Chapter 10: Hell Hath No Fury like a Woman Scorned
Kagome let out a wide yawn and scratched her head through her hazardous morning hair, she stretched her stiff muscles, unfolding her legs she stretched them as much as her muscle strings would allow then release a sigh of contentment, feeling a lot better. She's been in a meditative trance for the whole night and half the next day and for some reason she thought she should finally come out of it, feeling that something was going to happen, she didn't know yet, but she'll find out later if anything major popped up.
Getting up from the floor she lifted her arms over her head and reached up until she heard her spine pop back into place, swinging her right arm across her left shoulder she hooked her left arm over her right arm and stretched and did the same to the other side. Today she decided to be a bit lazy and just where a pair of baggy pants and no top, not like she needed one her whole upper chest was heavily covered with bandages as well as her whole arm all the way up to the shoulder. It was like wearing a tube top, walking over to the kitchen she got herself a glass and poured herself some water.
She took a sip then walked out and plopped down onto the couch in front of the window letting out a sigh, she leaned her head back with one arm over the top of couch and the other one on her lap holding the glass of water. Kagome enjoyed the simple pleasures of life, such as silence and tranquility, she would give up anything to just have it, and material things can only satisfy you for a short time until you get tired of it.
In a room filled with many screens and monitors, Watari watched Kagome closely, his eyes were wide, for the past seven and a half hours he decided to check on Kagome to see how she was doing only to see her sitting in the middle of the living room wearing nothing but baggy pants, with bandages covering her whole upper body and arms. And if he wasn't mistaken he saw bandages around her neck 'why in the world is she wrapped like a mummy?' he wondered, and then he decided it was time to find out who this girl really was. He told Ryuuzaki that he will keep an eye on Kagome for the whole day giving him enough time to plan things out with the Yotsuba group and Kira. Ryuuzaki was a bit reluctant but agreed saying that he wanted to see the video feed later; Watari thought it was fair and agreed.
Right now he was reading Kagome's files and couldn't believe what he was reading, her files were longer than anyone's he had ever read, and for someone so young is very shocking, she had a lot of medical records that were almost very difficult to attain, but he got them. Though at the moment, he wished he didn't, he was unable to even finish the second paragraph without vomiting, but he somehow kept reading on without doing so.
On January 13, 1984, Higurashi, Li Kagome was brought to the hospital Emergency Room barely alive, there were unimaginable injuries all over her body; her body heat was almost nonexistent. Her jaw was broken in two places, her wrist was sprain and bruised, she had one broken rib that poke her side though somehow did not pierce the skin. There was a huge gash on the back of her head where it looked like her hair was forcefully pulled out; her left ankle was completely broken twisted in angle that looked almost impossible to even twist.
Father explains that Miss. Kagome Higurashi was playing around in the snow and slipped on some ice hidden underneath the snow and fell down the shrine steps that they went to visit every winter to see her grandfather. Story seems a bit farfetched and detectives investigated to see if this was true but there was no proof if it was or if this girl was beaten into a coma.
Watari bile he felt rising in his throat and turned away from the screen to take a deep breath, when his nerves were finally calm he turned back to the screen and skipped the other gruesome paragraphs and continued on reading at the end with as much amount of courage he could muster.
May 29, 1990, Kagome was brought to hospital Emergency Room once more this time in more horrible condition as she did six years ago when she last been to the emergency room. Her right arm was popped out of its socket; around the wrist was a ring of bruises as though there was a struggle with something constraining her down. Her jaw was once again broken; lips were pierced as though someone bit them, there were bruises around her neck, a sign that she was choked, the bruises were all over her body even between her inner thighs where there were stains on blood of forceful sexual intercourse. On the back of her thigh were long jagged scratched that were caused by human nails, some ribs were broken and bruises, she had a cut over her eye, a deep gash on her cheek caused no other than hard punch with a ring on it, also a slight crack to the skull on the top and back of her head.
Semen was found outside the inner lips of the vagina and brought to the lap for DNA testing.
'Oh my sweet…' "God" Watari whispered then looked up at the screen where he could see Kagome now reading on the couch with a half empty glass of water on the table in front of her. He couldn't imagine that this girl actually went through all that, but from happened before a day ago, it was clear and sealed the deal, Kagome had been beaten to the brink of death since the age of five and all the way to the age of ten, five years of torture.
