InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Reign of Spiders ❯ What good are you? ( Chapter 2 )

Authors note: Hey guys hehe, long time? ^_^…. (runs from angry readers) anyway I just wanted to get this out for you guys. I'm actually planning on seriously working on this one now so hopefully I can start doing regular updates (that and I have a wonderful friend who said she'd bug me till I finished each story) -_-;;;; ^_^ so I'll have lots of encouragement. I'd like to dedicate this chappy to my good friends who are there for me, and the review that scolded me on media minor (^_^ ) it actually got me going again. Thank you hope you enjoy. Please send reviews, flames, threats, ideas, and anything else to the review button or to Kar@freckles1.com. thanks

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Reign of Spiders chapter 2

Kagome continued to run through the woods, what had she been thinking sneaking out she may never know, but now she really regretted it. She ran as quickly as she could, if he caught her now, then she'd be his slave till the day she died…

Inuyasha looked down at his fleeing prey, he could have caught her by now, but he decided to have some fun and play cat and mouse with her for a bit. Truth be told he really didn't want a slave, but… that didn't mean he was about to let her go either, she obviously had answers that could help him, because apparently things have changed from when he was last awake… However he'd be dammed if he told her other wise! So the plans is play, and then catch and find a way to save face with out ending up with a dead weight as his responsibility…

"Hey Bitch! Where you going?" He called down to the stumbling girl.

Kagome's eyes widened at the sound of that voice, his voice, and tripped once more to find her self now prostrated on the forest floor out of breath exhausted and out right terrified.

A chuckle resounded from his chest as he leapt down in front of his quarry. He cocked his head to the side curiously as he studied her trembling frame.

She just buried her head in her arms as she sobbed, this was it he had caught her and now he'd carve his mark on her and there would be no going back, she'd be his, always… She just laid there for several moments but, when nothing had happened she slowly raised her head to look up and came face to face with a pair of clawed feet…

"Well are you just going to lay there all day and offer yourself to me or are you going to get up and give me a good reason why I shouldn't mark you?" the sliver haired hanyou softly growled.

Kagome's head snapped up fully at that, 'one good reason… I'll give him a good reason!' She quickly pulled herself to her feet, "I'll tell you why! Because if you try to mark me-" Inuyasha looked at her quizzically as she continued, "I have the power to kill you! And I won't hesitate either!" She finished the statement by placing her hands on her hips hoping he wouldn't see through her fib.

Inuyasha cocked an inquisitive eyebrow at the girl in front of him; did she honestly think he could not see how nervous she was getting? Everything about her was shouting 'liar' everything from her nervous posture to her scent practically screamed it. "Look Bitch I'll tell you what. You do everything I say and I won't have to mark you… I wouldn't want to trouble myself by being bound to such a weak girl unless I have to anyway." He tossed a cocky look at her before adding, "Got it Bitch?"

Kagome looked at him with angry frightened eyes, she highly doubted he would keep his word, and obviously he had seen through her lie, so unless she wanted to be marked she might as well play along for the moment until she could escape. "Fine." She huffed as she crossed her arms over her chest in frustration.

Inuyasha tipped his head up pleased that he wouldn't have a dead weight stuck with him any longer than was absolutely necessary. Yep just make the bitch show him around and give him some more info then he could up and leave her no problem. "Good, so Bitch show me around."

Kagome's eyebrow was twitching by now if was going to bully her into this he could at least not call her a Bitch of all things. "How about you figure it out yourself! After all what good could a bitch do anyways?!" She snapped at the offensive boy in front of her.

Inuyasha let out a growl as he took a step toward her there was no way he was going to let this lowly bitch bite his head off, no way.

Kagome narrowed her eyes as he advanced on her, "Sorry but there is no way, I'll help you unless you start treating me a little better."

"I am treating you well you stupid girl!" he berated her, his temper starting to blaze at Kagome's insolence. "Now are you going to do as I say or do I mark you here and now?!" He growled low in his throat fire flashing in his molten eyes.

