Yuki : here is chapter 7, and sorry about stopping in a weird spot last chapter, alright maybe I'm not.

I don't own MP, but I do own Paris, Kage, Akari, Marissa Kyomi and the plot

Chapter Seven: Let's play 20 questions

Kage woke before her mistress that evening, she was sitting on her bed with her back against the wall staring into the darkness of the room.

"You're an early riser, or did your nightmares chase you awake?" Paris suddenly appeared from her bed next to Kage's.

"That is nothing of your business, milady" Kage didn't look at Paris.

"Really? I'm your mistress, you are my concern child." Paris smirked, "Turn around."

"Yes Milady." Kage slowly turned around unsure of what Paris was going to do. She felt Paris's fingers run threw her hair and then divide it into three strands then started to braid it. "Now off to Meka's so she can get you read for tonight," she ushered Kage out the door, "and when you're done there tell Meka to bring you to my studio."

Kage nodded, "Yes Milady." She slowly made her way to Meka's room.

"Kage, how are you this evening?" Meka opened the door before Kage had knocked.

"I've been better." Kage smirked slightly.

"I see Lady Paris did your hair already." Meka went to a dresser looking for clothes for Kage to wear, "Where did Lady Paris ask me to take you when you were done here?"

"To her studio," Kage sighed sitting in a chair, this was the most freedom she had since she was sold to Kyomi.

"Alright," Meka turned around with clothes in her hands, "here we go these might fit you." She handed the clothes to Kage.

Kage looked at them, "White?" she looked up to Meka, "Does it have to be white?"

"Lady Paris prefers her pets to wear white." Meka shrugged, "Get used to it Kage."

Kage started to change, "Why is she so fond of white?"

"My guess is that white shows the blood better." Meka laughed slightly, "Stop asking so many questions Kage. It'll get you into trouble."

The comment made her stomach cringe, "Alright." She looked at what she was wearing all white, a white tank top that showed her stomach, and white cotton pants.

Meka lend her to the studio and dropped her off.

"Come here Kage," Paris was sitting at a desk working on a carving of some sort.

"Yes Milady," Kage sat at her feet as was expected.

"Tell me about yourself my pet," Paris hadn't looked up from her carving yet.

"What is there to know milady? I am only a mere pet." Kage suppressed a growl.

"Where are you from, who were your parents, did you have family or were they slaughtered when you were brought to Midnight?" She finally looked down at Kage and patted her head, "I like to know about my pets."

"I was from a small village, my mother's name was Marissa," Kage thought for a moment, no wonder why the head huntress's name sounded so familiar. "My father's name was, I don't remember. I had one brother named Akari (A/N it means light in Japanese) my mother was brought to Midnight with me, Milady." Kage sighed and turned to lean against the desk.

"And your father and brother? Were they brought to Midnight also?" Paris turned back to the carving she was doing.

"No Milady, they were both killed in a conflict between our village and another." Kage sighed her mind traveled back to the day, she was only four at the time but she knew the meaning of death.

Kage's mother answered the door it was winter so everything had been shut up tight.

"May I help you sir?" She looked up at the soldier at the door.

"Ma'am, I regret to inform you that your husband and soul son has died in battle." His face held no emotion.

Kage was hiding behind her mother, who was trying not to cry, "Thank you sir, anything else?"

"We will bring their bodies back soon, with their belongings. I was their acting commander, Lee Thompson." He held his hand out to Marissa.

Kage growled, "YOU KILLED HIM!" She jumped out from behind her mother on to the man with enough force to knock him down. The 'him' she was talking about was her brother, she didn't care to much about her father.

"Kage Aren!" Her mother yelled, but Kage didn't listen.

"You little brat!" Lee threw Kage off of him and on to the ground, she landed sharply on a rock that left a deep cut in her shoulder.

"I'm sorry sir, she usually isn't so violent." Marissa went over to Kage and picked her up.

"I understand the news of her father and brother's deaths must have shocked her." He stood up and brushed himself off, "Good evening Ma'am." He left.

"What has gotten into Kage?" Marissa placed Kage on the table looking at the cut, "this is going to scar." She frowned, "Kage? Are you going to answer me?"

