-Disclaimer: InuYasha is the property of Rumiko Takahashi
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-Warning: This fiction is a big departure from my usual works. It is very graphic and dark, containing unpleasant sexual situations and drug use. Kagome will be very out of character, because that is what drug addiction does to a person, it changes them into something horrible and ugly.
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Kagome smiled up at him, her eyes dancing in the sunlight. Her hair was tossed around her shoulders in the gentle early morning breeze and InuYasha chuckled, reaching over to tuck it back behind her ear. Useless, a minute later the wind only picked up and pulled it back out over her face again in soft curls as she laughed at his efforts.
"Haven't you picked enough yet wench?"
"Ugh" Kagome rolled her eyes "Don't call me wench. I hate that."
InuYasha forced himself to concentrate on her words instead of his memories of how her hair looked as it flowed over her pillow as she slept at night. A sight that was becoming all too familiar the more he found himself lured from his tree branch to watch her sleep late at night.
"What's wrong with calling you wench? You are a wench."
"It's sexist." Kagome looked at him through eyes that were anything but annoyed, they were beautiful and dreamy.
"Maybe I am sexist." InuYasha grumped, having no idea what sexist meant, but secretly hoping it was something ecchi "Whatever that is."
Kagome giggled.
"Well, duh, like I didn't know that from the moment you opened your eyes."
InuYasha raised an eyebrow "What's that suppose to mean wench?"
"You said it, I'm just agreeing with you." Kagome giggled, scooting away from InuYasha a little while she still could. "And don't call me wench dog-boy."
"Don't call me dog-boy." InuYasha scooted closer
"Don't call me wench." Kagome scooted away again
"Don't call me sexist." InuYasha moved closer again
"Fine, I'll quit calling you sexist if you quit calling me wench."Kagome said with a smug smile
"Deal" InuYasha said with a grin,. Not that this was over, oh no, not by a long shot. She looked way too smug.
"Are you done yet..." He smirked "bitch?"
Kagome shot InuYasha the evil eye but was unable to hold it.
"I'll show you a bitch, POOCH" With a giggle she tackled him and went for the one place she KNEW he was vulnerable intending to tickle him mercilessly.
His Ears.
"Now what?" He tried to hold in his laughter , but it was a losing battle "I didn't call you wench!"
InuYasha tried to flip her off of him
"Thanks baka, bitch is so much better."
Kagome grinned down at him
InuYasha couldn't stop the cocky grin, his heart beat hard in his chest.
Sweet kami... how he longed to kiss her...
"Your welcome"
In fact...he was going to kiss her...
"InuYasha! Kagome! What's taking you two so long?"
...after he killed that fucking kitsune.
InuYasha opened his eyes and sat up resting his back against the wall of Kagome's room. Damn it. He wanted her back. Not that false Kagome he had encountered on the streets, but HER. The Kagome who made his heart beat like that.
Deki's words still rang in his ears, regardless of the fact that the conversation was over hours ago.
"Damn it InuYasha. Two years ... For two years Kagome stayed by your side, waiting and hoping that you would love her, commit to her, and for two years you went back and forth between her and that Miko from the past, never making a choice or a commitment. Well this is it InuYasha."
"Kagome needs you. She needs you whether she is willing to see it or not so either you make a commitment to me...to my daughter... right now to stay by her side now when she needs you the way that she has always stood by you. Or, your free to spend the night, recover and in the morning you get your clothes and then leave my house...and Kagome's life...and this time, never come back. Either way...enough with the indecision. It's time for you to grow up and decide InuYasha. "
"Do you love Kagome enough or not?"
"Enough?"
"Is your love for Kagome strong enough to take her back from the Black Dragon InuYasha?"
InuYasha hadn't slept, he had rested, feeling skin and muscle knit back together over his chest and torso, repairing the damage that this new and frightening Kagome had done to him. But sleep had eluded him.
He had run the gamut of reaction and feelings, anger, pain, compassion , even fear. But no matter how dark and dismal the other thoughts became, there were things that remained unchanged, some feelings that never left him.
He loved Kagome. Kagome had been his savior, sure she had saved him from the tree, but it went deeper than that, she saved him from himself, from the yokai part that threatened to consume his humanity. She saved him from his human part, that would have recklessly thrown his life away seeking revenge. With her help, he had found a way to combine the two into a person that even his bastard of a brother was proud of.
He wanted Kagome back, HIS Kagome, the Kagome that he knew was still somewhere inside that other woman. He wanted her back with every part of his heart, mind, body and soul and he was willing to do whatever it took to bring her back.
WHATEVER IT TOOK.
