InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A Mother's Love ❯ Chapter 3

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

Title: Silent Hill: A Mother's 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 and the others were all racing towards Midwitch Elementary School. Sesshomaru after a few seconds had become drastically impatient and had scooped Kagome -and a frightened Shippo- up after Kouga had stated that they should go on ahead of him and his two tribesmen.
Kouga saw the danger of this world and was unwilling to run off and leave Ginta and Hakkaku like he normally would have. He also knew that Sesshomaru needed Kagome to find that place they were headed for and that the Taiyoukai could protect her on his own.
"But how will you find us Kouga? Your sense of smell doesn’t work in this world." Kagome stated with a frown.
"Don't worry about me; I have other ways of finding you so just hurry on ahead." Kouga reassured her with a cocky grin.
Kagome was still unconvinced but none the less gave in and told Sesshomaru witch ways to go in order make it to the school.
As Sesshomaru raced off in the direction Kagome told him to go the young girl took a moment to think about what was happening. "What is going on here?" She thought to herself. "Is all this Alessa's doing or is it something else? None of this makes any sense! The monsters attacking me, the others getting brought here as well, the Jewel Shard, Alessa not being here. I just don't understand!" Suddenly though she was brought out of her musings when Sesshomaru came to a grinding yet graceful stop in front of the school and put her back on her feet. Funny, she half expected him to drop her on her ass.
"This is the place is it not?" the Taiyoukai asked her impatiently. Even though he was itching to run into that place and find his two companions he felt an obligation to stay with the human woman. She was helping him after all, not to mention he had to -and even though he would never say it out loud- commend the girl on her bravery and resolve to find this girl she called her daughter.
"Yes it is, we should get inside and find Rin and Jaken though before something bad happens. I'm not trying to worry you but I've always noticed how some of Alessa's more vicious monsters like to congregate here." Kagome said as she began to walk towards the front entrance, Sesshomaru fallowing behind her being ever more cautious.
"Master Jaken I'm scared. And where is Sesshomaru-sama." whispered Rin. She didn't like this place; it was so different from the sunny forest they had been in not too long ago. This place was filthy and depressing, not a single ray of sunshine to be seen. Not to mention all the monsters they had run into. Some of them were more horrifying than any other demon she or Jaken had ever seen, but luckily the little toed had his staff of two head to help them get away.
Jaken had no idea where or what this place was or where his master Sesshomaru had gotten to. All he did know was that he and Rin were on their own. But Jaken was starting to get fed up with Rin and her crying. He just couldn't seem to understand why Sesshomaru-sama kept the little pest around... but he knew that if he didn't keep Rin safe then Sesshomaru would skin him alive... if not worse.
"Master Jaken, I think I just saw someone up ahead of us." Rin said interrupting Jaken's train of thought.
Jaken spun around to look at the girl. "There is no one their Rin. If there was I would have sensed it long before you would have." The toed said smugly to her.
"Oh really master Jaken? Then what is that?" The young girl said and pointed to a lone figure at the end of the hall.
Jaken looked in the direction that Rin was pointing in and indeed saw something. It looked like a little girl with stringy black hair and dressed in strange purple clothing. "But what on earth would a little girl be doing in a place like this all alone?" Jaken questioned out loud.
"Maybe she's lost and scared like us and needs help. Wait here Master Jaken, I'll go ask her." Rin said as she bounded off up the hallway, leaving a frazzled Jaken behind.
"Rin! You stupid girl, don't go running off on your own, it's not safe!" Jaken called out as he began to chase after her.
Kagome, Sesshomaru and Shippo had made it past the front entrance and were now wondering around the second floor of the school. Kagome had managed to come across some more bullets on the way in and was feeling better now that she had them.
"What kind of place was this Kagome? Shippo asked her softly. He wanted to distract himself from how scared he was and it was the only thing he could think to ask at the time.
"It's a school, a place for children to go and get an education. A place for them to learn to read and write, do math and an assortment of other things." Kagome told him. "But like all things in Silent Hill, this school was much different than then other schools."
"How so?" Sesshomaru asked. He too was curious now that the little Kitsune had asked.
