InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Captured and Trapped ❯ secrets reveled, part 1 ( Chapter 9 )

Hello everyone!

So, I have received some messages about the probability of rape in this story. At first, it was in my intentions to let you all wait and discover later, by yourselves while reading, if there will be or not a raping scene in one of the chapter (noting that I hadn't warned for it in the summary) but my ears are ringing because of people screams about the possibility of rape so I have decided to tell you now:

No, there isn't any rape scene in the story. BUT, you have to know that the mature rating is there for something. Some of the things that will be present in the future, for a little time could be qualified of `hard'. I don't think that it will be overly graphics, not decided yet, but it will be present. Some others things will be cited in later chapters too…

I have rated the story M or MA because of that. The high rating had a reason.

Like I said to someone, Naraku hadn't captured Kagome just for a tea party! I'm sure that you have understood it.

I don't wish to explain too much or it would spoil the fun of reading it but the hardship that Kagome will have to overcome IS what will make Sesshomaru to remark her and to see her like something else than just a weak human. I don't know how to explain it without saying too much but it is what will lead them to what will happen later, around the end of this story, this first part named “captured and trapped” of a two part story, and an essential passage for the `plot' of the second part that will arrive after. Saying that, I hope you understand that I'm not making, and will not, character(s) suffer for nothing.

I really hope to have pacified some of you and that you will not abandon this story so rapidly. If you have questions or commentaries to do, you know where to find me.

 

One more time, I will be thanking `Frizz' for the beta-job on this chapter. I can't put in words how much I'm grateful.

 

Like you can see, this chapter is just the first part of `secrets reveled'. I had a lot of things to explain and I didn't want to make you all wait for too long before the update! Still, the chapter is a little longer than some others so I hope that you will all be satisfied! :D

So now, hop to the story!

 

 

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Chapter  9 :

Secrets reveled, part1

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The two ugly yellowish youkais were pulling a kicking and screaming Kagome with them towards the room where she would be staying for who knows how long.
 

She had tried to call forth her holy powers to her aid anew but she obtained the same disturbing results as before: nothing. Well, not entirely nothing. The collar around her neck seemed to burn when her powers were rushing out and getting cold again when she stopped. It was like the piece of metal was reacting to her powers… She deduced that it must be the same kind of thing as the one Sesshoumaru had on him, only this one was to contain purity. It seemed that they knew she would try to fry them to Hell and back at the first possible chance. So they had put a damn collar on her to contain her powers. I'm not the dog here!! She fumed mentally.
 

But aside from her anger to have been collared like a dog, Kagome was beyond livid. She felt as if she was naked and defenseless without her powers flowing freely, caressing her skin with her every emotions. She still had a lot of difficulties to control her powers even now, a few years after her arriving in the Feudal Era, but their presence was like a comfortable blanket. And now the comfort was gone.

She was doing much better with her powers than when she first stepped in this dangerous Era. Well, she couldn't do worse than when she wasn't aware of their existence, could she? But by now, she was use to feeling them at all the times just under her skin, reacting with her emotions. But now, even if she still could feel them inside her, that they hadn't disappeared, that was all and not at all reassuring for the young miko.
 
 
 
For some time already, regularly, when he wasn't out cold until the morning after his 'friendly' meeting with Hiraikotsu for trying to peep during their bath or grope one of the girls, Miroku was teaching her how to have better control on her own powers.

 

Of course, they were doing it behind the back of a certain hanyou. They had to, knowing their hanyou friend. At one time though, he had interrupted one of their sessions to ask what the Hell they were doing. They had been obliged, knowing that InuYasha wouldn't drop the subject until he had his response, to answer him. But when they explained that Kagome was learning to have better control over her powers, the insensible jerk had proclaimed that she was weak anyways and if this training couldn't help her to find more shards it was useless. His harsh words had once more cut deep in the already in poorly shape self-confidence of Kagome. Obviously that night, InuYasha had kissed the earth goodnight … repetitively.
 

After that he hadn't interfered again.

 
This training was important for Kagome, who hated to feel useless as she was often unable to really help her friends during battles. It was a feeling which had became more than she could stand with time. The other reason was to be able to calm the dolor in her soul.
 
