InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Prisoner ❯ His Name is Naraku ( Chapter 8 )

Inuyasha turned to her for the first time she had appeared from the room, an eyebrow raised in question "Did the two of you live together?" he asked quietly.

Kagome nodded her head as tears threatened her vision "He....he was supposed to be--going to be my husband...."

His eyes widened, his voice rising as his temper came back "Where the fuck is he now? Does he know that you--?"

"Still at the castle" she stated softly "He took over after my parents died four years ago. He was given the position over me, because I was female. He became ruler to the kingdom and I became...." her voice cracked as tears trickled down her face "I became nothing"

Inuyasha raised an eyebrow taking in her words and actions carefully. There was more to this tale then just a princess not getting her share of royal privileges. The bruises she had covering her body, they were long lasted ones, not those she would have got recently from a demon.

Kagome didn't seem like the type to run off because she wasn't in charge, and the way she had forced herself to say who he was to her....

"This guy...he took over, then?"

She nodded "He locked me in a room all day and meanwhile he'd go to the court and feed them with tales of who knows what, telling them that I was fine but needed to stay in. In the castle too, he gained power without my say. I don't know what really went around but it changed. I could feel the depression in the place" she shook her head "Naraku was a power crazed man. From the moment I saw him I knew there was something wrong"

His anger flared "If you knew then why the hell did you agree to marry the bastard?!"

"What was I supposed to do?!" she screamed back, causing him to cringe "Tell my parents the man who had valiantly won me was a fraud? Tell the courts that the guy gave me the creeps?" she gave him a hard look, glaring at him as if he was stupid "A woman's word in court doesn't go far, Inuyasha....they said the two of us were to be wed. It was their decision at my parent and I had no say"

Forced into a marriage of the courts right after your families death....? That's exactly why he had left his kingdom. Nothing ever ran smooth. Everything in there was corrupt; there was always a bastard somewhere in the midst. This Naraku was one of them.

If Kagome hadn't approved, been forced without choice then there had to have been some kind of mishandling to the arrangement. And it was rather strange for this man to win. He knew in some kingdoms there would be tournaments of sort to win over the heart of a princess. But, if this man had been interested and worked to get her then....he just didn't understand.

"This Naraku--he beat you" It wasn't a question

At this Kagome diverted her gaze to the couch they rested on. Down her cheeks slow tracks of tears were already waving there way down to soak his leg

Damn it! He had to know....

"Kagome"

"I---I was forced to stay in his room--our room" she blurted "He told me what I could do, what I had to do. He told me what to eat so that I looked perfect under his gaze. I wasn't allowed to speak, to sigh, to breath if he could stop it" she swallowed nervously as her body viable started to shake "He--he would use me....when he would come back he'd use me as relief---made me--made me....."

Inuyasha's eyes widened in shock.

She wasn't saying it straight out but as much as this was obvious--the guy had raped her.
And by the sounds of it more than once. She had become a sex toy of his, some deranged play thing, not a human or a creature but a thing.

And it got worse.

"I would have to be..... He'd say when I could dress; he'd say when I couldn't. He'd tell me what to do and I'd do it. At one point I just stopped. I stopped feeling pain, stopped caring" she shook her head as her eyes shut at the memory "He'd do things to me---beat me in more way then one....for fun. He'd--" she put a hand to her chest about to say something but thought better of it "I'd bleed and he'd laugh. He'd see me like that and say I was filthy. I taught myself to be dormant---to not be hurt, but he'd find away.....he liked my pain he said---" her voice cracked as she cried out "He said I deserved all of it"

He opened his mouth but she beat him to it

"I believed him too" she cried, closing her eyes "I believed that I was worthless, that my only purpose was to pleasure him and I---"

"Enough Kagome" he said a little crueler than wanted. His voice shook uncharacteristically and he had to swallow the bile in his throat to regain composure. He had a nasty gut wrenching feeling that her words were only the tip of the iceberg but he couldn't stomach it.

It was too much for him to hear let alone think on. Too much to think that this was what was running through her mind non stop. No wonder she hadn't spoken for a good part of her stay, there was a deep unrest and still seemed to be some.

Naraku had broken her, made her believe that she didn't have a purpose other than to fill his sexual desires.

His face grew angry and in silent valor he reached out for her to bring her into a crushing embrace. Her sobs continued as she accepted the comfort just as she had that night of the dream when she had first cried. Now he knew the dream had to have focused on Naraku and what he had done to her.

"Inuyasha" she cried "Inuyasha, I'm sorry I ran. I'm sorry you were hurt...." she sobbed "I'm--I'm just so sorry"

His eyes softened as he nervously swallowed back the lump in his throat.

Leaning back with her once more, he allowed her to lie to his chest and cry to her heart's content. The only movement was bringing a hand to gently hold her head to his chest, hoping that some pain would ease away.

She had told him that she wasn't even allowed to breath without permission; she needed to cry more than anyone. Everything that had been pent up in her for who knows how long and having to show no emotion.....?

That bastard Naraku would pay for this.