Captured: Chapter 10 "The Family Secret"
The next day Kagome had wanted nothing more than to find out where Inuyasha was but she was forced to follow Jin around like an animal. The first stop was breakfast...
Jin looked down to see Kagome already done with her plate and she started to play with her fork. A little after his father died, Jin had told her that she was allowed to eat with everyone else. Jin cleared his throat startling both Kagome and his servants.
A servant came running over to his side immediately "Yes my lord? What can I do for you?"
"Kagome is getting to skinny for my liking; make sure she gets more food on her plate." He said with a smile toward her.
Kagome looked at him puzzled, it had been over six months that they were together and yes she was a little skinny but she had been the same size now for four months now. "Uh, my lord." She whispered covering the side of her mouth that was facing the people at the table as to make sure no one else could watch her mouth the words.
"Yes?" he answered.
"Why did you just lie saying that I am getting to skinny?" she still kept to a whisper.
"Because you are sitting there playing with your fork and I get annoyed by that." He said smiling at her.
"You are just trying to get on my good side." Kagome whispered dumbly and then turned when she saw a plate was brought out with more food on it, she ate it at the speed she was told to eat her food, which was slow and dignified.
Jin smiled while watching her eat. "It looks like it is working." He whispered back over to her.
"I am not a man." She mumbled in between bites.
"What does that mean?"
"You giving me more food will not make me all of a sudden love you." Everyone around them was staring their way, trying to figure out what they were saying back and forth.
"I know that, I am just trying to make you happier." He said before he placed a hand on her knee.
Kagome quickly placed her fork down and stood up. "I will be off now" she bowed and then gave Jin a hate filled glance
"No you don't you will sit here until I say you can get up." Jin yelled.
"You never had me stay there before." She practically pouted back to him.
He looked around at all of the people staring before them, before mumbling "I never had to worry about you sneaking behind my back before."
Kagome sat down in a 'Hugh' and watched at all the spectators who stopped eating to look upon them. "You may go back to eating." She said at a normal voice. Then she whispered "Why can't we ever have a basic meal without so many people at these tables?"
"Everyone here is of some importance to the land that I own."
"Importance? Hah, the only important person here is nobody. Everyone here could die tomorrow and no one would care. In fact we could die tomorrow and no one in this land would care, all they would care about would be that they have to find someone else to take your place."
Jin gave her a stare before getting out of his chair. "Lady" he said dignified.
Kagome looked up from her bored stance and gave recognition by singing "Yeeeeeeeeees?"
"Come with me, we will talk more about this in another room." He said walking out.
Kagome was in shock, he never made a huge scene like this after his father died. In fact he loosened up quite a bit when his father wasn't around to make sure she didn't say one word out of place. There were many whispers coming from the table when she got up to walk out of the room and followed her husband.
When she saw that Jin had his back to her when she entered the room she started on her own, "Look Ji…I mean my lord, I am sorry for anythi…"
"Stop now." Jin turned around to reveal, he was playing the same dagger that his father had 'punished' her with many times before.
Kagome stopped dead in her tracks. "Look I am really sorry for anything I said in there. I truly am. I was just playing around." She tried to say in her defense.
He got closer to her and she backed up, "I am not going to hurt you." He said laughing.
"Then why are you playing with the…"
"Don't you trust me?"
"Trust isn't something built from making a person conform to your rules and teaching them it is your way or no way." She sound quite irritable and scared.
"I see." Jin let out a sigh. "I tried to trust you and yet you have proven to me that it is impossible to do, yet, I have done nothing against you and you still don't trust me."
Kagome was stunned, "Well you see, there is a small difference that being; you weren't forced against your own will to leave everything you know and be forced into marriage and into this kind of lifestyle."
Jin was playing with the dagger still. "I am different than my father; I tried not to force you to do something. I tried to give you the benefit every time and I have tried to let you follow whatever you want to. But it doesn't seem to be going very well so if you don't start following the rules better, I will be forced to follow in my father's footsteps."