 
 
Kagome had been fairly astonished when, as her friend was testing how much powers she had at her disposition, he had been shocked himself and had said that he had never felt so much power in one holy being in all his wandering years or even heard of such a tremendous amount of potential. Miroku could feel that she had still some hidden powers unused in her and could, after extensive  training, be the most powerful Miko that had ever walked the Earth.
 
Imagine her surprise when he'd even confirmed that she had more powers running through her veins than the priestess Kikyo must have ever had, even when she was still part of the living. He had deduced that it could explain why she had never felt her powers before being in mortal danger and the jewel was bit off of her side at her fifteenth birthday. She must have in her at least the same among of powers without any training, if not more, than what was contained in the Jewel. Her powers were containing the Jewel powers in her body, for protection, so no one could feel it around her. Then, when she had been more mature and her powers reacting more violently with her emotions, the seal created around the jewel by her own powers must have start to flutter. It had been only when she had been frightened when stepping in the well house that her powers, distracted and reacting with her emotions, had let the centipede youkai be able to feel the jewel's power.
 
He explained that while Kikyo was able to keep the Jewel pure, Kagome was keeping it concealed and pure, so needed more powers. The only difference today between the two reincarnations was that the undead miko had total control upon her available powers, while Kagome could easily summon only a fraction of her own.
 

Miroku was sure that she could become even more powerful than Midoriko herself after some years, with a proper training. Miroku had a theory: the explanation to why she had so much power and why she could live `normally' with only part of her soul. It was surely due to the fact that she was born with the jewel hidden deep in her body. That could explain too, why her soul was so immense and that Kanna's mirror couldn't absorb it, even when not whole. The fact that her soul was old wasn't enough to explain everything: the jewel must have a part in it.
 
Another proof came from that Kikyo, while able to feel a jewel shards power a little more accurately than anyone with holy powers or youki, only Kagome could feel them from far away and could see them precisely even in the body of someone. It proved that the jewel was really a part of her. He even went to say that the link between the young miko and the jewel could be a link between souls. Maybe part of Midoriko's soul succeeded to escape the jewel and merge with Kikyo's soul after her death to create, 500 years later, Kagome with the jewel hidden inside of her. It wasn't a fact but a probability that couldn't be refuted.
 
 

That day had marked the very first time where a real fight had happened between the monk and InuYasha.
 

InuYasha, who had surprisingly been at the camp that day, had listen the 'lecturing' of Miroku, curious about what the monk and miko were doing during their 'training', and you could easily guess, hadn't been happy at all about the conclusions of the monk. Worst, the hanyou had been seriously furious at Miroku for filling up the young miko with absurdities and for spouting what he had deemed were blatant lies. For him, it was evident that Kagome was weak and couldn't compare in anything, even in dreams, with the 'perfection' of Kikyo, so even less to Midoriko and the powers of the Jewel.

 

But the Monk hadn't back down.

 

Miroku then had pointed out that the only reason Kagome was able to pull off the arrow that was keeping him between life and death all those years ago, wasn't only because Kagome and Kikyo were sharing the same soul, but because, even then, Kagome was able to call upon her at least the same level, if not more, of powers that Kikyo had used to condemn InuYasha to stay pinned to the tree, between death and live, with the help of the sacred tree. Anyone with holy powers, like Kaede or even himself, was able to touch the arrow but only one with more powers than the sealer could romp the seal and free InuYasha.
 

That's when InuYasha had finally totally lost his cool and had attacked Miroku with murderous intentions.

 

God, or Buddha in his case, had blessed the Monk with lots of quick reflexes. If it wasn't for his quick reaction with his staff, Miroku could have been seriously hurt that night. After many SIT and a sutra to immobilize the hanyou for the night, everyone went to their respective sleeping places.

Kagome had been uneasy and doubtful with the declarations of Miroku and had said so to him after a moment. It was a wonderful warm feeling to hear the faith he had in her capabilities but it was maybe a little too much. However, he had interrupted her immediately and clearly made her understand that he hadn't lied one bit and had said the truth purely and simply of what his meticulous reflections had come up with and not a way to make her feel better.

