The New Girl In Town.

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Chapter 23. Beaten and Broken Without You.

"Inuyasha, wait!"

I stopped marching out of the door of the hospital and turned and watched Sango run up to me. Her breath came out in a white puff as she stopped in front of me.

"Inuyasha please don't leave! You'll hurt yourself or …..or worse. And we don't even know where Kagome is! I know how badly you want to find her because we all do, but please, don't kill yourself trying to find her." She tucked a star hair behind her ear and owe red her head to the ground.

I sighed and stepped up to Sango so I could wrap my arms around her. I leaned my cheek on the top of her head and rubbed her arm's and she wrapped her arms around my stomach. "Sango, I know. I know this is hard for you and I know you're having a tough time with this. But I need to go. I have to go. I have to go find her."

"I know you do but…I just don't want you to get hurt." She mumbled into my shirt and I smiled.

"Ill be back," I whisper into her hair.

She unwrapped her arms from my waist and playful punched me in the arm. "You better come back. Because if you die, ill kill you." She winked and I laughed at her.

Miroku and Sesshomaru suddenly stepped out of the hospital and Miroku walked up and wrapped his arm around Sango's back and kissed her temple.

"Well I better be going. I don't know where I'm going or how the hell I'm going to get there, but I will find her," I admit.

I turned away from them but Sesshomaru grabbed my arm forcefully and turned me back around. "Inuyasha, you better take care of yourself, or father will have my hide for not watching over you more carefully. And I refuse to have this whole petty situation to become my fault." I rolled my eyes at him and he reached into his suit coat and grabbed out a huge wad of cash and plopped it into my hand. I noticed they were all one hundred dollar bills. "This is money is so you can locate the girl. Be carful you idiot."

I nodded my head in understanding and turned to leave. I walked slowly at first but I broke into a light jog. And once I realized I out of sight from the hospital, I started sprinting as fast as I could. My wound wasn't completely healed and I could feel that, but it wasn't bad enough that I was in so much pain that Id have to stop running.

I ran down streets that were filled with piling snow, and long alleyways and I jumped over garbage cans. The demonic voice in my head was telling me to push faster and harder and made my heart rate pump harder through my veins. I turned down a sharp corner and stopped running once I was meet with a bright red brick wall. I let out a breath of agitation, pulled up my sleeves and rubbed my hands together. I walked over to the wall and dug my sharp claws into the chalky brick. Once I got a good footing, I kicked off from the wall and scaled up toward the very top. My hands gripped onto the wall and the spider man theme came to mind. My hand hit the top of the building, and I pulled my self up and over and onto the asphalt rooftop. I stood up and gazed all around the city with narrowed eyes, as if I would be able to see her if I concentrated hard enough. I rotated my body so I could get a even better view. I looked at tall buildings, short buildings, buildings that were just buildings and looked for anything that would be a small sign of Kagome.

I found none.

Growing more agitated, I started to growl deep in my throat. My fists started to clench and the rumbling growl in my chest became progressively louder. I could feel everything inside me starting to lose control. To snap. I was going out of my mind insane. The insanity was because I had no idea where she was or if she was ok. Even my inner demon had been pretty quite the past days. It couldn't handle the stress of there being no Kagome around. No mate.

The growl continued deep in my chest and throat and I lowered my head to the ground. "Ka-Kagome." I managed between clenched teeth.

I was losing everything.

XxX

**KAG POV**

Asshat. He is truly an asshat.

I had been secretly calling him that since I had woken up.

I paced the length of the window in my new 'room' and studied the land. My thumb nail was bitten down to the nub from all the nervous chewing I had been doing.

After Naraku had kidnapped me, shoved a numbing poison into my body (I still don't know where he had done that or how) and drove me far away from home, I had finally drifted to sleep. But before I could sleep, the only thing I could do was sob. My sobs echoed in my tall ceilinged room and they bounced off the walls and back down to me which only made me cry harder. After crying myself to sleep,I woke up with the sun streaming down on my face. I was still in that stupid costume from the play and I was getting a tad cold. I shivered and realized I could move my whole body again. I wiggled my toes and fingers just to make sure and sure enough, they all moved. I rolled my head to the side and worked out all the kinks in my neck that I had gotten from sleeping funny.

I set my feet onto the floor and started walking around. My wrists were still bounded up in rope and I managed to wiggle my hands around in them until I found the knot that was holding them together. And I don't know how long I worked on that knot for, but I finally untangled the mass of rope and rubbed my wrists to get the feeling back into them.

