Summary: Kagome used to be the popular and happy girl in school. Everyone loved her, until summer break. Now, returning to high school, no one regognizes her. Will someone be able to find out why she's vanished? Inuyasha's POV.

Rated M for the following: Cutting, mention of suicide, adult situations (Miroku's fault this had to be put in), and foul language... If these bother you, then suck it up and read, or leave.

Sorry if this chapter isn't too good or too long. Penguins were flying through my window again and it sucked my intelligence out of me...

Funny. I told ya'll that I'd be putting Kagome's big summer-vacation secret in here, and I got tons of reviews! I guess you all wanted to hear it awfully bad, huh?

BTW: I'm almost done with the chapters. Even though you're starting to catch up to me, I think I'll be done soon (I just have to work on them is the trick.)

Heart of Pain
Chapter Eleven: Outburst

I pause, wondering the same thing. My sense of smell and my hearing are usually very good at picking up on things like a woman's presence. So, why didn't I smell her? I don't even remember being able to smell things that usually my nose can pick up. I take a sniff, but I can't smell the flowers that the school is filled with. Funny, I can normally smell them really well... Oh no...

That would explain quite a lot, but Kagome won't believe it, with my luck.

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"Well, are you going to answer me or not!" Kagome asks. I let go of her wrists, but she doesn't make a dash for the car.

"I'm a half demon. Once every new moon, I turn into a human... The day before the new moon, I look like I'm half demon, but my senses are weak. I can't even smell things that are obvious. I can't hear things either." I tell her. She glares at me, and I know she doesn't believe me.

"You're making that up!" She snaps.

"That would explain why I couldn't catch your hand before you hit me. My senses are dull and my reactions are slower." I tell her. She raises her hand to hit me again, and I react a few seconds later. I feel so slow for not knowing when things will happen now.

"You think that you're able to help my by acting pathetic, huh?" She asks. I don't reply, sinceI know I can't change her mind anyway. After a few moments of silence, I decide that I should say something.

"I'm not acting, Kagome." I tell her.

"Stop it! You think that you can hide things, just like he did! He thought that he could hide his dark side from us! I knew better than to trust him, but mom said that I should! So, I trusted him and he took away the one thing I was living for! He took more things away after that, and ruined mom!" She yells. I widen my eyes, realizing that she's started saying things about what happened.

"Tell me everything." I say. I think she's too hysterical right now to refuse.

"He came, and acted nice. Mom accepted him, and they were going to get married. Once he got mom's trust, he began to act strange around us. Mom told me to trust him, so I stopped being so cautious. Then he got mad at my mom for not putting his name on her will. For giving everything to Souta and I. Then... He killed Souta, right in front of us! So, mom did what he told her to do! She wrote everything down that he told her to!" She says. I lead her towards a bench, hoping that she'll calm down before she passes out or something.

"Then, once she wrote it down, he got us together for a family meeting. He told mom to come closer so he could tell me some news. When she came closer, he killed her. He carved her up and killed her in front of me! Then he got custody of me, since it was in mom's will along with other things! Him and his stupid friends took something away from me that I thought I could keep from them!" She finally finishes.

"They... They didn't take you, did they?" I ask.

"They did. They took the only thing innocent I still had with me! That's why I used to cut! That's why I hate going home. I know that if I get home too soon, then his friends will be there and they'll do it again!" She finishes. I hug her tightly, hoping to wake up any moment now.

"I'm sorry that happened, Kagome." I tell her quietly. She cries in my shirt and hugs me back. She doesn't even say anything, she just cries. After a while, my stomach growls. I didn't even grab a can of soda today.

"Go eat lunch. I won't hurt myself." She says. I nod slowly then kiss her head.

"I'm really sorry that happend. I wish I could've protected you and your family." I say. She nods then looks away. Taking my cue to leave, I walk to the lunch area and steal Miroku's fries. Everyone needs a change now and then, so Sango can keep hers today.

"Hey, Sango has fries too!" Miroku whines. I look at Miroku, then at Sango. She's looking at me as if she'll fight to the death to defend her fries.

"Nah. I've taken them enough already. Besides, I think she'll kill me if I take more." I say. Miroku pouts, causing Sango and I to laugh. He can be so pathetic sometimes.

