Summary: Kagome moved from Japan to America when she was in seventh grade. Shestopped talking in eigth grade, and no one knows why. Now, in eleventh grade, Kagome will undergo a series of events that will dramatically change her...Kagome's POV.

Rated M. Why? Because my mind has many bad things in it and I don't know what I might use...

Dates Written:
June 28th, 2006

Warning! The plot will get kinda complex from this point on! I didn't think it was complex until I tried explaining it to a few people... They were so confused that I had to give up. I hope it makes more sense once I type it out.

Duuuude! I'm so sorry, you guys! I just realized that a lot of people were probably under the impression that this was the fight against Naraku and Andrew. Sorry, no. This is a different fight (you'll see).

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The Games We Play
Entry Thirty-Six: The Fight

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Two Days Until The Rebellion...

"Things are going horrible, Ophielia. I tried to talk to Kagome about it, and she just... She started acting really malicious. I don't think there's anything we can do to make her see how we see." Souta said. Ophielia took a gulp of her slurpee as she listened to Souta.

"Things can change. As an officer, I automatically believe they won't but... She seemed to care about you so much before, it's hard not to imagine it." Ophielia said comfortingly. Souta shook his head and looked around the mall. They were in the food court, right next to the main entrance. They needed to be aware of what was going on around them.

"I'm scared... She sounded... She almost didn't sound like herself. I've never heard her speak like that. Her voice was deep, like a demon was possessing her. But I didn't sense anything with my powers." Souta said. He dropped his head in his hands and shook his head. Things were going all wrong. It wasn't supposed to be like this.

"Do you know how long she has desired to kill you guys?" Opielia asked curiously. Souta shook his head.

"I'd guess for a while. She made it sound like she hated us as long as she hadn't been able to speak. What was it; three or four years that she wasn't speaking? She makes us sound like such horrible people. I don't see how she does it." Souta said.

"You said she was raped?"

"Yes..."

"Well, although this is rare, it's a possibility... Women who are raped can sometimes develop diseases... I've heard of, but never seen, women who become bipolar after being raped. There are also women who have created different realities. It's like they live in their dreams." Ophielia shook her head.

"Like I said, I've never known a woman who changed like that after a rape. Perhaps her lack of speaking just made it harder for you guys to notice?" She suggested.

"Maybe... I'm still hoping that I'm hallucenating all this. Quite honestly, I'm hoping that I'm drugged, or dreaming." Souta said. Slowly he picked his head up from his hands and looked towards the door. He was expecting company and they weren't there yet.

"Well, now that you've said you wish you were dreaming, you know you aren't. I don't think I've ever heard someone say that they wished they were dreaming in a dream... You know what I mean." She said. Souta nodded and stood up as the doors opened and the guests he was awaiting came in.

Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha came in. Sesshoumaru looked emotionless- big surprise there. Inuyasha just looked plain pissed. This was his Friday evening and they had to come here for a stupid-ass meeting! He would rather be in the hospital taking care of Kikyou. Hell, he would rather face Kagome's wrath than have to have a formal meeting with friends.

It was all kinds of uncomfortable-ness to speak with your friends and have to be serious.

Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha sat down, Sesshoumaru next to Souta and Inuyasha next to Ophielia. They weren't talking to each other, just as one would have guessed. Silence filled the area between them, even though the rest of the mall was radiating nothing but noise.

"Why are we here?" Inuyasha was the first to break their small bubble of silence.

"I heard Kagome say something, and I'm worried for our safety." Souta said. Sesshoumaru managed to raise an eyebrow and Inuyasha calmed down. Something that worried Souta meant that it was serious.

"What's up?" He asked cautiously.

"I overheard Kagome talking on the phone to Naraku- the guy she says is behind all these attacks on her. She told him that she wanted to give him the Shikon No Tama. She was quiet for a moment before saying there was only one thing that she wanted in return. She wanted me, you two, Sango, and Miroku to be killed." Souta said. Tears began to form in his eyes. His sister loved him, didn't she?

