It's my new story! I'm getting pretty bored from my other one... It seems useless to me, and I might put it on hold. I'm still thinking though :)
Summary: Sess makes a deal with Naraku, to kidnap Kagome, and bring her back to him. But, when Naraku changes plans, Sess is left with no option then to keep Kagome until Naraku comes back. Will time be able to allow the two to develop a bond? Will love spark between the cold lord and the warm-hearted miko? SessKag
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, or any other character associated with the series. (This is for the whole story, I own nobody, unless I state that I do.)
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Chapter One: Taken
It was a beautiful day. Kagome walked alongside Inuyasha, enjoying the warm weather. It had been raining all week long, and Kagome was sure glad that the weather decided to take a change for once. She put her hands behind her head, and smiled, looking up at the sun.
Inuyasha, on the other hand, was irritated. The sun was shining too brightly, putting light force in his eyes, almost mocking him of his last battle.
It was of a jackal, a youkai jackal, that figured it could kill Inuyasha and the gang, and take what Kagome had of the Shikon Jewel. It had, on the other hand, a shard in its possession, which only made Inuyasha want to fight it. Inuyasha wanted to waste no time on the jackal, Kagome had sensed a trace of strong energy coming far off from the West, and he wanted to waste no time in seeing what was making so strong of a power. Kagome told Inuyasha that the jewel was in its right arm, so he made no hesitation in attacking the jackals right arm.
Inuyasha had mistakenly assumed that the jackal was an easy kill, however. It had been nothing but a black and yellow haired fox looking thing, that was almost an inch taller then Inuyasha, and had yellow teeth, which protruded from its mouth, with pointed fangs hanging over its black lips. It stunk to no tomorrow, and even Inuyasha gagged from its raunchy smell. Inuyasha tried to swipe at its right arm, but the jackal attacked Inuyasha with its pointed claws, throwing Inuyasha over to his right.
"Inuyasha! Be careful!" Kagome yelled, worried that Inuyasha was hurt. She drew her bow, and went for an arrow, just in case the jackal was more than what it seemed to be. Inuyasha stood, and lunged at the jackal again.
The jackal swiped at Inuyasha, cutting a shallow wound on Inuyasha's shoulder. Inuyasha didn't feel the cut, as he landed on the other side of the jackal again, and lunged at it again. The jackal seemed to be growing very irritated at Inuyasha, and it swiped at his face, placing two sharp cuts on Inuyasha's face. Kagome gasped, and let her arrow go, putting her purifying powers into the arrows tip, as it sliced through the ear of the jackal.
The jackal growled, and looked over at Kagome. It grunted, then started stalking toward her. Inuyasha saw what the jackal had started to do, and starting running toward the jackal, who saw Inuyasha, and jumped out of the way. Inuyasha landed right in front of Kagome, who was pointing toward the retreating jackal. Inuyasha ran after it, but gave up after he placed no trace to the jackals scent. He cursed, and return to his friends.
Inuyasha was shook from his thoughts as Kagome poked his arm. He looked over at her, where she was walking next to him. She had a small frown on her face, and her eyes full of worry.
"Inuyasha, are you thinking about that fight with that jackal again? I told you already, don't make a big deal out of it. We'll find that demon soon enough, and take its shard, okay?"
Inuyasha grunted, and looked away from Kagome. Sure, he knew that they would come across the demon later, but he was angry about that fact that it even got away.
"I know we will, but I'm still mad. You really shouldn't have cast that arrow, you know. I would have had him if it weren't for that distraction." Inuyasha sighed, and looked down to the ground.
Kagome growled, and looked to the pathway ahead of her. "I know I shouldn't have cast that arrow, okay? It was a mistake, I was worried that you were hurt. I wanted to throw a distraction toward the jackal, to make sure you recuperated enough in time before he attacked you again."
Inuyasha nodded, and threw the matter aside. He didn't want to make Kagome angry at the moment, he knew she would have just 'sat' him, and they would have gotten into a pointless argument. It was something he didn't want at the moment.
Kagome sighed, and looked up toward the sun again. It was starting to beat down really hard on them, and Kagome started to feel the burn come upon her face. She turned her backpack around, to that it hunger under her arm, and unzipped it, looking for her sun screen. She regret the last time she didn't put the sun screen on. She was burnt for weeks.
Shippo had jumped off from Miroku's shoulder, to Kagome's shoulder, and nosed inside of her backpack, wondering what she was looking for. Kagome looked up at Shippo, smiled, shuffled his hair, then continued to look for her sun screen.
Shippo watched with interest as Kagome pulled a small bottle from her backpack, and squirted something out from it, into her hand. She closed the bottle, and put it back into her backpack, and she started to rub the strange white substance in her skin. Shippo watched in curiosity.
