Chapter 10
Kagome clenched her stomach as she pushed her arm up upon a nearby tree. She leaned up against a tree and took a breath. Touching her temple she winced at the pain and took a deep breath. The cut big and she could see blood dripping from her face. Taking a deep breath she pushed off the tree and shuffled her feet as she tried to walk. Every step she took her body screamed in agony. After a few feet away from where she lied she fell to her knees as her body collapsed in exhaustion. She reached into her pockets and cursed under her breath, as her cell phone wasn't there. Kagome looked up at the sky and saw the full moon explaining why it was so bright out. She sighed as she took a deep breath.
Pushing her body to get up she staggered forward as she gritted her teeth trying to focus on something else than her agonizing body. As she got to the sidewalk she saw no cars passing by. The streets were secluded as things were ominously quiet. She rammed herself into a cement wall as she fell to her knees once again. She glanced at her watched and smiled. "2:45A.M, damn, now I'll have to hear his damn lecture again." She smirked as she dragged herself up on her feet. Dragging herself upon the wall to support herself up, she walked on, one gruesome step at a time.
Her vision was getting blurry and she sighed with a smile when she saw her house. She staggered as she crossed the road and hit the door. Holding her stomach in pain she looked at the ground as blood dripped on the floor. She raised her fist and hesitated to knock on the door. After a few minutes she knocked the door. After a minute or two Kyotaka opened the door and looked at her in shock.
Half of her face was covered in blood as a cut on two inches long trailed on the right side of her forehead. Her chin was badly bruised with a few minor cuts. Her arm had a bruise as big as a fist and it just looked like she got back from a street fight.
"What happened?" He said, as he stood there unable to move.
"You got your wish." She said as she stood there trying to lock her knees in place to keep her balance.
Kagura ran up behind him to see who was at the door so early in the morning and even she stood there in shock unable to speak. After a minute Kagura snapped out of it and ran towards the living room. "Bankotsu! Bankotsu! Kagome's hurt!" She yelled throughout the house as Kyotaka took Kagome's arm and slung it around his neck and one arm around her waist.
Blood dripped on the floor as he lead her to the living room, sitting her on the couch as he ran up stairs. Kagome sat there as she tried to focus on staying up. Bankotsu appeared in front of her and she could see his mouth moving but couldn't make out what he was saying. She then fell into unconsciousness as her body gave up.
"Oh my gosh is she alive?" Kagura said as Bankotsu checked for a pulse.
"She's alive and her pulse is a little slow but if we patch her wound on her head she'll be okay. The cut isn't to serious, it doesn't need stitching." Bankotsu put a wet cloth on the wound, trying to clean it up a bit. After applying some antibiotics to make the cut heal faster and he patched it up.
"What the hell happened to her?" Kyotaka asked as he looked at her. "Why didn't you stop her from leaving the house. If you had stopped her than none-"
"I know. I should have stopped her but how should I know that it would end up like this." Bankotsu lifted her up and carried her to her room. "I'll patch up the rest of her wounds up stairs. Kagura can you get some ice packs so we can reduce the swelling and bruising on her face and arms." Kagura nodded and headed towards the kitchen as he headed upstairs.
Laying his sister on the bed he sighed heavily looking at her. Bonkotsu applied antibiotics to her chin and below her eye. Bandages were applied afterwards and when the last bandage in place Kagura came in and handed Bonkotsu the 3 ice packs.
"I didn't know how much to bring. Do you need more?" She said worried.
"No that's fine." He placed an ice pack on her right leg, right arm and her left eye. Kagura stood there quietly for a moment as she looked at Kagome.
"You know all those times I said that I wished she was dead." She said as she clenched her hand into a fist. "Well I didn't mean it. I mean I'm shaking right now because I'm so worried. Even though she did those things to me, all those pranks she did to me. I'm still worried and if I could I would take back everything I said to her." Kagura looked at the floor and sighed. "I hope she'll be okay."
Bankotsu held her hand and looked up at her. "She's going to be okay don't worry." He smiled and Kagura gave him a slight punch on the shoulder. She left the room and shut the door.
Bankotsu sighed heavily and laid his head on the bed as he sat on the floor. She was going to be alright and he drifted asleep beside his sister as the thought of that stuck on his mind, he smiled, holding her sisters hand in hers.
Kagome stayed home for a week and never talked about the incident that had occurred that night. Bankotsu never pestered her about it. He wanted to wait until she was well and recovered. Bankotsu, Kagura, and Kyotaka sat in the kitchen eating breakfast until a knock was heard at the door. Kagura answered it and as she came back a Silvered haired boy followed behind her. Bankotsu had seen him around school but never really talked to him.
