Who is this man? Kagome asked herself staring wide-eyed with fear and joy that she was saved, but scared of the man she was saved by.
Chapter 2; What is going on here?
"Nn…What the?" Kagome asked as she woke up. Rubbing a soft spot on the back of her head she took in her surroundings. Three figures loomed about the room whispering and watching. 'What are they looking at? Wait, who are they?' Kagome wondered as she tried to stand but fell to her knees. The floor was hard and cold under her knees. "Ouch!" Kagome gasped as she fumbled for a solid object. She found a hand that was waiting in front of her and took it. The owner roughly jerked her upwards. "Hey!" Kagome shouted as her vision slowly came back and she could see who she was with. The silver haired man from before held her hand for a few moments more then dropped it like it was a snake.
"Girl, what are you doing in my forest?" he asked roughly. Kagome blinked as she made out his face and body more. Her eyes widened as she looked around. Demons of all kinds were farther away than the man in front of her ventured.
"Who are you?" Kagome asked with a confused look.
"Keh! Answer my questions first you bitch!" the man shouted as Kagome looked offended.
"Who are you calling a bitch? All have you know I have a name!" Kagome shouted as she wobbled a bit. The man in front of her didn't care. She knew that already.
"I don't care! Just tell me why you are in my forest!" He shouted again. Suddenly a thought occurred to Kagome.
'He's saying his forest. Does that mean that he's..' Kagome was jerked from her thought as the man roughly shook her. Out of instinct Kagome reached out and smacked him. "Don't!" Kagome screamed at him. He stuttered as he fell backwards a few steeps. Kagome cured silently. 'Shit! I struck him! I struck the demon king! Inuyasha!' Kagome gasped as she started to back up as well. She was waited his thongs to shred her skin but it never came. Looking over to where Inuyasha was she saw him glare and walk out of the room slamming the large wooden door closed. Kagome dropped to her knees.
"He-he didn't kill me." Kagome said as she shuttered. She felt eyes pierce her skin and looked up. Three young demons were crowded around her in awe. "Wh-who are you?" Kagome asked to scare to move.
"I'm Shippo. That's Tinya, and that's Miro." Shippo said. Kagome saw he was about a foot and a half tall. Quiet cute for a fox demon in her mind. His hair was red and held back by a green bow. She looked around and saw Tinya was a cat demon. She had a long black tail and pointy ears like Shippo and Miro. Miro was a cat demon as well but his tail was spotted red, black, and gray. Kagome saw that they couldn't be over 13 years old. Blinking she stood up and looked down at her gown.
"Who changed me!" Kagome shouted as she felt violated. "Pl-please don't tell me that..that Inuyasha changed me!" Kagome shuttered.
"No! Tinya and her mother Tanyo did. They measured and made sure you'd be warm up here." Shippo informed her as Kagome looked at Tinya.
"Oh, thank you Tinya, and thank your mother for me." Kagome said as she smiled. Looking around she tried to find her clothing.
"It's not here. Miyo is washing the clothes you were wearing." Miro said. Kagome sighed as she looked at the children around her.
"Well, since I'm not to happy about my situation and can't do anything about, can you show me to Inuyasha? That's his name right?" Kagome asked as the kids nodded. "Ok, can you show me to him? I'd like to thank him and apologize." Kagome said as they walked to the door.
"Don't get to scared ok?" Tinya said.
"Why? Are they're other demons here?" Kagome asked as they nodded to her again. "OK, I'll try," Kagome said as she gulped and walked after the bouncy kids.
She watched as demons who were doing their chores had stopped to watched her walk by. She felt her self blush under all of the attention and kept walking after Shippo and his friends.
"Hurry up Kagome!" The children shouted as they stopped for her.
"I'm sorry, but you guys are too fast for me." Kagome said as she finished climbing the million and one stairs to the top.
"He's threw that door!" Shippo and the others cried as they pointed to a lone door. Kagome looked at them and walked up to it.
"Are you going to go in….to?" Kagome tried to ask but they all had scrammed. She hung her head and knocked on the door.
"What?" Came the familiar rough voice.
"I'm sorry to bug you, but may I come in?" Kagome asked as calmly as she could. A few moments later the doors swung opened scaring her. "Eek." Kagome squeaked as she covered her face. Peeking through one eye Kagome saw a very annoyed demon. Quickly Kagome bowed.
Inuyasha raised a brow in curiosity. "What do you want?" Inuyasha asked. Kagome stood straight but kept her head down as she started to talk.
"I'm…I'm sorry to hit you! And thank you for saving my life!" Kagome said as she felt her face burn red from embarrassment and from fright. She watched as Inuyasha's feet shuffled slightly. 'Turn! Turn and run back to the room!' Kagome's mind shouted as she stood still. A hand came into Kagome's view as she blinked and followed the hand as it went upwards. Not meaning to she meet eye-to-eye with Inuyasha. His golden brown eyes were locked with hers as she heard his voice.
"Keh, I knew you'd apologize. If you didn't I was gonna feed to the forgotten." Inuyasha said as Kagome shuttered. Finding her voice Kagome asked.
"The Forgotten?"
"They are the demons who attack anything that moves, even their own kind." Inuyasha said as he watched with enjoyment as her eyes widened with fear. He smirked and turned around to look out his window. "Leave. Go back to the room I'm letting you stay in. If you're a good little human, I may return you to the stupid boy you were with." Inuyasha said as Kagome blinked.
"What boy? I was in the forest alone until... Oh! Koga!" Kagome gasped as she knocked her self in the head. She saw Inuyasha was waiting for her to leave. Gasping Kagome bowed and turned around saying, "Thank you again!" And dashed off towards the stairs. Inuyasha followed just to make sure she left. He watched as she slid down the stair railing.
