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Broken Road

By Red Eclipse

Chapter 1-2- Running paths

Dedicated to: Doctor Kiba, Abby small, demented-squirrel, Inanila Momimoya. Thanks for your reviews and support.

I knocked on my boyfriend's dorm room door. His roommate opened the door and started to poke at my face, I ducked under his arm and into the room. Hojo's roommate continue to stand at the doorway staring and pointing at some unknown thing. I pushed open the bedroom doors and saw Hojo. On the bed. Was too there. Yuma. Stare me. Pull skirt wrinkle at. Jump out up run. Wait let me reword that:

I opened the door and saw Hojo on the bed with Yuma, my Ahem-ex-Ahem best friend. She pulled at her skirt trying to unwrinkle it. Hojo immediately removed his hand from her thigh. She jumped up and ran out.

I felt a blow of cold air from her running past. It chilled my bones. Hojo came over to me and put his hand on my right cheek and tried to pull me into a passionate kiss. I was unresponsive, because his hand and his lips sent a cold piercing chill down from my head to my toes. Not the good kind that makes your heart flutter and sticks you toes to the ground as you let yourself slide into them.(Thinking about Hojo gave me my first kiss and I've never felt that from him, it's always been kind of like kissing a toad.) Once the piercing chill hit my foot it forced my knee upward, I caught him in the lower abdomen (I had a small target)

He clutched his stomach and wheezed a few breaths out and looked at me with wide pleading eyes. He stood back up and I reacted once again. I punched him. Hard. I caught him in the temple area and he toppled over back onto his bed. I turned and shoved my way through his roommate still pointing and staring into the hall.

I stopped into my room and took a few breaths. I stretched out on my bed for a few minutes and closed my eyes and continued my breathing. I stood up and emptied my messenger bag out onto the floor. The books fell out with a dull thud. I ran around the room stuffing the bag with a few changes of clothes and grooming things. Then I picked up the books and locked them in the suitcase I bought to keep my stuff out of the reaches of my klepto roommate. I took one last breath and walked down the hall calmly. I pressed the down button for the elevator and readjusted the strap of my bag on my shoulder. The door chimed and opened for me and I entered it. Music came from a speaker at the ceiling. I listlessly listened to it's melody as I waited for the elevator to arrive at the lobby. The numbers above the doors lit up as it passed the floors until it finally arrived onto level one. I stepped out into the abandoned lobby. I heard a humming and looked around the room for the source. An elderly woman was pushing a floor buffer against the marble floors in the lobby. She smiled at me as I walked by here avoiding the clean parts.

When I stepped outside a cold air hit me even though it was the middle of spring. I walked through the parking lot until I spotted my car. I unlocked the door and sat in the driver's seat for a minute. An amazing thought occurred to me sitting there. A euphoria ran through me with the thought. Like a bird with it's wings clipped finally flying, as impossible as that it is it expresses my sudden feeling of freedom.

In the back seat was a sack full of Hojo's and my own laundry. That's right I did the ing assholes laundry for him. I also knew that in one of the pairs of jeans Hojo's wallet sat just waiting for me to spend. His no limit card from daddy. I grinned and fished through the bag till I found it Then I slid the card out and slid it into my own wallet. I turned the key and listened as the car started up. I put it in gear and drove out of the parking lot.

After about a half hour of driving it began to rain increasingly hard. The roads were almost completely bare; I only saw the occasional car passing by me on the road. My windshield wipers squeaked as they wiped the excess water off only to smear my vision more.

From far away I saw a girl sitting on duffel bag and holding a jacket over her head. She was obviously hitchhiking and I pondered whether or not I should stop to help her out. My car came near her and I put my foot on the brakes and waited for my car to come to a stop. She looked startled when she noticed my car. I popped my head out of the window, "Do you need a ride somewhere?" I asked her. Her face was strained red with tears and the rim of her eyes were turning black. She nodded and stood up, taking her bag and coming up to the car. I unlocked and opened the passenger side door and she shuffled in awkwardly while holding her bag. She threw that in the back next to mine.