"Kagome, what's that stuff you're putting on your skin? It smells funny."
Kagome smiled, and took what was left on her hands, and rubbed it into Shippo's face, who made funny faces as she did. Kagome giggled, and rubbed the residue off on her skirt.
"Its something called sun screen. It keeps the suns bad rays away from you, and it stops you from being burnt. Remember when I got burnt really bad that one time? I'm not going to let that happen again." Kagome smiled as Shippo nodded his head, as he remembered the past.
Inuyasha watched the two from Kagome's side, and made a 'humph' sound. Kagome looked over at Inuyasha, as did Shippo, as Inuyasha's eyes grew wide, and he stopped in his tracks. Sango, Miroku and Kilala walked up beside Inuyasha, wondering what the problem was.
"I sense...I sense...Naraku. But, he's with somebody..." Inuyasha growled. "...My brother."
Kagome, Shippo, and Sango gasped, and Miroku just grunted.
"Where do you sense them?" Miroku asked.
Inuyasha sniffed the air, and pointed to the West. "Over there..."
Kagome stiffened. "Should we go and try to attack them?"
Inuyasha closed his eyes. For once, he had no idea if his forces were to beckon with Naraku and Sesshoumaru at the same time. Sure, Sesshoumaru could be messed with, he wasn't really worried about him. But, if Naraku was with him, he had no idea what would happen...
Kagome walked up behind Inuyasha, and touched his back. Inuyasha flinched at her touch, unaware that she was coming up from behind him. He turned, and looked into her worried eyes.
"Inuyasha...are we going to attack them? Would we...even have a chance?" Kagome asked, with worry laced into her voice.
Inuyasha closed his eyes, and sighed. He really didn't know what to tell Kagome. He didn't want to run into battle, and put his friends, much less Kagome, in danger. But, he wanted so badly to just kill his brother and Naraku.
Miroku watched as Inuyasha battled with himself, and decided to choose for him.
"I think that we should try to sneak up on the two, and attack them from behind. It would be an unruly attack, but it would be our only chance at killing the two at the same time."
Sango nodded her head, agreeing with Miroku. Kilala meowed, and Shippo shuddered. Kagome looked from her friends to Inuyasha, waiting for his response. He hesitated for a moment, but slowly nodded his head moments later. His friends nodded, and prepared to leave. Kilala turned into her full neko self, and Miroku, Sango, and Shippo climbed upon her back. Kagome latched herself onto Inuyasha's back, and they all took off, toward the West.
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Sesshoumaru eyed the baboon, who he knew was Naraku, with an interest. Naraku had approached Sesshoumaru, on his own lands, and requested to be heard by the cold lord. Sesshoumaru couldn't help but listen to Naraku, wondering what devious schemes he had in store for him. But, what he wanted had surprised Sesshoumaru, to the least.
Naraku had wanted Inuyasha's wench, Kagome. For what, he didn't state...not like it was his business anyway. But, in return for the wench, he would give Sesshoumaru a sword, made from his own fang. Sesshoumaru at first denied it, not wanting any kind of weapon what was forged from a hanyou's fang. But, when he was shown the attacks that it could do, and how powerful it was, he couldn't help but agree to the plan.
After all, it wouldn't be such a bother to take the girl anyway. She was protected by his weak excuse for a brother, and he could easily cut down him. The wench was more powerful then Inuyasha in his opinion, anyway. She could purify youkai, which would make it harder to capture her. He couldn't risk being purified, even if it was by a weak ningen girl.
The girl couldn't purify if she was unconscious, though. It would be a piece of cake.
So now, he eyed the puppet with interest, wondering why the hanyou wouldn't take her himself. He really didn't care though, it was Naraku's matters, not his.
"So, Lord Sesshoumaru, do you agree to this? I'm sure it would only be but a second of your time, the girl would be fairly easy to take. I will take the dirty ningen off from your hands as soon as she touches them. But please, return her to me alive. It would be no use to me to have a dead miko on my hands." The puppet spoke, with sarcasm laced in his voice.
Sesshoumaru growled, and narrowed his eyes.
"I will agree to this, Naraku. But, he warned. If you attempt to trick me, or anything of the sort, I will not hesitate to kill you."
Naraku chuckled, his deep voice seeming to be amused.
"Do not worry, I have no thought on my mind to trick you. Besides, I have no reason to trick you. I want the ningen, and that is all."
Sesshoumaru nodded, and turned his back to the puppet.
"I will go and get her now. I will be but a few minutes, I can already sense them starting this way."
