Prejudice

Written By: France Gamble

Chapter Ten

Kagome looked down at her hands as she dusted them off against a bright colored dish rag. "So, what was his mother like?" she asked Kaede, as the old woman came into the bedroom with drinks.

"She was polite; very polite. She didn't talk much, but when she did, she didn't speak of anything besides her child and husband. She told me that she was patiently waiting for her son to become an adult and visit her. I don't know if she knew that InuYasha thought she was dead," Kaede walked over to the young girl and set the tray down. They both started in on the cold ice tea.

"I think she knew he thought her dead, but suspected she would live to be able to call him and say she was really alive. Or maybe even back from the grave he thought her buried in," Kagome said thoughtfully.

Kaede didn't answer.

They sat for minutes sipping their drinks and thinking. A loud crash brought them out of their thoughts, and made them both rush into the main living room. "No! Stay away from me!" Kagome yelled as a man, who clearly jumped through one of the large windows approached her and tried to grab her arm.

~*~Ma~*~

"'I want something to eat,' " InuYasha mocked Kagome's voice as he walked down the street toward the old house.

He rounded the corner and watched a white minivan tumble down the narrow Chinese street. It almost hit him in its rush to make it to the green light. "Ass-hole!" InuYasha yelled angerily to the driver.

He turned to the house and looked up. His anger quickly fled as he rushed up the stairs to the door. The side window was smashed in, and he could see glass everywhere in the main living space. The old antique couch had a foot hole in the middle cusion and things were strewn everywhere. An obvious struggle had taken place. 'Kagome?' he thought as he frantically opened the door and went searching through the small home.

In his mother's room he found boxes, and some tea had been set out. It was still very hot meaning the kidnapping had taken recently. "KAGOME!" He yelled at the top of his lungs hoping she was hiding, and that his worst thoughts at that moment weren't true. "Kagome, it's me, InuYasha! Come out..." his voice trailed off. His mind instantly thought about all of the bad things that had happened recently.

'I hurt everything I touch,' he thought despairingly for a minute. Shaking his head violently he pushed those thoughts away. He needed to find Kagome and the old woman. Sniffing he went to the living room and searched with his nose what the kidnappers smelled like. "Fish... oil... or maybe that's tar... salt water..." He tried to think quickly where somewhere like that would smell of all of those things. He caught Kagome's scent and some blood mixed in with it. 'She's hurt,' he grew angry again.

Again using his nose, and his brain, he followed the scent of Kagome's blood out to where a car or truck had been parked. 'The harbor close by will have all of those things...' he thought. He looked down the street toward where the harbor. 'The van that almost hit me... that could have been them,' he grew even angrier as he leapt to the top of the roof tops and started his quick running toward the sea. 'Kagome, you'd better be okay.'

~*~Ma~*~

"What do you want with me?" she asked again. Her eyes were covered and she wished for anything for a glass of something to drink. "Please, at least give me something to drink. I'm thirsty."

Something cold hit her bottom lip and slowly started to tip into her mouth. She was expecting water or tea, not the harsh liquid that hit her mouth. She spat it back out when she got her first taste of it; it was oil or petrol. She heard a light snicker as she gagged and tried to get the horrible taste out of her mouth. Tears slowly started to come forth as she realized that she couldn't control her situation.

Would anyone be able to find her? Why hadn't she heard from Kaede since she woke up? Why would anyone kidnap her? And so many other questions ran through her head. Unfortunately none of them came with answers.

~*~Ma~*~

He stopped in front of the large pier looking at all of the warehouses. The wind rushed off of the sea, forcing him to have to clear his nose. 'Great! Now I can't even sniff her out. I'm going to have to search every building and hope I find them before they see me,' he thought bitterly as he started on his needle in a hay stack quest.

~*~ Tsuzuku ~*~

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France Gamble 2005