Kagome jolted awake from her slumber. She was in a cold sweat and panting. She shook off the nightmare, the past in which had haunted her since she was so very small. Something that Kikyo didn't know about until it was too late and the greatest of damage had already been done.
Kagome opened the small door of her adopted son's bedroom. As she looked inside she saw that he was sleeping soundly still. His face taking on the image of a small and peaceful angel. She closed the door quietly as Shippo slept, happy that he would never go threw the same thing that she had at the age of seven. Kagome wondered around the kitchen until Sango came into the house.
"Kagome, you really should get out of here. Don't you have work?" Sango asked.
"No, I don't have any work today. I canceled all my jobs today. I can't go out today, I had a bad dream. No, THE bad dream." Kagome said as she held a lifeless expression upon her face.
"Oh, that one. You haven't had it in a long time."
"Yeah," Kagome looked down at her trembling hands. "I hate to feel this way. The sense that I can't do anything with my life. Like no matter how much I build myself up I can't ever meet anyone's expectations. That he will bang on my door once again and threaten me. That what I did to keep him from my sister was worth nothing. Before I could break down, now I can't. I don't want Shippo to see me cry but it's hard not to." Kagome said, trying to hold back tears.
"Go get dressed at least. I am taking you out." Sango commanded.
Kagome looked down. She felt bad, she was taking the time out of her best friends schedule to deal with a head case like herself. But she listened and went into her room to get ready to go out. When she was finished she came back into the kitchen. There was a note on the counter that read:
Have to go do something, will be back soon. Get Shippo ready and I will be back to pick you up. Fix him something to eat.
Sango.
Sango walked into Mr. Taisho's office. She honestly didn't like discussing Kagome's condition with anyone, including outside of family. However, Kagome was getting worse and she found the more people that knew, that would truly understand and except her would make her feel much better. To understand the main reason of why she was, the black sheep of the family and how that title came into being. An origin that most people, not even Kagome's own family knew of.
"Oh, Sango, what may I do for you?" The old man asked as he looked threw his cases.
"Do you have some time?" Sango choked out.
"What is it? What happened?" He knew something was up, the look on her face was a clear give away.
"Well, here is Kagome's file." She handed him a thick folder. "I took it to tell you the story. You see, Kagome's father went missing soon after their mother got pregnant and they found he was dead after their brother was born. That was when she was about five, when she was six her mother met a man named Naraku. He was nice and kind and seemed to be a great step father to the girls and the little boy. However, he took a favoritism to Kikyo the most. Kagome's mother and Naraku got married soon after she turned seven and Kagome noticed something not right with this man. Around that time I met Kagome myself. I saw her just before the marriage, she was a great student, never getting into trouble. However, right after that her grades dropped, she was picking fights, everything was going completely wrong with her."
"Did she not like her step father? Why the rebel?"
"I found out that year and was forced to keep the secret. Naraku was going to hurt Kikyo in ways that no man should. He was going to rape Kikyo, however, Kikyo didn't know that Kagome found out before he did it and took her place. She was seven and being raped. It went on for years. When she was ten she started smoking, I was going to tell but she told me not to because Kikyo could get hurt. Then when she was 13 she got in with the wrong crowd, this gang actually. She started drinking, drugs, the works. She was like that until Kikyo found out about it, when they were eighteen years old and it was still going on."
The older Taisho's face grew pale at the story he was wanting to know of his new beloved friend he loved like a daughter. Now it only pained him to know the truth behind why she was the way she was.
"When Kikyo found out about it Kagome and Kikyo got an apartment. Mom and Naraku found them and were beating on their door. Cops were called and Naraku went to jail for assaulting Kagome and Kikyo. Kikyo and Kagome talked to her mother about it and everything seemed to be going well. Kagome went to rehab, her mother took care of their brother, and Kikyo found Inuyasha. However, Kagome had bad dreams of Naraku and she was falling apart. She spent a lot of time with Kikyo and she was getting better. Then the whole thing at their wedding happened and family kinda turned on her. But she continued to get better. She was actually great a couple weeks ago. Now Kikyo is gone, she is having those nightmares again, and even worse is she has been going back to her old self lately. I need some help with her."
"What can I do, anything little or big I can do will be great." He said.
"Actually what I need is large. Can you take Kagome for a few days, let her break down. About a year ago she adopted a son, then she decided to come here. Kikyo died and now she is breaking down again. I want to have the son with me while she is in recovery. If the adoption agency found out about her breaking down they may take him away which would kill her, seriously. I don't want her or her story ending up on the nine o'clock news. Picture that, a woman raped for eleven years looses adopted child and commits suicide after her twin sister is killed in a tragic car accident."
"I can, I will take a few days off to deal with it. It shouldn't be that much of a problem."
"You might need Inuyasha's help though, or Miroku's."
"Why?"
