Yay! chapter ten! It's been a long and bumpy road to get here but sometimes.. uh.. yeah anyway! lol I hope you'll enjoy this chapter! Oh, and it may be alittle short, but still enjoyable! D
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of the characters.
Chapter: Jail time part 2
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Everyone stopped moving except Kagome and Inuyasha who were still laughing. They both turned around with goop in there hands. Thinking someone else had come to play the little game with them, the two fired a chunk of the goop at the unexpecting Kaguya.
Kagome gasped. She put a hand over her mouth when she realised who she had just whipped the food at. The red and black food was now all over her and her hair. Inuyasha, unlike Kagome, laughed harder seeing the pissed look Kaguya had on her face.
"HIGURASHI! MASAHARU! COME WITH ME NOW!"
Yes indeed, so much for nothing could ruin the moment thought.
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They would both admit, the food fight was the best one in history. It was the most fun either of them had had for a very long time. But all fun things came with a price. And sadly, because of the incident with Kaguya, both Inuyasha and Kagome were forced to clean the once cafeteria. Before it had turned into a battle field that is.
The two were completely alone. No gaurd, no prisoners, no one but the two of them. Kagome rather be with someone else, or atleast had someone here with her other then just Inuyasha. Because at the moment, with the look on his face, she was sure Inuyasha was going to kill her.
Inuyasha looked around the now multicoloured room. The once white walls and floor were no more. As soon as anyone took a step the person would step into the goop. Inuyasha had a dark look plastered on his face. "We wouldn't even be in this mess if it wasn't for you. No pun intended."
"What?" Kagome exclaimed. "I wasn't the one who brought the whole school cafeteria thing up. It was only natural that I would throw that food at your face."
"Don't you have any self control?" He asked bitterly.
"Don't you? I wasn't the only one in the whole fight. This is just as much of your fault as it is mine." Kagome crossed her arms stubbornly over her chest. "Just because I started it, doesn't mean you couldn't have stopped it."
Inuyasha 'kehed'. He walked past some of the now gooey tables and chairs. He stood in the middle of the room, checking the damage out. "Either way, I don't care. All I want to do is clean this shit up and go. Your doing the walls and ceiling. I'm doing the floors good? Good."
"Not good. I ain't doing the all the walls and ceiling. You have to.."
"Just shut up and clean." Inuyasha grabbed a mop off the wall and threw it at Kagome. He turned his back to her and began to scrub the floors hard and fast.
Kagome glared at Inuyasha. 'I'm really not wanting to want him as a prize. I just can't seem nice around him when he acts like this.' Kagome began to use the mop on the walls. 'I don't care about the prize or game anymore. If Kikyo wants to win so bad go right ahead. I don't know who in their right mind would want him anyway.'
Inuyasha's sighed. This mop wasn't helping at all. It was only pushing the food around. How was he to clean if he couldn't do it right? 'I can't believe this day. This luck. Why does people hate me so?'
It was odd, Kagome thought, on how she could tell Inuyasha's emotions just by watching him mop. When he was mad, the thrushed the mop wildly around. Now he was pushing the mop hard and in small paces. 'He's frustraded.' Kagome concluded to herself. "Don't try to admit you didn't enjoy the fight." Kagome said randomly.
Inuyasha slowed down at his mopping and let alittle smile show. "Yeah, only because I was whooping your ass."
"My ass? I was so kicking yours!" Kagome laughed alittle. "Your just lucky Kaguya walked in. If she hadn't.."
"If she hadn't, I would have won the war." Inuyasha smiled wider. But it soon faded. "But she did. And now look where we are. All thanks to you, and little to me." Oh how his moods could change. 'Guess he's not up for much conversation.' Kagome let out a soft sigh. 'Oh well.'
X Ten Minutes X
"I quit!" Kagome sighed heavily. "Nothing is getting cleaned, it just drips down the walls and off the roof, and I'm not getting anywhere!"
Inuyasha was stranded in a small clean circle he was in. Everyone in the circle was clean, everything out, not cleaned. He hadn't gotten anywhere either but he wasn't up to admitting it. "That's because you don't know how to clean right."
Kagome leaned against alittle clean spot on the wall. "What about you? What's your excuse?"
"The mops broken."
Kagome could have laughed out loud, if Inuyasha wasn't so pissed off. "Oh I'm sure." Kagome rolled her eyes. She watched as Inuyasha walked out of his clean circle. He walked past her and to her front doors. "This is a load of bullshit. I'm out of here."
"What?" Kagome jumped up. "You just can't leave me here!"
"Why not? Your'll do fine cleaning this place on your own." Inuyasha shrugged as he pushed the doors open alittle and peeked out. No gaurds were around.
"On my own? What are you smoking? We couldn't even clean this place together!" Kagome pointed around the room. "If your leaving this place, so am I!" Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "Just don't get in my way." He pushed the doors open fully, then slammed them closed in Kagome's face. 'Jerk.' She thought as she pushed the metal doors open and quickly raced after Inuyasha.
