InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Stay With Me ❯ Cruel Beginnings ( Chapter 22 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha! The frustration! All the characters belong to Rumiko Takahashi. Thank her for the wonderful characters I have terribly used.



Chapter Twenty-Two

Having guests was not going to change his plans. He was not going to stop anything just because the little whore decided to invite old friends over. She has no personal relationship with anyone for years and then suddenly she has guests for more than a week? That was not a coincidence. They weren't going to dissuade him by ignoring his threats. He would prove it to them. In fact he could use this. Everyone would be getting to know each other again and would be less likely to be watching his newest target. It had it's possibilities.

Now he just needed to get the target alone. He was almost never alone. There was always someone else around or someone close enough to hear if he called. The trick would be subduing him before he could call.

He had exactly what he needed to do it. Or the information for it anyway. Learning something new was always thrilling.

The man stood and turned off the computer screen he'd been watching for the last few hours. Nothing interesting had been happening. Although the fact that the hanyou and his bitch had been arguing like cats and dogs had brought a smile to his face.

He grabbed his coat and keys before heading out the door. If he called ahead of time he could probably get the extra materials before noon.


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The bell rang loudly through the school, signaling that the weekend had finally come. Takeru grabbed his notebook and carefully slid it in with his other books. His pencil got tucked behind his ear and immediately forgotten as he searched for his mom's friend. He wasn't excited to see them though. He just wanted to talk to Shinju. He was going to take Inuyasha's advice and just talk to her. Maye he wouldn't feel all weird with her if he did that. Maybe she'd quit trying to grab his ears too!

All the children filed out of the classroom, calling out to each other as they passed. Parents started to show up, while other kids walked home in groups.

The other kids ran, walked, and whooped as they left the big building. Hours wen by as Takeru stood by the doors uncertainly. He would have walked home by now, but Inuyasha had told him not to leave the school until his bodyguard got there. Something was wrong though. His bodyguard wasn't there. Neither was Mr. Miroku or Shinju. They were always waiting for him.

He wouldn't have noticed the stuttered sigh if anyone else had been in the hallway. He looked but couldn't see anyone. He kept hearing it though. That stuttered sad little sigh.

"Huu huu huuuuuuu....."

It sounded like someone was trying not to make any noise as they cried. His momma used to do that.

Takeru walked quietly down the hall and looked into each room, waiting until he heard the noise again before he was sure it hadn't come from there, before he moved to the next. The farther down the hall the more he noticed an odd smell.

It took about eleven tries before he found the source of the sound and the source of the stench.

"Huu huu huuuuuuu....."

Shinju was sitting very still beside two equally still figures. Her shoulders shook as she sniffed and silently sobbed. When he walked through the door he knew he'd done the wrong thing. Blood covered most of the floor around the bodies. His bubbly little Shinju was holding her fathers hand against her cheek. Blood was splattered across one side of her face. Neither of the men were moving.

Shinju's head jerked up as she cried out to him. Pain exploded in his head as the world tilted. Shinju kept screaming but he couldn't hear her from the roaring in his ears.

Then everything was silent....and dark.


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Inuyasha yelled orders at the youkai around him with all the finesse of a freight train. Sesshomaru was in his office breaking the news to Kagome and Sango. Rin was in the kitchen questioning the entire school staff on what had happened to Takeru.

Inuyasha was in a rage like never before. His blood was pumping like mad through his veins. All he wanted to do was rip something to shreds. Correction. He wanted to rip someone to shreds. Miroku was in the hospital with severe head trama. The bodyguard they had sent with him had been slaughtered. Shinju and Takeru were missing.

Miroku had been planning on taking both of the kids to get ice cream after school so no one had thought anything of them being missing until Inuyasha realised the guard hadn't called in his wherabouts since he arrived at the school almost two hours before. When he got to the school he found some of his worst nightmares.

Miroku and the bodyguard were both motionless on the floor. Blood was everywhere and the scent of terror from Shinju was embedded in the walls. Inuyasha looked at Miroku first. He couldn't see any bullet holes. Once he checked he found a very faint pulse. There hadn't been anything he could do for the long dead youkai bodyguard so he had run with Miroku to the hospital.

They'd been searching since then for the kids and so far had found nothing. He could hear Kagome soothing Sango upstairs. He could smell tears from them both and it put him on edge. He couldn't fix tears. But he could fix this.

"Sir?" Inuyasha glanced over at the guard and nodded.
"We've gotten everything from the school. There was a note sir. It's addressed to you."

Inuyasha took the letter from him, noticing the black envelope. He opened it carefully and read the scratched red writting on the black paper.


Inuyasha's hands shook as he read then reread the letter. Whoever it was had a problem with him and Kagome. Was this something he had done recently? Or something before the crash? If they wanted to punish him then why take Takeru and Shinju? What would that do? Did that mean that they were trying to ruin his job or did they know Takeru was his son? If they knew that then it had to have been something he'd done before the crash. Why would they go after Kagome if they just wanted to ruin his job? The note had called her a hanyou loving bitch. Obviously someone who hated hanyou and all those who did not.

He was ripped out of his thoughts when the note was pulled from his trembling hands. Kagome had read the note before it registered that she probably shouldn't be the one to read it. He could smell her tears and it made him sick to think he was the reason they were there to begin with.

"They know. That's why they Takeru isn't it?" He felt like the whole world stopped in that moment. In reality it had just been the entire room.

"Yes." He whispered it to her, unsure how she would react.

"You do too then." It was a statement that really didn't need an answer, but he nodded anyway. She stood quietly for a long time before she looked up at him.


"Welcome home Inuyasha...."

And then she broke down sobbing into his arms.