I plan on inserting some OC charcters soon and thank you for the reviews! You're all great 3
Rescue Me
Kagome found herself waking up to the smell of bacon, eggs, and pancakes along with the chatter of Sango and Sango's parents. Keeping her eyes closed she smiled sadly, missing when she was a little girl before her mom became an alcoholic, when they would have breakfast like this every weekend. Now it was an apple a day, to keep the doctor away. How she hated that saying.
She was then aware of something on top on her shoulder, next to her head. She cracked her eyes open and realized it was Inuyasha's socked feet. Crunching her eyes she realized that today was Tuesday, a school, day and it was also…She turned her head towards the wall clock and saw that the hands read 7:45. She had fifteen minutes to get home, showered, and dressed.
'Oh well I'll just steal some of Sango's clothes and 'borrow' most of her hot water.' Kagome grinned before stretching and yawning, causing Inuyasha to open his amber eyes that glinted in the morning light.
"We've got fifteen minutes until school." Kagome said while he sat up and rubbed his face groggily.
"Kay." was his only reply before he laid back down. Kagome rolled her eyes and kicked him lightly.
"Wake up, I want to buy my homecoming ticket today." He frowned but stood and helped her up.
"Do you need me to take you home?" Inuyasha asked while helping her up from the couch.
"Nah, I'm just gonna borrow something from Sango." Kagome said while pulling him towards the kitchen.
They both walked into the kitchen and smiled at Sango's parents.
"Good morning Kagome." Sango's mom said while flashing a brilliantly white smile. "And you must be Inuyasha Takahashi, Sesshomaru's brother."
"That's me." said Inuyasha while smiling and shaking hands with the two grownups. Who were honestly kind of intimidating and had a kind but dangerous air about them. He smiled on through their strange nature and said "Well I better go home and get ready for school."
"Oh, well it was nice to meet you." said Sango's mom. She then said "Here you should at least eat something, even if it's on the go." Inuyasha then had a paper plate filled with bacon shoved in front of his nose.
"Well, I don't know who would be crazy enough to ignore bacon if it was offered." Inuyasha said while taking four pieces of bacon and smiling politely before waving and saying, "Thanks a lot, see y'all later."
Kagome hugged him and said bye, before grabbing a piece of bacon and looking around. She then noticed that Sango was already ready and Kohaku just walked in and smiled before grabbing Kagome's bacon from her and stuffing it in his mouth.
"Hey! That was my beloved bacon!" Kagome yelled with fake tears forming in her eyes. She then flicked Kohaku on the forehead causing him to yell in pain and rub his forehead viciously.
"Thanks for breakfast Isamu, Kazumi." Kagome said while waving at Isamu, Sango's father, and smiling at Kazumi, Sango's mother. "If it's alright I'm gonna use your shower."
"Of course, any time Kagome." Kazumi said while drying a dish in her hands with a towel.
Kagome then sprinted for the stairs and ran to Sango's room and into the bathroom that Sango had all to herself. She turned on the faucet and stripped before jumping in for a quick, record time, two minute shower. Hopping out Kagome almost fell flat on her face, on the tiled floor. 'Damn.' She sighed before quickly grabbing a towel and drying off. She wrapped it around her and walked out and headed for Sango's closet to grab something to wear.
Finally, she found a soft fabric that turned out to be a teal (if you can't tell already me and her really like the color teal!), off the shoulder dress that ended right below her butt. She slipped it on and disapproved of the length. She had to hang around people like Miroku, so it wasn't a wise choice. She searched and found a pair of dark gray legging and pulled them on. She then grabbed Sango's brush and quickly pulled it through her hair before towel drying it like a maniac.
Removing the towel from her head just as Sango walked in Sango screamed in mock horror and had a deer in the headlight look on her face.
"K-k-kagome, your hair's so…poofy…" Sango stuttered out before laughing and falling onto her bed while laughing and holding her stomach.
Kagome only rolled her eyes and smiled and laughed with Sango when she looked at herself in the mirror. She looked like she just walked through a hurricane. She shook her head and brushed it again causing it to flatten and be slightly wavy. Kagome then looked around and found a hair tie and pulled her hair into a low side ponytail that hung over her right shoulder.
She then looked at the time and found that she had finished just in time.
"Sango we better get going or we'll be late." Kagome said, but when she got no answer she turned and saw no Sango. "Sango, I hate you! You big jerk, why'd you leave me." Kagome yelled with mock anger while grabbing her shorts and pulling her phone out. Having no pockets she shoved it in to her bra and made sure no one could see it through her dress. She then ran out the door and downstairs to see Sango closing the door behind her. Growling at her friend's actions she grabbed her white flip-flops and slipped them on while running out the door and to the sidewalk where Sango was waiting with her hands on her hips.
"Took ya long enough slow poke." Sango teased while rolling her eyes. Kagome only glared and stuck her tongue out at the dark haired brunette who was wearing comfy, plain, navy t-shirt the fit her just right and a pair of capris, with her magenta book bag slung casually over her shoulder.
