Chapter 7: Ride For You
Ride For You: Danity Kane
Tossing and turning in her bed, she casually wondered if she would get any sleep. Her bed seemed harder than normal and the room seemed more eerie. Maybe it was the lack of comfort she had now? A certain sense of reliability that had been there that she hadn't noticed until it was torn away from her. He had taken back his promise to protect her, something people just don't do lightly.
At first, after the hour or two of crying, she had fleetingly hoped he didn't mean what he said and he would realize it and come running back to her. It didn't happen, and she had given up hope. She had had every right to be mad; he had screwed the kidneys out of her friends, and then bragged about it to her face later. To think he was banging her virgin friends like there was no tomorrow and expecting her to be okay with it… sure he could be stupid, but really to be that dense?
A small aura flared around her and she sighed, trying to get a grip on her temper. She was getting mad again, even though he too had the right to be mad at her. She had purified him after all, but it's not like she really meant too… Kaede was going to kill her.
"Yes child, ye shouldn't have lost your temper. InuYasha can be stupid sometimes, but as a miko ye must learn to control emotions. Yes, it is a hard task, but ye will do it so much it will come naturally. Now, it seems as if it's time for practice, child?"
Kagome let out an exasperated sigh and stood, following the elderly miko out of the room. Another few weeks of miko training… as if the constant meditation wasn't enough!
Frustrated and exhausted, Kagome walked back to the shrine. A relatively long walk, this was a time when she wished InuYasha wasn't mad at her so she could call him and he could drop her off. Well, it might work. Fishing her cell phone out of her jacket pocket, she scrolled through the contacts until she found the one she was looking for.
'Doggy-boy. 555-6966' The phone rang thrice before a groggy voice picked up, and a terse growl was heard. Obviously he had caller ID.
"What the hell do ya want?"
Blushing and a slight stutter, she didn't see, hear, or feel the aura of 'nothing' coming up behind her. "I-I was wondering… if maybe you could… take me home?" She uttered the last few words meekly, twiddling her fingers together. Before he could answer a strong arm grabbed her wrist and spun her around. She screamed, eyes flying open to meet menacing red ones.
"Hello Kagome." He drawled, his hand traveling down her spine. Too terrified to call forth her miko powers, she just hoped InuYasha could hear what was going on through the phone and come save—
He wouldn't. He had taken back his promise to protect her, right? So he had no reason to come. She fell weak in Naraku's arms, and he smiled a dark smile at the beauty in his arms, disappearing immediately.
The hanyou zoomed through the streets as quick as he possibly could, probably fast enough to beat his half-brother Sesshoumaru, a full demon. He caught her scent, dropping to his knees when he saw her cellphone lying open on the ground.
"Fuck!" He sniffed the air, noting the abrupt stop of her scent a few feet away. He screamed a string of obscenities, racing to a mansion he rarely set foot in.
Arriving at the white palace of a house, he saw a little girl sitting outside with a toad-thing, playing a game of tag. The toad ran up to him, his big bug eyes narrowing at the hanyou.
"What business do you have with Lord Sesshoumaru, hanyou?"
He kicked the toad and murmured hello to the little girl, walking in the house with a scowl. "Sesshoumaru! Get your lazy ass down here!"
His half-brother was there in half a second, eyes narrowed and his face expressionless. "What is it you want, little brother?"
"I… I need your help."
The full demon's eyes widened slightly before his face set back into its perpetual expressionless form. "You think I would help you, ignorant half breed?"
"Shut the fuck up Sesshoumaru, Kagome's missing. That fuck Naraku took her."
"Naraku." He growled out, eyes flashing red for a fraction of a second. InuYasha knew that was the only way to bring him along, Sesshoumaru was just itching for a way to kill the half-demon with eyes of red and a sea of black, wavy hair.
"We leave immediately. Jaken!" The toad ran into the hallway they were standing in, bowing low before his master.
"Yes, Lord Sesshoumaru?"
"Watch Rin. The half breed and I are leaving."
"W-what?!" He sputtered out, eyes growing even larger than normal. "The half breed! Why?"
"Shut up, Jaken. Do as I say."
The toad didn't get a chance to answer, InuYasha and Sesshoumaru had already taken off.
"So, beautiful, it looks like you've lost all your will to fight me. You won't even try and show me those sexy miko powers of yours. Looks like your hanyou isn't coming… why would he? You betrayed him, Kagome. You nasty whore, all he wanted to do was protect you and you made it so he couldn't. Why would he want to now? Why don't you pay him back?"