"She's gonna be trouble." Inuyasha grumbled as he went back to his solitary room and sat down in front of a large portrait.
Back down in the main hall Kagome was talking with a female wolf demon.
"Is there anything I can do?" Kagome asked as the wolf named Shira nodded.
"We need some help cooking dinner. Our chief, Biro had become ill and he's our only chief!" Shira said as Kagome smiled. Walking to the kitchen Kagome bowed and introduced herself and told them she was gonna cook. Most looked unsure but allowed her to be the chief.
"Mistress, what are we to have?" Some asked as Kagome smiled.
"Have you ever had Odens?" Kagome asked most shook no but a small child said that they had, had Odens in town once. Kagome smiled and told them what she needed to created the delicious dish. About three hours later Inuyasha had ventured into the kitchen following a new delicious smell. He saw Kagome, his captive, rushing around doing 10 things at once. He watched as she instructed his servants around with a kind and sweet manner. One of the children he had seen earlier was going to try and mess her up but didn't succeed. Kagome caught him before he spill a key ingredient and shooed him out like a mother. Kagome saw Inuyasha and flashed a smile before disappearing into the pantry. Inuyasha didn't know what to make of the prisoner who was doing chores around his castle without orders.
"Feh!" Inuyasha grumbled as he turned and walked away no longer showing interest in the strange human anymore, even though he would of liked to stay and watched the girl fuss over the tormenting children.
Dinner was served at 8:00pm, desert was brought in at 8:55pm. The whole meal was over at 9:43pm.
Kagome stood staring at how much there was to be done in the kitchen. She never realized how many dishes the castle's how hold would use. Sighing she piled dishes into groups. Plates were put together, as were cups, bowls, spoons, knives of all sizes and shapes, forks, and pots and pans. Kagome started with the plates and worked her way to the pots and pans.
While the others of the castle tried to sit up and go to help Mistress Kagome, many were to blooded to move. Inuyasha stood and told everyone to get some rest. They'd all been working all day and needed their rest. Tanyo was the first to speak felling well enough to stand.
"I'll help Mistress Kagome in the kitchen." Tanyo said as she waddled into the kitchen. Inuyasha 'feh'ed and let her go about her business. When Tanyo did make it fully into the kitchen Kagome's voice greeted her. Staring at the singing girl Tanyo waved Shippo and the other little ones into the kitchen to hear the melody.
Kagome was obvious to her audience and kept her lovely tone as she sung a song. "
Tell me babe, how many do I shed my tears?
Every Heart Every Heart is not a gentle yet
Shall I do? I can never say my loneliness
Every Heart doesn't know so what to say oh what to do
(I) was afraid for darkness cause I felt that I was left alone
So I prayed for help to (the) distant million stars
Round and round the planets revolve around the sun
And we always seeking after love and peace forever more
Growing growing woe baby we can work it out
Look up at the sky Every Heart is shining all today..." Kagome stopped singing. Sound of feet shuffling behind her told her that she had an audience.
"Don't stop! You sound really good Mistress Kagome!" Shippo said as the others nodded in approval. Kagome just blushed and shook her head.
"I can't!" Kagome said keeping her head bowed. She didn't want to face the people in front of her so she tuned her back and muttered, "It's late, you should go rest. I can do the dishes." Kagome started to wash when Inuyasha's loud voice boomed.
"Bed, everyone or else you'll go to 'The Forgotten'." Inuyasha shouted as everyone scrambled away back to their rooms shouting 'good-night' to Kagome and muttering 'mean bastard' to Inuyasha. Kagome sighed, relived everyone had left, but she didn't notice Inuyasha had hung back and sat down on the counters.
Kagome became so obvious to Inuyasha that she started to sing again. Inuyasha sat and listen, he was waiting for his revenge on the the girl washing dishes.
Just beyond the doors of the dinning room, Shippo, Tanya, and a two tailed fire cat named, Kirara stood listening to Kagome sing. With the whole castle quiet for the night her voice echoed throught out soothing the restless to sluber and relaxing the whole castle into a quiet slumber as well. Shippo and the others were trying to figure out what matter of creature the girl was. A siren of mythological stories or merely a human with a lovely voice. Their answer came when the confused demons heard her voice shriek with fright.
"Kagome!" they shouted running into the kitchen. Spotting a knife on the floor with a few slivers of blood they looked up towards Kagome and Inuyasha, who was nursing her wounds, against her will.
"I'm ok!" Kagome shouted as she tried to reclaim her wounded her arm. Inuyasha just merely glanced at her then her arm. Shaking his shirt sleeve into his mouth he tore a peice and wrapped in around her arm tightly.
"Stupid bitch! Don't you know how to put away knives without cutting your self?" He asked hashly making her shuffle backwards. Kagome glared at him and turned her back crossing her arms.
"Fine! I was just trying to be kind and allow everyone a goods night rest without worring about the dishes but, if you insist on critizing me! Do it your self!" Kagome said releasing her arms to her side balling her fists. "GOOD NIGHT YOU PAIN IN THE ASS!" Kagome said as she walked by the little ones. "Good night kids." Kagome said kinder than she did to Inuyasha. Walking out of the kitchen Kagome through a peice of silverwear at Inuyasha nailing right beside his face next to the wall. "Jerk!" She shouted walking off.
Inuyasha just started at the fork then at where Kagome once stood. Hearing Shippo's voice he looked down.
"Maybe getting Mistress Kagome angry is not a good idea Inuyasha." Shippo said as the others nodded slowly.