InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Escape ❯ Taken ( Chapter 9 )

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Ciao people! Here I am once again and as usual with the next exciting installment. Divulge yourself in my little fantasy and review! Gotta know whatcha think. Oh, and pay no heed to the lil Kouga/Kag fluff. It means absolutely nothing…to Kagome at least.

Last time:

Angry now, Kagome brought her head back and butted her adversary in the face. A string of obscenities followed the impact and she struggled even harder to get free, but he still kept his hold on her tight. One last idea came to mind. With all the jaw power she could muster she bit down as hard as she could on the hand that was clamped to her mouth.

He yelped in pain and surprise, withdrawing his hand for a second.

"Inuyasha!!" She screamed at the top of her lungs before a clawed finger made contact with the pressure point on the back of her neck and she slumped into unconsciousness.

Inuyasha's ears jerked to alert at the sound of Kagome's voice. She was in trouble. Extricating himself from her two friends' grasp, he sprinted toward where her distress call had come from. "Kagome!" There was not a soul in sight. He sniffed the air urgently. He could smell her lingering scent, and also the faint smell of another. Inuyasha growled dangerously, his ears flattening atop his head as he recognized who's scent his was.

'Kouga.'

Taken

Inuyasha barreled through the school, his eyes narrowed to slits and tingeing with red. 'How dare that fucking bastard take her away from me. Perfect fucking timing.' He flew out of the front door, practically taking it off its hinges. The mingled scents of Kagome and the wolf still hung in the air, only a few minutes old and seemed as if they were heading west.

'Hang on Kag,' he thought and took of in their direction, completely forget about his abandoned Skyline. 'Once I find that stinking wolf, I'll rip his fucking hands off for laying his filthy claws on you.' Kouga had already got a head start, which was all the more reason for picking up speed.

Kagome groaned as she felt the wind caress her scalp. She must've fallen asleep in Inuyasha's car. She smiled in her sleep at the prospect, but frowned. Something was off. Why did she feel all of the blood rushing to her head? And why was there an uncomfortable pain in her stomach? And why was something long and silky in her hands? Confused, Kagome groggily came out of her mental stupor. Why was she staring at a fur clad backside with a tail in her hands?

As her vision cleared, so did her mind. She was positioned over someone's shoulder, awkwardly might she add, and she was back in the woods again. Her eyes fluttered open as realization and panic started to assault her senses. A wolf youkai had kidnapped and knocked…pressured her into unconsciousness. "Let me down you jerk!" she screamed, releasing all her pent up rage and fear by flailing her arms and legs in defiance.

He flinched as her elbow connected with the back of his skull coincidentally making him loose his footing and grasp on the girl that was thrown over his shoulder.

She yelped as she was sent careening to the ground, landing flat on her butt. Bolts of pain shot through her backside and up her spine. "This had better not leave a bruise," she complained, gritting her teeth in pain while rubbing her tender flesh.

The youkai shook off the impending headache and focused his emotionless eyes on her, his face blank. "Woman, I don't have time for this." He approached her cautiously.

"Get away from me!" Kagome scooted back further away from the oncoming youkai. "I'm a miko and I won't hesitate to….uh…unleash my powers of mass destruction." Well it had worked in getting rid of Kagura.

"You have no control over your powers," he stated, his eyes still empty of emotion as he enclosed the space between them. "Give up Kagome, you can't win. I will take you to Naraku and he will have his way with you. You are no longer in control over your life. The decision to live or die is no longer an option for you. Your fate will be decided by him." The youkai reached down with a clawed hand to pick her up from her seated position.

Kagome's eyes hardened in boldness. "That's where you're wrong. Nobody will ever have that kind of power over my life. What I choose to do with my life is solely up to me." And with that she closed her eyes and screamed for all she was worth.

The youkai stopped, the air around him suddenly becoming charged with energy. Ignoring her deafening screams and the tingling sensation that made the hairs on his body stand on edge, he leaned over and grabbed her arm, which proved to be a mistake. Bluish energy emerged and began to cackle and pulse around the still shrieking miko. Before he could withdraw his hand, the energy lashed out angrily and struck the stunned youkai with a force that sent him flying into the trunk of a great oak tree…that was 50 ft. away.

