InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Enemy Mine ❯ Chapter 3~The Bounty! ( Chapter 3 )

Enemy Mine By Mija

Disclaimer~Dont Own Inuyasha and Company.

Chapter 3~The Bounty!

~~~Kagome woke up just before day break. It was still dark and the sun would rise in about an hour, but Kagome had long since conditioned her body to wake up at this same time every day. She needed to do many things before the sun rose and anyone else at the shrine did as well. Her uncle did not have servants for servants where a shrine priest who advocated hard work and generosity, to have servants was not becoming. Besides only the wealther of families could afford servants and a shrine preist was not known for its wealth. So they had Kagome do it. Everything that they would have a servant do, Kagome now did it. Which had been a relief to her uncle since he was the one who usually doted and did the female chores for Kikyo. Again he spoiled her so that anything she wanted he did for her in a heart beat. Kikyo would be lucky to be Shrine priestess, for a wife she would never do, in Kagome's opinion, unless her husband was as whipped and docile to her as her father was. But then again the life of Shrine priestess would never do either. To much work for her to do and Kikyo was not one to like to work, if at all avoidable.

~~~When Kagome woke up it was still very dark in the room and she was very suprised to feel herself warm. More like extremly hot. She felt like she was being wrapped in a small blazing fire. It took her still half asleep mind to register what it was that was making her so warm and a bit too comfortable. Somehow in the middle of the night she had scooted her body close to her captors body, seeking his heat. And thats how she was now. Her body was pressed to his chest, she could feel her rear end snuggled up to his groin area, which thankfully enough she felt nothing that would make her fear him in a sexual way. Not that shed ever seen or felt a mans tool before, but from what she heard they were large and hard and hurt very much. He didnt seem to have that problem. But the fact that one of his arms was wrapped around her waist with his hand cupping her right breast made her blush beet red. With that she bolted from her spot and tried to crawl out of the futon and away from her captor. But she was yanked back by a pain in her wrist and a grunt from him. Thats when it came back to her. He had tied thier wrists to one another, so that if she tried to espcape he would feel and hear her and wake up immediatly.

~~~Well Kagome had practically pulled her arm out of the socket and all her captor did was grunt. As for that he had not made a move or said a word to threaten her. With some manuvering she managed to lite a candle next to her bed and looked over at her captor. What she saw made her gasp. He was pale, he looked like he was wearing the make up the giesha girls wore down in the village. But his cheeks were also flushed a deep red and his entire face was covered in beads of presperation. She cautiously scooted closer to him and laid a hand upon his forehead and gasped yet again. He had a fever. A very bad one. Wasting no time, letting her healer mode kick in one again, she undid the binds that tied them and went over to his side of the futon to check on his wound. She was a bit leary about doing this on her own, she had never touched a mans pants before, he had done it on his own last night, but she needed to see his wound and his wound was just below his hip. So with shaky hands she undid the ties to his hakama and pulled his pants down far enough for her to see his wound clearly.

~~~Once she took the bandage off, she again did a small gasp. The yellowish puss like poison was draining which was good, but the area that it drained from was now infected. She needed to drain the poison by lancing it and squeezing it out, then clean it, put some herbs for infections and apply some more herbs for the poison. Thinking so she did everything she knew she must. Soon she was rewrapping his wound in clean bandages. After that she got some herbs and let them boil over a few candles in a nice little tin basin Kaede had given her for such reasons. After that she poured the mixed herbs and water into a cup and forced him to drink it. It would help with his fever. It took forever to get him to swallow it since he was unconscience, but finally she had. Now the next part of her treatment was the worst of all. Usually she would not do this on a male, the males wife, mother or family member would. But right now she really had no choice and she was not exactly looking foward to it.

~~~Taking a basin of water and a few rags she began to mop his brow with cool water to help bring the fever down. As the sun began to rise in the sky she could make out more of her captor. He had long silky black hair, his bangs were long and she noticed that his face was dirty. As she wiped his brow, she also wiped the dirt on his face. She could just imagine him getting sicker if he was dirty. Again not thinking much of it, she started to undress him from the waist up and blushed very badly. She had never seen a mans naked chest and she knew seeing it now even though he was sick and needed her attention, did not make it any better. As she washed his soiled chest, she couldnt help but let her finger linger on parts of him. He was not fat or thin but wirey, he had muscles but they were not overly done like some mens were. His looked like the muscles one got from working hard or fighting hard. She had to admit if only to herself that she liked the feel of his bare chest as she washed it up and dried him off. Once his chest was done, she looked at his haori and realized that it was filthy and putting it back on would deminish the work she had just done. So she put it aside and told herself she would wash it later. Then came the toughest part of all. Since his top half was clean, she needed to do the bottom half and she was not liking that job at all.

