Escaping Death

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Summary- Kagome is an average girl with average friends. But after a strange online conversation, horrible attacks start happening all around the city she once known to be safe. Someone wants something from her and they are scaring her and torturing her. But who is it and what do they want? Can she really escape death?

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Escaping Death

Chapter Five


He had been right. Kagome knew he would have been all along, but it was still horrifying to know that he was right; to know that he'd killed another innocent girl. Kagome felt even more horrible when she remembered that she had been the one to pick out the victim -- Kagura Iwamura.

Kagome had been gloomy all during school and had passed through her classes by sitting and staring at the floor. Everyone had been concerned about her, asking if she was all right. She told them she was and went on about her business.

During her Geometry class, however, the principal made an urgent announcement:

"--I am so sorry to interrupt your classes, everyone, but I have some distressing news. Sometime last night, one of your fellow classmates was murdered in her home. Her body was found late last night when her mother arrived home from work--"

Kagome continued staring at the floor. She had known it was coming. If it wasn't on the morning news, it would be at school. If not at school, then on the afternoon news.

"--What is even more tragic is that her younger sister was also murdered--"

Kagome gasped and jerked her eyes up to the microphone from which the principal's voice was emanating. He had killed her little sister? Why had he done it?

"--There will be a ceremony to honor Kagura Iwamura tomorrow. Until then, school is released early. I am so sorry that you all have to deal with two murders in one week--

Kagome simply stood up and left her class, perplexed and poignant. She got her belongings out of her locker and left the school campus, staring down at the sidewalk in dejection as she went on silently. She had told him to kill Kagura. Why had he murdered her younger sister? It was sick! How could he have done such a thing?

Kagome unlocked the door to her house and went inside, throwing her bag down on the couch and going up to her room. She got online and waited for everyone else to sign on. Nobody did.

Eventually, Kagome had fallen in a light slumber, her head on her desk, and the sound of an instant message caught her attention:

Death986: Well, hello, Kagome. You heard about it, didn't you? At school, I mean.

Kagome stared at the message for a long time. How could he have known that she had heard it at the school instead of on the news? What if he…

Miko17: I heard about it. How did you know that I heard at the school?

Death986: Because I go to your school.

Kagome felt her heart drop to her feet. She brought a shaking hand up to her mouth and placed it gingerly against her lips. With the other hand, she touched her chest as her heart rumbled like a stampede of horses.

Miko17: Who are you? Quit messing with me!

Death986: I can't do that. We still have to finish our game.

Miko17: Why did you kill her little sister?

Death986: She was in the way. If her mother had been there, I would have killed her as well.

Kagome let out an involuntary cry. "Shut up! Go away and leave me alone!" She commanded, tears coming to her eyes.

Death986: I can't leave you alone, sweetheart. We have a game to finish. Plus, you're fun to play with.

Kagome screamed again, stopping when she realized that he had heard her. Where was he? She began to breathe heavily as tears trailed down her cheeks. She rose to her feet and began looking around outside. When he sent another message, she instinctively went over to her computer and peered at the screen.

Death986: You won't find me outside.

Kagome's breath hitched in her throat and she felt her legs grow weak. Still, she managed to type a message with shaking fingers:

Miko17: Where are you, you psycho? Why do you have to mess with me?

No reply came for a long while. As the time passed, Kagome stood in the center of her room, listening to the clicking of her clock and the thudding of her heart. He wasn't outside. And he was somewhere that was in hearing range of her and where he could see every one of her actions.

Kagome realized, with a sickening churn of her stomach, that she had left the door unlocked. She wanted to run to the door to lock it, but wasn't sure if it was too late and he would leap out and get her or if she should ask him first. She decided, after much contemplation, to go with the latter:

Miko17: You're inside, aren't you?

Death986: I was wondering how long it would take you to figure it out. You're a smart girl, Higurashi, but in times that require desperate measures, you're a little slow.

Miko17: Get out. Now.

Death986: Now why would I do that?

Kagome looked toward the phone that rested on the dresser on the other side of her room. She knew it'd be risky, calling the cops, but she had no other choice. She was stuck inside her home with a murderer and needed to let someone know. "Get out of my house, right now!" She shouted.

The same raspy voice she had heard on the phone the night before tisk-tisked her from somewhere unseen. "I wouldn't mess with that phone if I were you. I have a gun with me, and I won't hesitate to use it on you and your friends."

Kagome, who had been extending a hand toward her phone, paused with a gasp. He was keeping well on his promise, that was for sure. "Then get out," she hissed, with as much courage as she could muster. "You can shoot me if you want, it'll be another victim to add to your list."

She heard some light chuckling. "Then I won't be able to play the game with you." It grew silent until he repeated, "and you're so fun to play with."

Sure, he had said it online. But to hear him say it in real life, somewhere in her house, caused her to shudder. Her heart even missed a beat. "Well, then, if I'm so fun to play with and you don't want to shoot me, then get out." She began reaching for the phone once more.

"Fine," the deep voice growled, nonchalantly. "I'll leave. But I'll be coming back to pay you a visit. You can count on it."

Kagome let a sigh of relief escape her lips as she heard the door close downstairs. She waited for almost twenty minutes before going downstairs and locking it and coming back up to her room. She didn't want to tell anyone about her encounter, knowing that either A) They wouldn't believe her; or B) It would endanger them, not to mention herself.

However, he instant messaged her again:

Death986: So, who's next on your list?

Miko17: No more, please.

Death986: The game isn't over yet, babe. So there has to be more. Who is it?

Miko17: Go to hell.

Death986: If you don't tell me, I'll make sure that's where you end up. And all your little friends.

Kagome felt all her muscles tense and she stared at the computer. Here it went. Time to pick yet another victim for him to kill. She slammed her fists against her temples as if to block all sound. She squeezed her eyes closed tightly. "I can't do it! I don't want to do it!"

Death986: Well?

Kagome peered at the screen with teary eyes.

Miko17: No. Nobody.

She signed off. She couldn't bear the thought of telling him to kill another girl -- or anybody for that matter. She just took a long shower and went to bed early. He could deal with not having any victims.

Unfortunately, it didn't seem that way when she awoke the next morning and checked her email:

I see how you wanna be, babe. Since you didn't tell me who you wanted dead, I picked someone at random and I killed them last night. It's all your fault, too. You should tell me from now on, cause if I kill someone at random again, it could be someone close to your heart. Like Inuyasha for example.


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