Kagome stopped screaming and opened her cracked her eyes once she felt his aura wane. The bluish energy that had, a few moments ago, surrounded her in a haze of warmth and power, receded from whence it came from. It never ceased to mystify her of her newfound abilities. Kagome looked around, suddenly nervous. 'Where did he go?' She came to her feet on shaky legs and tried to detect the aura of her adversary.

Her back stiffened as she felt his aura unexpectedly come up from behind. "Not bad Kagome." She spun around and came face to face with the wolf youkai.

"Not bad at all." He rubbed his back, which was still throbbing in pain from the impact of her attack. Nobody had ever caught him so off guard in his life. He gave her a wolfish grin, his eyes livening with sudden enthusiasm and intrigue. "I'm Kouga, prince of the Eastern wolf clan. I am honored to be in the presence of such a beautiful and powerful miko like yourself, Kagome. And you will have the honor of being my woman."

Kagome stared at him in bewilderment, his apparent abrupt and 180 degree personality change catching her by surprise. "Excuse me?" Maybe she was starting to hear things. Could be an aftereffect of the miko powers or maybe she should start cleaning her ears more frequently.

Kouga's grin got even wider. "You're going to be my woman," he repeated once again.

Her eyes narrowed in suspicion. "What happened to all that crap about you taking me to Naraku? I thought you had to obey him." She took a small step back just in case he changed his mind. Males seemed to be good at doing that.

The gleam in his eyes lost their shine, and for a moment Kagome feared that she had said the wrong thing. But the enthusiasm was replaced with despondency and anger. "I hate that creep," he declared bitterly. "He stole everything from me. When I was young, he killed my father, mother, sister, and forced my entire pack to do his bidding, but he kept me alive. Said if I didn't do what he said he would kill off the rest of my clan."

Sympathy and pity swelled in her heart at this. Kagome carefully approached him and put a hand on his arm compassionately, silently urging him to continue.

"I was only 9 when he took me in and trained me to become an efficient killer. His own personal assassin. There were many of us. All of us existed, to him, for the sole purpose of carrying out his dirty work. I'd do anything for may pack, including killing others to keep them alive. I don't want any of them dying because of me." His blue eyes became glazed over, as if reliving the events of his past once more. "That's why I stayed. For the sake of my pack. I abhor slaying innocent people for the sake of Naraku's succession. But what can I do?"

"Why don't you and everyone else that is forced to work for him stand against him and rebel?" Kagome urged, her anger toward Naraku increasing by the minute. "With your combined forces I'm sure that he could be overthrown."

"It's not that simple." He hung his head.

Kagome rolled her eyes. "I don't believe this. So you would let Naraku continue to use you as a pawn in his twisted game because you don't have enough balls to kick his ass?"

Kouga didn't say anything.

"Fine," she huffed, crossing her arms, "if you don't have sense enough to put a stop to all this, I will."

His head snapped to attention. "Kagome, you will do no such thing. You don't know of the things that people have suffered because of their defiance to him."

"I'm powerful, you said it yourself," she prompted.

"But not powerful to suppress the compulsion to scream and writhe in pain as he slowly begins to disembowel you," he pronounced, his eyes serious. "But that's not all. He will little by little cut off each and every one of her fingers and toes just to hear you cry in pain. He won't allow you the pleasure of bleeding to death once he's done with you. No, he will have someone sow you right up and subject to even more pain once you've recovered. If you're lucky, you'll pass out. If you're not, I hope you can stand excruciating pain and discomfort for long periods of time."

Kagome physically blanched. Shivers of terror and panic coursed through her body at the thought of being subjected to such acts of cruelty and callousness. She tried to cover it up behind a mask of indifference as best she could. "I can stand a lot of pain," she lied when in fact she loathed the idea of getting a paper cut.

Kouga grabbed a hold of her, pulling her into a tight embrace. "You're not going anywhere near him. I forbid you to."

She stared him in the face skeptically. "You forbid me? Who are you to tell me what I can and cannot do?"

He gave her a wicked grin, the light returning to his eyes. "But you're my woman. I can do that."

