Flamez-Is it just me or does a lot of peoples names on this show start with
a K? Kagome, Kouga, Kana, Kagura, Kikyou, Kaede, Kohaku. Freaky. Sorry if
Naraku is OCC, I just started watching the show and I haven't gotten
everyone's personality right. I STILL have a B in geom. WAH!! My updates
might be a little late cuz I got to study. But I will try my HARDEST to get
my chapters to you ON TIME.
Chapter 14-Light in my darkness
Kagome pressed the cold blade to her wrist and closed her eyes. What was the point any way? She was just going to rot here, why not just end it early? No one would miss her, her friends would get on just fine. Inuyasha certainly wouldn't miss her, not with Kikyou around. Shippou might be sad at first but Rin would make him feel better. Yes, this was the best choice. It made the most sense. She inhaled deeply and started to apply pressure to the steel.
Just then a door that she didn't know was there slid open. Quickly, Kagome let go of the blade and hid it under her back. Kana walked in with a bowl of noodles. She didn't say anything, she only set the bowl down and put the chopsticks next to it. Kagome narrowed her eyes. "Gee, great. Thanks for the food I that I won't be able to eat." She was referring to the shackles.
Kana bent over and pulled at her shackled wrists until they lifted from the stone. The shackles were connected to the ground by iron chains, just long enough for Kagome to sit up and eat. The girl left silently and slid the door close. She looked down at the bowl, her stomach growling. No, she wouldn't take a damn thing they gave her. With a feral growl she chucked the bowl through the left paper wall. The bowl tore through it like tissue paper, creating a surprisingly large hole.
"KEEP YOUR SHIT!!!" Kagome hollered at the top of her lungs.
"Thanks for the extra noodles, but I have to ask you to not shout. Than old coot next to you does enough of it." Came a cheery voice from the hole in the wall.
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Inuyasha tapped his foot impatiently. "Have you found the fucking book yet?"
Kurama glanced over his shoulder. "Obviously I haven't or I wouldn't still be looking. If you want to find the book so bad, I suggest you come over here and look."
Kouga kept a firm hold on Kikyou's arm while he looked around the large volumes of books. "I don't like this place. It feels like I'm being watched."
Inuyasha rolled his eyes as he examined a book on a shelf. "If you're so scared why don't you just wait outside?"
The wolf glared at him. "I just don't have a good feeling about this."
"You shouldn't be so damn paranoid. Maybe it came from running away from all those people. Think they finally caught up to ya?" He threw the book over his shoulder and went on to look at another. Kouga growled while his eyes darted around.
Miroku flipped through a book. "I think he's right, I'm sensing a presence here."
Sango nodded after picking up another book. "Me, too."
Inuyasha threw up his hands in exasperation. "What is it with you people?! What about you Sesshomaru? Do you sense some evil spirits?"
Sango frowned and looked around. "He's not here."
Inuyasha chucked another book over his shoulder. "Where did he go?"
"I'm right here." Everyone jumped and turned. Sesshomaru was holding two struggling children by their ankles. One was a girl with long emerald hair in a high ponytail and chestnut skin held back with a white furry bandana and the other had his emerald hair slicked back into a low ponytail.
The girl thrashed and kicked. "Let me go you filthy bastard! How dare you put your hands on me?!"
Sesshomaru looked at her as if she was something nasty he stepped in. "Fine by me." He dropped her and boy.
The boy was the first to get up. He slid into a fighting stance, growling. "*I* wasn't the one who said they wanted to be dropped."
Kurama put his book down. "Elzim, Phys stop." The two demons quieted but kept glaring at Sesshomaru.
The western lord crossed his arms. "There's more hiding around this room. I don't appreciate being spied on. By the way, here's the book we're looking for." He tossed the book to Kurama.
He caught it easily. "Everyone, come out." Slowly four more demons shuffled out from behind various bookcases. "What were you doing hiding?"
Qunei thrust her chin in the air. "We want to know what's going on."
"Why are these people here?" Ciwv inquired.
Kyre nodded. "Where is Kagome?"
Atto asked quietly. "What happened to my lord? Why is your hair red and eyes green? Are you under a spell?"
"We're trying to find a book to help use rescue Kagome from Naraku's castle. As for being under a spell...you could say that." He answered their questions easily in exact order.
Elzim looked livid. "Who put a spell on you?!"
"That's irrelevant. We've found the book we wanted, we'll be leaving now."
