InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Runaways ❯ Fears and...Missing? ( Chapter 10 )

 

Runaways

 

Disclaimer: I may not own Inuyasha and his friends, but I do get to torture them!! **laughs evilly**

 

Recap:

“Please stay away..” she pleaded.

 

“Come on Kagome…what's wron..” Inuyasha froze when the scents of pain, fear, tears, blood and…sex suddenly hit him. How could he have missed it before!?

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“Don't act innocent, I know what you did with her. I've noticed that you lusted her 4 years ago. Why? Why did you betray me Naraku?!” She cried

 

Naraku pushed her away from him. “Leave me alone, Kikyou.” He growled.

 

Kikyou's face went deadly calm. “Very well, Naraku” She said before she walked out of the room. Inside she was seething, how could he do this to her?! After everything she had done for him, after all they've been through! How could he just dismiss her with out a second thought?

`This is all that little bitch, Kagome's, fault!!' she thought darkly. Well she would get her revenge soon. Kagome was going to pay for this with her life!!

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Inuyasha sat behind a tree not to far from the spring when the scent of her blood reached his nose. Inuyasha rush up too the bank of the spring to see her scrapping at her skin with her nails as blood dripped from every place they had touched. With out a second thought he ran in to the water and pulled her hands away from her skin. She let out a squeak as she started struggling against him.

 

“What are you doing, Kagome?!!” He said as she kept struggling against him.

 

“Please Inuyasha, I can still feel him on me, he's in my skin!! I have to get him off!!!” She cried as she tried desperately to get him to let go.

 

Inuyasha's eyes widened. He pulled Kagome against him into a bear hug, her arms trapped at her side's.

“Listen to me, Kagome. He is gone, he is not on you, he is not in your skin. He is gone!!” he said strictly.

Kagome started hyperventilating “No he isn't!! He'll come after me again and He'll take me away!!! I'll never be free!! He's going kill everyone I love and then take me!!!”

 

Inuyasha turned her to look at him directly in the eyes. “Kagome, He will never EVER touch you again, I swear I'll protect you for the rest of my life. I won't let him hurt our friend and I won't let him come near you. I swear this to you with all my heart, Kagome” He said determinedly. She stared into his eyes and grasped. He really meant it!!

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Fears and… Missing?

 

 

 

 

Back at camp everyone was sitting around the campfire with worried looks on their faces. Although they weren't nearly as worried as they were before Kirara had shown up and told Sesshoumaru and Shippou that Inuyasha and Kagome were safe, but they were worried nonetheless.

 

“O god, I hope that Kagome's ok, what's taking them so long!?” Rin said.

 

“Calm down Rin, I'm sure there's an explanation for this.” Sesshoumaru replied as he pulled her into his lap, casually hugging her back to his chest. Rin sighed in content but couldn't help but feel worried still. Inuyasha and Kagome had been gone for an hour now.

 

“OH MY GOD!! Kagome!!” Sango yelled when Inuyasha came into view from behind the trees. Sango, Rin and Shippou got up and ran to Inuyasha whom had Kagome in his arms asleep.

They all burst into questions at once.

 

“Is she ok?”

 

“What happened?”

 

“Why is she wearing your haori?”

 

“What happened to her clothes?”

 

“Be quiet, Will ya. You'll wake her up!!” Inuyasha hissed effectively silencing them.

Suddenly Shippou burst into tears as Sesshoumaru walked up to them with a dark look on his face. They knew what had happened to Kagome, they could tell from her scent.

Sango picked up the kit and patted his back soothingly as Rin looked at Sessh worriedly.

 

“What's wrong Sesshoumaru?” She asked as Inuyasha walked past everyone with his head down before he sat in front of the fire with Kagome still in his arms.

 

Silence….

 

She then looked at Inuyasha. “Inuyasha? What's wrong?”

 

Inuyasha kept his head down. “Rin…Naraku r-ra…. Kagome was r..ra…” He just couldn't say it, he felt like if he said it, it would be final. That there was nothing he could do about it.

 

The humans were looking at him worriedly.

 

Miroku gasped suddenly realizing what was happening. “Inuyasha, Please don't tell me what I think happened, happened.” He pleaded.

 

Inuyasha looked away from him guilt rushing threw his entire body. Miroku gasped as he slumped to the ground in shock. It had happened!! It had truly happened, the one thing they had promised Kagome they would prevent had happened!!!

Now Rin and Sango were going into a full out panic. Something was seriously wrong here and they had no idea what it was.

 

“W-what's going on!?” Sango asked fear coursing threw her.

 

“Sango, Kagome was…..” Inuyasha started.

 

“Say it Inuyasha, you have to say it or you'll never be able to help Kagome get threw it.” Sesshoumaru commanded.

 

Inuyasha looked at them with sorrow filled eyes. “Sango, Rin…. Kagome was r-raped”

 

Sango and Rin gasped in utter shocked horror as the world around them seemed to freeze.

