Prejudice
Written By: France Gamble
Chapter Ten
Kagome looked down at her hands as she dusted them off against a bright colored dish rag. "So, what was his mother like?" she asked Kaede, as the old woman came into the bedroom with drinks.
"She was polite; very polite. She didn't talk much, but when she did, she didn't speak of anything besides her child and husband. She told me that she was patiently waiting for her son to become an adult and visit her. I don't know if she knew that InuYasha thought she was dead," Kaede walked over to the young girl and set the tray down. They both started in on the cold ice tea.
"I think she knew he thought her dead, but suspected she would live to be able to call him and say she was really alive. Or maybe even back from the grave he thought her buried in," Kagome said thoughtfully.
Kaede didn't answer.
They sat for minutes sipping their drinks and thinking. A loud crash brought them out of their thoughts, and made them both rush into the main living room. "No! Stay away from me!" Kagome yelled as a man, who clearly jumped through one of the large windows approached her and tried to grab her arm.
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" 'I want something to eat,' " InuYasha mocked Kagome's voice as he walked down the street toward the old house.
He rounded the corner and watched a white mini van tumble down the narrow Chinese street. It almost hit him in its rush to make it to the green light. "Ass hole!" InuYasha yelled angerily to the driver.
He turned to the house and looked up. His anger quickly fled as he rushed up the stairs to the door. The side window was smashed in, and he could see glass everywhere in the main living space. The old antique couch had a foot hole in the middle cusion and things were strewn everywhere. An obvious struggle had taken place. 'Kagome?' he thought as he frantically opened the door and went searching through the small home.
In his mother's room he found boxes, and some tea had been set out. It was still very hot meaning the kidnapping had taken recently. "KAGOME!" He yelled at the top of his lungs hoping she was hiding, and that his worst thoughts at that moment weren't true. "Kagome, it's me, InuYasha! Come out..." his voice trailed off. His mind instantly thought about all of the bad things that had happened recently.
'I hurt everything I touch,' he thought dispearangly for a minute. Shaking his head violently he pushed those thoughts away. He needed to find Kagome and the old woman. Sniffing he went to the livingroom and searched with his nose what the kidnappers smelled like. "Fish... oil... or maybe that's tar... salt water..." He tried to think quickly where somewhere like that would smell like all of those things. He caught Kagome's scent and some blood mixed in with it. 'She's hurt,' he grew angry again.
Again using his nose, and his brain, he followed the scent of Kagome's blood out to where a car or truck had been parked. 'The harbor close by will have all of those things...' he thought. He looked down the street toward where the harbor. 'The van that almost hit me... that could have been them,' he grew even more angry as he lept to the top of the roof tops and started his quick running toward the sea. 'Kagome, you'd better be okay.'
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"What do you want with me?" she asked again. Her eyes were covered and she wished for anything for a glass of something to drink. "Please, at least give me something to drink. I'm thirsty."
Something cold hit her bottom lip and slowly started to tip into her mouth. She was expecting water or tea, not the harsh liquid that hit her mouth. She spat it back out when she got her first taste of it; it was oil or petrol. She heard a light snicker as she gagged and tried to get the horrible taste out of her mouth. Tears slowly started to come forth as she realized that she couldn't control her situation.
Would anyone be able to find her? Why hadn't she heard from Kaede since she woke up? Why would anyone kidnap her? And so many other questions ran through her head. Unfortunately none of them came with answers.
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He stopped in front of the large pier looking at all of the warehouses. The wind rushed off of the sea, forcing him to have to clear his nose. 'Great! Now I can't even sniff her out. I'm going to have to search every building and hope I find them before they see me,' he thought bitterly as he started on his needle in a hay stack quest.
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A/N: ...
Everyone is probably wondering where in the WORLD have I been for the past, oh, many many months. Actually, it's a pretty long and drawn out story. I'm, uhm, not in America anymore. I'm in Yokosuka Japan now. I'm very busy with work (Hence the very short chapter), I'm travelling around Japan, and doing the fun thing by showing all of my American friends around. I have a boyfriend now, and I'm just really stressed with everything. And to top it all off I had writers block for a really long time. I would just sit at my computer thinking, "Crap! I know what I want to write, but that won't sound right! CRAP!"
Read my LiveJournal if you really want to know more about my home. I'm also posting Japanese pictures online soon of me and everything that's around me. I'm going to try to finish this story, and not butcher it like I did Beautiful Curse Payback. Just, please be patient with me and review. Reviews always help!
Answers to Questions:
Kikyo224: Moving is something I have to do for my job. It's part of the contract. About not updating for so long, I can't update if I don't have computer access. And I didn't for a really long time. And not only that, but I've moved five times in the last eight months. Please forgive me.
Sailor Black 666: Don't kill me! I finally updated, and I know you're probably going to kill me anyway!
Sakura Blossom-Cilla-85: No offense, but I really don't like Kouga and his "My woman" thing. I think it just makes a more complex love box, shape thing, and that's why he's there. Just so that when ever Kagome gets jealous about Kikyo, InuYasha gets jealous about Kouga. It just works out. But no, I am not going to bring Kouga in as a human lover, anyway. I like him as a bully.
inu-youkai 911: I speak Japanese. I love Evanescense. I don't live in France, it's just the name my mother gave me. I am not going to say if their ever going back to Japan or not, because that would be ruining the story. You know?
WiCKed ScHmoNesS: I wish I could have wrote this chapter during the summer, but I was really occupied, and didn't have any technology what-so-ever at my finger tips. Please forgive me, and look for more chapters.
Amaki: I haven't died. Did you really think I committed suicide? Wow! I wouldn't do that to people! That's so mean to leave a story open like this and then go and die on them!
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