InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Deep Wounds ❯ Runaway ( Chapter 6 )

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"I'm not having sex with him! He IS my friend!" she blurted out suddenly.

"So he was here. I can't believe the kind of things you would sink to, and in MY house no less." growled the older woman. Kagome became quite afraid and found herself backed against the wall, staring up into the angry face of her mother. The woman slapped her hard across the face. Instead of beating her, she simply turned and walked away, leaving the girl to cower there for a moment.

Anime/Manga: InuYasha Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Romance / Drama | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 08.20.2005 | Updated On: 08.20.2005 | Pages: 4 | Words: 5.7K | Visits: 877 | Status: Completed

InuYasha could hear birds chirping outside and the fuzzy crackle from the television as he slowly opened his eyes. He realized that he must have fallen asleep while hanging out with Kagome the night before and had to still be there. He looked around and found that he was lying on the couch with Kagome snuggled close against him. Her long hair was in her face, but he could see that she was smiling in her sleep. This made him happy as he looked away from her to Shippo.

The little boy lay down at the opposite end of the couch. His mouth gaped open. One of his arms lay over his eyes while the other sat on his belly. One leg was draped over the arm of the couch while the other hung off the side. It was a cute sight and InuYasha couldn't help but chuckle.

The older boy let out a large yawn and pulled his arm free from Kagome. He pulled down his sleeve and saw that it was nearly eight-thirty in the morning. His eyes went wide and he realized that they were all late for school. Quickly he crawled his way out from underneath the still sleeping girl and then shook her lightly.

“Five more minutes.” she mumbled in her sleep before rolling over and covering her head with a pillow.

“If I give you five minutes, that will make us even later.” he told her as he pulled the pillow away. She eventually sat up and looked at him, not understanding him at first.

“Holy shit! We're late for class.” she said suddenly, placing a hand on her head as her eyes went wide with realization. “Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit.”

“Calm down.” he told her as he placed a hand on her shoulder. “We can go and make it in time for second hour, but I have to drop Shippo off at daycare beforehand.”

“Okay. Okay.” she said, calming down a little more. “I'll just go and change and be back in a minute.”

“All right.” he said as she dashed up the stairs and out of sight. He then turned his attention to the little boy who had been woken by Kagome's outburst. Shippo yawned widely and rubbed his eyes before sleepily looking at his uncle.

“What's going on?” he asked in a tired voice, yawning yet again.

“Me and Kagome have to go to school. I'm gunna drop you off at daycare.” he said to the child before pulling on his shoes. A moment later Kagome returned to the living room in a loose pair of black jeans and a dark blue shirt underneath a black track jacket with rainbow strips of fabric lined vertically on it. He noticed that her face now appeared to be completely unmarred and the cut near on her head was hidden by her hair.

“You ready?” she asked, pulling on her own shoes as well. She noticed the puzzled look on his face. “It's really good cover-up.”

“Oh.” he mouthed silently and he put Shippo's shoes on the boy and picked him up carefully, as he had fallen back asleep. “Let's go.”

The two left and dropped Shippo off at a daycare on Main Street before backtracking and making it to school in time for the lunch bell to ring. They didn't bother to go into the school, but instead hung out in the front courtyard. It wasn't until the lunch hour was nearly expired when they came face to face with trouble. They had been walking down the hall to their respective classes. InuYasha had planned on dropping Kagome off before ditching for the hour and hitting his class after that. However, things didn't necessarily turn out that way.

“Hey punk.” said a voice as InuYasha and Kagome both got shoved from behind.

“We still have a score to settle with you, and this time the teachers ain't around to stop this.” spoke another. Kagome looked up and saw Naraku, Kikyo, and their obnoxious posse gathering around them. She really didn't want to have to put up with that again. However, very few times did things happen the way she wanted them. InuYasha got up to his feet and pulled Kagome up as well before placing himself in front of her. Before they knew it, Naraku and them were diving at the two.

Kagome felt herself getting slammed in her side an instant before smashing hard into one of the lockers. She fell to the ground after that and felt someone kicking her in the ribs as she tried to get to her feet. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw InuYasha pinned to a locker across the hall. Though he was fighting with all of his might, he couldn't get free of their grip and had to withstand the beating.

