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Broken Smile

Chapter 1: Just One More Beating

Kagome was now fourteen years old. A beautiful figure and face with a personality to match. She had light gray eyes and long ebony hair that had a slight blue coloring to it. She had on a large white T-shirt tucked into jean shorts with a pair of white socks on. Her hair was in a loose pony tail.

It was late in the evening at the Higurashi shrine. Kagome was skating down the halls in her socks with a small smile on her face. Her smile slowly turned into a frown when she saw the scornful look on her mothers face.

"Kagome," she said sternly, "have you cleaned your room like I asked you to?" Her eyes were red and her words would slur telling Kagome that she had once again been drinking again.

"Um… I'll get to it, mo-" Kagome's sentence was interrupted by a slap on the face by her mother.

"I told you to clean your room about an hour ago! That should have given you enough time to clean your room!" She yelled into her daughters face.

Kagome's face was stricken with fear. "I'm sorry, mother! I just forgot! I'm sorry!"

"Don't 'I'm sorry, mother!' me!" she slapped her once again.

"Now, I want you to clean your room like a good little girl," Kagome nodded and sped off to her room not before her mother added, "and you can clean the bathrooms while you're at it!"

Later that night…

Kagome walked into the living room with a tear stained face. She had obviously been crying after her mother had slapped her across the face and ordered her to clean more than what she was supposed to.

"Mother, I cleaned the bathrooms as you requested—" Kagome's eyes filled with fear. Her mother and father were beating her brother Sota again.

"When we ask you something you answer, boy!" her father yelled holding Sota up by his arm while her mother beat him. Sota was crying and pleading for them to stop, but they wouldn't listen. They continued to beat him.

Kagome quickly ran up to her room and called 911 on her phone.

"Hello?"

"Yes, I would like to report that my mother and father are-!" Kagome spun around when she heard someone enter her room.

"What do you think you're doing!" her father yelled.

Kagome ignored him and tried to quickly added, "Please come! They're-!"

Her father grabbed her arm forcefully causing her to drop the phone. He hung up the phone and punched her in the face and kicked her multiple times.

She looked up at him with a bruise on her right eye and blood coming from her lip. There were scratches and bruises on her body as well.

"I… I hate you…" Kagome muttered.

"What was that?" he asked.

"I hate you!" she finally said loudly.

His face twisted with anger. "Do you think I care how you feel about me? I don't! I never wanted kids anyways! You were an accident, your mother and I didn't want you! We didn't expect to have a baby! We never even wanted you, Kagome!"

Kagome's eyes widened. Tears threatened to come out of her eyes, but she held them back. Her throat was dry and felt like there was a large lump in it that wouldn't go away no matter how many time you swallowed.

She growled and bit onto his ankle. He cried in pain but Kagome held on tighter. He grabbed her pony tail and held her up like that. Her feet were slightly in the air.

"I hope you die…!"

Those were the last words Kagome heard coming out of his mouth as he threw her against the hard wall. She yelped and as she hit the floor. She struggled to get up, but couldn't. After that, everything went black.

When Kagome woke up, everything was a mess. The sheets were on the floor and papers were all over the floor. Kagome slowly stood up and limped downstairs. She walked into the living room and there was an even bigger mess. Sota was sprawled on the floor near a puddle of blood.

Kagome limped over to him and crouched next to him.

She asked, "Sota, are you OK? Please, say something…"

"…." No response.

There were bruises all along his arm and around his neck. They had probably chocked him to death. Kagome put him in his lap and cried into his hair.

"Please, Sota, say something-- anything."

"…Ka…gome…"

"Sota…?"

"Kagome… I'm scared. I don't… want to die…"

"Y-you're not gonna die, Sota. I promise."

Kagome frowned when he didn't say anything else. His body went limp and Kagome thought the worst.

"Please, Sota! Don't die on me! Sota!"

"…."

"Oh my god…!" Kagome clasped her hand on her mouth. She had never seen someone die in front of her. Especially a sibling.

She looked around the room to see both her parents on the floor dead. Probably from all the alcohol. They never really could hold their liquor. She started to cry again. She sat up and walked out the front door. Her aunt Hinako lived close by here. She could live with her.

When she arrived at her aunt's house she knocked on her door.

"Kagome? What are you doing here? Why are you crying?" She looked at her nieces tear stained face.

"Aunty, mom and dad… Sota… they're all dead…" Kagome said sadly.

"What! Quick, come inside before you catch a cold from all that snow…" She took Kagome's hand and took her in.

"Now, you tell aunty everything that happened. OK, Kagome?" She asked nicely.

Kagome nodded and explained everything that had happened. Aunty Hinako cried and took Kagome in her lap and Kagome cried with her. They stayed like that for a while until Kagome's uncle Arashi came. He asked what was wrong and aunty Hinako explained things. Even he cried. They knew how they treated Kagome and Sota, but they could never do anything about it.

"Kagome, your cousin Sango will be here soon, OK? I'm giving you the job of telling her what happened to your parents tonight."

Kagome nodded and as if on queue Sango walked through the door.

"Hey, Kagome! Uh… why is everyone crying?" she asked curiously.

Kagome took Sango's hand and took her up to Sango's room. When Kagome told her everything that had happened Sango ended up crying as well. Kagome hugged her to comfort her. She held back the tears to set an example. She didn't want her to continue crying.

Sango gave Kagome some pajamas to wear for the night. They talked to about midnight about anything, but what had happened today. They didn't want to start crying uncontrollably.

"Hey, you guys. It's midnight. Lights out."

"OK, mom." Sango replied.

"Yes, aunty Hina." Kagome said.

Sango turned off the lamp on her nightstand and said goodnight to Kagome.

"Night, San."

End of chapter 1 of Broken Smile

Wow! I'd say this is the best story I have ever written! I really like it! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did! I had to force myself to get off the computer… Anyways, please review!

Check in next time for...

Chapter 2: Not the Same of Broken Smile

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