The 5th Son
A/N-You know what? I find that while I'm writing these chapters, that sometimes even I can't wait to see what happens, even though I'm the one writing it O.o Ehehehe ^^; On with the chapter! (also, be sure to read the ending A/N because there is some very important stuff in it!)
Disclaimer-I do not own Inuyasha and co. but the plot of this story is mine ^-^
Chapter key:
' ' on either side of a sentence = 'thoughts'
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Chapter 9:A not so Happy-Birthday
Blurs of what looked like blue and green swam in Kagome's mind as she groggily peeled her eyes open, sitting up. Cringing she grabbed the back of her head letting a small groan of pain escape her lips.
"Uhg" she sighed, gingerly rubbing her pounding head . Slowly she scooted over and propped herself against a cold wall. Attempting to gather all of her senses while still in a slight daze, she looked at her surroundings.
There was only a single door that led in and out of the room, and in it, it had a window too small for even a baby to fit through. The walls and ground were stone.
Kagome wrinkled her nose in disgust as she discovered that the walls, including the one she was leaning against, had a thin layer of a slimy substance covering them. Quickly she pushed herself away from the wall in dismay.
'Yep, no doubt about it , this is definitely some type of dungeon' Kagome thought disdainfully. Burrowing her eyebrows a small spark of anger touching her eyes as she recalled the previous eve.
That man, he'd come into her room and kidnapped her! The day before her birthday of all days too! Right when things seemed to finally be getting better, she just HAD to get kidnapped. 'Oh, the irony of it!' she thought having no doubt in her mind that the gods were probably laughing at her right now.
"And it's all that jerk's fault too!" Kagome fumed angrily. "That jerk wouldn't happen to be me would it?" A tall dark figure spoke sadistically from the corner of the room.
Kagome froze for a moment 'When did he come in here? The door never opened even once!' Kagome thought restlessly. The figure smirked seeing the look of confusion on the girl's face.
No sooner had Kagome noticed the smirk on the figure's face, did all of her fear leave her. "Who are you!?" Kagome demanded glaring at the stranger. The figure looked on, aghast that not a minute ago the girl was ridden with fear, and here she was now being so bold.
"I" the figure said gesturing to himself "Am Izumo Arakida" he replied holding a sence of pride over who he was. 'Surely her fear shall return now that she knows who I am' he thought arrogantly to himself as he waited for a reaction.
"Who?" Kagome asked stupidly quirking her head to the side. Izumo almost choked on his tongue as his eye widened "Izumo Arakida! You know, most feared shadow warrior in the land".
Kagome simply lifted an eyebrow holding a 'And I care why?' expression on her face. Izumo couldn't believe it. How could she NOT know about him, he was feared all over the land, mother's told their children that he was the boogey man, he was practically the center of every horror story ever told, and yet this pathetic little wench didn't even know (or care) who he was!?
Izumo stopped himself and took a deep breath 'No need to get so worked up over someone as trivial as her' he reminded himself. His cruel mask once again in place he turned and glared at Kagome.
A small shiver running down her spine Kagome bravely glared right back. Once again a smirk graced Izumo's lips "You know girl, you may think that you are brave, but that is simply because you have yet to experience true terror yet.".
"You don't know what I have and haven't experienced!" Kagome bit back defensively. The smirk leaving his face Izumo grabbed Kagome by the color of her Yukata and yanked her up. "Now you listen to me bitch, I guarantee that anything you've ever been through before was nothing, what lord oshima has in store for you will be ten times as worse!" He growled throwing Kagome back against the hard wall.
Clutching her head Kagome slumped down onto the cold ground a small whimper escaping her lips. Izumo's lips curved up in a cruel smile 'This girl is absolutely pathetic' he thought disgustedly.
But right then Kagome looked up anger flaring in her determined eyes. And least to say, if looks could kill, Izumo would have died a thousand times and then some. Taking a small step back in surprise Izumo's cruel mask slipped for a moment at the anger that shown in Kagome's eyes. But no sooner had his mask slipped, did it return.
A glint of amusement in his eyes Izumo regarded Kagome "I'll be back later bitch" he said swiftly turning, and then disappearing into the darkness. 'Oh yes' Izumo thought as he patrolled through the manor 'I'll have fun breaking her'.
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"Inuyasha stop it!" Miroku, sango, all 4 of Inuyasha's brothers and Inutaisho yelled as they all held back the infuriated Hanyou. "That bastard took kagome though! I swear I'll kill him!" was Inuyash'a enraged response as he struggled against them.
