InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Mother's Love ❯ Chapter 2

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Title: Silent Hill: A Mothers Love  
Genre: Adventure/Drama/Horror
Pairing: None
Rating: M for Disturbing Violence and Language
Disclaimer: Me and my cousin do not own Inuyasha, Silent Hill  or any of the characters, so please don’t sue us. For we have no money.
Kagome sighed in frustration as she, Shippo, and Sesshomaru all stood in front of yet another broken off road. A road that never used to be broken off before. 'This is insane! I know that things here in Silent Hill have never been normal but at least they've always been consistent...until now that is.' Kagome grumbled in her head.
"What are we going to do now Kagome?" Shippo asked from atop her shoulder.
"Well...I suppose that we'll just have to take another -more dangerous- route to the hospital." Kagome said.
"Why do I not just carry you across? If it will get us there faster than I am more than willing to do it...Kagome." Sesshomaru said smugly.
"If we were anywhere else Sesshomaru-sama, I would take that chance but not here. Not in Silent Hill and besides, there's no telling if there really is anything across this chasm in the first place." Kagome reasoned with the Taiyoukai.
Sesshomaru thought about what Kagome just said and had to -if very reluctantly- admit that she had a valid point. "Very well. We should get going. Standing here doing nothing is driving patients." He said and turned away from them as Kagome began to step away from the dead end.
"I still don't understand how that man got here." Alessa said as she walked around a dirty old bed in the hospital's emergency room. "The only way someone could get in is if-. No. Even she's not that stupid...or is she?" Alessa asked herself out loud as the Butcher came walking in. "Oh, you're back. Did they get it?" she asked the large monstrosity.
The Butcher only made a low groaning noise in response.
"Excellent! Now mama and the other two should be on their way here." She said with a giggle. "And while they're occupied I'll go pay a visit to the others upstairs and then I'll go find that bitch that birthed me." Alessa said as Pyramid Head and The Butcher flanked her sides.
Kagome and her companions continued to along the ash and fog covered streets of Silent Hill. Kagome was probably the calmest one out of the three, of course being here before helped. Shippo couldn't stop shaking and glancing around wearily from her shoulder and Sesshomaru hadn't let his guard down even once. No surprise there really.
"Kagome, what's a hospital?" Shippo asked in an attempt to take his mind off of his current surroundings.
Kagome put a finger to her lips in thought before coming up with a decent explanation that both he and Sesshomaru could both understand without sounding like a total idiot. "Well...a hospital is a place where people go when they're not feeling well or they have been hurt. Lots of people work in hospitals, there are people who only take care of minor things like colds and cuts, then there are others who only take care of people with very serious problems and lots of other people work there doing other kinds of tasks. So you see Shippo, because medicine has gotten so much better over the centuries people tend to live twice as long in my time as they do in yours."
Shippo nodded with a satisfied look on his face.
"I would like to know something as well Kagome." It was the first thing that Sesshomaru had said since they left the disconnected rode.
"Yes. What is it Sesshomaru-sama?"
"I was simply wondering what the relationship is like between humans and demons in your time. Is it better or worse?" He asked.
Kagome wasn't sure how to respond to that but she answered as best she could. "In my time, most people believe that demons, magic and holy powers are simply things from legend. Not many people believe that these things ever really existed at all my lord. In fact, until I fell down the well, I was one of those people. But now I simply believe that -in my time- demons do exist and have just become very good at disguising themselves amongst humans."
Sesshomaru's body went stiff and he stopped in his tracks. "And just what reason could demons possibly have for them to hide from humans?"
"You see in my time humans have created weapons, poisons and illnesses that I believe could even kill a demon such as you Sesshomaru-sama." Kagome said, not sure how he would react to that.
"I hardly believe that. It's simply not possible for those things to kill one such as I." Sesshomaru stated and started walking forward again.
After a quick moment of silence, Sesshomaru spoke again. "How much further are we?"
"Just around this next corner on the left. That's provided that there isn't another broken road." Kagome replied softly.
When the three of them made it to the turn Sesshomaru made them stop and drew his Tokijin.