Yes, His love WAS strong enough to take Kagome back from the Black Dragon and he was going to find her, no matter where she had run off to.
And this time, make no mistake about it, he WAS bringing Kagome home.
Home to the people who loved her.
Home to Deki.
Home to him.
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Black Dragon
Scroll IV
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"Hey you! Bitch! No vagrants here!"
Kagome felt the handle of a broom jab hard into her bony rib cage.
"Hey dopehead, this ain't no damn motel, get outta here."
She forced an eye open then slammed it shut when she was hit by the ray of bright sunshine.
"Hey!" The broom handle came down hard on the back of her head and she still didn't move, the next second Kagome saw stars as she was cracked across the face with the same broom handle.
"This is an office building, not a flop house for doped up hookers, now get the hell outta here tramp!"
Rage and a bloody nose propelled Kagome to her feet, her hands and legs shaking a mile a minute with the early signs of withdrawal. She needed a bathroom quick.
"Where's a bathroom?" she croaked out to the short fat sixty-ish old woman who stood glaring at her while she puffed on her cigarette, brandishing her broom, ready for another swing.
"I look like a tour guide? This ain't no public building, it ain't open to just anyone off the streets to just walk in and make themselves to home ya know."
"I'm bleeding you stupid cow, I need a bathroom." Kagome tried to pinch her nose to stop the bleeding, then wiped the blood off her face with her sleeve.
"Go to a gas station, we don't want your likes..." The woman stopped and looked at Kagome closely. "I know you, I kick you out of ...?"
"Kami stupid ass Bitch! Just tell me where a fucking bathroom is!" Kagome grabbed the woman by the front of her shirt and threw her against the wall.
"Through the door, down two flights on the left." The woman was wide eyed as she looked at Kagome.
"Was that so fucking hard?" Kagome started away, then realized she forgot her belt and turned back to get it. As she bent near the woman, the woman took her arm gently and looked at her closer.
"Tiny pet Kagome-chan."
"What?" Kagome was stunned
"Your Papa worked on the twenty-fourth floor and when you came to see him you always gave me a piece of butterscotch candy."
Kagome shook her head and turned away "Wasn't me"
"Kagome..." Kagome stopped but didn't turn around. " Kami child, what happened to you?"
Kagome snorted "That bitch died."
Kagome twisted on the door knob and ran down the stairs to the elevator bay, not stopping in the bathroom. She hit the street, then ran. Several blocks away she found a crawl space to hide in and shoot up.
"Mrs. Meshu. It just HAD to be Mrs. Fucking Meshu of all damn people to find me like that. FUCK." Kagome laughed bitterly
As a child Mrs. Meshu was one of Kagome's favorite people in the world. Kagome got dropped off at her fathers office two days a week, and on those days, Kagome would help clean her fathers office and the other offices in her fathers suite when Kagome's father had to work late. Mrs. Meshu would tell Kagome funny stories and jokes.
Her seeing Kagome like that was like a slap in the face, a snide reminder of who she could have been and the waste of humantiy she had become.
Kagome pulled the belt tight, tears springing to her eyes as she slid the needle into her arm.
She had gone too long without her protector, the one that kept the pain at bay, she was feeling far too much.
Kagome hadn't cried since Sota died, and now without the comfort of the Black Dragon, she was crying again.
As the euphoric fog crept into the recesses of her mind, she flashed back on words from the night before.
I'm gonna do what I do with everyone. I am take you until there is nothing but me inside of you. No mind, no heart, no soul. And then ...
I'm going to kill you.
Kagome was beginning to wish the Black Dragon would just hurry up and get it the fuck over with.
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When InuYasha opened the bathroom door after taking a shower, he was accosted by the scent of tears heavy in the air. His ears picked up the echoes of crying coming from downstairs and he took off, flying down the stairs as fast as the clumsy construction would allow him to.
Fast enough to find himself in the middle of the kitchen dressed in only his hakema and fundoshi, with nothing hiding his unique ears from the kind, but curious and tear-filled eyes of Eri and Hojo.
"Fuck." Inuyasha blurted, his face bright red while he desperately tried to cover both his ears and naked chest while he backed away.
"It's okay InuYasha" Deki stepped forward with InuYasha's furisode and held it for him while he slid his arms in and tied it shut, tucking it into his hakema while still trying to cover his ears.
"InuYasha" She took his hands in hers "Really, its okay. They know about you."
"They..." He looked at them suspiciously as he sat at the table "How?"
"When we were married Kagome was high on something, cocaine probably." Hojo sighed sadly "We were trying to get her to go home with Deki-chan, and she started crying and told us the whole story."