"I take it you're going on a trip." She said looking at my bag while she shut the door.

"Sort of an early spring break road trip courtesy of a credit card belonging to a dog." I mumbled. "Where are you going?"

"I don't really care. I just want outta here." she spat the last syllable of 'here' out like it was bile.

"What happened? Did your boyfriend cheat on you too?"

"Who doesn't that bastard cheat on me with? Anyway I'm Sango, thanks for the ride."

"It's no problem. I'm Kagome. So you don't have a place in mind?"

"Nope. Let's just drive and see where it takes us." So we drove on in silence. Sango kept mumbling things to herself and it started to get hard to see the road through the rain.

Sango stuck her hand out the window and jerked it back quickly, "Fuck! It's like god damn freezing hail out there!" She screamed rubbing her palm. I noticed another hitchhiker, I could tell they were about 19 or 20 but I couldn't decipher if it was a male or female but they were standing by a bag, trying to get out of the rain by the thin trees that the city plants that really serve no purpose.

"Sango look. Should we pick them up?" I pointed out to the huddled blob.

"It won't hurt anything, and if they're an ax murderer eh…it'll all end faster." I cringed at her morbid comment but put stopped the car. The person was on Sango's side so she popped her head out of the window. "You need a ride somewhere?" She called out with plenty of enthusiasm, (sarcasm, sarcasm)

"Yeah I need to get as far as you can take me. Anywhere you're going is fine." A ruff male's voice said. I unlocked the back door and took the bags already in there out. Then running I popped the trunk and threw the bags in there. The male followed me and put his bag in there also. Then we both barreled into the car.

"Where are you girls heading." He asked in his incredibly husky voice. I was kinda thrown off by it.

"Away from bastards." Sango mumbled.

"She means, neither of us have any idea where the hell we're going. We're just leaving and I have a dog's credit card so were free of limitations." I said.

"Okay. Good I guess." He said. Sango suddenly decided to crawl over the space between the driver and passenger seat into the back row. She kicked the car out of drive on her way. The car swerved around the deserted road and I made a quick stop in the middle of the road. I breathed heavily, "You fucking moron!" I screamed restarting the car. The guy in the back was clinging onto the car door and Sang was sitting calmly on the see facing the guy.

"Hi, I'm Sango. What's your name?" She said like a pre school kid.

"What is fucking wrong with you!?" He yelled.

"NooOooOOOOooo! You haven't answered my question yet. You don't get to ask a question until you answer mine." Now she sounded like a toddler explaining something a grownup wasn't understanding.

"Psycho."

"Kagome!" She whined up to me.

"What?!" I growled.

"Stranger boy won't answer my question!"

"Shut up Sango." I demanded.

"But..." She started.

"Say another fucking word and I tie you to the fucking seat." I growled to her.

"Kagome yell at me." She started to pretend to sob but made it sound like an infant with colic.

"Tell her your name already."

"No."

"Tell her dammit. She might shut up."

"No. I'm not traveling with you long so what's the point?"

"Wahhhhhhh He no tell his name-name!" Sango wailed collapsing against the back of the driver's seat.

"You fucking asshole. Now we have to listen to her."

We drove in silence and relative sanity except when Sango decided to climb back over to the front passenger seat and also when she unrolled the window stuck her head out with most of her body out side the car and screamed, "STOP TRYING TO STEAL MY MOOD YOU BASTARD!" to the highway. The guy who wouldn't tell us his name and I were staring in horror as Sango came back in and shook her head and sat calmly.

"I'm hungry." She declared to us, still staring in disbelief.

"Now I know why mothers always tell you not to pick up hitchhikers." I mumbled.

"What?" She growled.

"Oh nothing." I said innocently.

"Seriously. I'm hungry can we stop somewhere?" She pleaded.

