InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Bitter Sweet Tragedy ❯ Only The Beginning ( Chapter 4 )

 

Kagome could feel her heart pounding through her chest as his fingers held staring into his deceiving eyes. Tears began to form from her eyes as he felt his gentle touch upon her. He smoothly took his hands away when he saw the tears as he sat back at the corner staring at her understanding that something was wrong. The lights began to flicker as water dripped from the pipes as it echoed through the hallway. “ You really wanna know what happened? My family is dead alright!?” Kagome viciously told him as she hid her head in between her lap, as sobs were the only thing that came from her mouth. The boy leaned against the bars with one knee up as his other laid on the floor. His emotionless face began to grin as a chuckle soon came. Her eyes looked at the arrogant boy, laughing as though it was a joke, and nothing was.

 

Kagome could feel the blood rushing through her veins, and a scowl on her face she couldn't control. She rose to her feet, and calmly walked towards him as she wasn't gonna let him laugh about her family dead any longer. From what she thought, he was a sick bastard. He could see the hate and the anger clearly forming in her eyes and he didn't understand exactly why. Kagome feared him but a comment like that she wasn't gonna let it go. “ You think this is funny? Well I don't!!” She screamed as his face was suppose to be left with a burning hand mark. Instead he grasped her wrist as he gave a light grin like he was up to know good. “ There's no use wasting your time crying. That didn't help me and it won't help you. It isn't easy living without family, you understand what's it like now don't you? Kagome, you have a lot to learn…” His grip slowly stopped as his hands suddenly released hers. His words hit her like a thousand knives, and made chills go up her spine. He seemed nothing but heartless. An empty soul who had no compassion for they're pain, only to laugh at they're suffering. His mind always seemed to hit the gutters, and so bitter towards anyone who came near. Kagome couldn't understand why he behaved like this, but she wasn't about to ask.

 

“ Don't think you're the only one here hurting badly. My father died at least when I was five in a motor cycle accident. My mom wanted a daughter and not a son but sadly she got me. Before my father died she had another child that was a baby girl. Once she had the girl she planned to get rid of me and it didn't seem like she cared about me. So she sent me here when I was eight years old. She lied to me, promising she'd come back. I've waited for ever and still she hasn't returned. I've been here ten years, and been adopted so many times. So don't think your life is all that bad, at least you had a god damn real family. Instead of families who pretends they are your own.” Kagome began to understand why he was bitter, and arrogant. His eyes were ready to shed tears, as he began ripping more holes in his jeans. He hated anyone that gotten close to him like he couldn't trust a living soul, accept himself. He began to laugh as his bangs hidden how he truly felt. “ You won't be staying here long at all. So don't you dare cry right now.”

Kagome blinked, confused by his comment as she leaned closer beside him.

 

She draped over her ivory skirt, as she crossed her legs over each other. “ Why would you say that?” Still she remained confused waiting for a response to clear things up. He laughed like she was an idiot glancing at her cheerful face. He began playing with the bars as he sighed. His head lowered to the ground, as his raven black hair began to sweep the ground. “ Because your beautiful alright? That's why all the damn girls are practically gone. Wouldn't be surprised if your gone in the next hour.” He muttered flipping the penny he hid in his pockets. Kagome's white face turned scarlet as she looked down towards the ground and back at his bitter face. She thought it was odd for a nice compliment coming from his mouth but that proved her wrong. “ He just called me beautiful?” She was stunned by who it came from as he could see a small smile forming at her lips. He had a worried look painted on his face as she already gotten the wrong idea. “ You think I'm beautiful?” She laughed amused as his face either went scaret from anger, or embarrassment. His hands turned into fists as he snapped viciously in her face. “ Don't you dare take it that way. It was a compliment don't have to breathe down my neck for it!”

 

Kagome began to stand to her feet tired of his rude behavior, and anger. She could tell he had a short wick and a low tolerance for anyone but himself. “ Why are you so mean to me!?” Kagome screamed as his chocolate eyes remained hidden from her. He felt drops of water splash on him, from the cracks of the pipes. He didn't have to hide any secrets or tell her lies. He told her how it was, “ Listen Kagome don't expect to come marching in here and tell me how to change! This is what happens when your different and all alone. You can't trust anyone.” Kagome couldn't think of herself turning out like that, and she never planned to. She couldn't make out why he could explain and expose so much about himself if he wanted to remain hidden. She had a deep suspicion he wasn't who she thought he was. If he claimed hating her so much, then why he decide to tell her about his life and how he was? She hinted he wasn't the guy he pretended to be then again she could always be wrong.

