Disclaimer: Oh, if I owned Inuyasha…*wanders off starry eyed.*
A/n *Sniffle* Ogenki dess ka? (How are you?) I'm superb, thanks! *cough* I'M SOOO SORRY 'BOUT THE LONG WAIT! GOMEN NESAI!!! I tweaked the summary a little! Hope it's better! `Kay, people I know my spelling bugs you, but I do spell check, re-read my story and do spell check again! The only person I could have proofread my story is my onee-san and she acts like it's pure torture for her! *sniffle* That's why this up-date took so long! First it took me a while to manipulate her to do it, (ah, the joy of guilt trips) and she's a junior in high school but goes to a community college to get high school and college credits @ the same time! *Ah-ah-ahchoo!* She's unbelievably busy and keeps putting it off! So I guess the price of good spelling is slow up dates! …until summer! *cough* But I really will try to hurry now, too! *cough*…yeah, I don't feel well and tomorrow I have a big formal dance at my school as a celebration for the end of junior high! (9th grade) it's like a mini prom! The entire grade has been exited for months!!! ARGG! *sniffle, cough * *ah-ah-ahchoo!*
*author looses it* &%^# ($ $*@@%@## ^(^*%&# $*$&! RIDA FRIDA RUDA CRAT!%&^( #^$#*$ %&^*$^# %&$^$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! …*cough* _!
*gives milkshakes of preferred flavors to reviewers*
Izu- I know! I love it when authors do that! It makes you feel so appreciated, doesn't it? Keep trying w/the Olga thing! It's something all authors want to do! You're right! It is wench! *Scrunches up nose * I feel so stupid! Thank you sooo much about the writing! (Believe me, I try!!!) Keep reading! ^-^!
Aamalie- But of course! You're right! Silly me, I did have it on my bio for like, a day! The a/n were too much, weren't they? It was just a one-time thingy, but thanks! Of course she'll fall for him! I'm not that cruel to have a fluffy story and at the last minute have them not be together! …Or am I? JK! ^-^!
Sinqukusa- yup, Inu's gonna get nicer! …Maybe even take some happy pills… No, I wouldn't do that to him. I won't be so cruel to my future husband! (Shut up! It's wishful thinking!) I'm tryin' w/the spelling and you're right, the a/ns were too much. Ah well, it was a special occasion! Thanx so much and please keep reading! (Try to guess the 'Olga' thing too, please!)
Gamja the Wolf's Fang- Yup! Of course! Now just tell me I ya wanna be a good or bad person, and I'll somehow with the new miracles of scientific technology suck you up into the computer and put you in my story! Thanx so much and please keep reading!
Myriad- hey! Thanx so much! I really try to keep the characters the same! I'm really sorry about the mistakes! I'm working on it! Can you tell me how you thought it was unfinished so I can try to change it? Please guess what the big deal was with Olga so I can put you in my story! ^-^! Keep reading!
Chapter IV: Prisoner High
Don't wanna be the one who turns the whole thing overDon't wanna be somewhere where I just don't belong
Where it's not enough just to be sorryDon't you know I feel the darkness closing in… -MB20 (Match Box Twenty)
(Very cool band, check it out!)
Third person POVThe loud clicking of heels echoed through the empty hallway with blinding white neon lights to complete the cold 'You're never getting out of here' feeling… except this time there were no prisoners to glare at Sango.
The mentioned girl was sprinting to keep up with Olga's delighted skips. "Um…where, uh, is everyone?" she asked rushing behind Olga.
"Zhey are vhere you are going."
…?…
"Wha-?"
"Here!" They were now at the end of the desolate hallway, and in front of them stood heavy cement doors. Olga flipped through the thousands of keys on her janitorial key ring. Finally finding the right one, she threw the doors open with immense strength to reveal the large grassy yard of the prison with high walls all around it bathed in golden sunlight.
The approximately fifty girls all dressed in black outfits similar to Sango's were walking around, talking, trying to hide their cigarettes from the three guards, and just plain hanging around.
Olga turned to Sango and announced, "I vill pick you up soon. Enjoy rrrecess!" with that, she skipped back inside and threw the doors shut with a BANG!
