"No, Inuyasha, just leave!"
She was drunk, out of her mind. She didn't know what she was saying. He took her hand and tried to drag her out of the thrumming mass of dancing people. She yanked her arm away.
"No! I'm not going anywhere with you!"
She stumbled her way through the crowd to the bar and ordered another drink. The lights were blinking on and off and the music was turned up so loud the entire club was bumping with the bass. Turning away from him she flopped down on the seat. Inuyasha followed close behind. She downed the shot and prepared to get up again. He was about to grab her arm, convince her to leave this hell-hole, when suddenly, a tall man with shaggy hair approached her and put his arm around her waist.
"Hey Kags, whatsup."
Kagome giggled and leaned her head against his shoulder. Inuyasha stared in shock. How dare he think he could touch her like that! He began to see red. With a cry of anger he shot forward and pushed the man, who stumbled backwards.
"Get your hands off of her!"
The man brushed himself off. "Chill out, dude!" He swept his greasy hair off his face. Inuyasha spotted the bruises on his forearms. They looked just like Kagome's. Suddenly he began to notice the delay in the man's movements, the blurry look in his eyes. Inuyasha looked around and noticed the same thing for every person there. He didn't understand. What kind of club was this? And what was Kagome, his Kagome, doing there?
"Don't touch her again!" he shouted.
The man sneered. He turned to Kagome and with painful laziness tucked a strand of hair behind her ear with a long, bony finger. She hiccuped in response. He laughed. Inuyasha snarled. That was it, he'd just crossed the line. He lunged at the man, bringing his arms around his waist, and head-butted his stomach, making him fall flat onto his back. Nobody paid them any attention as they swayed to the hypnotic music. Inuyasha pushed himself up, and for extra measure gave the man a kick in the ribs, who simply turned over onto his side and moaned.
Suddenly, somebody spun him around. Inuyasha was met with Kagome's face, stone cold and fiery. Her eyes, on the contrary, were bright and clear, her anger made obvious with her flushed face and straight-set mouth.
"Inuyasha, leave!"
He took her hand. "No, Kagome, we're leaving together."
She pushed him off with a strength he didn't know her tiny body had. "No Inuyasha," She slurred. "You can't keep doing this. You can't keep following me. You need to go."
Why was she doing this? "I'm not going anywhere without you."
To his surprise, her eyes filled with tears. She shouted to be heard over the music.
"Inuyasha just leave me alone!" The tears were streaming down her face. "I left you because I needed to." She was sobbing now. He froze at the pain in her voice. How could she ask him to leave her? Not now, when he'd just found her again.
"Can't you see?" She waved her arm over the people dancing, the loud music, the bar. "You don't belong here. You just...just leave me, Inuyasha. Please."
She turned to leave. Before he knew it, she had sunk back into the ocean of bodies, disappearing with the flashing lights. Inuyasha could hear nothing, only the echo of her words in his brain as he backed away, through the crowd, out the front door, into his car, back home.
I'm not going anywhere with you
I left because I needed to
Just leave me alone
You don't belong here
Just leave me, Inuyasha. Please
Just leave
Just leave
Just leave me,
Please.