Shades of Night
'Thoughts'
"Speech"
Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha
Chapter 3
Catalyst
WARNING! THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS GRAPHIC MATERIAL. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK! IF YOU'RE SQUEAMISH OR DISLIKE GRAPHIC SEX/RAPE SCENES, DO NOT READ THE END OF THIS CHAPTER! THERE WILL BE A WARNING LATER ON IN THE STORY, TOO.
-Last time-
"I'm so stupid, so stupid! Did I think that telling him would actually make a difference?" Kagome didn't bother closing the door to her bedroom. Through the open window, she could hear a car door slam and the engine take off. InuYasha had left. She began to cry.
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Before Kagome allowed herself to become too involved in crying, she decided to go next door and talk to Izayoi. The woman was like an older sister to her, and despite the fact that she was InuYasha's mother, Kagome felt that she could tell her anything. Crossing the yard and walking into the kitchen, she found Izayoi staring at the calendar.
"What's wrong, Kag?" Not surprised that she knew of her presence, Kagome pulled out a chair and sat next to her.
"Hey Izayoi, d'you think that I would make a good girlfriend for Inu?" For once in her entire life, Izayoi was startled. She turned to look at the younger girl.
"I think you'd be the only person who could have a decent relationship with him. Why now, Kag?" She looked down at the floor.
"He kissed me…" Izayoi sighed.
"So I tell him to go make up with you, and he makes out with you. That's typical male selective hearing for ya." Laughing slightly, Kagome turned and stared her straight in the eye.
"He said it was a mistake."
"Ugh, that child can be so dense. Sweetheart, he didn't mean it. Just because he didn't mean to do it doesn't mean he didn't want to do it. Give him time, Kag. He needs to get used to everything that he's feeling. And you know guys…they hate admitting that they feel anything at all."
"Thanks."
"No problem. Now, what are your plans for the weekend?" She smiled weakly.
"Oh…my mom said she'll be home late. I'm going to go take a walk and then go to bed."
"Alright. Be careful." Kagome walked out the door. While crossing the street to go to the park located near her house, she saw blinding headlights suddenly overwhelm her vision. After the hot whiteness, suddenly the world went dark. Sighing slightly as she watched the car drive past her and she tried to regain her sight, Kag made it to the other side and took a short cut through the alley.
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(WARNING! GRAPHIC MATERIAL BEGINS HERE!)
So focused on her thoughts, she didn't hear the whimpers and the whispers until she stumbled upon the group that was making the muffled noises. About to apologize and walk away, for it seemed as if these were people with intimate relations, she realized that the woman was being held down by two men and that tears were streaming down from her eyes. The crystal lines glowing with an ethereal sorrow and horror reflected from the pale moonlight glinting off her cheeks were a striking contrast to the scene she first imagined, as were the pain etched in the woman's eyes. With a startled, horrified gasp, Kagome realized that this was rape, she was alone in the middle of a dark alleyway, and that her mother was the victim.
"Well, well, well, what have we here? Another one to play with?" Kag opened her mouth to scream, but a hand that tasted foul and smelled tainted with metallic blood clamped over it before she could even gather her breath. Belatedly she realized that there were more than two men, that this was not something that she could escape from. Her mother let out a small sob from behind the man's hand who was covering her face as she saw her daughter caught in a web of horror and pain.
"What do you want us to do with them?" a gruff voice ground out from somewhere in the infinitely black, now enclosed space.
"You guys have your fun with that one," the man who had Kagome, obviously the leader, said. He leaned in closer to Kag, his alcohol-stale breath fanning across her cheek and causing her eyes to burn with unshed tears. "I think we'll make this one watch…and then we'll kill them."
Bile rose in Kagome's throat as she hurriedly swallowed it back down, the acidic compound burning her already dry throat. She tried to close her eyes, but the man wouldn't let her. Ever time she did try, the man would hit her, smack her, pry her eyes open, and tell her that she was going to be so sorry if she didn't comply. She watched in horror and disbelief, unable to stop the tears, biting, clawing, kicking at him, but nothing would stop him. She wasn't strong enough. She couldn't protect herself or Sakura. She could only sob and scream out in silent horror as the horrible injustice occurred.
