CHAPTER 18
Breakfast the next morning at the Hiiragi house was once again met with uncomfortable and painful silence. As hard as they tried, they couldn't simply forget about Kagami's disappearance since her fight with her parents that resulted in the infamous slap on Tsukasa. However, Miki, Tadao, and Inori were still completely oblivious to the fact that Kagami had come home recently and was prostituting herself in their home. Tsukasa was still keeping her disgruntled sister a secret from them, a pattern that was wearing out its welcome for the youngest Hiiragi girl.
Miki's intuition took over when she saw her youngest daughter push her food around on her plate with a sad look on her face. "Honey you haven't touched your eggs at all. Is there something wrong with them?"
Tsukasa quickly looked up and shook her head in a borderline panic. "No, no, no, they're fine, mom! It's just that…I uh…still miss Kagami."
Everyone easily sympathized with Tsukasa's words and could also relate. Miki however could see something more in her youngest daughter. She easily saw Tsukasa's depression but she also saw hints of guilt in her eyes. Of all the members of the Hiiragi household, Tsukasa was the purest and most innocent of them so she should be the last person feeling guilt.
"Is everything okay, Tsukasa? You look like something's bothering you. Is there anything else you want to talk about?" Miki continued to pry.
Tsukasa quickly shook her head again while throwing beads of sweat in the process. "No, mom, I'm fine. But…but I do have one question."
"What is it, dear?"
"Do…do you think that Kagami could…could…could beat these issues she has on her own?" Tsukasa weakly asked. "Do you think that she's strong and smart enough to get off drugs without rehab or therapy?"
It was an oddly specific question coming from Tsukasa. She would normally ask her where Kagami was or if she was to blame for her drug addiction. For her to go to a direct question regarding the foreseeable future was unusual and the family treated it as such. Miki and Tadao looked at each other and to Inori, sending each other body language before they could reply to Tsukasa. Inori merely shrugged to show that she didn't know what prompted Tsukasa to ask that either so Miki had to do more digging.
"What makes you ask that?"
Tsukasa's tells were being revealed to the family as her sweating and shallow breathing continued before she replied. "No…no reason. I just…I just want to believe in sis. I don't want her to be taken away from me and be put in some horrible institution. I couldn't bear to see her in a place like that."
Tsukasa did her best to keep her tears in her head but it proved impossible when the idea of losing her sister to a system became too real to her. Miki outstretched her hand and held her youngest daughter's in hers and did her best to reassure her but at the same time keep her in reality.
"We're going to do everything we can, but to answer your question…no. I do not believe Kagami is capable of making the right decisions on her own anymore. She's too addicted to drugs at this point to think clearly or logically. The only thing that's on her mind is getting her next fix so unfortunately we cannot trust her." Miki said with remorse. "If you see her or if she ever comes home, please try and get her to stay so we can get her into therapy. If she says she's clean or if she says she wants only you and nobody else to help her, then don't believe her. I believe that she'll only use you to keep doing drugs."
Tsukasa's heart clenched and she struggled to keep herself from crying loudly upon hearing her mother's theory on the matter. The youngest Hiiragi girl didn't want to see it but Kagami was using her and manipulating her for shelter to enable her drug addictions and sexual transactions. Tsukasa found herself in the middle of a situation that nobody deserved, especially her. She was torn between her own mother and her own sister. Which one was telling her the truth? Which one could she ultimately trust? If Tsukasa listened to her mother, it meant that Kagami was sick and it could lead to her being taken away from her, but if Tsukasa listened to Kagami, it could lead to her getting better or it could lead to her becoming more sick and addicted. Either way, Tsukasa was in a lose-lose situation.
"Why do you ask, Tsukasa?" Inori interjected.
Tsukasa quickly shook her head and instinctively tried to think of another lie to cover for her sister. "I uh, I just…I just want to make sure that we use all means to help Kagami. I don't want her taken away from me."
Tadao nodded. "We understand, Tsukasa, but I want you to know that it might have to come to that and if it does, we're going to need you to be very brave for us."
