InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Slave Trade ❯ Adjusting ( Chapter 2 )

I am soooooooo sorry!!!!!

I haven't updated for a long time. But it's not my fault, my computer blew up a C.D. and the computer people wouldn't let us turn on the computer until they fixed it.

And by the time they fixed it I went to California for two weeks, and when I came back I had to set up the surprise birthday party for my sister.

But now I am done and can update, until tomorrow when soccer and volleyball practices start, and school starts on the 24th.

But I will find time to update!!

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I want to thank all of you for the reviews!!!! I feel so loved.

ditchertypepersonBUM- If she took the collar off he would probably run away, and Kikyo wouldn't like that. Also it has a role in the story and it has to be there.

RedHerring- Thank you so much for the advice, as you may notice I have just started writing, and I need all the advice I can get.

SkyMaster- Don't worry, I will finish this story. I hate it when people start stories and don't finish them.

Shadow Within- Miroku and Sango are married but they married out of duty so they don't love each other….not yet anyway. Mwahaha!! The same for Naraku and Kikyo, and Sesshomaru and Rin. Sorry if I didn't make that clear.

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Disclaimer- If I owned Inuyasha, Kikyo would be given to Sesshomaru where he would kill her, then bring her back to life, and kill her again, then repeat the process over and over and over again. But since that hasn't happened its proof that I don't own Inuyasha. Because I don't, so don't sue.

Here it is.

The Slave Trade

Adjusting

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She was warm. Warmer than she had been in months. When her parents were murdered she could never fall asleep and when she did she was always cold. But this warmth was strange, it was if it was alive, and breathing, and…in…her…arms.

Kagome's eyes shot open and she let out a blood-curling shriek. Someone was in her bed with her!

Immediately a small army of guards were in her bedroom and had the man off of her bed and on the floor. Where about 5 or 6 guards were holding him down and putting shackles on his wrists.

"Wait, stop!" Kagome exclaimed remembering her gift from Kikyo and how he had to sleep with her last night.

"Let him go, he is, um, a guest," Kagome said lamely, not wanting to explain to the guards. The guards reluctantly let Inuyasha go and left the room.

"That's one way to wake up," Kagome joked in an attempt to make conversation. Inuyasha made no response and continued to lie on the floor.

"Inuyasha, are you o.k.," Kagome cautiously knelt next to him and shook his shoulder a bit, in an attempt to wake him of the stupor he had fallen into. As soon as her hand touched his shoulder his eyes shot open. Kagome gasped, his eyes were their normal amazing golden color, but they seemed darker, and more violent.

"I am sorry Lady Kagome," Inuyasha said, his eyes losing the intensity they had.

"Inuyasha, you don't have to apologize, it was my fault. I had forgotten you were sleeping with me," Kagome said softly. "But that reminds me!" Kagome exclaimed, slipping back into her normal cheerful attitude, "I have to ask one of the maids to bring in a futon for you, or would you like a bed instead? We got them from the west, they are quite comfortable."

"Whatever you want me to have Kagome," Inuyasha said still lying on the floor. That had been close; he had almost attacked those guards. He needed to calm down.

`Happy thoughts, happy thoughts,' Inuyasha mentally chanted. To bad he couldn't think of any.

`OK, new plan,' Inuyasha thought desperately, `Breath in, breath out. Deep breaths.'

"Tell me what you want and don't say you want what I want," Kagome said trying to be patient with him.

"I would like one of those," Inuyasha said standing up and cautiously pointing to Kagome's bed.

Kagome could have jumped around the room singing she was so happy. He finally chose something by himself!

"What color do you want the sheets and blankets to be?" she asked with a huge grin on her face.

"Whatever color you want them to be," Inuyasha said monotonously.

Kagome's grin fell from her face. She just had a breakthrough with him! Now she was at the beginning once again.

"Tell me what you want," Kagome said through clenched teeth, her right eye twitching.

Before he could say anything a maid came in, to tell them that breakfast was ready.