"Gee, thanks." Sango muttered, wincing from the loud noise behind her. She sighed and glanced around the yard before her. Everyone seemed to already have a group that they were in. She took a deep breath and walked to the back wall with her shoulders slumped and a butterfly or two in her stomach. She got the eerie sensation of trying to find a place to sit at lunch on your first day in a new school when you don't know anyone. She leaned against the back wall, closed her eyes, and tried to hide from the world.
"S'cuse me, do ya have a light?"
"Hm?" Sango turned around to see a girl around her age with short straight hair black hair holding out a cigarette.
"FAY!!! Don't tell me you're smoking again!" a voice bellowed behind her. The girl with a cigarette winced, and spun around fumbling to hide the incriminating slow-and-painful-death-on-a-stick behind her back.
"Smoking? N-no smoking here!" She chirped innocently to another fuming girl their age with long hair pulled up into a neat bun charging up to them.
"Ah-ha!" she shouted reaching behind the other girl's back, pulling out her limp hand with a cigarette between her fingers. "I knew it! I thought you were supposed to be trying to quit!"
"I-I was… but, you know, it's just too hard, Kagura!" whined the girl with the cigarette.
"Hey, if I can do-Oh! Who are you?" Kagura looked behind the girl whose arm she was yanking on to finally notice a rather confused Sango.
"Uh, I'm Sango Haraikotsu." Sango said hesitantly.
"Hi, I'm Kagura and this here nicotine addict is Fay Valentine." She said pointing to the other girl.
"Hey! So what are you in for?" Fay asked as if talking about the weather.
Sango had to contemplate for a moment if she should tell these girls the truth. After a minute she decided that they seemed friendly enough. What harm could it do? "Well," Sango looked down and picked at her nails, "I'm convicted for murdering my parentsbutIdidn'tdoit!!!" She hurriedly blurted out throwing her hands in front of herself.
"Of course you didn't." Fay said calmly. "Kagura and I are innocent too."
*o.0* Sango stared blankly at the girl before her, trying to figure out if what she was hearing was the truth. She couldn't detect any trace of dishonesty in the girl's eyes. "You're telling me there are three innocent people in one jail? What kind of government do we have?!"
Kagura shrugged, "The guilty until proven innocent kind."
"So… what are you two uh, 'in for'?" Sango asked, trying to sound like them.
Fay shrugged, "Armed robbery."
"Same." Kagura replied bluntly.
"Wow." Sango was at a loss of what else to say. It's not every day you learn that your government doesn't give a flippin' toenail clipping about if the people it throws in jail are innocent. "How do you frame someone for armed robbery?" Sango asked, confused about that factor as well. It was just a very bewildering day.
"I-ouch!" Someone nudging her in the shoulder as they passed cut off Kagura's explanation.
"HEY! Watch it! I'm walkin' here!" A girl with long, black hair and cold features shouted rudely. She had a pack of equally frosty looking girls standing behind her, all mimicking her expression. Her clothes seemed abnormally tight and if Sango didn't know any better, she would have sworn that they were safety pinned in the back to purposefully make them so revealing.
Kagura straightened her stance, crossed her arms over her chest and glared forcefully at the offending girl. "Walk somewhere else, Kikyo." She replied coolly.
"Don't tell me what to do! I'm walking here and you're in my way!" She screamed, crossing her arms and imitating Kagura's stance. The pack behind her did the same.
"My mistake, Kikyo." Kagura replied composedly, "I didn't take into consideration that being as large as you are, walking over here and over there is something you can do simultaneously."
Kikyo's outraged glare switched from Kagura to the snickering Fay and Sango behind her. "Well, well, well, who do we have here?" She said dangerously, her cold, icy eyes settling on an unfamiliar face. "A new prey?"
Sango sneered back. "The name's Sango." She said.
"As if I give a crap." Kikyo retorted rolling her eyes. "Don't worry, I have yet to make you sorry for choosing the wrong crowd." She said, a dangerous threat hanging in her tone.
"Come on, Kikyo, we have better things to do than to pretend that we are actually interested in speaking to them." A girl standing next to Kikyo with short, straight, black hair said, gesturing towards the very offended looking Sango, Fay, and Kagura.