 

Kagome stretched out her legs, raising an eyebrow towards him. His eyes stared at the ceiling, with a angered face that seemed as though it was plastered on his face. She began running her fingers through her black hair and took a deep breath. “ If you don't trust anyone, why are you telling me this?” His eyes glanced at hers biting his lips and he flipped the coin back into his hand. To Kagome, it didn't make sense, for a guy who claims he couldn't trust a soul told her everything. To him, she was a threat or maybe at the start. His long black hair touched the floor, trying to get the an answer to the question he wish he could have avoided. “ You might as well understand everything…Trust me you'll never be happy and expect your life to be twisted upside down.” He lied to her somewhat. He brutally told her, as his eyes seem to stare right through her as though she didn't exist. Kagome began to fear what effect this was gonna have on her. She didn't wanna become heartless and letting her life waste to nothing. She knew everyone must have had normal lives until they were thrown in this hellhole. Everyone changed into bitter jerks and she refused to become like the rest.

 

She couldn't tell if he was trying to torment her, or telling her the brutal truth of reality.

But she knew he was trying to get something across to her but she didn't understand.. Was it help? Or was it torment to see her suffer in pain and hell like the rest of the orphanage. She was surrounded by dirty, disgusting people that made her fear her life. “ Is he telling me my life won't be the same anymore?” Kagome's mouth laid half open trying to shake the thoughts of her being heartless and soulless. His life she already knew was down the drain. He had no trust for anyone and he seemed to cut himself off from the real world. He just laid there to rot in a corner no intention to do anything about it. Kagome was sure he pretended to act tough, and she wasn't let him rot through the floors any longer. Kagome leaned closer placing her hands faintly on knees as his hanging head shot up within moments of her unexpected touch. His chocolate eyes looked like bloody daggers, like a psychopath ready to sloter and innocent by stander who had more to live for than him.

 

He brought his hands to hers by accident as he could see in her eyes, she was eager to ask something that there was no point responding to. She was just a girl who got thrown in the mix eager to help a guy that was eager to keep himself away from everyone. Kagome just stared at his look grasping his knees knowing he was ready to snap like a guy in a straitjacket. “ Just hear me out please…” She begged hoping he'd listen to all the important ideas that might change him around. He quickly put his hand back as he laughed as he took everything for a joke. But he knew his life was no joke. Not even to the mourns he was surrounded by. They were all in the same boat. A boat that was about the sink into the depths of hell, one by one they'd drown and only few came to the surface. Himself, he was slowly drowning at this point. He could only snicker at the young girl's attempt to save him from himself. “ Whatever your gonna to say isn't going to help me. Nothing bloody damn will .So I don't know why bitch your so god damn persist to try. I forgot you're a girl that dreams she'll one day get what she wants.”

 

Kagome watched him steadily, as she grasped his knees harder to prove something, giving him hope to get out of this mess, he was thrown into. “ I don't believe I'll get what I want! You don't know enough to judge me. But I know enough about you. Why don't you try to start over and get out of this place?” He viciously swatted her hand away as it flew back towards her lap as be stood up tall. Kagome felt smaller than she ever dud, and it seemed she went out of her own way to help someone far beyond repair. She remained quiet like a young scared girl who was guilty of something. “ Start over? Feh, there was never a damn start and there will never be a finish. I don't think you've been here long enough to realize what position I'm in. No matter why I am, or who I'm with this will always remain my home. You can't run from something that is running after you. So there's no point of you running anymore.” Kagome sat there completely speechless as his head against his knees staring into nothing. “ So your giving up just like that!?” she screamed shaking him continuously as he freakishly turned his head towards her. “ I gave up a hell of a long time ago. There's no point of trying to help me.”

 

Both sat in dreaded silence he blankly stared at the walls, maybe it wasn't the greatest idea for her to try to rescue him it didn't look like he wanted to be. His head gradually lifted when he heard another door slam that was between they're hell and freedom. Every prisoner behind the cells awaited another victim to step down the hall when they heard the door. They heard heavy footsteps marching against the concrete floor as the heavy girl appeared the same women that brought Kagome to this hellhole. She slowly came out with trays of disgusting food heading towards Kagome's pitiful cell. “ Look like you made new friends.” She began to laugh as she placed the food down to the ground and he glared at her. “ I told you once I'm not eating this shit!” He smacked the tray once again in her face. Slowly a grin came from the corner of her beaten red lips. She grabbed him viciously by the shirt until his feet dangled off the ground. Kagome stood stunned as he fearlessly looking at the angered over weight women “ You dare say that again?!” Her massive hands grasped his shirt, hanging like a marionette on a string. “ I'm not eating this shit…or wanna stare at a ugly, manly ogre like you.”

 

Her face suddenly exploded red with massive anger as her eyes began to twitch. “ Than you can damn well starve to death!!!” Her hands began to beat against his face, the errie sound of her abuse hands against his flesh echoed through out the place. Kagome began to clamp her mouth in horrid, as tears ran down her cheeks. She wanted to look away, but instead her eyes remained opening watching every grueling beating he could possibly take. Her body began to shake, and her eyes were overfilled like water in a sink. She winced each time she could hear her fists pounding into him. And she realized this was only the beginning.

