Chapter Numero tres mis amigos! Yay! This chapter is pretty angsty, so those of you that don't like angst, I'd bail out now until a couple chapters later. Hehe, not to scare any of you off. Hmm, well Oliver, the kitten, decided it would be a brilliant idea to attempt to use my bed as a litter box. Didn't happen, but it got REALLY close. YUCK! It's not so cute anymore aha.

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha & crew or "duck and run" by 3 doors down. Also, the song in the story is "I'm so Sick" by Flyleaf. A really good girl rock band, you guys should check them out!

Duck & Run

Hell to Pay

It had been a couple of days since she had started her new school and she hadn't seen her father in those couple of days luckily. Though, since she'd been trying to avoid him, she hadn't decorated her room much.

She sat up from the beaten up mattress on the floor and looked around the pathetic, soulless looking room as she rubbed her back. She heard a thump coming from down the hall and quickly looked at her clock and cursed violently.

It was 7 o'clock. 7 o'clock meant her step-father was awake. 7 o' clock meant her mother had not woken her up in time. And when her mother didn't wake her up in time, that meant hell had been paid and was about to be paid by her personally.

She skittered about her room frantically, trying to find the stupid key to the door of her room to lock it since they were now in a rather old country house. Her ears strained to hear any sounds of her brother up and about, but heard none.

"Great! He's going to get to Souta!" with that she flew out of her room, still in her pajamas and headed straight for Souta's room, ignoring the look of pure hatred she felt burning into her back from down the hall.

She found her little brother still soundly asleep on the bed and shook him quickly to watch him wake up at an alarmingly slow pace. She felt her breath rushing past her lips when she recognized the look of awareness Souta gave her.

He knew what was going on. He knew what had to be done, and he hated it. As his sister held the door closed as long as possible, he dressed speedily and gathered all his things together so when their step-father slammed through the door he was ready to run.

"Oh, ho ho little Souta. No need to run this time. You've done no wrong. Just you leave me with your sister while you go off to school." Came his heavy, grunting voice.

Dark midnight eyes watched in relief as she watched her brother escape before they regained the fear and hatred of before. She stared him straight in the eyes while he got out his belt and snapped it. Not even to this, did she jump anymore.

"Ya know whatchu got comin, dontcha little whore? Chu been out late, and I know it. I's got eyes everywhere. You's been fuckin every boy in dis town, haven't ya, ya SLUT!" His whip came smashing down on her cowering back and he felt the power stream through him.

"No! No I haven't!" Yelled out Kagome, knowing that nobody would hear her. Their only neighbors were at least a mile away… She was doomed to it.

"Yes ya have! Admit it! Ya know yur MY whore! I'm s'pposed to be a fuckin you! Maybe I'll get me boys in here to have a bit of fun with you and teach you a lesson! YOU DIRTY SKANK!" He yelled out and belted her 7 or 8 times before he calmed a bit. He was frustrated that he hadn't been able to force her to be his yet.

Some how she always got away without it. He wanted to teach the little whore what it felt like to really be FUCKED. Maybe that would teach her a lesson or two to be quiet and stop making friends and doing every male in town.

Blood seeped down from her ear lobe to mix with the blood from the wound on her neck. She stood and stared him straight in the eyes, afraid today would finally be the time he took it all the way.

He smirked. So, maybe the skank was finally learning her lesson not to talk back. The fact that she was standing was pissing him off so he punched her hard in the face and then kicked her in the ribs.

He bent down and licked her face and ran his hand and grabbed her breast tightly so she yelled in pain before he said "Now, I will continue this great lesson later…" He stood up and kicked her once more for effect "Get the fuck out of my house now!"

She scrambled to her feet and ran down the stairs, grabbing the bag of things she had packed just in case this exact scenario happened. She ran through the streets of the town towards the high school before she stopped at the park and ducked into the park bathroom.

Looking at herself in the mirror, she observed the damage. Since the park was used as a camping ground too, there were small shower stalls inside of it. She shrugged out of her clothes and leapt into the cold water, scrubbing herself hard to try and rid herself of the feeling of his eyes and his hands on her body.

She screamed quietly and finally sank down onto the cement floor of the shower stall and then crawled to her bag, grabbing out a razor she always kept in a hidden pocket in her backpack. She sat back in the water and cut diagonally across the upper part of her forearm twice before washing it all off and calming down.

Now came the time to really control the damage that had been done. Since it was the part of the day and season that anybody rarely came to these bathrooms, she closed the park bathroom door and locked it then settled to drying herself with the hand towel she had.

She pressed towels to the wounds and let them stick until the blood dried as she applied cover-up to all of the bruises she knew she couldn't hide with clothes. Next she pulled her under garments on and then a black t-shirt and grey hoodie followed by her pair of jeans.

Throwing her hair down she brushed it out and situated it so it would cover the welt on her ear and on her neck. Once she looked at her face once more, she decided there was nothing to do about the slight puffiness of it and the small cut on her lip and finally left the bathroom.

