InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Reign of Spiders ❯ Slave ( Chapter 5 )

Authors note.: hehe (calls out) anyone still here? (silence) well I’m going to try and get more of this story done over the summer, this chapter actual was prewritten last year on lined paper, I just happened to find it during my move… opps. Anyways I’m finishing up a chapter for a Ruroni Kenshin story right now (Tanuki Maddness) I’m hoping to get that up with in the next week or so. Then I’ll see about chapter 6 for this one. anyways enjoy. Anyone whose reviewed thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Disclaimer: The only Inuyasha things I own are the dvds and the plushys that I bought from the store.

RoS 5

Slave

“I want to go home…” she pleaded beaten.

Inuyasha just tossed a glare at her, “No.”

Unknowingly Kagome was sending a similar glare of her own to the ground in frustration, seeing those girls on the road had really shaken her up more than she realized, sure she had herd stories of the humans enslavement but to see the hopelessness and lifelessness in those girls eyes… she just really wanted to go home, back to the safety the well provided. She had even gone so far to reach that goal by attempting to slip away from Inuyasha, twice, and twice she had been thinking she had managed to out smart him only to nearly suffer a heart attack as he would seemingly appear before her arms crossed a mix of arrogance and annoyance shining in his eyes. Then he would utter the one word she was quickly learning to hate above all others, “Heel”

So now she was trying a new approach but that had been vetoed as well. Angry at him for refusing to even let her visit her home and quickly realizing that running was a fruitless endeavor, tears started to collect in the corners of her eyes and her bottom lip began to quiver. Trying to stop it she worried her distraught lip with her teeth. The disheartened rain slowly slipped from her lonely pools, sliding down her cheeks and finally dripped off her chin on to the ground below.

The hanyou growled in his own frustration, the thing he couldn’t figure out was why he wasn’t letting her go. After all he didn’t want a slave, and here she was practically begging to be released from his custody, he should be jumping for joy. So why wasn’t he? His introspection came to a screeching halt however when the scent of salt and water wafted up to his ever resilient nose. ‘Oh Hell!’ he mentally cursed why was she crying now?! Stopping he felt the girl in question slam into his back because she had failed to notice his impromptu stop. “Oi…” he called softly, “What’s wrong now?” he turned his head just enough to see her from the corner of his eye.

“I already told you, I want to go home! Even for a little bit. I’m sure they are all worried about me……….” She let her ramble trail off for a bit, her last words seemingly meant more for herself than for Inuyasha to hear. Yanking her lowered head back up she tried again, “Haven’t you ever had a place that you lived at? Where people cared and worried about you?!”

Inuyasha just returned his attention to the road ahead of him, “Keh.” And began to walk once more.

Kagome sighed as she followed along behind him. A frigid silence settled between them for what felt like a life time before Inuyasha’s deep timber softly answered, “If you run away I’ll come after you…”

The dark haired maiden looked up slightly confused.

“So where’s this home of yours, wench?”

She let a smile slide across her features and before thinking about her actions she raced over to him and gave hum a light squeeze before stepping back to a more respectable distance, her cheeks a light pink from her pervious movements.

‘The wench hugged me…’ His brain kept repeating as he regarded her with wide golden eyes, his own face stained with shy embarrassment. Shaking his head quickly he asked her again, “So you going to tell me where this home of yours is, or do we not go!”

Shyly she lifted her head to answer him when it hit her… looking around her she searched for any sign of the well but… “I…I-“ she cut her self off, “I…”

“You what!”

She flinched before swallowing audibly, “I don’t know…”

Inuyasha sighed and cursed as he slapped his forehead in frustration, and once again silently asked himself why he was keeping the idiotic wench around… He might have even voiced such a though when- a growl rose up from his chest in reaction.