"Why would she want us dead?" Inuyasha asked. His voice quivered with the shock of hearing this. Sweet-Kagome wanted to kill them?

"I don't know if I heard it right, but I think it's because she believes we ignored her. She thinks that when she wasn't speaking that we ignored her and didn't care. She seemed so adamant in her beliefs that we were all just assholes to her." Souta finished.

"She can sure play a convincing game, can she not?" Sesshoumaru asked. Inuyasha snorted.

"Yeah. She'd be unbeatable in poker because she would be so fucking convincing." He hissed.

"I'm afraid I cannot see how she can be this way. She always seems the opposite around me... She even said she loved me." Sesshoumaru's voice was beginning to break down. Had it really all been a lie? Had he gotten so close to her that he had missed the littlest of things?

"Kagome managed to keep quiet about the rape for several years. Don't you think she's getting good at this?" Souta asked. Sesshoumaru bit his lip and looked down.

He had gotten so close to Kagome. He had gotten close enough to her that he didn't need to work on keeping his mask on. Hell, around her, he didn't even bother putting it on. She had managed to squirm into his heart and make him believe something. And... It turned out to be wrong.

Sango and Kagome came suddenly, startling everyone but Ophielia. Being a cop will teach someone to never show surprise or to never be surprised. Sango and Miroku sat down next to each other, leaving one seat open for Kagome. That was the seat Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha, and Souta dreaded having filled. Soon, Sango and Miroku would dread it too.

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"You're serious?" Sango asked. Her voice quivered as tears began to fill her eyes. Her best friend wanted to kill her? No, not her best friend. Apparently they were sworn enemies in Kagome's eyes. Sango hadn't see this coming. She hadn't seen it coming at all.

"Are you sure this is what you heard?" Miroku asked. Souta nodded his head gravely and stared at the napkin beneath his cup. It was hard for him to accept, still. He was the first to know about it and he had almost an entire week to cope. But no, he wasn't able to cope with it still. He knew that, even after a few hours of talking about it, Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha weren't likely to have started coping with it either.

"I am... I even started to bring it up to her... She yelled at me... She sounded so malicious and said that it was none of my fucking-goddamn business. She sounded like she really was going to kill me if she had anything sharp on her." Souta said. He dropped his head in his hands and shuddered at the thought.

Sango and Miroku both turned to Ophielia. She was the expert on psycology. She would know what was going on with Kagome, wouldn't she? Weren't cops supposed to know how the human mind almost always worked? Their eyes were filled with hope that she would say something to help them. Perhaps she would say that Souta was joking or that something was messing with Souta's head. There was no way it could be Kagome doing this.

If it's too hard to believe, then you're not trying hard enough to believe it.

"I'm afraid that he's right. I spent the last few nights over there and watched them carefully... She seemed very hostile. She would speak to her mother and grandfather... But nothing else. When she did speak to Souta, I could smell the hatred that was radiating from her voice. She also seemed to want to kill him. I'm sure that she was desiring a sharp object to do it with." Ophielia said.

Sango couldn't take it. She started crying and muttering words things like 'No, no. She can't... She said... No...' over and over again. Miroku was too stunned to even comfort her.

Kagome... She always seemed to sweet. And when they found out what happened, Miroku pitied her. Perhaps it was the pity she hated? No, Kagome didn't seem like the type of person to be set on making people not feel sorry for her. It was like she hated empathy... Did she expect apathy?

"Can it all be in her mind? Perhaps she is misinterpreting things or someone is controlling her mind?" Miroku asked. Souta and Ophielia both shook their heads.

"I have powers. I would have sensed it if she wasn't herself and was being controlled." Souta said.

"And there are very, very few chances that she has misinterpreteded things or is pretending. My guess..." She paused to make sure Miroku was still listening. Sango was crying hystarically still, but Ophielia was sure that she was listening too. "My guess is that something happened when she was raped."

