"Are you actually going to talk to me or are you going to just keep walking quietly?" InuYasha asked as he struggled to keep up with Kagome's pace. She ignored his question as she walked across the street.
"You're J walking." He stated as he followed after her, he too ignoring the 'Don't Walk.' sign.
"Stop following me." She murmured as she rounded a corner.
"Why are so upset all of a sudden? Was it something I said?" He asked as he jogged next to her.
"LEAVE ME ALONE!" She yelled as she pushed him into the street.
"Woah, woah please calm down Kagome. I'm sorry for whatever I did, I just wanna know what's going on with you." He said as she kept walked.
"Oh trust me, you don't want to know anything about my crazy self." She replied as she sat down on a bench. He groaned and sat down next to her.
"You're upset because I called you crazy? What do you want me to call you? Mentally unstable?" He said and she slapped him.
"I want to call me by my fucking name." She said and he nodded.
"Sorry." He said and they sat in silence.
"You don't have to apologize, I shouldn't have asked if I didn't want to hear the answer." She stated looking down at her feet.
"And I guess that you must really want to know if you followed me all the way here. I mean like, we've been walking for like twenty minutes right?" She said, not looking to see if he nodded.
"You deserve answers but I can't tell you all of them. You ok with that?" She asked looking up at him. He nodded and she smiled.
"Good cuz if you weren't then you weren't getting any answers. Ask away." She said as she went back to looking down at her feet.
"What happened between you and Naraku?" He asked and she shrugged.
"He was nice at first and I mean at like a first glance nice. Then I got a good long look at him at dinner and I knew he wasn't a good man. He kept glancing up at me all night and I thought that was really creepy. But what did I know back then? I thought my cat was creepy. Anyways, he stayed around and I came to the conclusion that I did not like him. He would say things to me that would make me uncomfortable. Like 'Hey Kagome, that skirt better not get any shorter or I'll make it come down myself' or 'Souta's not coming home for soccer for a while' and he'd say something that's related to his balls." She stated, content with her answer.
"Who's Souta?"
She hesitated on what to tell him, did Souta even think of her as a sister anymore? She surely thought of him as a brother.
"My brother." She murmured.
"You met Naraku for dinner? Why?"
Kagome rolled her eyes, these questions weren't getting any easier to answer.
"You won't believe me." She stated and he shrugged.
"You don't know that. I trust in what you say now remember?" He said grinning and she smiled.
"Oh yeah, how could I forget? My mom wanted him to meet her kids since they had been dating for a while." She said and InuYasha was confused.
"I don't understand, Naraku's been married for like, ever. He couldn't have dated your mother." He said and Kagome laughed.
"I knew you wouldn't believe me." She stood as she heard the bus coming down the street.
"No Kagome, it's not that I don't believe it, it's just really hard to believe." He said as the bust pulled up in front of them.
"Whatever you say InuYasha." She said as she got on the bus.
"Where are you going?" InuYasha asked, realizing that she was in fact getting on the bus. She ignored him as she went to sit down.
InuYasha frowned as the bus driver closed the door. He waved at Kagome, who was sitting at a window and clearly saw him, but she didn't wave back. He stared at the bus as it drove away. As the bus disappeared from his view, he sat back down on the bench and took a deep breath.
"I can't 'not' believe her, but its really hard to believe that." InuYasha said out loud to himself.
'Where she's going anyways?' InuYasha thought realizing he was on an unfamiliar part of town. He took his cell phone out his pocket and dialed Sango's number.
"What happened with Kagome?"
"That's a wonderful way to answer your phone Sango."
"She left you didn't she? Damnit InuYasha, why'd you let her leave!?"
"Um she just got on the bus. I didn't have much say about it but why are you so mad about it anyways?"
"Ugh, your such an idiot sometimes. Did Kikyo called you yet?"
"Um no, she probably won't talk to me til two days from now, why?"
"Where are you anyways? Miroku won't pick up his phone so I assume he's still with his parents."
"Yeah um that's why I called you since I have no idea where I am. I was hoping you could swing by and give me a ride home."
Sango groaned as she made a U turn so she could pick up InuYasha. "I'll be there in a few minutes, your still by the bus stop right?"
"Yeah, but how'd you know that?"
"Kagome takes the bus to his house since its kinda too far to walk to."
"His house?"
"Yeah, Koga's house well condo actually."
