Bad Hair Days
Chapter: 3
Kagome woke with a choking chough, whimpering at how raw her throat felt from Yura's attempt to strangle her. She continued to hack and wheeze till she brought the fit under control, groaning as she came to her senses.
"Oh, finally awake I see." Yura's voice startled Kagome who's head bolted up to stare in horror from where she hung, tangled in Yura's hair. "I was beginning to wonder if you had died after all."
"What... what's going on?" Kagome demanded jerking forward in desperation, but the hair barely budged at all. She was alive.. but where was Inu Yasha?
"You know..." Yura questioned off handily lounging in a hammock of hair with her attention focused on the firerat robe that Kagome had worn. It was now in Yura's lap with her hands lightly tugging the material apart as if testing its strength and how much force was needed to rip it. "This is quite a surprising robe... no wonder I could not kill you, and here I thought you were somehow extra special..."
'My robe...' Kagome blinked then looked down at herself only to let out a shrill scream and instinctively tried to cover her exposed body. She dangled naked in a mass of clinging hair tendrils with only the smallest of ribbons crisscrossing over her chest and thighs. It was hardly enough to conceal her breasts and feminine mound. It was hard to tell which was more uncomfortable, being naked or feeling the hair pulling taught against her intimate places from her struggle.
"W..where are my cloths!" Kagome shrieked squirming in the grip of the hair, but was unable to do much more then cause herself to sway about like a fly trapped in a spiders web.
"I took them." Yura stated flatly and dismissively tossed the fire rat robe aside losing interest in it. It fell onto the matching hakama that Inu Yasha had worn. Hopped gracefully from her hammock Yura stepped onto a tightrope of hair and expertly walked her way towards Kagome who shrunk back with fear in response. "I had to make sure you didn't have any other tricks up your sleeve, if I was going to let you live..."
"W..where is Inu Yasha..." Kagome breathed eyes round with trembling terror, her voice weak with her emotions. Yura delighted in her expression and reaction and she leaned forward in an erotic manner for a better view and took Kagome's chin lightly in the grip of her hand stroking her fingers along her delicate jaw.
"You don't need to worry about that hanyo any more... I took care of him." Yura's eyes lit up with evil delight as she lifted Kagome's chin higher brining it closer to own. She hovered before the trembling girl as if about to kiss, but instead she turned Kagome's head aside directing it at another victim caught in her hair. "See, he's already dead."
"Inu Yasha!" Kagome cried seeing the limp bloodied and naked body of Inu Yasha handing in a mass of hair. The hair was slithering around him like snakes before it pulled him into the wall of the nest... she could hear as much as see what took place beyond. The Sharp crack and snapping of bone as the wall constricted and convulsed around the bulge that was Inu Yasha's body. In moments the action stopped and a streak of Silver flowed out of the wall, Inu Yasha's hair, the lump sinking further into the wall till it had gone.
"He had such lovely hair... and since he was your pet I thought I'd let you see him one last time." Yura giggled as she slipped behind Kagome to lounge against her back, letting her larger breasts press into Kagome's bear flesh. She lewdly wrapped her arms around the girl like she was a treasured new possession to be coveted.
Kagome could only stare at the wall of hair, held by Yura's gentle grip. Even if she had not been forced to stare she would be unable to turn away. Lips parted, they trembling as her entire body began to wrack with spasms of vulnerable realization, tears building in her eyes. Her fear was so great that she felt a warmth pour down her thighs, unable to control her bladder and wet herself.
"Oh my... please don't soil my lovely hair." Yura whined as the tendrils that clung bellow Kagome's hips rapidly retreated. In the process the strands above lowered her and Yura towards the floor of skulls bellow till Kagome's feet met ground and her legs gave out under her.
Yura simply smiled standing over Kagome letting her sit paralyzed with fear. She was still fearful of the girls power so kept her wrists held wide apart suspended in the air not unlike if she had been shackled in a dungeon cell. Only the hair that bound Kagome's wrists now remained, fully exposing the girl, a sight Yura was happy to focus her eyes upon.
"N..no..." Kagome trembled before she shook her head growing more violent with denial. "No!" Kagome began to scream and thrash about in blind panic trying to escape Yura's grasp. If Inu Yasha was dead then she was powerless, she had no hope of survival, of getting back home. She didn't want to die here, she didn't want to die in a world that wasn't her own so far away from the family that she loved.
