Chapter 11

Kagome sat in a uncomfortable waiting room chair. They had just token her brother in for questioning. And she was scared to death of what he might let slip. If he said one word about Inuyasha, they were all in big trouble. Especially...Inuyasha.

Of course, she'd warned both of them, not to mention him. As she started coming down the stairs, she said to cut him out of the story completely, and to say her father had held the gun on her instead. She just hopped there stories all matched up.

The second her Mother had came out of questioning, she had given her daughter a hug, while whispering in her ear, "You came through first"

Now, here she sat, scared to death, biting her nails, and tapping her foot. While her Mother sat next to her, staring off into space in what was most definitely deep-thought.

Suddenly, the door to the gray room opened. And there stood Souta. And, contrary to how he entered, pale and shaky, he was now flushed, and angry looking. He strode right across the room, and plopped down, unceremoniously in a chair.

"Miss Higurashi I presume?" Officer Kumiko addressed Kagome, as she stood from her chair.

"Yes, Officer Kumiko?" She said, as she bowed in respect. He lowered his head in a short bow, before gesturing for her to follow him, as he entered the interrogation room.

She obeyed, and walked in, closing the door behind her. He then, gestured to the seat. A gray, straight backed chair. Looking even more uncomfortable then the waiting room chairs. And she again, obeyed by sitting down.

"How old are you, Miss Higurashi? Or can I call you Kagome?" Kumiko asked, as he lite up another cigarette.

"Just don't call me Horaldo(1)" She muttered.

"Ah, a Stephen King fan I see. Very funny. Please answer the question Kagome."

"I'm 18."

"18, are you senior? Or have you already graduated?"

"Senior" She replied coldly.

"You got a boyfriend?"

Kagome rolled her eyes. "What does this have to do with anything? I still don't understand why I'm here! We called you for help, and you drag us somewhere, and interrogate us, like we're no better then petty theives, what is wrong with this picture?"

Kumiko looked at her impassively. "I just want to know what happened. I asked you a question Miss Kagome. Do you have a boyfriend?"

She sighed heavily. She just wanted to get out of here. "Yes."

"Oh? And what's his name?"

Kagome glared at him. She didn't like where this was going. "Inuyasha"

"And does, Inuyasha, know what happened today?"

"How would he? You haven't let us make a single call! People who you arrest seem to have more rights then us at the moment!" Kagome outraged.

"I don't understand why you're so angry. The impression I got was that your father's been beating you. You'd think you'd be a little more...subdued." Kumiko commented. Raising an eyebrow.

"Can we just get this over with? I just want to go home! Wake up from this nightmare!" Kagome wailed, as she crossed her arms on the table, and dropped her head down into them.

"What if your fathers waiting for you there? Would you rather go have a run in with him, or answer a few questions?" Kumiko asked.

"A few!" She exclaimed.

"Fine. Let's begin then. Since you're so anxious." He pulled a tape recorder out of his jacket, and placed it on the table. Kagome looked sideways at it. "I didn't record your mother, or brother, because I knew they didn't have the whole story. Now tell me, what happened today?"

She inhaled heavily. "Okay. I came home from school, and my father was waiting for me. He wanted something, information about where I'd disappeared to the previous day and..."

"Where?" He asked looking at her face skeptically.

"Pardon me?"

"Where did you disappear to? And for how long?" Kumiko inquired stubbornly.

"Is that any of your business?"

"Answer the question."

"I was with Inuyasha. Alright?" Kagome said, impatiently. Kumiko awed, and took a notepad out of an inner pocket of his jacket. He flipped it open, and made a note.

"Anyway, I wouldn't tell him. So he hit me. I still wouldn't tell him, so he started choking me. When, fortunately, my mother called from downstairs. And he released me. But before he left my room, he slid his hand up, and under my..." Her voice shook, up until this point she had maintained an irritated tone, and deliberate manner. But now it was all becoming just to real. She swallowed before continuing. "..My skirt. And implied something would happen that night when the lights were out, and all was quit, if you get what I mean."

"So, he threatened to rape you?" Kumiko asked bluntly, as he scratched his chin, and made another note on his paper.

"More like implied he was going to, but yes."

"And, if you don't mind my asking, did he follow through with that threat?" Kumiko said, again with all the bluntness of a insensitive jerk. Not that that wasn't exactly what he was.

"I do mind. Considering you haven't given me a chance to finish my story." Kagome said curtly. He gestured for her to continue.

"So, I passed him, and went downstairs. I went out to the Goshinboku, to sit and think. I was out there for a while when..." She swallowed, thinking about what had really happened. Inuyasha had finally confessed. He loved her. The thought alone was enough to make butterflies come to her stomach. Suddenly getting the urge to smile, she pushed it away and continued. "I heard him screaming. I ran into the house, and my mother was leaning against the counter, and my father looked very angry. And suddenly, he pulled out a gun, pointed it at me, and told me not to move any closer."

"Yes, the investigators found a 22 caliber berretta on the floor of your room." Kumiko commented, making yet another note on the pad of paper Kagome was coming to loath.

