My saving Grace

By: Lady Fluffy

A/n: okay this is my first story to go up in awhile and I want to see how well people like it. If I get some that like I will continue to post it if not then it will just be a fun thing for me to do in my free time. So please let me know how you like and what you think I could do to make it a better story. There is a part in the story about Sessy and Inu being twin brothers but Inu still has his doggy ears; I will go more into that prolly in the next chapter. Oh and I don't own any characters in the story unless I think them up and the plot is all mine too.

She awoke to the slamming of the front door. Already knowing that he was drunk, so she didn't pray that he wasn't but that he was drunk enough to not remember that she was there. Listening to his stumbling footsteps come up the stairs and the down the hall from under her covers she prayed even harder. If he was drunk enough then she was safe for another night. If not then she didn't even want to think about would happen. The footsteps stopped outside her room but then continued on and seconds later another door slammed shut. Breathing a sigh of relief she drifted off in to a light sleep.

She awoke before the sun rose like every morning. She went down stairs and started a strong pot of coffee and breakfast started. She had everything ready and on the table before her disheveled father came down the stairs.

"Good morning daddy." She said quietly knowing that he would hear her.

Her father just grunted and glared at her. He started to eat the food in front of him without a word. After a while he looked up at her and said "Make sure that you bring home a good amount today. I don't want you slacking off just because you have to go to school." He told her this every day.

"Yes sir." She said looking away before he could see the fury and hate in her eyes. The room went deathly quiet and she stilled, knowing that she hadn't fast enough. As she turned around to apologize a hand come down across her face, knocking her to the floor.

"Don't you dare sass me girl." He growled and without waiting for an answer he grabbed his coffee and left the room.

With a sigh she got off the floor and finished the morning dishes. Back up in her room she covered the bruise that was already forming on her face. She then dressed in a long sleeve blue turtle neck to hide the burses on her arms and chest from her father's last beating. She pulled on a pair of faded blues jeans with holes in the knees and faded sneakers. Grabbing her book bag she was out the door before he came out of his room. She walked in silence for a while before she heard he name called out.

"Oie, wench, wait for us." Her best and annoying pompous jerk of a friend called out. Walking next to him was his twin brother, but you wouldn't know that by looking at him. Other then the gold eyes and silver hair they looked and acted nothing alike. Inuyasha was about five-ten and liked to wear his hair loose and bold colors. As to where Sesshoumaru liked his hair tied back and wore more calm colors.

She sighed and turned to the brothers. "Yasha, how many times do I have to tell you my name is Kagome, not wench." And before his brother could say anything she turned to him "And Sesshoumaru same goes for you, my name aint girl."

Inuyasha may have been her best friend but Sesshoumaru was the only one that knew what her father did to her and what he made her do, and that was only because she had tried to lift his wallet one day and hadn't been fast enough to get away. She hadn't recognized him with the hood of a sweater over his hair against the rain. After that it was only a matter of time before he got the whole story out of her. He then started to help her by giving her money so she didn't have to stay out late.

"We will talk after school." Was all that he said to her.

"I have things to do, I probably won't be in school all day. I'm thinking of skipping out early." She told him while Inuyasha was busy on the phone.

"I will see you after school at the usual place." He told her as Inuyasha got off the phone.

"Hey that was Roku, he is having a party at his place tonight; you wanna come?" he asked Kagome.



"Cant I have a tone of makeup work to do." She told him as they got to the school. "I'll see you guys later," and she headed to her first class of the day.

When lunch came Kagome had decided to that she was leaving right after. She sat with her friends and had fun like a normal teenage girl is supposed to. Sesshoumaru glared at her and Inuyasha just looked at her funny unless she was playing with his puppy ears. As the bell rang for them to go back to class Inuyasha offered to walk her to her class, but she turned him down and walked off.

Inuyasha turned to his brother and asked, "Are we going to follow her today?"

"Not right away. I have a surprise for her today." He told him with a smile.

"What are you planning?" Yasha asked.

Here was something else that set them apart. Inuyasha was always ready to jump in before he thought and Sesshoumaru would plan things out ruthlessly. Which other than him being the oldest, by minutes, was why he was to take over the family company. Both brothers had known Kagome since grade school, their mother had know each other in school, but Sesshoumaru had spent junior high and part of high school at boarding school.

"We little brother, are going to help get her out of this life." He said as he headed off the property.

"How so?" he asked, so Sesshoumaru outlined him plan.

Back with Kagome

Kagome walked the streets of the town as if she belonged there. Which if you looked at her she did. No one took notice of the girl in tattered clothes, bruises showing and a slight limp. She has learned how to blend into the background and the limp made it easier to lift the wallets that people thought were safe 

in their front pockets. She spotted a finally dressed man about a block away that looked like he would have enough to satisfy her for the day, so she could get home and not have to worry about seeing Sesshoumaru. But this wasn't going to be her day. Just as she bumped into him and made a grab for his wallet a hand shot out and grabbed her.

"How bout we take this somewhere else? Like the police station." The man said to her.

"Look mister I'm sorry, I'll leave you alone. I gotta go meet someone."She said quickly trying to pull away.

"Kagome you're not in trouble and your friends are waiting for you at the station house." He told her.

That last statement had her stunned. So much so that he was able to get her in the back of his car before she could say anything else.

"How did you know my name?" She asked him as the pulled into traffic.

"Your friends told me. They are pretty worried about you right now." He said looking in the mirror. After that she said no more to him just looked out of the window as the town went by.

'Dads gunna kill me this time,' she thought to herself.