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WARNING DEPICTIONS OF RAPE IN THIS CHAPTER - IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED, DO NOT READ
Chapter 14 – Nightmares Relived
Sesshomaru's anger was barely contained as he felt the turbulent emotions that had bombarded him upon his arrival to her inner most soul. He could feel her fear and pain hit him with a staggering blow as she continued struggling against her unknown captor.
The lord of the western lands knew he needed to locate the center of her spirit quickly, before she completely succumbed to the evil that had invaded her. Moving swiftly through her terrified mind was not as difficult as the last time and he continued his pursuit of her, it was almost too easy. The thought angered him that the miko would be so unprotected and easy to manipulate in this state.
He thought again about the memories he had witnessed and still could not understand the coldness and hidden rage within her heart. 'The girl in those memories was innocent, trusting and even happy. The one that now resides with in these walls is not her.' His observations over the last few days of the miko left him feeling as if he were playing the chess match from hell. 'Those memories could not be the ones that made her into the woman I now know. There's something else... Something that is missing...' She was indeed a puzzle that his youkai curiosity demanded to be solved, and he, Sesshomaru, was never one to fail. This was one game he planned on winning no matter the cost.
He was brought out of his musings the moment he felt her. A wave of pure terror slammed into him, as it pierced his very soul. Had he been in his physical state, it would have brought him to his knees. A vicious growl vibrated from his chest as his eyes tinged pink from the sheer force of it. Moving with a speed that could not matched, he tore his way through to where the core of her spirit resided. What he saw almost made him lose complete control of the demon within him.
It was the same scene he had come upon before in her mind. There she lay completely stripped of her clothes on the same bed with red silk sheets. Her wrists were in manacles and chained above her head. He looked closely at the miko lying there and realized that she was younger, not the same age as the one he knew. It was her but it wasn't, more like, it was the girl she used to be.
Sesshomaru's eyes widened a fraction as he realized that this was actually a memory and her inner being was trapped within it, living it out as if it were just happening. As if it was in fact, reality. The difference from the first time was that it had been a dream state that he could free her mind from, but in this state, he could not help her. A memory can not be changed or altered, for such had already come to pass. His own inability to help her angered him.
He could barely hold back his raging demon as he sensed the vile evil that held her entranced and knew that it had manipulated her maliciously, forcing her to live out what looked to be a nightmare worse than death. The way it had chosen to break her was one that could force her to remain in a coma state, lost forever. If he interfered, her mind could be permanently lost in the same nightmare. He had no choice but to watch until it was over, otherwise her life could be lost.
He had thought the visions he had encountered before were just a nightmare, that she had only imagined, but the knowledge that what he had witnessed before was a memory, frightened and enraged him further. 'What could have happened to taint her soul so? Why would anyone want to punish her in this way?' his mind raced as he watched in horror at the scenes displayed before him.
'Why?' Sesshomaru's agonized thoughts screamed out at the nightmare became his own. His body unconsciously tightened around her in the physical world as he held her, unable to stop what was happening within her minds eye.
Kagome's heart beat rapidly within her chest as consciousness slowly came to her. Her eyes were sluggish as she tried to comprehend the situation that malevolently intruded into her meager world.
Her hands were bound in manacles above her head as she lay nude upon a bed of red silk. Kagome's eye's widened as she took in her surroundings and instinctively knew that she was in danger. A soft chuckle from the corner of the room made the hairs on her body stand on edge from the maliciousness within its depths.
"Kagome..." the voice whispered like a slithering snake about to strike. "Kagome... do you really fear the unknown this much? I thought you were trained to be a powerful adversary, not a pitiful, whimpering child, one who would beg for their life. You disappoint me." The voice hissed.
Kagome's eyes widened at the voice and began to struggle against her restraints, but to no avail. She was afraid. She was weak, just as the voice had told her. She hadn't trained hard enough, she wasn't strong enough. This evil had waited for her and she was not prepared for its assault upon her.
She could feel defeat in her heart and cried silently, the loss of her purity could never be replaced. This evil that had attacked her so violently was after something that she was not strong enough to protect. She had been born with it within her body as she was a babe and now, she knew, this devil from hell would take it from her without remorse. She was going to die, and in the most horrendous of ways.
