Title – Keeping Quiet
Author – Bubblyblush
Rating - M
Disclaimer – I do not own Inuyasha.
Do not steal this plot.
Chapter One
"Fine! You can come, just…" Kagome sighed, "Just please behave yourself."
Shippo had been nagging her the entire morning to go to her time to see where she grew up, after asking Kaede if it was possible and being as wise as she was told him it was in fact possible, and how to do it much to Kagome's dismay. Inuyasha had got fed up with his whining so he went to the forest; Kagome guessed he was still perched in his usual tree.
"Yay! Thank you, thank you, thank you!" He exclaimed in joy and ran off to tell everyone the 'good news'.
Kagome sluggishly walked back to the hut to pack her things but left the first aid kit and extra bandages for Kaede, plus a few instant Ramen cups for her, "Why'd ya do that Kagome!" Inuyasha shouted as he swung the reed hanging back to scowl at the young miko.
"Do what?" She asked tiredly, she hadn't slept properly in days.
"Tell Shippo that he was allowed to go to your time?" Inuyasha growled, he was the only one that could go to her time and he liked it that way though he'd never tell her that, but Kagome didn't need to be told she could see it in his amber eyes that he was jealous.
"Inuyasha, there's only a certain way they can get though, and I'm only letting them go this time but I couldn't handle Shippo's nagging any longer, ok?" She gave the best smile she could but Inuyasha sensed something was wrong because she only radiated fatigue and sadness instead of her usual all-round cheerfulness.
"Is something wrong, Kagome?" He asked voice full of concern for his miko, cupping her cheek in his right hand and pleased when she lent into his touch. He had been much more affectionate lately.
"No, its ok." she responded, her eyes closing in bliss.
"You know you can tell me anything right?" Kagome put her hand over his.
"Yeah, I know." She responded and Inuyasha smiled a little, but the mood was interrupted when Shippo came charging in.
"Are you ready to go, Kagome?" He smiled widely, oblivious to the fact he had walked in on a tender moment.
Inuyasha was seething with rage, he wanted to destroy something, or rather someone, for interrupting his alone time with Kagome, "You brat!" was all Inuyasha said before punching Shippo in the head.
"Yeah I'm ready," Kagome replied in a daze. That worried Inuyasha, no yelling, not even a sit! Something was wrong.
Just then Miroku and Sango entered the room.
"Shippo told us of our trip to your time Lady Kagome, and may I be the first to say how grateful we are towards you for letting us go to your world and seeing for ourselves the wonders of your time." Miroku bowed slightly making Kagome chuckle a little, scaring everyone else with the lack of emotion present.
"You don't need to thank me," She smiled slightly and proceeded to grab her battered yellow bag, heaving it onto her shoulders then walking towards the well.
"Something's wrong with Kagome," Sango whispered to everyone else.
"Yeah, but what though? She's been noticeably like this for the past week or longer," Miroku replied in the same hushed tone.
"She didn't even sit me when I punched Shippo." Inuyasha added.
"I thought we could cheer her up if we did something for her and because she grew up on the other side of the well, I though we could find something over there," Shippo mumbled and everyone smiled at the gesture, even the corners of Inuyasha's lips curved a little.
"It's a good idea runt, maybe it'll work and we can find out what's making act this way. I have a feeling that her mom knows." Inuyasha confessed, it was just an instinct but they've never been wrong before. Inuyasha then bounded off to catch up to Kagome who was now way ahead of them.
With Kagome
A fourteen year olds scream rang out in the dark moist room, "Dad!" She screamed as they continued to torture her, cooking her pale flesh with tazors.
"Shut it bitch!" A male voice boomed, echoing off the grey walls. The man kicked her in the side making her squeal in pain and skid across the room but the rusted chain around her ankle kept her from going to far.
"Dad!" She screamed again, hoping he was in better condition than she was.
