Any Way The Wind Blows

Any Way the Wind Blows


Chapter 2: Dark Secrets
Kagome sighed as she sank into her computer chair. ‘What a day.’ She thought to herself. ‘It starts off with me getting thrown into a locker. Then does a 180 and I have people cheering for me at lunch. Then I meet the prettiest boy in the city and get to show off to him. Then I wind up suspended for three days for disturbing the peace… a very well performed disturbance, but a disturbance none the less…’ “Grrr! Naraku is gonna kill me…” she thought out loud. A dark and very pissed voice coming from the door. “No wench, I’m not going to kill you. But you will wish you were dead if you don’t have a good reason for being suspended.” Kagome didn’t turn around to face him. She scowled at his voice. “There is something seriously wrong with someone who calls their stepdaughter ‘Wench’.” Naraku crossed the room before Kagome could even turn to look at him, and slapped her hard enough to knock her out of the chair. “Now you listen to me, wench!” he shouted, his foot pressed into her back, pulling her head off of the floor by her hair. Kagome winced, but did not scream in pain. She knew that that was what he wanted to hear. “You will respect me because I am your father!” Kagome looked up at him with all of the defiance she could muster. “You are not my father. I curse my mother for seeing anything in you.” She said with a cool anger. Naraku glared at her but did not speak. He threw her against the wall above her bed and pinned her to her bed. “I’ll make you wish you hadn’t said that, BITCH!” he shouted, now raging. His fist slammed into her gut and she doubled over. She gasped for breath and attempted to make a swing for his head, but he grabbed her wrist and twisted it until she cried out in pain. He was smiling in his victory. “Now wench, are you sorry?” Kagome remained silent. Naraku’s eyes narrowed. He punched her across the face. Kagome cried out again. She glared at him, refusing to answer. She could taste blood from the last blow. “ANSWER ME!” he roared, twisting her wrist harder. Kagome flinched, but did not cry out. “Fuck you! YOU FUCKING BASTARD!” she screamed at him, spitting out some bloody spit into his face. Naraku was stunned for only a moment. Kagome took the opportunity to kick him in the groin as hard as she could and try to escape. Naraku recovered in time to trip her as she was fleeing. “You impudent wench.” He said with an Eire calm. He straddled her hips and pulled out a pocketknife. “You will pay for that dearly.” He said as he sliced the front of Kagome’s shirt open. She screamed and tried to flail free. “Hold still bitch.” He said sarcastically before punching her three more times in the head. Kagome fell limp to the floor. Darkness consumed her and she fell unconscious.
InuYasha sat on the couch in his room, leaning against the armrest. Sango was lying stretched out on the couch with her head in InuYasha’s lap. Her cat, Kilala was curled up in a ball on her stomach, purring as Sango pet her. A very mad Sesshomaru sat in a chair across from them reading over a piece of paper. “…For playing music too loud and disrupting classes school wide.” He read aloud, a tone of impatience in his voice. InuYasha sighed, knowing what was about to come. Sesshomaru stood up. “Your first day in a new school…” he walked slowly and deliberately over to InuYasha. “And you get yourselves suspended.” He glared at InuYasha before walking over to Sango. “Are you proud of yourselves?” Sango shook her head slowly. “Well… we did play it really fucking good…” InuYasha said flatly. Sango immediately moved away from him as Sesshomaru grabbed Inuyasha’s shirt. Kilala jumped up and bolted out of the room from the sudden commotion. Sesshomaru brought his face inches from his half brother’s. “Then I’ll have to hear it when you can move your jaw again.” He said coldly then punched InuYasha in the jaw hard enough to send him falling to the floor. He quickly got up and whipped the blood from the corner of his mouth. “You two are both grounded…” he paused “I won’t even bother trying to enforce this for the next few days. I will be going away on business until late Thursday. I don’t expect you two to behave, but keep in mind that the moment I get back I expect the best behavior out of you two. You will be grounded until the end of the month for getting suspended. If this happens again, I WILL immensely enjoy watching you both breaking your guitars.” With that, he turned and stormed out. InuYasha swore loudly before punching his punching bag hard enough to tear it free. Sango looked at him with a worried expression. “Are you okay, Inu?” InuYasha just glared back, flexing his fists open and closed. Sango smiled tenderly. “Calm down Inu. Your spell is fading.” InuYasha turned to the mirror on the far wall. His dog-ears were fully visible and his fangs and claws had come back. He growled deeply, but forced himself to calm down.
