InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ JOURNEY ❯ Chapter 29 ( Chapter 29 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Disclaimer: All characters pertaining to the show InuYasha are owned by Rumiko Takahashi. I am not making any money from this...the only thing that I am getting out of this story is the satisfaction of knowing that other people enjoy my writing. All original characters are my creation and belong to me...as does the plot and storyline.
 
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This chapter contains discussion of incest and rape, though not very detailed, and also contains violence and murder. READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION.
 
 
Chapter 29
 
Several hours after the sun went down, Kikyo and Kagome ventured into the rest of the house. Naraku had still not returned. The snow from outside was beginning to blow in through the broken windows and the temperature was dropping rapidly. They decided that they needed to find a way to keep warm, or neither one of them were going to last the night. Kikyo was more concerned about keeping Kagome and the baby warm than anything. There was a fireplace in the living room, and judging by the ashes in it, Naraku had been using it to cook and keep warm. There was pile of firewood and matches by the front door, so Kikyo started a fire and they huddled together in front of it.
 
Kagome nodded off some time later, only to have Kikyo wake her up. “I know you're tired, but you can't go to sleep. You might not wake up. It's too cold in here.” She got up and grabbed some more logs to throw on the fire and then crawled back under the blankets with Kagome.
 
“Kikyo,” Kagome asked quietly, “why are you helping me?”
 
“Because it is the right thing to do. I feel really bad about this. He would have never found you if I hadn't told him about the letters, so in a way this whole mess is my fault. If I had known that that he had tried to rape you too, I would have never told him.” She paused briefly.
 
“What do you mean - me too?”
 
Kikyo didn't answer.
 
“You mean...?”
 
Kikyo nodded as the tears began to stream down her cheeks. “Him and his dad too...For about eight years...until I was 15...Mom was always too drunk to pay any attention.”
 
“When you were only seven?” Kagome felt her heart reach out to Kikyo. What kind of chance had she really been given for a normal life when her older brother and step-father had started raping her when she was only six or seven?
 
“When I was 15, one of them got me pregnant. I ran away and had an abortion, and never went back. I ran into him a few years ago, and he seemed to have changed, so I decided to give him a chance...I guess he never really changed at all.”
 
“I'm so sorry, Kikyo.” Kagome reached over and put her arm around Kikyo. She felt really bad for her and found that it was a lot easier to forgive her now that she knew what she had been through.
 
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Sesshomaru drove steadily through the blinding snow, his knuckles white against the steering wheel. No one said a word. There was nothing to be said. The worry was evident on their faces. Souta turned on the CB radio in the truck and called a message to the sheriff's department. There was no answer. Suddenly, they heard a loud cracking sound. They watched in horror as a large pine tree snapped in half with the weight of the snow and came crashing down in front of them. Sesshomaru swerved to miss it and wound up getting stuck in the ditch. As the sun began to color the morning sky, they got out and tried to push it back onto the road, to no avail.
 
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Both Kagome and Kikyo had dozed off by the time the sky began to lighten. The fire had begun to dwindle, but was still burning brightly in the mantle.
 
“Well, ain't this touching,” came a gravelly voice from behind them. They jolted awake to find Naraku standing in the front door. The girls both stood, still huddled in the blankets. Naraku leered at them, brandishing a large knife. He pointed the knife a Kagome. “You're gonna pay for this, bitch,” he said as he pointed at the scar on his face. She could see that the cut had gotten infected and had scarred horribly.
 
“I'm not gonna let you hurt her, Naraku,” Kikyo said as she placed herself between him and Kagome.
 
“You ain't gonna do shit. You ain't gonna have shit, `cause when I'm through with her, I'm gonna kill Sesshomaru too. They are gonna pay for what they did to me.”
 
“You deserved it Naraku. For all the things you did to me and for all the other girls you raped....you deserved it,” Kikyo said, still keeping herself between him and Kagome. She put her hand behind her and began steadily moving Kagome towards the kitchen.
 
Naraku moved towards them as they backed into the kitchen. Kagome made a play for the back door as Kikyo grabbed a chair from the abandoned table and used it like a bat, swinging it at Naraku and knocking him to the floor. Kagome opened the back door and went out into the knee deep snow, followed closely by Kikyo.
 
They moved as fast as they could to the side of the house, hoping that Naraku had been stupid enough to leave the keys in the truck. No such luck. Blood splattered the snow as Naraku swung the knife at Kikyo, slicing her throat with one clean movement. Kagome reached into the back of the truck and grabbed a tire iron and swung it. She hit his left forearm. She heard the bones crack from the impact, forcing him to drop the knife as he howled in pain. As he dropped in agony, she kicked him in the face and sent him sprawling backwards. Then she turned to make a run for the road.
 
She was willing to take her chances of freezing to death, but she would not let him kill her. If she was going to die, she decided she would rather freeze than be sliced to pieces. She felt a sharp pain in her left calf. She looked down to see that there was a knife protruding from both sides of her leg. She collapsed, grabbing the tire iron. Naraku pulled the knife free and moved to stab her in the chest, but she swung the tire iron and hit him in the head. As he dropped like a brick, the knife plunged into her belly. She pulled herself from beneath him and used the truck to push herself to her feet. Then she grit her teeth and began to drag herself along what she thought was the road, back towards town. She only made it about ten yards before she fell face first into the snow.
 
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The county sheriff pulled up to Sesshomaru truck about 40 minutes after they went off into the ditch. He had gone to the post office to get his mail and found the mail from the TwoWolves Ranch scattered all over the floor and blood on the mailbox. He had guessed there was trouble. He had radioed the ranch and Sesshomaru's father had told him what had happened, so he came out to meet them with a bulldozer, hoping to help them in their search. He had been out all night clearing the roads in and around town, so once they got the truck out of the ditch, it was smooth sailing.
 
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The sun broke the horizon as Sesshomaru's truck and the sheriff's car approached the abandoned house. There was no sign of movement. The men all loaded their guns and made their way towards the house. The front door was open. The sheriff went in first. And finding no one in the house, came back out. As they made their way around the house, they saw Kikyo's body lying in the snow. They rushed over to it, but she was the only one there. There had obviously been a fight, and judging by the location of the other patches of blood, both Kagome and Naraku were injured. Inu nudged Sesshomaru and pointed out into the field. There was a trail of blood leading away from the house near the road. The men followed it until they saw a body.
 
It was Naraku. He was still alive, though his head was bleeding profusely. Sesshomaru ran to him and grabbed him by the coat, hauling him to his feet.
 
“Where is she?” He screamed.
 
Naraku only laughed and pointed.
 
Sesshomaru followed Naraku's finger with his eyes. About ten yards away began a trail of blood in the snow. Somewhere, at the end of that trail, was Kagome. Sesshomaru dropped him and ran for her, followed closely by the others.
 
Her eyes were wide open and her clothes were soaked with blood. Sesshomaru dropped to his knees and scooped her up. There was a gaping wound in her stomach and a large gash on her left calf. Her skin was clammy and she was hardly breathing. Tears poured like rain from his eyes as he cradled her to him. He handed her to Souta and picked up his gun. Souta, Nathan and the sheriff headed back to the squad car with her to get her warm. Sesshomaru and Inu walked over to Naraku, looked him square in the eyes. They both chambered a round in their shotguns. Two shots echoed simultaneously across the frozen landscape. They left him there and never looked back.
 
 
TBC...
 
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