InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ His Little Girl ❯ The saftey only found in a father's arms ( Chapter 13 )

 

Sesshoumaru arrived at his home in the western lands post haste. Giving orders that he was not to be disturbed and the others with him were to be treated like honoured guests he also gave orders for his brother's room to be restored to the hanyou and he was to be treated with as much respect as the lord himself. Carrying the now sleeping miko in his arms and the kit still perched on his shoulder, he made his way to his lavish chambers.

 

As he neared his room the scent of his daughter's fear and her tears hit him like a slap in the face. She was in his room he could tell that much, but when he opened the door he found the room seemingly empty. Carefully laying the miko down on his western style sleigh bed, and lifting the sleeping kit from his shoulder to place on his mother's chest, he walked around the room sniffing her out. It turned out that he didn't have to go too far in his search. Kneeling down on the floor, he peered under his bed to find the small girl underneath it. She was laying on the floor, her knees clutched to her chest with her arms wrapped tightly around them and her face buried in the hollow made by her knees and chest.

 

With careful slowness and a gentleness the belied his deadly reputation he extracted the whimpering child from her hiding place and brought her into his arms. As his arm came beneath her to support her small weight against his armored chest, she whimpered in pain and pulled away.

 

“Please no,” she said her voice shaking wither tears and pain. “Rin hurts.”

 

Standing the girl on the floor in front of him, he brushed her hair behind her ears and cupped her face in his hands and wiped at her still flowing tears with his clawed thumbs. A soft rumbling growl issued from his chest in an attempt to soothe his distraught pup.

 

“Rin,” he said and she looked up into his golden eyes, her own mahogany ones red and puffy due to her crying. “Can you show me where you hurt?”

 

The girl nodded and turned around. His brow furrowed in confusion, it was her back that was bothering her? But then the child gingerly lifted her kimono in the back until it was gathered at her waist revealing her bottom to the taiyoukai. The skin was of her buttocks was a deep red intermingled with heavy bruising and a few scratches that looked as though they were made by claws brushing too closely against the skin. Sesshoumaru's golden eyes widened in disbelief at the sight of her abused flesh, but he dared not touch it for fear of causing the child more pain.

 

Dropping the kimono back into place she slowly turned around to face her father. The trembling girl sniffled as she hugged herself and although she knew her father would never harm her in the way she had been that day, she was still a bit gun shy around him. She backed away, not wanting to be afraid, but still fearful anyhow. Cooing and purring softly to her, the taiyoukai carefully took her into his arms and let her cry out her tears, one arm wrapped around her shoulders, as the other began to untie the armor from his chest and shoulder.

 

Once the armor was removed, he lifted the girl into his arms and held her against his silk clad chest, being careful to wrap his arm and hold her by the backs of her knees and not under her bottom as he usually would. Standing he walked silently to chair that sat by the window looking out over the east gardens. Sitting down he stroked the girl's hair and held her carefully against him in his lap.

 

“What happened Rin? Who hurt you?” he asked softly and cooed softly to her as the scent of her fear returned. “Shhh, you're safe Rin. I promise you you're safe.” He kissed her hair and petted the dark locks. “Who hurt you my baby girl?”

 

“Rin doesn't know,” she said after a moment, her voice still shaking slightly as her tears continued to flow. “Rin's never seen them before.”

 

Them? There was more than one? “Do you know what they were Rin?”

 

The girl nodded into his shoulder were she had hidden her face, his scent and presence making her feel safer, though as the images replayed through her mind the fear returned just as strongly as if it were happening all over again. “They were youkai.”

 

“How many Rin?” he asked as his hand lay splayed on her back and he rubbed gently between her shoulder blades, her arms clutching around his neck.

 

“Four…a b-boar…a bat…a - Rin's not sure…he was like a cat but not and had black stripes on his ears.”

 

“A lynx?”

 

She nodded at the familiar term as the image she knew of the animal mimicked that of the youkai she'd seen. “The other one was an ox.”