Not happy about the situation, but the idea of being marked enough to make her bite her tongue, Kagome shakily agreed, "I'll show you…"

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Naraku's eyes never drifted from the images playing out in front of him, she was breath taking, just like Kikyou had been before he'd broken her… now she doesn't offer much of a challenge, he was no fool Naraku knew she just hates him in the privacy of her quarters and gave in to his every whim on command. Yes this girl would definitely add some excitement into his life, extinguishing her fire would be very entertaining…. After all it had been nearly 500 years since the last challenge.

Kikyou walked back to her quarters silently grateful to whatever had distracted Naraku for the evening, after all it was rare that she could leave his presents for long but from the looks of it her services would not be required for quite sometime… yes whatever it was that had Naraku enamored so, could keep him that way for a long, long time.

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Goshinkishi wandered around the village reading minds as he went, just to be sure that Naruku would remain unopposed. At first several youkai had grumbled about his master's reign and had thoughts of offing their better, however, that was an extremely rare occurrence ever since Goshinkishi had been created it was hardly ever herd of. This transpired because of the purple youkai's special talent of reading minds. Anytime even a thought against Naraku was remotely entertained they were slaughtered not long after by his claws. Goshinkishi smirked he missed the kill, and these youkai were behaving way to well to justify it these days… To say he was board was an understatement. Seriously what did he want to about others schedules, love lives and how many humans they'd eaten this week? Definably pathetic… Why he didn't even have his older sister Kagura around to annoy. She was off doing a mission of her own. He let a chuckle escape his throat, oh yes his sister was really fun to annoy… sighing he let his mind wander back to work, maybe he'd get lucky and have some excitement today…

At the entrance to the village, Kagome looked on with wide eyes, it was defiantly everything she heard it would be and worse. Back at home she was always hearing tales of the warriors and how they would launch an attack on one of the human snack shops or slave pins in order to attempt increasing their numbers. However the men had always described the youkai village as being a bustling place filled with filth and evil. But this place was far beyond filthy, it was down right condemnable! And evil? If this was just evil she wondered what being around Naraku would feel like because just the feel of the jaki here made her fell nauseous. She had to mentally give the warriors and spies a few more notches in her book because they never complained once of felling physically ill and hardly ever complained about coming to this place.

The streets were a deep blackish-crimson color died that color with blood over the ages, one could see body parts occasionally intermixed with the road. The youkai big and small milled about and when one go hungry they could go and purchase a human from the pins or they could just pick up a left over body part off the ground before continuing on their way. The smell of blood was intoxicating, exciting the demons and mostly being ignored by the humans. The screams of men women and children reverberated through out the town.

Kagome let a chill slide down her spine as she observed a few poor looking humans walk dourly behind their masters the marks on their shoulders prominently displayed. She shivered, she felt badly for them… no one deserved that. Besides that could be her soon… well not if she had anything to say about it!

Inuyasha gazed at the city not letting any of his emotions rise to the surface but internally he was in a state of shock and disgust. What the hell happened while he was asleep? Well it appeared that hanyou's while not the most appreciated company were much more prominent than they use to be. Seeing the slaves that passed by Inuyasha snorted. No wonder the girl was scared! Those humans looked ready to drop any second- no sooner had that thought entered his brain did one of the scraggly looking humans drop and before he even fully hit the ground he was already covered with demons happily tearing each other apart for the free meal.

Kagome gasped and turned toward the shriveled bushes at the side of the road. And much to Inuyasha's dismay emptied the contents of her stomach. The sent of salt drifted up to his ever sensitive nose and he mentally groaned, she was about to cry, wasn't she. Well he really didn't have the time for it "Oi!" he called down to her, "hurry it up! Are you going to show me around or what? You act like you've never seen any of this before!"

Much to his relief the sent of salt vanished but he didn't count on her answer, "Maybe that's because I've never been here before!" she snapped as she shakily pulled herself up. "So I'm just as clueless as you." With that admission she crossed her arms and shot a glare at him daring him to try anything.

