Chapter 5
Kagome sniffled.She had been crying by the tree for about an hour and her sobs were almost dead.
She looked up into the darkening sky.She needed to get back to that hell hole she called home.She needed money and to go shopping and to see if Sota was okay.It was her job.Be the responsible one,take what her parents threw at her, look after Sota. That was her life.
Slowly,she picked herself up off the ground with the help of the tree branch above her,and uhhappily trudged home.
"Sota",she whisperd as she pushed open the front door a crack"are you home"
She lisnted closly. But all she caught was faint moaning.
"Yes",she heard someone snarl"But so am I"
Kagome gasped as she flickerd the light on,to see her father standing there.He was grinning in his druken state.After a quick survalince of the rom,she found that Sota was in the corner,breathing shallow,delayed,breaths.And I knew my fater had done it,and he planned to do the same to me.
She backed away slightly,flinching at the feel of his rough,calloused,hands on my shoulder.
"Kagome..you little bitch,where have you been for the past two days",he yelled.
"A-at school",she stammerd,slightly afraid.Sure she was used to this,it was regular,but who wasn't afraid of pain...right,there arn't many.But she figured that she would be used to it in a couple of months.But right now,she wasn't.She didn't like the pain,or the sharpness of his tone,or the hiddeous smacking noise that came from skin connection with the flesh of her cheek.
Yelping slightly,she fewl back against the wall.The same wall Sota was huddled up to.She longed to reach out and hold him,tell him everything would be okay like a good big sister,but she couldn't.She couldn't do anything,but wince at the painful blows that were pummeling her body.
"Mr.Higurashi",she pleaded" please stop."
Kagome refused to call him 'Dad',or 'Father'. As far as she was concerned he wasn't her father.He stopped being her father when he started being her abuser.When he started to hit her and beat her, he was nolonger her dad. After all,you have to love your parents,and she hated this man with a passion.Thus he was 'Mr.Higurashi.'
"Tell me",he hissed"Tell me why I should."
She could smell the fowl oder of alchohol on his breath.
"Because this inhumane you evil bastard",she spat.She couldn't help it. All her hatred for this man was bubbling and boiling to the surface!
"You little bitch",he screamed out in anger as Kagome regretted her words.But it was too late.She felt the sharp pain of the cool metal blade slicing into her skin.Pulling up her shirt,and slicing random patters along her most bruised areas.However,he didn't hesitate to make another bruise if he ran out of purple on his canvas.
Kagome bit her tounge,tears thrretning to leak from her eyes.But she wouldn't let them! No way in hell would she give him the sick sattisfaction!
And so the young teenage girl took the abuse until she passed out from blood loss,the man then leaving her in a crumpled mess swimming in her own blood,on tthe floor.Lying besides her little brother.Bith whimpering,and drawing shallow,uneven breaths.