Finally walking towards the school, she knew she wouldn't get there until around 9 since it took half an hour to walk there. Her gaits were short and pained and she grunted every now and then from the pain, angry that he'd gotten to her again.

Walking with her own self- hate she didn't realize the rumbling and banging of the car that pulled up to her. A worried voice called out to her "Hey, Kagome, what are you doing? Hop in!"

Inuyasha looked out of his car at the clearly distracted Kagome and pulled his car over and hopped out, walking up to her and grabbing her arm "Come on wench… Just get in my car and we'll get to school faster, ok?"

She gave out a big puff of air from the pain caused by his strong hand against her bruising. Looking up at him she pulled a fake smile and looked away from him "Sorry! I guess I was just thinking about something!" Her heart flopped whenever she heard his voice. If she was going to spill the beans about her home life to anybody, it was going to be him… She felt an odd pull towards him, like they were magnets… The opposites attracted.

"Yah… I know what you mean. Come on, let's get going. Why are you headed to school this late? You're never late!" He escorted her into the passenger's seat of his crappy car and he then rushed to his side of the car and hopped in to restart the thing.

"I… I well I slept in of course. Isn't that ok?" She asked, a little edge to her voice as she refused to look at him and continued to stare out the passengers window. He would see what was wrong with her if he saw her face. He would know. And if he knew, he'd be in danger.

Taken by a little of shock he looked at her turned head, only seeing the hoodie pulled over her head "Yah, I guess that's ok. Sorry. Are you feeling OK Kagome?"

The actual sound of her name coming from his lips sent a hiccup to her throat as she starved back the idea of bawling and throwing herself at him while she told him everything. Her voice came out clipped with a very small sound of bitterness "Yes, I'm perfectly fine. How about you?"

"Oh… Umm… Ok I guess. Overslept is all." He kept looking from the road to her quite a bit, still worried about her. She wasn't arguing with him. She wasn't being her peppy cheery self. It was as if the life in that beautiful voice of hers had taken vacation.

They continued onto school and both got out and walked through the parking lot and into the school to collect their tardies and acknowledge their agreement to having detentions. Inuyasha watched her, noticing the deliberate slowness and short strides she was taking. He couldn't pin what was wrong with her… Yet.

Kagome moved to her second hour and made it into the room of her art class since she'd missed the first hour of it. She settled down onto a stool and yanked her tattered sketch book out of her bag, looking at the collage of photos and wrappers pasted to its front before opening it to a new page.

Taking out a red pastel she angrily scribbled the word "Fuck it" before taking out more 'angry' pastels and violently applying them to the word. Every time her art teacher would walk by she'd open up to the next page where she was supposedly working on a portrait of a red rose.

Once the words made their way to the page, she took out a black pen and began to write out all her thoughts out in tiny sentences all over the page until it was completely covered. Her breathing was rapid and hateful, her eyes stinging with the anger she felt. There was no solving the seething feeling… Lyrics seemed to make their way upon the page also, lightly written in pink pen over the black thoughts.

I will break into your thoughts with what's written on my heart
I will break, break
I'm so sick, Infected with where I live, let me live without this
Empty bliss, selfishness, I'm so sick, I'm so sick
If you want more of this we can push out, sell out, die out
So you'll shut up and stay sleeping with my screaming in your itching ears
I'm so sick, Infected with where I live
Let me live without this empty bliss, Selfishness, I'm so sick, I'm so sick
Hear it, I'm screaming it, you're heeding to it now
Hear it! I'm screaming it! You tremble at this sound
You sink into my clothes and this invasion makes me feel, worthless, hopeless, sick
I'm so sick, infected with where I live
Let me live without this empty bliss ,Selfishness
I'm so sick, I'm so sick

Her trembling hand let go of the pen as she breathed out a sigh of relief and finally for the first time since the incident that morning, felt drained. She laid her head down on the table without finishing her art project, and fell into adead sleep.

Yes! Finally! An angsty chapter you say? AYE! Man, and let the angst go on! Hope you all liked this chapter.

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Here are the lyrics to Duck & run! TADA:

To this world I'm unimportant Just because I have nothing to give. So you call this your free country, Tell me why it cost so much to live, Tell me why. This world can turn me down But I won't turn away, oh no I won't turn around. All my work and endless measures. Never seem to get me very far, Walk a mile just to move an inch Now even though I'm trying so damn hard I'm trying so hard. This world can turn me down but I Won't turn away, And I won't duck and run, cause I'm not built that way. When everything is gone there is Nothing there to fear. This world cannot bring me down, No cause I'm already here, oh no! I am already here, Down on my knees, I am already here, on no, I am Already here. I must have told you a thousand times, I am not running away. I won't duck and run I won't duck and run I won't duck and run No pass away. This world can turn me down but I Won't turn away And I won't duck and run, cause I'm not built that way. When everything is gone There is nothing there to fear. This world cannot bring me down No cause I'm already here. This world can turn me down. But I won't turn away, And I won't duck away Cause I'm not built that way. When everything is gone there Is nothing there to fear. This world cannot bring me down, No cause I'm already here.