Summary: It's hard to imagine things ever coming up when you're down, and vice verse. That's what Kagome Higurashi told herself years ago. Now she's stuck on the bottom, once again. Even though she has to tell herself that things will get better, she highly doubts that they can. The best things to her have been jerked away, once again, and dangled above her head to taunt her.

Rated M for death, depressing material, and foul language...

"Talking"
Flashbacks
Song Lyrics (centered)

The song lyrics in here, I can't tell you where they came from. The flying trapeze one (it's only four lines long), is a song that runs through someone's head in a book I read.

The other lyrics (they're coming to take me away), are from an Anime Music Video I was watching for Inuyasha. It's hilarious, and they sing it in high-pitch chipmunk voices. I guess you'd have to hear it to understand why it's funny. It's from Doctor Demento, I think...

Best of Us
Chapter 4: Guilty

He'll be upset at first, but this will help me with things. I just have to figure out who has her. This Kagura person, or Naraku. I would think that Kouga was involved, but he's not even around. There's no chance of him and Naraku getting along...

Wait... It's all piecing together now...

- - -

I drive to my old house. I hate the idea of having to come back to this place, but it's the only thing I can do until I get Kaylee back. I'm risking my life and my child's life. Inuyasha will understand. He'll be mad, but when I return in one piece, he'll be okay...

I walk up to the old house, feeling allm y insides protest. I don't want to confront Naraku. If I weren't pregnant, I'd let him take advantage of me just to get Kaylee back. But, pregnancy gives me a lot of disabilities.

My body tenses up and freezes instantly. The ranting isa big disability, especially right now. If my mind hadn't rambled on, then I'd have heard the footsteps behind me. I'd have been more aware of his body as he got closer. I'd have heard his deep breathing.

Now his his hand is over my mouth and my body is pressed up against his. I lick his hand, hoping it'll cause him to release it. No, he doesn't release it. In fact, he searches for revenge, and licks my cheek.

"Glad you came to see me, Kagome." He says sickeningly. He releases my mouth, just enough for me to breathe and talk.

"Can't say the same to you." I hiss at him. He chuckles, then begins to push me into the house. I know that Kaylee is around here somewhere. Even though I'm determined to leave here, I have to stay. I have to stand him long enough to get Kaylee.

"So, what causes you to come? Surely Inuyasha doesn't approve of you leaving." He says. He sits down on a couch and drinks a cup of something. He points to another cup, presumably for me. He must've known that I would come, or something like that.

I stare at the cub skeptically. I have a gut feeling that it's poisoned, or drugged, or something is wrong with it. But, if I don't drink it, then Naraku will get mad and won't help me with getting Kaylee. So, despite my worries about it, I pick up the cup and take a sip. It's Green Tea. Never though of Naraku as the type of man to drink it, though.

"Inuyasha doesn't know I'm here." I blurt. Suddenly I realize my mistake. He doesn't know I'm here, and that means that he won't know to come looking here. Naraku can kill me right now and Inuyasha will have no idea what's going to happen.

Naraku won't kill me, though. I'm his torture toy. He'll let me live, just to watch me suffer and use my body. It's worse than dying, but at least I'll be alive. If I'm alive, I have the hope that I can be with Inuyasha again. Even if I know that it's not a likely possibility.

"He doesn't? You snuck here to see me? How sweet." He says. Before I can even respond with a descent comeback, Naraku is in my face. He presses his lips against mine, and I nearly throw up in his mouth. Somehow, for some evil reason, my vomit manages to stay back in my throat. Damn. I wanted to piss him off by doing that!

"Well, I'd have some fun with you, but it seems that your pregnancy puts that idea out..." He muses. He looks at my thickening stomach, and runs a few claws over it. I shiver in fear that he'll slice it open, and he smiles. He must assume I like the touch, because he begins to rub my stomach with both of his hands. I don't know what he's planning. Both of us know that he can't stand the idea of me belonging to anotherman. Let alone having Inuyasha's child.

"Well, that's good. Because it'd be a problem if we were to do anything and Inuyasha smell it on me." I tell him rudely.

"Oh, I don't leave a scent. That's why no one can smell anything in Kaylee's room. I don't have a scent to leave behind for demons. I'm untracable." He says. I wish that I could say something about it, but I can't. There's nothing for me to say...

"Where's my daughter?" I ask. He looks around the house then shrugs.

"Kagura should know. She's the one who made the underground pathways. Your daughter is in one of the rooms." He says in my ear. I flinch then slap his face, my hand glowing pure white. He stumbles back and holds the burn that I've just placed on him.

"Bitch! How did you do that? You're not a demon and you have no super-powers!" He snaps. I look at my hand, before remembering exactly what Sango had told me.

"I have priestess powers. They're the opposite of demon powers, so they'll hurt you, but not humans or half demons." I tell him smugly. I watch in fear as he raises his hand, then I feel a twinge of pain as it lands on the side of my face. I know it should have hurt more, since he used his claws, but I can't feel it, since everything around me has gone black.

