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With You
Chapter 4
Questions of Life
Kagome sighed as she sat on her bed, staring at the wall yet again. She had been captured three and a half weeks ago, and it had seemed easier to go without a decent conversation when there weren't any people to have a decent conversation with. She had one right at her fingertips, but he was just out of her reach. That guy really didn't have any intentions of talking with her...
She hadn't spoken a word to him all day yesterday, and not a word to him so far today. He had done the same.
Ah, here came the jailers with her daily meal... they were a little bit earlier today. But if they were bringing her her meal that would mean that they were bringing him his too... maybe he'd be in a perkier mood after he ate, and she could try to talk to him again? It was worth a try...
The guard came in and left her food tray on the floor near the end of her bed, per usual, and left swiftly; closing and locking the door behind him. It had disappointed her that the guard had never once forgotten to lock her door...
She picked up her tray of food and sat down near the previously brick-occupied space in the wall. May as well see how Inuyasha was doing...
The guard walked in his room next, leaving his tray near the door instead of by his bed. Oddly enough, the guard seemed to be afraid of him...
The man left the room, shut and locked the door, and went on his way to feed the other prisoners.
Inuyasha grumbled and she saw him walk, arms folded, to the other side of the room. He reached down a picked up his tray one handedly, letting the other hang lazily at his side as he walked towards his bed.
Or wait, no he wasn't...was he aiming for the wall hole...?!
She slipped into a very monotone panic. (A/N - Did that sentence make any sense at all...?) Should she stay there and let him see her, or squirm away to where he couldn't? Would he get mad again if he knew that she had been watching him? It was a little bit of a risk to stay... if he got mad at her, she'd have to wait even longer to try and talk to him again.
He was such an ass...
Too bad that ass was the only being around to talk to...
The option of sneaking away was dissolved as he came over and sat down, as he had the first day, next to the little window that connected their cells.
Wait... had he even noticed that she was there? Wow, he must really never have woken up.
She stared at him as he started to eat. He was actually really good looking... she could only see half his face and she thought he had better looks than any other person she'd seen before. Quite the handsome lad...
And his hair... she wondered about that. Why in the world would a guy have such long, white hair?
His claws and fangs too; those were hard to get over. He was so strong! She still wanted to know how he learned that 'Sankontetsou' trick...
There was always her favorite aspect of him to ponder...his ears. Those were so cute! She swore she would touch them someday.
Kagome kept on watching him as he ate, slowly - almost as if he was savoring every bite. That made him appear even more like a starving boy...
Once again she found herself tempted to give him some of her food. She really didn't eat a whole lot... and what they gave her was a little more than enough to suffice her energy needs. (Which weren't very high.)
She could afford to give him some food, right? And this time, she'd cut to the point, but she'd still try to talk... kindly. As softly as she could manage.
It wasn't like she was only giving her food to that jerk because he looked like he was famished - that may have been her main motive, but she still had one or two others. Also because he might... well, be a little nicer. Warm up a bit. Not to mention the fact that she wanted him to help her out of there...
But just before she started to speak...
"Staring is rude, you know." He pointed out with a sideways glance at her. Dang... he'd know she was there the whole time, hadn't he? And there was that half bitter tone again...
"Um...I'm sorry...I..." she fumbled over her words as she tried to recapture any scattered brain cells. "I didn't mean to stare or anything..."
"...Stop that!" he hissed suddenly as he snapped a glare on her. Kagome was taken aback; where had that come from...?
"Stop what?" she blinked.
"Stop trying to act nice! You're just faking it!" he growled.
"What?!" She gaped at him and screeched back in a half hushed voice. "Inuyasha!! I was really trying to be nice to you - you big jerk! I'm not the one who's being an ass here!! I'll have you know that I was about to offer you my own food!"
"Quit being so-!" he stopped, not finishing his fore planned statement. What had she just said?
"You are so rude! How can you be-"
"Wait! What did you-"
"I'm not finished! You really need to st-"
"But what-"
"Don't interrupt! I was saying that-"
"Listen to me for a second!" he all but shouted in desperation as he shot his hand through the wall, clamping it over her mouth.
She sat there still as a board and stared at him; what happened to that guy? He didn't sound as angry as he had a minute ago...