Tsukasa nodded meekly. "O…Okay…"
When breakfast was over, Miki continued with her household chores and started a load of laundry, though it was met with depression because most of the things in the hamper belonged to Kagami that hadn't been washed yet. Regardless, Miki started the cycle and returned to the kitchen. Next she began washing the dishes and turned a light switch on to trigger a light above her head to see better, only to be answered by darkness. She looked up and assumed the light bulb burned out so she took a stepstool and unscrewed the decorative glass cover but was surprised to find the light bulb was gone. Still unaware of Kagami's new street skills, Miki assumed the bulb burned out and someone threw it out without replacing it.
As she walked towards a pantry where she kept the spare bulbs, she heard Inori say from the living room, "What happened to all the light bulbs in here?"
"Are they burned out?" Miki called.
"No, they're all gone." Inori replied.
It was now clear to Miki that she had a mystery on her hands. It was more strange than alarming and she scratched her head while digging through her supply pantry and found the remaining light bulbs.
"We only have two left so I'll have to go to the store to get more. I guess I could also pick up a few groceries while I'm out." Miki replied and prepared to leave the house as Inori came into the kitchen again.
"Let me go with you. There are a few things I need to pick up for myself." Inori said and the two women left the house together to go to their local grocery store, leaving Tadao and Tsukasa alone, though that didn't last much longer.
Tadao informed Tsukasa that he had to go to the hardware store to pick up some supplies to clean the shrine and that he would be gone for a few hours. Tsukasa once again reassured him that she would be fine by herself for the time he would be gone and the youngest Hiiragi was once again on her own. It still wasn't getting any easier but of course she would never tell her family that. She was still selfless and only thinking about her family over herself and knew that things were tense enough in her home without adding her own emotional feelings to the mix. She decided to simply sit in the kitchen with the unbearable isolation as her only companion. The only worthwhile thing she could do was throw the washed clothes into the dryer when she heard the washing machine ding and she could only return to the kitchen after that.
Tsukasa still didn't know that Kagami was out of the house and had been since the previous night. She was still unaware that her sister had begun her career as a prostitute and was also soon about to add stripper to her mounting resume of dysfunction and shame. Tsukasa still couldn't comprehend why all of this was happening to her family or why it had to be her idol that was on the receiving end of it. Because of her innocence, she couldn't understand the full depth of the guilt that Kagami felt and how brutal it was. It was so terrible for Kagami that these drugs were like enchanted substances that took pain and guilt away as if it was as easy as waving a magic wand.
The more Kagami dove into the drugs they not only numbed her pain, they also opened up whole new worlds for her. Though as perverse and immoral as they were, the drugs were able to make them seem appealing and opportunistic. Kagami felt never-ending euphoria and even empowerment when she let all those corrupt men defile her body and make her perform such revolting sex acts for them. The drugs also hindered her ability to see not only the mental damage, but also the impending physical damage that it was going to take on her body later down the road. The very idea of acquiring a sickness or having a certain organism grow inside her as a result didn't even register in her mind.
Tsukasa missed Matsuri and even Misao on a daily basis too, but she never even for one second considered drug use as a means of escape. Her innocent mind was able to protect her from such concepts and she believed that her family and their values were the entities that would see her through this ordeal. Kagami was her twin and everything that was pure and righteous that Tsukasa was exposed to Kagami was too so why did they go down two completely separate paths? The only answer Tsukasa could conclude was that despite the fact that they were twins, they were still two different people and each had their own views on pain and how to deal with it. In a way, knowing that they would be different in that area, Tsukasa couldn't help but feel less innocent as a result.
The front door opened and quickly closed again, making Tsukasa believe that one of her family members had returned home, though it was a little quicker than she had expected. She suddenly jumped and shrieked when Kagami once again rounded the corner and was wearing the same blue tracksuit, but it was her face that made the youngest Hiiragi yelp. Kagami's face was covered with so much makeup that Tsukasa didn't recognize her at first and thought a stranger was in her home. When Kagami became irritated and shushed her sister, Tsukasa recognized the voice and was able to see beneath all the blush, eyeliner, lipstick, eye shadow, and curled eyelashes.
