Sorry about leaving you all hanging at the last chapter but here you all go and thanks for reading by the way. Jezz i can never stop saying that lol.
Chapter 16
She opened her eyes and looked at Hiten who knelt down in front of her. She froze she couldn't believe she was still alive and still here with him. She clutched her stomach that was gushing out blood and looked at him who smirked at her.
He put his hand in his back pocket and pulled out a gun. "It's over Kagome Higurashi." He held the gun tightly in his hand and lifted it up to her forehead.
Tears streaked her face as the cold metal laid up against her head. "P-Please don't do this." She pleaded as her heart sped up and her body trembled with fear.
"I pleaded all my life and it didn't get me anywhere and it won't help you now." He pulled back the firing pin, ready to shoot he smiled and kissed her trembling lips.
"Please don't do this." She tried to convince him to think things over but all he did was smirk maliciously.
He licked his lips and pushed the gun into her head. Her head was pinned between the gun and the wall behind her.
He smiled and Kagome closed her eyes and took a deep breath as tears escaped from her eyes. His finger pulled back slightly and as she opened her eyes she looked upon her death.
"It's all over." He pulled the trigger back and a loud echo of a gunfire rung through out the streets and seconds later silence fell upon the town.
Screams were heard throughout the corridor as doctors rushed into the room.
"He's going to kill me. He's coming to kill me!" Kagome yelled as she was forced down on to her back.
"It was a dream. It was just a nightmare. Please calm down!" The doctors yelled as they held her arms and legs in place, trying to control the situation before she injured herself even more.
Sesshomaru and Bankotsu rushed in the room and pushed away the doctors and nurses. Sesshomaru placed his hands firmly on her shoulders and looked down at her. She shook her head profusely as she tired to get out of his grasp.
"Kagome! Look at me Kagome!" he demanded as she struggled to get out. "Kagome!"
She soon relaxed and looked up at him with her eyes wide open with terror. Her tears ran down her face refusing to stop. Taking a deep breath she stayed still and stared at him. He let her go and made sure he was in her sight. The doctors examined her stomach and her face as she stared at the boy by her bedside.
"Don't leave the room, make sure someone's watching her while you're visiting." The doctors left the room and she remained staring at Sesshomaru.
"Where am I?" She finally said as she slowly sat up. She winced and put a hand on her patched stomach as her brother walked up to the bed.
"You're at the hospital."
"Hospital? I thought I was dead. He shot me with a gun and-"
"Who is this he?" Sesshomaru asked in anger as he clutched his hands into a fist.
Kagome soon paused and thought things over. Can she risk telling them the truth? She ran her fingers through her hair.
"I don't know. I don't remember."
"It's okay don't try to think so much about it." Sesshomaru insisted as he took her hand in his. He tightened his grip around her hand as she stared up at him. He knew it was his fault she was in this situation and he couldn't help but think that things had to change. Who had ever stabbed her was going to pay but the only thing is who was this person?
It pondered his thoughts for quite a while as he stood beside her. The room was ominously quiet and Kagome noticed that right away as she shifted her eyes back and fourth at the two boys who stared at her with remorse.
"Is everything alright you're just staring at me." The two boys soon averted there eyes elsewhere and then looked back and smiled.
"Every thing's okay." His brother assured.
"Where's mom and dad?"
"They're on a plane right now but I called them earlier, when they land there taking a plane back to Japan. It'll take two days for them to get back though." Bankotsu took a seat on the chair beside her bed and let out a sigh. "You've been sleeping for a day now and I'm glade you're alright. The police will be coming tomorrow for questioning."
"Who found me?"
" Someone in the neighborhood called because they heard screams from the house you were in. They don't know whom the house belonged to and no one in the neighborhood ever saw anyone enter or left the house. So it's hard to track the person down." Bankotsu stared at the ceiling and looked back at his sister.
Her mouth was slightly cut open and her right eye was bruised pretty badly. After all those injuries placed on her face her body wasn't any better. The knife wound had to be stitched but luckily it didn't pierce any major arteries. She lost a lot of blood but transfusion took care of that. Other than that things were bad and she had to stay in the hospital for a week or two.
"You lied to me." Sesshomaru stated breaking her thoughts and snapping back into reality.
"What do you mean?" She said as her shoulders tensed up.
"That whole story about your brother. It wasn't true."
"Kagome why did you tell him I had a drug problem." Bankotsu locked his eyes with hers and she just looked at her hand that Sesshomaru held tightly in his.
"Because I didn't want you to know nothing. If I told you than things would go bad, let's just leave it to that. Please don't ask me anymore about it I just-"
"Look at this Kagome. What does this mean? I found it while I was doing laundry, I didn't know what it meant but I kept it." Bankotsu held up a picture of Ayame with the words 'Whose next' on the corner of the picture. She forgot she put that in her pocket. It was the picture that Hiten gave her for a warning and now he has it.
