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Previously: "What's going on?" asked Diana concerned for her friend.
In slow motion Kagome turned to the back to stare at the rest of the team, "My daughter is missing."
Chapter 8: Little Girl Lost
After the words left Kagome's mouth, Batman redirected the Javelin to head to Kagome's home. He knew her true identity and knew her address by memory along with the other League members. However, he didn't know that Kagome had a daughter.
"YOU'RE A MOTHER?" yelled a shocked Flash. Diana's jaw dropped from the information.
Kagome didn't react to Flash's question and sank down in her seat. She took both her hands and ran them though her hair with worry. After that she looked up at the Martian, "J`onn could you?"
She didn't even have to finish her sentence, J`onn telepathically began his psychic search for Karin.
After ten nerve wrecking minutes, J`onn turned to team. "I can't find her," he said with regret.
"Damn it," cursed Kagome as she got back up and began to pace, "Can't you make this thing go faster?" Kagome yelled to Batman.
"I'm at top speed right now, we'll be at your family's shrine in fifteen minutes," he told her.
"We'll find her Kagome," J`onn reassured her as he blocked her from her pacing.
Kagome looked at him skeptically, "How do you know that J`onn? We don't know what happened, or where she is, or who might have taken her. Oh Kami if something happens to her I-I-I don't think I can."
J`onn grabbed her face and looked in her eyes as more tears streamed down her face, "We. Will. Find. Her."
Kagome calmed a little and nodded slightly. She reluctantly sat back down and grabbed her phone to call Sesshomaru, to tell him what was going on.
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"Did your brother contact the authorities?" asked Diana after Kagome got off the phone.
Kagome shook her head, "They won't be of much help to us."
"Sure they can," said Flash who finally got over his shock.
"I never got Karin a birth certificate," Kagome told him, "They won't look for her if they think she's an illegal.'"
'So that's how there was no records of her,' thought Batman. "Why didn't you get her one?" he asked her.
Kagome hesitated before telling them, "I had Karin at home. Her father was…Inuyasha."
The others eyes widened in shock, "You mean that half demon dog guy?" asked Flash. "The one who kept cheating on you. How could you be with a guy like that?"
Kagome sighed, "Yes Flash-kun he is her father. This is why I didn't tell any of you. I knew that you would judge me and my daughter for it. That's also why I didn't have her at a hospital either. If the doctors ran tests on her blood, they would have found her inu yōkai DNA, and they would have taken her away from me. I did it to protect her!"
Flash looked down ashamed of what he had said.
"So your daughter," Diana cut in, "What does she look like?"
"Oh I wish I had a picture, she just turned six and looks," Kagome began to say.
"Like her mother," J`onn interrupted. "Only she has amber eyes."
The other's weren't surprised that J`onn already met the girl.
"That means she's gonna be a real heart breaker when she grows up," said Flash trying to lighten the mood.
It didn't work.
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Higurashi Shrine
The Javelin landed behind the shrine out of view from any possible tourist who might have come.
Souta ran out of the house to meet his sister. He didn't expect a few of the League members to be their but he had no time to geek out about it. "Oh Kami, Onee-san, I'm so sorry," he ran to Kagome's arms when she stepped off the jet.
"It's okay Souta," she reassured him. "I don't blame you." She pulled away from the embrace to look at him, "Just tell me what happened."
"Okay the language difference might cause some delay," Flash pointed out.
J`onn thought of a solution for that. By using his powers he was able to alter their brains so that everyone could understand each other, "That should help us a little, tell us what happened, Souta-kun."
"We were both at the park, there were a lot of people there and I was practicing with my soccer ball. I ended up kicking it away from the playground where Karin was." Souta explained. "I wasn't gone a full minute but when I looked up to see where she was, I couldn't find her. I tried calling her name and asked around to see if anyone had seen where she ran off to but no one saw anything."
"We should check the playground and look for clues," said Diana.
"That won't be necessary," said a voice from the shrine entrance.
"Sesshomaru-sama," J`onn identified the man to his teammates.
