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Graceful Mistake
Chapter 25
A. Night. In. Hell.
Kagome groggily awoke. She had a pounding in her head, but didn't even think about trying to move much, each small movement caused pain to shoot through out her body. She winced slightly. Her hair was practically stuck to the couch she was laying on,previously wet blood had dried.
'Did father beat me again?..But that can't be right, I haven't seen him in a while.' Kagome thought. 'Was living with Inuyasha a dream?'
All of the memories of what had happened before she lost consciousness flooded back to her. Her eyes widened as she realized she was back in the house she had grown up in. She looked in every which direction, she was about to start panicking.
Kagome pulled her hand up to her head and touched it. She could feel the light foam of dry blood on her head.
When she noticed just how blurry things were she felt her face, sure enough her glasses weren't there. 'They must have gotten knocked off when my head hit the floor. '
Kagome took in a deep breath before grabbing her hair and yanking it from the couch. Everything in her told her to scream out in pain, but she held it in. She looked at the couch and saw that some of her hair was stuck to it.
'Ow.' She stood up slowly, already feeling dizzy, and looked around to make sure no one, particularly her father, was near.
As quietly as she could, she made her way to the door. Before Kagome could even make it away from the couch she hunched over and threw up. Everything she had eaten previously was now on the carpet. Gagging noises filled the air as she finished up.
Kagome looked down in disgust before stumbling back and falling on the floor. The room was beginning to spin so she closed her eyes. She heard foot steps walking towards her, but didn't bother looking up or even acknowledging the person.
"I told you I would get you." She cracked her eyes open a little to see him walk through her throw up. He bent down to her level. "You're back." He pulled her into a hug.
Kagome looked at him through slit eyes. He kept mumbling the same thing over and over again.
You're Back.
Kagome wanted to push him off of her and run away, but she barely had the strength to move.
"You're back Haruhi."
'Mom?' Kagome thought. 'Why would he call me that?'
Haruhi was her mothers name. A name he normally used in threats, not to call her.
Kagome lightly pulled out of the hug. "I'm not mom. I'm not Haruhi." She said weakly.
He looked just as surprised as she did when he first called her that. "Haruhi?" He asked.
"Is someone I'm not. I'm your daughter...Kagome." Whether he liked it or not, that's who she was.
He slapped her in the face, hard. "Don't talk nonsense!"
Kagome let out a small squeak as he struck her. "I'm not her!"
You could say Kagome was done with it by now. She never thought that she'd see her father again under these conditions. Screaming. Yelling. Shouting. Hitting. That's all he ever did. She had spent that whole time missing him, regretting all of the bad things she had done against him, like calling the police, and all he did was hit her and yell at her. She was more so at her breaking point now.
Her father pushed her on the floor and kicked her. "If you're not her then who are you?"
"Your daughter! Kagome!" This wasn't the father she knew.
One thought crossed her mind as she stood up and ran to the door.
He's Crazy.
She ran and flung the door open. She nearly tripped over her own feet as she ran.
'It's raining.' Kagome thought as she ran down the drive way. Of course it would be pouring rain right now. She couldn't really see and didn't care, as long she was away from him. Kagome heard his foot steps pick up behind her.
She wished she could run faster, she wished she could get away from him. Kagome didn't bother looking behind her, it'd only slow her down.
"HELP!" She screamed as she ran into the street. Her voice was tiny compared to the rain that poured. "Help me!" She yelled as she kept running.
Her father tackled her from behind. Almost immediately her face began burning as it skinned against the pavement.
"GET OFF OF ME!" She kicked and screamed.
He punched her in her stomach, knocking the breath out of her.
"Shut up." He whispered into her ear.
Kagome didn't stop screaming. He covered her mouth and began stuffing his sweaters stretched out sleeve into her mouth. She nearly choked as she kept screaming. She stopped screaming but didn't stop kicking and hitting.
Her eyes searched frantically. No one was coming. No one was going to help her. If she wanted to get out of her fathers grasp alive it would have to be all on her own.
"Stop!" Her father yelled as he shook her violently.
Whatever else Kagome had in her stomach felt like coming up. He punched her in the face once and then kneed her in the stomach. She hunched over in pain. Kagome had used up all of her strength struggling to get free, but now she realized one thing. He's too strong. He was about two times her size. She was tired already and he looked like he could punch her over a hundred times and not even break a sweat.
Kagome still struggled even when he dragged her back up the drive way and into the house. He thew her on the floor carelessly. Her father sat on the couch, completely ignoring the fact that there was a pool of blood on it. He stared at Kagome.
