AN: Sorry this chapter took so long, but it wasn't getting as moany
reviews as some of my others. Thanks for all the votes though and the
standing as of right now is:
Sess/Kag: 40
Eiri/Kag: 12
Inu/Kag: 24
Wow, umm...Sess/Kag is majorly dominating. Those Inu and Eiri fans better get out there and represent not that I mind Sess/Kag if anyone's read my other fics they know that. I also realized that mm.org has all the inu fans while ff.net has the majority of Sess fans, weird.
CH: 4 Let's go!
An almost seven year old Kagome watched with wide eyes as her father knocked her mother to the floor. "Stop!" Kagome yelled and tried to grab her fathers arm. Instead she was just thrown against a wall.
"Kagome, grab your brother!" Her mother yelled at her. A trail of blood traveled down her chin from the corner of her mouth. It was sad sight to see such a once proud female tora youkai now with wide violet eyes filled with fear and bruises forming in multiple places.
"Shut up bitch!" Another slap tossed Kagome's mother across the room.
Kagome ran and grabbed her little brother from his cradle. She ran out the door as fast she could before his father even noticed her missing. This was the biggest rage she had ever seen him in before.
About an hour later Kagome came back. She hesitantly opened the door, her little brother still in her arms. In the middle of the floor she saw her mother lying in a pool of blood. Kagome walked over slowly. She listened for any signs of someone around. She set her little brother down and gently shook her mother. "Mommy?" Kagome whispered.
Her mother made no movements and Kagome couldn't hear a heart beat or her mother's breathing. Tears began to stream down her face. "Mommy, please wake up. Please." Kagome pleaded while shaking her mother's unmoving body.
"The bitch deserved it." Kagome turned to see her father still drunk standing in the entrance way to the kitchen.
"You killed mommy! How could you?!" Kagome lunged at him and scratched her claws across his cheek. Her father kicked her and she slid across the floor. Hearing her little brother starting to cry Kagome ran over to grab him and then ran for the door, her father was in close pursuit.
She gotten only a few yards before she slid on the wet grass. Her brother slid from her arms and ended up as few feet away from her unharmed. She turned with her eyes wide ran still pouring over her and saw her father come straight at her.
Kagome bolted straight up in the bed breathing heavy. The memories that came in her dreams were another reason why she tried not to eat often since she only slept after eating. Her eyes were wide and she tried to catch her breath. Her heart seemed as if it would beat out of her chest. The drumming was loud in her ears.
She looked around to find Shippou and Rin still asleep at her side. She felt eyes on her and saw Sesshoumaru staring at her with his intense golden gaze. He didn't say anything and she didn't give any explanation.
"Bad dream or bad memories?" Kagome turned to see Eiri looking at her also.
"It's nothing, Eiri." Kagome said in a soft voice. She knew she wasn't fooling anyone.
From across the room Inu Yasha yawned and sat up. He noticed the two other males looking at Kagome and wondered what he had missed. His stomach growling broke the silence of the room. Sesshoumaru looked at Inu Yasha in slight disgust. "What? It's not like I can help it." Kagome tossed him an apple from the bunch of fruits Shippou had gotten yesterday. "Thanks."
Kagome just gave a small smile in response and shook the two kids awake. "Can't we sleep a little longer, Kagome?"
"Sorry, Shippou, but we need to get going." Shippou and Rin slowly sat up and yawned. They both accepted the fruit that Kagome offered and began eating while everyone waited for them to finish. "Aren't you hungry as well Sesshoumaru?" Kagome asked turning her violet gaze to the Western Lord. Sesshoumaru shook his head his eyes never leaving her.
When the kids and Inu Yasha were done eating the group left and began the travel to the kami's territory. While they walked Shippou and Rin talked and played. Sesshoumaru tried to hold back his growls as he saw Eiri trying to get too close for his liking to Kagome multiple times. He silently wondered if they had been more than just friends before.
'Eiri hasn't changed a bit.' Kagome thought as she noticed the way the red headed kami tried to get close to her. Kagome had always known that Eiri wanted her to be more than a friend. He still looked exactly as she remembered him, not that she would think he would have aged being that he was a kami. He still had his short messy dark red hair and orange-yellow eyes. The sign of his family was a yellow starburst on his forehead. He had his big white wings out even though they weren't flying at the moment. Kagome always kept hers hidden being that they could will them away when they felt like it.
Kagome kept a smile on her face as she spoke with Eiri, she always tried to keep people from knowing how she felt inside. "So are you going to stay for good after this?" Eiri asked the hope apparent in his voice. Kagome held back a sigh as Sesshoumaru held back a growl.