The room is fully furnished, as though its been waiting for my arrival. There's a walk-in closet thats empty. The dark, polished wood of the dresser matches the dressing table and the ottoman; on the walls are generic paintings- a sunset, a beach picnic and a tree that is in full bloom. I sighed as I realized it was just an regular guest room and that nothing was out of the ordinary. But when I stopped looking around, opened the drapes on the window and gazed outside, I lost it.

There was completely noting as far as the eye could see. Besides sand. It was all sand. Anything and everything was sand. It was like the house was built in the middle of the sahara desert. My mouth hinged open and my eyes went wide. I couldn't believe it. The grainy dunes looked like they stretched on for miles and miles in a never ending sea of dust and loose sand. The only 'lush' green thing that I could see was a tall cactus with little red flowers on it that was slumped at a odd forty-five degree angle. I could hear my heart beat in my ears and I swallowed down a lump that was starting to gather in my throat. My mouth was becoming dry. "No. It…this…I….," I couldn't form full sentences because I was to shocked and confused.

And now here I was, pacing the window and gnawing on my thumbnail in contemplation. I turned away from the window after staring at it for a long long time and walked toward the bedroom door. I hesitated as I jiggled the nob and was shocked and surprised to find that it was unlocked. I poked my head out of the doorway and took a look down each of the long hallways. They were empty.

On impulse, I tiptoed out of my room quietly. I didn't want Naraku to hear me because after all, I was trying to escape. I smiled as I made my way down the hallway but stopped short when a thought came to mind; what then? What would happen if I did escape and Naraku didn't hear me trying to get away? Would I suffer a heat stroke or starvation and die out in the sea of never ending sand before I could find salvation? Maybe it was of no use. But that didn't mean I didn't have to try.

The hallways were cool and quiet and they were lined with a very ugly puke green carpet. The wallpaper was made up of vertical leafy vines and budding roses that resembled prison bars the way they went up and down diagonally. How ironic.

As I continued to move down the house, I subconsciously rubbed my burn spot on my palm where he had kissed it. It hat healed a lot since I first got it, but I could still feel his velvet lips brushing up against my skin that cooled the burned flesh. I had been constantly rubbing the spot whenever I felt uncomfortable or scared,which had been always recently. It had become my source of comfort. A security blanket if you will. It was all I had from him. It was a reminder of him.

Inuyasha.

I swallowed down a sob in my throat that felt swollen from crying. I had been trying to avoid thinking about Inuyasha ever since I had been abducted. His crumpled body on the floor with a pool of blood surrounding him on the schools stage. That thought alone could make me shut down completely and I couldn't stop going, Couldn't stop moving. Inuyasha….he would want me to keep going and trying to escape to freedom. I just know he would.

I tried filling my head with thoughts of Inuyasha and I laughing at jokes between each other. Thoughts of us sharing cocoa together on that snow day, sleeping on his chest on my couch and ice skating together. Thoughts of laughter and happiness. Thoughts of him smiling at me and calling me his princess. The memories, the laughter and my burn, were all I had left of him. They kept me going. They kept me fighting.

I continued walking down a flight of stairs and found myself in a main living room. It was big and bright and was tiled with marble flooring. I looked around everywhere just to make sure Naraku wasn't there and when I felt like he wasn't, I proceeded through the rest of the living room. I navigated my way through the living room and stopped short when I finally made it to the front door. I blinked a few times to make sure the door was real and it wasn't hallucination. A wide smile grew on my lips when I realized it wasn't.

I ran toward the door as fast as I could.I couldn't believe I was getting out, I was practically skipping. I was going to be free. Completely free. Free to live, free to die, it didn't matter. Just as long as I was free.

I reached for the door knob and my fingers brushed the cool metal and I was about to push open the door, but stopped short when I heard, "did you honestly think you could just sneak out? And did you really think you were being quiet and sneaky?"

I closed my eyes and bit my lower lip in frustration and defeat.

I knew it was to good to be true.

"Where am I?" I asked without looking at him. I didn't want to look at him for fear I might barf everywhere.

"Oh come now, you didn't just think I would tell you where we are did you?"

I rolled my eyes. "Well you are full of surprises.."

He chuckled. "Hmmm, that is very true…"

I spun around on my heel and whipped my head toward him. " hell. Am I?" I said again.

He snorted and stood up. He was eating a blood red apple and a had a hand draped lazily in his front pocket. "Hmmm," He took a bite out of the apple, "thats not really important now is it?" He continued to munch on his apple as his red eyes stared me down. My own eyes narrowed when a sudden thought crossed my mind. I stared at him like I was seeing him for the first time. I saw him for who he really was; a monster.