It was because of the constant support of Miroku that Kagome had been able to regain part of her lost confidence. But only a little part had been restored, the damage inflicted by the temperamental and narrowed minded hanyou being too important.
 

After that night and the incident, nothing had been said on the subject anymore. However, the cohesion between the group and the hanyou had never been the same.
 

The monk had still continued, for more than a year now, to help Kagome to gain more control over her powers and helped her with meditation sessions, when the pain of her broken soul was too painful to bare for the poor young woman. He had became her closest confident and she his, and if it wasn't for his generous help, she wouldn't have been able to be of any assistance for Sesshoumaru the day before, with his poisoned injuries.
 

However, a few minutes here or a couple of hours there isn't enough to have permit to Kagome to have total control of her powers.  But it wasn't useless either: she was now able to shoot more powerful arrows, sense Shikon shards from farther away and apparently now heal even if it's exhausting.

 

At one time, during her training with Miroku, and with the help of Kaede, she succeeded to send a blast of pure energy reducing a poor innocent tree in nothing but little parts flying in the wind. But it had been just a fluke and she hadn't succeeded in doing it again later. But that didn't stop Kaede from being impressed with her.

For once not knowing, Miroku had been curious as to why her powers hadn't formed an orb, like he had known was what really powerful Miko throw. The old Miko had explain that she had to have lots of potential to be able to send blast and touch an opponent without an arrow like most mikos. She said that she would need a lot of work, most surely years before being able to form perfect orbs, like any master mikos. This art went with control and Kagome still didn't have it. Kaede even pondered if she would ever have total control, her amount of powers being so immense.

Though, when she had seen the horrified face of the young woman, she had rapidly added that it wasn't abnormal and could be of better use for her. She said that while Kagome couldn't control the amount of powers she use with each attack, the blast was more powerful most of the time than an orb could. The old Miko continued by saying that contrary to most Mikos to whom it was just a little, Kagome's powers were reacting with her every emotions strongly, explaining too the quantity she had at her disposition, why it was so difficult to control them for their young pupil and that had nothing to do with her possible mental or physical disabilities like someone had tried to convince her, her supposed hanyou friend. That night, since he had implied that Kagome was in some way too weak in mind and body to be a plausible Miko, Kaede 'invited' him to sleep outside on the cold.

 

 

 

That's when, after remembering her training sessions and the powers at her disposition, it had clicked in the young Miko's head that something was missing: she couldn't feel the familiar pulse of the jewel fragments anywhere nearby, or when she had faced the devious hanyou earlier. The only plausible explanation was that it was just a puppet. Figures. No surprise there.

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They were now leading her away from her cellar and Sesshoumaru. When she had understood that she hadn't any chance to escape the painful hold of the 'ugly things', as she liked to call them in her head, she took the opportunity to observe all she could of what was outside the cell she and Sesshoumaru were sharing. That's how she saw the seal coursing around the cell's door. However, she was unable to read it, cursing herself to not understanding magic languages.

What she could see though was that the words seemed to light up. Kagome deduced that they must have to say a spell or something to activate the collars of Sesshoumaru and the wall behind him. But what was more important was that the spell was working only inside the cell and not everywhere in the cave. It was a big plus! That meant that if they could get out of the cell then their captors wouldn't have any more control on Sesshoumaru and he would be able to kick their asses. The prospect of seen those ugly and smelly youkai with their so-called 'Lord' been beaten to a bloody mess by the DaiYoukai surprisingly sent a spark in the Miko's eyes. She wasn't a lover of violence but they would merit their sorts. To have kidnapped them but worst beaten to the pulp the proud but rendered defenseless Lord of the Western Lands and taking evident pleasure in it, she wouldn't cry for them when Sesshoumaru will be free. And there is the fact of why she was there...still a mystery.

 

When looking around, Kagome saw that there were others cells than theirs too, but she couldn't feel the aura of anyone in them, or at least no youkai's presence. So she concluded that they were the only prisoners down there at the moment, wherever 'here' was. The galleries seemed old though; pointing out that it wasn't of Naraku's making. He must have 'borrowed' the cave from someone else or it was abandoned and he found them.