 

“NO.. You're lying…” Rin breathed in shock then shouted “How can you lie about something like that!!! NO!! I REFUSE TO BELIEVE IT!!” Inuyasha visibly flinch.

 

Sesshoumaru pulled her away from him and into his arms. “I'm sorry Rin, but it happened.”

 

Rin looked up at him with tear filled eyes “But why!? Why her?! Why is it always her!?” She cried as she buried her face into his chest.

 

Sesshoumaru tightened his grip around her. “I don't know, Rin. I just don't know.”

 

“This is all my fault….” Inuyasha said barely above a whisper, still looking down at a sleeping Kagome in his arms. “What am I going to do? She must hate me.”

Rin and Sango gasped.

 

“Stay by her side, that is all you can do, Inuyasha. And from what I have seen, Kagome could never hate you.” Sesshoumaru said. Inuyasha looked up at him.

 

“He's right Inuyasha, I think you should be more worried about her thinking that you hate her.” Sango said.

 

Shock reached Inuyasha's face. “But I could NEVER hate her!!”

 

“I know that, but Kagome might not. One of the reasons why she wouldn't tell you before was because she was afraid that you would reject her because of it.”

 

`Stop playing this little game Kagome, I know about you and Naraku and I will never forgive you for it. I HATE YOU, KAGOME!! I NEVER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN!!!'

 

Inuyasha shuttered. It all made sense now. Why she had kept what Naraku did away from him. Why she looked so…so crushed when he had said he hated her, the complete hopelessness in her voice before she had fled. It was because he had truly made one of her worst fears come true, and what's worse, Naraku got her because of it. Because of his stupidity, he had handed Kagome over to Naraku on a silver platter and Kagome was the one to pay the price.

 

“What have I done…” Inuyasha chocked.

 

Sango looked up, tears streaming down her face. “You're not the only one to blame. I should have followed her. If I had, this would have never happened.”

 

Miroku walked up behind her and pulled her into his arms. “No your wrong, Sango. If you had followed her… you'd have probably been killed and then we would have lost both of you. If it was anyone's fault it's mine.”

 

Sango gasped. “What are you talking about, Miroku!?”

 

He looked to the ground sadly. “I should have been able to sense Naraku was near by, but I hadn't. And I put us all in danger because of it.”

 

Inuyasha stood up abruptly and glared at him. “Keh!! Shut up monk, Kagome didn't sense him either, remember? He must have had a barrier up. This is no one's fault but my own.”

 

Everyone looked away from him guiltily and looked down at Kagome and noticed she was bleeding through Inuyasha's haori. Sango and Rin gasped, ran to her side and pulled the haori open slightly causing them to gasp again. They hadn't seen the full extant of her injuries. They had assumed that her broken nose and bloodied lip was the worst of the damage but boy were they wrong. Although what worried them the most was the smaller claw marks that didn't match Naraku's bigger ones. Were they self-inflicted?

 

With shaky hands, Sango ran her finger's across them. “Inuyasha… Were did these come from?” She asked. Sesshoumaru, Miroku and Shippou looked over her shoulder and shuttered slightly at the sight of her. Everyone turned to look at Inuyasha expectantly.

 

“She thought that Naraku had gotten into her skin…” he said while looking down at the ground. Everyone gasped.

 

“You mean… She did that to her self!!” Miroku gasped as he pointed at the claw marks that went down her arms and across her stomach. Inuyasha nodded his head solemnly, sending fresh tears down Rin and Sango's cheeks.

 

“What if she becomes suicidal!!” Rin cried making Shippou burst into tears as well.

 

“ENOUGH!!! Everyone needs to stay calm. Now we are all going to have to be extra careful with Kagome. Someone must be with her at all times. She is going to be at a very fragile state when she wakes and we all have to be there to comfort her. Do not bring up Naraku for any reason. Am I understood” Sesshoumaru commanded. Everyone looked at him in shock and shook their heads slowly.

 

“Good. Now we all need a good nights rest. We can't help Kagome If we can't even take care of ourselves.” He stated.

 

“Ok but first Rin and I need to bandage Kagome up.” Sango added. He nodded in agreement, so Sango and Rin gently started to wrap her up in bandages that they got from the first aid kit in her back pack. When they were finished, Rin noticed that Kagome was shivering. She folded her sleeping bag around her tightly but Kagome didn't stop shivering. Rin then looked at Inuyasha, Kagome was going to need someone's body heat and she couldn't think of anyone better than Inuyasha.

 

“Inuyasha? Could you sleep with her tonight?”

 

Inuyasha just stared at her like she was mad.

 

“She's shivering, Inuyasha. She needs your body heat.” She sighed. Inuyasha's eyes softened and he nodded slightly making Rin sigh in relief. She was just glad she didn't have to have him knocked out to do it. She walked towards her sleeping bag. Everyone else were already in theirs. Rin snuggled into her bed and looked at her friends one last time before she fell asleep.