The puppet chuckled, and seemed to agree. "I will wait here for you, Lord Sesshoumaru." the puppet spoke, putting such emphasis in the 'Lord'.
Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes, and took off toward the group. Naraku's puppet chuckled for a bit, then the chuckles turned into pure evil laughter.
"Sesshoumaru, you are one gullible puppy. I will have such fun in watching you, my great lord." The puppet laughed, then vanished into the winds.
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Inuyasha was running at his top speed, when he suddenly stopped, causing Kagome to fly off from his back, and to fly in the air, only to land on her butt. She groaned from the impact, then immediately looked behind her, at Inuyasha. His eyes were narrowed, and his hand was on his sword.
Up above, Kilala started hovering over the two, until she finally came down, and Sango, Miroku, and Shippo ran up to the two.
"Inuyasha...what's wrong?" Kagome asked, wondering why he had stopped so abruptly.
Inuyasha seemed to be in a trance, as he answered her in a monotone voice. "Naraku suddenly...disappeared...and Sesshoumaru is heading this way."
They all gasped, and got their weapons ready. Shippo hopped up on Kagome's shoulder, afraid of the coming of Sesshoumaru. He had always scared him, and he only felt safe when he was with Kagome.
The group waited in the forest, for Sesshoumaru to come to them. They had not waited long, as Sesshoumaru came out from the clearing, looking calm, and emotionless as usual. Inuyasha growled at his brother, and sheathed Tetsusaiga, pointing it at his half-brother.
"Sesshoumaru, what do you want? Come to take Tetsusaiga again, have you? Well, you're not getting it!"
Inuyasha snarled at Sesshoumaru, and lunged toward him. Sesshoumaru easily side-stepped him, causing Inuyasha to almost land on his face, but he quickly regained posture as he faced Sesshoumaru again.
"Bastard! Stop moving, and fight me!" Inuyasha growled out.
Sesshoumaru looked at Inuyasha with his cold eyes, uninterested.
"Inuyasha, why must you always assume that I want Tetsusaiga. It has been scarred with your unworthy hands, I'm sure no right youkai would try to take your precious sword now."
Inuyasha snarled at his brother's comment. Angry, he jumped toward Sesshoumaru once again, only to have Sesshoumaru's poison whip smack him across his face. Inuyasha fell back, as he was hit, unknowingly. He jumped back up onto his feet again, as Kagome ran up next to Inuyasha.
"Inuyasha! I need to help!" She yelled toward him, drawing an arrow. Sesshoumaru smirked at her brave antics, but as her arrow charged it was toward him, he only grabbed the piece of wood, and broke it in half. Kagome gasped, and started to draw another arrow.
Inuyasha pushed Kagome out of his way, and yelled back at her.
"Kagome! Get out of here, your going to get hurt! I can take care of him!"
Kagome, not believing a word coming from Inuyasha, shot another arrow at Sesshoumaru, only to have him disappear from his place. Kagome's arrow hit the tree that once stood behind Sesshoumaru, as Kagome looked around for him. Inuyasha saw Sesshoumaru come up from behind Kagome, and grab her shoulders from behind. He instantly became enraged.
"SESSHOUMARU! DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH HER!" Inuyasha's angry words were followed by an attack to his half-brother, but only to have Kagome placed in front of the attack, blocking Sesshoumaru.
She screamed, as she felt the blade slice up her stomach. Inuyasha yelped, and bared his fangs toward his brother, completely angry and shocked by his performance. Kagome whimpered as she felt the stinging of the cut on her stomach, and the tight grip on her shoulders. Inuyasha became worried, and started yelling at his brother.
"SESSHOUMARU, LET HER GO! YOU SON OF A BITCH, GIVE HER BACK!"
The only thing that Inuyasha's sharp words caused was for Sesshoumaru to tighten his grip on Kagome's shoulders, causing a small yelp come from Kagome.
"Inuyasha, you have once again fooled yourself. You couldn't even protect your own wench from harm." Inuyasha growled at Sesshoumaru, watching Kagome look up at him.
"Inuyasha, don't listen to him! Attack him, Inuyasha!" Kagome was shushed by a small pressure to her neck, causing her to fall unconscious. Sesshoumaru threw her over his shoulder, and turned his back to Inuyasha.
Inuyasha became enraged, and started running toward Sesshoumaru. When he found that the swipe of his sword touched nothing but air, he looked around for his brother. He looked up, and found him floating on his cloud, smirking down at the group. Inuyasha started to panic.
"KAGOME, KAGOME NO! NOOO, KAGOME!"
