InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Beauty and the Beast ❯ Chapter Two ( Chapter 2 )

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Disclaimer: I do NOT own InuYasha, however much I'd like too. I simply keep him chained up in the BCOK. I do not own the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" though I own many books of it, retellings, and the Disney movie, as well as three other movies of it. I do, however, own this piece of writing, which makes it MINE. You steal it, I kidnap you and sell you to Jaken to be his new love slave. ::Jaken pants and licks his beak, wiggling his eyebrows at you:: Yeah, be afraid. Be very afraid.

Kagome sighed and curled into the warmth around her, tugging her blankets closer around her. She frowned slightly, annoyed by the faint buzz of voices around her, and began pulling herself out of her the oblivion she had slipped into. She opened one eye ever so slightly, expecting to see the wall of her room.

Instead of her room, however, she was faced with a pair of blue eyes gazing at her in concern. She let out a shriek, and in a flash had fallen off the fainting couch she had been stretched out on. She thumped onto the floor, trying to scramble madly to her feet before she somehow caught herself on her cape and tumbled back down to the ground. She sat on her bottom in a daze, eyes wide, before she heard a "Feh" from behind her.

She twisted herself around, blinking as she saw him. He looked as he always had in her dreams, and her heart began to race inside her chest even as she turned pale. She tilted her head to the side, staring at him. He crossed his arms over his chest, glaring at her as if daring her to say anything.

"My Lady, are alright?" She turned her head and eyed the handsome young man standing in front of her. She saw he was dressed as a monk and blinked at him before nodding slowly. He gave her a charming grin and helped her up, clasping her hand in both of his.

"Forgive me, but you have startled me with your beauty." She arched an eyebrow and blinked at him, eyes going wide as he leaned over her and gave her hand a long kiss, eyes looking up at her with a twinkle. "Will you do you me the honor of bearing my children?" That struck Kagome dead silent as she stared at him, mouth agape, before a balled up fist struck him on the head, making him fall to the ground, eyes crossed.

"Hentia!" she eyed the young woman who had hit him for a moment, unable to even form a coherent thought at the moment, much less speak.

"Who are you?" She turned around quickly at he harsh voice, eyeing the man of her dreams. Literally.

She said nothing, simply stared at him, and he snarled, grabbing her arm.

"What are you, stupid!? I asked who you are!" Kagome let out a gasp of indignation before jerking away from him, glaring daggers at him.

"Did you just call me stupid!?"

"What do you know, you can talk." She narrowed her eyes, anger making her flush red. This was not how she had expected to meet him...not that she had really expected to meet him at all, but still, in her mind it had never gone this way.

"Stop it, InuYasha. Forgive him, he's a loud-mouthed idiot." The woman gave Kagome a kind smile, and Kagome returned it, thankfully to see someone who wasn't insulting her or asking her to give them children.

"I noticed." Kagome gave the woman a small smile, and she laughed at the comment.

"My name is Sango. That's InuYasha, and the pervert on the floor is Miroku."

"I'm Kagome." The two women smiled at each other before InuYasha broke in.

"What are you doing here?" Kagome turned her gaze back on him, suddenly hit with a rush of feelings. She knew it was simply insane but all she wanted to do was throw herself in his arms, her head resting on his heart, and spend the rest of her life there. He, however, looked as if he wanted nothing more then to turn her into scraps of meat to feed to the dogs.

"I got lost in the woods. I was just looking for a place to stay for the night." He scowled at her for a moment, before speaking.

"Bad luck for you, little girl. You're my prisoner now." Kagome was shocked into complete silence, even her thoughts coming to halt.

"Prisoner?" She repeated softly.

"Are you deaf as well as stupid?"

"You can't keep me prisoner here!" He smirked at her, folding his arms back across his chest.

"Its that or kill you. Your choice, little girl."

"Why would you want to keep me prisoner? I was just looking for a place to stay for the night!"

"Because you'll go back and tell everyone you know about me and this place, and I really don't fancy having to kill an entire village because of your big mouth." Sango shook her head, moving to Kagome's side.

"Don't you think you're being a bit rash, InuYasha? I doubt that-" She was silence by a glare and snarl from him, and Kagome felt her heart drop to her feet.

Kagome sat on the bed in the room she had been given, curling her arms around her legs as she leaned against the headboard. The room was lavishly decorated, though obviously unused for many years. The bed was a large four poster with velvet hangings, the wood floors covered in thick, rich rugs, and she had a large window that had a window seat, something she had secretly always desired.

