Ba boom… Ba boom…

'No don't stop… I can't let you slow down…'

Ba boom… Ba boom…

'I can't leave… I have to live…'

Ba boom… Ba…

'I have to live… Sessh… I have to live…'

Ba boom… Ba boom… Ba boom…

'I can't leave you behind… Sessh… I can't.'

Ba boom… Ba boom… Ba boom…

"Sessh…" Rin moaned.

"She's conscious. Thank god, listen sweetie; you've been in an accident. Can you open your eyes for me?" The paramedic asked. Rin opened her eyes but immediately closed them as the fluorescent lights of the ambulance burned into her eyes. "Alright… it's okay you can keep them closed. But I need you to stay awake for me alright."

"Where… are we?" Rin asked softly the oxygen mask stifling the already soft sound.

"We are on our way to the hospital. Do you remember the accident?" The paramedic asked picking up her hand and squeezing it.

"Accident…" Rin muttered. Her body was burning and she could barely keep herself conscious. But something about the tone of the paramedic made her understand that if she fell back to sleep, she might not wake up.

"Yes, an accident. You ran in front of a car in the rain. Right now we have you hooked up to a mask but I need you to stay up. I know it hurts but you can't go back to sleep… Your lungs just started to work on their own when you came to…"

"The car… The driver is…" Rin started willing her eyes open.

"The driver's fine. Do you have any family that we can contact?" The paramedic asked softly. At the word family something inside of Rin's mind clicked.

"Oh no… Kagome." Rin tried to sit up but the paramedic pushed her back.

"You have at least four broken ribs. We think you punctured a lung. Your arm is broken and you…"

"You have to get Kagome out of that house!" Rin pushed out, her vital signs dipping because of the effort.

"Okay sweetie calm down. Don't get too excited you have to calmly breathe alright. We don't have the equipment in here if you become too tired to breathe… Now who's Kagome?"

"He's going to kill her." Rin whimpered out. "You have to save her…"

"Who's going to kill her?" The paramedic asked quickly.

"Her father… oto-san… He'll kill her…" Suddenly the ambulance swerved and came to a complete jutting halt.

"Damn it! What the fuck are you doing up there?" The paramedic yelled to the driver.

"This bright light just appeared in the middle of the street!" The driver called back panic evident in his voice. This was followed by the sounds of a light struggle in which the driver lost consciousness.

Suddenly the back door of the ambulance was ripped off. The paramedic was so shocked that he didn't stop Rin from forcing herself up. A figure clothed in black stepped onto the ambulance. The paramedic jumped to his feet and stood in front of Rin in a defensive stance.

"Don't come any closer. I have a duty to protect my patients even if it costs me my life." The paramedic said bravely.

But the figure ignored the paramedic and stared at the girl hooked up to wires and machines. She was holding one hand to her chest and the other was pressed against the wall of the vehicle to keep her sitting up. She smiled at him as sweat began to dampen her brow. "Sesshoumaru… I'm sorry…"

"You're not her oto-san?" The paramedic asked letting his guard down.

Sesshoumaru didn't even bother with the paramedic's question. Within a flash he was helping Rin lay back down. "Did I scare you koibito?" Rin muttered as Sesshoumaru allowed a small flash of his youki to go into her body. He couldn't give her too much because she was in her human form. But it did help ease the pain and repair her lung and a few of the broken bones.

"Hn." There was a short pause as Sesshoumaru put together the pieces of the previous five minutes. "What does your uncle have to do with this?" Sesshoumaru asked as he recalled the paramedics seemingly almost misplaced comment.

"He…" Rin started before looking away from Sesshoumaru.

"She said that her uncle was going to kill a girl named Kagome…" The paramedic said quietly.

"He was the one hurting Kagome." Rin said quickly. The small burst of Sesshoumaru's youki allowing her to breathe easier. Her heart beat became regular. Her heart coincidentally started its strong pumps which immediately calmed Sesshoumaru down.

"He did this…" Sesshoumaru stopped speaking as his nose twitched slightly. "That bastard tried to rape you." Sesshoumaru's eyes began to bleed red at the edges.

