InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Come Home Puppy ❯ Torture and the Search ( Chapter 4 )

Torture and the Search
Ever since the kumo had funished with him, he had been hanging up like a cow for the slaughter drenched in his own blood, cold in the dungeon draft. He had tried, futilely, to fight his way out of the restraints, but the only thing he had accomplished was hurting his shoulders and wrists beyond what they had been before the attempts. The dog rested in the only way his restraints allowed, seemingly defeated. He was not defeated yet, though. He was just gathering what remained of his strength to get out of this mess. Belatedly the inu-hanyou realized that someone else was in the room, more importantly that it was kumo-teme, Naraku. The scarlet-eyed demon walked up to the bloodied, still naked smaller hanyou and ran his hands over the supple, damaged flesh covering Inuyasha's spine. The smaller male trembled and whimpered piteously as the hand continued to aggravate him. The dog tried to move his body away from the wandering hands on his body, but he could not move anywhere with the amount of pain he was in and Naraku having one hand holding him in place.
"Get your hands off of me teme," Inuyasha spat weakly, but still filled with every bit of fire that the inu had left within his slowly crumbling soul. The han on his hip jarred him slightly, causing pain to flare like flames in the demon's veins. A weak howl escaped pale lips before canine teeth latched on to the full bottom lip to hold the sounds of pain at bay in way of rebellion. Naraku just chuckled before speaking into the triangular, dog ear atop the blood stained once silver hair.
"I have a surprise for you, puppy. A friend of mine wants to meet you." Inuyasha could hear the sadistic smile in the kumo's words and shivered involuntarily with the malice that accompanied them. Hands caressed him one last time before they were gone. The mouth near his ear stayed, however, for a few parting words.
"You will break puppy and when I put you back together again you shall see everything I have told you is truth. Your ningens gave you to me. I get to do whatever I want with you." Naraku pushed one hand down to the beads that surround the dog's neck and with a simple tug and the drawing on the jewel shard lodged in his chest, he pulled the rosary from the inu-hanyou's throat. He had done the one thing that Kagome had refused to do. He had freed him of being treated as if he were a pet. Inuyasha felt himself crack just a bit more. Naraku left just as quietly and as suddenly as he came leaving his 'friend' behind and alone in the room with Inuyasha. The demon left with Inuyasha was a horrid looking beast. A boar hanyou. The thing was huge, everywhere! The facial feature were distorted to the maximum making it hard to tell if it had been more man than beast when it was born or vice versa. With the condition that Inuyasha knew himself to be in, he gave a defeated, desperate whimper hoping that someone out there cared enough to save him from this torture as he looked at the advancing monstrosity.

Shippou, Kirara, and Sesshoumaru with his entourage arrived in record time to the village that bordered the half-breed's forest. There they met the three ningens and suprisingly the ookami lord, Kouga upon their arrival. The villagers again went ballistic at the arrival of more demons and Kagome's reaction to Sesshoumaru just fueled their already chaotic attempts at ridding the demons from the village. After getting the kitsune kit, the fire neko, and the Kouga into the meadow outside the village, Sango began explaining in detail everything they knew from the time Inuyasha sped off to his disappearance almost four days ago. Sesshoumaru was even more disgusted with the ningens than he had thought possible and had to admire how his otouto managed to put up with their stupidity and bickering. It was giving him a headache and he was used to such things in his court.
"This Sesshoumaru demands that you ningens cease your incessant squabble this instant! How the half-breed managed to survive with you inferior creatures hanging on to his hakama, this Sesshoumaru does not know, but you will cease immediately." Sango, Miroku, and Kagome shut up quickly, more in shock than actually trying to obey the regal inu demon. Kouga just smirked in the background as Sesshoumaru accomplished in mere moments what he had been trying to do the last three days so they could figure a plan to find Inuyasha. Sesshoumaru then focused his attentions on the Lord of the Northern Lands.
"What is your purpose here, wolf?"
"I am simply wish to find Inuyasha. The mutt may have been a pain in the butt, but he was the only worthy competition around here and something about him disappearing into thin air rubs me the wrong way."
"This Sesshoumaru agrees with you. His scent only lingers in this meadow and that dreadful ningen village. His scent cannot be detected anywhere in the surrounding area, though he would have needed to go through it to get away from the humans."
"Yes, and the fact that Naraku's stench does the same. I don't like what that implies." Kagome looked at Kouga, wondering when he was going to share that piece of information with the rest of the group. She also needed to talk to Shippou to see why he thought it necessary to track down Inuyasha's older brother.
"Just when did you plan on telling us those supicions?"
"I don't have to share anything with you wench. Your lucky I decided to let you live." Kagome gasped in surprise of what the ookami lord had just spat so venomously at her.
"You can't talk to me that way. I'll..."
"You'll what? Sit me? I am not your pet and neither should Inuyasha have been. You abused that rosary, Kagome. Now I can see that it wasn't because the mutt really needed to be punished, but because you still act as an immature child, and if you don't get your way you throw a fit to get your way or in Inuyasha's case, sit him until he can't move."
"This Sesshoumaru demands to know what this rosary is that you speak of!"
"The rosary was put on Inuyasha as a way to keep him from killing people when he was released from Goshinboku. He hasn't really needed the thing for awhile now because all of his disorientation from the forced fifty year sleep was gone. Kagome refused to remove the rosary, saying he still needed to be disciplined, despite the fact that he two hundred years older than she and knows a lot more of the world as well. If Naraku does have Inuyasha, it is my belief that, since she renounced her claim over him the beads are no more than just beads. Inuyasha will not know this, but the kumo will. He will remove the rosary, giving the mutt the one thing he wanted more than anything else."
"This Sesshoumaru understands and agrees with you wolf. Let us hope that his intentions are not what this Sesshoumaru thinks they will be about my otouto." Kouga nodded his understanding. Kagome sat there fuming and glaring at each demon in turn. They had just called her immature and basically called her a bully. She humpfed and turned away from them in a childish pout, not realizing it made her seem even more immature to even the other ningens within their circle.
"What do you think Naraku's intentions for Inuyasha are?" Miroku asked solemnly.
"Hanyou's are a special breed. Their strength is directly tied to their spirit. Whether they have strength of mind, or body it is tied in to how strong their spirit is. Given this background, to get rid of Inuyasha as a threat, Naraku will endeavor to break his spirit." Kouga started.
"There is also the high possibility that he will groom Inuyasha to be his consort. This will increase his power tenfold, as hanyou's share their power with their mate because it will be strengthened by their bonding. This will also produce more powerful heirs. Considering that Inuyasha is male, the heirs that would be born of that union would be even more powerful than this Sesshoumaru. Under Naraku's teachings this will be a bad thing for all lands. It would also mean that they would target this Sesshoumaru for his lands as Inuyasha is the prince and heir to my estates and title." Sesshoumaru spoke impassively, only his narrowed eyes showing how much he dislike this course of action.
"We need to move and soon. We need to find Inuyasha before Naraku does or if he already has him, we need to save him. The quicker we get going the better." Kouga stated plantively. With those words the group broke up to gather supplies and get ready for the trip. The demons waited for the ningens, cough*Kagome*cough, to get their needs. Everyone back together again, the odd group headed in the direction that the strongest scent trail led before disappearing. Hopefully they would find him in time.