"My lord, wait." Qunei said, thinking rapidly. "Bymr (Bye-mere) will have something that can turn you back to normal. Temporarily most likely but it probably be useful if you want to break into Naraku's castle."
That stopped him in mid stride. "Take me to her."
She tipped her head in a bow like gesture. "Yes my lord." She waited until he was next to her before he led him of the library.
Inuyasha threw up his hands in exasperation. "Naraku's probably gutted her by now."
Miroku sighed. "You shouldn't be so impatient nor pessimistic."
"Why, it's not good for my karma?" He said flippantly.
Sesshomaru drowned out their meaningless chatter while he looked around. His surroundings didn't interest him for he had seen them already and even then he could care less. He had gotten what he had come for and frankly he had half the mind to leave these fools here and go get Kagome his damn self. But he wasn't stupid, he knew he couldn't go barging into Naraku's castle by himself. He didn't doubt for a second that he was stronger than him but Naraku was one unpredictable sick son of a bitch. The smart thing to do would be to keep his irritation under control and wait. Something he absolutely despised. He wanted Kagome here right now. Even though she infuriated him to no end, he couldn't forget how soft her lips were, how good she smelled, how it felt to have her pressed against him. Kagome had changed him, even if it were only small changes it affected him greatly. He wasn't sure if he liked them. Ever since Sesshomaru laid eyes on her his life was never the same. She tested his control, pushed at his resolve. His nights used to be dreamless but now they were full of her. Her. He was so frustrated and confused that he wondered if he should have just killed her like he had wanted to.
Kurama returned with two white cotton sacks in his hand. "Alright let's go."
Elzim crossed her arms and thrust her chin in the air. "We wish to go too my lord."
He regarded her for a moment. "Who is we?"
"*All* of us."
"Meet us when I send the signal, until then wait here." He turned on his heel and walked out. The rest of them followed.
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She scrambled to get to her feet but the chains on her arms wouldn't allow her. Frustrated, Kagome yanked at her chains. Surprisingly, they extend farther from the ground. She pulled until she had enough chain to walk to the hole. She stuck her head into the other room and was confronted by bright red eyes. Kagome squeaked and tumbled backwards in shock, landing on her butt.
The man stuck his head in the room. He had long bright orange hair that went to his shoulders. His eyes were slanted and red rimed in yellow. His tan face was angular and strong. He didn't look any older than 19. He smiled, good humored. "Am I that ugly?"
Kagome scrambled to her feet and blew her bangs out of her face. "No-no-I'm just surprised. It's not every day you come face to face with red eyes."
He raised an eyebrow. "What did you expect in a place like this?"
"True.."
"My name is Syeaiki (Sci-i-key)."
"I'm Kagome."
His nostrils twitched and he leaned forward causing her to lean backward nervously. "What are you exactly?"
She blinked. "Hum-hal-um-confused."
Syeaiki threw back his head and laughed. "Confused, good one. I like your style." His smile grew. "I'm a fire demon myself."
Kagome leaned forward in interest. "Why don't you just leave?" After a second thought she added. "Are you even a prisoner?"
"Yeah, I am. Why don't I leave? Don't you think I tried? That man has got so many wards on my room that you could set fire to it if you dosed it with wine. Enough about me, what about you? Why are you here?"
"Trade." She said simply.
"Ah." He said wistfully. "The classic trade ploy. That's how he got me too." There was a short silence before he asked. "Did you want those noodles?"
Kagome laughed. "No."
"You know, I thought about starving myself when I first got here too. But I realized that a life is too precious to throw way, no matter what kind of torture you go through....that and I was hungry as hell."
She smiled. "I'll probably break down and eat tomorrow, but for now I couldn't stomach anything."
He gave her a quick grin before going to get the spilled noodles. "Hey! You get more food than me, no fair! I've been here longer!"
She laughed. "Of course it's fair, I'm more likable."
Syeaiki pouted. "That hurts."
"Ah, the truth tends to."
He smiled widely. "It's fun to have to someone to speak to besides that grouch Zitinou (Zee-ten-no)."
"Shut up, moron!" Came a surly voice from above.
Syeaiki went on cheerfully. "Don't mind him, he's just upset that he hadn't had a good fight in-"
"Five years!" Zitinou shouted.
"-five years. I had to be locked up under his room for four of them."
"Four miserable years!"
Kagome looked up at the ceiling in amazement. He had some powerful lungs. "That long?"
Syeaiki smiled but this one didn't reach his eyes. "Well, it hasn't been *that* long. One loses track of time here."
She looked up with she heard some noises come from above. "What's that?"
