Keep Away

She was beautiful.

A mere glance of her appearance was enough to drive any man or demon insane with lust.

Many tried to posses her, steal and hide her away. Each falling to the same fate as the one before, by the hands of another driven mad with desire. There was but one rule in this deadly game of Keep Away,

Only the last one standing could truly have her.

Chapter 1,
So it Begins.

It was a rainy day but the sun shone bright creating a magnificent rainbow that stretched from one corner of the sky to the other. The sun shone especially bright on one little hospital nuzzled in along the cherry blossom trees. The hallways of the hospital were unnaturally quiet that day as a brand new baby girl was born.

"She's beautiful...." Mr. Higurashi sighed holding his first born child.
"Our little Kagome..." Mrs. Higurashi cooed.
"Is she not the most stunning child you have ever seen?" The father stared at her mesmerised.
"Yes dear now give her here, I want to have another look at my baby girl." Her mother reached out her arms expectantly, not being able to do more than sit up after a very long birthing session. Her husband did not react to his wife's words and actions. "Honey?" Mrs. Higurashi looked at him concerned.
"Just...just a little while longer dear." His gaze did not waver from his daughter.
"Honey..." Mrs. Higurashi looked at him impatiently, "Come on now, you'll have plenty of time to hold her when we get home and I'm resting. For now I want to see the little angel that caused me so much pain."
"I SAID NO!" Mr. Higurashi lashed out at his wife angrily, the baby didn't so much as open its eyes.
His wife recoiled in surprise, "Goodness! Now that was just uncalled for! What has gotten into you all of a sudden?!". Finally looking away from his baby he saw his wife, hurt and upset.
"Dearest...I am ashamed, how could I have treated you in such a manner? After delivering me such a magnificent daughter..." Mr. Higurashi's eyes seemed honest and sorry but he his hands remained firmly grasped onto his offspring.
"Well...honestly I think we are all just tired. It has been a long day, let us retire." Mrs. Higurashi was quick to forgive and forget but her arms still remained empty.
"Yes." Her husband leaned down towards her and she opened them, ready and waiting to regain the piece of her she had just lost. But all she received was a kiss on the forehead. "Goodnight my darling."
"Goodnight..." She watched as her husband walked out of the hospital room with her child, and that was the last she ever saw of him, or her little Kagome.

Many years passed and any record of a girl named Kagome Higurashi could not be found, not by her mother or anyone else. It was like she never had been born, not to anyone in the world but her father. And he had made very sure of that, over the years he had moved from one town to another, changing jobs and names. Never letting anyone see that he even had a child with him. But this couldn't last forever, as his daughter grew she longed for the companionship of others, and she most desired to see the sky and world outside of what she knew.
"Oh Kagome, you're so beautiful." A man cooed brushing a little girl's beautiful raven dark hair.
"Yes Daddy." A five year old girl replied curtly.
"And who do you belong to?" The man asked, momentarily ceasing brushing and grasping the little girl's tiny arms, perhaps a little too possessively.
"Why of course you, Daddy." She replied like a trained dog.
"That's right." He continued. A few moments passed before anyone spoke again,
"May I go outside today Daddy? I have been very good." The little girl pleaded with her father, though she knew her attempts where in vain.
"No, Kagome. You know why I can't let you do that." He replied scolding.
"But why? Wwwwwhy?" she whined like only little girls could but it didn't last long. Her father threw the brush on the ground chipping it and silencing her.
"Because someone will take you away from me! I can feel it, their all around just waiting for you!"
"But how do you know that? No one else but you and mommy have ever seen me..." the girl was obviously speaking out of place and knew she would be punished for this later. But she just had to know why her life was so...abnormal.
"Kagome, we live in a time where legends exist. The unknown and dangerous are lurking all around us every day! I know this because on more than one occasion I have had to hide you from these things...these things..." her father seemed to fade away into memories of past horrors, Kagome wondered what these things could possibly be. Scaring her father in such a way. "These...monsters...demons..they want to steal you away...away from me.." her father finished, looking utterly defeat and tired.
"But why me...? Why do they want me father?" Kagome looked up at him with eyes that seemed as tired as his own, but they had the tiniest spark of curiosity hidden in them.
"Because you...you.." he trailed off, trying to find the right word to describe his daughter. "You are irresistible. Perfect. Tantalizing to the every sensation..." Kagome backed away from her father as his eyes glazed over, taking on a more and more crazed appearance as he described her. "You are a goddess, sublime in every way...just too..touch you..It's as if I'm the most powerful man in the world. Even in the filth of our poor life you shine like a star, radiant...maddening." He reached his hand out towards her longingly and she flinched away. "Kagome..." he whispered.
"Where's mommy?" she replied, frightened. Sparking something inside him he reached out towards her, violently grabbing her wrist and wrenching her upwards.
"I am all you have. Only think of me!" her father lifted her up off her feet as she squealed in pain, her arm struggling to support the rest of her weight.
"I am sorry father!" she begged him to release her, "Please...please.." she struggled to get the words out between sobs.
"That is better!" he replied, shoving her into a dark closet-like room. "I'll let you out when you remember that you are mine, and should act as such." Kagome twitched at the sound of five locks being closed, sealing her in for who knows how long.
"I belong to no one..." she whispered so quiet she couldn't even hear herself.