"So he's like her boyfriend then right? I should have known Kagome wasn't single."
Sango laughed as she stopped at a red light. "Kagome is single you dumbass."
"Then who's Koga?"
"Um I don't really know since Kagome doesn't really talk about him a lot but I guess he's her friend maybe? Like I said I don't know, I only met him maybe once or twice. Kagome said he's not very social so that's why he never wants to 'hang out' with us."
"So what, he's a loner?"
"I guess, I don't see you InuYasha." Sango stated as she stopped in front of the bus stop Kagome usually went to.
"Huh? Oh yeah, I walked to the park across the street while I waited." He said, realizing he was no longer at the bus stop. He turned around to walk towards the bus stop as Sango groaned.
"Could you walk any slower? I'm tired and I want to go to bed."
Meanwhile .
Kagome walked quietly up the driveway to the Ghengadashi Condos.
She was late and Koga would be pissed, but what else was new? She entered the building and went to her destination.
Two knocks was enough noise for him to come open the door. Just as she expected, he angrily opened the door and pulled her in.
"What the hell Kagome!? You told you'd be here by 11 and its fucking midnight!" He yelled as she sat on the couch.
"I saw Naraku at the party." She stated as he continued on with gathering his stuff. He chuckled as she crossed her arms.
"Betcha wish you'd listen to me and not wore that short ass dress." He said as she threw a couch pillow at him.
"Shut the fuck up Koga, that's not the point." She said as he threw the keys to the condo at her.
"Oh yeah, what happened? He tried to rape you right?" Koga joked as he placed his suitcases by the door.
"You're not funny and no he didn't. But he did threaten my life, not that you care though." Kagome shot back as the keys landed next to her.
"I got Ginta handling everything while I'm gone so no one should come here bothering you. I don't want anyone here either, got it?" Koga stated, completely not caring for her night.
"Enjoy your stupid ass cruise with your slutty ass girlfriend." Kagome murmured as he opened the door. She ducked as a picture frame was thrown at her head.
"Don't be mad because Ayame was smart enough to find a man and not lay around on her ass all damn day in pity." Koga replied and Kagome laughed.
"The hell do I have to mad about? Her so called man brings sluttier girls than her home every other night." Kagome shot back and Koga chuckled.
"I do bring you home every other night don't I?" He said as he closed the door. Kagome groaned as she laid down on the couch.
'There he goes running off with his girlfriend to forget about little ole' me.' Kagome thought as she wondered what to do now.
She probably just severed all her friendships. Miroku most definitely wasn't speaking to her again and InuYasha thinks she's crazy. Maybe she still had a little bit of friendship left with Sango, but not much since Sango is head over heels in love with Miroku.
"Maybe I should get new friends." She said as she sat up. 'You can't get new friends, you just barely had any then. It'll just end the same way.' Her stomach growled as she went to the kitchen.
"There's no food in here." She stated as she opened the fridge to see nothing.
"And of course he left me no money." She mumbled as she went back in the living room.
A knock at the door made her get up again from the couch and she looked through the peep hole.
"Ayame break up with you already? Gosh, I thought she'd at least wait til the cruise was over." Kagome said as she opened the door.
"Looks like its your lucky day since I remembered that you have no money." He stated as he pulled his wallet from his pocket.
"Oh my, Lord please bless this young man for sharing the money he took from all those poor little girls out there degrading themselves for the dirtiest pennies." Kagome replied as she leaned on the door frame.
"Just keep running your mouth Kagome, Lord knows if I wasn't giving you this money you'd be out there doing the same thing right now." Koga said as he gave her 700.
"You do know your leaving for a month right? I need my nails done, hair done, some new shoes…." Kagome said as he rolled her eyes and gave her another 700.
"That's it and if you need anymore then I guess you better get out there with those poor little girls degrading themselves." He replied as Kagome rolled her eyes.
"Bye Koga." Kagome stated as he turned to leave. She quietly closed the door as she saw him leave the building. She grinned as she looked down at the money in her hands. "Today just got way better." She stated as she laid down on the couch.
"Tomorrow, I shall go shopping to forget all about that stupid party." She declared as she drifted off to sleep.
One Week Later .
"So, you haven't even talked to Kagome since that night huh?" Miroku asked as he sipped his coffee.
"If I did I would tell you about it." Sango replied dully.
