A/N: Thanks for the reviews!
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha...*sighs*
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~The Gladiator~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Last time on The Gladiator...
Princess Kagome was sent to the youkai prisoner chambers to choose combatants as her oh so very glorious gift.
However, once there, she was exposed to the cruelness of the enslavement. But there's something different about one of them.... He's a hanyou...But does that really make any difference?
[.:."What are you?" He asked. The only thing he had ever seen in a human's gaze was hate, fear, or disgust. Surely, this couldn't be a human.
Before she could answer, a voice cut into the room. "I see you've chosen. Yes, this should be an interesting match, I'm proud of you Kagome." .:.]
~*~*~*~*~*~Chapter 2: The Hanyou~*~*~*~*~*~*
In everyone's life there has been at least one time when they hear the worst thing that they could imagine at the moment. For me, it was a blood curling scream and the screeching of tires. For my father, it was the words, "It's a girl." And for Princess Kagome, it was her father's voice.
His tone cut through the air like a knife. She jumped back from the bars in surprise.
Inuyasha's eyes revved back to the girl in front of him. 'No wonder.' He thought with disgust. 'And for a second, I thought that there were humans who were actually different.'
"Feh." He said out loud, allowing himself to go back to leaning against the stone wall. He went slowly, careful not to activate the magic of the chains around his neck and wrists. He knew the burning sensation enough, another acquaintance with is was far from necessary.
Kagome looked back at him. "No!" She exclaimed. Now he was going to think that she was just as violent and arrogant as the rest! But then again, she couldn't disobey her father. So what did she do?
Just what anyone would do in her situation.
She...
.........
Fainted?
'Great job Kagome.' She thought silently to herself. 'Yes, pretending to faint is VERRRRY lady like.' She thought bitterly.
She wasn't a bad actress, and there really wasn't anything else she could think of at the moment. Then again, would her father really be that stupid? This wasn't exactly the situation one would usually go about fainting. Sighing mentally, she heard Sango hurrying to help.
"Kagome! Kagome?" She heard her father yell.
'Oh please.' She thought. 'Like YOU care. You only wanted another combatant.'
"What shall I do my Lord?" Sango asked.
Kagome heard her father sigh, "Take her to her room." He said.
She felt Sango pick her limp body up, proceeding out the doorway. Had Kagome's eyes been opened, she would have heard her father's words.
"Filthy hanyou." He spat at the half-breed. The hot-tempered hanyou glared at the man, and lunged before bothering to think of the consequences.
Oh fate was against him. It wasn't long before the chains activated once more. Engulfing the boy into another round of torture.
'Dammit. Once I'm free, I'll rip this man up limb by limb.'
On the other side of the shoji, Kagome stiffened as she heard the familiar scream from the other side.
"Idiot."
'Uh oh.' Her eyes flew open as Sango almost dropped her. She regained her posture and looked up at her friend innocently.
"Uh... Wh- what happened?" She paused for a moment before trying desperately to look... well, desperate. She started to hold her head as if she were fighting off a terrible migraine.
The Chamber Maid simply looked at her friend, raising an eyebrow. "The world ended Kagome. You're dead right now." She stated dully, playing along slightly.
Kagome's eyes widened. "Oh no! What are we going to- Oh, I give up." She sighed. Did she really expect her best friend to go for her silly act.
"You know, I would've thought you would have come up with something better than that." Sango informed her as they began walking up to Kagome's bed chambers.
"It was all I could think of for a moment." Kagome replied innocently.
"Uh-huh." The rest of the trek was done in silence.
'I hope he's okay.' She thought. But why was she thinking about him? He was just another youkai that was going to be forced to fight. Heck, maybe her father was right, maybe they WANTED to fight. 'Still...'
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Inuyasha howled in agony. "Dammit." He panted as the chains ignited.
When the burning was finally over, he was leaning against the wall once more, this time for support than comfort. Clutching at his throbbing neck, his wrists burned from the effort.