"I haven't even gotten dressed yet!" Kagome exclaimed and rushed into her huge closet. It took her about 2 minutes to get dressed, she wore a light blue kimono that had silver stars on it. Then she walked over to a door next to her bed that hadn't been there before. When she came out she was wearing the Shikon no Tama and the door had vanished.

"When I go to sleep I have to put the jewel in that room so no one can get to it, the room is protected by a barrier I put around it" Kagome said seeing Inuyasha's confused face, "But I can only keep it in there during the night, I don't have enough power to keep the barrier up all day. I am a miko with limits."

"Well, I'm dressed but, I don't have anything for you to wear Inuyasha," Kagome said sadly.

"I am comfortable in what I am wearing now, Kagome," Inuyasha said looking down at his red pants.

"But you don't have a shirt on," Kagome had just noticed this and turned an interesting shade of red.

"I do have an inner and outer haori with these pants, but I was instructed not to wear them last night. They were placed underneath your bed," Inuyasha stated staring at her blush.

This girl blushed a lot.

"Um, well, could you put them on so we could go to breakfast?" Kagome asked staring at the floor. Why did she keep blushing? She was a grown woman, not a teenage girl with a crush.

"Yes Kagome," Inuyasha said his face blank of any emotion.

"Well we better get going," Kagome said after Inuyasha had put on his shirts.

Inuyasha followed Kagome down the many twists and turns that were in the castle, mentally creating a map, so as to know how to get back to Kagome's room.

After what seemed like hours of the two walking in silence, they entered a huge room with one large rectangular oak table in the center of the room. Sitting at the table were four people, all of them in clothing that said they were royalty.

"Sango, Rin, Miroku, Sesshomaru, you all slept well I hope," Kagome said in her cheerful mode.

"Yes, we did," Miroku said suggestively leaning towards Sango, who pushed his face in his bowl of oatmeal.

"Take that stupid lecher," Sango said smiling at her handy work.

"This oatmeal is delicious," Miroku said from his bowl, unfazed that his breakfast was in his nose.

Inuyasha just stared, these were the most important people in the country and they were laughing and acting like children. Except for that one with the white hair who just sat there looking bored. There was something familiar about him, but no matter how hard he tried Inuyasha couldn't think of what.

"Inuyasha, would you like to have breakfast with us," Inuyasha was brought out of his pondering by Kagome's voice. By the look on his face it was as if she had told him that he had just won the Miss America contest.

Inuyasha slowly walked forward until he was standing next to Kagome's chair.

"Have a seat," Kagome said as if it was the most natural thing in the world. Inuyasha lowered himself on the seat next to Kagome. This was so wrong; it was against every law of nature. He was the slave, she was the master. He shouldn't be sitting here eating breakfast with the rulers of the country, if anything he should be on the ground on his hands and knees licking Kagome's feet.

"Kagome who is this guy," Rin asked pointedly staring at the man's silver-white hair that reminded her of her husband's.

"Oh, this is Inuyasha, my, uh, present from Kikyo," Kagome said feeling slightly embarrassed.

"Let me guess, the Slave Trade," Sango said seeing how Inuyasha sat perfectly straight and wouldn't look any one in the eye.

"Yep," Kagome replied staring at the hanyou with concern.

That's when she noticed Sesshomaru staring at Inuyasha intently, but before he could say anything Shippo walked into the room.

"Would you like to join us for breakfast Shippo?" Kagome asked softly, as if she was afraid to scare him off.

Shippo just walked up to the table and plopped down on one of the many seats surrounding it.

"Shippo, would you like another chair?" Kagome asked the top of Shippo's head.

The kitsune made no movement; in fact he wasn't even acknowledging her.

"Kaede, could you please get Shippo a taller chair?" Kagome asked the head maid, who was more like a grandmother to Kagome then a servant. She had been in the castle since her father went into power, maybe even before then.

"Thank you Kaede," Kagome said when the old woman came in with the chair.

"Ye welcome child. If ye need anything else just ask," Kaede said in a voice filled with wisdom and motherly love.

The old woman put the new chair at the table and left the room. Shippo quickly got out of the old chair and sat in the new one.

"Take anything that you want, you too Inuyasha," Kagome told the now visible Shippo before turning to Inuyasha.

