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 Ten


Kagome opened her mouth to utter a scream of terror, but nothing came out. Her mouth had gone peculiarly dry and her blood had ran cold in her veins. She gaped in horror at the red substance on her trembling fingers as it dribbled down her wrist and her forearm. She nearly gagged and turned her arm upside down so it would drip down her fingers and onto the window sill where it had originally come from. She examined the sill and saw that it was only a handful of blood, as if it had been wiped onto the wood by something. A body, perhaps? Or a knife?

"Kagome?"

The mentioned spun around and saw Sango standing in the doorway, her hair tangled and her eyes drooping from sleep. She raised her hand above her head and stretched, releasing an exhausted yawn. "What are you doing up? I hope I didn't wake you by going to the bathroom."

"Sango…?" Kagome felt her heart rate drop back down to normal. So he hadn't killed Sango like she had concluded he had. Sango had only gone to the bathroom. But where had the blood come from? The room spun sickeningly around her as she realized that it must have been Koga's blood. 'Death986' must have wiped it off of his knife onto the window sill.

"Yeah? What is it?" Sango examined her curiously, her head tilted to the side slightly. When she noticed her friend's horrified expression, her face instantly morphed into a concerned stare. "What? Is there something wrong?"

"I-I…He-The Blood…Koga…" Kagome's lower lip trembled and Sango was embracing her in a second, rubbing her hair as she sobbed into her nightshirt. She whispered quietly in her ear that everything would be okay and that she needed to calm down before she woke the boys. It was too late, however, and they were surrounding Kagome in the blink of an eye, asking her what happened and if she was all right. Kagome told them that she was and showed them the blood that was smeared upon the window sill. Sango looked as if she might have been sick, Miroku hardly paid attention to it and more attention to how she was feeling, and Inuyasha looked grim faced and deep in thought.

"Are you hurt?" Miroku inquired, looking over her for wounds.

Kagome shook her head. "No, he didn't come here to hurt me. I think he came here to warn me."

"He was here?" Inuyasha demanded, jerking his gaze from the crimson that was splattered on the sill to gape at Kagome. Kagome nodded meekly and was rewarded with a shrill, "Why didn't you wake us up?"

Kagome flinched and only answered him with a sigh. This managed to silence him and Sango asked, wrenching her eyes from the blood, "Warn you about what, do you think?"

"He's going to kill more people, I know he is." Kagome's vision became a blur as she brought her woeful gaze up to meet theirs. "I think you guys might be on his list."

Inuyasha growled indignantly and glared out the window. Miroku sat in silence, looking calm and collected. Sango seemed a little more panicked. "Well, can't we go to the police? They should be able to help us, right?"

Kagome began to look rueful. "I don't know. If the police come here, then there is a possibility of him coming in here and killing every one of them before turning on us. And if we run to the police…Well, we'd be just like sitting ducks. He says he's watching me, and I know he can see me. He's probably out there now, watching us talk. If we run, he'll chase us down and kill us." A tear slid down her cheek as she finished.

Sango hiccupped and let out a small whimper. Miroku went over to her and encircled her with his arms and began rocking her back and forth. Kagome collapsed onto her bed and looked at Inuyasha, who still stood glowering out the window. "Inuyasha?"

"What?" He demanded.

"What do you think we should do?"

He shrugged his broad shoulders and the room grew silent, except for Sango's gentle crying and Miroku's whispers of comfort. Inuyasha stayed silent for a while before turning to Kagome and saying, "I think we should go to the police."

Kagome's eyes widened. "Now?"

"No, not now," he said, as if she were the dumbest thing to walk the earth in a million years. He lowered his voice just in case someone was outside eavesdropping -- and they probably were, "We have to wait until he's not expecting it. We'll pretend to come over here for a group study thing and then run for it after a while."

Kagome considered this for a moment. It seemed to be a good plan. Except for one flaw. "What am I supposed to do until then?"

It became eerily silent in the room once more and Kagome knew she had caught Inuyasha off guard. At length, however, he shrugged and said, somewhat reluctantly, "The same thing you've been doing, I guess."

Kagome, Miroku, and Sango gasped in unison and gawked at Inuyasha in astonishment. "What's the matter with you?" Miroku demanded, his voice stentorian.

"Hasn't everyone already suffered enough?" Sango cried, tears flowing from her eyes. "Haven't you suffered enough?"

Inuyasha stiffened visibly. That sentence had struck home.

"How could you just ask her to keep telling him to kill more people?" Sango asked, her voice breaking. "How could you?"

Inuyasha whirled around to face her, suddenly acrimonious, "One; because we don't want him to think that anything has changed, and two; she didn't have any problem with it before so this shouldn't be a problem!"

"I do too have a problem with it!" Kagome screamed, leaping to her feet. "I've had to live these few days with peoples' deaths on my conscious! I don't like to do that!" Her sudden outburst of anger suddenly turned to sorrow and she flung herself against his chest. "Don't make me do it anymore! Please! I don't want to cause more murders!"

Inuyasha let his frustration and anger subside and he embraced her. "All right, you don't have to. But you have to talk to him as if nothing happened."

Kagome peered up at him with watery eyes. "I…Don't think I can do that. He'll bug me until I tell him who to kill!"

Inuyasha brought her head back down against his chest. "Don't worry," he whispered, sinking onto the bed with her in his arms. "You'll figure it out. You'll make it work somehow."


Note- Yep, another chapter all wrapped up. Sorry it's so short. I'll try to make the next one longer. Please review and tell me what you thought. Any suggestions on who the killer is? Let me know because Naraku still stands and Miroku is quickly rising as a suspect among you fans!