The Yōkai Lord of the West dropped his human glamor once he was on the shrine grounds. The League members looked unfazed but were surprised by the yōkai's appearance "Kouga and his men are there already," he stopped mid-step and slowly turned his head to the well house. "Miko where is your mother?"
Kagome turned to Souta, "Isn't she inside?"
Souta shook his head, "She wasn't home when I got here, I checked. I just thought she was out doing errands."
"Get in the house boy," Sesshomaru ordered Souta.
"Why?" asked Souta.
"Now!" he growled.
Souta didn't need to be told again and ran into to the house.
"Who's he?" asked Flash.
"He's the CEO of Tashio Corporation," said Batman. "And from what Kagome has told us, he's also a very strong demon lord," he explained.
Sesshomaru didn't bother acknowledging the Dark Knight since an un-pressing scent caught his nose.
"What is it?" Kagome asked since Sesshomaru didn't take his eyes off the well house.
"I smell your mother's blood in there," he pointed to the Bone Eaters Well house.
Horrified Kagome ran to the doors and slid them open. She screamed at what she had found, "KAA-SAN!"
The others followed to see Kagome's mother, her body was beaten and bloody on the ground.
Kagome immediately began to heal the wounds on her mother's body. The cuts and bruises faded away without complication, but she did not wake up.
"What's wrong with her?" asked Flash. "Shouldn't she be awake?"
Kagome was confused, "I don't know," she checked her mother's body again and discovered an important factor that she missed, "Oh Kami….her soul…it's gone."
The Leagues eyes widened in shock. J`onn lowered himself next to Kagome, who was frozen in place, and put a hand on her shoulder to sooth her.
"How could someone do this?" asked Diana horrified.
"Kagome," asked Batman who kneeled down to her and forced her to look at him, "This wasn't some random kidnapping or attack. They targeted you for a reason. Is their anyone you know who could have done this?"
Kagome shook her head, "All those that have a grudge against me are dead, or in prison."
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They carried Kun-lun inside the Javelin and hooked her up to the I.V on the medical bed inside. All they could do now was wait inside the main house, for Kouga to arrive and hoped he had good news.
Unsure of what else to do, Kagome walked up the stairs to her room to discover something else, "SON OF A BITCH!"
This caused the others in the house to come to see what the commotion was about.
Kagome's room was completely trashed. There was holes were in the walls, her cloths were torn and shredded, and all her personal possessions were scattered and broken.
"Damn," was all the Flash could say.
Kagome was about to step in when Batman stopped her. "Don't, there might be a clue here." He looked around the room to find the perfect thing to analyze for finger prints and settled for a piece of one of Kagome's torn shirts.
"Impossible," Sesshomaru muttered.
"What is?" Diana asked.
"There are no foreign scents inside this room," Sesshomaru explained. "The only scents I can find are Kagome's and her families."
This was starting to get more frustrating with every passing moment. 'Whoever is doing this has enough knowledge about Kagome, her family, and her ties to the supernatural," thought J'onn.
Kagome walked away from the scene, she needed to escape from all the bad news that just kept on coming.
J`onn attempted to follow her but was stopped by Diana, "She needs space right now, J`onn."
He knew she was right but J`onn couldn't help but worry.
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Since her room was destroyed, Kagome walked into her daughter's bedroom to calm herself. Luckily, Karin's room wasn't trashed like hers had been.
She sat on the small twin sized bed and looked around the light purple painted walls, with little flowers on them. Her gaze moved to the crayon drawings that Karin had drawn on the small woodened table in her play corner. Slowly, her eyes went around the entire room till drifted the tiny book shelf next to the bed.
That's when something a miss caught her eye. Kagome lowered her head down to the book shelf and scanned it trying to find what she was looking for, 'It's not here.'
She scanned the room again to see what else was a missing. After making mental note of all the things that were gone she ran back down to find the others waiting.
"What happened?" asked Souta who noticed his sister hastiness.
"Buying Mittens," said Kagome.
Everyone literally raised a brow at the words.
"Okay….not random," said the Flash sarcastically.