Only the wet, slurping sounds and the echoes of flesh hitting flesh emerged from Inuyasha's complimentary (yeah right!) room. The boar demon had been given explicit instructions, he was to break the inu before him, but by no means was he to taint the pup's virginity. This was how Inuyasha came to be on his knees, hands bound behind his back, his hair held in the unforgiving grip of the boar demon in front of him as the horrid creatures groin thrust hard and fast into his mouth. Tears of shame, desperation, and finally defeat leaked out of his beautiful golden eyes and down pale sunken cheeks. The creature finally rested its huge meat down the half demons throat, causing him to choke, before releasing its vile seed into the wet cavern and forcing the pup to swallow. Finished with it duty, the boar hanyou left the crumpled form of the inu on the floor covered in blood, sweat, and the scent of itself upon the slender body. Inuyasha with his battered soul retreated, retreated far into his mind along with his fearful youkai to protect himself and his spirit. Many have tried to break him, but none have ever come this close. It is better that he leave, then they can't get him, they can't break him. The only sign of his retreat was the loss of the inner glow of his unique golden eyes. They were now dull, lifeless, filled with pain, and haunted with knowledge that no pup his age should ever have to face. For the first time since he was in his stages of infancy, Inuyasha used the last of his mental strength to call out to his Aniki, to his Sesshoumaru. No matter how Sesshoumaru treated him and still treats him, he has always taken care of Inuyasha.

Sesshoumaru suddenly stopped, the others not noticing for a couple of yards that he was no longer with him. His head was tilted to the left as if listening to something. Suddenly his attention is called to the sky and a howl of pure, unadulterated rage tears from his throat. The demons there cringed in fear of the rage in that roar, even the mighty Lord of the Northern Lands. The Lord of the Western Lands abruptly changed direction due Northeast from their eastern tread. He began to move with the speed of a demon possessed. Kouga, Shippou, and Kirara smartly followed behind as fast as they could go, not caring if the ningens were able to keep up or not. After all they were the ones to start this mess.
Sesshoumaru had to hurry, he had to get there. There was something more wrong than wrong happening to his brother, especially if the pup was using the call. The whelp hadn't used the call since he before he was old enough to talk and then it had been because of a rabid squirrel demon trying to eat him. (I hate squirrel's. They're always tryin to eat my through my power lines. Get's annoying calling the power company every other week). This call was much more urgent, to the point that he could feel exactly where his otouto was. With a great leap, the demon lord gathered his Ki and changed into his true form. His great white form towered over the trees and alerting Kouga to change into his own form, stopping just long enough to let Kirara and Shippou gain safe passage onto his back before bounding off after the enraged TaiYoukai in front of him.
Sango, Miroku, and Kagome watched with amazement at the transformations before realizing that they were being left even further behind by the demons in front of them. They know they had made a mistake, but that didn't mean that the four of them had to be rude about it. It was a good thing that Ah-Uhn had flown Rin and Jaken back to the castle. Sesshoumaru most likely would have run off and left them too. They don't know that Ah-Uhn was chosen as Rin's companion for the simple fact that it was able to fly at speed's that matched Sesshoumaru's strides while in his true form. Sesshoumare had one thought as he closed the distance between himself and his otouto.
'I'm coming Inuyasha. Hold on for me!'