Silent tears slid down her cheeks as she sat up. 'I'm going to die here.'
She was completely giving up now, there was no doubt in her mind that he'd kill her. Her head was killing her, she was covered in her own blood, and she was tired, too tired. Her father looked angry, and not even God can stop her father when he's angry. She looked at the candles that illuminated the room. She hadn't noticed that they were practically everywhere in the living room and kitchen until then.
'Since there's no electricity he lit candles...How long has he been here?' Kagome thought as she focused her attention back on her dad.
"Haruhi." He whispered.
'My mothers name again.' She thought. 'I wish she were here.' She looked at the ceiling, an idea had just popped into her head. "Yes, that's me."
He had a fit when she corrected him about her being her mother. Since he wasn't in his right mind, maybe she could play off of that.
"Haruhi?" He looked hopeful.
It nearly broke Kagome's heart. She smiled from her position on the floor. "Yes."
Silence passed between the two. It felt like centuries before he spoke.
"Go change you're clothes you're wet. I've told you a hundred times it's bad to go out when it's raining." He added a laugh.
Kagome was stunned, had her plan worked? "I can change clothes?" What was going on? Was he not about to kill her two seconds ago?
"Go." He pointed up stairs almost forcefully.
Kagome slowly stood up and began walking up the stairs. Her father followed her. She walked to her room, she would've closed the door, locked it and climbed out the window had her father not been directly behind her. He closed the door behind both of them.
"Change." He pointed at the mess on her floor.
It looked like her room hadn't been touched since the last time she was here, since he tore her room to pieces.
Kagome would've asked for privacy had she thought she'd have the option. She turned her back to him and grabbed the first thing she saw that wasn't ripped. A simple white tank top and a pair of shorts. Sure, it was winter, and cold in the house, but compared to all of the shredded clothes thrown everywhere, this was better than nothing.
"Now, go cook dinner."
"Yes." She grabbed her dirty clothes and began walking down the stairs.
"Make something good." He sat himself at the kitchen table with a book. Kagome walked to the pantry and opened it. Most of the food in it required the food to be heated in one way or the other. She didn't even bother checking the fridge, if there was still anything in it, it would definitely be expired.
'There's nothing.'
She grabbed a bag of old chips and grabbed a plate from the cabinet. She put the chips on the plate and set it in front of him. Unless he wanted to die of food poisoning, Kagome suggested he eat that.
"What the hell is this?" He asked setting his book down. "I asked for dinner not whatever the hell this is." He tossed the plate on the floor. She watched as it broke.
"I didn't go grocery shopping so there's nothing to eat." She didn't try to pick up the plate.
"Why didn't you go shopping! ?" He yelled. "You know every Thursday you go grocery shopping!" He slapped her across the face.
"I'm sorry." Kagome would say anything to keep from getting slapped again. Her head was killing her.
"I expect a good breakfast tomorrow. Let's go to bed now."
The whole dinner thing really made Kagome wonder about how long he'd been there.
'You can't stay at a place with no food.' She thought as she went up the stairs. 'He couldn't have been here too long if he still thinks that its safe to eat the food here. It's not my problem now, question is, how will I get out? When he's sleeping I can just sneak out my window." For some reason, Kagome didn't think her plan would go so smoothly.
She began turning into her own room when her father wrapped his hand around her wrist. "Where are you going?" He almost looked panicked.
"To my room." Kagome said calmly.
He shook his head. "No, your room is this way." He began pulling her towards her parents room.
'I knew it wouldn't go that smoothly.' She looked at the bed that her father had already started getting into.
"Get in." He said forcefully.
Kagome disapproved of getting in bed with her father. She stood staring at it for a while longer. Her father patted a spot on the bed. She got in, but scooted as far away and as close to the edge as possible.
"Good night." Her father blew out the candle on his night stand.
Kagome blinked next to him. She didn't feel safe enough to sleep. Everything in her body was telling her to go to sleep, to save energy, but she just didn't feel comfortable.
Twenty minutes after the candle was blown out, she was feeling disappointed in herself. She had drifted in and out of sleep about a hundred times already. Being in such close proximity of her father made her realize just how bad he smelled. It was as if he hadn't bathed in days. Truly a horrible smell. Almost like a mixture of shit and garbage, the smell alone made her want to throw up.
Ten minutes later, Kagome was sleeping non to peacefully.
