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-Disclaimer: InuYasha is the property of Rumiko Takahashi
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-Warning: This work of fiction is very graphic and dark, containing strong language, violence, 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 and InuYasha sat with Miroku and Sango in a lush green meadow, the grass high enough to cocoon them and hide them from anyone who should pass.

"I could stay here all day" Miroku remarked, stretching out on the grass on his back next to Sango who lay on her stomach.

"I agree" Sango nodded, her head on her arms "It's too beautiful a day to look for shards."

"I'm up for a nap" InuYasha remarked, his head already resting comfortably cushioned in Kagome's lap while he played with the red ends of the red scarf of her school uniform.

Kagome smiled down at him and brushed her fingernails through the short silver hair at the back of his ears then looked up at the sky, noticing a darkening in the approaching clouds. She pushed InuYasha gently out of her lap to stand.

"I hate to be the bearer of bad news" She stretched on her toes, her arms up high in the air. "But I think we are going to need to find shelter, more storms look to be coming in."

Strong arms embraced her from behind and she felt teeth on her neck.

"Perhaps I should take you somewhere where I can fuck you."

Kagome gasped as a breast was grabbed roughly, claws tearing into the material and through her bra while a knee forced her legs apart and the other hand reached under her skirt.

"INUYASHA! What the ..." she pushed her way free from the arms that held her.

"Guess again wench"

Naraku clad only his hakema grinned at her cruelly.

"Naraku! How ... How dare you touch me!"

"Really Kagome, you would think you didn't savor my touch"

"I would never let you touch me!"

"Not even for this?" Naraku lifted his hand, he held full a syringe "Come, I know you want it."

Kagome stood frozen to the spot, wanting to run and get away, but wanting the rush more. Naraku approached and pushed her down onto her knees and she took him into her mouth while he shot the drug into her arm.

She looked up at Naraku as his appearance changed to that of a black dragon. After he climaxed he forced her to the ground on her back.

"I told you that you were mine whore."

He lifted a huge black ceremonial dagger and began to plunge it down to her heart.

"DIE WHORE"

"NO!!!!!!!!!!! "


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-Black Dragon

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"NO!!!!!!!!!!!"

Kagome's screams shattered the pre-dawn silence and so began another day. InuYasha ran into the hut from outside to find Kagome hunched down in a corner of the hut, her blankets over her shaking body, the pillow torn into shreds.

"Kagome, it's okay" He pulled the blanket off her head, trying to get her eyes to fix onto his. "it was just another nightmare."

"NO! You can't trick me Naraku! I know you, I know what your trying to do you fucker!"

InuYasha heard shuffling behind him, a moment later Miroku and Sango knelt beside Kagome as well.

"Kagome, Naraku isn't here...he's dead. Remember? We killed him." Miroku spoke low and soothingly, trying to get Kagome to stop shrieking.

"No you Bastard! I ...you can't trick me! You can't trick me!"

"Kagome...please, listen to me." Sango took Kagome's face in her hands and gently turned Kagome's head towards her, locking their eyes. "It was a nightmare Kagome, Naraku's dead, Remember? We killed him...all of us together."

"He..., he's dead..." clarity returned to her eyes, only to be replaced by something even worse "Sango?" Kagome stared into her eyes, wanting to believe her but scared to death to trust. "Hey, your my friend right?"

"Of course I am"

"Then, if your really, take me to the well then." Kagome's eyes were pleading, desperate, her body shaking with withdrawal "If I don't get to the well I'm gonna fucking die Sango, so please, you'll take me to the well right? You'll take me now?"

"InuYasha" Miroku whispered, nodding with his head that they should leave Kagome to Sango. InuYasha nodded weakly and left the hut, walking to the tree line a shot ways away. He stood, his hands braced on a tree with his face resting on the inside of his elbows.

"InuYasha...are you..." Miroku was cut off when InuYasha whirled on him

"NO! I AM NOT FUCKING OKAY! DO I LOOK FUCKING OKAY TO YOU MIROKU? SON OF A FUCKING BITCH! HOW MUCH MORE OF THIS CAN I TAKE?"

He swung out in a violent rage, taking down three trees in a single swipe and slashing them into kindling. He continued to vent his frustration on the tree line, on and on until a healthy pile of wood lay littered around where he had finally collapsed on the ground.

Miroku sat down on the ground next to him, offering silent comfort with his presence.

"I'm sorry Miroku...I don't..."

Miroku wove his apology away.

"Don't InuYasha... if anyone should apologize, it's me. The last time we saw one another I was far from helpful."

"You were an ass." Inuyasha said bluntly, a small grin forming on his face. Miroku couldn't help grinning back.

"That too. I guess we all made a mess of things."

"I never should have forced her to go home Miroku."

"You thought you were doing what was best for her."

"And look what I did to her. She's all messed up and it's my fault."

Miroku looked at InuYasha with sympathy. "You couldn't have foreseen her brothers death." He settled back against the log again "And this drug, this heroin, none of us would have ever imagined that Kagome of all people..."