Then she realized another thing. "I blew up at him, didn't I?! I didn't want to... but that idiot just had to light the fuse!"
He just sat there and stared at her for a while, while she stared right back. She was confused...and what was that look on his face? He looked like he was a little perplexed himself... but he looked a bit angry too. There was another emotion in there...she couldn't figure out what it was.
Inuyasha slowly released his grip on her, slipping his arm back through the wall. "...Why?"
His voice sounded...half strained. And she could still sense all those different emotions in his voice; confusion, anger...and...what was the other one...? Desperation...or loneliness maybe? He sounded sort of sad... but anger still seemed to be the most prominent emotion.
"W-Why...what?" did she really have to stutter? There was nothing to stutter about...
He frowned at her "Why would you want to give your food to me?"
Uh... "Well...you looked like you were starving or something...so I thought I'd give you some of my food. I figured I could last without a meal, or at least part of one..." Okay, so she'd probably get really hungry... but she could easily survive 'til the next day.
He was still looking at her. Was she supposed to go on...?
Probably. "And... I figured that maybe you could, you know...help me out of here. Both of us could escape if I made a distraction and you got us past the guards..." she didn't really want to add the part about him being nicer...
He narrowed his eyes at her slightly. "You're bluffing."
She shot him a quick frown "I'm telling the truth."
"Liar."
"I am not...!" she ground out through gritted teeth. She was getting a little upset with him again...
"Yes, you are."
"No, I'm not!"
"Yes, you are!"
"No, I'm-!"
"I know you're lying! No one would give me food! It just wouldn't happen!" he interrupted rather fiercely. He'd used his favorite bitter tone again...
But why had he put so much emphasis on the word 'me'?
"Why?" she threw his earlier question right back.
"Why what?!"
"Why...wouldn't someone want to help you?" she asked him quietly.
Inuyasha growled in frustration. "Don't you understand anything, girl?! I'm a Hanyou! H-a-n-y-o-u!" he spelled it out for her "Doesn't that mean something to you? I'm only half human and half demon! I'm different!"
She clenched her jaw and shouted back "That doesn't matter, you idiot! You shouldn't-"
Kagome froze; that noise outside...the guards were coming.
They'd heard them.
"I-Inuyasha...! T-The guards heard us!!" she stammered to him anxiously as she switched her gaze to the door.
They'd heard them, so what? It didn't matter, did it? "What's so bad about that?" he asked calmly; having already forgotten completely that they had been arguing a couple of seconds ago.
So simple minded...
She flicked her eyes back to his. "What to you mean 'what's so bad about that'?! They've given strict orders not to associate with other prisoners not to raise your voices!" she screeched. "Haven't you heard about how severely they punish people here?!"
"Well if we're not supposed to raise our voices, you should probably stop yelling!" he scolded back in a low voice.
"I'm not yelling!!" she yelled back, slapping a hand over her mouth after she realized what she did.
Inuyasha was just a little bit worried now. What exactly had she meat when she'd spoken about 'how severely they punish people here'? She'd looked pretty freaked out... They couldn't do anything too drastic for such a trivial crime, right?
Kagome flung her sights to the cell door as she heard keys dangling. "I-Inuyasha...! They're c-coming in!"
"Well..." he racked his brain for something to say. "Go sit on your bed and act like nothing happened you stupid girl!"
Kagome didn't really have any other choices... So she stood up and all but jumped onto her bed, facing the wall across the room and pretending like everything was normal.
Her door creaked open as four officers stepped in and stood in front of her. Oh gosh... what did that one have in his hand?
"Miss Kagome, is it?" the oldest man said. She shivered; what was with his attitude? He kind of held his head in such a way, so that when he looked at her, it was more like he was looking down at her then looking at her. And that awful patronizing tone in his voice... it was worse than that bitter tone Inuyasha liked to use.
Kagome nodded her head meekly; she was glad he hadn't said 'princess Kagome' or 'Kagome Higurashi'. If they had, Inuyasha would know who she really was...
"I'll have you know, young lady, we could hear you shouting from the other end of this corridor." Wait... they'd only heard her? So that meant that Inuyasha wouldn't get punished... at least one of them got off.
"Funny, it sounded like you were shouting to someone." Crap... so they had heard Inuyasha?
