Empty Inside
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Rated for language and violence.
Chapter 1
'Itried to kill Kagome?' Inuyasha asked himself. 'How can that be?'
Lost in his own world, Inuyasha was oblivious to the screaming Mrs. Higurashi.
"WHY DID YOU TRY TO KILL MY DAUGHTER?!!" she tried again. When he didn't respond she shot him the arm. Inuyasha snapped out of his confusion, and finally paid his attention to Kagome's mother.
"TELL ME!!" she said getting so loud that Inuyasha flinched at the noise.
Just then, some men had come into the room holding guns, surrounding Inuyasha. He was still extremely confused with the situation, so he wasn't as cooperative as most people would. Then again Inuyasha isn't most people.
"Alright, it's ok we are not going to hurt you," the man who seemed to be in charge said as if he were talking to a small child. Inuyasha hated being talked to like that.
Inuyasha had sensed that he was in danger. All he could think was that he had to get Kagome out of here. But she wasn't here. He couldn't smell her. At least she was safe wherever she was. 'Geese what am I thinking these evil ass holes might have Kagome wherever she is. They might be hurting her with those weird looking daggers that shoot metal. I have to find her. But first I have to get out of this situation.'
Inuyasha knew that it was as easy for him to escape as long as he was half demon. To bad for the CIA that Inuyasha was a hanyou, he moved so fast that they were shooting at his after image.
'Pathetic humans,' he thought as he ran out to find out where Kagome was.
"Dammit! We can't let him get loose," the man in who appeared to be in command said.
"Alert the men, we must find and destroy him." he said to one of the lower in command.
"Ma'am do you have any idea where this monstrosity could have could have gone?"
Mrs. Higurashi nodded. "He would have most likely gone to her school, which is north about 13 blocks away." She told the upper in command. He only nodded in return.
'Damn! Where is she? I don't smell her anywhere. I guess I'll go check by the school to see if she's there, but I doubt that Higurashi was telling me the truth.'
Surprisingly to him, Kagome was at her school. He spotted her talking with her friends outside eating her lunch. She looked happy, that made him feel better, and less guilty about what he did. Still his heart was racing as he approached her.
'There is no possible way that I could have killed her. I refuse to believe so,' he thought to himself.
He stood there for awhile. This was really stupid of him, because he soon had caught the scent of the men who were after him. He had to move fast if he wanted to get out alive, but this was not a problem for him as he had proven earlier.
He ran up to Kagome and picked her up without her friends even noticing his presence. However they did notice Kagome's missing one. Not that it mattered to him.
Kagome was a little disoriented to what had happened to her, but once she realized who she was with, she had screamed and struggled to get down even though she was above the rooftops and the spaces between them.
Inuyasha had never seen Kagome acted like this toward him before. The scent of her fear of him was overpowering his senses. He no longer tell where those men were. At least he could make it back to the well before they reached them.
Inuyasha was jumping from rooftop to rooftop with the still struggling Kagome, but the screaming had halted, thanks to Inuyasha's hand. He had shifted her because his current position had bothered him. In doing so, Kagome had struggled enough to break free of his grasp. Unfortunately she had fallen in between two buildings and had landed in an ally way. She landed in a dumpster, but was knocked unconscious when her head had hit the side of it. (Ouch!)
Inuyasha landed on his feet, and went over to the dumpster to get Kagome. When he found her she was covered in garbage, the right side of her head was bleeding really badly and she was also unconscious. He picked her up and rushed off to the well.
He looked at her body and noticed all the wounds that were across her body, they were made with a fine blade. They were mostly just flesh wounds, so she wasn't fatally hurt, but there was a huge scare on the right side of her body. This made him just a little bit worried. 'It wasn't me who did this! I would never do this to the woman that I loved! I couldn't have... could I?'
Kagome awoke with a killer headache. She tried to raise her head to see where she was but the pain prevented her from doing so. She just lied there trying to recognize where she was or what happened to her to cause her such pain.
'I'm just too tired to think about this right now, all I want to do is sleep, go into a blissful sleep that I never awake from again.' Kagome thought. 'come to think of it I don't even know where I am let alone what I'm doing here, I can't remember anything, all I remember is my birthday and about to jump into the well back to the feudal era...' she said as she fell into her oh so blissful sleep. And she remembered...
Flashback
'God damn him to hell!! Why?! Why the hell would he do this to me?' she thought as she ran, blinded by her tears.
"Oomph" she grunted as she ran into someone. She fell down and landed on her butt.
"Well hello there." This strange man whispered as he turned enabling Kagome to look as his face which was covered by the black mask. He helped her up. She noticed that he was wearing a black trench coat and she caught a glimpse of red.
Kagome was still partially in tears and she couldn't really say anything but "sorry."
