Fate

Chapter seven---hell on earth (part II)

Sango, Mirkou, and Naraku sat in the café. They were having random conversations when Inuyasha stormed in. Sango's face brightened.

Seeing Inuyasha meant Kagome was here. She was longing for her and Kagome to actually start their vacation. But her smile faded when Kagome didn't appear.

"Where's Kagome?" She asked as he filled an empty seat.

He looked over at Sango.

"Kagome? Kagome who?" Inuyasha grabbed a piece of pizza off of Mirkou's plate and took a bite.

"Hey, I was about to eat that." He complained.

"Get over it." Inuyasha said taking another bite.

"What do you mean 'Kagome who'?" Sango said directing his attention toward her again.

"I mean I have no idea who you're talking about."

They glared at each other. Sango got up leaving the café muttering something about how obnoxious men are.

Kagome was wandering the street looking for something…something but she didn't know what. She hadn't known why she left the cabin; all she knew was that there was something telling her to leave.

She stopped walking when she saw a young boy, no older than eight, getting yelled at by a man in an apron.

"Poor kid." She whispered to herself.

She started walking away again but started running toward the boy when she noticed that the man had slapped him causing him to fall to the ground.

"Hey" she yelled at the man. "What are you doing?"

"Teaching this kid a lesson"

"What could he have done that was that bad?" She bent down and picked up the child, putting him on her left hip as she talked to the man in front of her.

"The little runt keeps taking food from my store." He said pointing to a small grocery store behind him called 'Koga's Kitchen'

"Whose Koga?" she asked shifting the child to her right hip.

"Me" he said crossing his arms.

"What did he take?"

"Why?"

But Kagome ignored his question as she pulled out $10 from her purse. "Here" she said handing him the money. She turned around and walked away.

"Hey" he called back taking a few steps toward her.

"Yes?" she said turning her head to face Koga.

"What's your name?" she turned her head back and started walking away again.

"Kagome" she called not stopping or turning around to see Koga's reaction.

"Kagome…" he said to him self before returning back to his store.

The walk back to the cabin was silent. Kagome still held the boy on her hip but he was no longer crying like he was when she had first picked him up. His head was buried in her shoulder.

As soon as they were at the cabin Kagome sat down on the couch placing the boy on her lap so she was still holding him but they could see each other.

"Hey" he said softly. "Hey" she said, a small smile on her face.

"You all right?" she asked examining his cheek.

"I'm fine." He replied pulling away from her touch.

"What's your name?" the smile still on her face.

"Shippo" he said looking at Kagome.

"And how old are you Shippo?"

"Five" he said holding up 8 eight fingers, which brought a brighter smile to her face.

"Well hello Shippo, I'm Kagome."

After Shippo realized she wasn't going to continue he asked,

"How old are you?" She gave him a questioning look so he continued, "Well you asked me how old I was and I thought you were gonna tell me how old you were."

"I'm 18" she said, "But that's not the point, why did you steal food from Koga?" the small smile that had been on his face disappeared.

"I was hungry." He mumbled but Kagome still heard it.

"If you were hungry why didn't you just go home?"

A few tears ran down his cheeks but he just wiped them away. "I don't have one" he said looking away. "My mommy died when I was born and my daddy died a few weeks ago."

He continued, tears stemming down his face. Just looking at Shippo suffering so much brought tears to Kagome's eyes.

"Come here" she said pulling him into a hug.

Inuyasha finished Mirkou's whole plate of pizza and was now drinking Mirkou's pop.

"Now that you've devoured all my food and my drink can you please tell us what happened with Kagome?" Mirkou asked annoyed.

"I go outta my way to help her and the bitch yells at me!" he said putting down the empty drink. "Something about being nosy." he said.

"So what did you do after Kagome yelled at you?"

Inuyasha thought aback to what he had done. "I guess I yelled at her." He said felling kind of guilty.

"And did it ever occur to you that that she might not want to talk about it because it's to painful for her?" Mirkou asked.

He did that a lot, make Inuyasha feel guilty, but he loved doing it!

When Inuyasha had came in without Kagome and acting like he didn't know her Naraku smirked realizing that getting to Kagome had just gotten a lot easier but the smirked left when he saw Inuyasha looking guilty.

'easy come easy go.' He told himself.

The smirk came back onto his smooth face has he thought of all the things he would do to Kagome. He stuck his hand in his pocket and wrapped his fingers around the heart-shaped locket.

Inuyasha's mouth opened and cloosed several times but no words came. "Damn-it Mirkou." He said getting up from the table and out of the café to look for Kagome.

A big smile on Mirkou's face he asked a waitress for the check to leave and do something else with Naraku.

Sango had been looking everywhere for Kagome. Restaurants, stores, the beach…everywhere. "Where are you Kagome?" she whispered to herself. Giving up, she decided to wait for Kagome at the cabin.

When she had gotten inside she saw a little boy laying on the couch, wrapped up in a yellow blanket, sleeping.

"Kagome…" she whispered as loud as she could not wanting to wake up the child. Kagome walked out of the kitchen. Sango gave her a confused look but followed her back into the kitchen.

"Who's that?" she asked pointing to the couch.

"Shippo" she turned away from her friend and opened the refrigerator door. "Nothing" she whispered. "And he's…" Sango asked wanting Kagome to finish the sentence that she started.

"He's gonna stay with us." Kagome informed her searching through the cabinets.

"Why?"

"His parents are dead and he needs a place to stay." Kagome had given up her search for food and went back over to her friend.

"Oh…" she was speechless.

Then the silence came. The silence that ate away at Kagome.

"Sango." Kagome said so suddenly it made Sango jump.

"Yeah" she said looking at her friend. It looked like Kagome had seen a ghost.

"I have to tell you something. But you can't tell anyone." She said tears staining her cheeks.

"Ok" she said wanting to know what was causing her friend so much pain.

"You have to promise me Sango."

"I promise," she said taking a step closer to her friend.

Kagome took a deep breath. The secret was eating away at her and she needed to tell someone.

"Naraku…he…he…" she took another breath and continued. "…Raped me…"

Tears running down both of their faces. All Sango could do was stare at her in disbelief.

"Kagome…" she said as she noticed that Kagome was on the ground. She bent down beside her best friend, wrapping her arms around her and in return having Kagome wrap her arms around Sango, and cried in each other's arms.

Done! Sorry it took me longer than I thought it would. But how was this chapter? I want to thank Katnick88 and inuyasha-narutolover for reviewing

The next chapter will be better (I hope so anyway). I'll try to get it up soon but I'm grounded for a week (GASP) but the first day I'm not grounded I'll post!