"You know that I can't stay there." Kagome said. "So has anything changed while I was gone?"
"Let's see. Most of the higher ups are still incredibly snobby and ornery. The elder is looking forward to seeing you again."
Kagome smiled thinking of the old kami. "Shorin always was one of the kinder. Well, along with you Eiri."
"At this pace we should meet Kamui in two days." Everyone notice how Kagome's face fell at the mention of Kamui. "I'm sure he'll act fine while you're there."
"I hope your right." Kagome said.
"Who's Kamui?" Shippou asked.
"Kamui is my older half brother." Kagome answered.
"I've never had a brother before." Rin said. "Is he nice?"
"I'm sure he is when I'm not around." Kagome said under her breath. Rin being the only human was the only one who didn't hear her. "I don't really know what Kamui is like now. I haven't seen him in a long time." Kagome said to the little girl.
"Oh...don't you miss him? I mean I miss my family." Rin said not noticing the tension that Kagome was feeling.
"We just don't get along." Kagome said.
They traveled until late at night. Kagome carried the two children since they had long since gotten tired and fallen asleep. They finally decided to stop in a clearing near a small lake. Kagome set the children down and put her cloak over them. She then set about making a fire for their benefit.
"Damn, it's cold." Inu Yasha said.
"Worthless hanyou, stop complaining." Sesshoumaru said.
Everyone noticed how Kagome dropped some of the sticks she was holding when he said that.
*flashback*
"Can we take a break?" Seven year old Kagome asked sitting on the floor. She was in the dojo with her real father and Kamui. They had been training hard and she was exhausted. She had never trained before and now she was made to train three times a day.
"Stupid half breed! If you can't take it you should just leave. This place would be a whole lot better if you were gone." Kamui yelled standing over her.
"Kamui! Get back to work." Their father said. He walked over to Kagome and pulled her off the ground with a bruising grip. "Look you're here now so you might as well suck it up and at least act worthy enough to be here." It was that moment that Kagome swore she would train as hard she could so that one day no one would be able to insult her and get away with it.
*end flashback*
Kagome was brought out of her reverie by a hand on her shoulder. She looked up to see Sesshoumaru's golden eyes looking down at her. She pulled away and his hand fell from her shoulder. "I-I think I'll go take a bath. I'll be back." She said and walked to the lake.
"What was her problem?" Inu Yasha asked.
"Kagome has had a very traumatizing past." Eiri answered. "She used to get these little flashbacks before, I guess she still does. She must have even more bad things to remember now with how Kamui and the other kami treated her." Eiri sighed. "I'm pretty sure Sesshoumaru's insult of you, Inu Yasha, struck a chord in her. She was ridiculed almost her entire life with the kami for being a half breed."
Sesshoumaru looked at the direction Kagome had gone in with an almost imperceptible look of regret in his golden eyes. 'Now she definitely won't want to be near me.' Sesshoumaru considered apologizing though he knew he shouldn't follow her while she was bathing, even if he had watched her before. Instead he jumped to a tree branch and leaned against the trunk waiting for her to return.
"I get insulted by Sesshoumaru all the time. It doesn't bother me none." Inu Yasha said.
"You don't get it. You get insulted by Sesshoumaru and maybe a handful of others. Kagome has been insulted and hurt both mentally and physically by an entire race. Not to mention her step father before she joined the kami." Eiri explained.
"Whatever." Inu Yasha said and finished making the fire Kagome was about to make before she left.
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Kagome slid into the water wishing it was warmer. "Well this is great, the one guy I've actually thought looked good and he turns out to be a jerk. Then again it's just like my luck." Kagome said to herself and sighed.
Kagome got out and shook herself off. She guessed it was part of her tora youkai side that made her do that. She redressed and then walked back to the clearing. When she got there Inu Yasha was asleep by the fire opposite Rin and Shippou, Eiri was leaning against a tree staring up at the moon, and Sesshoumaru was up a tree staring right at her as if he had been waiting for her to get back.
She set her stuff down and felt Sesshoumaru jump down and land behind her. "I wish to speak with you." Kagome gave a small nod and they walked into the surrounding brush out of Eiri's hearing range.
"What is it you wished to speak about?" Kagome asked.
"I am not used to regretting actions, but I wish to apologize for my earlier words." Sesshoumaru said. "I did not know they would affect you and..." Kagome held up her hand to make him stop.
"Look, Sesshoumaru...you're just apologizing because of how the words affected me, but you still think that those who are half-breeds are tainted. Unless you can say that you don't honestly feel that way then there is no reason for you to be apologizing to me." Kagome said and then returned to the clearing.