"Oh that's just Zitinou." He said absently, as if that explained everything.
There was a clash of chains and a loud thud. "What was that?"
"Zitinou." He said a bit slower as if she was stupid.
She rolled her eyes and stuck her head in the hole in the wall. In the middle of the floor stood a man that must have been the infamous Zitinou. His hair was a midnight blue that was swept up into short spikes. His eyes were almond shaped and lime green with slotted black pupils. The shackles and chains where still connected to his wrists and ankles. Kagome's eyes followed the chains up to a hole in the ceiling and decided that she didn't want to know.
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Kana slid the door back and stepped into the room. His room was slightly smaller than the others, not that he matter that much. He did speak or move. He just sat there, blinking every once in a while to prove that he wasn't a statue. She sat down next to him and gathered the noodles in the chopsticks and fed him. He swallowed the noodles, still looking straight ahead. She remembered the time she had learned his name. Kohaku. She liked the sound of it. He was the only person she felt like she could talk to. He something she looked forward, he made the days worth living through. It was like he was a symbol that there were good things in the world if you just knew where to find them.
"The girl that Naraku is obsessed with is here. I don't know why he is but- " She shrugged slightly and fed him more noodles. "-I don't think I want to know. I wonder what he has planned for her. Whatever it is it can't be good. I think he's been planning something big for a while now. It might have something to do with that girl. Her name is Kagome, I think. I wonder what she did to catch his eye."
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Zitinou cracked his neck. "Girl?"
"Kagome."
"Circumstance?"
"Trade."
She blinked, it seemed as thought they were talking about normal everyday things. For someone who had a lot to say earlier, they didn't talk much now.
Zitinou spat on the ground to show his distaste. "What a spineless bastard. If only I could get my hands around his throat."
Syeaiki whispered behind his hand to Kagome. "He's a little bitter."
His gave him a look that could burn water. "A little bitter?! I'll fucking show you a little bitter!" He punched the ground causing a giant crack in the stone.
"No need to be hostile."
"Hostile?! I'll fucking show you hostile!"
"Well could you show me hostile in your own room? I don't want you destroying my floor any further."
Zitinou glared at him. "You make me sick."
"I know I do." He said carelessly.
He turned his glare to Kagome. "You fight?"
"A little, I guess."
"How about a simple yes or no?"
"Well, yes." He looked her over before climbing up his chains and disappearing into the hole in the ceiling. "Okay...."
Syeaiki glanced at her before licking the rest of the noodles from the bottom of the bowl. "You might want to take a couple steps to the left."
Kagome, still looking confused, did what he said. "That still doesn't explain what he's doi-" There was a noise that sounded like the rattling of chains. She turned to see Zitinou standing behind her, cracking his neck. Slowly Kagome looked up to see a square hole in her ceiling. Great.
Then she blinked in surprise as a man descended from the ceiling. He floated downwards as if he was as light as a feather. His eyes were closed and his legs were crossed with his hands resting on his knees. His skin was slightly pale like porcelain and seemed to give off a faint light. His waist length hair was a snowy white and always seemed to be moving as if he was underwater. He had a calm oval face with high cheekbones. When he stopped about a foot off the ground he opened his eyes. His eyes were oval with icy blue irises and round white pupils. When he looked at her, her headache flared ten times over and she felt this enormous pressure on her shoulders like something was pressing on them. He blinked and feeling was gone.
Syeaiki smiled at the man. "Came to see the new girl?"
He grinned, but his searching eyes never left hers. "Yes."
Kagome blinked. Wow was to say the least. This guy was amazing, aside from his looks there was just something about him. "I'm Kagome."
He bowed slightly. "Kyo." (I fell in love with that name from the first time I read Samurai Deeper)
Zitinou tapped his foot impatiently. "Enough with the small talk. I want to see how much this girl knows about fighting."
She looked down at her chained appendages. "I've never fought in shackles before." She said dubiously.
"There's a first time for everything." He leaped at her. Acting on reflexes, she jumped out of the way before leaping at him. He wrapped his chains dangling from his right arm around her leg and yanked sending her butt crashing to the ground. With another yank he had her dangling in the air by her leg. He sighed. "I was hoping you could be a challenge but I guess I was wrong."
