InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Slave Trade ❯ The Gift ( Chapter 1 )

I absolutely had to write this story. I haven't had a decent night's sleep in 3 days because ideas for this story wouldn't leave me alone. So here it is.

Disclaimer: No, I do not own Inuyasha or any of the other characters in this story. And I never will…Unless that take over the world plan I've been working on really works.

The Slave Trade

The Gift

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"I, Kagome Higurashi, swear to protect, to help, and to do everything in my power for my people. I swear to put my people before everything else and to rule wise and justly. I swear to treat all equally, from the highest ranking soldier to the lowest peasant on the streets. I swear all that I am to my people."

Inside the castle that her mother and father were once the leaders of the Northern Lands, Kagome was becoming ruler. The castle itself was very beautiful; it had the most expensive tapestries hanging in every room. Actually, everything in the castle was the most expensive of its kind. Luscious red carpets and the finest wooden floors, it was made of light gray bricks, so as not to look to gloomy but still provide protection.

But what was far greater than the castle were the guests that were watching Kagome accept her title. Lord Miroku and Lady Sango, rulers of the Eastern Lands. Lord Naraku and Lady Kikyo, rulers of the Southern Lands. Lord Sesshomaru and Lady Rin, rulers of the Western Lands. These were the most important of the hundreds of guests that were there.

"Kagome Higurashi, you are now the ruler of the Northern Lands, may Kami-sama bless and protect you," the old priest said and moved out of the way. As soon as he had left two servants took his place. One had a rather large scroll and the other a several barrels of gold, jewelry, and many other things.

The servant with the scroll unraveled it and started to say each of the guest's names and what gift they brought for the new queen. At each name the servant with the barrels would give Kagome the said gift and she would lift it up and thank whoever gave it to her. In other words it was very long and very boring.

"So what did you bring her?" Sango asked Rin when they were almost half way done with the gifts.

"I got her a fox demon kit, the poor thing was at the Slave Trade and I could tell he was just perfect for Kagome," Rin happily replied. As soon as she had finished her name was called.

"Thank you so very much Lady Rin, he is adorable," Kagome said from where she was seated on her throne, with the kit sitting on the ground next to her. Rin smiled from where she was at in the large room.

"What did you get her," Rin asked Sango when Kagome turned to thank the next guest.

"I got her a magic arrow," Sango replied, thoroughly proud of her gift, " I know that Kagome is an archer so I got her an arrow that never breaks, always hits it's target, and returns to her after she shoots it."

"I gave her my father's old sword," Sesshomaru said appearing next to Rin.

"You gave her Tetsusaiga!" Rin exclaimed, surprised he had given Kagome one of his greatest treasures.

"I just realized that it was not going to work for me and it was of no use sitting in a glass case at home," Sesshomaru replied, acting as if the sword never mattered to him in the first place.

"What did you get Kagome, Miroku?" Rin asked as said man walked towards the group.

"Probably something perverted," Sango mumbled under her breath.

"Actually I got her some holy beads that belonged to my grandfather, they are supposed to keep evil spirits away," Miroku said apparently hearing Sango's comment, "But I could give her something perverted if you really want me to."

Sango opened her mouth to reply but quickly closed it when a hush went around the room. When Naraku's name had been called he had walked straight to Kagome.

"I personally wanted to give you my gift. It is a case of solid gold with the rarest of gems on it. It is made to hold the Shikon no Tama," Naraku said staring hungrily at the jewel around her neck.

Kagome shivered at his evil aura and swallowed the rather large lump in her throat. "Thank you Lord Naraku it is beautiful."

"I also wanted to give you my gift in person," Kikyo stated coldly as she walked up to Kagome and pulled a letter out of her yukata, "You can thank me now but do not read it until the celebration is over and you are alone."

"Thank you Lady Kikyo," Kagome said as she took the letter and looked at it curiously before putting it in her own yukata.

A couple hours later the gifts were done and most of the guests were sent home. Kagome quickly got off her throne and walked to where Sango, Rin, Miroku, and Sesshomaru were all standing.

"I have never been so glad that a party was over in my entire life," Kagome admitted when she got to her friends, "That was one of the most boring things ever! If I see one more bit of gold I swear I will scream."

"Not all of us gave you gold ya know. Some of us were being creative," Sango said.

"I practically cried with relief when I got to all of your gifts. All of them were fantastic!" Kagome said with genuine happiness.

"That reminds me," Kagome trailed off as she went back to her throne and picked up a small demon and walked back to the group, "This is Shippo," Kagome said holding out Rin's gift, "but he won't tell me anything other than his name, do any of you know how I can get him to talk?"

"Rin got him at the Slave Trade and he is trained to obey all his master's commands without question," Sesshomaru said emotionlessly, "They beat all the slaves and brainwash them into thinking all master's are horrible and beat them if they do anything wrong or beat them for fun. The slaves I get from there take months to get used to me and realize that we won't hurt them, sometimes it takes years. But since he is a child it probably won't take as long."

"Thank you, Sesshomaru," Kagome cheerfully thanked him, "But if you will all excuse me I think I will be going to bed now. It has been a long day and I'm extremely tired."

"We should get to bed too," Sesshomaru said and started following a servant that had come to show them their rooms.

"And thank you for letting us stay here for a while," Rin said as she followed Sesshomaru down the hall.

"Come Sango, will you join me in sleep," Miroku said as he put his arm around her waist.

"If you get your hand away from my butt," Sango said as she grabbed said hand and twisted it painfully.

"Whatever you say, my dear," Miroku muttered, nursing is injured hand and followed his wife.

Kagome walked to Shippo's room carrying the kit the whole way.

"Shippo, I know that you're not comfortable around me, but I promise that I will never harm a hair on your head," Kagome said and held the kit close, "Good-night Shippo."

