Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Maboroshi Kage ❯ Chapter Five ( Chapter 5 )

Maboroshi Kage

Chapter V

 

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Yuyu Hakusho or Inuyasha. If I did, I'd have Hiei playing twister with me right now! **winks**

 

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All she could do was sit in her room and worry. They now knew exactly who she was, so they might try something. She was known as being a favorite of the king, and her family was exceedingly rich. It was the next morning that Kuronue came to see her. "So I was right about you being the Higurashi girl."

 

"You're the one who figured it out?" She asked. When he nodded, she stood and slapped him. "I didn't want people knowing that!" Seething, she returned to her bed.

 

Kuronue's hand raised to his stinging cheek. "I hope you know that you've been treated very well for being a prisoner, and it's not wise to slap your captors."

 

Kagome turned a glare on him that would've made Sesshomaru back away. "I. Don't. Care." Turning away from him, she sighed and looked out the window.

 

"Knowing your name ain't gonna change anything here. Only Youko, Hiei, and I know it, and we ain't tellin anyone else."

 

"How big?"

 

"What?"

 

"How big is the reward?"

 

"500,000 gold pieces."

 

"Uncle Inutaishou must've put that up."

 

"He did. I also heard that one of our local merchants is engaged to Keiko Yukimura, and that her older sister is to marry in three weeks." Kagome froze at those words before she fell over laughing. "What's so funny?"

 

"She's actually marrying the lech!"

 

"Lech?"

 

"Her boyfriend was a womanizing monk named Miroku. I didn't think she'd actually marry him." A wistful smile appeared on her face as she thought longer. "You know, Keiko's only seven months older than I am."

 

"I heard she's fourteen, how old are you?"

 

"Thirteen."

 

"That's old enough to marry."

 

She sighed. "I know it is, but no one wants me. I was in Edo for the longest time, and the young lords as well as any guy tended to stay away from me."

 

"Maybe your cousins scared them away."

 

"Or I'm just ugly."

 

Kuronue sighed. "I give up, but you're not ugly. There's also news on your father."

 

"As long as he's alive, I don't care."

 

"You're brother blames himself for your getting captured." He started to walk out, but Kagome shot out of bed and grabbed his arm.

 

"What have you heard about my brother?" Her eyes seemed pleading as she looked at him.

 

"Just that he's not himself."

 

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The room appeared to be spotless, so the girl moved on to the next one. They had been on this island for a week, and Kagome was bored. So she did the only thing there was to do, she cleaned. She had gotten most of the rooms by now. She was currently working on cleaning Hiei's. There were a pile of clothes on the floor that needed to be cleaned, and she moved those out into the hallway. She'd clean the kitchen next, then came the laundry.

 

Once she had Hiei's room spotless, she moved onto the kitchen. The pile of dirty clothes was dumped with the rest of the laundry pile as she passed it. Sighing when she entered the kitchen, she got down and scrubbed the floor. It seemed to be coated in several layers of dirt and dust. Next she cleaned the table tops, then came the cabinets. She hadn't noticed that Hiei, Youko, and Kuronue were now in the house. All three of which were staring at her and talking.

 

"I didn't think ladies of her standing knew how to do housework."

 

"Neither did I Youko." Kuronue said as they continued to watch.

 

Youko turned to Hiei with a smirk. "At least your house's getting cleaned."

 

"Yeah." Hiei said as he looked around and noticed that there didn't seem to be dust anywhere.

 

All three's attention returned to her when they heard a scream. She had been dusting the cabinets out when a spider landed on her hand. "AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" Shaking her hand, it flew off and she ran from it. It seemingly chased her, and she climbed onto to table top. "Get it away!!!"

 

All three men were quite amused by her antics. Kuronue, walked over and squished it with his boot. "You're afraid of spiders, but not pirates?"

 

She was suddenly glaring at him, and jumped onto him from the counter, knocking him to the floor. "You just got bug guts on the floor that I just scrubbed!"

 

By now Kuronue was outright laughing at her. "Would you prefer me to've left it alive."

 

She quickly shook her head no. "There better not be anymore of those." Standing, she grabbed a scrub brush and scrubbed the guts from the floor.

 

"It doesn't matter, we're leaving."

