InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Suki and Tsukuyomaru: A Love Story ❯ Take me away from here ( Chapter 3 )

 

 

“Where the hell have you been girl?” Suki's father fairly yelled at her after she closed the door to the hut.

 

Suki gasped and spun around. Her eyes were wide as she looked upon the bearded man, his face nearly red with his anger. Her mother was sitting at the fire pit brewing tea and turning a side of one of their pigs over the spit.

 

“Pappa I-” she started but was cut off.

 

“Were you with anyone?” he asked her crossly as he grabbed her arm and she whimpered in fear and slight pain from his sudden bruising grip.

 

“With anyone? My friend,” she said with a shrug not understanding his sudden scrutiny. “We talked.”

 

“Was your friend male?” he snarled at her.

 

Did he know about Tsukuyomaru? she wondered madly. No, he couldn't have. They were too far away. They weren't really even still in the village when he'd taken her flying over the lake.

 

“Does it matter?” she asked and cried out when he slapped her hard across her face.

 

“Of course it matters you stupid girl,” he said and she struggled as he began opening her kimono.

 

“Stop it!” she cried out and was slapped again as he tore the clothing off of her. “Mother do something!” she cried out in fear.

 

“He is your father,” the woman said without even looking up from her task. “Do as he says.”

 

“Mother! Ow!” she cried out and twisted away. “What are you doing?!” she panted harshly as she tried to move away, whimpering as she felt her father's fingers questing harshly inside of her. “Stop this! Please stop this!”

 

“You're still a virgin,” the man said as he threw the whimpering, crying girl to the floor. “But you're not untouched. You wouldn't be wet like some whore if you were. I have men willing to give me damn good money for you girl. You better make it worth their while!” he snarled at her as he grabbed her arm and dragged her back to her room, throwing her inside and shutting the curtain as he entered in after her. “Put on your sleeping robe,” he commanded her as he tossed the flimsy fabric at her.

 

Suki shook and cried silently as she did as told. The frightened girl cried out when her father roughly pushed her onto her back on the floor and straddled her hips. Grabbing her wrists in his hands, he held them together in one hand and grabbed the length of rope from within his haori with the other. Quickly he bound her wrists tightly with the robe, the girl crying in fear and pain.

 

“Why are you doing this?” she sobbed and gave a choked whimper as a rolled cloth was stuffed into her mouth and tied in place as another length of cloth was forced between her teeth and tied tightly behind her head. The sides of the cloth pulled and pinched at the corners of her lips and she whimpered as she was slapped once more in the face.

 

“Now you can't speak or leave until they get here. Each one of them will more than likely examine you.” He saw her brows furrow in confusion as her eyes widened in fear. “Like livestock girl. You're no better than that roasting pig now.”

 

Suki whimpered and cried as she stayed huddled on the floor and waited for her parents to go to sleep. It was nearly four long and torturous hours before she heard all movement in the hut stop and heard her father's grating snore and her mother's sickening sleep moans. Doing the best she could, Suki rose to her feet and moved as quietly as she could out of her room and through the house.

 

Within moments, the girl was outside and running toward the woods running her finger along the silvery white line in her palm. She fell to her knees just outside the entrance to the woods and fell onto her side, rolling over and over again until she was stopped harshly, grunting in pain as she hit a tree. Tears ran faster, harder down her cheeks as she traced the line over and over again desperately.

 

She began to become hysterical when he didn't show up. She began sobbing harshly as she started scratching at the line with her nails until she had scratched through the skin and it opened the blood beading to the surface.

 

Suki screamed into her gag as she was suddenly grabbed up off the ground and twisted in the arms of whoever held her.

 

“Shh. Shh,” the person soothed her as she struggled. “Suki it's me, hush.”

 

Tsukuyomaru felt the woman in his arms fall limp and heard her sobs in crease. His claws raked against the ropes binding her wrists, cutting them free and then quickly relieving her of the cloth binding and gagging her mouth. The frightened girl cried out his name as she wrapped her arms as tightly as she could around him and cried into his neck.

 

“Shhh,” he shushed her as he stroked her hair and pulled the dry leaves and twigs from its tangled mass. “Shh, I'm here. You're safe now. You're safe now, shh.”