"Inuyasha" Mio spoke calmly as everyone else restrained him "Just stop and think logically for a second" She said. "I mean, just consider the facts, you don't even know WHO kidnapped Kagome".
"But I do know! It was that shadow warrior!" Inuyasha retorted. Mio snorted at her son's stupidity.
"Yes, but there are several shadow warriors in the world, and you don't even know this one's name. Not to mention, that if you don't even know what shadow warrior it was, you also wont be able to have a clue who he works for, leading to the fact that you wouldn't even know where to start looking for Kagome." Mio finished in a matter of factely tone.
Inuyasha stopped struggling, which caused everyone who was holding him back to sigh in relief. "But then how am I supposed to find her!?" Inuyasha growled. "YOU are not going to go find her" Mio stated.
"WHAT!!! WHY!!?" Inuyasha yelled once more enraged. "Because, Inuyasha, with shadow warriors involved, it just wouldn't be safe." Mio said knowingly. "But mom! I HAVE to help save Kagome!" Inuyasha retorted clenching his teeth.
"Inuyasha, your father is older and wiser, he will be the one to go get kagome" Mio said getting agitated at her son's constant yelling. "But dad doesn't even know where kagome is!" Inuyasha still continued on.
"And that is the part where you and your brothers get to help. Since you are the one who saw the Shadow warrior, YOU can go to the library with your brothers and sort through books with information about the shadow warriors in them." Mio replied tiredly.
Inuyasha was just about to yell another retort when he stopped himself "Ok" he simply stated and then walked away heading for the library. Everyone left in the room blinked in surprise at Inuyasha just dropping it like that.
Miroku shivered and then suspiciously looked at the closet "I bet you have something to do with this don't you!" Miroku said pointing accusingly at the closet. Every turned to miroku for a moment, and then shook their heads. 'poor crazy guy' Mio and Inutaisho walked away.
'Idiot' Keita and Sesshoumaru headed off for the library. 'I hope this isn't a result of us dropping him on his head when he was a baby' Ryuichi and Ryohei also went to the library. Sango looked at Miroku "Sometimes I worry about your mental health" She plainly stated also heading off.
Miroku froze, terror sweeping through him. They had just all left, and now he was alone, in the same room as that closet… A small squeak was all it took for miroku to take of screaming "Dear kami, somebody help me, the closets, I sweat they're haunted!!!!!". Meanwhile a small mouse peaked out from a crack in the wall, and then quickly scurried away…
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Kagome sat, once more alone in the dark room, her arms wrapped around her knee's. The room was really quite cold and it didn't help Kagome's pounding headache at all. Sighing Kagome once more looked around her room, weary of Izumo showing up again.
'This is just my luck' Kagome thought disdainfully shaking her head. 'Every time something in my life takes a turn for the better, the god's strike my good luck down and I end up in some kind of horrible situation like this' -.- .
'You know, I wonder what my life would be like if the gods DIDN'T hate me? Maybe then, my father would still be alive' Kagome thought, her mood dampening as a lone tear trickled down her face. 'But, then I never would have met Inuyasha…' She reminded herself a small glint of hope resurfacing.
But still, she was stuck here, and she wasn't even sure if Inuyasha even knew she had been kidnapped! "Damn my horrid luck!" Kagome sighed out loud. "If it makes you feel any better, I wouldn't say my luck's any better than yours" came a voice from the other side of the door.
Abruptly standing up Kagome quickly scrambled to the door and peered out the small window to see a middle-aged man chained looking up at her. But it wasn't only him, there were, well several other people, men and women chained to the wall. 'Yep, It's a dungeon' Kagome thought proving her earlier assumption correct.
"Who are you?" Kagome asked trying her hardest to stay on the tip of her toes so that she could look out the window in her door. "My name is Sasuke" the man replied right before he went into a coughing fit.
"Kami! Are you alright?" Kagome asked worriedly as the man continued coughing. "Ya" cough "I'll be" cough "fine. "It's so cold, and dirty down here, it's no wonder you're sick" Kagome said looking around out side of her room.
Really it wasn't much different from the inside of her room, well besides the fact that there were tons of people chained to the walls, and it was a little more open.
"So, why are you here?" a young woman that looked to be about Kagome's age questioned. Kagome bit her bottom lip and shook her head "I really don't know why" she replied sadly.
