Sango holds me as i sob and tremble uncontrollably.

"It's all gone." I whisper, tears running down my cheeks in cold rivulets.

"I'm here for you Kagz." She tells me, stroking my hair. The hospital smells like pine sol. I want to go home and sleep for an eternity. But here we sit, waiting for the deaths of- of Souta and mother to be confirmed. When the doctor comes out in his crisp white scrubs he doesn't have to say a word, i already know. The greatest fear in my life has taken play.

"No." I whimper, clutching Sango for support. "Souta... Mom..." I moan in agony, clawing at my chest. I bury my face in my hands to hide the emotion that's threatening to explode all over this clean, germ-free lobby.

"Kagome, it's going to be alright. We're going to get through this." I shake my head just before everything fades to gray.

*-*

I wake up, finding myself in Sangos bed. I sit up, looking around, bracing myself for the pain to hit me. It does so hard and new that i fall back down onto the flannel sheets, covering my face.

Unsure of what i'm doing, unsure of where i'm going to stagger out of bed, slipping on a pair of extra shoes from the closet. Sango's nowhere in sight. I make my was steathily through her kitchen and out the door undetected. Running to my car, which surprisingly is parked in her driveway, i jump and start it. Peeling out of the driveway and down the highway i drive before pulling into the bank and going through the drivethrough.

"Hi, what can i do for you today?" The nice receptionist lady asks.

"Yes, hi, i'd like to close my banking account." She looks at me strangely. "I'm moving." i explain patiently.

"Okay, i just have some forms you need to sign." She sends them through me via air whooshy thing. I scrawl my name in with the borrowed pen she sent through then send them back.

"Okay thank you so much. It was great doing business with you, Kagome." She smiles and sends the thing back through with my accounts balance in it. I take it out then shove the capsule back in the box and drive out, counting the money hastily; $654.93. I smile and step on the gas, the sound of the engine drowning out all of my thoughts.

*-*

I've been driving for two days, stopping only for gas and water, sparing no thought to food. But now, now i'm getting a little light headed and hungry. I scan the side of the road for anything resembling a gas station. To my luck i find one, albeit it doesn't look like the safest place to stop, but what can i say, i'm starving. I pull in and hurry to the door. The cash register man just smiles at me, black teeth threatening to fall out of his gums. I wince and check out the snack food- figures. I grab a pack of cookies and a water bottle from the fridge and head over to him, it'll tide me over until i find a suitable restraunt, then i'll start my journey back home... I'm gunna need a map.

"Hey yung'un."

"Hi." I smile politely at him, pretending his gravelly voice didn't send shivers up my spine.

"How're you doing today?" He completely ignores the cookies and water, i wonder if i should just walk out with them to get away from him.

"I'm fine, thank you. Kind of in a hurry though." My voice is growing an uneasy edge to it.

"Oh? So sorry." he rings it up and keeps smiling that toothless smile at me.

"$3.21." I pull it out of my pocket and hand it to him.

"Thanks so much." I head for the door.

"No wait a second- where do you think you're going?" I stop and face him, my heart racing in my chest.

"To my car."

"No you aint." He growls, lunging over the counter and grabbing my arm, ripping me over the wood to him. I dig my heel into flesh and cry out. "Don't fight miss, it'll only make this worse."

"Let me go!" I struggle, but i don't have much energy left in me after the drive. I consider ripping the cookies open dramatically and shoving them in my mouth in hopes of them making me turn into the Hulk. But i contain myself. "What do you want? I'll give you my money!"

"No, no. We're not allowed to take valuable possessions from the prisoners. You'll get you're money and jewelery back when we ship you out. Now c'mon miss, don't fight." I growl and scratch at his arms, noticing that scars similar to the ones i'm making already mar his flesh.

"Let me go!" He grunts and pushes me into a back room where's there's a flight of stairs reaching into darkness. I scream. "Please don't do this!"

"Darling, stop it now." We reach the bottom and i gape in horror. Rows and rows of cages lined with screaming, crying girls are before me.

"No!" I grab at the walls as he drags me towards one. I'm locked behind iron. "No..."

"Ka-Kagome!" I turn my head to the left in shock. Sango's staring at me, dirt smeared across her face.

"What are you doing here?" I cry grabbing at the bars of her cage, for once i'm not happy to see her.

"Some guys- i don't know. I was searching all over town for you, it was late- some guys attacked me and brought me here."

"This is my fault..."

"No, it's okay Kagz. At least we're together." I shake my head and let the tears drip onto the dirt floor.

"It's not okay."

"Don't cry." I take a deep breath and nod. Crying is getting me nowhere.

"Where are we?" She looks at me surprised.

"You don't know where we are?"

"No."

"Kagome- this is slave trade. We've been captured." Suddenly- my world doesn't seem round anymore.

*-*

We've been lined up in front of showerheads, forced to strip and bathe ourselves while greedy eyes scour our flesh. Men wait to take us away to our fates.

We're dressed in white cotton kimonos, forced to brush each others hair until its soft and glossy, then we're loaded into trucks, canvas draped over the cargo hold. Nobody can see what it holds. Nobody can see us.