InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Betrayal's Gift ❯ Chapter 23

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The weather was just about to change, the sky clouded over with dark grey clouds and the temperature all of a sudden got very comfortable. Inuyasha looked up and frowned.

 

`Damn, all I need… a freakin' snow storm.'

 

He turned around and looked at Hotaru. She had covered her feet with his fire rat pants but obviously she was still having a problem. She stumbled and fell onto her hands in the snow. Her long hair fell over her face and shoulders in front of her.

 

“Damn it wench get up we don't have much time we got to find shelter now!”

 

Hotaru tried her best to hold her tears in check. Her feet were now numb. She was afraid to look at them, afraid that they would be black with frost bite. Though the rough material helped some, it was too late she feared, the cold was bleeding through and hitting her feet. She was tired for she had been up all night walking trying to find her way to the well. She tossed her head up and shot daggers at the inu youkai in front of her.

 

“My feet are numb no thanks to you, I can't walk anymore.”

 

Inuyasha scowled.

 

“Well than crawl like a damn maggot I don't give a shit, we have to find shelter or our asses are going to be in a damn snow storm.”

 

Hotaru let out a low whine. Inuyasha turned around and began walking; he took a couple of steps when he noticed snow falling.

 

“Lets go, the snow has already begun.”

 

He continued walking he knew exactly where he was; he was one more hour away from his castle, however, with the way the snow was falling not even he would be able to make it to the castle.

 

He turned around feeling a certain dark aura and turned once more to holler at the mortal girl when he noticed that she wasn't behind him. He growled in frustration and had to walk back to where she was last. When he got there he noticed that she wasn't moving, in fact, she was very still lying face down in the snow. Something told him she wasn't normal, her scent had an aroma about it, but he shook it off.

 

`Damn, not now stupid wench.'

 

He walked over to her and flipped her over, her eyes were void of anything but a medium shade of purple and she was shivering.

 

“What the hell? Hotaru?”

 

She wasn't responding. He scooped her up and with all of his youkai strength bounded toward the cave that was close to his home. The snow fell harder and harder making it nearly impossible for him to see. If he didn't know exactly where he was he would have gotten lost.

 

Once he entered the cave he traveled a ways down. He reached a cliff and jumped down to where the small hot spring with waterfall lay below him. He set Hotaru down and went to the corner of the cave where he kept materials.

He got some wood and flint and started a fire. He looked over at the girl who was still shivering but her mouth was set in a grim line with a slight tremble.

 

He walked over to her and squatted down by her feet. He didn't understand what was happening to her, why did she look this way, and why does he feel a slight hum of power radiating off of her; it wasn't normal. He noticed her feet were very red so he took a claw and ran it's tip over the bottom of her foot.

 

`Damn no response, your not going to blame me wench for frost bitten feet, you shouldn't have stole those boots or tried to escape the castle.'

 

He scooped her up again and dipped her feet into the warm water.

 

“NO KEN NO!”

 

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Hotaru was about to get up and begin walking again, when all of a sudden she heard her voice.

 

`You wanna see something?'

 

Hotaru froze; her alter ego couldn't possibly come out now, not now when the snow was coming down.

 

“Oh no.” Hotaru whined out low.

 

`Look at how I take care of you, how I take care of us.'

 

Hotaru felt her body tighten up and all of a sudden she saw him running up the stairs, soon she felt herself running with him.

 

“What are you doing Ken?”

 

`Watch and see, he's going to pay for what he did to us Hotaru.'

 

With wide frightened eyes she watched in horror as Ken ran up the steps, pushing people aside. She heard and saw everything that played in his head.

 

“What's happening, is this something to come?” Hotaru asked herself, however, it was the voice she always tried to hide from that answered her.

 

`No, you have a front row seat of what is actually happening as we speak, but if it weren't for you I wouldn't be having so much fun.'

 

When he finally reached the top he looked down at the street below him, then he looked up into the sky. She saw him smile when the breeze danced through his hair.

 

She tried to run over to him but found that she couldn't move.

 

“What are you doing to him?”

 

With sadistic laughter Hitomi answered readily.

 

`Oh, just a little torturing, I mean, he knows about the baby, he knows it's dead and I made sure to let him know that he is the reason why. Oh yeah, and just in case your wondering how… well since that day at school when he and Fuu made a complete ass of us and you were so pathetic I took over and blasted the shit out of them. Now, I got to have a little fun. Remember that day in front of the school…we made a connection to torture him whenever we wanted and while you slept or were meditating I made it possible, I traveled into his psyche, gave him dreams, played on his memories and made it hell for him. '

 

Hotaru thought back to that day and she didn't remember doing anything to him because she had blacked out.

 

“What did we do to him?”

 

`Oh, gave him what he deserves is all, I won't stand by and let him make a fool of us Hotaru, I won't stand by and let anyone make a fool of ME.'

 

All of a sudden Hotaru felt heat as she watched Ken lean over the rail and fall off the tower.

 

“NO KEN NO!”

