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A/N - Hello again! Chapter two is up! Oh, and don't mind my uncreative chapter names; I really suck at that sort of thing. Yeah, the only reason this story has a name is because I happened to be listening to "I'm With You" by Avril Lavigne; the name just kinda...stuck. Oh, and as usual, flashbacks will be marked with ~~Flash~~. And I don't feel like writing that in the beginning of every chapter that I put flashbacks in... so don't forget! ^_^ But anyway, on to the story! ^_-
With You
Chapter 2
Unfriendly Confrontation
Okay, this was officially bad. His first attempt to escape by jumping straight out of his circle of guards hadn't worked so well. They'd gotten a net over his head, but he'd been able to rip that off. They'd hurled a few spears at him, and he just barely dodged all of those. Normally that'd be an easy task, but there was somewhere around seventy people thrusting those spears at him; not to mention that when they'd thrown the net over him, they had decided to shoot some arrows along with it. He'd gotten pretty scratched up, which put him in a bit of pain...the source of which probably came from that nice big gash in his back where two spears had been flung right into him.
But that wasn't the worst of it; the worst part was that they had their arrows ready and aimed at his airborne figure, and their fingers would release their attack at any second.
Yeah, he was in a really bad situation. He could try using Sankontetsou on them, but he didn't want to risk getting stabbed in the back with five to ten arrows at the same time he attacked. He could always try out that sword he'd 'borrowed' yesterday; Testsaiga or something. But by the looks of it that rusted old piece of crap was completely useless. Besides, he didn't have it with him.
Life really sucked these days...
Actually, life had sucked for the past twelve years. From when he was six years old until now, he'd been on his own. At first, he barely got by with his life; but after a while he got the hang of the whole 'borrowing' thing, and he'd gotten pretty good at it. Sometimes he got a little carried away and greedy... but besides that, he'd done fairly well for himself. Besides the few times he'd messed up, that is...
~~Flash~~
Alright, he was set. He'd gotten six tomatoes, fourteen radishes, ten carrots, and two heads of lettuce. That would last him a couple of days.
The nine year old hanyou had a broad grin on his face as he marched out of the farmer's field; plunder in hand. He'd gotten everything he needed without a hassle! The man that owned the land he'd just finished pillaging had idiotically left it unguarded while he had left for the town. As to why the farmer had left his precious field defenseless, he didn't know.
But that wasn't important! He'd gotten what he came for, so why stay and mull any longer?
So he kept on marching right out of the field, grabbing any nice-looking and easy-to-reach vegetable he saw.
Ah, today was his day! This was much easier than usual, and he was feeling very lucky. And look! A potato patch! He loved potatoes... But as he was making his way over to snatch a few of his favorite vegetable, he snapped his head up to the sound of the leaves crunching.
The farmer was back; and he was right there, watching him.
"Oh crud..." he was in big trouble now... these people considered the activity he was taking part in a very high crime.
"You scoundrel! How dare you steal my crops!" the angered man shouted as he stomped in rage straight towards Inuyasha.
Dang!! What should he do!? Running seemed to be the best option, but that was probably because he didn't have any others.
So he sprinted as fast as his legs could carry him out of the farmer's field and into the forest, heading towards the creek on the other side. He'd be able to cross it quickly, but it would take his pursuer a little longer; that would buy him some time...
He looked over his shoulder and an expression of fear and amazement crossed his face. The man was only a few feet behind him!! How in the world had he kept up?!
This forced Inuyasha to try to quicken his pace as much as possible. That wasn't very much though; let alone enough to get him away from the farmer.
He let a pained cry escape his lips as the rough man snatched his hair in one hand and his left forearm in the other. Crap...!! He'd caught up with him!
"You little brat! You know how high a crime it is to steal in this town?!" he roared and gave his hair a rough yank. "I've seen you taking from my fields twice already and I won't have it happen again! Lesson's need to be taught to unruly hanyou monsters such as yourself!" he said and gave Inuyasha a hard slap on the face.
"This'll teach you for stealing from my crops!" he shouted as he raised a fist to strike Inuyasha again-
~~Flash~~
Inuyasha clenched his jaw and balled his fists as he pushed the bad memories away from him. That was a long time ago anyway... it didn't matter now. What had he been thinking about before...?
Oh yeah, that was it... He was about to tell himself that they didn't have any justifiable reasons for trying to kill or capture him!
'What?! What are you talking about!? I can think of plenty of reasons as to why they would want to stop you.'
'Oh yeah? Name three.'
'Okay - Number one, you've been stealing-'
'Borrowing.'
'Okay, ~borrowing~ food from this town for months now; I can imagine that might upset them a little bit!'
'Hey, give me a break! I can't survive if I don't eat, and-'
'I'm not finished yet! How about all those swords that you sto-'
'Borrowed!'
'~borrowed~ from the town's sword smith?'
'I just wanted to try them out-'
'And then there was always the time that you st-'
'Borrowed! Damnit!!'
'Same difference!! But that doesn't change the fact that you took that horse without permission!'
'Just leave me alone!!' he mentally shouted back with a very loud mental growl. (A/N - I couldn't help myself - I just had to write that in there somewhere... ^_^;) Stupid voice, that thing was so annoying...