"So…how was your date with Miroku yesterday?" Kagome asked while wiggling her eyebrows. She had forgotten to ask Sango about it and she was now dieing to know.
"…It was…very nice actually. He didn't try to grope me, as I said in my text I sent you, and well…he asked me to homecoming!" Sango said with a bright smile on her face, which caused Kagome to smile also.
'Go Roku, makin' your move with excellence!' Kagome thought while squishing Sango in a big hug. "Now we all have dates to homecoming. You and Roku, Sesshomaru and Rin, Ayame and Kouga, Ami and Hiroshi, and Inuyasha and me."
"Yeah, yeah…I'm happy now so you don't have to rub it in that you were right. And Sesshomaru hasn't asked Rin yet, and we know that Rin's to timid to ask him instead." Sango elbowed Kagome in the ribs causing Kagome to laugh and say "That tickled but hurt at the same time, you meanie.
Kagome then realized that her purse had been left at the hands of the beast know as Sesshomaru.
'…Who knows what Sesshomaru did to my poor purse!' Panic swept over her as she looked up the two blocks, where the Takahashi's house was.
"Umm, Kagome?" Sango shook her friends shoulder and pointed up at the second floor, where Inuyasha's window was. Looking at the window she saw it fly open and Inuyasha diving through the entrance head first. Gasping, Kagome watched as he did a front flip in midair, and land on his feet. She never would get use to watching a person jump out a window, demon or not. It was the natural reaction to feel shock when someone jumps from a second story.
Sesshomaru's head popped out of the window and he threw random objects out the window causing Inuyasha to yell insanities at him and flip him off.
Inuyasha took off at a jog towards the sidewalk and spotted Kagome and Sango. He stopped in front of them and handed Kagome's purse to her. "Thanks so much, Inuyasha!" Kagome said while reaching in her purse and checking everything. It seemed safe.
"Fuck you, Sesshomaru! Quit throwing all my shit out the window god damn it!" Inuyasha shouted while turning red from his anger. It was quite cute and Kagome smiled and watched his face intently. Kagome took the chance to slip her phone out of her bra and into her purse while Inuyasha was busy ranting.
She continued watching Inuyasha and smiled again after his ears flattened against his head. Adorable was her definition and she couldn't help but remember what Inuyasha had said. That one conversation had occasionally ran through her head ever since yesterday after school. 'Together more than friends, huh? But not quite, he hasn't literally asked me to be his girlfriend yet. But that kiss…what did it mean? It was so wonderfully amazing.' Her musings continued as she was pulled along by Sango, who was looking at Inuyasha and the window Sesshomaru had previously occupied.
'Of course, I would most likely say yes if he asked me, because I trust him entirely and feel like I've known him forever. Safety, that's the feeling of security I get when he is near.' Kagome started to mumble to herself while she pondered, causing Sango to look at her with an odd look that clearly stated 'You're crazy, girl!' Kagome hadn't realized just how much her feelings for Inuyasha had bubbled up until he was all that she mainly thought about.
'I wonder if I have money in my purse for my homecoming ticket because-'- "Kagome! Pay attention!" Sango shouted at her friend while pulling her back to the middle of the sidewalk, causing her to barely miss running into a stop sign.
"Oh, sorry Sango! I was wondering if I had enough money to buy my homecoming ticket. You know me, I have a difficult time staying on task." Kagome laughed at herself.
"Shouldn't Inuyasha be buying your homecoming ticket? He's your date after all." Sango pointed out while looking behind them to see a very pissed off Inuyasha yelling at Sesshomaru, who had backed out of the driveway in one fluid motion and sped off, leaving Inuyasha to his ranting.
"Yeah, but you know I don't like it when other people buy me things…" Kagome said with a sigh. "Remember that one time when Ayame and Rin bought me those hundred dollar boots for my birthday?" Kagome asked, reminding Sango of the all, too silly incident.
"Yeah, you almost cried because they wouldn't take them back and return them to the store, because they had thrown away the receipt. Then you insisted for an entire week that one of them would take the boots for themselves…Honestly Kagome, you need to be more dependent on your friends and want people to get you stuff sometimes." Sango said tiredly. This was a topic that she thought she would never win, but she would still try.
"I do. I let my grandparents give me birthday money every year and allow neighbors to pay me for cleaning or other errands." Kagome said while ticking them off on her fingers.
Sango's eyebrow involuntarily twitched as she forced a smile. "Kagome…they don't count, kay?"
"Yeah they do." Kagome muttered while pushing her lips out into a pout and furrowing her brows.
Sango quirked an eyebrow before sighing. "Inuyasha! Sesshomaru is probably already at school so get your ass over here so I can talk to you!"
Kagome stared at Sango with a look of disbelief. "Don't bring him in on this!"
