Inuyasha watched as Kagome broke in front of him. Her body shook with tremors that Inuyasha wished he stop, but the cold chains around his arms brought him back to the harsh reality that he couldn't help her.
The room was silent. The kind of silent that means more than words can express. Kagome had stopped crying but it was clear that she was far from stable. Inuyasha kept his head down, his face crumpled under remorse for the girl before him.
"Kagome get out here! We have a lunch with your aunt!" Mrs. Kakogawa screamed up the steps. In a flash Kagome was standing and walking to the door. Inuyasha watched as she stepped out into the hallway. Her face blank and her body moving of another person's will. The door shut softly behind her ghostly form.
Inuyasha let his head come back up. It made a light thud as it hit the back of the closet. His vision became blurry and his cheeks ran wet.
"Must be something wrong with the room," he whispered, "everything is blurry. Everything is just so blurry, so fucked up and blurry." The tears he refused to acknowledge slid over his face and dove for the floor creating a pool where Inuyasha poured his fears, drowning them with his denial.
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"My, my Kagome you have grown very well." Mr. Broutassen commented at the long dinner table where Mr. and Mrs. Kakogawa sat trading bits of gossip. Every now and then Mrs. Kakogawa would shoot her daughter a glare urging Kagome to smile at Mr. Broutassen and flirt back with him. Kagome didn't know what she was doing. She didn't even remember most of the day. Mr. Broutassen had met her and her mother in front of the Kakogawa estate for dinner and ever since Mrs. Kakogawa had been urging her daughter to get along with Mr. Broutassen.
"When I saw you last you were barley twelve, though to be honest," He whispered, "I wish we could have done this then…" Mr. Broutassen trailed off letting his hand slip to her thigh in the chair next to his. Kagome tensed up and tried her best to just sit still, just stay still and do what she was supposed to.
"Well dinner was wonderful darling." Mr. Kakogawa said as he stood up, "I'm going to retire to my study for now. Mr. Broutassen I hope that you have a good evening."
"Don't worry dear." Mrs. Kakogawa said shooing her husband out the door.
"Yes, Mrs. Kakogawa that dinner was delicious." Mr. Broutassen said as he scooted his empty dessert plate down the table and away from his overhanging belly. His hand squeezed Kagome's thigh once more before he stood up to go and smoke on the veranda.
"Okay Kagome so far everything has worked out perfectly! Now Mr. Broutassen is going to spend the night and you are to do anything that he asks of you! If all goes well you will be married by the end of the month, but only is he feels satisfied tonight, do you understand?" Mrs. Kakogawa said as she smoothed Kagome's hair and pinched her cheeks to add color.
"I understand mother." Kagome answered her voice dry and shaky. 'Just stay still, just don't move, don't think, don't even breath' Kagome told herself as she and her mother walked up to Kagome's bedroom.
"Damn! You didn't get rid of the demon? What if Mr. Broutassen sees it! We'd be ruined!" Kagome's mother gasped. In an instant Kagome shot back into a conscious state. 'Inuyasha' she thought. The name rang a deep warm bell in her chest and brought life back to her limbs.
"Mrs. Kakogawa, May I come up?" Mr. Broutassen asked from the bottom of the stairs, his voice laced with a lustful tone.
"Oh! Just a second Mr. Broutassen, we're just…um… getting Kagome ready! Yes! This silly girl spilled some water on her dress! Clumsy little thing!" Mrs. Kakogawa lied in a strong voice.
"I'll be waiting." Mr. Broutassen answered back, his tone taking an impatient turn.
"Okay we can't take it back down to the cellar, there's no other door out and Mr. Broutassen is blocking our only way! Damn just lock the closet door and leave it here!" Mrs. Kakogawa ordered shoving Kagome's dress off of her shoulders and throwing it into Inuyasha's face before she slammed the closet and locked the door.
"But, Mother!" Kagome began reaching for the door handles on the closet. 'How could her mother even think that this was acceptable? Hadn't Kagome already done so much? Hell, she was about to have sex with a man three times her age! Was it really necessary for the man who had only last night taken her virginity to be in the same room as the perverted old man had his way with her?'
"Shut the fuck up! I've had enough! Now get on your silk robe and lay in the bed! Do not upset Mr. Broutassen! Do not degrade this family any more than you already have!" With that Mrs. Kakogawa slammed the door to Kagome's room. Kagome could hear her mother making up excuses to Mr. Broutassen as to why Kagome was taking so long.
"I'm so sorry Inuyasha… so sorry…" Kagome whispered as she slid on the cold silk robe and let her body go numb as she fell onto the bed. 'Don't move, just don't move, don't think, don't even breath' she silently chanted to herself hoping that in some way she wouldn't register what was coming for her.
"My, my, my, what a lovely sight for my eyes." Mr. Broutassen whispered as he entered the room. Kagome felt the air turn cold and her body longed to curl up and try to keep him out, but she just laid there.