Sesshoumaru stood there for a moment longer. He knew that she was right. He couldn't decide it was alright for her to be a half-breed and still insult Inu Yasha for his blood. He sighed, he would have to work very hard at accepting others if she were to accept him and he wondered if she was worth it. He knew hardly anything about her, but he wanted her more than anything before. Even more so than his father's fang that his stupid brother had. Sesshoumaru sighed and walked back to the clearing.
When he got there Kagome was lying curled up with Shippou and Rin, but was obviously not sleeping. He jumped back onto the tree branch and closed his eyes. He fell into a peaceful rest though kept his senses aware if anything were to happen.
Eiri had tried to approach Kagome when she had come back, but she basically ignored him and went straight to Shippou and Rin. 'I wonder if she'll ever notice how much I love her.'
'Well, he tried to apologize so he can't be all that bad right?' Kagome thought as she stared up at the stars. 'God, maybe I should just mate with Eiri and stop this stupid hunt for the perfect guy. He definitely doesn't exist. I wonder if Inu Yasha ever gets the same types of thoughts about settling for someone you don't love in a romantic sense just to have someone. I'm sure he must have troubles being a hanyou. Tomorrow might be better, because I'm sure the next day is going to be horrible when I have to see Kamui.'
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That chapter was shorter than normal, but I had to get it out there and I think I ended in a good spot. Please review and tell me what you think and continue to vote for what couple you want and I will have the other characters so you can tell me who you want them to get with also, like Sango/Miroku or Kikyou/Inu (I can make Kikyou nice). The sky is the limit.
I do take multiple votes if you review for different chapters or I guess you could under different names, but that sounds like cheating.
Review responses:
Aira^o^: thanks for the votes and yes I am the author of Kagome: Pleasure Slave?
Goddess of Balance: another Sess/Kag fan ^_^
Kodoku no Bara: If Sess wins then yep they'll have a lot of "fun"
Yume Tsukino: Don't worry I'm not a ningen either, I'm an apprentice of the great kami Shinigami. Wow, I wish I had friends at this school I could talk about these things with...if anyone from UC Davis or Hawaii is out there e-mail me and we'll get together.
Fallon: Well now you know what Eiri looks like and you'll find out what Kamui looks like in about one or two chapters.
Ashley: I know, I know, I'm sorry I'm not updating faster but this fic isn't get as many reviews as some of my others
Well thanks for the reviews and votes please keep them coming ^_^
~*Shichan
Sess/Kag: 40
Eiri/Kag: 12
Inu/Kag: 24
Wow, umm...Sess/Kag is majorly dominating. Those Inu and Eiri fans better get out there and represent not that I mind Sess/Kag if anyone's read my other fics they know that. I also realized that mm.org has all the inu fans while ff.net has the majority of Sess fans, weird.
CH: 4 Let's go!
An almost seven year old Kagome watched with wide eyes as her father knocked her mother to the floor. "Stop!" Kagome yelled and tried to grab her fathers arm. Instead she was just thrown against a wall.
"Kagome, grab your brother!" Her mother yelled at her. A trail of blood traveled down her chin from the corner of her mouth. It was sad sight to see such a once proud female tora youkai now with wide violet eyes filled with fear and bruises forming in multiple places.
"Shut up bitch!" Another slap tossed Kagome's mother across the room.
Kagome ran and grabbed her little brother from his cradle. She ran out the door as fast she could before his father even noticed her missing. This was the biggest rage she had ever seen him in before.
About an hour later Kagome came back. She hesitantly opened the door, her little brother still in her arms. In the middle of the floor she saw her mother lying in a pool of blood. Kagome walked over slowly. She listened for any signs of someone around. She set her little brother down and gently shook her mother. "Mommy?" Kagome whispered.
Her mother made no movements and Kagome couldn't hear a heart beat or her mother's breathing. Tears began to stream down her face. "Mommy, please wake up. Please." Kagome pleaded while shaking her mother's unmoving body.
"The bitch deserved it." Kagome turned to see her father still drunk standing in the entrance way to the kitchen.
"You killed mommy! How could you?!" Kagome lunged at him and scratched her claws across his cheek. Her father kicked her and she slid across the floor. Hearing her little brother starting to cry Kagome ran over to grab him and then ran for the door, her father was in close pursuit.
She gotten only a few yards before she slid on the wet grass. Her brother slid from her arms and ended up as few feet away from her unharmed. She turned with her eyes wide ran still pouring over her and saw her father come straight at her.
Kagome bolted straight up in the bed breathing heavy. The memories that came in her dreams were another reason why she tried not to eat often since she only slept after eating. Her eyes were wide and she tried to catch her breath. Her heart seemed as if it would beat out of her chest. The drumming was loud in her ears.