He glanced up, squinting from the excruciating pain as he looked at the man. 'The king,' He thought. 'bastard,'
The king laughed bitterly at the struggle of the boy. "Useless. At least you'll be gone after the match." He told the boy bitterly.
Inuyasha fought the raging urge to lunge once more. All he allowed himself was a single twitch at the man.
He laughed once again on the other side of the bars. Looking at Inuyasha as if he were an animal, then again that's what he thought of him.
The hanyou looked closely at his eyes. 'They're like that girl's.' he told himself, shaking from the thought of even thinking about that wench, he glared harder. Both the king's and the girl's eyes were powerful shades of blue.
Yet he noticed they were different. The man's orbs were steely, ice cold, while hers were soft. Once again shaking himself in fury of the thoughts, the man frowned down on him.
"What are you doing?" He demanded, watching the boy as if he were going mad.
Inuyasha didn't reply, all he did was turn his eyes to the man, staring with ice, cold hatred.
"Heh." The man said, turning away from the cell, he walked out of the room, ignoring the blood red eyes appearing from the cages through the darkness.
"Feh." Inuyasha snorted. He stared at the closed door for a moment before turning his sights on the moon, the soft light shining just barely through the bars, as his form cast a long shadow.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Falling onto her bed, the girl wanted nothing more than to fall into a peaceful sleep, to dream of something other than old memories of the man she had once known.
She closed her eyes, willing to escape the cruelty of the world.
However, no one chooses exactly what they want their dreams to be. It just sort of, comes to you. Dreams come from the thoughts in your head that sometimes even you didn't know existed. But Kagome's thoughts were all about the demons.
Or to be more accurate, that boy in the chambers.
She had a pulling drive that she had met him once before. Somehow, someway, she felt as if she knew him.
Or at least, like she wanted to know him.
Whatever the reason, dreamland carried her to a boy with long, silvery hair, golden eyes, and dog ears.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*The Next Day~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Kagome walked through the halls of the castle.
She didn't really know where she was going.
Nor did she care.
She sighed, reliving the morning's events. 'Oh well, at least it's going to buy me some time.' she thought. As it turned out, the crowd had demanded a specific fight between two demons. This would postpone Kagome's oh so very fabulous birthday present.
This way, the burden would be lifted off her shoulders. At least for a little while.
This way, she wouldn't feel too responsible.
This way, she wouldn't be the one who was sending two demons in a forced fight.
'And he'll be safe.' She mentally smacked herself.
What in the world was she thinking?
He was only another demon.
'Hanyou.' She corrected herself. 'Meaning that he's half human.' Yes, that was true but that didn't disguise the fact that he acted like a demon.
'He was in pain. If I was locked up like that, would I go out of my way to be polite? I don't think so.' She told herself firmly.
Her thoughts were cut through with a sharp blade as a ear splitting cry sounded through her senses.
For a moment, she sighed in relief, 'It's not that boy's scream.'
It was then that she realized she had unconsciously wandered near the entrance to the demon chambers.
She shivered for a moment. Looking around, checking to see if anyone was watching, she opened the shoji. There was no need for guards. The demons wouldn't be able to free themselves and the cells were far too small to transform into anything too destructible. Neither would the enchanted walls make it easy for them to complete a metamorphosis that would make the whole thing crash.
It hadn't taken her long to figure out that her elder sister, Kikyo, was behind the enchantments placed on the demons. The magic was strong, it didn't take much spiritual power for her to realize that much. Besides, when you have a sister like Kikyo, you become accustomed to the energy she gives off, making it easier to know if that person is there or not.
Sort of like a metal detector.
She opened the shoji, and quietly stepped inside. 'What in heaven's name am I doing?' she thought to herself. Yet her thoughts didn't transpire with her actions as she somehow felt herself moving.
She approached the hanyou's cell. 'Yep, it's official, I'm going mad.' She thought bitterly, staring down at the sleeping form. It was a good thing he was sleeping.