Kagome's couldn't believe what she just heard. "I will start to behave better than I normally do." She said bowing to him.
"You wont try you will, if you don't I will be forced to do something my father did. I don't believe you were told of that story. It is a family secret best left untold." He said putting the knife away in its tiny sheath.
"Can you tell me?" she asked.
"No, and I hope that you will never have to find out. Now let's go off and do something more productive than stand here. We have to go listen to people babble on about the villages today." He said winking and walked out of the room.
Kagome was shocked, "One minute he is threatening next minute he winks at me?" She grumbled before walking out behind him…
Kagome followed Jin into a huge room and sat down next to her husband at the back of an overly decorated room, "Didn't they ever hear of tacky?" she mumbled
"Did you say something?" Jin said looking over at her.
Kagome looked over at him, "No, my lord."
"Very well, bring in the first person." He yelled and a small male walked in.
This guy babbled on and on about how the village was doing and said that there was some demon destroying it. Jin had his note taker write a note to definitely hire a demon slayer for that village.
One after another people were walking in to complain about many random problems to Jin. Of course he would probably never fix any of them. They varied from 'We need more crops' to 'Demons attacking' and even 'sicknesses killing many.' Kagome perked up when she heard about the sickness, it sound like pneumonia from her time but she wasn't known as a priestess here and if she were to talk during this time, it would only lead to trouble so she kept her mouth shut.
After all day of hearing people, the last person came into the room. In front of them was a man that was actually quite scrawny and yet was dressed in really nice clothe, Kagome assumed he was a head villager like many others.
"My lord, we are starting to have problems with the other lands, they are threatening on attacking us and wont leave our village alone. This man tends to come near quite often saying that our village is on his land. We try to explain that we are here due to you but he just said if we aren't off in one week our village will be attacked." The man said bowing down.
"Where can I find this man?" Jin said.
"He is at our village; it would be a three day hike out there." The man stammered to say.
"Are you the last person to have to come in for today?" he asked.
"Yes, I was the last one to arrive." He said.
"Kagome you will stay here and I will be back in six to seven days." He said while motioning the servant closest to them to help him out.
"Wait you are going today?" Kagome said trying to sound upset while actually wanting to smile.
"Yeah, I will have too; I don't want anyone intruding on my land, it has been in the family for generations. You…" he pointed to a servant next to him. "Gather the army, we are leaving at dusk tonight."
"Yes my lord." The man bowed and left the room
"Oh and Kagome…"
"Yes?"
"If I find out you were near that half breed, both of you guys will be sorry." He whispered as to make sure that only Kagome heard it.
Kagome was at a loss for words.
"You got that?" he said trying to sound very stern.
"Yes my lord." She said to him.
Kagome waved him off as he left on horse back with nearly all of the army; he left a few back in order to protect the castle but the rest went with him.
As soon as he was out of site, Kagome relaxed and went in. For six days, she would be free from him! 'I have to find Inuyasha!' she thought before thinking back on what he told her only hours ago 'both of you guys will be sorry.' "I will wait till later." She whispered, before she went to eat dinner.
Dinner actually was quite lonely, since Jin wasn't there, no one came around to eat, in fact other than the servants, there were three other people, all of which she never talked to. When she was finally done, she got up and walked around the castle and finally saw one of her servants that she knew really well.
"Hey Kira" She whispered walking up next to the servant. "I need to talk to you alone." She said looking around to make sure no one around could hear them.
"About what my lady?" she said still mopping the floor.
"Just come with me, I have a few questions I need to ask you."
They both went into a small room and Kagome closed the door behind her. "I need to ask you something Kira."
"Go on."
"What is their family secret?"
"What?"
"Jin said that his father did something that is a family secret. I need to know what it is."
"I am surprised he told you that much. Trust me you would be better not to ask, definitely with the man you like in the same roof as you two."
"You have to tell me." She begged.
