"Yuma, you don't move unless I say so. What if you were caught? My plan would have been shattered." Sesshoumaru exasperated over the phone. Yuma had called him up this early morning and told him what she did.
"I just wanted to see her, Sesshoumaru. I wasn't going to go in the house."
"Your wanting could have cost us." This woman and her daughter infuriated him.
"I can't believe he did it to her. My little Kagome. We've got to hurry, Sess. At the rate he's going, he could kill her in a week."
"I know. I learned some interesting news from my little brother. He said that Kagome wanted me to help her as well. Like mother, like daughter I suppose."
"Thank Kami she didn't take after him. She has enough brains to want to get out." Yuma said gratefully. "Sesshoumaru, what did you tell your brother?"
"Nothing of importance. I told him what I thought would get him to leave me alone."
"Did you tell him about me and Onigumo?"
"No." 'The less she knows the better for both of us,' Sesshoumaru thought.
"Good."
"They do know what's happening to her."
"Are they going to help her?"
"No. Kagome won't let them."
"Why can't we get her out today?"
"Because he has his house being watched. No one can go two feet near it without him knowing."
"So?"
"So play it smart Yuma. We go in now and you can forget saving Kagome and Sota. You'll be dead yourself."
"Fine. You win. We'll wait. But what are we waiting for?"
"Him to slip up. This one I will need Inuyasha for."
"Is it dangerous?"
"Nothing he can't handle."
"How do you know?"
"He won't be by himself."
"Who will be with him?"
"Goodbye Yuma. Try to remember to stay out of sight." He hung up.
Yuma hung up the phone. "Whatever you're doing, mister, I hope you hurry."
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"Hey, Inuyasha, have you seen Kagome today?" Sango asked walking up to him in lunchroom.
"Not since she left school yesterday. I'm getting worried."
"Maybe something happened yesterday. I mean if looks could kill, we would not standing here."
"Are you suggesting that he killed-" Sango asked fearfully.
"Shut up both of you! Nothing happened to Kagome. I know it. I can feel it. I'm going over her house today."
"But Inuyasha, What about her father?" Sango cautioned.
"Who cares about him? He better not get in my way. I'm taking Kagome out of there."
Sesshoumaru walked up on them and heard a bit of their conversation. "Is that so, brother?"
Everyone turned to see Sesshoumaru standing behind them looking intently at Inuyasha.
"Yes. I want her out of there."
"Come with me, Inuyasha."
"But I can't leave school grounds."
"I signed you out for the day. Follow me. I have a job for you. It involves Kagome." He added when he saw that Inuyasha was still sitting down.
"What about Kagome?" Inuyasha asked standing up.
"We'll discuss it later." He turned and walked away. "I'll be waiting in the parking lot." He called over his shoulder.
"Inuyasha, did you know about this?"
"Obviously not, Sango. I wouldn't have came to school if I did." Inuyasha got up walked after his brother.
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"What do you want me to do, Sesshoumaru?"
"Onigumo's house is being protected by his minions. As far as I know, Kagome is still inside. Yuma is alive and she is here. The first part of Kagome's would-be plan comes into play." He explained.
"Kagome's mother is here? Yuma really is alive."
"Pay attention, baka. I need you to go in the house and bring her out."
"How am I going to do that if the house heavily protected?"
Sesshoumaru stops the car. "Follow me." Sesshoumaru got out of the car and walked down the street and went thru someone's yard. When he got to the back of Kagome's house, he stopped and turned to Inuyasha.
"Sesshoumaru, I don't get why you need me to get her when you obviously can."
"You said you would do anything for her, ne? That you would help her in anyway you possibly can?"
"Yes."
"I can't do it because it will ruin my plan."
"Why me? Why not Yuma? Or someone else?"
"She trusts you. She wouldn't go with anyone else."
"How do you know that?"
"Trust me. I know a way in. There," he said pointing to the door on the left side of her house, "it will be easier to get in that way. Be quick about it." He turned and left. "He's going in."
"Are you sure he'll be able to do it?"
"Yes. If he doesn't, then we're going to have a fight on our hands."
Inuyasha went thru the door and up the back stairwell. He came to the first floor of the quiet house and looked around, but saw no one. He found the stairs to the second floor easily enough because he had been in the house since he met Kagome in kindergarten. Up the stairs he went and found her door, the first door on the left. He knocked first in case she was in there doing something he shouldn't see. When he received no answer, he opened the door. "Kagome?" he poked his head in and didn't see her anywhere. He opened the door all the way and walked into her room. "Kagome? Where are you?"