"Oh shit...!" he cursed as he pulled himself back to reality when his attackers fired their arrows. He'd completely gone into a daze there for a minute. And as another round of spears came flying towards him he leapt swiftly out of the way. Success!
He landed on one of the nearby houses to shout his victory. "Heh! Eat that you bastards! You can't-"
Inuyasha fell from his perch on the village roof to land on his side on the hard ground below. What the hell had just happened? When did they shoot and where from!? He hadn't seen any other guards aiming at him except for the ones that had already fired!
He recklessly tried to pull himself up off the cold ground so he could remove those repulsive points from his back, but it was to difficult to move. Damnit!!
He cringed in pain and coughed fresh blood onto the ground before him. He inwardly cursed as he saw the guards rushing towards him and removing their weapons rather painfully from his back as they pulled him up by his arms.
"Put him in the wagon; Lord Naraku wants him taken straight to the prisons." A middle aged official ordered.
"Yes, sir!" several younger guards answered simultaneously.
"Shit...!" Inuyasha cursed "Shit!!"
They'd caught him. They'd finally caught him.
~~*~~
Kagome yawned and stretched her arms and legs as she lazily opened her eyes. What was all the racket out there? Whoever it was was being really loud... And why was she sleeping on the floor next to the wall instead of on her bed...? Oh yeah, hadn't she been talking with that old woman? What was her name...Kan...Kad...Kaede! That was it. Maybe before she checked out what all that noise was she should apologize for dozing off...
"Miss Kaede?" Kagome called through the empty space in the wall. "Miss Kaede? Are you awake?"
"Yes, Lady Kagome." The older woman responded with a smile as she knelt down and looked through to her.
Kagome had to refrain from sighing; she was still treating her like 'Princess Kagome Higurashi', not like just plain Kagome. Oh well...it wasn't anything new. "I'm sorry, I fell asleep while we were talking last night..."
"Oh it's fine, dear." Kaede answered. "You must have been tired."
Kagome nodded and returned her warm smile with a bright one of her own. She liked this old woman; she was very kind and pleasant to talk to. Maybe when she was finally found or set free, Kaede could come back with her. She'd be lovely to have around...
Suddenly, her companion's head snapped to face the door and she stood briskly.
"Follow me, old woman. We're moving you to a local prison; we need the space you're occupying." The older guard ordered.
"But...I-"
The man rolled his eyes at her "Just cooperate, miss. Orders are orders."
Kagome watched as her new found friend solemnly nodded and picked up a small basket near her bed; slowly exiting the cell without a word.
"Well this really bites..." Kagome seethed "I finally was having some decent human conversation and she's being transferred to a different cell..." The only other people she ever got to talk to were the guards, but when she did talk to them, she either got scolded by them, or they ignored her. Not that those assholes were worth conversing with anyway...
But wait, didn't he say they needed the space she was occupying? He must have meant that there was another prisoner that they were going to put in there; at least she'd still have somebody to talk to...
"May as well get back to that nap I was taking..." Actually, that nap wasn't sounding so appealing anymore; there was the most annoying little dripping sound coming from Kaede's cell... Her new habit of banging her head against the wall sounded more interesting. "That works to." she muttered with a shrug as she sat herself down in her favorite hit-my-head-against-the-wall spot.
Once again, just before she begun her favorite hobby, she heard several men causing quite a lot of clatter as they paraded down the hall just outside her door.
Kagome jumped from her spot and ran over to her cell entrance; waiting and listening anxiously in an attempt to decipher what they were saying and what was happening. They seemed to be heading right towards her door... she held her breath and listened.
"Is it safe to get near him?" one of the nearby guards asked, a little worried.
"He's fine; he fell unconscious before they gave him to us. I doubt he'll get up and slash you in his sleep." Terashi said with a laugh.
"I heard he's extremely dangerous; they said he's a vicious beast!" a younger voice added oh-so-helpfully.
Another young soldier ignored his comment and peered down the corridor "Is this where we're supposed to bring him?"
"Yeah, I think this is the place. Cell number... what was it again, Kusaki?" Terashi asked his fellow guard.
There was a short pause before Kusaki answered "Uh... they told us to bring the hanyou boy to number..." there was another brief pause and he finished "...number 144."
Kagome froze; cell number 144... that was Kaede's old cell. It was right next to hers...and they were going to put that nutbar in it?! Well she certainly got all the luck...
But maybe she shouldn't judge him so quickly; for all she knew, everything that they had said about him could have been complete and total lies - he could really be a wonderful, kind, handsome guy! But then again, she didn't think he'd be in so much trouble if he was that great...
In the mean time, she may as well take a look at this guy; she had that convenient little wall hole after all.
She trotted over to her vantage point and peeked through. Yep, they were bringing him in alright. They weren't exactly being quiet about it either...
"Can't see his face..." she mumbled to herself; she didn't think that talking loud enough for the guards to hear her was the best of ideas... The prisoners weren't supposed to have any contact with each other, so if they found out that she had a means of doing that, they'd take it away from her immediately - not to mention punish her for breaking the rules.
Damn... she couldn't see any of him. There were so many guards lifting him that all she could see was a few red blobs in between the mass of moving bodies that was encircling him.
Okay, they were setting him on the bed; something she had a perfect view of. Yes! Luck was catching up with her! She watched intently as they laid him down on the bed and...wait a second. What were they doing...? Hey! They were moving it!!