It was oddly quiet outside of the doors. The gaurds weren't around, Kaguya was no where in sight. The only sign of life were the rustle of the in mates in their cells. But they were also pretty quiet.
"It's more spooky this way then the other." Kagome said while looking around.
"It's quiet. Eery quiet. Where is everyone?" Inuyasha's more to himself then any other. "Before this place was crowded with gaurds, now... nothing."
"Where's everyone from school? If this place wasn't so big we would be able to find them." Kagome muttered. She was getting just alittle scared. She moved closer to Inuyasha alittle. 'I would even be happy to see Kikyo right about now.'
Inuyasha looked down at Kagome before continuing down a long narrow hall. They twisted around many ways, only to end up lost. They were now in a place where even the inmates and cells weren't around. "Where are we?" Kagome asked.
"I'm not sure." Inuyasha said while glancing around.
"I'm really not liking this. Hello? Is anyone around?" Kagome shouted. No sound greeted her. No grunt, or reply. It was like a ghost jail. Suddenly, the lights that lit the halls all went out, leaving the two teens in complete darkness. "Eeek!" Kagome screamed. She lept back and took a firm hold on Inuyasha's hand.
Inuyasha looked down at where he could feel Kagome was. But he couldn't see her. Or anything around him for that matter. He didn't object to Kagome's hand in his just pulled her farther down the hall. "What the hell is going on! Whoever is doing this better fuck off!" Kagome nodded in agreement.
Chuckling echoed around the two scared ones. It wasn't from either of them. It bounced off the walls and rang clearly in their ears. It wasn't a friendly chuckle, but cold and willing to do whatever. Almost as a reflex, Kagome shivered from the chill the laugh sent her. "Who... who's there?" She asked.
"It runs around your head at night. Runs away from the shining light. Echoes numbly in your ears. It brings children close to tears. What am I?" A loud cracking voice asked from no where.
"I don't know who you think you are, but you better leave us alone." Inuyasha hissed coldly ignoring the little riddle the man had asked.
"You don't know what I am? Maybe the young girl knows. Do you know what I am?" The man asked. Kagome couldn't tell where the voice was coming from. She stayed slient as she thought it over. 'Runs from the light? Could it be...' "The dark?" She asked.
"My, my. Much brighter then the young man even in the dark." The lights suddenly went on, nearly blinding the two. Kagome and Inuyasha searched around but no signs of another person were anywhere. Kagome still had her hand locked with Inuyasha's.
"I'm impressed. Your good. How about another riddle?"
"No way! Just tell us who you are freak! What the hell do you want!" Inuyasha was getting angry now. Almost beyond. Who was toying with them? How come no gaurds or anyone was out here checking it out?
"Hmm.. no. I think I'll give you another riddle anyhoo." The voice laughed again. "Ready? It can rush like the river, wide as a lake. It can cause emotional harm, your own death. Without it, your body is no more, you'll have nothing else for it to make. It can be a small problem, or perhaps a pest. What is it?"
Inuyasha and Kagome had been walking the whole time the man had said the riddle. It seemed like they weren't getting any closer or farther from the sound of the voice. Inuyasha stopped, causing Kagome almost to crash into him. "That's a easy one." Inuyasha said. "Blood. That's the answer."
"Hehe, haha, the man knows one. I'm proud. Turn the corner and follow the trail. Then I'll give you another riddle. Hurry..."
Inuyasha clentched his free fist. "Look, we don't have time..."
"Inuyasha." Kagome interrupted. "If there's a trail of blood, there might be bodies. We have to help whoever's in trouble." Kagome said sternly.
Inuyasha looked down then sighed. "Yeah. Let's go. Just stay close. If anything, this is some mental patient who escaped from the jail. Who know's what he's capable of." Kagome nodded and followed Inuyasha as they went around the corner.
Like the man had said, there indeed was a trail of messy crimson blood. Kagome gasped but Inuyasha continued in, taking her with him. He had a stern look in his eyes as he made sure not to step in the blood. The blood went down another hall and around the corner before stopping infront of metal doors much like the ones in the cafeteria.
"Ready?" Inuyasha asked Kagome. She only nodded, not able to find any words. Inuyasha reached out and took hold of the door handle. He slowly turned the knob and pulled open the door.
The room was as dark as the halls had been. Inuyasha walked in with Kagome behind. The stench of blood instantly filled his and Kagome's nostrals. He searched the wall for a switch and was happy he found one. He used the free hand to flip on the light.
Kagome gasped again. She took her hand and brought it up to her mouth to stop a scream from coming out. In the right corner at the back of the large room, were the decapatated bodies of the gaurds that had been on duty. Their bloodied arms and legs were in one pile, while there chest were in another, and the heads piled like a pyramid. On the top was none other then Kaguya's head. The eyes hanginging out limply. Her hair was ripped out. Cuts and slashes were all over the face. Her face was twisted in horror and surprise dispite the eyes. Kagome realised all of the gaurds faces were like that. The walls were layerd in the gaurds blood, words such as 'Make funny faces' and 'Twist and turn til it hurts' were written on the walls.