 

Suki sniffled and held onto him as she blinked tiredly. Her fear and upset were leaving her and exhaustion was rapidly setting in. Tsukuyomaru could feel her growing weak, tired in his arms, and held her tightly as he leapt high into the tree that had stopped her mad rolling. He held her in his arms, the girl seated and cradled in his lap as he sat on a thick branch and leaned against the trunk. She yawned against him.

 

“Who did that to you?” he asked her gently as he held her against his chest.

 

“My father,” she said brokenly.

 

“What else did he do to you?” he asked softly as he rubbed her rope burned wrists soothingly.

 

“He…he touched me,” she whimpered.

 

“He what?” the bat youkai growled fiercely.

 

“He…put his fingers inside me,” she whimpered and sniffled as she rubbed the back of her hands over her eyes. “He checked to see…I'm a virgin,” she mumbled tiredly and he could feel her trying to stay awake.

 

“I'll kill him for touching you like that,” he growled and pressed her head gently to his chest. “Go to sleep sweet girl,” he whispered to her as he stroked her hair. “I'm here my love, go to sleep,” he said and kissed her hair as he purred and growled, soothing her to sleep in his arms.

 

 

 

 

“Your father is not going to be happy,” a female bat youkai warned him as he entered her cave carrying the sleeping human woman in his arms.

 

“I know aunt,” he said and laid Suki down on the futon he normally slept on when he stayed over. “You were my mother's sister. You know I hold her heart within me.”

 

“I know Tsukuyomaru,” she sighed sadly. “It is why your father killed her.”

 

“Then you know that I will do whatever I can to protect her from him,” he said as he covered Suki with a blanket. “Watch over her for me?” he asked her and embraced the elder female youkai when she nodded. “Thanks, I'll be back before sunrise. Promise.”

 

“Just be careful Tsuku,” the woman said and kissed his forehead as she held his face in her hands. “I've no wish to lose you as I lost your mother.”

 

“I know Aunt. You won't.”

 

“Go,” she said and hugged him before pushing him to the cave entrance. “Go before I decide not to let you go.”

 

“I'll hurry back I promise.”

 

“Tsuku…did you choose her?” she asked him softly.

 

“Yeah…she chose me too.”

 

“Then don't let anyone keep you from her.”

 

“I don't intend to.”

 

 

 

 

“What the hell is going on?” Suki's father growled as he was met face to face with two red glowing eyes.

 

“You dared to touch Suki so viciously?” Tsukuyomaru snarled at the man paying no heed to the frightened woman in the corner.

 

“A youkai. My daughter was with a filthy youkai?” he snarled angrily, bitterly.

 

“This youkai,” Tsukuyomaru spat at him. “Is the only one who protects Suki, who loves her. I am a hell of cleaner then you, and I've had blood on my hands before. Yours shall join it tonight.”

 

“Know this human,” the youkai snarled his eyes a brilliant, glowing, blood red. “Suki is to be my mate. You are no longer her clan.”

 

Tsukuyomaru cut the man down with his sword and looked upon the woman huddled in the corner. “I should cut you down as well for doing nothing to protect your daughter. But perhaps your conscious will be your own undoing.”

 

With those last words, Tsukuyomaru turned and left as swiftly and quietly as he had appeared.

 

 

 

 

 

“Tsuku, Tsuku,” the human girl whimpered frightened in her sleep as she searched for her only safe haven from her waking and sleeping torments.

 

“I'm here sweet Suki,” the youkai in question whispered to her. “Thank you for looking after her,” he spoke softly to his aunt and watched as she nodded.

 

“You two may stay here whenever you like. Your uncles will make sure your father never enters,” the woman said as she watched her only nephew curl up on the futon behind the sleeping girl, molding his body to hers as he enfolded her in his arms.

 

“Thank you,” he said and yawned.

 

Tsukuyomaru turned back to his would be mate and buried his face in her thick hair as he snuggled himself to her. He felt Suki shift in his arms, felt her press back against him and turn over. He opened his eyes and watched as the sleeping girl turned over onto her back. He pressed his lips to her forehead and then to her lips as he kissed her gently.

 

Suki moaned and sighed in her sleep as she rolled onto her side and pressed herself against the youkai in her borrowed bed. She wrapped her arms around him, her face tucking into the hollow of his shoulder as she held herself to him.

 

“It's ok sweet Suki,” he whispered to her and kissed the juncture of her neck and shoulder. “I've got you.”

 

“I love you Tsuku,” she mumbled in her sleep making him smile.

 

“I love you too sweet Suki.”