She swallowed hard; should she cover for him? She could tell them that she'd just been upset and had been shouting at nobody in particular...but they might already know that she'd been talking to him, and they were just testing her now. That could worsen her punishment...
Or...she could tell them she'd been talking to Inuyasha and be free of any extra punishment she might receive, but then he'd get in trouble as well.
She made her decision, took a deep breath, and gave them her answer.
~~*~~
Inuyasha listened as the four guards walked in and shut the door behind them. He could see them stroll in front of the girl's bed, but he still couldn't see her.
He looked the officers over carefully, noting the short whip one of the younger ones held in his right hand.
Shit...she was really in trouble...
But why the hell would they have such damn severe punishments for such a small thing? That was cruel...
"Miss Kagome, is it?" he heard the older man ask. Despite his stuck up attitude, he seemed to be making the tiniest most miniscule of efforts to show her a bit of respect. It seemed like he was doing it because he had to... but why would he do that anyway...? She was just a stupid little girl... she couldn't have been that high up in society.
He didn't see her response, but apparently, she had nodded or something...
"I'll have you know, young lady, we could hear you shouting from the other end of this corridor." The guard continued with a somewhat patronizing tone layered over his voice.
But wait... he had only mentioned her. He hadn't said anything about hearing him say anything. So did that mean he was off the hook...?!
"Funny... it sounded like you were shouting to someone." Damnit...had they heard him too?
There was a long pause, and he didn't hear her respond. He could feel how nervous she was...What would she say? Would she tell them that she had been talking to him, or would she cover for him?
Crap...now he wished that he'd been a little nicer to her earlier; at least then his chances of her covering for him would have been raised a little... he could guarantee that she'd turn him in from the way he had treated her.
He snapped his attention back on the girl; she was answering them. "I..." she started, letting another pause stretch through the air. She really knew how to build the tension didn't she?
"I...wasn't talking to anyone; you must be mistaken, sir." she said with a forced calmness. Inuyasha stared wide eyed at the wall in front of him; that was a shock. Why... why had she covered for him? Now she'd have to take all the punishment. Why would she do something like that?
Then it hit him; she was taking all the punishment. It hadn't really occurred to him until now...but, they'd probably beat her. He'd heard that Naraku was a vicious king, and his men not much different. After all, he and his two... what were they anyway? Detachments or something... anyway, he and the two of them, Kanna and Kagura, ruled over two kingdoms; the north and the east.
He couldn't just sit here and watch a girl get hurt... but what could he do?
He snapped back into reality at the slash of a whip and the piercing sound of a girls scream. Shit...!! They were beating her already?!
"Don't lie to us girl!" the older one snapped as another of the younger ones grabbed the front of her dress and yanked her to the floor, ripping the beautiful material in the process.
"I-I'm not! I swear-!" he heard her cry at the second strike of the whip. Damnit those bastards!!! He couldn't take this a second longer!!
Inuyasha stood back from the wall and mustered up all his strength, clenching his fists as he heard her cry out again. It didn't matter that he didn't like her a whole lot, that didn't change the facts. He was going to stop this, and those guys were going to pay for hurting an innocent girl like her.
When he'd done this to awe strike that girl earlier, he'd used very little force so that he didn't reopen that back wound of his. But he was gonna risk it now... "Sankontetsou!!" he shouted as he aimed the blunt of his attack for the weak spot in the wall.
~~*~~
Kagome cried out in pain as she flew backwards from the blow to her ribs. "Please stop...! I-"
"Sankontetsou!!" She sat there in bewilderment as she watched as about forty bricks worth of space was opened up in the wall next to her and that section of it crumbled to the ground.
When she looked up to see the guards, she followed their gaze to the newly made door, as they watched and waited for the dust to clear.
"You..." came the voice amidst the rubble "You...bastards...!!" it snarled dangerously.
Kagome's eyes lit up as she could finally see the hanyou figure standing amidst the dust. "Inuyasha...!" she managed between her labored breaths, holding a hand over her side as she winced. Dumb rib cage...
His golden eyes were eerily shadowed as he stepped forward menacingly and stood in front of her. "Bastards!" he growled in the same dangerous tone as he snapped his head up to face them, revealing the three red stripes on his right cheek.
The officers took a step back towards the door, keeping their wary eyes glued to the hanyou.
