Wooo chapter 2! Chapter 2! Chapter 2! Well, just to let you all know, I probably won't update on this for maybe a week. Don't give up thought, cuz I will be back! Weo! Or I might drop it... I think it's better just to be sort of a one shot

Gosh, I was feeling sort of evil for a while there. Then it gets all weo. U know wat im talking about? Of course you do! Lol!

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha or any of the characters and I never will. Don't claim the title for the chapter "duck and run" which is actually a song title for 3 Doors Down.

On to the story!

The Raw Heart

Duck and Run

"Kagome, dear. Why did you lock me in that room?" Shivers ran up her spine as she turned around to see her drunken mother there, an evil smirk on her lips.

"Mom… Please be reasonable… Don't do this!" She was being backed into a corner and soon she felt her hair yanking her head back and her mothers lips pressed to her ear.

The stench of alcohol on her mothers breath was sickening as she slurred out "Shouldn't 'ave done that." A solid fist met Kagome's face as she flew back and sunk down the edge of the counter. The counter cut into her back and she cried out, continuing to slide down.

Her mother was on her in minutes and started to scratch at her eyes. Kagome covered her eyes, but not soon enough to prevent a few claw marks to be caused in her right cheek. She stood up shakily and started to try to run, but was jerked back by her hair.

The next moment she found herself flying through the air and through a glass window. She thought she would have time to get up and run, but her mother was already coming through the window, breaking a vase over Kagome's head.

She let out a screech and scrambled to her feet, stumbling over and over again as she headed for the well house. Her mother was following closely, throwing first rocks, and then butter knives. Two butter knives found their target, one tearing into Kagome's right shoulder, and the other fusing itself in the back of her thigh.

Her screams would probably be reaching the neighbors by now, and she heard the AA instructor's car pull up, along with a police car. But Kagome wasn't going to stop and grabbed her backpack before limping to the well house.

The police were too caught up in catching the raging drunk mother to follow the bleeding daughter. When they would follow her bloody footprints, there would be nobody in the well house. Because she was leaping down the well and into the feudal era.

Kagome finally reached the other side of the well and threw her bag up to the top of the well with her left arm, and then started to shakingly climb her way up. She rolled over the side of the well and then balled herself up, not even able to take the knives out of her skin.

Soon the rain came pouring down onto the broken up girl who was now wailing, lying in a pool of mud, blood, and rainwater. She swayed against the ground and held her head in her hands as she cried her heart out.

'Everything's so wrong. It's all so wrong! Nothing like this was supposed to happen to me! Mom was supposed to get better after rehab! Not worse!' she was shaking uncontrollably and the sobbing was wracking her already torn apart body.

A familiar voice was soon to be heard over the thunder, rain, and the sobbing. "Inuyasha…. Where are you! I need you, o god I need you here right now! Why did she do this to me? Why me?" the anguished voice turned out to be her own.

"Kagome… What are you doing out here, wench? Isn't it late for you to be coming back? You'll get a…" Inuyasha walked out from the woods to see Kagome's form by the well. At first he thought she was just lying down for some odd reason, but then he saw the blood. "Ka-Kagome! What happened to you?"

Running forward, he picked up Kagome's broken form to begin running towards Kaede's. He looked down at her when she started wailing out again "O god! Why did she do that! What did I do? What did I do? God, Inuyasha, what did I do wrong?" His own lower lip shivered as he felt like he needed to cry for her sake too.

"I don't know, Kagome… Just calm down, ok? We'll figure this out later." He was cradling her and as soon as he reached Kaede's the whole group was already awake and wondering what was wrong.

"Kaede, she's hurt. Take care of her." The whole group gave Inuyasha a suspicious look, as he set Kagome down in front of Kaede. "I don't know what happened to her, so don't ask me, ok?" He growled out as he watched Kaede pull out two small, dull looking knives and some bits of glass.

"Kagome! Kagome! What's wrong Kagome?" asked a worried Shippou, hovering over Kagome's form. She was still awake, but wouldn't answer anyone at the moment. All she could do was stare ahead, replaying the whole day over and over in her head.

Smothering another sob down, she covered her face so none of the group could see how puffy her eyes were. What was she going to tell them happened? What could she tell them?

"Shhh, child. Ye can let it out. Just cry it all out, don't be ashamed." Kaede soothed as she continued to work on Kagome's wounds. She watched the girl nod, and begin to sob quietly again. Her whole body was twisting as the sobs grew louder and wracked her body more. "She needs dry clothes. I have none as of now."

