Obsession of Love
Summary: An obsession over Kikyou leads to a series of murders. All the clues end up leading to her being the one behind it all. Inuyasha is the rising star in the police force and the leading detective on the case. He is shocked to find out that his high school sweetheart may actually be the imfamous Archor. Kikyou and him haven't seen one another since high school after a incident that tore them apart. Now Inuyasha dates her sister, Kagome. Kikyou tries to prove her innocence but only diggers herself a deeper hole. Will Inuyasha end up taking her side of throwing her in jail on false evidence? All the while the real killer gets closer and closer to Kikyou... in hopes of her becoming his final victim
October 20th, Thursday....
Muffled screams cried out in the dark room as a young girl struggled for her life. With all her energy she tried to break the binding straps that wrapped her feet together and to the metal chair and her hands behind it. She closed her eyes as tears streamed down her dirty cheeks, again she tries to cry out for help but the gag in her mouth enables her to.
Her blood shot eyes snap open as she hears footsteps. It was a gagging sob that escaped the girl as she shook her head back and forth, pleading as much as she could while she watched the figure fade towards her, a shinning knife in its hand.
She chokes for air when it was placed to her thin neck, then she freezes. No amount of pleads would free her now, she knew that but that didn't stop the tears. She didn't want to die yet, she was too young…
"Don't worry," the voice calmly assured as it was taken away from her neck, she couldn't relax at all.
Else Where on October 20, Thursday...
"Are you sure about this?" Suikotsu, a man with short black hair and dark auburn eyes, asked. He had been sitting on a red luscious couch in a small apartment for quite a while.
"Yes." Kikyou answered as she leaned on the counter that separated the kitchen area and the living room.
"Hm, it's weird." Suikotsu said as he raised the paper he held, eyeing it up and down.
"I don't care."
"You should. You say—" Suikotsu was cut off by the phone ringing.
"Would you get that?" Kikyou requested as she walked into one of the doors along the far side of the wall.
"Fine," Suikotsu sighed and, with reluctance, got up off the couch to walk over to the counter and pick up the phone. "Hello?... Yeah, hold on." Suikotsu set the phone down, "Kikyou! It's for you!"
"I'll just pick up this phone!" Kikyou shouted back from the room she was in.
"Alright!" Suikotsu then hung up the phone.
"Hello?" Kikyou answered in the dark bed room she was in.
It was a while before the other side of the phone was no longer silent; she almost hung up before she sighed and tried once more.
"Is anyone there?"
"MMMM!! MMM!!!"
"He... Hello?"
"Help! Help me!! Please!" A little girl cry out.
"Kaede? Kaede! How many times do I have to tell you not to make prank calls?"
"Please!!" Kaede cried.
"What's going on?"
"Sister!!!" she cried then a loud bone crackling noise echoed through the phone.
"Kaede?!"
"Goodbye." A man whispered before the phone hung up.
"Kaede!!" Kikyou shouted right before she ran out into the living room, "Suikotsu! Something's wrong."
"What?" Suikotsu asked dully while he watched TV.
"Kaede just called and she was crying for my help then there was this cracking sound and a man said goodbye and hung up." Kikyou tried her best not to panic but… failed.
Suikotsu sighed, "it's just another one of her pranks."
"I don't think so…"
"Remember the last time she called?"
"Mm-hm," Kikyou nodded as her eyes wondered around, worriedly, as she paced about.
"What did she say was wrong?"
"She was getting kidnapped...."
"The time before that?"
"Someone was after her...."
"The time before that?"
"Someone tried to kill her...."
"She just wants attention. It's common for young children to act this way when their parents are divorced and their older siblings moved out."
"I don't know... Shouldn't I call the police just to make sure?"
"Kaede will call back soon and say sorry for playing the poor prank just like all the other times."
"Hm... OK… but if she doesn't I'm calling the police." Kikyou declared as she sat down next to Suikotsu.
"Fair enough."
The Morning of Firday 21....
A yawn penetrated a man's lips as he walked into a small alleyway, he had to brush someo f his rather long jet black hair out of his face before he met up with the scrambling people around him, "what's up?"
"It's a thirteen year old girl." A woman with ebony hair and light brown eyes answered.
"... What happened?" The man's auburn gaze moved around the scene, trying to gather as much details as he could.