"Stop making such a fuss." Yura snapped as a whip of hair slapped Kagome sharply across the face violently snapping her head to the side. The sudden pain was enough to bring Kagome back to her senses were upon she looked up at Yura like a cowering child. Naked, vulnerable, and powerless before a monster, she truly was just a child in that moment.
"You're alive because I want you to be." Yura stated crossing her arms while looking down at Kagome with an intense and somewhat sinister expression. "And I think we should have a little talk you and I..." Her soft musical laughter filtered through the nest giving light to a ominous foreboding in Kagome's breast.
"P..please... let me go..." Kagome begged, her pride shattered, just a scared little girl.
"Mmmm, I can't do that." Yura admitted as she took a step back and sat just as a hammock of hair swooping under her to provide a seat. Crossing a leg over the other Yura rest her chin with her palms, elbows on her knee favouring Kagome with all her attention. "You have very interesting and useful powers... Powers I could use. Tell me, how did you discover my weakness so easily?"
Kagome's tears escalated under the denial of her request and she hung her head unable to face her capture. She shivered from the cold of the demonic nest-of-death, but soon found tendrils of hair return to her body wrapping around her and providing warmth. A part of her wondered if it was from Yura's compassion or simply make her feel even more trapped then she already did.
"I... I just saw it..." Kagome answered. She had no will for defiance only a shameless desire to appease the demon and hopefully be shown mercy. "It... it was like an aura... I just knew it was important..."
"I see..." Yura pondered believing the girls words, but not liking the answer. So it was true then, the girl was a reincarnation of a powerful miko... and some of that power seemed to linger. Over all Yura felt more than slightly disappointed at her discovery's. The girl had been so mysterious and frightening, but now that it had all been explained it left nothing but a small pang of humiliation on her part. She had almost been done in by this girl, it was laughable... perhaps she had hibernated to long and lost her touch.
"You will help me find the shards." Yura informed casually as her thoughts refocused.
"What?"
"You were going to help that hanyo track them down, I have spared you life so now you will help me instead." Yura clarified.
"No, i... I won't." Kagome swallowed, she told herself not to be defiant but for some reason she couldn't just give in.
"Why not?" Yura frowned with a pouting voice, as if she had asked for a simple reasonable request and was denied.
"You're a murderer!" Kagome shouted closing her eyes and grit her teeth. "You.. you killed those men in the forest... you killed Inu Yasha... You killed all theses people!" Kagome continued trying to ignore the fact she was sitting atop hundreds, if not thousands of skulls.
"And that hanyo wasn't?" Yura snorted and gave Kagome the notion of being naive. "Your such an innocent girl aren't you?" Yura purred and held out a hand drawing Kagome towards her to hang right in front. She was held high enough that she was at perfect height to meet Yura eye to eye.
"Tell me, do you really think that hanyo was any different than me?" Yura took Kagome's chin in hand once more and pulled in her close, their breaths warmly mingling across each other's lips from the proximity. Kagome felt a sharp uncomfortable distress run through her from Yura's intimacy and swallowed attempting to still her emotions.
"He doesn't kill innocent people." Kagome breathed with a hushed voice of resistance. Yura was forced to pull back and cover her mouth breaking out in musical laughter, but did not release Kagome's chin.
"Oh so naive... you really didn't know who you were partnered with did you? Well let me tell you then." Yura purred and wrapped her arms around the all but cocooned Kagome, turning her in place and pulling her down to sit in her lap. Yura placed her chin on Kagome's shoulder and spoke with heated breath right into her ear. "That Inu Yasha, I have heard the name before, most demons have. He originally befriended the original keeper of the sacred jewel, waited till he had her trust, then murdered her."
"That's no..." Kagome tried not to listen but flashes of memory returned, Kaede speaking of how Inu Yasha killed her sister, Inu Yasha always stared at her with weary mistrust of loathing seething anger... If she was the reincarnation he must have held strong feelings towards Kikyou, but she was unsure of the nature of them.
"Oh it's all true... not only that, he went on a rampage through that miko's village after he gave her a fatal wound. He stole the jewel and left many dead villages in his wake. It was only luck I suppose that the miko was able to seal him before she died and he could escape." Yura continued. "But that is only a little of what I heard. While he was gaining Kikyou's trust he would mercilessly go out of his way to slay anyone, demon or human, that neared the village seeking the jewel. He wanted it for himself and would no others near."