'Poor girl' he thought with great sympathy, he sighed and closed the page that held all Kagome's medical records and files, he didn't want to read anymore, he had enough gruesome stories to last him for a week. But he was still curious as to why she wears all those bandages and what were hiding behind them, it couldn't have been any scar since he didn't remember anything in the record of her having any sort of surgery done, Kagome was an enigma, a puzzle with many different pieces that didn't seem to want to fit together, and a mystery that had no clues left behind to solve it.
He focused back onto the monitor to see that Kagome got up from the couch and walked over to the phone, he wondered what she was doing and listened in to the conversation "Ryuuzaki could you put Light on the phone…do it now you recreation of a deprived looking koala…Ryuuzaki, if you keep acting like a stubborn child I swear to all that's mighty I will go down there and show you how misbehaved child are dealt with" at this Watari chuckled.
He saw Kagome tapping her fingers on the long table slowly "Ryuuzaki, I don't care if he's busy, you will put my cousin on the phone this instant and if you dare hang up Satan will be the next one calling…L. Don't. You. Dare" she growled out each word slowly. Watari decided to cut in before Kagome really maimed his ward, he connected to Ryuuzaki's computer and spoke "Ryuuzaki, I think you should Kagome speak with Light before she really does do you physical harm. After all, she does have the right to speak to her cousin" he said, he saw Kagome smile "thank you Watari, now give Light the phone" she said.
Ryuuzaki gave a defeated look and gave Light the phone, Light chuckled and pressed the phone against his ear "hello Kagome, what is it?" "Hello Light, I just called to see if you ate anything, since you are being tortured by be stuck with a man who's world revolves around candy and other sweet things." Ryuuzaki heard this and glared at the phone wishing Kagome could see it, Light inwardly laughed then nodded "yes, my father brought me some food not too long ago" "splendid! Well that's all I needed to know, good luck in your search for Light" "thank you Kagome, goodbye" "bye Light, and go to hell Ryuuzaki" she said knowing Ryuuzaki was listening in on the conversation.
Ryuuzaki grabbed the phone from Light about to say something, but Kagome hung up leaving only a dial tone. He glared at the contraption before placing it on the hook, he turned his glare towards Light who was trying to suppress his laughter, but doing a terrible job, a the look Ryuuzaki was giving him he couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"I think we should see that video" Ryuuzaki suddenly said, Light stopped laughing and gave him a curious look before realizing what he meant 'of all the time, he chose now…wait…he thinks that there might be something in there that he could use against her for to prove that she's the second Kira' he narrowed his head eyes 'bastard.' Ryuuzaki pulled out the small video tape from behind his laptop then put it in the camera then grabbed a wire, connected it to the camera then his laptop.
He put the camera down then turned to his laptop and typed a few things down before he clicked something; all the things on the huge screen above them changed and showed Kagome sitting in the car seat with her hands in her lap. She was facing out the window not saying a word, it was like that for a long fifteen minute, since Ryuuzaki decided it was taking too long and fast forwards it, before Kagome told Watari to stop, the car pulled over and Watari killed the engine. Kagome stepped out of the car then walked over to the side of the road making sure it was safe to cross "hey look its Kagome, Kagome!" they heard a child's voice call "Kagome!" "Kagome" "Kagome's back!" they saw Kagome smile then cross the street.
They watched the video feed or Life Movie, as Kagome said. Some of them laughed at a few parts like the part when the children called Watari and pedophile stalker, Ryuuzaki choked on his coffee on that one. As they watched the video none of them noticed Misa walk into the room, she was about to say hi when she saw everyone looking up at the big screen at what looked to be a video, she thought it was probably some home video, but when she saw Kagome pass the screen she knew instantly that it wasn't. She glared at Kagome on the screen before marching over to them "hi guys!" she said happily they turned to her just enough time to saw hi then turned back to the screen before them to see a little boy around the age of eight walk up to the camera with a glare and turned it around.
