InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Boyfriend ❯ Damage ( Chapter 10 )

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

By: Xakana

Disclaimer: InuYasha, Kagome and anyone else you saw in the manga or anime does not belong to me. Yukio does. If I saw so much as a shiny penny for this story, you think I'd be writing fanfiction still? Okay, I would… Damn other authors and their more interesting universes…

Genre: Angst, Romance

Rating: M
Codes: Kag/OC, Inu/Kag
Feedback: Keeps my muse talking and the stories coming! Do tell. But if you have a flame, use it for something more productive, like setting your clothes on fire.

Note: It's perfectly okay to not like that Kagome was raped. It wasn't meant to be sexy or fun—this isn't that kind of fic. Warning! Dark psychological themes continue in this chapter.

The Boyfriend
Chapter 10

InuYasha couldn't sleep. He tossed and turned all night, overwhelmed with the feeling that something was wrong with Kagome. Finally, just before dawn, he jumped down out of his tree and left everyone behind to go to the well. He didn't hesitate, he jumped through it and sprung out the moment his feet touched the earth. He ran to the main house and leapt to Kagome's window.

He stepped into the room and immediately knew he was right to come. He could smell Kagome's blood. He stepped over to where she was sleeping and looked down at her, trying to see where she was injured. Her eyes were puffy and red and as he watched, a tear slid down her cheek. He smelled blood in her hair and noticed that it was matted and filthy. Her pillow was wet from rainwater and tears. There was a trace of brown against the pink and he recognized the smell as blood. But there wasn't much there, certainly not as much as he was smelling. He started looking around her room and found the pile of clothes. He lifted the soft blue skirt and saw the blood dried all over it.

But there was another smell, too. InuYasha felt the growl in his chest rise to his throat and he clutched the material in anger, tearing holes in it with his claws. He turned back to Kagome, his heart pounding in rage and pulled the blanket off of her. There was a stain against her yellow pajamas. Mud at the knees, blood… His vision swam red for a moment and he shook, trying not to grab Kagome and shake her awake.

“Help me, InuYasha…” Kagome murmured in her sleep, her tears coming faster. “Help…” His rage disappeared in an instant and he knelt next to her and brushed the hair off her cheek.

”Kagome?” he asked softly. Her eyes flew open and she screamed, striking out at him. He fell back and backpedaled until his shoulders hit the wall, but she kept screaming. “Kagome!” he yelled back, terrified. He didn't know what he had done to provoke this kind of a reaction. She was now curled against the wall, her knees against her chest and crying loudly.

“Don't touch me!” she shouted, over and over.

“I'm not!” InuYasha screamed over her cries. “Kagome! What happened?” he yelled, but she just kept screaming. Her door flew open and Kagome's mother stood there, looking around wildly.

“What did you do to her?” she shouted when her eyes fell on InuYasha.

“Nothing!” InuYasha yelled. Kagome was now just sobbing violently, clutching her blanket to her chest. “She was having a nightmare and I just said her name to wake her up! Then she went crazy!”

“Kagome!” Mrs. Higurashi yelled, sitting on the bed next to her. She grabbed Kagome's shoulders and the girl screamed louder, shoving her away.

“No, no, no!” Kagome screamed.

“What's happened to you, Kagome?” Mrs. Higurashi asked, scooting back on the bed so she wasn't in the line of fire form Kagome's flailing fists. “Go back to bed, now, Souta!” she yelled and Souta, who had just poked his head in, turned and ran away, not used to his mother raising her voice to him.

“What did he do to you?” InuYasha growled. “I'm going to fucking kill him.” Kagome's cries finally stopped and she met InuYasha's eyes for a moment. He saw the slight bruises on her face and his vision faded to red again. He turned to the window, intent on searching out the boy who had hurt his Kagome and kill him.

“Osuwari!” she yelled and he hit the ground. He was now confused and in pain, but the bloodlust had faded somewhat. “You… can't… kill… him,” she sobbed, taking great, gasping breaths. “He's human… and this… isn't the… feudal era.”

“I'm calling the police,” Mrs. Higurashi said, standing up.

“No, Mama, please,” Kagome said, reaching for her mother's arm. “Please, they'll make me tell them what happened and I don't want to say, I don't want to relive it, I just want to forget.”

“You can't do that, Kagome,” her mother said. “You have to file a report against him. He's not getting away with… raping my little girl.” Mrs. Higurashi gripped the door so hard her knuckles turned white.

“Either let her call these `police' or I'm going to hunt him down and kill him,” InuYasha said.

“Why can't everyone just leave me alone?” Kagome whimpered. “I'll be fine…” InuYasha held out the skirt he found, letting it dangle from his claws, realizing for the first time that he still had it. He was going to use it to help track down that… bastard. Kagome choked on a sob as it rose and his ears flattened against his head involuntarily.

“You don't look like you're going to be fine,” he said, stepping towards her. She shrunk away from him. “And now you're afraid of me.” InuYasha dropped the skirt. `This is my fault,' InuYasha thought. `If I hadn't pushed her away, she would never have been alone with that fucker.' He walked over to the window.

