InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Please ❯ Payment ( Chapter 22 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Chapter 22: Payment
Naraku smiled maliciously. "Your father sold you to me. You belong to me now."
"No" Kiri breathed, gripping Sesshoumaru's shirt even tighter.

Sesshoumaru growled in a deep, threatening tone, wrapping his tail tightly around Kiri, "She is going no where with you."

"But I own her now; she was signed over to me before her father died," Naraku smiled as he pulled a contract from his robes, "And you of all people should know that a contract signed in blood can not be broken, Sesshoumaru."

"She's not going anywhere with you," Inuyasha growled.

"Either she comes with me or I continue destroying this village and every one in it. You wouldn't want that now would you, Kiri?"

"Ok...but you have to swear to leave this village and my friends alone." Kiri whispered.

"Of course..."

Sesshoumaru turned to face Kiri, "I won't let you go"

"You must," Kiri turned to Rin and knelt down.

"Where are you going Mommy?"

"I just have a little business to take care of, but I will be back, okay?"

"You promise?" Rin asked.

"I promise," Kiri gave Rin a hug then turned to face Sesshoumaru.

"I'll come get you," Sesshoumaru said.

"I know," Kiri pulled Sesshoumaru into a tight embrace.

"I lost you once, I'm not going to lose you again" Sesshoumaru whispered in Kiri's ear so only she could hear him. Kiri gave Sesshoumaru a quick kiss then walked over to Naraku. Together they exited the hut.

"MOMMY!" Rin cried and ran out of the hut. When she got outside they were gone. "Come back Mommy," Rin fell to the ground crying.

Sesshoumaru walked out of the hut and picked up the crying girl, "We will get her back," he whispered. Within a couple of minutes the rest of the group had joined Sesshoumaru in the street.

"We must go get her back," Miroku said.

"But first we need to take the children back to your village, we can travel faster with out them," Sesshoumaru said in an emotionless voice.

"Sango, Miroku and I will ride on Kilala and you can fly with Kagome and the kids" Inuyasha said to Sesshoumaru. With a nod Sesshoumaru's cloud formed under his feet and took off, the rest following closely behind.

*** (Kiri and Naraku) ***

It was later that afternoon when Naraku and Kiri arrived at the castle. Kiri followed Naraku into the castle. Once inside Kiri stopped in her tracks and glared at Naraku's back. Naraku turned to look at her with an evil smirk.

"No more joking, what do you want Naraku?"

"You are skilled in a number of ways. You are very valuable to me"

"For what?"

"For the same reason you were valuable to your father," Naraku began walking down the hall again "Come, I will show you to your room. For now, you have free reign of this castle, but be warned that if you try to escape, you will be given.....restrictions."

The halls were dark and the smell of miasma was thick in the air. Kiri's room was big but the same as the halls. Dark. Even with Kiri's hanyou vision she had trouble seeing everything in the room. With a snap of Naraku's fingers candles lit up around the room.

There was a mattress on the floor with two blankets and a pillow. One dresser was on the left side of the wall next to an empty closet. a lone window stood on the right wall with wooden bars around it. Kiri crossed out the idea of escaping through the window. She will just have to find another way out.

"I will send a maid up to fit you for some clothes" Naraku said as he walked out of the room. Once Naraku was out Kiri quickly slammed the door closed.

Kiri sat on her bed staring at the bare wall in front of her. The maid had come and gone and now her closet was full of clothes. Sighing Kiri stood and walked over to the window. The bare, hard stone was cold to her feet. Looking out the window she saw dead trees; nothing out there was alive. It was just like the wasteland. Kiri touched one of the bars on the window. When she did it moved slightly. Filled with hope, Kiri grabbed the other bars one by one. They were all loose. Little by little Kiri worked on the bars. She figured that if she worked on them long enough she should be able to get them out. Hearing foot steps out side her door Kiri ran over to her bed and sat down. Right when she got to the bed the door opened. It was Kagura.

"Naraku wants you to join him for dinner" Kagura said in a flat tone.

"I'm not hungry"

"That was not a request," said Kagura threateningly.

Kiri rose from the bed to look Kagura in the eye, "You think I'm afraid you?" Kiri growled in an even fiercer tone.
should be"

"Well, guess what...I'm not."

Kagura took a step towards Kiri giving her a cold glare. Kiri didn't back down and returned Kagura's cold glare.

"Now, now we don't want any fights," Kagura and Kiri turned to look at Naraku. "And dinner is getting cold."

"Yes Naraku," Kagura's glance dropped to the floor as she exited the room.

"Are you not hungry?" Naraku asked Kiri.

"No I'm not, being here just ruined my appetite," Kiri bit out, causing Naraku to chuckle.

"Even though you are not hungry, you will still join me for dinner, I enjoy your company," seeing that Kiri wasn't going to move, he added, "We can make this easy or we can make this hard" with that Kiri grudgingly followed.

In the dinning room every one ate in silence except Kiri. She stuck by her word and refused to eat. Naraku sat at the head of the table, Kiri at his left, and Kagura and Kanna at his right.

"Come Kiri eat something," Naraku said, sliding a bowl of rice in front of her.

"No thank you, I'm not hungry," Kiri said in a bored tone.

"I say let her starve," Kagura said.

"Are you trying to start something?" Kiri said with a deadly voice.

"I don't know, why don't you be the judge of that," Kagura growled.

"As much as I like a good show while I eat I don't want my property ruined," Naraku cut in.

"Yes Naraku," Kagura said.

"Boy, he just has you wrapped aroud his little finger doesn't he?" Kiri said with a smirk.

"May I be excused?" Kagura asked then left the room when Naraku nodded.

"You can go as well Kanna," Naraku offered.

"Since you are not eating I will take you to your room" Naraku stood up waiting for Kiri to do the same. When she did Naraku started towards her room. "As I said before, you may have free reign of this castle starting tomorrow, but remember, if you try to escape you will be restricted."

"Whatever," Kiri sighed.

Once at the room, Naraku opened the door. Kiri was about to enter the room when Naraku roughly grabbed her arm. "Remember Kiri we can either make this easy or we can make this hard. It's your choice."

"So you said," Kiri winced when Naraku tightened his grip on her arm.

Naraku brought his hand up to cup her cheek, tracing the scar on her face. It started at the corner of her eye and went down diagonally to her chin. "It's a shame I left a scar, It's strange though, youkai normally won't scar. Even a hanyou normally won't scar...pity."

"If you feel bad about giving me a scar maybe you shouldn't have tried to kill me" Kiri pulled her face from his hand.

"I didn't try to kill you, I would never try kill my own property...I was merely using you to leave a message for you friends," Naraku smiled.

"You almost killed me," Kiri bit out.

"A couple days rest and your hanyou abilities would have healed you....speaking of hanyou's, when do you change into a human like all hanyou's do?"

"That's none of your damn business."

"My, such language. I didn't know you had such a broad vocabulary"

"Yeah, well if you don't let me go to bed you'll see how big my vocabulary can get," Kiri growled.

"Very well then," Naraku released Kiri. Once Kiri was in her room she slammed her door shut. Smiling to himself, Naraku walked down the hall.

Kiri walked over to the window and gazed out at the moon. "Five more days...better get to work," Kiri sighed and started working at the bars on the window.

By the time Kiri decided to go to bed she was able to get the first bar out. She set it back in it's place making sure it looked like she hadn't touched it. Yawning, Kiri walked over to her bed. She pulled the small blanket over her and went to sleep.