Kagome got up and saw Kikyo with her fist balled. She dived for the girl, but Kagome was to face and Kikyo stumbled and did a face plant. Kagome jumped at her and sat on her back, yanking on the witch's hair and clawing at her face. Kikyo screamed and one of her friends managed to throw Kagome off.

“Bitch, I'm going to kill you.” Kagome hissed, diving for her once again, but the bell rang. Naraku, Kikyo, and the rest of them left the two beaten teens to tend to take care of themselves.

Kagome got to her feet again and walked over to where InuYasha sat leaning against a locker. She scurried over to him and helped him to his feet. His lower lip was cut open and bleeding and by the pained grunts he made, she knew his ribs would be bruising soon.

“Are you okay?” she asked in a very concerned tone as they walked to class.

“I'm fine. What about you?” he replied as he wiped the blood off on his sleeve.

“I'm good.” she said with a discontent sigh. “I just hate them so much. I don't know why they do this.”

“Because they're assholes with no conscience.” he spat as they stopped just outside her classroom.

“I'll see you after school, okay?” she said, giving him a light hug around the neck.

“Yea.” he said as he tottered off to his own class, waving behind him vaguely.

---Monday Evening---

InuYasha and Kagome had picked up Shippo from daycare on their way home, but they couldn't stay. InuYasha had to go in to work that afternoon and though Kagome had offered to watch the adorable child, InuYasha insisted she relax for the rest of the night. She didn't put up a protest and the two left, with Shippo going to stay with one of their elderly neighbors who were more than glad to watch the boy, if only for the companionship.

Now, the teen was returning home, feel utterly exhausted and wanting nothing more that to collapse on his bed. He dug through his pocket to grab his keys, holding onto the doorknob with one hand, but found that the door had already been unlocked. This sent a cold chill down his spine and he slowly opened the door, pushing it open and then backing away in case some attacker lurked inside.

When he heard no noise, he cautiously made his way into the apartment, quickly flipping on the light and illuminating the room in a dull glow. What he saw made the chill he felt only deepen and he became scared. More scared than he would have liked to have been as well. However, he didn't let this stop him as he went about the apartment, searching the rooms, first his own so he could grab the baseball bat he kept just in case something like this were to happen. Unfortunately, it usually did.

There was no one there and he went back to the couch, dropping the bat on the floor and holding his head in his hands as he mentally surveyed what he had found. The cupboards in the kitchen had been invaded and most of the dry foods had been thrown onto the floor. The fridge and freezer were left open, causing the ice in it to melt and make a mushy mess of the food on the floor. The chairs had been thrown into the living room and the table knocked over. The few pans the owned were dented even worse than when they had bought them second hand.

His schoolbag was hanging from the ceiling fan and had slowly been spinning around the room. The books, papers, and other thing he had kept in there had been thrown all over the room. The coffee table had the legs unscrewed and spread across the apartment.

In his room, the blankets had been slashed and thrown off the bed. The mattress was flipped on its side and one of the legs on the bed frame had been bent. The clothes in his closet were pulled off the hangers and his drugs had been stolen as well. His dresser drawers were pulled out and the clothes they had once held were spread across the room. Shippo's room had been no better.

The bathroom had been desecrated as well. The toothpaste had been squeezed onto the mirror, the floor, and whatever else could be reached. The bristles in the toothbrushes had been cut off and the shampoos and conditioners were squirted all over everything as well. It was absolutely disgusting and InuYasha felt like pounding his fist into the wall. That was how upset he was.

Finally, after those few moments, InuYasha got up to get Shippo from the neighbor. He had to let the boy know that they would have to be leaving again. It would crush the small boy, not to mention himself. Shippo had finally managed to make a few friends at the daycare, and then there was Kagome. He couldn't think of leaving her in the mess that she was in. However, he could bear to think of endangering her by bringing her into their mess.

When they got back, Shippo had become upset and nervous, knowing that his father had found them again. However, InuYasha reassured the child and told him that nothing bad would happen to him. They picked up Shippo's room and the boy was tucked into bed, though InuYasha wondered if he would even be able to sleep that night knowing that they were in danger yet again.