"From the looks of it she was tortured then her neck was broken." Kagura, the woman, replied as she knelt down and pulled a white sheet off from over a dead body. Kaede lied under it with her eyes and mouth both opened, blood dried around her mouth, her eyes glazed over from death already.
"Ka-Kaede?" Inuyasha, the man, stuttered.
"Yeah, that's the girl's name. Do you know her?"
"Yeah... she's my girlfriend's kid sister...."
"Really? I'm sorry." Kagura frowned as she stood up, "you know if the chief finds out they'll probably take you off the case."
"Then… let's try to keep him out of it," Inuyasha's eyes met Kagura's, after a moment she shrugged OK, "do we know who did it?"
"If we did then would we be here?"
"Point." Inuyasha murmured while he gaze could not be pried from Kaede. Her face had dirt all over it and dry blood on her forehead. If he didn't know any better he'd guess she was silently screaming but… her once joyful brown eyes were now soulless. Poor kid, how could someone do that to her? Why would someone do that?
"There's... one more thing." Kagura warned.
"What?" Inuyasha asked harshly.
"She has the mark." Kagura whispered as she walked down and again knelt by Kaede's left leg.
"Huh?" Inuyasha walked over to her and did the same.
"See." Kagura put a glove on her left hand and then pulled Kaede's sock down. There on her leg was pentagram with an arrow threw it.
"So... then... it was him again?"
"That or a copycat. The only thing that all the dead girls have in common is this mark on their legs. Well, that and they are always dumped in an alleyway near here."
"Damn. We have to get this guy before he kills someone else."
"Hey, I'm all for that but we have little to no expedience to lead us to anyone."
"Detective!" a man shouted as he ran up to them.
"What is it?" Inuyasha asked.
"We found something." the man said and handed them a plastic bag.
"What is it?" Inuyasha repeated as he took the bag from the man.
"Lipstick."
"So?"
"It's the same shade as the lipstick used to mark this girl. We found it at the end of the alley."
"Alright, good job. Take it back and compare it to the lipstick on the other girls. See if you can match them in anyway." Kagura ordered.
"Right away." the man said before taking the bag back.
"That's probably nothing."
"Why would you say that?"
"This guy has killed what... ten people in the last three months?"
"Yeah, what's your point?"
"He hasn't left a shard of evidence before so why would he mess up now?"
"He just got sloppy or careless or we finally got lucky, who cares?"
"I doubt it. I would think he would just get better along the way."
"Whatever Mr. Gloom."
That Evening...
With his thoughts plagued with what he had seen earlier that day Inuyasha walked to his apartment, his mind too far off to notice someone before it grabbed his hand and jerked him to a stop, "huh?"
Kagome stood there, her eyes blood shot and puffy, tears swelled up again, "In-Inuyash!" She gasped as she leaned against his chest and let the tears roll down.
"Ka...Kagome?" Inuyasha asked and placed his arms around her.
"Who would do such an awful thing?! Kaede was a sweet little girl!"
"Someone told you..." Inuyasha whispered, he didn't know if he should have been one of the officers to go notify the family or not. Like Kagura had warned him, if the chief found out he had a personal connection to the Archor case then he might be taken off of it.
"Yes," Kagome said in-between sobs.
"I'm really sorry." Inuyasha assured as he held her tighter.
"I can't believe... this is happening."
Inuyasha let her have her moment for a while longer before he pried her away and told her they should go upstairs, she agreed and held onto his arm tightly as he made his way to his apartment then opened the door. The first thing he noticed was Sango and Miroku on the couch talking.
"Hey." Inuyasha greeted as him and Kagome walked in hand and hand.
"What's wrong?" Sango asked before she got up and walked over to her friend.
"Ka...Kaede's been... been... killed." Kagome whispered.
"What?!" Sango shouted.
"Who did it?" Miroku asked as he, too, walked over to Kagome.
"No one knows."
"But you'll figure it out! Right?!" Kagome pled as she looked up at Inuyasha, once again, on the brinks of tears.
"Of course."
"I'm so sorry Kagome." Sango said and hugged her.
"This is just awful." Miroku added.
Inuyasha's cellar phone began to ring in his pocket so he excused himself and walked a short distance away before answering it, "hello?"
