InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Hidden Past, Hidden Self ❯ Disgraced ( Chapter 19 )

I don't own any of the InuYasha characters in this fanfic. The ones I own are Kane-Sakura, Setsuna, and Trowa. Mika is owned by my friend Stephanie, Michi and Ori to my friend Nicky, and Yuki (coming in a later chapter) belongs to Danielle.

Very important note!!! This chapter involves rape. I'm warning all who plan on reading this that if you do not like reading about this subject, skip this chapter. The happening will be mentioned in later chapters, but not to this extent. Again, if you're sensitive to this subject, I recommend you not read this chapter. And from this point on, all chapters of `Hidden Past Hidden Self' will be rated R for adult content.

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He landed between Kane and Ren-Tao, facing the demon without fear. She slowly stood at the same time she heard Setsuna groan. Turning around and running to him, she asked, "Setsuna, are you all right?" She assisted him as he stood.

"I just had the wind knocked out of me, that's all." Then he saw the other demon. "Who's that?"

"I don't know; he showed up at about the same time Ren-Tao became tied up." They slowly approached the demon, not sure to suspect him as an enemy, or to welcome him as a comrade.

"I've got him bound and imprisoned. I leave it to you to finish the job." He turned his head, giving the two hanyous a side glance. "I trust you'll know what to do."

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"No!!" Ren-Tao struggled to move, but the vines held him in his place. "I will not let you forget this day, Kane-Sakura and Setsuna! You'll live to regret this!" He was struck, full force, by the assault and disappeared in the dust that had been moved from their powers.

"Get down Kane!" Setsuna pushed her down onto the ground and covered her head with his arm as he covered his own with his hand. A shock wave washed over them and if they had remained standing, they would've been propelled into the trees and badly injured. Instead, they rolled on the ground with the force until Setsuna was on top of Kane in a very intimate manner. When things had calmed down, she said, "Could you please get off of me?" She blushed a bright cherry. As she sat up, she saw that the forest had been cleared into a giant, sparkling, flaming meadow.

Remembering the man that had helped them out in the first place, she looked around to see if he had escaped. "I really hope that guy got away before we let loose our attack." Her hopes were fulfilled when she saw new plants growing in place of those that they had destroyed.

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Mika looked up at Kane when she said that. Standing, she asked, "Something wrong Kane?"

Now Kane stood. "I-I don't know. There's an odor I recognize, but it's almost like it's been altered."

"Whose smell is it that you recall?" Michi wrapped the towel around her tighter, grabbing her staff.

"It's Trowa's; but it's so distorted that it's hard to tell if it's him or somebody with his scent." Kane gulped, praying that the sinking feeling in her gut wasn't true. She put Teretsu on her hip and began to run towards the smell. `Trowa, is there something you never told me?'

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Chapter 19: Disgraced

"Kane, wait up!" Mika yelled out; but Kane ignored her. Her nose told the hanyou that if she didn't hurry, evidence of Trowa's new scent would wash away.

Panting, she came to the hot springs Michi had been bathing in only minutes earlier. `He's here somewhere; I can smell it.' She thought, looking through the steam. At last, she saw shadowy figure in the mists; it was masculine with a long braid of hair falling to the side.

She quietly climbed into the springs, all articles of clothing still on. "Trowa?" Kane called out. "Is that you?"

The figure jumped at the sound of her voice. "Kane-Sakura, is that you my love?" Trowa inquired.

Kane waded deeper into the springs, not caring how deep the water really was. Once she was close enough, she knew for sure that his scent really was altered. "Trowa, you…you smell different."

"…" He stood still in the steamy springs that came up just above his thighs. `She wasn't supposed to show up tonight. My only choice is to…' "It-it has my fiancé?" He sputtered out, trying to think of the proper words to say to her in order to ask her his question.

Before, his odor had been pure, untouched, and that of a virgin. Now he smelled strongly of arousal, sweat, and his own freshly spilt seed. But it was the scent of another woman that deeply disturbed Kane. "Trowa, what have you done?" Tears began to well in her eyes.

"My darling, what do you mean? I've done…"

"Don't act all innocent on me!" Kane choked out. "My nose tells me everything I need to know!"

He didn't speak; only thought of the words he should use to ask her. When he tried to reason with her, the expressions stuck to his tongue.