"Sessh don't…" Rin said grabbing his arm.

"His arousal is on your skin…" Sesshoumaru growled angrily. "There is fear in your eyes… I'll kill him."

"Don't kill him…"

"Why shouldn't I kill him? He tried to rape my mate. He's trying to kill my brother's mate. And who knows what in the hell he has done to her in the past."

"Just… Kagome's in danger. If Inuyasha leaves her there… Don't kill him."

"I won't. But I can't make any promises for Inuyasha." Sesshoumaru said darkly. "You make sure she is taken care of. If anything happens, I will not hesitate to kill you." Sesshoumaru said to the paramedic whose face almost immediately drained of color. And with a swift jump Sesshoumaru was back out into the night.

"Sesshoumaru, where the hell are you? Mom and dad are…" Inuyasha yelled angrily into his cell phone.

"Little brother, tell me that Kagome is still in your care." Sesshoumaru said as he jumped to another building top.

"No I dropped her off about fifteen minutes ago… Sesshoumaru… What's going on? Are you back here?" Inuyasha asked as his stomach began to sink.

"Rin is on her way to the hospital. Kagome's father attempted to rape her while you and Kagome where out and she was in her human form…"

Inuyasha slammed on the brakes of his car. "What?"

"If you left Kagome there and her father has not vacated the premises after Rin's escape then…" Sesshoumaru said an eerie calm in his voice.

"I'll kill him. I'll cut his manhood off and let him choke on it. I'll pull his skin from his bones and hang his pelt on my wall. I'll beat him within an inch of his life, have him beg for mercy and simply rip him open from head to toe with one of my claws." Inuyasha growled his eyes becoming red, his claws and fangs becoming longer. His breathing became so erratic that Sesshoumaru heard it through the phone.

"Inuyasha, can you not fully grasp the danger you'll put Kagome in if you storm in there transformed?" Sesshoumaru barked quickly into the phone.

"I need to protect her…"

"Did you need to slice open my arm?" Sesshoumaru spat.

"No…"

"Glad we agree to at least one thing, little brother. I am saying this to you because your presence is not an unsightly blemish on my life, calm yourself before you enter. I am sure you shall arrive there before I am able. Control your blood Inuyasha, or his blood may not be the only blood spilt." And with that said both brothers clicked their phones shut and raced toward their destination.

It was over within a few minutes. He was tired and drunk so he could only do so much. Kagome lay on the tiled floor curled up in a small ball. Her clothing was torn. Her body was bruised and broken. Her pride and sense of self were shredded into nothingness.

She lay in a small pool of her own blood. His forceful thrusts and blatant disregard for her well being causing damage that she somehow knew would be hard to attempt to repair. She had refused his demands to get on all fours and fellate him. And for it she had paid the price. Her virginity had been ripped away from her.

No longer did she hold the naïve dream that losing her virginity would be romantic and soft, with someone she loved. No, it had been a painful nightmare, one she couldn't wake up from.

She wanted to vomit but her body was too tired to attempt a heave. She wanted to cry but her eyes were dry from the shock of the moments prior. She wanted to wake up but it wasn't a dream. She wanted to die. Oh how she wanted to die. And what was stopping her. Cowardice. She was a coward. There were women who lived through what she had and decided that to relive it every night was too much. They took it into their own hands and killed themselves. Why couldn't she do that? Why couldn't she get away? Why did it feel like she was always coming back?

Her father was right. She did always return for more. If she had said something… If she had stopped covering up her bruises with lies maybe… If she had told Inuyasha. Inuyasha. What would he think of her? He'd probably think she deserved it. That she was a whore that loved daddy's touch. Because she had to be. Because if she hated being tossed around so, why didn't she leave?

Her father was still lying on the floor in the same position he had been in when he had released his seed into his eldest child. He moaned a bit before picking himself off of the floor. After fumbling with his pants, he pulled them up to his waist and fastened the belt. He stumbled lightly in his drunken ecstasy filled haze dropping the gun that had been in his grip during this whole ordeal.