 

She should not have lived this long,

Yet something held her there,

But she had to do something

about the overwhelming despair.

 

She couldn't take her life,

It was way to selfish an act,

But she needed to be free of this world,

before what she hid came back,

 

Their was just to much pain,

She had to let it go,

Before the hatred took over,

And consume her very soul,

 

But she had forgotten,

And the dam she built broke down,

In flooded all her memory's,

to over whelm her till she drowned.

 

Her heart wrenching screams

Remained on deaf ears,

As she was being devoured

By her very worst fears.

 

(by me Neko_angel666 aka Angela Perri!!)

 

The sun rose slowly over the horizon bathing the runaway's camp in light were everyone was sleeping peacefully, except Kagome. Kagome sat silently next to a sleeping Inuyasha and stared at the rising sun but she wasn't really seeing it. Her mind was running rapidly, everything was rushing through her brain. The past 4 years of her life, last night, everything! It all made her want to scream, but she wouldn't. It was as if she said anything, the pain would take over and everything would come to an end. So instead she just took a deep breath. She needed to stay calm, if not for herself, for her friends.

 

“Kagome?” She turned around to see Shippou looking at the ground sadly.

 

“Are you ok?” he asked softly. She smiled at him and pulled him into her arms, cuddling him against her.

 

He looked up at her. “Kagome?”

 

She just shook her head and nodded towards the sunrise, he looked over at it.

 

“Yeah…It's pretty, isn't it?”

 

She just nodded her head. He looked at her oddly. Why wasn't she saying anything? But he just shook it off and looked back at the sunrise, it was really beautiful.

Moments later everyone started to stir. The first thing Inuyasha saw when he opened his deep gorgeous gold eyes (A/n: *drools* his eye are so hot…ahem...among other things) was his beautiful Kagome bathed in sunlight cradling a now peacefully sleeping Shippou. It was a breath taking sight. Images of her holding a baby with cute little doggy ears and sliver hair entered his mind making him blush deeply. He shook the thought out of his head, sat up and wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her against his chest.

Kagome tensed up but when she felt the familiar aura of her one and only love wrap around her she relaxed instantly.

 

“Are you ok Kagome?” He whispered in her ear, she just nodded her head. Inuyasha frowned slightly.

 

“Are you sure?” She nodded again.

 

“Hey Kagome, You're awake!!” Sango said from her sleeping bag. Everyone was awake and staring a Kagome now, making Inuyasha scowl at the intrusion but it vanished when he heard Kagome sigh and watched as she only nodded her head. He looked over at Sesshoumaru whom had the same worried expression. Why was she acting so strange?

 

Sesshoumaru pulled himself out of his sleeping bag along with Rin, whom had crawled in with him late that night, and looked at Inuyasha. “ Shall we hunt for breakfast?” He asked him.

Inuyasha looked down at Kagome, silently asking her if it was ok. she nodded. With a slightly frustrated sigh, he got up and followed Sesshoumaru into the woods. This was going to be a long day.

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After an uneventful breakfast, their little group started back on the trail. If they were lucky they would reach the closest city by sundown. Kagome was having a hard time walking with her injuries though, so in an effort to help her and go faster, Inuyasha was now carrying her on his back. He was a little peeved that she hadn't asked him to earlier, he didn't want her to hurt herself, but after 4 hours of walking and her not uttering a word, everyone soon realized that something wasn't right. They had asked her questions all day, constantly asking if she want to stop to rest or if she was ok, but all she ever did was nod or shake her head.

It just wasn't right!! Kagome was always the talkative one. She was always so bubbly and happy, she was the one whom always seemed to keep their spirits high but today she wasn't the same Kagome they had always known and loved and because of that, everyone was brought down in to a slight depression.

They were all walking silently down the trail, every once in a while someone would sigh deeply. This wasn't a good thing at all. If they weren't talking, they were thinking and with what happened to all of them lately, their thoughts weren't exactly the happiest thoughts in the world.

Suddenly in the irony of it all, the sky opened and cold rain poured down on them, a clash of thunder adding to the effect.

 

“Eek!!” Rin screeched and ran under a tree for some sort of cover from the rain.

 

“What are we going to do?” Sango said over the roar of the down pour. (A/n: Heh… that rhymes!!**giggles**)

 

“There's a cave near by, we can take shelter there.” Inuyasha said. Everyone nodded and followed him to the cave. It only a few minutes before the cave came into view. Everyone rushed into the cave and sighed in relief.

 

“So much for making into the city before sundown” Miroku mused, everyone glared at him.

 

“Hey, where's Shippou?” Sango asked. Kagome jumped from Inuyasha back and looked around the cave frantically. Where was Shippou?!

 

Everyone silently watched as Kagome's eyes widened in panic but before anyone could do or say anything to comfort her, Kagome turned and rushed out of the cave into the pouring rain.

 

“KAGOME!!” They called before they to ran into the rain after her.

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