Chapter Two

Still By Dark Arashi

All right!! Second chapter!! Sorry for the wait. My computer deleted all four of the chapters I had typed up, so I'm going to try and put on two chapters at once this time. Now try and delete it, demon computer!

Thanks to all who reviewed the first chapter. Even if you gave it a bad review, you still read it. Hee hee hee. Yep, I'm sneaky. And I should mention that Kagome is very OOC.... well.... they all are. Just a fair warning to my readers: I totally messed with the story line. Also, this is (eventually someday I hope) going to be a Kagome x Sesshomaru story. But not until well after the 5th chapter... Anyhoo, here's the end of the first chapter:

Relieved to be home once again, Kagome reached for the doorknob, only to have the door jerked open before she could touch it. Her relief disappeared as a sharp voice shrieked ", Where the hell have you been?"

Today just wasn't her day.

Well, that's the last chapter. I got punched for that cliffhanger when one of my friends read the first chapter. --' Before you read this chapter, I have to apologize for making (most of) Kagome's family mean to her. My muse forces me to make the characters in my stories have bad family lives. Curse you, Leiko. (But at least Souta loves her. He's just never around....) Anyhoo, onto the second chapter!!

"Drugs!" Mrs. Higurashi shrieked. "You've been sleeping around to pay for drugs!" Kagome gave the woman a startled look.

Mrs. Higurashi was waving her arms furiously. "Is that it? You repay my love and care in raising you by sleeping around?"

Kagome wasn't aware that she had leapt to her feet in a haze of rage. " 'Love and care' in raising me?! You didn't raise me! You put me up for adoption! Sakura Tenshi and Kazuo Heiwa raised me!

"They gave me sisters of my own who love me!" FWAP! Mrs. Higurashi's hand whipped across Kagome's face.

"You have a beautiful older sister who loves you! And an older brother, too," she added as an afterthought, as she shoved back her lank hair from her pale furious face. "And don't you ever bring up those...people in front of me again! Besides," she added nastily ", if you are having sex for drug money and waltzing in here at all hours of the night like you are queen of the gahdamned castle, apparently they didn't do a very good job of raising you."

Kagome paled. She absolutely did not allow anyone - even her own mother - to make assumptions about her, or to force her to conform to their ideas of who and what she was. She also did not allow for people to bad mouth her wonderful adopted parents. Especially not her wonder example of a mother.

"Listen, you bitch." Kagome said in a glacial, deadly calm tone. "You forgot to pick me up from my appointment with Dr. Cho, so I had to walk to Kikyo's in the rain, only to have the door slammed in my face, because she wanted some alone time with her boyfriend. And then I had to walk all the way here only to have my ass handed to me at the door."

Kagome took a breath." All for the reason of you thinking I was screwing for drugs." FWAP! "And stop hitting me, dammit!"

"Stop being a druggie whore, then!" With a disgusted cry, Kagome ran upstairs to her room.

She grabbed an oversized yellow backpack and started throwing clothing into it by the handful. Then she moved on to her bathroom. Five minutes later, Kagome snagged her saved up money out of the jewelry box on her dresser as she headed downstairs.

Warily searching for Mrs. Higurashi in case she came back for a rematch, Kagome searched the refrigerator and the cupboards for food. Arms loaded with junk food and water bottles, Kagome snuck back up to her room.

She dropped the food into the backpack and slung it over her shoulder, staggering a little as she went off-balance. Kagome pushed open her window and climbed out. Buyo, Mrs. Higurashi's lazy cat, was draped across the roof. Hopping a little, Kagome barely missed stepping on the furry lump. "Mreow," it said, opening one eye and looking at her.

"Stupid lump." Kagome muttered affectionately under her breath as she slithered down the vine-covered trellis. There was a well house at the back of the property that no one really ever used that much, at least not since Grandpa had gone to the Home. He had been convinced that there were demons and such in the well and that it should be permanently sealed with a certain spell, but then, that was why he is in the Home. He had been crazy like that for a while.

The perfect place to hide out without running away. Meds be damned!

Okay then. The second chapter is finally done!! Uh, if anyone knows Mrs. Higurashi's first name, or has a suggestion of what it could be, please drop me a line. I don't like repeating "Mrs. Higurashi did this" and "Mrs. Higurashi did that" every few sentences. And if anyone knows where I can find really good episode summaries, I'll love you forever if you could tell me about them. Ah, yes... Since this story is a work in progress, I'll be checking on how good the reviews are before I decide if I want to continue it or not. Also, after the 31st of August, I'll be posting chapters much more regularly (if I decide to continue it), because I'll have constant access to the Internet. (At least on weekdays) I also might put a little teaser for the next chapter at the end of the posted chapters now. Just to mess with your minds. Hee hee hee...