"You better tell me as soon as you guys talk because I need to give her a piece of my mind. I mean like, who does she think she is? I know she's got some family issues but she can't just go around accusing people for it! Its her own fault that she doesn't have any family." Miroku said as Sango rolled her eyes.
"Miroku don't say that because you and I both know that Kagome been through hell and back. She's probably just went back to hell since the party. You and I both know she went back to Koga and you and I both know that Koga is a monster." Sango responded as Miroku chuckled.
"This has nothing to do with the whole Koga situation. Kagome is a grown woman and has a choice on whether or not to go back with that guy. If she chooses to disappear with him then let her. I don't care anymore Sango because she just accused my FATHER of raping her. How could he even do that? He was still married to my mom and had two kids. Its impossible for him to have dated her mother and been at her house that long." Miroku said.
"Miroku you don't know that." Sango murmured as Miroku glared. "So you believe her story then?"
"No, but I believe that something that bad did happen to Kagome." Sango replied as Miroku pushed his coffee away.
"I can not believe that Sango. You actually believe her! Clearly she's mentally unstable and-" Miroku stopped talking as Sango threw his coffee at him, luckily it wasn't burning hot.
"Shut the fuck up Miroku. I don't appreciate you talking about my BEST FRIEND like that because unlike you, I actually care about friends and yeah, I'm actually worried about Kagome right now. How could you say all that stuff about her? You've known her for almost as long as I've known her and she's never done anything like this before. So instead of talking about her likes she's a piece of dirt, why don't you try to figure why she called your dad a rapist? And no I'm not justifying that she called your dad a rapist but I'm justifying that she finally opened up about something about why she is the way she is." Sango said as she realized what actually happened to Kagome, "Kagome was raped Miroku."
Meanwhile .
"Those are hideous on your feet." A lady said nicely as Kagome rolled her eyes.
"They looked pretty in the window." She said as she took the heels off and put on a pair of wedges.
"Oh, now you can not say that these are not cute enough to die for." Kagome said as she put her foot in the air to show the salesclerk.
"Now those are gorgeous." The lady said as she started to put all the shoes away that Kagome didn't want.
"This new pair of shoes a day thing is great." Kagome stated as she walked towards the counter with the wedges in her hands.
"And who loves you so much to let you do this with his money?" She asked as she rang up the wedges.
"Its complicated." Kagome replied as she put the wedges in the box and handed it to her.
"That will be 104.32" Kagome handed her a hundred dollar bill and a five dollar bill.
"Keep the change." Kagome said as she grabbed her receipt and rushed out the door.
It was 10:57 and her date was at 11:00. Of course the restaurant was on the other side of town She was surprised to find her date still waiting at the restaurant for her.
'Almost missed my free lunch.' She thought to herself as she smiled and sat down across from him.
"You bought shoes before you came?" He questioned as Kagome sat the shoe box next her on her side of the booth.
"I couldn't just walk past them could I?" She joked as she picked up the menu of her favorite restaurant.
"Did you already order?" She asked noticing he had a smoothie in front of him.
"Nope. How have you been?" He asked as she licked her lips looking at all the delicious pictures of food.
"Oh nothing really but the usual."
"What's the usual?"
"Oh you know, the usual. Wake up, live life, go back to bed." She joked as she put the menu down.
"What's living life like for you? I doubt if it's the same for both of us." He replied and she giggled.
"What's living life like for you?" She asked and he chuckled.
"Well, I work for the Takahashi Inc. I make sure all the computers are working correctly." He stated.
'Nerd.' Kagome thought but didn't say it in fear he'd leave and not pay for her lunch.
"Interesting, I was an intern for Takahashi Inc. while I was in college before but it was only for like a day." She said, remembering her very short college days. "A day? Why was it so short?" He asked and she shrugged.
"Didn't really like the environment I guess." She said as a waitress approached.
"Hi, welcome to Kaede's. My name is Rin and I will be happily serving you today. Would you like a drink to start things off?" She asked very energetically. "Oh um, yeah. I would like a Screaming Orgasm on the rocks please." Kagome said and her date raised his eyebrows.
"You're a day drinker I see." He said and she shrugged.
"Only when I'm in the mood. And I would like some fruit punch also." Kagome said as Rin nodded and left them.
"Are we gonna get appetizers?" Kagome asked as she opened her menu again, already knowing what she wanted for an appetizer.
"If you want I guess." He said as he opened his menu.
