Chapter 4: Heaven Help Me!

Princess Sango

Tomorrow came too soon, and Souta was like an eager puppy. First, he had to get Inuyasha, Inuya, and Inuyasha Jr. somewhere. Miroku, well, he was gone today. Sango called him over. So he fed Inuyasha one of his, "I ordered these tickets online, and it ended up being kiddy tickets, which messed up the order." He gave them the tickets, and Kagome said she wanted to rest, so everything was set up.

All he had to wait for was his mom to show up. Once Inuyasha was gone, his mom showed up right on time. He told her to go down into the basement, which she naively did, without question. Souta told Kagome that Inuya's ball was stored into the deepest part of the basement, and he promised her that he would find it.

Kagome sniffed the air, but realized it had been sprayed with some nice smelling spray, and her scent got screwed up. "Fine..." She felt a nagging in her gut, but ignored it and went down in the basement. She heard the door slam and she turned around quickly, she heard a lock and a bunch of laughing. Kagome flew straight back up, "Souta! Open this door!"

She yelled for hours, but he never opened it. Inuyasha seemed to be not home yet, and there was no way she could get out of here. Her grandfather had sealed the basement, no youkai or hanyou could get out through the cellar door. She cried from anxiety and she heard rustling down below her.

"Is anyone there?" Kagome asked quietly.

"Souta is that you?" It was a female voice and a very familiar one in fact. The one that used to kiss her goodnight, tell her that she was special in every way, the same exact voice that hated her with all her being. Kagome grimaced and sat on the stairs, quietly waiting to see what her so called mother would do.

She saw her mom come up the staircase; her hair was shoulder-length, with gray flashing through it. Kagome watched her face as her eyes set on her, "You! I thought that I would never have to see you again, bitch!"

Kagome didn't even look hurt, "Mother, thank-you, I know I am a bitch. At least half a one, you should know that."

Her claws were flexing as her ears twitched in anger. This was not going to be a great talk, and Kagome knew it. Why did Souta do this? Kagome sighed as she heard nothing going on up stairs, "Why don't you take this up with your son? You abandoned him in his time of need, look how he treats me! He doesn't have any respect, since he stuck us in here."

"Where's you're precious shining armor now Kagome? When you need him most?" She spat back at her.

"He's with his kids, being a father, if that's what you mean! Something I or Souta never had something they were looking for." Her anger was going too high, any higher and she would probably be charged with murder, not too good for a hanyou singer.

She counted to ten and calmed down. She didn't say anything more; she ran down the stair case and looked at the bed set up down there. She had bought it for Kara so when she was older, she would have a bed, just no sheets. A blanket hung up there and Kagome took it and wrapped herself up in it. She stayed there, and sleep overcame her.

4 days later...

No food, sure Kagome was holding up, her mom wasn't, and she stayed at the door and yelled. No one was there anymore it seemed, and Kagome found that usual. Souta probably told Inuyasha that she went to Sengoku Jidai to visit Shippo. Damn him... he's going straight to the orphanage when she got out of here. It had gotten cold at night, and chilly in the day.

Her mom begged for a piece of blanket and Kagome showed no mercy. She deprived her of the blanket and the bed, leaving her on the cold hard floor. Kagome's mom got thinner, and she sighed a lot, tried to talk to Kagome, and Kagome refused to listen. "Kagome..." She pretended to be asleep.

5 days later...

Kagome started to hallucinate herself; she didn't yell or scream, she just murmured a lot. She told some secret stuff that she didn't want anyone to know about, especially to her mom. Nothing, nobody came looking for them. Kagome's mom was wasting away to nothing, but her mom whispered to Kagome, "I don't know how much longer I can live in here. So I'll tell you something. You better listen."

"You were my only daughter, I loved you. When you got pregnant, it changed everything. I still loved you, and when you took back Inuyasha, I couldn't stand it anymore." She coughed and collapsed on the bed next to her.

Kagome did her murmuring, "I loved mom, and she didn't love me. Even though she just confessed it just now, damn, it's so ironic for my life this way." She laughed and sang, for no apparent reason a depressing and ironic song.

Kagome laughed again before going on and on about being sorry for this or that. She also started to talk to the 'people on the wall' as she called whoever they were. She smelled smoke, only Souta would know about it. That means she really was going to die here. She looked at her mom, "You're going down with me. Not the way I intended it, I only thought my songs would be powerful enough for you to leave me alone. Or at least come back, now we're going to die here together."

"Going to die here, die here, no Inuyasha. Only my mom who hates me for life..." She murmured to herself, on and on, no matter what. Kara would grow up without a mother, so would her whole entire family. Only the twins would remember her, she coughed and breathed in smoke. Her world was turning black, and then she heard a door slam open and a voice calling for her frantically.

Kagome only coughed and didn't say anything, breathing in more smoke. "Kagome!" it came louder, and Kagome couldn't answer, her voice too weak, her body now fragile, even for a hanyou. Her world went black, and she felt someone grab hold of her.

TBC...