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Okaies:D yo ya'll! Well, last chap, I was expecting a load of complaints/ concerns to come up ; but nothing to that nature happened. In fact I didn't get all that many (which I was a little surprised that I got much after much consideration) but, to the 4 or 6 of you who did say something, you are the heroes of this story, you keep me going. YOU are the shiz

Recap: It stung to come to that realization. But he wanted to help her, so he did the only thing that she wanted him to do. He nodded his head and loosened his grip on her. His arms sagging downwards to hang loosely by his hips. She smiled back, knowing that he just wanted to be of any help to the one that was always so present in his mind. As was he to hers.

She dashed off with the words, I love you strung together by her mouth before she left. Hanging in the air he breathed as proof that he was a fool, a fool letting her go by herself. He wondered to himself why he hadn't nodded nay instead now so she could just leave with him. His ears flattening until they meshed in with his pale locks. He was such a fool.

Move On

Chapter 25

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It happened quickly after there brief encounter. But fast in a way that made everything seem slow. Like nothing was happing and Kagome was flouting in the mitts of all the chase.

Kagome had gone to the main office and saw her mother standing there. The secretary up front didn't entirely understand what was happening, but she let it be. Not giving any true mind of what was going on.

Her mother's eyes' were only comparable to that of the big eyed gold fish. They were baggy and red from crying. She held a handkerchief to her nose consistently so no one would see her nose red from sniffling and blowing. She was a mess. It was blatantly apparent that she hadn't slept well since she had figured out that she was missing. Though, that probably wasn't as many as she wished it were.

When she was close to her, her mother dropped her weight on her tiny body, sobbing about how she had been so panicked. Kagome just held her robotically, feeling as if everything had been dug up in her and now she was just a simple rotting tube. Her innards clean and gone, everything from organs to emotions. Her mother sobbed on, words becoming incoherent as she squeezed Kagome's body titer and titer. Kagome inhaled sharply as her mother made her ribs cave in on her lungs. She would just hold her breath till she was done. After all, this all felt so serial to her, if she stopped breathing, she would probably wake up and find this all to be a bad dream.

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InuYasha watched, his soul becoming heavier as he saw the scene unfold. Her mother stud there asphyxiating her air until she was holding her breath. He wanted to go over there and rip that woman apart from her. It wasn't justice it wasn't fare! She didn't deserve Kagome. What was so wrong to want freedom from this!? He just wanted Kagome to be released from her grip. What was so wrong with that?

His feet twitched as his inclination to run over there and grab Kagome became unbearable. But something kept him from going over there and doing just that. It was her eyes. Her eyes that went on forever, they just… stopped now. The light that was in her eyes, were now replaced by planks of wood. Her mother wasn't only smothered her breath, she had smothered the life right out of her. What was he too do!?

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Kagome got into the car. Her mother coming behind her. As soon as they got into the vehicle , her mother looked her strait in they eye. Sharp jagged eyes looking into her own. She looked back at her with nothing, no ill will, no apologies, with nothing in her eyes. Her mom started up the engine and she drove off.

She could feel the apathy of fear begin to lighten up with her mothers stabbing eyes. Feeling returning to her listless body. Adrenaline filling her anesthetize like body.

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As soon as they got home Kagome saw that there was nothing at the house besides a mattress. She could here the air conditioning going on and off and the base in the neighbors TV. She took a couple steps into the apartment. Her mother behind her grabbed a hold of her shoulder and gave them a malignantly tight squeeze.

"Kagome, what did you think you were doing?" Her mother asked briskly. Kagome held perfect stillness. Her jaw clenching so that it wouldn't tremble. She frowned at her self for having such a faltering idiosyncrasy. At this moment, all she could hear in her mother's voice were foolish dispositions and movements she had. They whispered her stupid quirks, digging deep with spider like fingers at her bleeding gashes.

Her mother squeezed tighter, her muscles squirming under her hands. "Don't be so impudent, and don't you dare tell me you don't know. What. Were. You. Thinking?" she hissed, her anger becoming more detectable. It was almost tangible.

Kagome opened her mouth, "I wasn't thinking," she said quietly; a chunk of rock stuck deep in her throat prevented her from speaking any louder.

Her mother twirled her around so fast she was afraid that her arms would catch momentum and hit something near by. Her moms grip on her never seemed to get any looser at this point. She held her in place, backing her up to the closest wall that was available. Pining her body against the wall, Kagome was paralyzed; the fear of what her mother was capable of doing was turning her stomach acid into toxins bile.

"Kagome, don't be stupid! Why can't you prioritize you self right! What's wrong with you theses days! Do you know how this affects me! Do you! I'm a WEEK late to be in the right town! A WEEK! What the fuck is wrong with you? Can't you see that it's important for us to keep a roof over our heads?!" her mother began, screeching what was so obvious. Kagome could feel her eyes heating up with salty droplets. Even though, the fear of being in this position was suppose to be taking over her. It was sinking in slowly. So, she pressed them back, she knew the feeling would be coming soon. She could already start to feel the effect of being emerged in honey.

With such speed that she didn't even see her arm move, she reeled up her fist and made contact with her face. Kagome could feel the after sting of what her mother had just done. But she didn't move anymore. She held her stillness as she always did. Another to her face, on the opposite cheek. The sting came again.

"You're such a stupid child! Why don't you see! What is wrong with you! You cause me trouble! That's all you ever do! Cause me trouble after trouble! Your god damn paint, your fucking disobediences! All I ever wanted was to make you happy…" her screeching paused so she could breath in… her face becoming red and deformed with her raging frustration, but she had more to say," what's wrong with you… always… think of yourself…" hot tears pressed there way threw her mother.

Kagome couldn't see what she was doing; shed punched the contact leans out of focus on the eye she would have been able to see threw. But it didn't matter. She felt vacant of everything. Except for one brooding emotion that was left to mold on the bottom of her void. It was a parasitic mutter that was flourishing in the new found space inside of her. Until it roared in its dismal, bleak sound. Echoing off the walls of her flesh. You are the burdening abomination of a sin. Worth nothing. A deep black stain on a perfect person. That is what she was worth. The truth that haunted her when she was alone and when she was with her mother. Though the two had such little difference, if she wasn't in this precarious situation, she would laugh at its ironic-ness.

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InuYasha made leaps and bounds, trying to make his way to Kagome's apartment. He had tried to leave right after Kagome had gone. But his teacher had come after him. But luck for him, the period had almost been over. He just hoped nothing dire had happened in his absents. He didn't know what he would do if that woman had touched her again with her tyrannical hands. He didn't know if his senses could handle it.

He landed in front of Kagome's building, running up the twisting and turning stare well as fast as possible. He didn't want to leave any time for that rancid fraud of a mother to do anything. What was happening right now as he ran up? Wasting his opulent time on things like class when what he needed to do was come help Kagome. He just wanted to be there! To hold Kagome, to make sure nothing was going on…

He busted threw the door to her hallway. The sound of a fist making contact with skin echoed in his ears. The sound hitting him like a wall of jagged nails ripping across his acute ears. He ran down the last bit of space, loud horrible yelling emitting from Kagome's apartment. He had a feeling he was to late.

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Kagome was about to let her lifeless body daze off into something else. Like thinking of what could have been… with InuYasha. But as she began to think of that, she realized, she was most defiantly, not at any time for the rest of her life, going to see his hands next to her in the lazy mornings. Feel his lips caressing hers, his arms putting up a defensive barrier around her mind. She would never have the pleasure of telling him just how much… how much she actually wanted to be with him. It was never going to happen.

As the acidy tears escaped her solitude, the door caved in.

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