Story: Kagome Shot
Chapter 3: Ransom Note
Authors note:
I don't own Inuyasha or any of the Characters, and I probably can't spell half their names. So please forgive me. This story takes place shortly after the 2nd movie.
Mrs. Hugarashi woke early as usual and started on breakfasts. She had heard Kagome come in early in morning yesterday and then holed herself up in her room. 'Poor girl, stuck between times, it must be so hard for her. If she would confide a bit more in me, maybe I could help. I know I don't understand demons, but maybe I could help her shed some light on Inuyasha's human heart. I guess I should go and get her up.'
Sota came downstairs looking for his breakfast expectantly.
"Sota"
"Yes mom?"
"Go wake Kagome up."
"She's not here."
"What do you mean she isn't here?"
"She left sometime yesterday afternoon. I guess she went back through the well. Why can't I go do fun stuff like her. Its just not fair," Sota pouted.
"Oh hun, don't worry, you will get your glory too. Now come and eat." 'I wonder where she is now? She didn't even stay a whole day here? And she didn't tell me she was leaving either." After breakfast she ushered Sota out the door and began her daily rituals.
She looked up from the kitchen sink when she heard a sharp rapping on the front door. 'I wonder who that could be'.
"Hello" She said as she opened the door coming face to face with a large man in a blue uniform.
"Hello, Mrs. Higurashi?"
"Yes, can I help you with anything sir?"
"Is Kagome your daughter?"
"Yes, is anything wrong with her." 'I thought she went down the well, what if she didn't and…'
She did not get to complete her thought as the officer led her into her house and asked the worried woman to have a seat. He then set about explaining how her daughter was had been kidnapped, and was being held hostage.
"My daughter has been taken and is being held against her will, and you say there is nothing I can do."
"I'm very sorry ma'am, but right now our hands are tied. Unless you come up with enough Yin to meet the ransom then there is nothing we can do. To break in and rescue the girls could be fatal to them, and the state has a policy of not dealing with Hostages." He took a breath and continued. "Your daughter left something odd in her note. I think you should come and read it, and bring your son Sota as well. Part is directed to him."
"Ok" came the saddened reply.
Mrs. Higurashi got into the squad car and left for Sota's school. A worried Sota entered the car a few minutes later, and she quietly explained to her son what had happened to his sister.
At the station, the Sargent handed the small family the note left by Kagome:
Mom, Sota, I'm OK. They haven't hurt us, and promised to
not hurt us if you guys can pay the ransom note. Yuka, Eri,
and Ayumi are here with me also. Its comforting to have
friends with me. But I would feel better if the friends were
Sango or Miroku…Ok, back on subject Sota I love you a lot,
and Inuyasha too, but he doesn't know about these guns,
you should tell him about them for me if I don't make it
out. And mom, make sure Inuyasha gets lots of Ramen,
you know how much he likes that stuff. Ok, I guess
that is all for my last note to you guys. I hope you get it,
just like Sota 'got' it when the mask came for the shards.
Love
Kagome
"Well…"
Sota stood their shocked, reading and rereading the paper, trying to understand what his sister was telling him. He knew she wouldn't idily say that stuff. "Can I get a copy of the note, it is my sister's last piece of writing you know."
"Of course son"
The officer went off to make a copy for the young boy.
Sota turned to his mom and began speaking with her about Kagome's odd message."
"It's more than just an 'yeah this is me' note like the other girls wrote, Mom. She said she would rather have Sango and Miroku with her. That means if she was in trouble they could save her since they were fighters. So we need to contact the fudal era. Then she said I should explain to Inuyasha about guns…"
"Oh, I see, its because he wouldn't know what a gun could do to him, he wouldn't understand how defend himself against them."
"No way, Inuyasha couldn't be hurt by anything, he is the best fighter there is."
"Sota, what is this 'mask' she is talking about?"
"Oh, some time after she brought back the first shards a mask awoke in the shrine and was terrorizing us, and I went into the well with the shards and Inu…" He stood perfectly still as what his sister was saying came across his mind. "Ive got to go right now" he yelled as he ran into his sister's room.
"You what, wait, Sota!" She yelled as the overactive youth plowed by her once again, out the door and into the well house.
She entered the well house, to hear her son, inside the old well, calling for Inuyahsa, begging him to come and save his sister once more.