"I'm hungry!" The girl complained again through the metal window, shaking it again and again. The guard had had enough already with her 20th distasteful scream.
"Be quiet! How many times must I tell you that you will not be eating today?!" The guard countered, screeching back at her through the steel bars.
"Not enough times to shut me up! Now go bring me food or Kami so help me!"
"No! Now shut up!" He roared and turned his back on her, more than slightly annoyed. She stuck out her long finger and poked his head.
"Boop, go find me food!" She whispered with a childish tone, but the guard flatly ignored her. After a few more touches to the head, the guard wailed out frustrated and left the prison hut, ordering another guard to stay in charge. She clearly grunted and jumped of the window pane, kicking the dirt floor. With a couple of more punts, a ripe apple flew in through the window and hit her square in the back of her head. She twisted around and glared at the guard who had taken the place of the guard she formally annoyed.
"Oh, yeah... thank you for your generosity!" She modestly thanked him.
"Shut up and eat the apple before anyone sees that I gave you food!" He hissed back. He sounded young, just like her or a bit older. She went and picked up the red fruit, hiding it in the pocket of her long kimono. She ran to the window and leapt, clutching the metal bars once more so she could look outside, positioning her feet on a wooden board that stood just underneath the window.
"Tell me, doesn't your Lord have any food for his prisoners, at least a bit of bread?" She curiously questioned with a happy mood.
"You think you're the only one hungry around here? When our Lord doesn't wake, we don't get to eat unless he's eaten first. And someone kept him up all night!" He hastily replied, not turning to face her likeness.
"Don't play stupid with me! I know demons can go without sleep for a couple of weeks, isn't that right?" She clarified, feeling a tad bit of sorry inside her empty stomach.
"Yes, but he just came back from a meeting from the North, taking a couple of weeks to get here without rest!"
"So what does that mean? That he will take another couple of weeks to sleep and regain energy again?" She was getting tedious, looking at her overgrown nails in utter boredom.
"Oh I hope not, but there has been a history in years that he has taken a week sleeping away." He sighed, shifting his feet for a more relaxing hold.
Mhm, very well then, it's time to go find food for myself. She looked around, only seeing one guard at her window, the one she just chatted with and the other sitting at the door, dozing off. A total of two guards protected the hut, and Lord Sesshomaru should have known better than that. Quickly snatching the metal pole the guard held by her window, she shifted it and aimed at the guard's face that just turned around to look at her, the pole smacking right into his forehead hard knocking him unconscious. She brought the pole in through the window, positioned it once more facing the doorway, and ran at it with her all might. The pole broke through the door and through the lock, throwing the door wide open. As she turned to face the other guard, she noticed he wasn't up and ready to fight her. Perplexed, she looked back and front until she heard a man grunt behind the door that she had just thrown open. She looked behind it to find the other guard on the floor, barely conscious from the smack of the door.
"Oops... um, here's the apple." She smiled apologetically, comforting him with an apple on hand, and he just let out a loud huff that jerked his whole body.
Beaming, she ran off and through the shadows until she reached the castle wall. No problem for her, for she was a good rock climber and the whole wall was made of rock. Happily, she dug one of her hands into a crack and began her climb upward. In no time flat, she swung her leg over the wall and leapt down, softly landing on her nimble feet. She hustled towards the closest village, laughing like an escaped maniac.
"Where is she!?" Sesshomaru hysterically screamed at his guards who frantically had ran around the castle for the 50th time, finding no sign of the girl. She had been smart enough to rub dirt all over her body in the hut, in fact so much dirt, that Sesshomaru only smelt terra everywhere like he normally would. The servants, too, were running like mad around the castle grounds searching for the girl and finding in her place nothing. Sesshomaru was surprised and angered to not know how this girl, this pathetic human worthless girl; escaped him, his guards, and his castle! How was it damned possible?! Finally, a guard howled saying that he had found her. Sesshomaru darted towards the guard who was looking inside the hut astounded. Sesshomaru pushed him aside roughly, making him bump into another one, the same guard that had the metal pole bruise on his forehead.
"Where have you been?" Sesshomaru hissed at the sitting girl inside the prison hut, who was smiling at him in return.
"What do you mean? I've been here the whole time watching you and your idiots run around like crazy rats in the sun."
"Do expect me to believe this lie? Not only can I smell your lie, but the door and lock are broken. How dare you deceive me?"
"How dare you not feed me? Must everyone obey your wishes? What if you were dead on your bed, never coming out and everyone thinking you were asleep? We would die of starvation!" He leaned on the door way, inspecting her for a mere moment. She huffed and turned her head sideways, hating how he often loved to inspect her and her unflawed body.
"What's your name?"
"I don't have one." She flatly replied, almost with a distant look in her eyes.
"Kudaranai." She snapped her head to look at him.
"What?"
"Your name from now on, is Kudaranai." Smirking, he managed to bear in a chuckle. Wedged inside his throat like mucus. She shot up to her feet, visibly livid.
"Worthless? Worthless? How dare you name me as such! I will not obey or even listen to that name, do you hear me!" She bawled at him with wide stubborn eyes. He treaded in and grabbed her by the back of her neck, dragging her out with brute force.
"I listened, but I did not hear.." He coldly replied. Kudaranai shrieked as she tried to get away from his grasp, but it was no use. She twisted and tried to strike him but nothing worked. Finally, she crouched down and bit his thigh. Sesshomaru hissed, and yanked her scalp away by her hair, making her yelp in pain and to release his leg.
"I vowed to be nice to you, to get your hair cut professionally, but if you don't want that, so be it!" He yanked up her long and silky jet-black hair in his palms and in a quick movement with his rigid nails, her long locks were gone. Kudaranai gasped and wailed in pure pain when she saw her treads fall onto the ground before her wriggling feet. She had cared for her hair so much, to have it long and beautiful, only to see everything wasted on the cold and cruel ground. She fell to her unstable knees, sobbing and picking up her thin locks from the floor. She reached a hand up to touch her new hair she gasped as her locks only reached now under her ear, and badly uneven from the reckless cut. She heard the guards laughing, and in the corner of her eyes she saw Sesshomaru smiling. She got angry at herself, showing him her weak side for a moment; he was provoking her. Damned bastard. He wants to play unfair, let's play unfair. She firmly stood, and gazed into his golden amber eyes.
"Don't worry, it'll grow back soon. And I must truly thank you, for my head feels much lighter, allowing me more freedom to move my body however I want when escaping." She gave a crude smile, a little fazed by the white lie.
"I'll make sure your hair gets a regular cut from now on, no longer than below your shoulders- !" All of a sudden, a hand flew across his face, barely skimming his nose and making him blindly stumble back. He shot an irritated glare aimed for Kudaranai.
"That's how fast I can hurt you, without you even knowing it. Consider that a warning you old man!" Kudaranai spat threateningly. The guards and servants obviously gasped at her rash boldness.
"Now take me to fix my hair because it will NOT stay like this!" She pointed to her head, with teary and big honest eyes. Sesshomaru simply smiled, loving how she was already bending to his rules. But little did he know, that actually it was he who was bending to her rules.