InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Don't Promises Last Forever? ❯ Explanations ( Chapter 3 )

Explanations

"Miroku! MIROKU!! Open up!!" Inuyasha pounded endlessly on Miroku's door. He needed some questions answered, and a very scared kid told him earlier today that Miroku would be the best bet to answer them.

"MIROKU!!"

"Alright! Alright! I'm coming." Miroku opened the door. "Inuyasha! Uh…What are you doing here?"

"Look, I just need some questions answered. I really am hoping you can help. People say you're Kagome's closest friend. Or one of them"

"Uh…yeah, I am, actually. Funny, you'd think Sango would be. Anyway." Miroku managed to stumble out. "Why don't you come in? I promise that if I can help you in any way, I will." Miroku usually wasn't this nice, especially about Kagome. He protected her like her younger sister. However, Inuyasha was Miroku's new friend, and also the new kid. It couldn't be anything that bad, could it?

Inuyasha walked in, and Miroku invited him to sit.

"I need you to tell me everything you can about Kagome. The year she went to my old school, she spoke of you endlessly. Please don't ask questions…I'll explain myself after."

Miroku was a bit shocked at this statement. "You know Kagome?"

"Yes." Inuyasha said impatiently. "But could you please, please, PLEASE just tell me?" Inuyasha hated this. He usually was not this desperate. He hated having to depend on others for information. But this was definitely the only way he could get the information without having to threaten someone.

"Uh…"Miroku said, taken aback, "Where do you want me to start?"

"At the very beginning."

"Ok…" Miroku sighed. "Well, Kagome and I have known each other since we were about 2, being our moms were childhood friends. Anyway, even at that age, she was a bitch and a half. She always got things her way, `cause she was the girl. No one I saw could resist her big eyes. She could cry on cue if she wanted. It was pretty amazing. She lived a while away from us, but somehow we became very close. She knew everything going on in my life, and vice versa.

"The one thing that plagued Kagome was that she moved. A lot. I don't remember there ever being a time where she stayed at an address for more than two years until she moved here. She became very withdrawn and uncomfortable in her skin during her elementary school years. She shrunk into her schoolwork and became completely lost in it. I'd never seen a girl with more drive to do well in school.

"Then one day, her mom informed her they were moving again, and that they were going to be starting school there in December."

"Yeah, that's where she met me." Inuyasha cut in.

~*Flashback*~

We see a younger Kagome, only 12 years old. She is very pretty, but her unease shows.

The teacher introduces her to the class, being the school year has already started, and she takes her seat next to a boy with long silver hair.

"Hi! I'm Inuyasha!" A 12-year-old Inuyasha says.

"Uh…hi. I'm Kagome. I'm new here…" the young Kagome says, very quietly, almost mouse-like.

"Yeah, I figured that one out. Hey-do you need help with your schoolwork? I can always help you catch up, if you need it."

"Yeah, I probably will…thanks!" says Kagome, a small smile on her face.

~*End Flashback*~

"I remember that year so well. You know, Inuyasha, I never heard the end of it about you from her that year. I was so jealous of you."

Inuyasha laughed. "Why, `cause she had a crush on me the size of Jupiter? I figured that one out in the first month she was there."

"No, actually, that's not it at all. It was because you had captured her heart in a way I never could. I don't know how you did it, but she was totally enraptured by you."

"Yeah. Well, that didn't end well. I wound up humiliating her in front of the whole school, and she swore she never wanted to look at my face again."

"I remember that phone call." Miroku mused.

~*Flashback*~

At Kagome's house, at about 2:30, the phone rang. A very stern voice sounded when Mrs. Higurashi answered the phone.

"Mrs. Higurashi?"

"Yes, that would be me."

"I'd like to inform you of a stunt your daughter decided to pull earlier today…"

Later that evening, at about 5:30, the same 12-year-old Kagome from earlier that year is in her living room, her stepfather drunk and livid with rage. Her mother told him of what happened earlier that day.

"I didn't do it! I didn't take my shirt off in front of the school! It was a trick! Inuyasha set me up!" the girl cried, trying to buy mercy. "I would never do that! Please! It wasn't my fault…" Her words were swallowed by sobs and the sound of flesh hitting flesh.

"You miserable slut!" The man grabbed her wrist tightly. She was trying to run, and he wasn't letting her leave. Not after what she'd done.

"You're a filthy wench." His words were not yelled, but spoken, cold as ice and stung like a needle. A punch landed on her shoulder. A faint crack could be heard. "You dishonor our family." Several hard slaps on each arm, sure to leave marks. "You can't do anything." He grabbed for a knife. "All you do is take off your clothes so men can look at you. You're a slut." He took the knife and made several deep gashes along her legs. But they weren't going just anywhere. Oh, no. He would make it so he was sure they'd scar. He opened her legs wide and made the slashes along the delicate skin of her inner thighs. He then pushed her away. "Get out of my sight, you filthy, good for nothing, useless, worthless, fucking, piece of crap, two-cent WHORE."

With that, she ran to her room, collapsing on her bed. She sobbed for a good 10 minutes, and then finally mustered the strength to reach for the phone that lay next to her bed. If you looked closer, you could see the bruises starting to form on her arms and the cuts on her legs were starting to clot, but they were swollen and red.