"Put it back! Put it back! Put it back!" she chanted in less than a whisper. That was so unfair! Why did the world always have to go against her? She continued repeating her chant in hopes that it might make them do something...
Guess not. She gave an frustrated sigh and threw her sheet up, jumping into her bed with a grunt. They'd decided to move his bed next to the same wall that her bed was on, which happened to be the same wall that the missing brick was in; hence her not being able to see him at all. She could swear that somebody must have jinxed her...
Okay, so maybe she was getting worked up over a rather trivial matter... but still! She'd been kidnapped, and that was reason enough to be upset.
She should get some rest... she was tiring herself with all this thinking. Her last nap hadn't lasted long; she needed to rest.
Kagome curled herself up into a ball and nestled her head into her pillow, folding her hands together in front of her knees, and drifted of to sleep...
~~*~~
Inuyasha awoke with a start and shot up in bed; or at least he would have if he hadn't doubled over in pain when he tried to 'shoot up'.
"What the..." he grumbled as he looked up to his cell door to find that a guard was coming in cautiously, holding a tray of some sort.
"Where the hell am I?!" he squawked at the nervous man, making him jump back a little.
The young man visibly gulped and gave a shaky reply "Y- you're in the N-Northern Kingdom sir. In a p-prison cell in Lord Naraku's castle."
Inuyasha's eyes widened as realization hit him. He'd been caught... they'd captured and imprisoned him. That's why he'd had all those wounds, and when he'd tried to sit up he'd dropped back down in pain. They'd caught him...
"Shit..." well this really sucked.
"Umm...s-sir." the guard said, just as precariously, as he held out the tray for Inuyasha to take.
"What's this, food? I'm surprised that you people are feeding me. Thought you'd just decide to let me die of starvation and rot away in this pathetic little cell." Inuyasha responded flatly.
"I-I'll just leave it right here, y-you can eat it when you're hungry." The young guard told him, leaving the tray on the floor near Inuyasha's bed and exiting the small room hurriedly; locking it after he left.
Was it just him or did that guard seem to be afraid...?
Oh well, not his problem. Now what had they given him for food...
"Well, well, well. You guys are certainly giving me a feast!" Inuyasha spat sarcastically as he glared at the small bowl of rice, the little bowl of soup, and the tiny loaf of bread. This was all they were gonna give him for an entire day...? Geeze, he ate twice that much when he got it on his own.
"Bastards..." he groused.
He decided on making another attempt to sit up and get to that food; he was getting kinda hungry...
Maybe if he flipped onto his side and slipped his legs over the edge...
He carefully turned himself over and inched his feet over the side of the bed; silently praying he didn't reopen the wounds on his back with all this movement.
Yes! Step number one accomplished! Now he had to sit up. Hmm...he needed to sit himself upright without causing his back to pain him. The question was; how? Maybe if he kept it perfectly straight it wouldn't hurt as much? It was worth a try...
So he straightened his -already very stiff- spine, crossed his left arm over his chest and placed it in from of his right elbow, gritted his teeth and squeezed his eyes shut. Okay, on the count of three. One...two...thr- Alright, maybe five. One...two...three...four...fi- No wait - ten! One...two...three...fo-
'You're just stalling, you know.'
"I am not!" he growled back through clamped teeth. Why would he want to stall? He wasn't afraid that it would hurt or anything...
'Yes you are you big liar!'
"No I'm not, damnit!" he spouted in annoyance. Why couldn't that voice just leave him alone? Well, at least it had motivated him to sit up and get that food...
"One, two, three!" he used his right elbow and his left had to quickly -but carefully- thrust himself up into a sitting position.
He smirked in satisfaction at how well he'd overcome that little obstacle. So all he had to do was keep his back straight, huh? He wouldn't have to do it for very long either, just until his wound healed up more. It shouldn't take to much time...
Alrighty then, now that he knew the trick to this back thing, he could move around a little easier. First of all, he wanted to eat that food...
~~*~~
Kagome slowly opened her eyes and focused them on the guard that was coming in with her daily meal. She let an audible sigh escape her throat which earned her a cold glare from the man. Why were they always like that? For some reason his glare seemed colder that usual today...
He put her tray on the floor near the end of her bead and she watched as he left the cell grouchily grumbling something about noisy kids...
"What crawled up his but?" she grumbled to the door after he left. Whatever it was, it had crawled up there a long time ago, he was always like that; she'd never seen that guard crack a smile. It was incomprehensible to her as to how somebody could live in such a pool of unhappiness. Or at least she thought he was unhappy. If he wasn't, he had a very odd way of expressing his happiness...
And while she was on the subject of guards, whatever happened to Kusaki? He was the only guard she kind of liked... When he used to give her her meals, they were much better than the ones this other guard had been bringing her the past two and a half weeks. But even then, he'd sneak in now and again and give her some extra food. She knew he was still around...so why wasn't he in charge of supplying her food?
She shrugged it off and hopped down from her bed; straightening out the sheet before she picked up her food and determined where to sit. Let's go over the options... The bed, the floor, the bed..., the floor... So she didn't have very many choices; no big deal...
After pondering for about two more seconds, she decided to sit down by the little gap in the wall and see if her new neighbor was up and about yet.
Ah! She heard him talking! He was definitely awake; maybe she should say hi?