InuYasha was a hanyou, half dog demon, half-human. His father, InuTaisho was a modern day demon lord, one of the few remaining demons. His first wife, Sesshomaru’s mother, had died in childbirth. Seshomaru had never known her. InuTaisho married InuYasha’s mother, a human five years later. InuYasha’s father was murdered in a shooting only two years after InuYasha was born. InuYasha’s mother married Sango’s father five years ago, and the families were brought together. Only a year ago both InuYasha’s mother and Sango’s father were killed in a car accident. Seshomaru, being the oldest living member of the family took over running it. Seshomaru didn’t really do a bad job, he just didn’t like having the job. He hated InuYasha for being half demon. He felt it was a disgrace to the family name. He didn’t really have anything against Sango, but they never were close at all. Anyway, needless to say, InuYasha had to hide certain things from the public. Mainly his ears and claws. People now a days do not believe in demons.
Sango smiled softly and hugged InuYasha. “Lighten up. We get the next three days to do whatever we want.” InuYasha relaxed a bit more, sinking back into the couch. “We could have Kagome over…” she sang, immediately knowing she had found InuYasha’s weak spot by the way his eyes sort of glazed over at the sound of her name. Sango giggled. “Looks like someone likes that idea. Oy stop drooling on yourself.” She joked. InuYasha shook his head. “I could comment on the sounds i eard coming from your room last time Miroku spent the night…” A deep blush spread across her face. InuYasha chuckled. “Guilty. I’m gonna go call Kags. You see what Miroku is up to. He should be online soon.” Sango just glared at him as he walked out. She sighed, deciding that she couldn’t stay mad at him and turned on the computer.
Miroku walked into his uncle’s apartment. He could smell the booze in the TV room and could hear his uncle’s drunken snores. He sighed and walked into his room. Closing the door softly he looked around at his stress relievers. Playing the drums while his uncle was passed out was damn near suicidal. He checked his buddy list on his computer. No one was on. He sighed and dug under his bed for his last resort. He pulled out a small wooden box and opened it slowly. Inside were bag of white powder, a small plastic tube, and a flat price of metal. He knew he should have stopped right there and put it back. His mind struggled against his body, but his need was too great. He needed his holy drug. He poured a small amount in a line with practiced proficiency and paused for a few seconds before snorting it quickly. He waited several minutes and repeated the ritual. Feeling the high he needed, he sealed the bag and closed the box. He slid it back into its place under his bed and enjoyed the bliss he was feeling.
Kagome woke to a loud noise coming from near her. She looked around, dazed, but soon the memory came flooding back to her. She gasped and choked back a sob. The noise came again, and Kagome eyes came into focus on the phone. It stopped ringing and remained silent. Kagome wrapped her arms around herself and noticed that she was naked. She slowly sat up and felt a pain between her legs. It felt as if someone had ripped her apart. He whole body hurt. Partly from the beating, partly from whatever else Naraku had done to her while she was out. She pulled herself to her feet and leaned against the bedpost for support. She looked around for her cloths, and found them in a pile near her bed. She growled in frustration and anger. Naraku would never do this to her again. She would kill him before she let him take her again. Kagome looked out the window to find that Naraku’s car was gone. ‘It’s already dusk, so he must have gone out drinking.’ She thought to herself. Kagome walked out of her room and down the stairs, not caring that she was naked. No one was around to see anyway. She shuffled around in the fridge but found nothing that appealed to her. She doubted she could stomach anything right now anyway. She noticed a note on the door as she closed it. It read: Kagome, I have been called on to go to Washington for a few weeks. The bill I’ve been working on is about to be passed. You’re lucky I have decided to be forgiving and left you money for the time I’m gone. The house had better look better than when I left it, or I’ll beat you like I’ve never beaten you before.
Kagome laughed out loud. Two weeks. Two whole weeks free of that psycho. Just as she thought that, the phone rang again. She answered it excitedly.
“Hello?”
“Hay Kagome, its InuYasha.”
“Oh, Hi. What’s up?”
“You’d never believe it, but Sesshomaru is going away for a few days and me and San can do whatever we want… short of destroying the house I mean.”
“Really that’s awesome. Nara… I mean my stepfather is gone on business. It’s so great to be free for a while. So… were you planning on asking me over Inu?”
“Actually, Yes. You and Miroku.”
“Oh great… I’m gonna have to feel lonely watching those two make out all night…”
“Well… not necessarily… eh, nevermind. You know where I live?”
“Of course… Miroku told me. I’ll be there in a few. Bye bye Inu.”
Kagome hung up before he could say anything. “Now… to get cleaned off and cover up these bruises.” She set off to getting ready.
Hours later, after Miroku’s high had disappeared and he was back to normal, he sat down at his computer. Sango was on. He IM’ed her.
Miroku: Hay love, what’s goin on?
Sango: Sesshomaru is gone for a few days. Get your ass over here.
Miroku: really? Sweet! I’ll be right there. See you in a few, love.
Sango: bye then, Hun.
Miroku signed off and nearly sprinted to his car. “Woot! Party at Inu and San’s! I love that place. But their beds make too much noise…” he laughed to himself as he pictured InuYasha’s face tomorrow morning. Inu hated being kept up at night. Especially from noises in his sister’s room.