Kagome gasped; blood... blood had just dripped from his back. She had been the only one who noticed it because she was behind him...but did that mean his wounds had reopened? Wait, he was going to try and fight with those giant wounds on his back?! He was gonna bleed to death! She had to stop that idiot before he did something really stupid.
"Inuyasha - you really shouldn't fight! You're injur-"
"I'm perfectly fine!" he snapped, keeping his eyes on his targets.
She started to stand up to face him. "No you're n-!"
Inuyasha turned around swiftly and watched as she cringed and started to fall backwards. He jumped down and caught her quickly, setting her down carefully. "Stupid girl! You're the one who's injured! Now just sit still, okay?" he scolded her sternly, standing up to face the officers again.
Only to find that they weren't cowering anymore; advancing, more like. Weren't they supposed to be afraid of him...?
"So... you're injured, brat?" he spat out mockingly. Oh, had they let the word 'injured' slip out somewhere? That's right...he'd purposely interrupted her when she'd started to announce it...not that it mattered anyway. As if he'd let a little injury deter him from ripping them to shreds.
"Heh heh...you really think that that..." he raised his eyes to meet the man's, a devilish grin on his face. "...would stop me?"
"We'll see about that..." he glared as he drew his sword from under his cloak; his three comrades doing the same.
Wait a second! His sword? Those assholes, they were hiding those the whole time! But yet again, it mattered none - he was gonna kill them anyway.
Well, may as well get this over with...
Inuyasha raised his claws and, jumping as high as the ceiling would let him, swung his arm and vanquished his rivals.
Or he would have, if he hadn't heard her scream first.
He spun around to see why she would just outright shriek like that; what could have happened?
More guards were there; a lot more. Not to mention that one of them had the back of a dagger held in front of said girl's neck.
"Don't make any sudden moves" he started, switching the blade on the small knife so it was held against her neck "Or the little girl here's not gonna live to see another day."
"Damnit...!" he cursed under his breath. What the hell was going on here!?
He watched her as she formed his name pleadingly with her lips, staring at him earnestly all the while. He could tell she was terrified...her eyes were filled with tears just ready to spill.
"Now..." the man continued, still holding the knife close to her neck "Just be a good boy and cooperate with these officers over here," he said, jerking his chin to the six or seven armed officers on his right "and we won't harm the girl."
Well that was a load of crap.
But he couldn't try to attack them; they'd kill her. So what should he do?
Ah! That might work... it was such a simple -yet risky- plan, but because of the simplicity of it, he wasn't even sure if it could be called a plan. In the mean time though, he'd just have to cooperate with them...
So he stood there and shot as many vicious glares as he could at the guards while they clamped the shackles onto his wrists.
Too bad he'd already nicked the keys.
He inwardly smirked as mister 'threaten innocent girls lives' slowly put the dagger back into its sheath and stood up in a rather triumphant position. All the while mister 'torture innocent girls' was standing in a very similar position across the cell.
Sick idiots....
He waited for the guards to start walking him away, and got ready to make his move. This should work out dandy! Okay...right...now!
Just as they were walking him past the girl, he jerked his arms to the side, yanking the other end of the chain out of the officer's hands as he gave him a good punch in the face; repeating the latter action -or variations of it- with the next six guards standing around him. He was feeling kinda lucky that there was a pretty large chunk of chain connecting his hands; at least he had some room to move his arms. He didn't exactly have the time to unchain himself right now.
Alright! Next, he was gonna deal with mister 'threaten innocent girl's lives' and mister 'torture innocent girls'.
Er...wait. Maybe he should just get the hell out of there. Those jerks had called in a few more reinforcements...
Yeah. Especially since his back was bleeding like old faithful right now, and he was just getting a little bit dizzy...
Not to mention that he had to carry the girl out too...
But...how was he gonna get out of there?
Well, that was for the next few seconds to decide.
A/N - That chapter name is so uncreative. . It's really bugging me... How'd I do with spelling and grammar? Good, bad, okay? Oh, and sorry for the cliffy. ^ ^; I know, they're evil... and it wasn't really that bad of a cliffy, was it? ^.^; Anyway, I really appreciate your opinions on my humble little story. So a pre-thanks to anyone who does review! ^_^
~Eternal White~ (I know... that's boring too... .)