~~~Taking a deep breath she gently but quickly pulled down his pants and tossed them next to his top. Not looking at anything but his feet, she grabbed some clean water and rags and started to clean him starting at his feet and woking up towards his legs and so on. But when she got to that part of him that was male, she skipped it and worked her way from the area she had stopped at at his waist and cleaned everywhere else till she had no choice but to clean the last part of him and that she dreaded. Taking another deep breath she finally made her eyes look upon that hidden part of him. What she saw made her frown. Ok, this was not what she had expected. She quickly did her job and cleaned him as effeciantly and as fast as humanly possible. All the while she had heard him groan and moan and shake his head from side to side in fever but he had not woken. Taking this one golden oppurtunity she decided she wanted to study that part of him a bit more. So she looked at it, touched it and wanted to laugh. So this was what most women feared she thought? What she had feared. His tool, looked absolutly harmless. It was not large or thick and frankly it was softer than bread dough. She giggled when she tought of how she had always feared being raped and such, if this was what men had to work with she didnt know why she feared it. It was harmless and she doubted that it would even go inside of a woman's passage, let alone do any damage. Relieved with that revelation she made sure that his fever had gone down some and covered him up with the blankets atop her bed. Taking his clothes she put them away under her own that she needed to wash later that afternoon. Looking at the sun through her window she eeped and ran to the door, making sure to lock it as she left. No one thought it unusual that she locked it, after all she needed to protect her store of healing herbs from thieves.

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"You are late!!" her uncle roared as he slapped her. She had rushed up the shrine steps and had just walked into the kitchen when her uncle had popped up in front of her. The slap hurt but she didnt linger to think on it as she got on her hands and knees before her uncle.

"I..I am sorry uncle..." she replied with fear. Her body shoke, mostly with fear of what he might do to her little brother not her.

"The morning meal should of been long on its way to having been made!..do you not recall all the things that must be done today since you neglected to finish them yesterday!?" he shouted. Kagome bit her lip. She wanted to tell him that she had not finished them because he had sent her to the chiefs house to tend to his ailing wife. But she knew that would not matter to her uncle. So she kept her mouth shut on that score.

"I am sorry Uncle it shall never happen again..I..I came in late from the chieftains house and I am sorry I must of been extremly tired and overslept." she apologized, only daring to remind him of the chieftains wife, like this instead of the way she had wanted to. Oh she wished with all her heart she could afford a small place for her and Souta. Then she could leave this place and her cruel uncle and lazy cousin.

"That is not EXCUSE!" he yelled as he slapped her again.

"Now get started...we will be eating soon..have Souta serve it to us when it is done as you begin on your other neglected chores.

"Yes uncle." she replied as she stayed prostate till he left the kitchen. Once he left she began to make the morning meal for her uncle and Kikyo.

"Are you ok sis?" came her brothers worried voice as he tentivly walked in to help her in anyway he could. She looked at him and smiled. Already her face was turning a nice shade of reddish purple but she didnt care. If anyone asked she would just say she tripped again. Her uncle had told the villagers that she was quite a clumsy child, and they all believed him.

"I am fine Souta, come..have your breakfast while I prepare the morning meal." she said as she layed some bread from yesterday into a bowl and crumbled it up into peices, then she poured cream over it and served it to him, also giving him small peieces of the meal she was cooking for her uncle and Kikyo as she went along.

"What about you Kagome?? you need to eat something too." came her brothers worried voice. Again she smiled and straight out lied.

"Im not hungy Souta, thanks to your concern, the food you bought me last night filled me up soo well Im not hungry at all." she smiled, hoping it convinced him so that he would not worry. He smiled back and went to eating his meal and helping her with setting the food up on the trays and taking them into the dinning area where thier Uncle and Kikyo would be arriving in shortly.

~~~After she made sure that her brother could handle taking in the food, she got herself busy with the other chores. She descaled, gutted and cleaned the fish she would be making for lunch and put it in some cold water to set for later. cleaned the kitchen, then went out to the garden. She deweeded it, watered it, picked the ripe vegetable she would need for later. She swept the shrine steps as well as the shrine itself, cleaned up her uncle and Kikyo's rooms, tidied up the living area then washed the dirty dishes after breakfast was done, then washed her uncles, Kikyo's and her brothers clothes, hung them up to dry. Grabbed some herbs from her garden to dry and weeded it and watered it, and by that time it was noon and the noon meal needed to be cooked. After that she found a minute to check on her captors fever, he was doing better and grabbed her own wash and his clothes and did them before going back to tend to the many other chores she was required to do. In between this she was asked to see a few villagers who were not feeling well and did so, bringing back any payment they could afford back to her uncle.

~~~As she tended to one of the village women, she over heard her husband and son talking about a guard who had ridden into town that morning to deliver a message for Lord Ekki. Appearantly there was a traitor who escaped the prison several days ago. It was imperative they find him and to the one who captored him or led to his arrest would get a very nice reward. When one of the villagers had asked what would happen to the traitor he was told that he would be hung and quartered. Kagome thought of the man who had forced himself into her room and made demands and threats towards her. What if she turned him in? Would they let her have the reward?? She knew with the reward she might be able to find a small piece of land and a small hut for her and Souta to live in. But the down side? She would be dooming a man to certain death if she did. Could she live with her conscience if she sent her captor to Lord Ekki to be disimbowled, quartered then hung? It was a death worse than any she had ever heard of and frankly she wasnt a great fan of Lord Ekki. She didnt think she could live with herself knowing she had done that to anyman. But she would do it in a heartbeat if he so much as tried to lay a hand on her little brother.

A/N~Okies here the next chap, hope the spelling is a bit better and that the chapters dont suck toooo much..sigh writers block, am soooooo trying to get out of it by writing. So hope these chaps dont dissappoint. Well till laters let me know what ya think, be safe well and good, much huggles and smiles Mija..:-)