"Umm, hello? Are you awake?" Why had she asked him if he was awake when she already known he was?
"No I'm not, damnit!"
Kagome jumped back; that was a surprise. 'Hope he's only this grouchy in the morning..." Personally she thought it as rude to snap back so harshly; morning or not. She had only asked if he was awake... maybe the guards were right about him. But something told her that he'd been talking to somebody else, not her.
She'd try again after she ate...
~~*~~
Geeze, this food could have been a whole lot better. The 'chicken soup' was probably just union broth with rocks in it, the rice was packed so hard into a ball it was safe to guess that it was a rock with some rice stuck on the outside, and the little loaf of bread was so hard it could easily have been a painted rock. Stupid rock obsessing guards...
Oh well, food was food. Besides, that was all he had to eat. And maybe he had exaggerated just a little bit with the whole rock thing...
The food didn't really look that bad, but there was just something about it...
Now he was just being stupid. It was food; eat it!
He picked up the tray -still being cautious with his back- and sat against the wall near his bed. Ready...eat!
~~*~~
Kagome's jaw dropped (showing all its ABC contents) as she gaped at the boy. She had never seen anyone eat so fast! That dufis was going to start choking in a minute...
She kept on gaping at him as he inhaled his food; was he really that hungry!? He was acting like he hadn't eaten in days, or even a week. Maybe she should offer him some of her food...
She wanted to get a good look at him first, though; or what she could see of him. She could only see a big mass of long white hair, the shoulder of a red haori, some claws on his fingers, and fangs in his mouth.
Kagome quickly pushed herself away from the wall. Wait a second! As if long white hair wasn't enough, he had fangs and claws!? What the...!?
Oh that's right...he was a hanyou wasn't he?
She scooted back to the wall and looked at him again. Despite the clawed hands and the fangs amidst the rest of his teeth, he didn't really look hateful or evil or anything...he seemed fairly normal. She had to wonder why he hadn't really scared her; just surprised her. Just because he was half demon, didn't make him that different, did it?
She gasped and stared at him. She'd just noticed another thing; he had dog ears! How cute!!
Her hands flew to her mouth to prevent herself from squealing. That was so adorable! She had to touch those... just to make sure they were real, of course.
But first things first; he'd almost finished his food and he still looked like he was starving to her. She could afford to give him some of her food. Except this time, she was going to be bold. Not shy or timid, bold. Okay...
"Hello!" she greeted cheerfully; hoping she didn't startle him too much.
She tried to keep the cheerful expression plastered to her face as she watched him cough up a chunk of his rice ball and continue his little choking spree. Crap...she hadn't meant for that to happen.
"What the fuck...?!" he shouted; very surprised.
Kagome quickly shushed him "Be quiet! The guards will hear us!" he really didn't need to freak out...
"Where the shit are you?!" he said, a bit quieter this time.
"Down here! To your left!" she replied, sliding her arm through the brick and waving. Well, she'd established one fact about him; he had a habit of swearing
The boy jumped into a squatting position and started at her through the wall window. "Whole in the hells are you?"
Kagome blinked at him, a little surprised by his rudeness and his speedy question. "K-Kagome" she stuttered out after a long pause. Okay, why wasn't he responding? Did he expect her to keep talking or something...?
"Well you sure talk a lot." He scoffed as he raised his eyebrow at her after another pause. "How'd you get the brick out of the wall?"
"I-I didn't do it, Kaede did." She answered, oblivious to the fact that he had no idea who Kaede was.
He rolled his eyes at her and spoke back sarcastically. "Oh, you're very descriptive too. How do you expect me to know who this 'Kaede' is?"
His sarcasm broke her out of her trance. This guy wasn't vicious or evil; just really cynical and rude. She turned a mild glare on him and spouted back. "You're being really rude you know, -"
She just realized something. She didn't know his name yet.
"Oh really?" he said flatly "Didn't notice."
Man this guy was starting to tick her off. She'd just have to ignore all his vulgar comments... "What's your name?"
He finally decided to return her previous glare, not as mild though. He started to stand up as he answered her, "Doesn't matter."
"But I want to know." She pressed.
"Sorry, no can do." He replied somewhat breezily.
"I still want to know what it is." Why was he being so stubborn about giving her his name?
"It's none of your business girl, bug off." He said with what appeared to be a little bit of annoyance.
Did he really have to be so difficult? "Name first. Then maybe I'll leave you alone."
"No"
"Yes"
"No"
"Yes"
She heard him growl in frustration and bark back at her "It's Inuyasha; now leave me alone before I decide to shove what's left of my rice ball down your throat!"
Rice ball! She hadn't asked him if he wanted some of her food...she'd changed her mind about that though. This Inuyasha guy was kind of a jerk.
Anyway, he'd told her to bug off, so she'd better leave him alone before she upset him even more. Back to banging her head against the wall...
A/N - What did you think? I'd like to know if you thought that they acted the same as in the anime. Ya know, said things they would say, did things they would do. But for anyone who reads this that doesn't want to review, I don't mind. ^_^ You don't have to if you don't want to. I know the feeling, I go on all these random lazy moods and don't review fan fics. ^.^ Heh heh. Oh, a message for anyone that does review. Thank you so much! I really like hearing anyone's opinion on what I've written. It's very encouraging. ^_^ Well that's all, folks! Ja ne!