She had to tell them bits and pieces on what was going on with her life. She just couldn't take it anymore. "It was a warning. People are out to get me and if I don't listen they'll kill the people I love. They'll kill you if I don't cooperate with them and I tried to take things in my own hands and that's when I got caught for trying to sell them out. They killed Ayame because of my mistake and I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. If you let me kill myself there and then than none of this would've happened. Ayame wouldn't have died and you'll still be happy Bankotsu. Ayame would have been with you but it's my fault."
Sesshomaru wrapped her arms around her as her face sank into his chest. She cried and she couldn't stop hyperventilating. Things were to out of control and the last thing she was going to do was tell them who was doing this to her.
The next day was the most wasteful day of her life. She was uncooperative with the questions the police asked her. It seemed they wanted to strangler her for her lack of cooperation.
"Let me say this again Ms. Higurashi. Please tell me who did this to you?" Sango Mikeshita asked as she tapped her pencil on her note pad in her hand. She was one of the investigators and she was present with another person named Kaede Yokoro. They were both investigating the case on Ayame's murder.
"I don't know who it is. I didn't see his face so I don't know who it is." Kagome crossed her arms and sighed. "It's like you don't believe me jezz it's bothersome when people always repeat their selves."
"Were trying to solve this Kagome and if you want to find out your friends murderer than the best thing is to help us out and tell us everything you know." Sango sat up as she waited for her to respond.
"I told you I didn't see his face so can you go on to a next question or if you're through than leave."
"For a girl who was nearly killed you're sure calm about the situation. It's like you don't want the man to get caught." Kaede stated as she looked at the girl.
"Fuck off." Kagome said cruelly as she looked at the ceiling. She wanted so much to get Hiten in jail but she couldn't trust the police. The information she gave these two officers was going to be broadcast in the news and if Hiten found out than everyone she cared about would be dead in a matters of days.
" Well quite the vocabulary you have, on to the next question. Do you know what he looked like? We can get an artist in here and-"
"I told you already. I didn't see his face and I don't know his name, stop repeating yourselves already." She said coldly as she remained looking up at the ceiling.
"Well I see you're not going to cooperate so lets not waste our time with her." Sango and Kaede left the room and soon enough Sesshomaru and Bankotsu entered.
"Kagome the nurse says you can leave tomorrow and our parents are coming back tomorrow afternoon." Bankotsu said as he approached her bed.
Kagome groaned and sat up slowly. "Now they're going to yell at me and going to ask me questions that I don't want to answer."
"Come on Kagome, mom and dad won't do that to you. They're worried about you that's why they're coming back to-" He was cut off by a constant ringing. Kagome looked for the source of the sound as Bankotsu reached into his pocket.
"That's my phone." Before Bankotsu could see the caller ID she snatched it out of his hands and answered it.
"H-Hello." She said as she tried to control herself from stuttering.
"Honey are you okay?" She let out a sigh of relief as her mother was heard on the other side of the phone.
"Yes I'm fine mom, you shouldn't worry so much about me. I'm well." She tried to sound as convincing as she could. She hated when people worried about her and the tone in her mothers voice just made her feel bad.
"Were on our way home. It'll take a day and a few hours to get there though."
"I know mom, Bankotsu told me and you shouldn't worry so much. Where's dad is he mad because he had to skip work?"
"Of course not honey, all your fathers been thinking about was you. He's finally sleeping but we're not mad we're just glade your safe." Kagome was a bother to everyone. So many people worried about her but all she did was lie to them all.
"Mom thanks but I'll talk to you later when I see you at home." She said with guilt.
"Sure thing Kagome I'll talk to you later. Bye." As the phone went dead she put it on her lap and looked at the two boys who watched over her.
"Kagome I'll have to go alright." Her brother said looking at his watch.
"Alright no problem, Sesshomaru will look after me." She said with a smile as he went out the door.
Sesshomaru sat at the edge of her bed holding her hand firmly in his. He stared at her and it made her a little uncomfortable. She averted her eyes away from his and just thought about things until his lips brushed upon her cheek. Looking at him he smiled and kissed her lips.
"Aren't we even already?" She asked with a smirk as there nose touched upon one another's.
"I don't remember, are we?"
She slightly pushed him away and laughed. "You're always making me laugh." Looking up at the ceiling she felt his gaze once again.
Looking up at him she sighed and held his hand tightly. "That question you asked me before at the mall… you remember that question?"
"Of course I do. I never had forgotten."
" Well the answers yes."
"Yes?"
"Do I have to say it? I'm saying that I love you Sesshomaru." Suddenly a high pitch squeal came from the front door and Ren came running in with flowers in one hand. She wrapped one hand around her friend's neck and smiled.