She didn't want more lunges to lead to that agony-filled cry again.
'No one deserves this.' She thought solemnly as she crouched down a bit to look at the boy. It wasn't quite possible to tell his age due to the fact that demons were able to live for many years while their appearance hasn't altered a bit. As if they hadn't even lived for a second more than when you first saw them.
From the looks of it, she just imagined him to be about her age, perhaps a bit older.
She was a bit disappointed for a while. His eyes were closed, so she wasn't able to see his beautifully colored eyes.
Still, her eyes were transfixed on him.
He had removed his red haori and his white yukata and had made what seemed to resemble a blanket and pillow. He had probably kicked off the cover because it lay abandoned on the ground as he lay with his well built chest exposed. She watched in silent admiration as his well toned muscles traveled harmoniously with his breathing.
'He looks cute like that.' She thought, without realizing what she was thinking. She stared at his calm features and the silvery cascade of hair.
But all things come to an end, and this was no exception.
The boy's nose twitched for a second. She watched in slight fear as he stirred, debating whether she wanted to die now or simply run for it. All she really did however, was sit there and watched as his eyes slowly opened groggily.
Mumbling something incoherent, he started to sit up. Rubbing his eyelids with his hands, which she noticed where very well clawed, he slowly took in what was in front of him.
Instantly, his eyes flickered wide open. "You!" He said, slightly embarrassed that she had been watching him...sleeping.
Kagome looked at him in shock. 'caught.' She put on the biggest smile she could muster. "Um... good morning!" Actually, it was more like the afternoon, but she really didn't think it mattered.
His expression changed from disgusted to confused. 'What a strange girl.' "What are you doing here?" He asked her sourly.
"Well, I have the right to come and check on people when I want to don't I?"
"Feh. I thought I smelled a stench." He said, referring to when he had awoken. Kagome's eyes narrowed at him.
"Very funny." She remarked.
"Feh."
Kagome frowned.
There was a long silence for a while before she finally grew tired of it. "Let's start over." She said.
Inuyasha "feh'd" once more, and looked away.
Kagome sighed. 'Not exactly the friendliest is he?' "My name is Kagome." She told him.
He continued to look outside.
Silence.
Kagome sighed, she got up to leave the lost cause when he spoke once more. "Inuyasha." He said.
She turned around. "Excuse me?"
"Stupid wench, that's my name." He told her, crossing his arms.
She stared at him for a moment. It was then that she smiled a bright smile at him, the kind that makes people like him squirm in uncomfort.
She held her dress forward a bit and sat down on the dirty stone floor. He raised an eyebrow at her for a second.
"Pleasure to meet you." She obliged. Without hesitation, Kagome did something he had never expected her to do.
She brought her hand up from it's current position which was stabling her so that she could lean back casually, and brought it between the iron bars.
Inuyasha stared at it as if it were a poisonous snake. But of course, he wouldn't be afraid of a snake, oh you get the point don't you?
He looked back to her. "You know, I could probably slice that weak hand of yours off at this very moment." He asked her, smirking slightly at the girl.
But Kagome smiled at him. Her soft blue eyes twinkled for a second. "I don't think you would."
"Oh really?" He asked smugly, showing her his claws.
"I trust you."
Those very words sliced through his thoughts. She had only just met him the night before and that hadn't been the smoothest introduction to each other.
Hesitantly, he brought his hand up, taking her small one in his. He allowed his sharp claws to brush every so slightly on her flesh, sending a cold chill down her spine.
"Pleased to meet you too." He replied.
She just flashed another smile at him, staring jovially at the entwined fingers.
A/N: Sorry, that was a boring chapter wasn't it? Grr. This is what happens when you write right after coming home from a carnival.
Next Chapter:
Kagome decides not to tell her new friend that she is the daughter of the ruthless king. But is that really such a good idea?
Also, the requested fight: a ruthless demon comes into play. His name: Naraku.