 

It was too late, she saw him smile and than watched as his face turned from peace to pure disgusted horror. Hotaru heard laughter in her head, an evil female laughter. Hotaru couldn't help herself, she started shivering uncontrollably.

 

“This is wrong, this is wrong…I'm so sorry Ken.”

 

`Figures, he rapes the shit out of you, gets you pregnant and you feel sorry for the damn bastard. Well he got what he deserves.'

 

Hotaru felt extremely cold, she watched as his blood painted the granite sidewalk red and cried.

 

“I never wanted this to happen, I just wanted to go on with my life…I wanted to forget what had happened to me, why? Why did you do this?”

 

`Um sweetie, you did this, everything that has happened in these current events have been your doing. Had you not been such a pathetic waste of space I wouldn't have had to have my fun. Besides, I've been quiet for way too long. I deserve to be out too, why should you walk around and have our body abused the way you have, don't I deserve to live as well? Don't I exist? Well, I'm going to do what I gotta do until you let me out of this darkness you put me in.'

 

And with that the voice in her head went away leaving her feeling alone and guilty as she mentally shook from the horrible death of someone she knew and once cared for.

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Inuyasha noticed that the girl was shivering and without hesitation he removed his boa and her clothing from her body swiftly and carried her into the water. There he held her body under the water `til she stopped shivering. Her body was so sensual; everything about the girl just seemed exotically beautiful. Her long black hair floated behind her and he kept traveling down to her heart shaped face where she donned a sad and troubled frown between her delicately arched shaped brows, the slender slope of her nose, the pouting pink lips. Inuyasha continued to examine her body; he noticed the quickening pulse in her creamy looking hollow neck, her rounded shoulders. He noticed how her nipples perked up when he brought her out of the water some.

 

What bothered him most was the fact that she felt perfect in his arms. He shook that notion from his head and pulled out of the water. He set her on the fire rat clothes in front of the fire and wrapped his boa around her naked form. He went to another corner and changed out of his clothes after making use of the secret hot pocket beneath the cave.

 

`What the hell was all that about?'

 

He looked at the sleeping girl crossly.

 

`Keh, I should have left her out there and just gone home, stupid wench, now I don't know how long I'm going to be holed up here.'

 

He dunked his head under the water and began to swim, his naked hard body cutting through the liquid, he tried to drown the feeling of Hotaru in his arms. So he instead began to think about the events leading up to the cave.

 

`I should have just carried her on my damn back; I would be home already in my soft bed nice and freakin warm.'

 

His head crested through the water and he looked at her sleeping form again, this time, she had turned and was now facing him. Her lips were rosy red now and her breast poked out from beneath the silver boa. Inuyasha gnashed his teeth and suppressed a lustful groan.

 

“Heh, who the hell is Ken huh?”

 

He yelled at Hotaru. He climbed out of the water and shook off the excess drops as he walked over to secure himself another outfit. After he was done with that he jumped up to the entrance of the cave to check the situation.

 

Just as he thought the snow had gotten worse. He cursed silently to himself and went back down to the underground hot spring. He found some stored dried food and jerky and brought out some provisions. He scowled once more at the sleeping girl who lay naked beneath his boa and noticed that she was crying.

 

Curious now he woke her up albeit roughly.

 

“Wake the hell up you ungrateful mortal.” He said last part as if it were a curse word.

 

Hotaru opened her eyes slowly as she sat up. All of a sudden she felt a very cool chill run down the length of her. Wide awake now she went to cover herself with some warmth and noticed smooth skin beneath her hands. Her lavender eyes widened in fear as she looked at her captor and then looked down at herself.

 

“No…what…no not again...no…no…”

“What the hell are you blabbering about?”

 

Hotaru curled up into a ball hugging her knees close to her chest as she began to cry. Inuyasha now irritated stood above her.

 

“What the hell are you crying about you damn wench?!”

 

Hotaru looked up now heat in her eyes. At that moment she wished she didn't have some damn spell on her for she would purify his ass for raping her while she was out.

 

“You…despicable…you…coward…you couldn't even rape me while I was awake?!”

 

Now Inuyasha was insulted and thoroughly pissed off, however, none of it crossed his features. He was so livid at the idea that he wanted to simply kill her for that notion. With a clawed hand around her throat he pulled her close to his face, they were nose to nose fiery molten gold paired up with wrathful shamed violet.

 

“Lets get one thing straight filthy human, I…don't need to lower myself with the likes of you, I can't stand the way you smell, hell, I really can't stand you. I don't need to find any physical pleasures with you human, when I have a castle full of youkai bitches who jump into my bed willingly. But I tell you this…if I did bed you, it wouldn't be rape, for you would have begged me.”

 

With that he dropped her unceremoniously and left her space turning his back on her. He scooped down and picked up some clothes for her. It was one of his robes and a pair of boots to travel in when the snow stopped coming down so hard. These items he tossed over his shoulder in her direction.