Kagome was awoken by a slight pressure on her stomach. She blinked before focusing her eyes on her father. He was nearly all the way on top of her, one hand on each side of her.
Kagome pushed her father off of her, staring wide eyed at him. Just what did he think he was doing?
"Come on Haruhi, we haven't done it in a long time." He said, advancing towards her.
'We have never done it, and we never will.' Kagome thought as she scooted so close to the edge of the bed that she was just about a small movement from falling off. "I can't!"
Her father grabbed her hand and pulled, basically yanked, her towards him. "You can."
"No!" Kagome tugged at her hand, he had a tight grip.
He grabbed the other hand and pinned both of them above her head. "Yes! Why are you struggling so much! ? You were gone for so long, do you know how much I missed you?"
He began moving towards her pants. Tugging on them in every way to get them off. Kagome had tears streaming down her face. She didn't want to, but she raised her knee and kneed him in the groin. It didn't have much effect since all he did was stop what he was doing. If anything his grip on her hands tightened though.
He quickly recovered and smacked her with his free hand.
"Tomorrow." Kagome said, praying that saying that would get him off of her back. "Tomorrow night, we can." She'd be saying tomorrow night every night that she was in the house.
"Okay."
He released his tight hold on her hand and moved his hands away from her lower region. He sided for just pulling her closer and kissing her. When Kagome tried to pull away he smacked her again as a way of telling her not to push her luck.
He kissed her first only on the cheek, but then slowly moved to her mouth. Kagome tried to keep herself busy with thoughts as her father kissed her.
'I miss you so much, Inuyasha.' She thought. She felt her father's tongue go into her mouth and shivered involuntarily. 'I don't know when I'll see you again, but I miss you. I'll try to sneak out soon.'
She wished more than anything that she could hear Inuyasha's comforting voice at the moment. He would make her feel like everything was okay, like she was safe.
She looked down at her father as he began sucking on her neck. She felt like crying again.
'Did father ever do this to mother? Did he ever beat her? Did he ever hit her if she didn't do intimate things with him?' Kagome thought as she stared at the ceiling.
She felt like a puppet. Her father controlled her every movement.
Two hours later her father was asleep next to her , Kagome didn't sleep a wink that night, scared that her father would try to do something else with her while she was sleeping.
Seven in the afternoon. Time seemed to pass so slowly. She was starving and dirty. She had been beaten practically all day. Twenty-seven times throughout the day, she counted.
The first for raising her voice slightly. Twice for not making lunch or breakfast with good food. The fourth for having a dirty house. The rest for small things that 'Haruhi' had done in the past. Each beating lasting over ten minutes.
Kagome was practically shaking as she searched for something for dinner. She didn't want to get hit again, but there was nothing to eat. She didn't want to give him expired food, but that's all there was. She looked in the pantry for the hundredth time.
'Nothing.'
She went back to the fridge. "I'm hungry, hurry up." Her father said as he looked at her.
"Okay." Kagome said as calmly as she could, she could feel another beating coming.
"Are you raising your voice?" He raised an eye brow.
Kagome quickly shook her head. "No." She said in an even lower voice.
"Speak up I can't hear you!" Her father yelled. He slammed the book on the table.
"Yes, sir." She said a little louder.
"Just hurry with dinner, it better be good."
Kagome looked at the candle on the counter. Everywhere was lit with candles, they all smelled so bad. Kagome wanted to blow all of them out, but she knew it'd set her father off.
She pulled expired milk out of the fridge and expired orange juice. She grabbed a bunch of spices from the cabinet and grabbed bread.
'Maybe this will kill him.' She thought. She couldn't take it anymore, she just couldn't. She grabbed a bowl and began mixing everything together. She unscrewed the top on the salt and dumped the whole thing in it.
Kagome went to the pantry, grabbed two cans of rotten tuna fish, and grabbed a butcher knife from the dish washer. She began pressing the knife around the edge of the cans lid to open it. 'Maybe I could just stab him?' Kagome knew she didn't have it in her to stab him, or anyone for that matter.
"Ow." She lightly whispered as the knife slipped off of the can and cut her. She looked at the blood that was already pooling on her hand.
"Hurry up with dinner!" Her father yelled again.
Kagome squeezed her blood into the tuna fish mix and then quickly went back to opening the cans. She nearly cut herself a couple more times in the process, but eventually got both of them open. She quickly dumped the tuna in it before putting a bunch of other random spices in it and stirring.
She even looked under the cabinet and added a bit of bleach to it. Not enough to kill him, but enough to at least make him sick.
