InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Betrayal's Gift ❯ Chapter 29

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“Inuyasha, I can help out around here until the spring. I am not used to not doing anything. Since she's pregnant let me take on her chores.”

 

“You're my prisoner not my slave.”

 

“Does it really make a difference, I mean, I'm holed up in here and maybe…maybe I wouldn't be in a state of panic…”

 

“Damn it all you don't understand; if I let you out of this room, others will think you're a slave and have their way with you do you want that?”

 

Hotaru looked up at him with questioning eyes.

 

“What are you telling me Inuyasha?”

 

“I'm saying that their whores Hotaru. They are paid for any services they render. Any male in this house can touch any of the women in it. It's my rule.”

 

With horror in her eyes she paled.

 

“You…you pimp out your women?”

 

“What do you mean pimp? What is that?”

 

Hotaru sat there looking at him her mouth opening and shutting until she could formulate a sentence.

 

“Pimp means that you lend out whores, that they sleep with men for money and you profit.”

 

“I don't profit from anything, just like you saw Shippo fell in love with one and now I am out of a servant, she will be his private concubine or wife, it's hard to explain. Look by youkai structure a male can have as many wives or concubines he wants so long as he can afford them all.”

 

“So, your like a…a man, who can have several wives and you place them all in a harem where no one else is to look on them? But I don't understand you said you have concubines so that other men could touch them?”

 

“Not exactly. A youkai male may take a mate, she is the one marked by him and the only one no one else can touch, however, the wives or concubines are there to please there master and the masters guest.”

 

“So in other words you pimp them out?”

 

Hotaru started to get really heated up by the whole situation. It was wrong how they were just using women. Inuyasha was becoming frustrated because she couldn't understand what he was trying to say.

 

“Look, in our world this is acceptable alright; you have no right to judge how things have been done for centuries. I don't want you to act as a slave, because your not, any of the males here in my castle can then take you, your safest in my room.”

 

Hotaru sighed; she wanted to do something to get out and socialize. They continued to argue about this point when they finally came to an agreement. And now two months later which would be February she was putting on her own clothes to go down into the infirmary and help the youkai mistress Ino there. She enjoyed talking to the female who had a lot of information for a young by youkai standards woman.

 

“So Ino tell me about this way of youkai life, I don't understand it.”

 

“We do not understand what it is you ask of us lady Hotaru.”

Hotaru smiled. She still wasn't used to being called lady when Inuyasha calls her other names.

 

“If I were a youkai woman, how would I go about claiming a mate?”

 

“Let us think…”

 

It seemed like the beautiful blue skinned and sea foamed green haired woman was looking back into the past or something before she spoke up again.

 

“We believe that if you were to be a female youkai, depending on your tribe you would be married off differently.”

 

Hotaru frowned because that didn't answer her question. She wanted a more specific answer.

 

“Ok, let's say I was an Inu youkai how would I then claim a mate?”

 

“Oh, well than that is an easier question for us to answer…first an Inu youkai mate the one for life. Depending on the ranking of the inu youkai you could be the only mate if he were to either a) choose it that way b) choose you among his other wives and concubines or c) given to in a marriage for alliance.”

 

Hotaru bit her lower lip taking all this in. So, it was pretty much the same except for the other wives and concubines, however, she still didn't get the concept of mate vs. wives weren't they the same thing?

 

“Ino, Mates and wives aren't they the same thing?”

 

“No they are not.”

 

Hotaru looked at the youkai who continued to spread out leaves for drying as she kept crushing the dried ones.

 

“What is the difference then Ino?”

 

“The difference is that the mate will bear the mark of the one who loves her. She is the one who will bear legitimate children that would inherit his lot and not enslavement.”

 

“So, basically the other children will be bastards and thrown into a life of servitude while the ones who were born from the one marked will have the life of a nobleman huh?”

 

“That is correct lady Hotaru.”

 

“So what about Inuyasha? I mean he said he was a bastard so how did he not get a life of servitude but a life of wealth?”

 

“We cannot answer that lady Hotaru that is something for you to ask of master Inuyasha.”

 

Hotaru sighed she thought that she might say that, so she had another question ready.

 

“Why haven't you been mated Ino?”

 

“We could only mate within our tribe, to do otherwise would destroy who we are.”

 

Hotaru looked at her sadly.

 

“You mean you will die or something?”

 

“Yes, in a sense we will die and the only one to remain will be the original spirit of this soul.”

 

“Oh…I'm so sorry I asked…just tell me to shut up or something next time.”

 

“It is ok lady Hotaru; it is good for you to know youkai life.”