She looked around to find Shippou and Rin still asleep at her side. She felt eyes on her and saw Sesshoumaru staring at her with his intense golden gaze. He didn't say anything and she didn't give any explanation.
"Bad dream or bad memories?" Kagome turned to see Eiri looking at her also.
"It's nothing, Eiri." Kagome said in a soft voice. She knew she wasn't fooling anyone.
From across the room Inu Yasha yawned and sat up. He noticed the two other males looking at Kagome and wondered what he had missed. His stomach growling broke the silence of the room. Sesshoumaru looked at Inu Yasha in slight disgust. "What? It's not like I can help it." Kagome tossed him an apple from the bunch of fruits Shippou had gotten yesterday. "Thanks."
Kagome just gave a small smile in response and shook the two kids awake. "Can't we sleep a little longer, Kagome?"
"Sorry, Shippou, but we need to get going." Shippou and Rin slowly sat up and yawned. They both accepted the fruit that Kagome offered and began eating while everyone waited for them to finish. "Aren't you hungry as well Sesshoumaru?" Kagome asked turning her violet gaze to the Western Lord. Sesshoumaru shook his head his eyes never leaving her.
When the kids and Inu Yasha were done eating the group left and began the travel to the kami's territory. While they walked Shippou and Rin talked and played. Sesshoumaru tried to hold back his growls as he saw Eiri trying to get too close for his liking to Kagome multiple times. He silently wondered if they had been more than just friends before.
'Eiri hasn't changed a bit.' Kagome thought as she noticed the way the red headed kami tried to get close to her. Kagome had always known that Eiri wanted her to be more than a friend. He still looked exactly as she remembered him, not that she would think he would have aged being that he was a kami. He still had his short messy dark red hair and orange-yellow eyes. The sign of his family was a yellow starburst on his forehead. He had his big white wings out even though they weren't flying at the moment. Kagome always kept hers hidden being that they could will them away when they felt like it.
Kagome kept a smile on her face as she spoke with Eiri, she always tried to keep people from knowing how she felt inside. "So are you going to stay for good after this?" Eiri asked the hope apparent in his voice. Kagome held back a sigh as Sesshoumaru held back a growl.
"You know that I can't stay there." Kagome said. "So has anything changed while I was gone?"
"Let's see. Most of the higher ups are still incredibly snobby and ornery. The elder is looking forward to seeing you again."
Kagome smiled thinking of the old kami. "Shorin always was one of the kinder. Well, along with you Eiri."
"At this pace we should meet Kamui in two days." Everyone notice how Kagome's face fell at the mention of Kamui. "I'm sure he'll act fine while you're there."
"I hope your right." Kagome said.
"Who's Kamui?" Shippou asked.
"Kamui is my older half brother." Kagome answered.
"I've never had a brother before." Rin said. "Is he nice?"
"I'm sure he is when I'm not around." Kagome said under her breath. Rin being the only human was the only one who didn't hear her. "I don't really know what Kamui is like now. I haven't seen him in a long time." Kagome said to the little girl.
"Oh...don't you miss him? I mean I miss my family." Rin said not noticing the tension that Kagome was feeling.
"We just don't get along." Kagome said.
They traveled until late at night. Kagome carried the two children since they had long since gotten tired and fallen asleep. They finally decided to stop in a clearing near a small lake. Kagome set the children down and put her cloak over them. She then set about making a fire for their benefit.
"Damn, it's cold." Inu Yasha said.
"Worthless hanyou, stop complaining." Sesshoumaru said.
Everyone noticed how Kagome dropped some of the sticks she was holding when he said that.
*flashback*
"Can we take a break?" Seven year old Kagome asked sitting on the floor. She was in the dojo with her real father and Kamui. They had been training hard and she was exhausted. She had never trained before and now she was made to train three times a day.
"Stupid half breed! If you can't take it you should just leave. This place would be a whole lot better if you were gone." Kamui yelled standing over her.
"Kamui! Get back to work." Their father said. He walked over to Kagome and pulled her off the ground with a bruising grip. "Look you're here now so you might as well suck it up and at least act worthy enough to be here." It was that moment that Kagome swore she would train as hard she could so that one day no one would be able to insult her and get away with it.
*end flashback*
Kagome was brought out of her reverie by a hand on her shoulder. She looked up to see Sesshoumaru's golden eyes looking down at her. She pulled away and his hand fell from her shoulder. "I-I think I'll go take a bath. I'll be back." She said and walked to the lake.
"What was her problem?" Inu Yasha asked.