"What is it? Another Spitter?" Kagome asked and took a small step back with Shippo.
"No. Something else." Sesshomaru said to her.
A few seconds later a deliberate movement in the mist caught their attention, it was slowly coming towards them until it was close enough for them to see it clearly. It was a large dog, skinned, and drenched in blood.  It growled at them.
"Hell Hound." Was all Kagome said before it lunged at them.
There was a very soft sound of quick movement before a loud yelp was heard and Sesshomaru stood the victor. (Obviously)
"These creatures are as weak as they are pathetic. It is beyond me how they could be so feared." Sesshomaru stated as he swiped the blood from his sword and sheathed it all in one smooth motion.
"Maybe to you they're weak and pathetic Sesshomaru-sama, but to a weak human or weak demon they're strong." Kagome said to him not trying to sound peeved at all.
"I suppose that's true." Sesshomaru stated.
"Is this the hospital Kagome?" Shippo said pointing to the large building in front of them.  The building like any other building in Silent Hill was run down and covered in soot.  Besides it being bigger and seemingly more ominous, it seemed to be the same place Kagome had been to many times.  But a feeling and then seeing something shining stopped her.
When Kagome didn't answer Sesshomaru looked over at her and saw that she was staring at the hospital with wide unbelieving eyes. "What is it?  Is this not the place you described" he asked her.
"It is, but it's simply not possible." Kagome mumbled.
"What's not possible Kagome?" Shippo asked her as he leapt back onto her shoulder.
"There are three jewel shards in there. I can sense them moving around on the second floor." she said to them as she began to walk towards the hospital.
"I assume that either your daughter has somehow come to possess jewel shards or that Naraku involved in this somehow." Sesshomaru said and followed her.
"That's what I thinking. Alessa has no need for the jewel shards, she's much more powerful then Naraku is right now anyway. Naraku is just really good at using dirty tricks to his advantage....even in a place like this" Kagome explained as she walked over to a tree near the hospital and picked up a long metal item.
"What's that Kagome?" Shippo asked as he peeked over her shoulder.
"It's a more modern version of a gun. Like the kind that Renkotsu from the Band of Seven used." Kagome explained to him. A smile then broke out over her face as she checked the bullet cartridge and found that there were five bullets in it. "Good! There are some bullets still in here!"
After Sesshomaru made sure that there were no monsters near the entrance they proceeded onward.
"Umm... do you have any ideas where we are?" A young man with black and silver hair. He was wearing a mixture of brown fur and armor.
"I have no idea, this place is so strange. I mean there's no one here, no demons, no humans, not to mention the fact that I can't smell a damn thing in this place. And there doesn't seem to be any way out either." Said another young man wearing similar clothing, with his long black hair in a ponytail.
"Ugh, I'm not trying to question you Kouga, but there's someone or something moving over there." Said another young man with a spiky silver mohawk.
The three of them then looked down the darkened hallway and saw the shadowy outline of a long haired little girl.
"Hey! Who are you?!" Kouga yelled. But all he received was a giggle as the child fled down the hall and into another room.
"Ginta, Hakkaku, hurry up!" their leader yelled at them as he sped off down the hall after the figure.
"K-Kouga, don't leave us here!" Ginta called out as he and Hakkaku began to follow Kouga. When they reached the room where the figure had run into the three wolves stopped.
"Where did she go? And what was she doing in a place like this?" Kouga wondered aloud to himself as he walked into the room, Ginta and Hakkaku following close behind.
Suddenly there was a scuffling noise from behind another door in the room. The three walked over to the door and Kouga just stared blankly at it.  It was strange.
"How the hell are you supposed to open this thing?" He asked.
His two companions shrugged their shoulders.
"Oh well, I'll just do it the easy way." Kouga said right before ripping the door off its hinges.
The door lead in to a small closet and when the three of them looked inside they spotted a bundle of old urine and blood stained sheets in the far corner. And inside the sheets was something moving.
"M-Maybe we should go now Kouga." Ginta stuttered out in fright.
But before Kouga could answer him the sheets moved to reveal the body of a little girl.  She looked up at them.
