Unmarked Island

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Chapter 5: Poor, poor step-mother...

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Morning came quickly, and the Higurashi girls woke up before their step mother. An idea immediatly came to Kagome, and she grinned like a mad man...er...woman. She quickly got up in search of what she needed, and soon came across it only a little ways away from camp. She quickly picked it up and brought it to camp, and when her sister noticed it, she moved all the way to the other side of camp against a tree. Kagome smirked and walked up to her sleeping step mother and set it on the side of her face. A few minutes later, she woke up to find both the girls on the opposite side of camp. She reached up to scratch an itch when she felt it. A big black spider was on her face. She screamed. The girls held in their laughter. The day had finally begun, and so far, the score was...!

Brianna: 0

Higurashi girls: 1

This was going to be the longest day of her life.

She ran around screaming until it fell off and crawled up a tree quickly, in order to avoid getting squashed by feet. Brianna didn't look to happy, or impressed at the little show of affection.

"Why you little BITCHES!" She yelled, starting to advance on the girls.

The girls looked at each other and smirked. 'Oh, yeah. This was going to be tons of fun for us...living hell for her...' They quickly dashed in two opposite directions, leaving camp to go further into the forest.

Kagome was running, then looked back for a second. When she turned back around, she noticed that, if she didn't stop now, she would run into what looked to be the fox demon from the boat. Her eyes widened, as did his, and she immediatly put one foot in front of her and went down to get her hand to try and stop her as well. Just as she was about to run into him, she stopped. She let out a sigh of relief and sat down fully on her butt.

"Sorry! I wasn't paying attention" She said, giving him a small smile.

He sat there shocked. Kagome stopped smiling and stared at him.

"What? Do I have something on my face?" She asked, bringing her cleaner hand to start whiping (I forget which way it's spelt!) her face.

"No..." He said slowly.

"Oh...really? Then why were you staring at me like that? What I do? Couldn't have been that big of a shock, could it?" Kagome asked, now 100 confused. "Hey! You look familiar...were you on the boat to New York?" He nodded. "COOL! Hey...do you know where we are exactly...? I'm...kinda lost..." She gave a sheepish smile.

"The Island doesn't have a name, and it isn't on any maps..."

"Than...it's unmarked...?" Kagome asked slowly, making sure she got that right. He nodded. "That SUCKS!" She screamed. "Heheh...sorry...so you live here?" Again another nod. "You don't talk much, do you?" He shook his head. "Oh...umm...okay then...I should be going to find my sister now...so i'll...see you later?"

"Sure."

"Alright!" Just when she was about to leave, she turned around. "Hold up a second...whats your name?"

"...Kale..." He replyed hesitantly.

"Oh. Well, i'm Kagome! It was nice meeting you Kale! Bye!" She waved and went in the direction that her sister had gone in.

"...Bye...Kagome..."

Midoriko was running when she saw a hot springs. She slowed down and walked up to it, only to find, on the other side, was a boy, about the same age as her -or looked to be- staring at his reflection in the water. She stared at him curiously before cautiously going up to him. He seemed to sense her though when he visibly stiffed. She stopped where she was at and gently called out.

"Hello...do you know where I am exactly?" Was all she could think of to ask.

The boy looked up at her, and she had a strange feeling that she knew someone that looked just like him. "On an unmarked island, somewhere in the sea."

Now that she got a closer view at his face she saw that he had a black eye on his right eye, and a bruised left cheek. She could also see blood trailing down his arms and legs.

"What happened?" She asked, concern lacing her voice and face. She went to get a closer look at his arm, but he flinched away, so she stopped. "Who did this to you?"

He didn't answer, just kept on staring at the water.

Just then, Kagome decided to burst into the little clearing. She stopped to catch her breath, then walked over to the other side of him, also seeing the injuries. "Are you going to be okay...?" She asked carefully.

"I'm fine!" He yelled out, then flinched putting his head down, like he was going to get beat for that little out burst.

The girls gently put a hand on his back when Midoriko stood up and stated. "I'm going to find something to bandage him up with...seeing as none of us really have clothes that aren't all ready falling apart." Then she left.

Kagome moved and sat down right beside him when he started shaking. She looked down at his face to see him trying to hold in his tears. Kagome gave him a soft look, and did what Midoriko always did to her when she was sad. She pulled him towards her and hugged him. "You know...you can cry...i'm not gonna laugh at you if you do..." She soothed, gently rubbing his back.

He started crying silently. Sniffling once in a while, and holding the back top part of her shirt in a his fist.

"Do you want to say what happened?"

"I-I was punished" He said, burying his face in her chest.

"For what? Nothing could be that bad, to be punished so severely!"

"For dropping eggs..." Kagome looked purely shocked.