 

“Why?”

 

Ino said nothing further and Hotaru got the hint that she no longer wanted to discuss it with her. Later that evening when Hotaru was retiring up to the room she shared with her captor meanwhile down the hall there were two females chatting.

 

“Do you think he's in love with that human girl Deva?”

 

The white owl youkai scoffed. She was beautiful to behold, she was as white as the snow with her long white hair feathered out like the fluff of newly hatched birds at the side of her ears. On her forehead she sported three v shaped black spots that matched her black eyes and ruby red lips. She remembered Nari and it was she who told the twit not to hope and dream on their master Inuyasha for he was never going to fall in love, but really, she was jealous of Nari, yet Nari took herself out of the competition when she blabbered her hearts desire to their lord. Deva smiled for she wanted Inuyasha to herself and tried desperately to be his mate. However, being that she was wise she kept everything within herself and told her master nothing. She wanted to prove to him that she can be the best to please him.

 

“Why would you think something so foolish Faye really, he hates mortal women most of all.”

 

Faye shrugged her shoulders; it didn't matter to her either way. She was content with her life the way it was. Inuyasha was the third to have owned her and as far as she can tell this was the best place she's ever worked in. Her last owner was an old fat worm youkai and he was the one who took her virginity, so Inuyasha was a gift from god that she was able to sleep with someone of his beauty and her first owner was a female youkai who enjoyed whipping her slaves who were pretty females just because and so found any excuse to whip her. So, being here in his house she had no fear of being whipped without cause or being sexed by someone old, slimy and just down right disgusting. However, being that she is a butterfly youkai she fluttered her thoughts here and there, she was never able to stay in one frame of mind for too long. She had short blue hair in the back and long purple hair in the front and big innocent pink eyes and on her back she had the markings of her tribe big blue and purple wings.

 

“Than if you know that why do you stress on this mortal woman? I mean she seems like a nice girl.”

 

Deva growled. She wanted to peck those wings off the girl and toss her up in the air and just eat her. She was so dumb, so naïve, but then again she was a butterfly youkai, Deva wasn't too fearful of Faye taking her place as Inuyasha's mate one day. He was a smart man and would want a smart woman by his side.

 

“I'm not stressing Faye; I'm just wondering why he's been letting her share his bed and not one of us. When was the last time he called you into his bed?”

 

Faye had to put her duster down to count on her fingers. Deva was about boiling over with frustration at this point.

 

“Well?”

 

“Uh, it seems like he hasn't called me to his bed in…well…since the last time we were dismissed when his brother came.”

 

“Don't you see that was months ago. After us it was Kuma and we all know what happened to her. But don't you miss being in his arms?”

 

Faye looked as unbothered as a dew drop on a rose petal on a still sweet spring morning. Deva growled.

 

“I don't understand why your so upset Deva, I mean, I'm content. I've been with other men when I needed my itch scratched.”

 

“THAT IS NOT THE POINT FAYE!”

 

Faye frowned and picked up her duster and continued to do her chore.

 

“I'm sorry Faye, I shouldn't have yelled. It's just that don't you think it's strange that he's been in the room with that mortal wench for this long and it is rumored that he has been courting her.”

 

Faye smiled genuinely happy and clapped her hands together.

 

“I'm so happy for master Inuyasha he deserves to be happy.”

 

Deva's eyebrow twitched. This was her last rival and she seemed so ditzy.

 

“Stay focused Faye. If he courts her and makes her his mate than you and I are forever stuck as servants. Do you want to be a servant forever?”

 

Faye looked at that possibility and then all of a sudden she remembered the pact she made with Deva and her eyes opened wide with realization and than with heated anger.

 

“Oh no, than we won't be elevated in our positions.”

 

“Exactly the point I've been trying to get at from the beginning.”

 

“Well, what do you propose we do?”

 

Even though Deva was out for herself and had no intention of keeping up with her end of the deal she was going to use her resources the best way she saw fit. Faye was still her competition, but it seemed that at the moment her greatest challenge was the mortal woman and she had to knock her out of the running.

 

“I don't know yet, but…I'll come up with something.”

 

“You always do Deva, you're just so smart.”

 

Deva smiled as she began to hum a tune that helped her to think clearly of a plan.

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Hotaru entered the room and waited for her bath to come. Inuyasha had been around the castle estate doing his work and she was so happy that he allowed her to do something too. Her mind has been quite and no more had she heard the voice of Hitomi in her head or seen any visions. There were still some lesser youkai who went missing, but now it seemed to Hotaru that maybe Hitomi was only messing around with her.