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha...*sighs*
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~The Gladiator~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Last time on The Gladiator...
Princess Kagome was sent to the youkai prisoner chambers to choose combatants as her oh so very glorious gift.
However, once there, she was exposed to the cruelness of the enslavement. But there's something different about one of them.... He's a hanyou...But does that really make any difference?
[.:."What are you?" He asked. The only thing he had ever seen in a human's gaze was hate, fear, or disgust. Surely, this couldn't be a human.
Before she could answer, a voice cut into the room. "I see you've chosen. Yes, this should be an interesting match, I'm proud of you Kagome." .:.]
~*~*~*~*~*~Chapter 2: The Hanyou~*~*~*~*~*~*
In everyone's life there has been at least one time when they hear the worst thing that they could imagine at the moment. For me, it was a blood curling scream and the screeching of tires. For my father, it was the words, "It's a girl." And for Princess Kagome, it was her father's voice.
His tone cut through the air like a knife. She jumped back from the bars in surprise.
Inuyasha's eyes revved back to the girl in front of him. 'No wonder.' He thought with disgust. 'And for a second, I thought that there were humans who were actually different.'
"Feh." He said out loud, allowing himself to go back to leaning against the stone wall. He went slowly, careful not to activate the magic of the chains around his neck and wrists. He knew the burning sensation enough, another acquaintance with is was far from necessary.
Kagome looked back at him. "No!" She exclaimed. Now he was going to think that she was just as violent and arrogant as the rest! But then again, she couldn't disobey her father. So what did she do?
Just what anyone would do in her situation.
She...
.........
Fainted?
'Great job Kagome.' She thought silently to herself. 'Yes, pretending to faint is VERRRRY lady like.' She thought bitterly.
She wasn't a bad actress, and there really wasn't anything else she could think of at the moment. Then again, would her father really be that stupid? This wasn't exactly the situation one would usually go about fainting. Sighing mentally, she heard Sango hurrying to help.
"Kagome! Kagome?" She heard her father yell.
'Oh please.' She thought. 'Like YOU care. You only wanted another combatant.'
"What shall I do my Lord?" Sango asked.
Kagome heard her father sigh, "Take her to her room." He said.
She felt Sango pick her limp body up, proceeding out the doorway. Had Kagome's eyes been opened, she would have heard her father's words.
"Filthy hanyou." He spat at the half-breed. The hot-tempered hanyou glared at the man, and lunged before bothering to think of the consequences.
Oh fate was against him. It wasn't long before the chains activated once more. Engulfing the boy into another round of torture.
'Dammit. Once I'm free, I'll rip this man up limb by limb.'
On the other side of the shoji, Kagome stiffened as she heard the familiar scream from the other side.
"Idiot."
'Uh oh.' Her eyes flew open as Sango almost dropped her. She regained her posture and looked up at her friend innocently.
"Uh... Wh- what happened?" She paused for a moment before trying desperately to look... well, desperate. She started to hold her head as if she were fighting off a terrible migraine.
The Chamber Maid simply looked at her friend, raising an eyebrow. "The world ended Kagome. You're dead right now." She stated dully, playing along slightly.
Kagome's eyes widened. "Oh no! What are we going to- Oh, I give up." She sighed. Did she really expect her best friend to go for her silly act.
"You know, I would've thought you would have come up with something better than that." Sango informed her as they began walking up to Kagome's bed chambers.
"It was all I could think of for a moment." Kagome replied innocently.
"Uh-huh." The rest of the trek was done in silence.
'I hope he's okay.' She thought. But why was she thinking about him? He was just another youkai that was going to be forced to fight. Heck, maybe her father was right, maybe they WANTED to fight. 'Still...'
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Inuyasha howled in agony. "Dammit." He panted as the chains ignited.
When the burning was finally over, he was leaning against the wall once more, this time for support than comfort. Clutching at his throbbing neck, his wrists burned from the effort.