~Eternal White~
A/N - Hello again! Chapter two is up! Oh, and don't mind my uncreative chapter names; I really suck at that sort of thing. Yeah, the only reason this story has a name is because I happened to be listening to "I'm With You" by Avril Lavigne; the name just kinda...stuck. Oh, and as usual, flashbacks will be marked with ~~Flash~~. And I don't feel like writing that in the beginning of every chapter that I put flashbacks in... so don't forget! ^_^ But anyway, on to the story! ^_-
With You
Chapter 2
Unfriendly Confrontation
Okay, this was officially bad. His first attempt to escape by jumping straight out of his circle of guards hadn't worked so well. They'd gotten a net over his head, but he'd been able to rip that off. They'd hurled a few spears at him, and he just barely dodged all of those. Normally that'd be an easy task, but there was somewhere around seventy people thrusting those spears at him; not to mention that when they'd thrown the net over him, they had decided to shoot some arrows along with it. He'd gotten pretty scratched up, which put him in a bit of pain...the source of which probably came from that nice big gash in his back where two spears had been flung right into him.
But that wasn't the worst of it; the worst part was that they had their arrows ready and aimed at his airborne figure, and their fingers would release their attack at any second.
Yeah, he was in a really bad situation. He could try using Sankontetsou on them, but he didn't want to risk getting stabbed in the back with five to ten arrows at the same time he attacked. He could always try out that sword he'd 'borrowed' yesterday; Testsaiga or something. But by the looks of it that rusted old piece of crap was completely useless. Besides, he didn't have it with him.
Life really sucked these days...
Actually, life had sucked for the past twelve years. From when he was six years old until now, he'd been on his own. At first, he barely got by with his life; but after a while he got the hang of the whole 'borrowing' thing, and he'd gotten pretty good at it. Sometimes he got a little carried away and greedy... but besides that, he'd done fairly well for himself. Besides the few times he'd messed up, that is...
~~Flash~~
Alright, he was set. He'd gotten six tomatoes, fourteen radishes, ten carrots, and two heads of lettuce. That would last him a couple of days.
The nine year old hanyou had a broad grin on his face as he marched out of the farmer's field; plunder in hand. He'd gotten everything he needed without a hassle! The man that owned the land he'd just finished pillaging had idiotically left it unguarded while he had left for the town. As to why the farmer had left his precious field defenseless, he didn't know.
But that wasn't important! He'd gotten what he came for, so why stay and mull any longer?
So he kept on marching right out of the field, grabbing any nice-looking and easy-to-reach vegetable he saw.
Ah, today was his day! This was much easier than usual, and he was feeling very lucky. And look! A potato patch! He loved potatoes... But as he was making his way over to snatch a few of his favorite vegetable, he snapped his head up to the sound of the leaves crunching.
The farmer was back; and he was right there, watching him.
"Oh crud..." he was in big trouble now... these people considered the activity he was taking part in a very high crime.
"You scoundrel! How dare you steal my crops!" the angered man shouted as he stomped in rage straight towards Inuyasha.
Dang!! What should he do!? Running seemed to be the best option, but that was probably because he didn't have any others.
So he sprinted as fast as his legs could carry him out of the farmer's field and into the forest, heading towards the creek on the other side. He'd be able to cross it quickly, but it would take his pursuer a little longer; that would buy him some time...
He looked over his shoulder and an expression of fear and amazement crossed his face. The man was only a few feet behind him!! How in the world had he kept up?!
This forced Inuyasha to try to quicken his pace as much as possible. That wasn't very much though; let alone enough to get him away from the farmer.
He let a pained cry escape his lips as the rough man snatched his hair in one hand and his left forearm in the other. Crap...!! He'd caught up with him!
"You little brat! You know how high a crime it is to steal in this town?!" he roared and gave his hair a rough yank. "I've seen you taking from my fields twice already and I won't have it happen again! Lesson's need to be taught to unruly hanyou monsters such as yourself!" he said and gave Inuyasha a hard slap on the face.
"This'll teach you for stealing from my crops!" he shouted as he raised a fist to strike Inuyasha again-
~~Flash~~
Inuyasha clenched his jaw and balled his fists as he pushed the bad memories away from him. That was a long time ago anyway... it didn't matter now. What had he been thinking about before...?
Oh yeah, that was it... He was about to tell himself that they didn't have any justifiable reasons for trying to kill or capture him!
'What?! What are you talking about!? I can think of plenty of reasons as to why they would want to stop you.'
'Oh yeah? Name three.'
'Okay - Number one, you've been stealing-'
'Borrowing.'
'Okay, ~borrowing~ food from this town for months now; I can imagine that might upset them a little bit!'
'Hey, give me a break! I can't survive if I don't eat, and-'
'I'm not finished yet! How about all those swords that you sto-'
'Borrowed!'
'~borrowed~ from the town's sword smith?'
'I just wanted to try them out-'
'And then there was always the time that you st-'
'Borrowed! Damnit!!'
'Same difference!! But that doesn't change the fact that you took that horse without permission!'
'Just leave me alone!!' he mentally shouted back with a very loud mental growl. (A/N - I couldn't help myself - I just had to write that in there somewhere... ^_^;) Stupid voice, that thing was so annoying...
