Fallen Angel

~Talk and The Morning After~

A/N: I don’t own InuYasha just use the characters in my stories.

The old grandfather clock in the hall read five minutes to eight. Kagome walked through the corridors. After coming back and forth to this house weekly you would think that she knew her way around, but she was forbidden to go into some wings of the house. So if she happened to daydream while walking and walk right into one of these hidden halls she would be in the position she was in right now. Every door and wall was covered with the same pattern. You could not tell one from the other much less what direction was which. It was getting dangerously close to dinner time and although her father acted like it did not really matter if she showed, it did, and if she were not there soon she would be punished.

‘Damn stupid place can’t find my way around’ Kagome said in her mind while continuing down another hall to her left. She spent ten more minutes walking through the maze of halls. She came across a picture hung on the wall next to a door with a pattern different from any other door. It was polished wood with a detailed border showing a wonderful artistic freedom. She spent another minute admiring the wooden door. She was about to walk away when the door seemed to call out to her. Nobody would know if she took a small peak in the room. It was not like it would matter right?

Kagome turned her head checking to make sure she was alone before turning the knob. At first the room was in complete darkness. Her hand fumbled around for a switch on the wall. The flipped the plastic nub up. The lights flickered once before fully coming on. Kagome had to blink her eyes a bit to make sure the room was real. It was an elaborate large bedroom with a gorgeous golden canopy bed with a matching table beside it filled with what seemed like freshly picked white roses. There was also a white vanity table adjacent from it with a closet filled of intricate kimonos in every color possible, all made with the best silk. The glow from the moon through the window magnified the room’s beauty. A single picture lay on the vanity table. Kagome took a few steps towards it and saw her mother smiling back at her wearing a silk black kimono with a multicolored dragon down the front. Who knew you could find such beauty in a house as ugly as this. The clock on the wall read 8:25.

‘Damn it! If I’m late for his talk, I’m not sure what he is going to do, and I really don’t care to find out.’

She went back to the door taking one last look around the room and flipped the switch. Kagome pulled the door close and turned around. Her eyes immediately met with a man’s chest in a black t-shirt. She looked up into the eyes of her father. The glare he was giving her made her step back a bit making her end up hitting the door.

“I thought when you first began to live here we made the rules clear. You are to never enter these wings. You now know what must be done. Follow me.”

Kagome never felt so scared. She had never disobeyed him like this before. Her heart was beating so fast she thought she could feel it as it raced against her ribcage. It took about three minutes to reach the main hall but her father did not stop there he continued down another hall, one more familiar to Kagome. It was the hall that led to her father’s personal study.

He used his master key to unlock the door and stepped in, Kagome following in suit. After he closed the door and locked it to make sure no one would be able to interfere in his next activity, he pointed to a chair for Kagome to sit in. He slowly paced the floor in front of her. Kagome looked around at the settings. She was sitting in a room made of wood with bookshelves lining all around filled with books containing information about computers to outer space. At one side was also a desk with a computer and many papers strewn across it. To the right of the desk was a marble fireplace with angels carved into the border on the mantle and a small golden clock gently ticking away on top. Above the mantle was a portrait of her father sitting in a chair and his girlfriend standing next to him, both dressed in elegant western clothes.

Her father stopped pacing in front of the fireplace and looked at Kagome who was sitting in a green chair in the center of the room. She looked like a deer caught in the headlights. Her face apparent with fear but she tried to conceal it.

“Kagome, after all I have done for you, everything I have given you, you still chose to defy me. I have put a roof over your head and clothes on your body with food to eat and still I receive this type of assurance. Do you know how hard I work to continue to provide you with such a good life? Look around, you are treated like a spoiled princess and I am tired of your shenanigans. You are the most selfish, conceited girl of your age. Even after I choose to treat you as my daughter because you were conceived from a dirty man who raped your mother, you act as though I have done nothing for you…”

“Sir, I do appreciate what you have done for…” His hand came down hard across her face leaving a bright red mark on her cheek.

“Do not interrupt me! You speak only when spoken to. Damn it, you fucking scum, because of you my life is the way it is. If it were not for you I would be with your mother right now,” He slapped the other side of her face, “I would be with my little girl. No, oh hell no. I can not get the life I deserve because you and your filthy background and just your trivial existence on this earth.” He took his hand and lunged at Kagome tightly grabbing her wrist. His nails beginning to dig into her fragile skin and his grip becoming stronger and tighter every second.

“I will never have the life I deserve now all because of you. So mark my words because you have inflicted such misery on my life I will make sure yours is ten times as worse. This will teach your white father to leave you alone with his tainted blood running through your veins.” Tears began to form at the side of Kagome’s eyes; the pain becoming too much to bare. Although she had heard this many times before every time he brought up her background and heritage it was like cutting open a healing wound making a mark deeper and deeper until it permanently scarred her for life. She turned her head hoping it would help deflect his hateful comments. With his free hand he took her chin and turned it towards his face so she was close enough to feel his breath on her skin.

“Now, will you ever wander down into those halls again?” Kagome felt the hair on her skin stand on end.