"We didn't believe her until she showed us the picture in her wallet." Eri shook her head. "Kami! This is all my fault!" Eri started crying again and covered her face and sobbed into her hands.
"No dear! You must not blame yourself." Deki patted her shoulder then went in the other room to answer the phone.
"Did you give Kagome the drugs?" InuYasha asked, an honest but confused expression on his face.
Eri shook her head "No, but I was the one who talked Kagome into going to that stupid party at the university! That's where Kagome met that guy Tek and he's the one who gave her the drugs in the first place."
"By the time we realized what was going on...she wouldn't listen to any of us." Hojo sighed.
"Where the fuck is that Tek bastard now? Is Kagome with him?"
"I highly doubt that" Eri was tight lipped .
"When Kagome refused to have sex with him he forced the issue..." Hojo visibly clenched his teeth, an action InuYasha copied as well as slamming his fists so hard on the table the empty water glass in front of him shattered.
"HE FUCKING RAPED HER?!?!"
"Uh, no actually..." Hojo and Eri looked at each other and broke out in small grins. "Kagome beat the hell out of him."
InuYasha felt a small burst of pride run through him.
'Thats my girl, thats my Kagome.'
They grew silent as the clock ticked a few more minutes off, then Deki came in from the other room.
"InuYasha, Hojo." She sat down "A woman called who works in the building Kagome's Papa use to also work in. She found Kagome sleeping on the rooftop this morning. She just left, you should be able to pick up her scent easily InuYasha."
He nodded and got up, reaching for his hoari. Then stopped.
"What do I do when I find her?"
He rubbed his hand unconsciously over the risen bits of skin where her knife had plunged into him just the day before.
"There is a detoxification center you must bring her to. I called them and they are expecting us. Eri and I will pack a bag for Kagome and meet you and Hojo there with Kagome."
"Hojo?"
It wasn't that he wasn't grateful for the help. He knew more than anyone after yesterday just what Kagome was capable of.
"InuYasha, you need help to do this, Kagome already hurt you once. Let Hojo drive and you get Kagome and keep her calm while he drives. Okay?"
She slapped a new white bandanna on his head then spun him around to tie it.
"You know...maybe my clothes..." InuYasha looked at Deki and she nodded.
"I have just the thing."
Deki smiled and appeared a moment later bearing jeans and a t-shirt she had long hoped to see on InuYasha.
The fit was perfect.
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InuYasha fought tears as he looked down at the passed out girl. Pale skin stretched grotesquely over her skeletal frame, black and blue from various slaps and punches in places, dirty and smelling in all. Blood dribbled from her nose and the corner of her mouth and both eyes were black and blue, swollen nearly shut from an earlier encounter with a cleaning womans broom.
But her arms...her arms were bruised from top to bottom, and various needle tracks laced the inside of her elbows.
"Be careful" Hojo whispered softly into InuYasha's ear "The longer she is asleep the less stress on her."
InuYasha nodded as he gently lifted Kagome up into his arms.
KAMI! She weighed nothing, Shippo was heavier to carry around! Her natural scent was absent, half drowned out by the filth of her body and hair and the rest by the gaining strength of the poison of the Black Dragon.
Hojo tossed her jacket into the back of the car then held the door open for InuYasha to lay Kagome down, not surprised in the least when he slid in himself and held her in his lap against him, her stench nearly gagging him, yet forcing him on at the same time. Making him more and more determined that she was coming back.
Kagome was coming back.
His Kagome.
Kagome began to stir a few miles from the detoxification center.
"Where..."
"It's okay Kagome, try to sleep." InuYasha rubbed her back, hoping she would go back to sleep.
No such luck.
"Fuck sleep. What the fuck is this shit? You fucking perverts, into kidnapping now? Where's my jacket?" Kagome struggled to sit up.
"It's over there."
"Let me go" She pushed against InuYasha but he wasn't moving, she reached for her knife.
"I broke it in half and tossed it, don't bother."
" Let me the fuck go!"
"Why?"
"I want my jacket dumb ass."
"Why?"
"I'm fucking cold okay?"
"Why didn't you say so."
InuYasha wrapped his arms tightly around her and pulled her close against his chest.
"What the ...let me go."
InuYasha rested his forehead against the side of her head.
"I can't ...I can't Kagome..."
She was silent and stopped struggling
"I made the mistake of letting you go once, I won't again."
"What do you care." Kagome began struggling again, harder and more violently "Go fuck your clay doll and leave me alone bastard!" She freed a hand and punched him hard in the face, bloodying his mouth and her knuckle.
He only pulled her closer, tucking her hand into his.
A moment later the reached the detoxification center and Hojo came around to open the door. InuYasha slid out with Kagome, still locked in his arms.