Though this was not how she had envisioned getting it.

She leaned over, resting her head on the softy, downy pillow, tears filling her eyes. She would never see her beloved jiichan again.

And now she was a prisoner to the man she had loved her whole life. It made some sense to her now, why she had loved him so much, yet feared him at the same time. He was rude, he was arrogant, and cruel as far as she could see. Yet something still drew her towards him, made her want to sooth the anger and hurt out of his eyes; to mend his scared soul.

She lifted her head slightly when she heard a soft knock on her door.

"Come in." The door opened to revel Sango, and Kagome felt a rush of gratitude that at least she would not be here alone.

"Are you okay?" Sango asked, sitting down on the bed beside her. Kaogme nodded, sitting up, folding her legs under her.

"I'm fine...I'm just..." She paused, looking away. "I can't believe that I'll never see my jiichan again." Sango wrapped a comforting arm around Kagome.

"I'm sorry, Kagome. InuYasha's really not that bad...he's just...hurt." Kagome looked up at Sango, blinking away her tears.

"Did he take you and Miroku as his prisoners, too?" Sango laughed, shaking her head.

"Hardly. We've been with him for a long time, since he was young. Since we were all young." A shadow passed over Sango's face.

"Why? Why is keeping me prisoner here?" Sango sighed, looking away. She spoke slowly, choosing her words carefully.

"InuYasha is not...fully human. He's a hanyou. He was banished by his older brother, who was ashamed of his human blood, to stay here. If anyone should find out a hanyou lives here...well, there are many who hate demons, and hanyou's more, because they see them as evil, as a signification of why demons and human's shouldn't mix." Kagome drew in a deep breath, letting the information soak in.

"I...see. But I wouldn't tell."

"InuYasha wouldn't believe you. He's been hurt to many times for that, Kagome." Kagome almost said she knew, that she understood how deep his pain went. But how could she tell Sango that she had known InuYasha for her whole life, through dreams?

No, she wouldn't tell Sango. Not yet anyways.

"Well, dinner is almost ready. Come down and eat with us." Kagome nodded, and the two stood, making their way out of the room.

The castle was large, rather gloomy in fact, and Kagome was sure that were she left to navigate it by herself she would be hopeless lost for the rest of her life. They entered the kitchen to find Miroku setting out their dinner of rice and fish, InuYasha sitting in a chair, looking grumpy.

"Oh, yum, I'm starved." Sango sat down quickly, Kagome following, but before any of them could begin their meal a small bundle of red fur came flying into the room.

"Is dinner ready yet!?" Kagome blinked, seeing a small kitsune cub standing in the doorway, nose twitching.

"Stupid, what does it look like?" The cub paid InuYasha no mind and bounded at the table, and had already filled his plate when he noticed Kagome. He blinked at her for a moment, obviously confused by the new addition to the small group.

"Hello." Kagome said, smiling at him softly. He grinned at her, raising a small, clawed hand and waving.

"Hi! I'm Shippou, who're you?" Kagome couldn't help but grin at the cub's infectious smile and hyper attitude.

"I'm Kagome." Shippou nodded, looking as if he understood completely.

"Ohhh, you must be the girl who's gonna-" All of a sudden there came a large clawed hand swinging at the cub and knocking him on the head, along with Miroku's staff, and Sango glared at him, fairly hissing.

Kagome just blinked.

"Shut up!" InuYasha fairly roared and Shippou's large, green eyes filled with tears, his chin trembling. Within moments he had broken out into loud sobs, acting as if his heart had been broken. While Kagome had no clue why they had reacted so violently, though she was admittedly curious, she leapt up and scooped the kit in her arms. He wrapped small arms around her neck, sobbing into her shirt. She glared at them all, InuYasha in particular.

"Why did you do that!? He's just a child!" InuYasha let out a 'Feh', something Kagome was starting to think he did a lot of, and began to eat, while Sango adverted her gaze and Miroku acted as if nothing had happened.

"They're mean to me! I was only talking and they-they-!" again he broke into fresh sobs, clinging to Kagome. She rubbed his back and soothed him, and soon he was able to sit down and eat, breaking into chatter and asking Kagome about her, what she was doing there, why she was so pretty, and did she have a husband?

Kagome found the child amusing and laughed at his antics, talking to him happily, watching him inhale nearly as much food as InuYasha.

Maybe being there wouldn't be so bad after all.