"Dr-dropping...eggs? EGGS! Whoever did this to you is a pure bread imbicile!" Kagome yelled, hands tightening into fists.

The boy looked up at her in shock, looking straight at her angry eyes. 'She looks like she wants to kill something...' "I have to leave before I get punished again..." He said gently letting go of her.

"Alright...what's your name? I'm sorry, I forgot to ask..."

"Shima"

"I'm Kagome, and the other person who was here is Midoriko. Could we meet some other time, maybe?"

"...I guess...during school sometime..."

"Alright! I'll see you then? Oh! Don't forget to wash and bandage your wounds, and try not to get any more...if you ever need help, come see me! I'll be willing to help you!" She smiled.

'When you find out the rules and regulations, you won't want to help me anymore...' he left back to where he had come from.

Midoriko came back a little while later empty handed. "Where'd he go?"

"He left just a second ago. I think maybe we should plan our next move on ms, scare your ass off." Kagome said, rubbing her hands together in anticipation.

"Kagome..."

"What? You said no fighting with the boys in New York. This isn't New York. It's an unmarked, no named island. So I don't need to abide by that, right?"

"Just don't lose control, okay?" Midoriko sighed.

"Yes ma'am!"

"Alright, soooo...what should we do?"

"Ummmmm...how about we find some things and lure her into a trap?"

"...You know what...?"

"Hmm?"

"Make sure I never get on your bad side"

"OKEY! Now lets start by making a trench. Not too big, cause it has to look like a path. Then we'll put sticks on all of the path/trench. We'll make a hole in the ground, filled with water, so it looks like a puddle, and put sticks in it. When she falls in, it should make the water flow out, and make her sink. That is just the beginning..." Kagome said with an evil little smile. Midoriko got what Kagome was thinking, and they both set to work finding things to make their little plan come to life.

It had taken over three hours and then they were finished. Brianna finally came out of the woods and walked into their little path trench. They were at the end of the thing by sitting with their back facing her at the end of the path. They were completely oblivious to the fact that their step mother was walking down the path towards them, with anger written all over her face. That is...they were oblivious until she fell into the hole of water. Their heads shot back to see what made it into their trap only to find the one they made it for in there. They quickly moved from the path so the water would not hit them. Indeed, their little trap had her trapped in a hole with a few fish and stuck. They looked at each other, and gave each other a high five. The on lookers that hadn't actually left thought that that was actually amusing the woman would fall for such an obvious trick.

"I didn't think it would actually work..." Kagome whispered.

"Yeah...I think we watched too much tv...what do you say...?" Midoriko whispered back.

"We should try another that I found on tv! On Scooby Doo, as well..." Kagome smirked. "Lets go."

"You bet. I don't want to be here when she gets out." Midoriko said and they both ran away further into the forest.

"Get back here you worthless brats!"

The girls tripped and laughed the rest of their run into the forest. Finally they decided to stop and come up with some other plan.

"We really gonna do one from Scooby Doo?"

"Yes. I want to see if she can evade any of these little 'traps' of ours"

"Well...lets get to work. The twigs and that string right there will do." Midoriko said, picking up the string and twigs making a trap. One that was easy to detect as well. They went over to see what the clattering together was, only to find that again, she fell into their trap. Then a bunch of humans with guns came out and pointed them at Brianna.

"Are you okay?" One of the guys asked.

"The demons are not to be trusted. You look new. We'll have to tell you everything and give you a place to stay then. You may choose your own place, if you wish." A second guy said.

"Yes please! Thank you for your help, kind sir." Midoriko said with a slight bow.

"It is very kind of you" Kagome said, bowing slightly as well.

'Those little SUCK UPS! When I get my hands on them, i'll-'

"She's human..." Another guy said. "She seemed like a demon, coming after two beautiful young ladies like that..."

"Yea...she did..."

"Well...are you going to take me out of this forest, or keep me here for the rest of our lives to defend for myself?" Brianna exclaimed.

"Manners, dear step mother." Kagome said with a shake of her head, plastering an i'm-innocent look on her face and eyes.

"Manners." Midoriko repeated doing the same thing as Kagome, with the same look as well.

"Let us escort you ladies out of this forest to meet the rest of the new people." Two men said, putting their arms around the girls shoulders.

"Right..." Kagome said, watching his hand like a hawk.

They got to the city after a while of walking, and entered a building. They walked into an office and took a seat around the table on the floor in the middle of the room.

"Welcome! We shall get you started on the rules for this island. Let us begin."

To Be Continued...

Well...review! Tell me what you think. Also, i'm doing another story called From the Past, to the Future. In my opinion, I did really well on that, and iffy on this, but this was my second fic, so...yeah. The story is an InutaishoKagome pairing though.

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