"Sis…is that you?! I thought you were upstairs!" Tsukasa exclaimed as she breathed deeply in her post-shriek.
"I was until last night. I was out with friends so I need you to do me a favor." Kagami hissed.
Tsukasa cringed. "Sis…I don't want to keep doing this. I'm lying to mom and dad and Inori. I want to trust you, but mom told me not to because she said you would use me to do more drugs. You wouldn't do a horrible thing like that to me, would you?"
Kagami glared at Tsukasa which scared her more and the twin-tailed girl disregarded her sister's concern and continued talking. "I need you to go outside and not come back in for at least two minutes."
Tsukasa gave a confused and frightened face to Kagami. "…Why, Kagami?"
"Do what I say!" Kagami shrieked, making the frightened Tsukasa jump and she began crying and shaking.
"Kagami please stop making me do these things. I love you and I just want you to be happy and healthy and I don't want to keep lying to our family." Tsukasa whimpered as she took a tear away and slowly approached her sister who was becoming angrier. "Please open up to me. Please let me help you. Please tell me that you're not using me and that you're getting clean in your room…"
As Tsukasa opened her arms and tried to hug her sister, Kagami's drug-driven rage took over. The twin-tailed girl quickly grabbed her sister's arms and using all her strength, threw Tsukasa against the wall and pinned her there while gripping Tsukasa's limbs tighter and tighter. The youngest Hiiragi girl cried in terror and pain as Kagami stood over her and reared the look of an angry animal as she moved her mouth to Tsukasa's ear.
"You listen to me and you listen good. I want you to get the fuck out of this house and no matter what you hear coming from my room, do not come in or I will seriously fuck you up! Do you hear me Tsukasa?!" Kagami screamed her last sentence in Tsukasa's ear and shook her, making her trembling sister cry loudly.
Tsukasa could barely grasp her surroundings as the bruises began to form on her arms. "Sis, please! I love you! Please let me go, it hurts! You're hurting me!"
Kagami released her fragile sister, who quickly fell to the floor and retracted into a ball and cried loudly. Tsukasa hid her face from her sister as she let the tears fall down her face and splash on the floor. The twin-tailed girl stood above her sobbing sister and couldn't feel any sympathy for her, especially since Kagami viewed Tsukasa as a roadblock to her being able to sneak another client into her room. Still gritting her teeth with vicious rancor, Kagami bent down and latched onto Tsukasa's hair with her tight grip and pulled her head up, making Tsukasa cry louder.
"If I have to drag you out of this house kicking and screaming I will now get on your fucking feet!" Kagami shouted at her and pulled her up by her hair. Tsukasa struggled to her feet and stumbled as Kagami callously pulled Tsukasa by her hair towards the back door.
"Sis it hurts so much! Please let me go! Why are you doing this to me?! They'll take you away from me if you keep doing these terrible things!" Tsukasa wailed as Kagami led her sister by her hair towards the sliding glass door until Tsukasa's last sentence sank in.
Kagami abruptly stopped pulling on Tsukasa's hair and turned around to face her crying and petrified sister, who still struggled to keep her balance as a result of her terror. Kagami hissed, "What do you mean they'll take me away?"
Tsukasa was so scared of her own protector that it took several attempts to talk but she finally uttered through her crying, "Our…our family therapist…she says that you…that you…are sick. And that you may need to be…put in an institution. A mental hospital…!"
Kagami shifted her eyes and knew this presented a problem for her. Her behavioral patterns were becoming more and more erratic and many would consider them to be mentally defective. If she was forced to go to an institution, all her days of drug usage would be gone and be replaced with the unbearable burdens of reality; something she simply couldn't allow. Kagami quickly turned the tables of her current interaction with Tsukasa and once again began to use her sister as a pawn.