My eyes looked him up and down and then they widened.

No. It couldn't be. But…but it is….he…

I swallowed a huge lump in my throat and spoke softly, "It was you."

He raised his eyebrow but smirked, "your going to have to be a little more specific."

I wanted to punch that stupid smug smirk off of his face. "It was you in the library that day wasn't it? It was you!" I tried to contain my anger my but my voice broke and shook and it told the truth.

His smirk only grew wider and more defined, "it took you long enough. I was afraid you would never figure it out," he scoffed.

My hands balled into fists as I felt very foolish. I was so blind and stupid. I didn't think Naraku could be as bad as he actually was. It was sickening to think that I blamed everything on Inuyasha that day…

"Tell me everything," I said in a threatening tone, "now."

He sighed and blew his bangs out of his face, "well this could take some time. I was born on a cold winters day in december. My mother and anther both-" he didn't get to finish his sentence because I had marched over to him, grabbed a fistful of his shirt and brought him down close to my face. I narrowed my eyes on him to make me seem threatening, but his expression didn't flinch.

"Why am I here? Why do you want me? Why did you have to kill…." I couldn't even finish that thought or my sentence. I would avoid talking about Inuyasha with him as much as possible. I shook my head and continued, "You owe me an explanation."

With that, his expression immediately grew dark and heated. He snatched my hand off his shirt and gripped onto my wrist hard until he started cutting off the blood flow. "I owe you nothing you pathetic little girl. Don't try my patience which I have little of." He growled. "I own you. You cant make me do anything."

I tried ripping my wrist out of his hand and running away from him but he held on tighter. "You don't own me, you ass hole!" I spat "You cant just claim people like that!" I grasped at his hand and tried to rip my arm out of his grip but he held on tighter.

"Don't you understand? Your mine! And ill do whatever the hell I want with you!" He growled and his beady eyes continued to narrow on my body. I kept fighting against him, I was pushing back but he held on tighter.

"Let go!" I yelled at his face. I was starting to really panic. What was he trying to do to me? Why was I really here?

"YOUR'E MINE!" He yelled back. He gripped onto my wrist so hard, I thought he would brake it.

Now I'm not sure if he meant to do it, or if it happened on accident, but suddenly he let go of my wrist and I stumbled backward and hit my face on the edge of a pointed but rounded counter. Pain shot all through my face, into my skull, down my body and into my toes. I let out a shriek of agony and my hands instantly flew up to my face where I had hit the counter. I fell to my knees and balled my body up on the floor as if that would help the painful and shocking feeling that was radiating through my face.

"Dammit." Was all I heard Naraku say. He sounded frustrated, like he wanted to be good around me, but being bad was much more fun. He couldn't help himself.

I tried opening my eye but I found that it was swelling shut and refused to open. I groaned in agony and rolled around on the floor. Then I stayed completely still and took a deep breath and tried relaxing my body but I was shaking. I opened my one good eye and braced myself to stand up. I tried standing and found I was really dizzy and I wobbled from side to side, but I finally managed to get to my feet. I looked out my good eye at Naraku who was watching me with fascination and interest on his face. He was surprised that I had gotten to my feet on my own, the bastard.

Not knowing what else to do, I say, "You fucking suck. And not matter what you do, I will escape from you."

He snorted and walked toward the kitchen. "You could try, but you wouldn't get very far."

I crossed my arms in defiance. "Oh yea? Just watch me."

He came back out of the kitchen with another apple and a bag of ice. "Here. You need this on your eye. If you don't put ice on it, it won't heal as fast."

I squinted my good eye at him. "What? You knock me down and give me a black eye and then you just hand me a bag of ice to make it better?"

He nodded his head once. "Yes."

"What the hell is wrong with you?"

He didn't say anything to that.

Don't tell me he's grown a conscience…

"Whats with the apple?" I asked trying to keep a conversation going with him. The more I knew, the more chance I had of escaping.

He shrugged. "You need something to eat. You haven't eaten in a few days."

I looked at him skeptically. "Why do you care so much? You care about my injury that you caused. And now you want me to eat?"

He bit into his own apple and smirked at me. "I care because I couldn't have my future bride to be sick or injured and full of illnesses now could I?"

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**INU POV**

Finally giving up on searching the streets for any sign of Kagome, I decided to walk to her house and pay her mother and family a visit. I knew they didn't know anything about Kagome and where she was, but it didn't hurt to talk to them.