'She's never been here before? Great, that's a big help why didn't the bitch tell me in the first place!' "So what good are you to me then? Huh!" he shot back at her.

"I-" she stopped herself mid sentence though, 'if I'm worthless to him then what's to stop him from killing me?' "I know rumors about what's happened." She supplied. At the dark look she received from her companion she quickly started to elaborate. "Well…" at the impatient growl she received she quickly racked her mind for the information. "I don't know all the details but there was this demon named Naraku and he got this jewel called the shikon something-"

"shikon no tama." He dryly supplied

Kagome just bobbed her head in acceptance, "that's it." Making a mental note to ask him how he had heard about it later she continued, "Anyway he took the jewel and used it's power to take over 500 years ago, before that it's said that things were different that humans were for the most part free, they didn't have to hide… But after he took over he used the jewel to help him create some of his most powerful warriors, anyone who comes up against them perishes. No one knows for sure who has what or how many there actually are but its said that they can do unimaginable things."

"Anything else?"

Kagome shot him a dark look, "Impatient much?"

"Keh."

"Rumor also has it that Naraku keeps a human pet… that she was the a very powerful human in her day but she let her power be corrupted and she scrummed to his power, no one has ever seen her, but it said that only one with her original strength can end all this." Kagome took a breath as she locked eyes with her audience member.

"What sort of power?" Inuyasha asked suspiciously.

She just shrugged, "no one really knows, if we did then all this wouldn't be here." She gestured to the village.

"Keh, stupid wench. Just because they have the fire power doesn't always guarantee victory." Kagome stared at him slightly surprised, what he said had sense. "Now come on." He ordered as he entered the village not even watching to see if she followed. 'wench isn't stupid enough to run now is she?' he thought just as he herd her hurried steps traveling in the opposite direction, "Damn it!" Turning around he poured on the speed to catch the illusive female.

Kagome ran as fast as she could she had to escape now while she had the opportunity, "this could be my only chance' she let out a startled yelp when a clawed hand grabbed her about the arm and yanked her back.

"You're going the wrong way…" he breathed into her ear, he smirked as her heart beat speed up. Oh this was fun… "now are you going to be a good bitch and do as your told?" She mutely nodded her head as she felt his claws brush by her pulse in her throat. "good." He abruptly released her and turned back toward the village, "lets go."

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Hojou was getting worried where was she? He was looking for the girl of his affections and was coming back empty handed. Kagome had been very upset the last time he had seen her and now she was missing. He had tried everywhere he could think of, her room, the halls, the lunch room, even the council's room, nowhere… the only place he hadn't looked was out side, but no… she wouldn't be out there, not after what happened to her brother… He shook his head Souta's accident was a real tragedy, but it did serve to keep the adventurous girl where she belonged. Still he wished Souta hadn't of done something so foolish it was a waste of a potential warrior. Sighing he went off to go question the remaining people he had yet to ask about Kagome's whereabouts.

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Kagome and Inuyasha were doing a pretty good job of blending in with the crowds in the village However, Kagome was getting feed up just walking all over the place without any real point to it, "Hey!" she called out softly to gain her captors attention. When he ignored her she grabbed onto his sleeve. "hey! I was talking to you! The least you could do is acknowledge a person when they address you! It's called having manners you know!"

Inuyasha snatched his arm away, "don't touch me bitch."

"Then acknowledge me and I won't have to!" she shot back.

"In this place you're my property! So behave like it!"

"Ohh no, no, no, why would I ever allow myself to become yours? I was doing you a favor remember?"

"What do you want me to do mark you here and now bitch?" he barked at her

She was about to respond when several murmurs reached the pairs ears.

"huh?" they questioned in unison. Turning their gazes away from each other they found that their arguing had attracted a large crowd.