The two ugly were leading Kagome, or rather pulling her, in one of the cells, at the opposite side of the cave apparently. At first, she thought that they finally decided to use their little pee-size brain and install her in another cellar, separate from the demon Lord. Granted he hadn't killed her...yet, but that doesn't mean he wouldn't. Better not tempting the devil, right? 

So even if she was sad at the idea to be left alone, she was ok with it...until she saw what was inside of that one. A cold shiver run her spine and she immediately wished that she could wake up right now at Sesshoumaru's side in their suddenly very attractive co-cell.

 

She struggled anew with renew vigor, terrified of what they could have in mind for her. And from what she could see in the room, she won't like it.
However, they seemed to find her struggling and terror really humorous and couldn't stop the chuckles from coming out at seeing her so fearful...and they knew that she had every reason in the world to be afraid. Their Lord had a lot of 'fun' planned for her... Thinking at that, they were now laughing without restraint at her expense.

 

In the center of the cell was sitting proudly a table inclined where they carried the young Miko and attached her to it by her wrists and ankles. She couldn't stop them even when kicking and screaming. They paid it no mind. She couldn't prevent anything.

Kagome had never been so scared in her life. She was trashing around, but the straps were so tight. They had tightened them as much as they could without cutting off her blood circulation. Terror gripped the young Miko's heart when they just laughed at her futile intent and left her there, keeping the door opened on their way out, leaving her alone.

"Get your ugly fat asses here! Let me go!!" She was screaming frantically, struggling still, but the straps wouldn't let go.
Oh my God, what will they do to me!! She thought, her eyes starting to tear up. They attached me like in some kind of horror movie! What are they planning to do to me?! She then breathed deeply. Calm down, Kagome, panicking will not help you! Damn InuYasha, whenever you are ready to come crashing in their little fiesta, you are, by all mean welcome to. And the sooner the better! InuYasha please, get me out of here...She mentally whimpered.

 

She then heard the noise of someone clearing their throat. Kagome's head snapped towards the door, only to find Naraku there, a smug smile on his face. Each time she see him, she couldn't stop the anger and disgust from rising inside her, even when petrified by her fear.

"Naraku." She said venomously.

His smile only grew on his lips at her hostility. The bastard.

"Still so much hate coming out of your sweet mouth, little Miko, and you don't even know what I want from you yet. It's a shame. Kukuku." He said, silkily.

"Stop the chitchat, Naraku. I don't care what your new devious plan consists of, but I won't play in it. Release me now!" She tried again to call to her help her powers but the collar around her neck just started to burn and nothing happened again making her even more frustrated.

"Tsk tsk tsk. So feisty. You can't use your powers with this collar binding them I'm afraid, so you can as well stop it before you hurt yourself, little Miko. You should use your energy on something else than anger." He told her, velvety.

 

Kagome couldn't prevent a shiver to run down her spine. It was so wrong. And the way he had looked at her earlier and now again... She didn't know what he wanted exactly but she was almost sure that she didn't wish to find out. Still hoping that InuYasha would come to her rescue, she tried to gain some time and maybe information for later use.

"You already have taken the Jewel shards from me, so what is your purpose to keep me here and why Sesshoumaru is here too?"

"So much questions..." Then he said in her ear. "Do you really wish to know, little Miko?"

Kagome blinked. He is fast! One moment he was standing in front of her and the next he was behind her, whispering sickeningly sweetly at her ear. He was way too close for her liking.

"Get the Hell away from me!" She screamed in outrage.

Astonishingly, he complied with her wish and went to stand in front of her anew.

 

"You have been around the foul-mouthed beast for too long, it seemed. You are cursing way too much." A frown crossed on his face before clearing back to his devious smile. "Anyways, I'm feeling generous today." He said smirking. "So I will answer your questions, my Lady, at the best of my abilities." He added, with a mock bow. At his display, she just snarled, surprising herself with the only inhuman sound coming out of her own mouth.