With You
Chapter 4
Questions of Life
Kagome sighed as she sat on her bed, staring at the wall yet again. She had been captured three and a half weeks ago, and it had seemed easier to go without a decent conversation when there weren't any people to have a decent conversation with. She had one right at her fingertips, but he was just out of her reach. That guy really didn't have any intentions of talking with her...
She hadn't spoken a word to him all day yesterday, and not a word to him so far today. He had done the same.
Ah, here came the jailers with her daily meal... they were a little bit earlier today. But if they were bringing her her meal that would mean that they were bringing him his too... maybe he'd be in a perkier mood after he ate, and she could try to talk to him again? It was worth a try...
The guard came in and left her food tray on the floor near the end of her bed, per usual, and left swiftly; closing and locking the door behind him. It had disappointed her that the guard had never once forgotten to lock her door...
She picked up her tray of food and sat down near the previously brick-occupied space in the wall. May as well see how Inuyasha was doing...
The guard walked in his room next, leaving his tray near the door instead of by his bed. Oddly enough, the guard seemed to be afraid of him...
The man left the room, shut and locked the door, and went on his way to feed the other prisoners.
Inuyasha grumbled and she saw him walk, arms folded, to the other side of the room. He reached down a picked up his tray one handedly, letting the other hang lazily at his side as he walked towards his bed.
Or wait, no he wasn't...was he aiming for the wall hole...?!
She slipped into a very monotone panic. (A/N - Did that sentence make any sense at all...?) Should she stay there and let him see her, or squirm away to where he couldn't? Would he get mad again if he knew that she had been watching him? It was a little bit of a risk to stay... if he got mad at her, she'd have to wait even longer to try and talk to him again.
He was such an ass...
Too bad that ass was the only being around to talk to...
The option of sneaking away was dissolved as he came over and sat down, as he had the first day, next to the little window that connected their cells.
Wait... had he even noticed that she was there? Wow, he must really never have woken up.
She stared at him as he started to eat. He was actually really good looking... she could only see half his face and she thought he had better looks than any other person she'd seen before. Quite the handsome lad...
And his hair... she wondered about that. Why in the world would a guy have such long, white hair?
His claws and fangs too; those were hard to get over. He was so strong! She still wanted to know how he learned that 'Sankontetsou' trick...
There was always her favorite aspect of him to ponder...his ears. Those were so cute! She swore she would touch them someday.
Kagome kept on watching him as he ate, slowly - almost as if he was savoring every bite. That made him appear even more like a starving boy...
Once again she found herself tempted to give him some of her food. She really didn't eat a whole lot... and what they gave her was a little more than enough to suffice her energy needs. (Which weren't very high.)
She could afford to give him some food, right? And this time, she'd cut to the point, but she'd still try to talk... kindly. As softly as she could manage.
It wasn't like she was only giving her food to that jerk because he looked like he was famished - that may have been her main motive, but she still had one or two others. Also because he might... well, be a little nicer. Warm up a bit. Not to mention the fact that she wanted him to help her out of there...
But just before she started to speak...
"Staring is rude, you know." He pointed out with a sideways glance at her. Dang... he'd know she was there the whole time, hadn't he? And there was that half bitter tone again...
"Um...I'm sorry...I..." she fumbled over her words as she tried to recapture any scattered brain cells. "I didn't mean to stare or anything..."
"...Stop that!" he hissed suddenly as he snapped a glare on her. Kagome was taken aback; where had that come from...?
"Stop what?" she blinked.
"Stop trying to act nice! You're just faking it!" he growled.
"What?!" She gaped at him and screeched back in a half hushed voice. "Inuyasha!! I was really trying to be nice to you - you big jerk! I'm not the one who's being an ass here!! I'll have you know that I was about to offer you my own food!"
"Quit being so-!" he stopped, not finishing his fore planned statement. What had she just said?
"You are so rude! How can you be-"
"Wait! What did you-"
"I'm not finished! You really need to st-"
"But what-"
"Don't interrupt! I was saying that-"
"Listen to me for a second!" he all but shouted in desperation as he shot his hand through the wall, clamping it over her mouth.
She sat there still as a board and stared at him; what happened to that guy? He didn't sound as angry as he had a minute ago...
