Chapter 12- But All You Are Is Mean
A dark, ominous feeling wrap around a building, particularly a room in the highest floor. A man with long, dark hair and deep, red eyes, smiled darkly as he watch his black cat eat a mice bloodily.
The cat jumped to his lap after his meal, and meowed. He grinned and scratched it's head. "Kagura," he called his secretary.
"Naraku-sama," she answered.
He look at her with malicious eyes. "How are the plans going? Is everything ready?"
"Yes, Naraku-sama," she answered. "The spy has a lot of information about him. She did her job finely."
He laughed evilly, "Taisho is going down."
He and Kagura laughed evilly and crazily in the dark of the night.
Kagome shuffled around her apartment while Shippo eats his breakfast in front of the television and watches educational cartoon . She bought DVDs and CDs that has an educational purpose so he could learn alphabets and numbers. They worked through his name, then he did numbers up to twenty. When he memorized it, she bought magnets and a white board, and he played his number with them.
They're working with letters this past week, and he already memorized all of them. He's watching a show featuring letters and words that start with the specific letter. She's not going to let him eat in the family room but it's weekend and they both need to relax.
She started to pack their things since her talk with Sesshoumaru, and he get them from her before the day ends. He talked to the apartment owner for her; apparently, he suggested to pay the rent for her. She objected, of course, and he couldn't say anything because she threatened that they would not move if he did pay.
She talked to the Kindergarten teacher, too. She fetched Shippo and talked to his teacher. She explained what's happening, and she understood. She give her assignments for Shippo, which wasn't that much. The two of them are going to move on Monday, pretending that she's going to bring her son to her work. Sesshoumaru gave her the password for the elevator that lead to the penthouse, and Inuyasha will be there with Rin to look after Shippo.
She sat next to Shippo. They watch the show silently until it finish. "Shippo-kun, I wanted to ask you something."
"What is it, mama?" he looked at her warily.
"Shippo, I know you've been having terrible nightmares these past few nights. Tell me, Shippo, is there anything weird happening when I drop you in Kindergarten? "
There's a very long silence. The boy stared far away as if he traveled a warped space and time.
"Mama," he started in a shaky, almost going to cry, voice. "Mama, sometimes, a man approaches me when we're playing, and he bring me somewhere even though I cry or say no. He would stick splinters in my nails, it hurts. There's a blood everywhere, then he would put alcohol in it and a bandaid. Then he will take it off and there's no more blood. He will drop me in the playground and the teacher will find me there."
Kagome was aghast. She was quiet the whole story-telling. That was a horrible thing to do to a child. She grasp her son's hands and check beneath his nails. "Why didn't you tell me this before? Do you remember who did this to you?"
He nodded. He climb to her lap. God, that was terrible thing to do to a child, she thought. She wanted to find this someone who hurt him. "Please describe him to me."
"I still remember the face of those who kill my parents. I was hiding somewhere, really scared, but I was so shock that I couldn't move or speak or cry. They didn't know that I was there."
"Stay here," she said. "Let me call someone."
A few rings and Sesshoumaru answered, "Sesshoumaru, my son can describe their faces. He could describe them. Please come with a police officer, or someone who could draw with just details."
"Yes, yes. My son remembered them. Even those who killed his parents. Please Sesshoumaru, I need to hang up. Call me when you get here."
She went and comforted Shippo. She hug her son tightly. She didn't know that it's been happening to him while he's under her care. That would mean that they knew she adopted him. She shivered in fright. They need to move now.
The doorbell rang. She let go of Shippo and check who ring the bell. She opened the door hurriedly when she saw that it was Sesshoumaru. She hugged him and cried in his arms.
Sesshoumaru was surprised when he got a call from Kagome. He was in the penthouse with Rin, and they are watching morning shows when she called. He and Rin changed quickly and went to the station to talk to a police, and they decided to come with him.
Sesshoumaru also called his dad. He knew that the old man will going to help in this case somehow. He ring the bell when they arrived and was surprised again when she hugged him. He was very happy that she's been depending on him in this big case and that she trust him.
"Let's go inside," he said. "Rin, play with Shippo while we grown ups talk."
"Oh gosh, I'm sorry. Please come in," she said. Her eyes are red and her nose as well. "Rin, you come here again. Let me hug you."
The two policemen entered the house and check on its perimeter. They didn't find bugs, but that doesn't mean that there isn't anything in the apartment. "Do you think that there's a bug here somewhere?"
"For safety measure, Higurashi-san," one of them said. "We're not in the station, so it's not really safe to get a description."
She nodded. "Shippo-kun, come here. They're here to ask what those people look, can you describe them to these officers?"
"Okay," he said. Two hours passed before everything is done. The officers asked many questions, and Shippo told them in details, they even produce a perfect copies of the men who killed and tortured Shippo and his parents.
"I think that this progress would be beneficial to us," a policeman said. "Thank you for your cooperation."
They went back to the police station and contacted those who are handling the case. Sesshoumaru and Rin stayed for a while
"Sesshoumaru, we'll be moving in today, " Kagome said. She has Shippo in her arms, and they are in their bedroom.
Sesshoumaru sat in the bed, "Then we need to get ready."
They moved that morning to their temporary residence. Kagome was so tired that she and Shippo slept when they arrived. Sesshoumaru and Rin prepared dinner for them, but the two didn't wake up after they ate lunch.
Sesshoumaru raged when Kagome sobbed as she told him what Shippo told her. Someone was spying on her, or her son, and with them staying in the Taisho Company building. that would mean that someone will going to spy inside the building also. Or there's probably someone who's spying already.
He called his dad and made an appointment with him.
A/N: I don't want to go in so much details, but the two who killed his parents are the Thunder brothers. The one who tortured him was Juromaru. For this chapter, I wanted to put some canon in it, and the Thunder brothers did killed Shippo's parents. More details will be written in the next chapters. I don't really like to put all my cards in the table because that would mean that I wouldn't have anything to put next time.
Ne, minna-san, I was shocked to get a review today and was very upset. Someone sent me a message that I misspell words, and that my sentence arrangement are hard to read. That really shocked me, I tell you. I already said from a chapter somewhere that I was using phone to type this story, so it was really hard for me.
Everyone, please if you're going to criticize my work, make sure to check yours too before sending it. It hurts me a lot, and I understand that I made mistakes. I will try to check them all over again.
I don't erase my work after I wrote them because reviewers really help me when they suggests important stuff that the author doesn't see themselves.
Another thing, someone asked me why Kagome and Shippo changed into a 'new residence.' If you read the last chapter and this one, you should have figure it out already. They moved 'temporarily' because someone is threatening them, and Sesshoumaru offered the penthouse of their company building because it has security 24/7, and it was really hard to sneak in if you're not a professional spy or something.
P.S. I wrote this chapter this early morning because I was sorry that my readers couldn't read a new chapter from me. I was really immersed with the show I was watching and it goes on and on, and I couldn't type. If there's so much mistakes, it was probably because I was half-asleep.