She turned to leave but the man stopped her by grabbing one of her wrists. "Let go" she said surprised by her calm voice. The man didn't say anything just make his grip tighter.
"Please let go."
Silence
It was then that she started to struggle, she flashed he wrists around with the man's arm fallowing hers. Then she couldn't move it anymore. The man had stopped her from doing that. She tried to pull, but as soon as she did so the man pulled out a knife of 5 inches in length and put it to her neck. She froze.
He shook his head as if to say "No more." she nodded in response.
He quickly took the knife and stabbed it in her right side without warning.
He eyes jolted. She remembered now. She had to get out. Ignoring all the pain she felt, she got up and realized that she was in Kaede's hut. She also realized that there was no one else in the room. 'Good, that leaves me a chance to get back home.'
She dashed for the door to only take a peek outside to see if there was anyone there. Lucky for her, there wasn't.
She made a mad dash for the well. She didn't care how long it was, as long as she got there without running into him. Eventually she reached the well, only to find out that he was standing there looking at her.
What she did next, her mind hadn't even registered it. She found herself in the woods being tackled by Inuyasha.
He slid off of her; she didn't even look at him before she ran. Inuyasha let her go again, but soon after he caught up to her. He grabbed her wrist which made her struggle and let out a few screams. While doing this she never looked at Inuyasha once.
"Kagome! Calm down it's just me, Inuyasha," he turned her around to see the fear in her eyes. Her fear had made him scared too, scared that it was him that had caused her to suffer such fear.
"Let me go," she said weakly, and started to cry a little.
"You promise not to run off?"
She didn't say anything.
He didn't trust her, he didn't let her go, but instead he pulled her into a tight embrace, he back facing his chest. He sat down and leaned against the tree. She didn't put up a struggle. She was too scared she would get hurt again to do so. All she did was sit there on top of him.
"Kagome... I didn't try to kill you, that night I was up in my tree, waiting for the morning to come, I wanted to let you cool off a bit before I told you something," he didn't want her to know about his problems. He didn't want Kagome even more troubled than she already was.
She turned around to face him. "How dare you say that? YOU TRIED TO KILL ME AND YOU KNOW IT," she screamed at his face, and struggled even harder than before. She was really afraid of what he might do to her now.
"Kagome! KAGOME!! Calm down I'm not going to hurt you! You have to believe me!" Inuyasha tried desperately to calm her. But she wouldn't listen.
"How can you say that? I was there, I saw you, it wasn't anybody else, I heard your voice and I felt you and what you did to me." She said as quiet as possible.
Inuyasha let go of her. She realized that but just sat there.
"What did I do to you?" Inuyasha said just as quietly as Kagome had been before.
"Like you don't know!!" she said getting up. "You were there you ass hole! That entire night you were there doing those awful things to me," after she said so she fell to her knee and broke into loud uneven sobs. Inuyasha made a move to comfort her but she just pushed him away. She wasn't afraid of him anymore; somehow she knew he wasn't going to hurt her, but that didn't stop her from the anger she still felt toward him.
"Kagome, I mean it, I didn't try to kill you, and I know it sounds lame, but I really didn't try to kill you. Why would I kill the woman that is so close to my heart?" he said the last part so quietly that Kagome missed it.
"Stop it Inuyasha, you did what you did. Stop denying it, and leave me alone. I don't ever want to see your hideous face again." She said nonchalantly.
Inuyasha was still sitting there while Kagome didn't face him. She stood there too. She started to leave when Inuyasha grabbed the edge of her skirt. His face was still to the ground though.
"Let go, you pathetic mutt." She said in a calm tone.
Inuyasha cringed. 'She called me that before; I never thought she was this mad at me.'
He didn't let go. He tried at on last attempt. "Please..." he actually had some tears in his eyes. A few had fallen out of the corner of his eyes down his cheek. Kagome looked at him, there were no emotion in her eyes, end even beyond that there was only fear left. Fear of him.
Had he done this to her? To make this sweet Kagome that he once knew, the kind gentle caring one that would always forgive him even after he did the worst things to her. Where had she gone? This wasn't his Kagome, the one that he loved so much.
"Where did you go?" he whispered, but not quietly enough for Kagome not to hear him.
"What?" Was that a hint of curiosity in her voice he noticed?
"You. Where did you go? You're not the Kagome I love anymore. Did I really hurt you that badly? Did I really try to kill you? I couldn't have! I was here, I wouldn't kill the woman I love!" Inuyasha said trying more so to convince himself than Kagome.
