Children of Tomorrow
Chapter Three
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Disclaimer: You should all pretty much know what I own by now. Oh, I can also lay claim to Hikori's sick and perverted behavior. That is totally mine. MereMew isn't hentai enough to come up with it.
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The guard brought Chiyumi to a large, ornately decorated room and set her gently down on a large pillow.
"I'll be right back," he promised, "I'm going to bring the Lady to you. Please try to hold on, just a bit longer."
"Alright. Arigato," the guard squeezed her hand.
"Things will be alright, you will be well treated," with that he left her. Seconds later a young woman walked into the room through a door in front of Chiyumi. She appeared to be in her late twenties with short black hair and piercing garnet eyes. These eyes seemed to glow, as if filled with the very fire of Hell itself. Her kimono was made from the finest silk and had a pattern of golden phoenixes on it. Her smile was condescending as she looked down at Chiyumi.
"What business do you think you have here?" Chiyumi began to pick herself up and brushed a bit of dirt off her clothes, "Oh, faking your injuries where you? I must be popular."
"I am here to kill you Hikori."
"Have you know?" cruel amusement was written all over her face. Chiyumi pulled her head covering off and allowed her silver hair to ripple down around her shoulders, "Oh it's you. And what was your name again?" Chiyumi growled.
"You had one of your underlings stab me with a cursed sword and you don't even know me?" Hikori laughed.
"Oh Chiyumi-chan I know all about you."
"Call me Chiyumi-chan again and you will die slowly."
"Oh don't be silly, Chiyumi-chan. You are a badly wounded, ill-bred pup. What could you possibly do to me?"
"I am stranger than you will ever be," Chiyumi spat, Hikori's eyes narrowed and a searing pain ripped through Chiyumi.
"You should be careful what you say to me. If you die, it isn't just your life that will end. Didn't you know that your body is no longer yours?"
"No longer..." Chiyumi's brain froze as she stared wide-eyed into the distance. Her hands went to rest unconscious on her slightly bulging stomach as the only working part of her mind drifted back to something her mother had said...
A dog-demon's gestation is one month. But you Chiyumi-chan are only half dog demon. A human's gestations is nine months. But you are only half human as well. DO you know what that means, musume?
No okaasan.
It means that if you should ever want children you will carry them for five months.
But I don't wanna have children, I won't be able to fight while I carry them or while they're little.
Oh, Chiyumi-chan. You won't always think that way. Not when you meet a nice man and fall in love...
"You knew. How could you possibly know what I did not?" Chiyumi demanded.
"I know many things. I saw that you were destined to carry the monk's child so I had that demon attack you beforehand."
"And to achieve what end? What am I to you?"
"You are nothing. It wasn't you that I wanted. Though looking at you now, completely in my power, well it is arousing."
"That's sick," Hikori came over and knelt in front of Chiyumi, who noticed then the trap she had walked into.
"You see Chiyumi-chan, those Shukusens are legendary for their great power. You don't deserve them. I wanted to exchange them for the healing of your wound. But now, I have a new bargain to propose. Become my plaything. Mine to have whenever I choose and I will heal you. In fact I will even raise your child for you when it is born. You see I know you too well. It isn't enough for you to just agree to be my slave, I would need to subdue you somehow, and one who is subdued isn't one fit to raise children."
"Never. I will never become your toy. Used only for your little sex games. I won't!"
"You can't win against me you know," Hikori slid her finger up Chiyumi's leg and into areas beyond, as Chiyumi struggled against invisible bonds, "Agree and your children will live," she smirked as Chiyumi arched her back, the hanyou's body responding to the older youkai's touch, "Defy me and both you and the pup will die, then the raccoon waiting for you outside and finally your brother..." she paused and added, "Both of them."
"Fuck off," she gasped as Hikori dug a nail into her.
"That's not nice. Things could go very easy or very hard for you, you know. Think of those you love. Agree to my demands," Chiyumi arched her back again as Hikori gave her finger and exceptionally hard thrust.
"Very well, but you must promise to give my child to their father."
"Agreed. Your life for your child's. How very touching. Now, shall we begin out play?"
When Chiyumi went into the village Tanuki was worried. When ten minutes passed he began pacing. When a scream tore the early morning air Tanuki feared the worst.
"She's been taken Takara. I know it," Takara rolled her eyes. Stupid racoon. Didn't he know Chiyumi-mistress by now? She was fine. She was probably ripping the head off that demon woman, "Takara I know that you don't like me but for once in your life please listen to me. You have to go find the others. They need to know that Chiyumi-sama is in danger. Please Takara. Do it for Chiyumi-sama. You need to find a half demon that looks and smells like Chiyumi-sama. He'll be with two human females, one has a cat demon with her, the other is a miko. You'll be able to tell which one the miko is. There will also be a human monk, two little kitsunes and a half kitsune. I need you to bring them here, if you go quick enough we may be able to get to Chiyumi-sama before it's too late. Please Takara," the young kamikitsune considered biting him, then, turned her face to the castle and took off.
"Please hurry, Takara, Chiyumi-sama needs help."