"So, Inuyasha, what happened? This morning there was a fight between you and Kay." Sango says. I look at her, wondering if I should tell her or not. She may find out that Kay is Kagome, but I guess it couldn't hurt. Right now, I'm the only one outside of her dark friends that knows. Kagome's dark friends, not Sango's. Sango would scare those kids shitless.

"Well..." I clear my throat, hoping the bell would save me from this situation.

"Inuyasha, now." She demands. I whine then take a bunch of fries and stuff them in my mouth. I make muffled noises behind them, hoping she'll laugh instead of press the issue.

"INUYASHA!" She shouts. Everyone around us stares and I quickly swallow the fries. I take a drink of my soda, hoping that it'll unstick them from my throat.

"Fine. Just don't draw attention... And you can't tell anyone. I don't want her thinking I betrayed her." I tell Sango. She nods, and I shift in my seat. Damn, I was hoping that it wouldn't come to this.

"Well, Kay has a tough... time." I'm not going to say summer vacation, or they'll know. I can't say life, because that'd be lying. Damn, I'm working hard to out-manuever these little details!

"Uh huh..." Sango and Miroku say in unison.

"Anyway, two of her family members were murdered." It's probably wise not to give too much detail in this. "And people have raped her." I finish. I won't say that they're likely to rape her again.

"Why'd she get mad at you, though?" She asks. I look down, realizing that I didn't even answer the question. Crap! I answered the wrong question and nearly gave Kagome away!

"I was standing around some kids who were picking on emo kids. I told one of them to stop, but he thought I was joking, and didn't. I started growling, and he didn't quite. I turned to leave and Kag--" I stop short, nearly giving her name out. "Kay was there. She was reall upset that I didn't stand up for her, and thinks I joked with them willingly." I say. Thankfully, no one seems to have noticed my name slip-up.

"Hmm. Why couldn't you smell her?" Miroku asks.

"Tonight's the full moon. I can't smell anything. Not even these fries." I tell him. Miroku nods and Sango closes her eyes. I can tell she's going into her I-know-everything-about-women mode.

"You should apologize." She suggests.

"Tried. She doesn't believe me." I reply boredly.

"You didn't force it on her, did you?" She questions. She feels like my mother right now.

"No, she wouldn't believe me anyway. Why bother?" I say.

"Tonight, you should take her somewhere so she can see you as human." Miroku suggests. Both Sango and I glare at him for this idea.

"It won't work for--"

"Two reasons." Sango says. She must have an idea of her own.

"First off, I can't. As a human, I won't be able to figure out where she lives or defend her from the person who has custody of her. He's the one raping her." I say.

"And the second reason is due to Kay's opinion. She's mad at Kagome. Showing up tonight would be over-doing it. She'd think that he was trying to hard and that'd make her dislike him more. That's why it's a good idea for him not to push something on her - truth or not - when she won't believe it." Sango finishes. Miroku nods a few times before I stuff a few more fries in my mouth.

"Right... I knew that." Miroku replies quietly. I stand up just as the bell rings. I wave to them and walk to my next class. This is bad. Kagome just told me everything that happened to her over summer vacation. What did I do? Nothing.

I can't think of what to do to help her. She'll get upset, and I'm hoping we're still friends in her mind. If she considers this just a fight and thinks we're still friends, she's more likely to hold up her promise about not hurting herself.

Even so, I wouldn't get terribly upset if she did hurt herself. I can understand why she would. She told her horrible secret to me and thinks that I betrayed her. I didn't, but there's no way to prove that. It's a word-agianst-word fight, and pushing my side will hurt her more.

So, what's a good way to help her recover from what happened? I can't see her tonight to prove what happened earlier on today wasn't as bad as she thinks. Even so, it wouldn't prove much and the issue isn't what's bothering me right now. What I want is someone to sue the life off this man so he won't be able to have custody of Kagome.

But, what lawyer do I know that can do that at my command? Oh, this is perfect. He'll work just fine...

Next time on Heart of Pain...
Kagome has become void of any emotions and words. She spaces out all the time and stopped smiling once again. Not to mention, she won't speak a word to anyone. She won't look at Inuaysha anymore, and he knows it's only because of what happened over the summer. Why is it so upsetting for her to have him know about what happened over the summer?

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