I hesitated and my fist loomed over the door in a knocking position. I wasn't sure of what I would say to them; 'Im sorry your daughters gone missing with a psychopathic jackass? And, oh don't worry about it. She'll be just fine?' It was ridiculous. Nothing would really help their fears go away.

I finally slumped my head on the door and stared down at my shoes. Dammit this is harder then I thought it would be.

Suddenly the door flew open and I tripped and fell onto the floor inside house. I pulled myself together and stood up from the floor.

"Oh Inuyasha." Mrs Higurashi smiled at me as I brushed my bans away from my face and tried regaining my dignity.

I nodded my head and smiled back. "Hello. Sorry to intrude and fall into your house like that I just-"

"Its ok Inuyasha," she smiled and waved it off lie it was nothing, "we were actually just on our way to the hospital to visit you and ask you how you've been. How are you? Are you ok?"

I smiled and nodded my head. "Yes. Im perfectly fine. Just a little stab wound," I shrugged it off.

"Well I'm glad you are ok. We were pretty worried."

Souta stood up. "I wasn't!" He marched over to me and stared up at my face, "He's strong and brave. I knew he wouldn't die." He said with a determined nod of his head.

I shoved my hands into my pockets and felt the familiar heat on my cheeks as I began to blush. I didn't know thats what the kid thought of me. Like I was some kind of super hero…

Mrs higurashi smiled. "Inuyasha if you don't mind my asking, why are you here?"

"Oh, well Im just here to talk about Kagome.." I tried carefully.

Mrs. Higurashi's eyes brightened up and a smile played at her lips. "You have clues on where Kagome is!"

I felt my face falter and my body slump. "Oh..uh no. Not really… I came to ask some questions."

Mrs. Higurashi's smile fell to the floor and she walked over and sat carefully down on the couch where Kagome and I had spent the day trapped inside during the blizzard. She bit on her lower lip in a very Kagome like fashion. "So..what did you want to ask me? You do realize that detectives are already on the case don't you? They came over yesterday and questioned the family all day. Thats why we didn't visit. I know," she choked out the words as if it was painful to say them, "I know Kagome would have wanted us to visit you in the hospital."

I sighed softly. "Well we don't have to talk if it makes you uncomfortable…" I really didn't want her to start crying. I couldn't handle Higurashi women crying…

The old man and Souta decided that they would leave us alone to talk and they walked out of the living room.

She forced a caring smile and shook her head. "No. We can talk. But I really don't know very much. Kagome didn't talk about this..Naraku person that often."

I nodded my head slowly. "Ok. So she never mentioned him? Or something weird he did or said to her?" I walked over and sat down next to her.

She slowly shook her head. "No. The only person she really talked about was…you."

I felt my heart pick up and I smiled softly. She had been talking about me? Not Koga, but me?

I swallowed and nodded my head. "So, did she act weirder then normal on the day she was taken?" I asked.

Mrs. Higurashi shook her head. "No she was acting just fine that morning. She got up and made herself some breakfast and then she left. She just left.." She lowered her head to the ground and sniffed.

We sat in silence as both of our minds filled with thoughts of Kagome. I was picturing Kagome smiling and laughing. I couldn't begin to imagine the thoughts she was having. Perhaps she was picturing Kagome as a baby or as a small child. Laughing and playing as little kids do. Her memories were probably a timeline of Kagome's life. And each memory more painful then the one before…

I sighed and shook my head just as the doorbell rang. Mrs. Higurashi stood up from the couch and walked toward the front door. "Oh hello!"

I looked up at her excited voice. There were three teenage girls who looked about Kagome's age and height and a tall boy standing at the door. They were all wearing school uniforms and I figured they were Kagome's old school friends.

"Hello Mrs. Higurashi. We came to pay our respects." Said one of the girls. She had short brown hair that nearly reached her shoulders.

'Pay their respects? She's not dead! Why don't you just tell her your over here to see Kagome's cold dead body while your at it?' I thought angrily. I couldn't think of Kagome bing dead. Naraku wouldn't just take her so he could kill her. No. He had much more planned.

I returned my attention back to the front door. "Hello Mrs. Higurashi." Said the other two girls in unison. One of the girls had a bright yellow headband on that pushed her bangs away from her face and the other girl had long wavy hair.

The boy bowed in respect and handed Mrs. Higurashi a plate of cookies. "My mother made them this morning. She thought they would help."