"Trowa, you smell like sex and another woman. I thought you said you loved me!" She walked up to him and slapped his face, the sound reverberating off the spring rocks.

A different mist began to cover the area as he said, "You don't understand Kane-Sakura; that is not at all what I smell like. The springs must be altering your sense of smell." He reasoned, stepping closer to her.

She stepped back once. "I'm not stupid Trowa. And these springs have nothing to do with it."

"But I must ask of you…"

"You'll ask nothing of me." Kane took off the engagement ring and threw it at him. "It's over; I'm through with you and tired of waiting for you."

He swiped her wrist and brought her into his embrace. Forcing his mouth upon her own, he pushed his tongue into the cavity. Almost gagging on the new taste of his mouth, she quickly pulled away. "Nothing you do or say will change my mind about you now! Let go of me!" Kane yelled, struggling against his grip.

"Not until I get a sure fire answer that you are not meant to be with me." His voice turned husky. "And there's only one method to find out."

"You bastard! I don't care what it is, but I won't do it!"

"I never said you had to comply." He whispered into her dog ear atop her head.

Kane shivered nervously. "What do you mean I `never had to comply'?"

"A man holds all the power over a woman and can do whatever he pleases to her, whenever he wants to." His hands wandered down her neck and to her breasts. "My method is to bed a woman, whether she gives me permission to or not, and see what happens henceforth."

Kane's breath hitched in her throat. `He's going to rape me! I have to get away from here!' She raised her knee up swiftly into his groin, making him let go. "Sorry buddy, but I'm not interested!" She ran as fast as she could to get away, trying to detect her friends' scents. She couldn't find any trace of them. `Why cant' I smell them?!'

"This fog will keep you lost for hours upon hours, maybe even days. It's a shroud to keep your scent hidden and to keep you from escaping." Trowa said from all around. Kane's heart climbed into her esophagus. Everywhere she looked, all she saw was the white fog. And there were no other scents to be found.

He pushed her down from behind. Sprawled on her stomach, she looked up at the black figure. Once he was close enough, he reached out and flipped her onto her back. Straddling her body with his own, he stripped her of her kimono, violently ripping the fabric and tossing it aside.

`I've got to get away from him!' Kane thought of screaming and when she tried, he covered her mouth with his own. She saw Teretsu only inches from where her hips lay and reached for it with her hands, praying her arms were just long enough. Noticing this, he tossed Teretsu over by her clothing and gripped her hands with his own by her wrists.

"It's useless Kane-Sakura. There is no way you're getting away from me before I finish my business with you."

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"Mika, where'd my sister go?" InuYasha asked the very concerned wolf-demoness.

"I don't know. It's almost as if her scent's been shrouded by something; it ends abruptly in the middle of the forest." Mika responded. "Why, you lookin' for her?"

InuYasha shivered. "I felt something, almost like a distress signal coming from her and so I came to find her and see if she was okay." He looked off into the distance. `Something doesn't sit well in my stomach about this whole situation.' Worry struck a chord in his mind.

Michi's eyes glistened with tears. "What if something awful has happened to her?"

"Don't assume that Michi." Mika stated. "I'm sure…"

"No good! Even from the sky, I can't see her!" Ori called out as he descended on a cloud. "I'm sorry, but I…" He trailed off as Michi ran over to him.

"It's okay; you tried and we're not going to blame you." She buried her face in his chest as he gently embraced her.

"Now I think it's safe to assume that something happened." Mika said. "She's been missing for over an hour."

Setsuna came out of the forest and into the clearing the group was talking in. "Hey, what's goin' on?" He asked blissfully. Then he noticed two things almost instantly. First was that Kane's scent wasn't around amongst the group or that Kane wasn't around, and second was their solemn faces. `Oh no!' He ran into the woods to find her before the party could respond to his question.

"Kane! Can you hear me?!" Setsuna called out, praying she was still alive. Then he saw the odd cloud hanging in one particular area. No scent came from it or out of it; it appeared to be a scent barrier. `She's gotta be in there!' He blindly, both in his eyes and nose, ran into the fog.