Kagome glared at him as indignity flared up inside of her. She'd show him challenge. Her hair turned silver and her eyes gold, her ears pricked forward with alertness. She wrapped the chain dangling from her left arm around both his legs and pulled so that he sprawled forward. She wrapped the chain from her right arm around his arms and lifted him off the ground. She slammed him into the ground, drawing various crunching sounds from his body. Zitinou grabbed her chains, sending her body smacking into his. He wrapped his chains around her chest and tightened until she was gasping desperately for air. Kagome tried to claw at him but she was hopelessly tangled. She wondered dimly if her ribs were cracking. Slowly the pressure on her lungs let off.
Zitinou dropped her, withdrawing his chains from her. He scowled down at her before smirking. "You'll do."
Kagome gulped down air greedily. "Do for what?"
Syeaiki rolled his eyes. "He's been looking for a sparring partner for some time now."
"Sparring partner? I don't want to be anyone's sparring partner."
Zitinou cracked his neck. "Too bad, we start tomorrow."
She glared at him. "That's what you think." But he ignored her. He sat on the cold stone floor with the clang of his chains. Kagome looked over at Kyo who had been staring at her. "So, what kind of demon are you? You are a demon right?"
He grinned languidly. "Yes, I am an air demon."
She blinked. "Air, like wind?"
He shook his head. "There's a difference."
"What?" Kyo looked at her like the first time she saw his eyes. His icy orbs entranced her, all she could see was him. Then a pain flared in her head as her lungs were extracted of their oxygen. Her body heat plummeted, her lips started to turn a purplish blue. He blinked and suddenly the air when racing back into her sore lungs. Kagome rubbed her chest where it felt like sharp shards of ice had stabbed her. "Definitely a difference." She confirmed when she was finally able to speak.
Kyo grinned his languorous grin again. "It's a common mistake."
Kagome let her curiosity get the best of her. "What else can you do?"
"I can control every aspect of the air around us. I can make it hot or cold. I can make it come to me, like I did with you." He tilted his head slightly. "There are other things I suppose but I've never tried it."
"So how do you float like that?"
"That's enough questions. You," Zitinou pointed to her, "need to go to rest for our sparring session tomorrow." He glared at her to make his point before climbing up his chains and disappearing in the hole in the ceiling.
Kyo shook his head. "I should be going to. I need to meditate." He nodded his head in a farewell and disappeared into the hole, too. Kagome stared up at the ceiling as a cover slid over the hole, making it disappear.
Kagome shook her head. "You know some really strange people."
Syeaiki shrugged nonchalantly. "What do expect in a place like this?"
"True."
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Kana walked in the room with her head down. Naraku smiled but that only made her worry. He never smiled unless he was planning something nasty. "I have noticed your little fixation with that boy."
Kana's body grew cold with panic but her face never wavered from her unresponsive mask. He knows. This could be disastrous.
Naraku's smile grew nastier. "He'll never have feelings for you. I'm only telling you this so you don't get your hopes up."
'No you're wrong!' She wanted to tell him but she just stared at him absently.
"He's made friends with a little girl. He even talks to her."
'He's lying, don't listen to him.' Kana told herself over and over. She WOULDN'T let him get to her.
"He never talks to you does he? That's because he doesn't want to. He likes Rin. You can even check your mirror."
She knew an order when she heard one. She slowly looked down at her mirror. An image started to form in its glassy depths and voices started to become audible.
"Um, hello?"
He looked up at her with pleasant chocolate eyes. "Oh hello there, I didn't notice you there. I'm name is Kohaku."
"I'm Rin. Do you live around here?"
"Actually I'm heading toward a village in the east."
"Wow, that's where I'm going."
"We can travel together. I would appreciate the company and I have plenty of food."
"That sounds like a great idea." She got up and followed him out of the clearing.
The picture faded, leaving Kana there shattered. Her silent friend wasn't really silent. He just hadn't wanted to talk to her. She had poured her heart out to him and he just practically spat on it. She fought to keep her face composed. 'I'm glass, I am smooth, I am calm.' She repeated in her head until she knew she had everything under control.
He shook his head in mock sadness with that smile still cruelly twisting his lips. "What did I tell you? He rather be friends with that girl. Unless....."
Kana's heart hitched. Unless was never a good thing. Not with Naraku.
He continued. "Kagome, she could be the answer to solving your problem. She knows the girl very well. She could find the girl a new friend so that you could have Kohaku all to yourself. You'd like that wouldn't you?" He looked down his nose at her, his eyes laughing at her coldly. "All you have to do is starting being friendly with Kagome, until she lets her guard down. Then I want you to take her will and make it mine."
Kana knew she had the power to do so. Once Kagome let her guard completely down, she could trap her will in her mirror like she could with souls. But could she deceive someone like that? Could she? She remembered her long talks with Kohaku and hung her head in shame. Yes, yes she could.
