InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Captured and Trapped ❯ Chapter 8 : Bore ( Chapter 8 )

Hello everyone!

So here the chapter 8, hope you will enjoy it!

Though, I wanted to warn you that this chapter would be one of the last `calm' of this part of the story…In the next chapter, you will finally learn what Naraku exactly want…I'm sure some of you have ideas but you will have to wait a little more and I hope no one will hate me when you will read what he had in mind for the young Miko…it's not for little children!

Well, for now, here the chap 8!!

 

Disclaimer: I don't own InuYasha…strange, I think I heard the exact same words before… :P

Anyways, me praying all night hadn't change a thing, all the characters of InuYasha are not mine…I just own for this story the three yellowish ugly youkai *shudder* Not that I want them!

 

Thank you to `Frizz' again for the beta help! :D

 

 

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Chapter 8

 

Bore

 

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Sesshomaru was still sitting as comfortably as you could get in that kind of situation, against the wall, lost in thought. One of his knees was raised so he could repose his one and only arm on it as he was silently marveling at how much a human, and particularly this human, could sleep.

 

I mean, he may not be around all the time but he was pretty sure that the girl was sleeping longer and more often than Rin! And his ward was just a child! Ok, he mused, maybe it was all the hits she had received on her pretty little head that had damaged something up there but really, it wasn't natural to sleep that much.

 

Yes, you have guessed right, the demon Lord of the West was bored beyond imagination. What other explication could you gave to explain why someone like Sesshomaru would suddenly find interest in the sleeping habits of humans? Right, you see the point, there wasn't any, beside that he was really bored and needed something, anything, to do to prevent his eminent death of boredom to happen.

 

After all, there isn't very much that oneself can do while sitting around for hours on end in a small dark cell. One more reason to find a way to get the Hell out of here as soon as possible: so he would not die from boredom or end up totally crazy.

 

After watching her sleeping peacefully for some minutes, the DaiYoukai came to the conclusion that, for the first time of his long life, he was envying a little something about an inferior creature as his human cell companion: in their condition, sleeping as much as her wouldn't be a waste. If he was sleeping as much, he wouldn't see the time dragging that slowly and wouldn't be that bored.

 

The powerful Lord of the West sighed inaudibly. He couldn't believe what he was about to do and would deny with all he was worth that it had never happened if someone was to ask him.

 

With his foot, he nudged the woman on her leg to try to wake her.

 

No, of course it wasn't because he was bored out of his mind and was craving for any distraction, like the human was the only one able to provide for him right now. It was more like to verify that she was still alive. Yes, that's it. To stay close to her decaying body wasn't appealing and it was his only reason. The problem was that she didn't even bulge. Sesshomaru then nudged her a little more forcefully, starting to get aggrieved by her lack of cooperation.

 

Stupid humans, never taking the hint of the rarest moment they could be useful.

 

That time, Kagome moved but it wasn't the result he was hoping. Sesshomaru found himself rather offended when she turned around, without waking, mumbling something under her breath really quietly, but that was all too clear for the sensitive youkai hearing of the demon Lord, “Five more minutes, Mom.”

 

Sesshomaru eyes flashed red for a second in his anger and growled low in his throat. How dare she?! He thought while trying to stop himself from pouncing on her and pulling a limb or two from her body savagely to make her pay for her blatant disrespect of his person and position, which was highly above her and her `mom'. He succeeded to gain some reign on his anger when he noted that she was still sleeping and then couldn't know that it was a superior being that had tried to rouse her pathetic self. Nodding to himself, Sesshoumaru succeeded to calm down a bit.

 

“Girl, I'm in no way your mother.” He growled out as he was kicking her again, rather forcefully to prove his point.

 

This time, as if she had received an electric shock when his familiar cold voice had passed through her foggy mind, she woke up in a start and turned her big brown eyes towards him, her shinning pools showing clearly her mortification at what she had unconsciously done. Good. She, at least, knows her place, thought the still angered demon Lord.

 

She was about to apologize, praying mentally for the Kamis to be merciful and save her from the anger of the DaiYoukai, when, as on a cue, Sesshomaru found himself pinned against the wall before he could blink.

 

Kagome gasped and was trying to get up as rapidly as she could when the door of the cell was slammed open and two of their captors walked in. It wasn't what she had in mind when she asked to be saved from the anger of Sesshomaru!

 

Sesshomaru snarled angrily at the new addition in their little cell. But his reaction only elicited smiles in the hideous faces of their captors.

 

“Calm down, `my Lord', we aren't here for you this time,” The ugly thing, aka one of the youkais that was keeping them locked down there, said while smiling evilly.

 

Immediately understanding of the meaning of his words rose up in the DaiYoukai's mind. Sesshoumaru's eyes snapped towards the human girl that was currently trying to crawl away from them. When she was at reasonable distance from them, she jumped on her feet and stood between them and Sesshomaru, ready this time around to defend him if necessary.