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There was no escape for her; she was trapped under Trowa, who was naked against her own blatancy. She cried silently as his grip on her arms tightened, wincing when his lips met her cheek. Again, she thought of screaming, pleading for help until somebody picked it up. But her throat felt paralyzed and she was too frightened he'd try to hurt her further than what he was already doing if she yelled out for aid. His eyes trailed her body as he slowly sat up; keeping his hands locked on her delicate, but now bruised wrists. "Kane-Sakura, I've only imagined what your body looked like and, indeed, it is that of a goddess." He admired her well rounded breasts, her slim waist and child-bearing hips. `Should my test work, at least she won't have any problems with having my child.' He smirked as he dipped lower to her face.

"Tr-Trowa, p-please…don't do something you'll regret." Kane begged. "Please, I won't do anything…" Her voice was shaky as she spoke.

He kissed her lips. "It's too late to turn back." He looked down between his thighs, already aroused just by the sight of her. "I desire not only you, but my answer to my question."

She tried again. "Trowa, please…"

His manhood lingered near her entrance. "Please what?" He laughed mockingly. "I don't want to hurt you anymore than I am, so don't struggle, just submit."

`No, I can't submit to him.' Kane thought, shaking her head. "Why're you doing this to me?"

"You'll find out." He took one large thrust of his hips and dove straight into her. She almost screamed, but his mouth quickly covered hers to keep her silent. Tears trickled down her face as she closed her eyes against the sudden fullness she neither wanted nor was ready for.

The pain was excruciating; it was too much for her to handle. She cried harder, praying that he didn't move to increase the hurt. But his rhythm began shortly after and her eyes filled with stars as she danced between throbbing consciousness and the comfort of a dreamless sleep. `I'm going to die.' Were the only thoughts that ran through her head. The minutes felt like hours when she finally opened her eyes again.

She must've passed out at one point because when she looked up, Trowa was dressed and sitting beside her. Every inch of her being hurt like hell and all she wanted to do was curl into a little ball and disappear, fade away from the world forever. More tears fell down her cheeks at the thought of how dirty she was and how her first time had been stolen. After a long moment of silence, Trowa spoke. "I've gained my answer, and so I must say good-bye."

"What kind of sick experiment was this for? Forcing yourself upon a defenseless woman to discover something that might've been fruitless; that's cruelty." Kane shivered, glaring back at Trowa with hate and tears in her eyes.

"You were fruitless, that was what my purpose was to find."

Her eyes widened. "What do you mean?"

"If you had truly been my mate, the only one meant for me, you would've conceived whether or not I forced myself upon you." He stood and walked over to Kane's belongings that lay in a heap. He grabbed Teretsu and her kimono and placed them beside her trembling body. "And so, since my true mate conceived only earlier this morning, we are never to meet again. So yes, it is over for the both of us." He turned away from her. "Besides, we both know who you truly love, even if you do not realize it yet." He snapped his fingers, and the fog instantly lifted.

Trowa left Kane on the forest floor, naked and dirty, to curl up on herself for comfort. "Just fade away." She whispered. "Just disappear from the world and your pain will go with it." She cried harder, sobbing with torrents of tears. "Why can't I just vanish from this world?"

"Kane! Please answer me!" A voice from the distance called out.

`Setsuna,' Kane thought. `He can't see me like this.' She sat up against the pain and pulled on her kimono. Parts were shredded to bits while a good majority was just soiled. `I'll just say I met up with this demon and he attacked me. It's the truth, isn't it?' She put Teretsu on her hip and secured her kimono. Drying her eyes, she walked over to meet up with the Neko demon.

In a little clearing, she found him; worry covering his face as he rushed over to her. But he stopped a few feet before her, a disbelieving stare on his face. "What did he do to you?"

"This demon attacked me and I…" Her words were cut off by her throat's tightening muscles.

"No, some ordinary demon wouldn't leave his stench on you like that." He came over to Kane and put his hands on her shoulders. "I can smell your virgin blood on you and a new scent. Somebody claimed you, didn't he?"

"That's not…that's not what…" Kane choked out. `Hold it together girl. Don't let any man see your weakness.' A tear fell down her cheek. `Not even Setsuna.'

"Kane, tell me what happened to you, right now." Setsuna shook her shoulders a gently.

Her knees gave out as she collapsed onto the ground. He lowered with her and put her boy into his arms as she let loose a surge of tears. She cried like she had never done before, sorrow and shame mixed together. "He did something terrible to me! It hurts to just think about what he did!" Kane cried out, wrapping her arms around his torso.