"Hold on, Yura. I'm not finished with this dirt yet." Kikyo answered.
"Hey Kikyo, don't you have a lawyer to screw?" Fay taunted her.
"Yeah, yours!" Kikyo called over her shoulder as she led her pack of monkeys away.
Kagura grabbed onto Fay to restrain her from flinging herself on the girl as she passed. Sango noted quite amused that she did in fact have safety pins in the back of her clothes. "Man, who was that witch?" Sango asked the other two girls."
"That," Fay said, finally composing herself, "was Kikyo. The snob, priss, queen, and basically your standard mean high school prep."
Sango folded her arms and clicked her tongue distastefully. "Why do I feel as if I'm trapped back in high school?"
Kagura shrugged lightly, "'Cause you are. Welcome to Prisoner High."
(A/N this would be a good place to end it, ne? But that would be too short!)
"So!" she said trying to change the subject. She had had quite enough of Kikyo in her months in jail to be discussing her on such a lovely afternoon. I seemed as if anything was spoiled at just the mention of her name. Quite interesting to compare her to bacteria, isn't it? "Do you know who framed you?" Kagura asked Sango.
The mentioned girl instantly visibly tensed at the comment and clenched her hands into tight fists of fury. "I-I don't want to talk about it." She snapped quickly.
Fay and Kagura exchanged a look. "Trust me; it will honestly help you get over…what ever it is if you talk about it." Kagura urged her gently.
Sango sighed and leaned against the wall, bowing her head and allowing her long ebony bangs to veil her eyes from the warm sunshine. She really didn't feel like re-telling her whole story again, but she figured if she didn't, her newfound friends would never let her be. Sango glanced around quickly to make sure none of the other girls were eavesdropping, took a deep breath to try to calm her shaky nerves, and started her tale. "A few months ago I went out with this…uh…abusive guy. When I tried to break up with him, he threatened me. One day I came home from college to find both my parents dead." She cringed at saying that but continued anyway. "The police figured I had killed them so they took my brother into custody and sent me here." She finished her incredibly shortened version of the story and looked up hopefully at the two girls in front of her.
"Mmm…sounds like he did it." Fay concluded confidently. "What's his name?"
"…Naraku." As the name left her mouth, Sango was surprised to here a small gasp escape Kagura's open lips. The girl had a shocked and unbelieving expression on her suddenly pale face. She stumbled back a few steps, tripped, and plopped down on her backside. She bowed her head and buried it in her bent knees.
Worried at her friend's odd reaction Sango turned anxiously to Fay. "W-what is it? What's the matter with her?"
(A/N VERY IMPORTANT! PLS READ!)
Fay groaned and gently shook her head. "We know…Him all too well. I went out with him too; doesn't get ya anything good, does it? And he's Kagura's brother."
"Stepbrother." Came a muffled correction from Kagura's lap. "My father died when I was two and my mother remarried to a kind, loving man soon after. Her new husband already had a son; a sweet raven haired little boy. However, my stepfather died in an accident a few years later." She exhaled sharply, "By then Naraku had grown up into a teenager. He wasn't a gentleman either. He joined gangs, did drugs, and robbed gas stations whenever the mood stuck him. My mother and I did everything in our power to try to set him on the right course." Sango could tell from her wavering voice that Kagura had tears in her eyes. "It seemed like such a shameful waist to have that lovely little child turn into a monster…still does. Every time we tried to talk to him, a window ended up broken and the house turned upside down."
Sango observed one of Kagura's tears drop from under her arms to land on the grass, resembling a dew drop. She had a heard time keeping the tears brimming in her own eyes from flowing over her cheeks from the powerful and painful emotion emitting from Kagura's tearful, shaky voice.
"One night we got a phone call from the police informing us that he and his friends had been caught robbing an old lady. After we bailed him out of jail and brought him home my mother tried to sit him down at the kitchen table and talk to him. I watched from behind the kitchen door. She was desperate to recover that innocent, loving child in him again. She offered boarding school, psychiatrists, church, anything that might get him to change.
He of course, got angry and began shouting at my mother. When she tried to calm him down he picked up a chair and threw it out the window." She shook her head gently in her lap. "I was so scared when I heard that window break. My mother had gotten angry and started shouting at him for losing his temper again. He abruptly picked up another chair…and this time aimed it in my m-mother's direction. She died instantly when the heavy chair made contact with her head."
