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The Boyfriend	By : Xakana Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > InuYasha/Kagome Views: 19837 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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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: R

Codes: 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.
The Boyfriend

Chapter 20
�What I still don�t understand, is why the
demons took you and not me,� Sango said softly one afternoon when
Shippo was off playing. InuYasha looked over, as did Miroku, waiting
for the answer.
�They said� it was because my purity had been
recently taken,� Kagome answered. InuYasha had tried prodding her
for this answer several times, but she hadn�t been able to talk
about it. �They said that, if just a few more days had gone by, I
would have been useless to them.�
�Why?� InuYasha asked.
�I�m not sure. All the girls� all the girls
they had� lost�� Kagome stopped, unable to finish her sentence.
She took a moment to convince herself that it was over and talking
about it wouldn�t make it come back. She forced herself to keep her
eyes open so the images didn�t spring to mind and looked at Sango.
�Many of the girls were new brides. A few were like me�� Kagome
looked back down at the ground. �They took� took my blood,�
Kagome said, holding out her arm to show the knife scar. Everyone
leaned in and Kagome curled back in on herself. She yelled at herself
inwardly, �Come on, Higurashi, I thought we were moving past
this!� and held her arm out again, proud when it didn�t
shake.
�Why blood?� Miroku asked and Kagome sighed
with relief when she didn�t flinch. She had seen the hurt in
Miroku�s eyes when she had avoided him, but the thought of him
sneaking a grope had terrified her so badly that she had become
afraid of even the sound of his voice. She had been afraid of his
anger after the attack, especially after the way that one policeman
had acted in her room, like it was her fault. She understood that it
wasn�t. The grief counselor at the hospital had made certain of
that before she left after her examination, but she was afraid other
people blamed her.
The woman had looked at the new bruises on
Kagome�s throat and pointed them out to her, saying that no matter
what the outcome of the charges against Yukio, especially since he
was so young, it was in no way Kagome�s fault. InuYasha had piped
up from the corner of the room, �Damn right, it�s not,�
and her mother had smiled at her, nodding in agreement. She might not
have believed her mother, or even the stranger�after all, she was
trained to make people feel better. But InuYasha was always quick to
blame her if she did something wrong. With all three of them telling
her that it wasn�t her fault, she had no choice but to believe
them.
�Kagome-chan?� Sango prodded and Kagome
realized she had spaced off.
�Sorry,� she said quickly. �I don�t know
why they needed blood. But all the girls said they took some of
theirs, too. Then, most of the brides were taken home to their
husbands, but some of them, all of us who had been� had been��
Kagome stopped again, then forced herself to continue, �Forced out
of our� purity� We were given to a group of youkai who used
humans as slaves and sold them later.�
�Maybe they feed on the blood of girls who have
recently lost their purity?� Miroku offered. Sango nodded.
�I�ve heard of mononoke like that,� she said
softly. �They�re famous for stealing new brides from their
husbands. Some don�t ever make it back and most don�t remember
what happened to them. But no one�s ever seen them well enough to
describe one.�
�What did they make you do?� InuYasha asked,
ignoring Sango�s explanation.
�Not much,� Kagome said. �Any time I didn�t
want to do something, I just didn�t do it and they� beat me,�
Kagome said quickly. �When I started taking care of some of the
other girls, they decided that�s what I would do�I acted as a
healer most of the time.� Kagome�s mind flashed back to the girls
she used her body to shield so that they wouldn�t be beaten to
death for making meaningless mistakes. Kagome had watched a girl die
under their care in the first day and had vowed not to watch it
again.
She had failed at least twice in escaping because
she had gone back to rescue another girl and once because she had
tried to free them all. They had told her after that, that if she had
a chance, to take it. She had wanted to get away badly enough that
she agreed to it, hoping that she would be able to find InuYasha and
bring him back to save them. Then, one night, one of the youkai had
tried to take her to his bed and she had fought, tooth and nail.