 

"Kukuku. For the presence of the demon Lord here, there isn't much more reason but to hurt his pride and keep him away to prevent his usual interference. He can be quite bothersome and I didn't wish to let him play and interfere with my plan this time. With him out of my way, nothing can stop me from realizing it at the perfection. Plus, how much more insulting for a human-hater than to imprison him with one? Worst, one that he couldn't kill easily? It was too good to let pass, don't you think? "

"W-what do you mean 'one he couldn't kill easily'?" She said, trying to stop her voice from quavering. If he noticed, for once he didn't say anything to mock her, and continued as if nothing was amiss.

"Ah, that is something I will let Sesshoumaru have the pleasure of explaining himself. But I knew that, when in his right mind, he wouldn't kill you. I wouldn't have risked letting you in his `warm' presence otherwise. Tell me, Miko, can you remember one time where our demon friend had went out of his way to kill you? No, he hadn't, right? You can't remember one time. And if you recalled well your encounter with the Band of Seven, he even saved your life. At least that's one I know of."

"B-but, that was an accident! He said so himself. He killed Mukotsu only because he was in his way, nothing more!" Kagome shot at him, frowning, not knowing why he was trying to make her believe that. What would he gain for her to believe that Sesshoumaru had really wanted to save her. It's ridiculous!

Naraku just smiled. "Did he really say that to you or was he trying to explain himself? To convince himself?"

"You are dreaming Naraku! I'm just another human for Sesshoumaru. Stop being delusional! When he will be out, there will be Hell for you to pay and I will be the one laughing! And what do you mean he is the only one able to interfere with your plan? Lots of people are after you, and even if Sesshoumaru isn't out there for the moment, someone else will stop you!" She said, trying to sound confident while she was feeling less and less as such.

"You have so much faith in the demon Lord. It's puzzling how you are supposed to hate him because of your choice for companions. But let me tell you something about your comfy prison. You see, my sweet little Miko, those cellars had been dug directly in a cave that no one but maybe a powerful youkai like our 'little friend' down there, back in your 'sleeping quarter', could have a chance to sniff out because of the natural barrier around it."

 

After a moment, when Naraku saw Kagome's eyes open wide while finally grasping the implications of his declaration, he couldn't stop a chuckle from escaping his lips.

"Exactly, my little Miko, InuYasha won't be able to join us anytime soon, I'm afraid. I sincerly hope you aren't too disappointed."

 

His maniac laugh bouncing on the walls froze the blood in her veins. He's wrong, right? InuYasha had to find me, to find us! He has to! She thought, even more panicked than before. When she looked in Naraku's direction, she could see his triumphant smile. He knew that he succeeded to plant some doubts in her mind, and from the look of it, he wasn't finished yet. She could see it in his glinting red eyes. He didn't attach her in there just to tell her that. He must have something else in mind.

 

"You want to know a little secret, my little Miko?"

 

"I'm not yours!" She screamed on top of his lungs. But her outburst was absolutely ignored as Naraku just smiled at her, his crimson eyes lighting up.

 

"It was rather easy to manipulate your friends in leaving the village while you weren't around. The slayer and the monk went to help a neighboring village about their 'sudden' curious youkai problem.

 

"But do you want to know something funnier?" He then walked closer to her trapped form to whisper conspiringly. "It was even easier to distract InuYasha."

 

Her breathe hitched in her throat, immediately afraid for the hanyou's security. She forgot where she was and in what position she was in and yelled. "What did you do to him?!"

 

He smirked evilly, making her heart skip a beat or two in uneasiness. "But I, myself, hadn't done a thing to the simple-minded hanyou, MY little Miko. I didn't have to. Someone else did it for me. And I must say that InuYasha was more than willing to be distracted."

 

Kagome felt a pinch at her heart but ignore it. She shook her head in denial. "I don't believe you."

 

The dark hanyou chuckled. "Oh but I can assure you that I'm telling the truth. He just had to sniff her scent in the air and you were all but forgotten. It's a pity, really, how much you really count in his life in comparison to her."

 

 

The air in Kagome's lungs froze. She knew of only one person who could have that kind of reaction on the hanyou. It felt like someone had plunged a knife deeply in her heart. She may know her place in his heart but that didn't mean that it isn't dolorous to hear it yet again and worse, from their enemy. But something else was bothering her.