The three of them gasped -not at the fact that the figure was a child- but that said child was covered in blood and soot.
While his comrades took a step back, Kouga stood his ground. "Who are you kid?  What are you doing in here?"
All the little girl did was smile and bring her index finger to her lips as if to tell them to be silent right before her entire body burst into flames.
"What the hell was that?" It was a statement not a question.
Kouga then bent down to inspect the sheets. all he found was a pile of ash ridden bloody clothing. "Idiots! It was just an illusion."
"Well, what do we do now Kouga?" Ginta asked.
"We find a way out of this creepy place is what we’re going to do." Kouga explained eagerly.
"But Kouga I thought you said there wasn't a...." Hakkaku began.
Suddenly they all heard a loud banging sound come from nearby.
"What was that sound?" Hakkaku asked.
"I'll go check it out, so come on." Kouga said and ran out of the room with Ginta and Hakkaku following behind.
Kagome and the two demons walked through the halls of the hospital. The place was dark and cold.  Bugs were crawling it seemed in every crook and crevice.
"Ugh, I always forget how much how much I hated this place." Kagome exclaimed as she glanced at the rotting corpses laying on gurneys and in wheelchairs along the halls.
"How are we going to find the next piece Kagome?" Shippo asked from her shoulder.
"It's normally in a small hidden safe in the basement." Kagome suddenly stopped and walked over to the front desk and picked up a small hand held radio and turned it on.
"What is that?" Sesshomaru asked as he walked over to look at the radio in her hand.
"It's a device called a radio. It allows you to hear things that are far away so long as it's tuned into the proper frequency and don't even ask me to explain what that is because I have no idea how I would explain it properly." Kagome told them as she clipped the radio to her pants.
"Why are you taking it with us?" Sesshomaru asked her.
"Well, here in Silent Hill, when a monster is close by the radio will start to make this sound." Kagome said and flipped the On/off switch, causing loud static to screech out.
"Doesn’t it also let them know where you are?" Sesshomaru asked, slightly irritated.
"That sort of never crossed my mind. But then again I’ve never had to deal with the monsters since they've never attacked me before." Kagome replied softly.
"Hay Kagome, I hate to interrupt but didn't you just say that if that thing is making that noise then a monster is nearby?" Shippo asked.
All of them went silent and glanced down at the radio as it continued to go off.
"Thiers something moving over their Kagome." Shippo said, his voice trembling.
Whatever it was, it didn't waste any time showing itself. The creature was a woman -if it can even be called that- she was wearing an old fashioned and way to tight nurses uniform. Her face was wrapped up in an old dirty cloth and her body was caked in dried and fresh blood as she withed around carrying a scalpel.
"It's a nurse." Kagome said as she pulled the gun from her back, aimed it and removed the safety.
Sesshomaru was about to ask her what she was doing, when his ears were suddenly ringing along with Shippo's.
The nurse took another step forward and Kagome pulled the trigger. One shot, two shot, and finally a third and the nurse dropped to the ground in a writhing heap.
"Give some kind of warning before you do that next time." Sesshomaru told Kagome who only shrugged her shoulders. He bent down to examine the body and make sure that it was really dead.
"Well that sucks..." Kagome began.
"What is it Kagome?" Shippo asked.
"I'm almost out of bullets." Kagome explained.
"Then it's a rather useless weapon if you asked me." Sesshomaru stated.
"It's not useless. I just need more bullets. Umm...hay, did you guys hear that?" Kagome stated and asked.
They all stood still and listening to what sounded like running. Before anyone could say anything Kagome moved and quickly began to make her way towards the intersection of the hallway. However, as she neared it she slipped in something causing her to lurch forward and crash into something or rather someone.
"Owwww!" Two voices cried out along with Kagome's.
Kagome let out a gasp when she saw who she had had ran into. "Ginta, Hakkaku! What are you two doing here?!" Kagome practically shouted.
"Sister! Oh thank goodness it's you!" The two wolves’ exclaimed as they both took her hands to help her to her feet.
Kagome was about to say something when she suddenly heard Shippo's voice ring out. "Kagome you’re bleeding!"
