Where Loyalties Lie by Twist in fate

The End is Where It Begins...

Kagome watched as Naraku’s body evaporated at long last as she held the Sacred Jewel in her hands tightly. Looking to Inuyasha she smiled and then looked on to the rest of the group with a smile on her face, she even smiled at Sesshomaru who nodded his head in acceptance. Kouga lifted her and spun her around with a proud smile on his face “I knew you could do it Kagome!”

Inuyasha growled and glared at the wolf prince before drawing Tetsusaiga and moving towards the wolf with a snarl on his face. “Release her you filthy wolf!”

Kouga turned to Inuyasha with a growl and lunged for him.

“Inuyasha! SIT BOY!”

--33--33--33--

Three weeks had passed since that monumental day, when Naraku was finally destroyed. Inuyasha had decided to stay as he was and left the wish up to Kagome, she was still contemplating the perfect wish. Kagome had removed the subjugation beads from Inuyasha’s neck since she felt they were no longer needed, Inuyasha wasn’t the same as he had been all those years ago.

It was getting close to dusk and Kagome gathered her bathing materials before leaving for a nearby hot spring. Sango had went along with Miroku to visit her destroyed village to pay her respects to the dead there, so it was just her going to the spring.

Undressing Kagome slipped into the hot water and began her routine bath, a noise to her right caught her attention and she looked up to see Inuyasha standing there.

“Now I can finally take what I’ve always wanted, thank you for removing those beads bitch.” He grinned at her nastily as he advanced removing his clothing as he came closer to the spring. “It’s about damn time that I get even for all those sit commands and the other shit I put up with, and I’m going to take that jewel and become a full blood demon at long last.”

Kagome tried to run from Inuyasha, but how could a mere human woman outrun a half-demon?

“You’re mine bitch.” Inuyasha grabbed Kagome and pinned her to the ground before biting down hard just above the collar bone and pushing deeply into her with a growl.

Kagome cried and pushed at him trying to get him to stop his insanity, he was hurting her. Why was he doing this to her? The Inuyasha she thought she knew so well would never do this would he? Of course he would, he was doing it wasn’t he?

Kagome finally gave in and lay there, tears streaming down her face as her beloved hanyou raped her, he grunted as he finished and stood before dressing and walking out of sight. Kagome lay there shell shocked unable to think a coherent thought other than Inuyasha had raped her. Darkness had fallen and Kagome had only curled into a fetal position, she wasn’t aware of the world around her and she didn't even care.

Kagome didn’t feel the approach of  Sesshomaru, who was out on patrol when he caught the scent of her blood, pain, and fear. Looking down at the miko that had brought Naraku down with her holy powers and he was immediately aware of what had occurred to her. She just lay there curled into a ball on her side smelling of his half-breed brother and in obvious distress. “Distasteful half-breed” he sniffed as he bent down and lifted the unresponsive miko into his arms.

Sesshomaru carried the young woman to the spring and proceeded to rinse her abused form of the scent of his brother, she whimpered when his hands cleansed her private parts. Further inspection proved what he had already guessed, his brother had raped the miko that had loved and cared for him, what a fool to use a woman in such a way and leave her to lay in the woods like this for anyone to find her.

Glancing around he saw her clothes lying on a nearby rock, so he waited for her to come to the spring and then followed her with the intent to rape her. And he marked her neck, at least it isn’t a mating mark and she isn’t fertile at the moment so she won’t be carrying his child from this ordeal. He tried to put her strange clothing on her, but couldn’t quite figure it out so he stripped off his armor and pulled off his outer haori before putting it on her.

He sighed, just what he needed another human female to look after, at least this one has power though. She can defend herself against enemies, but why hadn’t she used her powers on Inuyasha? Damn what was he going to do with another mortal female?

--33--33--33--

“Where’s Kagome at Inuyasha? What did you do to her?” Yelled Shippo angrily, he smelled Kagome on Inuyasha and smelled her blood and fear as well. He guessed at what the half-demon had done to his adopted mother and he was furious. Of course he still wasn’t powerful enough to take on the hanyou, but one day he would be.

“None of your damn business brat, you don’t like it then get lost.”

Shippo’s eyes teared up as he fled the campsite in search of his oka-san, he finally found her scent where she had been at the spring. What worried him was the smell of Sesshomaru at the spring as well, he set off after Kagome following Sesshomaru’s scent.

--33--33--33--

Days passed by with no response from the miko he was carrying with him, he got her to swallow whatever he put into her mouth, for sustenance but she didn’t seem to see or hear him at all. Why was he even bothering with a human female? Good question, he wasn’t entirely sure of the answer, but she wasn’t just any human female now was she? She was the one that brought down Naraku at long last, a mere human woman.

He cursed his fool of a brother for doing this to her once more, when and if she recovered he would show his brother just how wrong he was in treating the most loyal and trusting creature anyone had ever met like this. Loyalty like hers did not deserve such rash behavior, it was to be honored and rewarded.

A small presence caught his attention and he looked up from his task of feeding the miko in his lap, there standing in the small clearing he had stopped in was the kitsune that traveled with the miko.

