A/N: Hello you guys! I made it back from camp unharmed (except for the blisters) and I'm so happy to get back to this story! The archery was so fun! It was my first time but I was off the bull's eye mark by just a bit! I can't wait to go back next year and actually get a bull's eye. I'm so happy you guys reviewed while I was gone and I appreciate it!

Disclaimer: Well. . . Just kidding, I don't own Inuyasha.

Chapter 20: Kidnappers

I writhed and tried to loosen the grip my kidnapper had on me. I even tried to bite him through his glove. He hissed and threw me down to the floor harshly, resulting in a bruised arm.

"You stupid girl! You'll definitely be paying for this!"

The unmistakable voice of Takeshi was angry and upset. I wasn't surprised in the slightest.

"Why you!" I tried to get up and punch him, but he caught my arm and twisted it back hard, hard enough that I gasped out from the pain. He ripped off his ski mask and smirked.

"Not so tough now, huh? You should've kept to yourself instead of messing with the wrong people." His grip on my tightened even more. "And now you're going to pay."

He pushed me toward a black Audi that I hadn't noticed in the parking lot. He shoved me inside and I hit my head as I did. With the pain in my arm and my head, I almost passed out. I tried to keep a leveled head and see what I could get out of this stupid guy.

"Who sent you to kidnap me, huh?" I tried to make my voice sound as bold as I could. I didn't want to seem weak.

He smiled cruelly at me. "You'll see."

And though I tried my hardest, I finally succumbed to the pain and gladly departed into the numb feeling that unconsciousness brought me.

When I finally woke up, I was in a dark place. There was no windows, no light, no anything. It was so dark, I couldn't see my hand in front of my face. Faintly, I could hear the scurrying of rats in the inky blackness. I sat up painfully, and discovered my hands were tied. I shouted in frustration. What the hell was I supposed to do here? Rot and die?

But maybe that's what the people who ordered my kidnapping wanted.

Instead of panicking or admitting defeat, I set about feeling for something sharp. The knots were tight and I couldn't untie them myself, but I could find something to cut them. Finally, I actually did find a nail, on a loose board in the middle of the dank room. Or what I thought was the middle, at least.

Just as I managed to get the knot torn, the door opened and the burst of light made me snap my eyes close at the intensity. When my eyes finally adjusted, I saw the silhouette of a child in the dark.

"Follow me." The girl's voice was soft and high, and as I tried to make out her face, I noticed her white hair. She was pale and she clutched something in her hand. Deciding to follow her when she turned away, I stood and tried to rub the pain from my wrists and follow her. I didn't want to, but I needed to find out more before I could make an escape plan. I only prayed Inuyasha had seen who had taken me.

The hall the albino girl and I walked down was richly decorated. It was lavished in a design I had only seen in the most expensive catalogs we sold at the store. The person who lived here was very rich, from what I could see.

Paintings hung on the blood red walls, and we passed several rooms. It wasn't until we went down a spiral staircase and passed a water fountain, did we finally come to a what looked like a conference room. The little girl opened the door and I followed her, breathing in deeply for what I might find. And guess who I did find?

"Well, well, well, Kagome. Didn't I say you'd pay for everything you did?" Kikyo wore a smirk on her face as she regarded my unkempt appearance. Getting kidnapped, being stuffed in a car and passing out I heard, makes you look bad.

But I couldn't stop from glaring at her with hatred in my eyes. "What the hell do you want?"

Kikyo laughed, a pearly laugh, that made me want to go punch her in the face, if it weren't for the scary looking body guard in the room with us. I fisted my hands and bit my lip. Kikyo glanced at me, looking at me with contempt and stood up, pacing the beige carpet.

"What I want? Well, Kagome, that's easy. I want you gone. I want you to disappear." She sneered at me, and the venom in her voice made shivers go up my spine. She sounded dead serious. She placed a hand on the light blue wall, and then turned to me again. "You are the one little detail that keeps coming back. The only detail blocking my way from Inuyasha." She whirled and pushed me. I only fell back because of the surprise I felt at her ferocity.

She towered over me and the necklace she wore dangled. I had to speak up, I just had too. But somehow the words couldn't come to me. She grabbed me from my hair and pulled me up. I attempted to break free, but she held fast. I kicked her and tried to run, but the guard caught me and pinned both of my arms.

I found my voice. "What are you going to do then, huh? Even if you do kill me, Inuyasha will never love you!" Her nostrils flared and she took a step forward toward me.

"Shut. Up." Though her voice punctuated the words with loathing, I could see from her eyes that she believed what I had said.

"Inuyasha doesn't love you." I repeated. "You'll only hurt yourself if you keep with your delusion! He. Does. Not. Want. You."

Her eyes slightly watered, but I couldn't see them anymore as she smacked her hand across my face.

The initial feeling was shock and then it turned to anger. Who did she think she was that she thought she could kidnap me and put her hands on me? When I glanced back at her, her eyes were more watery. I could tell the truth had hurt her, but it was her own fault. She was the one who kept waiting for a ship that had already sailed.

"Don't ever say that again! He will love me!" Her voice sounded tormented.

"You don't know what you're doing," I told Kikyo. "If you let me go, I won't tell anyone."

She narrowed her eyes. "I don't think so. You deserve to be punished." She strode to the other side of the room and looked out the window. "Do you know who's in charge of my father's mob now?"