"Get up bitch…" He slurred. Forgetting the gun and grabbing a bottle of whiskey. "I said get up!" He yelled before his boot connected with her stomach.

"…"

"Oh, so that's how it is gonna be? I told you what to do! You didn't listen so you had to be punished!" He roared before grabbing hold of Kagome's hair and dragging her towards the door.

Something snapped inside of Kagome and she began to thrash about as her father slowly dragged her to the back door. He cursed the whole way there. Tugging on her and attempting not to be battered. Suddenly Kagome's hand gasped the cool metal of the pistol. Her fingers grasped it and she cocked it back. Her father's grip on her loosened automatically as he backed away from her hands in the air.

"Slow down Kagome… you don't even know how to use that thing, do you?" He laughed uneasily.

"Shut up!" Kagome screamed as she used one hand to push herself away from him. In her other hand the gun was held aimed and ready. "I can't live like this! You're a monster! How could you? How could you do that to me?" Kagome cried as she stopped moving backwards and wrapped her free arm around her stomach.

"You're nothing but a scared little whore. Now give me the gun and I'll forget this…"

"I said shut the fuck up!"

"You can't even stand up can you? What will your little boyfriend say when he finds out? When he learns that your daddy had a taste of you before he did…"

"Inuyasha…" Kagome whispered as tears began to fall from her eyes.

"Yeah… Inuyasha. Will he want damaged goods?"

"Shut up! Stop lying to me!" Kagome screamed before turning the pistol to her own head. Her breathing instantly became shallow. Her eyes dilated and became manic.

"You can't even shoot me after I took away whatever the hell was left of your innocence!" The man laughed. "I know you don't have it in you to kill yourself."

Suddenly the front door blasted open and Kagome immediately pointed the gun to the door. Her father took this time to advance but Kagome automatically aimed the gun back at him. "What kind of shit are you trying to pull?" Kagome asked as she pulled her self up into a standing position by holding onto the end table.

"What the fuck are you talking…" Kagome's father started before a drenched figure stepped into the room.

"Kagome…" came the voice an overwhelming sadness engulfing the name.

"Inuyasha…" Kagome whispered as tears ran down her cheeks.

"What did he…" Inuyasha started as he began to walk towards her.

"Don't!" Kagome pleaded as she continued to move the gun between where Inuyasha was and her father was.

"Well, look who's here…" Kagome's father laughed maliciously. "Why don't you tell him about the fun we've had…"

"Kagome… please put the gun down… I already called the cops they should be here soon… It's all going to be okay."

"No it's not! I'm a whore! He… He…" Kagome started as she stopped going back and forth and just aimed at her father. "You did this to me! Now I can't… I can't live! But if I have to go, you're going to!" Kagome yelled angrily. Her finger slipped onto the trigger.

"Kagome… he's not worth it." Inuyasha said finally behind her. He gently wrapped a hand around Kagome's wrist and started to pull the gun from her fingers.

"But you don't know… You don't know…" Kagome stammered out as she released the gun into Inuyasha's hands and cried into his chest. Inuyasha immediately placed the gun on the table and slid it out of Kagome's reach. He then wrapped his coat around her.

"Bravo… The half breed and his whore… together forever…" Kagome's father clapped another gun in his hand. Inuyasha immediately tried to grab the gun on the table. "No… I wouldn't do that if I were you…" The man said as he aimed this new gun at the two teens. Inuyasha put his hands up and pushed Kagome behind himself. "Over there by the door now!" He bellowed.

"You're weak." Inuyasha said coldly as he and Kagome backed slowly toward the door. A million thoughts were running rampantly through his normally empty head. All of them ended with a shot being fired. And he couldn't afford rushing the man with his demonic strength and a bullet flying pass him and harming Kagome.

"Oh am I… Well in the end Inuyasha… I am stronger than Kagome and I have killed before so getting you out of the picture should be that hard." Suddenly a shot rang through the air and then everything was silent.

Yeah, another chapter! I'm almost done. Can you feel it? Can you feel the ending fast approaching? Anyway I got class in like 30 minutes so I have to go… Review please…