I feel like I'm swimming in a sea of black and blue. I can't see still, and I'm hardly even aware that I have a body. My stomach is twisting and turning, and I'm pretty sure I know why. It's probably from the few sips of tea I had. I knew it was poisoned, yet I risked my life and my babies life to get Kaylee back.

I guess I've been pretty stupid. I left Inuyasha without letting him know where I was. That's bad, since he won't know where to look if I don't return. He'll probably take it out on himself and stop eating. It'll kill him inside if he can't find Kaylee, and he loses his wife and his unborn child.

I shouldn't have been so reckless. I want to cry right now, to help my feelings get out of me. But, I can't. I don't even know where any of my body parts are right now.

I manage to open my eyes after what feels like hours. I'm not happy with what I'm seeing, either. I'm seeing Mickey Mouse on the walls, doing summer-saults. He turns and looks at me, then starts growing hair from his head.

Panicked, I try to get away. That's when I realize that my arms and legs are strapped down to something. I don't know what it is, and my body hurts to much for me to turn to the side and look. Soon enough, Naraku turns on the lights, and I look at him. He's right in front of me and...

He has purple hair. I'm not joking, Naraku's hair went from black to purple. He has chirping birds on his shoulder, and they're chirping the chorus to a song I barely even know. I'd be tempted to sing along, if I could figure out where my lips are...

She flies through the air
with the greatest of ease,
That daring young woman
on the flying trapeze. . .

I don't even know the song, who sings it, or any other words. But that bird is chirping to the tune of those words. I want to laugh, since the words sound strange, but I still don't know where my mouth is.

Naraku laughs, and the words suddenly spew out of his mouth. He looks like he's laughing, but those stupid words are coming out. I manage to open my mouth, even though I still feel out of it.

"What's going on?" I try to ask. I don't even know if it came out right. My voice sounds like one of those chipmunk voices. Then more lyrics come to my mind as Naraku gets closer to me.

Remember when you ran away
And I got on my knees and
Begged you not to go or else I'd gobeserk
WELL!

I feel beserk right now, that's the truth...

You left me anyway
And the days got worse and worse
And now, you see,I've completely lost my mind...

They're coming to take me away
Ha ha
They're coming to take me away
Ho ho, hee hee,ha ha

To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I'll be happy to see those nice young men
In their clean, white coats
They're coming to take me away!
Ha ha!

I've seriously got to wonder if I've been taken to the happy farm. Naraku is singing to me, and his hair has gone from purple to neon green. He starts growing flowers from his ears, then points to me. I can't even tell what he's trying to say anymore. Then he laughs, and all the music in my head comes to a halt.

"Seems that you're a clean girl, huh? This must be your first time with drugs." He says. I stare at him for a while as his hair starts turning into rainbow colors. It's red, then blue, then pink, then orange... I can't even name some of these colors that it's turning.

You thought it was a joke
And so you laughed
You laughed
When I had said that losing you
Would make me flip my lid
RIGHT?

You know you laughed
I heard you laugh
You laughed
You laughed
You laughed
And laughed
And now I'm utterly mad

They're coming to take me away
Ha ha
They're coming to take me away
Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha

Damn it. I think he did drug me. The only question on my mind is what did he drug me with? I close my eyes to get these images out of my head, but it's no good. Mickey mouse is doing pushups, and Tarzan has started humping him. Bad images! Out of my head!

I open my eyes to escape the sight, and I look at Naraku again. His skin is purple, rather than his hair. He's smiling, and his teeth are orange. Baby-puke orange. Gross! I don't have the ability to gross out over it, since everything goes black again

After a few hours, I wake up again. I'm in the house, and it's daylight. It's bright, and the sun coming through the windows is hurting my eyes a hell of a lot.

Inuyasha must've left without realizing I was gone. I sit up, instantly falling back. I pull the phone up to my ear and call Sango. I can't lift my head anymore.

"Hello?" Sango greets half-heartedly. She's taken a bit depression from Kaylee's vanishing, too.

"Sango... Come to my... house... Hurry. I need your help." I tell her. I hang up before she can question me. I have to tell her what's going on so she'll know. She has earned the right to know long ago, and I think I should tell her now. I'lltell her now before things get much worse.

"Oh my God!" Sango exclaims. Sango is probably at the doorway, but I can't move my head to look. I don't know what's happened. The onlythink I can remember are those song lyrics... They're coming to take me away. Someone is coming after me, but I can't remember who. I think...

I think I knew last night, but I don't know for sure...

Next time on Best of Us...
This is my fault too. Inuyasha must be so upset at me for having done this, but I had reasons. Can't he understand that too? Well, while I heal from these wounds, I have to learn to cope with the fact that our daughter is gone. Not only with that, but the fact that Inuyasha now thinks I'm a horrible person...

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