"He killed Akari," She pouted, not cried she didn't feel any pain at the moment, just the strange sense of adrenaline.

"Akari? What about your father too honey?" Her mother smoothed out Kage's hair.

Kage shrugged slightly.

"I take it you weren't too fond of your father." Paris pulled Kage back into reality.

"I'm I that easy to read Milady?" Kage looked up.

"No, you are actually quite hard to read. The fact that you don't seem to fond of your father comes from the way you acted when you forgot his name, you really didn't care, and they way you went quite when I mentioned their deaths tells me you were thinking of something." Paris placed her knife on the desk and looked down, "now the question is why you aren't fond of your father?"

Kage sighed, this vampire was more observant then others, and it bugged her. "I'm not sure anymore milady." That was a lie but at least it was plausible, after all Kage had forgotten all of the good things from her past, so it wouldn't be too hard to believe that she had forgotten some of the bad things as well.

"You're lying to me Kage, I don't like my pets lying." She glared down at Kage.

"Sorry Milady," Kage growled again, it must have been noticeable because she was slapped acrossed the face which sent her to the floor. "Lady Paris, what was that for?" Kage tried to play the part of oblivious pet.

"Lying, growling, there is no need for you to do either of them." Paris kicked Kage in the stomach causing her to gag.

"Sorry Milady, it's instinct." She was about to continue until Paris's foot connected with her rib.

"Silent Kage!" She was about to kick her again but stopped and bent down, "What do you mean by instinct?"

Kage blinked, unsure of what to do, first she was told to be silent and now she was being told to talk. "I, I was a hunter before Midnight, Milady, I was taught to lie when there was a situation I didn't like that I needed to get out of."

"Well you aren't a hunter any more Kage, you are nothing but a pet, and perhaps prey. There is no reason your instinct should still be within you, especially since you have been broken twice." Paris growled slightly.

"Sorry Milady." Kage closed her eyes, she felt like she was going to be sick.

"Now, why aren't you fond of your father?" Paris went back to her carving.

"My father used to make me watch him beat my brother." Kage kept her eyes closed, every beating from vampires brought back those memories.

Kage sat there looking down as Akari's screams echoed through the forest. Her father told Marissa he was taking the kids for a night walk and would be back for a little while.

"Kage look up." Her father turned from his work on Akari, "Watch or this might happen to you one day."

Akari was breathing heavily, "Father, please let Kage be, she too young for this."

"Shut up Akari," her father smacked him; Kage winced at the sound. When they went back home Akari hid the beating well.

Both Kage and Akari were taught by their father to ignore pain and never to tell their mother what went on, they both hid it well. Her mother never found out that Akari was beat, Kage's father never laid a hand on Kage he only threatened to.

Kage took a deep breath waiting for Paris's next question.

"Hm. Such a shame that you had to watch, I imagine that is why you are so violent." Paris looked down, "Is it?"

Kage nodded slightly, "I'm truly not that violent Milady, just when I get pissed, I don't hold this inside anymore, I just fight." She shrugged.

"Just so you know Kage, if you ever do that you will be punished." Paris dropped her knife on the floor. Kage caught it out of reflex, "here you are Milady." She handed it back.

"Thank you Kage." She patted Kage on the head and went back to her work, "Now, what were you out and about doing after Midnight was destroyed?"

"I was a hunter," She left it vague on purpose.

"I see, I don't need to know anymore about that, who was your first master?" She started concentrating harder on her carving.

"My fist master was Jaguar." She jumped when she heard a hiss from Paris.

"You are to use titles with others as well as me!" She glared down at Kage.

"Sorry Milady." Kage refrained from rolling her eyes, no need to piss off the vampire again, she was already going to have a few bruises. "Lord Jaguar was my first master, unless you count Lady Jeshickah as my first mistress since she did break me."

"Jaguar trained you better though, did he not?" She placed her knife down and started to dust of the carving with a rag.

"Yes Milady, Lord Jaguar almost trained me fully." Kage sighed slightly this was going to be a long night.

"Kage wake up!" Jaguar was angry already this early in the evening, this could be dangerous.

"Yes milord?" Kage looked up from her spot on the bed.

"Get up!" He threw a nasty glare at her making her shiver slightly as she pulled herself off the bed. "Hurry up and get dressed, Jeshickah wants me to meet her."