"You know your mother said that you've had your eyes on me for quite some time." He bent over her and dragged his untrimmed mustache and sweating lips over her cheek, "Of course I knew that she was lying. No girl your age would want a man like me to bed them. But she was a persistent woman, you mother, even told me that you weren't a virgin anymore, that you liked it rough." Mr. Broutassen grabbed a fistful of Kagome's hair and wrenched her head up.
"Ah!" Kagome hissed as he threw her to the bottom of the bed. Her eyes swelled over with tears and her body began to shake. He sat down on the bed and let his hand drag over the bed sheets and wrap around her ankle.
"You see I'm not fond of women who like to be roughed up. No, what I like are little girls trying to put up a brave front when inside they're scared shit-less." With that Mr. Broutassen pulled her body up by his and threw her to the floor. Her head hit the hard wood with a thunk and her vision went blurry before she felt greasy hands rip open her dress. Kagome couldn't move as he laid her on the bed and positioned himself on top of her. It wasn't fear, no it was something worse, something that boiled her skin till she felt cold, something that tore her mind from its dwelling and hid her thoughts, and something that drove her to try and scream when there was no air left in her lungs.
Inuyasha was in horror, complete and absolute horror. Every muscle tightened in an anger that bubble through his very being. Only one thought ran through his head as he was forced to listen to his mate being taken by another man, 'kill'. But, not just the acts of killing that man, but of making him suffer.
"There's a good girl, haha! You should see your face! You're so ugly with that scared expression! No wonder no one would want you!" the filthy waste of skin said before Inuyasha heard him slap Kagome.
The words were gone. Inuyasha didn't have thoughts anymore only actions. A burning started to boil over his eyes until they were no longer his own. A thunderous growl ripped its way out of Inuyasha's throat. He felt his bones splinter as something inside of him fought against his bindings. The heat was boiling him, his skin was beginning to burst and the pain almost brought him back to a conscious state, almost. A high pitched scream that was cut off with the sound of a fist breaking skin pushed him over the edge he desperately wanted to jump from.
"What the hell?" Mr. Broutassen asked shifting his hairy gut to the side as he stared at the closet that had started to shake. Kagome had heard the cracking noise as well. She tried to turn her head but the fat man's hands were clamped around her throat. A sudden gust of air blew the closet doors open and a curtain of rage filled the room.
"What the he-" Mr. Broutassen stared to repeat when suddenly he was thrown from the bed and into the window across the room. Kagome sat up slowly to find a growling demon crouching over her.
"Inuyasha?" she asked her voice coming out in small whispers. He didn't look like Inuyasha! His fangs were enlarged and his eyes those eyes! Kagome remembered the previous night, how his eyes had flashed that molten red.
"Mine." Inuyasha growled lowering his head towards Kagome's neck. She felt him sniff her body and cringe away from the places where Mr. Broutassen had touched her.
"Fuck! What the hell was that? You little bitch!" Mr. Broutassen roared holding his head where blood was leaking out. Upon hearing his voice Kagome shook and her body moved instinctively away from Mr. Broutassen. She tried to get off the bed entirely but when she moved her right ankle she found that it sent a spear of pain up her leg. She let out a whimper and clutched her hurt ankle.
"Mine." Inuyasha said under his breath, a growl building in his throat.
"What? You fuckers! I'm going to kill you!" Mr. Broutassen shouted picking up a piece of broken glass and standing unsteadily.
"Mine, mine, mine." Inuyasha chanted pulling Kagome closer to him.
"I don't care who you are! I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!" Mr. Broutassen screamed before lunging at Inuyasha with the piece of glass. Kagome closed her eyes and curled into a ball. Then everything went silent. The air had a different taste to it, the rage wasn't gone, not completely, but a darker more primal feeling had slid into the mix. Kagome slowly opened her eyes and looked up. She saw Inuyasha; eyes still a blazing red, with one arm out in front of him while his other held her close to him. Kagome turned her head to see the end of his other arm.
Kagome gasped. Inuyasha's hand was almost elbow deep in Mr. Broutassen's chest. She could see the blood dripping out of his wound. However, Mr. Broutassen wasn't moving. He still held the piece of glass in both hands poised above his head ready to strike. It was as if time had stopped, both of them frozen.
"ahh…" Mr. Broutassen gasped out. Then Kagome saw Inuyasha tighten his grip slowly. More putrid and pain riddled sounds emerged from Mr. Broutassen's throat. It was then that Kagome saw that Inuyasha's hand wasn't just in Mr. Broutassen's chest, it was all the way through and his grip was on Mr. Broutassen's spine itself.
The act of shattering bones is a simple thing. The bone marrow breaks in one or more places causing the bone itself to splinter and thereby puncture other nearby tissue. However, if there are nerves running through a series of bones then both the act and the effect of shattering the bones becomes something else, it becomes torture.
It was this very torture that Inuyasha was inflicting. The feeling of the hard shattered chunks of bone mixing with the slimy texture of the muscle sent a satisfying trill up Inuyasha's spine. A piece of the old man's lung slid out into the floor with a loud flop. This sound pushed Kagome to her limit of sanity. She let herself fall into unconsciousness and drift into the arms of a revenge satisfied half-demon.