"Oh shit...!" he cursed as he pulled himself back to reality when his attackers fired their arrows. He'd completely gone into a daze there for a minute. And as another round of spears came flying towards him he leapt swiftly out of the way. Success!
He landed on one of the nearby houses to shout his victory. "Heh! Eat that you bastards! You can't-"
Inuyasha fell from his perch on the village roof to land on his side on the hard ground below. What the hell had just happened? When did they shoot and where from!? He hadn't seen any other guards aiming at him except for the ones that had already fired!
He recklessly tried to pull himself up off the cold ground so he could remove those repulsive points from his back, but it was to difficult to move. Damnit!!
He cringed in pain and coughed fresh blood onto the ground before him. He inwardly cursed as he saw the guards rushing towards him and removing their weapons rather painfully from his back as they pulled him up by his arms.
"Put him in the wagon; Lord Naraku wants him taken straight to the prisons." A middle aged official ordered.
"Yes, sir!" several younger guards answered simultaneously.
"Shit...!" Inuyasha cursed "Shit!!"
They'd caught him. They'd finally caught him.
~~*~~
Kagome yawned and stretched her arms and legs as she lazily opened her eyes. What was all the racket out there? Whoever it was was being really loud... And why was she sleeping on the floor next to the wall instead of on her bed...? Oh yeah, hadn't she been talking with that old woman? What was her name...Kan...Kad...Kaede! That was it. Maybe before she checked out what all that noise was she should apologize for dozing off...
"Miss Kaede?" Kagome called through the empty space in the wall. "Miss Kaede? Are you awake?"
"Yes, Lady Kagome." The older woman responded with a smile as she knelt down and looked through to her.
Kagome had to refrain from sighing; she was still treating her like 'Princess Kagome Higurashi', not like just plain Kagome. Oh well...it wasn't anything new. "I'm sorry, I fell asleep while we were talking last night..."
"Oh it's fine, dear." Kaede answered. "You must have been tired."
Kagome nodded and returned her warm smile with a bright one of her own. She liked this old woman; she was very kind and pleasant to talk to. Maybe when she was finally found or set free, Kaede could come back with her. She'd be lovely to have around...
Suddenly, her companion's head snapped to face the door and she stood briskly.
"Follow me, old woman. We're moving you to a local prison; we need the space you're occupying." The older guard ordered.
"But...I-"
The man rolled his eyes at her "Just cooperate, miss. Orders are orders."
Kagome watched as her new found friend solemnly nodded and picked up a small basket near her bed; slowly exiting the cell without a word.
"Well this really bites..." Kagome seethed "I finally was having some decent human conversation and she's being transferred to a different cell..." The only other people she ever got to talk to were the guards, but when she did talk to them, she either got scolded by them, or they ignored her. Not that those assholes were worth conversing with anyway...
But wait, didn't he say they needed the space she was occupying? He must have meant that there was another prisoner that they were going to put in there; at least she'd still have somebody to talk to...
"May as well get back to that nap I was taking..." Actually, that nap wasn't sounding so appealing anymore; there was the most annoying little dripping sound coming from Kaede's cell... Her new habit of banging her head against the wall sounded more interesting. "That works to." she muttered with a shrug as she sat herself down in her favorite hit-my-head-against-the-wall spot.
Once again, just before she begun her favorite hobby, she heard several men causing quite a lot of clatter as they paraded down the hall just outside her door.
Kagome jumped from her spot and ran over to her cell entrance; waiting and listening anxiously in an attempt to decipher what they were saying and what was happening. They seemed to be heading right towards her door... she held her breath and listened.
"Is it safe to get near him?" one of the nearby guards asked, a little worried.
"He's fine; he fell unconscious before they gave him to us. I doubt he'll get up and slash you in his sleep." Terashi said with a laugh.
"I heard he's extremely dangerous; they said he's a vicious beast!" a younger voice added oh-so-helpfully.
Another young soldier ignored his comment and peered down the corridor "Is this where we're supposed to bring him?"
"Yeah, I think this is the place. Cell number... what was it again, Kusaki?" Terashi asked his fellow guard.
There was a short pause before Kusaki answered "Uh... they told us to bring the hanyou boy to number..." there was another brief pause and he finished "...number 144."
Kagome froze; cell number 144... that was Kaede's old cell. It was right next to hers...and they were going to put that nutbar in it?! Well she certainly got all the luck...
But maybe she shouldn't judge him so quickly; for all she knew, everything that they had said about him could have been complete and total lies - he could really be a wonderful, kind, handsome guy! But then again, she didn't think he'd be in so much trouble if he was that great...
In the mean time, she may as well take a look at this guy; she had that convenient little wall hole after all.
She trotted over to her vantage point and peeked through. Yep, they were bringing him in alright. They weren't exactly being quiet about it either...
"Can't see his face..." she mumbled to herself; she didn't think that talking loud enough for the guards to hear her was the best of ideas... The prisoners weren't supposed to have any contact with each other, so if they found out that she had a means of doing that, they'd take it away from her immediately - not to mention punish her for breaking the rules.
Damn... she couldn't see any of him. There were so many guards lifting him that all she could see was a few red blobs in between the mass of moving bodies that was encircling him.
Okay, they were setting him on the bed; something she had a perfect view of. Yes! Luck was catching up with her! She watched intently as they laid him down on the bed and...wait a second. What were they doing...? Hey! They were moving it!!
