Disclaimer: Like I've said before, I DON'T OWN INUYASHA! OR ANYTHING. ME OWNS NOTHING. OKAY? OKAY.
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
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Kagome woke up the next morning looking like she was run over by a car. She had blood everywhere on her body, her eyes were puffy from crying, and there were so many scratches on her arm you would probably believe her if she said she was hit by a car. She pushed herself off the ground and walked slowly into her bedroom. She looked at the clock. "7:45...if I don't hurry I'll be late...aw well..." She just didn't feel like caring that morning.
She went into her bathroom and used the sink to wash out the blood in her hair and on her arms and legs. She was thinking of blow-drying her hair, but decided not to risk Naraku hearing it. So she grabbed a towel and used it to dry her hair. Once her hair was somewhat dry, she brushed through it and put them in low pigtails. After that she grabbed her Wet Seal(A/N I don't own) bag and pulled out her new black with silver thread jeans and pulled them on. Then she grabbed her Hot Topic bag and grabbed a random shirt and put it on. She looked in the mirror and saw that she had put on her new Avenged Sevenfold T-shirt(A/N I don't own them, either). She then looked closely in the mirror and saw that she had a gash on her head from hitting the bathroom floor when she fell asleep the night before. 'You'd think I would've felt that...'
She started looking around for something to cover it up. "Um...oh!" She exclaimed when she found her black beanie hat with ghosts all over it. She put it on and hoped that it wasn't against school rules. She looked at herself in the mirror to see if there was anything else that she needed to cover. That's when she remembered the cuts that went down the sides of both arms. Her eyes widened and she searched for her jacket. But alas, it could not be found. "Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no...what am I going to do?" That's when she remembered the arm sleeves she bought from Hot Topic(A/N I don't own) the day before. She got over to her shopping bags and fished out her black and blue striped arm sleeves, took the tags off, and pulled them on. The cotton stung her still fresh cuts, but she ignored it. She pulled on her combat boots and looked in the mirror. Shocked that she looked somewhat decent, she backed away from the mirror, grabbed her backpack, and left her room. She ran through the house and somehow managed to not run into Naraku. Sighing with relief, she made her way to school.
A/N I know I focus on Kagome a little too much, but she IS the main character. But I'm trying to fit in a few more POVs of other characters, so...hopefully that works out.
She got to school about 15 minutes late, and when she walked in everyone stared at her. But she just ignored them, gave her tardy slip to Myoga, and walked over to her seat. Her bangs covered her eyes, and she never looked up from her book. Inuyasha leaned towards her, "Hey...you okay?"
"Yea...fine...why do you ask?" Kagome quietly answered.
"Well, you got to school 15 minutes late, you've barely spoken a word- oh wait, that's normal...let's see, and you haven't uncovered your eyes once."
"Oh? Is that so..."
"Yea. It is so."
"Well, I'm sorry if that bothers you.."
"...Are you hiding something?" He would never admit it, but he actually did care if she was in trouble or not. He actually cared...for her. But he would never, ever say it out loud.
She looked a little more away from her desk to avoid his gaze. "No..."
"I think you are...look at me."
"No."
"Why not?"
"Cause..."
"Cause why?
"Um..."
He reached across the aisle and grabbed her arm, which made her wince in pain, but he didn't notice. "Look at me."
Kagome couldn't take the pain so she looked at him with tears in her eyes, "Please let go..." His eyes widened once he saw how puffy her eyes were, and how worn out she looked. He immediately let go of her arm."
"What happened to you-"
"Inuyasha! Pay attention and stop flirting with Kagome!" Myoga yelled at him.(A/N I used to have a teacher that did that all the time. Whenever two people were talking during class, he accused them of flirting in front of everyone. xD) Inuyasha blushed and everyone snickered. "I wasn't flirting! Just asking a question..."
"Sure you were, Inuyasha. Now get to work on your assignment."
Inuyasha at him stupidly, "What assignment?" More snickers could be heard, Inuyasha growled at them.
