InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Raiden no Ai ❯ Alone With Them ( Chapter 3 )

If your still reading, I know I'm doing a good job, if not, then oh well. Guess I'll just finish the fic won't I? Then I won't write another one like it.

Raiden no Ai

Chapter 3: Alone with Them

Akina looked at Hiten with a look that was thankful that she didn't have to cook a human. She slightly smiled at the thunder youkai. The red haired maiden turned and began to get out a few ingredients to prepare her dish. She hoped that they would like her food. She had learned to expect the worst from the two of them. The girl was not dealing with normal people after all; she was dealing with potentially lethal, bloodthirsty youkai who devoured young maidens.

Akina began to prepare the dish in the kitchen, being very careful of what she was doing. She was overly careful and it caused her to become nervous. Akina had all of the ingredients she needed. If she didn't they could always go out and rob an unsuspecting village. There were faint smells coming from the room.

"Ouch!"

The red haired girl had burned herself on the hot cooking area. She tried to calm herself before she made any more mistakes and calmed down partially, but not fully.

Manten sniffed the air.

"Something smells good." He said.

Akina walked out of the room and called out to the to malicious brothers. Hiten and Manten sat at the table as plates of food had been presented before them. There was an abundance of food, enough so that Hiten didn't think he could eat it all, Manten on the other could, after all, he was twice as big as Hiten. Akina stood with her hands clasp together, watching the hungry youkai eat their fill.

"This is delicious!" Manten said happily. "What matter of food is this?"

"Where did you learn to cook like this?" Hiten asked.

"My father was a warrior, I would cook for him and his friends after a hard battle and polish their weapons." Akina said, " My purpose was to bring joy and comfort to weary warriors, and to care for my younger sisters."

It was her purpose, it would become her new one. She had spared herself this long, but how long could she last with the cruel Raijuu brothers? Every day feared for her life and everynight she slept, wondering if she would live to see the next day. She would wake up hoping to die. She actually was wondering why they had let her live this long.

As night fall crept in it became time for the muderous thunder youkai to settle down. After 2 night assaults on villages, they needed a good night's rest. Manten was already passed out on the floor, Akina sat on the wooden bench and stared at the monstrous reptile who slumbered gently on the floor. She gazed across the room to Hiten, who was sitting against the wall, the Rageki-jin laid across his left shoulder and his sights set on her. No doubt he was watching her to see if she would leave. Akina sighed as she sat on the bench. The young girl sat there for what seemed to be an hour. Hiten was still staring at her, like a hawk on unsuspecting prey. Akina gently slid down and sat on the floor beside of Manten. She backed up to give Manten rolling and moving space. She lay in the floor and curled up in a ball for warmth.

The ground was cold and the air was frigid. She lay there, in an uncomfortable slumber, trying to keep warm and sleep at the same time. Akina opened her eyes and shivered to herself. The young girl sat up and rubbed her eye, she rose to her feet and started to walk into the next room. Then she walked past the slumbering Hiten, but failed to noticed the Rageki-jin's rod-like base that veered into her path. She tripped over it and landed with a thud on her stomach.

Hiten's eyes popped open and Manten rolled over and mumbled to himself.

"Where in the hell do you think your going?" Hiten's voice growled.

"I'm cold." Akina sat up and held her side. "I was just looking for a blanket...Sorry.."

She looked diagonally downward.

"Come here." Hiten's commanding voice said yet again, in more of a low, semi tired tone. He didn't want to wake Manten. Akina crawled over to him and sat by him, leaving a few inches of space between them.

"That's not close enough.."

Akina scooted in, now she was brushing up against Hiten's rock hard arm. She could feel his presence. Maliciousness, savage and satanically evil. Every time she was in the presence of one of the youkai brothers, she felt her fear rise. Hiten's body provided little warmth to Akina. She was trying to touch him as little as possible. She feared him. He looked at her with his blood red eyes, crimson and beautiful.

"You will stay in this spot, if you are not touching me, I'll wake up, if you rolled over then I will not mind it, but if you've left, I will hunt you down and kill you." With those words Hiten closed his eyes, and went back to sleep.

Akina looked at Hiten, he was asleep. She noticed that their arms were touching. She stared at it for a while, she sighed lightly once more. She made a face of agony, as she leaned in on Hiten and put her head on his shoulder. She did not want him to kill her, so she would make sure she was touching him. He did manage to keep her mind off of being cold. His body provided some warmth for her. The young girl found herself laying closer to him and could feel his body lightly heaving with his slow, gentle breath. She slept silently by his side.

Sleep was her best time, she could sleep and not worry about people killing her, she didn't have to worry about the chains of despair and the ties of life holding her down. She could go anywhere she desired in her dreams. Far away from the cold, dark building and far away from the murderous thunder youkai. She would have freedom.

Her happy dreams soon faded into those with agony and suffering. She could hear the haunting screams of the villagers, being cast to the black realm of hell and heard their calls and yells, and saw their village set a blaze. She could see them through the blaze, their faces twisted in smiles of malice and pure evil seeping through their very being. Bloodshed and lives lost. Villages are gone children and animals, the pure innocence savagely killed by their merciless claws.

Flashbacks of ones who were loved. Flashbacks of people of her town, friends, acquaintances and strangers alike. Was it so much that she walked down the street and people greeted her with phrases like "Hello Akina" or "Konnochiwa minna-san" or "Ohayo"? Now they would address her as a murderer. She was no better then they. Everyone in the village would surely hate her for her actions, if anyone has escaped their treacherous death.

Hiten opened his eyes to see the young red haired girl in a fitful sleep. She moved restlessly against him.

"Mmpf.." Hiten let out a moan as he awoke. He slowly opened his eyes as he spied the red haired girl laying on his shoulder, twitching in her dreams and making small faces of unease.

Hiten stared at her slumbering face. Her soft, delicate features glistened in the sunlight. His glances move over to Manten who rolled over as he woke up, adjusting to the fuzziness of sleep.

"Ohayo, An-chan." He rubbed his eyes. " I see the girl is still here after all. I thought surely she would have left by now."

"I forced her to stay by me when I caught her up last night. She said she was cold. I didn't care so I told her if she moved from this spot again I'd kill her." Hiten told his brother.

"I see." Manten replied, eyeing the sleeping maiden. “It’s strange how she has had so many chances to leave, but yet she still stay here with us. She doesn't fight back or anything like our normal captures."

There's definitely somthing about her..." Hiten said, looking down at Akina.

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There is chapter 3. ^_^ R&R! As always