Demon Zoo

By Fantasy Cat

Disc: Ownership lacking, very lacking

Chapter Nine

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Only small shadows and movements further indicated Naraku's suspicions. However, these security camera shots were not of high quality so now, he was stressed out. There was only one thing he could do now. Naraku was going to fully clean out Sesshomaru's cage.

Sesshomaru could only be removed from his cage during vaccination times and those were very rare, only a few times a year. To control the dog demon, Naraku and Kagura would have to tranquilize him to guarantee a safe transfer from his cage to the lab located underneath the zoo. They went into his cage and saw Sesshomaru coming out. But he knew why they were there. He knew Naraku was onto him and he would not take it. Sesshomaru tried to attack him. Naraku turned on his Taser as Sesshomaru came running towards him in his dog form. But Kagura shot Sesshomaru with her tranquilizer gun.

As fearsome and as strong as Sesshomaru was, he was helpless against man's tranquilizer.

Sesshomaru was taken to the lab and Naraku and Kagura began searching that cave. They collected every DNA sample, every spot of blood and every bit of bone that was inside. They returned to the lab. Sesshomaru was stirring in his isolation chamber. Dr. Kanna looked through all of the samples. "A lot of these samples are very old," said Dr. Kanna. "I only found one blood sample that looks fresh. It couldn't have been older than a week." She handed the sample to Naraku. Under the microscope he was surprised to discover one thing. "It's human blood," said Naraku.

A thought rushed through Naraku's mind. "Is this the only fresh sample? What about the bones?"

"Just left-over steak bones," said Dr. Kanna.

Naraku stared down at the counter. Kagura couldn't understand the expression on his face. Not until he shoved everything off of the counter and send objects crashing onto the floor. Broken glass flew everywhere. Naraku went straight to the entrance to Sesshomaru's chamber with a whip. Sesshomaru who was slightly awake was not prepared for Naraku's whip.

"I gave you a human and you let her live?! YOU LET HER GET AWAY?! WHAT KIND OF EXCUSE FOR A DEMON ARE YOU?!" As Naraku began to whip Sesshomaru, the dog demon began to focus and tried to escape the pain, but the chamber was too small for him to go anywhere. His body had no choice but to take in the flesh wounds from Naraku's whip.

Naraku stopped whipping to breathe. "Pathetic," he said in a low voice. "She was even crippled and she still got away…Inuyasha. He helped her escape didn't he? And you just stood there? You actually let that mutt into your cage? Well, now I see you become way too soft. Your father was just as stupid. I heard many stories about the fearsome Inutaisho out in the country. Those are the types of demons I wanted for my zoo…fearsome creatures, only bars could protect the humans from. There will be no soft cowards in my zoo."

Sesshomaru only stared at him without a bit of emotion. "Hiding it are you? Hiding the pain?" asked Naraku.

"Will you be putting him to sleep, Naraku?" asked Kagura.

"No, clean up his cage and will return him back tonight."

"What about the human? She may had given out a police report by now?"

"Yes, she should have…unless…Sesshomaru you are pathetic."

"What? What is it?" asked Kagura.

"No one expecting would humiliate herself like that. Still, we can't risk anything. We must keep searching for her and the hanyou. I don't care how long it takes I want both of them alive as well as their accomplice."

"You'd think they have an accomplice?"

"The security cameras caught more than one shadow but that is the one person we won't be able to identify. Any more suspicious activity you find in our zoo from the hanyous or the employees, report to me straight away."

"Yes, Naraku." Kagura left the lab to open the zoo. Dr. Kanna was cleaning the mess Naraku made. "As for you," Naraku said turning to Sesshomaru. "Until we find them, I'm going to make your life here a living hell."

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Kagome walked around giving the demons their breakfast. They usually came outside when it was time. She sighed as she passed by Inuyasha's old cage. A sign appeared saying "close until further notice". When she passed by Sesshomaru's cage, she was shocked to see a sign saying "Getting vaccinations. Will be back tomorrow."

"Hey, Sango?" Kagome turned to her friend who was sweeping the grounds. "Look at this," she said. "It's not his usual vaccination time."

"You're right," said Sango. "They're probably doing something else with him."

"We'll you're probably…oh no!" said Kagome. Naraku must've found him out.

"Kagome, what's wrong?" Kagome quickly snapped back into reality and shyly said "Um…nothing." Sango leaned over to whispered in Kagome's ear. "Inuyasha's doing ok is he? Not giving you any trouble?" Kagome nodded. "Good," said Sango and she went back to sleeping. Kagome could only think about what has happened to Sesshomaru. Miroku and Sango knew nothing about Rin. That would be going way over the line of endangering lives. Still, a part of her was very concerned for the vicious demon that happened to be Inuyasha's self-centered brother. Had the truth come out?

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After closing time, Sesshomaru was returned to his now cleaned cage. The other demons around sensed something was wrong with Sesshomaru. Once Naraku began cutting down on his meals and going into his cave with his Taser, they knew that Sesshomaru must've done something to really make Naraku mad. And this punishment would last for months. Sesshomaru's pride remained the only thing that could keep this demon together as the pain went on.

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