Nervous blue eyes looked up at him, ‘Why is he growling at me like that!’ angry rose up at the thought, ‘It’s not like it’s my fault I can’t recall where it is! Why that-‘

“Stay here Bitch” he commanded as he started to rush off into the forest at top speed, and as a percussion he called out behind him, “Heel!” Leaving Kagome behind he now raced towards the scent that had caught his attention, blood, human blood…

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Miroku sighed as he looked over the girls. They had been ordered to be bathed and dressed more properly. However, he either had to guard them himself during the cleansing or let one of the youkai handle it…. Needless to say he preferred the sacrifices in tact!

However, it was hard to guard them properly when every time he turned to peek at the girls and ensure they were still unharmed did his eye catch the sight of a bucket a split second before it nailed him in the head hard. Typically this action was followed by a cry of “Hentai!” from a very enraged and fiery brunette. Miroku sighed as he mentally counted the number of bumps in his skull from the last twenty minuets, coming up with what he believed to be six…. ‘Meaning that she is out of buckets to throw at me.’ He thought mischievously with a suggestive wiggle of his eyebrows. Not being able to resist he turned his head to try once more, however no sooner had his eye caught a fleeting glimpse of the girls did the now familiar view of a bucket fill his vision. Miroku who was now slightly swirly eyed came to the realization that perhaps he had miss counted how many times she had hit him with the buckets…

Hearing some very colorful grumbling coming from the baths about perverts and what exactly should be done with them Miroku decided to try and defuse the situation. “I don’t know what you’re talking about fair lady.” He called back “I am but an innocent monk.”

A snort of disbelief was his only response. Cautiously he decided to try to look one last time confident that there was nothing else to throw at him so hopefully he could safely look. Thankfully either he had been discrete enough this time to not get caught or the girl had really run out of things to throw at him, either way he was grateful.

Truth be told, all those peeks he was taking or at least attempting to take on the girls (along with many other questionable aspects of himself ) was actually part of his job. Each time Naraku-sama wanted to kill something six girls were immediately gathered and brought to Naraku’s temple where Miroku was to greet, prepare, and sort the girls out. Only one girl would go to Naraku the other five were given to the monsters, underlings, and offspring. So either way he looked at it every girl that came to him had a fate worse than death in store for her, for Miroku was no fool why the maiden’s were brought to slaughter, but simply for the activities that could be done before the girl died…. It made him ill just thinking about it, however, as discussed as Miroku is with his ‘job’ he had to do it. He wasn’t marked as a slave but that didn’t make him any less of one. The spider insignia on the palm of his right hand had been there since before he could remember. He had always been told to do his job well and to never step outside the compound or something terrible would happen. Although he had no idea what that terrible something was he wasn’t ready to find out either. No, Miroku was stuck like his father and grandfather before him, each becoming the reluctant priest of Naraku.

Not that the job didn’t have perks, like being aloud a woman of his choosing when Naraku deemed him worthy, also being left in the company, rather frequently, of beautiful women. And his duties of taking care of these women included, watching them bathe, looking over their skin for blemishes, cop a feel to see if iit would be firm enough or not, and try to ease the minds of the condemned damsels brought to him... Too bad the job itself left a bitter taste in his mouth.

From what he had survived seeing so far told him that the black haired girl with soft green eyes had a scar on her right arm and the brunette with the good throwing arm had a scar in the center of her back. Other than that the other four appeared to be blemish free…

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The group of eight panted as they continued on with heavier hearts, the original ten had lost two of their number in the youkai attack, but they had mostly survived and were continuing to look for the lost girl. One man tossed a dark look at Hojou he was the only one of the group who was unscratched, and that only occurred because the coward had hid the moment the youkai came and ignoring his weapons had tossed pebbles and fruit at the monsters… If anyone had to of died most wished it had been the coward in their mist, but no such luck…

Two feet touched down before the group, All the remaining members tensed as they recognized the youkai features this new comer had, silver hair fluttering in the air as it readjusted itself from his landing, the twin ears on top of his head trained on them his clawed hands ready to attack any threats near by, only it seemed that these other threats had already been taken care of… Inuyasha was about to relax his composure a bit but an arrow whizzing past him quickly changed his mind. Smirking at the fools, Inuyasha held his clawed hand up, he could take them if he wanted to….