He glanced up, squinting from the excruciating pain as he looked at the man. 'The king,' He thought. 'bastard,'
The king laughed bitterly at the struggle of the boy. "Useless. At least you'll be gone after the match." He told the boy bitterly.
Inuyasha fought the raging urge to lunge once more. All he allowed himself was a single twitch at the man.
He laughed once again on the other side of the bars. Looking at Inuyasha as if he were an animal, then again that's what he thought of him.
The hanyou looked closely at his eyes. 'They're like that girl's.' he told himself, shaking from the thought of even thinking about that wench, he glared harder. Both the king's and the girl's eyes were powerful shades of blue.
Yet he noticed they were different. The man's orbs were steely, ice cold, while hers were soft. Once again shaking himself in fury of the thoughts, the man frowned down on him.
"What are you doing?" He demanded, watching the boy as if he were going mad.
Inuyasha didn't reply, all he did was turn his eyes to the man, staring with ice, cold hatred.
"Heh." The man said, turning away from the cell, he walked out of the room, ignoring the blood red eyes appearing from the cages through the darkness.
"Feh." Inuyasha snorted. He stared at the closed door for a moment before turning his sights on the moon, the soft light shining just barely through the bars, as his form cast a long shadow.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Falling onto her bed, the girl wanted nothing more than to fall into a peaceful sleep, to dream of something other than old memories of the man she had once known.
She closed her eyes, willing to escape the cruelty of the world.
However, no one chooses exactly what they want their dreams to be. It just sort of, comes to you. Dreams come from the thoughts in your head that sometimes even you didn't know existed. But Kagome's thoughts were all about the demons.
Or to be more accurate, that boy in the chambers.
She had a pulling drive that she had met him once before. Somehow, someway, she felt as if she knew him.
Or at least, like she wanted to know him.
Whatever the reason, dreamland carried her to a boy with long, silvery hair, golden eyes, and dog ears.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*The Next Day~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Kagome walked through the halls of the castle.
She didn't really know where she was going.
Nor did she care.
She sighed, reliving the morning's events. 'Oh well, at least it's going to buy me some time.' she thought. As it turned out, the crowd had demanded a specific fight between two demons. This would postpone Kagome's oh so very fabulous birthday present.
This way, the burden would be lifted off her shoulders. At least for a little while.
This way, she wouldn't feel too responsible.
This way, she wouldn't be the one who was sending two demons in a forced fight.
'And he'll be safe.' She mentally smacked herself.
What in the world was she thinking?
He was only another demon.
'Hanyou.' She corrected herself. 'Meaning that he's half human.' Yes, that was true but that didn't disguise the fact that he acted like a demon.
'He was in pain. If I was locked up like that, would I go out of my way to be polite? I don't think so.' She told herself firmly.
Her thoughts were cut through with a sharp blade as a ear splitting cry sounded through her senses.
For a moment, she sighed in relief, 'It's not that boy's scream.'
It was then that she realized she had unconsciously wandered near the entrance to the demon chambers.
She shivered for a moment. Looking around, checking to see if anyone was watching, she opened the shoji. There was no need for guards. The demons wouldn't be able to free themselves and the cells were far too small to transform into anything too destructible. Neither would the enchanted walls make it easy for them to complete a metamorphosis that would make the whole thing crash.
It hadn't taken her long to figure out that her elder sister, Kikyo, was behind the enchantments placed on the demons. The magic was strong, it didn't take much spiritual power for her to realize that much. Besides, when you have a sister like Kikyo, you become accustomed to the energy she gives off, making it easier to know if that person is there or not.
Sort of like a metal detector.
She opened the shoji, and quietly stepped inside. 'What in heaven's name am I doing?' she thought to herself. Yet her thoughts didn't transpire with her actions as she somehow felt herself moving.
She approached the hanyou's cell. 'Yep, it's official, I'm going mad.' She thought bitterly, staring down at the sleeping form. It was a good thing he was sleeping.