Myoga sighed, "More of reading the board, less of flirting with Miss Kagome."
"I WASN'T FLIRTING-"
"Yea, yea. Get to work."
Inuyasha went back to work without looking at Kagome, just to make sure he didn't get distracted again.
Rest of the day=uneventful. Let's skip to after school. (I'm so lazy)
Miroku's POV
I was waiting by my truck for Inuyasha and Sango. Did they even remember that we were going to check out Sango's new neighbors?
I was tapping the hood of my truck thinking these things, when a girl with short black hair, and very skin-tight clothes came up to me. I was hooked.
"Why, hello there." I bent down and kissed her hand. "Would you do me the honor of bearing my children?"
She blushed. "You don't even know my name..."
"Oh, I'm sorry, Miss...?"
"My name is Yura. Yura Kobayashi."
I smirked, "Well, it's very nice to meet you. Now back to the question at hand, would you bear my-"
I couldn't finish my sentence because someone had hit me on the head. Hard. I turned around to see a fuming Sango, "Pervert..." she was enraged. And by enraged, I mean enraged. "My dearest Sango, how are you doing this fine afternoon?"
"Get in the truck and drive, Miroku." she opened the back door, jumped in, and slammed the door. I saw that Inuyasha was already in the front. This is going to be a long car ride...
Sango's POV
We got to my neighborhood about 10 minutes after the whole thing with Yura. Ugh, stupid Miroku. Stupid Yura. Why must he flirt with every single girl he sees? It's like he's in love with every beautiful woman on the planet. Can't he just choose one and stop his lechery?
Wow. What has gotten into me. I shouldn't even care, Miroku is just my friend. He can date whoever he wants. Hmph.
"Uh...Sango?" Miroku snapped his fingers in front of my face. "Are you alive?"
I was taken out of my thoughts, I guess I didn't realize that while I was thinking about Miroku I was standing here looking into space. Woops.
"Ah, good. I was beginning to worry." Miroku sighed in relief.
Why should he care? I walked right past him and down the sidewalk. I could hear Miroku ask Inuyasha, "What's her deal?" But Inuyasha didn't answer and instead followed me. Or at least I think he did, judging from the footsteps behind me. I looked back and saw that they were both coming up from behind me. I walked to my new neighbor's house and knocked on the door. I looked behind me to make sure Inuyasha and Miroku were still there. They were. Inuyasha was doing something strange, he was sniffing the air. "Inuyasha? Why are you sniffing the air?"
He continued what he was doing, "I can smell the faint scent of...oh, what is it!"
Before he could figure it out, the front door of the house opened, revealing a girl in mostly black and blue with her head looking down.
"What do you want?"
I saw Miroku look closely at her, "...Kagome? Is that you?"
The girl lifted her head, and it was indeed Kagome. Her eyes widened at the sight of us. "W-what are you guys doing here?"
At first, I didn't know what to say. But then I finally spoke up, "Oh! So you're the new neighbor! Well, that would explain why you ran over here the other day."
"Y-yea." Kagome looked back inside the house. She then quickly stepped out and closed the door behind her. "So, what do you want, again?"
Inuyasha said, "Oh, Sango wanted to meet her new neighbors, and we were with her so..."
Kagome nodded her head, "Okay, that makes sense..."
"Hey, if you don't mind, can we come in for a sec?"
She opened her mouth as if to say something, but was interrupted by the sound of the front door opening. She looked down while me, Miroku, and Inuyasha looked up to see who it was. At the door was a tall, pale man with long tangled black hair. He was wearing a blue sweater with baggy jeans. His eyes were menacing and had bags under them. He hair and clothes were so messy that you might think he had a hangover. He gave me the creeps. Suddenly, he spoke in a freaky voice, "Hello there. You must be Kagome's little friends...," he looked straight at Kagome who was still looking down, "Kagome, you didn't tell me you had friends..." Kagome lifted her head up, "T-they aren't my friends." I was kind of sad that she said that, but I had a feeling that she didn't mean it. Who I assume is her father said, "Are you sure?"