"I've heard of this, although never been around someone who had it happen. In extreme rare situations, women who are raped change mind sets completely. They become bipolar, develop multiple personalities... But it happens so rarely that the chance of it happening to Kagome is slim." Ophielia said.

"How else do we know what's going on in her head?" Inuyasha asked.

She must have gotten hit against that bed frame one too many times... Sesshoumaru thought bitterly. How dare she do that to him. He was hurt, but more-so enraged, at the fact that she had gained his trust so much and then wanted to kill him.

"The only way to know what she's thinking is to talk to her. That's why we're here. I figured it'd be safe to do it in a mall. With the malicious look she gets in her eyes, I believe it to be safer. If we were somewhere else, there is no doubt in my mind she would attempt hurting someone. The mall is a public place and she won't want to get caught. Killers never want to get caught." Ophielia explained.

"Fucking bipolar tangerine whore." Inuyasha hissed. Everyone, except for Ophielia, recognized part of the expression from Kagome's diary. After all, what else were they to do when she was in the dark about her past for a year?

"Thinking of it now... She never mentioned malice or hate... And, except for Inuyasha, dislike towards any of us in her diary that she wrote up." Miroku pointed out.

"She's a good actor." Sesshoumaru said. His voice was so cold, distant, and angry that everyone at the table shivered. Even Ophielia.

"Kagome's coming. We're going to walk around the mall while we do this. The food court is thinning out and we want to surround ourselves with people." Ophielia said. They all stood up and walked towards Kagome, who had just emerged from the doors. She looked cheerful, but no one was quite sure how she really felt.

After all, she was seeming nice this entire time and had turned out to have a vendetta against them.

"Hello, Kagome." Sesshoumaru said. Kagome didn't fail to notice that his voice was cold. He was mad, but she didn't know why. No one knew her secret. Only she knew, and now Naraku knew. After all, she would give him the jewel as long as he killed these people. They had neglected her in her time of high need.

She would show them that she didn't need them anymore. She didn't want anything they had to offer. They abandon her, and she wasn't a forgiving person. Well... Sometimes she was a forgiving person, but that was against her will. She hated forgiving people and wanted them to have to pay for anything and everything they had done.

It was because of them that she had gone through so much pain. If only they had showed a little bit of interest and care towards her, she would have healed much faster. But no. They just watched her suffer. For all she knew, they laughed at her when she wasn't able to do anything about it.

"Hi." Kagome's response was just as cold as Sesshoumaru's

Fight fire with fire.

"Why did you guys want to bring me to the mall? You know I hate shopping." Kagome hissed. Did they really forget who she was? Or were they just rubbing salt into the wound? They conveniently forgot, didn't they? Kagome glared hard at each and every one of them.

"We want to talk to you." Souta said while they began walking. Kagome tried her best to keep from lashing out at him or doing something else harmful. They were in a public place and she had to control herself... Or try to.

"Then start talking. I have a life, you know. Or did you think it revolved around you?" She glared at Souta so hard that he had to look away from her. If he wasn't in such denial, he would be afraid for his life and running away. Or begging for mercy. Most likely the former, since he had a higher chance of living.

"Kagome. Do you hate us and want to kill us?" Inuyasha asked. Kagome looked at him and tried to feign innocence. It was a bad attempt, though. What she really thought was clear across her face.

"Of course not." Kagome said. She sounded convincing. If you hadn't heard everything that the group had, then you would be sure that she didn't hate them. But the group was more curious. The things that she was accusing them of- not caring for her in her time of need -they weren't exactly one hundred percent innocent of it. They all ignored her to some extent.

"You're lying, Kagome. Tell us the truth." Sesshoumaru said. Kagome looked at him and silently cursed his demon nose.

"I'm not lying." Kagome said. She forced tears to well up into her eyes. She didn't want to cry, but if that's what it took for them to get it, she would have to do it. "What the hell makes you think that I would hate you guys? You're everything to me!" Kagome wailed. A few people walking by stopped and looked at her when she added to the already-noisy mall.