Still a little confused, Kagome looked down at herself and saw that the lower half of her body was covered in smears and patches of wet blood. "It's not mine. This must be what I slipped in."
"Sister, what are you doing in a place like this?" Ginta asked her.
"That's kind of a long story. So for now let’s just say that this is where I live sometimes, alright." Kagome said. She knew that the two of them wouldn't pry like Kouga would. And speaking of Kouga was he there to.
"Is your leader here as well?" They all heard the cold voice of Sesshomaru ask.
"H-He was, but that was a few minutes ago. We heard a loud banging noise and he took off on us. We were looking for him when we bumped into Kagome." Hakkaku explained to them.
"I wonder if it was the sound of my gun going off that you guys heard." Kagome wondered aloud to herself.
"If it was then why didn't he come this way?" Shippo asked.
Kagome thought about that question for a moment before a thought suddenly overtook her brain and her head shot up in panic. "What if he did come this way but ran into something else on the way?"
"You think that something might have happened to him?" Ginta asked her.
Before Kagome could answer him though, they all heard a crashing noise from the floor above them and a loud yell from Kouga.
"Dose that answer your question wolf." Sesshomaru grumbled as he turned to Kagome. "I take it you’re going to insist on helping him?" All he received from her was a sharp nod from Kagome's head. He sighed in annoyance before quick as lightning he was scooping Kagome up in his arms and taking off in the direction of the noise with Shippo clinging onto his shoulder for dear life and the two wolves running and falling behind them.
When Sesshomaru came to a stop and put Kagome on her feet she saw that they were in front of the open lobby doors.
Kouga was in the lobby as well, but he wasn't alone. He was fighting with a large massive creature. It looked like a human, a very fat human with large lumps of grotesque flesh growing from its body.
"W-What is that thing Kagome?!" Shippo yelled as Ginta and Hakkaku finally caught up to them.
"It's called a Giant Cancer." Kagome said before turning to Sesshomaru. "Please help him Sesshomaru-sama. I know that I have no right to be asking this but please." she pleaded with him softly.
Sesshomaru was about 'No', but when he looked into her eyes and heard the tone of her voice, he was suddenly reminded of Rin. Kagome truly looked like she could have been Rin's mother, older sister or even an older Rin herself. And the moment he noticed this he know that he wouldn't be able to say no to her. "Very well." Sesshomaru said before bouncing off towards the fight.
Kagome watched as Sesshomaru appeared in front of a shocked Kouga and struck the Giant Cancer with his Tokijin.
"What the hell are you doing hear Sesshomaru?" Kouga yelled at him.
Sesshomaru didn't answer him but simply continued to fight the monster. The Cancer lunged forward, swinging its massive arms around. Sesshomaru easily dodged its movements and countered with an attack of his own. His claws came down sharply, leaving 5 deep marks in the creature’s body. It staggered back but once it recovered it came charging again. Sesshomaru didn't even bother dodging this time but simply parried the attack. Then he quickly came at it from behind and delivered the fatal blow. The Cancers screech turned wet and then stopped all together. With no emotion what so ever Sesshomaru stomped on the things head making a sick wet crunching sound.
The others all wore looks of pure disgust on their faces.
"Now that this...thing is dead how about telling me what this place is mutt!" Kouga demanded loudly.
Sesshomaru glared at him. "If you want to know then ask her." he said, jerking his head in Kagome’s direction.
Kouga was instantly smiling when he saw Kagome. "Kagome! What are you doing in a place like this and with the ice lord of all people?"
Kagome sighed. "Well, now that your hear Kouga I guess that I have no choice but to explain things." And for what seemed like the millionth time that day Kagome sighed and began her story of silent Hill and Alessa. When she was done all three of them had their mouths hanging open in shock. Kagome smiled and was about to tell them to close them before they started to catch bugs, but stopped when she heard a very faint but familiar sound and she held her hand up, telling them to be quiet.
"What is it Kagome?" Shippo asked her in a whisper.
"That sound. Don't you hear it?" Kagome questioned them. She looked at them and none of them seemed to be hearing it.
