InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Captured and Trapped ❯ Chapter 6 : I'm sorry ( Chapter 6 )

Hello dear readers!

 

I know, I have been absent for some times now and I'm really sorry about it. For the ones who had seen one of my other stories, `in the elevator', I'm close to the end. In fact, only one part and it's the end. I had lots of difficulties with the part 6, where the lemon is since it was my first time to write something of that kind. I wanted to concentrate on that story to have it finished to continue the others. It is almost done but I just thought about all of you guys, damning me for taking so long to update and I decided to be really kind! ;P

So, here the chapter 6, hope you will like it. ENJOY!!

 

Disclaimer: I still don't own InuYasha…. Why is life so cruel with meeeeee!!! *whimper*

 

 

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Previously, in the chapter 5:

 

« You are truly stupid, onna. »

« Hey ! » She yelled, outraged.

But he ignored her outburst. « Were you or were you not the only one to succeed to almost kill him with your sacred arrow ? » Lifting an eye brow to prove his point.

« Yes, but… »

He shook his head, stubborn woman, he thought and leaned against the wall, closing his eyes. « Do not take by heart what my worthless whelp of brother keep saying to you. Even Naraku saw that the reason of his force and why he is still alive is because of you, Miko. »

 

 

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Chapter 6 : I'm sorry

 

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The young Miko was literally frozen on the spot. Did she just receive a compliment? Did the ice prince Sesshomaru himself just give her a compliment? To her, a `pathetic human'? Kagome was beyond shocked. Words didn't even exist to explain the turmoil that was raging right now inside of her head.

 

Sensing the confusion of her aura, Sesshomaru languishly opened his eyes. Kagome looked up at him in wonder but all she saw in his amber pools, beyond the usual impassivity, was his sincerity. She flushed when the impact of his words washed over her. However, even if she knew that lying was beneath him, she had some difficulties in fully believing his words.

She smiled slightly at him and went to take a seat against the wall too.

 

Sesshomaru was observing her every movement. It was like she couldn't really believe that she was of any `use' to anyone. Even if he could feel her gratitude about his comforting words, there were still doubts lurking in the shadow of her mind. It wasn't really his problem though, it wasn't as if he cared at all. But it seemed that the insults and words from his half-brother over the last passing years had done more damage to her confidence in her powers than he first though. Hm.

 

It wasn't his problem if she was feeling useless, but the confusion in her aura was literally suffocating him. He didn't like the feeling at all. He had to divert her attention to elsewhere.

 

“How did you come to be here?” He asked smoothly.

 

“Huh?” Was all she said, her head shooting in his direction.

 

Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes telling her clearly without words that she'd heard him and that he would NOT repeat himself.

 

She flushed slightly before she started to answer. “Well, I… I was coming back from home. I was two days earlier than planned so InuYasha wasn't there.

 

I was walking towards Edo, the village close to Inuyasha's forest, when I felt like I was been watched. I don't really know how to explain it. It was just a feeling, but I couldn't sense any auras nearby. I tried to concentrate to localize and decipher what was looking at me but I couldn't feel a thing. No other aura miles around. But I couldn't shake this feeling away. Like a cold sweat running down my spine, you know?

Then, out of nowhere, a youkai, really really ugly youkai, came crashing into the clearing I has just entered. He was as beautiful as Jaken is, if you get what I mean.” She shuddered slightly before resuming her story.

“ Well, I just had time to grab my bow and divert his attack.

 

It happened so rapidly, I didn't have the time to really reflect about the best way to get out of this mess before another of those `things' arrived… I succeeded in injuring the first one, gaining me some time to react to the attack from the second one. I don't really remember clearly what happened. I had just killed the last one when I felt as if someone was behind me. I was knocked out by a third one. I didn't see it arrive before it was too late. And before I could react, everything went blank and I woke up in here. You know the rest.”

 

 

Sesshomaru looked at her critically. He would not admit it out loud, but he was slightly impressed about her little exploit. But his muses were cut short by the object of his thoughts.

 

She chuckled with self-deprecation. “They didn't have to mess up all my senses and send an army to catch me.” Lowering her head and bringing her legs close to herself for support, she pulled herself into her thoughts of self-loathing.