It took Takara several days to find the scent of the ones that Tanuki-baka needed. Several more passed before she actually caught sight of them. Remembering to stay out of sight and downwind of anything with a strong nose, she snuck into a camp inhabited by people matching Tanuki-baka's description. So she found the people she needed too but how was she going to get them to follow her back to that manor? People were stupid and couldn't understand the points she tried to get across. The kitsunes might understand but they were young and the adult might not take them seriously. So who did that leave? The cat demon maybe? If it was a pet, it might be able to convey what it wanted to it's owner. But then again if it was a human's pet it might have forgotten what it was to speak with wild tomes and might not understand Takara anyway. No, her best bet would be to steal something important and run in the hopes that one of them would follow her, like when she stole Tanuki-baka's food. Takara looked around for something to take, something important, something like....that sword! If she were to steal that sword the hanyou would follow her for certain! Takara slunk down low and crept towards the unsuspecting hanyou. With only the slightest of noises she lunged forward and latched onto the sword's scabbard. When she launched her body backwards the string that held the sword snapped and Takra took off in a dead sprint.
"What the- You! Get the hell back here!" Takara paused only long enough to wave her tails at the hanyou mockingly before taking off again. She had a decent lead on the silver haired boy and an even bigger one on the smaller half kitsune who had followed him.
~What are you doing?~ the cat demon had caught up to her.
~None of you damn business.~ was Takara's muffled reply.
~Don't be stupid the boy will eventually catch you.~
~ I need him to follow me. My mistress needs his help. My mistress is his sister and may be dead by now.~
~You had better be telling the truth.~ the cat demon transformed into a larger, fiercer version of itself and picked Takara up by the scruff.
~What the hell are you doing?!~ demanded the irate kamikitsune.
~I'm helping you, what does it look like?~ the demon waited patiently until the rest of the group caught up then dropped her prize, Takara tried to take off again but the cat demon picked her back up.
"Thanks Kirara," the hanyou reached for his sword and scabbard but Takara growled at him and held on to her prize, "Leggo, ya little shit," the younger hanyou sniffed at her a bit, Takara growled a warning.
"She's got Chiyumi's scent all over her," he stated. A young girl kitsune climbed up is arm and reached to pat Takara's head. Takara growled once then relaxed when the tiny kitsune began scratching her ears. Chiyumi-mistress had mentioned this one. She was ok.
"Ooo...lookie how kawaii she is Ashi-sama!"
"Yeah right, very kawaii," was the sarcastic reply.
"Why do you suppose it has Chiyumi's scent on her?" the human monk asked.
"Maybe it's Chiyumi-sama's pet."
"Be serious Hoshi," Takara dropped the sword to berow enthusiastically.
"See Ashi-sama she is a pet!"
"Whatever."
"What is she doing here then?" one of the human girls wanted to know.
"Perhaps her Mistress is nearby?" the other girl replied. Takara shook her head.
"Hey she understands us," the other kitsune said.
"If Chiyumi isn't nearby then where is she?" Takara berowed again.
"This is pointless," the older hanyou said irritably, "We can't understand the damn thing. Look," he grabbed Takara from the cat's mouth, "If you lead we'll follow, so start walking," Takara made a happy noise and jumped to the forest floor. Her tails waved impatiently as she waited for the girls to climb aborad the cat, before taking off.
"Hey! Not all of can run that fast you know!" she heard one of the boys exclaim, she sighed inwardly and slowed her pace a bit.
To say that Tanuki was happy to see the group would be a vast, vast understatement. In fact Takara was sure he was going to expire right then and there.
"I thought she was going to desert me when a week passed and she still hadn't returned. I almost went into the manor myself to try and save Chiyumi-sama."
"Almost," muttered Ashi, Hoshi elbowed him.
"Don't be mean Ashi-sama."
"Why was she in that manor to begin with?" Miroku asked, looking at the building in question.
"She believed that Hikori was in there. She told me that if she didn't come out that she probably died and wanted me to find all of you. She says that she wants to be scattered over her home village. I sent Takara to find you after the screaming started. I don't know what's going on in there Miroku-sama but I fear for Chiyumi-sama's safety," Miroku put a hand on Tanuki's shoulder.
"I know you do."
"Otome no baka," Inuyasha muttered suddenly, the group looked at him. It was the first time they had ever heard him talk ill of his sister, "She's so damn cocky. She's too used to being the best that she forgot that there just might be someone better than her. Argh! She's such a BAKAYAROU!"
"Good thing she hides it better than you," Kagome said mildly, "Otherwise we might not be able to tell you apart," Inuyasha glared at her, until he noticed the slight smile that touched her eyes and realized that she was trying to calm him down.
"So the obvious question now is what do we do? There's no sense in all of us going in there. That way those that do go in have some reinforcements," Sango said, "Gomen, but I don't know her well enough to go on a rescue mission, especially one where I don't know the enemy."
"She's my imouto," Inuyasha said, "I'm the only one that needs to go in there."
"I wanna go," this comment, usually quiet and thoughtful, came from Ashi, "She's sorta my aneki."
"I thought you didn't care," Shippo said shrewdly.
"I don't....much. Shut up."
"I'd better go to make sure you two don't kill each other," Miroku said, though it was apparent that, that statement was a cover-up. Inuyasha pointed Takara.
"You can lead us to her," Takara rolled her eyes, her expression clearly condescending.
"If we don't come out for a long time you five should leave. Tanuki, take care of them."
"Hai Master. Hurry back."
