Slowly backing away from the mirror and opening the medicine cabnet behind it, Kagome slid out a small pair of scissors letting a slightly smile escape her as she fantasized about the pain she would escape even if for just one minute.
Placing the edge against her skin and pulling deeply until she could see the muscle of her arm. She took relief in the blood, it comforted her like a blanket in the winter only a blanket was acceptable, cutting was not. No one approved but just as good she didn't plan on telling them. They didn't have the right to know what she did in her own time.
She licked the scissors and put them up sucking on her arm blissfully as she became light headed. Quickly she made the escape to her room were she could pass out like a drunkard and rest, finally without haunting dreams.
But that wasn't the case, once sleep had come the dreams soon followed, Inuyasha, the dispicable hanyou he was, holding kikyo tightly looking at Kagome as he placed his mate mark on Kikyo's body.
He had, indeed, that same day told Kagome he loved her, he had taken things he could not give back and now he was taking the same things from kikyo, but he gave her the mark, the one that meant he had choosen her.
Kagome woke up in cold sweat unable to fall back to sleep. Why had she come back? She could have easily found another place to settle, a place where Sango, miroku and Shippo could still be a part of her life.
Wandering through the dark apartment, she now called 'home', she stumbled over the unpacked boxes and feel on her face. Letting out a sigh she got up and fixed the boxes walking out the front door glad that she had worn her clothes to sleep rather than some thin nightgown.
She closed the steel door behind her locking it and wandering down the street feeling the blood starting to pour from her wound again, she must have scrapped it against something on her way out because it hurt more now than it had when she had done it.
"Hey! Hey you!" Kagome quickly whirrled around to see who it was shouting at her. "Your the one!" She blinked in utter confusion as to who the young man seemed to think she was. "Sorry but your confused." she said barely loud enough for him to hear as she turned and continued walking sinking back into her disturbed thoughts.
"No I'm not your the one! I just saw you!" He ran up alongside her and grabbed her arm rather tightly. "I'll see that you get proper punishment!" trying to jerk away she said incrediously "Excuse me! I have no idea what or who you are refering to and you had better release me this moment!."
"Don't act innocent" he replied dragging her into the alley he had emerged from. In the alley she could see the distinct figure of a woman proped against the wall, but it seemed she had been ripped open and her insides had been spread upon the ground.
She gasped in horror fighting frantically to escape his grip and get away from the scene. "You just did this to my fiance don't act like you didn't I saw you!" Finding a moment of weakness she tore her arm away and ran away from the man tripping over her own feet but retaining balance quickly.
Suddenly she stopped in her sight as she saw a woman infront of her with a wild look on her face who did infact resemble Kagome. She examined the woman seeing blood splattered on her clothing and her lips coated in the thick red liquid.
"You..You..." she couldn't find the words to explain this but she wanted away from this look alike. "heh" The woman came closer leaning in and looking at Kagome. "Your turn will come soon enough." and with that she jumped back and disappeared into the shadows leaving kagome trembling in the cold of night.