InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Well La De Frickin' Da ❯ Friends ( Chapter 7 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

Chapter Seven

Monday had come faster than InuYasha would have liked, but when he opened the doors to the school he knew it was going to be a long week. He pushed through the crowd fighting his way to his locker. When he put all his things away, he made his way over to Miroku’s locker, where he knew Sango would be.

When he got Miroku in his sight, he yelled out to him catching his attention. He smiled and waved him over. “What’s up InuYasha?” he asked as he grinned with a glint in his eyes and InuYasha knew he was going to say something perverted. “So, you excited about seeing Kagome again? I know you two got close Saturday.”

InuYasha, expecting something like that, hit Miroku upside the head. “When will you stop thinking like that?”

“Stop think like what?” Sango interrupted as she walked up to them. “Is he being perverted again?”

InuYasha nodded and then found himself looking around Sango for Kagome, only to not see her. “Where’s Kagome?” he asked before he could stop himself.

Sango and Miroku exchanged glances. “Well, she wasn’t waiting at her house. We even honked, but she still didn’t come out.” Sango explained. “She’s probably not feeling well.”

“But she was fine Saturday.” InuYasha said and Miroku grinned again.

“Is our little InuYasha concerned about Kagome?” he asked in a baby voice causing InuYasha to hit him again. “Ow! Come on InuYasha! I was only teasing!”

“Feh, maybe next time you’ll learn to hold your tongue.” InuYasha replied. “Though I doubt one beating will teach you anything.”

Miroku rubbed his sore head as Sango smiled at him sadly. “InuYasha’s right Miroku. You need to learn to keep your comments to yourself.”

When the warning bell rang, the gang went to there classes. Sango went to geometry and Miroku and InuYasha went to history.

Miroku sat down next to InuYasha and pulled out his notebook as the their teacher, Mr. Totosai, walked into the room. He starting writing InuYasha a note. Sango had told him on their way home why they hadn’t brought Kagome home Saturday night and all about, as she called it, Mission: InuYasha/Kagome.

So, how did Saturday night go?

He wrote then folded in half. Then he quickly threw in onto InuYasha’s desk. InuYasha picked it up and unfolded it. He gave Miroku a weird look then started writing.

What do you mean how did Saturday night go? You were there.

He then folded it and threw it back to Miroku. He unfolded it then looked over at InuYasha like he were crazy. He quickly wrote back.

You know what I’m talking about. What happen between you and Kagome?

When InuYasha got it and opened it up his eyes widened. He knew exactly what the lecher was thinking. Then he furiously wrote back.

Nothing like that, you lecher! All I did was take her home! Gez, I didn’t do anything like what you’re thinking I did with her.

Miroku took the note back then wrote back.

Just be careful InuYasha and try not to hurt her.

When InuYasha got it back he had no clue what Miroku was talking about and what ticked him off more was that he refused to write back. So InuYasha sulked through the rest of history class.

~ * ~

Kagome looked around her room as she placed the pot, she used as a toilet, back into the closet and then placed the lid on it to keep the smell to a minimum. She would have to clean it when she was allowed back out of her room.

She had been stuck in her room for a day and a half now. It wasn’t as long as last time . . . yet, but she was hoping she would be allowed out soon. She wondered if she was being missed at school. If they even noticed she wasn’t there.

Kagome was snapped out of her thoughts when Naraku suddenly flung open her door and charged towards her. “Do you have any idea what time I was woken up this morning?” he yelled at her as she looked at him in fear and clung to the wall behind her. “Some punks this morning starting honking outside. I wonder who they were waiting for?”

Kagome tried to swallow the lump in her throat, but she knew she what she was in for. He knew she had made friends and she would have to suffer the punishment.

When Naraku didn’t receive an answer he smacked her across the face. “How dare you get people involved in your life! Are you planning on killing them too?”

Kagome franticly shook her head. “No Dad! I’d never do that!” she cried trying to make him understand.

“Lair! You’re the reason your mother and baby brother! How do I know you won’t kill your innocent classmates?” Naraku yelled at her hitting her across the face again. “I specifically told you not to make friends and now you’ve acted selfishly and made some. Did you think I wouldn’t find out about this? You think you were being sneaky, didn’t you girl? Thought you could pull the wall over my eyes!”

“No dad, please! I didn’t mean to disobey you!” Kagome pleaded. “It just happened! I’m sorry!”

Naraku rolled his eyes. “Friends just don’t happen! You didn’t do anything to stop them! You willing became friends with them! You are too evil to have friends! You shouldn’t even be alive! You’re a disgrace!” he yelled as he roughly pushed her onto the floor. Then he left the room for a minute only to come back with a broom in his hands. He walked over to Kagome and started whacking her continuously.

Kagome let out a couple of whimpers before he stopped and knelt down next to her. His eyes where glazed over with rage. He grabbed her left arm and then with his free hand drug a lighter out of his pocket.

Kagome’s eyes widened at the sight of it and out of panic she started squirming in hopes of freeing her arm. Her attempts were in vain. Naraku gripped her arm harder causing her to stop. He flipped it on and Kagome started crying even before the flame touched her skin.

“No Dad, please!” Kagome begged, but her plea only made Naraku bring the lit lighter to her skin faster.

The pain was excruciating. Kagome let out a scream of pure agony. She once again tried to get out of his grip and away from the heat, but he only brought the flame up her arm and then back down. “This is what you get for going behind my back and making friends!”

When he got bored of torturing his daughter, he flipped off the lighter and let go of Kagome. She immediately brought her arm to chest. Desperately trying to make the stinging sensation, that was pulsating throughout her arm. Naraku grunted as he walked out of the room.

