Hidden Behind Lies
An Inuyasha Fanfic
-Chapter one-
Kagome couldn't speak. Her throat stung, and her eyes burned with tears. She couldn't even breathe, because if she opened her mouth, she would scream. She stared down at the bodies of her mother, and her little brother Souta. Her mother was laying face down on the cold pavement with a shot wound in her back; her brother had a blow to his sternum. Blood painted the concrete and her knees were soaked in it as her legs turned to butter and she fell into a kneeling position at their sides.
Then she lost all control and screamed as loud as she could while crying. Tears sprung from her now lifeless brown eyes and she clutched at her own chest, nails digging into her skin. She rocked back and forth on her own knees, coughing out every little cry she could muster. They must have been laying here a while, her brother was already cold. She didn't want to think they were dead, but she couldn't focus hard enough to look through her tears and see if they were still breathing.
She heard sirens and ambulance alarms sounding off probably a street or two over. She wasn't done screaming and she pulled at her mother's arm. "Mommy, wake up! You need to help Souta, he's getting cold. Mom!" She cried out, her words slurring and sputtering with her sobs of utter agony.
Her mother and her brother were all she had left. She couldn't lose them. Her grandfather had died last year when she was sixteen, and her father was never there, from the moment he found out her mother was pregnant, never there. She had no one, and her best friend Sango went off to America for a few months to visit her father who did work down there in those parts. She absolutely had no one, and she couldn't live without them.
She crawled on her hands and knees, oblivious to the pooling blood surrounding them both, and was at her brother's side. She pulled him up into her lap and hugged him to her chest. "Souta, I know I call you annoying all the time and I know I yell at you to leave me alone and get out my room. But I love you, please don't die." She cried and gripped him tighter. The fact that he was getting colder and colder scared her terribly.
She heard police voices shouting just outside the alley. Two large, tall police men came running in, shouting things at a walkie-talkie. The ambulance pulled up at the entrance to the space between two brick buildings. Kagome looked up at the officers. "Please," She whispered. "Please, help my brother, he's cold. And my mom too." She said and her body started shaking with sobs again. One of the police officers pulled her up as an emergency medical technician took her baby brother from her arms. "No! He's only ten years old, you can't let him die! Let me go!"
She cried out and reached for him, but the police officer yanked her up into his arms and he carried her off towards the cop car. She screamed and struggled, shouting things after her mother and brother, and spitting insults in the cop's face for taking her away from them. Soon enough she just relaxed in his arms and was put in the cop car. She sat there motionless, staring ahead out of the windshield through the bars. Her eyes were now void of any feeling what so ever, and her bottom lip no longer trembled, screams no longer left her mouth. She sat there, a stoical emotionless statue, wringing her hands as they shook.
Kagome turned her head to watch them roll her mother and brother out on gurneys. Her eyes widened a little to see her brother completely covered with a white sheet, and her mother hooked up to oxygen and many wires. Her head tilted a little, but she said nor did much of anything else. She just sat in silence and watched them load the only family she will ever have into the back of the ambulance truck. Their siren went off at the top, and they sped off, taking her mother and Souta with them.