Mommy Dearest

~*Kat… Wants… Angst… Therefore the story does not end here… *sigh* Them squirrels just love this story.. fo some reason or other…..bleh… *~

Last Time:

Her eyes darkened when she realized what they were trying to do. ~Keep me from the pain? I doubt it.~ She stood up and went up to the so called substitute. He eyed her warily but was caught totally off guard when her fist flew right at him. He barely dodged it and it grazed his cheek.

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He sighed softly to himself and ran after her. He retraced her steps and found she was going to the roof most likely. He slowed down to a slower pace and, as luck would have it, he bumped into Kouga. The menace, aka Kouga, stopped him from proceeding.

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She lowered him down bit by bit until she could feel his breath slowly caressing her face. Kouga's stuttering made her close her eyes in aggression and she lifted her hand up to him. She literally blew him away and he was at the other end of the hall.

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On with it…

Closer…. Closer… Oh so close… He was so close she could feel his lips lightly brush hers. Loud footsteps and screaming didn't bother them. Until it was right next to them. Kagome sighed. ~Not today obviously.~

She faced her best friend and glared. InuYasha backed off and sighed, obviously angry at the interruption.

"What is so important that you had to yell your ass off in the hallway Sango?"

"K-Kagome *pant* Your mom *pant* She's in the *pant* Hospital *pant* Attacked!"

Kagome's eyes widened, instantly filled with tears to the brim. She shoved past Sango leaving them both stunned and running after her. ~My mom…. She's in the hospital! What if she's slowly dying?! What if she's repeating my name..?~

She was crying and could barely see where she was going. She ran down the stairs tripping a couple of times. She tripped on the last step and twisted her ankle.

"NO!!!"

Her tears echoed silently through the long deserted hall. Nobody was there and she was completely isolated. She felt alone in the world. She needed to get to her mother and couldn't. She was helpless and injured in a building probably more than 20 miles away from where she needed to be. Warm arms encircled her waist and pulled her up.

"My mom InuYasha… My mom! Why my mom?!"

~An hour later~

"My mom InuYasha!"

Her hands trembled as she tried to read the letter in her hand. A letter that had been found on her mother's injured body. Blood mixed in with the ink and made it all the more treaterous a crime. Some of the words were literally written in blood.

..:: By the time you find this you will also find your mother heavily bleeding to death. At least I suspect it, hope it. Harsh words, but in reality they aren't. Much harsher was the way you "dealed" with my brother, my friends. We shall meet again don't for at least one moment doubt it. I am watching your every movement. I will kill you slowly by killing those who you love, as he did at some point. ::..

Kagome burst into desperate tears and ran to her mother's side. ~It's my fault you're here…~

"It's all my fault… I was stupid enough to believe that you were safe now…"

Her eyes widened. She ran straight for the door but was caught by InuYasha. InuYasha held her by the waist and crashed her body to his. She struggled and pushed against his body until he let go.

"Can't you see that if you die, I die?"

"This isn't about love anymore! Stop talking about mindless things like feelings! People's lives are on the line!"

"Our feelings are not mindless! We've struggled through near-death experiences for THIS to tear us apart!"

"No, InuYasha. This all ends right here," he reached out for her and she rejected his touch, "don't touch me. This ends. Now. Here. There is NO us. Never was, never will be."

"Kagome-"

"NO! GET OUT! You have no right to be here," she spat at him.

Kagome shoved InuYasha out of the room and locked it. He was more than shocked outside of the door. He reflected on her words.

~There is no us… There never was…~

His hands balled into fists and he hit a wall in irritation. The foundation shook with force and he made a hole in the wall. Many of the nurses screamed in shock and fright. He shrugged their gazes off with a malignous glare and stalked off. ~So this is what I get for sticking with her through thick and thin huh? Now I know how mom feels. Cheated. So much love given… Only to be put down into depression in the end.~

She slid down slowly against the wall. ~I'm sorry… I love you too much for something like this to happen to you. I can't let you get hurt anymore…~ Kagome's tears came out slowly. They left hot searing traces down her cheeks. She sank to her knees slowly and buried her head in her hands. Sobs wracked her body heavily as she struggled to keep control of the situation. ~It had to be done. This way they won't miss me when I'm gone. I can be torn apart piece by piece while my blood makes a pool upon your floor. I will not cry out in pain, but in joy. For it is my blood that is shed, not theirs.~

Her mother's monitor showed her slow heartbeat and Kagome's red eyes scanned the room. The window was open and the wind was blowing gently. Her heartbeat sped up quickly and she turned around slowly.