"Kagome has had a very traumatizing past." Eiri answered. "She used to get these little flashbacks before, I guess she still does. She must have even more bad things to remember now with how Kamui and the other kami treated her." Eiri sighed. "I'm pretty sure Sesshoumaru's insult of you, Inu Yasha, struck a chord in her. She was ridiculed almost her entire life with the kami for being a half breed."
Sesshoumaru looked at the direction Kagome had gone in with an almost imperceptible look of regret in his golden eyes. 'Now she definitely won't want to be near me.' Sesshoumaru considered apologizing though he knew he shouldn't follow her while she was bathing, even if he had watched her before. Instead he jumped to a tree branch and leaned against the trunk waiting for her to return.
"I get insulted by Sesshoumaru all the time. It doesn't bother me none." Inu Yasha said.
"You don't get it. You get insulted by Sesshoumaru and maybe a handful of others. Kagome has been insulted and hurt both mentally and physically by an entire race. Not to mention her step father before she joined the kami." Eiri explained.
"Whatever." Inu Yasha said and finished making the fire Kagome was about to make before she left.
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Kagome slid into the water wishing it was warmer. "Well this is great, the one guy I've actually thought looked good and he turns out to be a jerk. Then again it's just like my luck." Kagome said to herself and sighed.
Kagome got out and shook herself off. She guessed it was part of her tora youkai side that made her do that. She redressed and then walked back to the clearing. When she got there Inu Yasha was asleep by the fire opposite Rin and Shippou, Eiri was leaning against a tree staring up at the moon, and Sesshoumaru was up a tree staring right at her as if he had been waiting for her to get back.
She set her stuff down and felt Sesshoumaru jump down and land behind her. "I wish to speak with you." Kagome gave a small nod and they walked into the surrounding brush out of Eiri's hearing range.
"What is it you wished to speak about?" Kagome asked.
"I am not used to regretting actions, but I wish to apologize for my earlier words." Sesshoumaru said. "I did not know they would affect you and..." Kagome held up her hand to make him stop.
"Look, Sesshoumaru...you're just apologizing because of how the words affected me, but you still think that those who are half-breeds are tainted. Unless you can say that you don't honestly feel that way then there is no reason for you to be apologizing to me." Kagome said and then returned to the clearing.
Sesshoumaru stood there for a moment longer. He knew that she was right. He couldn't decide it was alright for her to be a half-breed and still insult Inu Yasha for his blood. He sighed, he would have to work very hard at accepting others if she were to accept him and he wondered if she was worth it. He knew hardly anything about her, but he wanted her more than anything before. Even more so than his father's fang that his stupid brother had. Sesshoumaru sighed and walked back to the clearing.
When he got there Kagome was lying curled up with Shippou and Rin, but was obviously not sleeping. He jumped back onto the tree branch and closed his eyes. He fell into a peaceful rest though kept his senses aware if anything were to happen.
Eiri had tried to approach Kagome when she had come back, but she basically ignored him and went straight to Shippou and Rin. 'I wonder if she'll ever notice how much I love her.'
'Well, he tried to apologize so he can't be all that bad right?' Kagome thought as she stared up at the stars. 'God, maybe I should just mate with Eiri and stop this stupid hunt for the perfect guy. He definitely doesn't exist. I wonder if Inu Yasha ever gets the same types of thoughts about settling for someone you don't love in a romantic sense just to have someone. I'm sure he must have troubles being a hanyou. Tomorrow might be better, because I'm sure the next day is going to be horrible when I have to see Kamui.'
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That chapter was shorter than normal, but I had to get it out there and I think I ended in a good spot. Please review and tell me what you think and continue to vote for what couple you want and I will have the other characters so you can tell me who you want them to get with also, like Sango/Miroku or Kikyou/Inu (I can make Kikyou nice). The sky is the limit.
I do take multiple votes if you review for different chapters or I guess you could under different names, but that sounds like cheating.
Review responses:
Aira^o^: thanks for the votes and yes I am the author of Kagome: Pleasure Slave?
Goddess of Balance: another Sess/Kag fan ^_^
Kodoku no Bara: If Sess wins then yep they'll have a lot of "fun"
Yume Tsukino: Don't worry I'm not a ningen either, I'm an apprentice of the great kami Shinigami. Wow, I wish I had friends at this school I could talk about these things with...if anyone from UC Davis or Hawaii is out there e-mail me and we'll get together.
Fallon: Well now you know what Eiri looks like and you'll find out what Kamui looks like in about one or two chapters.
Ashley: I know, I know, I'm sorry I'm not updating faster but this fic isn't get as many reviews as some of my others
Well thanks for the reviews and votes please keep them coming ^_^
~*Shichan