Disclaimer: It should be blatantly obvious that I still don't own the Inuyasha characters.
The great and wonderful Rumiko Takahashi does though. -Bows-
I do own the characters I create myself though. Therefore you can't have them.
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A.N. Well atleast I got one review for the last chapter. xD Anyways. Thanks for the name suggestions. I might use one of those, or if I can think of one before her and Sesshomaru are in a nother chapter I'll use that. But ya know. More suggestions are always welcome and much loved. But yeah um. Read the chapter and review.
"NO!" Kagome cried out as she stumbled away from her pursuer. "I will never come back to you! Not after what you tried to do to my daughter! How can you be so cruel?"
She fell once more, but no longer had the strength to get up. Painfully she turned onto her back. Looking into the cold eyes of him, she growled. "What happened to you? In high school you were so sweet. So kind. So caring and loving. You were always helping me when I really needed it. So what happened Hojo? What turned you into such a cruel bastard?"
"I realized that nice guys always finished last," Hojo replied smirking. "Besides. This way is better for us. You'll be happy Kagome. You'll see what I mean. Now come back inside." He held out hand to help her up.
"No, Hojo! It's not better. You would waste a life just for your own gains. What can you really get out of this? Out of making me an unhappy person? What you're doing would ruin me!"
-Flash forward in time-
"Kagome what the hell are you doing?" Hojo demanded as he entered the room.
Kagome was kneeling on the floor, a small dagger against her wrist. "I can't live like this anymore Hojo. Everything you've done. Everything you're doing. It's tearing me up inside. I can't take it anymore!"
As she started to draw the blade against her wrist, Hojo lunged forward and pulled her hand away.
"Think of your son," he growled into your ear.
"And what you've done to him?" she spat pushing him away. "No son of mine would ever want to be like you. As far as I know, I have no son. I only have a daughter whom you have murdered. Her blood is all over your hands. What you've done Hojo, can never be forgiven. No god would ever forgive you."
"Women and their emotions. It sickens me. Get over it Kagome. She has made our lives better and that is all that matters now."
"Better?" she snarled. She snorted and shook her head. "No Hojo. It has not made it better. If anything my life as well as yours is in ruins now. Nothing has been the same between us since that day. You know that as well as I. You've fucked everything up, do you realize that? You've not only fucked my life, but you've fucked yours up so bad, you can never be the man I loved again. For that man is apparently dead gone. I should have left you a long time ago. I regret not doing so sooner."
"You're not leaving," Hojo said as he approached her. "You're in this as deep as I am."
"Oh no. No I am most certainly not. I took no part in your plans. All I did was try to love you. I gave you a daughter, whom you turned on and murdered. You've turned my son to your will, manipulated him. Ruined his life. But it's over now, Hojo. You and I, we can never be anymore. That old flame has finally burned out. There is nothing to revive it now. Nothing can change what you've done to me." Kagome brushed past him and stopped at the door. "Goodbye Hojo." She left the room then to pack her things.
-Flash forward in time-
Kagome felt herself falling. Falling deep into a life she didn't understand anymore. She had nothing left to her anymore. She was alone on the world. Alone in her pain. Her misery. She couldn't bare to go to her mother. Not now. Nothing was the same. She was a broken woman. She had no reason to live anymore. Her daughter was gone. Her son had become a cruel heartless man like his father. But it wasn't because of her like the both said. It was because of Hojo and his ambitions. He just couldn't understand what it meant to lose a child like that. He was a sexist bastard now, and he always would be. Nothing would ever change that, and Kagome knew he would burn in hell for his sins.
But now her life was going nowhere. Pain racked her thin, frail body every single day. She found it harder and harder to survive as she worked for what little food she could get. But she still had nothing. Hojo had burned her diaries and completely destroyed her guitar before she'd had a chance to take them from her room. So what could she do now? Nothing. All she had ahead of her was death. A lonely death filled with pain. No one would really know she was ever dead... she die alone somewhere outside the city. She'd hardly be missed anyways.
"Maybe I should just do it now," she said each and every day. That day she did leave the city. Her feet blistered and swollen by the time she was far enough away. She sat down upon a large flat boulder and pulled a small knife from her pocket. She absently ran her finger over the edge of the blade.
"To end it now would end my suffering. I can't go on like this," she said aloud to no one. "I will not be missed. No one will ever know I've done this to myself. Not unless they find my body or the knife." She pressed the edge of the small blade down against her wrist, and started to cut in deep into the vein there.
"Momma wake up!" said a small voice beside Kagome's bed. "Momma please wake up," she begged and moved to lay next to her mother.
Slowly Kagome's eyes opened, staring at the ceiling. She lay there silently for awhile before she took in a huge gasp of air. She sat up quickly and hugged Amiriya to her. She didn't notice Inuyasha standing in the doorway, her eyes were closed.
"Momma was it the nightmare again?" the child asked.
Kagome nodded. She hated admitting it, but Amiriya had experienced the occurrence of this nightmare several times. Kagome never told her what it was, and she didn't want to know. She just knew that she was the only one who could wake her from it. Others had tried and failed.
"Kagome?" Inuyasha said after awhile.
Kagome suddenly looked up at Inuyasha. "What... oh."
"Are you alright?"
Kagome sighed softly as if to say no, she was not.
"Want to talk about it?"
"Not really, but I can't keep it all bottled up inside anymore."
"Amiriya why don't you go wake up the boys," Inuyasha suggested.
"Ok," she replied and ran out of the room, making sure to close the door behind her.
"So, what was it about?" he asked sitting down next to her.
Kagome sighed softly and told him about her nightmare. She'd been having that same nightmare since the day she was officially divorced from Hojo. By the time she was done telling him what it was about, she'd lowered her head and eyes tears were streaming down her face.
"How often does this occur?" Inuyasha asked.
"A few times every week. And not once has anyone ever been able to wake me from it except my daughter. I just don't understand why it even started," she said chokingly through her sobs.
"Well, we'll find a way to help you, Kagome. I promise." Inuyasha then leaned sideways and wrapped an arm around her. He pulled her towards him and hugged her. "It'll be alright Kagome." He drew back and rose to his feet. "This Saturday you're coming out with us."
"But who will watch the kids?"
"I can take them to my mother for the night. She loves the boys and I'm sure she'll love Amiriya as well," he replied smiling.
"Alright," she replied. "But where are we going?"
"You'll see when we get there. I'll ask Sango to lend you some of her clothes."
"Alright."
"Now come on. Let's make the kids some breakfast." He reached out his hand and pulled her to her feet. He smiled and led her from the room down the hallway and to the kitchen.
A.N. Well there's the 7th chapter. Nice and long. o-O Sorta. xD Please review. n-n I also still need more name suggestions.