One of the men tore off Sakura's blouse with one hand, sliding the other under her skirt to feel her. When she tried to fight them off, they slapped her, then punched her when that failed. She was left to whimper as they forced her to the ground, kicking her ribs with a crushing force and snapping bones were heard throughout the alley. Rapidly fumbling with his belt buckle, he unzipped his pants and they fell to his ankles. The other ran his dulled, short fingernails across her terror-flushed skin with enough force to leave red marks and occasional trails of blood, squeezing her as if he meant to pop her. His rough, dirt-encrusted hands roamed her body freely, leaving dark streaks of some unknown substance all over her. He bit her, drawing blood, grabbed a discarded beer bottle from the ground and broke it, leaving the jagged ends to stick out in silent menace.
The bottle was dragged across her limp, shuddering form, leaving red everywhere it touched. Then he smirked evilly as he took it and pushed it inside of her and she finally managed to cry out, scream horribly in anguish. He cut her, pumping it in and out with a brutal rhythm as she shouted out in white-hot burning combustion, thousands of tiny needles prickling her, poking her, making her bleed in misery as her sanity was shattered and she let out one endless, blood-curdling cry.
"Shut that bitch up before I have to do it for you!" the leader hissed in deadly vehemence. The man took the bottle out of her, smeared the blood all over her face, then undid his jeans and shoved himself inside her mouth. Her eyes were vacant, hollow, not seeing anything around her. She gagged, threw up, but the man didn't notice. The other man lowered himself onto her and pushed inside of her, causing Sakura to release another horrible cry that was muffled and gurgling, flecks of blood apparent with the saliva that flowed freely from her mouth. After both men were spent, their chests heaving, eyes gleaming with a perverse satisfaction, they stepped back, put their discarded clothing back on, and looked back to their master for instructions.
"Get out the knife and kill her." One man flicked a switchblade out of his shoe and walked slowly over to Sakura. Small sobs were escaping her wracked, bruised frame.
"You know, lady, you really do have a disturbing eye color…makes me think you know too much." He stuck the knife into each of her eye sockets, blood spurting as her hoarse voice screamed once again. Twisting violently, he blinded her for whatever was left of her short life. The brilliant hue could no longer be seen, red flowing from the damaged eyes and flowing down her cheeks, into her tangled hair and clumping, into her mouth. He smirked.
"Heh. You don't know anything anymore now, do ya? Stupid bitch, walking home alone at night. See what happens? But I'm feeling merciful tonight. I'll kill you quickly." He took the knife and impaled it into her throat, slicing a deep, long line across it. Crimson spilled everywhere, the sidewalk was stained, her clothes were gone, her bare chest dyed in a horrifying show of color. Blood burbled forth from her mouth, her body shuddering, gasping for breath. The only thing that she could get was more blood. It seeped into her lungs, drowning her slowly as her vision slowly faded into a black pinprick, nothing left but the smiles on the faces of her killers until she mercifully died.
Unable to control her stomach any longer, Kagome threw up the contents of her stomach into the man's hand, having it cruelly shoved back into her throat by the unyielding appendage. She gagged, struggling to breathe, and he moved his hand and her vomit spilled onto the asphalt.
"You…BASTARDS!" The man with the switchblade, before anything else could be said, stabbed her right below the ribs and she gasped as a sharp pain filled her body. Her emotions were numb, tears going unnoticed as blood ran freely from the wound. She couldn't feel anything, or at least she thought so until she was stabbed. The man twisted the knife until the leader intervened.
"ENOUGH!" The man pulled the blade from her, wiping the mixed blood of her and her mother onto her clothes as she gasped softly, only able to let out a soft whine. He turned his fierce, cold glare onto Kagome.
"Let this be our lesson to you. I'll let you live. Now that would be more painful than killing you. You did this to her. This was a show for you. Remember that. You killed her." He backhanded her across the face, gnashing her teeth into her gums as her mouth began to bleed. "You'll NEVER say anything about this to ANYONE, understand?" he screamed in her face, spittle flying all over her. She nodded mutely. "Good." Soft sobs escaped her throat as pain for everything she had lost, everything she had loved eluded her grasp forever. "You disgust me. You're helpless, pathetic, a fool. Get out of my sight." When she didn't move, he screamed at her again. "NOW!" Limbs frozen, she could only wait in horror as she waited for what he would do to her. "Oh for the love of…" He grabbed a fistful of her hair, pulled her up, then shoved her head towards the ground. She connected with a sickening thud, welcoming the peaceful, painless all-consuming black that it offered her, the freedom from her memories and the horror…
...Don't kill the author. I don't have anything typed up beyond this point, so it'd be permanently stuck as this ending if you killed the author. :winces:
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