All of Kagami's rage and anger disappeared in the blink of an eye and her face softened into the pattern that Tsukasa recognized. Kagami would always show her this face every time Tsukasa had a bad dream and would show up in Kagami's room in the middle of the night, not wanting to sleep alone. It was a face that showed a slight smile and eyes of a mother hawk watching over its young and Tsukasa always knew she was safe when she saw that face. Kagami slowly lifted her hand and Tsukasa flinched initially but quickly nestled it into her sister's open palm as it touched her cheek. Kagami pulled Tsukasa into a hug and she could feel her trembling sister in the embrace.
"Now, now, Tsukasa…you don't want me to be shipped away to an asylum, do you?" Kagami asked in a disturbingly convincing soft voice, the kind that Miki always spoke in when comforting her children.
Tsukasa still shivered relentlessly in her sister's embrace while letting tears drip from her eyes and was profoundly confused by this situation. Kagami was giving her every reason possible not to trust her, yet Tsukasa was incapable of not trusting her big sister. Kagami was Tsukasa's everything and now it seemed that her everything was attacking and targeting her. Despite the drug intrusion into her family's existence, Tsukasa was still naïve and couldn't make the connection that her sister was sick and that she was using her like a tool. All she knew in her heart was love, not suspicion or even assertion.
"Sis…of course I don't want that to happen…but I'm scared…!" Tsukasa wailed as she trembled. "I don't know why you keep hurting me like this! Mom says not to trust you or believe what you say…but I don't know how! I only know how to love you and to think the world of you! I don't know how to deal with this and I'm scared! What do I do?!"
Kagami slowly disconnected Tsukasa from their hug and she gently held her by the quivering shoulders. "Do you love me, Tsukasa? Do you honestly and truly love me?"
Tsukasa nodded hastily without hesitation while she still cried. "I love you so much, Kagami! You're my hero!"
"Then if that's true, you'll keep all of this between us. You won't tell mom or dad or Inori about me, you'll let me keep coming and going as I please, and you'll leave me to my own self-treatment in my room." Kagami said softly with no anger in her voice. The worst was about to come. Kagami pulled Tsukasa back into a hug and as she rubbed her back, Kagami whispered in a creepily soothing voice, "Because if they do find out and they do try to send me away…I'll never forgive you, Tsukasa. I'll hate you forever…I might even kill myself and I'll go to my grave cursing your name. You'll be responsible for my death…and my hatred for you will continue to burn for all eternity because you didn't love me enough to keep my secrets."
Tsukasa once again began crying loudly, though Kagami remained unresponsive until she broke off their hug while still keeping a comforting hand on Tsukasa's shoulder and opened the sliding glass door. When it was opened, Kagami led her crying sister out onto their back porch where Matsuri and Kagami had their infamous fight and Tsukasa fell to her knees. She covered her face and kept crying loudly as Kagami turned and casually walked back into the house and locked the door behind her.
She didn't even bother turning back once to look at the emotional damage she had done to Tsukasa as the youngest Hiiragi girl continued to cry on the back porch and Kagami approached the front door. She opened it and another client stood in the doorway, waiting to be led up into her room. This time it was a college student and Kagami quickly took his hand and led him into her house with a fake seductive giggle. As they approached the staircase, they walked past the sliding glass door and saw Tsukasa still crying at her same spot with her back facing them.
"Is she okay?" The boy asked with genuine concern.
"Yeah she's fine she's just a little crybaby. Anyway do you want your dick sucked or not?" Kagami asked harshly.
Drawn by Kagami's invite, he quickly forgot about Tsukasa and kept following her upstairs. He chuckled and replied, "You're a swallower, right?"
Kagami glared as they reached the top of the stairs and she led him into her room. "That'll cost you extra, dirty boy." She hissed and slammed her door shut.
Tsukasa continued to sit outside and cry, not knowing what to do. For the first time in her life, she truly knew what it felt like to be exposed and in the open, vulnerable to anything. She was faced with a never-ending situation that was continuing to strip her of her innocence and make her ask a question that she never had to ask herself before. Is her beloved twin sister a threat to her own safety? Still desperately clinging to her crumbling blind love for Kagami, Tsukasa quickly pulled herself to her feet as she knew her family was going to be home soon so she believed that she still needed to protect Kagami. When she found the sliding glass door was locked, Tsukasa went around to the front door and entered her house, once again only to be met with loneliness.