 

Kagome looked up at Hiei and cocked her head to the side. "We're going back out on the ship, meaning I'm coming with you?"

 

"Yes onna."

 

"Dammit! Can't you say my name? It's not that difficult!"

 

He merely smirked at her. "Grab some of my clothes and get to the ship."

 

"Do I look like your servant?" At his smirk, she realized that she was in fact cleaning his house. She stood up and left as she muttered. "On second thought, don't answer that."

 

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When she made it downstairs, she growled. They had already left. The clothes were folded on her arms, and so she left. Hoping she could remember the way to the docks, she tried avoiding the pirates who kept leering at her. Just as she made it to the where she could see the ship and Hiei, someone grabbed her ass. Whipping around, she slammed her fist into his face. "Keep your damn hands to yourself!" Hissing at him between clenched teeth, she didn't notice that the three demons had seen her.

 

After quickly boarding the boat, she glared at every male who even looked at her. "Something wrong?" Kuronue asked as he came up behind her.

 

"Not a thing." Her teeth were still clenched, and she merely pushed past him. Going below deck, she made her way to Hiei's room.

 

"I wouldn't go in there if I were you."

 

At hearing the voice before she went in, she turned to see a young boy of about seven standing near her. "Why not?"

 

"That's Hiei-sama's room."

 

"It's also my room."

 

He looked her over for a moment before returning his eyes to her face. "Are you his mistress?"

 

Her face burned bright red at the boy's question. "Not exactly." She pushed the door open, and motioned for the boy to follow her inside. He did, but he seemed really nervous about it. "What's your name, and why're you on this ship?"

 

"My papa was killed recently, and I have no one to take care of me. So I'm here to be cabin boy. My name's Shippo, what's yours?"

 

"I'm Kagome, it's nice to meet you."

 

"How are you not exactly Hiei-sama's mistress?"

 

"I suppose I'm his... um... I'll go with captive. He hasn't really had me do anything though. Unless you count carry his clothes from his house to the ship by myself."

 

"Oh. Are you gonna work on the ship?"

 

"If Hiei tells me to."

 

"What were you before you were captured?"

 

"A lady of the court... well, sorta."

 

Neither noticed that Hiei had entered the room, and he hid in the shadows listening to them. "What do ya mean sorta?"

 

"I kinda tried staying away from court. Especially because people would always say 'Miss Kagome' or 'Lady Kagome', and it was rather annoying. I preferred playing with my cousins or taking care of Kaguya."

 

"Who's Kaguya?"

 

"My baby cousin, she's about two now."

 

"Cool, I'm almost seven! How old are you?"

 

"I'll be fourteen in five months."

 

"Does that mean you were betrothed before you were captured?"

 

"Nope, no one seemed to like me."

 

"No one?"

 

"Well, one person did. I hated him though."

 

"Why?"

 

"He was really cruel and mean."

 

Hiei decided he was tired of listening to them talk, so he made his presence known. "Why's the boy in here?"

 

Shippo instantly jumped up and turned toward Hiei. He nervously bowed. Kagome rolled her eyes at the boy's actions. "I invited him in because we were talking. Last time I was on board, the crew wasn't exactly nice to me, so I refused to talk in the hall."

 

Shippo turned to Kagome with awe in his eyes. He'd never heard anyone address Hiei, Youko, or Kuronue like that and live. "You can't talk like that to him." He tried whispering to her.

 

"I've been talking to him like that for a month." Shippo's eyes nearly bugled at that. "What, I think he finds it amusing."

 

"I do, but the crew know not to talk to me as such if they desire to live."

 

"I guess it's a good thing I'm not part of the crew."

 

"Get to your duties kit." Hiei stated as he looked at the boy. Shippo nodded and took off out of the room.

 

Kagome pouted at the fire demon. "You just had to scare away my new friend." He inwardly smirked as she pouted. Leaning down to her, he drew her bottom lip into his mouth and sucked on it. She couldn't help but shiver at his action. He turned it into a kiss, and pinned her to the bed. She shivered again at feeling his body pressed up against hers. She knew that he wouldn't take it much farther, he never did. She assumed that he simply wanted to tease her and make her want him. The bad thing was, that she was starting to want him, he was simply too good at kissing.

 

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