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Chapter 20- Unbelievable

-Inashiori's POV-

Inuyasha immediately drops me. "Ow…why'd you do that?"

"Look, I know you have issues with her but aren't you the least bit concerned? I mean its Sesshomaru we're dealing with here."

"One, you're an idiot, I've dealt with him before. Two, Hell no. I'm not her protector or anything, she's an absolute nuisance." I cross my arms, leaning against a nearby tree.

"Yea, and look what happened, Inashiori, does the mark ring any bells? Isn't family family? Just because I hate my brother doesn't mean you have a right to hate your sister." He scoffs. "Would an idiot figure that out?"

"No, but that's obvious and I have my reasons." I hiss, ignoring the stare I earned.

An awkward silence passed between us until a random thought accrued to him. "What's all this talk about you not being able to love anyone? What did Inuabi mean by that?" Inuyasha sat down beside me, curiosity lingering heavily in his golden eyes, his presence demanding an answer, in a seemingly docile way.

"Like you would understand. And besides, it's none of your concern about my past or my difficulties in doing things, got it?" I wave my hand, sarcastically, every word bitter. "Even if I did tell you you'd probably not believe me, anyway."

"Try me. I seen a hell of a lot of weird things around here." His ears twitch, attentively. His complete focus on me, making me unusually nervous.

"Will you quit staring at me like that?! It's nerve-racking." I huff, on edge.

Inuyasha leans closer to me, "Tell me and I'll leave you alone." My eye twitched, my youkai was barely containing itself within me. I suddenly felt so sick. 'I can't tell him! I just…I can't...'

Obviously sensing this inner struggle, Inuyasha wrapped a comforting arm around me and held me close. "I guess, if it's too painful. You don't have to tell me..."

I push against him, struggling to get away. "Stop it, you ass. Get away from me!"

He lets go of me, startled by my outburst. "Wha-what?! I was just-"

I slapped him so hard I swore I heard bones crack but I just growled and sprinted into the forest, all to aware of the fact he was running after me. "Inashiori! Inashiori, wait!"

I just run faster and soon I came to the Bone Eater's well. I put my legs on the cold stone inside, preparing to jump. "The Hell with you, Inuyasha!"

Instantly, he's by my side, hugging me from behind. "Would you really think that? Because I don't think you do."

On the verge of tears, I try to resist him. "Please, Inuyasha….don't."

He hugs me tighter and we both fall in. The familiar purple light shining for a brief moment before we reappear in the present era. Inuyasha falls on top of me. I touch the rope ladder, grabbing one of the rungs to pull myself from under him. "GET OFF ME!!"

I start to say something else when I sense something that could make anyone stop dead in their tracks, sorrow. Mixed in with it, was the scent of fresh graveyard soil. Inuyasha must have sensed it too because he quietly climbed up the rope ladder. I climbed after him and realized the source of the sensation was coming from the house of Mrs. Higurashi.

We exchanged confused looks before slowly approaching the house. I gently slid the door open. "Mrs. Hig- Mom?"

My eye twitched when Inuyasha glared at me. "She's not your mom, stupid."

"You're the thick one, remember she asked me to call her that?" I grit my teeth, annoyed.

"Yea, well…" he quiets when we detect Mrs. Higurashi sitting at the kitchen table with her head down. I slowly walk over to the broken-hearted woman; I glimpsed a wilted flower in her hand, her sobs were slow but rouse. He steps back as if she's infected.

I send him a daggered stare before gently touching Mrs. Higurashi's shoulder. "Mrs…" I sigh. "Mom?"

Her head barely hovers off the table. "Sick…" She takes in a shaky breath. "Sick people." Mrs. Higurashi didn't even look at me.

I kneel down and look up at her. "What do you mean? Tell me." I asked, as tenderly as I could.

She gazed at me like she didn't recognize me before wrapping her arms tightly around me. "She's gone! Someone took Kagome!" she sobbed, squeezing the life from me.

"What?!?!" Inuyasha burst, I sent him another deadly glare and he quieted. He looked at Kagome's mom with a pitying expression. 'Who would do such a thing?'

I stroked Mrs. Higurashi's shaky back and she calmed down a little. "Can you tell me when?" I asked, as gently as I could.

Without looking up, she whispered between breaths. "The day after we buried her, I went to see her but the soil was disturbed and the coffin empty…"

My muscles tightened, the room grew deadly quiet. Inuyasha was motionless and Mrs. Higurashi held tight to me. "Mrs. Higurashi?"