Then she realized another thing. "I blew up at him, didn't I?! I didn't want to... but that idiot just had to light the fuse!"
He just sat there and stared at her for a while, while she stared right back. She was confused...and what was that look on his face? He looked like he was a little perplexed himself... but he looked a bit angry too. There was another emotion in there...she couldn't figure out what it was.
Inuyasha slowly released his grip on her, slipping his arm back through the wall. "...Why?"
His voice sounded...half strained. And she could still sense all those different emotions in his voice; confusion, anger...and...what was the other one...? Desperation...or loneliness maybe? He sounded sort of sad... but anger still seemed to be the most prominent emotion.
"W-Why...what?" did she really have to stutter? There was nothing to stutter about...
He frowned at her "Why would you want to give your food to me?"
Uh... "Well...you looked like you were starving or something...so I thought I'd give you some of my food. I figured I could last without a meal, or at least part of one..." Okay, so she'd probably get really hungry... but she could easily survive 'til the next day.
He was still looking at her. Was she supposed to go on...?
Probably. "And... I figured that maybe you could, you know...help me out of here. Both of us could escape if I made a distraction and you got us past the guards..." she didn't really want to add the part about him being nicer...
He narrowed his eyes at her slightly. "You're bluffing."
She shot him a quick frown "I'm telling the truth."
"Liar."
"I am not...!" she ground out through gritted teeth. She was getting a little upset with him again...
"Yes, you are."
"No, I'm not!"
"Yes, you are!"
"No, I'm-!"
"I know you're lying! No one would give me food! It just wouldn't happen!" he interrupted rather fiercely. He'd used his favorite bitter tone again...
But why had he put so much emphasis on the word 'me'?
"Why?" she threw his earlier question right back.
"Why what?!"
"Why...wouldn't someone want to help you?" she asked him quietly.
Inuyasha growled in frustration. "Don't you understand anything, girl?! I'm a Hanyou! H-a-n-y-o-u!" he spelled it out for her "Doesn't that mean something to you? I'm only half human and half demon! I'm different!"
She clenched her jaw and shouted back "That doesn't matter, you idiot! You shouldn't-"
Kagome froze; that noise outside...the guards were coming.
They'd heard them.
"I-Inuyasha...! T-The guards heard us!!" she stammered to him anxiously as she switched her gaze to the door.
They'd heard them, so what? It didn't matter, did it? "What's so bad about that?" he asked calmly; having already forgotten completely that they had been arguing a couple of seconds ago.
So simple minded...
She flicked her eyes back to his. "What to you mean 'what's so bad about that'?! They've given strict orders not to associate with other prisoners not to raise your voices!" she screeched. "Haven't you heard about how severely they punish people here?!"
"Well if we're not supposed to raise our voices, you should probably stop yelling!" he scolded back in a low voice.
"I'm not yelling!!" she yelled back, slapping a hand over her mouth after she realized what she did.
Inuyasha was just a little bit worried now. What exactly had she meat when she'd spoken about 'how severely they punish people here'? She'd looked pretty freaked out... They couldn't do anything too drastic for such a trivial crime, right?
Kagome flung her sights to the cell door as she heard keys dangling. "I-Inuyasha...! They're c-coming in!"
"Well..." he racked his brain for something to say. "Go sit on your bed and act like nothing happened you stupid girl!"
Kagome didn't really have any other choices... So she stood up and all but jumped onto her bed, facing the wall across the room and pretending like everything was normal.
Her door creaked open as four officers stepped in and stood in front of her. Oh gosh... what did that one have in his hand?
"Miss Kagome, is it?" the oldest man said. She shivered; what was with his attitude? He kind of held his head in such a way, so that when he looked at her, it was more like he was looking down at her then looking at her. And that awful patronizing tone in his voice... it was worse than that bitter tone Inuyasha liked to use.
Kagome nodded her head meekly; she was glad he hadn't said 'princess Kagome' or 'Kagome Higurashi'. If they had, Inuyasha would know who she really was...
"I'll have you know, young lady, we could hear you shouting from the other end of this corridor." Wait... they'd only heard her? So that meant that Inuyasha wouldn't get punished... at least one of them got off.
"Funny, it sounded like you were shouting to someone." Crap... so they had heard Inuyasha?