"Hey! I have great news!" Kagura shouted.
"OK... What is it?" Inuyasha asked as he walked further away from his friends and over to the kitchen.
"There are finger prints on the lipstick container and they match the little girls!"
"Hm, that means it could be the right lipstick or just something Kaede had and the killer dropped to throw us off."
"Why do you always have to look on the bad side of things? They are still analyzing the chemical make up of the lipstick to see if it's a match…"
"I'm not. I'm just saying."
"Well, the DNA will be matched soon, I bet."
"I doubt it. It takes forever for the DNA to get process. If the lipstick is the same as the mark then we can move ahead."
"Hey, not this time. Chief has bumped this case up to the highest priority. You should see all the people they have working on this case. It's amazing."
"It is a serial killer... Were there any other figure prints on the lipstick container?"
"Yep. One but we can't find a match to it."
"Damn." Inuyasha whispered as he looked over to Kagome who was now crying again.
"But! There's two sets of DNA on the lipstick."
"You can't possibly think that the killer used it, do you?"
"Well... I don't know. That set of DNA isn't processed yet so we don't know anything about it. I'm keeping my fingers crossed though." She just didn't want to think about what would happen if it turns out that they had a match. Whoever it was could always argue that they just borrowed the lipstick…
"It's probably just one of Kaede's friends." Inuyasha said exactly what she was worrying about.
"Yeah, yeah, you would say that" Kagura sighed.
"Besides, everyone thinks the killers a guy."
"It could be a girl or a guy that likes to wear lipstick." Kagura joked.
"Possibly. Call me back when you get more information." Inuyasha said before he hung up.
"Who was that?" Kagome asked as she used a handkerchief—that Sango had lent her—to whip her tears away.
"Kagura." Inuyasha answered as he walked back over to her.
"Does she have any news?" Kagome asked.
"... You know I can't tell you even if she did."
"Kaede was my sister!" Kagome protested.
"I know... but that still doesn't change the fact that I can't tell you."
"That's not fair!"
"Look." Inuyasha said and placed his hand on her shoulder. "Once we have a suspect you'll be the first I tell."
"You promise?" Kagome asked.
"I promise." Inuyasha answered.
To try and get Kagome's and everyone else's mind off what just happened they started to watch a movie. Sango and Miroku sat next to one another on the love seat while Miorku's arm was draped over Sango's shoulders. Kagome and Inuyasha where on the couch while he held Kagome in his arms, her eyes closed.
"Do you think someone has told Kikyou?" Kagome whispered.
Inuyasha took a deep breath but remained silent. Kikyou was someone he hadn't thought of in ages. All the thoughts he had tried to ward off came flooding back as soon as he heard the name. He started to date Kagome before realizing she was the Kagome Kikyou always talked about.
Kikyou and him met at their high school, and they went to a prestigious one at that. They had both lived in the dorms so Inuyasha never met her family and she only showed him pictures of Kaede and younger picture of Kagome. Once he did realize Kagome was Kikyou's sister he felt a little awkward about going out with her but got over it. It had been a while since he had even seen Kikyou and the two were dramatically different.
"Inuyasha?" Kagome asked then looked up at him.
"Huh?" he snapped back to the now.
"Do you think someone has told Kikyou?"
"Of course, the first thing we do is contact the family."
"I think... I should really go and visit her." Kagome said and placed her head back down on his chest.
"Is that so?" Inuyasha murmured dully.
"Yeah, it's been forever since we last talked and I don't think I've seen her face to face since she graduated high school."
"Oh." Inuyasha tried to focus more on what was happening in the movie than what had happened in the past.
"Do you want to come and meet Kikyou?" Kagome asked happily.
"Eh?"
Kagome knew they went to the same high school as one another but was blissfully ignorant of the fact that they knew each other let alone dated.
"Well... I'm really busy with the case and all..."
"Come on! You have to meet the rest of my family sooner or later."
"Um... not really…"
"So you don't think you'll stay with me long enough to meet my family?" Kagome scolded, she was not in any type of emotional state to have to deal with that type of attitude.
"No... that's not it... I just hate to meet the family... It's... uh..."
"Very awkward," Miroku finished his sentence for him, like the pal he was. Of course, Miroku and Sango could hear them talking better than they could hear the movie.