Six years passed and her life didn't change in anyway, her father would lock her away and go to work all day. Returning home he would immediately let her out just to cage her again in his arms, stroking and gently touching her. Telling her how much he loved her and that he was the only person in the world that would ever love her this way. She didn't know what to do, how to get away.

On an average day, she sat on an old bed in a room with only one door and no windows. This was the room her father had chosen for her to stay in since they moved from their last house. The door, of course, had 7 locks on the outside. None on the inside. She sighed lying down and staring at the ceiling, this was pretty much how she spent her days. Familiar with every crack and crook, on every corner and wall in her prison she counted the nail holes for what must have been the ninety eighth time. "Who would build a room with no windows?" she wondered sadly, someone trying to hide something perhaps...
"Priestesssss...." an eerie voice trickled in through one of the cracks in her ceiling.
"Who?" Kagome sat up, it must have been her mind playing tricks on her.
"Priestesssss....I have finally found you.." the voice came again.
"Who's there?!" Kagome got off her bed and peered into the dimly lit room, the voice seemed to come from nowhere and everywhere.
"I have come for you, I will rescue you from what hassss held you here." The queer voice came again sounding sweet and promising.
"You will? Truly?" Kagome struggled to hold in her excitement, who ever this person was they would take her away from here. Save her from the awful man that locked her away and called himself her father. Perhaps they would give her a new life where she could go outside whenever she willed, she had never seen anything beyond the walls her father imprisoned her in.
"Yessss...come to me Priestesssss, come here..." the voice coaxed her to a dark corner, where she finally noticed a shape that hadn't been there before. It didn't look human.
"P-priestess? Who's that?" Kagome tried to squint through the darkness but could only see more darkness.
"Come to me...." the voice beckoned again, and a hand appeared from the shadows. It looked human and trusting and finally Kagome approached it. As she began walking forward, lead by dreams of a life beyond a room her door swung open.
"NOOOOOO!!"her father's voice made her jump, he dashed forward arms open to grab her and she rushed forward as well. Not to her father, but towards the stranger who promised her a better life.
"Yesssss...." the voice seethed in victory as Kagome's tiny hand grasped onto its. Everything that happened next happened so quick that Kagome could barely keep up. She screamed as the once human hand she was holding onto rippled and convulsed tearing through what seemed like skin to reveal a horrifying, disfigured black claw. Kagome tried to let go but the claw restricted around her wrist and she let out another terrified scream as a monster the likes of nothing she had seen before stepped out of the shadows in front of her. Her father recoiled in terror as the black form stretched its huge dark wings threateningly, feathers the color of ink drifted around the room. "The power..." a strange hiss came from a slit with razor sharp teeth between two bloodcurdling red eyes.
Kagome fiercely tried to pull away, "No! Nooo!!" she screamed, her free hand reached out to the man she had so wanted to get away from for Eleven years. He was screaming madly but wasn't moving from his huddled position.
"She's MINE! MINE!" he reeled back and forth pulling at his short black hair and scratching his face. "Mine...all mine..GIVE HER TO ME!" Kagome's hand recoiled, she didn't know which she was more afraid of. Her father was going mad right before her eyes.
Her vision blurred with uncontrollable tears, "Nooo...daddy....help me."
"Enough of this." Came the hiss again before Kagome found herself hurling through the roof and into the sky she had so longed to see, but she didn't see the sky, the only thing she saw was her father convulsing on the floor calling out her name, over and over and over again until she was too far away to her his tortured screams anymore.

Well that's chapter one. I know it's weird, but I don't really like writing about "normal". I hope it was as interesting for you to read as it was for me to write. Leave an enlightening comment?