Inuyasha nodded and took off his red harato and handed it to Kaede. He turned around, and then growled out "Monk, turn around or I'll make you." For one time, Miroku actually held back a perverted comment and turned his back to the girls while they helped Kagome to put on the dry harato.

Once they were done Inuyasha instantly picked Kagome up and took her over to a corner of the hut, cradling her in his arms. He whispered soft reassurances into her ears until she calmed down a bit. He watched her eyes slowly close, a deep frown hassling her lush lips, and a tear dripping down her bruised and scratched cheek.

"I hope she'll be alright." Sango said as she slowly settled back down into her blankets, a mew escaping from the small Kirara as well. Shippou wanted to sleep next to Kagome too, but Inuyasha wouldn't let anybody else near Kagome.

"She will be. But I wonder what happened, and who did this to her." Miroku said as he also settled down into his own sleeping place, far away from Sango.

"Just shut up and go to sleep. She'll tell us when she's good and ready, and if any of you try and force her to talk, it'll be your heads." Growled out Inuyasha before he made himself and Kagome comfortable and closed his eyes.

Everyone in the hut stared at the pair and soon fell asleep too, all of them wondering who could have done these things to Kagome. Usually when Kagome got hurt, she wouldn't cry or complain about it at all, but this time it seemed a little too personal for the girl to handle.

Whoever had hurt Kagome, was going to pay, and by Inuyasha's hands too. It was somebody very close to her, he could tell. Somebody that she wouldn't expect to hurt her like that.

Golden eyes looked around the room one last time, and pulled Kagome in closer to his body. At least one perk about this, was that he got to keep Kagome close to him, and nobody would comment on it. Yawning, he finally closed his eyes and fell asleep.

-Later on in the night, Kagome began to call out in a hushed voice "No! No please don't you have to understand! I didn't want to! I had to do it! Please don't do this to me…" Inuyasha was woken up and woke her up before she said anymore. He cupped her face and turned her eyes up towards his own.

Those golden orbs held questions she felt she couldn't answer quite yet so she just shook her head and he nodded. "I understand, but you can tell me whenever you want to. How about a short walk to cool you off?"

Nodding, both Inuyasha and her stood up and started to head out of the door of the hut. Inuyasha blushed and clumsily grabbed her hand, fumbling a bit before he got a good grip on it. Kagome looked down at their hands and then looked up Inuyasha, who was now looking anywhere but her.

Not that she cared about that. It was the fact that he had the guts to take her hand. Letting out a long sigh, she let the warmth of his strong hand distract her from replaying the scenes of before in her head.

Neither said anything the whole walk, but it wasn't needed. The silence was completely comfortable, and for a while that was all they needed. But after a while Kagome's mind still wouldn't stop buzzing so she decided to ask Inuyasha some questions "Umm… Inuyasha?"

Inuyasha finally looked at her, ignoring the fact that he was holding her small hand in his for a while "Yah Kagome? You doing ok? Need a ride on my back for a while or something?"

"I'm fine. It's just that I was wondering how you knew I was at the well." She was shaking a bit as she leaned up against Inuyasha. Even if his harato did reach a little less than half way towards her knees, and the air around them was warm, she was still slightly chilled.

"It's your aura. It's so familiar and unique that I knew that you were here, even if I couldn't smell you when it started to rain." He let go of her hand for a moment, and heard her whimper a bit. He smiled and put his arm around her waist to pull her into him so she could stay warm.

The silence seemed to settled back as they eventually turned around to head back to Kaede's. But Kagome stopped at the god tree and looked at Inuyasha "You think we could sleep here tonight? Away from the others?"

A slightly surprised look crossed Inuyasha's face before he smiled slightly, and nodded. Squeezing her closer to himself, he brought them both up to a stable branch where he sat down and leaned against the trunk.

He had been wondering how he was going to sit Kagome to keep her from falling when he felt her starting to shift around. She shifted until she was facing him, and had her legs dangling over either side of him. Blushing at their position, Inuyasha laughed a bit nervously, hoping he could control himself.

'I've waited so long for Kagome to be in this position, but today is NOT the right time for this. I've just got to keep calm until I fall asleep.' He thought to himself. He soon felt a small weight on his chest and he looked down to find Kagome's head leaned into the open part of his harato.

Smiling lightly, he listened to her breathing even out before her wrapped his arms around her and fell asleep himself. 'I like this. Maybe we can do this more often?' he buried his head in her hair 'She smells so good… And feels so good…' he soon found himself falling asleep again.

And that's the end of this chapter! Remember to review me lots while I'm absent, ok?

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