 

It was really a little too much of a coincidence that she had come to see him precisely around the moment Kagome was coming back to the Feudal Era... But that would mean that she was working with Naraku... yet again. She knew that the hate her previous incarnation was carrying in her frozen heart for her and she couldn't say that they were in peaceful terms. I meant, the older Miko had tried to kill her more than once, push her down the well and then, for the last year, was doing anything in her power to make her life miserable and hurt her soul. No, she knew that Kikyo would do anything that she could to hurt her. Yet...working for the dark hanyou...She wouldn't do that now, right? She wouldn't bend so low just to hurt her, right? She knew now that Naraku was responsible for her death, so why would she work with him again? She really wouldn't, right?

 

Naraku could clearly see the doubt rising in her. Beside her disgustingly sweet heart, she wasn't blind in front of the pure hatred her old incarnation was harboring for her. He then smiled deviously when he heard her whispering, trying to reassure herself.

 

 

"She wouldn't..." she said quietly and unsurely.

 

 

"Oh but she would and she did." He answered her private question as if she was asking him, chuckling. "She isn't anything like the woman she was in the past. She only knows anger and hate and it can be seen in everything she does. She isn't alive anymore and her priorities have change. But do you want to know something, my sweet little Miko? Her body only resembles a real body, only in appearance. It's nothing like doing it with a living being, not really as much agreeable to say the least."

 

The silence then fell between them. A deafening silence as Naraku was patiently waiting to see her reaction to his words after releasing the first bomb, and after a moment, he wasn't disappointed.

 

 

Kagome gather her courage to look up at him. She had to see his eyes to see the truth, to know why he wasn't continuing his speech and if what he was talking about was anything close to what her mind was supplying. When she saw how deviously he was smiling at her direction, his eyes twinkling, she had her response.

Her body only looks like the one of a living human? Doing 'it'? Oh please Kami, tell me he isn't speaking of what I am thinking?! She would never... right? Not with him... She is a priestess and she already couldn't accept InuYasha totally because of his youkai heritage so she couldn't have done that with that `thing'! But then, he said that her priorities had really changed after her death...

 

A wave of nausea crashed on Kagome when realization hit her. It was overwhelming. She didn't know what was the most disgusting: her previous incarnation taking pleasure with her own murderer, fifty years or so after said murder, or him rutting with a body made of clay and grave soil! Ok, some people in her era are doing in with plastic puppet but it's not really the same!!

 

People in this era take her for an innocent, not understanding what she had still to taste in life but they are presuming too much. She was a girl from the 21st century! She may blush or be embarrassed in some situations but the fact that she was innocent from the touch of a man didn't mean that she couldn't recognize a sexual allusion when she heard one! She even had shocked Miroku more than once.

Naraku continued his little speech now he was sure that he had all her attentions turned towards him.
"She was by the well because I asked her to. She was to occupy InuYasha long enough for my men to retrieve you as soon as you were back around InuYasha's forest, from wherever you were. And she was more than ready to do it.

In a way, you could say that we made a deal. I would give her what she longed for when the time is right, and, in exchange, she would do some things for me when her interference could be helpful for my purposes. She was more than willing to accept the deal and we sealed the pact. In fact, to be totally honest, we sealed the deal more than once and in more than one occasion. Oh yes, we did seal it, repetitively, again and again until exhaustion..." He let trail off, a smug smile on his lips.

Kagome couldn't take more of it. "That's enough..." She whispered, trying with all her might to block out his sulfurous voice, her eyes closed tightly. But he would have nothing of that.

"However, the feel of clay isn't as agreeable as warm flesh, right, my little Miko? Then, it's impossible for her to be really wet..."

"That's enough!!!" She yelled, clenching her hands. She had to stop him or she should throw up. Just the idea of him and her together...Intimately together... She had to stop herself from gagging. She couldn't look at him now. Before it was in anger but now it's in disgust. She couldn't look up at him without seeing the images in her mind. Kami, it is beyond disgusting!

"I'm sorry to have disturbed you." He said, unapologetically. "If it makes you feel better, we could set that aside and go directly to the reason of your presence here."

 

 

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End of the part one.