Sesshoumaru started flying away on his cloud, Inuyasha following in pursuit after them. Miroku, Sango, and Shippo watched on in despair, to watch their good friend be taken away, and couldn‟t do anything about it. They knew that they were too weak to be trifling with Sesshoumaru's power, and knew it was best to watch Inuyasha do what he could. Tears started to well up in Shippo's eyes, as he watched Kagome be taken away. Sango picked up Shippo, and started hugging him, whispering words of encouragement in his ears, calming him.
Miroku stepped up to the two, and sadly smiled.
"I'm sure Kagome will be alright, she always manages to make it on her own, don't you guys agree?" Sango and Shippo looked up, and sadly smiled, shaking their heads.
Moments later, Inuyasha came sulking out from the forest, his head hunched over, and his hands dragging sadly by his sides, in defeat. He fell to his knees when he got to be a few feet away from the group. Sango, Miroku and Shippo ran up to the hurt hanyou, and kneeled down beside him.
"I...I couldn't protect her..." Inuyasha whispered, before his friends gave him small hugs.
"Its okay Inuyasha, we will get her back. Sesshoumaru took her, so I'm sure he would be at his castle, right? We will go there and check, and take Kagome back." Miroku told Inuyasha, trying to encourage him. Inuyasha's ears perked up, and he sadly smiled.
"Yeah...Lets go there, now." All three of his friends nodded, and prepared to go to Sesshoumaru's castle.
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Sesshoumaru walked into the small spot that he and Naraku had spoken earlier. He sensed that Naraku wasn't there, or nowhere near. He decided to wait, to see if he would actually come back, to stay true to his word.
He put Kagome on the ground, and inspected the wound on her belly. He knew that Naraku wouldn't take her in that condition, so he had no other choice then to heal the wound. He pulled a bottle out from one of his inner pockets, and poured some of the potion on Kagome's cut. It instantly healed, her once torn skin once again becoming a whole.
He stood, and looked around.
'I wonder if Naraku would actually come back...I wouldn't had to have wasted my time on taking this wench...'
As he wondered, a small black bubble appeared in front of him, and it grew larger and larger, until the puppet of Naraku appeared. Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes at the puppet.
"Ah, Lord Sesshoumaru. You have kept true to your word. But, I seem to be having a slight problem." Sesshoumaru's silver eyebrow cocked at this, as he listened on.
"You see, my castle is not one where the miko can be. It is full of miasma, and Kagome's body would not be able to withstand the amount of poison in it. so therefore, I cannot take her just yet."
Sesshoumaru growled, but still listened to the talking hanyou.
"So, if you still stay true to our deal, you will keep the miko in your presence, until I am able to lower the miasma in my castle. That is, only if you still wish to have the sword."
Sesshoumaru growled, showing his fangs.
"We have not agreed to this, Naraku. I am not going to keep her under my care. I will leave her here, and she can die."
The puppet chuckled, and shook its head. "So, you are telling me that you are backing out from my deal. You do not wish to have this sword anymore. One swipe of this sword could kill Inuyasha, you know. You could kill him, and take what's rightfully yours, the Tetsusaiga." Sesshoumaru growled, and narrowed his eyes.
"You want me to keep this miko until you are able to lower the miasma." The puppet nodded. "How long will that take."
The puppet chuckled, and answered. "About a week. Are you going to keep her, until I come to take her?"
Sesshoumaru closed his eyes. Keep the ningen under his care? Would that mean he could just stick her in his dungeon, and keep her there until Naraku came to take her? He wouldn't be able to allow Rin to see her, though...
Naraku, almost reading his thoughts, spoke again.
"I do wish to retrieve her in a healthy condition. Do not put her in a dungeon, and forget about her. If you really would stick to the deal, you would actually care for her. You would not have to see her in your castle, just put her in a guest room, and have servants bring her food. What do you say to this?"
Sesshoumaru growled, and put his hand on his forehead. All of this just for one sword? But, that sword could kill his enemies, he would be able to take over lands, and he would become powerful...
He slowly nodded his head. Naraku chuckled, and nodded also.
"Good. So, you keep the girl in good care until I return, in a week. Understand?" Sesshoumaru opened his eyes, and narrowed them at the puppet. The puppet chuckled once more, and then vanished.
Sesshoumaru stood, looking down at the girl. Was this really worth it? Keeping this...human...in his castle for a week?
He sighed, and picked up the girl in annoyance. He threw her back over his shoulder, which caused the girl to stir in her sleep. He stopped moving for a second, and looked behind himself, looking at the girl. She still looked to be sleeping, so he continued to shift her until he was comfortable.
He formed his cloud under his feet, and flew up in the air, flying the rest of the way toward his castle, in annoyance of how Kagome's beating heart calmed him.
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Well, there you have it! First chapter done. Lol.
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