Hi. I'm here again! Yeah I would've updated sooner if I hadn't lost the pages that I wrote it out on…I wrote it and then I lost it after writing 1 line on the computer how much does that suck?? Anyway I found it so here it is! Chapter 12 of Silent Screamer!
P.s some of you may wont to have tissues on hand…
Disclaimer: Even if I don't win the law suite, the Inu plushie is mine! No one can take that away from me!
Silent Screamer
"For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'"
Chapter 12
"Have you ever heard about a kidnapping of a little girl and a baby that happened ten years ago?"
"You mean the one where that man told the girl her parents were dead and had her brother with him? And the he told her he was going to take them home?" he asked.
"Yeah. That one," I said, my voice was barely loud enough to hear.
He looked thoughtful and then said, "I heard about it. But the details weren't very clear. Not even in the newspaper…that was you, wasn't it?" numbly I nodded.
"I still remember every detail. Every action. Every word…"
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It all started when I was only six years old.
My father was alive and everyone was happy.
Life couldn't have been better.
My mum had just had my brother Souta and everything was perfect.
I had started school and it was so much fun.
I had friends.
I should have known it wouldn't last…
One day a man came to my school.
His name…was Naraku Barashi…
I had met him once before, with my parents. I didn't know what he was to them, but I assumed he was their friend.
I was wrong.
That day, when he came, he told me that there had been an accident.
He said my parents…were dead.
He had my baby brother in his arms, so I believed him.
My perfect world…was crumbling…
I was not to know that both my parents were at my home, unconscious, tied together, lying in there own blood.
I went with him.
He said we were going to my house.
We got in the car and he gave me Souta to hold.
He started to drive.
At first I thought everything was all right. The familiar scenes flashed by the window.
Then I saw my house.
He drove straight past it.
I didn't understand.
I asked him where we were going.
He just laughed and didn't say a word.
I must have dozed off for a while because when I woke up, there were no buildings, only trees.
I was scared.
I held onto my brother.
I knew no matter what, I couldn't let go of him.
A farmhouse came into view. He stopped outside it he got out of the car and came round to my door.
By this time, I was terrified…
He opened the door and dragged me out.
He tried to take my brother from me, but I wouldn't let go.
He slapped me.
But I still held on.
He hit me again…and again…
Finally he dragged me into the house.
He called out and a woman appeared.
She looked almost as frightened as I was.
He told her to take me and put me into The room.
He walked away then.
The woman shepherded me upstairs and into a room.
It wasn't a room…
It was a cupboard…
My prison…
It was so small. Barely one metre square.
It was dark.
I couldn't see…
He left us in that room for six hours before he came to us.
When he came he asked me one thing
"How much do your parents love you?"
He tried to take my brother from me again.
I still didn't let go
He hit me again.
After he stopped hitting me he tied my hands.
He gave me a piece of bread and a bottle of milk and then he left.
Shutting out the light…
It continued like that for twelve days.
He would come.
He would ask me.
And then he would leave.
I was worried about my brother…
Every time he came I could see how he had gotten thinner…
I knew he would die if I didn't get out of there.
I didn't know I looked worse than he did
We hadn't been let out of our prison, not once.
The woman had brought diapers for Souta.
But I hadn't been let out and the smell was awful…
My wrists hurt badly from the rope chafing them
Then finally on the twelfth day, the woman came.
She said to me that she would come and unlock the door when he was asleep.
She said she was going to get us out of there.
That night she came.
She unlocked the door.
She picked my brother and I up and started to carry us downstairs.
We were at the bottom of the stairs when we heard him.
When we heard the gun being cocked.
When we heard him fire…
She cried out and fell…
I still remember her last words…
"Run! Never look back! You must not look back! To succeed you must never look back! Remember me…"
I ran.
I ran out of the house and down the road.
I was weak I knew I wouldn't out run him.
I ran into the trees and started to climb one with lots of leaves.
I hid in the tree with my brother.
He was too weak to even cry…
I heard him coming through the trees, looking for us.
After half an hour he gave up.
It was to dark to look and there were too many trees.
I heard him go back to the house.
I heard the door slam
And then I heard him shoot her again…
And again…
He shot her seven times…
After another half an hour I climbed down the tree and started to walk.
And walk…
I walked for three days.
I hid when I heard a person or a car…
I ate berries and I gave my brother mashed up ones…
We came across a farm once. There was laundry on the line and I stole a shirt.
I wrapped my brother in it and tied him to my back with the sleeves.
My arms were weak and my wrists were covered in cuts and bruises from where I cut the rope off with a rock.
Finally after five days of walking I found a town…
I walked to the police station and did what my mother had taught me to do if I ever got lost…
And then I collapsed…
We were taken to hospital and the police picked up a guy saying he had lost his six year old daughter and his baby boy.
He went to prison for attack of my parents, the kidnapping of my brother and I, for abusing us and for the murder of his sister, Kagura.
My mother told me that I would never see that man again…
But I did…
A/n: 0o