"Oh right you're Kagome's boyfriend." Kyotaka said as he looked at him.
"Kagome's boyfriend?" Bankotsu inquired as he raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah, well you want to see Kagome, so come this way." Kagura said as he led him up stairs and into her room. Kagome looked towards the door and just stared at Sesshomaru. "Well I'll leave you two alone." Kagura closed the door behind her and silence fell on to the room.
"Who did this to you?" He said breaking the silence.
"I don't remember." Kagome looked at the ceiling as Hiten's threat rang in her ears. She wanted him to leave.
"You don't remember or you don't want to tell me." Sesshomaru took a seat on the bed next to her. His eyes showed no emotion at all. Not of worries, not of pain, nothing. His eyes were so piercing that she had to look away. "What happened?" He repeated with anger.
Kagome sat up and sighed. "I was beaten by your fan girls. They had pipes with them and I tried to defend myself but I wasn't strong enough to do so." She looked up at him and saw that he was buying her story. "That's how it went."
"I'm just glade you're alive." He placed her hand on her cheek as he smiled. "Get better okay your cousin said you'll be going to school on Monday so I'll see you than." As he was about to kiss her he averted and smirked. " I'll see you later before I can't resist myself from kissing you." Kagome smiled as he left.
Her eyes averted to the clock on the drawer beside her bed. It was 4:08P.M. and all she did all week was stay in bed. Her bruises lightened up and the swelling under her left eye healed up. She unwrapped the bandages on her wrist and smiled. There was no scar from where she cut herself. There was only a light line and you could hardly see it."At least one cut was healed." she felt the patch on her forehead. She looked at it several times and everyday it healed up utterly great. She could easily cover that up with make-up. On Monday she will look as normal as the first day of school but mentally she can never get her mind in tack.
Kagome walked into school and was welcomed by a huge hug by Ayame. "Oh Kagome. I was so worried about you. Bankotsu told me what happened and I was devastated."
"Aya-"
"You don't know how much you worried us all you know. We visited you and-"
"Ayame." Kagome said with a breath.
"What is it?" She said looking at her.
"I can't breath." Ayame let her go and took a step back. "Oh my gosh Kagome I'm so sorry." She said as Kagome took a big breath of fresh hair.
"Damn girl. What the hell are you trying to do to me? Kill me or something or injury me even more." She said as she put her hands around her neck. She soon sighed after seeing her frown and Kagome put a hand on her shoulder. "But I missed you to Ayame." She then wrapped her arms around Kagome's neck and the two boys pulled her away.
"Glade you're okay Kagome. It looks like you never even got beaten." Koga said as they lead her to her class.
"Yeah girl. We visited you everyday of the week to check up on you." Hojo said with a smile.
"So where'd your brother go?" Koga asked.
"He said he had to take an exam he failed."
"Oh yea it was a math exam and he had to take it in the morning before he fails the whole semester." Ayame said finishing Kagome's sentence.
"So who do you have next?" Koga inquired.
"I have science. Mrs. Takedo."
"Really well Mrs. Takedo isn't in that class anymore. It seems she retired from teaching but the teacher who replaced her is so cute. His name is Mr. Sanzenin. He's like 21 or 22 years old and he just came here from Hokkaido. Every girl has fallen for him and the best part is that he's single." Ayame looked around as she walked.
"Well that's kinda weird." Kagome went into her class as the others said there goodbyes Kagome took a seat in the back. Most of the girls from her class was already there sitting in the front row. "This guy must be extremely cute for girls to be coming 30 minutes early to just get the front seats." She said to herself as she looked out the window. When Inuyasha entered the classroom he took a seat next to her. "So there's a new teacher I hear." She said as he sat down.
"Yeah. It's kinda annoying because the girls keep on squealing every time he enters the classroom." Inuyasha leaned back on his chair trying to get comfortable.
After that being said Kagome laid her head on the table as she covered her face with her arms. She had to wake up early this morning to get her make-up all set and she was exhausted when it took along time.
Kagome felt a nudge and she immediately looked at Inuyasha with half opened eyes. "The class is about to start." He said pointing at the front of the classroom. She rested her head on the palm of her hand as she waited for the teacher or so called Mr. Sanzenin to enter the classroom. She closed her eyes still resting her head on her hand. Moment later she heard girls shrieking and knew the teacher just came in. Before looking at what this teacher looked like Kagome took out a pen and she looked forward but the guy had his back towards the class as he wrote something on the chalkboard.
Kagome tapped her pencil on the desk as she waited to turn around. He finally turned around and she flew her pencil and it dropped on the ground beside Inuyasha. Kagome's eye's widened, as she couldn't take her eyes off him. She wanted to scream, to shriek, and to say something but she couldn't. Her heart took vacancy in her throat as she had hard time breathing as she stared at him.
