Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha

Pre-Notes: Okay, first off:

1. I am absolutely tired of everyone coming up with 'Inuyasha betrayed Kagome' fics. Everyone once in a while you need a fiction the other way around. That's what I'm doing, only it's gonna be a little weird since it's coming out of my twisted mind... O.o

Back to the point, I hope you enjoy my lovely... wierd... twisted fanfiction! -Thanks-

Note: Edited and re-posted on 3-19-05

Key Things:

"..." Conversation

'...'Thoughts

(A/N: ...) Authors Notes

-...- Weird rhyming additions O.o (A/N: Dont ask)

Onto The Story

Bloody Lies -A Multi-Part Fiction-

Part I - Tell Me

...Things aren't always what they seem...

...But neither are they in my dreams...

The girl sat down in a corner of the hut, Sango, Shippo, and Miroku were there, Inuyasha and Kaede were not. Kaede never would be there again anyways, shortly after the defeat of Naraku, she passed on. And this was not why Higurashi Kagome was sobbing, arms wrapped around her drawn up legs.

The fact the Inuyasha wasn't there was why she was crying, crystalline droplets coming down her cheeks, landing on her arms, then running down her pale legs. She had caught him with her again. Thought it looked more like Inuyasha was in pain standing there in front of the undead miko, it didn't matter. He was there, and so was she, Kikyo. That made it all the more worse.

She didn't mean to blow up at Inuyasha, but he was being... normal. She was tired of it. Anther normal fight, but not so. She had mentioned her. And as soon as the word 'Kikyo...' came out of her mouth, Inuyasha's ears went back, his body tensed. Then he ran into the forest, and Kikyo was there.

That's when she found them.

"Kagome... It's okay. What's wrong?" Sango asked, while comforting the young miko-in-training.

"S-Sango! I-I didn't mean to y-yell at h-him!" Kagome stuttered between sobs. "H-He just tensed up a-and I went after h-him to say s-s-sorry..."

"Who, Kagome," Shippo questioned. "Inuyasha? What did he do this time?"

Kagome shoulders shook with more sobs, how could he do this to her?

"At first h-he didn't do anything... Th-that's w-why I yelled at h-him... Then he ran off into the f-forest and I f-found him... H-he was looking at Kikyo with... p-pain. B-but that doesn't matter... r-right? He was still w-with K-Kikyo."

"Was he doing anything with her?" Miroku asked, in his mind he was going over the possibilities; kissing, etc.

Kagome shook her head, then unexpectedly launched herself at Sango.

"Wh-at did I do w-wrong?" She sobbed on her friends shoulder.

"If he wasn't doing anything with her... How do you know she didn't run to him, instead of the other away around?" Sango asked, trying to reason this out. If Kagome thought Kikyo ran to Inuyasha, then she wouldn't be mad at him, right?

"Ma-maybe... H-he didn't look ha-happy."

"See? I'm sure it's okay. Here's Inuyasha now. He'll explain it to you."

Inuyasha walked into the hut, his golden eyes held a look of pain, and sorrow.

"I..." Shippo looked up at Inuyasha, "I smell blood. Your blood, Inuyasha."

Kagome immediately stopped crying and looked at Inuyasha with concerned, red and puffy, eyes.

"Are you okay? Where, what happened?" She asked, quickly getting medical supplies out of her first-aid box in her pack.

Inuyasha sat down by the small fire glowing in the center of the hut.

"Inuyasha, let me see it. I'll need to bandage it before it gets infected."

"It'll heal soon enough." Came his unusually tired reply.

"Yes, but that doesn't mean it won't get infected. Let me see it, now." Her final word was a command, not in the mood to get sat, Inuyasha slowly pulled down the left side of his horai, revealing a deep cut just below his left shoulder.

"What happened there, Inuyasha? Love troubles?" Miroku asked eyeing the cut.

"Houshi-sama, if you want to stay awake, shut your mouth!" Sango said, hand ready. "And this is not the time to mention that!" She hissed through clenched teeth.

"Only wondering what happened to Inuyasha. All for his own well-being." Miroku replied innocently.

Kagome glanced up at Miroku and Sango. Miroku had a point, what did happen to Inuyasha?

"What happened, Inuyasha?" Kagome asked quietly, cleaning the wound then wrapping it up with a cloth bandage.

"Accidentally clawed myself..." Came his quick reply.

"But your horai isn't cut... Are you sure?"

"Yes!" Inuyasha replied sharply. "I'd know what happened to myself! I was there!"

"Okay," Kagome retorted. At least she wasn't crying anymore. "You don't have to get mad at me. I only asked a question. Is it so wrong to care?"

...If only you knew the truth, for real...

...Then maybe we'd be through with this whole ordeal...

Inuyasha sighed. "No, I'm just... tired."

"Irritable, more like it." Shippo muttered under his breath.

Inuyasha chose to ignore the kits rude comments, that didn't matter right now. What did matter was still in the forest. No! Not a matter like love! A matter of his life, and her death. If she kept this up, then he'd surely be kissing Kagome and everyone else goodbye. Something he did NOT want to do right now.

"Inuyasha... you have more cuts on your arm!" Kagome said while examining his arm. He quickly snatched it away and pulled his clothing back over it.

"Battle scars. Nothing more." He then exited the hut...

"But..." Kagome looked at her companions. "Those weren't old. They're relatively fresh... Something's wrong with Inuyasha, I can just feel it." She said with finality.

She then lowered her eyes. "And I'm almost positive it has to do with Kikyo..."

...Don't worry over me, don't make that effort...

...It isn't gonna matter anyways, soon I'll be gone...

End Chapter One

Pre-Notes: (3-19-05) In case you've never read this story before, this has been edited. It was just to clustered, and let's not get into the horrible grammar mistakes. I was able to find and change my errors, and I hope you can now actually enjoy this story without having to deal with those kind of annoying mistakes and such.

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