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Chapter 10- I love you
"Inuyasha?" Kagome whispered to him when the lights went off for the night. "I'm scared"
He held her tightly and said "I'll protect you"
Kagome shook her head "You can't, they'll hurt you again, and all because of me…"
Inuyasha kissed her hair and rubbed her back comfortingly. "Don't you worry about me, you're the important one" Kagome sniffed and cried onto his shoulder in the pitch blackness.
The next morning was a shock. The first thing that Kagome noticed was that she was in water her head jerked up to see that the water level was rising. Inuyasha's head and chest were still above the water but Kagome saw water lines along the walls that showed how deep this place got and it was very deep.
"Inuyasha!" she said shaking his shoulders.
He woke up with a yelp and saw the water halfway up his chest. "What happening?" he choked out and stood up to get some more room against the water level rising.
Kagome looked up at him and said "The pool is getting deeper, look" she pointed to the water line at nearly the roof of the pool.
Inuyasha looked down at his chained ankle. The chain wouldn't reach that far! Kagome realised that too and desperately started tugging on the chains.
Inuyasha put his head under the water and pulled on the chain as well. He ran out of air and stood up, the fast rising water level up to his shoulders, he took another breath and then came back down and tried to pry the chain from the walls.
Kagome was crying in desperation her hands bleeding from the force she was applying to get her love safe. He swam up to the surface again and strained the chain to its maximum and then took his last breath before the water rose higher than the chain and his body could reach.
Kagome held his face and said "Hang on, I'll get you safe" Kagome forced her weakened powers to work and slammed the force of a hurricane on the shackle and it cracked.
Now free Inuyasha kicked his way to the surface and gasped at the cold air and coughed and spat out water in his throat. Kagome had fainted and was lying on the ledge that he had been chained to seconds before.
Inuyasha took a deep breath and swam down to pull her to the surface, he was very worried over the amount of strength she had used, not to mention her bleeding hands.
He held onto a small handle while Kagome's head rested on his shoulder, her breathing was even and her face was a little worried of the colour of her skin, a pasty ash white grey. He put his forehead on hers and heard a dark chuckle from above them.
He turned and glared up at Naraku. "You son of a bitch!" he shouted at him.
Naraku smiled and said "That I am. I knew at once that you loved that creature and I saw in the van that it fancied you when it tried to drown one of my men because he was hurting you. And I simply did what I do best; used the creature's emotions against it, now we have a good amount of data. It's not much but it is defiantly a start…" he turned and walked away.
Inuyasha growled at the place he had been a moment before then heard a small groan beside him. He looked down and saw Kagome slowly start to wake up, she opened her eyes and smiled sleepily up at him. "You're alive…" she sighed out, loving the feeling of her body pressed against his.
Inuyasha smiled and then kissed her bleeding fingers "Thanks to you. You didn't have to go that far for me"
Kagome nodded and healed herself lazily "Yes, I did. I can't live in a place where you aren't there"
Inuyasha gasped softly, she loves me…
Inuyasha kissed her nose quickly and whispered "I love you, Kagome. But you know that until we get out we can't really be together"
Kagome's eyes filled with happy tears and when the drops of water hit the surface of the pond they turned into beautiful pearls. Kagome wanted so badly to kiss him but she knew that if she did he would be experimented on as well to find out the true nature of a mermaids kiss.
Kagome slid from his arms and dived under to pry the rest of the chains from his ankle.
The next few weeks were torture, literally.
Naraku demanded blood samples from her and Inuyasha at once stood up against the idea and as soon as he did that a man hit him hard with his gun and Inuyasha lay on the floor almost dead from the amount of beatings he got every time he tried to protect his love.
Kagome cried bitter tears throughout every one of them, she couldn't help as all the time a loaded gun was positioned at the back of his head as if to say 'don't try anything funny creature'. Nobody but Inuyasha had ever treated her like a person here, she was an animal in their eyes, and of course their way to fame and fortune if they played their cards right.