"While most schools tried -and I say try because it didn't always work- to teach about acceptance, tolerance and friendship, this PLACE wanted to teach it's children about the opposite of all that. The way they treated Alessa for example. The other students shunned her and called her a witch that should be killed, they picked on her and bullied her endlessly, and the teachers turned a blind eye towards it, some of them even encouraged it." Kagome said through gritted teeth.
Sesshomaru and Shippo could both see that Kagome no longer wanted to speak about this particular subject and so the three continued to walk in silence for a while.
When they finally reached the third floor Sesshomaru was beginning to get more and more agitated that they still had not found Rin and Jaken. "Are you certain that the place in that drawing we found was this building and not another?" he asked impatiently.
"Positive. There was no mistaking it." Was Kagome's response. "This is only the third floor Sesshomaru. We still have to look around here as well as the fourth floor. Don't worry, I'm sure their here." she said kindly, trying to reassure him. Sesshomaru nodded and began to head down the hall so Kagome took that as her queue to start checking the rooms that were on the other end of the hall.
*Time Skip*
After about an hour of searching her end of the hallway Kagome and Shippo had come across no sing of Rin or Jaken, only a few Spitters and Roaches. The raven haired girl looked up and saw that they had reached the last room they had to check and sighed, "Alessa’s old class room." she thought bitterly.
"Is something wrong Kagome?" the small Kitsune on her shoulders asked worriedly.
"No, nothing's wrong Shippo. I'm just worried about everything that’s going on is all." she lied to him with a smile. She hated this room after what Alessa had told her about it, but she none the less squared her shoulders and prepared to enter it. Just as her finger tips touched the handle she caught a flash of silver in the corner of her eye and turned to see Sesshomaru standing at her side looking even grumpier than ever. "I take it you had no luck either?" she pointlessly asked. All she received as a response was silence from her stoic companion. "Well this is the last room to check on this hallway so let’s make it quick." she said and opened the door so they could enter.
Once inside the room Kagome and her two companions started to look. Since the room wasn't very big and didn't have many places that a little girl or an even smaller toed could hide in, it seemed rather redundant that they had even bothered to look at all. "Maybe she really isn't here after all. We only have the fourth floor left to check and I'm not sure anything will turn up." Kagome thought to herself. "But why then, was the location in Alessa's drawing that of the school?" Kagome shook her head and decided that she would question that only after they had checked the fourth floor. When she turned around she half expected to see Sesshomaru standing at the door waiting for her but instead he was standing at one of the desks resting his hand on it. She walked over to him and looked down at the desk seeing that it was Alessa's.
"This was where she sat I take it?" The silver haired demon asked running his fingers over the dusty top of the desk and tracing the etchings that covered the entirety of the wood. "What does this say? This language is foreign to me." He asked.
"All it says is the word witch, over and over." Kagome told him sadly with down cast eyes.
Sesshomaru was about to say something to her when all of a sudden he heard a strange noise coming from outside the room and quickly went to investigate it with Kagome and Shippo fallowing close behind.
Once outside the room Sesshomaru heard a loud shout of his name. "SESSHOMARU-SAMA!" He turned to his left just in time to see Rin come barreling down the hall with a tired Jaken at her heels, running for him. The moment he saw her he ran and picked her up.
"Oh Sesshomaru-sama, I thought I'd never see you again. Me and Jaken were so scared in this place and even more so when we couldn't find you." the little girl cried.
"It is alright now Rin, you are safe. Now, are you hurt anywhere?" Sesshomaru asked her softly.
"No. Jaken did a very good job of taking care of me." Rin said with a big smile on her face.
Sesshomaru turned to his retainer who was presently still trying to catch his breath and spoke to him. "Good work Jaken."
Jaken -at hearing those words- just about wept with happiness. "Oh thank you My Lord! Your words are far too kind!" The little Imp said, bowing over and over.
"Sesshomaru-sama, may I ask a question?" Rin asked him in a sweet voice.
Sesshomaru's eyes were once again upon the little girl. "Yes Rin, you may." He replied.
