Title: Tie Me to the Future
Author
: Tsubasa Kya
Disclaimer: You know... I'm still trying to figure out whether or not people really read the disclaimer. If it's not there, they complain, but if it is, no one cares anyway. (I don't own).


Chapter fiftytwo: Night In Lockup

-Spirit World-

Koenma stared at the vast monitor, several thoughts bombarding his head at once. His now grown and mature state was covered with deep purples and maroons instead of with blues and yellows for his clothing colors.

He hesitated to bring Yusuke and the others in with his mother and father still remaining in the spirit world to argue over Koenma's future bride, but something had been brought to his attention recently and he felt it might be urgent to deal with. After all, Yusuke and the others would eventually meet his father and mother—most likely be scared to death by his mother—so what difference did it make if it was sooner or later?

But Koenma hesitated at calling Yusuke in. How would Yusuke react to his mother and father? With a sigh, he guessed—and the guess was probably not very far from the truth either—that Yusuke would probably poop his pants. His mother and father could be very intimidating; his mother especially because she would sometimes burst into bouts of insanity.

That can't be healthy... Koenma thought. Finally, Koenma decided to just ignore the recent human deaths until his father and mother went back to the human world to continue doing whatever it was they did. Instead, he turned his attention elsewhere to the girl that his father was so adamant at finding. Coincidentally she was who was shown on the monitor.

Three days earlier, she had reappeared after being gone for over a month and the printer had spat out new information on her. She had almost drowned in the Snake River. She had been bitten by a blood-crest demon and cursed. She was pregnant but she never had sex—the papers indicated everything that had happened to her and why it had happened.

After an ill-cast spell, she and her opposite had ended up in the same body. Under normal circumstances because they were in the same body, the two would go mad within a matter of weeks. However, Kagome Lynn Akiko Higurashi was a priestess and she used that power to join the second spirit, Ka—her opposite—into one of her fertility eggs.

Upon doing that, Kagome probably didn't realize she had saved her self and Ka from death. Because Ka had her own body and neither had an opposite in the Realm of Opposites, Koenma's father had intervened and made sure they had opposites so they could both live. Koenma wondered what his father's interest in Kagome Lynn Akiko Higurashi was.

His father was doing everything in his power to aide the girl, even though Koenma was sure he had never met her and she had nothing to do with him. With a sigh, Koenma stared at Kagome's face. She was rather pretty, but Mitsuko was much more beautiful than Kagome was.

Koenma wondered where Mitsuko was at that moment. She was somewhere in the human world, he knew that much. Her sleek body, beautiful blond curls, luscious green eyes... he remembered everything about her. He missed her terribly. He had thoughts of having Yusuke and his friends sneak him out of the spirit world so he could find her, but his absence would be noted and his father and mother would come after him immediately.

With a sigh, he resigned himself to listening to the bustling sounds outside his office while he returned to debating whether or not to call in his spirit detectives to deal with the new rising threat. The perpetrator was a rather skilled assassin, sneaking about and killing important members of society in the human world, but not only that fact stuck out about him. He was a demon preying on humans.

(Refer to chapter 31)

-Human World-

The long night spent in lockup in the police station was not spent very happily on Kagome's behalf. She spent most of it vomiting up the food that they fed her. It wasn't that they gave her moldy bread and scum water; it was just that they gave her hard food that her stomach apparently couldn't handle even so early into the pregnancy as a few days.

With her being so ill, a sympathetic female police officer who had already given birth to six children gave her a couple Tylenol that she managed to take and not vomit back up before it took affect and the cramps she'd had started to go away.

It wasn't long before she had nothing left to vomit, but that didn't stop her from spending the evening dry heaving. The one thing that made it worse for her was the fact that there were two intoxicated men in her cell who kept making passes at her, letting her know exactly how many ways there were to impregnate a woman both willingly and unwillingly.

It was true that there were other cells in the jail, but there had been a large keg party busted up and those people involved were in to sleep off the effects of alcoholism. Of all the days her mother had to send her away, she would of course choose the one where she was most likely to get her virginity taken away.

The thought of her virginity made her laugh, but it was a coarse laugh raspy from an evening of dry heaving and vomiting. Was she still technically a virgin if she had a child growing in her even if she did not go through the usual process?

Finally the night was over and she was allowed to go home. In the days she had been back she had yet to be changed out of the pink kimono, the last one that Ryuichi had given her. She was grateful to still have it. Wearing a kimono such as she had on did not make her look like she had just popped in from the feudal era; it just made her look like she came from a more wealthy family.

The only reason the kimono attracted attention to her was because of the odd pink color. Had it been any other color, she probably wouldn't have gotten a second glance. But the pink was a very eye-catching color, thus she was looked at by everyone on the street as she was escorted from the police station to the police car.

She kept her head hung low so no one would recognize her face. If they couldn't see her face, they wouldn't know who she was, thus the hiding behind the hair trick. She was sure it worked, at least marginally. It was a little after three in the afternoon when she arrived at her Aunt's apartment. Her Aunt was not there, but since she was technically free from the police, they left her there alone.

A key had been left under the doormat for her by her Aunt who had known she would be coming due to a courtesy call from Naomi. Yusuke was who knew where; probably off with his buddies skipping school she was certain. The only thing she wanted was to be able to lay down in a nice hot bath. However, her Aunt Atsuko did not have a bath so she just dealt with a shower and afterwards went and lay down on her bed, wrapped only in a towel, and took a nap.

Her mind kept wandering back to the man who had given her the markings on her face and body. What would he say if he knew she was pregnant? Would he congratulate her? Would he be angry with her? Was he intent on arranging her marriage since she promised to stay in the past? Did she let him down again by somehow ending up back in the modern era? Would he realize that was where she was?

Would she ever see him and everyone else again? How did she end up in the future again? Why was she back when all she wanted to do was stay with people who did not hate her or toss her out because she wanted to complete her responsibilities?


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