Mrs. Higurashi grabbed the plate and smiled at the meek boy. "Well that was very thoughtful of you. Would you all like to come in?" Mrs Higurashi asked and they smiled, thanked her, and stepped through the door.

They walked toward the living room and stopped short when they saw me sitting on the couch. One of this girls had her mouth hanging open and the other two were just staring. The boy was smiling like and idiot and rubbing the back of his head awkwardly.

"Oh I'm sorry," Mrs Higurashi said as she walked back over to me, "this is Inuyasha. He goes to Kagome's school and they have become very close friends."

'You don't even know how close..' I thought.

I smiled slightly and waved a clawed hand at one of them making her jump. "Whats up?" I asked casually.

They all stood there staring at me.

I looked over to Mrs Higurashi. "Do they speak japanese?" I asked.

She giggled slightly and sat down next to me. "They just aren't used to demons. Or half demons in your case."

I nodded my head and my eyes flicked back over to them. "Boo." I said in a very bored tone.

One of the girls giggled and walked toward me. "Are those ears real?"

I looked at her like she was the stupidest person I had ever met. "Um yea. Last time I checked…"

She giggled and clapped her hands together. "They are so cuuuuuuteee! Can I touch them?" She reached an eager hand out to my head before I could answer and was about to grasp onto my ear, but before she could even get close enough, I had stood up and used my demon speed to run around the couch and stand right behind her back.

"No you cant." I all but growled in her ear. No one touched my ears. Beside Kagome of course. She hadn't touched my ears yet, but that was because I told her if she wanted to lose her hand, then should touch my ears. She opted for keeping her hand…

The girls back stiffened and she let out a small 'eeeep' from my presence. "How-how did you….how did you…do that?"

I smiled smugly. "Never met a real demon before have you? Well consider this your lucky day…"

Mrs Higurashi started laughing quietly on the couch. "Oh Inuyasha, leave Eri alone."

I walked around the girl like I was the hulk. I was menacing and scary. I gave her a look that I was sure she would pee her pants from. I walked over to the couch and sat back down.

"So…so you're like a real demon?" One other girl asked.

I rolled my eyes. "No. Im a flying pig," she gave me this stupidly confused look and I rolled my eyes." Of course I am."

Mrs Higurashi chuckled and put a hand on my shoulder. "Actually, he's a half demon."

I shrugged. "You say potato…"

"Thats really fascinating…" Said the boy. He was tall and had short brown hair with bangs that fell in front of his eyes.

"Oh yea. You think I'm fascinating. You should visit my school sometime. Ill just bet theres a demon there that would just loooveeee to have you as a snack. Now thats really something fascinating." I looked at him like it was the most obvious thing ever and he looked at me like he too was going to pee his pants. I was having so much scaring the crap out of them I almost didn't notice one of the girls walk up behind me to grab one of my ears. Almost being the key word.

I grabbed her wrist without looking at her and she gasped. "I would think twice about that," I said as I gripped her wrist tighter, "I don't cooperate well with others and sometimes my father has to put a muzzle on me to restrain me." I said in a bored tone. I was joking of course, but the looks on the girls faces made me think that they actually believed me.

I let go of the slightly trembling girls wrist and stood up and adjusted my jacket, "Well this has been fun and all, but I have a psychopathic asshole to go and kill. See ya' guys later." I said as I walked past all of them who war gawking and gaping at me. I was smiling so big it hurt my cheeks. It was so much fun to mess with people. "Ill see you later Mrs. H." I called over my shoulder.

"Thank you for coming over Inuyasha." Mrs Higurashi called back.

"It..it was nice to meet you." One of the girls said quietly. I opened the front door and stood there and I smiled evilly at her.

"Oh believe me…the pleasure has been all mine." And with that, I slammed the door closed.

XxX

**KAG POV**

"Are you sick?"

"How do you mean?"

"Are you physically sick? Or perhaps mentally? Because you cant be fucking serious!"

His words were ringing in my ears so loud I thought I might get a headache from it.

'My future bride.'

'Future bride.'

'Bride.'

"I don't think you understand the concept of marriage." I say as I put a hand on my hip.

Naraku put down the bag of ice and the un-eaten apple an sighed at me,"do enlighten me."

I rolled my good eye and approached him carefully, "marriage is between two people who one each other," I start. I can see he is so bored with me he can hardly stand it. But dammit all he's would listen to me even if I hard to rip his ears off and yell into them. "Both of the people getting married have to both agree on getting married. You cant force me to marry you." I said as I folded my arms across my chest with a satisfied nod of my head.