He went into his room and shut the door without a word.

`Oh well, maybe next time,' Kagome thought optimistically. Kagome walked through the winding corridors and many doors before reaching her room. But just before she opened the door, she remembered something. She reached into her yukata and pulled out the letter Kikyo gave her and started to read it.

Dear Lady Kagome,

For your gift I have bought you a pleasure toy from the Slave Trade. He is a virgin Inu hanyou; we wouldn't want the ruler of the Northern Lands to have a used toy now would we? But fear not, for he has been trained for 5 years and knows every way possible to bring you pleasure. He also knows how to protect you and be a normal servant if you wish him to be. Have fun with your gift.

Sincerely,

Lady Kikyo

Kagome's face was so red that a tomato would look jealous when she finished reading the letter. But when she opened the door to her room her face took an even darker shade of red than she thought possible.

Her room had white walls and a large bed that held light blue silk sheets and silk blankets, which were warmer than you would think. She had a vanity mirror that had her jewelry and the small amount of make-up that she owned. Also in her room was a very large closet which held all of her clothes and shoes, which she had a lot of.

But more importantly next to her bed stood the most gorgeous man she had ever seen in her entire life and all he was wearing was a pair of red hakama. He had silvery-white hair that went down to his back; he had a perfect tan that suggested he spent a lot of time outdoors. He had large muscles but not to large like some men she knew and had a pair of the cutest white doggy ears on the top of his head. He was perfect.

Except for those beautiful golden-amber eyes of his, they held a look that said he had once been wild and free but he had been tamed some years ago. She could see the wild part of him trying to break free of the chains that bound him. Right then she decided that she would help him.

"My name is Inuyasha, master," the perfect boy known as Inuyasha said in a voice that held no emotion.

Kagome winced at the title he had given her. "Please don't call me master, call me Kagome."

"Whatever you say, Kagome."

"Umm, you can sit on the bed while I get on my night gown." Kagome suggested and walked to her large closet.

When she came out she was wearing a dark blue silk nightgown that showed off all of her curves and went to just above her knees. It made her pale skin look as if she was glowing and made her hair look as black as night.

Giggling Kagome twirled in front of Inuyasha. "How do I look, and be honest."

"You look great, Kagome," Inuyasha said without the barest hint of emotion.

Kagome frowned at his lack of emotion and walked up to him determined to get some kind of response.

Inuyasha watched her walk up to him with a frown and he immediately started to panic, thinking that he had done something wrong and she was going to shock him.

"I am sorry, Kagome, please do not shock me," Inuyasha said his fear showing on his face.

"You didn't do anything wrong so you don't need to apologize, and what do you mean shock you?" Kagome asked confused at the term.

"The rosary around my neck gives me an electric shock whenever I cannot see you or when I do something wrong and you need to punish me," Inuyasha said pitifully.

"Oh Inuyasha, I will never ever hurt you, so you don't need to worry about that. But I wasn't around you all day, were you shocked then?"

"No, it was activated when you walked into the room."

`Well I guess he can't have his own room now," Kagome thought, `and I can't take the rosary off of him because that would be rejecting Kikyo's gift and our lands would go to war. Which I really don't need.'

"Is something wrong Kagome?" Inuyasha asked watching the emotions play on her face.

"No I was just thinking that I don't know where you can sleep. We don't have any futons and you have to be able to see me, which means you will have to stay in my room."

"Do not worry about that I can sleep on the floor," Inuyasha said in a slightly depressed voice, not really wanting to sleep on the cold hard wood floor.

"Oh no! I would never make you sleep on the floor, you will just have to sleep in my bed with me," Kagome stated it not really bothering her. But upon hearing those words Inuyasha tensed up. He couldn't help it, yeah Kagome was beautiful and so far she was kind, but he didn't want to be some toy and Kagome could become violent later on, just like they told him.

Kagome who had not noticed how he tensed up crawled into bed and lay on one side, and told Inuyasha to get on the other. She blew out the candles next to the bed and immediately fell asleep. Inuyasha on the other hand lay as stiff as a board, weren't they going to have sex? Inuyasha lay like that until some hours later he fell into a sleep full of nightmares.

He was back at the Slave Trade and they were punishing him, he had knocked over a pot and it had broken. So they were shocking him for every piece of broken pottery they found.

He was a little boy, back when he was a pup. They had just killed his father and they were after him and his mother. They were running as fast as they could in the forest, but she tripped and fell, telling him to hide in the forest, that she was fine and would find him. That was the last time he had seen his mother.

He was seventeen and the Slave Trade was trying to catch him. He was running as fast as he could but they had caught him, they always caught whatever they were hunting.

He had tried to escape the Slave Trade again, this was the third time this month. But they had caught him, they always did, and the beating would be worse than before.

A gentle voice was calling to him, telling him to wake up. He was being lightly shaken.

"Huh," Inuyasha managed to say.

"You were having a nightmare," Kagome said relived that he had woken up, "Are you ok?"

"I'm sorry I woke you up Kagome. It will not happen again," Inuyasha said his voice trembling from the nightmares.

"It's ok Inuyasha. I want to let you know that I will not treat you like a slave or a servant. It's ok if you make mistakes or if you don't do what I tell you. I want you to be yourself. But for now it's the middle of the night and you should go back to sleep," Kagome said softly. Inuyasha nodded and they went to separate sides of the bed.

About an hour later Kagome rolled over and spooned against Inuyasha, laying her hand on his chest.

Inuyasha, who didn't need much sleep being a hanyou, slowly turned and put his face in the curve of her neck. He lightly sniffed and then pulled his face away. Yep, he had been right, wildflowers and jasmine.

Inuyasha fell into a dreamless sleep.

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I thought that was fairly good.

Please review and tell me if you like it or not.

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