Kagome put the nasty concoction on two pieces of moldy bread and then presented it to her father. He looked at the sandwich before tossing it on the floor.
"What was that piece of shit?"
"You asked for dinner, I gave it to you." Kagome said as she bent down and picked it up.
She wanted him to take a bite of the horrible sandwich. She wanted him to have a justified reason for beating her for once.
He punched her in the stomach and smiled as she hunched over. "The worst wife ever." He spat on her. "Let's relax in the living room." He roughly grabbed her arm and yanked her into the living room.
They sat for a while. Him reading a magazine, Kagome staring blankly around him. She looked at the kitchen from her position on the couch.
'Where is Inuyasha? Does he even realize I'm gone? Why hasn't he called the police? What, he doesn't even care that I'm gone? I always burden him anyways.' Kagome quickly shook those thoughts out of her head. Inuyasha would never think that, he was just happy to help her in any way he could. Kagome felt horrible for thinking such negative thoughts...about him at that.
'I need to get out of here.' She stood up. Her father looked at her. "I'm-I'm just getting a drink."
Kagome went into the kitchen. She could clearly tell he was watching her. She walked to the counter, where he couldn't see her from his angle.
'The house phone.' Kagome picked the cordless phone up slowly from its charger, trying not to make any noise. 'Come on work.' She pressed the talk button a hundred times before she set the phone down.
Since they hadn't paid the bills, of course the phone wouldn't work.
'The phone bill on the house was due on the 1st.' Kagome thought sadly.
She poured a glass of juice before walking back into the living room and sitting on the couch. Her father seemed to relax when she was next to him.
'The electricity bill was due on the 25th...the water bill was due on the 26th...but, his cell phone bill was due on the 8th...which hasn't come yet...' Kagome looked at her father.
This was probably her only chance of getting out of the house.
She cleared her throat. "Honey, may I use your cell phone?"
He immediately shook his head no. "Why?"
Kagome thought of a reason. "I...You don't remember? We were invited to a Christmas party today? I want to cancel so I can stay home with you." Kagome said sweetly.
"We were?"
She slowly nodded her head. "Yes, but I don't feel like going and I'm sure you don't. Don't you want to stay home with me?" Kagome asked. 'Please just give me the phone.' She thought.
She had seen something like this on TV. The main character convinced the crazy person that some events that never transpired happened. Hopefully, this would work in her case.
"I do."
"It would be rude if I didn't tell them that we won't be coming. I don't want to be rude."
He placed a soft kiss on her cheek and then handed her the cellphone. "That's my wife, always with her manners." He said with a smile.
She nodded her head. "Yes." Kagome stood up. "Can I talk in the kitchen?"
He shook his head. "No."
Kagome knew she was pushing her luck. She stood up. "Okay, I'll talk right here."
Kagome turned the phone on. It blinked on before showing the low battery sign. 'Better make this quick.'
She dialed Inuyasha's number quickly.
Ring
Ring
Ring
Ring
Ring
Ring
'He's not going to pick up.' Kagome was about a second from panicking. 'Okay, okay, my next call is the police.' She looked at the phone, she probably had a minute left until the phone died.
"Hello?" Inuyasha answered.
"Hi, Shizuki, I- I can't make it to the Christmas party." It took everything to keep Kagome from crying and rushing to tell Inuyasha what was happening.
"Kagome, where the hell have you been? I called Sango and she sa-"
Kagome cut him off, she wasn't sure how much longer the phone call would last. She slowly began edging away from the couch. "Shizuki, my husband and I can't make it to the party."
"What's wrong, where are you?" He could tell something was obviously wrong. Why did it sound like she was shaking?
She walked towards the stairs. "Where are you going? Let me speak to them." Her father asked as he stood up.
"Inuyasha, help me." Kagome whispered as tears began falling from her eyes. "He has me, he has me." She looked as her father began coming towards her. She began running to the door. "Inuyasha, help me! My father, my father!" She struggled to open the door with one hand. "Help!"
Her father grabbed her shoulder and threw her from the door, the phone skidding away from her. She landed painfully on her arm.
"What the fuck do you think you're doing! ?" He asked as he pounced on top of her.
"Call the police, Inuyasha! Call the police!"
Inuyasha pressed the phone to his ear. "Kagome, what the hell is going on! ? Kagome! ? Kagome !" He called her name many times.
He could hear her screaming in the back ground, her crying.
"Shut up!" Someone else said, he heard a loud scream before everything got quiet.