He looked straight at me, "Did you happen to take Kagome to the mall the other day?" Kagome looked at me with fear in her eyes. I could tell she was asking me to lie for her. So I said, "No. I didn't. I saw her there but she wasn't with anyone." I hope it was believable.
He glared at me, "Is that so?..."
Inuyasha now thought it was the perfect time to open his stupid mouth, "Huh? Sango I thought you did go to the mall with Kagome the other day. Along with Kagura, Kanna, Kirara, and Ayame."
I looked back at him with a what-the f*ck-is-wrong-with-you kind of look and Miroku hit him on the shoulder. I guess he saw the look Kagome gave me. Inuyasha stared at me confused, but then I think he got it. "Oh...uh, I mean...I'll just shut up now." I nodded my head and looked back at the strange man.
He smirked at me and Kagome, "Huh...well, isn't that interesting...," he turned his attention to Kagome,"I must meet all these friends of yours, Kagome...now go to your room."
She looked up at him, "But-"
"No buts...go upstairs...now." He said this through clenched teeth, I could tell he was trying to contain his anger. Kagome ran back into the house. The man looked back at us, "Oh, I'm so sorry. I haven't introduced myself, have I? My name is Naraku. Naraku Higurashi. And I'm Kagome's father." He gave us a twisted smile, "I hope to see you three again..." And with that, he closed the door on us.
All three of us looked at each other, then slowly walked away from the house. As soon as we were at my house, we started talking. Inuyasha said, "Holy shit. What the f*ck was that?"
Miroku looked at him, "I have no idea. That dude was freaky as hel."
I looked at both of them, "He gave me the creeps. Did you see him? Did you hear that freaky laugh he had? I thought he was going to murder us!" I plopped down on my bed.
Inuyasha then spoke quietly, "And while we were there, I figured out was the smell was..."
Me and Miroku looked at him, "What?" we said in unison.
Inuyasha sighed, "Blood."
Regular POV
Over the next few weeks Inuyasha, Sango, and Miroku had told the group what happened with Kagome's father. So they had each tried talking to her, but none of them could get her to slip much information. Ayame tried to talk to her in History, which only she and Kagome had out of the group, and Kagome was being very secretive and hardly told her anything. Kirara tried in the hallway, but Kagome just ignored her and told her to lay off the energy drinks. Shippo gave it a shot when he ran into her at the park, but she just focused on writing in her journal. He tried seeing what she wrote, but she kept it close to her chest so only she could see it. Kagura blatantly asked if anything weird was up with her father, and Kagome got all nervous and walked away from her. Even Koga tried, but he was dragged away by Ayame who thought he was flirting with her. Kanna didn't really try, because she knew she wanted to keep to herself. But she was worried about her, so she planned on asking her about it today.
Kanna was in Kagome, Inuyasha, and Sango's gym class with them, but they never really noticed. She was always looking into space, so they let her keep to herself. When she had first got there, they were worried about her. But she eventually convinced them that she was okay, had a loving family, and that she just liked to be alone at times. So they respected her wishes.
Anyways, on with gym class.
Kanna had noticed that for the past few weeks Kagome had been either injured or making up excuses so that she could sit out. So she decided to talk to the coach before Kagome could.
"Coach?"
Coach Suikotsu turned around to see Kanna a few feet away from him, "Hello Kanna. What do you want?"
"I just wanted to say that Kagome had been looking like she's ready to play volleyball with us. I saw her this morning and she was walking fine. Talking fine. She didn't look sick. So she has no excuse to not do it."
Suikotsu tapped his chin, "Really? 'Bout time."
Just then Kagome walked into the gym and got herself over to Coach Suikotsu. "Hey coach, where should I sit today?"
"Oh, you're not sitting out today."
Kagome looked at him confused, "What?"
"You have no reason to. So here's your gym clothes," he handed her a tank top and shorts, "and be out here in 7 minutes, at the most. Chop chop!"
Kagome's eyes widened, "But-!"
"No buts! Kanna, take Kagome to the locker room."