"Who did what to you? Kane, what're you trying to…?"

"He dumped me! Trowa raped me and then left me lying in a heap, like some used up trash, and he…he…" Kane's words were cut off and she sobbed harder, her shoulders shaking with each ragged breath she took in. "Oh Setsuna! I…I feel so…!"

"Oh Kane…" Setsuna hid his rage within his heart as he stared down at the poor girl who wept openly in his arms. He was speechless beyond compare; no words were appropriate for comfort and he sat in the still silence, smoothing out her hair with his hand. And he held her, just held her in his gentle embrace as she squeezed his waist for dear life. She finally settled into unconsciousness from being weary and shocked, and took her into his arms, cradling her limp body into his chest. He slowly started walking out of the forest, random tears making their way down his cheeks as he looked upon her.

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"It's been two hours and we still haven't found her." InuYasha's face was drawn tight in worry. `Kane, where could've you gone?'

Michi was crying in Ori's embrace. "Don't worry my love. Lady Kane is sure to show up…"

"Look over there!" Mika yelled out, pointing at a figure with long white hair walking toward them. "It's Kane and Setsuna!" Upon hearing this, InuYasha leapt forward and landed right in front of the feline.

"What have you…?" InuYasha started to say, but was interrupted by a nauseating smell coming off of his sister, who was sleeping soundlessly in his arms.

"It was Trowa. He…he raped her earlier." Setsuna hid his tears beneath his bangs as InuYasha scooped Kane out of his arms. Laying her on the ground, he instantly took notice to her bruised wrists, her red neck from all the kisses Trowa had given her, and the disgusting scent of his semen and arousal.

"Did you find her like this?" InuYasha inquired, smoothing back her bangs.

"Iie. She came to me, and then cried so hard she passed out." Setsuna stated, rubbing his eyes from the last trail-ends of tears. "It was too late by the time she'd come to me."

"Couldn't you smell her distress?!" The hanyou yelled angrily. "For God's sake, you have a stinkin' nose that works you three-quarters!"

In a rage, Setsuna looked down at InuYasha. "Trowa concealed her scent with a fog of some kind. I ran blindly through it for almost an hour before I found her!" Setsuna stated angrily. "I tried my hardest to find her; and thinking of all the horrible things that may have come upon her, it only made me want to see her safe again even more! God damn it, I care about her as much as or more than you do!" Setsuna covered his mouth at his words.

InuYasha stared back at the Neko in surprise. Tension surrounded them as tempers flared and the wind rose amongst them. Before a fight broke out, Mika stepped forward. "Hey, do have a good lock on Trowa's scent?"

"Yeah, what of it?" InuYasha growled.

"What say we go find Trowa?"

He liked the idea. "That's fine with me." He stood and looked over at Ori. "You coming?"

Ori nodded. "Of course. Doing this to a woman is disrespectful." He stepped forward. "Michi, you take Lady Kane to Kaeda's village for medical treatment."

"No, I'm coming with you." She squared her shoulders bravely. "Vengeance seems to be of the most importance for Kane's health."

"I'm going too." Mika stated coolly. "We'll win revenge for her together."

"In that case, Setsuna, you're responsible to take Kane to the village." InuYasha sighed. "If you try any…"

Setsuna picked her up like a baby doll and cradled her. "Trust me for once, hanyou. I promise to get her to safety without stopping."

InuYasha turned to the rest. "Let's go, before I change my mind."

Kane's eyes squinted and then opened. "Se-Setsuna?"

"Kane, you're awake?" The Neko asked.

"How long was I out?"

"Not long. The others are heading out to find Trowa; I'm taking you back to the village to get treated." He looked down at her. "How do you feel?"

"Dirty, broken, and ashamed." Kane put her head into his chest. "I'll never feel the same again." She said monotonously.

`She won't. It's all because that bastard took her innocence away.' Setsuna gently kissed her forehead, but when she flinched, he did nothing more. `I'll have to gain her trust all over again. Trowa will pay.'

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I hope all of you enjoyed this chapter. From now on, `Hidden Past Hidden Self' will be rated R for adult content such as this chapter has. And thanks to Queen of Cuteys for writing another review on this story. I hope you're still reading!