"Bring me in on what?" Inuyasha asked while idling up next to Kagome with a questioning look.
"Nothing!" Kagome exclaimed while smiling and jabbing Sango in the ribs with her elbow.
"Ow! That you should buy Kagome's homecoming since you are her date." Sango said ignoring the menacing glare that Kagome was giving her.
"Oh, well of course I'm going to buy her ticket. That's what I'm supposed to do and I want to." Inuyasha said with a tone of voice that said "Duh!"
"See Kagome? So you don't have to worry about buying it." Sango said while beaming brightly at her friend. Kagome only glared daggers at the brunette and said "But I 'want' to buy my own ticket."
"Too bad!" exclaimed both Inuyasha and Sango in unison.
Kagome sighed and said "Well, you can't stop me from buying it."
"But I will because I'll go and buy it right now before you get the chance." said Inuyasha, before he took off in a full sprint with his demonic speed, leaving Kagome gaping.
"But, but, I'll feel guilty…" Kagome stammered. Sango grinned and patted her friends head and restated her early phrase. "You're gonna have to rely on your friends whether you want to or not, so get used to it."
"Hmph!" Kagome groaned and said "Fine, I'll let him buy the ticket."
"Mhm, because you have no choice in the matter. Miroku is buying my ticket, as is Kouga for Ayame." Sango assured a moody Kagome.
The two of them arrived at the school and watched as Sesshomaru and Rin were talking and then Rin's face suddenly brightened and she hugged Sesshomaru tightly causing the stoic teen to smile lightly. "See, I told you Sango." Kagome said while walking through the doors and towards her locker to get her things.
"Hey Kagome here's your ticket." Inuyasha said while handing Kagome the red colored piece of paper with the school mascot on each side with the words:
'Raging Demon's Homecoming'
~Night-to-Remember~
September 18, 2011
"Thanks Inuyasha…I can't wait." Kagome said while hugging him tightly.
"No problem, this Saturday will be a night to remember." Inuyasha promised while returning the hug.
The two of them were pulled out of their talking when a chilling voice interrupted them. "Well, well, well! It's the lost puppy and his bitch. Pup should watch out for her like a good guard dog or she'll get hurt." Naraku's voice sounded from right behind Kagome causing her heart to jump from fright. Inuyasha frowned and said "Naraku cut the shit or you're gonna be the one needing watching out for."
That sadistic smirk never wavered, but grew bigger as Naraku raked his eyes down Kagome's form, just before he pushed around Inuyasha and strode down the hall. Kagome shivered. She had never really feared Naraku until that day Onigumo arrived. The two men shared the same air about them and it set her on edge. She was, after all, still a girl and could never overpower a guy that had over fifty pounds of muscle on her.
"Kagome, just ignore their shit. They won't do anything to you." Inuyasha said while poking her in the stomach diverting her attention and causing her to laugh and dodge all of his pokes.
Still, however, Naraku's words brought back Onigumo's words from the other day into her memory. What did Onigumo mean by 'Don't worry I promised I wouldn't do anything drastic to you. At least not yet that is.' 'Who did he promise and what am I suppose to say to that not yet part.'
Kagome sat all through the rest of her classes feeling sick and worried, while she thought over everything that occurred since she became enemies with Naraku and Kikyo's gang. Not even at the lunch bell did she jump up with the same vigor, causing Inuyasha to worry a lot.
Kagome forced a smile and nodded enthusiastically as Ayame talked about the dress her and Rin picked out yesterday. She was glad that her friends were too happy with their present situations to notice that she was acting different. "I can't wait to see it, Ayame!" Kagome said while giving her biggest, most vibrant smile she could, to seem engrossed in Ayame, Rin, and Sango's discussion. She let her eyes wander over to Naraku's table and saw him talking to his bunch of delinquents, while ever so often looking over at her table. Her paranoia increased and she adverted her eyes and looked anywhere. What was wrong with her? Why was she all of a sudden starting to get frightened by them? Her eyes drifted over to Inuyasha who was watching her with a steady gaze. 'Crap he's noticed.' Kagome cursed herself before smiling sweetly at him.
Inuyasha returned the smile and turned his gaze elsewhere, returning to his thoughts as well. He knew she was distressed and it made him restless. He also finally had the thought cross his mind that they weren't actually couple because he hadn't asked her. He only asked if they were more than friends.
He cared about her so much already and had the urge to protect and be with her at every moment possible, so he made the choice to ask her soon. But now she was acting strange and he knew it had something to do with Naraku. Not to mention her mother's new fiancé, who deemed a problem, a big problem. The man was a dangerous threat to Kagome. 'On Saturday at Homecoming... I'll ask her to be my girlfriend on Saturday.'
With that he was yanked out of his thoughts by the piercing sound of the bell. The rest of the day followed through and before they knew it the final bell rang and the students scurried like cockroaches out of the school doors and to the buses and cars.
"Hey I'm gonna go with Kouga and Miroku to find a tux, what color is your dress?" Inuyasha asked as they walked towards their houses.