"Are you sure that you’re not hearing things Kagome?" Sesshomaru asked her as well.
The sound came again and Kagome knew that she wasn't hearing things and thought that maybe it was Alessa's doing. 'Another clue maybe?' She thought to herself. "I'm not hearing things. I know Silent Hill, nothing happens due to imagination." Kagome said and began to walk in the direction that she heard it coming from. "Come on, it's coming from down stairs."
Everyone started to follow Kagome when suddenly Kouga was blocking her way. "How about you point the way and I'll make sure that nothing gets to you Kagome."
"No. It's not that far and besides you don't know what could be around here Kouga." Kagome said.
"Then please stay close to me at least?" Kouga pleaded with her.
"Alright, but please don't go attacking everything that you see... in fact, don't attack anything unless I say to. Alright?" Kagome tried to explain to him.
Kouga gave her a strange look. "As if anything could ever shock me Kagome. I am a demon after all. And besides, you’re going to be my mate so it's my responsibility to protect you from anything that I see as dangerous." He proclaimed, putting a strong arm around her waist and pulling her close to himself.
Kagome was about to give him a piece of her mind when Sesshomaru beat her to it. "Wolf! I suggest that you stop panting over your wayward mate-to-be and let us get going so that we can leave this hell-hole!"
When Kouga turned to look At Sesshomaru Kagome took that opportunity to slip out of Kouga's grasp and began to walk towards the stairs.
"What exactly is it that you’re hearing Kagome?" Ginta asked her, trying to change the subject.
"It's a song I wrote for Alessa about a year ago called promise (reprise)." Kagome said sadly, thinking about the happy look on Alessa's face the day that she had played the song for the first time.
"So why is it that you can hear it and we can't?" Kouga asked and he went over to Kagome's side.
"Because that’s the way that Silent Hill works." Was all Kagome said.
Suddenly Ginta stopped and looked very thoughtful. "You know, I wonder if that little girl we saw earlier could have been the little girl that’s your daughter Kagome." he said aloud, causing Kagome to stop dead in her tracks.
"What little girl?" Kagome questioned.
"Earlier we were wondering around trying to find a way out of this place and we saw a little kid up ahead of us. When we followed her in to another room we found her and then she suddenly burst into flames. We thought that it was just some kind of illusion but since you told us your story I'm thinking that it wasn't." Hakkaku told her.
"What did she look like?" Kagome asked him even though she already knew the answer.
"She was a tiny little thing. She had on purple clothing that was covered in soot and dirty. She also had long stringy black hair." This time it was Ginta that explained things.
"Yup, that's definitely Alessa's handy work. I’ve seen her use that trick on more than one poor soul that's had the misfortune of wondering into the town since I’ve been coming here." Kagome casually said witch seemed strange to the rest of them.
"Umm...Kagome are you sure that you’re alright? Normally things like this would seem strange and disturbing to you." Shippo said, voicing the concern of everyone -yes, even Sesshomaru- aloud.
Kagome cocked her head at them and just smiled, disturbing all of them even more. "I'm fine Shippo. It's just that when I'm here in Silent Hill my mind begins to take on persona to fit the town. I begin to find things less disturbing and I kind of start to act a bit crazy. It's just a way for my mind to cope with all of the horrible things here." She told them, ending it with a small giggle before turning around and walking down the flight of stairs that they were standing by.
"I think that might have been the scariest thing I’ve seen yet." Shippo said gulping and taking a step back towards Ginta and Hakkaku.
"Are you sure that it's safe to let her wonder around on her own like that wolf?" Sesshomaru said to Kouga
"I don't know but we best keep an eye on her...just in case." Kouga said before they followed her down the stairs and into the dark basement.
They walked in silence for a while before Kagome suddenly stopped and looked up.
"What is it?" Sesshomaru questioned her.
"It’s starting." was all she said.
"Wha-" Kouga's question was cut off when he let out a scream as the siren began to wail.
All of them except for Kagome and Sesshomaru dropped to their knees as they held their ears and waited for it to stop.
When the siren finally ceased and they all looked around they saw that everything had changed.