 

Hotaru glanced at him and then back down at the clothes. She hurriedly put them on and thought about what he said. In fact a part of her felt embarrassed at having had said something like that to him and fall into pieces in front of him. But she couldn't apologize not to someone who wants to have her dead instead of set her free. Rubbing her neck sure to be showing bruises already she understood how much he wanted to kill her and be free of her, but was bound to some obligation toward his brother. However, her pride was hurt yet again and hoarsely she said.

 

“I would never beg to have sex with you, I'd rather die a hundred deaths…so don't worry yourself sick over that one.”

 

Inuyasha stood there in his full height, she challenged him,

 

“Keh, as if I would hold my breath to bed with an ugly wench like you. Trust me when you beg me I'd be doing you the favor. Now if you'd look over there stupid wench, I placed you in the hot spring so you wouldn't freeze to death, but trust me I won't make the same mistake twice.”

 

“Oh.”

 

Hotaru looked down in shame. He saved her life and she accused him of hurting her. He saved her life after everything she's done to him. She did steal from one of his guest, stole his clothes and food and because of what she did he had to come out and get her. Granted, she had no idea she was a prisoner, but, he treated her well even had his healer to mend her physical wounds.

 

“You were shivering bad and the weather outside, well, it's become harsh. In order to warm you up I placed you in the bath. You understand? It was the only way. By the way what happened to you back there, I don't understand why you stopped. Your eyes…”

 

`That humming power beneath your skin.'

 

He walked up to her this time and pushed the strands of hair from off her forehead and looked into her eyes. Hotaru blinked a couple of times and found that she couldn't move. His eyes were now different to her. They seemed sincerely curious. His hand felt warm on her forehead though it was only a light touch.

 

“Your eyes they were gone, it was just a purple light. Care to explain, mortals don't do that not even priestesses and your abilities while in youkai dimension are void and null, so explain wench.”

 

Hotaru didn't know what to say. She pulled back and lowered her eyes, embarrassed that she found herself blushing? How could she be blushing?

 

“I really can't explain anything to you except that well…I'm a freak…I've been a freak all my life.”

 

“Who told you that you were a freak?”

 

Hotaru shrugged and in shame she whispered.

 

“Everyone.”

 

“Surely your parents don't think you're a freak?”

 

Hotaru looked up quickly and then with shame looked down.

 

“They love me, they have no choice I'm their daughter, but, because of me…my mother became a drug addict, she has mental breakdowns. She even tried to purify me once…”

 

Hotaru didn't know why she was pouring her heart out right now to the guy who couldn't stand her, the guy who found her repulsive, the guy who just might kill her if he was ordered too. Maybe she needed to confess her sins in order to be cleansed she thought to herself.

 

“Your mother…she tried to purify you?”

 

Hotaru shook her head yes.

 

“Your father?…”

 

“My father he tried to show me how to maintain my spiritual powers but, sometimes they still get out of my control…I guess the stress of my mom on drugs and me well, he sought comfort in other places.”

 

Inuyasha folded his hands into his sleeve and frowned now.

 

“You mean with other women right?”

 

With a startled gasp Hotaru looked up at her captor questioningly why would he sound so vehement about a man he's never met. And to answer her question he replied.

 

“Look, I don't believe in adultery.”

 

“You don't?”

 

“No, I once loved a woman and she betrayed me.”

 

This time he looked at her with that hate again. Hotaru looked down.

 

`Poor guy, no wonder he's ice.'

 

“A penny?”

 

“Huh?”

 

“Well, for your thoughts?”

 

At first Hotaru thought it was weird that he would know that expression, for they didn't have pennies in the feudal era, but she wondered about something else more.

 

“Tell me, what are your plans for me since I'm under arrest for suspicious disappearances in this realm of yours?”

 

“I plan to keep a close eye on you and since you like to steal and run away, well, I am going to have to keep an eye on you twenty four hours a day. So, I guess as much as it is a disgusting thing for me to have to do I am going to have to keep you in my room at all times. You know, I could think of you as some foul smelling pet, I bet with a bath you'd probably smell a little better neh? ”

 

Hotaru seethed inside. `a foul smelling pet!' She cut her eyes at him intent on letting him know how she felt about his ideas for her.

 

He actually laughed at her antics. She turned over on her side and made to go to sleep. It was hours later and she found that she still couldn't sleep well. She sat up and stoked the fire and noticed that the inu youkai was sleeping peacefully. She looked at him and watched the fire dance on his smooth face. His hair seemed to dance in myriads of colors from the light that bounced off the walls of the cave and the water.

 

`Why am I feeling so attracted to this guy, it's not normal. I don't want to be attracted to this guy or any guy. I must be going crazy.'

 

She sighed and tried to go back to sleep. She pulled his fur over her body and balled up to keep the heat in. Meanwhile Inuyasha only acted to be sleeping. He knew full well that the mortal wasn't asleep. He watched her for the longest time and when she sat up to stoke the fire; he was shocked to notice the appreciative look in her eyes. He knew she didn't like him overly much, not that he didn't help her not to like him, but, if she was looking at him appreciatively well, it probably wouldn't be to hard to seduce her. Without it spreading across his face he smiled wickedly.