“What are you doing with Kagome?” Shippo growled as his hand tightened on the straps of Kagome's yellow pack.

“I am merely taking care of her, seeing as Inuyasha disposed of her after using her in such a way.”

“Oh" Shippo said as his anger deflated a bit "can I stay with her then?” Asked Shippo quietly while looking down at his feet.

“If you will stay out of my way, then yes you may stay with her kitsune.”

“Thank you Lord Sesshomaru.” Shippo bowed politely before running over and touching Kagome’s arm, looking up at Sesshomaru he asked “What’s wrong with her?”

“I believe she’s in shock after Inuyasha’s harsh treatment of her, but I’m not entirely certain that is all that’s wrong with her.”

“What can I do to help?”

“Well talking to her might help since she holds you close to her heart.”

“Oka-san….. It’s me Shippo, I just want you to know that I want you to get better. Please get better for me and for Sango and Miroku, I’ve missed you oka-san and they will too. So please come back to us…” Shippo’s voice broke and he wrapped his arms around Kagome’s shoulders as he cried into her hair.

Kagome’s eyes began to gain focus as Shippo’s words began to register in her mind and his sobbing pulled her back as her motherly instincts took over and she began to run a hand through his hair soothingly.

“Oh Shippo I could never willingly leave you, I love you, please stop crying Shippo everything’s going to be fine.”  Looking down into his tear filled eyes she smiled at him sadly and pulled him closer, then she took a good look around and realized something. She was on a white clad lap wearing a familiar white haori with red patterns on it, turning her head she was almost eye to eye with Sesshomaru. “Oh dear…. Um…. How did I end up here, like this? On your lap?”

A small barely noticeable smile graced Sesshomaru’s mouth as he replied “I found you in the woods and it wouldn’t have been honorable of me to leave you lying there without any protection or clothing now would it?”

“I see, so you dressed me?” She asked mortified.

“Well it would not do to carry around a naked woman now would it?” He asked with something peculiar shining through his eyes.

“I suppose not…. Does that mean you bathed me as well?” She squeaked out even more ashamed, it’s bad enough Inuyasha raped me and left me there, but to have Sesshomaru find me….

“I did, would you prefer I left you dirty?”

“No, but couldn’t you have found a woman to do that a least?”

“I suppose I could’ve, but it never even crossed my mind.”

Kagome cringed every time she caught Sesshomaru looking at her curiously, he had to have bathed her more than once she thought as she didn’t feel dirty in the least. She just wished that she had started taking the birth control pills her mother had insisted on giving her. Well she would know for sure in a few months, she didn’t remember the exact details of that night, only that Inuyasha had raped her.

Kagome looked at Sesshomaru and said “Thank you for taking care of me, is there a place I can bathe close by?”

“Yes, I will take you to it so that you do not get lost.” He stood and led Kagome into a dense forest before stopping in front of a small hot spring. “I shall cut you a path so that you can find your way back to camp, call me if you need any help.” He turned and strode off slicing through branches and brush easily with his whip.

Kagome sighed as she settled into the spring with her bag sitting next to her, Shippo had been kind enough to bring it with him when he came to find her. Closing her eyes she let her thoughts drift to happier times….

Something moved in the water, her eyes flew open and there stood Inuyasha his eyes clouded with lust as he advanced on her. She held her hands out in front of her and screamed for him to go away, he only smirked as he advanced on her.

“You’re mine bitch! Or have you forgotten already?” He grabbed her arm and shoved her against the bank of the spring as he forced her body into position for him to take her again. “I suffered far too much at your hands bitch for me not to get my just rewards, Kikyo is dead because of you. But I’m going to enjoy using you before I make my wish on the jewel tonight.”

“Leave me alone!” she screamed as he forced himself into her “Sesshomaru! Sesshomaru! Help me Sesshomaru!”

“Shut the fuck up Bitch!“ Inuyasha’s hand connected with her cheek before she could utter another scream for help.

Kagome sagged as Inuyasha thrust harder into her, suddenly Inuyasha was flying across the water with Sesshomaru’s hand wrapped tightly around his throat.

Kagome sank into the water, still too stunned from the blow to her face to prevent herself from drowning. Hands grabbed her and pulled her from the water before she could drown and wrapped the towel around her before laying her gently on the grassy bank.

Turning Sesshomaru snarled at the fool standing before him, “Why do this to her? Tell me what she has done to you for you to treat her this way?”

“The subjugation beads, the countless times she went home and took time away from hunting the jewel shards that SHE shattered! That’s why you bastard, so just butt the hell out. I'll teach you to mind your own damn business!”

Inuyasha’s eyes closed in concentration as he began the wish on the jewel, a light began to emanate from his hands as the jewel responded with a black light. Darkness shot outward from it as Inuyasha wished to become a full fledged demon, but the light didn’t settle around him. Instead it shot towards Kagome and enveloped her in it’s inky depths, Inuyasha’s eyes snapped open and he cried out in fury “NO! That’s my WISH!”

When the jewel dissipated so did the light surrounding the miko, and what lay there was no longer human.

To Be Continued………