The Shimotos Boarding School
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Chapter Fourteen: Saving Nami
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Kagome sighed and leaned her weight from her left foot to right.
She was standing in the hallway with Kikyo next to her- both waiting for Sango, Miroku, and Inuyasha to finish their Saturday detentions. Kagome's detentions had ended last week (Much to her relief), but each of her comrades still had four left.
Poor Mrs. Anyo though. She almost had a heart attack when she saw Kagome and Kikyo walk it, talking to each other like they had always been friends.
Kagome half expected Mrs. Anyo to run away screaming.
"Damn, this sucks." She heard Kikyo's mellow voice say to her right. Looking over Kagome nodded, and made no noise. Kikyo looked a lot better since that whole think with Naraku. The scars and bruises finally died down and her black eye had long since disappeared.
She was wearing a darker pink band shirt and a pair of jeans. She had a pair of black flip flops on her feet. She looked… normal. Like one of those cocky teens you would see out of a magazine or something. Not as slutty as she used to, wearing those too small shirts and tiny skirts.
She also had warmth in her eyes again. A happy gaze instead of the cold one she had once possessed. She had also stopped trying to force Inuyasha to be her boyfriend which made Kagome relieved.
Gaze drooping, Kagome remembered how she had ridiculed Kikyo just a while ago. How Sango and herself had thrown eggs and Miroku feathers. How hurt the look in her eyes had been…
Of course, Sango and herself had apologized a shit load of times for being such bitches, but still, Kagome felt just as she did that night. That she was just like Naraku.
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Kikyo glanced over at Kagome and frowned.
She was gazing on the floor again with that lost look.
Her eyes were dark pools of blue that no longer looked like the confident waves they used to convey, they now looked just… blank. Just a dull blue that had lost its shine.
Kikyo wondered if it was perhaps her fault that Kagome was unhappy, but she didn't really think so.
Though it was getting warmer and warmer outside, she was wearing such dark and warm outfits. She was sporting a long sleeved black shirt and a pair of grey sweatpants.
The bags under her eyes told Kikyo that Kagome was having horrible nightmares lately. She remembered getting those same bags. Kikyo could help but notice how much she and Kagome looked alike- almost like fraternal twins.
It was almost like watching a mirror of her past self.
She wished that Kagome could be as happy as she was. She had friends now! Even though she had once despised Inu-tachie, they now proved to be better friends than she though possible. Sango, Miroku, Kagome, Rin, and even Inuyasha seemed to regard her like someone they looked up to or something.
She had suddenly gone from the slutty bitch that was dragging around Inuyasha the whole time to the wise, mature adult. It was a little weird but Kikyo didn't dwell on it.
Instead her thoughts always came back to Naraku. How he had done those things, and how she promised herself that she would protect other girls from him at all costs…
Turning away, Kikyo looked out the window that was a good ten feet away. It was dusty as most windows in this part of the school was, but not bad.
This school. Kikyo smirked. It almost looked like a castle with fences that people could easily break out of. The outside was brick but the inside, in the dorm area anyway, was almost cozy.
The classroom section was ugly but Kikyo didn't dwell on that either. She would be out her soon enough…
Looking out at Kagome again, Kikyo was about to say something but she was cut off before the words came out of her mouth.
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::Ring, Ring,::
Kagome's eyes tilted to her side pocket where her cell phone was attached. It was a black cell phone that had little red stars on it but was so old it still had an antenna. Kagome had owned this cell phone for three years, but no one ever called it.
No one.
In fact, Kagome was surprised she still had minutes on it! She was just carrying it around just to have it.
Picking it up she saw the number and didn't recognize it or the name on the top.
"Yashiro, Nami" Kagome mumbled aloud before clicking the green on key and putting it to her ear.
"Moshi, Moshi?" She asked, almost hesitantly.
There was silence for a second, then the sound of rustling fabric of some sort. "Hello?" A scared voice replied, "Is this Higurashi Kagome?" The voice trembled and was meek.