"I was thinking some onion rings and mozzarella sticks." She said as she put the menu down and he nodded.
"Have you ever noticed how much your hair is so unnatural?" Kagome asked as she smiled.
"Um I guess so since I did comb it today." He said as he put his menu down.
"It'll look so much better if you just let it do what it wants." She said as she leaned over the table to fix it. She smiled as she ruffled it and while she leaned over the table, gave him a nice view of her cleavage. When she sat back down in her seat, his face was redder than a tomato.
"That looks much better Hojo." She said as his eyes snapped up from her chest to her face. He started to nervously drink his smoothie as Rin returned with Kagome's drinks.
"We're ready for our appetizers now." Kagome stated as Rin pulled out her notepad and pencil.
"We want some onion rings and mozzarella sticks. And yes we would like mozzarella sauce and ranch." Kagome stated and Rin nodded.
"Would you like a refill sir?" Rin asked, noticing that Hojo's smoothie was gone.
"Um yeah, but I'd like some lemonade." He said and Rin hurriedly walked away.
"So, how is it working at Takahashi?" Kagome asked sipped her alcohol beverage first.
"It's actually great. I'm the head of my department." He said and Kagome nodded.
"So you're like the boss then?"
"I guess you could call it that but I don't get to make my own hours and stuff like a normal boss would be able to. I also have a boss so there's that too." Hojo jabbered. He continued to jabber away about his job and Kagome zoned him out.
'What am I even doing here? He's such a nerd.' Kagome thought as she let her eyes wonder around the restaurant.
Gosh, she really loved this place. Other than Koga, the owner made her feel like she always had a place to go when she needed to 'get away'. Kagome was surprised the owner didn't already come out to greet her. It's been such a long time since she ate here, maybe the owner forgot her already. She frowned at the thought of it.
"I'll be right back." Kagome stated as she stood and walked towards the counter. Hojo was in mid sentence as his date abruptly left him alone.
"Hi, welcome to Kaede's!" The man behind the counter greeted and Kagome rolled her eyes.
"I need to speak with Kaede." Kagome declared and the man chuckled.
"Kaede is very busy and apologizes for the inconvenience." He stated and Kagome laughed.
"Tell her Kagome is here." Kagome ordered and the man rolled his eyes.
"I don't think you understand-" He began but Kagome cut him off.
"Tell her Kagome is here, I promise you she'll have time for me." Kagome stated and he shrugged then left to fetch his boss. She stood confidently until a certain someone came into the restaurant. Kagome cursed under her breath as she went back to her seat.
"Where'd you go?" Hojo asked as Kagome ignored him and put the menu up so no one could see her face.
"What's wrong? Why are you hiding?" Hojo asked, seeing that the menu was too close to her face for her to be reading it.
"I'm not hiding." She replied as he looked toward the counter.
"Oh wow! Is that Kikyo Hoshima?" Hojo asked as he gazed upon the woman standing at the counter.
"Shut up." Kagome ordered but he ignored her.
"Oh my God, I freaking love her! I have to go say hello." Hojo said but Kagome kicked his leg as he tried to stand.
"OW! What's the matter with you!?" He exclaimed as he rubbed his leg.
"Stop talking so loudly! You're acting like you've never seen her before!" Kagome whispered loudly as her eyes peaked over the menu to glare at him.
"So what, we're not even finished with the first date and you're already jealous?" Hojo questioned as Kagome kicked him again.
"Jealous? I'm not jealous!" She whispered as he stood up so she couldn't kick him.
"I don't have time for this." He murmured as he started to walk away but Kagome grabbed him.
"Where are you going?" She questioned as he chuckled. "I'm leaving Kagome." He replied and she gasped.
"Without paying!?" Kagome exclaimed, forgetting that she was trying to stay unseen. Hojo sighed as he pulled out his wallet and put a 20 on the table. Kagome scoffed.
"I'm going to be eating dessert too since my date is leaving me." Kagome stated and he put another 20 on the table. She let him go as she sat down happily as she could now eat away her problems.
"Kagome Higurashi, that's absolutely pathetic. Begging a man for money so you can eat." Kikyo stated as Kagome rolled her eyes.
"Kikyo Hoshima, what big feet you have." Kagome mused, not in the mood at all to talk to anyone that was there that night.
"Make all the childish remarks you want, Daddy's suing you." Kikyo stated and Kagome laughed.