A banging on the closet door nearly gave Inuyasha a heart attack. He would have run back outside had it not been the voice calling his name.
"Kagome, is that you?" He walked closer to the closet door.
"Yes, it's me. My father locked me in here in case I wanted to run away."
"Are you okay, Kagome?" he asked through the door.
"Yes. I'm fine. A little sore but okay."
"Hang on. I'm gonna get you out." He tried twisting the doorknob but it was locked. "Kagome, I need a key. It's locked."
"I know that, Inuyasha. Had you been listening you would have heard me say the key is on the dresser."
"Oh." He got the key off the dresser and returned. He unlocked the door and opened it. Kagome knocked him to the floor burst out of the closet showering him with 'thank you's.
"Why did you come here?"
"I came to get you. Kagome, what happened?" This was the first time since he let her out he saw her face and her body.
"Nothing Inuyasha." She got off of him and grabs her robe hanging up on the closet door.
"Don't tell me nothing. Who gave you those?"
"Why ask me, Inuyasha, when you already know the answer?" She looked at him with hard, cold eyes.
"Kagome, you've got to get out of here. That's why I'm here."
"I told you already you can't help me."
"I'm not the only one helping you."
"Who else is?"
"My brother."
"He's really helping me?"
Inuyasha smiled at her. "Yes. He sent me in here to get you. You have to come now. We don't have much time. Put some clothes on and let's go."
She looked at him and raised her brow. When he didn't get the point she was sending, she said, "I'm not putting on clothes in front of you."
"Fine." Inuyasha walked outside the door and closed it behind him.
Kagome grabbed some jeans and quickly put them on. She grabbed a black shirt from her drawer and put it on as well. On the floor near her bed was her jacket, she grabbed it and walked to the door. When she opened it and walked out, she gasped. Her father held Inuyasha with a knife to his throat.
"Where you going, Kagome? With your little boyfriend? A Matsura no less. You've shamed your mother."
"You killed her mother, you bastard." Inuyasha rasped out. Onigumo pressed the knife closer on Inuyasha's neck until he saw blood seep out.
"Kagome, do not listen to this whelp. He lies. I loved your mother dearly." Onigumo said sincerely.
"Was that before or after you raped her?"
"You are dangerously trying my patience, boy."
"Is this true, Father?" Thinking back to the phone she heard yesterday morning. 'Onigumo, we got trouble. She escaped.'
"No. Why would I kill her? She was my world. You saw how hurt I was when she died."
"Daddy, how come I never saw their bodies?"
"What?"
"Mom and Sota's bodies, why couldn't I see them?"
"Because I didn't want you to remember them like that."
"He's lying." Inuyasha choked out.
Onigumo threw Inuyasha into a wall and he fell to the floor. "You speak one more time and I will kill you."
She looked at her father horrified. "Why would you kill over that? Is his lying really that bad? What are you hiding from me?"
"He tried to kill your mother. She's alive." Inuyasha called from the floor.
"Inuyasha, you just said that he killed her."
"Technically, he didn't. He faked it. He tried to kill her for real when she wanted to get away from him. Your parents weren't happy, Kagome. Yuma wanted a divorce."
"Is this true?"
"Go to your room." Onigumo said sternly.
"No! I want to know the truth. I want to know it now."
"No?" He turned to Inuyasha, kicked him in the stomach and said, "You move an inch and I'll slit your throat." Onigumo turned back to Kagome and backhanded her. "You do what I tell you do!" He grabbed her hair and dragged her in the room where various other blows could be heard.
Inuyasha heard enough. He shakily got off the floor and barged in the room. "Let her go!"
"You still here, boy?"
"Why do you want to keep her here? What, are you too afraid to lose your plaything?" Inuyasha gasped out quietly.
"Inuyasha, get out of here! Please go while you still can." Kagome pleaded from the floor of her room.
"I'm not leaving you, Kagome."
"Aww, isn't this sweet? A Matsura as your knight in shining armor."
"It's better then you, my beloved dark Father." Kagome said coldly as she was standing up.
"Did you say something?" He looked at her coldly.
"Why am I here? Kill me off and get it over with. I'm tired of being raped and beat by you. At least in my death I can find peace."
"Kagome-" Inuyasha started.
Kagome cut him off. "No, Inuyasha. It's what I want. At least I know my mother and brother are safe. I don't have to worry for them. So please, just kill me, so I can at least get on without having to worry about who's in my room at night."