"Is Kagome-chan with you?" She asked him.
Sesshomaru's golden eyes widened a bit at her question. "Yes she is Rin but how did you know that?"
Rin smiled up at her lord proudly. "A little girl I met here asked me to give her something very important. She also said that she would be with you."
Before Sesshomaru could ask her anything else Kagome had come up behind him and keeled down beside Rin. "Rin sweetie, did this little tell you her name?" Kagome asked her.
Rin thought for a moment before answering "Yup! She said her name was Alessa and that she wanted me to give this to you" she said pulling a strange object out from the sleeve of her kimono and handed it to Kagome.
There was no mistaking it, the object that she now held in her hand was a piece of the Flauros. As Kagome stared at the piece in her hand she spoke. "Rin sweetie can you tell me how you met Alessa and what happened when you did?"
So Rin nodded began to tell them what happened only a few moments ago when she met Alessa.
Rin raced down the hall in order to catch the little girl. But for some reason it seemed that no mater how hard or fast she ran she could not seem to catch her. "Hay wait a second, I'm just trying to help you! It's not safe here you know!" Rin shouted but to no avail.
Suddenly the little girl turned and ran into and open doorway to witch Rin fallowed her.
The room that Rin was now in was just like the the other rooms she had seen in this place. Their were rows of small tables with with chairs that looked as if only a little kid could fit in them and a thick heavy cote of filth seemed to cover everything. "Hello?" Rin called out. "Is anyone their?" After a few moment of nothing but silence from the room Rin was about to leave when she distinctly heard a faint noise coming from the corner of the room. It sounded like crying and when Rin went back in to investigate it she saw a small figure curled up in the corner. I was the little girl she had been chasing.
Rin wasted no time in rushing over to her and putting a hand on her back. "Hay, why are you crying? Are you hurt?" Rin asked her but received no response. She thought for a moment about what she could do to make her feel better and then an idea came to her. "If your crying because your scared then so am I. This place doesn't seem very happy but if it will make you feel better then maybe you and I could be friend... if you want?" Rin asked her shyly.
The little girl seemed to respond to that as she turned to Rin and looked up at her with big brown eyes and a face covered in soot and grim. "Y-you would really want to be my... f-friend?" She asked between sniffles.
Rin smiled now that she had gotten a response from her. "Of chores I would! My name is Rin what's yours?"
"Alessa. My name is Alessa." she responded as Rin took her hand to help her up.
"Well Alessa, it's very nice to meet you." Rin said with a big toothy grin on her face.
Alessa smiled as well, though not as much. Happy that for once someone didn't seem to want to be mean to her.
"So Allesa, do you live here?" Rin asked as the two little girls sat beside each other on the floor.
Alessa thought for a moment about that. "Yes. This place is my home, it always has been."
Rin was rather shocked by that. But she tried to keep it from showing on her face in case her new friend might think it was rude. "Aren't you scared being here all by yourself with all these monsters running around?"
"I'm not alone, my mommy comes to see me all the time. and I'm not scared of the monsters because they listen to me and do whatever I say." Alessa said stubbornly before smiling again. "And now I have a friend as well." She said, referring to Rin.
"Yeah!" Rin said, happy to have a new friend as well. "So where is your mommy then Alessa?" The little raven haired girl asked her friend.
Alessa looked as if she was about to answer her but stopped all of a sudden and stood up.
"Is something wrong Alessa?" Rin asked nervously, standing up as well and looked at her new friend.
"Rin, you need to listen to me very carefully ok?" Alessa said sternly to Rin.
Rin didn't like the sound of her new friends voice. It sounded older and more mature, like she was someone else entirely. But she choose to listen to her anyway. "Umm...ok. What is it?"
"You need to find that little green creature that was with you earlier and get down stairs right now. Once their you will find the man you call Sesshomaru-sama, he's looking for you. With him is my mother, her name is Kagome, you know her as well." Alessa told Rin very carefully and stopped talking for a moment so she could take this all in.
Rin was stunned and happy to hear her say that Sesshomaru was their looking for her. But was even more shocked to hear that Kagome-chan was her mother. "How do you know all of this Alessa?" Rin asked her, it was the only thing she could think of to say.