A crystalline tear dropped from her eye, her face expressionless. He was right, he was so right… A foolish thing to do on her side had purified him. She shouldn't have done it, she hadn't thought it would be such a big deal…
She always had been the type who got upset when people were angry with her, and she remembered the joy swelling inside her when he had promised to protect her. Another tear. Naraku smirked, his mouth cocking to the side and his red eyes glinting in his own pride. She knew what he was thinking, and she couldn't help but think the same thing.
He had won.
Drawing a sharp nail across her cheek, she felt the warm blood trickle slowly down her face. His other hand was ripping her shirt into pieces, opening one gaping hole in the middle. He grabbed a screw, ripping jagged openings. She couldn't see what he was doing, but it felt like he was writing a note on her stomach. It hurt. It hurt so bad, she wanted to scream and kick and purify his innards, but she was too weak and too untrained. The pain of it was blinding her and clouding her vision, her mind was going black at the edges, and she found herself at the void of unconsciousness.
She took it with open arms, just before she saw him fiddle with his zipper. She knew she was going to get raped, and she knew she might as well be dead in the process. With a soft smile, she fell into blackness.
Finally catching onto the scent of Kagome around the eastern part of the state, InuYasha and Sesshoumaru raced through the streets at the same speed, InuYasha being driven by one thing- the need to protect. To protect the one thing that was giving him even the faintest glimmer of hope since Kikyo, a slight chance at a real friendship again.
Naraku appeared in front of them, holding Kagome in his arms. She was limp and looked dull, lifeless. His heart stopped in his throat at the faint beat of her heartbeat, and the occasional blink of an eye. The animated girl he had come to know was now a hollow shell, and he wondered what the bastard had done to her in the short time he had her.
Naraku smiled darkly, flying above and dropping Kagome into InuYasha's arms. "She is yours."
Sesshoumaru darted towards the sky, trying to catch the hanyou who had suddenly disappeared. He landed with a growl, his eyes glowed a bright red.
InuYasha stared at the girl in his arms, who was looking up at him blankly. The radiance he had grown used to was gone, her bright smile she showed his under-pleased eyes had faded, and the brightness in her eyes was replaced with the memories of something so bleak and dark it seemed unspeakable. His hands ran through her hair in soft strokes, each finger touching over rips and dried blood. He fought from cringing, and his eyes filled with tears he hadn't allowed himself to shed in three years.
Her hand touched his arm, pale and thin fingers lightly skimming over the soft flesh. "You came."
Her voice was hoarse and cracked, and when she opened her mouth he could see the blood and vomit she was fighting back. His eyes finally focused on her and he saw it all. He saw the cuts across her face, open and bleeding in jagged streaks. One was hastily tied together with poor stitches, a means of torture. Ghastly red marks traversed her neck and collarbone and under her ripped shirt. He could see through one of the holes in the shirt, words written in blood across her skin.
'Protect.'
At the word, InuYasha sank to his knees with Kagome in his arms, burying his face in her collarbone, his hot tears warming her veins. That was it… he had failed to protect her. He had taken back the promise, and somehow she had known those implications. She hadn't thought he was coming, and she had given up completely, letting Naraku have his ways with her. A slight sniff of her proved his hypothesis. The scent of purity surrounding her was gone, replaced with another scent.
Kagome was no longer a virgin.
He cradled her in his arms, this girl he had known for only a short time and had grown so attached to. A glance up, he realized his half-brother was long-gone. Thankful Sesshoumaru hadn't seen the bittersweet reunion; he looked down at the woman in his arms. He brushed her hair off her face, revealing her vacant blue eyes that were starting to spark with a vague hint of hope.
"Keh. I told you I would protect you."
Her eyes moistened with unshed tears and she smiled wanly. "You took it back."
He sighed, dropping his head back into her sliced collarbone. "Kagome…what the hell did he do to you? I was… scared. I am scared. I didn't mean to take the promise back. It just… came out."
Her weakened arms wrapped around his body with newly restored vigor, a soft squeeze warming his body. He was showing his softer side, a side of him she had never gotten a real glimpse of. Naraku had thought he would take away her innocence, her love, her happiness, and replace it all with a dark, haunted soul. In a way, he had succeeded. Though her soul still remained alive and loving, it was battered and bruised, a new depth in the realm of darkness that hadn't been there before.
"Don't worry about it, InuYasha. Can you just take me home now? My mom's probably worried."
He nodded, lifting her in his arms and taking to the sky. Kagome was safe. Bruised, slashed, and mentally and physically scarred, she was safe and cared about other people more than herself. His heart warmed and he lifted his face to the heavens, eyes narrowing intently.
'Would you curse me to love again?'
A/N
I'm not saying this to complain, but I work pretty hard on getting these chapters out as soon as I can, and I use up a lot of time I could be using to be doing something else. If that made sense
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