The rest of the night, InuYasha picked up the mess his brother had left behind for him to clean, just like he always did. It wasn't until three in the morning or something close to that, that the fatigued teen finally got to go to sleep for as short of a time that he had to do so.

---Friday: After School---

Somehow the three had survived the rest of the week with no trouble brought to them and Kagome's bruises had faded away. After getting payback, Kikyo and her boyfriend had left Kagome and InuYasha well enough alone. The two had been spending a lot of time together, with Shippo as well. The three spent a lot of time at Kagome's house watching her collection of movies or hanging out in the local park, where Shippo would chase the seagulls and scream at the top of his lungs, which only made the two teens laugh.

InuYasha enjoyed the time he spent with Kagome, even though it was also a good way to be out of the apartment for a long while everyday. However, their visit would have to be shortened as Kagome's family would be returning from their trip any time now. InuYasha wrote down his address in case she'd ever need it, then bid them farewell and began cleaning up the messes they had made over the duration of the week.

She scrubbed floors and vacuumed every room in the house. She washed dishes and did laundry. It was her greatest hope that day that her mother wouldn't find something wrong and would ignore her for a while. She planned on keeping up on her chores. Never again did she want to receive a beating. She could hear the van pulling into the driveway just as she was finishing and scurried to let the water from the sink and straightened up the pillows on the couch.

She flopped down onto the couch and grabbed one of her school books, pretending to be studying as the woman and her brother came parading through the door. Cautiously the girl looked up at the woman and then back at the page, noticing the book was upside down and flipped it over before it could be noticed.

“Well, it looks like you've kept this house in decent shape.” the older woman said dispassionately as she walked into the kitchen to get something to drink. Souta didn't even acknowledge the girl, but simply darted up the stairs to his toys and games.

“How was your trip?” Kagome asked meagerly, trying to sound obedient so the woman wouldn't be suspicious.

“It was fine. Now get up off your lazy ass and go wash our clothes.” the woman replied sharply, shooing the girl off the couch and turning on the television. Without saying a word, Kagome disappeared out of the door to get their bags from the car. However, when she came back inside a few minutes later, she could see an unhappy look on her mothers face when the older woman glanced at her.

Kagome pretended not to notice and went into the laundry room with the bags and started up a load of laundry. Once it was in the machine, she hopped up on top and sat there to wait for it to finish washing. She sighed and hoped that the two would go away again soon so she would be able to spend more time with InuYasha and Shippo.

She heard the door to the laundry room open and saw her mother walking in, holding a familiar looking black jean jacket. Slowly she climbed down from the washer, remembering that InuYasha had accidentally left it there when they had gotten up late on Monday and he had never gotten it back.

“I found this nice jean jacket under the couch.” the woman said, letting it drop to the ground at her feet. “It's not yours, I know that.”

“It is.” Kagome lied, but wasn't able to look the woman in the face. She bent down to pick it up, but received a good kick in the gut.

“You little lying bitch.” spat the woman, grabbing Kagome by the hair. “It smells like men's cologne.”

“I let one of my guy friends wear it today.” she said, lying again.

“Lies, lies, lies!” hissed the woman as she shoved Kagome back and threw the jacket at her. “You don't have any friends. I know whose it is though. It's that one boy who came over looking for you the other day. Him and that red-headed brat. So, start telling me the truth by answering this: HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN FUCKING HIM?”

“I'm not having sex with him! He IS my friend!” she blurted out suddenly.

“So he was here. I can't believe the kind of things you would sink to, and in MY house no less.” growled the older woman. Kagome became quite afraid and found herself backed against the wall, staring up into the angry face of her mother. The woman slapped her hard across the face. Instead of beating her, she simply turned and walked away, leaving the girl to cower there for a moment.

When she finally gathered the courage to leave the laundry room, she found her mother sitting at the kitchen table. The woman was sipping a cup of coffee and going through the mail from the week. From the corner of her eye, she saw Kagome watching her in fear and smirked to herself before saying, “Go up to your room and stay there, and don't think you're getting off so easy.”

Kagome jumped when she realized she'd been seen and made a mad dash for her bedroom. Once there, she shut the door behind her and flopped onto her bed, curling up with one of her pillows. A few minutes later, as she lay there wondering what kind of tortures she would soon be receiving, she heard footsteps outside her door. She felt her whole body stiffen in fear, but found that no one entered. She heard a gentle rapping against the door and something clicked before the footsteps retreated back down the hallway.