They were met by two orderlies who took Kagome from InuYasha and lay her on a gurney, she quickly punched them both and ended up in soft restraints, her hands fastened to the rails on the side.
InuYasha had a fit.
"InuYasha, it's okay...it's just until she is in her room."
"It's as much for her safety as ours" The nurse assured him with a reassuring pat on the arm. InuYasha looked at Kagome and she gave him the finger.
"Hey, what's your name sweetheart?" One of the orderlies attempted to distract Kagome
"It's fuck you limp dick"
Deki walked up to the gurney.
"Mama...your not gonna leave me here are you?"
"This is the only way."
"Can I at least have my jacket?"
"There's a sweater in the bag I packed."
"Is it true? What I read on that sign at the shrine? Did Gramps really die?"
Deki closed her eyes and nodded sadly.
"You have to get better Kagome, we are all we have left. Just you and me, and now we have InuYasha again."
"FUCK InuYasha! I HATE InuYasha! Everything is his fault! He's just gonna leave again, he always does."
The nurse came and took Deki's hand. "It's best that you leave now."
"Wait!" Kagome screamed "You can't mean to really leave me here."
Deki kissed Kagome's cheek
"Wait...I want my Jacket before you go...I'm freezing to death."
InuYasha approached and kissed her on the other cheek.
"Don't touch me! Kami I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!"
InuYasha kept walking
"I HATE YOU YOU DEAD CLAY WHORE FUCKING FAGGOT!"
He didn't turn around.
"I WISH I WOULD HAVE KILLED YOU!! I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU!!! I WISH I WOULD HAVE KILLED YOU YA FUCKING QUEER!"
"I HATE YOU!!!!!!!!!"
The doors slid closed behind him as his first tears began to fall.
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Having parted with Hojo and Eri at the detoxification center, InuYasha and Deki were quiet, lost in their thoughts of Kagome on their way back to the shrine. They stopped along the way and picked up take out, then sat at the table shoving food back and forth on their plates.
It was the first time Deki had seen Kagome since she had run away, and nothing could have prepared her for the sight of her once vibrant and alive daughter, looking for all the world like a living corpse. But even as bad as that was, it paled in comparison to the things that had come from her mouth.
Judging by the expression on InuYasha's face, they were the very things that he was now taking very much to heart. The truth was, InuYasha could handle her accusations and slurs against Kikyo, or being called ridiculous untrue names. Now some of his greatest pain came from the worry that she really did wish she had killed him, but even worse was the fear that she had meant those three horrible words that she had gotten so much pleasure from saying.
I hate you.
Odd, she had said it the exact same number of times she had stabbed him. But the damage from this was even worse, his heart was laying open, leaving him to bleed to death.
He was starting to wish it would just hurry it the fuck up.
How the hell much more pain could he take?
InuYasha jumped when the phone rang. He rolled his eyes at his jumpiness and Deki patted his shoulder as she went to answer the kitchen phone. He glanced at Kagome's jacket that lay on top of the washer, wondering exactly why she had wanted it so bad. Did she have drugs in it or ...
InuYasha barely ducked in time to miss the flying water glass before it slammed against the wall.
"SHIT!" Deki screamed out "SHIT SHIT SHIT!"
InuYasha was too shocked to move as Deki slid weakly into a chair and looked at InuYasha.
"Kagome had another knife hidden inside a shoe. After she showered and changed she got the knife and forced her way out."
InuYasha looked at Deki blankly, understanding what she meant, but not understanding at the same time.
"InuYasha, Kagome is back out on the streets."
InuYasha's eyes landed on Kagome's jacket again and he stood and went to retrieve it.
"We don't even know where to look now"
Deki sat with her face in her palms while InuYasha slashed at the inside liner where it had been cut and then sewn back shut, then reached in with his claws.
"Yeah we do." InuYasha said sadly "We know right where she will come."
Deki looked up and looked at InuYasha, her attention going immediately to what he now held in his fist.
"Kagome will come here...
She will come for the Black Dragon."
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My apologies that it took so long to update!!!
Like I said...I gotta be in a certain mood to write this stuff, so PLEASE PLEASE be patient!
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Scroll V preview
Kagome returns home in search of the Black Dragon
Instead, she finds something entirely different.
A pissed off hanyou and a mother who is
fed up and willing to allow him to do anything
he thinks is best to help her daughter.
InuYasha has a plan...
who will win?
InuYasha
or
The Black Dragon?
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-Save the flames for my having Kagome use derogatory terms for homosexuals. I highly doubt someone in Kagome's position would be too concerned about being politically correct. I don't mean to insult anyone, it's just being real k?
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