Goshinkishi raised his head toward the direction of all the startled thoughts, 'what?' he quickly headed over shoving several youkai out of the way so he could stand before the par that had captured the interest of so many… Goshinkishi gave an evil smile to them when he arrived, 'so it's a Hanyou and a human huh? Humph, fun.' "what's the uproar for Hanyou." He questioned intrigued. Hanyou's normally didn't draw attention to themselves due to the fact that they are part human themselves…

"keh. No problem! I just need to teach my bitch some respect." He replied smugly crossing his arms as a haughtily look settled over his features. Kagome glared at the Inu hanyou she didn't really understand why he was a half breed but she could just add that to her pile of 'things to ask about later' right now she was ready to give him a good piece of her mind "teach me respect" she grumbled.

Inuyasha mentally cursed the girl for her behavior did she have no survival instincts what-so-ever?

Goshinkishi flashed a wicked grin he might get to kill something today after all, for the law stated if a human was unmarked then they were to be snaked on at least a little bit after purchase… and since neither had happened yet… And he didn't want to…. Oh yes fun as long as this dog doesn't change his mind…. "She's not marked" he stated listening to his potential opponent's thoughts for ideas of what to expect.

"not yet" Inuyasha agreed "what of it?"

"you should know the rules, mark 'em, eat 'em, or die with 'em"

Inuyasha narrowed his eyes, "really? And are going to enforce that one?"

"I was hoping you were as dumb as you looked." Goshinkish snickered as he swung his clawed hand down right where Inuyasha and Kagome had stood only seconds before. His hand hit the ground sending newly formed pebbles flying into the air as his tail lashed out hitting Inuyasha sending the pair sprawling into the side of a shop.

Kagome let out a cry as they landed hard on the floor.

Inuyasha didn't waste anytime as he sprung back up to continue the fight, however the sent of fresh blood drifted up to his nose and apparently all the other youkai had caught the scent too because they were preparing to join in on the fight. Inuyasha was disgusted at his opponents' blatant hunger for the source of the fresh blood, his Human! 'His?' he paused for a moment, 'well the bitch had told him that humans belonged to youkai and it's better for her if she were his bitch instead of someone else's right?' He let out a warning snarl to the would be attackers. Some backed down while others just snickered, this human loving Hanyou had the audacity to snarl at them? It was truly amusing. For what could he do to back it up? Poke them with his 'claws'?

Kagome forced herself to her feet, she only had a minor set of scraps on her left leg, but that still didn't make them hurt any less. She raised her eyes to watch the battle.

Goshikishi sighed as he watched the hanyou take out his prey one by one. Since the hanyou was going to mark her he no fight with him now… 'boarding' he thought as he stepped back to watch the hanyou wrap things up.

Inuyasha easily finished those foolish enough to challenge him off, and after swiping the air with his claws to rid himself of the blood he turned to Kagome. She was a little worse for wear but relatively unharmed. However, no sooner had she flashed a smile at him did a centipede demoness grab hold of her from behind. Before Kagome could even suck in a startled breath Inuyasha had rushed forward and flayed the demoness. With a startled shriek she perished dropping Kagome into the hanyou's arms.

"Well Hanyou," Goshikishi intoned from the side lines "get on with it."

Inuyasha growled but did not contradict the youkai's words either.

"Get on with what?" she whispered out from Inuyasha's arms "I don't understand…"

Inuyasha sighed he hated to do this and he knew she'd hate it too, but that fight had made him to realize that he had to do this; it was for her own safety… Kagome watched him with confusion shining in her eyes. "I'm sorry" and with his whispered apology he raised his claws and quickly began to work at her shoulder.

Goshikishi turned and walked away to continue his patrol, now that the hanyou was doing what was required of him he had no reason to fight… there was something familiar about the girl though… he just couldn't put his finger on it…

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Hojou just couldn't believe it…. She had gone out side… he had questioned everyone till he finally found someone who had seen her heading towards the entrance of the well… this was bad. This was very bad. Now if she died there would be no one to carry on her line and the dormant power it had possessed would fade away. He ran back towards the concils chambers they had to be informed right away! And Hojou knew they were not going to like this…nope they weren't going to like this at all…

To be continued….