"For what!?" She exclaimed as she stopped to catch her breath only to start laughing again at Kikyo's answer.
"Throwing his name under the bus or whatever. Anyways, you're going away for a long time." Kikyo stated and Kagome laughed again.
"I'm going to jail? Is that a threat? You think I'm scared of jail? YOUR FATHER STABBED ME AND I HAVE A SCAR TO PROVE IT! I'm not scared of anything you or your big bad wolf of a father plan on throwing at me!" Kagome yelled as Rin came and sat the onion rings and mozzarella sticks down. Kikyo eyes widened at Kagome's words. "Your crazy." She stated and Kagome snapped.
"I'M NOT FUCKING CRAZY!" She yelled as threw Hojo's lemonade at her, then she laughed when it hit her.
"I'm tired of everybody calling me crazy because I'm not fucking crazy." Kagome muttered as she watched Kikyo throw a temper tantrum since her outfit was ruined. "What the hell do you even do Kikyo? I've never seen you in a magazine so you're not a real model and I'm damn sure you're not an actress because well, your face on the big screen gives me the creeps." Kagome mused, bored now that Kikyo was just screaming and not saying anything intelligent. Kagome groaned as Kikyo turned to leave.
"Ha, she said he's suing me." Kagome said as she bit a mozzarella stick and let the cheese hang out her mouth.
"Kagome, its been too long!" An old lady exclaimed as Kagome looked up from her food. "Kaede!" She said as she stuffed the cheese in her mouth and got up to give her a hug. "How as ye been?" Kaede asked as she sat down across from Kagome.
"Oh you know, same old, same old. Arguing with Koga, leaving Koga, leaving Sango, going to Koga." Kagome said as Kaede laughed at Kagome's circle of life.
"I thought the last time you came here you were actually getting yourself together. You said you met a guy and you liked him." Kaede said and Kagome rolled her eyes.
"I ruined that a week ago. We went to this party and Naraku was there." Kagome stated, knowing she had to say no more before Kaede would understand.
"He threatened you again didn't he?" Kaede said and Kagome nodded.
"But I think I'm finally over him and his so called 'threats'." Kagome said as she bit an onion ring. Kaede shook her head.
"No really, I just yelled it to his daughter a couple of minutes ago. She came here saying that he was going to sue me for 'throwing his name under the bus' or whatever and she called me crazy and you know how much I hate being called crazy so I just let it all out." Kagome explained and Kaede still shook her head. "Child, why have ye have yet to go the police with ye story?" Kaede asked and Kagome shrugged.
"I'm pretty sure that won't believe me and even I take him to court, he's stupid rich and he's gonna have this stupid good lawyer and win." Kagome stated dully and Kaede shook her head. "I promise you that you'll never get over this unless you see him taken away in handcuffs so he can pay for what he did to you, and your family." Kaede said and Kagome bit her lip.
"Yeah, so it was nice seeing you Kaede but I need to get going." Kagome said quickly standing. Before Kaede could speak, Kagome threw a 20 on the table and basically ran out the restaurant. She could feel it coming and she had to leave before it came. Kagome loved Kaede to death but, Kaede always told her to do stuff that Kagome wasn't capable of doing and it hurt to tell Kaede she couldn't do it.
She walked quickly through the crowded streets, hoping to get as close to Koga's place as possible before it came. But she couldn't get there in time and as she turned a corner to get to the nearest restroom, she bumped into someone that made it come there. She fell on the ground as it all came down on her, her world was crashing and she didn't know what to do.
"Hey, what's wrong?" He asked as he bent down to her level since she was sitting on the ground crying her eyes out.
"Did you hurt something when you fell? Where does it hurt?" He asked as he searched for any physical injury. She just kept weeping as everything came down on her at once.
How she always left people how cared for her, how crappy Koga always made her felt and not giving a damn about her feelings, how Naraku had ruined her life, how scared she was living in her own home, how she felt the first Koga punched her in her face. "
You can't cry out here in the middle of the sidewalk like this, you want to come back to my place?" He asked, but she kept crying.
She cried because she always thought people forgot her, she cried because Sango was the best friend a girl like her could have but Kagome never let Sango know anything about her life.
He helped her stand and she cried the whole way to his place.
She cried because it hurt when Naraku raped her, because it hurt when she unintentionally let Koga rape her, because it hurt that she let Koga say it was her fault she got raped, because it hurt that she left her new shoes at Kaede's.
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