 

When the demon lord looked at the pitiful display in front of him, he had a sudden urge to hit his worthless half-brother to a bloody pulp for the damage he did unthinkingly to his Miko companion. The half-breed is really an insult to all youkai alike, even with how much of demon blood he had in him. He swore to protect her but at the same time, was destroying her mentally. Shameful. He resisted the urge to growl. Just the very idea of any drop of his sire's blood flowing in the hanyou bloodstream made him ill.

 

“You are not youkai. Any other human in your situation, one would have been enough.” He said, without a hint of emotion.

 

She looked at him with tearful eyes. A warm feeling washed over her.

 

“Thank you, Sesshomaru.” She said softly.

 

He just turned his head away, showing her that she was dismissed. Kagome bit her bottom lip as not to speak out what she thought about his disrespectful way towards her when he, just a second ago, was praising her. He dismissed her like she was one of his servants. That didn't sit well with the young Miko but she refrained from commenting, still a little shocked about his compliment. She knew the demon Lord of the West enough to know that he wasn't the one to dispense this kind of stuff freely… at all actually. Hell, him acknowledging your presence is an exceptional event in itself. Maybe the poison had a hidden side effect, but she was not going to complain. She had never stayed that long in Sesshomaru presence without him either ignoring her or trying to kill her! Letting the subject dropped for the moment, she tried to find a position as comfortable as possible, and closed her eyes, tiredness winning over her body.

 

Through half-closed eyes, the demon Lord observed the little Miko. He was asking himself over and over again why he had tried to reassure the human. It didn't make any sense. He was trying to convince himself that it was only because she wouldn't be of any use for him if pitiful, ill or dead. Hm, of course, that must be the reason. He was doing an act that would serve his particular purpose later. That's right. If not that, what else? He looked down at the young onna and found her already asleep. He sighed inaudibly and decided that doing the same would be a good idea… it wasn't like he had anything else better to do anyway.

 

 

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A few hours later,…

 

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With a start, Kagome woke, not understanding what could have kidnapped her from the sunny beach with coconuts trees she was dreaming to be sun bathing in. She looked around her, her mind still a little foggy from her injuries and sleep.

 

She heard a low growl to her left and saw the demon Lord of the West pinned against the wall, snarling angrily towards the entry, not able to move.

 

“Sesshomaru !!” She screamed, jumping back on her feet. But before she had the time to do anything, the door of their cell from Hell was thrown open, letting two demons walk in. They pushed her out of their way as if she was nothing more than the mud under their shoes, sending her flying against a wall.

 

“Stay out of this human, or I will make you pay as well for the death of my brothers, you bitch.” One of the two demons spat down at her in disdain. With the help of the wall, Kagome stood up, glaring at them. They were identical… identically to the monstrous youkais that had attacked her. She wanted to come closer to the Demon Lord but the youkai stayed in front of her, blocking her path, while the other one walked towards Sesshomaru.

 

His bulbous green eyes scanned the pinned body of the Lord of the West, not at all phased by the feral and murderous eyes of the DaiYoukai. His eyes narrowed, not in the least pleased with what he saw, making him, with his yellowish skin, if possible, even more hideous. He made a sound much like a growl.

 

“How did you survive and suppress the poison in your blood, Oh Lord ?”

 

“The Miko.” came a third voice in the embrasure of the door cell.

 

“You bitch!” yelled the demon in front of her with fury and back-handed her across her face really hard. She fell to the ground by the sudden force of the impact.

 

Sesshomaru growls became louder and darker.

 

“Oh? The high and mighty Lord of the Western Lands defending a human woman Miko…” He emitted a strangled sound, close to a chuckled, and smirked. “I never thought I would see the day!”

 

The DaiYoukai snarled, his eyes flashing for a second. He was trying to move from his undesired position up against the wall, but the spell that they had used didn't give in to his will.

“Stop playing around idiots! You have a job to do!!” shouted the third youkai, leaving the embrasure of the door and walking in.

 

The two others nodded and advanced towards the chained Demon Lord. They started to land punches on his stomach and all over his body. They beat him viciously, Sesshomaru being unable to stop them took it as silently as possible to save his pride.