Inuyasha stared shocked at the room. "How could someone..." He trailed off searching around the room for any familar faces of the studants from his school. Perhaps Kikyo's. Thankfully they weren't in the room. Hopefully they were still alive.
He noticed the shaking coming from Kagome as she took a few steps back. "No.. no way.." She whispered. Inuyasha sighed and turned her away from the bodies and facing him. "It's going to be ok. No one we know is here. There alive, you just have to believe that." Kagome could feel tears stinging at her eyes but she nodded. The lump in her throat was growing larger by the minute.
"Do you like my decorating skills? Personally I think the rooms alittle too red, but that's just me." The mans voice rang clear through the room.
Inuyasha eyes snapped at the ceiling, anger clearly written. "You sick bastard!" Kagome pushed herself closer to Inuyasha, fear over taking her.
"I've heard that one before. Any others?"
"This isn't a game!" Inuyasha shouted. "Who the hell are you! Come out and face us!" Kagome wanted to protest against that but stayed silent.
"No reason to get so upset. Goodness me. You may become outraged after the last riddle hmm? Then I shall have a surprise waiting for you, how's that?"
Inuyasha shook his head. "No! No more..."
"Many different sizes, shapes but I still cause the same damage. I'm placed in different colours and items but they all lead me to the same thing. They all hold one thing in common, if not many others. I cause harm in more ways than one, and... What am I?" The man asked with a hint of amusement in his voice.
Inuyasha's fist clentched, drawing some blood to drip out of his fingers. He shook from anger. He was not about to be toyed about by this serial killer. This man had no idea who he was dealing with.
"Inuyasha.. can't we just.. leave?" Kagome's quiet voice broke through his thoughts. Inuyasha looked down at her. The girl he had seen throw the food at him that started the massive food fight. The girl who argued with him and annoyed him to no end was not standing infront of him anymore. The slightly confindent chocolate eyes of Kagome Higurashi were not staring up at him. No, the eyes that stared at him now were a hollow shell, that belonged to a scared child, a very terrified Kagome Higurashi. He wasn't sure those eyes belonged to the same people.
Inuyasha shook his head alittle. "The door locked instantly after we walked in. Were stuck here." He could tell those were the last words she wanted to hear. "Kagome," He began softly, putting his hands on his shoulders. "I will not let anything happen to you. I will not let this freak hurt you. I promise you."
"But.. But I thought you said you said you wished I was dead. That I would die and.."
"Sometimes people say things that don't mean. They say it just because.. just because." Kagome looked up into Inuyasha's violet eyes and could tell he was telling the truth to her. Something she had never seen in him before. "Kagome, I promise that I will protect you. You just have to trust me." Kagome's eyes shined with tears. She smiled alittle and nodded. "Hai, I trust you." Inuyasha smiled a real smile to her before nodding.
"How cute. How sweet. Make me sick. Can't answer my riddle? Then I shall show you a demonstration."
Inuyasha looked up. 'What does he mean? How will he...?' Inuyasha clentched Kagome's shoulders tightly.
"Ready..."
Kagome stared at Inuyasha, scared. 'A demontstration of the riddle... but the riddle.. I know what it means!' Kagome stared up at the ceiling along with Inuyasha. 'No wait then..' "Inuyasha! Watch.."
"Kagome! Move!"
Inuyasha, with a great force, pushed Kagome hard away from him. She landed on the ground benethe her. She looked up at Inuyasha shocked. She felt like everything was now going in slow motion. Kagome reached her hand out towards Inuyasha. She screamed out his name trying to warn him when..
Blam!
A loud bang echoed in the large room. It rattled her entire head. Kagome shut her eyes tight. After she heard nothing for awhile she looked up to see Inuyasha. He was clentching one side of his stomache with a surprised look in his eyes. He pulled his hand away from the spot he was holding for what seemed like a hour, only to discover crimson blood dripping from his fingers and palm.
The bullet had made a clean shot straight through his stomache, exiting his back. His white t-shirt was soaking up with blood, making it's way down his shirt to the ground. Kagome stared confused and scared at Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha.." She whispered. She watched as Inuyasha turned his gaze from his hand to her eyes. True fear and shock were flashing in his eyes. Slowly, Kagome realised he was falling towards the ground. The slow motion was happening again to her. All she could do was watch as he made a thump as Inuyasha's hit the ground.
He stared at her even as he lay motionless. Slowly, his eyes began to drift closed. His breathing was raged and becoming alittle slow. Kagome sat paralized. She couldn't believe what just happened. Why.. why did he just take a bullet for her. Why?
"Inuyasha..." She whispered again. "INUYASHA!"
Surprise.
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Oooh.. cliffie! I only thought there was going to be part two, but now it's going to be a part three. Anywhoo.. please review to get the next chapter out faster! Til then..
Yume-Chan!