream?" Sango asked. Miroku turned to her.
"I'll say it when InuYasha gets down here, he needs to hear it." Miroku said.
Kagome looked at InuYasha, her eyes pleading. "InuYasha, please don't make me say it."
InuYasha hissed and turned his face once more. Sango sensed Sesshomaru shuffle behind her.
"My patience is running thin half-demon."
"Then go fuck yourself."
"InuYasha he's trying to help, saying that is not going to solve anything." Sango snapped. She looked at Kirara who nodded her head and transformed into her larger self. Sango hopped upon her warm back and flew over the tree InuYasha had hid himself in.
InuYasha sank himself deeper into the leaves; he was trying to hide himself from view. Sango got off Kirara carefully and balanced her weight and her boomerang's weight on the branch InuYasha was sitting on.
Sango knelled down on the branch and looked at InuYasha. She nearly fell off. The sight before her was not the half-demon friend she had been traveling with for so long.
InuYasha had his red eyes with their violet pupils staring at her into a pool of sadness. The stripes on his cheeks and split, leaving four black creases across his face. His fangs had stretched all the way down to his mid-chin, making him look like a hungry demon. Sango saw that he really had not eaten in weeks, she could barley make out the outlining of his ribs coming through his chest. On his chest is what scared Sango the most. The marks of a demon, four of them, two coming from his waist and two coming from his shoulders. All four ended pointing directly at his heart. Two more wrapped around both of his arms, wrapping all the way up to his wrist. The under shirt InuYasha had thrown on so hastily to cover his back, there was nothing left but a small white strand that looped around his left shoulder. His fire rat pants were no better, they had ripped at the ankles making it look like red rags a poor villager would wear. It was then Sango saw how big he was, he was twice her size, his enormous body covering most of the branch.
"Oh God..." Sango whispered. He was almost unrecognizable; the only thing that was really the same was his dog ears and his silver hair. Everything else was completely different. His claws were enormous and Sango knew they were dangerous. The poison that came from them was stronger then any other demon poison she had ever encountered before.
"Go away."
Sango looked at him then down at everyone else. Kagome had her hands on the trunk of the tree staring up with wide eyes. Miroku looked distant, yet he was tapping his foot indicating his impatience. Sesshomaru looked the same yet his feet remained still. Kouga, Ginta, and Hakkaku stood off to the side. Shippo was still in her neck tie. He had made it difficult for Sango not to laugh when his tail moved and tickled her neck.
Sango sat on the branch. "Would you rather Kagome be up here?"
"No. I want no one."
Sango flinched.
"The farther away you are the better."
"InuYasha I know you must be confused, but maybe if I can explain..." Miroku started.
"I know what's happening to me Miroku."
Miroku sagged his shoulders then he spun around to find Sesshomaru standing directly behind him.
"What is this dream, monk?" Sesshomaru asked. Miroku sighed.
"InuYasha needs to hear as well."
"I'm listening."
"It's something to do with using the Tessaiga. I don't know if that helps."
InuYasha didn't reply and turned his back to Sango. Sango saw how bad his back really was. It had stopped turning red from all the scratching and had turned to more of a purple color. Sango reached to support InuYasha, but he sneered and pushed her away. He might of not realized it but he pushed her too hard.
"InuYasha!" Sango cried. His push had sent her boomerang on her shoulder to become unstable, sending her balance off and she fell from the branch. Kirara was there to catch her, but Sango now felt her heart race through her chest.
InuYasha looked in the direction of the setting sun. The sun was making the sky turn orange as it set down in the west. Sango leaned on Kirara's back and flew to the ground. Miroku rushed up to her.
"Are you okay my dear Sango?"
"Yes, monk."
Sesshomaru looked up in the tree and growled. "Get down here half-demon."
"I don't thing so."
"Then I'll remove you myself."
"Piss off."