 

For the past couple of months she and Inuyasha had been going up and down on a ladder that she couldn't explain. She has seen sides of Inuyasha that was so soft and understanding and then sides of him that were frightening to say the least.

 

She thought back to one night when he was in the bed with her. The night began like any other night where they spoke and then argued and then went to bed. However, later on that night she awoke to the feeling of something arousing in her. She felt this feather light kiss on her inner thighs and something soft and wet to lick her womanly core. She moaned in response and opened her legs further apart to get more of whatever that was.

 

Soon she found herself in an abyss of white hot pleasure as she felt intense bliss lapping at her. Her legs began to quiver and then tighten as she found herself waking up to an orgasm. The minute she woke up fully she looked down to see a shocked youkai between her legs.

 

“INUYASHA!”

 

Hotaru bolted up and out of the bed wrapping the sheet around her as Inuyasha sat there with his ears flattened on the top of his head. His eyes flipping from reddish/blue to gold.

 

“What the hell do you think your doing pervert! I…I thought that we had an understanding!”

“Shut up wench.” He growled out loud enough to hear.

 

Hotaru looked at him mouth open eyes wide and scanned the room for something to throw at him.

 

“Excuse me, you assaulted me and you want me to shut up!”

Inuyasha still panting but had gotten his youkai reined in looked up at her calmly.

 

“Your in heat…I'm an Inu youkai for crying out loud, I can smell you and it's…it…”

 

Hotaru got mad.

 

“So you're saying it's my fault that you are a pervert. You practically rape me…no no you did…”

“I've never raped anyone in my life wench. I told you that.”

“So, what do you call what you just did huh?”

 

Inuyasha looked at her and she blushed immediately. The look on his face made her stop her breath. His muscles clenching and unclenching and his desire for her becoming apparent and he had no shame in letting her see how she affected him.

 

“I call it…damn it all…I…”

 

In a flash he was in front of her tilting her face up to his. His golden eyes searched her purple ones and her knees were softening like butter being melted in a microwave.

 

He kissed her mouth and ran a firm finger down her back as she shivered to his response. He licked his lips and breathlessly spoke out into the shell of her ear.

 

“You taste so sweet Hotaru…like…like…I don't know damn it I'm not good with words…you just do…”

 

Hotaru looked up at him dazed. She swayed on her feet as he picked her up and brought her over to the bed and laid her on it. Her black hair fanned out behind her when he kissed her neck and shoulders. She wanted to fight him, but she couldn't the feelings he was placing on her felt too good. She compared it to her ex's and it was nothing like Ken's touches or kisses. This was something more, there was something different and she didn't know what it was.

 

She arched into him as his hands ran the length of her body and then he molded it to his. She felt his erection and made a startled gasp. He kissed it up as he pushed his saluting member against her thigh. Her wetness hit his senses and he pushed against her again and again. Not once did he enter her body, though she tried with her might to get that ache in the pit of her stomach to stop and the void between her legs to get full.

 

“Inu…Inu…ya…ya…”

 

She couldn't get the rest of it out. He licked on her neck then moved on to the lobe of her ear and she shuttered. He placed his hand against her pelvic area and pressed it between there bodies and as he pushed into her thigh he placed pressure on her hot spot. His finger inserted and she cried out in passion as she gripped the sheets that were around her. He nipped and licked her chin gazing at her as she bucked against him. He bit his lips and pushed into her feeling the silkiness of her thigh against his wet velvet head. The juice on his fingers and the heat on his hand made him push further and forced her to cry out again until she hit her orgasm for the second time that night and Inuyasha laid his seed against her leg and shuddered within her embrace. Slowly, still panting he pulled up on his forearm and looked at her with big eyes as she mirrored his expression.

 

“Hotaru...did I hurt you?”

 

“No…I…I don't understand… what happened?”

 

He rolled off her and licked his fingers of her essence. She felt hot again watching him do that. To take her into his mouth and…she closed her eyes as she began to blush. It was nothing like with Ken. He didn't even put his member into her body; instead he brought her pleasure with his fingers and hand. The thing that astounded her the most was that it didn't hurt.

 

“Hotaru…are you alright?”

 

“Why didn't it hurt?”

 

He pulled back on her some to look her in the eyes. He could tell she was serious.

 

“Did he hurt you?”

 

Hotaru looked away from him as tears started to build up in her eyes.

 

“That bastard…I'll kill him.”

 

Hearing him say that and sounding like he meant it she yelled out “NO!”