"Yes, coach. Come on, Kagome." Kanna pushed Kagome in front of her towards the locker room entrance. Sango saw this and catched up to them. "Hey, Kagome. Finally gonna join us?"
Kagome was a nervous wreck, 'Oh no...this is not good...very, very NOT good...'
Kanna and Sango gave each other a look, then gave Kagome one final push into the locker room. "Hurry up so that we don't have to wait on you!"
Kagome was all alone in there, freaking out. She was trying to figure out a way to cover herself up without getting in trouble for it. But in the end she reluctantly put on the clothes and looked in the mirror.
You could see almost every scar she had. The ones on her arms, legs...everything. She sighed and was about to leave, when she remembered something that she had in her pack...
All the students were already in their places, waiting for Kagome.
Bankotsu grumbled, "What's taking her so long!"
Kanna looked straight at him, "Patience."
He quickly looked away and shut up. Kanna freaked him out. Kanna freaked everyone out, except for her friends, of course. But even they were sometimes slightly creeped out by the girl.
Everyone was growing impatient until they heard the sounds of sneakers on hardwood floor squeaking towards them. Everyone turned towards the noise and saw Kagome standing there in her gym clothes. Well...sort of. She was wearing the gym clothes, but she was also wearing her hat, jacket, and tall converse(A/N Like the ones that go to your knee). Almost everyone in the class snickered at this. The coach finally spoke up, "Miss Kagome? The point of your gym uniform is that you only wear your gym uniform. Now, I'm going to ask you to take off your jacket, your hat, and change those converse into tennis shoes, you got that?"
"But I don't have any tennis shoes..."
"Well, bring some next time. For now I guess those are all right. But take that jacket off, or you'll be sweating like a pig. Along with that hat."
"But I don't mind."
"Well, I do. Take it off."
Kagome took off her jacket to reveal her arm sleeves. All the students snickered.
"...And the arm sleeves."
"Please just let me wear these!"
"Why?"
"Just...please..." she asked with pleading eyes. He sighed.
"Fine, keep the arm sleeves. But take off that hat."
She looked hesitant, but she slowly took it off, hoping that no one could notice the scar under her black hair. Then she thought how ridiculous that was, and threw the hat onto the bleachers. She then got into her place and simply stood there. Everyone stared at her for a moment, but went back to the game.
The volleyball game went on for awhile, Sango and Kagome were on the same team while Inuyasha was on the other. The volleyball went over the net hit Kagome. She wasn't really paying attention, so Hakudoshi decided to hit her to get her to pay attention.
He yelled, "Next time pay attention to the game, baka!"
Kagome was hit right in the arm and fell to her knees. She felt some of her wounds somehow reopen, and her sleeve started get soaked in blood. Sango saw this and her eyes widened, "Holy shit, Kagome! Are you okay?" Eventually everyone was surrounding Kagome as Inuyasha, Sango, and Coach Suikotsu sat besides her.
The coach said, "Kagome, take off the sleeves so that we can see the damage..."
Kagome tried to hide her arm, "I'm fine."
"No you're not, your sleeve is covered in blood. Now take it off!"
"No!"
"Take it off!"
"NO!"
Coach Suikotsu sighed in frustration, "Inuyasha, Sango, take her to the nurse's office."
"Sure thing." Inuyasha said as he got Kagome into a standing position.
"I said I was fine..." Kagome said quietly.
Sango spoke up, "No you're not, now come on." They dragged Kagome out of the gym and through the hallway to the nurse's office. They sat Kagome onto the table bed thing(A/N Not sure what it's called) and waited for the nurse to come in. Once she did, she took once look at the blood covered sleeve and grabbed her supplies. She sat next to Kagome and tried to take off the sleeve while Inuyasha and Sango closely watched. Kagome tried to get her arm away, but the nurse wouldn't let her. She finally got it off and everyone, except Kagome's, eyes widened in horror. They saw many scars on her arm, some were closed, some were open. "Oh my..." The old nurse said. "What has ye done to ye-self?"