"I don't remember having that open…" she whispered to herself.

"Because it wasn't."

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His hands crushed a small pebble he had in his hands. He was silently sitting, waiting for news of the injured woman. He wanted to know desperately if his poison was working, affecting her. Being the mother of a miko had its ups, and its downs. The down being the poison was going to take longer to kill her, the up that it would be much more painful that way. He laughed maniacly and it echoed throughout the cavern walls. The rats around him squealed in fear and crawled into their measly holes.

The cave dripped with acid. One touch would have human flesh rotting in an instant, very entertaining sometimes. He stood up and walked through a set of double doors. ~They should be kidnapping her right at this moment.~ A twisted smile formed on his lips as he heard screams and smelled the salty tears coming from the girl. Oh the joy he would take from torturing her to the brink of death and leaving her there, as she had left him. She would suffer for what his "friends" had to suffer. A family member always looks out for his family. He was no exception.

"Kagome! How great of you to come!"

"Because it wasn't."

"I feel honored bastard!"

"Wha-"

Kagome ran from the man that had so suddenly appeared behind her. He grabbed her arm and she fell down, her ankle not letting her move as fast as she wished.

"How was your trip darling? Pleasant I hope."

The man muffled her voice with a rag and jumped out of the window. She screamed and fainted, not knowing if she would die on the way down.

"Trip my ass."

When she awoke she was in a van that had bars between the passenger seats and the backseats. ~Bastards knew I'd try to kill them to escape…~ The she looked through the bars to the outside and saw only trees and wildlife here and there. She was off in the woods somewhere. No clue as to where or what woods either.

"Oh come on, I'm your host. Be kind for I have your accomodations until the day you die."

"Go to hell," she spat at him.

Suddenly the van stopped and she was roughly pulled outside and towards an opening in the earth. She was shoved in and walked along a hallway dimly lit by torches. The gag fell from her mouth and they couldn't let go so as to put it back on. So they kept walking with her screaming and crying.

"Let me go! You sick bastards, where are you taking me?!"

"Shut up and don't speak until you have talked to the boss."

"Tsk tsk tsk. Show her to her room boys. I'm sure she'll want to see her accomodations for the rest of her long life. Because it will be long darling, by my side you won't die. You'll live for much longer than you think."

She was harshly shoved into a small room. Rats squealed and ran into different holes. The floor was littered with trash, even used toilet paper. She clutched her stomach and doubled over. Now she added to the filth on the floor.

"AH!"

Kagome screamed with fear at all the four-legged creatures running in different directions. She almost fainted but remained concious with fear that the rabbid rats would bite her and give her some deathly illness. ~Though that doesn't sound that bad right about now.~

"The rats bite, beware."

Kagome kept away from the rats after that warning. She stayed frozen that way for half an hour before a large commotion stared upon the walls that surrounded her. She gasped and turned all different ways, though they seemed to be the same when she looked at them. Rats started to pour out of holes and into different holes. She stepped back in fear and accidentally stepped on one. It launched itself at her and bit her arm, which she had put up as defense against the rabid creature. It sank it's yellowish fangs into her skin and left greenish marks that were oozing with her blood. She screamed as she swung it around, trying to kill it. At least to free it of the place where it seemed to have become attached. Her screams echoed through the caverns all the way to a certain twisted man.

"Oh how great the sounds of a woman crying out in pain. Those were they days… These are the days. The present. The oh so wonderful present. Come in here Bikuru, what news of mommy dearest?"

"Mommy dearest is dying as was planned my lord."

"Good."

He sighed with contemptment as he looked into the bodyguard's empty eyes. Soul snatching was such a great power to be inherited. It worked wonders.

~*Ugh…. So sleepy…*~