“Please don't leave,” Kagome said in a small voice.

“I'm not going to,” he replied. “I'm not ever leaving you again. It's my fault that this happened, for not coming back with you.”

“No, it's my fault for dating him in the first place. I knew there was something a little off about him. I just never thought he would…” Kagome hiccoughed.

“Stop that, both of you,” Mrs. Higurashi snapped angrily. “This was that boy's fault and no one else's. When I met him, I never suspected he was capable of such a thing, either.” InuYasha heard what she said, but he didn't stop blaming himself. He already blamed Yukio, but it was such a horrible thing, blaming it on only one person didn't seem enough. It had to be his fault as well.

“The one thing I am certain of,” InuYasha said, “Is that it's not Kagome's fault at all.” Kagome sniffled loudly.

“You're not mad at me?” Kagome asked. “You looked so mad when I woke up…”

“I'm mad at that asshole, stupid!” InuYasha snapped.

“Watch your language!” Mrs. Higurashi shot back, agitated.

“Sorry,” InuYasha said, contrite.

“I'm going to call the police now, Kagome,” Mrs. Higurashi said, then stood and left the room. Kagome and InuYasha sat in an uncomfortable silence for the next ten minutes. Mrs. Higurashi poked her head in and told them the police were on their way, and then left them to their silence. InuYasha looked around for the hat he wore when he was out in public in Kagome's time, knowing it was important to her.

“Your sword,” she said, sniffling, when she saw him put on the hat.

“What about it?” he asked.

“The police will get mad if they see you wearing it,” Kagome explained. She looked so lost and fragile, so he pulled Tetsusaiga off and looked around, trying to decide where to put it. “In my drawer,” Kagome offered, pointing. He opened the top drawer and blushed at the sight of her undergarments, quickly closing it and opening the second, where he placed the katana. He could hear Kagome's heart racing like a rabbit's and he wanted to comfort her, but hadn't forgotten the way she reacted when he tried to touch her.

`If that jackass has made it so I can never touch Kagome again, I don't care what she says, I'm going to find him and skin him alive,' he thought. `Then I'm going to cut out his heart and feed it to him. Or tear his head off and shove it up his ass.' InuYasha entertained himself with thinking of the most gruesome things he could do to Kagome's attacker until he saw a strange vehicle park at the bottom of the shrine's stairs. Men in uniform walked up the path and he growled without thinking.

“Are they here?” Kagome asked.

“Yeah,” InuYasha said, maintaining his post at the window and glaring down at the `police.' He watched Kagome's mother open the door for them and he listened as they walked into the shrine. He followed the sound of their footsteps and listened to their voices as they talked to Mrs. Higurashi. Kagome was obviously listening as well, curled against the wall, the blanket clutched tight in her fingers. Her breathing was becoming shallower and more rapid and he wanted to keep the men away from her, but knew that it would do no good.

So he just glared at them as they entered the room. One glared back at him, but the other shot a sympathetic smile at Kagome. InuYasha hated the smiling one more immediately. How dare he smile when Kagome was in pain? He bit back the growl that started to rumble in his chest.

“You're going to need to leave, sir,” the smiling one said to him.

`Like hell I am,' InuYasha thought.

“No, don't make him go,” Kagome said in that same high voice she had used the last time she thought he would leave.

“I'm not going anywhere,” InuYasha said.

“Who are you?” the glaring officer asked.

“He's my boyfriend,” Kagome said. Both men turned to look at him. “Not the one that hurt me.”

“You sure have a lot of boyfriends for a girl your age,” the angry officer commented. InuYasha stepped away from the wall, balling his hand into a fist.

“Hayakawa, you can leave,” the smiling officer said, no longer smiling. “Send in Ameda.”

“Yes, sir,” Hayakawa said, leaving. A minute later, a younger man came in and stood stiffly by the door.

“Okay, Kagome-san, I need you to please tell me what happened.” The smile was back in place. Kagome's eyes darted to InuYasha, then to the bed.

“I can leave for this if you want,” InuYasha said, seeing the look and not particularly wanting to hear the details.

“Please don't,” Kagome said, holding out her hand. Surprised, InuYasha cautiously stepped forward and took her hand in his, sitting beside her at a careful distance. She released his hand and took a deep breath. “Yukio was my boyfriend for the last month and a half,” she started. “He had been… pressuring me lately…” Kagome stared at the blanket in her hands. “I kept telling him that I wasn't ready and he always acted understanding.” Kagome stopped talking long enough that the officer prodded her.

“So he was a good boyfriend, for the most part,” he said. Kagome looked up.

“Yes. He was always very nice to me.” Kagome looked out the window.

“You said his name was Yukio. Do you have a last name for him?”

“Ryuuhyou,” Kagome answered.

“Can you please continue with your story? It's okay to take your time.”

“Well, I realized that I wanted to break up with him. I didn't want to do it over the phone or on the date—both just seemed cruel,” she said. “So I called him and asked him to meet me at the park where we walk sometimes after dates.”

“And you've never had sex with him before?” the officer asked. Kagome shook her head.