As she walked past the staircase, she heard something. She could hear her sister's voice and Tsukasa instantly remembered Kagami's warnings to her and she decided to keep obeying them as she still wept silently. It wasn't until she suddenly heard a separate voice come from upstairs that sounded like a boy that made Tsukasa freeze. She stood and listened closely at the bottom of the stairs and heard her sister's voice again, which was immediately replied to by the same boyish voice. Was she with someone up there?
Tsukasa suddenly felt herself torn. She wanted to heed her sister's warnings, but didn't know if someone had broken into the house and whether Kagami was in danger. With her knees shaking, Tsukasa believed she was doing something good as she slowly and quietly climbed the stairs. Her heart was pounding and sweat trickled down her face as she trembled fiercely. She had never broken a household rule in her life and she was about to disobey her sister's request to leave her alone. Tsukasa however tried to convince herself that she was just checking to make sure she wasn't in any danger.
As she reached the top of the stairs and made her way closer to Kagami's door, she heard her sister's voice say, "Fine I'll swallow but did you at least wash it before you came here?"
Her question was replied to by the same boy's voice that laughed first before it said, "Not a chance. It's nice and dirty and sweaty, just the way you like it."
"You asshole. Whatever let's get this over with."
Tsukasa had no idea what they were talking about and she remained ignorant to the subject matter as she finally made it to Kagami's door and she lifted her trembling hand. As soon as Tsukasa's hand touched the doorknob, she hesitated. She trembled and quivered uncontrollably while trying to quell her rising panic. Her face painted a picture of a terrified child being whisked past a threshold of uncertainty with no friendly hand to hold onto to take away the fear. She felt all alone as she stood outside her sister's door with her hand on the knob.
She suddenly heard something she didn't expect. It sounded like her sister was humming but it wasn't consistent or a song that she could recognize. The sound did have a pattern though and she could hear one hum followed by silence until another one would follow and so on. Still pure and childish at heart, Tsukasa slowly turned Kagami's doorknob and gently pushed the door open. She opened it just a crack until she moved her head towards it and peered in.
The first thing she saw was a young man sitting at the edge of Kagami's bed, nearly making her shriek in terror. She didn't know this boy so a stranger was in her home and she was scared but her fear was instantly taken away when she saw her sister. Her fear was replaced by simple childlike curiosity. She saw Kagami on her knees wearing a strange red and black striped top and she had no pants on. The only thing keeping her decent was the yellow pair of panties wrapped around her hips. Her head and face to Tsukasa's surprise was planted on the boy's lap and her head was bobbing up and down slowly while she still hummed her rhythmic noise. Still, Tsukasa had no idea what she was witnessing.
"You're good at this." The boy said. "Finger yourself while you do it."
Kagami paused momentarily until she started moving her head up and down above his lap again and she moved her hand down her stomach and slipped it underneath her panties. She curled her fingers several times and sounded a deeper moan in the process as Tsukasa watched the ordeal from the door. Tsukasa's heart raced when she saw her sister's hand move below her underwear and she blushed.
Sis…that's a dirty area…what are you doing? I don't understand…
The boy Kagami was servicing grinned maliciously and he grabbed Kagami's head and pushed it further down on his lap. Kagami squealed loudly and struggled until he allowed her to lift her head up again and she began coughing loudly and something suddenly came out of Kagami's mouth. As the twin-tailed girl looked up angrily at her client, Tsukasa saw it. Kagami held the boy's erection in her hand as she growled at him.
"You bastard I told you not to do that!" She hissed.
"I'll tip you. Speaking of tip, get back to it." He replied with a slight chuckle.