"I don't have time to explain right now. But before you go I want you to take this and give it to my mother when you see her. It's very important. Don't ask what it is either because like I said, I don't have time to explain." Allesa then handed her a small triangle shaped object from her pocket.
Rin took it from her and put it in the sleeve of her kimono and looked at Aleesa again. "Why don't you just come with me? She asked.
Alessa sighed, "I wish I could but I have something very important to take care of." She told her.
Rin frowned, she didn't like the thought of her friend being alone in this place but something told her that it was for the best. "Well then I want you to have this, so you won't forget about me." Rin then reached in to one of her sleeves and pulled out a very colorful ball and held it out to her friend. It was the very first present she ever received from Sesshomaru and now she wanted Aleassa to have it.
Alessa took the ball and stared at it for a moment before suddenly throwing her arms around Rin and crying. "Thank you Rin, I will always take care of it." she said and released Rin from her hug. "But now you need to go... and don't worry, you and me will see each other again. I promise."
Rin nodded and without another word she turned and left the room to go find Jaken.
"And your sure that's everything that happened Rin?" Kagome asked the young girl impatiently.
"Yes, that's everything Kagome-chan." Rin told her happily.
Sesshomaru could see the worry on Kagome's face and addressed it to her. "Are you certain that the girl from Rin's story was indeed your Alessa?"
"Yes, I'm sure. Alessa -like me- has her moments in this world where she switches personalities. The girl that Rin met must have been the part of Alessa that wanted to be accepted, that part of her that still had humanity." Kagome told him forcefully. "I love my daughter but I will not lie for her, she is cold and ruthless to those that she sees as having a dark heart and sometimes even to those that are simply lost in this world and have done nothing wrong. But if she didn't harm Rin already then that means that she won't harm her at all, even in her darkest moment. When Alessa cares for someone she cares for them till the end." She finished.
Sesshomaru simply nodded in response to her speech. "We have found Rin and the next piece of your item, now where do we go?"
Kagome's eyes widened in surprise. "You mean you don't want to go separate ways now that we have found Rin?" she asked him.
Sesshomaru raised one silver eyebrow and spoke. "I owe you a debt of gratitude for helping me find Rin in this place, thus I will help you in you endeavor to find the rest of these pieces to your item as well as your daughter. I also have a nagging suspicion that until you do these things their will be no way for us to get back so I ask you again, where do we go next?"
Kagome nodded and closed her eyes to think. "We have three of the pieces. But only two more that are in the town. Their should be one in the Riverside Hotel and another in the Asylum. I'd say we should go to the hotel since it's the closest one from here." She said and turned to Sesshomaru to receive his input.
"If you think that is what we should do then I will not argue. Now lets go." Sesshomaru said and then turned to Rin who was quietly talking to Shippo. "Rin." He said her name softly to witch the little girl looked up and gave him her full attention. "I want you and the Kit to stay together with Jaken and in mine and Kagome's sights at all times. Is that clear?" He spoke.
"Yes my lord." Rin and Shippo said in unison together.
"Good." He replied, now pleased that she was back in his sights. He would never say it aloud, but he never truly felt at peace anymore unless he had the little human girls presence around him. Ever since he brought her back to life with the Tensaiga he had felt a strong connection to her, almost as if she were his real blood child. For just a moment as no one was looking his eyes flashed crimson with rage. "No one will harm her, no one will take her from me." He thought with anger at just the mere thought of harm being done to her. Sesshomaru then calmed himself turned around to and to Kagome indicating that they were ready to move on.
After that the group turned and followed Kagome as she began to lead them out of the school and towards their next destination.
A/N-  Well their was the long awaited chapter 3, I hope everyone enjoyed it!!! I am also very sorry if the chapter seems kind shitty, I haven't updated in a while and I really wanted to get this done by the end of the week so I kind of rushed through it but I promise I will revise it when I have more time.
I promise to TRY and update quicker from now on as well... no promises though. And please, please, please review everyone!!! Reviews make the author happy, I need more ideas for this.