 

Kagome was screaming at them to stop, begging them, tears streaming down her face. With difficulty, a small drop of blood came running from the corner of her mouth, the young Miko got up, but before she had time to react, she found herself pinned violently against the wall by on of the demons, the air knocked out of her lungs. After a moment, her hands flew to catch the wrist of the clawed hand currently tight around her throat. She was trying desperately to make him release her. The only thing that was currently running through her mind was that she had to stop them, or they would kill him. She had to save Sesshomaru. The hold on her throat tighted even more, the claws piercing her delicate skin. She made a strangled sound, oxygen lacking in her body and brain.

 

The demon that was currently holding the young Miko against the dirty moist wall bent down until their noses were almost touching before opening his mouth to speak.

“Stay out of this, human, it's the best thing you can do for yourself right now. Or we could forget that our Lord wants to deal personally with you later,... “ He smirked at her, his putrid breath going directly to Kagome's nostrils. If she wasn't suffocating, she would have gagged at the disgusting smell. “You wouldn't want to be killed prematurely, would you, woman?”

He laughed darkly down at her, her scent clouding with fear. He relaxed his hold so she could breathe but didn't release her fully, and turned his head to enjoy the spectacle of what was happening a few feet away.

Kagome took several deep, very needed, breaths. She could feel blood running along her neck and inside her top from the demon's claws. She knew that he wouldn't hesitate or even blink to snap her neck if she insisted or made a wrong move.

 

She couldn't move her body, but she turned her head slightly just enough to see the demon Lord and the two other youkais in the corner of her eyes. She whimpered at what she saw. Sesshomaru was been beaten to a bloody pulp just there, a few feet away from her, but she couldn't do a thing to stop them. It was killing her, not being able to help him. It was like a crime against Mother Nature herself. An insult, to see a creature as proud as the demon Lord of the West being treated as a vulgar criminal, like a punching bag, forbidden and unable to defend himself. There wasn't an inch of honor in those monsters.

 

Fear was gripping her heart in a vice like hold. They weren't holding back on their punches at all. On the contrary, from what they had learned earlier, the chains were draining almost all of his youkai from him. The small part that wasn't, was used to heal his previous, more serious, injuries. That meant that Sesshomaru was left without much strength. Not given any more resistance than a human, or as close as he could get.

 

Not a sound, other than an involuntary grunt here and there when the punch was really hard, was escaping the DaiYoukai as hits were raining down on him. He was too proud to give them the satisfaction of hearing that it was hurting him.

 

Right now, his head was bent low. He wasn't growling anymore.

The word fear wasn't powerful enough to express what Kagome was feeling right now as she witnessed was happening in front of her. She wanted to close her eyes so as not to see the obvious pain inflicted to Sesshomaru. However, some irrational fear was gripping her heart, as if when she would dare to close her eyes, the demon Lord would disappear. If they continue like that, they will kill him! Oh Kami please, make them stop. She whimpered to herself mentally.

 

As if someone had heard her plea, the salvation words escaped her captor mouth.

 

“It's enough.”

 

After one or two much punches, they stopped. Then, they released the chains, taking them with them, the spell keeping Sesshomaru pinned on the cell's wall.

 

The two tormentors of Sesshomaru exited from the cell, leaving only Kagome's captor inside with them. The yellowish youkai turned his bulbous eyes towards the Miko in his hold. One more time, he bent down towards her face, stopping only when his disgusting lips were almost touching her ear and whispered.

 

“If you do what our Lord wants, maybe you will suffer less or maybe even live rather peacefully.”

 

“L..Lord?” She said in a voice she had difficulty recognizing as her own. It was laced with pitiful sounds and hoarse gasps from her near strangled neck.

 

He smirked at her. “You know him really well Miko, since you seem to want the same object.”

 

She looked at him for a second, confused to the meaning of his words and who he was calling a Lord. Then, something clicked in her mind and her earlier fear transformed in an irrational anger. So much anger that she'd burned his hand, making him release her throat in a hiss. Sesshomaru, still barely conscious, looked towards them by the corner of his eyes, still unable to move, but aware of what was happening around him.

 

The anger that was literally boiling in her veins and all over her body, transformed her blood in fire and made her skin release some purifying powers, attacking whoever was touching her. This surge of power was making her eyes flash.

 

She firmly said with a venom in her voice that would have shocked anyone, who knew the sweet girl as she really was, to no end. “If your so-called `Lord' is Naraku, you can say to that fake hanyou that he can put that up his ass and crawl back the hell back to where his sorry ass belongs. I will never help him with the jewel shards or anything else for the matter.”