Shocked, Kagome got up from her bed and went over to the door. She carefully turned the knob and tried to open the door, but found that her mother had attached a lock to the outside of her door so she could not escape. It was a heavy key lock and only allowed her enough spaced to slip an arm through, but nothing more.

With a sigh, she knew she was trapped and shut the door again. Silently she walked over to her window and stared out; wishing more than anything that she could reach InuYasha somehow and he would come to save her. Then a tremendous and skillful idea popped into her head. She thinks that I'm so scared of her still. She'd never expect that I'd try to escape. All I have to do is wait until she and Souta are asleep and then I'll go out the window.

A devilish smirk spread across her face as she ran to her bed and crawled underneath, shoving out two large duffel bags before emerging herself. She set them on her bed and opened them up before going to her dresser. She took out drawer after drawer of clothes before she had them all inside the first duffel. It was completely filled by the time she was done, so she took it and set it below her window.

She took the second duffel and dropped it to the floor after that. She yanked off her comforter and shoved it in the bag along with her pillows, then went and gathered up all of her make-up, jewelry, and other little items in a smaller bag and wedged it in between the two pillows. She zipped that one up as well and set it next to the first before waiting for her family to go to sleep.

---Friday: 11:03 PM---

Kagome placed an ear against her door and listened as the door across from hers closed with a small squeak. Her mother had finally gone to bed and she could get away from the retched woman and her horrid little brother. She got up and carefully snuck to her window, sliding it open carefully. She grabbed her bags and let them drop onto the grassy lawn below. Just as she was about to jump out herself, she realized that her school books, as well as InuYasha's address, were downstairs.

She slapped herself on the forehead and slid back in before going over to the door. She opened it and saw that everything outside her room was dark. She examined the lock and realized it was the one normally kept on the side door of the garage. She had to pick said lock more than once when she had forgotten her house key or when Souta thought it would be a nice idea to lock her out.

She ran over to her vanity and grabbed a few useless bobby pins she'd left sitting there and went back to the door. Carefully, she stuck her arms out and after a few arduous minutes of fumbling with the lock, it slowly clicked open and she was able to pull it off and fully open her door. She hung the lock from her belt loop and crept out of her bedroom. She made it all the way into the living room with ease, managing to get her school bag and the address without much trouble.

She made her way back up the stairs so she could put the lock back on the door before escaping, but soon found herself coming face to face with her mother, who held a loaded shotgun in her hands. Kagome froze, not sure what do. She couldn't run, not with her mother holding that gun.

“Where the hell do you think that you're going?” her mother said. The woman's hair hung in a mess around her face and she was in her bathrobe and slippers, but Kagome had never been more afraid of her than she was at that moment. Then Kagome remembered the lock and grabbed it off of her belt and chucked it at her mother, hitting her on the head and leaving the woman dazed long enough for Kagome to make it into her own room.

She slammed the door shut and ran for the window, jumping out and grabbing onto a branch of the nearby tree. As she was shimmying down, her mother made it into her room and to her window. She saw the girl swinging from the branches and fired a shot just above her head. Kagome screamed and let go, dropping the few short feet to the ground.

She snatched up her bags and ran as fast as she could down the street, turning the corner and looking for somewhere to hide. A short way away there was a house with a large wooden fence. She started running again, making it to the house and opening the gate before closing it quickly. The fence wasn't tall enough to hide her completely, but to her luck, there were several hedges planted along the fence.

Kagome threw her bags in before going in after them. Her chest heaved from exhaustion at having to carry all of her bags and having to run at the same time. She sat there a few moments, unsure of what to do when she heard someone approaching. There was a knothole in the fence and she was able to glance out to see her mother standing there and looking around. She still held the shot gun and Kagome's breath caught in her throat until the woman continued on down the street and around the other corner.

Kagome sighed in relief before she got up and retrieved her bags from the hedges. All of a sudden, a jolt of lightning flashed across the sky, followed by earthshaking thunder that brought torrents of rain down on the girl. She simply groaned and left the yard, making her way back the way she had come. She was finally away from her mother, and she began to wonder what that would be like.