Kagome started to cry, and turned to the nurse, "I-" her eyes suddenly widened in realization. "Kaede?" The nurse looked at Kagome, "Kagome?" Kagome suddenly smiled widely and hugged Kaede. "Kaede! I've missed you soooo much!" Kaede laughed, "I have missed ye as well, but let's get your arm fixed up before we get into that." Kaede took Kagome's other arm and took off the other sleeve. Again, there were little scars all the way up her arms. "Oh, Kagome...what has ye done?"
Kagome's eyes filled with tears once again, "I...I can't...I can't tell you..."
"You must tell us, Kagome!" Sango yelled, even though she was a bit confused as to how they knew each other.
"Your friend is right, Kagome. Ye must tell us."
Inuyasha walked up to her and looked Kagome straight in the eye, "Yea, Kagome...you can tell us anything..."
Kagome felt her face heat up, but she ignored it and continued to cry. "I can't tell you!"
"Yes you can! Please, we want to help you!" Inuyasha pushed.
"I..."
Sango grabbed Kagome's shoulders and made her look straight at her. "Why do you cut yourself, Kagome?"
Everything was silent. Too silent. But eventually Kagome croaked out, "I don't know why..."
Inuyasha was beginning to get angry, "Just tell us why so we can-!"
"We must respect Kagome's space...if she doesn't want to tell us, she doesn't have to..." Kaede said.
Sango and Inuyasha were somewhat shocked, until Kaede continued, "But ye will have to tell us eventually, Kagome. But until then, ye must stop harming ye-self." Kagome looked at Kaede and hugged her.
Her arm was now bandaged up(Kaede did that as they were talking), so she left the nurse's office. But Inuyasha and Sango stayed behind.
Inuyasha asked her, "Hey, old woman. How do you know Kagome?"
Kaede glared at him for a moment, but then sighed, "Me and Kagome met when she was in the hospital at the age of ten."
Sango turned towards her, "Hospital? What was she doing in the hospital? Broken leg or something?"
"I wish I could say it was just a broken leg that got her there..."
Inuyasha and Sango looked at each other then back at Kaede, "Well, continue!"
Kaede sighed, "Well, 7 years ago Kagome's house caught on fire. Her mother and brother, Sota, died in that fire. Kagome was the only survivor. Her father was at work when it happened. She was went to the hospital after they rescued her, but pretty much had to strap her to the stretcher to keep her from going back to save them. She eventually passed out, but once she woke up and found out they were dead, she pretty much had a nervous breakdown. And it didn't help when she also found out that it was her lamp that cause the fire. She blamed herself for the whole thing."
Sango felt tears coming to her eyes and Inuyasha just stood there in shock. 'Poor Kagome...'
"Both of ye should get to ye's classes. Wouldn't want ye to be late."
"Yea, yea..." They both mumbled as they left. Once they got out the door, Sango asked Inuyasha, "Can you believe it?"
"No, I can't..."
"Believe what?"
They both turned to see Miroku standing there. "Oh, hey Miroku..." Sango spoke quietly.
"So, what's with the faces? You guys look like you just saw a ghost."
Sango then explained to Miroku what happened. "Man...I'm never there to see anything! It's always you two! Ughhhh..."
They both looked at him. He noticed them staring. "And poor Kagome, too..."
"Uh-huh." Sango said as she hit him upside the head. "So anyways, what should we do about Kagome? She's definitely hiding something, and it goes beyond cutting herself. And it has to do with that creepy dad of hers..."
Miroku shivered slightly, "Man, that dude was scary."
Inuyasha finally spoke after remaining quiet throughout this entire conversation. "I think we should investigate a little..."
Miroku and Sango turned to him and said at the same time, "How so?"
"Jinx." Miroku said which received him a punch against the shoulder by Sango.
"Anyways," Inuyasha continued, "we go to Kagome's house after school. But we won't tell her or knock on her door. Instead we'll listen in and look through the windows."
"Is that legal?"
"Who cares?"