"Alright but you aren't going to like it."
"Try me." She said sitting down at a table as Kira sat down across from her.
"Where should I start?" Kira said thinking to herself. "Well a while back the lady of this castle before you came, Jin's mother was in the same position you were in. To let you know Jin's father wasn't always so strict, in fact when he was first lord he was much like the way Jin is today. Jin's mother was much like you, she didn't want to be here and yet she was forced to. She tried over and over again to get out of here and run back to her former lover. But that's when the trouble came in. Her former lover was also in the search for her.
"Her former lover went everywhere in search for her and could never find her, that's when he came here to this castle to ask the lord of the castle if he had seen her. They were both shocked to find each other and were quite happy for the long awaited meeting. When the lady asked if her former lover could stay at the castle, the lord allowed it, which turned out to be a big mistake for all of them.
"It started slowly with the lady not listening to the rules laid out to her and than it got worse. She would walk off to go see the man, and would find excuse after excuse to leaver her husband to go check on the man. When he later found out that this man was her former lover…" she stopped talking.
"What did he do to them?" Kagome was so wrapped in the story she had to know.
Tears started to pour down the servants face. "The lady got off free without any physical damage but the mental damage, she was scarred forever."
"Tell me what he did." Kagome said while leaning forward.
"Jin's father was so upset; he grabbed the former lover and killed him. That day was the day he turned into the man that you met when you first got here."
Kagome gasped at the words. "How?"
"He found it fitting for the man to torture the former lover slowly in front of the lady, the one who loved him the most. I don't want to go into details but… he finally died after being tortured for several hours. The lord being who he was got away with it. It was so sick" she stopped right there, trying to catch her breath in between sobs.
Kagome started to cry. She was about to relive what that person went through. Although, Inuyasha was a half demon and could probably get away from them, she didn't want him to go through any pain if she could help it. "Thank you for telling me all of this. Can you tell me where Inuyasha is right now?"
"He is in the dungeon locked up. We are passing food down to him. He keeps asking endlessly if you are alright and keeps making sure you didn't get hurt. We have yet to tell him of this story."
"Then don't. He doesn't need to know and it won't happen. We are going to break out of here and leave this place tonight."
"You can't my lady." Kira quickly stated.
"Why not?"
"As selfish as this may sound if you break out with him, it will be us that takes the punishment. We as servants are to make sure you stay here so if you leave, we will be going against the law which may result in death for everyone here."
"What?" yelled before slouching further into her chair.
"Yes my lady and not only that but there are guards everywhere, you won't get anywhere. Inuyasha is being watched 24/7 by a guard."
"Than how are you passing food to him?"
"The guard lets us give him food on the grounds that we say he never knew about it if we are caught but he would never allow you to break him out."
"Thank you for telling me that. Can I at least go see him?" Kagome whispered
"We were told to not let you go see him. We may be reluctant to let you do some things different but that is something we can't take a chance on getting out, for the sake of you and Inuyasha. If Jin was to find out, there would be another family secret."
Kagome nodded in agreement before she got out of her chair. "That will be all then." She said walking out of the room.
"I am sorry my lady but this would be for your own good." The servant yelled to her.
"Yeah, I have heard that one before." Kagome sighed walking off to her room.
Alright, sorry it took so long, my internet died for the past four days. It has given me time to appreciate one thing though. The fact that we have internet, ugh, spending nothing but family time for the past few days made me really want my internet back. Don't get me wrong I love my family but it gets annoying when you don't have a choice but to be with them.
The ducklings are now independent for the most part now. They only come to us for protection now like if my older ducks or my chickens go after them. It is pretty funny because when they are being chased they will go in between our feet and turn around at the animal like they are saying, "Yeah, now what are you going to do?" it is so cute.
Well someone asked why Jin is starting to appear like his father…Well that was no accident, I meant for it to come out that way. In fact the main theme I want from this story is "like father, like son." Although it may just now start to get to that theme…
Tell me what you think!!