Kagome snorted. "Your sadly mistaken-"

"Get away from her wolf!" Inuyasha snarled tearing out of the forest like hell was on his heels. Tetsusaiga's energy thrummed in his hands, ready for action. His piercing golden gaze faltered a bit as he witnessed the girl who he had been intent on rescuing resting in the arms of the enemy. A wave of indescribable jealousy and betrayal tore through his heart like a jagged dagger.

Kagome, having witnessed the myriad of confused emotions run across his face, immediately jumped out of the wolf youkai's embrace. 'Now why do I feel so damn guilty? It's not like we go out or anything.' Kagome tried to reason with herself, but in the end couldn't help feeling disloyal.

"What the hell are you doing here inukuro?" Kouga questioned smirking thought he knew the obvious answer.

"Give me back Kagome wolf!" Inuyasha tightened his grip on his fang.

Kouga snorted. "She is not a thing to be had mutt. Or don't you know that."

Inuyasha growled menacingly, fangs bared. "Enough of this shit!" He raised Tetsusaiga in an attack position. "I'm gonna take out your foul ass once and for all dipshit!"

Kouga grinned at the challenge. "That's where you're wrong dog breath. I'll be the one that emerges victorious from this fight." He turned to Kagome and took her hand in his. "I will win this for my woman." He brushed his lips against her smooth skin and smiled a her. "Cheer for me Kagome."

Her face reddened considerable at the gesture. "Umm…" But she was cut off by the startling howl of rage from a certain dog-eared hanyou.

Inuyasha charged at Kouga in a fury, his intent being slicing that bastard down to size, and would have accomplished this objective had it not been for the sudden intervention of a certain miko. "Get out of my fucking way wench!"

Kagome blocked off the hanyou from the wolf youkai. "No. Inuyasha you need to calm down. You have no reason to hurt Kouga-kun. He is our ally."

"Ally my fucking ass…Kouga-kun?" he gaped at her disbelievingly.

"Yes Kouga-kun. He's my friend," she stated not noticing the satisfying smirk that graced his features. "We need all the allies we can get when we go up against Naraku."

"Now wait just a fucking minute," Inuyasha asserted as the Tetsusaiga transformed back to its original state. "Who the hell said we were going up against Naraku?"

"I did," she put simply. "And from now on you two will put a stop to these cock fights and grow up."

Kouga grinned in triumph. "You'd better listen to my woman dogturd."

Kagome whirled around to face the wolf prince. "And I am not your woman, Kouga."

It was Inuyasha's turn to smirk.

"Whatever you say Kagome," Kouga admitted shrugging. "Inuyasha, watch my woman while I'm gone." He turned his back. "If anything happens to her, I'll hold you responsible."

"Keh. Stupid wolf. You can move the hell on now." Inuyasha folded his arms in irritation.

"So you're not going to take me to Naraku," Kagome inquired hesitantly.

"No. I'll make up some excuse, though he probably won't be happy. Oh, and whenever you plan to take down that bastard hanyou, let me know. I'll be glad to help out in any way possible."

"Thank you Kouga-kun."

He winked at her. "Anything for my woman." And with that, he was gone in a flash, leaving only particles of dust in his absence.

"What the hell was that 'my woman' shit about?" Inuyasha questioned harshly, fixing his penetrating gazing onto her, his ears twitching in vigilance.

Kagome shrugged nonchalantly and started in the direction he had came from. "I haven't the slightest idea."

"Bullshit you don't. What the hell went on while I was gone." His eyes narrowed in suspicion. "He didn't try anything on you did he? Cuz if he did-"

"Oh Inuyasha, you're so cute when you're acting like a jealous boyfriend," Kagome giggled and tweaked both of his ears.

"Who said I was jealous," he grumbled, but didn't deny the boyfriend part, in which Kagome took note of. His ears relaxed in her gentle grasp. "Can we go now?"

"Yeah, I guess so." They started walking, until a question popped into her head. "Umm, Inuyasha?"

"What?"

"You did lock your Skyline before you came looking for me, didn't you?"

He froze, the impact of his actions hitting him full force. "Aww shit." He turned to Kagome, through her over his shoulder and raced off in the direction of her school, despite the many protesting of the miko.

End.

AN: No cliffies this time people. Sorry if you're disappointed. Maybe I'll put some action into the next one, though I'm not sure what the next one will be about. ::sigh:: I can sense an impending writer's block. Review and tell me whatcha think!