The sensations Sesshomaru felt radiating off her combined with the dark figure that now loomed above her made the demon lord's eyes bleed crimson with his need to protect what he now held. Had the hounds of hell tried to separate them they would have been defeated and blasted back from which they came. Yet all he could do was watch.
The demon's hard body splayed over her own naked form as she tried to buck him off, but to no avail. This youkai would get what he wanted, and every indication pointed to her, he wanted her. She was helpless, she wasn't strong enough, tears spilled from her eyes as he began to ravage and torture her body in ways that she would never have thought possible.
His claws dug into the soft flesh of her hips as his tongue lapped at the flushed skin on her body. The pain he began to inflict was almost more than she could bear as his razor sharp claws severed her flesh everywhere he touched. Her arms, breasts, thighs, then he did the vilest of deeds. His gaze sought hers as he positioned himself over her quivering limbs.
Sesshomaru's body shook with uncontrolled rage as the dark form became clearer. His muscles strained to rip into the demon he had seen before within her memories. He could feel his own fingers sliding threw her silky hair as he felt her shudder against him. He wasn't the only one seeing the evil but he could not comfort her for she would not feel it in this state.
Eyes so full of lust and malice as the heartless demon gaze roved over her bloodstained body. A grin that made her breath catch at its meaning forced her body to move violently beneath him. Her desperate cries for help echoed within the small room that held her hostage as he gripped her face.
The demon lord removed one hand from her tortured body as he griped the mattress with his now lengthened claws ripping it to shreds. Anger burned a path threw his veins just as the face of the demons was forever burned into his memory and even if he had to hunt the four corners of the earth nothing would stop him from finding the one who had hurt her and sending him to hell.
Dark eyes flashed red as the demons mouth descended upon hers, inhaling her screams as he plunged his rock hard erection deep into her core. Ripping through the barrier that proved her innocence the savage demon raped her mind and body relentlessly. Again...and again, setting a relentless, almost frantic pace to grind his hips hard against her, his entire body straining against hers as he sought release from the near-painful erection he had. His growls of satisfaction echoed within the room as her pain filled cries mingled with the darkness.
Sesshomaru didn't even grit his teeth as Kagome left a path of blood down his sides with her fingernails while within the thongs of the memory. Within the memory she had been shackles and unable to do so. Now that the demon lord knew the identity of the bastard "Hiten" the very reason for the rift between Inu Yasha and the miko, the one who had attacked her in the halls of her school. The one that would slowly die by his hands.
Hiten drove his body into her, harder, faster, his release was so near. Her muffled sobs and pleading were drowned out in his haze of lust and greed. He had never felt this kind of power over another before and it was almost addictive. He knew he would be releasing soon and knew that he had to break her spirit before he could take the jewel that resided within her body. She had to be thoroughly corrupted and weakened before he could complete his mission. The jewel had never mattered to him but his brother was insistent upon claiming it for his own, no matter the cost.
This weak little ningen was the one keeping them from their task. He would make sure to make good use of her before he let her go. She tasted too good and the power buried deep within her soul was too much for him to ignore. He had to have every ounce her, had to corrupt the purity within her heart. She would be his toy for as long as his brother allowed and he vowed to himself that he would not relent until he was the one to break her.
Sesshomaru could not hold back the bust of rage filled energy radiating from him and destroying the room they lay in leaving them untouched as her nightmare continued. He knew when he found this demon he, lord of the western land, would make him suffer 10 fold what the miko suffered and that was the only thought keeping him from blowing the entire room apart with his need for vengeance. He could still feel the hurricane force winds that had yet to settle.
Mentally using his kei he created a barrier around them lifting them and transporting them into another room. Something told him it wasn't over and she would need more time to finish the memory threw and he was helpless but to watch it out. They landed gently open a bed where he wrapped his arms around her lending her comfort he knew she could not fill. He knew the worst was yet to come.
Sharp fangs glistened in the darkness of the room as her body convulsed almost violently from the youkai's assault. Kagome's throat locked as pulled himself from her battered body "Please, Stop! It hurts!" her pleas fell upon deaf ears as the youkai smirked at her.