Shippo quickly pulled a plate of pancakes toward him, while Inuyasha took a bowl of oatmeal.

"I know what you did," Shippo whispered in a voice so only Inuyasha could hear.

"What do you mean?" Inuyasha asked in the same voice, while shoveling oatmeal into his mouth.

"The last time you tried to run away at the Slave Trade, to the people who…punished you," Shippo replied.

At hearing these words Inuyasha spat out the oatmeal he had been eating, causing it to land on the person next to him, Kagome.

Inuyasha merely stared at Kagome, not able to say anything.

"Inuyasha," Kagome asked filled with concern, "are you o.k.?"

"NO!" He shouted, "YOUR TOO NICE! I JUST SPAT OATMEAL ALL OVER YOU, I KEEP MAKING MISTAKES! WHY WON'T YOU HURT ME?! YOUR TREATING ME AS IF I'M YOUR EQUAL! I'M NOT, I'M A FUCKING SLAVE! YOU'RE A QUEEN! AND I DIDN'T MEAN TO DO THAT TO THOSE MEN!" He started out yelling at Kagome but turned to Shippo on the last sentence.

"Inuyasha, I'm sorry if you don't like the way I treat you. But you are my equal, I don't care what they say at the Slave Trade, I will treat you as an equal," Kagome said a little stunned at his outburst.

Then as an after thought, "What men and what did you do to them?" she asked innocently.

Inuyasha paled and ran out of the room.

Everyone sat stunned before Kagome quickly shot out of her chair and ran out of the room following Inuyasha.

After she left the room was filled with a very uncomfortable silence, which was quickly interrupted by the sound of flesh hitting flesh and a shout of "HENTAI!"

Sango stormed out of the room with a very angry expression, leaving a dazed Miroku on the floor.

"Come on Sesshomaru," giggled Rin, "let's go get Sango."

Sesshomaru gave her a look that said `You've got to be kidding me.'

He received a look that said `Get over here now or else.'

With a sigh Sesshomaru obediently followed his wife through the doors.

Miroku lifted himself off the floor and sat back at the table acting as if nothing had happened.

"Would you pass the pancakes," Miroku asked Shippo, who was seeing how many pancakes he could eat before he exploded. Shippo shook his head and kept stuffing pancakes in his mouth.

Miroku sighed and grabbed an apple which he started to chomp on.

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"Inuyasha!" Kagome shouted as she ran down the many halls towards her room, she guessed that was where he was since he didn't know where anything else was.

When she got to her room she was greeted by a ball of red and silver which was shaking on her bed.

"Inuyasha!" she cried rushing towards him.

"Kag…ome…it …hurts…" he said softly before passing out.

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He woke up to a bright light in his face and he could faintly hear the voices of Kagome and Kaede.

"…the collar," he heard Kaede say.

"He did tell me that if he couldn't see me he would be shocked, but I didn't know how powerful it would be."

"The pain is he is feeling is like holding 50 electric eels underwater." (AN: No I don't know how that feels so don't ask. Just pretend that it would kill a human.)

"Oh my God! That's horrible!"

"Yes it is, so I suggest that ye don't let him out of ye sight."

"Don't worry Kaede, I won't."

"Kagome he is awake now," a female voice that Inuyasha did not know said.

Kagome then came into his vision.

"Where am I?" he asked, his mouth feeling like it was full of cotton.

"You're on my bed, after you passed out I called Kaede and our nurse Eri," Kagome said pointing to Kaede and a short girl black hair, "Inuyasha, are you alright."

Inuyasha just turned his head away and didn't respond to the question. The truth was that he wasn't alright; it felt as if he had been beaten to an inch of his life. Even the Slave Trade didn't hurt him like this.

Kagome sighed and walked to the other side of the room where she started to talk to Kaede before asking her to leave along with Eri.

Now they were all alone and Inuyasha had a feeling that they were in for a long, long talk.

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IT IS COMPLETED!!!!

And for the record Inuyasha doesn't have to literally see Kagome he just has to be in her presence, like in the same room.

Until the next time, review!

inu fan