It hurt to breathe, every heart beat caused pain, but she couldn't give in. Not yet. Her rib was broken, and cuts that adorned her body bleed freely, multiple blotches of purple and green were beginning to appear on her legs, arms, neck and face from what she could see but no doubt there were horrid bruises across her t-shirt covered torso.
"Help me, please! Somebody!" The girl cried, tears cascading down her cheeks as she begged for help but only annoyed her captor further.
"I Said, SHUT UP!" His kicks and hits got harder as the girl continued to writhe in pain, screaming and crying for mercy but her cries were unheard or fell on deaf ears.
It continued for hours, her only break from the torture was when the captors rotated, taking their own pleasure in bringing her pain.
"Dad!"
"KAGOME!" Inuyasha's voice brought her back to reality and the fact that he was shaking her roughly, "Earth to wench! Snap out of it!" He was scared, he didn't know what happened, he ran up to her and her expression was blank, cold and shut off, she was so deep in thought but what scared him the most was the amount of pain shining in her usually bright expressive eyes. He never wanted to see that in Kagome again.
He had been shaking her for about 5 minutes and she wasn't snapping out off it, he was calling, yelling but nothing was working, the others saw his panic and came running over.
Kagome blinked several times before smiling at them, "Sorry, I guess I spaced out a bit," and gave a nervous chuckle.
"A BIT?! Wench, I was calling and shaking you for 5 minutes!" His fear fuelled the anger.
"Let's keep going," she responded, ignoring the growling half demon and proceeding to go down the familiar path to the well.
"Don't ignore me bitch!" He was expecting a sit, some yelling but he got nothing, he'd rather be sat than see her like this. Granted bitch was a whole other meaning to him then her but he knew how she took it, though wasn't going to be the one to explain what it really meant.
"It'll probably smell weird over there and it'll be worse for Kilala and Shippo but just try and not let it get to you too badly. I will show you around after everyone is settled in, maybe tomorrow since its Saturday and I have no school." She mumbled loud enough for everyone to hear while continuing to ignore the raging half demon growling lowly to her left.
"Ok so everyone needs to hold hands and I'll do the rest," She instructed and everyone did as they were told with Kilala perched on her master's shoulder. After linking hands with everyone standing in a circle around the well, Kagome started to glow a bright pink which spread to everyone else, "Ok now jump in," Miroku was first followed by Sango then Shippo then Kagome and finally Inuyasha, though it proved a little difficult because they had to hold hands while jumping in.
They flew though time and everyone excluding Inuyasha and Kagome were in awe at the colours passing by them, soon enough they landed in the modern era and they were all squished in the tiny area at the bottom of the well.
"Argh, how are we going to get up?" Sango asked trying to keep the monk away who seemed to be enjoying the physical closeness between them both. Without any warning Inuyasha picked Kagome up bridle style and leapt out of the well in a single bound. The others soon followed.
"Kagome? Is that you? Oh, Inuyasha you're here to," Ms Higurashi greeted as they entered the shrines yard. She had been hanging out washing as they walked out into her view, "Kagome how have you been lately?" She asked looking intently at her.
"Um… fine mama." She said nervously trying to keep her smile up, "I'm going to school now, don't leave the shrine no matter what. Just play some video games with Souta for awhile or something," She said quickly then dashed inside coming back out moments later, "Bye everyone," She ran down the stairs and out of sight.
"Hello you must be Kagome's other friends, she's talks about you four all the time. It's a pleasure to meet you," Ms Higurashi bowed in acknowledgement of the four other time travellers.
"It's an honour to meet you too, though Kagome hasn't spoken of her family much to us unfortunately, though I'm sure we will get to know you." Miroku smiled kindly.
"Yes, Kagome doesn't like talking about her home life, I'm sure your aware why though," She turned to pick up the washing basket, balancing it on her hip and gesturing for everyone to follow her, "Please make yourselves at home, I'm sure Inuyasha can show you how some modern… tools work." She tried to make things easier to understand knowing that things 500 years ago were very different compared to now.
