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Sorry about the lack of updates guys! My internet got cut off and i just got it back! Thanks for your patience and here's your chapter! I'll work on the others here soon.
Chapter 6: Rasberries
The night alone in the cage was cold and lonely. Halfway through the night, some guards came through carrying a thrashing demon between them who was howling at the top of his lungs. He didn't stop once through the night and Kagome didn't sleep a wink.
Though even if it had been quiet she still wouldn't have been able to sleep.
The concrete around her was sucking the warmth from her body and there was no way possible to get comfortable. She was crushed between bars and wall in a position she knew would hurt when she got out of. Her stomach was growling bitterly, hungry and needing food to make energy to keep warm, she knew because after a few hours she began shivering.
She wouldn't die, no. That would bring too many questions to Hinazuka's door, but tortured she would be. And who could she tell? Her mail would be read, her phone calls monitored, and she was trapped her until she graduated.
Kagome was dozing when someone finally came down the dank, musty, and ice cold hallway. "Wake up kids! Time for school!"
She was shivering when a guard she didn't know came up to her cell and opened the door. Unfortunately, so long in such a small, cramped space made her muscles not ready to be moved, especially not so suddenly. She fell to the floor in a heap, her jaws chattering and her fingers clenched into fists in an attempt to keep them warm.
"Let's go." The guard reached down and pulled her unceremoniously to her feet. Her lead her into the short hallway, up the staircase which was hard on her cramped and stiff muscles, and into the school building where the light from the morning burned her eyes.
Without giving her any options, they took her into the auditorium and pushed her into a seat.
"Class will be starting soon." he sneered. "So just stay there."
He left her alone and Kagome spent her time trying to warm herself. At least the auditorium was warmer than the cages. She blew on her fingers so she culd pry them apart but her shivering made the breath halting and uneven and not very helpful.
Her belly was empty and wrapped around her backbone, crying its misery loud enough to echo in the empty auditorium.
"Kagome!"
Sango's voice filled the air followed by hurried footsteps. "Oh, God. There you are." Sango stopped beside her and looked at her pale face and bruised, sleepless eyes. "The Cages, huh?"
There was a soft grunt somewhere behind her but she didn't have the strength to look. However the source of the sound was revealed whe Inuyasha landed in the seat next to her, his expression one of concern. "I hate the Cages." he said simply.
He blew hard into his hands then rubbed them together furiously. "Let me see." he said and grabbed one of her hands and encased it in his.
Kagome whimpered from the feeling of his warmer hands on her ice cold ones. Sango repeated the actions on her other hand as Kouga and Ayame jumped from the back and landed in the seats in front of her.
"Told you it was the Cages." Ayame said and held up a napkin. "Here. It's not much and it's only cafeteria food but it's better than nothing." In the napkin was a very thin slice of 'real' sausage and a hard, flat blueberry muffin.
"What'd they get you for?" Kouga asked as Ayame broke up the muffin into bite size pieces.
"S-s-s-sleep-p-ping...and-d-d....ch-ch-cheat-t-ting." Kagome stammered out.
"Keh." Inuyasha scoffed and he rubbed her cold fingers between his own. "If that's all it took to get in the Cages they would be full every night. They did it because you're new."
"It's the new kid's curse." Miroku said from somewhere behind her.
Kagome knew exactly what it was. They were out to break her. To force her to have the same hopeless acceptence in her eyes that the others had. She knew it and she knew she couldn't stop it. A body could only take so much punishment before the pain broke her so she only had a limited amount of time to get out or get even.
Or be a broken spirit like the others.
To her, the only one who didn't seem completely controled and destroyed was Inuyasha. Most of the time he just looked bored. As if being here was a choice he made because he had nothing better to do.
"Feeling any better?" Inuyasha asked rubbing her arms.
"Yeah." she said softly.
"So...What are we learning today?" she asked trying to banish the worried look on her new friends faces.
"Science. Then group. Group therapy." Miroku said watching her carefully.
"I'm fine." Kagome assured him. "Really. It looks worse than it is. See...Stutterings already gone."
"Yeah, but still..." Inuyasha shook his head and smirked "I said you were a member of the gang and we have very strict rules."
"Mess with one-" Sango smirked.
"-mess with all." Miroku winked at her.
Kagome blinked at them. "But you'll get in trouble too."
Inuyasha scoffed, "Keh. Like that's never happened before."
"But-"
"Hush." Inuyasha said leaning back. "I was getting bored anyway. It's about time someone stirred up something around here."
"So what are we doing, mutt?" Kouga asked a wicked gleam in his eyes.
"Yeah! What is it?" Ayame asked looking like a kid being promised a trip to the fair.
Inuyasha smirked proudly and said "Hmm..." as he pretended to think.
"...eight in the full valence electron shell." The teacher droned. It was another guy. "The atomic number is determined by the number of protons and nuetrons in the atom." He was wearing a tween suit and a mustard yellow tie. Kagome hadn't even been aware people still made tweed suits. "The atomic mass is the combonation...." Kagome cocked her head like a dog because while he talked his abnormally large adam's apple waved up and down like crazy. He was bald, old and wrinkly, and his neck jutted forward. In fact he reminded Kagome of a vulture....only lamer looking.
"What is it?" Kagome asked watching the adam's apple.
Miroku and Inuyasha snickered.
"He looks like he's about to poof into dust." she sontinued turning her head the other way.
"That's snotty old Proffeser Prissy-pants." Inuyasha said quietly.
"Prissy-pants? Isn't the other one Pissed-his-pants?"
"Something like that." Inuyasha said leaning back.
Kagome rolled her eyes and Inuyasha looked around. "Alright. Half the guards asleep. GD is hitting on Helga, gross. Spread out guys."
"I still think this is a bad idea." Kagome said as Miroku, Kouga, Ayame, and Sango quietly and very sneakily began to spread out amongst the other students away from each other.
"It'll be fun." Inuyasha promised her. "And besides. You wont get in trouble because you didn't do anything." He winked and just like that was gone, going to find his own seat.
Kaogme sighed and tried to pay attention to the vulture and not his wierd ass adam's apple.
"...electrons through the ionic bond. That bond is the more..."
"Bpppp!"
The students started laughing as someone blew a great big, wet rasberry.
"Who..? Now who did that?" the vulture asked looking into the crowd in the direction the sound had come from.
"Bpppppp!"
The students laughed louder and Kagome smiled as an even louder one came from the other side of the auditorium.
"Bpppp!"
"BPPPPP!"
"BPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!" A really loud and long one echoed in the room and Kagome didn't need to be told that it was Inuyasha who had blown it.
The sounds were getting drowned out by the laughing that was rolling through the room. Even Kagome giggled when the guards began checking for the ones doing it....unsuccessfully.
The bell rang and the guards were swamped by kids leaving their seats and in the confusion Inuyasha escorted Kagome out, both of them smiling and laughing wildly.
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