Flamez-Looks like Naraku has something up his sleeve, I wonder what it is. *Scratches chin*
Chapter 14-Light in my darkness
Kagome pressed the cold blade to her wrist and closed her eyes. What was the point any way? She was just going to rot here, why not just end it early? No one would miss her, her friends would get on just fine. Inuyasha certainly wouldn't miss her, not with Kikyou around. Shippou might be sad at first but Rin would make him feel better. Yes, this was the best choice. It made the most sense. She inhaled deeply and started to apply pressure to the steel.
Just then a door that she didn't know was there slid open. Quickly, Kagome let go of the blade and hid it under her back. Kana walked in with a bowl of noodles. She didn't say anything, she only set the bowl down and put the chopsticks next to it. Kagome narrowed her eyes. "Gee, great. Thanks for the food I that I won't be able to eat." She was referring to the shackles.
Kana bent over and pulled at her shackled wrists until they lifted from the stone. The shackles were connected to the ground by iron chains, just long enough for Kagome to sit up and eat. The girl left silently and slid the door close. She looked down at the bowl, her stomach growling. No, she wouldn't take a damn thing they gave her. With a feral growl she chucked the bowl through the left paper wall. The bowl tore through it like tissue paper, creating a surprisingly large hole.
"KEEP YOUR SHIT!!!" Kagome hollered at the top of her lungs.
"Thanks for the extra noodles, but I have to ask you to not shout. Than old coot next to you does enough of it." Came a cheery voice from the hole in the wall.
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Inuyasha tapped his foot impatiently. "Have you found the fucking book yet?"
Kurama glanced over his shoulder. "Obviously I haven't or I wouldn't still be looking. If you want to find the book so bad, I suggest you come over here and look."
Kouga kept a firm hold on Kikyou's arm while he looked around the large volumes of books. "I don't like this place. It feels like I'm being watched."
Inuyasha rolled his eyes as he examined a book on a shelf. "If you're so scared why don't you just wait outside?"
The wolf glared at him. "I just don't have a good feeling about this."
"You shouldn't be so damn paranoid. Maybe it came from running away from all those people. Think they finally caught up to ya?" He threw the book over his shoulder and went on to look at another. Kouga growled while his eyes darted around.
Miroku flipped through a book. "I think he's right, I'm sensing a presence here."
Sango nodded after picking up another book. "Me, too."
Inuyasha threw up his hands in exasperation. "What is it with you people?! What about you Sesshomaru? Do you sense some evil spirits?"
Sango frowned and looked around. "He's not here."
Inuyasha chucked another book over his shoulder. "Where did he go?"
"I'm right here." Everyone jumped and turned. Sesshomaru was holding two struggling children by their ankles. One was a girl with long emerald hair in a high ponytail and chestnut skin held back with a white furry bandana and the other had his emerald hair slicked back into a low ponytail.
The girl thrashed and kicked. "Let me go you filthy bastard! How dare you put your hands on me?!"
Sesshomaru looked at her as if she was something nasty he stepped in. "Fine by me." He dropped her and boy.
The boy was the first to get up. He slid into a fighting stance, growling. "*I* wasn't the one who said they wanted to be dropped."
Kurama put his book down. "Elzim, Phys stop." The two demons quieted but kept glaring at Sesshomaru.
The western lord crossed his arms. "There's more hiding around this room. I don't appreciate being spied on. By the way, here's the book we're looking for." He tossed the book to Kurama.
He caught it easily. "Everyone, come out." Slowly four more demons shuffled out from behind various bookcases. "What were you doing hiding?"
Qunei thrust her chin in the air. "We want to know what's going on."
"Why are these people here?" Ciwv inquired.
Kyre nodded. "Where is Kagome?"
Atto asked quietly. "What happened to my lord? Why is your hair red and eyes green? Are you under a spell?"
"We're trying to find a book to help use rescue Kagome from Naraku's castle. As for being under a spell...you could say that." He answered their questions easily in exact order.
Elzim looked livid. "Who put a spell on you?!"
"That's irrelevant. We've found the book we wanted, we'll be leaving now."
"My lord, wait." Qunei said, thinking rapidly. "Bymr (Bye-mere) will have something that can turn you back to normal. Temporarily most likely but it probably be useful if you want to break into Naraku's castle."
That stopped him in mid stride. "Take me to her."
She tipped her head in a bow like gesture. "Yes my lord." She waited until he was next to her before he led him of the library.