She swallowed hard; should she cover for him? She could tell them that she'd just been upset and had been shouting at nobody in particular...but they might already know that she'd been talking to him, and they were just testing her now. That could worsen her punishment...
Or...she could tell them she'd been talking to Inuyasha and be free of any extra punishment she might receive, but then he'd get in trouble as well.
She made her decision, took a deep breath, and gave them her answer.
~~*~~
Inuyasha listened as the four guards walked in and shut the door behind them. He could see them stroll in front of the girl's bed, but he still couldn't see her.
He looked the officers over carefully, noting the short whip one of the younger ones held in his right hand.
Shit...she was really in trouble...
But why the hell would they have such damn severe punishments for such a small thing? That was cruel...
"Miss Kagome, is it?" he heard the older man ask. Despite his stuck up attitude, he seemed to be making the tiniest most miniscule of efforts to show her a bit of respect. It seemed like he was doing it because he had to... but why would he do that anyway...? She was just a stupid little girl... she couldn't have been that high up in society.
He didn't see her response, but apparently, she had nodded or something...
"I'll have you know, young lady, we could hear you shouting from the other end of this corridor." The guard continued with a somewhat patronizing tone layered over his voice.
But wait... he had only mentioned her. He hadn't said anything about hearing him say anything. So did that mean he was off the hook...?!
"Funny... it sounded like you were shouting to someone." Damnit...had they heard him too?
There was a long pause, and he didn't hear her respond. He could feel how nervous she was...What would she say? Would she tell them that she had been talking to him, or would she cover for him?
Crap...now he wished that he'd been a little nicer to her earlier; at least then his chances of her covering for him would have been raised a little... he could guarantee that she'd turn him in from the way he had treated her.
He snapped his attention back on the girl; she was answering them. "I..." she started, letting another pause stretch through the air. She really knew how to build the tension didn't she?
"I...wasn't talking to anyone; you must be mistaken, sir." she said with a forced calmness. Inuyasha stared wide eyed at the wall in front of him; that was a shock. Why... why had she covered for him? Now she'd have to take all the punishment. Why would she do something like that?
Then it hit him; she was taking all the punishment. It hadn't really occurred to him until now...but, they'd probably beat her. He'd heard that Naraku was a vicious king, and his men not much different. After all, he and his two... what were they anyway? Detachments or something... anyway, he and the two of them, Kanna and Kagura, ruled over two kingdoms; the north and the east.
He couldn't just sit here and watch a girl get hurt... but what could he do?
He snapped back into reality at the slash of a whip and the piercing sound of a girls scream. Shit...!! They were beating her already?!
"Don't lie to us girl!" the older one snapped as another of the younger ones grabbed the front of her dress and yanked her to the floor, ripping the beautiful material in the process.
"I-I'm not! I swear-!" he heard her cry at the second strike of the whip. Damnit those bastards!!! He couldn't take this a second longer!!
Inuyasha stood back from the wall and mustered up all his strength, clenching his fists as he heard her cry out again. It didn't matter that he didn't like her a whole lot, that didn't change the facts. He was going to stop this, and those guys were going to pay for hurting an innocent girl like her.
When he'd done this to awe strike that girl earlier, he'd used very little force so that he didn't reopen that back wound of his. But he was gonna risk it now... "Sankontetsou!!" he shouted as he aimed the blunt of his attack for the weak spot in the wall.
~~*~~
Kagome cried out in pain as she flew backwards from the blow to her ribs. "Please stop...! I-"
"Sankontetsou!!" She sat there in bewilderment as she watched as about forty bricks worth of space was opened up in the wall next to her and that section of it crumbled to the ground.
When she looked up to see the guards, she followed their gaze to the newly made door, as they watched and waited for the dust to clear.
"You..." came the voice amidst the rubble "You...bastards...!!" it snarled dangerously.
Kagome's eyes lit up as she could finally see the hanyou figure standing amidst the dust. "Inuyasha...!" she managed between her labored breaths, holding a hand over her side as she winced. Dumb rib cage...
His golden eyes were eerily shadowed as he stepped forward menacingly and stood in front of her. "Bastards!" he growled in the same dangerous tone as he snapped his head up to face them, revealing the three red stripes on his right cheek.
The officers took a step back towards the door, keeping their wary eyes glued to the hanyou.