"Put it back! Put it back! Put it back!" she chanted in less than a whisper. That was so unfair! Why did the world always have to go against her? She continued repeating her chant in hopes that it might make them do something...
Guess not. She gave an frustrated sigh and threw her sheet up, jumping into her bed with a grunt. They'd decided to move his bed next to the same wall that her bed was on, which happened to be the same wall that the missing brick was in; hence her not being able to see him at all. She could swear that somebody must have jinxed her...
Okay, so maybe she was getting worked up over a rather trivial matter... but still! She'd been kidnapped, and that was reason enough to be upset.
She should get some rest... she was tiring herself with all this thinking. Her last nap hadn't lasted long; she needed to rest.
Kagome curled herself up into a ball and nestled her head into her pillow, folding her hands together in front of her knees, and drifted of to sleep...
~~*~~
Inuyasha awoke with a start and shot up in bed; or at least he would have if he hadn't doubled over in pain when he tried to 'shoot up'.
"What the..." he grumbled as he looked up to his cell door to find that a guard was coming in cautiously, holding a tray of some sort.
"Where the hell am I?!" he squawked at the nervous man, making him jump back a little.
The young man visibly gulped and gave a shaky reply "Y- you're in the N-Northern Kingdom sir. In a p-prison cell in Lord Naraku's castle."
Inuyasha's eyes widened as realization hit him. He'd been caught... they'd captured and imprisoned him. That's why he'd had all those wounds, and when he'd tried to sit up he'd dropped back down in pain. They'd caught him...
"Shit..." well this really sucked.
"Umm...s-sir." the guard said, just as precariously, as he held out the tray for Inuyasha to take.
"What's this, food? I'm surprised that you people are feeding me. Thought you'd just decide to let me die of starvation and rot away in this pathetic little cell." Inuyasha responded flatly.
"I-I'll just leave it right here, y-you can eat it when you're hungry." The young guard told him, leaving the tray on the floor near Inuyasha's bed and exiting the small room hurriedly; locking it after he left.
Was it just him or did that guard seem to be afraid...?
Oh well, not his problem. Now what had they given him for food...
"Well, well, well. You guys are certainly giving me a feast!" Inuyasha spat sarcastically as he glared at the small bowl of rice, the little bowl of soup, and the tiny loaf of bread. This was all they were gonna give him for an entire day...? Geeze, he ate twice that much when he got it on his own.
"Bastards..." he groused.
He decided on making another attempt to sit up and get to that food; he was getting kinda hungry...
Maybe if he flipped onto his side and slipped his legs over the edge...
He carefully turned himself over and inched his feet over the side of the bed; silently praying he didn't reopen the wounds on his back with all this movement.
Yes! Step number one accomplished! Now he had to sit up. Hmm...he needed to sit himself upright without causing his back to pain him. The question was; how? Maybe if he kept it perfectly straight it wouldn't hurt as much? It was worth a try...
So he straightened his -already very stiff- spine, crossed his left arm over his chest and placed it in from of his right elbow, gritted his teeth and squeezed his eyes shut. Okay, on the count of three. One...two...thr- Alright, maybe five. One...two...three...four...fi- No wait - ten! One...two...three...fo-
'You're just stalling, you know.'
"I am not!" he growled back through clamped teeth. Why would he want to stall? He wasn't afraid that it would hurt or anything...
'Yes you are you big liar!'
"No I'm not, damnit!" he spouted in annoyance. Why couldn't that voice just leave him alone? Well, at least it had motivated him to sit up and get that food...
"One, two, three!" he used his right elbow and his left had to quickly -but carefully- thrust himself up into a sitting position.
He smirked in satisfaction at how well he'd overcome that little obstacle. So all he had to do was keep his back straight, huh? He wouldn't have to do it for very long either, just until his wound healed up more. It shouldn't take to much time...
Alrighty then, now that he knew the trick to this back thing, he could move around a little easier. First of all, he wanted to eat that food...
~~*~~
Kagome slowly opened her eyes and focused them on the guard that was coming in with her daily meal. She let an audible sigh escape her throat which earned her a cold glare from the man. Why were they always like that? For some reason his glare seemed colder that usual today...
He put her tray on the floor near the end of her bead and she watched as he left the cell grouchily grumbling something about noisy kids...
"What crawled up his but?" she grumbled to the door after he left. Whatever it was, it had crawled up there a long time ago, he was always like that; she'd never seen that guard crack a smile. It was incomprehensible to her as to how somebody could live in such a pool of unhappiness. Or at least she thought he was unhappy. If he wasn't, he had a very odd way of expressing his happiness...
And while she was on the subject of guards, whatever happened to Kusaki? He was the only guard she kind of liked... When he used to give her her meals, they were much better than the ones this other guard had been bringing her the past two and a half weeks. But even then, he'd sneak in now and again and give her some extra food. She knew he was still around...so why wasn't he in charge of supplying her food?
She shrugged it off and hopped down from her bed; straightening out the sheet before she picked up her food and determined where to sit. Let's go over the options... The bed, the floor, the bed..., the floor... So she didn't have very many choices; no big deal...
After pondering for about two more seconds, she decided to sit down by the little gap in the wall and see if her new neighbor was up and about yet.
Ah! She heard him talking! He was definitely awake; maybe she should say hi?