"It's white, with some silver, sparkly jewel things on one side." Kagome replied while yawning. She really needed a nap.
Kagome and Sango separated from Inuyasha. "Have fun Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled over her shoulder as she smiled and waved. "I wonder where Rin and Sesshomaru were at lunch..." Kagome mused while walking next to Sango down the narrow sidewalk. She gingerly stepped over a concrete slab that was pushed up by a tree root that grew out underneath.
"I don't know, I would probably imagine they were out eating lunch somewhere together." Sango said. A resounding vibrating filled the air, as Sango pulled out her phone and proceeded to reply to a message. "Proved my point perfectly." she smiled while shaking her phone back in forth in front of Kagome's face showing a message from Rin saying that her and Sesshomaru had a great lunch together.
Kagome just smiled and gave a short snort of laughter before turning back to her worries at hand. She had to stop…it was just plain silly to worry over someone like Naraku. Or was it? She had seen what he is like and what he can do.
Naraku wasn't one to say something and then not fulfill it. He would do something to her if she let him get the chance.
Kagome was pulled out of her thoughts when she felt a hand on her shoulder. She looked up and saw Sango looking at her worriedly. "Kagome, what's wrong? You've been out of it all day." Sango asked while removing her hand from her friends shoulder.
'So she did notice my behavior, after all.' Kagome thought while smiling to herself.
"It's nothing important Sango, I've just been thinking is all." Kagome assured while continuing towards Sango's house.
"Kagome you can tell me, please tell me." Sango begged while also adding. "I'm worried about you because you never act like this even when you're 'thinking'."
Kagome hung her head and quietly mumbled "Sango, I'm freaked out a bit."
"Oh Kagome, why?" Sango asked while looking at her friend with worry etched into her face.
"Mom's new fiancé and Naraku are planning something…I can feel it. Can we continue this inside?" Kagome asked while motioning to the door that they had arrived at.
"Of course, let's go." Sango said while quickly unlocking the door and closing it, before following Kagome up the stairs to her room. Kagome plopped down on Sango's window seat and stared out the window before continuing.
"I don't know what to do. From the first moment I met Onigumo, I despised him. He's just a sadistic pig." Kagome turned her head and looked at Sango, who was sitting on her bed watching her talk.
"You know what the first thing he did when he saw me was?" Kagome asked Sango with disgust in her voice. "He looked up and down my body, with that sickening smirk on his face. The weirdest part is that both he and Naraku have that same demeanor…you know what I mean? Naraku acts like he's the alpha of everything…like he owns the world."
"Yeah, isn't that why we all hate the guy?" Sango said before rolling over on her bed and getting up.
Kagome gave a short laugh before nodding. "Or maybe because he is a bigass jerk who needs an attitude adjustment."
"That's practically what I just said." Sango said before throwing a pillow at Kagome, nailing her straight in the face.
"Oomph!" was Kagome reply before she threw one of the cushions from the window seat at Sango. Sango nimbly dodged it and then asked, "Kagome he hasn't touched you or anything like that, has he?" Sango had a perplexed look on her face.
Kagome was quiet for a moment, which gave her away causing Sango to gape in utter shock. "Kagome! What did he do to you?" Sango ran over and sat down next to Kagome on the window seat. She put her hand on her shoulders and made Kagome look at her. "What did that bastard do?"
"It wasn't anything drastic but it was with every intention." Kagome said quickly reassuring her friend that nothing bad happened Kagome explained the events of the Saturday morning when they went shopping and what he had said to her on Sunday when she had went home to get her swim suit.
Sango had a look of disgust on her face while she took all of the information in and analyzed it with expertise that was rare for her age.
"Kagome, will you stay at my house? Please, we can get ready for homecoming together and everything. Besides you aren't safe at your house. What did your mom say about this?" Sango asked.
"Hah, like she would care! She's a drunk Sango, always has been but it's a lot worse after my dad died." Kagome said with a smile that lacked humor.
Kagome then stopped smiling and looked up at Sango in shock. She had just told Sango that her mom was a drunk. None of her friends except for Inuyasha knew that.
"Oh Kagome, I'm so sorry." Sango said while hugging her friend with a comforting hold.
"Don't be, it makes me a responsible young lady! I'm capable on my own." Kagome boasted. She was cut off from her boastfulness when Sango said playfully "Kagome you are in no ways a lady."
"Sango, how could you say such a thing! I thought we were friends." Kagome feigned hurt.
"We are which is why I told you that." Sango laughed while Kagome just retaliated with "But you're suppose to let me bask in my boastful glory."
"And I will let you take me hostage for awhile." Kagome added before saying "I'm gonna need to get all my things. Where am I gonna stay?"
Sango grabbed Kagome's wrist and drug her to a room two doors down from Sango's room and on the other side of the hall. "In one of our guest rooms. It's the biggest one out of the three and…feel the suspense yet? Please forgive me Kagome but it has no teal in in whatsoever…" Sango apologized while opening the door to the room.