"Yeah, that was it. Anyway, my brother came in, and my father immediately told him to go pack his bags. And to stay in his room till he came and got him. Souta did it. He'd never seen dad like that before. He didn't know why my parents split up. If he did, he would have blamed me." Kagome said, staring at the table top, as tears collected in her eyes.

"Has your father ever raped you before Miss Higurashi?"

Kagome instantly snapped her head up, and locked eyes with the rude, insensitive detective. "When I was nine. You happy now?"

"No. I won't be happy till this bastard's in jail. You can go now, I don't need anything else, except. Did he rape you today?"

Kagome looked at him, to stunned to react. That was a fast turn around. One minute he was acting like he didn't believe a word she said, next, he's taking her side. She suddenly caught up with his words. And nodded.

"In that case, I'm posting three police officers around your house. No one will enter, or leave the shrine without your explicit permission. For one week." Said Kumiko, as he stood up.

"What!" Kagome exclaimed. Kumiko raised an eyebrow.

"Don't you want protection?"

"Of course, but Inuyasha..." Kagome protested.

"...Is one man. And a civilian at that. What if your father gets another gun? Do you want your boyfriend to die to protect you?" Kumiko asked, hitting Kagome's one and only weak spot, without even realizing it.

"Well...alright then." Kagome said hesitantly. But she knew Inuyasha would never stay away for that long.

Inuyasha stood by the well, his mind racing. 'What the hell do I do? Do I go to her? Do I stay here? What the fuck am I supposed to do?' Inuyasha breathed in, the scent of graveyard soil, and the faint trace of the women he once loved.

'And what about the women you do love? Doesn't she deserve to be acknowledged? Maybe I should go and tell Kikyou, show Kagome that she means something to me. Prove that I don't want to be with Kikyou anymore. And clear up the whole 'come with me to hell' thing.' it was so crazy, it just might work.

Inuyasha was gone before he could think anymore about it, or change his mind. And from what he could tell, Kikyou was not far from the Goshinboku, and neither was, Inuyasha smelled, was Miroku, and Sango. 'shit!' he cursed, as he came to a halt.

Kikyou stood, at the base of the Goshinboku, her soul stealers surrounding her. Her bow was loaded, and she was pointing it at Sango, who had the hiraikotsu held over her head, and Miroku, who had one hand on his prayer beads, about to release the Kazanaa.

"Wait!" Inuyasha yelled, jumping between the three.

"Inuyasha!" Kikyou hissed. "Do not interfere, they challenged me. I did not raise any aggressions."

"Inuyasha, get her out of here before Kagome come back." Sango warned, through gritted teeth. "And don't you dare let her see you with her!"

"Just go back to the village." Inuyasha grunted. Kikyou lowered her bow, and Sango did the same with her boomerang. While Miroku's hands dropped to his sides.

"I swear Inuyasha! If you make Kagome cry one more time because of her...You will regret the day you ever came into this world!" Sango warned again, but Miroku grabbed her shoulders, and started leading her away. When they were almost out of hearing range, you could hear a loud shriek, followed by a sharp, and no doubt painful, slap.

"Inuyasha. I told you not to interfere" Kikyou commented. As she stepped forward, and placed a hand on his shoulder, he shook it off.

"Why are you here?" he asked gruffly. Not looking at her.

"I was just passing by." She replied.

"Oh..." He said. He wanted to tell her to never come back, but he just couldn't. After everything she'd gone through just for loving him, he couldn't break her heart like that. He just couldn't.

"It's the girl, isn't it? The copy?"

Inuyasha turned at these words. To see her hanging her head. Her bangs obscuring her face.

"Her names Kagome. She's not a copy." He stated. Kikyou shook her head.

"She's not me either. By loving her you aren't getting me back. You need to realize that, before you do something foolish." Kikyou scolded. These words made Inuyasha blood boil.

"Foolish?" He said, as he gripped Tetsusaigas' hilt in desperation to not transform. "I know I'm not getting you back. She's nothing like you! She can laugh every once in a while! She also excepts me the way I am. She trusts me! And she never asked me to change!" He outraged. Kikyou actually stepped back in alarm. Proving his point as he laughed.

"You see! Kagome knows I would never hurt her! You! You step back as if afraid I'm going to strike you when I yell! That's the difference Kikyou, that's why I love her. And I'm sorry."

Here's a pretty long chapter to make up for the long no update period, and, I'm hoping this doesn't qualify as a cliffy, but it might. I'm not sure, but I believe I still have a while to go. I have so much stuff I want to explain, and that I want to happen.
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(1) A quote from one, Steward Redman, from the American, Stephen King movie, The Stand. A personal favorite of mine

PS: I hope this chapter wasn't to broing, or that Kags was to OOC, but I like the sarcastic approach.

Till next time! The all Powerful Fu Fu!

I'm the all powerful Fu Fu!
Mwahahahaha!
(Sry, had the urge)

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Why aren't they mine?
I wish they were
But I'll settle for terrorizing them
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