 

All mirth disappeared instantly from the demon eyes. He slapped her, hard, sending her to the floor once again. The blow was so violent that a light crack was heard when her lower jaw snapped back up to her upper jaw.

She looked up from her position on the ground, glaring up at him. More blood was running from the inside of her mouth and her lip was torn open slightly, but her fury was still evident under the surface and in her eyes. Her head was spinning by the force of the blow. You could clearly see that she was fighting her own body to maintain her hard front when all her body wanted was to pass out. But she would not. Not in front of this bastard.

 

The youkai growled lowly at her but left the cell.

 

A few seconds after that, the door was slapped close, and Sesshomaru was released from his position up the wall. But he was a little tired from all the hits he received and caught himself just in time to not finish on the hard ground like the young Miko.

 

He, even when beaten, was aware of what was happening around him and had witnessed the exchange between the woman and the youkai, silently again impressed by the determination that was heating up her blood.

 

However, something wasn't right. The demon Lord was pretty sure that the onna wasn't there only for the jewel shards. It was too simple. He clearly heard the allusions, and he even saw that disturbing twinkle in the eyes of the dark Hanyou when looking at the young Miko. The very idea of the way he was leering at her made him sick to his guts. Sesshomaru didn't think that Kagome had the least idea of what was playing in the deranged mind of the Hanyou. She must be really gullible and did not understood what was going on but he sure wasn't. There weren't any `holy' thoughts in his twisted mind when he almost disrobed the onna with his shinning dirty crimson eyes. Disgusting.

 

Nevertheless, he decided not to voice his finding to the woman. Having her in a panicked state right now wouldn't serve any purpose… and it wasn't his problem but hers.

 

With a lot of difficulties, Kagome get up anew. Apparently, it felt like the truck from the previous day came back and passed on her a couple more times for fun… or may be a bus, she didn't really have the time to see what came down on her. When, with the help of the wall, she was able to stay on her two feet, she padded slowly towards the beaten up demon Lord lost in his thoughts. She couldn't prevent the few tears from coming in her eyes at the spectacle in front of her.

 

“Sesshomaru? You alright?” She asked softly, her voice still not returned to normal.

 

That was the most ridiculous thing someone had asked him… ok may be not the most, the Palm was for his stupid brother. But still. He'd been beaten up, of course he wasn't alright. When he looked up at her, he couldn't believe what he saw. She received hits for trying to stop what they were doing to him when she could have got out unscarred. Stupid ningen. Again he was confused by her way of thinking. No, make that reacting, had the onna thought she wouldn't have done anything.

 

With some hesitations, he sat down against the wall before answering her. “This Sesshomaru will be fine Miko.” He said in a as quiet a tone as her.

 

“Let me help you.” She told him, with a soft voice like a caress.

 

He looked up at her but couldn't bring himself to turn her down when he saw the pleading face she was doing and the blood still running to her chin. He sighed internally and nodded. He though that if she willingly helped, he would heal quicker and use less of his youkai powers. That way, he would be better prepared when they came back.

 

She smiled lightly at him and went to take what was their plate earlier to bring water closer to them. Sesshomaru positioned himself cross legged against the wall when she kneeled down in front of him. Slowly, with a lot of care, she bent towards him and started to cleanse his new injuries.

 

She was really close to him and that way he could clearly see the bruises and drying blood on her delicate skin.

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Without thinking, he took the cloth from her hands and started to clean her bloody face and neck.

 

The young Miko froze. To say that Kagome was shocked again was an understatement. Pink crawled up her cheeks. Sesshomaru didn't say anything, but somewhere within himself he was shocked too. It was as if something pushed him to do, even if little, this gesture in return. Never in his long life somebody had done something like what she did for him. Never had someone tried to help him that way, if you didn't count the little tries of Rin, but it wasn't the same.

 

He reached up and pressed delicately to not hurt her further a claw finger on her cheek. She winced at the touch.

 

“You shouldn't have done that.” He said with his characteristic unemotional deep baritone voice.

 

“But I couldn't really watch without trying to do something. And look at what they did to you!”

 

He looked at her troubled eyes. “Hn.”

 

She resumed her cleansing of his injuries, when, after a moment, the scent of salty water reached his sensible nostrils.

“Miko.”

