InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Claimed ❯ Awake ( Chapter 4 )

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A/N: So sorry it took me so long to get this chapter out. My never ending duties as a muse sucked up all my creativity and well truth be told I was kinda avoiding this chapter. Oh and for those of you who have been begging for me to make this a Inuyasha/Kagome fic, you'll just have to wait to find out, but nobody give up when things reveal themselves. I have a surprise in store for all of you.

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He tilted his head back and screamed in the night sky, a heart chilling sound full of raw emotion. He clenched the paper in his hand, somehow hoping that the writer would feel its pain. His body was wracked with sobs and the ink smeared, destroying the hated message that would be forever burned into the hanyou's mind.

"Bring the sword."

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Kagome woke up with the biggest headache of her life. She reached up to gingerly feel the lump on the back of her head, as she tried to piece together what exactly had happened to her and where she was now. She looked around the room, unable to see much as it was just slightly past dawn and daylight was only beginning to sneak through the small window of the room. From what she could see though, she was in a small but nicely decorated room.

She sat up slowly, looking curiously at her surroundings. Squinting into the darkness she could make out a tall armoire standing next to a beautifully carved desk and bookcase. She shivered in the cold morning and pulled the blanket up closer to her. Only when the fabric rubbed up against her smooth skin did she realized with shock that her bedding was made of the finest silk she had ever seen. It was a pale cream, almost white, with silver ivy accents. The delicacy took her breath away and she felt like she was soiling it just by laying on it. As she took in softness and warmth of the bed her eyes wandered over to the beautiful tapestry on the wall.

White cranes danced across a gorgeous water scene. Waterfalls bounded down the heights, crashing into the lake where the cranes balanced gracefully. Green from the foliage surrounding the lake melted with the hues of red, pink, orange, and yellow of the rising sun. She stared mesmerized by the extraordinary beauty of the tapestry when her scrambled brain suddenly registered a presence nearby.

Her eyes swung to the door expecting someone to enter but as time passed and the presence did not go away she realized that they must already be in the room. She did a rather hurried search of the room again and noticed a tad bit late that during her previous examination of the room she had overlooked a large chair, with a lithe pale figure sitting comfortably on it, watching her with hard, cold, emotionless, golden eyes. Her eyes hardened in recognition and she glared at the figure sitting so casually in front of her.

"Sesshoumaru."

It seemed as though that one word as the key to the door that locked her memories from the night before because suddenly everything flashed before her eyes making her slightly dizzy before the room straightened itself again. There was still one question in her mind though and when she found her voice once more she asked it rather shakily: "Where are we?"

She could feel his laughter mocking her as he answered with a tone that said it was really rather obvious. "In my castle."

Her jaw dropped. She had tried not to look shocked, she really did, but well she didn't win that battle. She had to blink several times before she could form her next question. "You…you…"

"Yes I have a castle, baka wench. I am the Demon Lord of the Western Lands, by all rights I should have a castle. I suppose the hanyou weakling you travel with neglected to mention the fact that I am royalty and the severity of the crime you were committing by fighting against me."

He saw her gulp at the implied threat and smiled to himself. He would show this miko, who had dared to stand against him, what it meant to incur his wrath. Not just yet though. He could wait. He stood and walked over to the amiore and opened it, revealing a beautiful collection of silk kimonos of every color. He turned back to the girl practically hiding under the covers of her bed, and gestured to the kimonos. "No more of your incessant questions. Get dressed now. I refuse to have you wandering around my castle dressed half naked as you are."

Kagome shivered, even under the covers it was still chilly in this drafty room. She watched Sesshoumaru move back across the room towards the door before she got up and searched the armoire for a kimono. She gasped when she saw the silk assortment; every color imaginable was there. Scarlet, crimson, ruby, bright orange, golden yellow, dandelion, forest green, shamrock green, navy, sky blue, periwinkle, royal purple, rose, pale pink, it was like looking into a rainbow.

Several moments of indecision passed as she tried to decide what kimono to wear- the shamrock green one with the dove detailing or the rose one with the sakura blossom details. She finally chose the rose one and started to walk back over to the bed to put it on when she noticed he was still in the room. He was once again sitting in the chair by the door staring at her intently. She stared right back waiting for him to leave. When he made no move to exit the room she cleared her throat and stammered out "Ano, Sesshoumaru, can you leave so I can change?"

Had his icy mask slipped off his face for a moment she would have seen his lips barely twitch revealing his amusement at her embarrassment of the situation. He remained silent though and decided to ignore her plea for privacy. She was, after all, his prisoner.

She just stood there and he smelled her embarrassment deepen. He could just imagine the thoughts that were going through her head right now, like he would ever be interested in seeing a human female naked before him. But since the idea of a forced lack of modestly obviously bothered the virginal miko, he figured he could put up with the sight. He was rather annoyed though when instead of dressing, she sat on the bed, crossed her arms, and directed him the iciest glare he had ever seen in his lifetime.

"I will not wait much longer girl. Put it on now or I will force you to walk around naked, bare for the world to see."

She snorted and replied with a curt "then leave so I can change."

Her tone infuriated him almost as much as the fact that she was giving him a command and before he even had time to think about it she was pressed up against a wall, her fragile neck held with one hand in a grip too tight to breathe through. Had he not been so angry, he would have rather enjoyed the way her eyes grew at his actions and the pathetic noises she made as she desperately struggled to get the much needed are to fill her lungs.

"Listen BITCH," he snarled "this is my domain. Do not attempt to order me about again and know that I will not hesitate to snap your pathetic body in half just for the sheer pleasure of it should you do so again. I will do as I please and you will willingly obey my commands or you will never see your precious hanyou again. Understand?"

All Kagome could manage to do was nod her head weakly. Her brain was swimming and her vision was getting blurry. Just when she was sure she was about to black out from the lack of oxygen, he released her throat, dropping her unceremoniously to the cold, hard, stone floor below. She lay there for several moments, gasping for air. She felt, rather than hear or see him move back across the room and settle himself once more in the chair. Her miko powers flared around her slightly in the presence of the now known threat. When he made no further movements to attack her it slowly receded back from the unknown source of power it had come from.

Sesshoumaru was mildly surprised when he noticed the large amount of power flare from the young girl lying prostrate on the floor in front of him. He watched her carefully looking for any signs that he was in danger but relaxed when the power dissipated. In the future he would have to be more careful around her, he had not know that she possessed this kind of power. He allowed he several more minutes to collect herself before he grew inpatient and barked "Dress yourself."

Kagome wanted to yell at the bastard for trying to kill her but her throat hurt and after hearing his threat, she figured it would be safer if she just kept her mouth shut. She gracefully rose from the ground determined not to show him any signs of weakness and walked slowly over the bed, and picked up the disregarded kimono. She could feel his eyes on her as she quickly undressed, both because of the demon sitting behind her and the cold chill of the castle air, and re-adorned herself in the beautiful silk kimono.

Before she could look around the room for a hairbrush the taiyoukai had risen from his seat and commanded "Come. Breakfast waits." She followed him hastily out of the room while futilely trying to get the tangles out of her hair with her fingers. Before she left though, she glanced back at the sun shining through the small window and wondered `Where is Inuyasha?'

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Well that's not where I planned on ending it but it was getting rather long and the end was no where in sight. Plus I'm not very happy with this chapter, especially since I had to write it twice since the laptop died taking this with it. Oh well.

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