Inuyasha's eyes widened as he began to recognize the other voice on the line. The line went dead.
"Her father." He whispered before calling the police.
Kagome slowly blinked her eyes open. It was pitch dark around her, every candle in the house was blown out. Memories rushed back to her all at once. She tried to move, but was constricted. She looked around and nearly jumped out of her skin when her fathers eyes met hers.
"Shhhh." He said calmly.
Kagome was sitting on her fathers lap in a corner in the living room. His right arm was wrapped non to comfortably around her waist, holding her in place; while the other hand had a knife in it, held up and pressed against her cheek, but not so hard as to actually cut her.
For a second, Kagome didn't hear anything. She gulped as she tried to see the window near the door. From her position she could barely see anything. Red and blue lights were flashing around outside.
She gave a mental sigh of relief. 'He called them.' She thought happily.
She slowly tilted her head to look at her father, careful not to cut herself in the process. He looked scared, like he didn't know what was going on.
"I'm going to do it, I'm going to kill you." He said huskily. "If they bust in I'm going to kill you."
Kagome's heart stopped. She wanted to say he wouldn't do it, she really did, but after all that's happened, she was sure he'd kill her if they actually did bust in.
"Don't do that." Kagome said with a shaky voice as calmly as she could. Her life was at stake here, maybe coaxing him into not killing her would work. "I'll talk to them if you let me, I'll talk to them, everything will be okay."
He pressed the knife into her cheek, drawing blood, he was nervous. "No." He shook his head. "You're not going to do that."
"Calm down, calm down." Kagome said trying to keep her voice steady. The knife was hurting her. "Just stop and take a breath."
He took a couple of breaths, the knife was slowly taken out of her cheek, but still pressed against it. "I'm going to kill you." He repeated.
"No, no, no, you're not going to do that."
"Don't tell me what I'm going to do!" He slid the knife swiftly across her cheek. Blood gushed out.
Kagome let out a whimper. "I'm sorry." She said quickly, she swallowed a lump in her throat. "I'm sorry, just be calm. Don't do anything rash, just keep breathing."
"They better not come in here." He said in a warning tone.
Kagome didn't say anything because she was sure they'd come in the house.
"Let the girl go!" Kagome heard them from outside, she knew her father heard as well. "We'll be forced to come in if you don't."
"They're coming in! They're coming in!" He started panicking, his grip on her stomach tightened. It was nearly cutting her breathing.
Kagome was shaking. "If you let me go they won't come in."
"NO!" He yelled.
The front door bust down and her father slid the knife across her cheek again. Kagome screamed in pain. A waterfall of blood pooled out of her cheek.
'He didn't kill me, he didn't kill me.' Kagome said, thanking Kami or her life.
The police barged up the stairs. Kagome and her father laid eyes on the police. They stayed a good 20 feet away from each other.
"Let her go, and everything will be okay." The police said as he tried to calm him down.
Her father shook his head. "No." He repeated it several times.
"If you don't let her go we'll be forced to shoot." They said with their guns raised.
"No, don't shoot." Kagome said. "Don't shoot."
"Let her go."
"Don't shoot." She repeated. "Don't shoot him. Please, don't shoot him."
Kagome didn't want her father to get shot, anything but that.
"Please, just let me talk to him. Do not use your guns." Kagome felt the knife move from her cheek and press against her stomach.
"You have 5 seconds, sir. Five."
Kagome looked around. The door was left open and red and blue lights flashed all over the place. All sorts of noises from outside were ringing.
"Four."
"Daddy, daddy please. Let me go. I don't want them to shoot." Kagome had tears pouring out of her eyes. "Please, let me go." The tears mixed in with her blood as it fell down her cheek.
Almost as if he hadn't heard her, he sat shaking his head.
"Three."
"Do you want them to shoot? I don't want you to get hurt, so please." Kagome begged.
He still just shook his head, could he hear her?
"Two."
Since she couldn't reason with her father she turned to the police.
"Please, don't shoot. Just give him time, give him time. He's scared."
"One."
Her father screamed as he pulled the knife back and plunged it into her stomach. He slashed the knife across.
"Don't shoot!"
The last thing Kagome remembered before passing out were the sounds of gun shots ringing through the air.
Author's Note.
7/7/12: What a chapter? This is by far my favorite chapter! I have been waiting to write this since last year. Thank my mom for telling me a story about this guy last year, she's how I came up with part of this chapter...So thank you mom!
It only took 2 days to write because I was so excited about writing it :).
finished writing: 7/7/2012.
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