He snorted and walked toward me making me take a scared step backward. "I don't need your approval to marry you. You will marry weather you like it or not," I snorted and he shrugged. "Its very simple."

Both of my eye brows shot up. "Oh yea? And how exactly will you pull this off?"

"I have a priest who will marry us. And I also have another very strong and very potent drug and poison, that will make you do whatever I say." He smiled at me and took a step forward which made me take another step back.

"Your kidding?" I asked skeptically.

He sneered. "I never kid."

My arms slowly drifted off of my chest and down to my sides as he stared at me with a hard cold expression. He was serious. And it was starting to scare and freak me out.

"You cant be serious." I say with only a little bit of hope.

Naraku takes another step toward me and this time I don't flinch back, "I am dead serious." His face is so hard and cold that it sends a shiver up my spine. His body is towering over mine but I try and stand like Im not afraid of him,but I am.

We glare at each other for what feels like forever but was probably a few minuets until he sighed and backed off from me a little.

"Why do you want me?" I whispered.

His expression doesn't change as he shrugs, "I don't know."

I give him a skeptic look, "Oh please. You picked me out of a crowed. You singled me out. There has to be some reason that you have me locked up in here like a prisoner!"

He just stared at me like I was starting to disturb him or something. I stare back at him and I can start to feel my face twitch and spasm.

I finally throw my hands into the air and let out a exasperated sigh. "Your a terrible person you know that? And you know what? Im never going to marry you because I don't love you!" I see a glint behind his eyes and I know that got him to really listen to me so I keep going. "And you know what? I think that your trying to get me to marry you just because no one else will! Your pathetic and sad!"

With that being said, he took a final step toward me and slapped me across me face, hard. And then he snatched his hand out to my throat and squeezed slightly, threatening me, daring me to say another word.

"Shut up you pathetic worthless little girl." He hissed into my ear. I brought up a now trembling hand up and grabbed onto his hand that was squeezing my windpipe. I was trying to get him to let go of me and my neck, but his had wouldn't budge. I don't look him in the eyes.

"Your…your a monster." I whisper and yell out at the same time. Im so furious about him hitting me and beating me up that marriage is the last thing on my mind.

Being fed up with me, he throws me down onto the hardwood floor and makes a scoffing noise. "You don't even know the meaning of the word my darling."

I stare at the ground and grab onto my throat, trying to make sure he hadn't hurt me. My eyes dart around as he starts to circle me. My nose is flaring and I can feel myself become angrier. Finally Naraku stops circling me like a defected vulture and crouches down next to me so he can speak into my ear.

"Why don't I show you just how monstrous I can be."

He then stood up from me and I suddenly felt a cool breeze flowing around the room. I rolled over onto my back to get a better view of what he was doing, and when I saw him, I let out a gasp.

Standing right in front of me was Inuyasha. My Inuyasha.

I let out a small shriek of surprise and alarm. Inuyasha chuckled darkly and walked toward me with a sauntering swagger. I felt a sick feeling coming from the pit of my stomach and I swallowed hard which he also chuckled at.

"Awh whats the matter Kagome? Didya' miss me?" He asked with a cock of his head.

I was about to open my mouth and say something, anything really, but when I looked up into his eyes my mouth clamped shut. They were red and beady again. Just like that day in the library. He was warped. He was Naraku.

"Kagome? Come on…don't you love me anymore?" The doppelganger teased.

"Shut up!" I yelled. "I don't want to hear it!" I shook my head around wildly as if that would get Inuyasha's fake voice out of my ears. But he only went on.

"Awh come on princess," my heartbeat increased as he said my nickname Inuyasha had given me. How did he know thats what Inuyasha called me? "Don't you love me? Because I love-"

"STOP IT!" I shrieked. I didn't want to hear those words coming out of his mouth.

He chuckled and started to circled around me which made me grind my teeth together. Naraku was a such a arrogant, sadistic, masochistic bastard. How dare he toy with me and my emotions?

"Oh Kagome we can be so happy you let me make you happy? That all I've ever wanted. Your my everything. Your my Princess."

"ENOUGH! NARAKU SHUT THE HELL UP!"

The fake Inuyasha's expression changed from smug to confused. I pulled myself from of the floor and stood up.

"Enough." I said again in a much lower tone. I felt a cool breeze blowing behind me and I knew Naraku had changed back into himself.

"You won't escape." He said.