Kagome knelt down beside to the now almost crying Inuyasha. "Inuyasha...part of me believes you, but I think about how real it was. Everything was real. The pain, you. I can't just come crying back to you for comfort. You're the one who did this to me. I can't come searching comfort from the man I fear most. Inuyasha I just want to let you know that I... I still love you, even after all that's happened." She said as quiet as her voice would let her.
Inuyasha looked up and she was gone. "I hope in time that you can believe me."
Kagome was wandering around in the woods. She got herself lost while running into the woods. She was crying ever since she left the spot where she was with Inuyasha. 'Why? Why do I have to love him so much? Why can't I just forget? He's the man that tried to kill me after all. Why am I not afraid of him? even after what he did to me?'
Just then she was tackled by a strong figure and was knocked to the ground.
"Sorry! Didn't mean to do that, I tripped. That's all," a demon said in a low manly voice he was just passing by.
Kagome was going to respond but he already left, she didn't even get to see what he looked like.
Kagome stopped walking. she had no energy left to go on. Her body gave out and she collapsed onto the ground. She was still conscious, but not moving, just lying there, very, very still.
She heard Inuyasha coming closer to her. She wanted to move but her body refused to let her do so. She at least managed to sit up. She closed her eyes waiting for Inuyasha to appear. 'It's funny, part of me really wants to believe Inuyasha that he didn't kill me, but then I remember what I went through, and my mind changes completely. But still how could he not have done it? Who else looks and sounds exactly like Inuyasha.'
"I don't know, maybe any demon that knows any spell or enchantments." Inuyasha said sarcastically.
Kagome looked his way.
"You were talking to yourself," Inuyasha explained, even without her asking him so.
Kagome didn't say anything.
"So you know that there is a chance that I didn't kill you right? It could've been some other demon in your time."
Kagome was still hesitant to trust him.
"Kagome... when I attacked you, did I tell you why I did it." He pried
She simply shook her head.
He decided not to talk about the touchy subject instead he went back doing what he's been doing. "Kagome, please. I know that I sound so repetitive, but can't you just trust me, when I say I didn't try to kill you?"
"How am I supposed to do that when I can't even trust you to handle thing with her?"
Inuyasha didn't want to answer her question so he decided to change the subject yet again. "Can I tell you something?"
"What? That you're sorry?" she said sarcastically.
"Yes, and that at the moment I'm under a curse," Inuyasha said so that any living creature would feel sorry for him. he had gotten quite good at it over the years.
Kagome changed her attitude completely. "A curse? Are you alright?"
"I'm fine, it's just that, this curse thing is controlling my mind, and that's why I did what I did."
"That's why you tried to kill me?"
"No! That's why I told Kikyo those stupid things, wench." The last part he muttered to himself.
Kagome was quiet for awhile. "I don't know what to say, but that still doesn't give me proof that you didn't kill me."
"Kagome all I know is that I didn't kill you, that night you went home I was in my tree all night, I didn't even sleep!" Inuyasha tried some more. But somehow he knew it was pointless.
"What do you want me to say? What can I tell you to make you believe me?"
"Inuyasha there is nothing you can say or do. What's done is done, and it's your fault. Let it go."
Inuyasha looked at her with his soulful teary eyes.
She just stood there looking at him. "What do you want me to do? Come running into you're arms and just act like nothing ever happened? Come cry on you're shoulder and tell you how much I hurt? Is that what you want me to do?"
Inuyasha looked away from her; he couldn't stand the look of her tearful eyes. In truth that was what he wanted Kagome to do, and for him to tell her that it was going to be alright. That they would get through this thing together.
Kagome couldn't control her actions anymore, she loved Inuyasha too much. She collapsed into Inuyasha's arms and cried with all of her heart.
"I'm sorry" she told him when she was done.
This surprised Inuyasha. "Sorry for what? This was my entire fault, I shouldn't have ever gone to see Kikyo that night, I should have never lied to you all those months ago either." Inuyasha hugged Kagome tighter.
'I'm sorry that I didn't believe you,' she thought.
She pulled away from Inuyasha's embrace. "I'm gonna take a walk," she said.
"I'll come with." Inuyasha said in a hopeful tone.
"No. you go back to the village. I need some time to think for awhile." She said still with no emotion in her voice.
Kagome left and Inuyasha left back to the village, he was a whole bunch happier than he was before.
'Should I trust him? Should I even believe what he says' Kagome thought while she was walking.
For the second time that day Kagome was knocked down by a big muscular figure, but this time he didn't get off of her.
"You are just as stupid as you are pretty, bitch," someone said sounding exactly like Inuyasha.
He turned her over to see the fear that had returned in her eyes.
"Of course it was me who tried to kill you. How stupid are you?"
"Get away," was all she could manage to say.
"Come now, you know that I can't do that. After all, I only see you as the thing I want most the Shikon no Tama. And you have it.
Fin
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