 

“They were all male?” he asked and she nodded into his shoulder once again. His eyes clenched shut as he fought to reign in the rage that was building inside of him at the thought. Whatever had sent her cowering in here and hiding beneath his bed, whatever had caused her injury was deathly frightening to the girl. And his rage at those who had done this to her grew exponentially as his heart wept for the ordeal his daughter has endured at their hands.

 

 

 

 

“You truly wouldn't believe it Makiko!” the board youkai said to the bat youkai as he, the bat, ox and lynx sat facing each other in a circle on the floor. “I told the villager that I was curious as to what he was doing and he said that he was punishing his daughter and his wife for their transgressions. When I asked him what they were, he said they were simply guilty of flirting with other men in the village, oh but he was a jealous man. You wouldn't believe how he punished them.”

 

“How?” the lynx asked. Curious as cats always were.

 

“It wouldn't make much sense without me actually demonstrating it which is why I've sent for someone to be brought here to us.”

 

Outside the room Jaken stood, clutching Rin's arm tightly in his four talon hand. This was going to be so good, certainly this would break that damn fool girl, and to think her precious lord was nowhere to protect her and wouldn't return for days. Dragging the confused girl up to the door, he looked her dead in the eyes with his bulging ones and said, “Whatever happens is only what you deserve for getting mud all over your kimono this morning.”

 

He had made sure to have the girl washed and changed before he brought her to the boar youkai and then promptly threw her into the room.

 

“Ah wonderful,” the boar youkai said and clasped Rin's arm in his hand. Dragging her up to his side he tugged her down so that she was lying face down over his lap, her hips lay over his knee. “Now I will show you and then you can do it as well.”

 

The boar youkai lifted her kimono and under kimono up over her hips so that her bottom was bared. Feeling the cold air of the room against her unprotected bottom, Rin began to struggle. Soon the boar began raining blow after blow on her bottom with his open palm, the flesh there turning red in a matter of moments.

 

“Stop! Please stop!” Rin cried out at the pain of it.

 

The youkai holding her and spanking her didn't listen and only continued to rain blow after hard blow, speaking with his friends as though nothing at all were happening. “The villager allowed me to watch as he did this to his wife and daughter for a good time. They were crying and whimpering just as this girl here is. Then he did something a bit different to his daughter.” He flipped Rin over on his lap and spread her legs, soon spanking her unprotected sex. “He did this to his daughter as well,” Rin cried out at the pain and tried to get away from the hands. Suddenly she was passed onto the lynx.

 

“Here Kirigra, you try,” the boar said.

 

“Arigato Gintae, I believe I shall. Oh but to make this easier I shall do this.” Swiftly he removed all of Rin's clothing, leaving the child naked and unprotected and just as swiftly she was once again face down over someone's lap as her poor bottom was assaulted and then her sex as well.

 

The pain was intolerable and she suffered it twice more before being returned to the boar. She stood shaking in pain and fear as she cried silent tears and the boar redressed her in her kimonos. Thinking it was over, she turned and headed for the door, but not before she found herself once again face down, though this time she was on her knees in front of the boar her head forced into his lap as he once again bared her reddened, bruised and torn flesh. Parting her bottom cheeks, he let his clawed finger drag slowly across her puckered hole.

 

“The only thing he did that I didn't,” he said as he slid his finger in her bottom, causing the girl to stiffen and whimper. “Is that he peeled and put a good sized stick of ginger root in here, but we don't have any on hand.” Sliding his finger out her bottom, he roughly pushed the girl to the door and commanded her gone.

 

Rin spared not a single moment in running to Lord Sesshoumaru's chambers and crawling underneath his bed, curling up and crying on the floor. Moments later she was pulled from her hiding place and into his arms.

 

 

Hearing a gasp from the bed, Sesshoumaru turned his gaze to find Kagome sitting up, her mouth covered by her hand and a horrified expression on her face. Tears fell from her eyes and he knew that the miko had heard the girl's story as well. Standing he took Rin to Kagome and placed her in the woman's arms.