Kagome laughed and turned to Sango. "That's fine, I don't need teal to live, gosh." Kagome admired the size of the room and walked over to the black bedspread that had a big white flower that reached from the right side over to the left. It had matching pillows along with plain black pillows. The walls were a dark purple and the carpet was white. A black dresser sat on one side of the room and a closet on the opposite. There was a 14 inch, flat screen TV in front of the bed that had a remote on top of it. Next to the bed was a night stand that was also black and had a white lamp on it.
"This is nice Sango! What do your parents do for a living anyway?" Kagome asked while sitting on the bed. Sango smiled and said "Well, they are kind of like police, only they find and capture demons unlike regular cops that arrest humans."
Kagome openly stared at Sango and then asked "What got them into that?"
"It kind of runs in the family. Generations ago we were known as demon slayers or taijiyas." Sango said while laughing slightly. "But now days they have jails for demons and we don't slay them."
"Wait a minute, you keep saying 'we', does that mean that you too are going to do this." Kagome asked Sango.
"Well, the job isn't full time and I do intend to carry on with my parents profession." Sango said. "Kohaku does to. Right now Mom isn't doing the job that she was handed down, neither is Dad. Mom is at the Modeling agency and Dad is at the lawyers office taking care of a client."
"They are so busy! How do they manage? Do you know any cool moves Sango?" Kagome was amazed that she had such and interesting friend.
"I do know some moves, my parents hired a retired taijiya to train us. She's good for her age." Sango said. "I should teach you something! That way you'll have a way to defend yourself if needed." Sango offered excitedly.
"Yeah but first let's go get my stuff. Is your mom's car here?" Kagome closed the door behind her while she followed Sango down the stairs and to the garage.
"No but we can use the truck." Sango said before jumping into the drivers seat of a small black Chevrolet. Kagome walked over to the passenger side and jumped in. "Okay let's go get your things." Sango put the truck in reverse and backed out of the garage and into the street. Then they were off to Kagome's house to get her moved out for those couple days.
Kagome and Sango jumped out of the truck and walked up to the house. Kagome walked in and was shocked at the state of the kitchen.
Kagome walked in front of Sango and guided her through the mess of beer bottles, cans, and other various trash items. The living room was in an even greater wreck than the kitchen, the air hazy do to smoke; various items of clothing were strung out over the furniture and floor, the air reeked of cigarettes and something stronger that Kagome didn't want to find out; as in the kitchen there were various boos scattered about the floor, alcohol stained the white carpet amber and red.
The black coffee table was covered in broken glass, spilled alcohol, food, and cigars that still smoldered causing Kagome's eyes to water. She grabbed a bottle that had something left in it and poured it on the smoldering cigar.
"Kagome what happened? Is it always like this?" Sango asked while looking at the disastrous room with discomfort.
"No, it's never been this bad…Megumi's car was still out front, she should be here somewhere, so let's go and get this done with." Kagome said while stepping over a broken wine bottle that slowly leaked pink liquid.
Kagome inched up the stairs and walked down the hall towards her room only to stop in front of her mother's door. There was a strange smell coming from the closed door. Though strange the smell was familiar, what was it? Kagome wracked her brain for the familiar smell. Where had she smelled that metallic clingy smell before…Kagome went rigid and her eyes widened like that of a deer caught in the headlights.
'Oh god no…' Kagome thought to herself.
Sango stopped with her friend and watched as her eyes widened and she went rigid. "Kagome? Kagome? What's wrong?"
"God, no. Please don't let it be." Kagome mumbled before looking at Sango who had put a hand on her shoulder.
She looked at the door that separated her from some unknown knowledge. It couldn't possibly be true. This smell, she had remembered it from the accident that took her father's life.
"…Blood." Kagome said while looking at Sango. "I smell blood, do you?" Sango's eyes widened also, when the faint metallic scent reached her nose. Kagome opened the door to her alcoholic mother's room with so much dread in that one simple gesture of turning a knob.
The sight that met her eyes was the most horrific thing she had ever seen. You know how in horror movies how there is so much blood all over and you're grossed out but not really truly affected by it.
This was no horror movie.
Blood covered the walls and floor in smudges, splatters and hand prints. Kagome stared around the room in horror and her eyes finally landed on a shoe behind the overturned dresser. She shakily walked over to the dresser and saw her mothers still body. Her white cami completely soaked in drying blood, various stab wounds and lacerations marred Megumi's body.
"M-Megumi?" Kagome yelled as she saw her mother's chest raise slightly before falling. "Megumi what happened?" Kagome had silent tears flowing down her cheeks, flooding her vision making everything blurred.
Kagome could vaguely make out Sango's voice in the back of her mind as she frantically spoke to whom she assumed was 911.