I bit my lower lip and stared at the ground. "I know." I admitted. I knew there was no chance of my getting free. It was evident. How could I possibly escape from him? He was a strong powerful demon, and Im just a weak pathetic mortal. What could I possibly do?

Knowing there is nothing I could do to knock some sense into the psychopath, I start walking upstairs toward my bedroom. He didn't say anything to me as I left.

When I finally made it to my bedroom, I walked into the bathroom and flicked on the lights and looked into the mirror. I flinched back as I saw my face. I looked like shit. I had a dark purplish bruise that covered my whole left eye. It looked like someone had punched me. I rubbed over the tender flesh and winced as I agitated the wound. I then ran my hand over the spot where Naraku had slapped me. It was a bright shade of red and had a few darker red spots on it. I let my hand trail down my face and onto my neck. I sighed as I stared at myself in the mirror. I looked like I was just beaten. I ran a hand through my hair and cussed as I realized, I had just been beaten.

Hating the person standing in the mirror, I flicked off the lights in the bathroom and I collapsed on the bed and snuggled in the sheets and bedding and wrapped them around my body until I had made my very own cocoon. I left a hole in the front so I could see out. I stared out the windows and looked at the full moon that was shining brightly down from space. It had and un-earthly glow that circled around it ad I suddenly wished I could live on the moon. No one would bother mr there. And I could truly live among stars. I then noticed a bright star in the sky and I smiled softly to myself. Which surprised me so much, that I stopped smiling.

I didn't want to smile while I was there. It didn't matter if Naraku could or couldn't see me, I didn't want him to know I could still smile. I wanted him to think I was broken. Because, I was.

I finally stopped star gazing and I rolled over and closed my eyes. I knew he wouldn't hurt me again tonight and somehow that gave me a small bit of comfort. I used that comfort and coaxed myself to sleep.

When I finally slept, I dreamt. My dreams were so real, I thought reality was the dream. They were vivid and realistic. So much so that I could feel everything. It was real to me.

My dream started off as an organ blared thought a church and as I made my way down a isle. The file was lined with a red lining and black flower petals lay on the ground. I was wearing a beautiful, cream strapless gown that flowed behind me as I continue to move my feet with choreographed precision. My hair was delicately placed on top of my head with a few beads and gems that sparkle in my dark curls. I was holding a full bouquet of roses as black as the night sky. I continued to move down the isle that was lined with wooden pews. The pews in the church were filled with faceless people. They had no ears, mouths, noses or eyes. They are completely blank of emotion. They didn't care about my pain or sadness. No one cared.

At that thought, hot tears fell down my face and scattered across the ground that I continue to walk on with precise movements. I couldn't stop moving, no matter how much I wanted too. Naraku gleamed evilly from the front of the church at my tears and my sorrow. He knew my pain. He could feel it. He could sense it. And he enjoyed it. I couldn't stop myself as I finally made my way to the front of the isle and I linked my arm with his. He smiled at me but it was so fake and lying, that it stretched across his face and started to distort into something warped. I shuddered and and my body turned toward the priest as he started reading my life and happiness away.

"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to wed Naraku Muso and Kagome Higurashi, in holy matrimony. Let us pray," He gestured toward the faceless crowed and they all bow their heads as the priest continues to prayer and wedding. I watch him as his lips move and as they make shapes, but very soon his voice fades off as everything slows. I can hear my breath and my breathing in my ears and my fist grows tighter around the bouquet of flowers I'm holding on to. I feel my arm shake in Naraku's grasp and his distortedly ugly smile grows bigger.

I open my mouth and fight the feeling of doing what Naraku commands me to do.

"No." I whisper. Its so quiet and meek it sounds like a mouses squeak. The feeling of running away and hiding is pushing up and starting to build in my body.

"No." I say a bit louder and more forceful this time.

No one seems to hear me and Naraku doesn't filch away from the priest. Im starting to get angrier and everything is starting to blur.

"No!" I shout, but still no one moves, the priest continues to read and speak and Naraku doesn't move.

Finally, with everything I've been through and seen, I scream at the top of my lungs, "NO!"

My screech echoes off the ceiling of the church and ricochets back down the whole church. Still, no one moves or says anything.

Suddenly a hand is placed gently on my shoulder, "Kagome."

My eyes bulge and my mouth quivers as I find myself frozen. I cant move nor can I acknowledge the voice, because I know that voice. I wouldn't ever forget that voice.

"Kagome," He says again.

I swallow and blink my eyes but I cant seem to face him, I cant move. "Inu…yasha," I whisper. The hand on my shoulder squeezes slightly.

