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Chapter 12: Punishment
"Kagome?" Ayame said looking at her.
"Yeah?" she asked pushing her 'eggs' around her tray. She was busy thinking up the next deed in her annoy-the-guards scheme.
Inuyasha and Kouga were once again playing Battle of the Eggs and shooting the lumpy yellow things at each other.
"Is that...uh...are those...umm..." Her and Sango were both staring at her, their heads tilted to the side.
"What?" Kagome asked finally breaking out of her thoughts.
"Kagome, that's a uh..." Sango tried this time. She took a deep breath and said quickly, "Is that a hickey?"
"What?" Kagome said her hand jumping to her neck. A memory of Inuyasha sucking on the sensitive skin there flashed into her mind and she blushed.
Ayame saw it and gasped. "Oh, kami, that is a hickey! Where did you get a hickey?"
Across the table, Inuyasha smirked and dodged an egg.
Kagome picked up her metal spoon and looked at her reflection in the back.
There it was, plain as day, right above her collar bone.
She gasped at the size of it as her fingers traced it. "I have a hickey." she said in disbelief.
"You didn't know?" Ayame laughed as Sango giggled into her hand.
Kagome slammed her spoon down and glared at Inuyasha. "You gave me a hickey!" she accused him in a whisper that wasn't necessary because everyone at their table heard it.
"Inuyasha?" Sango's jaw dropped. As far as she knew, Inuyasha hadn't ever been interested in anyone.
Inuyasha smirked. "Looks good on you."
Ayame shook her head in disbelief. "I knew you smelled like him more than usual but I figured it was just because you slept in your room last night for the first time in weeks."
"Yes, but did she actually 'sleep'?" Miroku asked wiggling his eyebrows.
Inuyasha smacked him upside the back of his head. "Get those thoughts out of your head. We didn't go that far."
Kagome blushed and hid her face. "Inuyasha!"
"What?" he asked, smirked. "I didn't hear any complaints last night."
Kouga wolf whistled and Kagome's face got, if it were possible, redder. "Inuyasha!"
"That's what I heard last night." he smirked and she cried out in embarrassment.
"Don't worry, Kagome." Sango giggled. "You're not the first to do that kind of thing here."
"We didn't do anything!" Kagome moaned. If her face got any hotter it was going to explode.
"Really?" Inuyasha asked, teasing her. "Because I seem to remember someones legs wrapped around me like she planned to never let go."
"Shut up!" Kagome begged her face resembling that of a tomato.
"And someones lips glued to mine and moving of their own free will."
"I'm going to kill you." Kagome glared at him through her fingers while her friends laughed.
"Don't worry, Kagome." Miroku snicked. "You're not the first, as my dear Sango said."
"Higurashi!"
The entire cafeteria froze as GD called out her name from the doors of the large room.
"Higurashi!" he repeated, a smirk of victory on his face.
"What did you do now?" Inuyasha asked.
"I haven't done anything yet." Kagome said honestly.
"Higurashi!" GD snapped.
Kagome stood up and walked across the completely silent cafeteria. She could barely hear her own footsteps over the sound of her heartbeat. She felt everyone's eyes on her and when Inuyasha made to stand up and follow her Kouga stopped him with a hand on his shoulder. He shook his head at his friend and they watched Kagome navigate the tables and students.
She stopped in front of GD who stood proudly, smugness radiating in every line on his face with his hands behind his back.
"You're in trouble now, Higurashi." he smirked.
"I haven't done anything yet." Kaqome said immediately, her voice and expression dark.
"Oh, really? Then this didn't happen last night?" From behind his back he pulled a still frame picture from a security camera.
On it was Kagome, looking nearly directly at the camera and in front of her was Inuyasha whose face couldn't be seen or recognized because he was facing forward and the night hid his silver hair. Kagome took the photo in disbelief.
"We have another one of you jumping the fence with this little friend of yours. Who is it?" GD asked as Kagome stared at her own pixilated face.
"What?" Kagome asked a second later as his words registered with her brain.
"Who else is in that photo Higurashi. Whoever it is was smarter than you because they never looked at the camera. Who is it?" GD's eyes narrowed at her.
Stiffly, she handed the picture back to him and said in a very formal voice, "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Are you trying to deny photographic evidence?" He growled.
"I'm not denying anything. I don't know him thought." Kagome said looking him directly in the eye. She knew he wouldn't believe her but she wouldn't sell Inuyasha out. She would never do what her 'friends' did to her.
GD smirked. "I thought you might say that."
Kagome didn't like the happy look on his face and she really didn't like it when two more guards came in and grabbed her by her arms.
"What are you doing?" she growled as she struggled in their iron like grasp.
"Maybe a stint in solitary will jog your memory." GD said quietly.
Though he barely whispered it, a roar of outrage from the cafeteria followed his words.
Kagome struggled harder when she found, to her own surprise, that despite what she had been doing she really didn't want to find out just what awaited her in solitary.
As she was dragged away, she heard the beginnings of a riot start out in the cafeteria. However there were guards already waiting outside, it seemed this was not an unexpected reaction.
She could hear GD's laughter echoing in the halls as they took her to the halls where the cells were, then further beyond them. The air become more stale, colder, damper.
Kagome felt her heart racing in her chest as the cells stopped and they came to another door, this one metal, thick, without a window.
The door opened by an electronic signal from a place Kagome couldn't see.
Kagome struggled harder as they dragged her inside. This hall was smaller, impossibly colder, and she heard the unmistakable squeak of rats. The walls were somehow slimy, like they were in the belly of an enormous beast.
They took her to another windowless, thick steel door, and it too opened without their assistance.
"No! No!" Kagome struggled but they through her into the dark, windowless room and the door shut faster than she would have thought possible, closing her in the inky blackness of a place the people of Hell whispered about with fear in their voices.