"Umm, hello? Are you awake?" Why had she asked him if he was awake when she already known he was?
"No I'm not, damnit!"
Kagome jumped back; that was a surprise. 'Hope he's only this grouchy in the morning..." Personally she thought it as rude to snap back so harshly; morning or not. She had only asked if he was awake... maybe the guards were right about him. But something told her that he'd been talking to somebody else, not her.
She'd try again after she ate...
~~*~~
Geeze, this food could have been a whole lot better. The 'chicken soup' was probably just union broth with rocks in it, the rice was packed so hard into a ball it was safe to guess that it was a rock with some rice stuck on the outside, and the little loaf of bread was so hard it could easily have been a painted rock. Stupid rock obsessing guards...
Oh well, food was food. Besides, that was all he had to eat. And maybe he had exaggerated just a little bit with the whole rock thing...
The food didn't really look that bad, but there was just something about it...
Now he was just being stupid. It was food; eat it!
He picked up the tray -still being cautious with his back- and sat against the wall near his bed. Ready...eat!
~~*~~
Kagome's jaw dropped (showing all its ABC contents) as she gaped at the boy. She had never seen anyone eat so fast! That dufis was going to start choking in a minute...
She kept on gaping at him as he inhaled his food; was he really that hungry!? He was acting like he hadn't eaten in days, or even a week. Maybe she should offer him some of her food...
She wanted to get a good look at him first, though; or what she could see of him. She could only see a big mass of long white hair, the shoulder of a red haori, some claws on his fingers, and fangs in his mouth.
Kagome quickly pushed herself away from the wall. Wait a second! As if long white hair wasn't enough, he had fangs and claws!? What the...!?
Oh that's right...he was a hanyou wasn't he?
She scooted back to the wall and looked at him again. Despite the clawed hands and the fangs amidst the rest of his teeth, he didn't really look hateful or evil or anything...he seemed fairly normal. She had to wonder why he hadn't really scared her; just surprised her. Just because he was half demon, didn't make him that different, did it?
She gasped and stared at him. She'd just noticed another thing; he had dog ears! How cute!!
Her hands flew to her mouth to prevent herself from squealing. That was so adorable! She had to touch those... just to make sure they were real, of course.
But first things first; he'd almost finished his food and he still looked like he was starving to her. She could afford to give him some of her food. Except this time, she was going to be bold. Not shy or timid, bold. Okay...
"Hello!" she greeted cheerfully; hoping she didn't startle him too much.
She tried to keep the cheerful expression plastered to her face as she watched him cough up a chunk of his rice ball and continue his little choking spree. Crap...she hadn't meant for that to happen.
"What the fuck...?!" he shouted; very surprised.
Kagome quickly shushed him "Be quiet! The guards will hear us!" he really didn't need to freak out...
"Where the shit are you?!" he said, a bit quieter this time.
"Down here! To your left!" she replied, sliding her arm through the brick and waving. Well, she'd established one fact about him; he had a habit of swearing
The boy jumped into a squatting position and started at her through the wall window. "Whole in the hells are you?"
Kagome blinked at him, a little surprised by his rudeness and his speedy question. "K-Kagome" she stuttered out after a long pause. Okay, why wasn't he responding? Did he expect her to keep talking or something...?
"Well you sure talk a lot." He scoffed as he raised his eyebrow at her after another pause. "How'd you get the brick out of the wall?"
"I-I didn't do it, Kaede did." She answered, oblivious to the fact that he had no idea who Kaede was.
He rolled his eyes at her and spoke back sarcastically. "Oh, you're very descriptive too. How do you expect me to know who this 'Kaede' is?"
His sarcasm broke her out of her trance. This guy wasn't vicious or evil; just really cynical and rude. She turned a mild glare on him and spouted back. "You're being really rude you know, -"
She just realized something. She didn't know his name yet.
"Oh really?" he said flatly "Didn't notice."
Man this guy was starting to tick her off. She'd just have to ignore all his vulgar comments... "What's your name?"
He finally decided to return her previous glare, not as mild though. He started to stand up as he answered her, "Doesn't matter."
"But I want to know." She pressed.
"Sorry, no can do." He replied somewhat breezily.
"I still want to know what it is." Why was he being so stubborn about giving her his name?
"It's none of your business girl, bug off." He said with what appeared to be a little bit of annoyance.
Did he really have to be so difficult? "Name first. Then maybe I'll leave you alone."
"No"
"Yes"
"No"
"Yes"
She heard him growl in frustration and bark back at her "It's Inuyasha; now leave me alone before I decide to shove what's left of my rice ball down your throat!"
Rice ball! She hadn't asked him if he wanted some of her food...she'd changed her mind about that though. This Inuyasha guy was kind of a jerk.
Anyway, he'd told her to bug off, so she'd better leave him alone before she upset him even more. Back to banging her head against the wall...
A/N - What did you think? I'd like to know if you thought that they acted the same as in the anime. Ya know, said things they would say, did things they would do. But for anyone who reads this that doesn't want to review, I don't mind. ^_^ You don't have to if you don't want to. I know the feeling, I go on all these random lazy moods and don't review fan fics. ^.^ Heh heh. Oh, a message for anyone that does review. Thank you so much! I really like hearing anyone's opinion on what I've written. It's very encouraging. ^_^ Well that's all, folks! Ja ne!
~Eternal White~