 

“Why the hell not, any man who has to hurt a woman…”

 

“It wasn't like that…I mean he did hurt me I told him no, he continued anyway, but, sigh, it was my fault…I should have known that he…”

 

“Should've known what? That he was a hentai bastard?”

 

“No, he wasn't a…well…he was a horrible person, though I didn't know it then. I thought he really liked me. He was the only one who did, but because of my father's reputation he…well, he just assumed that I would take after my father and my drug abusing mother.”

“That's a lame excuse, no matter the sins of the parents it's not your fault, nor should he have assumed that you would be…”

 

Inuyasha was mad. He didn't quite understand why he was mad, but, he felt it. He looked at Hotaru again and noticed her flushed face and he's never seen a woman so full of passion before and then turn around and be so damn innocent.

 

`It doesn't matter what happened in her past, I have a purpose, I need to get my revenge. And I will do whatever it takes to accomplish that.'

 

“Hotaru, was he the first one to…you know to have mated with you?”

 

Hotaru blushed crimson but nodded her head. For some reason he was holding his breath. When she nodded her head yes he let it out. His golden eyes unbeknown to him softened when he looked at her.

 

“Than your technically still a virgin. Rape doesn't count. You weren't made love too.”

 

Hotaru looked down and away from Inuyasha. Tears threatened to fall again and she tried so hard to hold them back. But her voice was tight when she asked.

 

“What is the difference, it all adds up to the same thing. He just…”

 

“He's just a damn prick that is all he is got that! I want for you to stop thinking about him and what happened to you. Not every man is without honor Hotaru.”

 

“And I suppose you are?”

 

“Did I take you even though you wanted it?”

 

“…”

 

“Keh, that's what I thought. I already told you, I wouldn't do it unless you begged me, you almost did with your body, but you never said the words.”

 

Hotaru was insulted now, to have her body betray her thoughts and he knew it, her eyes flashing in righteous anger she yelled out.

 

“I didn't tell you to…to…do that thing with…when…when I was perfectly asleep!”

 

“I smelled your heat woman, my youkai responded not me. If you had paid attention you would've seen me rein him in, otherwise…”

 

He didn't have to finish the sentence, by his expression alone he let her know that she would have begged for it. She was damn well close to begging for it just moments ago.

 

“Look, I'm going to go to another room, maybe go take a long walk in the cold snow first, but, you stay here. If I continue to stay while you're in this condition, I couldn't help myself and I'm not saying it's your fault, it's just how things are. I'm youkai and nothing can change that fact that I run on instincts…”

 

He picked up his things and headed toward the door but before he could open it Hotaru stopped him.

 

“What happens now? I mean…I'm still your prisoner. What happens now?”

 

“I can't answer that because I don't know.”

 

And with that he walked out of the room.

 

Hotaru came out of her flash back and realized that there were several nights like that after that one even when she wasn't in heat. And it seems like the harder they tried to fight the attraction the more they couldn't resist it. He seemed to trust her more and it seems like she was beginning to trust him. However, she didn't know how to respond when the finger points to her about the missing youkai. If he does try to kill her can she love him?

 

`What am I thinking about Hotaru, I mean really, love him…huh…I don't love him. And…I'm innocent so when he sees that he'll have to let me go home.'

 

She looked in the mirror at her reflection and stared into her own eyes when something started to creep her out. She couldn't move or look away. The deeper she looked the more tainted malice she could see. It wasn't on the surface. Than all of a sudden she saw her alter ego staring back at her in the mirror. She saw what looked like a premonition of Inuyasha in the arms of the evil woman and he was drained of life.

 

The door crashed open and Hotaru screamed and passed out.

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The silk worm youkai frowned. She should have known she'd get a response like that she should have knocked or sent someone in to warn the girl.

 

She was accustomed to being called frightfully ugly, but, she was a silk worm. Gliding against the floor leaving her trail behind her she moved into the room and looked at the girl.

 

“I'm sorry dear. I didn't mean to frighten you; however, if you are that sensitive, well, it's probably for the best that you passed out. I'll take your measurements while you sleep. By the time you wake up, your bath will be here and some new garments too.”

 

Taking her stubby arms she pulled something out of her mouth and began to stretch it until she took her teeth and snapped it apart. Calling one of the servants that were in her care she gave them the measuring silk strands she retrieved from her mouth. The servant took it and immediately went to work measuring Hotaru and calling out the measurements while the other servant wrote it down.

 

When they were done the silkworm youkai looked at the girl one more time to take a mental picture of her face and her aura.

 

“Hmmm, there is something deep within you. I should make some interesting Kimono's for you lady Hotaru.”

 

With that she turned and left leaving her servants to clean up behind her.