"Yes, very awkward."
"You can get over it." Kagome snapped.
"But—"
"You can get over it!" Kagome stated harsher than before.
"O..K. I'll meet your family... but do I really have to meet your sister?"
"Why not?"
Miroku was most interested in his answer. He was the only one Inuyasha told about his former relationship with Kagome's elder sister.
"Well... I... Uh... You are always saying all that stuff about her."
"You mean she's the rebel of the family? How she dropped out of college? How she doesn't have a stable job and all those types of things?"
"Yeah, that stuff."
"She really OK when you get to know her."
"Uh... but," Inuyasha had to keep trying to get out of seeing Kikyou. If he did then… That would mean Kagome would have to learn about their former relationship which would just lead to more trouble then he needed.
"No buts! You and I are going to visit my sister tomorrow." Kagome declared.
"Uh, I have to work tomorrow."
"After work then and if you work later than you usual do because you want to get out of going to meet my sister, I'll be real cross with you and you don't want that, do you?"
"No." Inuyasha sighed.
[A/N: Yes, because of the case Inuyasha works on Saturday]
That Night, At Kikyou's....
Kikyou sat awake on her bed while she stared out her window. It was a clear night but because of the city lights she couldn't see the stars, only the moon. She had called the police after Kaede never called her back and told them what happened all they did was ask if it was a possible prank call—Kikyou had to admit yes, that her sister had done this before but it felt different!—but the police couldn't do anything until she was missing for a prolonged period of time.
It was most likely due to the fact that she had changed her last name that she had yet to get the message that Kaede had been found dead in a back alleyway. At least that meant she could continue to hold out hope as she worried her mind out over her youngest sister. Kaede was her favorite sister as well. Yes, she liked Kagome but not as much as Kaede. Kaede was the only one that continued to call and come and see her after she dropped out of collage to follow her dreams.
Kaede admired Kikyou for doing so and would always tell her that. The rest of the family seemed to have disowned her, the Higurashi family name was a big deal and to how their eldest daughter drop out of college? Oh, no, that could not be made public knowledge. Kikyou didn't care too much, though. She didn't need her family's rich approval of what she did with her life. She didn't need them nagging her about how to live or who to see.
One of the only downsides of being disowned as a member of her family was the money. Her family owned a large clothes design company that her grandmother started when she was young. The Higurashis were loaded and didn't hide that fact or drop their sometimes snobbish attitudes that came with the money. Kikyou sometimes wished she could use some of that to pay for the rent or her phone bills or anything along that line but didn't want to have to deal with the family issues, rules, or events anymore so she grinned and bared it.
She didn't want the attitude or the fancy cars that came with that type of money. She wanted to do what everyone in her family didn't do due to the company. She wanted to pay her own way through the world. Three knocks on the door snapped Kikyou out of her deep thought. "Yes?"
"Can I come in?" Suikotsu asked.
"Yeah." Kikyou answered. Suikotsu opened the door and walked over to her then sat down next to her. "You nervous?"
"About what?" Kikyou asked knowing the answer.
"You know, your first gig."
"No. Not really."
"Then why aren't you asleep then?"
"Why aren't you?"
"You can't answer a question with another."
"Who says?"
Suikotsu sighed, "I can't sleep because I'm nervous for you."
"...Well, I don't know what to say to that. It could be a sweet thought or it could be an insult to my abilities."
"I don't mean it as an insult."
"I see. Truthfully, I can't sleep because I'm worried about Kaede."
I'm sure she just feels bad about prank calling you again. She'll be alright." Suikotsu said trying to comfort her by wrapping an arm around her.
"But what if the call was real?"
"Who would want to hurt Kaede?"
"I don't know."
"No one in their right mind would do such a thing."
"But not everyone is in their right mind."
"True."
"Thank you." Kikyou whispered.
"For?" Suikotsu asked. "For trying to comfort me, it was a nice jester."
"You're welcome, then." Suikotsu smiled as he got up. "Get some sleep. You don't want to look tried tomorrow, right?"
"Of course not." Kikyou answered.
"Good night."
"Night."
A/N: I wrote this a while back so it isn't the greatest but I re-edited before posting it. Enjoy, I'll try to update with another chapter soon.
Thanks for reading.