They couldn't see what was going on, but they heard everything that was happening they heard a yelp that sounded like Kagome then a little girl's voice telling Kagome to stop moving then they heard Kagome say that she was getting ready for a graduation not the circus so she didn't need any makeup. There was a small whine before Kagome sighed and agreed, but saying on a little, there was a small happy cheer, two minutes later they heard the children crying out in success saying that Kagome looked like a princess then they heard the little boy say that she looked like a warrior princess.
There a soft giggle that belong, no doubt, to Kagome, she thanked them then the camera was lifted but didn't turn to face her as it was lead down a hall and down the stairs. Turning the corner they saw her enter what looked to be the living room, they saw Watari and Mari sitting there in silence, then Mari looked up and gasp in awe while Watari's eyes widened in shock and awe, his mouth parted slightly.
"Aw, I want to see" Matsuda whine moving his head as though he would be able to see around the camera's position, everyone ignored him and continued watching the video, Kagome and Watari stepped into the car and drove off, the camera was still not facing Kagome, but they could see her hand on the arm rest. Her nails looked shiny and smooth, no doubt that it was manicured by one of the little girls, for five minutes the car came to a stop and the engine was turned off.
As the minutes pass their eyes slowly widened to the point where they could fall out of their sockets and a gasp escaped all their lips as they watched the most beautiful sight they had ever seen, Misa couldn't help but do that same, she had never seen Kagome in another style instead of a bun or without her shades. "Wow" she heard Light breathed out in awe, she looked at him to see him staring up at Kagome on the screen with awe as she majestically walked upon the stage towards the man that was probably the principal and smiled. She glared at Kagome with hatred and jealousy 'it's no fair! She shouldn't be that pretty, Misa is suppose to be the only one pretty!' she inwardly raged not caring if she was being childish.
Everyone watched as Kagome turned to everyone who was cheering like crazy, some gave wolf howls and some gave cat calls which made Kagome smile brightly that everyone thought they would go blind with her dazzling smile and sparkling eyes that were covered with silver blue colored contacts. The graduates went outside where they started to party and talk among each other as they said their final goodbyes, they saw Kagome refuse all the boys who wanted to dance with her, even the ones that looked really hot, Kagome just smiled and politely told them no.
Suddenly the principal asked Kagome if she could play for them she laugh lightly as everyone practically begged her to do so, she nodded her head then walked over to the stage, putting her drink down onto the table. They saw her pick up a beautifully designed electric guitar and cleared her throat then said she didn't know what to play, the graduates told her she could play anything, Kagome thought for a minute before she turned to the band standing behind her giving them a curt nod that they returned.
She strummed the strings followed by the bang of the drums and she started to sing a song in perfect English. The investigation team was in awe, they truly had to admit it was sight to see and sad to miss, they watched the graduates that were dressed in samurai clothes, miko garbs, and formal kimonos dance with each other.
When Kagome was done she gave them a bow, place the guitar down onto the stand, and walk of the stage as everyone cheered like crazy, Watari walked up to her but suddenly the camera turned to a woman and ran up to Kagome pleading her to help her find her son.
They saw Kagome return back to the house and chatted with the woman, after a while they decided to go to the police station. The officer at the front desk, Ken, happily hugged Kagome as though they were long time friends who haven't seen each other in years, Kagome explained something to him then they went to back to meet the other officers. As the movie continued they were shocked at some part of the movie and they were sitting pellets when Kagome returned to the questioning room that the kid, Noshu, was sitting and showed him the pictures then throw the probably heavy steel table across the room and slam Noshu against the wall, about three feet above the ground. Then throw him across the room through the two way mirror and onto the floor, the boy looked as though he was going to crap his pants and pass out with pure fear and terror. The camera turned to Kagome to see her standing there more livid then they had ever seen, or now seen, her before. She turned her head to them and growled lowly that she wanted them to find Nushu's friend or she will hunt him down herself and show him how justice is truly served.
Those words caused chills to run through everybody's body make the hairs on the back of their neck rise, at the end of the video they saw Kagome read Nushu's friend, which was supposedly Rentsu's friend, his rights, which was more like the rights he won't have. When Kagome and Watari got back into the car and drove back to HQ, Ryuuzaki turned of the video feed and sat there, his eyes wider than usual and his thumb to his lips. If you were mistaken, would have thought he looked scared, but truly, he was shocked…also a bit afraid of what he seen of Kagome's fury.
