~~Kagome~~~
Her head ached-BAD. She slowly woke up, groggily and grumbling to herself, the pain in her head is actually the reason why she was waking up. She slowly lifted her hand, gently touching her face where it hurt, her right eye swollen shut. 'Perfect, just what I needed,' she thought as she slowly tried to sit up, she opened her good eye, allowing it to adjust to the dark surroundings, when it did adjust she let out a gasp.
She looked around, her eye quickly looking over the space, it was tiny, she could only make out the futon she was sitting on, she pulled her legs in to wrap her arms around them. The sound of metal moving along the futon and the feeling something was grabbing her ankle. Her hand flung down to her right ankle, she furrowed her brows as she ran her hand along the metal clasp around her ankle, she then found something holding it together-a lock.
Breathing harder as she tried to pull the lock off, panic was beginning to creep in, she could feel it welling up in her chest, her one good eye had tears welling up. The lock wouldn't budge, she then tried to pull off the shackle attached to her ankle, screaming in frustration when neither would budge. She stood up, feeling along the cement wall to find anything, a key or something to bust open the lock. Kagome cried loud agonizing sobs, leaning against the cement wall, she didn't know what else to do.
"HELP ME! SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, over and over. No one came, there wasn't any other sound other than her loud breaths or when she screamed. Sliding down the cement wall, she cried, bringing her legs to her chest. She sat like that for what felt like hours, until she couldn't cry no more. Kagome felt hollow on the inside, there was nothing left to feel when she was done. Kagome didn't know how long she sat like that, with her head on her legs, her feet began to tingle with lack of blood flowing to them but she didn't care. Not like she could get up to anywhere anyways.
Keys jingling could be heard, the sound of a key trying to fit into the lock, to only have the keys jingle again, this time it was the right key. The sound of the lock being unlocked and the sound of a metal door on ungreased hinges hit Kagome's ears. The door creaked as light flooded into the room, Kagome blinked as her eye adjusted to the light. The light was brought closer to her and the sound of a glass bowl gently placed on the cement floor rang in her ears. Kagome jumped when the light suddenly appeared in her face, a woman holding the lantern grabbed Kagome's face in her empty hand, roughly turning it to look at the wounds.
"Fuck, he got you pretty good." She sat the lantern down beside Kagome and brought the glass bowl closer. "I'm not doing this because I want to, so don't fight with me on this. If you do anything to piss me off, I'll leave you to tend to your own wounds, got it?" She stuck a finger out and pointed at Kagome, who only nodded in agreement.
The woman dunk the cloth into warm water in the bowl and wrung it out. She then turned to Kagome and roughly began to clean the wounds on Kagome's face. With her one good eye, Kagome took the time to absorb the woman's features. Her black hair was pulled back into a low ponytail, her bangs framed her face nicely, showing off her facial features which was pretty to Kagome. Her eyes were large, the light from the lantern reflecting in her eyes made them appear red in colour. She wore a plain white t-shirt and a pair of dark coloured jeans. Kagome hissed in pain where the woman scrubbed a little too hard by Kagome's bruised eye.
She placed the cloth into the bowl and dug around her jeans pocket. "Take this." the woman sneered as she motioned for Kagome's hands. Kagome quickly brought her hands out to take the object, which the woman slapped said object in Kagome's hands. Kagome brought it closer to her eye, a pain killer, she popped it into her mouth and swallowed it.
The woman grabbed the bowl and lantern returning to the door she entered from. Kagome panicked and grabbed the leg of the woman, "Wait!" Kagome called out.
The woman looked down, disgusted, as if something putrid had grasped her. "Let go," the woman warned through clenched teeth.
"Wait, please," Kagome cried,her voice hoarse from the screaming. She clasped onto the leg harder, she wasn't going to let this opportunity go. "Please tell me your name? We can be friends can't we?"
The woman scoffed, kicking Kagome off of her leg, she turned quickly walking away as Kagome attempted to crawl after her, but the chains at her feet stopped her short. The woman looked over her shoulder, sneering at Kagome, "I don't have to tell you shit.", slamming the door behind her.
Leaving Kagome enclosed in darkness again.
~~ Inuyasha~~
It was late into the night, he sat on top of a table staring at the whiteboard. Miroku put the finishing piece onto the whiteboard, Kagome's picture. They had finished up at the Higurashi Shrine an hour ago, Miroku and Inuyasha worked hard to put their clues onto the whiteboard, laying out the clues of the investigation. Miroku took a step back, admiring their work, and sat beside Inuyasha.
The clues laid out had Kagome's face pictured under Victim, under a spot titled Crime Scene, they had pictures of her kitchen with the broken cabinet, blood spots that were found, a picture of her house. The spot labeled Suspect, had a big question mark under it. Sighing, Inuyasha looked at Miroku, "When do you think we will have the phone records?"
"The earliest I'm thinking is tomorrow afternoon, it takes time for the company to gather all of the information, plus no one is probably working at the company this late into the night." Miroku replied as he stood up again to stretch.
"This is so damn frustrating," Inuyasha complained as he stared at the whiteboard. "We pretty much have nothing to go on. The mother has no clue who her daughter would be contacting or talking too and we have to wait until her friends show up to get any information."
Miroku gave Inuyasha a sympathetic smile and patted Inuyasha's arm. "At least the mother is cooperating with us, she could have withheld information like we had in some cases. Which we had solved, we will figure this out too, my friend."
They both turned to face the door when someone knocked, Sango entered carrying a white grocery bag. "I bet you guys are hungry, I thought you might want something to eat."
She walked over and sat the bag on the table taking out the to go containers of food. Inuyasha felt his stomach rumbled, he is pretty hungry, food hadn't even crossed his mind, not when he's desperate to find Kagome. He sat at one of the chairs, thanking Sango and grabbed a burger.
Miroku placed a kiss on Sangos on the cheek, "Thank you, Sango. I don't know what I do without you, didn't your shift end hours ago?" He asked as he sat down, grabbing the other burger.
"It did, but when I realized you were going to be out all night, I figured the least I could do was get you food. I do work again in a few hours so I'll be leaving now. Good luck guys." Sango cheered as she left the room.
They stuffed their faces in peace, enjoying the burger and fries Sango had graciously brought them. When they were done, Miroku threw the trash in the garbage, he looked at Inuyasha, "We have her phone in evidence right now, do you think we could just go through it?"
Inuyasha frowned his brows, slowly nodding in agreement. 'Of course, why didn't I think of this?' he thought, frustration growing in him over his stupidity.
"Yeah, let's get her phone and start searching through it. Might as well get a jumpstart on this." Inuyasha stood up and they both began to leave the room, Inuyasha opened the door and almost walked into the man who was about to knock on the door. The man jumped, his hand grabbed his chest, as if he was trying to literally hold onto his jumping heart.
"Sorry to disturb you detectives," The man said as he tried to calm his breathing. "We have one of the friends in the interrogation room, a Miss Eri."
Inuyasha gave Miroku a cocky smile. "Maybe now we can get a head start on this investigation, let's go." They both began to walk away when Inuyasha stopped and looked over his shoulder.
"Hey," The man turned to face Inuyasha. "Get someone to grab the phone in evidence for the Higurashi case, have them go through the phone, see if they can find something."
The man nodded and went to look for someone to search the phone. Inuyasha sped up to catch up to Miroku. 'Hang on Kagome," Inuyasha thought as he entered the interrogation room with Miroku.