 

( Not all is lost so don't think that yet! Please R&R)

 

His body suddenly went limp, as laid on the concrete floor. Blood slowly began to seep from the corner of his mouth as the massive women could only laugh. Blood smeared on her fingertips and thought it was funny to watch him suffer in pain and agonany. “ This is what you get for being disobedient you good for nothing asshole. I took you in, I shelter you, gave you food in order to make you stay alive?! And for what??! To have an asshole like you telling me how things should be ran around here!! You ungrateful bastard!” Kagome remained curled in the corner, her legs laying aside as tears refused to stop glistening from her eyes. She felt helpless, she was afraid to step in and get involved in the same way he was. She knew he had guts to tell what was on his mind but it seemed the price you'd pay if you lived at the dysfunctional orphanage. Then again, she would be wasting her time for an arrogant ass, when she could be saving herself from this hellhole, he called “ Home”

 

Still he remained lifeless like a dead carcass ready for a predator to fed on his flesh, and his bones. “ Don't think because your injured I'm not going to be beat the shit out of you. You disrespecting son of a bitch!!” Her foot launched into the air hearing the grueling sound of him moaning that made her stomach twist, and turn to the point she was really sick. She could now see that she was truly living on her own in the most horrible way, nobody would believe. Her family, suddenly wiped on the face of the earth. Herself, banished to hell. She truly missed her young brother who always teased her. She missed her mother listening to her problems and caring for her all the time. Her grandfather telling stories from his era, it just wasn't the same. She couldn't run for help anymore, she had to fight on her own, no matter how bad everything was. But when it seemed to her she was, but she wasn't fully alone. There was him, even though she didn't see it.

 

“ I rather die on the street than be here!” She clearly could see herself always running late for school. Her friends gossiping about her life and romantic life. Her mother cooking dinner, giving advice to bring Kagome to her feet again. Her brother keeping her busy, and her grandfather as well. She felt happiness and pain, as she stared into nothing and began to realize..This wasn't a dream it never will be. She shook her head, when she could faintly hear a whisper of his voice calling to her, “ Kagome…” He quietly whispered. As his fingers tried to grasp the concrete floor in order to escape the brutal pain and torment he endured. The women's smile could break anyone into tears, she was gonna beat him until he was dead. Her heavy black boots, laid on his skull crushing into the ground as excess blood, painted the floor red. “ Hush little baby don't say a word!” She cruelly whispered, as her foot dug his skull harder into the thick ground. Kagome could only plug her ears each time he heard him moan. Shaken and scared, by the abusive women afraid she'd get the same fate if she stepped her foot in. “ Should I save him? He's always been a huge jerk to me, and never gave a damn about me! Why should I give a damn about him?” Kagome knew by watching he was already suffering, and he needed another chance. No matter how he acted towards her. He didn't deserve to live there and he sure as hell didn't deserve to die there either. Kagome nervously brought herself from the ground, as her hands viciously turned into fists having the guts to stand to a women who was suffering pain inside, herself.

 

Kagome flew open her arms like a bird in flight, blocking her view of the bleeding guy she truly didn't like but she knew didn't deserve this kind of treatment, nobody did. Her heavy boots laid against his skull, as a faint sign of hidden happiness came to his face when he realized Kagome was taking a big risk for him. She knew of the outcome, and she felt ready she didn't understand why though. She couldn't back down now, she already made herself apart of it with him and she wasn't gonna let the women until he abuse him until death. Kagome's eyes looked at her with hate and resent, that she could beat people the death and find it so amusing. Kagome changed into someone else the guy had never seen before. A side of Kagome that just unleashed before him. He knew her as timid and concerned and caring, but that side of her faded as she became a girl who had guts and strength to stand up to someone, that made him smile with delight. “ Don't you dare lay another hand on him…” Kagome angrily told her off even though she felt nervous and her heart was pounding through her chest as though it wanted to escape. The women gave a light laugh underneath her beaten lips, as her black boots placed away from him and she decided she would be the victim, until blood splattered from her mouth.

 

The girl's deep laugh echoed through out the orphanage, as the dripping pipes broke the silence. Her eyes narrowed at hers, as the others locked behind bars glued they're eyes to the fight forming with the young girl and the women who beat them to death, and displayed and called herself they're “ Mother.” It made Kagome sick she pretended to be they're mother. She knew mothers wouldn't damn well beat they're children they cared and cherished him. Until her, she could beat these teens to death with a swat of her manly hands, and a stomp of her boots. She placed her foot away from his skull she was about to snap in half pressuring his skull until he was buried into the ground. “ Ha, you telling me girl not to lay a hand on this worthless, pathetic excuse for a human being? I'm putting him out of his misery..” She went to raise her black combat boots again, as Kagome speeded her arms out further as she went to shove her by to beat the hell out of the guy who truly didn't deserve it.