"Yes milord, sorry milord." Kage hurried and changed from her day cloths into her night cloths.

"Come here my pet." He motioned for her to come closer.

"Of course milord." She step closer expecting to feel the pressure of his mind on hers but instead felt his arm around her waist.

"Beautiful. You only have a few flaws to get over now." He smirked.

"Let go!" Kage pushed him away causing herself to fall to the ground, he had influenced her mind, how could she be that weak.

"Child! You have no right to tell me what to do, I am the master here." He started striking out with his mind.

Kage curled into a little ball, she finally responded a few minutes later, "Sorry, sorry, Milord." She was shaking in pain, trying not to give in, but she had to.

'You're a pet Kage, don't forget that. No matter what, no matter where and no matter whom you are with the fact that you are a pet will haunt you for the rest of your cursed life.' Jaguar's voice entered her head as the pain ended.

"Now get up and come." He started walking out, "If you don't follow me I will start to put you on a leash and drag you everywhere."

Kage slowly got up without a word and followed him.

"Almost trained?" Paris raised an eye; she found it odd that a human could hold on to their humanity for so long.

"I had several flaws that needed to be work out in order for me to be a perfect pet Milady, needless to say Lady Jeshickah found a way to correct that when I was broken for the second time."

"Now tell me Kage, who was your most recent master? Why is it that you ended up as an auction piece?"

"My former master was Lord Kyomi," She sighed, so much had gone wrong with Jaguar's plan and now she was here stuck with a temperamental vampire. "I ended up as an auction piece because someone killed him, Milady."

"I see, now tell me who is this Audra person that kept bidding on you?" Paris held the carving up to the light seeing if she got all the dust out of its cracks.

"Lady Audra was my care taker at Lord Kyomi's she would watch over me while he was working, Milady" Kage closed her eyes, these questions were getting boring.

"What was the worst beating you've ever gotten?" Paris started to clean the wood tablet.

Kage had to think on that one for a moment, what was the worst beating she had ever gotten? "My worst beating was from Lord Jaguar at the original Midnight." She hated to face that fact since Jaguar had changed, but it was true she barely survived one of the beatings he gave her.

"Oh, and what was it for?" She worked at one of the cracks that she could quite get clean.

"For attacking him." Kage suppressed a low growl, she figured out what the point to all these questions were, to help Paris get into her mind faster.

He had shown her off to Jeshickah that night, Kage told Jaguar that she would behave if she could have extra food, he agreed, but instead Kage made one little mistake, and he fed her nothing, that was the last straw. Jaguar was sleeping and Kage stood there in the room looking for a dagger or something to kill her master with. Finally she found one; she snuck up to the side of the bed and prepared to strike. She swung down with all the might she had but her wrist was caught then a shatter was heard.

"If you are going to attack me at least have the nerve to do it while I'm awake." He still had hold of the broken wrist and used it to throw Kage to the ground, "Have I upset you Kage or did you think it would be fun to attack your master?" He towered over her and stared down with his black unreadable eyes.

Kage stood up, she didn't know what had gotten into her, normally she would have stayed down after he had broken something, but she stood and attacked him again with her hands thinking maybe she could strangle him to death. He caught her light body easily and threw her against the wall, he continued beating her until he felt it was enough, she could barely move, he let the doctor care for everything except for the wrist thinking that she was left handed and would never be able to wield a dagger again.

"Have you always fought back? Did the hunting circle teach you how to fight?" Paris smiled she must have finished cleaning the carving.

"I have always fought back, I think it's in my blood or something, I like the adrenaline that comes with the fight. The hunting circle taught me how to fight against vampires which was one thing that in my child hood I thought I would never be able to do, but once they taught me I realized I could and then Lady Jeshickah ripped that hope from me again." Kage sighed, there had to be a way out of this placed some how.

"I see," Paris stood, "Come Kage, it's time to feed, I'm sure you're hungry." She started walking out of the studio.

"Yes Milady, I am." She followed like a good little pet.

Yuki: yeah I know that is a weird spot to stop, but I kinda need to stop there or it might be extremely long. And Yes Paris does ask 20 questions that is if I counted right. RR please.