Kagami glared at him again and to Tsukasa's mounting horror and sickness, Kagami swallowed it and began moving her head up and down again while moaning and she kept moving her fingers underneath her panties. Tsukasa suddenly made the connection to what her older sister was doing. The very idea of doing something like this to a man never even formulated itself in her clean mind. Tsukasa felt her entire body go numb as she gulped and felt sick. She felt her breakfast churn and bubble inside her stomach and acknowledged the growing urge to vomit. To put something like that in your mouth was a devastatingly deep culture shock and Tsukasa slowly backed away from the door while covering her mouth.
When she was far enough, Tsukasa turned and ran with all her might from the door and locked herself in the bathroom. Feeling repulsed and frightened, Tsukasa threw up into the toilet and began crying as another realization came to mind, furthering her disgust. She now saw that she was an enabler and because she was keeping Kagami a secret from everybody, she was now doing these dirty things in their home. Tsukasa continued to cry as she rocked back and forth while hugging herself tightly on the floor, praying the images that continued to replay in her mind of her sister performing fellatio on a stranger would magically vanish.
One hour later, Miki and Inori returned from the store with their supplies while Tadao was still out on his errands. Miki came home to a quiet house and an unusual surprise. She found Tsukasa asleep in her bed and seemed to be rather upset about something, even in her slumber. She felt her forehead to find that she wasn't running a fever so she assumed that Tsukasa simply felt fatigued. It wouldn't have been the first time since everyone knew how much of a heavy sleeper Tsukasa was so Miki decided to let her sleep.
She decided to keep unloading the dryer of the fresh clothes and fold them as Inori replaced the missing light bulbs. It made the Hiiragi housewife more depressed as she folded all of Kagami's clothes but she still knew that the twin-tailed girl was still her daughter and she still acknowledged the fact that she loved her. She suddenly remembered all the times she would pull all of Kagami's baby clothes out of the dryer and dress both her and Tsukasa in adorable matching outfits, which were always a hit as Christmas cards. She remembered one in particular where Tsukasa was a small reindeer with a painted red nose and Kagami was dressed as Santa Claus.
Miki carried the laundry basket upstairs and eyed Kagami's closed door. It was a simple routine as far as she was concerned. She was just going to deliver laundry to Kagami's room and leave and she expected the errand to be mundane and borderline scripted with no twists or turns. The very idea of another person sitting inside Kagami's empty bedroom didn't cross Miki's mind when she grabbed the doorknob, turned it, and pushed the door open.
The Hiiragi housewife felt so many emotions penetrate her at once at what she walked into that her only reaction was to freeze. She felt everything from anger, terror, shock, anguish, and defeat altogether. Kagami Hiiragi sat before her own mother on her bed with a tourniquet wrapped around her other arm free of any collapsed veins and a syringe with a needle dug into a fresh vein. The twin-tailed girl still didn't notice her mother's intrusion as she held the syringe's body and she pushed down on the plunger, sending yet another round of heroin into her body.
The laundry basket slipped from Miki's grip and it crashed on the floor, finally grabbing Kagami's attention and she looked at her mother. The two women stared. That was the only thing they could do. This was their first meeting in more than a week and it had to start like this; with a syringe used for drugs buried into Kagami's vein and her mother forced to bear witness to the act. Silence fell between them. It was long and unbearable, though their facial expressions told two completely different stories.
Despite the fact that she was high, Kagami still knew that she was caught and there was no logical response that would come close to justifying her actions. Her face showed a look of panic and her eyes bounced erratically in her head, desperately looking for any form of escape from this predicament.
Miki on the other hand was a polar opposite of her daughter. While Kagami looked for an excuse, Miki looked for an inner strength not to cry. It was a losing effort. Miki's first response was to start trembling as her face meshed into a frightening expression of horror while the tears mounted in her eyes. She lifted her hands to her face and as she started to vocalize her rising devastation in grunts, she finally let it all out. She grabbed her head and screamed like a siren as her eyes turned into two geysers. Her howl of dismay shattered the delicate harmony of the Hiiragi household and it sent her oldest daughter running up the stairs as she thought something was happening to her mother.