The hospital rusted and had taken on an almost dried blood color and the walls had changed structure as well. But the most disturbing transformation of all was Kagome. Her clothes were now filthy and covered in blood and soot and it was the same for her skin and hair.
"K-Kagome, are you ok!?" Kouga asked franticly.
Kagome gave him a blank stare and then looked down at herself and held her hands up so she could look at them. Then she pulled a chunk of her hair over so she could examine that as well. "I feel fine. This will go away when the siren goes off again." She told them.
"If you’re not hurt then we should get going." Sesshomaru suggested to them. Well...more like ordered them to get moving.
"What the hell is he in such a rush for anyway?" Kouga mumbled out through gritted teeth.
"He's worried that Rin might be somewhere here in the town and he wants to hurry up and find her." Shippo whispered to them from Ginta's shoulder.
So without another word the four of them followed Kagome and Sesshomaru deeper into the hospitals basement until they soon came upon a door soaked in fresh blood to which Kagome showed no hesitation in opening.
"Here we are. This is where the next piece of the Flauros should be...but it appers that we have a puzzle to solve first." Kagome said with smile.
"How do you know that Kagome?" Kouga asked her.
"Becuse of that." Kagome said and pointed to a a large object in the center of the room.
"What is it?" Sesshomaru voiced aloude.
"It's called a piano. It's a musical insturment." Kagome said and went to sit at it's seat.
"And just how is a musical insterment supposed to be a puzzle?" He pressed further. Sesshomaru was begining to become weary of this new version of Kagome. It had nothing to do with her appearance like it did with the others at the moment, it had to do with her persona. Thier was something in her eyes that wasn't thier before, an odd glint that borderd on insanity. And yet she... seemed to... thrive on it. It was worring him grately. Not that he showed it.
"Becuse thats just how Silent hill works." was her only reply before her fingers began taping at the kyes. The sound that flowed fourth was unlike any they had ever heard before. It was soft but quick, haunting and sad. The sound spoke of betrayal and vengence. Yet carried with it an air of hope and love if you litsend just right.
Finaly the song came to a close and Kagome stopped as they all heard a faint clicking sound to thier left.
"What was that Kagome?" Shippo asked her softly.
"That was what I've been hearing. The song promis that I composed for Alessa." She stated and walked over to a small safe and opend it, reaching in and takeing out the next peice.
Kouga and the other two just stared at it. "So thats what we came all the way down here for? It's kind of small if you ask me, but if you think it's important then I belive you Kagome." Kouga said as Ginta and Hakkaku nodded in agreement.
Kagome just smiled and handed the peice to Sesshomaru for safe keeping before they began to head twordes the front doors once more. Thankfully they only ran into a few nurses wich Kouga and Sesshomaru easily took care of.
"It's starting again." Kagome said once they reached thier destination. This time no one asked what she ment. They all just braced themselves for the sound of siran.
When they all opend thier eyes every thing was back to the way it was when they first came in, even Kagome.
"So whare to now?" Kouga asked Kagome, but before she could answer they all heard a shout from Shippo who had wonderd away from them.
"What is it shippo?" Kagome asked him as they walked over.
"This." Shippo said and held up a peice of paper with a childs drawing on it.
Kagome took that paper and examind it carfully. She could tell it was one of Alessa's drawings. It was a picture of the elementry schoole being engulfed in flames. But as Kagome looked at it much more closely she finaly saw what had made Shippo shout. Hidden slightly, halfe coverd by a flame was a window, and in that window was Rin and Jaken. Kagome looked up and saw that Sesshomaru's eyes were glowing red and he was pulsating with demonic energy, clearly showing that he noticed it to and was not happy.  
"Whar is this place!?" Sesshomaru growled out and flexd his claws.
"This is our next destination, the old elementry Schoole. Now lets get going!" Kagome said and began to lead the way out of the hospital.
A/N- Alright, there was chapter two of mine and my cousin’s crossover.
I am so sorry it took so long to update this. It's just such a hard crossover to work with. I'd much rather take a long time to update then do it quickly and have it sound like shit. Writers block doesn’t help either. I will TRY to update quicker from now on... no promises though.
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