"You need to get out of here." He says urgently. He speaks as though he doesn't care if he gets caught standing right behind me. Naraku still won't budge away from the still talking old priest. It was like Inuyasha wasn't even there, and I wasn't talking to him.

"Im trying but…I just cant move. You need to help me!" I say back. Im shaking like a frightened little bunny who scarred of being caught by a hunter.

"Kagome, I know you. Your stronger then this. You can get out of here, you don't have to do this." He says encouragingly.

I lower my head to the ground in sorrow and defeat. "I know." I say. And I mean it too. I knew I didn't have to do anything Naraku told me too. So why was I?

I feel Inuyasha's hand squeeze onto my bare shoulder for the last time and then his touch slowly faded away. With all the power and strength I had in me, I turned my body around slightly so I could see him. See his face. But he had turned his back on me and was walking slowly back down the endless isle. His silver hair flowing behind him.

"Wait!" I yell. He doesn't turn around or look at me but keeps walking, so I try again. "Wait I said! Come back here!" I reach out to him, but he doesn't face me.

"Inuyasha please!" I beg. But he ignores me.

Suddenly everything grows darker. The little world I've made for myself is as dark as the roses I'm holding. Except for a single spotlight shining down on me, Naraku the old priest, and Inuyasha. I turned toward Naraku and he turned toward me, and he lifts up my left hand and he starts to place a small silver ring on my ring finger. I flinch back from him but he continues to try and get the ring on my finger. I fight him back and finally, I ripped my hand away from him.

"Never." I say.

I turned from him and dropped the bouquet of flowers on the steps and I started running down the isle. The train of my dress suddenly grew longer and heavier and I have to pick it up as I sprint down the rows of faceless people. Inuyasha still isn't facing me and he even starts to walk away.

"Wait! Inuyasha please!" I scream as I reach a desperate hand out to him, but its futile.

I continue to run but it seems like I haven't even moved. Inuyasha, however, grows smaller and smaller as he walks away. His silver hair still flowing behind him as he moves. I feel tears start to stream down my face but I just cant stop crying. I can't reach him, I cant move, Im stuck. And then, He was gone.

I finally sink to the ground and put my head into my heads and sob quietly. I wanted to give up, quite this game that someone above was playing with me.

I didn't think I would ever move again from that spot in the church until the priest said, "You may kiss the bride." My head popped up as Naraku grabbed my upper arm and helped me stand. My chest ached as he finally slipped the ring onto my left ring finger and smiled smugly.

He then leaned in close to my face and I could feel his breath on my mouth. His lips grew closer and closer to mine and I was absolutely paralyzed. I couldn't move my body away from him. And just as he was about to kiss me, he whispered on my lips, "Your mine. Mine."

My body shot up in bed without me moving it and woke me from my nightmare. It was almost instinct. Like my brain was trying to wake me up, but I couldn't do it alone, so my body had to do it for me. My breathing was labored and I was sweating. I rubbed my eyes and hissed as I touched my still swollen eye. The moon was emanating light into the room and I could see all the blankets, sheets and pillows were all in disarray. I knew I had been thrashing around in my sleep and I sighed and ran a hand down my face. I moved the sheets and blankets off my hot body and found that the sheets and blankets were sticky from my sweat.

I stood up from the bed and walked over to the window to look outside. The moon was large and round and I could clearly see the man on it. My only friend. I sighed at that pathetic thought and looked over the sand dunes. The wind was blowing and moving the sand around. I rolled my eyes and looked back up to the moon.

"I wonder if your as lonely as I am." I thought out loud. The moon only shone bright because of the sun.

I wondered what Inuyasha and I could've been doing right now if he was still alive. Would he be texting me obnoxiously? Would I be calling him an idiot and laughing hard as his expression became hard and red? I wanted Inuyasha to be with me, watching the moon and coating the stars, just as I did.

But that was impossible. He was gone. I really needed to stop thinking about him. It...hurt to much.

So, I stood in front of the window without moving. I didn't want to go back to bed, for fear of another terrible nightmare, and there was no way I would go outside my room again. So, I stayed watching. I stood in front of the window until the moon had dropped low over the horizon, and then finally faded away. I stayed rooted into my spot and watched as the sky lightened and when the sun finally perked its way up over the sand dunes.

"I wonder if Naraku will actually pull this marriage thing off," I finally admitted.

The thought was incomprehensible. But, maybe not impossible….

I haven't slept in two days. Maybe now that Im done with this chapter, I will finally be able to sleep….cross your fingers.