Kagura shuttered involuntarily from the memory. "He hadn't meant to kill her. The look in his eyes was-was fear from the crime he committed by accident…and then joy from the ultimate power he felt of taking a way a human life. When he ran out that door I thought I'd never see or hear from him again, but oh, was I wrong. He had been dating Fay at the time. When I told her what happened to my mother, she immediately dumped him and he left town. The next day, a hardware store near my house had been found robbed with a confession note signed from Fay and me. That was his way of making sure we wouldn't tell anyone of what happened to my mother that night."
Her voice became more ragged and pained than before. "I-I still can't help but think that maybe it was something I d-did, something I said, some fault of mine that made him turn f-from a sweet little boy full of l-life and love into h-how is now." Kagura finished her story, quietly sobbing into her knees.
Fay quickly rushed to the crying girl, her own tears staining her face. She kneeled next to her friend and hugged her around the shoulders. "What happened to him was in no way, shape, or form your fault." She said confidently.
"Don't you hate him?" Sango asked Kagura. She couldn't understand why someone might want to defend or take the blame for someone who killed her mother! Sango's own mother was dead because of that bastard and standing up for him was the last thing she'd ever do.
Kagura looked up at Sango, eyes and cheeks wet. "I can't hate him, I mean I do, but I don't. I've known him too long to hate him. Still remember that sweet little boy used to play with when I was little." She sighed raggedly. "Back then, he was my best friend. He's still my brother…"
Fay pressed her lips tightly together. "Well, I hate him." She declared.
Kagura laughed weakly and wiped away her tears. "You do that."
Sango giggled too. A loud bell rang threw the yard startling all the girls. "Ack! What was that?!" Sango inquired wide-eyed.
"That," Kagura said standing up and dusting herself off. Fay did the same, "was the end of the break."
"Yay!" Fay exclaimed sarcastically. "Time for inedible food!"
*~*
"So, uh, what exactly is this?" Sango asked skeptically, as she watched young, pretty, lunch lady plop something that may have resembled food if studied under dim candle light.
"Mashed potatoes and fish sticks. Hmm…I don't think I've seen you before, you must be new. I'm Shinju." The lunch lady said, holding out her hand.
"I'm Sango." Sango said shaking her hand. "Yeah, I am new here and, well, I was kinda expecting food for lunch."
Shinju grinned good-naturedly. "Don't worry; we'll break you of that habit! If there's anything you need, don't hesitate to ask me!"
"Yeah, thanks." Sango mumbled and fallowed Fay and Kagura threw the cafeteria swarming with girls to a table. "Now I really do feel like I'm in high school," she told them when they sat down. "The food's just as bad."
Fay poked cautiously at the crunchy, green-tinted mashed potatoes in front of her, "Maybe even a little better." She joked. *~*~*~*~*~*
A/N Well, that's that! *cough* *hides from angry readers.* I'm sorry! I know, I know! There were no boys in this chappy! *cough* I'm quite upset w/myself for that, but this chappy was mandatory for you to know what's going on! I hope you enjoyed anyway! (I had a hard time not crying when I was writing about Naraku's past. *sniffle* Maybe it's not as sad to read it, but I tried!
Fay Valentine is from Cow Boy Bebop! If you've never heard of it, you should check it out. It's really cool! *cough* Most of you probably expected Kagura to be evil, but I like her! She's my personality! …I'm really very sorry, I know Sango swore, but I though it was needed!
*sniffle* for those of you who didn't get what the big deal w/Olga was in the last chapter, please keep trying! I'd LOVE to put ya in my story! *ah-ah-ahchoo! ugg*
THANKS A HUMUNGO BUNDLE FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO READ! PLEASE, PLEASE REVIEW! *cough* It's the only way I know anyone is actually reading this and the only way I know how to fix things you don't like!
RQD (random quote of the day) *sniffle*
"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals; I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants!"
–some odd person!
(I really am a vegitiblearian, as my friend calls me!)
LOVE YA LOTS! (And even more if you'll review!) ^-^! *cough!* _!