Megumi looked up at Kagome and smiled a sad smile. "Kagome, I'm so sorry." Megumi erupted in a fit of chocked coughing that caused blood to leak down the corner of her mouth and gush out of her wounds.
"No, it's okay don't talk." Kagome said while grabbing various shirts out of the dresser draws and putting them over the deadly injuries to slow the bleeding.
"No…I was a terrible…mother to you…always drunk and…never there for you." Megumi strained out with bitterness for her stupidity as a mother. "Yet…you turned out…beautifully…"she paused before saying "I'm glad that I sobered up-so that I could see you…with clear eyes."
"It's fine, I was okay with it. Now who did this to you?" Kagome pushed for an answer.
Megumi coughed again and gasped. "Megumi! Tell me who did this!" Kagome frantically shook Megumi's cold, limp hand. Megumi suddenly looked at her daughter and gasped out "Onigumo…stay away from…him. Kagome if this is the only way…that I can be a good…mother…stay away from that man…I…I…I love you…" Kagome stared in shock as her mother's eyes lost their focus. "Megumi! Megumi! Megumiiii! Wake up!" Soon the ambulances could be heard through the silent walls of the house.
Kagome sat on the hardwood floors of the hallway and stared at her bloody covered hands. She was interrupted by someone clearing their throat and she looked up and saw the amber eyes of Inutaisho looking at her with sadness. He grabbed her hand and pulled her up off the floor into a fatherly embrace.
Kagome smiled slightly thankful for the fatherly support and said "It was Onigumo…he killed Megumi."
Inutaisho frowned deeply before looking at her squarely. "Onigumo Marisawa?" Inutaisho asked Kagome.
Kagome's eyes widened. "I never heard his last name." Kagome said, but she certainly knew a Marisawa.
Naraku Marisawa, no wonder they seemed so similar. "But that's gotta be his last name. I'm almost positive." Kagome said.
"You did good Kagome, I'll be back." Inutaisho stood and walked over to a police officer who was standing to the side, on a phone. He began to talk to the officer about the murder information he had just received from Kagome.
'This isn't good at all…is this Naraku's fault or was it Onigumo's intentions all along.' Kagome was so confused and overwhelmed by the sudden events and the possibilities. Kagome also couldn't help but feel like a horrible person for not feeling the pain that she should have over her mom's death. She had grown so used to Megumi as just another person, not a motherly figure at all. She loved her yes, but it was like loosing a second cousin that you hardly knew at all.
She looked down at her hands while thinking and noticed that they were still covered in blood. It had began to dry and was sticky. She looked down and noticed that Sango's dress and leggings were also covered in the drying substance.
Kagome stood and walked over to a police officer, a middle aged woman who was skinny as a rail and looked like all of her equipment would pull her down. Kagome smiled politely and the woman returned it. "Umm, could I go and clean up?" Kagome asked while gesturing at herself. The woman looked at her and said "Of course."
"Thank you." Kagome replied before walking into her room and grabbing a pair of underwear, a bra, jean shorts and a t-shirt. She then left to the bathroom down at the very end of the hallway and turned on the shower after locking the door. She then proceeded to strip off the teal dress. The fabric clung to her skin do to the blood making Kagome grimace. She continued to undress and threw her clothes into a pile on the floor before she stepped into the steamy water.
She grabbed the soap and scrubbed as hard as she could at the drying blood, watching it swirl down the drain in crimson torrents. She stared, her mind caught by the liquefied life of her own mother washing down the drain. She pulled her mind away forcefully and finished cleaning herself up, and then got out and dried. She looked at herself in the mirror and saw the same person who was looking back at her only an hour ago. 'I should be different, shouldn't I? My mother just died right in front of me, by cold-blooded murder and I hardly feel anything. "It can't be helped I suppose." she whispered to her reflection.
She grabbed the clean pair of clothes and pulled them on quickly before grabbing her brush and pulling it through her wet hair. She then gathered her hair together and proceeded to wring out all the water into the sink.
Standing on the tips of her toes, she grabbed a plastic bag out of a cabinet above her head and shoved the blood-soaked clothes into it before turning and unlocking the door. Upon leaving the bathroom she flipped off the light switch and walked down the hall which was now starting to empty.
Sango sat on the floor at the end of the hall, and Kagome walked towards her. She stopped and stood in front of her with a small smile. She reached out her hands as Sango returned the smile and helped the brunette up.
"I'm so sorry Kagome, that had to have been terrible." Sango said while folding her arms over her chest.
"Well, it could've been worst." Kagome said truthfully, before heading towards her room. "I'm still gonna stay with you so lets get my stuff."
Sango was left speechless. Kagome just had her mother die right in front of her and she was in more control of herself than Sango was. Kagome's mom really wasn't present as a parent figure in Kagome's life. That had to suck.
"Kagome what are you gonna do about living conditions? Do you have any family you can go to because by law you have to." Sango asked while feeling fear creep up in the back of her mind. Kagome couldn't leave, they all loved her too much.
