Chapter 5 - Healing begins
Kagome sat on her bed, hugging her legs against her chest, her chin rested on her knees. Inu Yasha had just left to return Sango to the Warring States Era. Sango was the first, she thought. The first to leave. Inu Yasha most likely wouldn't return. Why would he? He had the pure and virginal Kikyou. What would he want with a tainted, unpure, stupid girl like her. But maybe he would come back, Kikyou couldn't sense the jewel shards. Inu Yasha still needed her for that, at least. For now that was enough reason to live.
Sango had tried so hard to get her to talk. She didn't know why she couldn't talk with Sango, they had shared everything. Their secret passions for the houshi and hanyou that they traveled with. The fears that Naraku would win. Yet, Kagome did not want to share this with the taijiya. It was still to much of a raw open wound. She only had to look in the mirror to see the busies from his slaps, at her wrist to see the raw skin that the rough rope had left. At least she wouldn't have to worry about being pregnant, before releasing her the hospital had given her the "morning after" pill.
A soft knock on her door, pulled her from her thoughts. "Come in." She called, thinking it was her mother. Her eyes widened as Inu Yasha walked through the door. "Inu Yasha? You came back."
"Of course I did, Kagome. I said I would stay with you until you felt like returning. I just had to take Sango home." He smiled softly, his heart clenched at the scent of her unshed tears. Her mother had told him what happened in the doctor's office, while Sango had said her good-byes. The burning rage and desire for revenge burned in him, yet he had no way of finding who had hurt her. "Do you remember what I told you at the hos-pi-tall?"
"Hospital." She corrected automatically.
Inwardly he smiled, there she was his Kagome. "Hospital." He repeated. "Do you remember?" She shook her head. He crossed the room and sat at the foot of her bed. "I told you, it didn't matter to me. That understood what you were going through. That I would tell you why one day."
It didn't matter to him? She questioned, but he had told her that no demon would touch a woman who had lain with another man. "Don't lie to me Inu Yasha. I remember what you said about ..."
"Demons not touching a woman who had lain with a man?" He kept his eyes focused on the wall across from him. "You did not willingly accept that beast. What he did to you... I've seen before." His head dropped slightly, his hair obscuring it from her gaze. "I was very young, a little older than Shippo. My Father was dead, Sesshomaru had evicted us from his home. For awhile we lived with my jiichan, after his death we moved to a small village. One of the soldiers began following Mother and I. One night" He paused and took a shuddering breath, "He came to our hut. I couldn't stop him, I was to little, to weak. He did that to my Mother." He turned to face her, his golden eyes meeting her azure ones. "So I do understand. As far as I'm concerned it changes nothing." He stood and turned to leave, "I'll let you rest. I just wanted you to know I was back."
Kagome sat starring at his back. "Gomen nasi, Inu Yasha." she whispered. He spun to face her. "For your Mother, for thinking you wouldn't understand." The tears began to fall, "I ... I was on my way to school..." She began, almost instantly she felt herself pulled into his warm embrace. "I was a bit hungry and there was a small store I could get something to eat at. I was checking to see how much yen I had with me, when I felt his arm around my waist and cover my mouth. Why didn't anyone else see?" She paused and looked into his eyes, he shrugged. "I fought him that was when he punched me." She put her hand to the still healing bruise at her temple. "I think I might have passed out for a while. The next thing I remember was my wrist being tightly tied above my head and a tie, it's what business men wear with their suits, being shoved in my mouth. He used a knife to cut off my panties." She buried her face in his shoulder but continued to speak. "He slapped me again, I think that was when my lip was split. He kept saying "How do you like this, bitch."
Inu Yasha seethed as she continued. He also swore to never call her bitch again or anything that might sound like it. A soft rumble began in his chest, try as he might he couldn't contain the growl that grew as her words continued.
"I passed out at some point. Because the next thing I remember was lying in an alley." Her tears ran down her cheeks. So wrapped up in her own despair she didn't notice that not all the tears falling onto her hand were hers.
From the door Kaiya, watched as Inu Yasha held Kagome and cried with her. They would make it through this ordeal together, of that she had no fear. Doctors, Psychiatrist, Social Workers, and Police had tried to get her daughter to talk about her attack. Yet, it was the rude, arrogant, jerk hanyou from a time long passed that had broken through her defenses. Closing the door she left the two alone to deal with their pain.