Inuyasha threw up his hands in exasperation. "Naraku's probably gutted her by now."
Miroku sighed. "You shouldn't be so impatient nor pessimistic."
"Why, it's not good for my karma?" He said flippantly.
Sesshomaru drowned out their meaningless chatter while he looked around. His surroundings didn't interest him for he had seen them already and even then he could care less. He had gotten what he had come for and frankly he had half the mind to leave these fools here and go get Kagome his damn self. But he wasn't stupid, he knew he couldn't go barging into Naraku's castle by himself. He didn't doubt for a second that he was stronger than him but Naraku was one unpredictable sick son of a bitch. The smart thing to do would be to keep his irritation under control and wait. Something he absolutely despised. He wanted Kagome here right now. Even though she infuriated him to no end, he couldn't forget how soft her lips were, how good she smelled, how it felt to have her pressed against him. Kagome had changed him, even if it were only small changes it affected him greatly. He wasn't sure if he liked them. Ever since Sesshomaru laid eyes on her his life was never the same. She tested his control, pushed at his resolve. His nights used to be dreamless but now they were full of her. Her. He was so frustrated and confused that he wondered if he should have just killed her like he had wanted to.
Kurama returned with two white cotton sacks in his hand. "Alright let's go."
Elzim crossed her arms and thrust her chin in the air. "We wish to go too my lord."
He regarded her for a moment. "Who is we?"
"*All* of us."
"Meet us when I send the signal, until then wait here." He turned on his heel and walked out. The rest of them followed.
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She scrambled to get to her feet but the chains on her arms wouldn't allow her. Frustrated, Kagome yanked at her chains. Surprisingly, they extend farther from the ground. She pulled until she had enough chain to walk to the hole. She stuck her head into the other room and was confronted by bright red eyes. Kagome squeaked and tumbled backwards in shock, landing on her butt.
The man stuck his head in the room. He had long bright orange hair that went to his shoulders. His eyes were slanted and red rimed in yellow. His tan face was angular and strong. He didn't look any older than 19. He smiled, good humored. "Am I that ugly?"
Kagome scrambled to her feet and blew her bangs out of her face. "No-no-I'm just surprised. It's not every day you come face to face with red eyes."
He raised an eyebrow. "What did you expect in a place like this?"
"True.."
"My name is Syeaiki (Sci-i-key)."
"I'm Kagome."
His nostrils twitched and he leaned forward causing her to lean backward nervously. "What are you exactly?"
She blinked. "Hum-hal-um-confused."
Syeaiki threw back his head and laughed. "Confused, good one. I like your style." His smile grew. "I'm a fire demon myself."
Kagome leaned forward in interest. "Why don't you just leave?" After a second thought she added. "Are you even a prisoner?"
"Yeah, I am. Why don't I leave? Don't you think I tried? That man has got so many wards on my room that you could set fire to it if you dosed it with wine. Enough about me, what about you? Why are you here?"
"Trade." She said simply.
"Ah." He said wistfully. "The classic trade ploy. That's how he got me too." There was a short silence before he asked. "Did you want those noodles?"
Kagome laughed. "No."
"You know, I thought about starving myself when I first got here too. But I realized that a life is too precious to throw way, no matter what kind of torture you go through....that and I was hungry as hell."
She smiled. "I'll probably break down and eat tomorrow, but for now I couldn't stomach anything."
He gave her a quick grin before going to get the spilled noodles. "Hey! You get more food than me, no fair! I've been here longer!"
She laughed. "Of course it's fair, I'm more likable."
Syeaiki pouted. "That hurts."
"Ah, the truth tends to."
He smiled widely. "It's fun to have to someone to speak to besides that grouch Zitinou (Zee-ten-no)."
"Shut up, moron!" Came a surly voice from above.
Syeaiki went on cheerfully. "Don't mind him, he's just upset that he hadn't had a good fight in-"
"Five years!" Zitinou shouted.
"-five years. I had to be locked up under his room for four of them."
"Four miserable years!"
Kagome looked up at the ceiling in amazement. He had some powerful lungs. "That long?"
Syeaiki smiled but this one didn't reach his eyes. "Well, it hasn't been *that* long. One loses track of time here."
She looked up with she heard some noises come from above. "What's that?"
"Oh that's just Zitinou." He said absently, as if that explained everything.
There was a clash of chains and a loud thud. "What was that?"
"Zitinou." He said a bit slower as if she was stupid.