"I don't have any family that I can go to." Kagome said before saying "So I'll probably be taken in by the government to be adopted or just sit there miserably until I'm eighteen." A tear slid down her cheek. "Sango I don't want to go."
"Okay so what about Akira?" Sango asked sadly.
"He's nineteen, Aunt Kelly and Uncle Gen both died after he turned eighteen.
Sango was silent for a moment before she beamed and said "My family will adopt you! We'd have absolutely no problem with it. Let me call my mom and dad and we'll just get this all done with by tonight. Dad knows all about this stuff so there will be nothing to it."
"You really mean it Sango!" Kagome asked enthusiastically.
"It shouldn't be such a surprise. It hurts that you doubt my love for you Kagome. Besides you were moving in anyway." Sango said while calling her parents.
Kagome smiled. It shouldn't be a surprise it was just the way she was to feel obligated to people who did something for her and she prepared herself for the worst most of the time.
Leaping across the room, Kagome jumped onto her bed. Sighing into the pillow, she wriggled her way over to the edge and hung upside down to look under the bed. She saw what she was looking for and grabbed the two extra large suitcases. She got up and carried the two cases over to her closet and walked in, grabbing an armful of clothes and walked back out throwing them onto the floor. She sat down and set in motion the tiresome, boring job of removing hangers and folding the cloths neatly so that they would all fit in the suit cases.
Sighing, Kagome stood up and stretched wincing as her back cracked. She had sat on the floor far too long folding clothes. However, she wasn't even close to finishing. Both suit cases were full with all of her clothes. The last shirt fitting perfectly before Kagome zipped it shut, zipper straining against the amount of clothes packed in.
"Okay, I love you too, bye." Sango said as she stood up off of Kagome's bed and slipped her phone in her pocket with a huge smile.
"Guess what?" Sango said while grabbing one of the huge suitcases and pulling out the handle to pull it.
"What?" Kagome asked while mimicking Sango's moves with the other suitcase.
"Dad says that he can deal with adopting you, like he can deal with a sloth demon." Sango said while smiling at her dad's strange simile.
Kagome stared at Sango with wide, questioning eyes wondering if that was easy or hard. "That's very, very easy." Sango said while laughing. "Calm down Kagome, he was happy he could adopt you. We all are. However Kohaku is gonna have to fight for his food from now on." Sango laughed and Kagome smiled widely.
"It's not my fault I eat a lot!" Kagome retorted before pulling her suitcase out the door.
"Anyways, he said he was going to call people about the arrangements for papers to be signed. So, at this very moment, we are almost sisters!" Sango said happily while following Kagome.
They walked down the hallway and past the closed door of Megumi's room. Yellow crime scene tape was stuck all over the door. Kagome looked down and walked past it without faltering in her walking. Sango watched her actions and smiled a sad smile.
Walking out the door, Kagome and Sango saw that a few of the police were still at the house sitting in their cars. They were probably there to make sure no one suspicious entered or exited; and that Kagome and Sango would be safe. How considerate they were. They still had a couple of hours until it got dark since it was a school night, so they were gonna continue moving Kagome to Sango's.
Together Kagome and Sango lifted both the suitcases into the back of the truck and pushed it to the front. A car door slammed, causing Kagome and Sango to look up to see that the police woman that Kagome talked to earlier had got. The officer walked over to them and asked "Do you two need any help?"
Kagome smiled politely and said "No thanks, it's all small stuff Officer-" Kagome squinted and looked at her name tag "Officer Brook Medina."
"Okay, well if you need me I'll be here." Brook Medina said while smiling and patting Kagome on the shoulder.
"Okay, thanks again." Kagome and Sango both said before turning and walking back into the house and up the stairs to retrieve the rest of Kagome's things. Kagome ran into the storage room next door and grabbed a stack of empty, new cardboard boxes and took them into her room.
"Hey Sango, could you stack all my cds and makeup into this box and whatever else you can. If you need another box they're on my bed." Kagome said while grabbing a box and walking into her closet.
"Yeah, sure thing." Sango answered while grabbing the cds and various items to pack.
Kagome walked to the back of the closet to her safe. She frowned as something white, hanging out of the crack of the safe, caught her attention. 'A piece of paper?' Kagome asked herself curiously. She grabbed it and pulled it out and turned it to read it when she saw that it had writing.
Oh yeah! So end of the chapter! Nah I wanna know what happens just like you do. 3
Sango finished packing the cds and other knickknacks into two boxes when she sighed. Kagome had been awfully quiet so she called out to her. "Kagome? I finished that. What are you doing in your closet anyway?" Sango stood and walked over to the closet and only saw shoes and clothing boxes. She stepped into the closet and looked to her left and was faced with nothing but wall. To her right she saw Kagome sitting on the floor staring at something in her hands.
"Kagome? What's wrong?" Sango asked, walking over to Kagome. The object that Kagome was holding turned out to be a piece of paper with something written on it. "Kagome. Hey." Sango said with a more demanding tone. She was getting worried.