She looks up at me with pleading eyes. "Y-yes?" Her handkerchief held fast against her lips, her eyes brimmed with red from past tears.

I smile down at her. "You'll feel better when you wake up." I touch her forehead and she faints. I catch her before she touches the ground.

"What'd you do that for?!" Inuyasha's curt voice blaring in my ears.

I sighed. "We're going to that cemetery, Inuyasha." I run upstairs and place Kagome's mom on her bed. Quickly running back down, I noticed Inuyasha was already outside.

"Well, we ain't got all day." He knelt down in the doorway but I just pulled him along, smelling for graveyard soil.

"No time for stupidity, Inuyasha. This is serious." We round a corner and slowly edge our way through the large gates. Remembering the spot from the last time I was here, I pull Inuyasha over to Kagome's would-be resting place, soil was scattered everywhere, the coffin torn in shreds, muddy footprints lead out onto the cement walkway but soon vanished, I couldn't smell anything. The scent was too old. Inuyasha stiffened and I dropped to my knees, touching the soil.

-Inuabi's POV-

Sesshomaru gently set me down on the couch after locking the door. "Wh-what are you going to do, Sesshomaru-sama?"

"Why do you keep calling me –sama? That's not like you at all." He studies me, carefully, searching for the answer in my eyes.

"Because I respect you, my Lord." I bow my head in reverence.

"'Lord'? Am I not your lover?" he raises a delicate and yet curious eyebrow.

"No, Sesshomaru-sama! You are Inashiori's lover. She's betrothed to you." I look at him like he should already know this.

"Are you not she?" He scents me again, a little faltered. "You have her smell."

"I am not." I cross myself, uncomfortable, backing away.

"You've got to be her, you look just like her!" his almost strident voice filling the room.

"Yea, she's my twin sister, Inashiori. I am Inuabi." I mouth, quietly.

"Tricked, I've been tricked!" he advances on me. "Tell me now, girl. Why do you smell of Inashiori?"

"Copied her scent..." I meekly look up at his disgusted face.

He seems taken aback. "'Copy'?" I simply nod. 'This can fit into my plans….' He thinks. "Will your sister come for you?"

"No." I try not to look sad but by the look on his face I knew I failed.

He raises an eyebrow. "Fine. So I take it you don't have a place to spend the night?"

"No." I look down. 'He's making me so nervous..'

"Then you may stay here, only for a few days." He starts to leave.

'I wonder why he lets me stay. Could I be bait for my sister? Is it repentance for earlier? Or is there another reason?!' I shudder at the possibility. 'Hope not for that reason.!'

-Sesshomaru's POV-

She stares at me and I don't mind. Fighting the urge to smile, I start to leave the room. "Sesshomaru-sama?"

I turn to her, stopping right before the door. "Yes?"

"Thank you." She bows her head to me but doesn't look up. I nod and leave the room.

'Exposed are my thoughts and feelings. I have to be more careful. How could I have mistaken Inuabi for Inashiori?! They're completely different…for sisters.' I sigh. 'Just like Inuyasha and myself, very much like us. Maybe she'll be of use to me after all, more than she knows…'

"Jaken!" my small retainer scuttled into the room, flustered.

"Hai, milord?" Little beads of sweat beaded his forehead, he flinches a little expecting me to hit him.

"We have plans to make…"

-Inuabi's POV-

I look around the overly lavished room, again. "Is he for real?" I smile to myself then panic. 'What about Inashiori? Wait…she was there with Inuyasha and neither helped me when Sesshomaru-sama grabbed me.' My shoulders sink but rise again in a stiffly defiant manner. 'I don't need her, I don't need-'

A small green imp bursts through the door. "Girl!"

I shriek, startling. "Yes, sir?"

"Lord Sesshomaru wants me to escort you to your room and…" he rolls his eyes as if not enjoying what he was ordered to do. "To ask if there was anything else you required."

I blink, not believing what I just heard. "Um, it's Inuabi and thank you. I'd like to know where the library and the weapons room is."

He recoils and waves his two-headed staff, angrily. "Stupid girl! Only Lord Sesshomaru and his generals are permitted in the weapons room!" he heaves, out of breath. "You'd have to ask permission but why on earth do you even want to know?"