Kouga snorted. "Man those mutt's could go at it for hours." He took Kagome by the arm and with him, Ginta and Hakkaku followed. Kagome squirmed away and kept herself under the tree.
"Kagome, mutt is not coming down! He'll sit there tell he rots, come on it's getting dark." Kouga attempted to help Kagome move down from the tree, but she shrugged him off.
"I'm not leaving InuYasha." Kagome said, tears filling her eyes again.
Sango walked over and waved Kouga off. He snorted but he walked over to Miroku followed by his pack. Shippo had finally came out and jumped onto Kagome's shoulder.
"Kagome is everything okay with InuYasha now?" Shippo muttered. His voice was tight making him sound like he was making more noise then words.
Sango sighed and put her hand on the priestess's shoulder.
"Kagome, he's changed a lot." Kagome turned towards her, confusion filled her face.
"What do you mean Sango?"
"The transformation, it..." Sango could not make herself continue.
"What?" Kagome gasped. She looked back up into the tree, but by now it was to dark to see anything.
"He's not turning into a simple demon; he's more powerful then that." Sango mumbled. Sesshomaru turned his head toward their direction, his golden eyes eyeing them as he listened in.
Shippo's tail puffed out when he saw Sesshomaru glaring at them. "Can someone make him go away?" Shippo quivered.
Kagome looked back up towards the tree. "Could Kirara take me up there?" Sango shook her head.
"Kagome, he doesn't want to hurt you. He..."
"It won't be me hurting her."
Kagome and Sango jumped. InuYasha's voice came from above, and Sango could just glimpse his red eyes. Sango gulped, the same eyes that were staring at her were the same eyes that had attacked her at Keade's village. And the voice, it had been the same voice that InuYasha spoke when he was in battle with Sesshomaru.
"InuYasha remember the moonless night I was attacked?" Sango called up to him.
"Yea."
"Do you remember anything that night? Do you remember what you were doing the night you were human?" Sango asked.
"I was sleeping."
Sango frowned, "Are you sure?"
Silence, InuYasha must have lied since he wasn't answering.
"InuYasha?" Kagome called. She stood up taller to the tree, her nails digging into the bark.
"I was sleeping, he wasn't."
Kagome and Sango looked at one another. Sesshomaru had the same confusion on his face, just not as deep. Shippo looked up into the darkened tree tops.
"What do you mean by 'he', brother?" Sesshomaru sneered.
"InuYasha, did this 'he' attack me?" Sango asked puzzled.
"I was human then became someone I was not. Answer your question?"
Kagome looked at Sango in horror. "So you did attacked Sango!"
"No..."
"Sit Boy!" Kagome shouted.
For a second nothing happened, and then a pink glow brightened the sky and InuYasha fell about two feet away from Sesshomaru.
"Wish you had done that sooner priestess." Sesshomaru mumbled.
Shippo yelled and ducked behind Sango. Miroku and Kouga rushed over when they heard the loud crash. Ginta and Hakkaku hid behind Kouga, scared of what InuYasha might do. InuYasha sat up and hissed.
"Get away, all of you!"
Sesshomaru slammed his elbow into InuYasha's back and forced him back into the dirt.
"You're not leaving my sight half-demon."
"Are you calling me a half-demon, Sesshomaru?"
Sango and the others reared back. Sesshomaru did not flinch and leaned in hissed in InuYasha's ear.
"Who are you?"
"I thought you knew, son of the Great Dog Demon."
Suddenly Sesshomaru was no longer over InuYasha. The half-demon had grabbed him by the throat and flipped him over.
"Since you are a descendant of Great Dog Demon. I won't hesitate to kill you."
"Sit Boy!" Kagome screamed. InuYasha's body didn't move, then slammed full force right into Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru hissed in anger.
"GET OFF ME YOU FILTHY HALF-DEMON!" Sesshomaru yelled.
His eyes went completely red and threw InuYasha right into the tree, a sickening snap could be heard.
"InuYasha!" Kagome cried.