InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Serendipity ❯ More Youkai ... ( Chapter 2 )

Wah! Spring break is over T___T It felt so short!! And our Japanese teacher just Have to start the new term with a huge project ... go figure >.< at least this project don't seem like a whole ton of work ... I hope. We started MacBeth in English today! It would have been cool if we didn't just write 1 hour of notes as our teacher went on and on about Shakespeare's life ... and if we didn't have to havea quiz on him next class. Report card came back today ... my average dropped T____T but in general it wasn't so bad ... x_X ... Oh! And our math teacher has just lost his mind. Our assignment due tomorrow is "If math was an animal, what would it be. Must include hand-drawn picture. Doesn't have to be real animal." I feel like kinder-garden all over again! Oh well, enough of my babbling and on with the fic!

Also, Thank You to all who reviewed!

Rating: Due to a review I got, the reader thought the rape and violence in chapter 1 is more than PG-13 and should be rated R, I have decided I shall change the rating to R so no more people would be offended.

"Italics" - thoughts
-Italics- - annoying inner voices XD
~~~~~~ - scene change

Terms to know (refer back to previous chapters for words already mentioned):
Kami - God

Serendipity
~ sometimes blessings are disguised in the most unexpected ways ...

Chapter 2
More Youkai ...

Kagome groggily sat up, trying to figure out what had woken her up.

"Hey! What's all the ruckus?" she heard someone shout, irritation and sleep clear in his voice.

Kagome slowly sat up and peered out the metal bars of her small cell, wondering what in the world could be going on with all the commotion she could hear. She tilted her head slightly, concentrating on the sounds, trying to discern what was it that she was hearing.

Sitting up straighter, she stared out the metal bars of her cell in incomprehension. The loud shouting and sounds of metal clashing sounded like someone was fighting just outside the dungeon.

"Hey, are they fighting? What is going on?!" someone else asked in bewilderment.

"My thoughts exactly." Kagome thought, pushing her tear and dirt streaked face against the cold bars, trying to get a better sense of what was happening. "Those youkai just took over the castle yesterday, why would there be fighting? Is someone else trying to take over the castle already?!"

After a final big clank and thud of a sword and body hitting the ground, the fight was over as suddenly as it had begun.

Kagome heard the sounds of someone picking up the huge ring of keys to all the dungeon cell's gates, and whoever it was sauntering down the aisle in the direction of her cell. Trying to see who it was, Kagome watched intently, waiting for the person to walk into her line of sight.

Blinking in surprise, Kagome took in the visage of the fur clad youkai sweeping his eyes over each and every of the slaves here with her in the dungeon. She noticed the splashes of blood trickling down one side of his face, and covering all of the hand and arm absently twirling the ring of keys.

"Seems like some other youkai did take over the castle ..." Kagome shivered slightly at the thought, correctly deducting the blood to be probably of those guard situated at the entrance to the dungeon.

"Yo Ginta, the humans kept here all seem like slaves." The youkai shouted over his shoulder, turning around slightly. Kagome observed the youkai with interest, especially his spiky white hair like a white disc sitting vertically atop his head. The youkai wore black armor around his chest, with fur covering his hips. What seemed like a straggly brown tail sprouted out from his back.

"What do you think we should do about them Hakkaku?" Another youkai came into Kagome's view, wearing similar armor with fur. This one had short spiky white hair with a black patch in the middle, and fur covering his shoulders as well.

"I duno, let's go ask Kouga what he wants with them. They'll make a tasty dinner for the wolves at least." The youkai called Hakkaku replied, walking back towards the entrance, the other following close behind. Soon they were lost to Kagome's eyes and ears.

"I wonder, what will happen to me now?" Kagome once again wondered, this time with slightly more trepidation.

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"You stupid wimpy wolf, stop bugging me!" Inuyasha hollered, finally ... or rather, not so finally loosing his temper ... again.

"Dog breath, do you think I want to be stuck here talking to you?!" Kouga shouted right back, "I would have handled everything on my own with my tribe, you didn't have to come along too!"

"Keh! What are you talking about, those humans asked Sesshoumaru for help and he sent me, you were the one tagging alone! Besides, now that the problem is solved, why don't you take your weak tribe and go lick your wounds somewhere else huh? You really must be weak if you let those low level youkai injure you." Inuyasha scoffed, arms crossed against his chest. He did not like being in the same place as the stupid wolf, he knew they would start clawing each other's throat out soon, they always do.

"Well I already offered to come instead so it was you who really shouldn't have tagged along!" Kouga refused to let the hanyou get the better of him.