She didn't want more lunges to lead to that agony-filled cry again.
'No one deserves this.' She thought solemnly as she crouched down a bit to look at the boy. It wasn't quite possible to tell his age due to the fact that demons were able to live for many years while their appearance hasn't altered a bit. As if they hadn't even lived for a second more than when you first saw them.
From the looks of it, she just imagined him to be about her age, perhaps a bit older.
She was a bit disappointed for a while. His eyes were closed, so she wasn't able to see his beautifully colored eyes.
Still, her eyes were transfixed on him.
He had removed his red haori and his white yukata and had made what seemed to resemble a blanket and pillow. He had probably kicked off the cover because it lay abandoned on the ground as he lay with his well built chest exposed. She watched in silent admiration as his well toned muscles traveled harmoniously with his breathing.
'He looks cute like that.' She thought, without realizing what she was thinking. She stared at his calm features and the silvery cascade of hair.
But all things come to an end, and this was no exception.
The boy's nose twitched for a second. She watched in slight fear as he stirred, debating whether she wanted to die now or simply run for it. All she really did however, was sit there and watched as his eyes slowly opened groggily.
Mumbling something incoherent, he started to sit up. Rubbing his eyelids with his hands, which she noticed where very well clawed, he slowly took in what was in front of him.
Instantly, his eyes flickered wide open. "You!" He said, slightly embarrassed that she had been watching him...sleeping.
Kagome looked at him in shock. 'caught.' She put on the biggest smile she could muster. "Um... good morning!" Actually, it was more like the afternoon, but she really didn't think it mattered.
His expression changed from disgusted to confused. 'What a strange girl.' "What are you doing here?" He asked her sourly.
"Well, I have the right to come and check on people when I want to don't I?"
"Feh. I thought I smelled a stench." He said, referring to when he had awoken. Kagome's eyes narrowed at him.
"Very funny." She remarked.
"Feh."
Kagome frowned.
There was a long silence for a while before she finally grew tired of it. "Let's start over." She said.
Inuyasha "feh'd" once more, and looked away.
Kagome sighed. 'Not exactly the friendliest is he?' "My name is Kagome." She told him.
He continued to look outside.
Silence.
Kagome sighed, she got up to leave the lost cause when he spoke once more. "Inuyasha." He said.
She turned around. "Excuse me?"
"Stupid wench, that's my name." He told her, crossing his arms.
She stared at him for a moment. It was then that she smiled a bright smile at him, the kind that makes people like him squirm in uncomfort.
She held her dress forward a bit and sat down on the dirty stone floor. He raised an eyebrow at her for a second.
"Pleasure to meet you." She obliged. Without hesitation, Kagome did something he had never expected her to do.
She brought her hand up from it's current position which was stabling her so that she could lean back casually, and brought it between the iron bars.
Inuyasha stared at it as if it were a poisonous snake. But of course, he wouldn't be afraid of a snake, oh you get the point don't you?
He looked back to her. "You know, I could probably slice that weak hand of yours off at this very moment." He asked her, smirking slightly at the girl.
But Kagome smiled at him. Her soft blue eyes twinkled for a second. "I don't think you would."
"Oh really?" He asked smugly, showing her his claws.
"I trust you."
Those very words sliced through his thoughts. She had only just met him the night before and that hadn't been the smoothest introduction to each other.
Hesitantly, he brought his hand up, taking her small one in his. He allowed his sharp claws to brush every so slightly on her flesh, sending a cold chill down her spine.
"Pleased to meet you too." He replied.
She just flashed another smile at him, staring jovially at the entwined fingers.
A/N: Sorry, that was a boring chapter wasn't it? Grr. This is what happens when you write right after coming home from a carnival.
Next Chapter:
Kagome decides not to tell her new friend that she is the daughter of the ruthless king. But is that really such a good idea?
Also, the requested fight: a ruthless demon comes into play. His name: Naraku.