Kagome shook her head, "'Buying Mittens', is a children's book. It's Karin's favorite and it's not on the book shelf," she explained. "She's also missing her favorite blanket, coloring books, her fox stuffed animal, and the bracelet that J`onn gave her on her birthday."
Batman caught on to what she was getting at, "If whoever took her took the time to gather her favorite things, then they aren't planning on hurting her. They are trying to get her comfortable where ever she is."
Kagome nodded. For the first time in the past hour she started to feel a little relieved. They didn't hurt Karin, '…Not yet.'
A few minutes later, Kouga, Ginta, Hakakku, and Shippo entered the house.
"Kouga-san, Shippo-kun, did you find anything?" Kagome asked.
"Sort of," Shippo answered.
"We were able to track Karin's scent from the playground, to the edge of the wood in the park, that's when the trail stopped," explained Kouga.
"Did they cross over the creek there?" asked Sesshomaru.
Kouga shook his head, "You don't understand, I mean the trail literally stopped. No scent. No trail. Nothing," he hit a nearby chair. "Whoever did was smart. Too smart, if they can fool a wolf's nose."
Kagome fell to the sofa and placed her head in her hands. She had hoped the yōkai would have had better luck.
"Don't worry, Nee-san," said Ginta.
"Yea, we'll find the little pup," Hakakku reassured.
Kagome gave a small forced smile to them.
Sesshomaru and Batman filled the yōkai wolves and kitsune on what they had found so far.
"I hate to suggest it," said Shippo, "But taking Kun-lun-san's soul and kidnapping Karin kind of sounds like something Naraku would do."
"The evil hanyou you faced five hundred years ago?" asked Wonder Woman.
Kagome shook her head, "No, it's not him. It may seem like his tactics but he's definitely gone. When the Shikon Jewel disappeared, so did he."
"Well, is there any other yōkai that might have a grudge against you from the past?" asked Flash.
The wolves shook their heads, "No, Kagome befriend the majority of the yōkai that we had come across," said Kouga.
"Kaa-san, has a habit of making friends where ever she goes," said Shippo with pride.
"Same goes for human's and aliens too," Souta added. The League members had to agree with them on that.
"Besides," said J`onn, "From what I understand, a yōkai wouldn't have bothered to take Karin's favorite things."
Flash gave a frustrated groan, "Damn it, how are supposed to find her if we don't know where to look?"
A beeping noise interrupted everyone's thoughts. Batman pulled out the scanner from his utility belt. "My scanner found something on Kagome's shirt. There was an unknown substance that remained behind…It's some kind of earth elements that are found in…clay."
The yōkai and miko's eyes all widened when the last word was said.
Everything was starting to come together now, 'The kidnapper attacked 'my' mother, trashed 'my' room, and took 'my' daughter,' Kagome thought in her mind.
"What is it?" Diana asked Kagome.
"We know who took her," answered Sesshomaru.
"Well, isn't that a good thing?" asked Flash.
The yōkai shook their heads. "No, if 'she' has Karin…it's not good," said Shippo.
J`onn looked at Kagome, 'Who has Karin?' he asked telepathically.
It took Kagome a moment to answer, 'the miko I was reincarnated from'… "Kikyo."
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Watchtower
With no other leads on finding Kikyo or Karin, they returned back to the Watchtower.
The yōkai would continue the search since they had advantages of heightened senses to help find Karin's scent.
Also, Kagome asked if she could bring her mother to the medical bay of the Watchtower to help her 'condition,' and bring her brother since she didn't want to leave him unprotected.
The League members agreed.
Now, they were in the medical bay, along with Superman, Green Lantern, and Hawkgirl.
The two Higurashi siblings were staring at their mother who had an IV and heart monitor attached to her.
"We'll do everything we can to get your daughter back," said Superman to the saddened Miko.
Kagome nodded in appreciation, "Thank you all so much," Kagome said before pulling something out of her pocket. "Here, this picture was taken when we went to the zoo last month."
They all looked to see Kagome in civilian clothing kneeling next to Karin, who was wearing shorts and white tank top with hearts on it and had her hair in pig tails, in front of some monkeys. They both had big smiles on their faces.