"I have my reasons or my needs I should say." I glare, unusually bold at the urchin, trying to get a reaction.

"Yes, well you still have to ask." He starts to leave and I follow him into what looks like an elegant entrance hall with tapestries and gold and paintings everywhere. Most of the paintings were of a Dog Demon, probably the great Inu-Taisho, his father.

"What's your name?" I ask, kind of pulling myself out of my thoughts.

"Jaken." He retorts, bluntly, not even turning around to face me as he answers.

"What's your master's reason for letting me stay?" curiosity hung tightly to my timid voice.

The green imp treads up the stairs. "The Lord told me but I still don't understand him." At my dissatisfied look he added. " Don't doubt him! He's a master tactician!"

"It's not that." I pick up on what the idiot retainer had let slip. "It's what it has to do with me…"

-Inashiori's POV-

I turn the soil over in my hands again, sighing heavily. "This isn't right..."

Inuyasha turns on me, tears in his eyes. "No shit, stupid! What was your fist clue?!"

I look up at him, seriously. "Will you listen? According to what I see, she wasn't taken, she…." I dared not finish.

"She what? You better tell me." Inuyasha curled his fist, straining against the tears.

"She's alive." I throw the dirt into the air, pissed.

"W-What?!?!?!" Inuyasha is on the floor looking up at me like I just shot him. "How could you say something so horrible? You know she's not!"

"I'm not trying to be stupid, you ass." I take him by the collar and push his nose in the dirt. "Smell that? Sesshomaru's blood…"

He sniffs around at the soil. "That bastard! I'll tear him in half!"

I yank him up, again. "Here's a thought. How about we try to find Kagome, huh?"

"But the trail is too old." Inuyasha crosses his arms, expecting me to solve all the problems.

"Don't need it. I know where to look." I start to leave the cemetery grounds and Inuyasha follows me.

"You better be right about this." He huffs at me.

I spin around and punch him. "I'm right, don't worry. You'll see your bitch again."

-Inuabi's POV-

The toad ignores my question, beads of sweat forming on his face. We walk into an elegant hallway past the stairwell we just ascended. We walk by what seem like guestrooms. "I can't answer that…the large doors lead to Lord Sesshomaru's room and…." He points to the right, where there are two wide double doors and then next to them. "That is where you will stay."

"You can't be serious! Why in hell's name would my room be next to his?!" my voice reaches climatic levels and I take a step back from the door.

"I don't know but it's what he wants. And what Lord Sesshomaru wants he gets." The imp flings open the doors and pushes me inside. "Dinner will be soon and I suggest you freshen up before I return for you then."

He slams the doors and his footsteps become faint until they disappear. "Why that little- ugh!" I look around, the room is nice and quiet but dimly light. 'Huh, just like that imp..' Spying I window, I hurriedly pull the curtains aside. "Maybe I can slide down the roof and…SHIT!" I drop the curtains and fall back on the wall, breathing heavy. I slowly raise the corner of the curtain and look out, again. Sesshomaru is in the garden and he was looking up at me, a blank expression on his face. The curtain corner drops form my grasp, once again dark in my room.

-Kagura's POV-

"Where have you been, Kagura?" Naraku's eerie voice reaches out to me form the bend of darkness he conceals himself in.

"Just getting some air, I'm allowed to do that much, aren't I?" I speak before I think, snapping my fan at him. Instantly, I'm on the floor, clutching my chest. 'Can't breath….'

"You'll do well to watch your manner, Kagura. I still have hold of your heart. And as long as I do, you're under my control." He relaxes his fist and I can finally breath again.

I look up at the beating organ in his hand through sweaty bangs. "Damn you, Naraku."

He smirks at me. "Be glad I still have use for you, or you'd have died long ago."

My mind screams to kill him but I know that would do no good, he'd just regenerate, that and I'm not strong enough to, my strength comes from him. 'I'll have Inuyasha do it, I'll give him the Shikon Jewel and he'll destroy you Naraku and I'll be free…'

Naraku slaps me and I land a few feet away. "Do not forget your place, wench."

'No Naraku, don't forget yours.' I clutch my head, glaring. 'You will surely pay.'

(A/N: yo peeps I finally updated, scary huh? This Shariz is one nut a'ight? Anyway REVIEW PLZ!!! And InaShioriInuyashazgurl 3's you yes it's long and I'm not changing that)