"hmm.." The woman replied "That's just like Oshima you know, just to have random people kidnapped and brought here." She said. "But, last time he had some one important enough that they had to be locked in that room as a separate was quite some time ago.
Kagome's eyes widened, here attention definitely caught now "Last, person that was in the room?" Kagome asked cautiously. "Ya" the woman replied "Some girl of noble blood, oshima wanted her father's estate, so until the girl's father forked over his lands, oshima had the girl tortured.".
An Icy wave ran over Kagome's entire body "T-tortured?". "That's right" the man kagome now knew as Sasuke spoke up. "but, her father never did fork over his estate, and the girl, well we really aren't sure what happened to her after that." Sasuke finished.
"Oh…" Kagome replied quietly "I-I think I'm going to go rest now" Kagome said walking back to the far corner of her room and sitting down. 'Tortured? They don't know what happened to her?' Kagome though worriedly once again wrapping her arms around her legs 'Happy sweet 16 me…'
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"Is this him!?" Ryuichi asked running up to Inuyasha and showing him a picture from a book. Inuyasha sighed giving Ryuichi a tired look "No Ryuichi, THAT is a squirrel, and for the 37th time now Ryuichi, the guy was not an animal!". Ryuichi looked at Inuyasha stupidly for a moment "So, he's not a squirrel then?".
Inuyasha slapped his forehead "No, he is not, nor is any other animal that you have shown me, so put the book on animals AWAY, and look in the books about shadow warriors!" Inuyasha replied fisting his hands agitatedly.
Ryuichi looked lost for a moment, but then nodded and headed off to look in a different book, too bad he went in the direction of the books on clowns though…
Sighing Inuyasha ran his finger along a couple of book before one unparticular caught his eye "The Seven Shadows of Satin".
Pulling it out Inuyasha examined the book. It was stark black, the text written in a blood red ink. "Well this one just screams evil shadow warrior" Inuyasha said opening the book. And right there one the first page was Seven pictures of Seven shadow warriors, the one labeled as Izumo, the leader, of them all undoubtedly the one that had kid napped kagome.
"Hey Inuyasha is-" "No Ryuichi that is not him, that is a clown" Inuyasha cut him off as Ryuichi stared at the picture that apparently was a clown, and then continued looking.
Checking to make sure no one else was really looking Inuyasha sat himself down in a corner to read the book he had found. 'Because I've got a plan' Inuyasha thought to himself. 'All I have to do is get the information on that shadow warrior before any of them do, and then with out any one knowing I'll go and save kagome, weather or not I'm permitted to' Inuyasha thought flipping through the book.
Soon a certain page caught Inuyasha's attention as he read… 'Seven skilled and powerful shadow warriors, more commonly known as the Seven shadows of Satin are apon Japan's strongest and most feared felons. Reeking havoc through out Japan, they specialize in torture and murder.' "Well isn't that charming" Inuyasha snorted as he read on.
' Currently they preside in the manor of the southern lord of Japan, they always have shadows, even when there is no light…'. Inuyasha flipped the book shut and tucked away safely so that no one else could find it. "That's all I needed to know, now all I got to do is go get Kagome, and kill that bastard Izumo who took her!" Inuyasha said to himself as he headed off to his room.
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"So, the baka thinks that he's going to do this without us?" Sesshoumaru mused. "Not a chance in hell" Keita replied. "what makes him think he's going to get away with having all the fun?" Ryuichi chanted. "Not without us he isn't" Ryohei replied. "Then it's settled, we're all going " Sesshoumaru said.
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A/N- I just wanted to let you guys know, that my spring break starts next weekend, and ends the weekend after that, as I'm going to my uncle's house for my spring break. So there a slightly LARGE chance that I won't be updating for the next two weekends… BUT if it makes you feel any better I stayed up until 1 A.M. on a school night writing out the plots and chapter outlines for ALL of the remaining chapters of this story. I can even tell you now that this story in total will have 17-18 chapters. AND SINCE I WON'T BE ABLE TO UPDATE FOR THE NEXT 2 WEEKENDS AFTER THIS, I'M GOING TO TRY MY BEST TO UPDATE SOMETIME IN THE WEEK BEFORE I GO ON SPRING BREAK!
I just though you guys might have wanted to know… But do not fret, it won't be that long ^-^
~AngelWingsbaka~
This chapter was inspired by Dragon's kitty yet again (you changed your screen name! *o*) You're review was really funny, I liked it a lot ^-^
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