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Chapter 18: Enough
A Week Earlier...
"We think he's up to something." Sango said petting her head. "We think he's trying to do something. He escaped so things will be harder on all of us now but if those pictures he took are going to get us out of here then the extra trouble is worth it."
"He'll come back." Miroku promised her. "He wouldn't abandon us."
Kagome nodded. She needed to believe that. She had to have something to hold onto.
"I'll stay with you tonight." Sango promised. "Ayame can you make up my bed?"
Ayame nodded. "I will."
"I'll stay with you." she said to Kagome again.
Kagome's lip trembled and threw her arms around her, needing any comfort she could get.
Kagome woke up the next day her entire body aching in time with her heartbeat. She looked across the space of her tiny room but she didn't see that shiny silver head, just a head of black hair.
Yesterday came back to her in a rush and she bit he lip. She was more alert today, she felt like she could actually control her thoughts and keep from going insane.
Slowly, wincing as she did, she sat up.
The springs on her cot alerted Sango that she was moving and the other girl opened her eyes. "Hey. Are you alright?"
Kagome nodded and flinched at the fresh wave of pain that brought her.
"How do you feel?" Sango walked over to her in the darkness.
"Better." Kagome said as she sat next to her. "Though I was kinda hoping it was just a nightmare."
Sango nodded in understanding. "It's going to get worse." she said. "Now that Inuyasha's gone, it will get a lot worse."
"It always gets worse before it gets better." Kagome said calmly.
That morning at breakfast, no one spoke. Not because they had nothing to talk about but because there were more guards than usual. They walked around with billy-clubs and every time some one spoke they got hit with it. The arm, the back, the neck, the head, whatever was closest to the guard at that moment.
GD and Helga were standing next to the door, their arms crossed staring into the room with smug smiles on their faces.
It was almost like Inuyasha hadn't killed the guard, no one seemed to really care that he was gone. Neither the students nor the guards cared that he was killed. However Inuyasha's presence was missed.
The guards made a point to tell them that because Inuyasha escaped they would be punished in his place.
No one slept during class that day, the guards hit them with their clubs when they did, and if you didn't turn in your assignment it was the cages for you.
Kagome had been sure Hell couldn't get any worse. She was wrong.
Instead of relaxing on the grounds or in the dorms after class, they were all put to work. Cleaning, making gravel; menial tasks they normally reserved for Saturday. Showers were cut down to three minutes and, if it were possible, the quality of their food got even worse. It got the point where even Miroku couldn't stomach it.
It only took five days for Kagome to get fed up with it.
"I can't take this anymore, Sango." she said wiping her sweaty brow. They were breaking up rocks for gravel. Kagome was dizzy all the time from blood loss because her wounds didn't have a chance to heal. Some of them were turning suspicious colors and Kagome knew they were infected. They all burned and some of them ached with a sickening kind of pain. Breaking the rocks was only making it worse and her bandages were stained red.
"We have to be patient. Inuyasha is doing what he can." Sango said lifting her pick and bringing it down on a particularly stubborn rock.
"Sango, none of us have eaten in weeks. Our water isn't drinkable, I'm about to pass out from blood loss and I know some of these bites are infected. None of us can stay here any longer. Three people have passed out, one of them was a demon." Kagome said.
"She's right." Kouga said from behind her. "I can't take this anymore."
Ayame was behind him, panting, her tail limp from exhaustion.
"We don't have a choice." Sango said. "We have to trust in Inuyasha."
"That's all well and good, Sango." Miroku said as he struggled to lift his pick-ax. They had been at this for hours without rest and his muscles were giving up on him. "But we don't know how long it will take him. We have to do something."
"Do what?"
All five of them turned at the sound of GD's voice. He was standing behind them, a smug look on his face. "Now, I know you children aren't doing anything...stupid. Are you?"
"Why don't you mind your own business." Ayame growled weakly.
"Now, that's not very nice." he said his eyes landing on her. "A day in the cages should fix that attitude."
Immediately, three gaurds converged on her.
"Let her go!" Kouga yelled kicking one.
"Kouga! Don't!" Ayame yelled struggling against the other two.
Helga sighed and reached in her pocket for her ammonia balls.
"No!" Sango ran forward and tackled her, sending the balls flying. They landed and exploded next to GD making the guards cough and pass out.
Somehow, he made it out of the noxious gas and into clean air before he joined them.
"Sango!" Miroku cried as Helga pulled her hair, making her scream.
"You little bitch!" Helga growled in her man voice.
Kagome bent down and grabbed a rock.
"Hey!" She yelled.
Helga looked up and Kagome threw the rock and it landed right between her eyes.
She hollered and dropped Sango who rolled away just as Kouga threw the last guard off of Ayame.
Kagome looked around.
Their little fight had triggered other little battles to break out.
"Get to the dorm!" Kagome yelled as Miroku helped Sango to her feet. "We'll barricade ourselves inside! Go!"
Kouga and Ayame ran off with Miroku and Sango a step behind them.
The other students who heard her cry began following them. Those who hadn't heard her just followed without knowing why, trusting in each other.
Kagome was part of the crowd, her wounds aching as she ran through the doors.
"Get inside! Quickly!" Kagome yelled as the last few stragglers, humans mostly, ran through the door.
"Close them! Get stuff to block them! The windows, too!" Kagome said.
As if she were their leader, everyone began closing off all the entrances. The doors were blocked with cots and heavy wood beams from the fourth floor. Windows were nailed shut from wood pulled from unused rooms and nails from the fourth floor.
Before Kagome really knew how it had happened, the students found themselves barricaded inside, making a stand against the demons who had kept them prisoner for so many years.