"Why doesn't Kagome talk about her family?" Shippo asked cutely, trying his best not to scare her being demon and all.
"You may be a bit young to understand but then again I'm not sure what you consider normal seeming as the is a high level of violence in your era." She replied and set the laundry on the couch proceeding to fold it all. Inuyasha frowned, she wasn't making any sense!
"She never told me anything about her home life beside 'skool'." Inuyasha spoke.
Ms Higurashi sighed, "Why does it not surprise me, can I ask you all a few questions?" everyone nodded, "Has Kagome been… umm, upset lately? Has she been sleeping properly? Some times lost in thought?"
Everyone was stunned; she knew how Kagome was acting on the other side of the well! Something must be up…
"She hasn't been sleeping lately, she hasn't been her self and it was on the way to the well that she 'zoned out' as she called it. I was shaking her and yelling but she seemed possessed," Inuyasha informed the middle aged woman, "How do you know?"
"Has… Kagome ever told you… how her father died?" Mama Higurashi asked hesitantly.
"Her father died?" Everyone apart from Inuyasha asked in surprise.
"She never told me but I sorta assumed." He said, "Is it the anniversary of his death? She could have just told us,"
"Yes, but it's more than that. Horrible things happened that we don't speak of in this house-"
"DEMON!" Grandfather interrupted Ms Higurashi and began to throw sutras at Shippo, Kilala and Inuyasha, "BEGONE YOU EVIL DEMON! YOU ARE NOT WELCOME IN THIS HOME!"
"ARRRRGGGGG!" Shippo screamed and clung to Inuyasha's leg.
"What the hell! I've been comin' here for the past three and a half years you crazy old bat! Your sutras are fakes any way!" Inuyasha bellowed, bonking the old man on the head, not hard enough to harm him but to catch his attention.
"These sutras have been in our family of monks and priestess for generations you ungrateful half demon!" He yelled back in his croaky voice. Their fight went back and forth until mama Higurashi intervened, making them both sit down and bribing Inuyasha with some Ramen.
"What were you saying before? The horrible things you do not speak of in this house?" Miroku asked from his position on the couch, he had to admit it was the comfiest thing he had every sat on! At his words the old man froze in his seat, looking at his daughter intently.
"What do they know?" Was all he asked.
"Nothing apparently," Miss Higurashi looked at her freshly made cup of tea in her hands, "Please do not take any offence to Kagome's reluctance to tell you, to be honest she's the only one who knows what truly happened, she never even told me. No matter how many times you save her life or how good of friends you are, she may never tell you." She looked up at all of the, "It doesn't mean she doesn't trust you, she trusts you with her life but Kagome believes she has to suffer alone, she never wanted to burden anyone else with her problems." She smiled softly though not one of happiness.
"Enough with the riddles; what the hell is going on?! What's wrong with her!?"
Mama Higurashi look to towards grandfather, who looked at her in return before his eyes flickered over the rest of them, studying them for a second before returning his gaze to his daughter, he sighed, "Ok, fine but only because Kagome has always spoken so highly of her friends beyond the well, and Inuyasha has proven him self to be a good man, if his friends are anything like him, I'm sure we can trust them."
He relaxed back in the green worn-out recliner, smiling lightly at the hanyou.
"It happened five months before she fell down the well-,"
What happened to Kagome? Will the Inuyasha gang find out? Or will Kagome believe she still needs to suffer this burden alone...?
Preview –
Shippo swiftly jumped and landed near to door without a sound, unaware of Inuyasha's watchful eyes. He grabbed the door handle and was soon out the door heading towards Kagome's room, "Where do you think your going runt?" Shippo squeaked and turned to the gruff voice behind him.
"Kagome's scent-" Shippo didn't get to finish because of the piercing screams that rang out on the other side of the door and Inuyasha wasted no time in running in.
"Kagome!"
What's going on? Find out next chapter!
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