"You don't like this?" he purred as his clawed finger traced a path from her neck to the soft curls that hid her prior innocence. He towered over her small frame as his tongue trailed down her body, following the angry red line left behind from his claws as he tasted her heated flesh. "Your scent is intoxicating, your fear and pain are like an aphrodisiac to my senses."
Sesshomaru snarled, his chest heaving from the strain of containing his anger yet he could not look away. His eyes bled to crimson fire.
Hiten nuzzled her core, inhaling deeply and not able to hold himself back any longer, began lapping and biting at her core. She tasted heavenly. He couldn't get enough as his tongue drove deeper into her, wanting more, needing more. Her tortured cries and broken whimpers were music to his ears as he feasted upon her. The salty scent of her tears mixed his arousal almost forced his demon loose. "You are most delicious, my little miko" his voice, raw with lust, penetrated her haze filled mind as he rose above her once more.
Dark eyes tinged with red, locked with fear filled sapphire blue. An evil smirk spread across his lips as he thrust himself deeply within Kagome's already abused body and continued his assault. He fed off of her fear and pain. It delighted him to take her over and over again, just hearing her pain filled cries pushed his arousal over the edge.
Kagome's torture continued for several days as Hiten raped her body and mind mercilessly. Her once pure, unmarked body lay upon the bed covered with bruises and cuts from his claws and fangs. Dried tears stained her face as she slept fitfully, lost in her living nightmare.
She had refused him before and now, now he was making her pay. He had broken her and forcefully ripped away her innocence. Kagome knew that she would never be the same again, if he allowed her to live.
She could barely feel her body, she felt numb inside. The bright light that had shined before within her soul had been snuffed out completely. Kagome cried out at the loss and withdrew completely within herself.
'Why is this happening to me?' her question was left unanswered as her tormentor advanced upon her once more. This time she could feel the presence of another, just barely, as her clouded vision tried to focus toward the unknown aura. 'Someone is here... someone worse...' she cringed as Hiten's fingers trailed down her exposed body.
"How are you my sweet?" he leaned in and licked the tiny trails of blood that his claws had left behind. "Mmmmm... you have been so delicious..." the tone in his voice left no doubt that he wanted more. "Too bad our association must end. I would have kept you, but I my fun has ended and now, I have to let you go." His words sent a chill down her spine as she tried to scoot away from his touch.
"You're letting me go?" she rasped, knowing that was not his intention. "I want to go home..." her soft plea fell upon deaf ears as he continued to gaze at her, as if memorizing her every detail for the last time.
"Quit playing with her and get on with it!" a dark snarl broke the trance Hiten had fallen into. "We have no more time for this. You've had your fun, now cut the Shikon from her body and leave her!"
Hiten's eyes snapped towards the second figure, a low warning growl in his throat. "You'll get your fucking jewel, asshole. I was just enjoying myself for a moment longer." He turned toward her and smiled cruelly. "Goodbye my sweet" he whispered, kissing her soft lips gently for the first time.
Kagome's scream pierced the air as Hiten's claws ripped the flesh from her side just as her unknown visitor moved toward her. Her vision blurred as the welcoming darkness took her.
As the events of the next couple days had flashed before him, Sesshomaru held her tighter knowing what she was reliving within the span of moments, seemed in her mind, days. She was stronger than even she was aware of to have survived such a thing. The pain and anguish of those torturous days being pushed into a span of only moments, was too much for even the demon lord to handle witnessing. With a scream of rage the room around them was again destroyed in the blink of an eye. His chest rose with a ragged breath as he pried his rage filled mind from the blind depths of his demon fury. It was over. His conciseness took over as he was again thrown from her mind, this time, without her even knowing.
Again moving them, this time to his own private chambers, he hovered above the bed for only a moment before turning them on their sides and lowering to the bed. With his arms still wrapped around her protectively as he wondered why he cared so much but he knew, even if she fought his every effort she would not win. Her face was now relaxed and reminded him of a defenseless child. Closing his eyes Sesshomaru tightened his body around her creating a barrier to surround them as they rested. A barrier not even his brother could break.