 

Kissing his pup's forehead, Sesshoumaru spoke softly. “Stay here with her while I gather the palace healer.”

 

Kagome nodded and he left swiftly. Moments later a female rabbit youkai entered the room and came to sit next to the girls on the bed. Through the entirety of it all, Shippou had remained blissfully asleep, curled up on a pillow next to Kagome. Brushing the hair back from Rin's face she spoke softly, her voice low and sad.

 

“I'm Shinta my lady,” she spoke to Rin and Kagome both. “Sesshoumaru-sama told me what happened and I'm here to tend to you both. Geitza and Mikrai, two of the palace guards, also inuyoukai, stand guard at the door. You won't be harmed and they'll accompany you where ever you wish to go…Rin, may I tend to you dear?”

 

Rin nodded and Shinta bid the girl to lie on her stomach as she removed the outer kimono, leaving the girl in only her inner kimono that was lighter material and fell just barely over her abused bottom. Tears gathered in the rabbit's eyes as she saw the damage. Rin had always been so nice to everyone, offering anyone she had ever come across a handful of colourful blossoms and a bright smile where ever she went no matter if they were youkai or not. Even some of the youkai who didn't like humans held a fondness for Sesshoumaru's young charge, and to see her hurt in such a way made the healer want to weep in sorrow. She couldn't even begin to imagine how this might change the child's demeanor, if the child would ever be as happy and carefree as she had once been.

 

Gently with care, Shinta rubbed a cooling soothing salve onto Rin's bottom and then bid her to rollover so that she could tend to her sex. The flesh of her nether lips was red and scratched as well, but not nearly as bruised. After applying the salve, the healer offered Rin a potion that would take away her pain and let her sleep without dreams.

 

Turning to Kagome the Rabbit youkai healer stood and walked around the bed, to sit next to Kagome's side. “Sesshoumaru-sama said you were hurt as well. Oh child,” she crooned sadly, “did they do this to you as well?”

 

The miko shook her head and sat up, she looked down at her hands and couldn't help the renewed flow of tears as they fell from her eyes, not only did she cry for Rin, but herself as well.

 

“Back in my village, someone that I once called friend, tried to rape me.” Her voice was barely a whisper, though to the youkai it was as though she spoke in a normal volume. Kagome found herself quickly wrapped in the woman's arms, and her head nestled onto her shoulder.

 

“Oh you poor child. Cry dear, it's alright.”

 

Giving much the same potion to Kagome as she had to Rin, Shinta stood and gathered her things, leaving extra salve on a bed table for Rin. Exiting the room quietly she bid the guards to send for a female inuyoukai warrior to stay with the women in the room as they rested until Sesshoumaru himself returned to their sides.

 

Only half an hour later, Maika, a beautiful female inuyoukai, entered the room quietly. Walking to the bed, she pulled the blanket at the foot of the bed over the sleeping females and smiled at the young kitsune kit who lay curled up in a small ball on a pillow, his tail half hiding his face.

 

Her hair was black where Sesshoumaru's was silvery white and her eyes a deep violet grey as opposed to the golden of the taiyoukai's. Although Maika was one of the fiercest and strongest warriors among the most prestigious army ranks Sesshoumaru had out ranking even many of the males, she looked far more like a motherly angel then a warrior. Her face was soft and her features delicate. Her hands long and graceful and her skin a petal soft milky white. Her lips were a soft rosy pink making her seem younger than her years and far more innocent than she truly was.

 

Maika had seen the spoils of war many times, and although she loved a good fight, she much rather preferred what she was doing now - being a bodyguard. As an army warrior she had kill and purpose, but she loved knowing that when she was guarding one person or a few as she was now, that she was needed and depended upon. Having a connection to those she was fighting for made her fight that much fiercer and that much stronger in protection of them. Smiling upon the three in the bed, she sat in the chair by the window and looked upon them, watching them as they slept and silently promising that nothing more would harm them as long as she was there to protect them.