Disclaimer – Nope, don't own InuYasha. Just this story.
A/N – I am extremely sorry it took me so long to write this but the story wasn't going the way I planned it to so I became really confused. Also I have been grounded (grounding sucks!) so my mind has been mad about that so I didn't feel much like writing. I was even thinking about just giving up but I decided not to thanks to my reviews. Well I better go. Thank you so much!
Chapter 3: Tell Me the Story"Hey...Narumi?" Kagome continued starring with teary eyes at the beautiful woman.
Narumi looked over at the teenage girl, "Yes?"
"Why does your brother blame himself for your mother's death?" Kagome moved her eyes from the woman to the window not sure if she had the right to ask such a question.
Narumi sighed and bit her lip as pictures of her dear mother ran danced through her mind, "She was trying to protect him," she choked a little and there was a long pause. "Maybe I should start at the beginning...25 years ago a woman known to be one of the last of what are called Mikos..."
"...Your mother?" Kagome interrupted.
"No...her sister." Narumi replied blinking back tears, "her name wa-."
They both heard a knock on the front door to the house and paused looking at each other.
"We better go see what that is before my brother does," Narumi said almost afraid he already had. Just as Kagome got up Narumi said, "We might want to put those ropes back on and the gag before we go down."
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Kazutoshi looked through a window by the front door and saw three girls standing in a cluster on the doorstep. He glanced over to the stairs to see Narumi pulling Kagome by the ropes on her wrist. "Take those off of her, pull the cloth out of her mouth..."
Narumi looked puzzled at her brother once her and Kagome reached the bottom of the stairs "...if you want no one to die that is." Kazutoshi pulled a gun from his waistband and started walking to the door...Kagome screamed as loud as she could which wasn't very loud since the cloth was still in her mouth. Kazutoshi paused and looked over at her, "then get rid of them." he said as he waved the gun to the direction of the door in an 'I don't care if they live or die' manner.
Narumi pulled the cloth out of Kagome's mouth and quickly untied the ropes. Kagome walked towards the door and gave the other man standing a few feet from the door an evil glare as she walked by him. When she reached the door she slowly opened it afraid that if she opened it too fast the gun Kazutoshi was holding to the back of her head would go off.
"Kagome!!" her friends screamed happily once the door was opened just enough for them to see her face.
Kagome put on a fake smile "Hello."
One of the girls finally spoke after a long pause, "Your Grandpa told us you had a rare disease so I told him we would bring you your schoolwork...since you look fine you want to come see a movie with us?!" the girls' eyes lit up.
"I am really busy, thank you though," Kagome grabbed the papers, "maybe we could do it some other time when I have more time. Thank you for bringing my work but I really must go. Thank you again!"
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"You're welcome?" all three of the girls said as the door closed and started walking, a bit confused about why Kagome hadn't let them come in. Once they reached the steps at the entrance to the Shrine, Yuka blurted out, "She has a boy in there! That's why she wouldn't let us come in!" The other two girls looked at her with smiles on their faces. Yuka started walking back in the direction of the Higurashi shrine when she paused and looked back, "Aren't you guys coming?"
The other two girls shook their heads, "We'll make Kagome tell us all about it later."
Yuka sighed, turning to follow the other two down the steps. Part of her is skeptical of getting the whole story from Kagome, considering how secretive she had been lately, but figured that Kagome was their best friend and she WOULD tell them...especially after Ayumi and Eri get done interrogating her.
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Kagome sighed with relief and looked back at the man who a moment ago was holding a gun towards her head. Kazutoshi smirked, "Too bad, they would have made a nice collection." Kagome stared at him, becoming angrier by each second she looked at him and went to swing her fist at him. He grabbed her hand and began to squeeze, tight, and pulled her close to him by her waist, "of course you make a nice collection by yourself."
Kagome pulled away from him and heard muffled screams coming from the left corner of her living room; her mother. Kagome inched closer to her mother and paused when she felt a hand pull on her forearm. It was Atsumori, the man who was helping Kazutoshi. But why was he helping him?
Kazutoshi walked closer to Kagome. "Another step closer and you'll be sorry," he said as he stroked her hair. "Ah...such lovely hair," he yanked a few strands out, "now where is the doll?" he said in such a calm voice it sent a shiver down Kagome's spine.
"I told you; I don't know what you're talking about!" Kagome yelped, trying to hide her fear, which she knew wasn't working because she could feel the tears well up in her eyes.
"Give her time. Let her calm down," Narumi said as she walked towards her brother.
"Time?! Does it look like we have time?!" Kazutoshi demanded. He grabbed Kagome's arm away from Atsumori and threw her towards his little sister. "We don't have time! Get it out of her or 'I' will!"
"Let her rest, let us all rest. We are all tired, even you." Narumi looked at her brother. "If we don't sleep or eat we won't have the strength to complete our task. Let me and the girl prepare some food and after that we shall all sleep and maybe tomorrow our miracle might occur."
"Fine. But we wake up as soon as the sunrises." Kazutoshi gave in to his sister's wishes and went to sit on the couch, keeping an eye on everyone's movements.
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"InuYasha!!" Shippo yelled furious because the selfish hanyou had taken the last rice ball Kaede had prepared for them. "That was mine! If Kagome was here she would 'sit' you!!" Shippo growled.
InuYasha flinched at the word 'sit'. "Keh...like I care!" even though he did. "Why isn't she back yet?" InuYasha shoved the rest of the rice ball in his mouth, and watched Shippo sit back and pout.
"Here you go Shippo," Sango said as she handed the little kitsune another rice ball. "We can't have you pouting about a rice ball when Kagome gets back now can we?" Sango smiled and looked over at InuYasha, irritated with him already and it was only early morning.
InuYasha got up and walked out of the hut. 'She should have been here by now, what is she doing?' InuYasha trailed off towards the well but when he got there he decided not to go down. 'Is she still mad? Keh! I'm not going to apologize...that damn wolf started it! She should apologize to me!' InuYasha sat on the edge of the well and was about to go down but hesitated, '...if she is mad, I will give her time to cool off first...perhaps I will go on the day of the new moon.'
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Kazutoshi was the first to wake even though he had only fallen asleep just a few moments ago, not trusting Kagome or anyone of her family members, knowing they would try to sneak off while everyone else was asleep. He walked up to Kagome's door and opened it without knocking, surprised to see that the girl and his sister were already awake. He pushed the door all the way open when he saw his sister glance over at him.
"Good morning," Narumi said still a little tired and rubbing her eyes.
"Ah, yes...it will be. If we find that doll." His gaze moved from his sister to Kagome. "Any ideas yet?" When Kagome shook her head 'no', he walked out, slamming the door behind him.
Kagome looked over at Narumi, "Can you..." she yawned, "...finish telling me the story of your mother's sister?"
"Ah, yes. As I was saying, her name was Suteki, but I have grown to call her Sanbi; the name of the doll that possessed her. Suteki found that doll hidden in her father's shrine 25 years ago............."
The End! For now.
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