"Hai, who is this?"
More silence, "You don't know me…" There was heavy breathing and Kagome was beginning to think that someone from Tokyo had set this up to mock her because she was in boarding school. After all, no one in Kyoto had this number.
The voice started again, "I have no right to ask you this…" She whispered, suddenly rapidly, "but do you know an Akira?"
Kagome felt her body go numb and her fingers tingle. She almost dropped the phone. Kikyo looked over at her in worry. Kagome started to tremble.
"Hai…" She whispered, as if one of the gods had stolen her breath away.
"He has me locked away in a basement!" The girl suddenly cried, softly, but there was rapid terror climbing in her voice. "I was just walking home and he grabbed me! He finally left, oh it's so cold down here, but I saw his number book and ripped out a page!"
"Hai, Hai." Kagome said, still trembling, "Where are you?"
"I don't know, he blindfolded me. Then he kept raping me, telling me that he loved me and that he wanted us to get married and be together forever!" There were sharp sobs now. This girl, Nami, was absolutely terrified. Kagome knew the feeling.
"Alright-"
"Oh god!! He coming back!!" She shrieked.
"Alright! Hide this number or memorize it or something. Call as often as you can. You have to be in Tokyo, right?"
The girl whimpered a quick yes, "I'm in Kyoto! I will get to Tokyo as fast as I can… don't show fear!!" She quickly added before the phone got a dial tone.
Kikyo was standing in front of her. Kagome suddenly felt the need to vomit. Clasping her hand over her mouth, she bent over her knees.
"Kagome!" Kikyo cried, grabbing her shoulders. "Why are you going to Tokyo? Who was that?!" She said, looking so worried.
"He has her!" Kagome cried out, standing up and running towards the Saturday. Sango, Miroku, and Inuyasha should be on their way back by now.
Kagome was all out running by the time she found them, her lungs screaming for air. Kikyo was panting behind her.
"Kagome!" Inuyasha yelled out, running forward to meet her. She put her arms around his midsection. He looked sharply at Kikyo, "What happened?!"
"I have to save her!" Kagome yelled, pulling back.
Sango looked at her, "Save who?"
She knew this would sound crazy, "Akira has her!!" She yelled, knowing she wasn't making any sense, but once the name Akira was tossed into the mix, everyone knew it had to be something absolutely horrible.
"Her name is Nami, I don't know how she got there or why, but I have to save her! I won't let him hurt anyone else!! I won't!! I have to leave right now!! I have to get to Tokyo as fast as possible."
They all looked at her, trying to understand, "Why Tokyo?" Miroku asked.
"Because that's where she told me she was. She's going to call my cell whenever she can."
Inuyasha now looked weird. "Since when do you have a cell?" he asked. Kagome picked it out of her pocket. "I usually keep it off and no one really has this number except my old friends in Tokyo!"
Suddenly Rin's voice came, making them turn to their left. Around a corner, Rin was standing wearing a light dress. Behind her was Sesshoumaru. Inuyasha almost had the incentive to grown but didn't. He understood how important this situation must be to Kagome.
"I have a friend who will lend us a car. We are not going to let you do this on your own, Kagome." She said in a very, 'that-final' parent voice.
Kagome nodded. "Arigato Rin! We have to leave now!"
"How can we leave now?! It's only 5:20 PM! It's not dark enough to get out undetected!" Miroku reasoned.
"We'll have to wait until at least sundown." Sesshoumaru agreed.
Kagome shook her head. She was starting to get dizzy but forced herself to calm down before she started to hyperventilate. "No! I don't care if I get caught and sent to fucking jail! We don't have time!"
"But Kagome-" Sango started.
"No. We do not have the time!" By now Kagome looked absolutely livid.
"I will NOT have another Miyuki giving me nightmares! I refuse to let him hurt anyone else!!"
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Next Chapter: Bittersweet