Inori stormed into Kagami's room and saw her younger sister quickly stand, still with a used needle bouncing in her vein and the tourniquet constricting her arm. Kagami still tried to search for a way out of her quandary and she quickly ripped the needle out of her arm and threw it aside.
"Kagami! What the hell are you doing?!" Inori shrieked as Miki also found her voice again.
"Oh god Kagami, why?! Why?! Why are you doing this to yourself?! Stop this! Stop all of this right now! Look at you! You need help!" Miki screamed and also awoke Tsukasa in the process.
The youngest Hiiragi girl came running into Kagami's room with another terrified look of what was happening. "What's going on?!"
As soon as Tsukasa showed her face and locked eyes with Kagami, a nuclear explosion of pure hatred and rage detonated within the twin-tailed girl. Kagami felt betrayed and she screamed loudly as the rage from the drugs also heated Kagami's brain and the she charged forward. She blew past Inori and Miki and collided with Tsukasa, throwing the two twins into the hallway and Kagami quickly gained the upper hand.
"You bitch you promised me goddamn you!" Kagami screamed with blood-shot eyes and grabbed Tsukasa's hair as she screamed and thrashed in terror. Kagami lifted Tsukasa's head and slammed it as hard as she could against the hardwood floor and was able to do it a second time until Inori tackled Kagami.
The two sisters rolled over each other as the screaming and profanities echoed in the house and they reached the stairs. Not knowing their location relative to the stairs, the two sisters rolled down the stairs as Inori struggled to keep the screaming and flailing Kagami under control. When they finally landed at the bottom of the staircase, Inori got her hand too close to Kagami's mouth and the crazed twin-tailed girl opened her mouth and quickly latched onto her sister's hand, activating her muscles to dig her teeth into Inori's flesh.
Inori screamed in agonizing pain as Kagami tasted her blood until she released Inori's hand, who forgot about Kagami as she held her bleeding hand and continued vocalizing her suffering. Kagami still had an agenda in the midst of her furious cyclone of a psychotic mind as she arrived at another closet and ripped it open. She found several outfits hanging up and they were zipped inside garment bags. Kagami found the one with her name written on it, snatched it, and began to run to another bathroom as she heard her mother tear down the stairs.
Kagami locked herself in the home's second bathroom and quickly retreated to the window, opened it, and dropped the outfit in the garment bag out and was about to make her escape. Before she went however, she needed one more hit. Kagami grabbed the toilet lid and lifted it up. When she flipped it over, she drooled over the several bags of cocaine that were hidden inside and held in place by duct tape. The Hiiragi family didn't know it, but after Kagami finished her last client, she hid the rest of her drug stash in various spots around the house while Tsukasa slept. She planned on keeping them as her "rainy day" stash and to be used periodically, but her plans had obviously changed.
The disgruntled twin-tailed girl took her razor blade also hidden with the cocaine and began to chop the white powder on the tile floor and was able to divide them into even lines and she put her face to the floor. She inhaled the first white line and her adrenaline continued to burn like fire and as she moved her nose to the next one, Miki was once again able to pick the lock and pushed the door open. As if finding Kagami with a syringe dug into her arm wasn't bad enough, now Miki stood above a raging Kagami with her face nestled against a dirty floor covered with drugs.
"You're snorting cocaine off a floor now?!" Miki cried and deepened her anger. "Out! I want you out of my house! If you're going to do these things, I'm never going to let you do them in my house! Get the fuck out of here now!"
Kagami quickly scrambled to her feet and Miki still couldn't see how numbed her daughter was when she charged forward again and tackled her. The twin-tailed girl saw her mother as another demonic voice telling her things she didn't want to hear and there was only one thing Kagami could do to silence it. Kill it. With this intention in mind, Kagami pinned her mother to the floor and wrapped her hands around her neck and squeezed with all her might.