"She begged me to come with her, I could have, I could have become human for her. I was going to do it for Kikyo, why not..."

"Kagome wouldn't have allowed it. You know that."

"I guess. I just..."

"LET ME THE FUCK OUT OF HERE YOU FUCKING BITCH!"

"Shit."

"InuYasha, let Sango and me handle this. Take a few minutes to yourself."

"LET ME OUT OF HERE OR I"LL FUCKING KILL YOU!!!!"

InuYasha stood without a second of hesitation while Kagome's cries shrieked out into the silence, her cries carrying for miles.

"I can't. She needs me."

He ran back to the hut, leaving Miroku standing in the middle of the destroyed patch of forest.


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By the time InuYasha and Miroku had made it back into the hut they had to pull Kagome off of Sango, she had her pushed hard into the wall, her fists full of Sango's hair trying to force her to remove the sutras from the door.

InuYasha dealt with Kagome, holding her in his lap while she alternated crying and begging for heroin to screaming and threating to kill every one of them. In between the vomiting and convulsions had begun again and Kagome cried out from the pain in her back, arms and legs while sweat ran down her shaking body. Finally she calmed and seemed to doze fitfully in InuYasha's arms.

Miroku took the first aid kit in one hand and Sango in the other and led her out the back door of the hut so he could take care of the scratches to her face along with her split lip. She followed him grudgingly, nervous to be alone with him, it was the first time.

She sat quietly while he gently dabbed antiseptic on her skin to clean the scratches. Neither spoke until he finished, and then it was Sango who spoke first.

"I'm sorry Miroku." she looked up at him sadly, her lashes sparkling with tears.

"For what?" He didn't look at her, instead he busied himself with organizing the band aids so they were all facing the same direction.

"Yesterday, when I first came...I thought..."

"That I tried to take advantage of Kagome." Miroku knew it was his own fault that assumptions like that were made about him, he had earned his reputation after all, but that didn't stop a pang of sadness from hitting him hard.

Sango didn't trust him, she would never trust him. Knowing it was his own fault only made it hurt more.

"Yes, but Miroku I was wrong."

"You had every reason to think that Sango. I realize I didn't act very honorably towards you but I would never take advantage of Kagome, particularly not when she is sick like this."

"I know that. I've always known, I think I just forgot for a little while. I'm so sorry."

"I gave you reason to believe what you did yesterday. For the past six months I've been blaming everything on InuYasha. But being back here, I can't help but see the truth, It's my own fault, I messed everything up. I'm so sorry Sango."

"You didn't do it alone Miroku. I could have told you how I felt before things got out of hand."

"I never realized how much Kagome held us all together until she wasn't there anymore."

"How do I help her? I want to...but I... I don't know how to help her."

Miroku looked up at Sango, her voice and face were so full of pain he couldn't stand it anymore and he put his arms around her and pulled her close to him. Sango dissolved into gentle sobs and buried her face in his chest.

"Well find a way Sango." Miroku kissed her forehead "She'll be okay."

His words of encouragement were shattered by Kagome waking up screaming from another nightmare. Her screams were followed shortly by the sounds of yelling from inside.

The last person any of them wanted or needed to see had arrived and just busted his way into the hut.

"HELP ME KOGA!" Kagome screamed from where she was being restrained behind InuYasha.

"Koga get the fuck out of here, now!" InuYasha barred his fangs at the wolf, leaving nothing to Koga's imagination about what InuYasha would do if he interfered. "You have no idea what is going on here."

"No Koga! Help me!" Kagome screamed before InuYasha carefully covered her mouth with his hand.

"This isn't what it looks like Koga, you need to leave" Miroku tried to reason with Koga

"Looks to me like dog-shit is keeping my woman here against her will, thats AFTER he's kept her hidden from me for six months!" Koga looked ready to rip someone apart and at the moment he didn't appear too chosey about who it would be either.

"I'm warning you mutt, get your hands off her."

"Koga" Sango tried to reason with him "You need to leave"

"Fat-fucking chance"

"Miroku, Sango...come sit with Kagome" InuYasha handed Kagome to them to drag Koga outside himself.

He was expecting Koga to fight fair, not to immediately attack, sending him flying through the wall and outside the hut.

Before he came to a stop Koga had shoved Sango out of the way onto Miroku and hoisted Kagome over his shoulder, on a wave of dust he burst out the same hole in the hut that he had sent InuYasha flying from and was a trail of dust before they realized what had hit them.


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Kagome breathed dizzily from underneath Koga's arm, now all she had to do was get to the well. But when she looked down all she saw was rock. They were beginning the climb up the mountain side.

"Koga"Kagome gasped her voice and body shaking horribly "Take me to the well, in the clearing."

"Fuck that, I'm taking you to my den where I can protect you from dog-shit."

Kagome panicked "No! I want to go to the well, now!"

"You'll be safer at the den wench"

"I said take me to the fucking well!"

"And I said NO!"

Kagome began to panic, what would she do now? Instead of getting to the well she was getting further and further away.