Kagome whimpered as one of the men pulled her arm out striate and then harshly stabbed her with a needle, a single tear of pain flowed down her cheek and into a small glass vial that held all her collected tears in it. They wanted her to cry as much as possible so one they could get as much data from the tears and their properties, two they always hoped for pearls to fund their experiment. But because she was so unhappy they only got multi coloured sea glass.
Kagome watched the small vial fill with her blood then they tossed her backwards, she fell into the water but hit her head on the edge of the metal ledge just before she hit the water. She sank to the bottom holding her head curling up in a small ball.
Inuyasha dragged himself to the edge of the pool and let one of his hands lay in the water waiting for her to come for him.
Naraku was growing impatient. From his mermaid he had only gotten sea glass tears when he was sure she cried pearls at one point and all the evidence he had collected from her, DNA, tears, ocean strength, speeds, was all useless as he did not have the right men and equipment to do anything with all the data.
He watched the screen hungrily as he saw the little mermaid swim up to meet her lover. He smiled at her and she gently pulled him into the water, holding him tightly against her heart as a soft glow covered them for a second then a perfectly healthy Inuyasha was holding her hand as she swam with him to the little rock in the centre of the old aquarium.
Inuyasha held her on his lap and had his nose in her hair and both arms around her keeping her in a safe embrace for a while.
Naraku watched then from the control room with interest wondering if he could twist the situation to his advantage. But all thoughts of hurting the creature vanished when an angel began to sing.
He looked at the screen and saw the mermaid still on Inuyasha's lap still in his arms but she had her eyes closed and her back striate as she sang in a mysterious language that seemed to linger too long in the air.
All the men in black stopped talking and playing cards or smoking to listen to the song the mermaid was singing. Inuyasha who was the closest felt the magic in the song and in a strange way seemed to recognise what she was trying to say in the song.
It was a sorry to someone close to her, forgiveness, love for him, letting out her sadness and connecting with her sisters again. Naraku stood up and looked outside when he heard something funny. He opened the window and definitely heard it.
Along the coast mermaids heard the song and mournfully joined in with the singing of the one in captivity. The men all lined the widows in shock and whispered to themselves the voices of the sea maidens bringing back memories of things long forgotten.
Kagome let her heart go into that song and head a long way away her sister singing with her and the great mother of the sea Midoriko murmuring her own melody.
As the song began to end the soft sobs of a thousand mermaids reached the ears of the two in the pool. Kagome cried bitterly as well held Inuyasha tightly and whispered "Don't' leave me… you're all I have left"
Inuyasha promised and asked "What was that?"
Kagome sniffed and said "It's a song that a mermaid begins when she cannot return to her home, or to the sea. All mermaids answer the call and try to help her get home before the song ends… it lasts for three days, at the end of the song then I will be dead… if I don't get back to the ocean soon I'm gonna die, the water is our life. I can't survive without it"
Inuyasha gasped and held her tighter "Kagome, no you're not going to die! I won't let anything happen to you. Was that an SOS call?"
Kagome nodded "Every mermaid who heard my song and sang it also will be doing everything they can to help free me, I had to sing that because I needed to say goodbye to Kikyo… now I have to keep strong because if I use up too much strength and I'm not in the sea I'm dead before the three day song ends"
Inuyasha thought fast and when he made sure Kagome was asleep next to him on the rocks he swam over to the ledge and started to climb the ladder next to it. All the men in black were busy talking about the song and the voices from the sea.
Inuyasha made sure that he couldn't be seen then took off his friendship necklace and scratched a message onto the back.
RIP = 3 dys
Then threw it out of the small window, that let them get air, then slowly climbed back down and hoped that Miroku and Sango would get the message.
Poor Kagome and Inuyasha. Well I'll just have to fix this won't I, Naraku! You have a nasty surprise in store for you, mwuhahahaha!