"I've been down this highway before, I think there's a Denny's at the next exit." Mr. No name said.

"If there isn't you get to attack Mr. won't say his name back there okay Sango?" I told Sango. She grinned evilly. She waved to Mr. No name. The exit gave way to a glowing Denny's sign with the words 'Open 24 hours' under it, which was good for us considering it was one A.M.. I parked my car and turned the engine off. The guy in the back got out immediately and started walking to the diner. Under the few still working street lamps and a sliver of moonlight form the waning crescent, his hair looked silver. I blinked a few times and stared at his hair. He looked over his hair revealing amber eyes and glared at me, "Stop staring at my fucking hair!" He yelled.

"Is that your natural hair color?" I asked. An annoyed look passed over his face.

"Yes. Now stop looking at it!"

"Sango come on!" I turned my attention on the weirdo in my car. It looked like she was sniffing her shoe so I didn't go over to her. "Sango!" I yelled again. From the corner of my eye I saw the silver hair guy light a cigarette and lean against a support pole. Sango jumped out of the car and literally hoped over to me holding her shoe in her hand.

"I don't even want to know why you're doing this, just come on." I said walking away. "I'm getting a table." I said to silver guy as I walked past him. He nodded his head slightly and exhaled smoke the opposite way. Sango stopped in front of him ready to bug. "Sango come." I ordered before she got hurt which was likely.

The diner was empty when we stepped in. A hostess was reading a glamour magazine on the other side of a small counter. She looked up when the bell above the door chimed. "Party of two?" She asked.

"No one more outside." I corrected.

"Okay whatever." She took menus and walked away quickly. We followed her and she dropped the menus on a booth then she took our drink orders. Sango sat down on the opposite side of me and started rambling. I laid my head on the table and remembered the look on Hojo's face and that stupid kiss. Why did he kiss me? Was that meant to mean something? What could it mean? I was disturbed by heat suddenly next to me. I looked up and saw the silver haired dude.

"Are you gonna tell us your name now?" Sango asked. He smirked at her.

"Yeah but only if you tell me why you ran away from home." He lied. I could tell he was lying by the smirk but Sango was gullible enough to believe him.

"Okay fine I'll start then." She suddenly sounded serious almost like a normal person. "My boyfriend Miroku has always flirted with girls. Not just flirt but he'll ask them to bear his children and he'll grab their assed. Right in front of me as if I wasn't there. This girl named Yura, a fucking slut by the way, she transferred to our school our senior year of high school. Then she ended up going to the same college as me and Miroku. She even had the same damn major as me. I swear it's like she was following me. She was falling all over Miroku all the time. I started to get suspicious that something was going on, it was just a feeling I had nothing to back it up with. of course.

"I think I did the reasonable thing, I stole Miroku's backpack after our physics lecture and searched through it."

"Real reasonable yep." Silver dude said sarcastically.

"Shut up, it is reasonable to prove or disprove that kind of a theory." I smacked him in the head after I said it. He glared at me. "Go on Sango."

"Thank you Kagome. Anyway, I searched his backpack and found a room number to a motel. I was so fucking pissed …" She made a fist and took a breath to calm herself "With that in my head I decided to follow his ass. Earlier tonight I sat in my car that was parked a short ways away from his car so I could see him but he couldn't see me. When he got into his car I followed him. We drove to the very motel that Miroku had written down. I stalked him up to the room number that was written there too. He knocked on the door and rubbed his palm. Yura opened the door and hugged him. He followed her in and shut the door. I didn't want to know what was going on so I went back to my dorm room and packed. I was only going to clear my head enough to talk to Miroku, but I decided to take the semester off and ended up here."

"That fucking asshole." I said.

"Your turn Kagome." Inuyasha nudged me.

"No I don't really want to." I said putting my head back on the table.

"Oh come on Kagome, what's the worse that can happen? Me and this freak can make fun of him and you get it off the top of your head." Sango said.