Another of the girls saw it and stopped him from raping her by
offering herself in Kagome�s place. It was one of the girls Kagome
had saved from a terrible beating and Kagome had cried all night,
remembering the way the girl turned to smile at her as she walked off
to fill the youkai�s bed.
They decided that she was too much trouble after a
month and started trying to sell her in every village they came near,
but she sabotaged every attempted sale except for one. She had tried
to facilitate that sale, actually, because the man who was trying to
buy her had looked on them with kind, pitying eyes. But he only had
enough money for one of them and Kagome knew that the girl standing
next to her had caused even more trouble than she had. The youkai had
told her that if no one bought her, they would kill her after the
auction. So Kagome had signaled him to buy the other girl and watched
her opportunity slip away, losing most of the hope and spirit she had
left.
The next auction, she was bought. The man didn�t
touch her except to hit her when she did something that he decided
was wrong, but she had lost all hope of ever being rescued. She had
still tried to escape at every opportunity, but by her seventh month
of pregnancy, she was so starved and the baby was so heavy, she had
to give up.
She jumped when she felt a hand on her shoulder
and looked to its owner. InuYasha let go and walked off and she stood
to follow him. She looked back at Sango and Miroku, who looked
puzzled, and smiled at them. They both smiled back and Kagome hurried
to catch up with InuYasha�s retreating form. They walked a while
before he finally stopped and looked off into the distance, not
saying anything for a few minutes.
�Anything you couldn�t say around them, you
can tell me,� InuYasha offered. Kagome�s eyes widened. �I� I
want to know.�
�No, you don�t,� Kagome said, stepping close
and taking his arm. �But you do want to know if I slept with any of
them,� Kagome said before he could protest. She felt him stiffen
and laid her head against his shoulder. �I didn�t.�
�Did any of them� try?� InuYasha asked.
Kagome was quiet for a while.
�Yes,� she answered. �One of the slavers.
But another girl took my place,� she admitted. She let go of his
arm, but before she could walk away, he grabbed her and pulled her
back to hold against his chest. He started to open his mouth to say
something, but he was cut off by a loud yell.
�Kagome!� Kagome felt InuYasha stiffen and a
growl rose up into the air, almost as loud as the one he directed at
Yukio.
�InuYasha,� Kagome chastised, trying to stop
the fight before it began. InuYasha pushed her away and put his hand
on the hilt of his sword.
�Hi, Koga-kun,� Kagome greeted as the wolf
skidded to a halt just a few steps away. Koga looked at her silently
and Kagome took a step back, frightened by his gaze. He was too thin,
like she was, and looked like he had been in many fights recently.
His eyes had roamed over her entire body like a starving man looks at
his next meal.
�When did you find her, Dog-Crap?� Koga
demanded. Kagome expected InuYasha to growl louder, but he surprised
her by stopping entirely.
�Not long ago, only a handful of days,�
InuYasha answered. The look disappeared from Koga�s face and Kagome
relaxed a little. Then Koga�s head dropped.
�So you won, then,� Koga said. �You�ve
already had a child with her.� Kagome�s eyes widened, then she
remembered that Shippo could smell her milk. Koga looked at Kagome
again and his eyes were sad. �You chose him, after all.�
�I�m sorry, Koga-kun,� Kagome said softly,
then d�j� vu gripped her and she clutched InuYasha�s
hand, remembering what Yukio had said right after she apologized for
not choosing him. Koga hadn�t been their ally until he decided that
he was in love with her. What if he decided to attack now?
�You better take damn good care of her,
Mutt-face,� Koga growled. �If I hear you�ve let her get
kidnapped or hurt again, you�ll answer to me.� Kagome relaxed as
her nightmare moment passed and Koga turned and walked away. She
wondered if they would see him again after this.
�He�s been looking for you, too,� InuYasha
said quietly. �He even stopped looking for Naraku, trying to find
you.� Kagome looked up at InuYasha, but he turned and walked away,
not saying another word. Kagome followed silently behind him,
wondering about the way he was behaving. There was a calmness in him
that hadn�t been there before and Kagome couldn�t help but think
that InuYasha seemed to have grown up a little.
To be continued�
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