InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Betrayal's Gift ❯ Chapter 7

Hotaru spent the entire weekend in her room and now it was Monday, she had to go back to school. What was going to happen, would he attack her again? She had no idea. She couldn't tell her family about it, she didn't need to give her mother one more reason to go back to the hospital.

 

She didn't need to give her father one more reason to hate her. It seemed to her that even though she heard them say they loved her, their actions didn't show it. They constantly argued when she was younger and than all of a sudden it stopped.

 

It's like her family fell apart and yet they continued on with life like normal. They even shared the same bed when her father wasn't away on business. He was a monk, and he had to travel to other shrines in Japan.

 

She always wondered why none of the other monks came to the shrine she stayed in.

 

She looked in the mirror as she came out of the shower. Dark bruises were still left on her body, she shuddered when she thought she still saw dried blood stains down her legs. She remembered how she snuck into the house that night and ran to her room. She immediately took the hottest shower she's ever taken in her life and she still felt dirty. She felt ashamed of her self for liking the sensation that Ken and forced on her.

 

Hotaru shook again and with shaky hands donned on her school uniform and felt uneasy. She said some mantra in her head to calm her nerves. However, that didn't work. She had grabbed the leaf that she had collected from the Goshinboku tree this past weekend to help her nerves and held it to her heart. She then felt a little better.

 

`Ok, it's over with me and Ken…if he tries to talk to me, I should politely dismiss him. I'm ok, everything will be alright Hotaru.'

 

“What makes you think that? You know it's your fault anyway that he raped you, you didn't fight back, you whined and cried urging him on, you actually enjoyed it.”

 

Hotaru stilled as she looked at her face in the mirror. The vision that greeted her was her own reflection, but, sinister.

 

“You don't know what you're talking about. Leave me alone, get out of my head!”

 

“You should just let me out. You always hold me back, and look at yourself; you're alone again with no one left to talk to but me. I'll take care of us Hotaru, no one will ever hurt us again.”

 

Hotaru shut her eyes and squeezed her head with the palms of her hands reciting a mantra over and over again, she smelled the leaf and instantly felt it's calming effects.

 

“Get out…get out…get out…” she whispered. Then she heard a knock on the door.

 

“Hotaru? Are you alright in there?”

 

The girl shook in fear; she hadn't seen the person in her head in a very long time. After seeing a doctor she had suppressed this alter ego in her head who demanded dominance of her body.

 

“Yes, mother…I…I'm coming down for breakfast in a minute.”

 

“Alright then, your grandmother is making your favorite, pancakes with plenty of bacon.”

 

When Hotaru got to school she felt jittery and she jumped at everything. People were eyeing her and sneering behind her back, but she thought maybe that was her imagination getting to her. No one knew. Ken wouldn't possibly tell anybody what he did.

 

The last bell rang and Hotaru sighed in relief, she hadn't seen Ken all day. In fact, he wasn't even in school. However, she held her breath too long.

 

She was on her way out going past the cherry blossom that she had first met up with Ken.

 

“Oh, so, tell me Hotaru…where's your little boyfriend?”

 

Hotaru frowned she continued to walk on by pushing Fuu out of the way with her shoulder.

 

Fuu laughed. “Awww, did the two little love birds break up? Must've been an awful fight. Tell me…Hotaru…did you give it up?”

 

“Leave me alone Fuu, I don't have time for this today.”

 

Fuu looked around at her party in mock shock.

 

“Did the freak try to blow me off, tell me Ken, did she do a better job than what she showed right now?”

 

There he was pulling out from behind the tree. Hotaru paled, color drained from her and seeped deep beneath the granite under her feet.

 

“Well, it was a nasty job, but hey twenty bucks is twenty bucks.” He laughed as he pulled the money out of Fuu's hand.

 

Everyone started laughing as Hotaru felt her knees wobble.

 

“Aww, did you really think Kentaru here loved you? You are so pathetic, heh, so tell us Ken, and was she a virgin?”

