Monster

Chapter two .. Wake up

Disclaimer I don't own the majority of the characters. The story was inspired by Masters of Horror.

'Now what?' Kagome thought as she lay on her bed, weighed down by Hojo's body. Her anger had dissipated with her husband's pulse. Usually when his body held her down she was paralyzed in fear, humiliation, and pain. Now she didn't know how to feel. She expected him to turn over and choke her like he used to do when she showed signs of being something more then furniture he could pump. Before she had learned to submit to survive. He didn't like to be reminded that she was human and thus had free will. He always wanted to be in control no matter what.

It was getting hard for her to breath.

Kagome shimmied out from underneath the body not bothering to remove the belt from his neck, and slid onto the carpeted floor of her bed room. She began to sob, Kagome didn't know how long she cried but when she stopped she could see through the sheer curtain it was dark out.. Kagome fell forward onto her hands and knees, she couldn't even stand up anymore, she was so drained. That's when she saw it. On the cream colored carpeting on their bedroom floor was a rust colored stain, a blood stain. Her blood. From the first time Hojo nearly killed her and she let him. Kagome felt disgust at herself. She could have protected herself at any time, but she didn't until now. Why? Perhaps she was afraid of the police, Hojo had a lot of friends on the force. At least that's the impression she was given. whether or not it was true she didn' know and had no intention of finding out.

Kagome shakily got to her feet and. took a deep breath. Her suitcase had been tipped during the struggle so she righted it. refilled and zipped it. Then she left the house, grabbing her purse and a cellphone she had hidden on the way out. She threw her suitcase into the back of Hojo's car, popped the trunk, and returned to the house. There she got one of the rugs from the living room that had been covering still more evidence of the past, and brought into the bed room. There, she lay it next to Hojo and rolled him onto it. She didn't want to go to prison for murder and she knew Hojo's friends would make sure she did. Kagome took a deep breath and drug the body out of the house with no small amount of difficulty.

Eventually. she made it to the car. She looked around then opened the trunk all the way. She cocked her head at what she found. A knife, rope, duct-tape, and some other stuff. Not thinking anything of it , she tossed them. Then, Kagome cracked her knuckles and heaved Hojo's corpse up using her shoulders as leverage, remembering how she used to pick up her backpack, he was about the same size. She then stuffed him in the trunk and covered him with the rug, climbed into the car and sped off.

Hours later, Kagome found herself lost in the back woods. Exhousted from everything Kagome didn't realize she had begun to doze off untill a deer ran in front of her car. Kagome swore as she swerved to miss it. The last thing Kagome remebered was seeing a pinetree advancing on her just before she hit it.

"I don't see how you can eat in a place like this." Kagome stated as she watched InuYasha practically inhale his second cup of instant ramen. Her delicate features twisted in disgust. She turned away from the gluttonous hanyou but the sight that surrounded her was much worse. They were in the middle of a battled field surrounded by the dead men who were being eaten. The raucous call of carrion crows and the acrid, stomach turning smell of death filled the air.

"Ngg." Kagome groaned as she slowly opened her eyes. Her head was killing her and she was having a craving for venison. "stupid deer." The smell didn't help much neither did the cold hard wood she was leaning against. She tried to move, when she did she found herself chained to the wall.

"What the hell?" She mumbled as she waited for her eyes to adjust, the sunlight streaming though the slats near the cieling hurt her eyes.

"Are you ok?" Whispered a woman's voice from her right.

Kagome looked and saw a young woman, also tied up, kneeling next to her. What may have been blonde hair, green eyes, tiny build, She looked familiar. Then it hit her.

"Connie?" Kagome asked, testing her guess.

The woman blinked her big green eyes at her. Obviously stunned.

"How do you know my name?" She asked quietly.

Kagome adjusted her weight before answering her.

"You've been all over the news since disappearing a week ago."

"A week?" Connie asked, stunned. "It feels like so much longer." She added, in a daze, her head droped back onto the post behind her.

Connie went quiet after that. Kagome on the other hand, finally facing a situation she was used to, looked around the best she could in what little light they had. What she found was disturbing.

All around them were bodies. All of them women, all of them with holes were their eyes used to be, hanging from the ceiling. All of them except one. From her place next to the wooden steps, Kagome could see an old man. tied to a post nearby as if he was a dog. He was curled up in the fetal position, obviously asleep.

"Well, damn. " Kagome cursed then turned her attention back to Connie.

"Hey?" She whispered to the young woman who'd curled up into a shivering ball.

Connie looked at Kagome over her dirty knees. Kagome took that as a sign to continue. "What can you tell me about who's keeping us here."

Connie sniffed and rubbed her eyes. "He's big." She stated. "Over six feet tall I think, and he's bald. He has a friend, called Hojo, I think. He's the one that r-r-hurts me." Connie stuttered, her whole body shook when she remembered my husband.

'Oh my.' Kagome thought. 'Guess it was a good thing he attacked me today.'Kagome thought, then she nodded her head toward the sleeping man. "And him?" She asked.

Connie shook her head. "He's Rob. He's not all there." She said and pointed to her head. 'So I got a traumatized woman and a crazy guy to work with.' Kagome thought as she adjusted her weight.

"How about others, are there others they've kept alive?" Kagome asked. It was getting dark outside. Connie shook her head, The old man stirred, the trap door above them opened. Connie's large eyes practically bugged out when a huge boot appeared on the second step from the top. The wood staircase strained under the weight of the man ans he stalked down the stairs.

"It's him!" Connie whispred to Kagome loudly. Her voice was shakey and her whole body was trembling. "He's come to kill me!"