" Oh this is such a Kodak moment. You should see the two of you staring into each other's eyes in that lovey dovey way. So cute." Ren said as she took a seat beside her friend and gave her the flowers. "This is for you and I must remind you all these flowers are from me. I was so devastated when I heard that I had to get you all the good luck that you can get. Like this rabbit's foot and this Chinese looking emblem necklace thing and roses and daisies and this dream catcher so it prevents you from having any bad dreams." She piled the stuff onto Kagome's lap and smiled.
"Thanks Ren but you really didn't need to get me all this stuff."
"Yea right girl. You better wear and use these things, lets just say it's kinda thing that will protect you as well as give you good luck." Her smile was both relaxing to see but at the same time she didn't want to see her. If she became friends with her then she would be in this mess. The more she met people the more she had lives to think about. The thing is if she had a choice to kill herself right then and there she would. If it would save the people she loved then she would kill herself in a heartbeat. Although it didn't matter whether she lived or die. If she made a mistake someone would die, if she killed herself everyone will die one by one.
Her mind trailed off and she couldn't hear anyone. Her mind just shut off when the thought crossed her mind. Although a nudge to her shoulder shook her to reality.
"Kagome are you alright." Ren asked as the two of them looked at her.
"Yeah I'm okay." Her life was shit and now that people were involve it felt like hell to carry such a load on her shoulders. Out of nowhere she cried not able to shake the thought away. She shoved her hands into her hair out of frustration as her friends beside her tried to figure out what was going on. Although no one came close to what was going on with her and they'll never know. If they knew that was the last time she would see them. They'll be dead before anyone can figure who's doing this to her.
Bankotsu sat in his car as he lit a cigarette and placed it between his lips. He looked in the rearview mirror where two cops was parked in back of him drinking coffee. He smirked and leaned back in his chair as he let out a puff of smoke.
Hiten closed his eyes and an image of his past flashed in his mind. The yelling and screaming from his mother and father just rung through his ears. He would always put his pillow over his head in fear. He never wanted to hear there bickering and the yelps his mother would make when his father would hit her. They did this out of frustration of all the bills they had to pay. They couldn't handle the jobs they had and when his father got fired that very day he went ballistic. He needed to support his family and he only knew one thing that would do this. He suddenly was disturbed from a tap on the shoulder. He looked up at the officer who stood beside the door. He clutched his gun in his pocket and looked up at him.
"Is something the matter officer?" He asked.
"No but do you have a smoke." He inquired as he leaned his arm on the hood of his car. Hiten handed him two cigarettes and he quickly left.
He glimpsed outside and a smile crossed his face as he saw Kagome exiting the hospital.
"So it is true." He smirked and picked up the phone as he dialed a number. He looked at her enter in a Taxi and she lifted the phone up to his ear as the car drove off.
Kagome jumped up as she heard her phone rung loudly. She reached into her pocket fumbling to turn it on and when she settled down she put it up against her ear.
"Hello."
"Hey Kagome."
"Koga? What is it?" Kagome asked confused.
" I wondered if you could meet me at the cliff of Kishigawa beach, you know what I'm talking about right? Your brother asked me to give you something it's some kind of key for your house." Kagome arched an eyebrow. It was 8:00 P.M and her brother went to work, he didn't have the decency to unlock the door for her. She rolled her eyes and told the driver to head toward the beach.
"I'll be there don't worry." She said with a sigh. As she got out of the car she paid the driver. She was going to manage to walk home from here. She walked through the trees until she got to a clearing. She couldn't see anyone and it was really dark although the moon did provide some light. The ocean crashed into the rocks below the cliff. The area was fenced to make sure no one fell below.
"I'm glade you could show up." Koga said as he leaned on a tree behind her.
"Where's the key I need to get home."
"Wait, before you go you should meet a friend of mines."
"I don't have time to meet one of your friends I need to get home and-" Kagome froze as Koga's friend appeared before her. She couldn't believe Koga would do this, how could he betray everyone.
"It seems I didn't finish the job." Hiten said as he stepped into the moonlight. He dragged someone by the hair and Bankotsu was on his knees as his hands were bound together with rope. His right leg had a bullet wound and it went right threw his thigh. Hiten threw him on the ground as he approached Kagome with his gun in one hand. It was a silencer if he shot anyone it wouldn't be heard and they wouldn't find any bodies until morning.
Koga stood there watching the whole ordeal as his arms were cross in front of his chest. Kagome shook in terror as Hiten placed his blood soaked hands on her cheek. She closed her eyes as his brother's blood was swept upon her cheek.
"I thought you were dead Kagome but it seems like I failed to kill you. Now I'll finish the job right now." He raised the gun to her forehead as he smiled maliciously at his trembling cousin that would now be dead in the matter of seconds.
Okay that's it for chapter 16. I've been getting some complaints about the last chapter. How I kinda end it at the good part and all but that's how a cliff hanger goes..lol.. Well here's another cliff hanger for you. Sorry I have to make you wait but my mind is kinda slow when it comes to thinking these things up..lol Well talk to you all later.