She rolled her eyes and stuck her head in the hole in the wall. In the middle of the floor stood a man that must have been the infamous Zitinou. His hair was a midnight blue that was swept up into short spikes. His eyes were almond shaped and lime green with slotted black pupils. The shackles and chains where still connected to his wrists and ankles. Kagome's eyes followed the chains up to a hole in the ceiling and decided that she didn't want to know.
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Kana slid the door back and stepped into the room. His room was slightly smaller than the others, not that he matter that much. He did speak or move. He just sat there, blinking every once in a while to prove that he wasn't a statue. She sat down next to him and gathered the noodles in the chopsticks and fed him. He swallowed the noodles, still looking straight ahead. She remembered the time she had learned his name. Kohaku. She liked the sound of it. He was the only person she felt like she could talk to. He something she looked forward, he made the days worth living through. It was like he was a symbol that there were good things in the world if you just knew where to find them.
"The girl that Naraku is obsessed with is here. I don't know why he is but- " She shrugged slightly and fed him more noodles. "-I don't think I want to know. I wonder what he has planned for her. Whatever it is it can't be good. I think he's been planning something big for a while now. It might have something to do with that girl. Her name is Kagome, I think. I wonder what she did to catch his eye."
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Zitinou cracked his neck. "Girl?"
"Kagome."
"Circumstance?"
"Trade."
She blinked, it seemed as thought they were talking about normal everyday things. For someone who had a lot to say earlier, they didn't talk much now.
Zitinou spat on the ground to show his distaste. "What a spineless bastard. If only I could get my hands around his throat."
Syeaiki whispered behind his hand to Kagome. "He's a little bitter."
His gave him a look that could burn water. "A little bitter?! I'll fucking show you a little bitter!" He punched the ground causing a giant crack in the stone.
"No need to be hostile."
"Hostile?! I'll fucking show you hostile!"
"Well could you show me hostile in your own room? I don't want you destroying my floor any further."
Zitinou glared at him. "You make me sick."
"I know I do." He said carelessly.
He turned his glare to Kagome. "You fight?"
"A little, I guess."
"How about a simple yes or no?"
"Well, yes." He looked her over before climbing up his chains and disappearing into the hole in the ceiling. "Okay...."
Syeaiki glanced at her before licking the rest of the noodles from the bottom of the bowl. "You might want to take a couple steps to the left."
Kagome, still looking confused, did what he said. "That still doesn't explain what he's doi-" There was a noise that sounded like the rattling of chains. She turned to see Zitinou standing behind her, cracking his neck. Slowly Kagome looked up to see a square hole in her ceiling. Great.
Then she blinked in surprise as a man descended from the ceiling. He floated downwards as if he was as light as a feather. His eyes were closed and his legs were crossed with his hands resting on his knees. His skin was slightly pale like porcelain and seemed to give off a faint light. His waist length hair was a snowy white and always seemed to be moving as if he was underwater. He had a calm oval face with high cheekbones. When he stopped about a foot off the ground he opened his eyes. His eyes were oval with icy blue irises and round white pupils. When he looked at her, her headache flared ten times over and she felt this enormous pressure on her shoulders like something was pressing on them. He blinked and feeling was gone.
Syeaiki smiled at the man. "Came to see the new girl?"
He grinned, but his searching eyes never left hers. "Yes."
Kagome blinked. Wow was to say the least. This guy was amazing, aside from his looks there was just something about him. "I'm Kagome."
He bowed slightly. "Kyo." (I fell in love with that name from the first time I read Samurai Deeper)
Zitinou tapped his foot impatiently. "Enough with the small talk. I want to see how much this girl knows about fighting."
She looked down at her chained appendages. "I've never fought in shackles before." She said dubiously.
"There's a first time for everything." He leaped at her. Acting on reflexes, she jumped out of the way before leaping at him. He wrapped his chains dangling from his right arm around her leg and yanked sending her butt crashing to the ground. With another yank he had her dangling in the air by her leg. He sighed. "I was hoping you could be a challenge but I guess I was wrong."
Kagome glared at him as indignity flared up inside of her. She'd show him challenge. Her hair turned silver and her eyes gold, her ears pricked forward with alertness. She wrapped the chain dangling from her left arm around both his legs and pulled so that he sprawled forward. She wrapped the chain from her right arm around his arms and lifted him off the ground. She slammed him into the ground, drawing various crunching sounds from his body. Zitinou grabbed her chains, sending her body smacking into his. He wrapped his chains around her chest and tightened until she was gasping desperately for air. Kagome tried to claw at him but she was hopelessly tangled. She wondered dimly if her ribs were cracking. Slowly the pressure on her lungs let off.