"If she doesn't wanna stay she will try to claw her way out when she gets the meaning of why she is there. Right now she is kinda a ghost, do anything you tell her. However, when she gets tired of it or too emotional she will try to fly the coup."
He shook his head in silent understanding.
Kagome didn't understand much. She knew She was to stay with Mr. Taisho for a few days. She knew he was here to 'help' her and that Sango would be taking care of Shippo. Yet, she didn't understand why this arrangement was. Why she was in the car on her way to his house. Yet, it wasn't like she didn't have a good idea.
"How much do you know?"
"Everything, from when you were five onward."
"So she told you about me being raped?"
"Yes, would you like to talk about it."
"Not really. I can't just take a day off of work to be weak. I just wanted to stay home and be a vegetable, lick my wounds until I have to go back to work tomorrow."
"You never told me what you did."
"Right now it is clothes for this week. Next week I think is a bartender or something and then a wedding planner, and a bunch of other things. I can't wait because next month is a prison guard and then the week after that it is a therapist followed by a gang leader."
"How can one person do so many things?"
"I don't, I was joking. I am a full time clothes designer. I make wedding dresses too and help wedding planners figure out what would look best at their clients weddings and the theme they go for. I do a little of wedding planning and a lot of clothes. Starting to get tired of the crap I put up with. I wish I kept to clothes and drew a line at the wedding dress."
"How did you get that job."
Mr. Taisho was not a man of too many words, however he felt keeping her talking might be best for her. He could feel her sanity slipping away very quickly.
Kagome laughed at the question. "Well, there was this one guy who came into a bar I worked at." She noticed he was giving her a weird look. "Bartender at the time. Anyway, the guy's future wife kept calling him yelling about how the wedding is three days away and their wedding planner canceled on them. They had everything except the wedding dress. The wedding dress was so nice and extravagant that they had to have it shipped out from one place to the other. Someone work on this part, shipped, someone work on this other part, shipped again. It took them around a month to get this dress done. The wedding planner was holding onto it until the big day. Well, the wedding planner's son took colorful non-erasable markers and colored all over this dress. The bride told her to make another one and it couldn't be done. The wedding was a week away. They tried everything. So they were going to get this new dress and none of them she liked. So I asked if I could take a look at it and so I looked at it and created an exact double in three days. I didn't sleep a wink. So then a designer at the wedding heard of me, liked what I did, and asked me to work for her. I have been doing clothes ever since."
Just then they pulled up in the drive way. There was a car parked there with three people waiting inside it. The driver got out as he saw the car. Kagome sighed. As they got out of the car Inuyasha's eyes filled with anger. He thought that his father was clear that no one was to talk to Kagome, let alone let them in their house.
"What the hell is she doing here?" Inuyasha hissed.
The other passengers got out and ran up to Kagome. Rin and Hanna hugged her but she did not hug them back. Hanna looked at her grandfather.
"Is Aunt Kagome having another break down?" She asked as soon as she noticed the signs she had seen before when she was younger.
"Yes honey, we need to get her in the house now before she decides to leave."
He escorted Kagome and the rest of the group into the house.
"Why the hell is she staying with you?" Inuyasha asked.
"Because believe it or not, I am trying to keep her stable like Kikyo kept her since she was seven when this whole thing started. Inuyasha, did Kikyo ever tell you about Naraku?"
"Well, only that she didn't like him and was glad he was out of everyone's life. Why?"
"Kagome took Kikyo's place. He was going to rap Kikyo but Kagome made him take her instead. That is what caused her to act out the way she had. Can't you see that them secretly meeting was to keep Kagome from going insane. The least you can do is help her threw this from taking so much away from her."
Kagome was stunned, Mr. Taisho had demanded her to relax. Her nieces were watching her like they always did when she had a little slip, and she felt like crap for putting all of them threw it. Mr. Taisho had turned on the news and she was watching it until Inuyasha came in and placed some Jasmin Tea in front of her.
"Um... you wouldn't mind if I get my breath analyzer out of my purse and use it would you?" Kagome asked.
"I am not drunk and Kikyo said that was your favorite. I remember because she talked about you constantly when we were dating. Weird how I never got to know what her favorite tea was. It was always your favorite things."
"Yeah right? Wouldn't that be like marrying someone you know absolutely nothing about?"
"Actually, the things I knew about her were all that mattered to me and I knew you were her world. Then I wanted to protect you from her, weird how that ended up. Thanks, for when she was little. I can't imagine doing anything like that for her at that age."
Inuyasha turned to walk out of the room. "English, she liked English tea. Just regular tea with milk and a spoon full of sugar." Inuyasha looked at her in amazement. She really did know more about her sister then he did.
"Thanks, I always wondered what it was that she liked. After all, her protector would be most likely the only one who would know the small stuff. Maybe I can be friends with her if she gets over this slump and gets stronger like what her sister always said she was."
***Chapter End***
This is the second chapter. I hope you liked it. Everything is getting heated huh?
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