Her face, however, was unmarred. Her stepfather made sure of this. Kagome was very good at covering up her bruises and scars, but her face was the one thing that showed every day. The only way that you would see the hurt on her face after this night was if you asked her to repeat the words her father had said while he had beat her earlier.

She dialed the boys number, and sat, waiting.

"Miroku?" she asked, feebly

"Kagome, is that you?" we hear Miroku's voice on the other end, very scared.

"Miroku! It's horrible! I can't show my face in that school ever again!" Kagome broke down into tears again.

"Kagome, calm down. Talk to me. What happened?" we hear Miroku asked.

Kagome knew she would probably get hit again if anyone knew she was telling this boy what happened, but she didn't care. She needed to tell someone. She told him everything, about Inuyasha, about the small prank that left her topless in front of the entire school - including the principal. He called her mom, saying she was doing a strip-tease in front of the entire cafeteria, who told her stepfather. She repeated the entire scene with her stepfather and herself, lasting only long enough to get the last words out. She then broke down and started crying again.

The only thing that could be heard over the sobs was Miroku's soothing voice, "It's ok, Kagome, It'll all be ok…"

~*End Flashback*~

Inuyasha looked at Miroku in absolute horror. "I caused that?"

Miroku nodded. "Yeah, and the fact that you told her in front of the entire school that she was an ugly bitch and that you never wanted to see her again didn't help. But please, let me finish. You got yourself into this."

Inuyasha nodded, and shut up.

"Some weeks after that incident, Kagome called and told me that she would be moving here for 8th grade. She sounded so happy. And she was.

"8th grade was a very peaceful time for her. She made herself a small group of friends-Kikyou, Sango, herself, and Ayame. Kikyou was the most "life-experienced" of the group. A real party girl. Ayame was very smart, still is, and had an A-type personality. Still does. Drives countless people nuts. But it meant that she was naturally the leader. Sango was the most innocent and most sheltered by her parents. She learned a lot from those four. And then there was Kagome. Out of all four of them, she really changed the most that year. She went from a "tween" to a young woman. She became exremely pretty, even though she didn't think it. She finished 8th grade very happily.

"I think 9th and 10th grade were her worst years. She got a boyfriend, Kouga, in the middle of her freshman year. He was very, very possessive of her. Eventually, he wound up raping her about a year and a quarter into her relationship. She had never kissed him until then, and at that point, it was by force. The day I found out…"

~*Flashback*~

A fifteen year old Kagome comes running up to Miroku in tears. She buries her face in his chest and starts sobbing. It's the Monday morning after Valentine's Day, which was the day before. Classes have yet to start. Miroku is not totally recovered from the very *active* night he had the day before, but comes to his senses quickly when he feels this girl's tears dampening his chest.

"What happened?"

"Kouga…Valentine's Day…he…he…Miroku…he took it…he took it all…I tried to stop him…I couldn't…he was too strong…I broke up with him this morning, but…Miroku…he's mad at me…"

She managed to get this out before the wolf demon came storming into the cafeteria where Kagome and Miroku were standing. Not many people challenged the boy, because of his demon blood.

"Kagome! Get off of him and get over here!" Kouga was in a rage, and no one could stop him.

He walked very slowly to where the two friends were standing, and he leaned very close to Miroku.

"Get your filthy hands off of my girl." He said threateningly in a low growl.

"I'm not your girl." Kagome said very quietly.

A small chuckle escaped Kouga's lips, the hair he had pulled back in a ponytail jostling along with the slight shaking of his shoulders. "What?"

"She said she's not your girl, baka. I'm sure your hearing does not fail you, being you're a wolf demon." Miroku snapped, his arms around Kagome protectively.

"No - I want to hear it from her." Kouga growled, more threatening than ever. He wrenched Kagome from Miroku and turned her to face her. "Now, Kagome, what did you say?" his voice turned from a low growl to an almost baby-talk voice, but his eyes were full of rage.

Kagome's eyes were glued to the floor. "I said," Kagome stated, looking up, "I'm - not - your - girl!" And with that, she brought back her fist and gave him a beautiful left hook that left him lying on the ground, unable to get up.

~*End Flashback*~

"She never really was the same after that. She went into a depression for about two months, and then she came out of her shell as a tease beyond anything. She even managed to outdo Kikyou, the school slut. That girl wasn't pleased, being that Kagome didn't have to sleep with the boys in order to get their attention. All she had to do was wink.

"Somehow, she managed to ensnare everyone within two months, and those who forgot over the summer were reminded very quickly early on this year. She's legendary-almost. I think that's what she's planning this year."

"What, to become a legend?" Inuyasha asked.

"Yeah. You have to understand, she's been through a lot. More than you've seen. I proved that to you earlier. Remember today at lunch?"

"Uh-huh. I couldn't get you out of that trance she put you and the rest of the immediate area in if our lives depended on it. It annoyed me almost - that she would sell her body like that. Or even just show it off like it's a thing."

"That's who she is, Inuyasha. When she dances, though, look into her eyes. That's the only way you don't fall into her trance."

Inuyasha chuckled. "And why is this?"

"Because, when you look into her eyes, you see all of the pain and hurt and sadness she holds inside of her. It's amazing how the body can deceive the world, and the eyes can betray all of the secrets the heart and soul hold."