"The fact that I heard you speaking with Naraku. You told him that you wanted to give the jewel to him just as long as he killed us! Then you told him it was because we were never there for you. Tell us the fucking truth, Kagome!" Souta yelled. People began to stop walking and watch the scene. The amount of watchers slowly began to increase as Kagome prepared her next sentence.

"You did. All of you guys abandon me. I was fucking raped, and all you guys did was watch from the sidelines. And when I reminded you that I couldn't talk from a traumatic experience, none of you asked what happened!" Kagome shouted. There was now a four-person-thick ring around the group. Kagome against everyone else with Ophielia watching to make sure nothing got out of hand.

"Kagome! You lied to me! How could you!" Sango asked as tears began to form in her eyes.

When in Rome...

"Fine! You want to know what I think of you guys! You really want to know! Here it is! I hate you! I hate all of you for never being there for me! I HATE YOU FOR NEVER CARING WHEN I NEEDED IT THE MOST BUT CARING WHEN I DIDN'T WANT IT! I HATE YOU FOR ABANDONING ME LIKE I WAS A DOG'S CARCASS!" Kagome screamed at the top of her lungs.

Do as the Romans do...

Ophielia moved a bit so her hand was resting on her gun holster. She didn't want Kagome hurting anyone. Kagome's tears spilled over and rolled down her cheeks. With a long string of insults and profanities, she ran through the crowd and towards home.

- - -

"Sir?" Andrew came rushing in, a smile on his face. Naraku looked at him as he took a drag of a cigarette. Okay, the things were more addictive than he had given them credit for. He didn't care. It wasn't like craving these things bothered him.

"Good news." Andrew reported. Naraku raised his eyebrows and put the cigarette out in his ash tray.

"Go on, then." He hissed impatiently. God, Andrew could have been one of the dumbest people on the planet sometimes. Other times, he could have been the next Albert Einstein... Without the failing-math, and philosophical-shit part.

"Kagome's words. They're true. We had a few demons, but mostly humans, watching them in the mall. They weren't seen. But Kagome said that she hated them and wished they would die. They split up and she was saying that she would never see them again, not even at their coming funerals." Andrew said. Naraku smiled.

"I have to give it to her. I didn't think Kagome could do it. I thought that, perhaps, she would hold a soft spot for one of them. It seems that she really does feel nothing but hate towards them." Naraku said with a smile.

"Alright, tell her that we'll meet her at the Forest Shrine for her to hand the jewel over to us." Naraku said. He waved Andrew off and then looked down at the papers on his desk. Why did he have papers there again? Oh yeah, alibis for everyone's death... And they were all so good, but he couldn't use a few of them.

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You want to control me? Fuck off. I won't let you control me. I won't let anyone control me. I'm tired of having to listen to you and do what you want me to do. You think that I'm just an innocent little girl? Well, I'll show you otherwise. You'll regret the day you ever challenged me. And, soon, I'll make sure you can't even remember the day you challenged me.

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Updated the phrase above. Now I know for a fact that this is the last time. The next chapter is more than likely going to be the last. There is a slim-to-none chance that there will be one after that.

Review Replies:
RaspberrySorbet- Heh. Yes, it was a branch, not a twig. Geez. That happened two days ago and I can still feel it. You fell off a horse? A tall horse? Wow. There have been a few times when I was thrown off (literally), and one time when I fell off.
monikgrl- I don't know... How do I do what?
HalfBlackWolfDemon- I believe I put this in one of the beginning chapters, but I can't be too sure and I'm too lazy to look it up. Sango's username is SpiderBack because there was a fire in her house (not the one she lives in now). The fire left a strange spider-shaped scar on her back and no one can figure out why.
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Mennie- Oh my gosh! You've got me smiling so much, I can't see! (That happens when I smile too much, don't know why). I'm glad that you like my story. It pleases me to no end to hear that you enjoy it.

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