Kagome gasped; blood... blood had just dripped from his back. She had been the only one who noticed it because she was behind him...but did that mean his wounds had reopened? Wait, he was going to try and fight with those giant wounds on his back?! He was gonna bleed to death! She had to stop that idiot before he did something really stupid.
"Inuyasha - you really shouldn't fight! You're injur-"
"I'm perfectly fine!" he snapped, keeping his eyes on his targets.
She started to stand up to face him. "No you're n-!"
Inuyasha turned around swiftly and watched as she cringed and started to fall backwards. He jumped down and caught her quickly, setting her down carefully. "Stupid girl! You're the one who's injured! Now just sit still, okay?" he scolded her sternly, standing up to face the officers again.
Only to find that they weren't cowering anymore; advancing, more like. Weren't they supposed to be afraid of him...?
"So... you're injured, brat?" he spat out mockingly. Oh, had they let the word 'injured' slip out somewhere? That's right...he'd purposely interrupted her when she'd started to announce it...not that it mattered anyway. As if he'd let a little injury deter him from ripping them to shreds.
"Heh heh...you really think that that..." he raised his eyes to meet the man's, a devilish grin on his face. "...would stop me?"
"We'll see about that..." he glared as he drew his sword from under his cloak; his three comrades doing the same.
Wait a second! His sword? Those assholes, they were hiding those the whole time! But yet again, it mattered none - he was gonna kill them anyway.
Well, may as well get this over with...
Inuyasha raised his claws and, jumping as high as the ceiling would let him, swung his arm and vanquished his rivals.
Or he would have, if he hadn't heard her scream first.
He spun around to see why she would just outright shriek like that; what could have happened?
More guards were there; a lot more. Not to mention that one of them had the back of a dagger held in front of said girl's neck.
"Don't make any sudden moves" he started, switching the blade on the small knife so it was held against her neck "Or the little girl here's not gonna live to see another day."
"Damnit...!" he cursed under his breath. What the hell was going on here!?
He watched her as she formed his name pleadingly with her lips, staring at him earnestly all the while. He could tell she was terrified...her eyes were filled with tears just ready to spill.
"Now..." the man continued, still holding the knife close to her neck "Just be a good boy and cooperate with these officers over here," he said, jerking his chin to the six or seven armed officers on his right "and we won't harm the girl."
Well that was a load of crap.
But he couldn't try to attack them; they'd kill her. So what should he do?
Ah! That might work... it was such a simple -yet risky- plan, but because of the simplicity of it, he wasn't even sure if it could be called a plan. In the mean time though, he'd just have to cooperate with them...
So he stood there and shot as many vicious glares as he could at the guards while they clamped the shackles onto his wrists.
Too bad he'd already nicked the keys.
He inwardly smirked as mister 'threaten innocent girls lives' slowly put the dagger back into its sheath and stood up in a rather triumphant position. All the while mister 'torture innocent girls' was standing in a very similar position across the cell.
Sick idiots....
He waited for the guards to start walking him away, and got ready to make his move. This should work out dandy! Okay...right...now!
Just as they were walking him past the girl, he jerked his arms to the side, yanking the other end of the chain out of the officer's hands as he gave him a good punch in the face; repeating the latter action -or variations of it- with the next six guards standing around him. He was feeling kinda lucky that there was a pretty large chunk of chain connecting his hands; at least he had some room to move his arms. He didn't exactly have the time to unchain himself right now.
Alright! Next, he was gonna deal with mister 'threaten innocent girl's lives' and mister 'torture innocent girls'.
Er...wait. Maybe he should just get the hell out of there. Those jerks had called in a few more reinforcements...
Yeah. Especially since his back was bleeding like old faithful right now, and he was just getting a little bit dizzy...
Not to mention that he had to carry the girl out too...
But...how was he gonna get out of there?
Well, that was for the next few seconds to decide.
A/N - That chapter name is so uncreative. . It's really bugging me... How'd I do with spelling and grammar? Good, bad, okay? Oh, and sorry for the cliffy. ^ ^; I know, they're evil... and it wasn't really that bad of a cliffy, was it? ^.^; Anyway, I really appreciate your opinions on my humble little story. So a pre-thanks to anyone who does review! ^_^
~Eternal White~ (I know... that's boring too... .)