Kagome soshite sono Inu Doyatsu izuko Ato Hanyou

Summary: OOC. AU. Whence running from school in the rainiest day ever, ever feel like theirs something watching you? While running down an ally Kagome meets a glare from a pure white dog, hiding from the rain? T for random foul language.

Chapter 18 – The Truth under the Jewel Disappearance

It was night, again,
Inuyasha was a dog, again.

He growled at the moon. Kagome, who was the only one awake silently laughed at him.

Kagome?

'Hn?' she said, telling him she heard him.

That weapons wielding person said you had the Shikon no Tama…

'You want me to tell you all about it, am I right?'

No…

She looked at him while frowning.

I know about it, but I can't sense the jewel from you…

Kagome laughed nervously.

You don't have it, do you?

'I did… once…'

What do you mean, ONCE!?

'Calm down!' Kagome hissed towards him, as Shippo jerked, and Inuyasha growled. Kagome sighed, 'when I was little, my mother gave the jewel to me. Told me to never take it off. Never to lose it. When I asked why, she smiled and petted me on the head and said it was a family thing and a miko thing…'

And you weren't very impressed with that?

'…I was ten at the time, what choice did I have?'

Not many… Anyway, go on…

'I had it for a couple of years, I never took it off, it even protected me once, when some of the school boys thought it would be fun to pick on the "Shrine Girl"–'

Whoa, whoa! You were picked on?

Kagome nodded sadly and said, 'because I live in a shrine, hence the name "Shrine Girl".'

What's so wrong with living in a shrine?

'Nothing at all. Though they were convinced that my home wasn't a real home.' At the look Inuyasha gave her, she added, 'go figure.'

So the thing protected you, and then…?

'Oh… the school name was used a lot more often, though no one dared come near me because "She'll sic her necklace on you!" the jewel didn't help. Though I kept my promise, I still didn't take it off. I was always alone after that… even the friends I had before that, left me alone…'

You were alone…?

'Yeah… you were too, weren't you?'

He didn't say anything, but she knew. She knew he was. She looked up to the star-lit-sky and smiled sadly.

'High school got better. It turns out my old friends were afraid that if they were seen with me, they'd get hurt. They're were only trying to help me–'

By leaving you alone?

'They were threatened… by the same boys who started the name-calling. They were just trying to help, in their way.'

You're not alone now at school, are you?

Kagome shook her head. 'I have friends now, a couple. The name calling died down, because the entire school ganged up on the starter, and we don't wanna know what happened to him,' Inuyasha winced. 'Everyone at that school was taught in Japanese History, how this great miko defeated several bans of Evil-Can-Evil youkai. And for that reason, they all turned to me and gave me a cheer of congratulations.' At Inuyasha's look, she gave her 'go figure.'

Kagome watched a shooting stared and her smile turned grave. 'It turns out that, that miko gave her life and somehow made the Shikon no Tama. That was why they all looked at me. They knew I had the jewel.'
Inuyasha stared at her.
'True story, that.'

I got the impression that it was – Japanese History normally is the truth, only somewhat whacked up here and there.

Kagome laughed quietly.
'Anyways. My new father came home the next day,–'

Your new father? I've never seen him…

Kagome still smiling sadly, kept her head skywards
'My mother, as soon as I came home that day, told me to leave, as fast as I could. Me of course, not understanding, didn't leave as fast as I could. I stayed out of sight, so my mother would think I left. I went around the shrine to where I could see in from a window. That was where I saw my new father…'

She paused and Inuyasha tilted his head to one side.

'I had never seen my new father before. Perhaps once or twice. Of course, this man had to be my new father because; my mother let him in our home. He wasn't a social worker, because my mother never lets them in. He was about to ask something, when, of course he saw me. When he looked at me, the jewel pulsated, like the time when I was in danger. That was when I knew why my mother wanted me to leave. He wanted to hurt me… he wanted the jewel. He must have realized that I knew this, because he ran for the nearest door to the outside. Him being faster then me caught me before I was able to make for the stairs down to the road.–'

What did he do to you!?

She continued without answering him. 'Because the jewel had electrified him the second he touched me, I was able to get away and hide, till he recovered from the shock. He found me, of course, two or three hours later. I had hidden down the well; I knew he was coming because the jewel warned me again. However, this time I didn't get time to escape. He hit me hard enough to make me go unconscious.
When I woke up, I was in hospital, severely bruised. And the jewel was gone.'

Were you all right? How long where you in the hospital?

'Only two weeks after I woke up. Before I woke up I was there another three.'

Inuyasha stared at her, unable to say anything.

'My mother divorced from him, severed all ties to him. Though he still wants revenge–'

Revenge? Revenge for WHAT?!

'For that time when the jewel kicked his hide to Kingdom Come.'

Then something struck Inuyasha, as if his memory was on fire. It took him all the way back to when they first met.
That time in the rain. There was a guy, who looked as if he wanted to kill her.
That was her new father.
His voice,
"I'll get you, you miko"
That was him.
It was him, again, when it started raining when they were out.
He knew where she was.

Inuyasha looked towards her. She was still looking to the sky with that sad smile. The same thing she does every night when she sees the night sky.
She knows he's after her…
She knows she's not safe!

…Kagome…

Inuyasha did know what to say to, the girl with her head skyward.

'In the rock's shade, where the rain drizzles, the flowers that are always blooming so small. Are certainly in pain… right?'

Inuyasha looked at her, she was singing.

'Within the rain where their colours grew hazy, there isn't a hand that adores the light-pink petals?'

Kagome looked to him from the sky she was looking at, still smiling her sad smile. Inuyasha got up, and went over to her and rested his head on the side of her shoulder. She was the one who put her arms around him.

'I'm gonna have to kill him, Yasha!' she cried into his fur. He leaned in further, trying to comfort her, the best he could in dog form.

'I don't wanna be a murderer!'

Kagome continued to cry even after she fell asleep, even after the time that Inuyasha transformed back into a hanyou. Inuyasha held her; he used his hand to dry the tears from her face.

'He deserves it, Kagome, he deserves it.' He told her sleeping form then nuzzled her cheek with his nose.