"Let's do it." They all nodded their heads and left so that Inuyasha and Sango could change back into their regular clothes. Then they all went to their separate classes.
*Skips to after school because I'm too lazy to write the rest of the school day*
Inuyasha, Miroku, and Sango slowly walked through the bushes around the Higurashi house, trying not to make any noise.
"Miroku, you're being too loud!"
"Sango, no I'm not. I'm being as quiet as possible. But I can't say the same for you..."
"WHAT!" she whispered/shouted.
Inuyasha hushed them, "Both of you shut it!"
They all became quiet and looked through a window that looked into the living room. They saw Kagome sitting there, reading a book. She kept looking up every few seconds in a paranoid way as if something was coming for her. She kept up this routine until she looked towards the ceiling and just watched it, as if hearing footsteps in the floor above. Suddenly her eyes widened and she closed her book. She got up and was about to leave, when Naraku stepped in her way. Inuyasha could barely hear with his dog ears. He was repeating quietly to Miroku and Sango what they were saying inside. "Hello Kagome...would you sit down for a moment?" They saw Kagome walk back to where she was sitting and sat back down. "What do you want, Naraku..." Naraku stood right in front of the couch, looking down upon her. "I want you to fess up." Kagome looked up at Naraku, "Fess up? For what?" Naraku glared back down at her. "For revealing your cuts today in school. They called me, telling me what happened, you know...Were you planning on tattling on me, bitch?" Inuyasha snarled a little at what he called Kagome. She started to speak again, "But, they only saw the cuts I inflicted. They didn't suspect you at all!" "Sure they didn't. I bet you were planning on telling all your little friends about me hitting you." Sango, Miroku, and Inuyasha's eyes widened in realization.
"He beats her?" Sango whispered.
Miroku quickly said, "Guess so, we have to keep watching." They all turned their attention back to the people in the house. Inuyasha continued whispering what they were saying. "You know they're only your friends because they pity you. They noticed how disgusting, ugly, and pathetic you are...They felt sorry for you. That's the only reason they have stuck around. You should have seen this coming. That's why I told you you couldn't have friends...because I was protecting you. But you just never listen... I give you all that you ask, and yet you still want more... You're such a selfish little brat." "That's not true..." Kagome clenched her hands into fists. "What are you talking about? Of course it's true." "I know it was my fault. I know I killed mom and Sota. I know I deserved my punishment. But I did not deserve an on-going punishment that lasted seven years." Naraku looked enraged and grabbed Kagome by the collar of her shirt and picked her up the ground. "Of course you did! You killed your own mother and brother! You're a monster! And I can't stand you any longer." He threw Kagome at the far wall. He stalked over to her and picked her up again, then threw her at the other wall. She fell to the ground hard, and tried getting up, but failed to do so. Naraku slowly walked over to Kagome's side. He kicked her in the stomach multiple times, and punched her in the face. Finally, Inuyasha couldn't take it. He ran around the house and kicked the door down. He got himself to the living room and saw Kagome in a pool of her own blood. Inuyasha then looked at Naraku. "You bastard!"
Inuyasha jumped onto Naraku and pinned him down. They wrestled on the floor while Sango helped Kagome onto her feet. Miroku was calling the police, who would arrive any minute. Naraku threw Inuyasha off of him and stood up. He walked over to Inuyasha and punched him in the face.
"Inuyasha!" Kagome screamed. She tried running over there, but was unable to.
Inuyasha had quickly recovered and kicked Naraku in the shins getting him to fall on the ground. He repeatedly kicked him in the stomach, "That's! What! You! Get! For! Hurting! My! Kagome!" Kagome's eyes widened and filled with tears.
He wasn't really aware of what he had just said, but instead continued pounding on Naraku. Eventually the police arrived and took Naraku into custody. Kagome couldn't hold it in any longer and she burst into tears. Inuyasha held her until the ambulance people came inside and took her away.
Well? Is it okay? I hope it is. :o
It's not a big deal to me, but if you have the time, please review! I would love to hear your thoughts.
Next chapter will be coming soon...