 

“Oh, yeah, she was so tight too. She begged me, she juiced up for me and man was she moaning, I believe she could make a career over in the red light district. Hey maybe she could do her old man, he'd be too drunk to notice.”

 

Hotaru felt bile piling up in her throat. She fell to the ground and Fuu stood in front of her, using her foot she pushed the girls' head into the cement hard causing blood to trickle the white granite.

 

“Get the hint Hotaru, leave and never come back. We all hate you, everyone here hates you.”

 

Then she picked up the girls head and forced her to look at her surroundings. Hotaru noticed the entire school was watching this spectacle.

 

“Yo, Ken, so tell me, was she easy.”

 

“Yeah man, like taking candy from a baby. Her cunt was so tight it blinded me man. Yo you owe me a twenty too. All of you do. That was the deal.”

 

The student body heard this and whoever didn't was sure to hear it by tonight. When she attends school tomorrow she will be the top of the gossip. How she gave it up to Kentaru so easily and how she was used, how stupid she looked.

 

One of the guys that was there squatted behind her and ran his hand up her thigh and caressed her butt. She snapped and went to knock the guy over with her feet but Fuu still had her hair and slammed her face into the ground.

 

“Now freak, the whole school knows you're a desperate slut, kill yourself now.”

 

“Why do you hate me so much, I've done nothing to you?”

 

Fuu in livid anger picked up the girls head and whispered in her ear.

 

“Don't play that game with me, you know what you did to me, you had my parents send me to a shrink for a year until I started lying. Oh, I plotted against you, you tried to kill me and you failed, I took your friend the very one you tried to protect against me, look at her, she was in on it. She knew what Ken was going to do to you, we all did. Now, you have nothing to live for. You've suffered just like I suffered and you deserve it you freak.”

 

Hotaru's eyes rolled back as a powerful energy surged through her body. It blasted Fuu off of her, Hotaru's hands hit the ground and the granite broke, shocks of purple energy traveled like lightning on the ground and attacked Ken and Fuu and whoever was stupid enough to be close to them. The circle of people that formed around her started to run in fear when she then blacked out.

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The rain was pelting down on her. She rubbed her arms of the chill. Her clothes were soaked through.

 

“Hey babe, how about ride, you look wet.”

 

Hotaru gave him a dirty look and flicked her finger at him.

 

“Hey, that was rude, it's your job get in the car!”

 

She allowed her eyes to flash and that scared him off.

 

“Freak!” he yelled out.

 

Everything started running through her mind. She couldn't return to school tomorrow, what was she going to tell her parents. She sighed feeling as if she disappointed them again.

 

She knew it was her fault that they were in a loveless marriage. They stayed together for her benefit, her parents worked hard and long hours just to be apart from each other. Now, she's got to drop out of school the first in the Higurashi family.

 

She was deep in her thoughts when she heard someone. The hairs on her neck began to rise up. By a force all of its own her feet moved her in the direction of the sound.

 

She turned the corner and heard two people getting it on in the alley. She heard his voice and in shock she continued in to get a closer look, her heart breaking and falling in pieces behind her.

 

“Father?”

 

The man stilled and slowly turned around. Hotaru with hurt eyes moved back slowly her mouth moving but nothing coming out. She had a big bruise on her head, what looked like a deep scratch. He withdrew from his wench and zipped his pants in pain.

 

“Hotaru…I'm…” He stuttered. She shook her head then looking all around her noticing the alley taking in everything that surrounded her, the prostitute with her bottled blonde hair and too much make-up. Hotaru began to turn.

 

“Please Hotaru…let me explain! Shit.”

 

The girl ran, he ran after her. Her hand flew behind her while tears blinded her vision along with the rain.

 

Purple light pushed him down the alley crashing him into the brick walls. He slid down in pain and slumped his head and shoulders as the prostitute ran away from him screaming.

 

“Damn it all…damn it all! Hotaru!!!!”