 

If they were there for her, she would keep them away from the demon Lord as best she could.

 

But they only laughed at her attempt, saying that it was hilarious to see a human Miko standing in protection of a DaiYoukai human-hater, who wouldn't even blink if he so choose to kill her.

 

The one, standing closer to her, chuckled darkly while walking towards her prone form. She tried to resist even with her puny sore muscles but he was more powerful that her by all means and caught her by the hair, snapping her head forcefully up and to the side, before she could do anything.

 

She had her head turned in his direction, so Sesshomaru could see her eyes wide open in terror as a whimper escaped her lips. The youkai bent down forwards her ear and spoke sweetly to her, sending terror-filled shivers through her, “Hey girly, want to come to play with us a little?”

 

There wasn't any mistake in what he was implying by `play'. Her eyes, even when her body was shaking in fright at the meaning that was obviously hiding behind his words, narrowed in disgust. She wouldn't let them do all they wanted to while sitting gently in their grasp. No way in Hell! She was shooting forcefully in her mind, her fear only adding to her resolution and anger.

 

But before she could do anything, like using her powers, they placed something cold to the touch around her neck. She hadn't had the time to react because she hadn't known their intention before she felt it close around her neck. Her fear increased another notch and she struggled with renewed vigor as they obliged her roughly to stand while facing the door.

 

This time, she froze when she saw what or rather who was there at the embrasure of the door.

 

Naraku, in all his splendor, was standing there, smiling down at her. He said that today she was going out of the cell, leering shamelessly and openly at her body. He glanced up, not so discretely towards Sesshomaru before turning around and walking out.

 

Sesshomaru snarled when he saw the way the hanyou had looked at his cell's companion, confirming him in what he had from the beginning suspected was the intention of the dark hanyou. This time though, he wasn't the only one to have detected the devious gaze. The girl was now a little less clueless of what was happening around her. She had seen how he looked at her and that couldn't be mistaken for anything. It was as if he was about to eat her whole at the first opportunity he will have.

 

The furious and disgusted reaction of the demon Lord made the retracting form of the dark hanyou smirk.

 

The two ugly demons pulled, none too gently, the kicking and screaming Kagome out. The Lord of the West saw her petrified gaze fall on him for a second before she was pulled away, out of his sight. His inner beast pulled at its chains, wishing to tear them limb by limb to erase the image of the horror-filled face of the girl from his mind.

 

Naraku reappeared at the door, back to rile the demon Lord a little more. He faked that he was thinking deeply but he couldn't stop the smirk from growing slowly but surely on his lips with his next words.

 

“Ah, she's such a fiery little thing. But don't worry, I will take good care of her and make good use of her surplus of energy.”

 

Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes in disgust at the clear and unmistakable implication of his declaration, his amber pools flashing red in his anger. Naraku just chuckled darkly, his crimson eyes twinkling with a devious light. Then the door was closed again behind him.

 

Sesshomaru tried to release himself from his bindings, but stopped rapidly, knowing that it was useless. He couldn't do a thing as Kagome's frighten eyes were playing in his mind again.

 

He didn't really understand why that incontrollable rage had taken over his body. It wasn't that he cared what Naraku and his minions were going to do to her weak human body. But the fact to see Kagome really frightened for the first time was strangely a disturbing image, even for the cold demon Lord. Even when she had faced him in the past, never had he seen her so scared.

 

Sesshomaru could feel his inner beast pulling furiously at its chains, growling viciously in the direction that the dark hanyou had taken. He was really taken aback by his beast's reaction to a simple human's fear, worse, InuYasha's wench.

 

The very idea of what Naraku could have in mind for her sent shivers down the spine of the DaiYoukai.

 

He didn't really understand the why but he put his reaction under the motive that if Naraku succeeded in his plans to break her, in one side, that would prove again his previous theories of how much humans are really weak, but in another side, if the hanyou succeed in breaking her spirit or her body, he will be short of one Miko for his planned escape scenario. Broken, she would be of no use for him.

 

At that moment, Sesshomaru realized that some time had passed but they weren't releasing him from the wall, yet. Curious.

 

After a moment, now that his beast had resigned itself at sitting down and wait while still growling lowly, Sesshomaru returned to his previous state: absolutely bored.

Worst this time, there isn't any bubbling human woman to keep him entertained...and he was pinned again on the wall.

 

The fact that his half-breed of a brother had been in a situation slightly similar wasn't sitting well with him: if you changed the wall tp a tree and the one pinning him here not his enemy but his own traitorous bitch,...the similarity was rather ironic, if you take into account that he had ridiculed InuYasha about that for the last few years. It was not at all to his liking. At least he had been captured like that by the enemy, not his own supposed lover, and his shame wasn't exposed to the outside world, for anyone to see.