“Never again, sir.” He released his grip on her and took a few steps back.

“You are dismissed, go finish you chores. I do not want to see your face until they are done, understood?’ She nodded and turned towards the door, unlocking it before stepping outside. Next to the door stood his girlfriend with a grin on her face, she pushed Kagome out of the way and went into the study.

“Good job honey, she deserved it all.”

Kagome couldn’t stand it as the tears began to silently fall one by one. She started to walk away the pain, both physical and mental, started to affect her body. She had to brush it aside. If she did not want another talk with him then she needed to begin on the rest of her job before sleeping.

~3 AM~

Kagome lay on her bed, exhausted from the work. She had only a few hours to sleep before being transported back to her mother’s house at 6:30. Too tired to change out of her clothes, she clicked off the light and said a silent prayer in her head before drifting off to sleep.

~Next Morning~

The sun filtered in through the tiny crack of a window. Kagome grumbled and opened one eye and waited for it to adjust to the light before attempting the other eye. Her clock blinked 6:15. She had fifteen minutes before Judy would take her back to her mom’s.

Kagome rubbed her eyes once again. As she brought her hand back down to her side she noticed dry drops of blood from the night before that trickled down her arm. There was another mark on her wrist to add to her collection along with a slight purple bruise to match. She took a napkin and poured a little water from her water bottle on it and cleaned herself up.

Kagome gathered the little items she had and proceeded downstairs to the main hall. It wasn’t until 6:40 that her father’s girlfriend showed up. The ride to her mother’s house was silent as it usually was. Kagome began to seethe with hatred every time she looked at Judy’s blond hair, but she couldn’t hold what happened to her against Judy. It was not her fault that Kagome’s life turned out the way it did. The way Kagome figured, she must have done something wrong for her life to be predestined like this. So she would take the all the pain and tears and hopefully one day her fate may change.

The car pulled into the driveway. Kagome stepped out of the car without uttering a single word to Judy and vise versa. Kagome walked through the side gate while the car pulled out. She quietly went upstairs and got ready for the day. Because of the marks on her wrist, Kagome decided to wear along sleeved white cotton shirt with regular low cut jeans. She tied her hair up in a half up, half down style with a black hair tie. After one more inspection of her choice in clothing, Kagome picked up her backpack and made her way down the stairs where she could already hear Kikyo’s voice echoing in the hall.

“Mom, I’m going to the mall after school today with my friends to pick out a new outfit for the dance at the teen center tonight.”

Kagome rejoiced inside. It was always so peaceful when Kikyo was gone and she would never have to worry about disturbing her or doing something wrong in her presence. Plus, every year when ever it was possible, on her walk home she would take a different route. Even though it was longer it went through a much hidden area that few knew about. It encased a many trees along a small path made of stone that would pass by the local shrine which belonged to a nice elderly couple. Looks like today would be a good day after all.

Kagome made it to school fifteen minutes before the first bell rang. The day wore on. Teachers talked, students didn’t listen, and all havoc broke loose when the final bell sounded throughout the school. Kagome decided to hang around the school until she saw Kikyo leave, to make sure there could not be another incident like yesterday. She strolled around the campus towards a small empty courtyard with a big willow tree in the middle, its leaves hiding the quadrant away from the rest of the school.

‘I never noticed how pleasant some parts of this school could really be.’

InuYasha stood at the doorway of his last class, not being able to leave because a Kikyo was blocking the way. She kept talking on and on about some kind of dance. She was probably trying to get him interested in going so they could ‘accidentally’ run into each other.

“Thanks Kikyo, but I have some uhh other important matters to attend to.” He wasn’t exactly lying, I mean staring at the ceiling can be important to some. Oh, who the hell was he kidding, Kikyo was driving him up the wall and he needed a excuse. Kikyo seemed to look sad but a smile came right back to her face.

“Oh well, other times right Inu?” Kikyo gave him a flash of teeth while she thought.

‘He seems to be avoiding me, but why would he do that? Maybe he is just feeling sick or something. Well, I can let it go this time because there are going to be plenty of hot guys at the party, but next time I’m going to make sure I spend time with InuYasha. I have my eye on him and no one else will get him but me.’ She smirked to herself and walked off to her giggling friends who goggled at her and InuYasha.

After she was out of sight, InuYasha let out an audible sigh. He was always so tense around her. He readjusted his backpack, because the strap was cutting into his shoulder, and walked off to his favorite place on campus. He passed many people on his way, waving a friendly hello to all. Before turning on to the rock path that led to the secret quad, he glanced around and quickened his pace to make sure no one could catch him. He slowed down once he was sure there was no one else around and continued on his way to the old willow tree.

The wind was starting to pick up making the leaves swirl around his feet. InuYasha walked closer to the tree, pulling aside one of the branches to be let inside the silent sanctuary. The wind picked up once again making him blink his eyes a couple times till he opened them and they fell upon Kagome staring out at the sky her hair wildly flying around. He continued to look at her with an intense gaze until she turned around and their eyes met.

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A/N: Well here is another one. Working on making the chapters long. Its harder than it looks! Hope you all enjoy.

Miss Hisake