"No... he was different then you!" Kagome shook her head trying to convince herself of Inu Yasha's innocence. For some reason she had to believe Inu Yasha wasn't as bad as Yura despite her earlier thoughts about him. If Inu Yasha was really that bad... then all the trust she put in him and the security she had felt when she was near him... was all a lie.
"Deny it all you like, but it is very much true." Yura grinned and nuzzled her face into the crook of Kagome's neck causing Kagome to gasp and tilt away from the intimacy. "Would you like to know who these skulls belong to?" Yura purred with a seductive tone. "I can assure you I have done far more good than harm in these lands.."
"Nnn!" Kagome whimpered unable to avoid the terrifying and stimulating actions of the demon.
"You are aware of the civil war across all the lands are you not? Of the free roaming armies and bandits... Any man with a sword or bow an outlaw and each happy to use it on any stranger for a few cups of rice." Yura explained as her nose tickled its way up the side of Kagome's neck, stopping with her lips just over Kagome's ear.
"I cannot help my lust for hair... but it just so happens most come from the outlaw bands of bandits and mercenaries... You cannot think I collected such a grand collection as this from innocent villagers did you? All about your feet lay the heads of murders, rapists, and pillagers. Who knows.. perhaps if I had not taken the bandits heads in the forest the village not far from here might already be in flames, their men butchered and women raped."
"Stop it!" Kagome shook her head not wanting to hear any more. "You can twist the truth however you want, but that doesn't change to fact you killed so many people!"
"I suppose not... but trust me. If you do not lend me your aid many, many more will die. I can promise you that." Yura's cold intense threat directly into Kagome's ear made her blood run cold. She had no illusion of it being a bluff. Yura was powerful enough to do whatever she wanted... even raze an entire village if it meant gaining a shard.
"You have the sight however..." Yura continued gently in a soothing voice to coax Kagome's will. "You can see what I desire... sense what I need. If you were by my side there would be no need for carless death. After all its so troublesome washing all that blood out of my hair... I'd much rather just go after the shards, but if you refuse to help me I'd have no choice but to remove everyone in my path till I find them"
"No!" Kagome shouted thinking of the village and everyone who would die if Yura followed through on the promise.
"Then you will help me?" Yura pulled her head away with an inquisitive expression. "Just like you helped that Inu Yasha." Kagome could not believe she was actually considering it, could not believe she would ever think of allying herself with such a monster, but as the quiet seconds passed she knew she had no other hope.
"O..only.. only if you promise me... you won't kill anyone else." Kagome let her head fall as tears of frustrated defiance fell down her cheeks. "That no more innocent people will die."
"No one's innocent... you learn that when you have lived as long as I have." Yura scolded but then smiled pleasantly and hugged a arm around Kagome's chest beneath her breasts, the other lifting to comb through Kagome's hair. "But I will accept your terms... only as long as you prove useful. Don't think you can trick me... you have already seen what I am capable of. You have no chance of reaching my weakness again either, you have no choice but to help me."
Kagome nodded and felt she had just made a pact with a devil, which was more or less the truth. She rapidly filled her thoughts with reassurances and white lies, that this was all for the best and that no one would get hurt. Her dispirit scrambling to find security in her decision was almost enough to really convince her, but she knew in the back of her mind she had probably made the worst mistake of her life.
"Now that business is out of the way... I have a few more questions for you." Yura grinned and Kagome blinked her teary eyes open to see a familiar strip of paper drop before her held by hair. As it spun in place slowly turning towards her, the images of her an Aika making out in the photo booth were revealed. The sight made her cheeks burst into color having completely forgotten they were in Yura's possession.
"Tell me all about the meaning of these images..." Yura spoke in a seductive demand and a new fear arose in Kagome. A terrifying vulnerable fear and realization of Yura's intimate actions towards her since she awoke... She was in far greater danger then she ever imaging and she had just agreed to stay by her side... Yura continued to giggle and rest her head on Kagome's shoulder as they both stared at the slowly spinning strip of photos, both with their own thoughts.
'I want to go home...' Was all Kagome could think as she closed her eyes with Yura's haunting laughter brushing across her ear, moments before Yura's lips met her flesh.