Sesshomaru eyes' flashed, angry at himself. He was thinking way too much of his brother for the last couple of days.

 

Vaguely, unable to stop himself, Sesshomaru started to wonder if he would ever see her again, and what would be left of the joyful innocent woman. If he was to never see her again, he would have to find a way to get out without the added plus that were her spiritual powers.

 

The future didn't seem really attractive...

 

 

 

 

 

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The green forest at the entry of Edo was calm, peaceful. Not a trace of problem seemed to lurk around there at the moment. The savage animals were munching some herbs peacefully or ready to pounce on another. The birds were chirping happily. All in all, it seemed to be as heavenly as you can get on the Earth, in a forest on Feudal Era.

 

Then, rustle of leaves could be heard and something red and silver was jumping up there, on the canopy, from tree to tree, with great speed and agility. His silver hair was flying behind him with the wind. He was just a blur of red and silver. He passed along the clearing of the Bones Eater Well without stopping or even slowing. It wasn't his destination. She must already be in the village, waiting.

 

Strangely, his heart was beating more rapidly than usual. Well, not that strange since it was like that often in this situation. Kagome was finally returning from her time today and they will resume their shard hunt soon.

 

He hated when she was leaving for her own time and it had been a while since she had been away for so long.

 

Even if she, sometimes, was driving him totally crazy and mad, at the same time, she had the opposite effect on him as well. She had that strange power upon him, that thanks God she had no idea or she would be unlivable with, beside the damned necklace around his neck, or collar as she like to call it when teasing him.

Her presence at his side and her smell was astonishingly smoothing for his nerves and appeased the continuing battle that was raging inside of him between his 'reasonable' side and his bestial side.

 

She was the first person, he could really say without flinching or lying, that he trusted with his very life since his birth, beside his own mother.

She was so caring, and she didn't care if he was hanyou or not. She never judged a person because of their species or blood, but by their actions and their heart. 

 

She was the first person in a long time to know about his night of weakness. She was there during his night of weakness, each time appeasing the fear in his heart that was taking over his whole body during those moonless nights. But she was there also when he had transformed in a monster, in his full demon form, killing anything on his passage. She never shunned him whatever form he could be in.

 

She could have been killed but she hadn't run from him. She never did. That was a trait of her personality, even if he had difficulties to admit, even to himself, in what she was surpassing her predecessor, the priestess Kikyo, the very same Miko that was still haunting his waking moments and nights, down there, in his heart. But the fact that he could admit it to himself didn't mean that it wasn't leaving a bad taste in his mouth.

He shook his head to erase those last thoughts and continued his way towards Edo .

 

 

For the first time since ages, InuYasha hadn't come earlier to her time to drag her kicking and screaming, but most of all, sitting him to oblivion to have shortened her stay in her time with her family.

 

No, this time around, he had respected her wishes and waited for her to return on her own. The fact that he wasn't there anyways to go to get her earlier was lost in the hanyou mind.

 

After she had left the camp…crying and the good `slap behind the ears' of his friend , the monk, he had relived, in his mind, the scene and what he had done to her that night.

 

He couldn't believe what he had done. And it wasn't a dream or a nightmare for that matter. Now that his head was `cold' and he was calm, he was thinking back at what he told her.

He had been horrible with her now that he thought about it, had said words so hurtful…If it wasn't for her big heart, like anyone else in that situation, she wouldn't forgive him and would never come back.

He really hoped that it would not go there or ever.

 

Ok, he hadn't liked what she had said but he admitted that it wasn't giving him the right to attack her so viciously and where he knew it would hurt. He shook his head again to be rid of the disturbing thoughts.

 

Kaede's hut came into view and his heart skit a beat with joy at the idea of seeing again his miko friend. Yes, friend, not just a shard's detector as he had claimed before… but he wasn't willing to say it out loud.

 

He came to a stop in front of the hut and walked in without waiting. To his surprise, the miko from the future wasn't there, waiting for him…but neither were his other friends. Eyebrows furrowed, he skip out the hut to look for the elder Miko.

 

He found her in her garden, gathering herbs.

 

“Oy, Baba, where is everyone?”

 

At hearing his gruff voice, the old Miko put down her basket and raised slowly, one of her hands reaching for her back for support. Her old bones were really dolorous and more often than not now, staying in one position for long or bend down was becoming more difficult to support.

 

“Oh, InuYasha, you are finally back. Where were you?” She asked, ignoring his question by asking her own.

 

Her one good eye detected immediately that he wouldn't answer her question when she saw his posture shift slightly and one of his ears flick.

She may be old but she was still good to analyze and pin point one emotion by his comportment. And the young hanyou didn't prove her wrong again.

 

“Feh! Not your problem, old hag. Now tell me where they are.” He said, crossing his arms on his chest in a show of finality.