The men narrowed their eyes at the flash of fang he had given them and several arrows and a twig were shot/thrown his way…

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Kagome grumbled to herself about stupid youkai as she trekked in the direction Inuyasha had run in, “stay here.” She grumbled, “Yeah right! Sure I’ll just stay there and get eaten by the first youkai that comes along.” That’s when she herd the sounds of a scuffle up ahead, curiosity getting the better of her she tip toed closer…. The site that she saw made her gasp, there was Inuyasha fighting a group from the Well! And it looked like he was loosing… he had several arrows poking out of him… and he growled threateningly. Not able to stand the idea of the idiot dieing she ran out “Stop!”

Inuyasha looked on in alarm that dumb girl! Here she was racing out in front of the arrows aimed for him didn’t the idiot realize that he was fine! He never would have even taken a hit had she not come along snapping twigs and distracting him with the general knowledge she was where she wasn’t suppose to be! But seeing her leap in front of him to take the arrows he growled out the word in panic, “Heel!” before ducking down as well. The projectiles landing in a tree behind them. The moment the arrows cleared Inuyasha was up and in front of Kagome ready to take out all the fools that stood before him.

The men however just stood there frozen it seemed in shock, there was the girl they were ordered to find, seemingly bound to this demon, and she had even tried to protect the beast!

The tense stand still ended as Hojou who had snuck around the entire group rushed up and pounced on Kagome with a large hug.

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Miroku looked over the kimono clad girls appraisingly. Each girl had, had new clothing provided, a black silk kimono with a large red spider on the back that seamed to hold each girl firmly in its grasp ready to devour her at a moments notice, it was ironically sad how close to the truth that image was. The ensemble was completed with a crimson obi.

“Now fair maiden’s may I ask your names?” He bowed low before giving the women a shy smile.

“I’m… Keiko” The first one bowed shyly.

“I’m Yukiko” The second one answered detached accompanied by a mechanical bow sending her black hair fluttering.

“Shizuka.” The third whispered.

“Hinariku” The fourth forced out. Miroku was sure, in the most polite way she possibly could make herself respond to the ‘likes of himself’.

“Midori” the fifth looked away.

“Why?” The sixth one hissed, “Why do you want my name? Baka Hentai.” She had grumbled the insult but it was still herd.

Miroku just eyed the bristling brunet, “My fair lady,” he tried to sooth, turning a charming smile on her “I am deeply wounded by your accusation… “ He carefully took her hand in both of his. “I am but a humble monk whose only desire is to best serve you as long as you’re here.”

She watched him darkly as his nimble fingers started to move along her hand and play havoc on her senses. Her anger defused slightly as a nervous blush wondered up her cheeks.

Seeing her beginning to give in he pressed again, “May I have your name sweet angel so that I may thank the kami’s for sending such a rare flower to me properly?”

Looking off, the blush staining her cheeks even darker as she flicked her eyes from the ground to him over and over again shyly, “Sango.” She answered.

He let his smile widen before turning to the girls before him as a group. “I welcome you all to the temple fair maidens,” he then gave them all a serious look, “I know you all have come from afar but I have a favor to ask… will you bare my children?”

A slap rang out and the stupefied monk was on the ground a heart beat later, “You really are the lowest of the low!” Sango shrieked.

Gingerly he placed a hand to his cheek, relishing the pain as he gazed back up, “I’ll take that as a maybe-“

Her face cherry red with outrage, kicked him in a very sensitive area. “Or a no…” he squeaked.

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Naraku looked at the saimoshyo as it fluttered off to do his bidding, it would find the girl and the hanyou and he could satisfy himself… speaking of satisfaction…. The maiden he had ordered should arrive early the next day. Till then he’d have to entertain himself. “Kikyou. Come.” He called darkly.

The priestess entered as commanded, her features schooled to cold indifference.

He gave her a predatory look, yes she would do nicely for now…. He could hardly wait to try breaking that fire cracker that he had seen, but till then….

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