 

“ Amusing that your sticking up for you worthless friend here…But you might have the guts so far missy, to stand up to me.. But consider yourself dead as well as he is. You can join him as well until I crush every living bone in your body for being disrespectful!!!”

 

Her arms lunged back like a arrow to a bow, smacking her face as Kagome's rolled down her cheeks effortlessly. She felt her feet give away from the ground she walked on, as her back hit roughly into the wall sliding down over the guy who was in pain and continued to bleed. Her hazel eyes were fogged, as her nose was bleeding like a fosses that continued to over flow. Her body laid limp and swollen, she couldn't even move her body she was in such much her pain. He watched her tears fall down her cheek onto his, as his rough hands slowly reached to her face with a dim smile he held underneath from the pain. Kagome's eyes awoken at that point, when she felt his unexpected touch that made her jump and her heart pound through her chest. He gently, titled her chin in towards his direction with a smile she couldn't ignore. “ Kagome..thank you…” She wasn't sure if she really heard him spoke those words, or her head was kicked in too many times thinking she was hearing things. His head lowered back to the ground, as something gave her the strength to attempt one last time to bring her down.

 

She knew if she didn't, he'd likely die in the cell and even though he didn't seem to care about his life, she could see it in his dark brown eyes that a glimpse of him wanted to. Kagome face had scars and blood as though it was painted all on her face, but it was completely real. She weakly brought herself from her knees and rose again with her feelings strong enough that she'd hopefully knock her down and this pain and torment would be so far over for the both of them. Her vision was fogged with tears, and her face was covered in blood but she didn't care anymore. She was trying to set things straight to the best of her ability, but it seemed to the women she had no fighting chance at all. “ You know your asking to get your face beaten into the ground… Once your back you..you'll be back down…”

 

Kagome feet dug into the ground further, as her fists began to shake with hate and resent that she ever brought her here to this hellhole. Kagome tightened her eyes and took a deep breath knowing this was the biggest risk she was taking and she made herself go through with it. “ You bitch, this is for hurting him…” Kagome screamed as she swung her fist towards her neck, as she smoothly grabbed Kagome's frail wrist throwing her back down as she yelped in pain and suffering. She had began to shake, as she tried to stand up again but helpless fell down like a injured animal trying to escape.

 

She held her wrist tightly that felt sprained, but her leg was broken for sure she could feel it. The way she landed was the wrong. Her leg looked twisted as she screamed in pain…helpless and defendenceless. The women's boots stepped in front of her eyes, as she began rubbing her sore, tender leg that she caused to break and snap. Kagome felt helpless and useless, she couldn't hold her own any longer. She knew now her hands were in the fate of the women's either to die or the suffer longer. Kagome hazel eyes looked at hers as her mouth laid open wide scared and shaking with fear. Her fear began to shine through to her, that gave her the satisfaction she needed to continue. “ You're a waste of time just like him aren't you? Your nothing..You'll be dead when through with you. To think in your right mind you had a chance to fight back…Your wrong..welcome to the world that never seizes to amaze me..”

 

Her hands grabbed Kagome's silky black hair in her palms tightly, as she lifted Kagome's feet off the ground as her feet kicked about as she was lifted higher into the air, unsure of her next beating she nervously awaited. She held her by the hair like she was a Barbie doll, giving out sobs each time her hair tightened in her fist. “ Kagome..don't give up.” She told herself, to keep her in the fighting spirit but she couldn't. Her body was dead down beaten, she wasn't able to do anything but watch and await the horrors the women had in store for her. “ Now you can understand that life isn't all fun and games…” She whispered slightly in her ear, as she swung her around as she smacked into the wall again harder. Shreds of her black strands of hair laid in her palms as Kagome couldn't get up this time.

 

“ Come on Kagome don't cry…There's no use crying anymore…Your giving her the satisfaction she wants…” Kagome thought, remembering the line the guy used telling her tears weren't worth the trouble here and he was right. She was left right out in the open, for anything she decided to pull on her. To Kagome she already had a tombstone that was written, awaiting her knowing her life was over right then and there. The light burned out of top of her, as the water continued dripping all over the floor as she shook in fear knowing she couldn't take another beating. He couldn't believe she was sticking up for him, who treated her like she was useless and meant nothing for the sort. His chocolate eyes opened wide watching her in pain but how she had managed to bring herself up and fight for herself and his own life. He knew she wasn't the girl she portrayed herself to be either, that left him in shock and wonder a timid girl like her could do that.