"Wow, Kagome truly show the true meaning of Shakespeare's Quote, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" Light said to himself, but everyone nodded, agreeing whole heartedly at what he meant, even Ryuuzaki agreed, though a bit frozen with shock. Misa growled and stomped out of the room, everyone jumped a bit when they heard the door slam, they looked over at the door then at each other "when did Misa get here?" asked Light, everyone shrugged.
Back in the monitoring room, Watari was silently laughing to himself, all of the sudden he heard a loud crash sound, he looked up at the monitor to see Misa charging at Kagome with a kitchen knife, his eyes widened when he saw her thrust it into her back shoulder. Kagome's body froze and he could see her clench her teeth together immediately he quickly connected to Ryuuzaki's computer "Ryuuzaki, Kagome is being attacked by Misa" he said.
Everyone turned to the computer "WHAT?!" without another word everyone ran towards the stairs and through the door as they reached the elevator they already saw Watari step into it and waited for them. As they all ran in, Watari pressed the 18 button, the doors closed and the elevators quickly rose eight floors up. As they reached the floor they ran to the living room door and swung it open, all their eyes widened when they saw Misa charging to a very injured Kagome who stood there holding her bleeding left shoulder. "Die!" Misa shouted "Misa stop!" Light shouted but Misa didn't hear him as she everything seemed to have gone in slow motion as Misa swiped the knife across Kagome's neck as she was backing away. They couldn't see the wound damage as Kagome leaned back seeming as though she was falling but they did see the blood fly in the air. For a brief moment everything froze, everyone's eyes were wide with shock and horror while Misa had on a sadistic smile on her face of satisfactory.
As a tear slid down Light's face his mouth slowly opened to say his cousin's name "Kagome"
Slowly everything went back in slow motion, Kagome's back bent back flexibly and her hands slammed onto the ground before she twisted her body around Misa's eyes widened "wha-?!" before she could finish she was kicked in the stomach and flew back across the room hitting the wall hard with a loud thud. The knife flew in the air, Kagome flipped backwards and landed in a crouching position with one leg stretched out, she lifted her hand and the knife fell right into her hand. Slowly picking herself up off the floor she walked over to Misa who groaned in pain, she slowly opened her eyes to see Kagome standing there with the knife in her hand.
She narrowed her eyes at her "what are you going to do, kill me?" she taunted, Kagome's expression didn't change one bit from the taunt causing Misa to worry a bit, she didn't want to die, not now, not ever. Kagome spun the knife in her hand quickly before thrusting it forward Misa screamed and closed her eyes, she heard a slicing sound beside her ear, but she didn't open her eyes to scare to open them.
The knife was only a millimeter away from her ear and sticking into the wall, Kagome kept her eyes on her for a moment before letting go of the knife and standing back up "killing you would be as pointless as killing someone who was only two seconds away from death" she said, her voice was cold and held no emotion what so ever. She walked over to the kitchen leaving the others in the room, when Kagome was gone everyone broke out of their shock Ryuuzaki glared at Misa "Watari, arrest Misa and have sent back into confinement" Watari nodded and walked over to Misa. He pulled out a pair of cuffs from his pocket and roughly grabbed Misa's arm, she struggled and demanded that he let her go but he didn't listen and cuffed her hands behind her back then practically dragged her out of the room.
Everyone watched as they disappeared around the corner before they walked across the room over to the kitchen, they saw Kagome gently cleaning the blood off her arm with a wet cloth; they winced a bit when they saw the wound. It was just beside the bandage that covered half her upper arm near the shoulder, the wound was deep and it looked as though the knife slid down it, Matsuda felt a bit nauseous as the blood kept sliding out of the wound. When the blood was finally cleaned off her arm she started cleaning the wound with the wet cloth then pressing against it.