 

She bent down her head and spoke softly. “I'm sorry Sesshomaru.”

 

Now, the demon Lord was at a complete lost. Why was she excusing herself to this Sesshomaru exactly?, he though, puzzled.

 

Not aware of the confusion she caused to the Lord of the West, Kagome looked up at him, tears running now freely on her cheeks. A sob escaped her lip that she couldn't stop, barely aware she had let it out. “I'm sorry. I couldn't stop them.”

 

Now he understood her problem. She was blaming herself for what they did to him. That was the stupidest idea she had said since their capture.

Her reaction had two different effects on him. On one hand, the bigger part of him, felt offended that she was implying that he was unable to protect himself, as if he was just a little pup again. Even if it's difficult to admit even to himself, she helped him quite well with the poison and his injuries earlier but that didn't mean that he needed her. He could take care of himself just fine, and it's not a little beating up that will change that. He had already been through worse than that. The very idea of him needing a human to protect him was the most ridiculous and insulting thing you could imply about the Dai Youkai.

 

On another hand, in a very tiny part of himself, even if the act was stupid in his mind, he was somewhat a little touched that she tried to stop them from hurting him. He, who was an enemy, even if they are in a sort of truce right now.

 

He knew that she didn't do that with in mind that he couldn't take care of himself in reality. It was just in her character to not support seeing anyone get hurt in her presence, she had to stop them or try to. He wasn't sure anymore if it was one of her real weaknesses or something else. But even if it wasn't her intention, somewhere his male pride was injured by the idea of being protected by a woman. And a human woman at that.

 

She was looking so pitiful, her sobs racking her body. He reached up and put his clawed hand on the top of her head, like he had often done to his little ward. He wouldn't do more. It was already a lot for someone supposedly as uncaring as the demon Lord of the West. But her display was somehow disturbing for the Dai Youkai.

 

Kagome looked up at him in the eyes a second, then smiled one of her brighter smiles at him. So much like Rin, he though absently. He really preferred to see her that way than crying. He shook his head, banning his last thoughts away for his mind.

 

Then he took back his position against the wall and closed his amber pools, dismissing her once again.

 

When he had put his hand on her head, Kagome knew that he wasn't blaming her for what had happened. She was so happy that if he hadn't moved she would have jumped on him and hugged him. Good thing that he moved, or he would have transformed me into mince for dogs. She had to suppress a giggle from escaping her at the image and brushed her tears away.

 

She took a place against the wall too, not too close but not far, just in case. At that moment, she was glad of the difference between the two Inu brothers. Even if she saw in his mesmerizing eyes that it wasn't sitting well with him that she tried to defend him, he didn't lash out at her for trying, like would have done InuYasha. Somewhere he saw that she wasn't implying that he couldn't take care of himself, but they had incapacitated him to, put it plainly, torture him. That didn't mean that he would let her repeat the experience in the future. In another situation, she would have let him beat them without even blinking, those bastards. InuYasha, him, wouldn't have grasped that. She wouldn't say that he was a little dumb but his male ego was bigger than the United States! Or even better Russia! ( :P ) That could be really infuriating sometimes, and each times it's the same. If she wanted to help him in his stupid brain, he deduced that she thought of him weak. What a pathetic reasoning was that! Or may be that's where the problem was : he isn't thinking. Damn arrogant dogs!

 

It was really troubling to see that Sesshomaru could understand her better than her friend she had been with for years, but she didn't want to dwell on it any longer.

 

Sensing the tiredness enveloped her, she slid down and lied on the ground, trying to be in the most comfortable possible before closing her eyes. In a few minutes, darkness took her away to a place of sunshine.

 

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End of the chapter 6.

 

Hope you like it! :D

 

I wanted to thank `Theresa' who had been the beta for this story until recently. Thank you girl, you had been of great help, hope that everything will be fine in your busy life.

 

I want to particularly thank `inspire 16' for having accepted to continue with me this adventure and for her beta-work on this story. She is doing an incredible job, so thanks a lot. Thanks to her, a slightly edited version of the chapters previously posted will be on soon. So everyone, thank “inspire 16” !! :)

 

Thanks too for all of you guys that had stopped by and let me a small message. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I love you all!

 

Well, my distribution of flowers is finished (*grin*) so I will be on my way.

`night.

 

Laters,

Sweetest Angel