 

“The monk and slayer went to help the neighbor village with a low demon problem. They had waited for you but you weren't coming back so they went by themselves, taking the young Shippo with them. They said that they would come back sometime today, when Kagome will be coming back.” She said, eyeing him carefully to detect his reaction.

 

He cursed under his breath then turned his head towards Kaede.

“And you didn't see the wench?”

 

Her good eye narrowed at his disrespectful ways to call the young miko. “ Kagome,” She said, stressing the name in purpose, “hasn't come back yet but let the child alone for now.” The words hadn't even finished leaving her lips that, in a flash, the hanyou wasn't in front of her anymore.

 

She shook her head in disappointment as she saw his retracting form disappear back towards Edo and the forest. He would never learn.

She reached down for her basket and slowly made her way back towards her hut.

 

Kaede was just about to enter it that she heard her name been called behind her. She turned around to see the rest of the group making their way towards her.

 

“Good afternoon, Kaede-sama.”

 

After welcoming them back and asking them how was the slaying of the low demon, she immediately invited them inside.

 

“Everything went well, Kaede-sama, it was rather easy even,” said the demon slayer respectively.

 

“Where is Kagome? She isn't back from her home yet?” asked the slightly distressed young kit when noting the absence of the young woman.

 

“Not yet, young one. I tried to tell InuYasha to not go the retrieve her now but he was gone before I could stop him.” She answered, shaking her head.

 

“He is always in a hurry when shards are concerned. But if he is the one not here, we would have to wait and not say a word. Hope he receives what he deserves when always bothering Kagome when she is with her family and for his hurtful words from the last time.” Sango growled, releasing the cloth strapping her Hiraikotsu on her back and deposing it in a corner.

 

“Yeah, hopefully she will SIT him.” said Shippo.

 

“Don't be so hard on our friend, Shippo, I think this time he has grasped, at least a little, what he had done. Or I hope so. And for him always disturbing her during her stay with her family or dragging her back here, I think he doesn't understand the gravity of what he is doing yet.” concluded Miroku as he placed his staff in the corner too.

 

“What do you mean houshi?” asked the demon slayer while sitting at Kaede side with Shippo.

 

Miroku sighed, sitting down against the wall. “Out of all of us, Kagome-sama is the only one who had still part of her family alive. You would think that he would understand how much it's important for Kagome-sama to stay in contact with her family and her own time, him who had lost his own so early…But it isn't the case at all and in his selfish wish to have her always at his side, it is as if he is punishing her to have a family still...or one who accepts her.”

 

“I have never seen it that way but you are right…Is it what Kagome feels too?” Sango asked softly, the `family issue' always a sore point for her. Shippo was silent too, looking towards the monk from the corner of his eyes, curious and sadden.

 

Miroku sighed sadly and nodded. “In a way, I think she does. The worst part is that she feels guilty in a way too…”

 

They looked at each others, sadness heavy in the air…

 

 

 

 

 

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Back with the demon Lord of the West…

 

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Our poor demon Lord was still pinned to the wall, bored to death with nothing to do. He didn't know how much time had passed since the Miko was dragged away but it was already too much for his liking.

 

There isn't any ugly toad to terrorize or something to kill to pass the time there. He would even be happy…ok `happy' is maybe too strong a word but still, he would be if his idiot half-brother could pass by so he could hit him until his boredom passed… or until the hanyou passed out.

 

He was nearly to the point of demanding that his captors give him back the Miko. At least her chatter would be better than the silence. Never would have he thought that he would come, even for a moment, to hate the silence.

 

To make thing worst, his beast was still `pouting' and whining for the human's absence.  Something wasn't right with him.

 

He had tried to hear something outside of his cell but it seemed as if there were some seals to cut off or at least reduce the sound from the outside at the entry of this living Hell. It made his beast even more nervous to not know what was happening to the Miko.

 

Sesshomaru himself was curious but nothing more. He could care less that they kill her, or so he was saying to himself. He still couldn't explain why his beast or even himself could even be interested enough to think and ponder what they were doing to her or could do.

 

To be honest, there was only one reason Sesshomaru knew about that could explain why his beast would react so strongly to her pain or fear but the DaiYoukai had dismissed it immediately. It was ridiculous…

 

At that moment, he heard a sound that made his beast `jump' back on its feet, snarling angrily while pulling back to its chains. Sesshomaru had to admit that even he himself didn't like it one a bit.

 

It was a sound that he would have enjoyed coming from anyone at any other occasion. Anyone… but this person. He was in debt with her and the thought of what could have happened to make her let out that kind of sound made the blood in the veins of the demon Lord run cold.

 

This sound was a scream. But not any scream, it was one of pure terror and pain as he had rarely heard before. They were hurting the young Miko…

 

 

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End of the chapter 8.