"Kagome, you're not thinking straight. He doesn't want to kill you. He wants to see you suffer."
"I know. I don't want to suffer anymore."
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"They've been in there too long. What if Onigumo caught them?" Yuma asked desperately.
"We would have know by now if he did." Sesshoumaru said coolly.
"I don't trust this. I'm going in, Sess. "
"Wait here, Yuma."
"No, he could be hurting her right now. I'm not letting that happen. Not while I can do something about it." Yuma runs from their spot and into the house.
"Damn Higurashi women." Sesshoumaru cursed as he followed Yuma in.
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"Kagome, this is the last day you'll ever have to suffer. Just come with me."
"I can't do that."
"Why not?"
"I'd be putting you and yours in danger. It's just like I said, I don't know what he's capable of. I don't want to take that risk." She answered but was staring at her father.
"But Kagome, we can get you away, far away. He won't be able to find you."
Onigumo raised an eyebrow. "Where exactly would you put her? America? Europe? I practically own those places. There is no where she can go without me finding her."
"Why do you want her?" Inuyasha demanded.
"She is mine."
"You want me to replace what you lost. Is that it, Father? Mom left you and since I look like her, you figured why not take her place. You're a cruel bastard. That's why you separated me from my friends. You did the same thing to mom."
"Your mother was a bitch."
"Was that because she didn't want to marry you? You raped her and you raped me. Is that how I was conceived?"
"Yes. I never wanted it to be like this. You've got to believe me, Gome. Your mother wouldn't give me the time of day. I had to make her see me. You were an accident. I never wanted you."
"If you never wanted her, then why keep her? You could have killed her off like you tried to do to her mother and Sota."
"I needed her. It's as simple as that. It was Yuma's fault why things are this way."
"Is it Oni?" Yuma walked in the room. "Is it really my fault why things are this way?"
"Yuma?" Onigumo was surprised. 'She actually came back to town.'
"Why so surprised? You didn't think I would let you keep hurting my daughter, did you? You couldn't get rid of me then and you can't get rid of me now. I've come for her. "Yuma stated boldly.
"You can't have her. You have what you wanted."
"After you stole him from me too. You're filling my daughter's head with lies. Allow me to clear them up for you, Kagome. Yes, I am your mother. No, this is not your father. Not really anyway. He raped me, yes, but I didn't get pregnant."
"Then who is my father?"
"I can't tell you that now."
"Why did you tell my brother a lie?"
"I didn't, Yasha."
"I told you the lie. There is more to the story then either of you have known." Sesshoumaru said from behind Yuma.
"I want the truth, mom. I'm tired of lies." Kagome cried.
"Yes, Yuma, tell the girl the truth. Tell her who her father is. Tell her why she's with me."
"Kagome, you've been promised to him by my father. My father was a cold bastard. He promised me to Onigumo. When I wouldn't go, they found out about you and the man I loved, your father. My father knew of his lecherous ways, but he still gave you to him. They hated your father, especially him," pointing to Onigumo. "He had him killed before you were born. I didn't want to part with you so I married him. I couldn't stand it any longer. When you were coming of age, I would see the way he looked at you. I decided to leave. He said that I could take Sota but not you. I was just a bonus in this arrangement. I wasn't supposed to be here. I couldn't take you. If I did, they would have hunted me down and killed both of us."
Kagome bowed her head, her bangs covering her eyes. "So I really was his? The things he said to me were true?" Kagome lifted her head to glare at her mother. "And you never told me!"
"Kagome, I didn't know how to tell you. I couldn't tell you. You wouldn't have understood." Yuma explained.
"I understand now, don't I? You left me here because I was his. Sota was his too, biologically his, or did you forget on your way out?"
"Kagome, I never meant for you to go through this."
"Wow mom, you really showed me that you cared by leaving me."
"You have to believe me."
"Oh, I believe you. I also believe that if you stayed, this would have stopped a long time ago but no, you got out." Kagome slowly walked closer to her mother. "I hate you. I hate both of you." She ran out of the room before anyone could stop her.
"How does it feel to have her hate you, Yuma?"
She glared knives at Onigumo. "You may be used to someone hating you, half the damned world hates you, but I can't stand it. She won't be coming back here, Onigumo."
"Keep her from me, Yuma, and I will have your head on a plate. She's mine and I want her back." He warned.
"Have you not been listening? She doesn't belong to either of us and I doubt we'll find her anytime soon."
"Where's Sesshoumaru?" Inuyasha asked.
