Captured: Chapter 7 "A Meeting of Hope"
Inuyasha lost count of how many days he was without Kagome. He was counting for awhile but after twenty days he just lost count and gave up trying. The woman who introduced herself as Naomi shortly after Kagome was gone quickly became his only friend. They both would talk but she had to be secret about it in case her 'master' caught her. It was fine with Inuyasha though, he believed that Naomi was the only reason that he was able to stay sane. He told her about when he first met Kagome and every adventure, small or large, they went on. In return, Naomi told him all about her brother and mother and all of their happy moments. There were many times they were so lost in there old memories that they would get brought back to reality when the man yelled for Naomi to get on with her chores.
At the moment, Inuyasha was in the dark looking at the cage that Kagome was once in, he missed her scent. The cage had been empty for so long that he himself couldn't pick up her scent anymore. He would struggle to try but there was no way he could even come close to smelling the once sweet smell that the cage endowed. His weight was at an unnatural balance and over time he even found it impossible to struggle to break the chains.
He sat there with his eyes closed until he heard the door open which in return his ears flung to the side and he flashed his eyes open to see Naomi coming down with a glass. She looked different than normal; she looked more solemn and melancholy. "Naomi, it is good to see you." He whispered trying to cheer her up. They were the only friends each one had so it was only normal that they would try to cheer each other up if they could.
"Hey." She said in a monotone fashion. "I will need you to drink this." She held out the cup.
Inuyasha took a sniff and didn't smell anything but water, "What is it?" he asked her knowing it couldn't be good.
"Just take it." She whispered as she held it up to him.
Inuyasha accepted that whatever it was, it couldn't be good and given his state, he couldn't fight back. He drank it. A few moments after drinking it he felt his eyes get very heavy until they closed completely. "What was th…" he said before he couldn't move his muscles.
The last thing he remembered was hearing Naomi whisper "I am sorry" than he felt his arms go limp, he was free, he was out of the chains and yet there he was not being able to do anything about it. Than he was lifted up like a sac…his mind then went black...
Kagome was on her way to the huge ball room. Tonight was a night that they were to send off a group of soldiers to attack some demon that was supposedly attacking one of the villages that was under the castle rule. It had been six months since she last saw Inuyasha and she decided to try and forget about him ever rescuing her. She finally came to a conclusion that he was dead and that this was her fate. She met her husband at the table, right on time. "Hello my lord." She smiled at him.
"Hello, I almost thought you were going to be late." He whispered as everyone else was just now walking into the room.
"Of course I wouldn't be." She whispered. Then her attention was brought to a man who was welcoming everyone for coming to this event. After twenty minutes of the man talking she got bored and started to let her mind wander to anything else but that. She started to dream back to Shippo and Kilala playing like little children and all of her friends laughing when Kilala being as experienced as she was would take Shippo down easily by jumping over him. He would watch her jump over him and as his head trailed up and his whole body would land in a thud on the ground. Kagome could feel a chuckle appear in her throat as she thought about those days of freedom.
Her attention was once again brought back to the world when everyone clapped and Jin rose himself to wave to everyone and she followed. 'I didn't even hear him tell us to stand.' She thought while faking a smile and waving.
Once they sat back down the man continued "As you all know there is a tradition that we do before we send our soldiers off to battle with a demon. That tradition is to bring a weaker demon here to the castle in order to allow the lord of the castle to kill it." Jin then stood up to grab a sword that was lying on a soft pillow. Kagome looked up to see him take it; she didn't want to see this part but was told she couldn't leave. It was some rule or something that she had to be at all events no matter what. They then heard chains rattling and a few curse words escape someone's mouth.
Jin went down to the middle of the floor and Kagome looked down at the table to play with her fork while Jin did this stupid tradition that she protested for so long. "We will defeat this demon and we will come out victoriously." He yelled as everyone cheered.
Than they heard a voice cursing more and more as it came closer into the room. "Damn you, leave me alone." Kagome looked up and couldn't believe who she saw. It was her old friend; he was there right in front of her! He was much skinnier than she last saw him but none the less it was him. He had his arms chained to his back and was being kicked by a person to the middle of floor. Once in the middle of the floor the person knocked him down to his knees and then grabbed the flat dull hair thus making Inuyasha expose his neck to the sword. In return, it made Inuyasha start to growl. Kagome almost wanted to sigh, leave it to Inuyasha to act tough even when he can't get out of a situation.
Jin started up "With this cut, I show that..."
"Wait my lord." Kagome yelled. She was probably going to be punished later but she finally found Inuyasha and she didn't want to watch him die...not now. He was her only pass out of here.
Inuyasha knew that voice from anywhere and looked over to see the woman that he for so long missed. "Kagome." He yelled in an overly happy tone seeming to forget that a sword was about to end his life.
"How do you know her?" Jin yelled putting the tip of the sword to Inuyasha's neck.
Inuyasha let out a low growl as Kagome came up next to him. She looked down at Inuyasha and then over to Jin.
Kagome dropped to her knees in front of the whole crowd and went to bow down at Jin's feet. "Please my lord, don't hurt him. I have known him before I knew you and he is no evil demon, he is actually a very nice half demon who just wants to live a good life." She said crying and never once looking up.
"Kagome get off the ground." Inuyasha yelled. "What happened to the Kagome that would rather die before groveling?" He stopped speaking when he felt the tip of the sword start to poke even more into his neck.
"Ignore him my lord, just please don't do this, please for me. I beg of you, you can do whatever you want but please don't kill him. I can explain more to you later." She started to cry even more now.
Jin couldn't take his wife crying any more, "That's enough." He whispered. "Get off the ground now." He ordered her.
"Yes my lord." She whispered getting off of the ground to show puffy red eyes.
'My lord? Since when did she start calling anyone lord?' Inuyasha wondered as he felt the tip of the sword go away from his throat.
"We will allow this one to survive, because it is a half demon, which also means it is half human. It will be a pet to the castle."
"Pet?" Inuyasha spat.
"Inuyasha please don't start anything." Kagome whispered. Inuyasha reluctantly quieted down.
She then whipped a tear from her eyes and ran over to the man and jumped at him hugging him and for a split second Inuyasha thought he saw her kiss him. He was perplexed at how she was acting.
"Thank you, thank you my lord. This means so much to me." She squealed hugging him.
"No public displays of affection." Jin whispered in her ear making her blush and back off. Then he told the guards, "Put the pet in a cage and bring him to an extra room. Make sure it has at least one chain around it at all times so that it can't get away. Also give him food from the party as well." Jin added knowing that it would make Kagome happier.
The rest of the party Kagome spent no attention on anyone talking or speaking. All she could think about was how Inuyasha was now safe and once he looked decent, he could help her break out of the castle. Although it may take a month for Inuyasha to get back to his healthy weight he was once at, once that happens they will run out together and live together forever...at least that's what she was hoping.
Whooo!! There is hope for our heroes yet!!
The ducklings are still doing very well. They are now three weeks old and are sleeping in their cage right now. They have chosen me to like the most out of my family and run to me more than anyone else but that also comes with them biting me which is suppose to show dominance or something like that. All I know is is that it hurts.
Please review for me so that I can know what you think of it. Oh and certain people already sent me who they think will die…I wont say who but I counted and I believe all together there are four deaths although three of them are a little low key and the fourth one will probably shock people. Go ahead if you think you can tell me the four who will die. I would like to know what you think.