Kagome looked up at Sango with fear evident in her eyes. Sango knelt down next to her quickly and grabbed the paper away from Kagome's still hands. She read the short sentence and by the end her eyes were filled with anger and fear for her dear friend.
"Kagome what does Onigumo mean by "Remember the promise I made. It's soon." Sango asked but it clicked in her mind that Kagome had told her that he said that he had promised not to hurt her, at least not yet."
"Kagome we have to give this to the police." Sango said while standing up and turning to walk out the closet door. Before she could take a step she was stopped by a steely grip on her wrist and looked to see Kagome looking up at her with pleading eyes.
"No. You can't. I have this feeling that they can't do anything about this man. That feeling I get around him isn't human. It's pure evil Sango and I don't want to put anyone in danger. Not to mention the police will be stuck to me like glue. I don't want to go to homecoming like that." Kagome finished, but added one more thing. "I know this is the stupidest thing anyone can do but please."
Sango frowned and tossed the paper back at Kagome and said "Hurry up get your stuff packed up, slowpoke." Kagome smiled slightly and stood before grabbing all of her shoes and shoving them into a box and closing it securely. She grabbed another box and pulled the safe out of the little cubby and shoved it in before closing it and standing. She held the bottom of the box so it wouldn't break and she took it out to the truck, placing it in the cab so it was safe.
She then ran up the stairs past Sango who had two boxes, one on top of the other.
~~~~~Three hours later~~~~~
Finally they were finished moving all of Kagome's things into Kagome's new room at Sango's and they collapsed on the bed and groaned into the pillows.
"My muscles ache." Kagome grumbled. "Remind me never to move again."
"Same here." Sango said. "It's eight o'clock."
"Hmmm. Sleepy." Kagome mumbled. "I'm gonna put my clothes away and go to sleep. What time do your parents get home?"
"They normally get home around eleven or so." Sango replied. "Hey I'm gonna go take a shower, you just do the rest yourself." Sango laughed as Kagome mumbled something from the pillow.
Sango closed the door behind her as she left to her room and Kagome stood and grabbed the box that had the safe and put it in the back of the closet, still in the box. She then continued to re-hang her clothes and pile the boxed dresses in the back of the closet, until she was interrupted by a knock on her door. She stumbled over to it and opened it, coming face to face with a heavily breathing Inuyasha. "I-Inuyasha?" Kagome stuttered as he didn't hesitate to squash her in a huge hug.
"Are you alright? I'm sorry I wasn't there." Inuyasha said while looking at her.
"I'm fine, Inuyasha and it wasn't your fault you weren't there. I had Sango and your dad was even there. Did you have fun and did you find a tux?" Kagome asked while walking over to another box and pulling out random stuff.
"Yeah all of us found one. We left as soon as we heard. Are you sure your ok?" Inuyasha asked.
"Yeah I'm good. Sango's parents are gonna adopt me." Kagome said with a happy smile. Kagome sensed that he was still unconvinced that she was alright so she said "Inuyasha, really, I'm fine. It makes me feel like a horrible person, but Megumi was more like a distant cousin to me than she was a mother. It's sad, yes, but not terribly. We'd never been close."
"I understand." Inuyasha said after a few quiet seconds. "I guess I'll let you sleep, you must be tired." Inuyasha got up to leave, but stopped at the door. Turning on his heel, he walked back to Kagome.
'I'm gonna ask her now.' Inuyasha thought nervously to himself. 'I can't wait for homecoming.'
"Kagome, will you be my girlfriend?" Inuyasha asked. He studied her eyes and for a moment he couldn't tell a thing that she was thinking. Then she smiled and rolled her eyes before standing.
"I thought I would be single forever. Yes, I'll be your girlfriend." Kagome hugged him and then kissed him on the cheek before he left with a huge smile on his face. Kagome laughed and said "I'll see you tomorrow!"
She started to close the door but before she did she heard Kohaku's voice. "What made you so happy, Inuyasha?"
Kagome closed the door the rest of the way and found a pair of shorts and a tank top to sleep in. Once dressed she found her toothbrush and walked out into the hallway and to the bathroom down the hall. She brushed her teeth and the left to her room. She turned into her room just as Kohaku opened his door.
"Hey Kagome! I hear you're my new big sis. I'm glad because Sango's such a boring person." Kohaku said while snickering.
"Kohaku I heard that!" Sango yelled from her room.
Kagome smiled and said "Yeah, I always wanted a brother. I preferred an older one but you just right." Kagome laughed and said goodnight before she closed the door and collapsed on her bed and pulled the covers up over her and passed out on the spot.
Sorry it took me so long to update. :p
I think I did relatively well on this chapter and I hope you liked it. Please tell me if there were parts that you didn't understand. And I like reviews that tell me if I did something wrong too so throw me with whatever ya got.3