Hakkaku and Ginta walked into the room, indecisive on whether it would be good for their health if they interrupted their current staring match. Hakkaku decided if they did not risk it now, they would probably end up trying to break off their fight, which would be even more hazardous.

"Kouga, we found a bunch of slaves in the dungeon. What should we do with them?" Hakkaku asked, steeling himself to prepare to take the blunt of Kouga's rage if he should decide to redirect it on him.

"What? Slaves? Why use do we have for slaves?" Kouga stared at Hakkaku, obviously at a loss of what to do.

Hakkaku let out a sigh of relief when he was sure that Kouga was not going to take out his anger on him, his showers slightly slouching as he visibly relaxed.

Inuyasha 'Keh!'ed at Kouga, then addressed the other two wolves.

"Well, that toad Jaken has been complaining about not enough slaves at the castle. I don't think the humans would mind us taking a couple of slaves after getting the castle back for them."

"Well dog face, I really don't care what you did. I'm going to stay here for a while until all of my tribe has recovered and rested before we set off again." Kouga bit out, obviously still very much pissed at Inuyasha, "You may stay too if you keep out of my sight."

"I don't need your consent to stay here!" Inuyasha raged, "I'll do whatever I want, and maybe I won't have to beat you to a bloody pulp if you stayed out of my way."

Hakkaku decided it would be a good time to try to stop their usual argument now, or else they would keep at it until someone went down in a bloody mess, and Hakkaku did not think he wanted to be that bloody mess.

"Inuyasha-sama, maybe you should go pick out which slaves you want? And what should we do about all of them, we can't very well just leave them in the dungeons."

Inuyasha gave Kouga one last hard glare full of venom before he stalked off towards the door, snatching the keys out of Hakkaku's hand when he held it out. He would hear Kouga still muttering about stinky tag-along dogs as he stomped down to the dungeons.

"Keh! I don't know why I haven't finished that stupid wolf yet." Inuyasha muttered to himself.

-Thats because he the Lord of the Northern Lands, so you're not allowed to do something as stupid as starting a war with the Northern Lands. Sesshoumaru would have your hide.-

"K'so, who asked you anyway!" Inuyasha glared at nowhere in partucular. "Chikushou, I can't believe I'm talking to myself. Being in that stupid wolf's presence is really getting to me."

Without realizing it, Inuyasha's already at the dungeons. He wrinkled his nose at the stench from the slaves, trying not to get knocked out by the putrid smell. "Do these humans Never bath?" He wondered vaguely as he viewed the slaves sitting in the cells stretching down both sides of the aisle he was currently walking through.

Stopping somewhere near the center, he addressed them in distaste, his dog-like ears flattening against his silver hair.

"Listen here you useless humans, I am Lord Inuyasha of the Western Lands, and I have driven out the youkai that had taken over this place. Your lord should be returning here in a few days. I want you all to go get a bath for Kami's sake, and get back to whatever it is you do here normally. Do you hear me!"

A mummer of 'Yes, master.' swept through the dungeon.

As Inuyasha opened the cells one by one, Kagome observed the hanyou. She noticed he did not wear any shoes, and was dressed simply in a puffy bright red kimono. Kagome thought he looked very handsome, with his long silver hair flowing down his back to his upper thigh, intense amber eyes, and puppy-like dog ears.

"Wait a second ... Dog Ears?!" Kagome started at this discovery, staring intently at the hanyou's pointed furry ears twitching slightly atop his silver hair. "But didn't youkai all had pointed ears? I wonder ... is he a hanyou?"

Kagome continued to stare at Inuyash's twitching ears, lost in thought and wonder. "I bet it would be really soft..."

"You there, wench, stop staring at me like that!" Inuyasha glared at Kagome, opening her cell. "You look like you've never seen a hanyou before."

"Not one with cute puppy ears like that I haven't." Lost in her thoughts, Kagome was caught unawares when he talked to her, and didn't think it through before she answered him automatically on reflex. She had not notice that he was already at her cell.

Realizing her mistake, that she had just talked back to a hanyou who was possibly her new master, Kagome froze in shock and fear. Her face drained of any color, she kneeled before the hanyou at once, bowing until her hands and forehead was pressed against the cold floor at his feet.

"I am very sorry master. I did not mean to talk without permission, please forgive this lowly slave." It hurt her pride to talk this way, but the lessons taught with pain were not forgotten, and Kagome squashed the little piece of pride trying to get out, stomping it back into it's prison in the deepest corner of her mind where she kept all such useless emotions. Any pride or dignity in a slave would only ensure his or her own demise, and a most painful one at that. Kagome did not survive 5 years in slavery to die because she was too busy ogling a hanyou to think before she blurted out her thoughts to said hanyou.