"Kagome are you alright?" Matsuda asked quietly, everyone sent him a disbelieving glare as though saying she just got stabbed what do you think?! Kagome turned to him and gave him a warm smile "yes, I'm fine, just need to clean the wound, stitch it up and it would be good as new by the end of the week" she said. Light took one step closer "do you need help?" he asked, Kagome turned to him and tilted her head to the side "do you know how to stitch a wound Light, other than that, in a person's flesh?" she raised one brow. Light swallowed the small bile in his throat at just thinking about sticking a needle in a person's flesh "um" "I'll do it" Watari walked into the room, everyone turned to him 'that was quick' they thought, minus Ryuuzaki who just stared at Kagome's wound with a thumb between his teeth, lightly gnawing at it in thought.
Kagome turned her head to Watari "alright, then can someone go to my room in the bathroom, there should be some alcohol in the mirror cabinet and in the cabinet underneath the sink should be a first aid kit with the sewing material inside" "I'll get it!" Matsuda volunteered before running out of the kitchen to Kagome's room. Kagome lifted her finger and tapped her bottom lip lightly "can anyone grind herbs?" she asked, no one answered, Kagome smiled and chuckled lightly "guess not, can anyone boil some water?" "I will" Soichiro said. Nodding, Kagome moved aside so he could get to the sink "what can we do?" Light asked, Kagome turned to him and thought for a minute "hmm, nothing I guess, but do you want to learn how to grind herbs?" she asked.
Light blinked "um sure" Kagome smiled "good" she turned to one of the cabinet and grabbed a wooden bowl then dug into the drawer, pulling out a weird thick stick thing that was no doubt the thing you used to grind herbs. She put the stick into the bowl and walked out of the kitchen into the living room; she walked over near the couch, but stopped in front of the table and sat down onto the floor. She placed the grinding bowl onto the glass table "I got the first aid kit and the alcohol" Matsuda walked into the room with a white box that looked like a suit case and a bottle of alcohol in his hand.
Kagome smiled at him "thank you Matsuda, I really appreciate it" Matsuda blushed then smiled "um, you're welcome" he said scratching the back of his neck nervously "is there anything else you need?" he asked. Kagome shook her head "nope that's all, thanks again Matsuda" she pulled the white box towards her then flipped up the lock and opened it; she pulled out two bags that were filled with two different plants that still looked fresh. She placed the bag next the wooden bowl then pushed the box behind her where Watari would sit. Watari got the message and sat down behind her, he pulled up a lid that said sewing items on the top and pulled out a needle and some weird type of thread that looked like wood skin. It was very thin and a bit wet; he gave Kagome a curious look before sticking the weird thread in the needle and did a tight knot, making sure it wouldn't come out when he was closing the wound. He dipped the needle in the bottle of alcohol then pulled it back out and pressed it lightly on the side top of the wound "are you ready?" he asked, Kagome nodded, Watari took a deep breath and stuck the needle into her flesh and through the other side. He stopped expecting Kagome to flinch or take a breather but he was shocked that she didn't do neither but look ahead of her. He took this as a sign to continue.
"Light, sit right here" she said patting the spot on her right, Light walked up to her and sat down on the spot Kagome told him to sit, Kagome grabbed the bowl and placed it on his crossed legs, he gave her a confused look, but all he got was a smile. "Open the bag with the green herbs in it that has a bit of yellow on it" she told him, he nodded and grabbed the bag off the table then opened it; his senses were assaulted with a floral yet grassy smell. He blinked a few times "now, throw in one fistful of it in the bowl" Light did as instructed and grabbed a fistful of the herbs and dropped it into the bowl.
"Now take the other bag and do the same" Light grabbed the other bag and opened it, this time it smelled like some type of flower, but he couldn't identify which one, he grabbed a fistful and threw it in the bowl. "Now start grinding the herbs together" she said, Light grabbed the thick stick and started beating down on the herbs, Kagome giggled and shook her head "no, no, I said grind not beat the hell out of it, just pressed down on the herbs and stir it like you would soup" she said. Light blushed a bit then nodded; he pressed down on the herbs and stirred it, once in a while lifting it for he could grind the herbs he missed. Ryuuzaki watched him as he did this but then looked up at Kagome when she called his name "in the box there is a big leaf and slate with a flat stone, do you mind getting it please" she said. Ryuuzaki nodded and went around Watari, he dug into the box looking for the leaf, slate and stone, he found it then pulled it out; he went back around Watari over to Light and handed it over to Kagome.