Zitinou dropped her, withdrawing his chains from her. He scowled down at her before smirking. "You'll do."
Kagome gulped down air greedily. "Do for what?"
Syeaiki rolled his eyes. "He's been looking for a sparring partner for some time now."
"Sparring partner? I don't want to be anyone's sparring partner."
Zitinou cracked his neck. "Too bad, we start tomorrow."
She glared at him. "That's what you think." But he ignored her. He sat on the cold stone floor with the clang of his chains. Kagome looked over at Kyo who had been staring at her. "So, what kind of demon are you? You are a demon right?"
He grinned languidly. "Yes, I am an air demon."
She blinked. "Air, like wind?"
He shook his head. "There's a difference."
"What?" Kyo looked at her like the first time she saw his eyes. His icy orbs entranced her, all she could see was him. Then a pain flared in her head as her lungs were extracted of their oxygen. Her body heat plummeted, her lips started to turn a purplish blue. He blinked and suddenly the air when racing back into her sore lungs. Kagome rubbed her chest where it felt like sharp shards of ice had stabbed her. "Definitely a difference." She confirmed when she was finally able to speak.
Kyo grinned his languorous grin again. "It's a common mistake."
Kagome let her curiosity get the best of her. "What else can you do?"
"I can control every aspect of the air around us. I can make it hot or cold. I can make it come to me, like I did with you." He tilted his head slightly. "There are other things I suppose but I've never tried it."
"So how do you float like that?"
"That's enough questions. You," Zitinou pointed to her, "need to go to rest for our sparring session tomorrow." He glared at her to make his point before climbing up his chains and disappearing in the hole in the ceiling.
Kyo shook his head. "I should be going to. I need to meditate." He nodded his head in a farewell and disappeared into the hole, too. Kagome stared up at the ceiling as a cover slid over the hole, making it disappear.
Kagome shook her head. "You know some really strange people."
Syeaiki shrugged nonchalantly. "What do expect in a place like this?"
"True."
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Kana walked in the room with her head down. Naraku smiled but that only made her worry. He never smiled unless he was planning something nasty. "I have noticed your little fixation with that boy."
Kana's body grew cold with panic but her face never wavered from her unresponsive mask. He knows. This could be disastrous.
Naraku's smile grew nastier. "He'll never have feelings for you. I'm only telling you this so you don't get your hopes up."
'No you're wrong!' She wanted to tell him but she just stared at him absently.
"He's made friends with a little girl. He even talks to her."
'He's lying, don't listen to him.' Kana told herself over and over. She WOULDN'T let him get to her.
"He never talks to you does he? That's because he doesn't want to. He likes Rin. You can even check your mirror."
She knew an order when she heard one. She slowly looked down at her mirror. An image started to form in its glassy depths and voices started to become audible.
"Um, hello?"
He looked up at her with pleasant chocolate eyes. "Oh hello there, I didn't notice you there. I'm name is Kohaku."
"I'm Rin. Do you live around here?"
"Actually I'm heading toward a village in the east."
"Wow, that's where I'm going."
"We can travel together. I would appreciate the company and I have plenty of food."
"That sounds like a great idea." She got up and followed him out of the clearing.
The picture faded, leaving Kana there shattered. Her silent friend wasn't really silent. He just hadn't wanted to talk to her. She had poured her heart out to him and he just practically spat on it. She fought to keep her face composed. 'I'm glass, I am smooth, I am calm.' She repeated in her head until she knew she had everything under control.
He shook his head in mock sadness with that smile still cruelly twisting his lips. "What did I tell you? He rather be friends with that girl. Unless....."
Kana's heart hitched. Unless was never a good thing. Not with Naraku.
He continued. "Kagome, she could be the answer to solving your problem. She knows the girl very well. She could find the girl a new friend so that you could have Kohaku all to yourself. You'd like that wouldn't you?" He looked down his nose at her, his eyes laughing at her coldly. "All you have to do is starting being friendly with Kagome, until she lets her guard down. Then I want you to take her will and make it mine."
Kana knew she had the power to do so. Once Kagome let her guard completely down, she could trap her will in her mirror like she could with souls. But could she deceive someone like that? Could she? She remembered her long talks with Kohaku and hung her head in shame. Yes, yes she could.
Flamez-Looks like Naraku has something up his sleeve, I wonder what it is. *Scratches chin*
