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Chapter 14: Relief, at last?

Kagome sat in the passenger seat of sesshomaru car. He looks over at the depress girl. He had to get a confession out of her.

"Kagome…I need you to tell me the truth."

"What truth is there to tell?" she says still looking out the window. "Kagome, do you want inuyasha to get into trouble for something he didn't do?"

She looked at him. "He can't get into trouble he didn't do anything!"

"He was the last one to be seen with you the night of your supposedly rape."

"I wasn't raped!"

"Yes, you were. You have to tell me the truth or I'm going to have to call in." (Meaning tell to arrest inuyasha.)

"You can't do anything unless I said he did something." He kept his eyes on the road while making a left turn away from the station; where they were supposed to be going.

Kagome didn't notice the change in direction. "You don't have to be the one to say anything. Your father can be a witness of that. He did say he came home when inuyasha was there. And you broke up the next day. Plus the bruising…all evidence adds up to him."

"No."

"Yes and you will never see him again if you don't confess!"

she stared wide-eyed at him. "Can he really do that?" (Meaning her father)

"Yes and he can press charges or have a restraining order put into play. He is your father. He can do those things."

Kagome turn away from him thoughts running through her mind. "I…can't."

Sesshomaru pulled into a driveway and stops the car. He looks over at the girl. "Why not?"

"I…just can't!" she buries her face in her hands.

"Kagome we can protect you from whoever hurt you. We just want to know the truth so that you can be safe and happy."

"But you don't know what he's capable of doing. I just do want anyone to get hurt."

"Do you think not saying anything is going to help? Inuyasha is in trouble because they believe he raped you!"

"But he didn't ! How could he? He was gone when it happen!" tears fall free from her eyes.

"He said he had a feeling my dad was there so he left! I go up to my room and… and I just didn't see it coming…I notice the looks here and there but I push them aside! I should have paid more attention…or at least fought back harder…" the girl cried and Sesshomaru pulled her into an embrace.

She mumbles something into his chest, which Sesshomaru couldn't understand even with his excellent hearing. "What was that?"

She pulled away from him a little but didn't look up at him. 'I don't want inuyasha to get in trouble, but I don't want either of them to get hurt.'

Her hands clutch tightly onto the suit top he was wearing. 'Sesshomaru said that he would protect me. I want to get away from him, away from that life. I want someone to help me!'

"I…don't want inuyasha to get in trouble for something he did." Sesshomaru pull her away from him looking at the teary eyed girl. "Who did kagome?"

More tears falls from her eyes. "I could take the abuse. I took it for so long that it was just a part of my life. Then I moved here and everything change. I have friends now and someone who love me. But he couldn't accept it. He said I belong to him and he can do or say whatever he wants to me. My life has been hell because of him! I hate him! I don't care if he is my…"

She stops herself not able to say the word. "Kagome." She looks up at her name being called. "Who?"

"I don't want inuyasha to get in trouble…it was…my father."

She buries her face into his shirt again. He was shock. 'Why could I see it before?' everything added up now. It also explains why he didn't know who did it.

He just thought that she smell of her father more than her mother. He growl to himself for being so stupid. He felt kagome tense in his arms so he stops growling.

"I'm sorry," he said. "I should have seen it sooner, what he was doing."

"Is inuyasha still going to get in trouble?"

"Follow me." He lightly pulls the girl off of him and gets out of the car, she follows. Once out the car she looks at her surroundings.

"How did we end up back at your house? Aren't we supposed to be going to get inuyasha?" She looks at Sesshomaru walk into the large home.

"Sesshomaru wait!" she runs after him because she didn't want to be alone and she really needed inuyasha right now and she wanted to get him ASAP.

She runs into the house into Sesshomaru living room. "Sesshomaru what about-" she is cut short when she see inuyasha rise from the sofa, Sesshomaru behind him.

Inuyasha walks over to her and pulls her into a hug. "Kagome I'm so sorry I wasn't there for you. I wish I could have been."

Kagome was shock for a minute. Inuyasha wasn't in trouble, he was here and it felt good to be in his arms again. She feels the tears sting her eyes.

She wraps her arms around him crying into her chest. "Inuyasha I'm so sorry I didn't tell you! He said if I said anything he would kill you and I didn't want that to happen. I'm sorry!"

His hug tightens around her. "It's ok kagome. There's nothing to be sorry for. I'm here for you now." He pulls her away and lifts her face up to look at him.

"I won't ever let him touch you or come near you again. Ok?" she nods her head.

"Kagome."

She and inuyasha look over at Sesshomaru. "There is a search out for your father. He should be found and taken in soon."

She nods her head at him a bit of relief in her eyes.

Later…

Kagome and inuyasha were in his room cuddle close on the bed. "So Sesshomaru put all this together to get me to confess?"

Inuyasha nods his hand. "I feel so cheated." Inuyasha looks down at her head on his chest. "You should feel relief, holding everything back like you did. Why didn't you tell me?"

Her hands tighten onto his shirt. "After what happen…when he…" she takes a deep breathe.

"I thought that no one could help. I mean the abuse been going on for years and no one seem to notice then…even he said no one cared enough to pay attention to the bruising."

"I cared kagome." She smiles to herself. "I always knew you did…but Yuta told me you wouldn't want a slut for a girlfriend."

"You're not a slut."

"I know but…I heard him say things like that to me all my life…at a point I just started believing him."

"Well forget everything he said cause I'm here to tell you that you're smart, beautiful, caring." kagome giggles and looks up at him.

He cups her chin. "And that's everything I love about you and more." He moves in and kisses her with her kissing him back.

The pull apart for air and look at each other as if the can read with the other is thinking. Kagome looks away blushing.

"Kagome I think you should try to get some sleep. It looks like you haven't in days." She looks at him. "Yeah I guess you right. I'm kind of tired."

"Well go ahead and sleep then. I wouldn't want you falling out on me."

She laughs. "Inuyasha I wouldn't do that."

She snuggles into his chest and inuyasha pulls the covers over them.

"Night dog boy," she giggles half sleep.

He smiles at the time when she first called him that.

"Night Kags."

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