Kagome started to panic. The pain wouldn’t stop. It wouldn’t go away. She did the first thing that came to her mind and ran to the bathroom only to find it locked. Obviously her father had locked it in case she tried to soothe her arm.

Now what was she going to do? She couldn’t go to the kitchen. Her father was probably in there. So she went back to her room and examined her arm. It was raw and beginning to whelp. She gently touched her irritated red skin in attempts to calm it, but it only made a jolt of pain shoot through her arm.

She walked over to her bed and laid down, cradling her wounded arm. She tightly shut her eyes hoping the pain would just go away. Soon enough she blacked out from the world of feeling.

A doctor came out of the emergency room whipping the sweat off his forehead. A man got off one of the waiting room’s chairs leaving his nine year old daughter, who had cried herself to sleep, in the chair beside his.

“How is my wife, doctor? Is she going to be alright?” he whispered disparately, not wanting wake up his daughter. “And what of my son?”

Kagome sat silently in her chair pretending to be asleep as she watching her father and the doctor. She had been praying half the night that her mother and Sota would be alright, but something about this doctor’s eyes pained her heart. Her mother just had to be alright and so did Sota.

“I’m sorry Mr. Higurashi. We did all we could to revive her, but she had lost so much blood . . . She didn’t make it through her surgery. There was nothing we could do.” he said gravely. “As for your son, he was pronounced dead when he arrived. I’m sorry for your losses.”

Naraku, who had broken down in tears, nodded in understanding. “Thank you. I know you did you best to try and save them.” he choked out as he whipped his eyes.

Kagome felt tears sting the back of her eyes again. There was no way they could be dead. They couldn’t be gone. This was her mother and brother they were talking about. How could they be gone?

Kagome tried to picture her mother not making breakfast in the morning or Sota not crying in the middle of the night causing her to wake up, but she couldn’t. They were apart of her life. How could they be gone just like that?

Naraku walked back over to his daughter and gently shook her. “Kagome. Come on, we got to go home.” he whispered. Kagome lifted her head up and stared at her father, silently asking him if it were true. He quickly looked away from her and started walked toward the elevator. She hurriedly caught up to him as the doors opened for them.

On the way home the drive was quite and Naraku stopped by a place Kagome had never seen him stop at before. A liquor store.

Naraku cut off the engine and walked inside. Kagome waited patiently for her father to return and when he did he was carrying a bottle of vodka. He opened the truck door and sat down as he opened up the bottle. Then he took a huge gulp and started up the car up again.

All the way home Naraku would take big gulps of the vodka and when they got home he staggered inside. Kagome watched him wearily. She had never seen her father like this before and she didn’t really like it.

She walked over to him as he steadied himself by grabbing onto the couch’s arm rest. “Dad?” Kagome asked making Naraku look at her. “Are you alright?”

Naraku’s gaze turned from confusion to rage. “You!” he yelled making Kagome jump. “You’re the one who killed them! You’re the reason their dead! You killed them!”

Kagome looked at her father fearfully. “What? Wh-what are you talking about?” she asked timidly.

He swayed as he grabbed Kagome’s arm. “If you had done what you were supposed to have done they would still be here!” he shouted as his hand made contact with her cheek for the time. Tears streamed down Kagome’s face for the pain the smack sent through her. Naraku looked at her not wanting to believe what he did to his daughter. He staggered over to the couch and suddenly passed out.

Kagome stood near the couch and watched her father sleep while tears fell out of her eyes. She told herself that he didn’t know what he was doing and that he didn’t mean what he had said, then made her way up the stairs to her room.

~ * ~

InuYasha walked out of the school, glad that it was finally over. He had just got done going around Kagome’s classes picking up her homework for her and he was going to drop them off at her house.

He started to make his way over to his car when he heard Miroku’s voice calling for him. He turned around to find Miroku running toward him. “Hey wait up InuYasha! Sango and I are heading down to The Laud. You coming?” he asked as Sango walked up to join their conversation.

The Laud was a little restaurant in town where all the teenagers hung out. “I probably will when I get done dropping off Kagome’s homework.” he replied and receive grins from both Sango and Miroku. “I just don’t want her to fall behind in her studies.” He knew it was a lame excuse, but he didn’t want them jumping to conclusions.

Sango grabbed Kagome’s books out of his hands. She wanted InuYasha to get to know Kagome, but not end up obsessed with her. “I’ll take Kagome her homework. You guys go ahead and I’ll meet you there.”

InuYasha looked taken aback and was about to voice his argumentum thoughts, but Miroku beat him to it. “And how, may I ask, are you going to take Kagome her homework when you don’t have a car?” he asked and Sango smiled at him seductively.

“Well,” she started as she ran her hands up his chest and then hooked her arms around his neck while holding on to Kagome‘s books, “I was hoping you would ride with InuYasha and I could use your car.”

Miroku shook his head. “No.” he replied, but Sango gave him a pleading look and he gave in. “Fine, but I don’t want to find one scratch on my baby.”

Sango pouted. “I thought I was your baby?”

Miroku smiled at her. “No, you’re my love.” he said as he captured her lips with his.

InuYasha rolled his eyes at the couple. “I am perfectly capable of taking Kagome her homework.” he said as he tried to grab the books out of Sango’s hands, but she maneuvered them out of his reach.

She pulled out of her boyfriend’s kiss and shook her finger at InuYasha. “Down boy.” she teased making him growl. “Come on, InuYasha, I just want to see if Kagome’s okay. I’ll tell you ever detail. Promise. Just let Miroku go with you.”

“Feh.” he said as he crossed his arms over his chest. “Let’s go Miroku.”

Miroku grinned at Sango and tossed her his keys before following InuYasha to his car.