Inuyasha picked up her pencil and looked at Kagome as her arms began to tremble. Her eyes were filled with terror and fear that he wondered what was going on in her mind. Inuyasha tapped Kagome's arm with the pencil to give it to her but she kept her eyes glued in front of the class. "Kagome?" Inuyasha whispered, as he made sure that the teacher didn't see him talking. "Kagome?" he called out again but she didn't look at him.
"So Miss Higurashi you finally decided to join us." Mr. Sanzenin said with a smirk as Kagome shook uncontrollable as the teacher stared at her. "Miss Higurashi why don't you grab that pencil from Mr. Otonashi and let us start class now shall we." He said calmly as he turned to write something on the board.
She finally snapped out of it as she shakily took the pencil from InuYasha's hand. "Are you okay Kagome?" She shook her head yes but Inuyasha couldn't help but worry about her. She didn't concentrate in class but looked at her paper most of the time. She would never look at the teacher but tried to ignore him. As 5 minutes of class remained Mr. Sanzenin turned to the class. "Kagome Higurashi. Please stay after class to discuss some matters about your school work you've missed while you were absent." Kagome just looked at the desk as she clutched the pencil in her hands so tightly that it broke in half.
"Kagome are you sure you're alright?" Inuyasha said looking at the half pencil in her hand as she continued to tremble. She just shook her head up and down and as the bell rang Kagome sat there. Inuyasha did the same as he crossed his arms in front of his chest.
Mr. Sanzenin stood in front of the classroom and leaned back on his desk. "Kagome can you come here." He said as she waved her over there. Kagome got up and after a minute past Kagome returned to her desk.
"Inuyasha can you please leave. I have to talk to Mr. Sanzenin about something." She looked at him who didn't move from his seat. "Inuyasha please just go."
"I'm not leaving you in here. I mean look at you. You're shaking with fear and you've been acting weird all morning. I'm sure not leaving you in here."
"No I'm okay it's just the medicine I took this morning. It kinda makes me jumpy and stuff so don't worry I'll be fine and besides you wouldn't want to stay in here for recess." She said with a smile.
"Are you sure?" He asked with a look of concern on his face.
"Yeah no worries."
He packed his books and exited the room. Mr. Sanzenin closed the door and he then motioned Kagome to go in front of the classroom.
"What are you doing at my school?" She said as calmly and respectfully as she could.
He smirked and rested his arm on her shoulder. He played with her hair and kissed her. Moving his free hand up her leg Kagome quivered in fear. He lifted her skirt up slightly as he slowly moved his hand up her thigh.
Taking a mass of hair in his fist he pulled her hair and slammed her back into the desk. She gave a yelp as she hit the desk.
Pinning her hands onto the desk he licked her neck up to her ear. Kagome's eyes widened as her mind trailed off. He nibbled her neck and Kagome let out a slight moan at the pain. Grabbing a clump of hair he pulled back her head and looked at her eyes that held back tears. "Why am I in this mess? I can't take it anymore." She said to herself as she refuses from letting her tears spill. He threw Kagome to the floor.
"It was easy getting a job here. To change my name and make a fake resume. It's quite easy." He said with a smirk as Kagome pushed herself up.
"Why are you here Hiten? What are you planning to do?"
"You're in no position to ask me such a question but if you must know I'm here to watch over my precious little cousin. To make sure you don't run." He went behind his desk and unlocked a drawer. He pulled out a Handgun and walked towards her. Her head was slouched forward as her hair covered her face.
He knelt in front of her and pulled her hair back and aimed the gun to her forehead. Her mind went blank as her eyes widened in fear. "Because you know what happens if you run away?" He placed his index finger on the trigger and pushed the gun onto her forehead so that the two touched. Kagome looked at his finger as it slightly moved back. He recoiled the trigger all the way back and as it clicked empty Kagome shook uncontrollable. He got up and laughed as she saw her shake profusely. Kagome stayed in place as she tried to recover herself from the shock.
Hiten sat at his desk and loaded his gun. "You can leave." He said with a smirk on his face. Kagome listened and got up slowly as Hiten locked the gun in his desk. She packed her stuff up and quickly went out of the door but it didn't budge. It was lock and Hiten walked toward her with the keys. He stood closely behind her and reached out to insert the key. With his mouth near her ear he unlocked the door but didn't remove his hand.
"Don't make a mistake that you'll regret." He whispered as he moved back and went to his desk. Kagome ran to the bathroom and held her mouth. She slammed a stall open and heaved out her breakfast. She knelt down in front of the toilet until she was sure that she was done. She leaned back on the closed stall and let out a breath as she cried.