“No, I was a virgin.” Her voice broke and her grip on the blanket tightened. InuYasha felt the hat was too tight on his ears, which were twitching like mad. These were questions he wondered about, but had never wanted to ask. Now he had to hear it all and he was tremendously uncomfortable, but not willing to leave Kagome.

“Did he know about your other boyfriend?”

“He wasn't my boyfriend then. We had talked about becoming a couple. We've been friends a long time and… He knew that we had a complicated relationship. But like I told him, I wasn't just leaving him because I wanted to go out with… my new boyfriend. I was leaving him because I had no romantic feelings for him. We had agreed to date to get to know each other, but it just wasn't working out.”

“Okay, so you went to the park to break up with him.”

“Yes. I explained to him that it wasn't working out.”

“What did he say?”

“I told him I was sorry and he said, `No, you aren't, but you're going to be,' and then he started talking about his name.”

“I need to know his exact words, as closely as you can remember,” The policeman said. Kagome repeated them and InuYasha wanted to hunt Yukio even more. When she got to `or I can fuck you' he actually stood up and walked to the window, shaking with rage. Ameda watched him carefully and InuYasha controlled his urge to put a hole in Kagome's wall. Kagome had stopped speaking and InuYasha turned and met her eyes. She quickly looked away and he crossed the room to sit back where he was. She was crying and he had the horrible feeling that it was his fault.

“I kept hoping someone would hear me…” Kagome said. “I screamed for help so many times…” InuYasha felt his talons slice the palm of his hand, but he didn't feel better. `I failed her. She expected me to save her and I failed her. It's my fault she was hurt. I'm a failure.' He was so lost in his self-deprecation that he almost was blessed with missing what Kagome said next. Unfortunately, there was nothing he could do to drown out her words as she described Yukio's violation of her. How much it hurt. How helpless and alone she felt. A tear pushed its way past InuYasha's defenses and he cursed it. He used to have perfect control over his tears, but Kagome had destroyed it. The day he had thought he failed all his friends and lost them, something inside of him had broken. Something he could never fix.

To punish himself, he listened very closely to every word Kagome spoke, committing them to memory. He remembered almost everything she said to him anyway, despite her protests that he never listened to her. Some things just didn't make sense to him, so he didn't respond. It didn't mean he wasn't listening. He wanted to run away and not hear this so badly that he started twitching. He forced himself to stop, afraid of upsetting Kagome further. It was a very hard thing to hear, but he heard every word.

“All right, Kagome-san,” the officer said. “We need to get you to a hospital so a doctor can examine you and a photographer can document the injuries.” InuYasha didn't like the sound of that and apparently, neither did Kagome. She grabbed InuYasha's sleeve and he sat there and wondered what she wanted him to do. He finally decided to stand up and grab her hand as he did it, pulling her off the bed. Her hand was shaking as it wrapped tightly around his, but she didn't let go. She squeezed so tightly it was painful, but he didn't tell her to ease up.

“It's not going to matter,” Kagome muttered as they walked down the stairs.

“Huh?” InuYasha asked as quietly as Kagome had commented.

“You saw the way that officer looked at me when I said you were my boyfriend. They're just going to make me look like a tease.”

“What are you talking about? You're covered in bruises,” InuYasha whispered back. “And blood.”

“I was a virgin,” Kagome replied, sounding very tired. “Of course there was blood.” InuYasha's ears went back so quickly his hat fell off. He caught it and adjusted it so that it was holding his ears down again.

“If they don't do anything, can I kill him then?” InuYasha asked. Kagome looked at him in horror.

“How can you ask that? You can't just kill people…” Kagome's voice dropped so low he could barely hear her through the damn hat.

“Can I at least kick his ass?” InuYasha whispered. Kagome was quiet for a long time as the officers made travel arrangements with her mother. It was agreed that Kagome would ride with Ameda and InuYasha. Her mother would ride with Hayakawa and the senior officer.

“Yes,” Kagome whispered back to InuYasha. Something that had been tight in his chest loosened. Kagome had given him permission to hurt Yukio. Whatever it was in his chest moved to his stomach as he realized what he just thought. Kagome had given him permission to hurt Yukio. He had known that she was upset, hurt and angry. Now he was worried that she was broken. He knew that when he found that brat, he was going to beat him within an inch of his life. He was still mad at himself for being mad at Kagome for even a minute when he discovered the soiled clothing. He had blamed her. He had. He knew that Kagome wasn't that kind of girl and he had still wondered. He knew with certainty that he would have his chance with Yukio.

To be continued…

A/N: In the United States, Yukio would be going to jail, no chance of getting off. However, they're not in the US and in Tokyo, sadly, the few little things like the fact that there were no witnesses, Yukio is not older and Kagome's second boyfriend will be held against her. There's still a mild chance she would have won, but from the case files I read… her chances weren't very good. I hope that someday, this author's note is rendered obsolete and that when a woman is raped, one of the worst crimes that can be committed against another person, no matter where she is, she can find justice. And hopefully, someday, men won't be embarrassed to seek help when they are attacked and justice can be served for them, as well.