Kagome's knee brushed against something cold and hard and she realized immediately what it was, she reached down and unsheathed Koga's nearly forgotten sword and held it to his neck.

"And I said YES!"

Koga slowed and then came to a stop.

"Ka...Kagome...what the hell..."

"Take me to the well Koga, please." She whined

"Why do you want to go to the well so bad?"

"What the hell do you care? Just take me!"

Koga noticed then how badly her hand was shaking and the desperation in her voice and realization swept over him that he had just done something seriously wrong. He realized that InuYasha had been telling the truth. Kagome was not right.

"What's so important about the well Kagome?"

With a groan Kagome slid off his back and onto her feet clutching the sword in both hands. Her body shook so bad she was barely able to keep it aloft. For the first time Koga really looked at her. This was not the Kagome that he knew. This was someone who maybe looked and smelled a little like her but couldn't possibly be the woman he had loved for all this time.

Dark hateful eyes glared at him from beneath dirty black bangs, ashen skin stretched over a too thin skeletal frame. She looked ready to kill him, and might have if she had been able to have any control over the sword.

"Kagome...give me the sword and I'll take you back."

"NO! I'm not going back there!" She had worked her way around so her back was to the edge of a small cliff, on the other side was a high drop off, the ground a long way down below.

"Okay, okay, just come away from the edge."

"WHY DIDN'T YOU TAKE ME TO THE FUCKING WELL YOU ASSHOLE?!"

Kagome held the sword in shaking hands pointed towards Koga, that was the least of his concerns though, she was stepping closer to the edge.

"I'm sorry. Kagome...I'll take you now."

"No you won't! You'll just take me back to that fucking hut!"

"KOGA YOU BASTARD!" InuYasha landed just behind Koga, ready to kill the wolf when his eyes fell on Kagome. Now he ignored the wolf totally and turned his attention on the girl.


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"Kagome...what are you doing?" InuYasha's voice seemed to come from the top of a deep tunnel, it echoed around her.

"He wouldn't take me to the well!" She screamed tears began to run down her face, mingling with the heavy sheen of sweat on her face.

Yes, you want to get to the well don't you? You want me.

Yes.

"Kagome, give me the sword okay?" InuYasha reach his hand out for the sword.

He wants to keep us apart Kagome. He likes seeing you like this...in pain and suffering.

Kagome lifted it and Shook her head. "No InuYasha! Get back!"

"Okay...okay..." InuYasha stepped back slightly

Yes...you are still mine aren't you Kagome? You want me, you need me. You can't stand to live without me can you?"

No it hurts too much

You can end it now. Just a few steps and the pain will stop forever.

"Kagome please give me the sword"

Jump Kagome.

Jump?

Yes Jump. It's your only way free... I told you before, I will never let you go. You are mine. My good little whore. If I told you to, you would kill all your friends for me. You would even fuck Naraku.

No!

"Kagome...Please come away from the edge"

Jump whore...die for me

"Kagome...please..."

It's your only way to freedom, the only way I will ever let you go!

"Kagome!"

JUMP!

"Kagome! Please...don't let go! I NEED YOU!"

HE'S LYING YOU BITCH JUMP!

"So many people love you Kagome, we want you to get better!"

LIES! THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO GET AWAY FROM THE PAIN OF KILLING YOUR OWN BROTHER!

" I NEVER SHOULD HAVE SENT YOU AWAY BEFORE...I'M SORRY...I'M SO SORRY...JUST PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME!"

JUMP BITCH! DIE !


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InuYasha watched Kagome's face from where he stood just in front of her. She seemed to be fighting an internal war. He struggled to find the right words to bring her back from that edge.

"I need you with me Kagome...haven't you realized that yet?"

Kagome's eyes opened wide as memory flooded over her.

Another time many years ago when she had thought she had lost everything.

She'd had to fight her way back that time through the roots of the tree of ages.

Now she would fight the lies of the Black Dragon.

She dropped the sword and fell into InuYasha's arms. He breathed a sigh of relief and kissed her hair over and over again, running his fingers through the sweat dampened strands as he sank to sit on the ground.

"InuYasha" She whimpered against his chest "You promise? You really won't leave me ever again?"

"If promise you wont leave me "

"I'm scared"

"I'm here, I'll always be here. Okay?"

Kagome nodded.

Koga opened his mouth to say something but InuYasha shook his head. Koga nodded and picked up his sword. When he turned to head back down the mountainside Inuyasha knew that he wasn't rid of the wolf just yet. A long while later Kagome's shaking seemed to mix with shivering and he took off his hoari and wrapped it around her.

"InuYasha...I'm so cold. Can we go back to the hut please?"

"Yeah, let's go back." For the first time she had asked for the hut and not the well. It was a small thing, but to him, it was momentous.

He lifted her in his arms then bent his head and kissed her forehead as they began their way down the mountainside.

"The others will be worried."


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Scroll VIII Preview

Kagome has overcome a lot already, but that doesn't mean she's home free.

As the withdrawal symptoms begin to lessen, Kagome must face up to the things she has done.

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