Miki was no match against Kagami's drug-induced strength as the twin-tailed girl squeezed tighter and tighter around her mother's neck. The crying Tsukasa quickly rounded the corner and screamed loudly when she saw her mother struggling for air and beginning to turn blue underneath Kagami's gritting teeth inside the face of the animal that was her big sister. Tsukasa dashed over to Kagami and tried to save her mother's life in the midst of her meltdown. She tried pulling at her sister's arms but her emotions were weakening her strength and Tsukasa knew it. She fell to her knees next to Kagami and continued to scream and cry while helplessly watching the life in her mother's eyes fade away as Miki continued to struggle and gag and her flailing began to slow as death approached.
"Sis please stop! Don't kill our mommy! Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop! I love her! Don't do it I beg you!" Tsukasa screamed while still struggling in vain to pry her big sister off her mother. Tsukasa felt completely helpless as all she could do was cry as she was forced to watch her hero and idol in Kagami slowly kill her mother.
"I didn't kill Matsuri! I didn't kill Matsuri!" Kagami shrieked so loudly and quickly it was barely audible. "Stop saying those fucking things! I didn't murder Matsuri or Kusakabe! Stop torturing me you fucking shits!"
As Miki's eyes began to roll into the back of her head for Tsukasa to see and cry over, Inori rushed in and with all her might, drove a frying pan downward and it made razor contact with Kagami's head. The attack made the twin-tailed girl lose control of her motor skills and she released her mother and fell to the floor while twitching. Miki started coughing loudly to pump more air into her lungs and Tsukasa wasted no time in hugging her mother while still crying over what had just transpired.
Inori stood above her twitching sister breathing hard while gripping the frying pan, ironically, in the hand Kagami bit into. She had a look that was just as animalistic as Kagami while she stared down at her sister's vibrating body on the floor. Never in her entire life had she been this angry and scared at the same time, especially of one of her own family members. However, the damage had been done and Inori knew that her tattered family needed her and she dropped the frying pan and bent down to her mother's side.
"Mom, mom? Are you okay? Can you stand?" Inori whispered softly as Miki continued to breathe deeply and the gut-wrenching bruises began to form around her neck like a scarf.
Miki struggled to her feet but was assisted by her youngest and oldest daughters and they disregarded Kagami, even when her motor skills began to return and the twin-tailed girl was still mad as hell. They sat her down at the kitchen as Tsukasa fetched water for her mother and Inori was about to call for an ambulance.
"Kagami…why…?" Miki asked why her daughter attacked her so viciously and nearly fatally.
"Mom…sis was with…some guy in her room today, too." Tsukasa wept as her shaking hands brought the water to her mother.
"What?" Inori asked as Miki also looked up.
Tsukasa nodded as she began to cry again. "I'm sorry…but I've been lying! I've been keeping Kagami a secret! She's been upstairs doing drugs this whole time and doing…these other things…"
"I was sucking his fucking cock you prudish little cunt!" Kagami's voice yelled behind them.
The three petrified women quickly turned and saw Kagami with a bleeding nose from the cocaine standing before them. Her teeth were showing as the red liquid seeped from her nostrils and she trembled angrily. They feared that at any second, she would resume her attack as the drugs kept their firm grip on her.
"That's right! I'm not only a junkie bitch, I'm also a filthy whore who sucks and fucks for cash to keep the drugs coming!" Kagami screamed at them. "You want me gone?! I'm the fuck out of here! I hate you Tsukasa! I fucking hate you!"
The front door suddenly began turning and it only meant one thing. Tadao was finally home and Kagami formed a psychotic smile as the blood rushed down her face and she turned towards the door and began charging.
"Dad watch out!" Inori screamed as fast as she could.
Tadao opened the door and the last thing he saw was the top of Kagami's head collide with his face. Kagami's headbutt struck her father and immediately knocked him unconscious and Kagami was out of the house. Still high and still out of her mind, Kagami quickly dashed over to the bathroom window and grabbed the garment bag protecting her outfit and began to run wildly down the street back to the only home she had left.
As Miki, Inori, and Tsukasa quickly gathered around Tadao, Tsukasa looked up just in time to see her sister disappear down the street. Tsukasa's entire being was shattered and all she could do about it was scream again and cry in her post-traumatic fear.