Inuyasha stared at the young human girl who stared at him, now groveling at his feet.

"Keh!" He muttered before moving on to the next cell, opening the gate and letting the slave in it out. Just as he was about to go to the next one, he froze in mid-step. Swerving around to glare at the girl, he shouted in disbelief,

"Did you just say I have cute puppy ears??!!"

Kagome froze in the middle of getting up, at once prostrating at his feet again.

"Please forgive this filthy slave, I did not think before I speak." Kagome cursed herself for saying something so stupid in the hanyou's presence, was she out of her mind? Did she not swear to stay alive no matter what? Now she was going to die because she thought a hanyou's puppy ears were cute and was stupid enough to say it out loud. "Your carelessness will be the end of you, Kagome." She berated herself.

Inuyasha stared at the strange slave girl, wondering what in the world could be wrong with her. "I can't believe she was stupid enough to actually say it out load, didn't she get trained?! She might be trouble if I brought her back with me, I really don't think Sesshoumaru would tolerate a slave daring to talk at all."

Deciding to let it slide for now, since she was not his slave and thus not his problem anyway, Inuyasha spoke to the top of her head.

"Make sure it does not happen again if you care for your useless life." Turning back to what he was doing, he ignored the human girl still on her knees.

Kagome stayed on the ground for a moment, then decided she was not going to visit her mother and family just yet, and got up. Glancing at the hanyou's back one more time, she obediently went to wash herself, glad to be rid of all the dirt on her.

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Kagome dried her hair as best as she could with the towel as she got out of the servant's bathing room, feeling better at once to be clean again. Stopping at the entrance to the bathing room, she suddenly realized she had nothing to do.

"That hanyou said to do whatever we did normally," she thought in dread "but normally would mean I should be staying inside my master's chambers at all times, or following him around if he should request my services elsewhere." She felt a shiver of disgust snaking down her spine, she hated thinking of what 'her services' meant. "Normally I would be accompanying Hojo-kun most of the time, or sit reading in his library. I doubt that the youkai here would allow a slave to enter a library."

Now at a loss to what to do, Kagome stared dumbly at the floor. Deciding she really did not have anything at all she could do, she wandered out into the gardens. "I guess I'll just stay somewhere out of the way and ask the other slaves for something I could help out with tonight at dinner or something. I don't think disturbing them in their work is a good idea, it'll be painful if someone saw slaves slacking off talking. Or worse, if it's a youkai with their superior sense of hearing they might very well hear what we say and wonder why I did not have anything to do and ask for what job I was supposed to do." She couldn't help but wince slightly at the thought.

Settling in the shadows under a large tree, Kagome shivered slightly from the slightly chilled breeze. Fall was coming fast, if the yellowing leaves of the trees around her were any indication. Sitting there idly, she was suddenly hit with a wave of despair and longing for her family. Biting back her tears, she stared blankly at the bush in front of her.

"You just have to choose the worst time to feel homesick, don't you Kagome." She thought bitterly at herself. Sobbing uncontrollably in the gardens of the castle full of unfriendly youkai must be the stupidest thing she could do yet. About once every couple month or so she would be hit with a wave of loneliness and homesickness so hard that she could not help but cry uncontrollably for hours. Usually this occurred sometime near when she would have the nightmare. She had always managed to hide away somewhere when this happened in the past, a slave would not be missed as long as she did her work before she took off.

Taking deep, calming breaths, Kagome tried to clear her mind of any thoughts of her deceased family, thinking instead on that strange hanyou. "Why did he not punish me for talking back so disrespectfully? Could he actually be nice?" She thought back to the incident in the cell, she did not understand why he just chose to ignore her. "Maybe he won't be so bad ... he has the cutest ears! And his eyes, such beautiful eyes..." Kagome soon became lost in her daydreaming, unaware of the youkai moving steadily closer to her.

Yes! Another chapter done~ I didn't think it would drag out to be so long and I didn't get to where I originally planned to get to in the story ... Oh well, I thought the chapter was a bit bland, but I didn't want to drag out this chapter too long. The chapter's a bit shorter than the one before .... I thought that had been a good place to end the chapter ... if I go on it'll drag on to who knows where before another good ending place come up again. Don't worry, more things will happen soon!

PS: Remember the lil preview from last chapter that she found a new master? I was gonna get to that but wasn't able to ... wanna guess who?

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