She grabbed it "thank you" she said then placed it on her right knee; she flattened the huge leaf on the slate then started flattening it with the flat smooth stone, somehow her whole body didn't move an inch as she did this. Mogi, Matsuda and Ryuuzaki watched them as Kagome and Light busied themselves with the herbs while Watari stitched up her wound carefully and Soichiro boiled some water in the kitchen.
After a half hour passed Soichiro came into the living room with a cup of boiled water, he placed it on the table in front of them "here you go" he said "thank you Mr. Yagami" she said, she stopped what she was doing and grabbed the cup, ignoring the burning sensations on her hand and spilt a bit inside the grinding bowl, making sure not to hit Light with it. When that was done she placed it back on the table and shook her hand a bit, easing the hot stinging sensation a bit, before grabbing the flat stone.
Soichiro looked curiously at what she was doing to see a huge leaf flattened against the flat with its nectar dripping out on the sides. He then looked at what his son was doing to see him grinding some weird leaves that now looked like some icky "done" he heard Watari say, he snapped the thread and leaned back, looking at his work. Kagome nodded "wonderful!" she cheered, before turning to Light "how's that grinding coming alone Light?" she asked, Light stopped and looked at it for a while, it looked like baby barf, but smell like plants "I'm not sure" he said truthfully. "Let me see" she grabbed stuck two fingers in the bowl and rubbed it a bit between her thumb, she smiled happily "its perfect, now I need you smudge it on this leaf" she said pointing to flatten leaf on the slate, she quickly gathered the nectar on the side and rubbed it onto the leaf.
Light carefully smudged some of the gooey stuff on the big leaf until there was no spot that wasn't covered in it, Kagome carefully pulled the flattened leaf off the slate then slapped it right onto her stitched wound, everyone looked at her like she was crazy "Kagome, what are you doing, you're going to give yourself an infection with those bacterial plants!" Soichiro yelled, Kagome gave him a look before shaking her head "man, you really need to catch up in your herbs" she mumbled before grabbing the cup filled with now warm water, dumped it into the bowl that had a bit of grinded herb in it, and quickly drank it.
Everyone's expression turned to one of disgust and disbelief, not believing that she drank a bowl of plant grinded water, Kagome winced at the slightly bitter taste 'healing and plant medicine, yuck' she thought before putting the bowl down on the table. "Watari, could you bandage it now before it really gets infected" she said, Watari looked at her then at the huge leaf sticking over her wound, her grabbed the roll of bandages in the bog and reluctantly wrapped it over the leaf. As he did this Light decided to ask "Kagome…why'd you do that?" Kagome turned him "it's an old feudal era remedy, those plants are used for many medicines and wound lotion or whatever. The leaf's nectar is usually used for wounds, kind of like alcohol, but it stings much worse, the herbs you grinded together to mush could be also used for wounds or medicines or both. Look in some medical books, you'll see" she said, when Watari was done she slowly stood up and stretched her arms, but only slightly on her left one, not wanting to undo the stitching.
"You are very strange Kagome" Ryuuzaki suddenly said, Kagome turned to him "no, I just have unfamiliar ways of doing things" "so when does that leaf have to be taken off?" Mogi asked. Kagome touched her shoulder lightly "hmm, I would say by the end of the week" she said thoughtfully "and you sure this won't infect your wound?" Soichiro asked warily "positive, done it all the time when I don't have medical gauze" she said packing up the stuff within the first aid case. "Plus if it does get infected by some kind of unknown impossible way, then I would have to get some maggots to eat the dead skin" everyone's face turned green at this.
Soichiro's brow twitched as did Watari's and Ryuuzaki's "anyways, thank you for your help everyone and try to save my life, but I'm a bit tired and I think I should go to bed" she gave them a bow before walking out of the room without another word.
Kage: Sorry, sorry, sorry. I didn't mean to take this long but when I tried to submit the damn thing it kept saying an error so I submit in another file deleted that one and copied this chapter on to it. I tried to send in a report but it wouldn't let me, sorry! Well i hoped you enjoyed this chapter.