"Cute kid," said Green Lantern.
Kagome gave a hint of a smile, "She's not a baby goat."
This caused him to smile slightly too. John couldn't believe what he had heard when Batman and J`onn gave a brief overview about Kagome's past and family. 'To think that she had to deal with so much blood shed, tears, being a single parent and after all that, she still wants to help people.'
"Souta, you should go and rest," Kagome told her brother.
The teenager shook his head not saying anything.
Kagome sighed, "Well, you need to at least eat something."
Flash decided to try and help, "Come on squirt, let's get you some grub," he said as Souta slowly lifted form the chair but didn't take his eyes off his mom's body. "I'll even show you where I stash the chips."
"Kagome you should get some rest too," Hawkgirl suggested when Flash and Souta were out of sight.
Kagome shook her head, "I can't when I know that that 'woman' has my baby… not till Karin is safe in my arms again." She looked at her mother in bed, completely soulless. With her brother gone she finally let her tears go. "Oh Kaa-san," she said burying her head on the side of the bed, "I'm sorry she did this to you. I'm so sorry, Kaa-san."
Every League member present, including Batman, was a saddened by their companion's crying.
J`onn had been quite in the corner watching the whole thing transpire. All he wanted to do was hold Kagome and tell her that everything would be alright.
But he couldn't.
After what happened last night, how could he possibly comfort the woman he loved and betrayed. 'No, I have to try.'
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Kitchen
"You know," Souta began to say to the Flash as he was picking at the food in front of him. "Ever since my Onee-san told me about this place, all I ever wanted to do was come here and explore and take pictures and all that stuff to show it off to my friends."
Flash nodded understanding how all this would have been awesome to see if you were an adolescent teenager.
"Now, all I want to do is go home and be with my Kaa-san, Onee-san, and Kar-chan."
Flash nudged the boy, "Hey, don't worry. You'll be with your family and home again soon. I promise."
Souta looked at the speedster in disbelief, "How do you know?"
Flash smirked, "Cause we're the good guys and we always win."
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Green House
When Souta returned to the medical bay, Kagome tried to walk around to clear her head. The whole time she stared out the window at the Earth, knowing that Karin is there somewhere.
"Oh Kar-chan, please be safe," she said aloud.
A familiar presence came up behind her. Slowly she turned to look at him, "What do you want, J`onn?"
He didn't even know how to begin, "Kagome…I know that no apology can make up for what happened tonight."
She was about to say something when he interrupted in her mind. "Let me finish…nothing I say or do will take back what I said and did to you…All I can do is pray that, one day you will forgive me for my actions." He stepped closer to her and took her hand in his. "And I promise that when that day comes, I will spend every breath that I take trying to make it up to you…You make me happy Kagome. You have since the very day we met." He reached up his other hand to wipe the tears from her face. Even with her swollen red eyes, she was still the most magnificent woman that he had ever laid eyes on, "I hope you believe me when I say this."
Kagome slowly grabbed J`onn's wrist that was on her cheek with both of hers and kissed the inside of his palm. "Oh, J`onn," she said as she rubbed his hand next to her cheek, "I believe you…please…could you hold me."
He embraced her as soon as she said the word 'hold.' It felt like forever since he held her this way, when truthfully it had only been a day. He tucked Kagome's head under his chin and inhaled her unique scent.
Kagome tried to get close to J`onn as possible as if trying to fuse her body into his own. He was the only thing keeping her sane right now and after what he had said, she knew that in her heart that he truly regrets what happened with La Fey.
After what felt like hours of embracing each other, Kagome turned her head to stare at the Earth again. J`onn did the same, "Where can my little girl be, J`onn? I want…I want her home."
J`onn tucked her hair behind her ear and kissed the top of her head. "I don't know, my dearest, but I will bring her home...I swear on my life."
*Sniff sniff* geez it took me hours to write this one chapter because I kept crying over the sad parts I had to type. Well, what do you guys think? Next time: Inuyasha comes to play and Kagome makes a difficult choice.