The way she put it so bluntly made me blink. When I didn't respond, she began to move toward me again. "I am. I have men and woman at my disposal, cruel people who won't care what they're killing. Especially not a lone, teenage girl." Her cruel smile was back.

"You've gone too far, Kikyo." I glared at her and struggled with the body guard. She turned to me and smiled.

"I feel so bad for you, Kagome. Isn't your father dead? Didn't you see him die yourself?"

The pain from so long ago tore through me as hard as it had the day my father had died. I didn't want to seem weak, but the tears came to my eyes and overflowed. I bit my lip to keep from making a sound. She gave me another satisfied smile as she stood neat the huge wooden desk again, shuffling the papers. She sat on it, her mini skirt stretching to show her legs.

"Well, wouldn't you know! I know who did it."

I gasped and desperately I asked, "Who did it?" I leaned in subconsciously.

"My father did." She smirked.

"What?"

It felt like the wind had been knocked out of me and suddenly the room took on a red tint. I somehow broke free from the body guard (he must've been distracted by Kikyo's legs) and lunged for Kikyo. I grabbed her and we both fell onto the ground. I pinned her legs down with mine and I screeched as the tears fell.

"Why? Why did it have to be your family? You ruined my child hood and emotionally scarred me for life!"

I was too far gone for anyone to bring me back. The grief gripped me and I grabbed Kikyo's throat. She struggled, but I couldn't see anymore. I wanted to fly away, to die and just be rid of the world. I didn't notice the body guard grab me and raise me from where Kikyo was lying on the floor. I didn't feel the pain in my head as the room began to sway and disappear in front of me.

And as I closed my eyes, I didn't feel anything anymore.

I opened my eyes again, this time on a bed and with chains on wrists. I could feel the pain in my head and when I touched it, I could feel the blood on my hand. Damn these people!

Suddenly, I remembered what had happened. I closed my eyes as the pain of grief gripped me again. I had lost it back there. I had almost tried to kill Kikyo. I might not have been intending it, but as my fingers had wrapped around her throat, I didn't care what happened to her. Like I had said, I was too far gone. My heart ached from the pain the thought of my father brought.. I wanted to go home but even if I did, it wouldn't cure this pain. It would be like the first year of his death and nothing would make me happy. I would be like a living corpse.

But then I remembered Inuyasha.

Somehow, the pain in my heart eased of it as I began to think of memories of us together. If anyone, he would stay with me. I knew he would because I could feel it every time he touched me, held me. He loved me and that one fact I would never let go of.

So instead of giving up, I would need to find a way to escape. There were people who needed me now. Inuyasha, my friends, my family. Everyone needed me back, especially those anxious people waiting at my cash register. Just as I formed my resolve, a voice reverberated thought out the room.

"I see you are wake, hmm?" Kikyo's voice was coming out from speaker I could see right above me. "That's good. Did you notice your new accessories?" She laughed hysterically. I pulled at the chains but they were tight.

"You're not getting away with this!" I screamed, wondering if she could hear me.

She did. "Oh, don't even think about escaping. Those chains alone will keep you here until I decide ho you'll die. No one tries to hurt my beautiful self and gets away with it." She paused, and by the way she said the next words, I could tell she was smiling. "Do you want to know why your father was killed by mine?"

I literally growled. "Don't you dare talk about my father, you damn whore!" I screeched at the top of my lungs. Anger filled me.

Kikyo's response was almost chipper, as if she enjoyed the pain was inflicting. "Do you remember what you're father did for a living?"

My first thoughts were of my father, hunched over on his desk, reading the cases he had late into the night. He was a private investigator.

"By the sound of your silence, I guess you do remember. Well, he was working one particular case. You know how Inuyasha's mother died?"

I remembered the story Kaede had told me and how Inuyasha had witnessed his mother's death. But how did it tie in with my father's death?

"And what does that have anything to do with it?" I asked.

"Think about it."

And then it hit me. The case my father had been working on for years, the one that he had finally gotten an answer too must have been Inuyasha's mother's case. And if Naraku had killed her own father that meant. . .

I gasped. "Your father. . . ordered to kill Inuyasha's mother?" I had thought about it, speculated it when I had heard Inutaisho and Naraku but it was still surprising. It was even more surprising that Kikyo didn't seem fazed by it.

"Bingo! So you see how futile it is to try and incarcerate us? You'll never find proof and now that I've told you, you won't be around for much longer either. See you at your funeral."

I heard a click from the speaker and I tried to break the chains again, but nothing worked. How the hell was I supposed to get out of here before being killed? The security must've been buffed too, so I needed a plan. But how?

As I laid back down on the bed, I heard the doorknob turn I held my breath as I watched it open and suddenly I realized what was going to happen. My death was coming for me.

I watched the door as it swung open.

A/N: Another cliff you guys! Who is behind the door? Is death knocking on Kagome's door? And what will she do with the new knowledge she has gained from Kikyo's confession? You'll have to read the next chapter!

The end is near. I'm so sad that it's going to end! So a question for you guys, Do you want an epilogue? I want to write one separate from the last chapter or do you want me to include it? Tell me in your REVIEWS!

P.S If you tell me who was the girl who took Kagome, I'll mention you in my next chapter! Including my 250th reviewer!

-Daichilover