"I really don't want to." I said shaking my head.

"You leave me no choice then." Sango took a deep breath. "Please, please, please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please…"

"ALL RIGHT." I screamed. Sango smiled and folded her hands.

"Hojo was my first boyfriend. I never really liked him I just pitied him sorta. He gave me these stupid health presents all the time during high school. He was sorta sweet in a platonic innocent way. We went to the same college this semester and he was completely loyal he tool all the same classes as me and followed me around the whole year. All semester I've felt kinda trapped I told Hojo I was thinking of transferring to a school 500 miles away that he didn't have the GPA to get into. He started crying right there in the middle of the hall when we were walking away from class. If I went somewhere with out him he would be leaning against my door bawling. Asking what he had done wrong.

"I told him in December and was kinda guilted into staying where I was. About a week after I told him I was thinking of transferring my best friend, Yuma, started to hang around Hojo a lot. I thought nothing of it because of Hojo's past loyalties. Then today I went to Hojo's room. His roommate let me in and I went into the bedroom and saw both Yuma and Hojo on the bed beginning something. Hojo got up and pressed his lips into mine and that sent my knee up and because of the small target I had I missed and hit his lower abdomen then he stood up and because of his eyes I punched him, I caught him straight on the temple and he passed out. Then I just left and here I am too I guess."

"That damn bastard. How dare that pimple faced little toad do that to you. With that little skank too. The nerve of the prepubescent bastard. I heard he can't even drive and he kisses toads because he's so stupid he thinks that will get rid of the zits." Sango jumped up and yelled at the top of her lungs I dropped my head onto the table to hide my red faced. Sango jumped up onto the table and started yelling about toad licking medicine man. "Hey Inuyasha you have silver hair." She said suddenly standing still. The silver haired guy was ready to kill her and I couldn't stop laughing.

Little to say here, We got kicked out.

Inuyasha glared out at the street and tracked something with his eyes. Sango and I started walking to the car. I unlock Sango's door and walked over to the driver's side and opened the door. I looked over for the guy and didn't see him. I looked down the side walk and saw him running as fast as he could.

"What the fuck?" I mumbled. "Whatever." Sango crawled into the backseat and stretched out. I started the car and took off down the road.

Soon I could hear Sango's soft snoring in the back and there was nothing but dark empty road around me. As suddenly as the silence had started it was shattered. I jumped when I heard glass shattering.

"What the fuck was that?" I screamed.

A/N (11/27/04)-- Oh what suspense. So I rewrote this chapter I think it's better, hopefully you do to. If you read the thing on my bio then I'm so sorry. I was almost done with this chapter a few days ago then I spilled water on my keyboard. I ignored it for a few minutes then my computer started beeping. I also decided to take the keyboard apart and try to fix it myself. So I just got a new keyboard last night. I absolutely love this thing. The buttons are fun to push. I love buttons they're fun. If you noticed my long absence then I'm ever sorrier. I had a lot of fucking shit to deal with. (Depression, suicide attempts, my brother living with us again, my old enemy being at the same high school as me and she had to fuck with me again.) And on top of all that something from my past is catching up with me.

But I might be moving soon so YAY!

Most importantly though you guys so rock. I'm so sorry I left for so long. I'm gonna have a bunch of chapters up in winter break. I love you guys so much I hope you're still around and still reading. I have a notify list but I lost the URL. I'm gonna have to find that again.

One last thing, if you haven't noticed the changes in the story:

I actually have it planned out now (more detail demented-squirrel -) I planned the whole thing when I had to stay at school during a field trip because I can't pay attention to my Geometry teacher. My head drifts down and I have to scream to myself 'pay attention dammit' it's not hard it's really easy math but he is so boring. I hate Mr. Jahns!

The characters are more planned out and have detailed emotions.

Oh yeah, duh, I almost forgot. It's in first person now

And finally it is rated R for Strong language, mild violence, and sexual inferences. I swear no lemons.